Chapter 1: The Strange Basket

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In the depths of winter, after the heavy snowfall, the whole land was covered in a layer of silver, and the howling wind blew the last dead leaves on the branches. The withered yellow leaves of the pen, fun, and pavilion www.biquge.info threw themselves into the arms of Mother Earth with the cold wind. Some of them didn't want to leave, but they clung to the dry branches, as if they were trying to grasp the last glorious years in the air. And in an inconspicuous part of this wasteland, there is a small wooden house, although the wooden house is small, but in this cold wind, it is unusually tough, standing like a rock on the earth.

This place is called Xiaoshan, and there are many more wooden houses like this in this mountain, most of which were built by the villagers of Linjia Village under the mountain. Because of the proximity to Xiaoshan, and there are many fierce beasts on Xiaoshan, the folk customs of Linjia Village are quite strong. Every winter, the male villagers in the prime of life in the village will go into the mountains to hunt some wild beasts to supplement their families, and each time it takes days or even weeks, so in order to prevent the villagers from sleeping outside and encountering danger, and the mountains will not be good weather every day, they built this small cabin on the mountain, one can protect themselves from the wind and rain, and the other can also resist the invasion of wild beasts.

As it got late, more and more villagers in Linjia Village returned to the wooden house, and when they entered the wooden house, they saw that there were many tables and chairs inside the wooden house, and many of those who came back in advance took out the spirits and dry food they had brought, and drank the spirits in their hands while talking nonsense there. In this bad weather, I feel uncomfortable.

"Buckle up."

At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door, which made the villagers in the wooden house a little strange, looked at each other, and found that the villagers who came out this time were already here. And if it is a villager from Linjia Village, they usually push the door directly and come in, and rarely knock on the door.

"Who!"

The villager closest to the wooden gate got up and came to the door and asked. After all, this is Xiaoshan, there are wild beasts everywhere, and there are even legendary spirit beasts, and these villagers have to be careful. But strangely, there was no response outside, and even the knocking on the door had stopped, and if it weren't for all the villagers present hearing the knock just now, they would have felt a little like they were hallucinating.

"Who?"

The villager asked again. Unfortunately, there was still no response. This made the villagers present a little strange and worried. After a moment of eye contact, the villagers took out their weapons to hunt wild beasts, gathered together, and slowly gathered around the wooden gate.

After making all the preparations, the villagers who had asked loudly before, holding a weapon in one hand, slowly opened the wooden door with the other. As this gap opened, gusts of cold wind seemed to have found an outlet, and frantically poured in from this gap, making the wooden house that was still very warm before a little more chilly. But these villagers didn't seem to feel the slightest cold, and they all clenched the weapons in their hands, and a trace of sweat appeared on the hunter's body.

The villagers who opened the door looked out through the gap, and strangely, there were no human figures or beasts outside, and there were not even footprints on the snow.

It's snowing outside, but you can't cover up your footprints so quickly, right? It made him very strange. He couldn't help but open the door wider, hoping that he could look more closely.

"Lin Laosan, what's out there?" Some of the more anxious villagers asked.

"Strange, why is there nothing?" The man who opened the door was Lin Laosan.

"How is that possible? We've all heard the knock on the door! A man didn't believe it, and immediately said.

"Yes, we all heard a knock on the door, no one, but it's a ghost!" Some villagers on the side also responded.

"If you don't believe it, see for yourself!" Seeing that no one believed him, that Lin Laosan was also single, and he himself was strangely tight, so he simply ignored the three-seven twenty-one, and directly opened the wooden door completely. None of the villagers present expected this Lin Laosan to do this, they were all taken aback, and then instinctively picked up their weapons to deal with the accidents that appeared at any time. Unfortunately, through the dim light in the wooden house, the villagers saw nothing.

"Huh? What is that? Lin Laosan, who was closest to the gate, noticed something different at the first time, so he pointed over there and asked. With the direction that Lin Laosan pointed, the villagers all looked over, only to see a small basket on the left side of the wooden door, because he happened to be in the blind area of vision, so it is no wonder that Lin Laosan did not see the basket before, but now with the opening of the gate, the previous blind spot does not exist.

"It's like a basket, and it looks like a basket for babies at home." A villager with a small child at home spoke his mind after watching it for a while. With his reminder, the villagers present compared it and found that it was indeed the baby basket used to place the baby at home. But what kind of parents would be so ruthless as to throw their children in the ice and snow?

"Could it be that someone is deliberately using this as bait to lure us out?" Some villagers, who are usually more cautious in doing things, spoke their minds. As soon as this sentence came out, some villagers who wanted to go out to have a look stopped their steps and silently calculated in their hearts.

"How is it possible, where will there be other people in this wilderness, and you won't look at it, where are the footprints of humans around here, not even the beasts!" Lin Laosan saw that everyone was retreating, and couldn't help but despise him. “

Hum! Some villagers snorted unconvinced, and then said: "No footprints, what's the use, legend says that there are spirit beasts in this mountain, do you know that spirit beasts can fly to the sky, maybe they put these bait, want to lure us out and eat them all!" ”

"You melon babies, spirit beasts and spirit beasts all day long, have you ever seen a spirit beast, you know how to use some rumors from hearsay that I don't know where to demagogue!" As if he had a grudge against those villagers, as soon as he heard them talk about spirit beasts, this Lin Laosan immediately became angry, and scolded directly!

"You... Hmph, Lin Laosan, we respect you as an elder, not like you! The villagers who spoke were still good at speaking, and with one sentence, all the villagers present came to their camp.

"You!" Lin Laosan just wanted to speak.

"That's it!" At this time, a man who had been sitting there stood up, this man's name was Lin Laoer, Lin Laosan's own brother, and the leader of this hunt in the mountains. Originally, it was not his turn, and the leader should be their elder brother, that is, Boss Lin, but unfortunately Boss Lin went to the city to do business a year ago and has not returned yet, so the qualification of this leader fell to Boss Lin. However, although this Lin Lao Er is the first time to take the lead, he is not unfamiliar at all, and he is very organized in his work, and he has won the trust of the villagers present.

When everyone saw that Lin Lao Er had spoken, they stopped making noise and waited for him to speak. "What's the use of you all making noise, third child, aren't you afraid, you go and see what kind of moth that baby basket is." Lin Lao Er acted vigorously and resolutely, and directly gave an order, and anyway, Lin Lao San was his younger brother, and it was only natural for his brother to let his younger brother do things.

"Hmph, I'll go, I'll go, I want to see if anything happens, I'm scared to death!" After speaking, Lin Laosan took a sip of the liquor in his hand, then clenched the spear in his hand and walked straight out.

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