Tie Niu's surname is Tie, but it is not called "Niu". Just because he has dark skin and a bit of a bullish temper, Poplar nicknamed him "Black Iron Bull".

Iron Bull was very satisfied with this nickname, and over time, everyone called him "Iron Bull" or "Black Iron Bull", but no one called him by his real name.

Poplar himself also has a nickname, which was given to him by Tie Niu "tooth for tooth", called "milk cake".

It is said that the aspen skin is too white, and the appearance is weak, which contains the meaning of "cream Xiaosheng".

Bai Yang didn't like this nickname very much, and the only one who dared to call him "milk cake" from childhood to adulthood was "Iron Bull".

However, as he gets older, Tie Niu rarely calls Poplar "milk cake", and most of the time he is called "Lao Bai".

Hearing Tie Niu's question, Bai Yang did not answer immediately, but picked up Tie Niu's leather boots and looked at them, and then handed them to Tie Niu.

"Your boots are almost gone, look like they were bitten!"

Tie Niu took the leather boots and looked at them, and couldn't help but be speechless.

On the soles of his leather boots, there was a row of deep tooth marks, fortunately, his leather boots were brand-name goods that he spent dozens of dollars to buy during the Chinese New Year, and they were very strong, otherwise his entire foot would have been bitten off.

"This really doesn't look like a python's tooth marks, it's a bit like a wolf dog! But how can a wolf dog hide under the ground and bite someone?"

"I don't know!" Poplar shook his head, "Maybe ......"

He turned his head again, looking at the snowy slope and the crack in the ground from afar, and a thought came to his mind.

"Why do you keep talking halfway today?"

"It's nothing, you just take me for being cranky!"

Poplar sloppily again, taking off his own boots and ripping off the stockings on his feet.

"What are you doing?" Iron Bull asked, staring at Poplar with a confused expression.

"You're still bleeding from your feet, I'm going to have to stop it!" said Poplar, first putting on his boots barefoot, and then tying the wounded spot on the iron ox's foot tightly with his stockings.

After that, he used his gloved hand to reach into the iron bull's boots, wiped the blood stains inside, and then helped the iron bull put on the boots.

"It stinks, these gloves can't be used!"

Poplar took off his bloodstained gloves in disgust and wanted to throw them, but Iron Bull grabbed his hand.

"You stink, let's change it, or when you walk back, your hands will freeze!"

He couldn't help but take off the gloves on his hands and stuff them to the poplar, put on the poplar's gloves himself, sniffed them to his nose, and couldn't help but smile.

"It really stinks!"

"You know it stinks, too!"

Poplar rolled his eyes over him, and looked thoughtfully at the snowy slope for the third time.

"Why did you say there was a crack in the ground in that place?" Iron Bull asked.

"I can't tell!" Poplar shook his head, "But there was an earthquake around here at the end of last year, and I was woken up in the hut, maybe this crack in the ground was opened at that time!"

"Then why is there a biting thing hidden in the crack of the ground?" Iron Bull asked again, but before Poplar could reply, he suddenly cried out, "Ahhh

"What do you think, I'm shocked!" Poplar glared at him.

"Will it ...... There's an ancient tomb in that place? I stepped into the tomb, the kind of ...... your grandfather said. The big dumplings have been bitten?"

Bai Yang's grandfather, Old Man Bai, used to be a top master of tomb robbing, and he was famous in the tomb robbery world back then.

It's just that since the founding of New China, the old man Bai has been washing his hands and living in seclusion in the market, and now he has been dead for ten years.

But as a good brother of Baiyang's "childhood sweetheart", Tie Niu also followed Baiyang when he was a child, and listened to many legendary stories in the tomb robbery world told by Old Man Bai, among which the most memorable one is the "big zongzi".

The so-called "big zongzi" is actually a "zombie", and people in the tomb robbery industry commonly call it "big zongzi".

When I was a child, Tie Niu dreamed back every night, and when he thought of "big zongzi", he would be so frightened that he would put his head under the covers.

Now that he is bold and strong, but when he thinks that his feet are likely to be bitten by the "big zongzi", his black face still shows a look of horror.

In fact, Poplar had just thought that there might be an ancient tomb under the crack in the ground, but he didn't say it.

He had taken a closer look at the crack in the ground before, and although it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything, it was because he couldn't see anything that showed that there was a considerable space underneath, and it was unlikely that it was a narrow hole made by some burrowing beast.

However, hearing Tie Niu mention the "big zongzi", Baiyang still couldn't help but feel funny.

"What kind of big zongzi, do you really believe my grandfather's words? When a person dies, there is nothing, and only the remaining corpses will decompose in a short time, otherwise how many people have died from ancient times to the present, and this world has not been occupied by zombies, ghosts, and the like for a long time?"

When the old man Bai told Poplar those legendary stories, Poplar was shocked when he heard it, and worshipped his grandfather as a hero who fought monsters.

But as he grew older, the mainstream worldview of atheism penetrated into Poplar's heart, and he now really thinks that eighty percent of the stories of gods and ghosts told by his grandfather were made up to coax their children.

That's the same meaning as the legendary "bedside story told by my grandmother".

"Do you really think that there is nothing left when people die, why are you so scared that you drag me away?" Iron Bull argued unconvinced.

"I'm dragging you because ...... You heard that strange howl, there must be no big zongzi, and there must be some underground monster hidden underneath!"

But Iron Bull disagreed.

"You guy is so strange, you don't believe in the big zongzi, why do you believe the underground monsters?"

"Because the underground monsters are well-founded! The world is so big, there must be some new species that have not been discovered by humans, such as large lizards, or hibernating crocodiles!"

Poplar laughed as he spoke.

Tie Niu knew that he was joking, but he still glared and said: "Where are there crocodiles in this big forest? And I have never heard of crocodiles hibernating! If you want me to say, it is more likely that it is a blind bear who has not woken up from hibernation!"

"Can a blind bear be kicked away by you? Besides, when a blind bear hurts people, he uses his claws first, how can he directly put it on his mouth? The most powerful thing about a blind bear is his claws, just pull it, and your leg will be completely wasted!"

Poplar has been a forest ranger for five years, and when it comes to the beasts of the mountains and forests, Tie Niu doesn't know him so well, so he has to keep his mouth shut and not fight with him.

"Let's hurry up, we have to send you out for vaccinations today!" said Poplar again, reaching out to help the iron bull up again.

"What kind of vaccination, I still want to stay with you for a few more days! How many times have I been bitten by a dog at home, but I haven't seen anything!" Tie Niu immediately objected.

"It's a dog at home, who knows what kind of crazy thing it is?" said Poplar, and simply made up his mind, "If you want to come and stay with me for a few more days, and come back next time!

Although the Iron Bull has a bit of a bullish temper and is also very scary when it starts a fire, it may be that since he was a child, Poplar's brain is smarter than him, and he can speak better than him.

The most important thing is that Poplar has followed his grandfather to practice martial arts since he was a child, and Tie Niu looks like a bull with five or three big and strong people, and if he really wants to put it on the right hand with Poplar, he is not quite an opponent of Poplar.

- Of course, that was in the past, Tie Niu was a soldier for three years, and he practiced his skills in sanda fighting, and he was one of the best in the entire company.

But since he was a child, he has been used to being cowardly in front of Poplar, and now he can't change it, now that Poplar has a conclusion, Tie Niu can only obediently obey.

On the same day, he returned to the ranger station with the iron ox -

It is said to be a forest ranger station, but it is just a small wooden house, and there is a plaque hanging above the wooden house, and there are several simple large letters on it: Forest Ranger Station.

Poplar packed up the Iron Ox's things, stuffed some of his own pickled and smoked game into the Iron Ox's backpack, and then rode his bicycle out of the mountain.

Iron Bull lives in the city. But Bai Yang was afraid that he would leave the injection behind when he went back to the city, so he simply took him to the county epidemic prevention station to get an epidemic prevention shot, and then sent him to the car back to the city.

Turned around and went to buy some materials to make Ray G.

Thunder G explosives are all controlled products, and you can't buy them directly.

However, Poplar has learned to make his own Lei G with his grandfather since he was a child, and he only needs to buy all these materials.

But these materials are not so easy to buy, so after such a delay, the sky is already dark, and Poplar can only spend a few yuan to stay in a hotel in the county seat.

The next day, he bought the remaining two materials, and on the way back to the ranger station, Poplar suddenly remembered something again.

That was one of the things that his grandfather would always mention when he talked to him about the legend of tomb robbery when he was alive.

Those are the few things that need to be prepared before going to the tomb.

First, loose salt and salt blocks;

the second, incense ash;

the third, glutinous rice;

the fourth Yang, the old bell;

Fifth, candles.

Candles and old bells are not needed, as they are the things that tomb robbers only use when they enter the tomb.

And Poplar was not sure that there was an ancient tomb under the crack in the ground;

Second, he wasn't going to go down into the cracks, he just wanted to blow up the cracks with Thunder G.

As for salt, incense ash, and glutinous rice, those are the things used to ward off evil spirits.

It is said that when incense ashes are sprinkled, invisible ghosts and the like can be revealed.

Loose salt and salt are sharp weapons to restrain all kinds of evil things.

The effect of glutinous rice is actually similar to that of salt, and the effect of glutinous rice is slightly worse in comparison.

It's just that salt is easy to regain moisture and dissolve, so it can't be carried closely, while glutinous rice can be packed in your pocket.

In addition, there is another very important thing to ward off evil spirits, that is, the hooves of black donkeys, which are said to be specially used to restrain zombies.

But according to the words of the old man Bai, the effect of salt block to restrain zombies is not worse than that of black donkey hooves, but in ancient times, salt was a controlled product, the price was too expensive, and it could not be used again after using it once.

However, the hooves of the black donkey can be used repeatedly, and the longer they are used, the more significant the effect of restraining evil spirits, so it has been extremely favored by tomb robbers since ancient times.

But with the huge increase in salt production after liberation, the price of salt is now very cheap. Although the salt is hard to find, you can sew a small light cloth bag and put loose salt instead.

Poplar was originally an atheist, but the so-called preparedness, anyway, came to the county seat, it is better to be fully prepared.

So Bai Yang first went to the store to buy salt, and then went to a Taoist temple near the county seat to ask the Taoist for a bag of incense ashes.

Forget about glutinous rice, anyway, the effect of glutinous rice is not as good as salt, and he is not ready to carry it with him.

(See Chapter 003 "Skinning Monster")