A roe deer walks through the trees.

Behind the roe deer, two men gave hot pursuit.

Both of them are more than 1.8 meters, but the ones who run in front are long, brisk and agile.

The tiger's back and bear waist running behind are stronger, and the footsteps of "tom tom" all the way can shock people's eardrums from afar.

"Lao Hei, can you take your steps lightly, just the sound of your footsteps is still hunting, and there is prey and you will be scared away from afar!" The man in front shouted as he ran.

His name is Poplar and he is a ranger in this primeval forest. However, at that time, many mountain and forest beasts were not included in the list of rare animal protection, especially in the northern forests, roe deer are everywhere.

So Aspen will occasionally hunt one or two wild beasts to improve their lives. In the past two days, his good brother Tie Niu came into the mountains to see him, and the two of them took hunting knives and shotguns and went into the forest to hunt.

"You talk nonsense, if you don't hurry up, that stupid roe deer will run away!" Tie Niu immediately replied.

"It wasn't your footsteps that scared it away, or we would have knocked it down!"

The two of them love to quarrel when they meet, but in fact, their relationship is better than that of their own brothers. After a few months of not seeing each other, the two of them can't help but take the time to either you come to see me, or I to see you.

It's just that in recent years, almost all of them have come to see the poplar, because the ranger has no shifts, and he has been alone for many years, and if he wants to go out for a few days, he has to go to the county to ask the leader for leave.

However, after Tie Niu was demobilized from the army two years ago, he caught up with the gradual liberalization of "self-employment", he left the arranged work and did not do it, and started his own "reverse master" - that is, a small trader who buys and sells.

Although Tie Niu did not make a lot of money due to his lazy nature, he was able to allocate his time independently.

It was already spring, but in the northern woods, the snow had not yet melted.

The brothers followed the trail of the roe deer in the snow, and suddenly their eyes lit up, and a sparsely wooded hillside appeared in front of them.

There is still a thick layer of snow on the slopes, and the sunlight casts on the snow surface, reflecting a bright glow.

And the footprints of the roe deer, imprinted on the flat snow surface, are especially clear.

The iron ox was about to run down the hillside, but unexpectedly, the poplar exclaimed "ahhh

"What's wrong, your foot slipped?" Iron Bull immediately turned back to help Poplar.

Poplar pushed his hand away with one hand, and looked at the snow-covered hillside again and again, and then glanced back at the iron bull.

"Just now, right there, you didn't see anything?" he asked, gesturing his hand at the hillside.

"What do you see? nothing!" said Iron Bull.

Poplar took a breath and looked at the hillside.

Indeed, apart from the flat and white snow on that hillside, there were only a few small trees.

But just now, he obviously saw a very terrifying scene, could it be that he was dazzled and misunderstood?

"What the hell is wrong with you?" said Iron Bull, reaching out again to pull Poplar up from the snow.

"It's okay, I was dazzled just now!" Poplar said lightly, reaching out to pat the snow on his buttocks.

Tie Niu also helped him shoot, and Bai Yang shook his hand away and scolded with a smile: "Where are you shooting your paws?"

"Where else can you shoot? You're not a!" Tie Niu smiled, "Let's go quickly, I've been delayed for so long, I'm afraid that the stupid roe deer will really run away!"

"It's gone!" said Poplar, pondering in his heart, "or go back today, or come out tomorrow to fight the roe deer, I always feel that something is wrong today!"

"What's wrong? I didn't expect you to be a little superstitious!"

"But I did see something just now, and there it is!" said Poplar, gesturing to the snowy slope.

"But there's nothing there! what do you see?" Iron Bull asked.

Poplar hesitated for a moment before he slowly swallowed his words.

"I see...... There are two blood-red ...... I don't know if it's a wolf or a dog, scurrying around on the ground and roaring!"

He really saw it, and just as he approached the hillside through the woods, he saw two blood-red beasts on the snow in front of him, barking at them incessantly.

And the most terrifying thing is that the reason why those two fierce beasts are blood-red is as if they have been skinned whole.

So much so that the blood-red mucus continued to drip on the white snow, making the poplar not only feel frightened, but also disgusted.

"I think you're really feverish, aren't you?" Iron Bull couldn't help but laugh, and simply took off one of his gloves and tried to touch Poplar's forehead with the back of his hand.

"I don't have a fever, and I'm not confused!" Poplar angrily blocked his hand.

"You're not confused, you're talking nonsense?" Iron Bull glared at him, putting on his gloves as he strode towards the snowy slope, "You mean you see two ...... here"

That's all he said, and with his "oops", Poplar saw his whole body sink down, as if he had stepped on a hole in the ground or something.

Fortunately, the hole in the ground didn't seem to be wide, Tie Niu's legs fell, but a big ass was stuck, and he hurriedly bent down on the snow, shouting: "Lao Bai, pull me up!"

Startled, Poplar had already rushed to Tie Niu, grabbed Tie Niu's two hands with both hands and dragged him up.

With the help of the power of his hands, Iron Bull was about to pull his legs out of the hole in the ground, when suddenly another scream: "Something has bitten my foot, pull me!

Poplar was even more surprised, and he did feel a force to drag the Iron Ox down again. Frightened, Poplar's legs tensed, and he tried his best to fight against that force.

Iron Bull was already grinning in pain, but fortunately he was only bitten by something on one foot, so he kicked down with his other foot, and at the same time scolded angrily in his mouth: "I X your grandmother's!"

The kick probably hit the top of the head of the thing below, and the thing had to let go of his feet.

As Poplar slumped backwards and fell to the snow, the Iron Bull was dragged forward, and his legs were finally pulled out of the hole below.

"His grandmother's, it hurts!"

The Iron Bull rolled over and sat down on the snow, looking at it with his feet twisted.

Poplar hurriedly took a closer look, but saw that a row of deep tooth marks had been bitten out on the top of Tie Niu's cowhide boots.

Among them, there was an exceptionally sharp tooth mark, which pierced the upper of the cowhide boot directly, and blood gushed out, and it seemed that the injury was not light.

"Don't worry about my feet, let's see what monsters are in that hole!" Iron Bull said, holding his feet in one hand as he turned his head to look at the hole where he had just fallen.

It didn't look like a hole in the ground, but like a crack in the ground.

The cracks in the ground become narrower and narrower on both sides, and there is only a few tens of centimeters in the middle, which can accommodate the feet of one person to step on.

But the iron ox was so unlucky, he just stepped on the middle part and trampled on a layer of floating soil on the surface of the crack, causing the originally flat snow surface to reveal a long black strip.

Poplar leaned down and peeked down at the black crack in the ground.

"Don't get too close, be careful if something comes out and bites you again!" Iron Bull said hurriedly.

In fact, there is no need for him to say, and Poplar will not be so stupid to lie too close.

But it was too dark down there, and he couldn't see anything.

Just as he was about to stand up, a strange howl suddenly came into his ears.

"What's it called, what's it called?" Iron Bull also heard it, and asked as soon as he opened his mouth.

Poplar has been a ranger in the forest for five years and is familiar with the roars of wild beasts.

But the howl just now, perhaps because it came from the ground, was so dull that the poplars couldn't tell which kind of beast was calling.

It just feels a little like a wolf howling, and it's a wounded and dying wolf howling.

That reminded him of the horrific vision he had just seen.

He was a little furious, and hurriedly reached out to help the iron bull up.

"Whatever is calling, let's go!" he said.

"Let's go like this, won't my foot be bitten in vain?" Iron Bull was still a little unhappy.

"Your foot has been bitten, if something really comes up below, you can't run fast if you want to! But don't worry, no matter what it is down here, dare to bite my brother, catch up with Ming'er, I'll make a few thunder Gs, and blow it up directly!"

He was going to blow up the things down there, not only because the thing down there had bitten his brother, but also because the hillside wasn't too far from the ranger station, and if he didn't blow it up, he wouldn't be able to sleep well at night.

"When it's going to be fried, I'll come too!" Iron Bull immediately looked excited.

"Don't think about it, look at the bite on your foot, I have to send you out for vaccination today!"

Poplar said as he put one of Iron Bull's hands on his shoulder, half-dragging and half-carrying Iron Bull.

The Iron Bull limped and followed the poplar, and his feet were indeed bitten not lightly, leaving red footprints on the snow one by one.

Poplar thought that he had to treat the wound on his foot first, otherwise his foot would soon be useless on such a cold day.

But when he thought of the strange things in the cracks in the ground, Poplar still felt a little hairy in his heart, and couldn't help but turn his head and look at the snowy slope again.

Fortunately, except for the crack in the ground, which was very unsightly, the rest of the slope was still peaceful, and nothing strange climbed out of the crevice as expected.

Poplar quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and saw that there was an old tree root not far in front of him, so he helped the iron ox to the old tree root and sat down, and first took off his boots to check his foot injury.

"Your feet still stink!" Poplar said, tossing his boots aside.

Tie Niu smiled and said, "The smell of feet can be changed! What did you say was in the crack in the ground that bit me, could it be...... If it's a big python, let's go back and blow it up, and you'll have fragrant snake meat to eat!"

"You guy knows how to eat!" Bai Yang scolded with a smile, "The teeth of the python are all upside down, and they can only go in, not out, if the python bites you, how can you get out so easily?"

Poplar spoke, tearing open Iron Bull's socks with his hands and examining them carefully.

"Fortunately, the injury is not particularly serious, but this tooth mark ......"

"What's wrong with the tooth marks, what the hell is biting?" Iron Bull immediately asked.

(See Chapter 002 "The Tomb Robber")

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