Chapter 314: It's Not a Cat, It's a Lynx
"Be careful, everyone!"
Hao Minyuan pulled out the dagger and held it in his hand, Wu Yuhui also took out the dagger he was carrying, and looked around very vigilantly.
I hurriedly asked the Natal Gu in the language of thought: "The human-faced black cat should be a Gu thing, can you feel the presence around us?" β
The Natal Gu immediately replied, "Yes! They're staring around, but ...... But with me here, they don't dare to come outβafter all, I'm the King of Ten Thousand Gus! "Although it's just the language of thought, I can also hear the pride of the natal Gu.
"I can feel a lot of the same kind around me, and they're all staring at you!"
"Ahh So much? Over here...... What the hell is this place? β
Natal Gu only replied: "I feel like I'm home!" β
The valley was wooded, and we walked along the mottled path beneath our feet, and my gut told me that we should get something by walking along the stone path underfoot.
After walking for about ten minutes, Hao Minyuan, who was suddenly walking in the front, roared in a low voice, "", I hurriedly followed his line of sight, and saw a white skeleton on the stone road not far in front, with a rotten leather bag on the white bone, and a hat and a shoe on the other side.
"What's going on here...... How can there be dead people! β
After all, with the captain of the criminal police team and professional forensic doctors around, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Surrounded by, Xiao He squatted down and didn't know where to take out white gloves and put them on his hands, committing an occupational disease.
"Team Hao, the bones are incomplete! Missing left leg and right arm...... There are obvious scratches on the shoulder bone, and scratches of different shades can be seen in other parts...... Looking at the shape of the scratch does not look like a force so-called...... It's like a nail ......"
Hao Minyuan listened, walked to the side and picked up the broken hat, and could see that this was the kind of hat similar to a military hat that was popular among young people in the seventies and eighties of the last century.
The hat had faded from color, and nothing else could be seen.
Shoes are also the kind of shoes often worn by young people in the seventies and eighties of the last century, commonly known as "kicking down the mountain", looking at the size should be forty-two sizes, should be worn by men.
Hao Minyuan walked to the bones again: "Xiao He, can you see the cause of death and the time of death?" β
Xiao He nodded: "Preliminary judgment, multiple scratches on the body should be the cause of death, as for the time of death, according to the degree of whitening of the bones, combined with the surrounding environment, it is estimated that it has been decades." β
"Died from scratches? And...... And it's not the result of a blade...... It can also go deep into the bones...... Don't? β
A look of horror flashed across Hao Minyuan's face.
"Could it be the same people from thirty or forty years ago?"
Looking at Teacher Feng behind him, he was already in tears.
"You ...... Don't doubt it! It is...... That's them! I recognize the bag and the hat! It was the ...... that the expedition team was uniformly equipped with that year"
Wu Yuhui and Xiao He hurriedly supported the old man.
"Old man, how many years have passed, and besides, that incident was purely accidental, why do you blame yourself so much!"
"Yes! At that time, not only you, but everyone didn't believe your friend's words! To be honest, if I hadn't seen a black cat with a human face, I wouldn't have believed it! β
Unexpectedly, the two of them persuaded him like this, and Mr. Feng cried even more.
This makes me wonder a lot, he doesn't have much to do with this, is it possible that the relationship between the two is deeper than that of brothers?
Teacher Feng's next sentence made me suddenly realize: "You guys...... You don't know! In fact, I was the one who was supposed to join the expedition back then, but I was just ...... It's just that I was afraid of hardship and didn't want to go, so Lao Pan replaced me. "The fire is out
After speaking, he cried directly.
After Hao Minyuan comforted him a few words, he turned around and picked up the leather bag on the corpse with a branch on the side.
The strap of the leather bag has rotted and is broken when touched, but the bag is still intact, and it can be seen that it is pure leather.
It was the kind of bag with buttons, which had been glued to a piece at this time, and after Hao Minyuan cut it with a dagger, he picked out the contents inside.
A rusty, vintage hero fountain pen.
A notebook that has become a pulp ball.
A couple of diesel lighters.
A couple of rusty keys.
There are also some trivial things that I can't make out what they are.
Hao Minyuan and Wu Yuhui circled around and found five more bodies. It can be seen that all the corpses are still in the posture of death, which makes Mr. Feng, who has come to his senses, very puzzled:
"Along the way, we heard a lot of wild beasts around us, and it stands to reason that after a person dies, the carnivore will soon smell the smell and ...... Why haven't these corpses been eaten? β
Hao Minyuan nodded: "The human-faced cats didn't eat their meat back then, which means that the purpose is not to hunt, so what is the purpose?" β
Teacher Feng then replied: "This is very similar to the behavior of hunting dogs and ospreys, when hunting dogs catch hares, they just bite to death, but they never gnaw on them, and ospreys are the same. β
"Teacher Feng means that the black cat with the human face that attacked them back then was domesticated?" Hao Minyuan exclaimed.
Teacher Feng waved his hand: "I'll correct a mistake first!" I've seen it, but it's not a cat, it's a cat-like animal, but bigger than a cat, called a lynx. β
Teacher Feng introduced:
The lynx belongs to the cat family, resembling a cat but much larger than a cat, with a stout body and an extremely short tail, usually less than a quarter of the length of the head. The limbs are thick and athletic. The tips of the ears have black tufts of hair. The cheeks are light brown, yellowish brown, light grayish brown or numb-brown, or grayish-white with light brown tones.
The ventral surface is pale white, yellowish-white or sandy-yellow, and the tail is black.
The lynx is a solitary, solitary wild animal that lives in a wide area of space, and is a nocturnal hunter with no fixed nest. During the day, it can lie on the rocks to bask in the sun, or hide quietly under large trees to escape the wind and rain.
It can live alone for several days in an area of several hectares, or it can run more than 10 kilometers without stopping. Good at climbing and swimming, and has a strong hunger tolerance. You can lie in one place for a few days, not afraid of the cold, and like to hunt and kill medium and large beasts such as roe deer.
Morning and dusk activities are frequent, the range of activities depends on the abundance of food, and there are occupying behaviors and fixed excretion sites.
Cunning and cautious, lynx will quickly flee to trees to take shelter when in danger, and sometimes lie down on the ground and pretend to be dead in order to avoid enemy attacks and damage.
In nature, large beasts such as tigers, leopards, snow leopards, and bears are all natural enemies of lynxes, and if they encounter wolves, they will also be chased and surrounded and killed, and it is generally difficult to escape. Nocturnal, concealed activities, well-developed hearing and vision, and able to swim.
After listening to him, I recalled the terrifying night in the dormitory of the water conservancy station.
That thing seems to be really as described by Mr. Feng, and its size is obviously larger than that of a cat.
Hao Minyuan also sighed: "No wonder it's so fierce, it turns out that it's not a cat!" β
Several men gathered the six bodies together, bowed deeply three times to them, and then dug a pit and buried them.
Almost as soon as we were buried, a few thunders sounded in the sky without warning, I looked at the sky, it was still blue, how could there be thunder on a sunny day? Maybe these old-timers have spirits in heaven to express their gratitude to a few of us!