In folklore in many places, there is something very similar to the one in front of me. One of the most famous is the Japanese yokai legend, which is said to be about the size of a three- or four-year-old child, with a pointed mouth and an extremely ugly face, and is called the demon of demons in Japan.

But when it comes to the origin, it has long appeared in various classics in ancient China, and the more famous one is a passage in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica. The Compendium of Materia Medica refers to the kappa as the water tiger, and all the appearances are almost exactly the same as those of a kappa, and it is also the body of a three- or four-year-old child, but the body is covered with hard scales that cannot be pierced by a bow and arrow, and it usually dives into the water with its whole body, only the knees that resemble tiger claws are exposed. There are the beak of a bird, the limbs of a frog, the body of a monkey and the shell of a turtle, like a complex of many animals. Legend has it that his weakness is the dish on his head, and if he tricks the kappa into bending over and the water in the dish on his head runs out, he will lose his energy.

Thinking of this, I immediately looked up at the head of this little monster, the little monster's body was still showing white and gray patches, and when I saw it, it was purple, and now a small half has turned gray-white.

I looked at the little monster's head, but I didn't see the plate described in the Compendium of Materia Medica, and I thought that if it was said in the Compendium of Materia Medica, then it would have been finished playing, and the fat man trembled for a long time, and I don't know how many turnovers.

At this time, I also found that this thing is indeed a little different from the legendary kappa, this little thing has no bald head, all are thick green hair, the water on it has dried early, and the hair is all covered with loess.

I looked at it for a long time, and the eyes the size of a ping-pong ball rolled around, trembled, and crashed directly into me. I dodged immediately, but it wasn't as fast as this guy, and before I could move half a meter, this guy hit me with a head. For a while, my mouth and nose were full of the smell of dead fish.

The little monster knocked me over, and in a few movements crawled onto my back, its claws touching my skin. Immediately an indescribable feeling came over me, I reached out to catch it, and I grabbed this guy's body, the hard scales seemed to be made of metal, this little thing was so strong that the soles of my feet grabbed my back collar for a long time and I didn't pull it off for him.

I dragged the little monster around in the camel thorn several times, this thing had sharp claws, and a few strokes cut a number of cuts in my face and neck, and the camel thorn broke when I pressed it, and the sting of being pierced into a hedgehog almost made me die of pain.

The fat man scolded his mother, and finally got up, he had a number of finger-long camel thorns on his head, and the fat man saw me and the thing entangled on the ground, so he rushed over, but he didn't have a place to start at that time, the fat man was at a loss for a long time, and still didn't find a place to get around, and hurriedly went around for a long time before shouting at me: "You fucking use a little strength, press it to the ground and crush it to death." ”

I cursed in my heart, and I had the idea of getting up and switching places with him. At this time, it didn't give me any room to breathe, the guy was extremely nimble, and his size was small, and I estimated that the left side of it crawled to the right in an instant, but I could feel that it was only a few minutes, and it was a little overwhelmed.

The fat man found a thorny branch, and this guy may have slapped his head on me several times in a row, and I have secretly cursed the fat man's ancestors for dozens of generations in my heart.

Since we saw this thing running away, until now, a total of less than ten minutes have passed, the little monster does not relent, the fat wants to help but has nowhere to start, the fat man just wanted to come to a personal bomb ready to destroy me and the little monster together, but heard several people on the slope hurriedly shouted: "Coming, coming." ”

I rolled on the ground, and I couldn't shake it off for several circles, and this thing was even more like kraft candy, sticking to me. In a few seconds, the people next to me came, and I saw them holding a few poles and dragging a ball of green things in their hands.

Before I could figure it out, they threw out the green stuff, and I realized that they were carrying a large fishing net, and apparently they didn't want the cubs to escape, and even I was wrapped in the net.

The guy knew he was going to suffer, and he wanted to stop and run, but when he got off my back, he was caught in a fishing net. As soon as the net came out, several people immediately rushed up, and some of them stepped on me and pressed directly on me.

A few people didn't know who finally wrapped the little monster with a fishing net, but the clothes behind my back still tore off a piece of the little monster.

I got up from the ground covered in camel thorns, my face, body and neck covered with all sorts of cuts and punctures.

I was dragged up by the fat man, and the two men in front of me were already dragging the fishing net up the dirt slope, and the monster that looked very similar to the kappa was struggling in the net, but the high-strength fiber fishing net was difficult to break with its size.

Several of us climbed the dirt slope together, and the fat man gasped again and again as he touched the wound, and I was almost marked as a bloody person.

"Damn, there is no righteousness, when I encounter such a little thing, all the shadows that run away are gone." The fat man said ruthlessly and directly tore off a piece of skin on his neck that was about to fall off, this injury was not small, the fat man was reckless, and he almost arched up in pain.

Master Ma patted the soil on his body on the side, and after some tossing, several of us have become natives, among which I am the worst one, not to mention that my clothes are torn, and my body is still full of blood, and the injuries are not serious, all of them are scratched wounds, at most a piece of skin is rotten, but the loess has entered the bleeding wound, and the feeling is no different from sprinkling salt directly.

It took us a long time to clean the dust off our bodies, and the box of water we brought with us was mostly wasted, and when I mummified myself with a band-aid, I was in the crowd around the little monsters.

"How can there be such a thing here? It's rainy in the south, I've been to many places, there are many ponds in the fields, and there are a lot of alleys and alleys in the villages. But our Pingchuan is the boundary of northern Shaanxi, what kind of place is this, the Loess Plateau, there is not a drop of rain for half a year, and the small puddle is a little bit of urine that the sky dripped a while ago, and it was dry in less than a month, how could such a beast be bred. ”

Master Ma was explaining the contents of the fishing net to a few people, this guy was wrapped up for a long time, and he struggled a few times at first, but now he can't move, and he doesn't know whether he is dead or alive.

I saw that Master Ma was a little bit of a doorman, so I leaned over and asked, "This family is full of scales and green hair, and it is a Japanese kappa and a water tiger recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica. ”

Master Ma stepped forward and kicked the little monster wrapped in a fishing net, and sighed: "It didn't take long to die from the water, the goods along the way, the kappa that the little devil said, the water tiger that our ancestors said, and the evil water monkey water ghost that the folk legend." I guess that's all a thing. There are several names for potatoes and potatoes, and not many people have ever seen them. Take the net apart, it's probably all dead. Master Ma said and kicked the contents of the fishing net again.

I'm not interested in the little monster anymore, where the hell did you get this fishing net?

As a result, when I asked, I learned that it was the bald horses who thought they were coming to the edge of the Yellow River this time, and they all heard that the big carp of the Yellow River was a must of this generation, so they brought a big net with them. Master Ma listened to what they said, and waved his hand and laughed again and again: "Oh, how can there be wild fish that can be stewed in a pot these days, there are still in the early years, and in recent years, I don't know why, I can't even see a palm-long little carp in the river of Pingchuan." ”

A few people cut the fishing net that had been entwined with their hands and feet, and the little water ghost inside curled up on the ground, and then looked, most of the scales on the little water ghost had become gray and white, so I really can't tell what it looks like now.

The bald head didn't dare to touch it with his hands, so he found a stick and stabbed the little water monster, but the little water monster didn't move at all, the bald head looked at us left and right, and muttered for a long time before saying: "Several, this dead thing is also a new species, you said that you can sell it for a big price if you make it into a specimen and sell it to the biology museum or the boss who specializes in collecting these objects."

We were stunned, and even I was impressed by his train of thought. If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time I've caught a live water monkey, although the one on the ground is dead, not to mention how much money can be made by selling it directly to the state, let's just say that those collectors who like to collect strange specimens can probably sell it for a lot of money.

"It's a doorway, hiss...... But don't bother me as an old man, this thing is evil, it's not something to mess with, you still have to think twice about dealing with it, don't get into any murderous disaster. Master Ma looked at the corpse of the water ghost on the ground and was speechless, but suddenly, I saw that his eyes changed, and I realized that something was wrong, and immediately looked at the little water ghost on the ground.

At this time, it was too late, I really didn't expect such a little thing to be so fine, the little water ghost who was originally motionless suddenly climbed up, and his bald head also jumped at this scene, pointing at the little water ghost on the ground and stammering for more than ten seconds without saying a complete sentence.

In an instant, the little water ghost rushed out of a person's leg, and the man subconsciously wanted to clamp it, but the little water ghost was too fast, and when he closed it, the little water ghost rushed down to the ground.

The fat man didn't know what nerves he had for a while, and he didn't move until the little water ghost ran out before he reacted, it was too late at this time, we deliberately rushed up a few steps, and before we went down the dirt slope, the little water ghost was already like an arrow straight into the original mud blister.