Hua Hu glanced at me and said with a smile, "Wait a minute, I'll close my eyes for a while, and I have to capture the appearance of this smell." ”

"Okay—does it smell the same?"

"Of course, there will be a different image. Your smell, for example, is a strange animal. ”

"Animals?"

"Yes, it's a human animal."

"And what kind of animal would I be?"

"Okapi, have you heard of it?"

"Ah, I'm going to be one of those four-like creatures?"

"Yes, how did I know, it's hard for me to match my image with the name in your language-what about this Shang Weimin just now, his image is-" Hua Fei closed her eyes again, and I looked at her brows furrowed, "A Xiyi." ”

"What? Why are you thinking of such a lonely animal? ”

"I'm a newcomer, where do I know what animals are cold and what animals are not!"

"If you were to tell a hundred people about the two animals you mentioned, it would be estimated that ninety-nine would not know."

"Isn't there still one person who knows?"

"The one who knows is my ......"

"Haha," Hua Yan smiled, "So, I really hit the shit luck, I didn't expect that the first person I met in the world was you, you know what to say." ”

The names of Okapi and Xiyi look strange, but they are not the strange beasts in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", but real animals living on the earth.

The okapi is an animal that now lives in the Congolese rainforest, with a size and coat similar to that of a trumpet-sized giraffe, but with zebra stripes. This animal is found in the murals of ancient Egypt, and its existence was known to the inhabitants of primitive tribes. But it wasn't until 1909 that hunters from Europe captured the first okapi.

Legend has it that this animal is so vigilant that it only sleeps for about five minutes a day.

Hua said I was like a okapi, but I didn't want to sleep for only five minutes a day.

However, recently she and Shen Yu have swapped back and forth, always "changing shifts" at zero o'clock, everyone has to make a fuss when they wake up, I haven't slept a good night's sleep, think about it this way, I am about to become a Okapi.

As for Xiyi, it is a wild boar-like animal in the Latin American grasslands, it has fangs and secretes stinky glands, and it really matches Shang Weimin's image when I think about it.

I picked up the hair, shook it at her and said, "Does it smell?" What kind of animal does that smell like? ”

Hua Yan sniffed vigorously, shook his head unhappily and said, "The smell is too small and slight to distinguish so carefully." If I have to say it, it seems to be a hoopoe. ”

"It's a bit more common." I said with a smile.

"This hair must be that woman's!"

"Why?"

"Because you have the same faint smell on you!"

"Don't make a fuss, Shen Yu's image will definitely not be a stinky hoopoe." The hoopoe bird is a beautiful bird with a crest, but its tail gland secretes a slimy, oily liquid that smells very strange.

"Then do you have anything to do with the bells and whistles?" Hua Hu raised his head and asked me with a smile.

I was speechless for a moment.

Although Hua Huan's "distinguishing incense" is mysterious, if you think about it carefully, it is not particularly strange.

Smell is a thing that can be described in an abstract way, and there are not many words to describe smell.

For example, the adjective "incense" is very general – flowers are fragrant, and meat is fragrant.

Therefore, when we usually describe a fragrance, we also like to use the simulacrum method to distinguish it.

Chanel No. 5 is a classic fragrance, but how can you describe the smell of this fragrance to customers who have not been exposed to the real thing?

Manufacturers can only cite a few botanical scents to stimulate the customer's imagination – aldehyde, wet grass and jasmine at the top, rose, ylang-ylang and iris in the middle, and mint in the base.

Even if some of the plants are not known to customers, they can still imagine it when they write it like this.

For people, we often use the simulacrum method to describe smell. For example, when we say "fox odor", we actually associate a certain smell of excessive sweat gland secretion with foxes.

In this way, it is not surprising that Hua Hu compares everyone's scent to that of an animal. It's just that the animals she lists are more specific and more obscure.

But it reminded me of one thing.

Hua Yu once said that her understanding of human vocabulary comes from Shen Yu's own knowledge structure. In this way, Shen Yu has actually studied quite a lot of strange animals, is she looking for real animals that are similar to the "Gu Eagle" that pulls the black boat?

Fortunately, at this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door outside.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Shen and Mr. Yan, have you finished checking? The little one has to wait to go back and deal with Captain Lin! Xiao Yu probably couldn't help it and complained outside.

"It's going to be done in a minute!" I yelled outside, and then quickly asked Hua Wei, "Do you have eyebrows?" ”

"Originally, I had, but you kept chatting with me, so I couldn't help but talk to you again......"

"Okay, I'm not going to talk, I'll help you watch the door, you think about it yourself!"

With that, I hurried to the door, and then suddenly opened the door. Sure enough, Yu Yiqing was looking inside the cat's eye, and I suddenly opened the door and caught her off guard, so she had to continue to squint one eye and pretend to rub her face to talk to me.

"Ouch, I've been standing for too long, and my face is sour......"

"Are you standing in a dog-chewing posture?"

“……”

Xiao Yu knew that he was at a loss, and stood aside in a gloomy manner. I handed her the hair, and she quickly put it in her bag.

I kept staring at her with a condemning gaze, to prevent her from talking or knocking on the door again to disturb Hua Yan. After about ten minutes, the door creaked, and Hua Wei rubbed his eyes and walked out, as if he was about to wake up.

"Teacher Shen, are you not feeling well? Why do you seem to have just fallen asleep......" Xiao Yu hurriedly asked.

"It's tiring to smell the smell and check the location." Hua Hu angrily yelled at her.

"What do you mean?"

"What she means is that it's tiring to smell the criminal smell of bad guys and find clues to crimes."

"Oh. Teacher Shen began to use figurative sentences when speaking. ”

I reached out and tried to pull her over and tell her not to say too much, but before I could stop her, she opened her mouth again.

"I found Shang Weimin's location, he is in a man's belly."

"Huh?!" Xiao Yu and I shouted out almost in unison.

"He had been cut into pieces and swallowed into a man's stomach."

Hua Hu looked at me, said in a calm but terrifying tone with a serious face.