After Uncle Zhang's house and I arrived at Uncle Zhang's house with the fat man and Uncle Nine, Uncle Zhang quickly gathered a table of meals, all of which were vegetables grown in the field and his own native eggs and duck eggs.

This is a good feeling, these pure natural and pollution-free foods are sold in the city.

Uncle Zhang's wife died a long time ago, Uncle Zhang and Ah Niu were left behind, Ah Niu was shy and timid by nature, Uncle Zhang was basically in charge of the family inside and out, and the cooking skills naturally did not have to be said, the taste was really down-to-earth, Uncle Zhang took the wine from home, and asked Ah Niu to sit down and eat together.

Although drinking in broad daylight is not my style, but so many things have happened in the past two days, we have escaped death, and it is indeed worth drinking two glasses, and it is just enough to use wine to reconcile with the fat man, so it doesn't matter if it's day or night.

I can't name the wine, but it's old. The fat man can't drink liquor, and after only two glasses of belly, he gushed about the thing I had with him in college, and we fell in love with a girl at the same time, and then the girl followed the fat man.

The fat man patted me on the shoulder and said in a sincere tone, "Ah Wang! What do you say we haven't experienced together? It's been the fucking past two days, and we've even walked around the ghost gate, and that little shit just now is nothing. Blame me for my quick mouth, don't go to your heart."

Although the fat man's liquor is not good, it is not really enough to make him drunk with two glasses, I know that he just used the wine to pull down his face and apologize to me.

I have a problem, it doesn't matter how you joke with me, but don't make fun of the woman I like, otherwise I will turn my face to everyone, and the fat man understands this very well.

I took a sip of white wine, choked on my teeth, and said, "Fatty! I don't have a forgiving mouth, you don't blame me, but don't talk about smoke and rain in front of me in the future, otherwise I'll be really unhappy, brother. ”

Uncle Nine on the side picked up the wine glass and clinked glasses with all of us, and after contemplating it for a while, he said to me, "Nephew, I really have to remind you, that smoke and rain are indeed ......," I knew what Uncle Nine wanted to say, and hurriedly stopped him and said, "Stop!" Uncle Nine, don't ruin the goodwill that has just been established between us. Even if Yanyu is really not a human as you say, at least she is not harmful. And I don't believe she's not human. ”

Seeing that I was resolute, Uncle Nine no longer spoke of persuasion, but just picked up the wine glass and said, "Okay! Don't talk about that, I think you two are upright, your courage is commendable, especially Ngawang's skills, today we have made friends, if I want to catch some evil ghosts and crazy demons, how about asking you two to be assistants? ”

I have a fetish with fat people, and I especially like to meet friends who have a good relationship in wine, so we both touched this glass of wine together.

Especially the fat man was even more ecstatic, I had already seen through his careful thoughts, didn't he just want to learn a trick and a half from Uncle Nine so that his father could see, he was not a rookie.

As for me, it is true that Uncle Nine is enough to sacrifice his life for righteousness, he has saved us so many times before, although he collects money from fat people, but he can return the money and do nothing, but Uncle Nine did not, but he tried his best to die.

Although I am haunted by the fact that Yanyu was injured, in the face of major rights and wrongs, I can still weigh which is more important.

Just when we have a deep friendship with wine and hearts. Father Yan rushed in in a hurry, ran red-faced, panicked and anxious and said, "Quick!" …… Quick, our swallows are dying, so let's go and take a look. ”

I was shocked and thought to myself, what's going on? All of us didn't say a word, and we rushed out of Uncle Zhang's house and went straight to Yanzi's house.

After arriving at Yanzi's room, I saw Yanzi lying on the bed with a pale face, misty eyes, purple lips, and cold sweat constantly breaking out on her head.

Seeing this, Uncle Nine immediately stepped forward to ask for a consultation, and then his face changed greatly, and he said in shock, "Ghost corpse blood Gu." ”

All of us were shocked when we heard this, except for Ah Niu and Yanzi's father, who asked Uncle Nine in confusion what is "Ghost Corpse Blood Gu?" ”。

After Uncle Nine briefly summarized the ghost corpse blood Gu, he saw that Father Yanzi almost fainted, and the old man cried and begged Uncle Nine to say, "Master!" Please save my daughter! ”

What makes me most angry is that after Ah Niu heard the horror of this "ghost corpse blood Gu", he shouted for Uncle Zhang to cancel the marriage contract with Yanzi, and I was angry and the fat man gritted my teeth, if it wasn't for Uncle Zhang's face, I really wanted to flatten him, only to see Uncle Zhang slap Ah Niu in the face in annoyance, and scolded Ah Niu to go home.

Suddenly, I slapped my head, and suddenly remembered that when we burned the corpse in the wooden house last night, I said that there was something important I wanted to tell Uncle Nine, but the thing I forgot was that the swallow had a scar on his abdomen.

After informing Uncle Nine, Uncle Nine scolded me for being confused.

I looked at the swallow with self-reproach, and my heart was numb.

Uncle Nine said solemnly, "Fortunately, I found it early, and I can still save it." Without further ado, Ngawang, you and the fat man will go into the bushes and jungles at the edge of the valley to pick an herb called podophyllum leaves, and when I followed you down that day, I saw the herb, and it grew in the bush where I set up my tent, and we went back quickly. ”

Then he said to Uncle Zhang and Father Yanzi, "You two prepare other things with me." And said to everyone, "Everyone acts separately, a quick decision, the altar must be opened tonight, whether you can save the life of the swallow girl depends on tonight." ”

The fat man asked Uncle Nine in confusion, "What is podophyllum leaves?" What does it look like? ”

I have read a little bit in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" before, so I know a little bit about it. I pulled the fat man and scolded as I walked, "Let you read more books and don't read them, now you know that you hate less when you use books." ”

As I was leaving, the swallow stopped me, "Ngawang! Be careful, and if it doesn't work, don't risk looking for it. ”

When Yanzi said this, I was even more ashamed, so I responded, "Don't worry! I'm going to pick the herbs anyway. ”

Then he hurriedly set off with the fat man to the back mountain.

The fat man and I still only brought basic self-defense tools and backpacks. Because the crack in the lower valley is still a little far from the village, and the terrain is complicated, it is estimated that it will take more than half a day to walk, so I asked the fat man to bring the wolf's eye flashlight with him.

In order to make it easier to find podophyllum leaves, along the way I told the fat man what podophyllum leaves are, this is a matter of human life, the fat man did not dare to slack off, listened very seriously, if the fat man used to think I was rambling.

Podophyllum leaves are dark green, shield-shaped, with pin-like teeth on the edges, and are found in shady places such as hillsides, underforests, or cliff feet. Podophyllum leaves are also called star anise lotus leaves, distributed in Guangfan, such as the north and south lakes, the Yellow River Basin, the east and west factories, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places. It can be detoxified, such as snake bites, scorpion chelates, centipede bites, etc......

The fat man was stunned and interrupted me, "I'm grass!" What mess? Just tell me what it looks like in the simplest and clearest words! Do not understand. ”

I exclaimed, "Are you pig-brained?" That is, the leaves are large, the color is very green, like a five-pointed star, but there are seven to eight pointed leaf edges, the leaf edge is wide and wide, the leaf has obvious rhizome lines, and the leaf has small hairs. You get the fuck that, right? ”

The fat man nodded abruptly.

When I arrived at the mouth of the forest, I couldn't help but gasp, there was no way not to be afraid of this primeval forest, but now even if it is the Longtan Tiger's Den, the Ghost Cave and the Demon Cave have to be brave and brave, after all, the swallows are still waiting for us to save their lives.

The woods are intertwined and complicated, if I hadn't marked them before, I couldn't find the way at all, stepping on the fallen leaves "rustling" sounded, I vaguely heard as if it wasn't just me and the fat man's footsteps, there seemed to be other sounds, I looked around, but because the woods were shrubs, overgrown with weeds, and dense trees, it was difficult to see things in the distance.

I was nervous, I always felt that something was watching us, but because of the time to find the herb, I didn't pay attention to it, maybe it was just my hallucination.

After walking for most of the day, we came out of the woods and saw the camp where we had set up our tents, which had been taken away when we left, so that only a pile of burnt dry firewood remained.

Firewood was scattered everywhere, one in the east and one in the west, messy. The surrounding soil and grass have also been clearly scratched everywhere, and a few paw prints can be distinguished on the ground, looking at this deep paw print, you can see that the claws that grabbed this paw print are long and sharp, and there are more or less blood stains around it, I touched the blood with my hand and there is a little temperature, indicating that it has just flowed.

At this time, I looked at the deep mountains in the distance, the remnant sun was like blood, and when night fell, my heart immediately became uneasy, and this primeval forest was even more dangerous at night.

The fat man also found bloodstains, and I told the fat man "Fat man! Be careful, the blood is still warm, and it seems to have just flowed for a short time. If you look around here, I guess there must have been a life-and-death struggle here before we came. ”

The fat man took out the ice axe on his waist and held it tightly in his hand, and said without showing weakness at all, "It's all here, what the hell is it, let's do it the same." Show it how good we are. Then he said, "Let's go!" Don't waste time, let's hurry up and find that podophyllous leaf. ”

I also threw out the troop shovel and took the mysterious scimitar I had picked up last time in the cabin from my backpack and hung it around my waist.

The fat man saw this scimitar completely, and said unhappily, "I grass, you can fool me when you die, this knife looks like a sharp weapon, you fucking said that you will buy a lot of money in the two-dollar store, and you can buy me a few to play tricks when you go back." ”

I was only concerned about what danger was waiting for us, so I was in no mood to pay attention to the fat man, and just replied, "What the hell is it, you are still in the mood to think about my knife." ”

I usually like to watch "Animal World" and know a little bit about wild beasts in the wild, but judging from the situation and paw prints on the scene just now, I can't analyze what kind of exotic birds and beasts they are. But what is certain is that the comers are not good, and nine out of ten wild beasts like this are carnivores, fierce and brutal by nature, especially the huge size of this beast that lives in the primeval forest.

I used to hear my dad tell me that when he was a soldier on Mount Everest, he had a comrade-in-arms who was from Hubei, and told my dad a story about a primeval forest called "Shennongjia" in the western border of Hubei. ”

Shennongjia has countless unknown mysteries for thousands of years, and before the Cultural Revolution, there was an expedition team spontaneously formed by local civilians to enter Shennongjia for investigation and exploration. As a result, the whole army was wiped out, except for a young man who was lucky enough to survive from the Ghost Gate, and none of the others survived.

According to the surviving young man, they were attacked by unknown creatures in the camp at night, only to see a white shadow flash very quickly, and then someone was dragged away, and some people in the team said that they might have met a wild man, but in the end no one knew what kind of creature it was. That survivor was my dad's comrade-in-arms.

Shennongjia has been a mystery of albino animals and wild men for thousands of years, but I think they are attacked by wild beasts.

All in all, I said to the fat man, "Fatty, I feel that the claw just now must have been done by some fierce beast, you better not use an ice axe, but replace it with a sapper shovel, after all, the sapper shovel can be used as a machete." ”

After hearing this, the fat man put away the ice axe and changed it from his backpack to a sapper shovel, and said, "Ngawang! What kind of beast do you think it will be? It can't be a lion or a tiger, right? ”

I responded, "Fatty, you really don't have a fucking common sense, haven't you heard of the king of the forest, the overlord of the steppe?" The lion is from the grassland, how can it be in the forest, and the tiger is impossible, the tiger is endangered, and they are basically locked up in the zoo. ”

"What the hell do you mean?" The fat man looked dazed.

"How do I know, just be careful anyway." I'm not sure.

As we spoke, we had come to the middle of the shrub in the cracks. It was getting late, and darkness had replaced the last blush of the sunset.

The fat man and I opened the wolf's eyes and looked for podophyllum leaves everywhere, but this shrub and jungle were densely packed with all kinds of weeds, and it was not easy to find the same green podophyllum leaves.

However, the emperor lived up to his wishes, and in the end we found the podophyllum leaf under a cliff, and the fat man found it first, grabbed a handful and asked me, "Ah Wang!" Is this it? As soon as I saw this, I excitedly said, "Yes!" "Just as we were picking hard, there was a sound of grass jumping not far away.

The fat man and I both heard it, and the fat man shone it with a wolf's eye, but there was nothing but the sound of the wind and the sound of insects.

The fat man winked at me, meaning to go over and take a look. I put the podophyllum leaf in my hand into my backpack, and with the sapper shovel in my hand, I followed the fat man step by step, and quietly approached the grass that had just made a sound.

When I walked up to him, I saw nothing but a pool of blood. I looked at the fat man for a moment, and the fat man's whole face changed.

I squatted down and touched the blood with my hand, it was still warm. After standing up, he said to the fat man, "This blood is still warm." The fat man's face froze, and a hint of fear appeared in his eyes.

At this moment, the grass jumped again, and before the fat man and I could react, a yellow shadow jumped out of the grass quickly, as fast as lightning and straight towards me, so fast that I didn't have time to react, and at this moment, my feet didn't know what to trip, and the whole person fell backwards, and the yellow shadow jumped directly over me.

I got up and stared at the yellow shadow and said to the fat man, "It's good that you reacted quickly, otherwise I would have finished the game." "I thought it was the fat man who saved me. But the fat man said, "It's not me, I just saw a child's hand tripped over you."

What the! A child's hand? My scalp suddenly went numb, and I trembled all over my body.

But I didn't have time to care about it, because I kept staring at the yellow shadow just now, and I saw that it looked like a cat and a leopard, but it was much bigger than a cat, and smaller than a leopard, about 1.3 to 1.4 meters long.

A face like a cat and like a tiger, but with a bit of leopard charm, I saw that its eyes glowed green, its pointed ears stood facing the sky, and the tips of its ears had two clusters of brown hair like the feathers on the helmets of the generals in the play, standing straight. The cheeks have droopy white whiskers, and the white whiskers are thick. The body is strong, the limbs are thick, and the tail is extremely short, less than a quarter of the body.

It was half-prostrate, its front hook-like claws sticking out of the pad, revealing its blood-dripping fangs, baring its teeth at me and the fat man.

It turns out that the blood we saw earlier was made by this thing. It stared at us, and did not dare to approach us, but it seemed to want to swallow us alive, and it was bent on its stomach and ready to move.

I guess it's the first time I've seen people, and I think it's strange, so I don't dare to act rashly.

The fat man asked me, "Ngawang!" What is it? I said, "This is called the lynx, commonly known as the bobcat, and it is a good hunter at night." The fat man asked again, "What should I do?" Can't run? ”

"Run? Don't be stupid, this thing has stamina and its perverts that can run more than ten kilometers in one breath without resting at all. And climbing trees and swimming are like playing, but it doesn't go into the water easily. I replied to the fat man as I was wary.

The fat man spat fiercely, and said without showing weakness: "Grass! If you can't run, then we'll fight with it, I still don't believe it, the two of us can't even kill a beast. ”

I disappreciatively said, "This doesn't work, this thing is a national second-class protected animal, to put it bluntly, our lives are cheaper than it." Strange as far as I know, lynx are mostly distributed in the mountainous areas of Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and Hebei in China. ”

At this time, the bobcat approached us little by little, it should be to test the situation, the bobcat is more similar to the cat, it is not like a tiger and a leopard, as soon as it sees its prey, it pounces and bites fiercely.

Bobcats are all prey that sneak closer, and they pounce on them coldly, catching their prey off guard. If it doesn't pounce and let the prey run away, the lynx will not chase after it, but just return to the same place and continue to wait for other prey.

Every time the lynx got closer, the fat man and I stepped back a little. The fat man said, "If this cargo runs more than ten kilometers in one breath as you said, then it will only run more than 1,000 kilometers from Tibet, and it will be over after a few more trips." ”

As I stared at the bobcat's movements, I said to the fat man, "Why the fuck are you going to travel the world?" ”

"What's not to do, the world is so big, and the lynx wants to see it." Although the fat man teased me, I also clearly felt a trace of uneasiness in him.

In fact, it is not difficult to deal with it, generally wild animals like this are afraid of fire, since humans learned to use fire, there has always been a practice of using fire at night to prevent wild beasts from sneaking attacks.

I immediately said to the fat man, "Okay, stop." You go and find two long, thick branches, and then find a way to light the fire and bring it over. ”

The fat man immediately understood what I wanted to do, so he said, "Ngawang! You hold on to it first, and negotiate with it well. I'm going to go back quickly."

I thought to myself that it should be fine, and I didn't dare to act rashly for a moment.

Who would have thought that as soon as the fat man left, it actually took advantage of my distraction, and it pounced quickly. Fortunately, I was on guard, and blocked it with a sapper shovel, but the lynx was fast and accurate, and although the sapper shovel blocked it, it was still caught in my chest by its sharp claws like iron hooks, and I was only scratched by it because of the thickness of my clothes, and it did not hurt too deeply.

The Bobcat is particularly agile, and as soon as he pounced in the air, he immediately attacked again, which is obviously the attitude of not giving up if he doesn't win me today.

The sapper shovel was too short, the four bobcats were long and thick, and the claws were vicious, so I rolled on the ground in a hurry and dodged, and after getting up, I took the initiative to attack, "Ah! With a loud shout, he swung out his sapper shovel.

"Huh~" The sapper shovel accompanied by the sound of breaking the wind, like a machete, broke through the air, approaching the bobcat, I originally wanted to scare the bobcat, let it take the initiative to give up, but unexpectedly angered the bobcat, only to see its sensitive body side, immediately grabbed a claw on the surface of the sapper shovel, making a crisp impact sound.

I immediately picked up a dead tree trunk from the ground, like this one that can be picked up anywhere in the primeval forest, and I used the trunk to poke the lynx to prevent it from coming at me again.

The bobcat was half-crouched on its hind legs, arched its body, grinning and baring its fangs, and its two front paws were like lightning, clutching at the trunk in my hand.

Looking at the fierceness with which it grabbed the trunk of the tree, I felt furious in my heart, thinking that it was better not to scratch me, otherwise I would have to open the skin and flesh and blood.

It lasted for a while, and I saw that it was not a way to go on like this, so I yelled at the fat man not far away, "Fatty! What the hell are you making a man, hurry up, I'm going to burp my shit. ”

By this time the fat man had already come running with two torches tied to the haystack with long tree trunks. The fat man and I kept approaching the bobcat, and we didn't mean to hurt it, we just wanted to drive it away, and the bobcat was really frightened when it saw the flames, but it refused to leave.

When I saw that there was no way to go on like this, I said to the fat man, "Fatty! Leave it alone, let's hurry back and save the swallows. The fat man nodded in agreement.

We were afraid that the bobcats would sneak up on us from behind, so we took our torches and retreated step by step into the woods where we were back. The bobcats followed step by step, afraid that our torches would not come too close to us.

Suddenly there was a rustle of footsteps in the woods, and the bobcat, as if sensing some dangerous creature approaching it, followed me to the place where I had just tripped and picked up a great mountain mouse from the grass, and ran away.

After seeing the big mountain mouse in the mouth of the bobcat, I suddenly realized that the blood just now must have belonged to this mouse, and it should be that the bobcat was preying on this big mouse, and it happened to run into us. Including the fat man just saw the child's hand must be the claw of this mouse, the limbs of the rat are similar to the palm of a human hand, the mountain mouse is large, and it is a black light in the night, no wonder the fat man will see it as a child's hand.

At this time, the footsteps in the woods are getting closer and closer, and unknown dangers are coming......