The "ghost mastiff" mentioned by the Zhou Boren is a kind of voodoo magic that originated in Tibet and was popular in the Central Plains. Since ancient times, the folk love dog breeders have passed on a word of mouth, and the name is said: "Nine dogs out of a mastiff, nine mastiffs out of a ghost". The refining of the mastiff is not a kind of dog training, but an extremely evil witchcraft, and the cruelty of its process can be said to be outrageous......

The practitioner of this art must first select a newborn mastiff and close it in a dark room, and the first food of this little mastiff in this life is not the mother's milk, but the mother's corpse. The Mastiff Refiner will smash the female mastiff's limbs, cut off her arteries, and then throw the female mastiff next to the baby mastiff. When the little mastiff smells blood, he will come forward and lick the arteries of the female mastiff, and the mother mastiff will gradually die in the process, and in a great resentment, he will watch the little mastiff eat his own blood.

From this moment on, the little mastiff completely forgot the sweetness of milk, and since then has been obsessed with the smell of blood. The ghost mastiff refiner dragged the body of the female mastiff out of the dark room, crushed it into a pulp with a grinding disc, and fed the little mastiff little by little with the corpse of the little mastiff's mother. When the little mastiff eats all his mother, it has completely become a "no human and no ghost" thing.

But the ghost mastiff has only completed the first step here. After the mastiff eats the female mastiff, the caster hangs the corpses of dozens of dead people on the beams of the house, and the dead bodies are coated with poison and antiseptics, so as to prevent the corpses from rotting and at the same time not being eaten by the "four evils".

Next, the mastiff cultivators will use a technique called "wind chimes" to place some special stone carvings in the vents of the black house. The so-called "wind chime array" is similar to the principle of making musical instruments, and the air passing through the "wind chime array" can produce a cry similar to "miserable wail", which makes the little mastiff mistake it for the "resentment" of these dead souls.

Finally, the caster will seal the gate and lock the mastiff in a dark room without food and water for twenty-three days. In such an environment, the little mastiff will be exposed day and night, tormented day and night, and listen to the grievances and cries of the dead day and night, the essence of this little mastiff will change dramatically, and all the characteristics that belong to the canine will no longer exist. Under this kind of hunger and resentment, if the little mastiff does not die, then when the door is opened again, it will completely become a "ghost mastiff".

After listening to Zhou Boren's story, I was stunned, looking at the skinny ghost mastiff in the iron cage, I actually had a sour nose. Zhou Boren said to me: "Do you know why the ghost mastiff refiner must keep the little mastiff for twenty-three days? ”

I shook my head blankly and said, "I don't know." ”

Zhou Boren said solemnly: "There are twenty-four excellent qualities in the dog's body, and if it is locked up in such a dark room, it will lose one quality every day it passes......"

I asked Zhou Boren: "So the caster pinched the twenty-three days in order to keep the last quality of the dog?" ”

Zhou Boren nodded: "Yes." ”

I was surprised and asked, "What is that quality?" ”

Zhou Boren said in a low voice: "It is loyalty to the master." ”

When I heard this, my heart suddenly burst into discomfort, and tears flowed down like a spring. I've always heard people say that dogs are man's best friend, and that doesn't seem to be true at all. The quality that I have been tormented so much for twenty-three days but still refuse to forget is that I am loyal to my master. And we humans ...... to them

Zhou Boren said: "Even the ghost mastiff does not want to forget its master, this is their last bottom line, but once twenty-three days have passed, the ghost mastiff will completely forget everything and become a complete killing machine." Therefore, the demon mastiff refiner must open the door of the black house on the twenty-third day, otherwise once this time is exceeded, even he will be killed by the ghost mastiff. ”

I sighed, "It's a pity that this ghost mastiff didn't survive and starved to death in the dark room, but instead became a feast for mice, which is really pitiful." When you look at it, it's hard to imagine what kind of torture it went through in its lifetime, what a sin! ”

Pudding said, "This mastiff is pitiful, but we have pity on it here...... Seems a little out of place, right? Compared to this ghost mastiff, perhaps the dead people hanging in the air are what we should care about. Since refining the ghost mastiff happened within twenty-three days, then it means that these dead people were also killed not long ago. ”

Zhou Boren nodded and said, "Pudding is right, it seems that this deep mountain is not so clean...... Judging from the way these deceased are dressed, they should all be travel friends. After entering the mountain, they were intercepted and killed by the demon mastiff cultivators, and they were hung here as "sacrifices". ”

Before Zhou Boren finished speaking, he heard Gu Nianxia, who was inspecting the scene, shouting to us: "Director, please come here to take a look, I have some strange discoveries......"

When we heard the sound, we walked over, only to see Gu Nianxia standing on the iron cage, turning a dead corpse around, and shining a flashlight on the back of the dead man's head.

This dead body has been hollowed out!

I asked in surprise, "Director, why did the demon mastiff dig out the brains of the sacrifices?" ”

Zhou Boren was also stunned, shook his head and said: "No, refining ghost mastiffs does not need to dig up the brains of sacrifices, there is no such rule since ancient times." The corpse's brains were gouged out for some other reason. ”

Gu Nianxia said: "Not only this body, but all the dead people here have their brains gouged out......"

Gu Nianxia turned several other corpses to show us one after another, and sure enough, it was exactly the same as what he said, this was not an isolated case, but all the dead people here were punished by "gouging out their brains".

Er Biao frowned and said, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Zhou Boren shook his head: "I don't know, this is really strange." The murderer killed these travelers and used them to refine ghost mastiffs, but why gouge out their brains? What is the reason for this......"

Pudding said, "If only we can catch him, the answer will be clear." ”

Zhou Boren said: "Pudding, I heard the third child say that you have a high IQ and are very smart. In your opinion, how do we catch this murderer next? ”

Pudding said: "Judging by the degree of decomposition of the mastiff's carcass, the twenty-three day time limit should be coming soon. The murderer who killed the mastiff will definitely come back to check if his ghost mastiff refining has been completed. We now have two options, or we can take matters into our hands and set a trap here to wait for the rabbit. It's just that this will delay our mission to find the Jade of the Living Dead. ”

Zhou Boren asked, "What about the second one?" ”