I don't know if it's an illusion, but since I came back from Jiangxi for a while, I feel that my facial features are much more sensitive, whether it is looking at things at night, or to some abnormal movements that were difficult to detect before, now I can have some reactions.

It's like a hint of musk mixed with the stench, I would have thought it was my nose that was wrong before, but now, I have to pay more attention.

"Boat boss, don't you burn the dead things in your house, this smell, there are no people living in the house."

On the weekend, I covered my nose and complained, and after entering the door, the boat boss led us directly to the cowshed, and then explained: "These corpses are not lost, because I think that someone will always recognize what it is, and I still have a house in the south of the village, and the whole family has moved there, so it doesn't matter." ”

I glanced at the boat boss in amazement, and found that he was not only full of knowledge, but also rough and detailed, and his ideas were not the same as ordinary people, and I was immediately a little impressed.

When they came to the edge of the cowshed, the people who had smoked the stench couldn't open their eyes, and the musk smell was a little stronger than before.

I couldn't help but look at Huaibei at this time, and found that he was also frowning, and there seemed to be confusion in his eyes, so I asked him: "Is there musk?" ”

Huaibei nodded and said, "It's a smell similar to musk, but it's not real musk." ”

Ignoring the doubts of the others, I went straight into the cowshed, and at a glance I saw a pile of cowhides spread on the ground.

It is said to be cowhide, but the outline of the raised bones can be faintly seen on it, there is no flesh and blood in the body, and even the position of the head is shriveled like a balloon that has been deflated, only the horns and teeth are still hard.

I circled around the cowhide, and finally my eyes fell on the belly of the cow, and I crouched down and picked it with a dagger, and in the center, I found a circular opening.

The wound seemed to have been pierced by an awl, and it was so smooth that there was not a single gap, and there were clotted blood on the belly on both sides, but there were no other wounds.

"Didn't these animals make any movement before they died?"

After reading it, I asked the boat boss.

The captain shook his head with a calm face and said: "No, they all die when they are asleep, it stands to reason that these beasts are very sensitive to external things when they sleep, and they can usually wake them up when they walk from the yard, but this time, what was it like before death, what it was like after death, and it didn't even move their eyelids." ”

I nodded, and rummaged through the hole with my knife, and found that there was nothing in the belly, and that there were only a few bones left for such a large cow, and nothing else.

"See what?"

After I stood up, the red carp asked with a frown as he stared at the dead cow.

"Not sure yet."

I turned to the captain of the boat and said, "What kind of animals are dead?" ”

The boat boss was slightly stunned, thought for a while and said, "There is everything, cows, dogs and chickens, but everything raised in the village is basically dead." ”

As he spoke, he suddenly remembered something, clapped his hands and said, "No, it was the cow that died first, and it seems that it began to plague other domestic animals after all the cattle in the village died." ”

I nodded, and my eyes swept around the cowshed, and my mind began to search desperately for something related to this situation, and after thinking for a long time, I finally locked on the hook tail.

Hook tail is a kind of strange snake that lives in the big rivers, the tail has a bone spur similar to the shape of a sickle, and it can grow to a length of seven or eight zhang when it is an adult, that is, about 20 meters, it is not uncommon from ancient times to the present, and it is recorded in many historical books.

Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty has a note: "There is a hook tail in Yongchang County today, several zhang long, and the tail is Qi, which hooks the people and cattle and horses on the shore in the water." ”

Li Shi of the Song Dynasty also said in the second volume of the "Continuation of the Naturalist Chronicles": "First mention that the mountain has a hook tail, seven or eight zhang long, and there is a qi at the end of the tail, and the snake is in the mountain stream water, and the people and cattle on the shore are eaten by the tail hook." ”

And judging from the descriptions of several witnesses, this thing likes to eat cows, especially before it becomes an adult, and its body is no different from that of ordinary snakes, and it will sneak into nearby villages at night, easily pierce the animal's skin with its tail hook, and at the same time instantly inject a large amount of venom that can cause people to stiffen their bodies, and then wait for the blood to drain, and then burrow into the body to devour the internal organs and brain marrow.

Although this kind of thing is not uncommon, because of its strange body shape and amphibious life characteristics, very few people can actually find it.

And it is not difficult to catch it, as long as there is a hook tail on both sides of the water, there will be a shape similar to sunflower, but the fruit is like a straw strip of the baby's tongue, whether it is a person or an animal, after eating, the body will be stiff within half an hour, only need to let the cattle prepared in advance eat the grass strips, before the drug effect occurs, the hook tail drills into the process of eating the internal organs, the drug effect attacks, it will be hard into a snake stick, and then cut open the cow's belly to take it out, then Ren kills Ren Chop depends on his mood.

It's just that why the smell of musk appears here, I haven't figured it out for a while.

After thinking about it, he told everyone what he wanted, the red carp and Huaibei were okay, after listening to it, he just nodded thoughtfully, and the weekend and the boat boss were not good, and the eyes were bigger than the dead cow under the feet, you look at me, I look at you, opened his mouth wide, and said for a long time: "Awesome." ”

I smiled and said, "The brine points tofu, one thing drops one thing, these are just speculations, before I saw that thing, everything had changed, especially the musk here, I felt that something was not right"

Weekend's face changed and he said, "Then does this thing eat people?" ”

"If the livestock in the village have been eaten, then the next step is to start cannibalism."

After saying that, I said to the two of them: "You go around the village and see if there are any who have not left, if there are any, let them leave quickly, it is nothing if the dead beasts fall to the ground, and when there is a trouble, I am afraid that it will not end well." ”

After hearing this, the weekend and the boat boss turned around and ran out of the yard without saying a word, and when there were only three of us left, the red carp turned to me and asked, "Is there anything left unfinished?" ”

I sighed and said, "Usually the time interval between hooktails foraging is very long, and it takes half a month at the earliest, but there are so many deaths in the village at once, and that hooktail is probably not ordinary." ”

"And the straw you just said doesn't work?" Red Carp continued to ask.

"It works, but the premise is a normal hook tail, but there are no more usable livestock in this village, if you look for it now, I'm afraid it's too late." I said helplessly.

The red carp nodded slightly when he heard this, and said: "The purpose of our trip is the eighth master and Rakshasa City, and the affairs of the village can't be managed so much, so if you can help, you can help, but if you can't help, you can't help it." ”

As I was talking, the ringtone of my mobile phone rang suddenly, and I saw that it was Sister Yu calling, and I remembered that I hadn't reported her safety so far, and I guess I was in a hurry.

After the phone was connected, Sister Yu first asked if she had encountered any difficulties and troubles, and then asked if the eighth master had any news.

I told all the situation here, when Sister Yu heard the strange state of the soul-attracting incense, she muttered for a moment and said: "The soul-attracting incense sees the soil taking root, smelling the wind and chasing the soul, this is not unusual, but since that person can know the whereabouts of the eighth master in advance and find a way to destroy the soul-attracting incense, maybe you are now within the scope of his target, you should be more careful about the people and things around you, and I don't know much about the hook-tailed musk you said for a while, there must be a demon when things go wrong, and we must be cautious in doing things in this business, Don't act rashly until you get my news, and don't put yourself in for a bunch of unrelated people. ”

After hanging up the phone, I felt a little dull in my heart, and I felt that Sister Yu didn't tell me everything related to soul-attracting incense, was it because I was afraid that I would use this to deal with the eighth master one day?

I waited a little more in the yard, and by the time I returned from the weekend with the boat boss, it was already a little dark.

The people who told me over the weekend that I should clean up had been cleared, and he also took a trip to the river and found some weeds to see if they were grass.

I took the weeds in his hand, and found that they were no different from sunflowers, except that the leaves were much greener, a bit like snakegrass, but on the stems and veins in the middle, there was a faint red in the green.

This is the first time I've seen this thing, I just heard Sister Yu say it before, and I guess that's it, after all, fingers have long and short fingers, and everything is spotless.

The sheep do not fall down, and the rooster does not show its head.

Seeing that it was already dark, I said to the boat boss, "Let's go and get on the boat first, I feel that tonight, this side will not be too peaceful." ”()

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