The moonlight is thick.

I held my breath completely.

From the south of the forest, it was actually the outline of a figure!

I craned my neck to see the man's face, but it was too far away to see that it was a burly man of medium build.

I was stunned, how could the mountain king of Tower Mountain be a human being?

The man approached the two mandrills and stopped.

The two mandrills wailed and begged for mercy and forgiveness from the king.

"Falsely proclaiming the king's decree, the following offenses are unforgivable." The man said in a low tone.

At this moment, when I heard the man's voice, my body froze instantly!

"Kill!" The man waved.

All the beasts lying on the ground instantly changed their hideous appearances, and roared and pounced on the two mandrills.

In the dark cypress forest, the screams of mandrills and the bite of beasts mingled with goosebumps on the backs of those who listened.

The man ignored this and walked slowly towards the big tree where I was.

As he approached, I could see his face clearly, and I was sure that I had heard him correctly.

"Big ...... Brother-in-law? I looked at the man in disbelief.

There was no expression on the uncle's face, he was half-naked, revealing a strong body of muscles, and he was bare-handed, not even holding a torch in his hand.

I had too many questions in my mind, and I wanted to ask my uncle for clarification, so I immediately untied the belt that tied the trunk of the tree and planned to go down.

But Uncle stopped me.

"Don't come down! You're just in the tree! Until dawn tomorrow! Then go back to the village! Uncle said.

I must be unwilling, saying that I am just here to find him, the people in the village are now panicking, something big is about to happen, and I still have a lot of things to ask him.

"You don't have to ask, I won't tell you if you ask." Uncle's tone is unquestionable.

Where will I listen to him? I was sure before I came, I found him, even if I put a knife on his neck, I had to ask him everything.

I slipped down with the trunk of the tree in my arms, and then ran briskly towards my uncle.

Uncle is also extremely cunning, he probably guessed my thoughts, turned around and was about to run.

"Zhang Zhenshan! Stop! I yelled.

But at this time, my eyes were suddenly attracted by the uncle's back.

On the uncle's back, there was something, colorful, and it looked very dazzling under the bright moonlight.

My eyes widened to see what was on my uncle's back.

I don't know if it's my delusion, or because the uncle is running, but the thing on the uncle's back seems to be a living thing, and it keeps squirming.

I couldn't see what it was, but I vaguely saw eyes, nose and mouth.

Suddenly, I felt an indescribable sense of strangeness.

I was staring at that thing at the same time.

That thing, too, seems to be staring at me.

I suddenly remembered! In the mountain temple, the ghost of the eldest lady told me something!

At this time, the uncle turned around in surprise and yelled, "I forgot! Don't stare at it! Close your eyes! ”

But it was too late, and I just felt that it was dark in front of me, and I staggered and fell to the ground.

I don't know how long it took before I woke up and opened my eyes, only to see my uncle pinching me in a panic.

My jaw, neck, and even chest were all stained red with blood, and my nose and throat were extremely sticky and tingling.

I couldn't help but cough, and blood was oozing from my nostrils and mouth.

"Great! It's good that you didn't see it clearly, and it almost scared me to death, I thought...... I'm going to kill you in the sea!" Uncle's voice trembled, and he hugged me tightly.

Immediately afterward, I felt some wetness in my shoulders.

I was stunned.

I never thought that Uncle, a barbarian, would also have times to cry.

Uncle let go of me, wiped his face, and said, "Listen to me, find a safe place to hide first, and then go back to the village at dawn tomorrow." ”

I grabbed Uncle by the arm and said he had to answer me a few questions.

The uncle hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

"Are you and Mr. Qin in the same group? Did you blow up the mountain? Did you kill Wang Da'er? Did you kill the village chief? The ghost in the village, isn't it you? I asked a lot of questions.

The uncle nodded one after another, all in acknowledgement.

I gritted my teeth and asked him why he did this, why did he unite with outsiders to murder our entire village?

Uncle was silent.

"What about the people you brought into the mountains? Those good hunters? All dead? And how did he die? You killed you too? I continued to ask in a trembling voice.

Uncle didn't answer my question, he stood up and looked down at me, his eyes sharp like knives.

He said something that made me shudder.

"Don't ask so much, let me tell you directly, my ultimate goal is to kill everyone in Tashan Village, including you and your father, but to leave you at the end." Uncle said.

It took me a long time to understand what he was saying.

And judging from the uncle's expression and his murderous eyes, his words are definitely not a joke.

"For ...... Why? Does the village owe you any blood feud? I asked.

The uncle shook his head and said that the village did owe him a lot, but what he did was not revenge.

"To start at the beginning, do you want to know the origin of the thing on my back?" Uncle asked.

I nodded.

The uncle sighed softly, then sat down cross-legged and began to speak.

In 1959, the beginning of the three-year terrible famine, the village of Tashan was not spared, farming could not harvest food, and there was no hunt for prey in the mountains.

The only place where you can get food is the production team, where there is old grain stored in previous years' harvests, but there is not much of it, and you can't share it.

That day, the old and young of our old Zhang family couldn't stand the hunger, there was no grain of rice in the house to put it in the pot, and the young uncle was hungry and had no strength to cry.

The uncle sat on the threshold, thinking in his heart, going to the production team for three days, only half a bowl of rice at the bottom is not enough for one person to eat a day, it is better to go up the mountain to try his luck, in case he hits a deer, it is enough for the whole family to eat for a week.

The uncle went out with a shotgun, and when he arrived at the foot of Tashan, he suddenly found that he didn't bring fire, and he didn't want to go home to get it, so he thought about borrowing it from the nearby widow Xu's house.

But as soon as the uncle walked into the courtyard of Widow Xu's house, he smelled a smell of blood, and there was still a noise in the house.

The uncle knew something was wrong and hurriedly shouted.

At this time, an extremely weak response came from the house, it was Linghua, the daughter of Widow Xu.

"Who's out there?"

"It's me, you big brother Zhenshan!"

"Brother Zhenshan, come and save me, there is a group of wolves eating me here."

When the uncle heard this, his brain boomed, and he hurriedly rushed into the house.

Then the uncle saw a scene that made his scalp tingle, Linghua lying on her side on the ground, half of her body was blurred with flesh and blood, and a she-wolf and a group of wolf cubs were eating her flesh.

Behind the door, there was also a corpse, it was Widow Xu, who had bitten her throat and lost her breath.

The uncle immediately raised his gun, killed the she-wolf, and chopped several wolf cubs to death with a knife.

Then the uncle called the villagers, but Linghua was too seriously injured and couldn't be saved, the uncle sighed on his chest, why didn't he come in earlier just now.

But what made the uncle care and frightened the most was, how could he dare to have a wild beast enter the village to eat people?

This is something that has never happened in the past few hundred years, could it be that the wild beasts in the mountains have also famine and have begun to behave unruly?

No one knows the answer, the famine years and human lives are like mustard, and the aftermath of the widow Xu's mother and daughter is entrusted to their relatives, and the uncle is alone and continues to go towards Tashan.

But after going up the mountain, the uncle turned around for an afternoon, and he didn't even see the shadow of a rabbit.

It wasn't until dark that Uncle found countless paw prints near a ravine.

The uncle followed the paw prints and entered a cave, where he saw a terrifying sight that made him creepy.

Countless carnivorous beasts, bears, tigers, leopards, jackals, all gathered in the depths of the cave, and they were all pressed together, like a gathering of people.

The uncle hid behind a mountain wall, secretly observing the beasts.

The vast majority of those beasts are able to speak and discuss a matter from one to the other.

When the uncle heard what they were discussing, he was so frightened that he almost collapsed to the ground.