In the silent and hazy night, a man and a woman walked on the path of the cottage, the man was slender with a long knife hanging from his waist, holding a torch in his right hand, the woman walked on his left side, two steel knives crossed behind his back, the two chatted while looking for something in the dark corners around them.

"The first few times the clouded leopard has been in this direction, because several times from different places to enter, according to the direction of its progress, it is estimated that this is the intersection of several routes, because our village has always had a tradition of vigil, even in the peaceful period before the end of the world, each family still takes turns to carry out this tradition, the first time the brother who was in charge of the night vigil found the clouded leopard entering the village, sounded the gong, and also startled it, when the surrounding clansmen came, they only saw the figure of the clouded leopard fleeing, and the elder brother had been bitten to death by it. The child you saved today was the orphan of the first person to be bitten to death by a leopard. Later, we strengthened our defense, and the clouded leopard broke in several times, and two of them were trapped by the clansmen, and there was a battle, and all the evolutionaries in our village rushed to it, but it still injured 5 people, and three of them died of their injuries. The last time was two days ago, when the silver dragon came back, it happened to catch the leopard into the village, this time we had experience, and the defense was also sufficient, and the silver dragon was repelled by five people to block its way, and it was scratched by two people and then escaped. These days, my eldest brother is the village chief who leads people to arrange traps in the village every day, like the fishing net you just saw is one of them. ”

"Let's take a closer look here before moving on."

Zhao Xinghua understood the reason for the matter, in his mind that the thing that could attract the leopard must have a strange taste, otherwise it could not be that the leopard was hungry and ran to the village to find food, this place is also full of crises for it, and it only escaped after biting a few people to death a few times, indicating that it was not for food. But Zhao Xinghua thinks that his sense of smell is much beyond ordinary people, and he also doesn't smell any special smell, this thing is really evil.

After turning around here twice and finding nothing, Zhao Xinghua asked in the direction of the end of this path:

"What's that place over there? It's dark, and there's no one to do it? ”

"It's the direction of the vegetable field, and it's all home-grown vegetables grown in the village, and there are no flowers or plants."

"Where is the front? Is there also a person on duty? ”

"Further ahead of the vegetable field is the gable, and below the gable is a cliff with a vertical drop of about 50 meters, unless it is a bird, or a primate, the clouded leopard cannot climb, so that direction has never been defended. We're not worried about someone stealing food, hehe. ”

"Let's go over and take a look, maybe something has been overlooked?"

"You bad guy led me to a dark place, didn't you have a good heart?"

Zhao Xinghua didn't dare to take on such a topic, he was already uneasy, he was afraid that he would be talked about by this little witch again and do something embarrassing, he didn't know which of this little woman's words was true and which was false.

Holding a torch, Zhao Xinghua walked back and forth along the path in the vegetable field, this vegetable field has a range of several hundred square meters, located at the bottom of the village, the whole Yao village is built on the hillside along the terrain up until the top of the mountain, only the location of the vegetable field here is relatively flat, the temperature in the south of Nanling Lingnan in the current season is also more than ten degrees during the day, and the night is about 10 degrees, and the stretching mountains block the cold winter wind blowing from the north.

"You can use a double knife? There are very few people who practice this kind of weapon nowadays, have you ever studied it? ”

Zhao Xinghua asked without words.

"Haven't you heard of a single knife by hand, and a double knife by walking? I am now moving very fast, it is just right to use double knives, not to mention that I have really practiced, our Yao people's double knife dance has also been passed down for thousands of years, I am the best dance in our village, no, it is the best practice. ”

Pan Liangru also felt that he always said the wrong thing in front of this man.

"Is this a well?"

Zhao Xinghua pointed to a stone platform and asked, the reason why he was not sure was because this was not the same as the well he had seen before, generally the wellhead was round, this was a rectangular stone platform, and a large wooden board was buckled on it, like a lid.

"You people in the city are really rare and weird, of course this is a well."

"Why do you put the lid on?"

"The water from this well tastes bad, and it has always been used to water vegetable fields, but now in winter, the plants in the vegetable fields grow very slowly, and the weather is wet and cold, so they rarely need to be watered. In addition, this cover is also afraid that children and small animals will fall into it, this wellhead is relatively low, and it is larger than other wellheads, so a lid is added. ”

This vegetable field has also been walked several times, Zhao Xinghua did not find other differences, but he faintly felt that there was a problem with this well, and he didn't believe that there would be a meteorite falling here, the probability of a meteorite falling into the wellhead is definitely much lower than the probability of the two-color ball, how could he encounter this kind of thing one after another.

While thinking and hesitating, the gong in the village sounded again, and soon the second and third gongs were sounded.

"It's bad, big brother, they are in trouble, and the three gongs are sounding, indicating that the situation is urgent, and all the warriors in the village need to be dispatched. I'll go first. ”

Pan Liangru said that he pulled out his double knives from his back and ran in the direction of the fire, Zhao Xinghua also followed quickly, the mountain road here is rugged, Zhao Xinghua can only have an advantage in a straight line when running, and this kind of curve is only not much faster than ordinary people. Zhao Xinghua saw that Pan Liangru was almost jumping when he ran, each vertical leap was a few meters away, the distance would be adjusted according to the terrain, and every time he landed, he had already popped out far away with a slight touch of his toes, and it looked light like a dandelion dancing in the wind, and in a blink of an eye, his figure disappeared into the darkness.

Zhao Xinghua thought as he ran, since the leopard was so difficult to kill, why didn't he dig a trap and bury it, and thought that this was a big mountain, and there were many rocks below, and it was very laborious to dig a deep pit, and with the leopard's jumping ability, it was estimated that digging a depth of a few meters would not trap it, unless it fell into a well like the one just now.

The sound of harmony in the distance was continuous, and the light of the torch was also uncertain, Zhao Xinghua suddenly stopped running, he thought that Pan Liangru said just now that there would be small animals falling into the well, the location here is so remote, and the surrounding area is flat It stands to reason that the small animals on the mountain will not take the initiative to come here to drink water, Zhao Xinghua saw the flowing mountain spring stream in more than one place near here. In addition, looking at the situation of the battle, the leopard was also wandering around, and there was no definite direction, indicating that it only knew that it had what it needed in the stockade, but it also lost the way to determine its direction, and it should have lost the thing that attracted it or was obscured by something, so that it could not find it for a while. Could it be the well with the lid added?