Chapter 8: Betting
After those two shouts, there was a commotion outside, and I got up and leaned on the window to look out, and saw that many people had gathered in a large circle on the east side of the village, and I didn't know what I was looking at. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although everyone is still a little tired after tossing for half the night, knowing what strange things are happening outside, this curiosity alone is enough to keep people awake.
So the four of them immediately got up from the bed, slammed the wooden door with their bald heads and violently yelled: "Outside, is there anyone who can pant, I'm afraid that my brothers will steal things!?" ”
The bald voice was like thunder, and although it was through the wooden door, it spread throughout the village, and the attention of a circle of people was immediately attracted to it, and they all turned to look at the house where we were.
After a few moments, the cloaked man came from a distance, took out a key from his body, and unlocked the door. As soon as I opened the door, I was stunned when I saw the bald head full of anger: "You...... It's okay? ”
The bald head raised his chin and slapped the muscles in his chest: "I said old man, what do you mean, you cursed me for an accident early in the morning!?" ”
The cloaked man was a little embarrassed, grinned a smile that was worse than crying, and then turned and walked towards the crowd in the distance.
We followed and looked closer, and saw that it was a cowshed in the southeast corner of the village. The cowshed was sprinkled with donated blood, and the two parts of an old cow were scattered to the left and right. Although it was an animal, the scene was so tragic that my heart beat faster just by looking at it, and the level of blood I saw was much more than I had expected.
The old ox was not small, and it was very fat, and it had cultivated a body of muscles because of the perennial ploughing, and it was roughly estimated that it would have to be four or five hundred kilograms. I don't know what was torn in half from the position of the abdomen, and the spine in the back half of the body was even partially pulled out!
On the two ends of the old scalper's body, the entire ribcage and stomach were exposed, but the internal organs were all gone. There were still a few wisps of white hair left on the mud under the barn, apparently from something that had attacked the old cattle.
The villagers all looked at the bloody scene in the cowshed with trepidation, and the old man in the cloak sighed with a serious face: "Ghost man...... Here we go again......" After preparing for a while, he walked around the stone pagoda again with the other old men, and began to worship as he had done yesterday.
We've seen this boring and long ritual before, so we're no longer curious, and we're back to the barn to observe the old cow that died miserably.
The bones leaned forward and stretched out his nose to sniff, then squatted down and stroked Rum next to him and whispered: "Have you noticed that this smell seems to be a little familiar......" Rum also raised his head and squeaked softly, as if in response to his words.
I know the nose of the bones, and although it is not the same as Rum, it is much more sensitive than ordinary people. So he leaned over and asked softly, "Old Bone, what have you discovered?" ”
Bones frowned: "I didn't find anything, I just felt that there was a smell as if I had smelled it somewhere." The smell of cow in this cowshed is too smoky to smell good. ”
When I whispered to the bones, Leng Qi had already reached into the cowshed and took out a handful of white hair, and held it up to the sun to examine it carefully.
The bald head grinned and chatted with a middle-aged man of the same age next to him, seemingly inquiring about the affairs of the village and the origin of those ghosts and beasts.
After looking at it for a moment, Leng Qi analyzed softly: "This is the fluff on the body of a certain animal, and it cannot be a fierce beast such as a lion or tiger in terms of hardness, but it is similar to the hair on the body of a bear." However, in terms of color, it completely excludes bears, which are probably creatures that we have never touched before! ”
As he was talking, the bald head also came over, and he waved his hand in a hurry: "Okay, okay, don't analyze, I'll inquire clearly." This is not the first time that the villagers here have encountered this kind of thing, sometimes it is a cow, sometimes it is a pig, and sometimes it is a dog, and it is not uncommon for a living person to be killed in such a cruel way.
The murderer is what they call the ghost people, it is said that the ghost people lived in the surrounding dense forests for many years, no one knows the details of them, only that they are large, human-like, covered with white hair, with long teeth and fierce and irritable, and only haunt at night.
For many years, whenever a ghost man appeared, the ghost beast would glow in the surrounding dense forest to warn him. When the villagers were alerted, they quickly activated their own protective measures, using thick and tall wooden stakes to cover the entire yard and house until the ghosts left.
But just a month ago, I don't know what happened, the ghost beasts suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the ghosts would no longer have a glowing body before they visited, which caused the villagers to suffer heavy losses, and some people died because of it a few days ago.
The old man in the cloak was the leader of the village, and in desperation, he only built a stone tower in the center of the village, and placed the mastiff head symbolizing the ghost beast in it, and bowed every day, hoping that the ghost beast would come back as soon as possible and restore peace to the village. ”
Hearing this, Bones raised his head: "In this case, they just put down the big shed every night, why do they have to wait until the ghost man comes?" ”
I also nodded: "Lao Gu is right, since the big shed can resist the attack of ghosts, why don't you just put it down when you sleep at night, and take it back the next day, so you don't have to worry?" ”
The bald head stretched out an index finger and shook it from side to side a few times: "NO, NO, NO, TAKE A CLOSER LOOK." As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to the defensive greenhouse that folded into a big tree not far away: "With the current level of these villagers, although they can build a folding greenhouse that can be retracted and released freely, the stability is not as strong as it seems, and several people need to pull the rope to adjust it at any time, otherwise if there is a problem in one link, the entire greenhouse will collapse." So they were helpless, so they could only gather together when the ghosts attacked, and then pull up Dapeng and stare at them all night. ”
Leng Qi threw the white hair in his hand on the ground, raised his eyes to look at the dark green dense forest in the distance, and sighed softly: "Ghost man, what kind of thing is it......"
As we spoke, several local men suddenly crowded in front of the bald head and lined up to shake his hand with happy faces.
Seeing this scene, we were a little dazed, and the bones blinked: "Bald, what's the situation, you gave them money?" ”
The bald head shook his head proudly: "I didn't give money, I just made a bet with that buddy, saying that I could kill a ghost man and show them!" ”