Inside the door, a sign with the words "Welcome" engraved on the dilapidated overhanging beam, and a rusty steel wire that was the only link to the wooden block reverberated in the lobby of the hotel with a creaking sound in the night wind. Mu Tianyu paid attention to the dark figure, and stood up from the wooden chair, with a travel backpack stacked next to his feet, which looked similar to the one he was carrying. "You know me?" Mu Tianyu's doubts were written on his face, and they were very obvious under the front desk lamp, and he glanced out of the hotel, where there was not a single car or figure passing by on the street.

"No, I don't know you." The figure bent down and lifted the backpack over his shoulders, he was very tall, nearly two meters long, with thick arms, and lifted the weight with one hand. "But in the next week, you and I will know each other." Listening carefully to his voice, there is also a hint of hoarseness, which makes people can't help but think that there is a problem with his vocal cords, or maybe it is congenital. But then, Mu Tianyu saw the man's appearance, a middle-aged man in his fifties, with wrinkled pinstripes on his face, covered with this special skin pattern on the back of his hands and between his forehead, which made people think that his profession was a hunter. In the past, when crossing the Alder Mountains, the local herders or hunters had this special look.

"Hello."

"Hello, my surname is Sun, you can call me Sun Lei, just like you, I am also the person who applied for this job, do you know Lao Zhou? He introduced it to me. Sun Lei noticed that the other party was still skeptical, so he mentioned the name Zhou Hua, which must not be unfamiliar to everyone.

Mu Tianyu nodded and replied, "Old Zhou, yes, I know, I thought that this job was only recruiting one person." ”

The man walked into the old spotlight, he was really burly and tall, Mu Tianyu puffed his chest and looked at him, and found that he had only reached the other party's shoulder. "Do you know what kind of job it is?" A pair of suspicious and vigilant eyes looked at the young man in front of him, and guessed in his heart, this man named Mu Yu didn't look like an outlaw who was short of money, why would he agree to this job?

"You mean?" Mu Tianyu paused for a moment, really couldn't think of a word that could be interpreted, so he simply asked tentatively, "What kind of nature do you mean?" ”

This uncle named Sun Lei glanced out the window, and from his angle, he could just see the scene of the intersection in the distance. "Forget it, you accept such a high salary, you must also know the danger of this job."

"Oh, in that case, you must know something about this, can you explain a little bit about it?" Mu Tianyu saw the other party heading towards the door, so he followed. He must know something, that's why he asked me, Mu Tianyu speculated in his heart.

Sun Lei pushed open the door of the hotel without looking back and strode out. "What if you know? Once you embark on this journey, I'm afraid there will be no end to going back, and it doesn't matter at all whether you know it or not. ”

"Eh, where are you going?"

"Xikou Port Road, there are still more than ten minutes to eight o'clock."

Mu Tianyu followed closely behind him and asked, "Something must have happened in that town, that's why you didn't say a word." The middle-aged man in front of him suddenly stopped, and Mu Tianyu also stopped, and at the same time confirmed in his heart that he must have something to do with the town, which is why he had such a big reaction.

"Are you sure you're applying for this job?" Sun Lei didn't look back, just asked with his head sideways, his eyes paying attention to all the movements behind him.

"Why not?" Mu Tianyu shrugged his shoulders and hurriedly replied, "This is a reward of 100,000 yuan!" I can't refuse to think about it, I won't miss this great opportunity to give it to others. Mu Tianyu's emotional performance, even he deeply felt that he was a short-lived ghost who was greedy for money, and he could have no worries about money.

"Then you'd better not listen to this bizarre story, it will only mislead you, make your mind messy, your mind will break, and your heart will beat and shudder before you have even entered the town."

Mu Tianyu followed the other party into a path on the left side of the intersection, where he had been unable to discern the direction before. "Lao Zhou didn't mention these things to me, I'm afraid he didn't know it himself, that's why he invited someone like you, you must know better than anyone else, and know better than anyone else what is going on in the town. I'm in arrears with a loan shark, and if I don't get the money back, there will only be one ending, no matter what happens, it's the same for me, but I'd rather hear your story, after all, we're colleagues for the next week. ”

The middle-aged man was unkempt, his clothes were scattered, and although his rosacea was not so serious, the dull particles on the placket must have been piled up in the corner of the cabinet for months without being cleaned and tidyed. He had lived alone for a long time, at least seven or eight years, otherwise with such a towering cheekbone on his forehead, he would have looked ten years younger if he had pushed off the long hair in front of him, and it seemed that there was no one who loved him, so that he would live like a year, so that deep dark yellow wrinkles covered his body. The leather jacket of the black jacket has white lines, but the commemorative medal with the word X is faintly visible on the shoulder ornament. (Eleven years ago, a TV series called "The Black Phantom" made headlines in the film and television industry, in which the main character named X, dressed in a dark black jacket, roams the shadowy and depraved world of the bustling city to save his own desperate faith.) Later, clothing manufacturers found a way to do it, and X's coat was also selling well all over the country.

For many years, the middle-aged man has been lonely, and naturally no one is willing to listen to his story, and even if he wants to talk about it, I am afraid that he will not find a suitable person. Sure enough, when Mu Tianyu said to him that he was more willing to listen to his past, the other party's indifferent resistance began to unload the burden.

"You want to know what's going on?" Sun Lei slowed down and gradually formed a situation with his followers. At this time, facing the hazy moonlight, Mu Tianyu noticed that there was a scar on the lower part of his left cheek, as if it had been cut by a sharp blade, almost cutting off his entire mouth, but fortunately, it didn't. It may have touched the upper corner of the left lip, and the light was not so obvious that it was impossible to see more clearly, and it was hidden by the thick stubble. Sun Lei glanced at Mu Tianyu and sighed: "Then I'm afraid you have to be prepared, because the next story you hear is a strange and terrifying real event that you have never experienced in your life, and you can't imagine, and I am the one who experienced that incident, and the only one who survived." ”

[I was the competent sheriff of the town in '08, and during my tenure, the kennel town was relatively peaceful or stable, and there was never any major mess, at most a Maori dog at the end of the street broke into the neighbor's kennel and bit some kind of poor dog with noble blood. In case the dog dealers got into a fight, that was one of my main responsibilities at the time. On top of that, it's also my job to help find a lost dog breed in a jungle, and sometimes I wonder if that damn dog is longing for the depths of the jungle, and who would want to be locked up in a small, dirty, sour iron cage all day long, still living with their own feces or their own kind of feces, and being picked by passers-by.

I often get complaints from townspeople that aggressive hounds in the opposite neighborhood are always kept free and not kept in cages, posing a threat to people or dogs around them. Or maybe the male dog of a certain family failed to endure the loneliness and climbed out of the dog hole, causing damage to several fences around the house is small, but together with the female dog inside is pregnant, in short, the trivial things in the town will only be more bizarre and absurd, and there is no way to stop it.

My wife is also a dog dealer, almost every household in the kennel town sells dog breeds, I have not even heard of any family that does not have dogs, even Yang Tou of No. 13 in District C, also became a dog dealer, he is the only lonely old man in the town. Yang Tou, also known as Yang Lonely, as the name suggests, is an orphan, has stayed in the streets and alleys of the town since he was a child, has never been out of the outside world, in the early years, he divorced his wife, and it didn't take long for the child to have a car accident, in short, for him, life is like a betta fish in the countercurrent, always unfortunate and full of ups and downs. However, he does not seem to be depressed all day long, as most people think, but on the contrary, he seems to have nothing to do, like weeping grass mustard, and we all suspect that he has a mental problem, perhaps caused by excessive sadness. Overall, this is the town I'm in, Kennel Town.

It was a hot summer, and the temperature at night was not too high, and the town was originally close to Honghu Lake, located in a depression in the mountains, and I vaguely remembered that it was the seventy-second day of Tu Gou Day, probably like this, because my child was six years old and seventy-two months old. 】

Sun Lei narrated this, there was an obvious pause, a brief hesitation, a sadness in his eyes, still filled the deepest memory of the brain by the sweet and beautiful memories of the past, he has been numb for nearly ten years, and it is hard to believe that there will be anything that can affect his sensitive and fragile nerves and promote the secretion of tear glands, only his deceased relatives, his six-year-old child. Facing the thin moonlight, he deliberately avoided his eyes, and a tear stain was wiped away by the night wind at the moment when it slid down his cheeks, Mu Tianyu noticed this scene and did not make any body movements, so as not to condense the embarrassing atmosphere. Sun Lei deliberately switched the backpack on his left shoulder to his right hand, and at the same time took a deep breath to relieve and release his suppressed emotions, he sighed and continued to recount what happened that night.

[Actually, I've always been more in favor of the town being more peaceful, you can't comprehend, or bear every late night, the full moon hangs high in the starry sky, the "wolf howl" that comes one after another, crazy and energetic, echoing in the mountains within a radius of thousands of miles, as if walking into the world of wolves, more than that, terrifying, disgusting. But there is no way, all the economic resources of the town rely on the sale of dog breeds, which has almost become the largest canine trading market in the country, which promotes our better life, more material needs, and makes the town more prosperous and more distinctive. No one is disgusted with money, and no one is going to give up such a favorable environment and opportunities, but I would like to say that the unfortunate disaster has finally struck. 】