There are no obstacles on the surface of the lake, and the water is very clear, and you can see that there is no abnormality on the surface of the lake with a simple sweep. The three of them, Unicorn, Surina, and the assistant, were wearing waterproof clothes, so the three of them went into the water to search.

Uncle Galu repeated again and again: "This is a holy lake, you can't go into the water, there are gods under the water, and you will be treated the same." ”

Although the three of them didn't pay attention to Uncle Galu's superstitions, they were still afraid in their hearts, so they didn't search very carefully, but swam a few laps in the water and found nothing new. They got back to shore, and we shifted our focus from finding the person to finding the cause of the person's death.

I asked Jiang Li: "Little girl, you are well-informed, do you know what kind of animal did this?" "Anyway, I still believe that this is the work of the beasts of the mountains, even if it is a god, it is a god with a substance.

Jiang Li shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it either, I only know the appearance characteristics of some animals, and I don't know how to attack." And looking at this man, it looks like he has been run over by a road roller, not like an animal. ”

I asked Su Rina again, "What do they say?" Any idea what's going on? ”

Su Rina shook her head and said, "They have never seen this kind of death. Personally, I think it's possible that an accomplice did it, or maybe they caught some valuable animal here and killed them in order to steal the stolen money. ”

I retorted to her, "Is it necessary for an accomplice to smash all the bones if he kills?" A knife or a shot will do the trick. How much revenge does this have? And even if there is an accomplice, that accomplice we know, she is not that kind of person. ”

Yan Qiu said: "It's not man-made, it's definitely an animal." ”

I immediately asked her, "Did you find anything?" How can you be sure it's not man-made? ”

Yan Qiu pointed to the man's neck and said, "You see that he has scars left by animals on his neck, and it is impossible for a person to get them." ”

After listening to Yan Qiu's words, we all went to look at the neck of the corpse.

The unicorn saw what we had found, and put the corpse's head aside with his foot.

Now I can see more clearly, it is true that the man has a scar on his neck, this is the only wound on his body, because the wound is small, we did not find it. The shape of the wound looked like two nails had been pierced into the flesh, and it was dragged back less than an inch away, very small.

Unihorn quickly turned the corpse's head to the other side.

In the symmetrical position on the other side, there are actually the same scars.

As if he understood something, he gestured with a fist, and then wrapped his other palm around his fist and signaled to us.

I couldn't understand his language, but I understood the meaning. He is saying that there is an animal that takes the whole head of the man in its mouth and wants to devour it, and the tooth marks on the sides of the neck are the upper and lower teeth of the animal.

An atmosphere of doubt and fear enveloped at once, and if an animal could take his entire head into it, the appearance of that animal would be fatal to all of us. If you think about it carefully, if you can take your head in your mouth, why don't you just bite it to death, tear it apart and eat it like a beast? Instead, he shattered all the bones and left the corpse behind.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that it makes sense, I'm afraid that we have to see this animal before we can completely understand that it should not be too far from our death.

Seven people surrounded a corpse, standing by the lake, helpless.

Jiang Li walked into the distance alone, turned around, and didn't dare to look at this scene again, after all, she was still a little girl. As she walked slowly, she took out her kettle and poured out the water inside.

This also reminds us to know that the lake water that has soaked in corpses does not want to drink it when it is boiled. Everyone took out their kettles and poured water out of the lake, but only Dujiao and his assistant did not pour water, putting on an expression that they were not clean and not sick.

The biggest reaction was the fat brother, seeing that we were all pouring water out, he seemed to remember something, ran a few steps into the distance, and began to vomit.

I remembered, after the water was brought back just now, the fat brother had already filled half a pot into it.

I told him early that he was going to boil and drink, but he just didn't listen, and now he was punished, right? I thought it was funny, but I couldn't help laughing, after all, laughing at a corpse would make people think that my brain was not normal.

Uncle Galu still believed that this was the work of the gods, and said to us, "Send his body back to the lake, and let the gods of the lake bring his sinful soul to Tengri and wash away his sins." ”

We did what Uncle Garu wanted, and we made a small wooden raft out of driftwood, placed the man's body on it, and pushed it into the water.

Uncle Galu threw himself on the shore reverently, reciting some kind of scripture that we had not heard, as if he were overpowering the soul.

This is supposed to be a religious form of funeral in Mongolia, I know that India has a custom of pushing the dead into the Ganges River for burial, and the Mongolian main body is also a Buddhist believer, and eighty percent follow the same rites.

After the simple and quiet funeral, we were faced with the problem of lunch, and Uncle Galu would definitely not fish from this lake, and even if he did, we would not eat it.

Su Rina and Yan Qiu decided to go to the upper reaches of the river to fetch water, and a few of us collected firewood, and Dujiao used a key-like flint to make a fire, and the task of finding food was handed over to Dujiao's assistant.

Only Jiang Li sat alone by the lake, motionless looking at the lake in contemplation.

After all, she is still just a child, and when we assign work, we don't take her into account, it's all up to her will, and she's happy.

But now, she doesn't seem to have come out of seeing the dead, and she is still there alone and sad, this is her character, no matter whether the other party is a human or an animal, whether it has anything to do with herself or not, her fraternity can always envelop all the lives she has encountered.

I don't know if this is an advantage or a disadvantage, compassion and kindness are good after all, but often this kind of unrelieved personality will bring her a lot of unbearable pain.

After a while, the one-horned assistant came back with two pheasants, and this deep mountain old forest was simply a supermarket without checkout for him, holding a slingshot in his hand, what he wanted. The pheasant is a male and a female, and the male has a bright coat color and long tail feathers, which is very beautiful.

We didn't call Jiang Li to barbecue, everyone could see that she was not in a good mood and didn't want to disturb her.

The one-horned assistant used their method to make us a good meal of pheasant meat.

He first cleaned the pheasant by the river, removed the internal organs and feathers, and then asked me for the salty salt in Jiang Li's bag, and applied it evenly to the skin and inner wall of the pheasant with his hands.

Then I found a few more large leaves, I don't know what kind of plant they were, but when he put them in front of my nose, I could smell a faint fragrance.

The one-horned assistant broke off the pheasant's hind leg bones, rotated it 180 degrees and stuffed it into the pheasant's abdominal cavity, so that the pheasant kept the shape of a rugby ball, and then wrapped the pheasant tightly with large leaves, and then used river water and mud to paste layer by layer on the outside of the leaves, and finally stuffed two large mud balls into the fire from the bottom.

The fat brother seemed to understand very well, and said to us happily: "Isn't this a simple flower chicken?" I've eaten it, and it's delicious. ”

After listening to the fat brother's words, I immediately felt that my stomach was starting to be hungry, although it was not yet lunch according to the time, but I didn't eat breakfast, and the road was difficult, I did feel hungry, staring at the fire, hoping that the chicken would be cooked quickly.

The fat brother was not honest, ran to the river, inserted the long feathers on the tail of the male pheasant, inserted himself into his body, and in front of Jiang Li, he danced like a shaman.

When Jiang Li heard the food, he forgot his sadness, walked to us with an expectant expression on his face, and waited around the bonfire to eat meat.

I teased the fat guy and said, "How does it feel to be a chicken?" ”

The fat brother hurriedly pulled off the pheasant feathers on his body, threw them aside and said, "This is a natural decoration, aren't primitive people like this?" You have something wrong with your aesthetics, which has been corrupted by the luxury of city life. ”

I smiled and said, "Then you plug it back in, I'll take a picture and take it back for Sister Hua to enjoy and admire, and see if I'm the only one who is corroded." ”

Hearing me say Sister Hua, the fat brother immediately put away his playful state, and said in a low voice: "I don't know what happened to your Sister Hua?" Isn't it time for prenatal education? Listen to music for your child or something. ”

I said angrily, "Pull it down, it's only been a few months?" Your little cub hasn't sprouted yet, prenatal education is a fart. ”

I don't know when Su Rina and Yan Qiu ran to the other side of the lake? Beckoning to us across the lake.

We all looked at the two of them, and the fat brother shouted with concern: "Come back quickly, the chicken will be cooked for a while, and we will eat it all after you two." ”

Because the distance was very far, the fat brother's words Yanqiu and the others didn't know if they heard it, they just nodded vigorously, and shook a string of kettles in their hands, as if to tell us that the water had been ready.

At this moment, the one-horned assistant suddenly stood up and stared at the other side of the river with his eyes fixed.