The fat man pursed his mouth contemptuously: "Let you tell me, I really fired two shots when I was a child." But then he took the shotgun from the old sheepskin's hand and looked at it, and said with a wry smile: "I haven't shot a gun like yours, is this a shotgun?" I don't think it's much stronger than the Boxers who fought foreign devils at the beginning. "The herdsmen's shotguns are also advanced, but the old sheepskin only has a hunting gun, because there are not many jackals on the grassland of the Karen Left Banner, occasionally see one from afar, use the hunting gun to make a sound, just to play a deterrent effect, this small-caliber firearm actually has a very legendary history, its original form appeared in Tianjin, is a kind of equipment for fighting wild ducks, the structure is simple and durable, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Northern Expedition, hit Tianjin, as long as Tianjin, the capital of the Qing Dynasty can not be saved, At this juncture, Xie Zicheng, the magistrate of Tianjin, formed a musket team of the militia that fought wild ducks, and used the tactics of playing platoon guns for defense, known as "duck platoon", and finally relied on "duck platoon" to defeat the Taiping army, so at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the people really made a large number of such workshop-style firearms, and there were still people who used this kind of weapons during the Red Army's Long March, but no matter how powerful it was, it was a guy more than half a century ago, and now it should have been regarded as an antique and sent to the museum.

But now there is no time to argue whether this hunting gun can be lethal, there is only a self-defense equipment is always as strong as two bare fists, the four of them try to get closer together, fan their eyes to the grassland, the horses are still trembling in the "Boom, Boom", I stared ahead, the grassland has a wide line of sight, the sky is firm, the wilderness is vast, all in sight, but except for the long wind caressing the grass, the field is empty, and I can't detect any abnormal movement.

The quieter I am, the more bottomless I feel in my heart, a whole herd of cattle suddenly disappeared in the grassland, and disappeared so completely, I feel that there seems to be a mysterious power in the dark, which is by no means able to be fought against by man, seeing the horses so uneasy, maybe that terrible and mysterious force is approaching us, but we don't even know where it is, I repeatedly ask myself what to do? Fight or flee? Thinking about it, the only way to do this is to wait and see.

The tumbling thoughts in my mind were suddenly interrupted by the sorrowful cry of a wild goose in the sky, I heard the chirping of geese in the air, and the other three subconsciously looked up into the air, only to see a row of herringbone geese flying above us, migratory birds migrating in groups in autumn, it is a commonplace scenery on the grassland, we didn't care, but in front of the flight route of this row of geese, there happened to be a black cloud, the cloud was amazingly thick, a little like a mushroom cloud of atomic bombing, but the scale was much smaller, and the color was different, It is very common in the grasslands, and it is not easy to attract attention without looking closely, and the clouds hang straight down from the sky, a type of cloud called "hanging in the sky", and experienced herders know that there is going to be rain and snow recently.

When we raised our eyes to look up, the flying geese just cut into the clouds, because the herringbone shape of the geese array is very long, there are a few geese around the formation has not yet approached the clouds, with a few tragic geese in the clouds, finally these geese scattered like a frightening and fled backwards, we saw this situation, our hearts immediately struck: "My God, there is something in the clouds!" The old sheepskin hugged his head and exclaimed, Immortal God, the demon dragon is hidden in the clouds.

There seems to be a strong wind blowing in the high sky, the thick clouds of "hanging in the sky" quickly disperse into a silk tile-shaped, the blue sky and red sun can be seen very clearly, the clouds are empty, there is nothing zài, and the fleeing geese are still wailing in the distance, just those geese that flew into the clouds, as if evaporated in the clouds, not even a single goose feather left.

We were dumbfounded, who would have believed this terrible scene if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes, when the sun from the sky seemed to have dimmed for a moment, but our eyes seemed to see that the sky was still blue and white, and there was nothing that should not have been, but the horses then became panicked again, because we all pulled the reins back in order to hold the horses, and the horses knew that their masters did not give the command to run, but only circled in place, but they refused to stop.

Just when I didn't know how to advance or retreat, I suddenly had a feeling that my eardrums were swollen, and my heart was not good, and that thing in the sky was coming towards us. The old sheepskin also reacted, waved the whip, and twitched the hind buttocks of our mounts, and everyone knew that they couldn't run anymore, so they all knocked the stirrups and urged the horses: "Run, run!" ”

The four horses were finally relieved, and rushed to the back of the grassy slope with us, and the most feared thing about riding a horse was to go down a steep slope, and it was easy for the horse to stumble, but at this time no one could care so much, and no one needed to urge, and the horses all galloped wildly, and there was only the sound of the whirring wind in their ears.

We know that horses are much more sensitive to danger than people, so we don't need to ask for reasons, just lie down in the saddle and let the military horse take us to escape.

After running for about two or three miles in one breath, the four horses slowed down, and the horses recovered from their panic, and seemed to be out of danger, so we stopped holding on to the reins, and looked back, and no one could tell what had just happened. But the missing herds, perhaps like the wild geese that flew into the clouds, were inexplicably swallowed up by something invisible.

I asked Old Sheepskin if the last time he said he had seen a dragon in the depths of the steppe decades ago was the same thing we had just encountered. The old sheepskin had a dazed expression on his face, and he said that the situation was completely different, that time it was at dusk, and he saw a hideous dragon in the sky, and his whole body was pitch black, like a terrible ghost, but it was not as clear as it had just been, so many creatures said that they were gone, and this thing was really hell.

Ding Sitian's parents are museum managers, she has been in contact with a lot since she was a child, and she has the widest knowledge among our people, but even she has never heard of this phenomenon, she just said that there are many terrifying natural phenomena in the world, and human beings just look at the world as a small thing, and where can they recognize the mystery, but whether it is materialism or idealism, or a critical perspective to look at the current situation, Most of our cattle will never be recovered.

Just as Ding Sitian sighed that fate made people, I suddenly found that the grass in the col not far away was desolate, and there were signs of fox and ghost haunting, and I said that I just ran away, where did I flee to? Hurry up and let the old sheepskin see the terrain, where is this? The old sheepskin settled down, turned the horse's head and looked around, his expression suddenly became nervous, he looked at the col and said, "I must have done evil in my previous life, why did we just run into the "Hundred Eyes Cave"?