Hu Zongren is right, to a large extent, Master Situ is not only a professional guide for me and Hu Zongren, but also a mentor and friend, although he is quite old, he still insists on learning computers and learning to surf the Internet like young people. Except that sometimes he can't tell the difference between a computer virus and a cold virus, most of the problems can always be solved in a corresponding way when they are in his hands. Situ was a man of great learning and a great skill, and I am glad that we were old friends rather than enemies, otherwise I would not have been his opponent.

I told Situ on the phone where Hu Zongren and I were and what we had encountered in general, and when I told Situ that we were in Tazi Mountain, because from the broken stone tablet before, I knew that the name of this place was Tazi Mountain. I asked Situ to help find out some of the origins of this neighborhood, because since the tower was built, it must have been planned at the beginning of the construction. Situ agreed, told us to pay attention to safety, and he called us back.

Hu Zongren and I continued to circle around the tower a few times, and found that the closest opening to us that could enter the tower was also on the second floor of the tower, which was higher than the ground, and I didn't necessarily see that opening could get into a person. Hu Zongren told me, since you also think that such an empty tower should not emit black smoke for no reason, and the figure that Uncle Yang saw earlier also seems to be shrouded in a layer of black fog, most of the two things are related to a certain extent. Uncle Yang took Hu Zongren's words and said that he still remembered one thing, that is, after the black smoke came out of this tower, many villagers came to worship, and not long after that, every once in a while, one of his chickens would disappear inexplicably.

Hu Zongren asked Uncle Yang, disappear? Didn't you hear the kind of chicken crowing you heard the night before you threw it? Uncle Yang hurriedly said that it was not actually enough to disappear, because when he came to the vicinity of the tower to pick up a little leaf and come back to start a fire, he saw a dead chicken outside the tower, which was the one he lost at that time.

Uncle Yang said that after finding the carcass of the chicken, he felt a little strange, because there was still some difference between the dead chicken found that time and the normal dead chicken, most of the normal dead chickens would not change much in body shape, but the one he found that day seemed to have been dehydrated, shriveled, as if the water in the body had been drained. Uncle Yang also said that he felt a little strange at that time, so he took the dead chicken home and cut off the cockscomb with a knife, and found that there was no blood inside. I told him that most of the dead animals had their blood clotting and would not bleed. Uncle Yang said that this was not the case, because there was not even blood in the cut cockscomb. It was as if the chicken's blood had already been drained, but he had also checked it, and there were no wounds on the chicken's body except for obvious marks of being pinched by external forces at the base of its wings.

This is undoubtedly heavy news for me and Hu Zongren. Originally, I believed that he, like me, had a feeling of inexplicable amusement when I first heard Uncle Yang talk about what happened to him two days ago. A peasant like Uncle Yang, who may not have a very high level of education, is helpless when something happens that is far beyond his comprehension, and it is inevitable to do some funny things, for example, when we first met him, the hoe that was across his legs was very bold when Guan Gong came out of Cao Ying. But we can't laugh a little bit, because according to Uncle Yang's description, especially the content of draining chicken blood, it is very similar to a kind of ghost I saw in a senior codex of my master when I was studying art, and it has a common name, called "Lynx".

The bobcat here is not the bobcat in the animal, but a kind of ghost in particular, the number is very small, and the mandrill, the toad, and the mountain mouse together are called the four monsters of the mountain family. Here I have to take a moment to popularize science, the so-called four monsters of the mountain family are not four mutated populations or spirits, they are all formed by necromancy, if Hu Zongren and I met a lynx this time, then I have encountered two of the four. A few years ago, I caught a mandrill on the mountain behind the West Island in Sanya City, Hainan Province, these four kinds of necromancers are relatively special, and the essence of their appearance is similar to that of a ghost looking for a substitute, all of which need to constantly replace the soul, and one to replace the next. The mandrill is often regarded as a baboon-type animal, but in fact, the mandrill in metaphysics refers to an evil spirit that specifically targets people who are lost in the mountains, and then kills the other person in order to get rid of themselves. According to the records of the Codex, the mountain toad itself is an irregular black mist, but everywhere it goes, it will definitely cause the toad to come out of the hole and shout in unison, so the mountain toad is not strictly a single ghost, but a collection of various ghosts who died in the mountain. Its energy is the strongest, but also the rarest, so far it has been heard by many people and seen by very few people, and it is also relatively easy to catch because it is stupid. Mountain rats are actually the ghosts in the deserted graves in the mountains, this kind of ghost is often not the original owner of the tomb, but passing by here to occupy other people's graves, the harm is greater, when I was a child, I often heard the old man say, if you hear someone call your name at night, don't look back, here will call someone else's name, is the mountain mouse. The reason why it is called rats is because most of the deserted graves gradually do not recognize that it is a grave over time, so ignorant people are prone to encroach on other people's territory. There must be an entrance and exit for ghosts, for example, occasionally you see a small hole on the mountain wall that looks like a snake cave rat hole, which is likely to be the place where the mountain rat enters. Mountain rats have focused on harming people for thousands of years, and there is no room for negotiation, and if they encounter it, they must be defeated. Thankfully, I haven't encountered it yet.

And the bobcat,It's the most peculiar of the four monsters.,Because there's no way to determine whether it's going to hurt you or what.,Its appearance has a strong randomness.,Like the mandrill.,It needs to constantly replace the soul.,But the mandrill will only target people.,That is, his goal is single.。 Wild cats, whether they are humans or animals, often can't escape as long as they are chosen by it. But the bobcat has a quirk, it's used to letting you know about its existence in advance, in its own way. The meaning is probably to say, since I have informed you that I am coming, and you let me be caught and change my soul, then you deserve it. There is no fixed theory about the formation of the bobcat, but it has a characteristic, that is, if the previous state of the bobcat is only the shape of a chicken, if it is eyeing a cow as the next object of replacement, then once successful, the next appearance of the bobcat will be in the form of a cow, if it becomes a cow and then looks at a chicken, it is still a cow. It can only maintain its maximum size after its replacement. Maybe you have to ask, what does this have to do with cats, I have to tell you, the lynx is just a relatively gentle way of shouting, if you want to shout a little harder, it is not an exaggeration to call it a tiger, this kind of freak also has an eternal law, that is, every 12 years, the year of the appearance must be the year of the tiger, the tiger is Yin, which is the reason why it is a bobcat. And 2010 happens to be the Year of the Tiger.

The four monsters of the mountain family, that is the shouting of the folk masters, are often confused by the masters of the north and south and can't tell whether it is a ghost or a demon, the number is extremely rare, and it is like taking MH370 without heavenly reason, the probability is extremely low. Hu Zongren obviously also knew about this thing, so we preliminarily determined that this Uncle Yang had bumped into a bobcat. Bobcats suck blood and will warn in advance, as evidenced by the chicken that does not have chicken blood in its body. And for two consecutive nights, Uncle Yang woke up in the morning and found the dead chicken standing, with the head of the chicken facing his bedroom, which in my opinion and Hu Zongren's opinion, probably means that the next person to start is you.

But we still think there are too many suspicious places, first of all, most of the four monsters of the mountain family appear in the inaccessible barren mountains and mountains, and because of this, their numbers are extremely small, and it is estimated that the mountain toad has not been recorded for at least 100 years, or that none of the people who have encountered it have survived. This Tazi Mountain, although it is quite far away from the downtown area, but because of the scarcity of land resources, there are also many communities built near this mountain, and you can see the giant gas tank of Chongqing Natural Gas Company from afar, although it is not lively, but it is by no means inaccessible, there are people living on the mountainside and at the foot of the mountain, it stands to reason that it should not be a place where the lynx haunts. I couldn't figure it out for a while, so we returned to Uncle Yang's house the same way. Since I was guessing that it was an unusual ghost like a bobcat, my compass would be able to catch the traces left by this necromancy.

So after returning to Uncle Yang's house, I ran to the chicken coop with the violent stench of, and searched for the place where Uncle Yang said that he had found the figure, by the way, since Uncle Yang saw a human figure, it means that this lynx had killed people before this. And I also got confirmation of this in Uncle Yang's mouth, because he is a native of this place all the time, so I asked him if anyone had ever disappeared or died in this mountain, he thought about it at first and said no, how big is this mountain, and then said that there was a man who was found dead under the tower, and that man was a resident of the mountain, who came to help the government protect cultural relics and help weed and cut trees. As a result, he didn't go back overnight, and his body was found the next morning. I asked Uncle Yang if the body had also been drained, and he said that he didn't know what to do, and the body had already been sent away when he went to watch. I asked him when it was, and he said it was more than ten years ago, probably 1998.

1998, another Year of the Tiger. That's right, this time it has to be the Bobcat.