The night slowly deepened, and a gust of night wind blew, and I felt chills all over my body, so I hurriedly wrapped up in my clothes.

In the dark, like predatory beasts, we hid behind the trees with bated breath, secretly observing the movements in the pit, and our mood was extremely nervous and apprehensive.

In this way, about twenty minutes passed, and although we pricked up our ears and opened our eyes wide, we did not even dare to blink our eyes, but we still did not notice anything unusual, only the night wind blew from time to time, and the swaying branches and leaves made a rattling sound.

A crescent moon passes through the clouds, appearing and disappearing, and the flickering moonlight makes this pit even more mysterious and weird.

I glanced at the three of them next to me, they were still observing intently, and I was a little impatient in my heart, did I come in vain this time?

After about seven or eight minutes, when I was a little distracted, suddenly, I heard a rustling sound next to me, as if something was coming this way, Sister Li, Xiao Lei, Hongmei They also heard it, we didn't speak, just looked at each other nervously, and they all became extremely vigilant, Xiao Lei quietly pulled out the dagger.

We could feel that in the grass three or four meters away from us, the thing was moving fast and slow, and passed by us, towards the pit.

When the thing passed through the bushes and came to the edge of the pit, by the dim moonlight, we realized that it was a blood-red fox.

Foxes are not uncommon in the mountains and forests of our area, but this is the first time I have seen a fox like this, which is blood-red. Because my cousin's daughter is studying biology, my cousin's family has a lot of books on animals and plants, and I read a lot about it at his house these days.

So, I also have a certain understanding of foxes, I remember the book said that the most widely distributed fox in China is the "red fox", although it is called the red fox, but the fur of this fox is not really red, but closer to brown, and the abdomen is often grayish, but the fox in front of me, from beginning to end, is extremely bright blood red, just like the painting walked down.

According to the common sense of biology, such a bright color is unique among mammal animals, because such a conspicuous color is very unfavorable to survival.

This reminds me that in the 19th century, more than 90,000 British soldiers died in battles with the Boers.

But the British were much better than the Boers, both in terms of weapons and training, but why were there so many casualties? In fact, the reason is very simple - the British military uniform is a bright red, which is extremely dazzling in the green of the woods and grasslands, and it is not effective to conceal at all, it is easy to be detected by the enemy, and therefore it is more vulnerable to attack.

In the same way, a fox with such a bright fur will be more likely to be detected by the prey in advance when it hunts on its own, making it difficult for itself to catch the prey, and in addition, it will also be discovered by natural predators, increasing the possibility of being eaten. Therefore, according to Darwin's theory of evolution, it is difficult for foxes of this color to survive and reproduce, and they should have been eliminated by nature long ago.

But what is unbelievable is that this extremely rare blood-red fox actually appeared in front of us alive.

While I was thinking about it, the blood-red fox suddenly crouched on the edge of the pit, and like us, it looked into the pit, as if waiting for something.

Sister Li suddenly whispered excitedly to us: "Oh my God, I heard the elders say, this kind of fox is called 'blood fox', it is priceless, a Jin merchant in the Qing Dynasty, once spent 100,000 taels of silver, bought one of these 'blood foxes' in our area, and dedicated it to Emperor Qianlong, Emperor Qianlong Longyan Dayue, rewarded this Jin merchant with a yellow coat, and also gave the Jin merchant an official position. But this 'blood fox' is extremely rare, and since then, no one has found it again."

Hearing Sister Li say this, I was also very excited, I really wanted to pounce and catch this blood fox, I would definitely be able to get rich overnight.

The appearance of this blood fox made us both excited and nervous, and we held back our boiling emotions and quietly observed what was going to happen next.

I saw the blood fox squatting on the edge of the pit, almost motionless, like a sculpture. After a while, we suddenly heard a strange cry - like a frog's cry, like a human laugh, in the darkness of the night, very terrifying.

I couldn't help but feel excited, and I quickly listened carefully, wondering where the sound came from. Immediately after that, the third, the fourth...... Then it kept coming, and we noticed that this strange sound was actually from the blood fox, and we saw it squatting on the ground, tilting its head, and barking at the pit, as if it was calling for something.

We've all heard before that foxes imitate the sounds of chickens, dogs, and other animals, but tonight was the first time we've seen them, and it's really creepy and chilling.

In this way, after screaming for a minute or two, Xiao Lei seemed to have found something, and hurriedly whispered to remind us: "Look, there seems to be something in the central part of the pit."

Hearing Xiao Lei say this, we hurriedly stretched our necks, stood on tiptoe, and looked towards the center of the pit.

At this moment, the moon happened to emerge from the clouds, and in the moonlight, we could faintly see that a large piece of dirt in the center of the pit was slowly rising upward, as if something below was slowly rising upward.

At this time, the strange cry of the blood fox came to an abrupt end.

From the rising soil, something slowly emerged, at first, we didn't see what it was, until the thing was completely exposed to the dirt, we vaguely saw the general shape of the thing - like a huge toad, and like a monkey, it was really terrible, after seeing this scene, Sister Li held my hand tightly, I could feel her hand trembling slightly. I was so frightened that my legs went limp, and my heart was beating wildly, and I quickly turned my head away, not having the courage to look any further.

Sister Li's courage is quite big, I still remember that the third watch went to the cemetery with me in the middle of the night, and looked at those strange cats, she had never been so afraid, but the qiē she saw now was really terrible.

And Hongmei was so frightened that she buried her head in Xiao Lei's arms.

Among the four of us, only Xiao Lei is looking at the monster intently, his expression is calm and firm, every critical moment, his super psychological element, just like the needle of the sea god, can always stabilize the position, so that we will not lose control, with him, we will be very down-to-earth.

I only heard Xiao Lei muttering while watching: "Look, this monster is a bit like a toad and a bit like a monkey, do you remember those two freaks we heard of?" It's those two amphibious freaks, aren't they similar? ”。

"You mean the Israeli combat expert, the freak specimen you saw in Germany?" After being reminded by Xiao Lei, I also seemed to remember.

"Well, that's right, it's like that kind of freak, look, it crawled out of the soil completely, it's very big, more than one meter seven", Xiao Lei observed while giving us an instant report on the current situation, because of the three of us, we still don't dare to look.

The three of us all tried to calm our feelings, Hongmei also took a deep breath, broke free from Xiao Lei's arms, and tried to let herself look into the pit, but she still didn't have the courage to look at the monster.

Sister Li and I, like Hongmei, still didn't dare to look at the monster in the pit, but we could hear very strange movements: first the cry of the blood fox just now - like a toad, and then like the laughter of a human - but this time judging from the direction of the sound, it was not the cry of the fox, but the voice of the monster in the pit, it turned out that the cry of the blood fox just now was imitating the monster.

In addition to this creepy scream, we can also hear loud, fart sounds, very loud and loud and loud - it's the monster farting.

Because we were all wearing gas masks, we didn't smell anything, but when we saw the blood fox, as if it was drunk, it suddenly staggered, but it was very excited, jumping up and down, looking very happy.

Seeing this strange behavior of the blood fox, Hongmei seemed to be extremely surprised and reminded us: "Don't take off the gas mask, that monster's fart is a poisonous gas with a special effect, and the consequences of smelling it are unimaginable."

Hearing her say this, we were taken aback, and we all subconsciously helped the gas mask on our face.

Is it a poison gas? What poison gas? But at this time, there is no time to ask Hongmei in detail.

After about ten minutes, the three of us were a little more stable, I dared to look into the pit, in the moonlight, I could clearly see that the monster could not see that there was a neck, let alone a head, the triangular upper body, very much like the shape of a toad, but it was upright, and the two legs of the lower body were very human.

I saw that the monster was swaying, digging tentatively into the mud next to it, and in the process, the sound of farts and strange screams never stopped.

After a while, the monster seemed to have made a great effort to dig out of the dirt and dig out a mass of something—no, it must have been a living thing, for it was writhing violently, and made a strange noise, much like the moaning of a woman doing such a thing, that it was so soul-stirring that it was easy for a man to think about, and it was very penetrating.

"Isn't this the voice of the spirit fetus in the Shanghai Taoist priest's room?" As soon as Hongmei said this, we immediately remembered, yes, this is the spirit fetus in the Shanghai Taoist priest's house, because not only the sound is like, but even the size is similar - although the four of us have not seen the spirit fetus with our own eyes, after all, we have seen the wooden box containing the spirit fetus, according to the size of the wooden box, we can roughly guess the size of the spirit fetus, if only my cousin was here, because he and the historian have seen the spirit fetus with their own eyes.

After the monster dug out the spirit fetus, he held it with his hand, and then leaned down sharply, approaching the spirit fetus, only to hear the spirit fetus scream, and writhe more violently - could it be that the monster was gnawing on the spirit fetus?

After a few bites, the spirit fetus suddenly fell into the mud in the pit, I don't know if the monster accidentally slipped off his hand, or deliberately put it, but after the spirit fetus fell on the mud, it fell into the mud again, and disappeared.

The monster was stunned, bowed down, and seemed to be about to burrow into the soil, at this time, Xiao Lei suddenly turned on the flashlight, ready to rush up to take a closer look.

Just as he was about to rush up, Hongmei suddenly handed him a packet of powder-like things, and said eagerly: "This is the extreme yang medicine I have configured, see if you can sprinkle it on that monster."