Zhang Butcher and I looked at each other nervously, both pulled out the knife, and then carefully touched back along the rope, we felt that the rope in our hands was loose and tight, and there must be something moving at that end, if the rope was moved, we wanted to return to the original place, it would be more difficult, so we quickly walked back along the rope, and our nervous hearts beat wildly while walking.

After all, we were only a little more than ten meters away, and when we turned the last corner, we were a little shocked by the scene in front of us: a pangolin the size of half a cow was devouring our rope! And there are seven or eight around it, and they are all about the same size, this scene is indeed a bit shocking.

Luckily, the pangolins here are large, but we know that they are generally not aggressive towards people.

"Strange, don't pangolins eat ants, bugs, and the like? How can you eat rope", Zhang Butcher looked at me and asked, in fact, I also had the same question. yes, I've never heard of pangolins eating rope.

I inadvertently took a flashlight and shone on the pangolin that was swallowing the rope, and suddenly found that its eyes were very different from ordinary pangolins, the eyes of the pangolin were on both sides of the head, and they were very small, while its eyes were as big as a bull's eye, and the position was concentrated in the center of the head!

I couldn't help but exclaim: "Uncle Zhang, is this a pangolin?" If you look at its eyes, it's so different from a normal pangolin."

After I reminded him, Zhang Butcher also hurriedly used the flashlight in his hand to shine on the head of the pangolin and carefully examined it: "It's different, it's too scary, this eye is a bit like a bull's eye." After he finished speaking, he shone his flashlight on the seven or eight people around him, and their eyes were the same as this one!

In the short time we spoke, the pangolin was already devouring and crawling towards us along the rope. The rope seemed to it to be the most delicious food, and it did not swallow it completely in place, but crawled along the rope as it swallowed. It occurred to me that this would lead to a stern consequence If someone used this method of putting the line into the same way as the two of us, then the rope they used as a symbol would be swallowed by these pangolins, and they would be completely lost in this terrible "labyrinth", or even trapped in it.

In order to confirm my suspicion, I took out a burlap towel from my bag, which was woven from the thicker cotton thread, which was soft and sweat-absorbing, and very comfortable to use, so I would carry this towel to wipe my sweat every summer. I used a knife to pick the end of the towel and pulled out a long piece of thread and threw it on the ground inside the hole. As I expected, these pangolins immediately rushed up to eat this line.

The eyes of these pangolins, in such dim light, can see such thin lines on the ground, which ordinary pangolins cannot do, no wonder their eyes are so different.

But why do these pangolins like to eat thread so much? I don't know. Some animals are so wonderful that people often have a hard time understanding what the world is like in their sensory world. For example, cats, cats can't feel sweetness in their sense of taste, that is, no matter how delicious chocolate is, cats can't taste it.

The rope had been completely devoured by the pangolin, and although we both knew that pangolins don't usually attack people, because these pangolins were very different and so big, we were still very scared when they approached the two of us, and the rope had been swallowed, and we couldn't continue to go inside, so we had to retreat in a huff.

When we got to the entrance of the cave, we put on sunglasses, because if we stay in the dark for a long time, if we don't take the necessary protective measures against the bright light outside, our eyes will still be damaged. From these details, it can also be seen that we have made sufficient preparations for this cave expedition, but unexpectedly, it still failed to fully meet expectations. Fortunately, I didn't run in vain, and I took hundreds of photos alone.

It was already sunny outside, but fortunately it was windy and the altitude was very high, so it was not hot, so we quickly packed our tents and other belongings and prepared to return.

Just as I was burying my head in tidying up things, I suddenly heard Zhang Butcher in my ear, and whispered in a frightened and hurried voice: "Xiao Ming, what kind of monster is that at the entrance of the cave?" Probably because he was overly nervous and shocked, his voice trembled a little.

Hearing him say this, I also hurriedly looked at the entrance of the cave, fifty or sixty meters away, in such a well-lit day, you can clearly see the entrance of the cave, there is a "monster" looking at us, the face of the "monster", at first glance looks very much like a sheep, but the shape of the head is like a person, and the exposed "arm" is also weird, saying that it looks like a leg of mutton is not like a leg of mutton, saying that it is an arm, it is not quite similar. I was so scared that I almost peed out, it was the first time I had seen this kind of monster in broad daylight, and when I came to my senses a little and picked up my camera, ready to take pictures of the monster, I didn't expect it to suddenly retreat into the hole.

Only then did I notice that the terrible smell I had smelled last night had just filled the air, but I was too nervous and scared to feel it. However, the smell of this monster during the day is much weaker than at night.

I looked back at Butcher Zhang, he was also pale, and the two of us wanted to escape from this hellish place as soon as possible, but we only felt that our bodies were sore, we had no strength at all, and our limbs were a little disobedient. I had to sit on the ground, and my mind was a little numb for a while, and then I gradually recovered, and it was strange to say, seeing this kind of monster during the day was much more terrifying than at night, probably because I couldn't see it so clearly at night.

When we arrived home exhausted when it was dark, I didn't even eat dinner, and after a few words with my parents, I went back to my room, put my bag on the floor, locked the door from the inside, didn't even take off my shoes, fell on the bed, and fell asleep.

I slept until eight o'clock the next day, when I quickly got up to wash up and prepare for work, and then I felt very sore all over. And yesterday's experience is like a dream.

In the next few days, I think Sister Li recounted the expedition in detail. Of course, the most exciting and climactic part of this expedition was seeing the "monster" with your own eyes. Sister Li and I both think that this monster that is a bit like a sheep will have something to do with the strange sheep we have come into contact with before and are related to the tall blind man? In addition, there were also strange sheep in those three bandit families, could it have anything to do with the monster we saw? Also, the monster we saw, was it the one who attacked the Japanese?

A barrage of questions followed.

But then the good news came that Yang Hui was worthy of graduating from a prestigious university in the United States, and he really found this film material in Japan through various channels. It turned out that he had a Japanese student who studied microbiology with him, and later this student became a well-known scholar in related fields in Japan, and one of the areas of this student's research was Japan's bacteriological warfare in China, including the types of bacteria and viruses released, as well as the actual lethal efficacy produced by these. Therefore, he has a lot of video data taken by Japan in China, and this video data in our village is included in it, although this data is not directly related to bacteriological warfare.

However, Yang Hui also praised the Japanese a few words in the email, which made me feel a little uncomfortable, but if you think about it carefully, what he said is not unreasonable.

Yang Hui said in the email that he has to admit that the Japanese are indeed very serious about preserving historical materials and cultural relics. This is also the reason why the video material, although it has gone through so many years, has survived in the end.

Chen Shunchen, a Chinese writer living in Japan, once said, "The Japanese are preservation experts, and the Chinese are catalog experts." The writer Lao She told the Japanese that Chinese beggars would rather be broken until they die than hand over their ancestral treasures to others for safekeeping. And some Japanese generals were willing to hand over cultural relics to the enemy for safekeeping.

The invading Japanese army also issued notices in the Forbidden City in Beijing, Handan in Hebei, and the Datong Grottoes in Shanxi, saying that "if there is any damage, it will be severely punished." When the Japanese army reached Confucius's hometown in Qufu, Shandong, Professor Shinji Takada of the University of Tokyo wrote to the Japanese Military Department: "In the Shandong operation, if the historical sites of Qufu are destroyed, Japan will bear the responsibility of destroying the world's cultural relics. The military headquarters then urgently ordered the front-line troops to avoid the fighting in the Qufu area. After the Japanese army entered Qufu, they sent troops to guard the Confucian Temple, and the generals paid homage. For more than 2,000 years, the Confucian Temple in Qufu was rarely destroyed, even by invaders, but it was extensively destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

After reading this email, Sister Li replied to Yang Hui half-jokingly and half-seriously: In fact, we Chinese scholars also have a strong sense of cultural protection, and I think that the two atomic bombs of the United States were originally intended to be dropped on Tokyo and the historical city of Kyoto in Japan, and later Liang Sicheng, who was in the United States, wrote a letter to the US War Department saying that Tokyo and Kyoto are famous cultural cities, and if the atomic bombs are dropped in these two places, the historical and cultural monuments there will be destroyed and destroyed, which is the common cultural heritage of mankind, not only belonging to Japan. The U.S. War Department attached great importance to Liang Sicheng's letter, and because of this letter, it finally abandoned the plan to bomb Tokyo and Kyoto with atomic bombs, so the Japanese should be infinitely grateful to Liang Sicheng.

After reading Sister Li's email, I quipped: "Hey, why are your people so knowledgeable and so fond of drilling horns, haha."

Sister Li looked at me tenderly and lovingly, then pinched my face and said, "No way, it's all the power of genes, baby", and then continued to talk about the topic: "Actually, my cousin's Japanese student was shocked when he saw this video material for the first time. At first, he suspected that it couldn't be real, but that someone must have faked it, because the contents were so amazing! So, I found relevant experts, including video experts, historians, physics experts, and even magicians, to appraise the film, and after a comprehensive evaluation, this film was indeed the video data shot at that time. ”

Now that there is the Internet, it is really convenient for Yang Hui to go to the United States, and it is very convenient to use the Internet, convert this video into video materials, and send it to us from the mailbox.

However, because she was worried that the content in it was too terrifying, Sister Li didn't dare to watch it alone, she wanted to watch it with me, but she didn't expect that after her cousin heard about it, she had to watch it together. Sister Li was worried about whether he could bear it at first, but after thinking about it, she felt that her cousin had a lot more life experience than us, and his psychological resilience must be stronger than that of us young people. Besides, my cousin insisted on his request, and we both knew that my cousin's body was very healthy, so in the end, we both agreed, and with such a knowledgeable old man, analyzing this information together, there would definitely be unexpected gains.