Sister Li didn't speak all the time, as if she was thinking about something, and suddenly, she said thoughtlessly: "Is there really such a wonderful monkey in the mountains?" I've never heard of it, let alone seen it, this kind of monkey is so amazing, it's not like it's real, not to mention that in our mountain, even in the world, I'm afraid there is no such monkey."

The cousin smiled slightly: "This kind of monkey has been recorded in our local chronicles, but it may be due to the environment, climate change and other reasons, at least in the last hundred years, no one has seen this kind of monkey again."

But this is also normal, for example, in the Song Dynasty, there were wild tigers in Shandong, which is a bit incredible for people now, so with the passage of time, the natural environment of a place, and species, may undergo huge changes.

Although this kind of monkey has disappeared in our mountain, in the world, there are monkeys with this strange habit, and they now live in the forests of the Congo in Central Africa, called Bonobo.

Bonobo's mother will carry the body of the baby monkey with her – if the baby monkey dies – until the body of the baby monkey is decomposed, or even dried up, and then she will not be willing to discard it."

Or my cousin is knowledgeable, and this remark has increased our knowledge a lot.

After some discussion, it was already past nine o'clock, and Sister Li and I usually don't go back too late, so we were about to leave. Suddenly, at this moment, I heard several thunderclaps outside, followed by a torrential rain.

In our place, the rain is loudest in late summer and early autumn.

We've been too busy lately to have time to look at the weather forecast, so we didn't know there would be heavy rain tonight.

I just remembered that when I came this afternoon, there was no sun, and it was still very hot, and I was a little sweaty after more than ten minutes of riding to my cousin's house, but I kept thinking about what happened last night, and I didn't seem to pay much attention to this stuffiness.

And my cousin's house has been turning on the air conditioner, and I didn't feel hot after entering the house, but now I notice that the sultry heat during the day is actually a harbinger of heavy rain tonight.

A few of us went to the window and looked, and it was already pouring rain.

In this way, my cousin let us stay, not only because of the heavy rain, but more importantly, on such a rainy day, the tall blind man is more likely to attack, and there is more likely to be unexpected danger.

From what happened later, we realized that it was fortunate that it was my cousin's decision, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.

At that time, we just felt that what my cousin said made sense, and that once a danger occurred, we could only be the most effective when we faced it together. So, Sister Li decided not to go back at night, and stayed at my cousin's house as before.

After eating dinner and cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, it was already about ten o'clock in the evening, we still sat together, and seriously discussed the qiē we encountered last night, trying to analyze from this information whether these strange things were really arranged by the blind man, so as to know how we should deal with it.

Since we want to start with that fox, let's start talking about the scarlet fox first.

Xiao Lei felt that since that fox could be attracted to the edge of the pit, could it also produce that special corpse smell in that pit?

But what we smelled at the edge of the pit was only the smell of rotten eggs, and nothing else, how can we explain this?

Xiao Lei asked, everyone was silent, yes, what's going on, I really don't understand, about the smell of corpses, I smelled it when I was a child, and I know how bad the smell is, it is very different from the smell of rotten eggs, although what the blood fox smells is not just the general smell of corpses, but also the smell of living things, but we all feel that in any case, it should not be a rotten egg smell.

If it's not the kind of corpse smell that foxes like, why would blood foxes go to the pit? And still crouched there, as if waiting for something.

What's even more strange is that it is still crouching there, stretching its neck and barking, which is very similar to the cry of a toad, and like the laughter of a person.

Why did that blood fox behave so strangely? We discussed it for a long time, but we still couldn't solve the mystery.

My cousin thought for a long time before he said slowly: "All things considered, the monster in the pit probably floated up from the mud in the pit when he heard the cry of the blood-colored fox, but why did that fox lead the monster in the pit up?" And, after that monster floats up, it will pick up the spirit fetus and gnaw it, why is that? Also, that freak, nine times out of ten, was stolen by a blind man from Daoist Yang in Shanghai, but why did he put it in that pit? ”

We have all made all kinds of guesses about these problems, but after careful consideration, we feel that each guess is wrong.

Time flies so fast, before I know it, it's midnight again, and my cousin yawned and said, "I think about these mysteries about the Scarlet Fox, for a while, we can't think of a reason, let's rest first, take care of our spirits, and let's study it again."

When he said this, we all got up and began to wash up and get ready for bed.

Outside, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and in the house, you could hear the rain flowing down from the drainage pipe of the building, and it was very loud.

Uncle and Xiao Lei carefully checked whether the doors and windows were closed again, and then returned to their respective houses. Xiao Lei originally wanted me to go to his room to live together, but I always felt that two men in the same bed, it felt weird and uncomfortable. So, I still decided to sleep on the sofa in the living room, while Sister Li slept with Hongmei.

After everyone returned to the house, I also turned off the lights in the living room, and then lay on the sofa, for some reason, in the dark, listening to the rumbling thunder outside, and the sound of water in the drainage pipe of the building, although I was very sleepy, I couldn't sleep, lying on the sofa in the living room, watching the lightning out of the window.

Suddenly, I was a little afraid to look at the window, for fear that in the light of lightning, something terrible would suddenly appear outside the window.

However, the more I didn't dare to look at it, the more I wanted to see it, I tried to calm myself, and I couldn't help but secretly curse myself in my heart, why did I become so timid, Xiaolei, Hongmei, Sister Li, and my cousin are all in the same house as me, what else do I have to be afraid of?

I don't know how long later, just when I was in a daze and seemed to be asleep, I vaguely heard something rustling in the window, because there was an indescribable worry, so even such a small movement made me wake up immediately, and opened my eyes vigilantly to look at the window.

By the flash of lightning from time to time, I saw a big black cat from my cousin, lying on the window, pulling something with his paws.

I sat up quietly, poked my head out, squinted my eyes, trying to see what the cat was pulling, and at the moment I saw it clearly, I was a little surprised that the cat was pulling at the semicircular pin lock on the window with its paws.

Why would it do that?

A few years ago, the security of our small county was very bad, smashing open the glass to break into the house, and even robbery, often happened, and later, some households in the county have installed anti-theft glass, this kind of glass is very hard, even if a strong man takes turns to smash with a big oil hammer, at most it can only be smashed, and will not smash this anti-theft glass. Some people say that this glass can't even be penetrated by bullets.

In addition to my cousin's house, Sister Li and I also installed this kind of glass, which is why as long as the windows are closed, we are not afraid of blind people breaking through the windows.

But at this moment, why did the black cat open the pin lock on the window? Suddenly, a thought crossed my mind—could this have something to do with the blind man?

I hurriedly picked up an ashtray from the coffee table next to me, barefoot, stepping on a thick carpet, tiptoeing behind the big black cat, at this time, seeing that the semicircular pin lock on the window, has been half opened, the big black cat seems to be enchanted, with a paw desperately and clumsily pulling, its claws, after all, is not a human hand, human hands can be very easy, all at once to open the pin lock, and the cat can only use its claws to mechanically pick up.

I didn't stop it immediately, but crept close to the window, looked through the glass, and leaned my neck out of the window, and at that moment, a flash of lightning flashed, allowing me to see the most terrible scene clearly (until many years later, this scene would often appear in nightmares, and I would be awakened every time) - I saw that at the lower end of the window, the tall blind man was climbing the lower edge of the window with his hand, and the blood-red fox was lying on his shoulder, both the tall blind man and the fox, looking up at it, Apparently waiting for the black cat to unlock the window and then he could open the window from the outside and jump into the house.

In the same way, by the light of lightning, he saw me standing in the window, staring at him, and it was the closest we had seen him in so many years, and I could see his sunken eye sockets and his skeletal face so clearly.

This scared me almost ** - on this weird rainy night, I was alone, so unprepared to see this demon, you can imagine how scared I was.

I wanted to shout loudly and let Sister Li, Xiaolei, Hongmei, and my cousin get up quickly, but I opened my mouth and didn't make any sound, it was like a nightmare, I couldn't shout if I wanted to, and I couldn't move if I wanted to.

And when the blind man saw me standing in the window and watching him, he also jumped, and in a hurry, he descended, and I stood there for decades before he shouted weakly: "Come on, everyone, something is wrong."

Then I sat on the carpet with my legs limp, my heart curled up and twitched violently, and I felt my whole body tremble.

Although I didn't shout much, Xiao Lei and my cousin heard it first, because the door of Xiao Lei's room was hidden, and I knew that on this rainy night, they didn't sleep soundly, and they all maintained a very high vigilance.

Xiao Lei turned on the light, was the first to rush to my side, and asked loudly: "Xiao Ming, what's wrong with you." Then, cousins, Hongmei, and Sister Li also rushed out.