When I saw these dark shadows appear in my view, there was a slight tremor of flesh in my left abdomen. This time it didn't hurt, I just felt uncomfortable, an inexplicable sense of fear rose from my heart, this consciousness was unfamiliar to me, but at that time I could clearly distinguish that it was the consciousness of another creature in my body.

It seemed to beg me: stay away, stay away......

And there was a wave of ecstasy in my heart: the book said that the Golden Silkworm Gu was the most spiritual thing, not afraid of fierce beasts or people, but afraid of the yellow-crowned golden-clawed ten-year-old rooster, and the dwarf mule in the deep mountains and old forests. Since it has this kind of consciousness revealed, then these dark shadows must be the dwarf mules I have been looking for for a long time.

I took my breath and waited for the shadows to approach, then stopped. I counted, there were 5 of them, walking and jumping, the night was too dark to see clearly, at first I looked around, and after a while, a few guys grabbed and ate. The clouds drifted by, and the moon appeared, and by the moonlight I saw these legendary dwarf mules, which seemed to have a face somewhere between that of man and ape, covered with hair, and green grass; The hands are very long, more than 30 centimeters long, almost equal to the height.

They are noisy all the time, making barks like zoo monkeys, squeaking, with short syllables but slowly.

I don't know why, but I feel that their eyes are very bright, and they have a very divine feeling.

I waited about five minutes for them to concentrate a bit, and then slowly stood up, holding a handful of new glutinous rice mixed with egg whites and incense candle ashes in my left hand and a hunting net in my right hand. I moved little by little, the route I had determined before, there was not a single sound, only the heartbeat was "plopping". Fifteen meters, ten meters, eight meters...... When I had reached the eighth meter, suddenly the mules stopped and turned to look at me.

Without further ado, the new glutinous rice on my left hand spilled out at once, like rain falling from the sky, and all the brushes fell on the heads and bodies of these dwarf mules, and suddenly there was a stench smell of paste. I was overjoyed in my heart, the dwarf mule mentioned in the book was most afraid of the new glutinous rice mixed with egg whites and incense candle ashes, and it was like a red-hot soldering iron, and it was true. As soon as my left hand was free, I immediately cooperated with my right hand to cast the hunting net out. The hunting net was bought from the nearby mountain people, specially used to cuddle the grass and catch rabbits, it is not easy to spread, I have practiced for a long time during the day and have not looked like it, I never thought that this would be surprisingly successful.

A thick polyester net with iron nails of tribulus terrestris shrouded them like a black cloud.

Unexpectedly, these dwarf mules reacted very sensitively, except for a slightly taller guy who was covered, the other bodies were short, and they scattered and fled. The inside of the net was still struggling violently, squeaking, and I hurriedly ran over and stepped on the edge of the net, pouring all the new glutinous rice in my pocket on its body. This glutinous rice is more than two catties, and as soon as it falls on it, a puff of black smoke comes out, which is simply amazing.

When the creature had stopped struggling, I felt for the red thread, wrapped it around the net, and then tied it firmly with a tail finger-thick rope, and looked around to see that the fleeing mule was gone.

In the middle of the night, I rushed to the forest guard house with my net. The fluffy guy in the net pocket didn't look big, but it was heavy, weighing thirty or forty pounds. It was very stinky, there was a burnt smell of mushy rice, and there was also a fishy smell of urine, and my heart was in my throat, and there was phlegm in my throat, and I couldn't spit it out, and I choked uncomfortably. In the dark night, like the devil's big mouth, for a moment my heart was tightly grasped by fear, I couldn't tell whether it was myself or the golden silkworm Gu in my body, my steps were getting faster and faster, and the mountain road of several hundred meters didn't take much effort to arrive.

Knock, knock, knock......

I knocked on the door, and there were inquiries from my uncle and Li Decai, I said it was me, and then the lights in the room turned on, and then the door opened, and my uncle came out in his coat, sleepy-eyed, and said what time it was, how did he come back. I lifted the net in my hand and said, "I've caught a dwarf mule!" As soon as the uncle was excited, the man immediately became energetic, pulled me into the house, closed the door, and took a look under the lamp.

Hearing that I had caught a live dwarf mule, Li Decai, who was still sleeping on the bed, also got up and put on his clothes to look at it.

Under the bright incandescent light of 100 watts, I finally saw what it looked like—almost like the face of an old man, except for the wrinkled and blackened face, with large, bright eyes, purple-red pupils, spreading, and occasionally a mouth, a mouthful of snow-white fangs, interlaced and dense; There was not much hair on the face and neck, but the body did have shaggy green hair, now mixed with gray-white glutinous rice, as if it had been burned, blackened; Like an ape, it has a small tail, sharp claws on all four limbs, and five fingers on the hands.

On top of that, it does have a red straw hat on its head.

The straw hat was a kind of red fern rhizome, very sloppy and coarse, like a child's random weaving, but it would be surprising if it was made by a dwarf mule, and the straw hat was in the shape of a bird's nest pot helmet, which was properly attached to its head. There was a lot of white and black slurry and dirt on it, bird feathers, animal hairs, and many other unknown things. It looked disgusting, but I was so happy that I carefully pulled my hat out of the net and put it away. Uncle looked at it for a while and asked me, "What are you going to do with this thing?" ”

I shook my head and said I hadn't thought about it, and my uncle said excitedly: "Tomorrow at dawn, we will go down the mountain and send it to the Forestry Bureau." This is a rare animal, and if you give it up, you might get a prize. Xiaozuo, you are really good, I have always heard this thing from the older generation, but I have never seen it for most of my life, but I was caught by you. Awesome, awesome. I smiled wryly, if it weren't for the way to catch the dwarf mule in that broken book, if it weren't for the handfuls of glutinous rice spilled out, how could I have caught this little thing as fast as a phantom.

Without...... I don't even know how I died.

Li Decai, who was on the side, rubbed his hands beside him and said worriedly: "This dwarf mule is a mountain ghost raised by the father-in-law of Shanlinzi Land, let's let it go." If they are worried about it and come to the door to retaliate another day, they will not be able to survive a few lives. ”

"Afraid of a dick?" Uncle said nonchalantly.

The two couldn't hold each other, and then my uncle asked me what to do, after all, I caught it. I only have in my heart now to hurry up and take this straw hat home and purchase related things to solve the Gu, where do I have the heart to care about this. Seeing that the two of them are blushing and thick-necked, I will say that you don't have a leader, just call tomorrow morning and ask for instructions. Now the two of them didn't argue, the uncle said yes, but Li Decai didn't speak worriedly, lit a Jiaxiu cigarette, and squatted on the threshold to smoke.

At this time, it was almost five o'clock, the summer was bright early, and it would be dawn in more than half a year, so I stayed all night, and I was so sleepy that I asked my uncle to help take care of it, and climbed into bed and went to sleep. Before going to bed, I deliberately wrapped the straw hat in a plastic bag and put it in the travel bag I brought with me. I was so sleepy, I almost fell asleep as soon as I touched the bed and closed my eyes, and I don't know how long it took to hear a rumbling noise somewhere, at first I thought it was a dream, but then I was woken up by a warm hand, I opened it with difficulty, and found my uncle standing in front of me with a bloody face.

I hurriedly got up and asked what was going on. I remember that he said that there was wound medicine in the table drawer, jumped out of bed barefoot, first went to the basin stand and brought a towel to wipe his face, and then rummaged through the drawer, found a white ash powder hemostatic medicine, got some water, and helped him wipe the blood on the left side of his face, and saw four blurred scratches of flesh and blood, I put the medicine powder on him little by little, and asked Li Decai?

The uncle endured the pain and said, this kid is crazy, he actually let the dwarf mule go, and people don't know where they ran away. He also said that he was caught by the dead mule, and he was very fierce. I suddenly felt a pang of regret in my heart, if I hadn't brought this ghost back, my uncle wouldn't have been like this. After I helped him hastily bandage, I helped him dial the phone number of the duty room of the county forestry bureau.

The phone was called for a long time, and it took about 20 minutes before it was connected, and the uncle reported the situation, and the people over there were anxious, saying that my uncle and I would stay in the forest guard house first, and they immediately notified the colleagues from the township forestry station to come and respond to the rescue.

While waiting, the uncle talked about the situation again, saying that the two of them were smoking and guarding at the same time, but I don't know what happened, Li Decai seemed to be crazy, and suddenly ripped off the red thread, and then tied the rope to free it, and couldn't stop it. My uncle stopped me, but he threw him to the ground, and before he could react, I saw the green-haired mule come out of the net and grab him in the face. The guy was too weak to do anything, so he didn't continue to catch it, but ran down the slope. When my uncle got up, it was a mess, and even Li Decai's dog day was gone.

Since we didn't dare to go out alone, we waited for three hours, and by nine o'clock in the morning, Li Decai had not returned, which made us even more worried. Finally, there was a knock on the door, and four of my uncle's colleagues entered, all covered in dew, and one of them was carrying a shotgun.

After clarifying the situation, they agreed that two people would stay and wait for Li Decai, and the two of them would send my uncle down the mountain first.

After a lot of twists and turns, we didn't arrive at the county people's hospital until after noon.

I stayed in the hospital until 7 o'clock in the evening, and my uncle, who had come to his senses after the suturing operation, advised me to go back first, because it was important to treat the disease. My uncle's two children, an eighteen-year-old son and a fifteen-year-old daughter, as well as my aunt, looked at me a little unkindly, and the doctor said that there might be scars on my face, and they probably thought that my uncle was like this, and it was all my fault.

I was also very remorseful in my heart, and I didn't say anything more.

Although my uncle was counted as a work-related injury and had publicly-funded medical treatment, I still handed 20,000 yuan to my aunt the next day as a nutrition fee for work.

Since my aunt and cousins did not welcome me, and I didn't look at these things after that, I returned home, and according to the instructions in the book, I purchased the blood of the lower palace of the black donkey, the black dog, and the black cat, and the cinnabar, the bupleurum, the toad crisp ingot, the purple snow, the amber, the silkworm cocoon, the bezoar, the whole scorpion, and the gallant star, and boiled them together with the dismantled dragon fern grass for three days and three nights, boiled a large pot of herbal water into a bowl of black tea soup, and chilled it with the well water behind the temple dojo of Dunzhai Hall, and then endured the nausea at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and drank it in one gulp.

After drinking, I felt a burst of relaxation all over my body, and my heart seemed to be much more spacious.

As a result, after more than an hour, I started to have diarrhea. began to strain, and then began to pull out thick black blood, and the blood was also mixed with unknown pieces of meat, thin molting, silk flocculent, and, and there was almost nothing to pull after reaching the most, and it felt like it was a line from the throat to the chrysanthemum, and the air exhaled above, and the stinky fart below. And I was sweating profusely and was dehydrated, and my father scooped me up next to the toilet and fed me a spoonful after a few minutes.

Later, his old man couldn't stand it anymore, so he put the bucket of boiling water next to him, and he went outside to breathe first.

So I squatted and drank water while pulling, and that night, I almost collapsed in the toilet, almost not hanging up.

I raised it at home for three days, just like the confinement of my fellow women, I didn't leave the house, and I couldn't see the wind, my mother boiled old hen soup for me to drink every day, and I didn't put salt, the taste was ...... Until now, every time I go out to eat, I won't drink even a sip of chicken soup when someone else orders it, and it's because I'm afraid of drinking it at that time. On the morning of the fourth day, I was feeling a little better and was about to go out to see the sun, when I heard the voices of several people talking in the hall.

After a while, my door was pushed open and several police officers entered.

They told me that I was involved in a case of corpse mutilation and that they had asked me to go back and investigate.