Chapter 13: The Red-Haired Beast
I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, this paw print was too similar to the one at my door, so I said, "Uncle Yang, can I go into the house and have a look?" ”
"Okay, let's see if there's anything missing, and tell me if you find it." Yang Jianguo nodded, and then instructed: "But don't touch the things on the scene." ”
I should go down and walk into Hong Qingsheng's house.
Hong Qingsheng's home is not big, and in today's world, which is generally Western-style small bungalows, this old-fashioned rammed earth house has become particularly outdated.
As soon as I entered the door, the most conspicuous thing was a black and white photo in the hall, which was a posthumous photo of Hai Meirong, which should have been taken when she was young, with a very gentle smile and a gorgeous complexion, which can be regarded as a beauty.
But this posthumous photo made my scalp tingle, not for anything else, but her eyes, not like a photo at all but like a living person, the moment I entered the door, those eyes stared at me, no matter where I went, the focus was on me, it felt particularly paradoxical.
I didn't dare to look any further, so I turned my attention elsewhere and found that there was a rotten mat on the ground behind the door, with a lot of feces and urine on it, as well as moldy food, emitting a foul smell.
My smoked stomach churned, but I was soon attracted to something, a row of large paw prints, which stretched out from the doorway to the back of the house.
It was exactly the same as the footprints that appeared in front of my store, except that the glutinous rice turned black in my place, and here it was directly imprinted on the ground.
The most incredible thing is that there are many shedding red hairs on the ground, and many places are circled with chalk, presumably to be taken away as evidence.
It reminds me of someone who said they saw a red-haired beast that night, and the red-haired animals at the scene showed that they were not mistaken, and it was most likely the one who circled around my shop.
The whole room was in shambles, the tables and chairs were all shattered, some tools and pans were thrown everywhere, and many clear paw prints could be found on them, which made me shudder.
It's just that what puzzles me is that the whole house is in a mess, but the table dedicated to Hai Meirong is intact, and the dried fruits enshrined on it are neatly arranged.
After checking for a while, I followed the footprints to the back room, and found that there was a large hole in the wall of the back room, which was large enough for a cow to enter and exit, and the rammed earth had fallen to the ground outside, and there were some inside, and the remaining half of the wall looked crumbling, and I didn't know when it would collapse.
After that, I looked at it carefully, and found nothing, so I retreated.
After I went out, Yang Jianguo asked me, "Did you find anything?" ”
I shook my head, I just wanted to make sure that this red-haired bigfoot monster was the one who ran into my store, and he was not a criminal investigation expert, how could he compare Yang Jianguo to those who ate criminal investigation meals.
"I hope Hong Qingsheng is still alive."
Yang Jianguo sighed, and began to order several public security officers under his command to close the scene, this is not a simple case of missing persons, it is very likely to be a kidnapping.
I stayed for a while and left, Hong Qingsheng's house appeared red-haired monster, he is afraid that he is already more than lucky, but I don't know what the thing that kidnapped him is.
When I got back to the store, I took out my phone and carefully observed the footprints I had taken yesterday morning.
After checking it on the computer, there were no clues, and the phone of the leather coater could not be reached. After thinking about it, I decided to ask netizens for help, and posted a post on the development site, attaching these pictures, signing the supernatural help post, and looking for someone to help identify the footprints of what this thing is.
After a while, someone replied to the post, saying: Brother, you get a PS thing to water the post, it's too clever, and there is an admiring smile on the back.
I was speechless, so I replied: It's true, I really ask for help.
And then someone replied to the post below, saying that this photo doesn't look like PS, but he doesn't know what it is, it looks like Wolverine, and a grimace is attached.
Soon, the post received all kinds of replies, some said it was a wolf, some said it was a bear, and some said it was clearly fake and deceived to reply.
However, there is a netizen named "Cat Hero" in Hubei who explained to me very seriously from all aspects, saying that these are the footprints of savages and belong to primates. I also looked at it carefully, and found that what he said really made some sense, because he pointed out an important feature, the footprints are five claws. Whether it's a bear or a tiger, they are not five-clawed, but wolves are, but they are not in the right shape.
I asked him where he was from, and he said that his home was in Shennongjia, and there were traces of wild people over there, and although the pictures I sent were somewhat different, they were generally similar, maybe they were other branches of wild people.
After chatting with him, I began to murmur in my heart, could it really be that the wild man broke into Hongcun? I've heard of the legend of the savages before, but I've only heard about it, and no one has seen it.
As for the footprints of the savage, I haven't seen it, and I don't know if what the Hubei netizens said is true or not, do the front of the savage's feet have claws? Primates don't have such long claws, right?
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I had been busy for a long time without getting results, and by the afternoon I had noticeably felt that the atmosphere in the village had become tense.
The business that happened in the past few days was weird, first something was howling at night, then someone saw a red-haired beast, and then a dog was eaten and its head was lost, and finally Hong Qingsheng was also taken away by the red-haired beast, and the walls of the house were demolished with a big hole.
A series of events caused rumors to spread throughout the village, and everyone was afraid that the red-haired beast would suddenly break into the house at night, and then everything would really be over, and he would either be taken away or bitten to death and eat his head.
A thick rammed earth wall can't stop it, so where else is it safe? Some particularly timid people were so frightened that they went out of the village to join their relatives, for fear that something would happen.
My parents were also very nervous, and at first insisted that I go home and sleep, but later news came from the village that Ma Yongde was organizing a patrol in the village, and all the adult Dingkou in each household took turns to take turns to bring birds or dogs, and started patrolling as soon as it was dark, so that my parents could let me go.
But they let me go, but Ma Yongde didn't let me go, because my name appeared on the patrol list tomorrow night. I don't know what I'm being targeted by now, haunted by tricks, how dare I go out at night?
What's more, that red-haired brute has come to my shop, obviously for me, if you go out at night, then you have to go?
As soon as I thought about it, I decided to pretend to be sick, and I wouldn't go out at night anyway.
The patrol in the village began as soon as it was dark, and my dad was also arranged on the first day, he brought the family's bird gun to patrol, and the night was uneventful, but some people said that Widow Chen's chicken lost several chickens, but this matter did not attract everyone's attention, the countryside is full of weasels, and it is too common to lose a chicken or duck.
The next day I pretended to be sick, and everyone didn't say anything, and I wasn't usually a person in the village who was hiding things, so no one questioned me.
However, a small thing happened, a patrol dog went missing, and the body was later found, but it was bitten to death with a hole in the head.
On the third day, another dog died, and the same way it died.
At this time, everyone in the village felt that something was wrong, and the village chief Ma Yongde did not dare to be careless, so he notified the police station in the town, and Yang Jianguo learned of the situation, so he sent the public security to join the patrol team, and two people and a hunting dog came every day.
On the fourth day it was my turn to patrol again, and I was about to feign my illness, when the leather-clad man, who had disappeared for many days, appeared, and asked me to go with him to find the red-haired brute.
As soon as I heard this, my legs and stomach couldn't stop shaking.
Red-haired brute?
That's clearly a red-haired monster, okay?
With such long claws, such large footprints, and things that can even be torn off by chains, where can a man deal with them?
And it seems that it is obviously interested in me, and it is mostly hostile, so what is the difference between going to it and finding a wolf by a rabbit?
The leather-clad saw that I was scared and said, "If you don't find it, it may haunt you for a long time, and you plan to hide like this forever?" ”
I was speechless, and said that the red-haired monster didn't come to the store last night, but after thinking about it, it didn't come to my store yesterday, but it has been wandering around the village, and if you don't know when it will come to visit me again, it's just a hanging guillotine.
And the ghost doesn't look like ordinary people can do it.,The most promising thing in front of me to get it is this leather-clad guest.,I'm really not confident in other people.,Not for anything else.,Just rush to him and say that it's enough to catch the red-haired monster.,Dare to say that.,It should be a little confident.。
Eventually, I mustered up the courage to say yes and asked, "What the hell is that red-haired brute?" Savages? ”
"It's not clear, it's possible." The leathercoat nodded.
At this time, I suddenly thought of glutinous rice, a few days ago, the ghost text message asked me to sprinkle the child's urine and glutinous rice in front of the door and window to save my life, which means that the child's urine and glutinous rice should be able to restrain it, or drive it away.
I told this idea to the leather coater, he was slightly stunned, looked at me a little strangely, nodded slowly, and said, "You can give it a try." ”
I realized that I was leaking, and the ghost number of the child's urine and glutinous rice to protect the house was told to me by the ghost number, and it proved to be effective, but the existence of this number is currently only known to me, and I have not told anyone.
Looking at the expression of the leather coat, he was obviously puzzled by how I, an ordinary person, knew that Tong Zi Urine and Glutinous Rice could deal with the red-haired monster, and his tone was so sure.
In the end, he didn't ask, and I didn't explain, Chen Jiutong once told me that the leather clothes were not in Hongcun to make money, but for another purpose, and I couldn't let him know all the details of myself.
At the same time, I crossed the leathercoat off the suspicion list of ghost numbers.
The ghost number must be right next to me, but it's not him, at least his reaction just now proves that he isn't.
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