After the police left, the leather-clad man asked me to accompany him to find the dead dog carcass, and I went to ask my dad, who said that one of them was buried by the river.

So I took the shovel and the leather-clad man to the river, and sure enough, I found a piece of ground that had just been excavated, and I dug it up little by little, and found the body of a greyhound in the pit.

Although it is now autumn, the autumn tiger is still powerful, the temperature is high, and the dog corpse has begun to stink, which smokes me enough.

After the exhumation, the autopsy was handed over to the leather coater, and he was not afraid of the smell, so he put on gloves and carefully examined the dog's corpse, and said, "It seems that it is really that thing, and it is a little troublesome." ”

When I asked what it was, he didn't answer, but lifted the dead dog's head for me to see, and asked me, "Guess how it died." ”

I took a closer look at the stench, and found a hole in the dog's head, which was inexplicable, and said, "What's so strange about the broken head?" ”

"It's more than that." The leather-clad man smiled, took out a bottle of mineral water, unscrewed it, and poured water into the dog's head.

Something happened that made my scalp tingle, and the mineral water poured into most of the bottle, and the water overflowed from the hole.

"Got it?" The leather-clad said.

I was horrified that the skull could hold so much water, which meant that its head was empty, in other words, "Its brain was eaten?" ”

The leather-clothed man nodded very seriously and said, "Including the public security officer last night, who also died like this." ”

My stomach churned, no wonder Lin Shun was scared of his nerves, he must have witnessed the scene of Wang Qiang's brain being eaten by that monster.

Such a cruel scene, such a strong visual impact, everyone has to go crazy. In peacetime, there are not many people who see blood, and the public security is not much stronger.

Then the leather-clad man said: "Judging from what has happened these days, it first ate the brains of chickens, and then it ate dogs, and at first it didn't know how to eat them, so it even bit the dog's head together, but then it quickly learned how to break through the holes and suck it, and by last night it had shifted its target to people." ”

My hair is upside down, according to what the leather coat said, it is a very clear learning chain, this ghost thing, is constantly growing?!

How can you get it if you go on like this, eat human brains, and when night falls, the entire Hong Village will not become a breeding ground for that monster?

"Then, what if it comes out to eat people at night?" I panicked, my parents, and so many relatives, brothers and uncles in my family all lived in the village, and it was heartbreaking to die.

"It won't come out again anytime soon." The leather-clad man shook his head and replied.

I asked, "What the hell is it?" ”

The leather-clad man threw off his gloves and got up, and spit out a word with a movement of his mouth: "Fierce!" ”

"What's that?" I'm confused.

The leather coater explained: "A legendary creature, born and raised, there are many types, and the reasons for its birth are also very complex, it belongs to a kind of evil in the ghosts, and it is more troublesome to solve it with resentment and bad luck. ”

My scalp was numb, what was wrong with Hongcun, first there were ghost rays in the water, and now there were ghosts on the ground, and the tricks were endless, so I asked: "Then what is the difference between it and the ghost ray in the water?" ”

"It's different." The leather-clad man shook his head and said, "The ghost ray is a definite mutated aquatic animal that can be passed down from generation to generation, but it has no father, no mother, no children and no grandchildren, and it belongs to the evil cult that is born and raised, but the same thing is that both of these things only appear in ominous places. ”

Hoodoo?

I swallowed a mouthful of spit, Hongcun has become an ominous place, but why has there never been such a thing before? Since the accident of the Hong family, strange things have appeared one after another, and they can always be related to me inexplicably, and the beginning of all this seems to be traced back to the suicide of Hai Meirong.

"Does the appearance of the fox have anything to do with the Hong family?" I asked.

"Possibly." The leather-clothed guest put the dog corpse back into the pit, nodded, and said, "That lean is obviously newborn, and it has appeared in the Hong family several times, so there must be a connection between them." ”

After a few more conversations, we buried the dog and returned to the village, and the leather-clad man said that he would go out to find out the type of the calf, and told me to be careful in the village.

I trembled when I heard it, and the leather-clad man was not around, and I faced the calf, let alone deal with it, and I could be frightened when I saw it.

The leather-clad man saw that I was afraid, so he comforted me and said, "Don't worry, it is not hostile to ordinary people, because it is not able to deal with the wild beasts of the mountains in the newborn, so it can only go into the village to forage for food." ”

I don't think so, Wang Qiang is dead, and he said that he is not hostile to people, how is it possible?

But soon I tasted the voice of the leather coater, it is not hostile to ordinary people, is Wang Qiang an ordinary person?

No, at least for the Hong family, he is an accomplice, not an ordinary irrelevant person.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but nodded, that's right, there are so many people in the whole village, why did it only kill Wang Qiang?

You must know that Wang Qiang's location at that time was in the center of the village, and there were two pistols beside him, and the firepower was much stronger than that of a single gun, so it didn't need to be weak and not kill, and the two dogs died at the border of the village a few days ago, which shows that it had been wandering around the border before.

The only explanation is that the fox is eyeing Wang Qiang.

But I still don't feel at ease, it may not be hostile to ordinary people, but what about me?

It came to look for me, and walked around my shop, and the ghost number said that something was going to hurt me.

Is it the leather-clad customer or the ghost number right?

The ghost number once saved me, and the leather-clad man also saved me, and if neither of them was hostile to me, then why was there an obvious contradiction between the two of them?

Is there something I don't understand?

I didn't dare to ask, because I don't trust the leather coat 100% in my heart, I can't give all the hole cards and the plate, not to mention anything else, just say that he left me alone last night in the Hong family alone on the one face, although he explained that he took the gun, and the reason is also passable, but I always feel that this explanation is very far-fetched.

The leather-clad man drove away in a pickup truck, and before leaving, he said that the calf would only be invisible on the night of the full moon, and it was invulnerable, and it was usually no different from a beast, and a gun was killed, so I don't have to worry too much.

Either way, his words were somewhat comforting, and at least that night, I finally fell asleep with the gun on my shoulder.

And the fox seemed to have really healed, and it didn't appear again at night, and the poultry and livestock in the village never died and were lost, which made the people of Hongcun finally let go of their suspense.

Many people thought that the "wolf" was dead, or that it was beaten and never dared to enter the village again.

……

The next day, I rode to town.

Gao Xiaolong asked me to meet seven days ago, and it was today.

Just in case, I also called Ma Jialiang, but he was on patrol last night and slept until ten o'clock before getting up. Fortunately, it was in time, and two hours to rush to the restaurant in front of the temple was enough.

But I never expected that there was enough time, but the motorcycle was not full of fuel, and the engine went out halfway through.

I was dumbfounded, my nerves were tense all this time, and I forgot to refuel after riding the bike many times.

Ma Jialiang was also a bit muggle, and said, "Brother Chun, is it too late to push it to the town to refuel?" ”

"It's too late, so I can only try to hurry." I said.

At most, it would be a matter for Gao Xiaolong to wait a little longer, and it would not be a big deal, if he really had something important to tell me, he would wait.

Ma Jialiang and I took turns to push the cart to the town to refuel, and when we arrived at the restaurant in front of the temple, half an hour had passed at twelve o'clock.

The "temple" of the restaurant in front of the temple refers to a mountain temple about 10 kilometers away from the town, called Laoshan Temple, and it is said that the mountain gods in this temple are very prosperous with incense. The temple front fasting restaurant is a vegetarian shop opened by the temple wishes, which is specially designed for the convenience of pilgrims.

I'm actually very strange in my heart, there are many places in the town where we can meet, teahouses, coffee shops, why did Gao Xiaolong make an appointment in a mountain temple?

The road into the mountain is paved with cement, it is very easy to walk, and you can see the Laoshan Temple from a distance, which is much larger than the general temple, the scale is already called a temple, and the misty smoke rises from the temple, which is particularly quiet.

And the restaurant in front of the temple is at the foot of Lao Mountain.

But before I arrived, I realized something was wrong. There were many police cars parked on the side of the road, the police lights were flashing constantly, and an ambulance was whizzing past the side, and the sound of the horn was extremely harsh.

"Something seems to have happened." Ma Jialiangzi said behind the car.

I chuckled in my heart, and suddenly I had a very bad premonition.

When we arrived at the foot of Laoshan Temple Mountain, Ma Jialiang and I were stunned, only to see a large truck full of wood overturned in the restaurant, the wood rolled to the ground, the restaurant had basically been wiped out, the ground was in a mess, and there was smoke in some places.

There were already a lot of pilgrims around the side, and some police, doctors and nurses were busy at the scene.

Ma Jialiang and I hurriedly ran over and found a car parked at the foot of the mountain, looking at the license plate number, it was Gao Xiaolong's.

But the others were gone.

The scene was already closed, so I pulled a middle-aged pilgrim next to me, handed me a cigarette, and asked, "Uncle, what's going on?" ”

The middle-aged pilgrim took the cigarette and said, "The big truck lost control and crashed into the restaurant, injuring one by one and killing the other, the driver who injured the driver and the young man who died. ”

After speaking, he pointed to Gao Xiaolong's car.

My head went blank.

Gao Xiaolong, dead?!

Gao Xiaolong asked me to meet seven days ago, and he died mysteriously today?

"Is it really the guy who drove the car?" I couldn't believe it, so I asked again.

The middle-aged pilgrim said to me with certainty: "It's that young man, his car is imported, and there are not many in our town, so I looked at him a few more times, and I just finished eating when he entered the fasting restaurant, and I took a picture with him when I went out, and it didn't take long for the truck to rush into the fasting restaurant." ”

After speaking, he muttered a little scared: "Today's life is really big, otherwise I will have to die in the fasting restaurant." ”

I was chilled when I heard it, and to borrow his words, I also had a big life!

……