?“ But where did this bug come from? We've been grazing in this pasture for years and haven't moved anywhere else. The change in the flock only started last year, and if there had been such bugs here, it would have happened a long time ago. Ness asked, puzzled.

"En......" Chen Ziyang scratched his head, and then he said a few of his own ideas, such as domestic animals bought from outside, or infected from domestic animals in nearby pastures, but his ideas were rejected one by one.

Their livestock has been raised for many years, and they have never bought them in the past few years. Moreover, the herders on the grassland are very far apart from each other, and there is little contact with each other. It couldn't have come from a nearby town, because there was no way to spread it, and I hadn't heard of anything like this happening anywhere else, or that anyone in my group had a high fever or had been bitten by one of these bugs.

It's strange, this kind of bug doesn't come out on its own for no reason, Chen Ziyang thought. Since it is not contagious, it is only possible to bring it directly from the place where the bugs gather. So Chen Ziyang continued to ask:

"It is said that this insect is also very fond of eating carrion in addition to sucking blood, and if there is a place near this area where a large number of dead domestic animals or dead people are piled up, it is likely that they came from there. A place where a large number of carrion corpses gather, and it is usually also a place where this bug lives. ”

Ness shook his head again, the dead domestic animals on the steppe would be eaten by and large, and if some were sick and died, they would be buried far away. And they didn't choose to be in the same place when they were buried, so a place like Chen Ziyang said doesn't exist in this vicinity.

This is not right, that is not right, Chen Ziyang really can't figure it out. He looked at the whole sheepfold carefully, there should be no problem with the wood of the besieging sheepfold, the wood has stood here for many years, and the sheep have been raised for many years, and they are still these sheep. Then the only thing that is foreign in the sheepfold is ...... Forage! It's these piles of winter's fodder!

"Nice, where did you get all this grass for the winter? Is it mowing and piling up from the same area every year? ”

"Ah, grass?" Ness frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly said, "By the way, it's grass!" These bugs must have come with the grass.

In previous years, when it was winter, we used to cut the straw in the nearby pasture, but this year, the grass in the neighborhood was almost eaten, and the new grass did not grow very high. So we changed the pasture, went to a far away place to cut the grass, and came back to store it. We've never been to that meadow before because it's so far away, and now that we think about it, it's very likely that these bugs came from there. ”

"That's right, there is no cemetery in that pasture, or a cemetery for domestic animals, this kind of pubic lice can generally only grow in places where there is more carrion." Chen Ziyang asked.

"I don't know about this, I haven't heard anyone say it! But that place is quite evil, and our local people call it Ghost Howling Slope. There are several hills there, and a tuyere is formed between the hills, and the wind is particularly strong there.

When a strong wind blows from there, the wind will produce a very strange wind sound under the action of the mountain, which sounds whining and is particularly scary, especially at night, hence the name. ”

"Okay, it's not early today, let's go back and rest. Go to that place tomorrow and see if that's the case. After all, my thoughts are only speculation now, if it is really a gathering place for these pubic lice, then get some medicine or something to sprinkle in that direction, and it will save your sheep from suffering from these diseases again in the future. If not, we'll have to find the source of these pubic lice again. ”

The four of them went home. After a tiring day, the evening meal was a little more sumptuous than usual, and it may be that Nice saw that the matter of the sheep was in sight, so he deliberately asked the family to cook a few more dishes. But the wine was no longer drunk, and the three of them didn't dare to drink any more wine, at most, each of them drank two bowls of mare's milk wine to warm their stomachs.

Nice asked his family to go to a livestock station in a nearby town and ask if there was any cure for this grass lice, and to buy some and spray the sheep first. If the Ghost Howling Slope is really a gathering place for these pubic lice, then buy more and scatter it there, and don't go there to collect grass in the future, there should be no more such things.

Early the next morning, several people made adequate preparations. They got gloves and some large rags to keep the pubic lice biting, and each of them had a bundle of duct tape to wrap around the collar and cuffs.

The part above the neck is really unprotected, so I have to leave it at that, but fortunately, even if I am bitten by pubic lice on my face, I can see it at a glance.

Several of them were still on horseback, and they hurried in the direction of the Devil's Howl Slope that Nice had spoken. On the way, Nice gave a detailed introduction to this place called Devil Howl.

According to him, the locals call it a place abandoned by the grasslands. Because people for generations have said that this place is very unlucky, there are often lonely and lost cattle and sheep into this area, and they can no longer be found, and there are not even bones. If it weren't for the fact that there was really no place to mow the grass last year, Nice and the others would not have chosen this place.

However, this place is not as evil as the older generation legend, in fact, many people have been here and have never heard of anyone missing here. For example, the herdsmen who came here to look for the lost cattle and sheep also came back safe and sound, even if the cattle and sheep were not found, it is very likely that these cattle and sheep were not lost here at all.

A few years ago, there were news reporters from a TV station here, and several people brought a lot of equipment, saying that they were dedicated to reporting some strange things in various places and wanted to uncover the secrets. I heard that there was an evil word here, so I came here to report it.

At that time, this group of people was Gu Nice as a guide for them, because Nice's Mandarin was relatively standard. After taking them to Ghost Howl Slope, Ness helped them unload two full ox carts of exploration and camera equipment and went back. The men wrote down Nice's phone number and said they would call him when they got back and ask Nice to come back and pick them up. However, Ness never received any more calls from them, presumably looking for someone else when they left.

Later, Ness stared at the TV for two months, and did not see any TV station report about Ghost Howling Slope. At that time, he thought that his home satellite TV could receive too few stations, and there were no small local stations, so he didn't see it.

The Ghost Howling Slope is much farther away from the yurt where Nice lives, and it took a few people half a day on horseback to see the place from a distance. After a brief rest and a few mouthfuls of dry food, the group of four continued on the road.

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