Chapter 17: The Snail's Departure

Snail is now both a village chief and a successful housemaker. He has status, a herd of pigs, and countless banknotes. There is also a fat woman who adores him and pursues him. I thought that life would be so dull and happy. But misfortune still happened.

That day, the birdman returned home in a state of trepidation, not knowing whether it was excitement or fear that he had not slept all night. The next morning, when the birdman had just fallen into a dream, he felt that there were cold, sticky tentacles caressing his neck, and the birdman woke up and saw the snail: "You want to kill people?"

"No, don't be afraid, I want to take you to capture the soul and confirm my scientific theories. ”

"Forget it! It's daylight. ”

"That's not going to work, I've brought all the soul traps. As he spoke, the snail pulled out a suction cup-like hose with a box attached to one end of the hose that was carried on his back like a backpack.

"How to use this thing. ”

"This thing is called a vacuum cleaner on our planet. The snail turned on the small switch on the backpack, and the suction cup produced air suction: "Let's go to the cave in the mountain to look for it, there must be ghosts there." ”

The birdman accepted the snail's suggestion, and the two of them sneaked into the cave in the mountain that cold morning.

In the first few nights, the birdman and the snail did not harvest, and the birdman even wondered if the snail wanted to kill him in the cave to extinguish the mouth, but this was not true, if the mouth was extinguished, he would have been lying in the glass jar, but the soul was not found, is it really as the snail said, it is a lucky thing that a person can become a ghost after death, such a good thing does not happen to every dead person.

Later, the Birdman captures a soul that seems to be very timid and hides in a corner. In the previous nights of the game, Birdman had learned how to operate, and he was content to watch his soul deformed and sucked into the vacuum cleaner.

The snail stores its soul in a glass jar, and the soul is a bald old man, whose trance-like figure is illusory in the bottle, appearing and disappearing.

The old man's mouth was still nagging repeatedly: "Eat grapes without spitting out grape skins, don't eat grapes but spit out grape skins......"

"What is this old man talking about?" the snail was puzzled.

This sentence should be very important to the old man. Birdman said.

"Eat grapes without spitting out grape skins, don't eat grapes but spit out grape skins......" The old man's eyes were glazed, and he still kept nagging.

"Could it be a mental disorder?" said the snail.

"Maybe. "Birdman agrees with the snail.

"Treasure. The old man's eyes were still glazed, but he uttered a word that appealed to both the birdman and the snail.

"Eat grapes without spitting out the skins, and don't eat grapes but spitting out the skins. The old man pronounced this sentence and threw out a seductive word: "There is gold and precious stones." ”

"It's a code word, a secret about treasure. The birdman and the snail say in unison, and they decide to return to the place where the soul was captured.

In the cave, the old man was sluggish and nagging them to nothing, and the birdman and the snail were exhausted, and the birdman said, "The old man has played us tricks." ”

"The sun comes out, and we put this glass jar under the sun, and the soul will be wiped out. The snail made a vicious suggestion of punishment, and the birdman found it irritated.

The snail sits in a wheelchair, as usual a young man with a crippled legs, and the birdman stands beside him, and the two of them witness the demise of a soul together in the sun.

"Eat grapes without spitting out the skins, and don't eat grapes but spitting out the skins. The old man pronounced this sentence and threw out a seductive word: "There is gold and precious stones." And then it was gone.

That night, the snail did not disturb the birdman's sleep, but the birdman dreamed that the snail was holding a huge gem in his hand, and then he lost sleep. The next day the snail died in the pond.

According to eyewitnesses, that day, the snail sat in a wheelchair with wooden wheels and saw a huge fish swimming around in the foggy air, its huge fins swinging. The snail was amazed by what he saw, and he turned his wheelchair with both hands, chasing the fish that were swimming.

The unexpected discovery of the hot spring is a surprise for the tired snail. On the shore of the hot springs, he writhed out of his wheelchair and slid into the steaming lake. Warm water dispels the cold and tiredness, and gradually ...... The snail squinted, and the snail did not notice that a small red leech began to attach to his body.

Leeches are very hungry animals, because a single sucking of blood can turn tiny leeches into pebbles-sized worms. Now not a drop of blood was mixed in the transparent lake, but someone died. Quite a few red worms stand still at the bottom of the lake like long pebbles.

The birdman always thinks that the snail is not dead, he just returns home in the spaceship.

Birdman digs up the snail's grave with curiosity, only to find that the snail has indeed died in the coffin, and his legs and feet are real, which puzzles the birdman. So he got out the snail's carcass and restored the grave to its original state.

In the cave, after his autopsy of the corpse, even more astonishing secrets are discovered. It turned out that the corpse belonged to the butt man, and the snail painted the corpse with makeup. And the snail is nowhere to be found.

Later, in the cave where the soul was found, the birdman picked up a shining stone. It's another secret, and I wish the bald old man had no companion.