It was already the second half of the night, and the cold wind blowing on my body couldn't help but make me shiver a little.

I wrapped up my clothes and walked out of the grass hut, and when I looked up, I saw the clear and cold moon sprinkled on the ground, as if casting a thin veil on the earth.

It was also real and illusory, but the strange sound from before had disappeared.

I thought it was an auditory hallucination caused by my sleepiness, and I was about to turn around and go back to the hut to continue sleeping, but when I turned around, the strange sound came to my ears again.

When I heard the voice, I was violently excited, and immediately turned my head to follow the sound.

I saw a black shadow in front of a dirt slope dozens of meters away, which looked about forty centimeters high, and looked a little like a yellow skin or a fox.

However, the difference is that this thing actually walks upright, it has hands and feet like a human, and if it weren't for the big difference in height, I would definitely recognize this thing as a human.

The thing stood in front of the dirt slope and looked around, and I was afraid that it would spot me, so I dodged into the hut, and continued to look at the thing through the window of the hut.

The object glanced around and saw that there was no anomaly around it, so it bent down and began to arch the ground.

I saw by the moonlight that the land in front of the soil slope was planted with sweet potatoes, and this month was the season when sweet potatoes were ripe, so it seemed that this thing wanted to dig some sweet potatoes from the ground to eat.

I had never seen such a strange animal in my ten or twenty years in the countryside, and it made me curious and wanted to take a closer look.

After looking at it for a while, I found that this animal seemed to have a red straw hat on its head, which is a bit strange, how can this animal still wear a straw hat, could it be that this is a mountain spirit!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly turned around to wake up Li Hai and Ning Nanxi, but when I turned around, I found a fair face in front of me, probably less than five centimeters away from me.

The sudden appearance of the human face made me have no time to see the appearance, and I subconsciously wanted to shout, but the moment I opened my mouth, a slender and smooth palm covered my mouth.

I came back to my senses and took a closer look, and the person in front of me turned out to be Ning Nanxi.

"Don't talk, it's me." Ning Nanxi slowly took off his palm as he spoke, and wiped a few handfuls on me.

Seeing Ning Nanxi wake up, I immediately raised my hand and pointed to the location of the dirt slope not far away, and said in a low voice: "Let's get out of here quickly, there seems to be a spirit over there, that thing looks like a human and can walk upright, and it seems to be wearing a red straw hat on its head, how can you say that there is such a smart animal, it must have become the climate." ”

"Don't be afraid, that thing is a monster but it won't hurt people, besides, it's only thirty or forty centimeters, not as tall as your thigh, what are you afraid of it?" Ning Nanxi glanced at me and said.

"Although the scale is small and weighs a thousand pounds, although this thing is not big, it can't explain its harmfulness, what if you take the opportunity to attack us, the three of us are all injured now, if you really start to do it, you may not be the opponent of this thing." I looked at Ning Nanxi and said worriedly.

"That spirit is just a dwarf mule, that is, the wild monster of the rumored mountain mandrill monsters, they only eat some crops on weekdays, although they like to bewitch and tease people, but they will not kill people, as long as you pretend not to see them when you meet, they will not play tricks on you." Ning Nanxi said in a deep voice.

I also heard my dad talk about the rumors about mandrill monsters, but it was different from what Ning Nanxi said.

My dad said that the mandrill monster was a monster about two meters tall, covered with yellow hair, but with a pinch of red hair on its head.

With extremely long limbs and sharp nails, this creature has extremely powerful arms that can tear apart tigers and leopards alive.

It is rumored that the reason for the formation of this monster is that the spirit of the unjust is attached to the animal, and the animal will become a monster over time.

This kind of monster often haunts the deep mountains and old forests, and specializes in picking out lonely villagers or traveling friends who go into the mountains to play.

Once caught by him, he will face the danger of disembowelment, this kind of monster will cut the human belly with sharp nails, and then tear it open with brute force, so as to gnaw the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and other organs in the human abdomen, generally speaking, if a lonely person encounters this kind of monster, there is almost no chance of survival.

I told Ning Nanxi what I thought, but after hearing this, the corners of her mouth opened slightly, saying that what I said was the mandrill among the mandrill monsters.

It is true that it is violent by nature and likes to gnaw on human organs, but what we see today is not a mandrill, but a dwarf mule.

The dwarf mule is considered a curse in many local dialects, and Baodao compares this title to a gangster, but in the deep mountains and old forests or in the area of Hunan and Guizhou, its meaning is the wild monster in the mountains.

This kind of dwarf mule is short in height, only about twenty centimeters when it is young, and only thirty or forty centimeters when it is an adult, and it is not even the length of a baby at birth.

They are covered in green fur and always wear a red hat on their head, which is woven from a plant called dragon vine.

The dragon vine is born with a special aroma, which can disperse mosquitoes, so that there will be no mosquitoes within a few meters of itself.

The reason is because the dwarf mule is most afraid of mosquito bites, once they are bitten by mosquitoes, their skin will ulcerate and pus, and they will die without medical treatment, so they will weave dragon vines into hats and wear them on their heads, so that mosquitoes do not dare to approach them.

However, in addition to being able to restrain mosquitoes, the dragon vine also has a special purpose, that is, it is used to restrain Gu insects.

The 100,000 deep mountains in Xiangxi are mysterious, and the Gu Gate in the Outer Eight Gates is hidden in them, and the mountain villagers in the Hunan and Guizhou areas are also good at making Gu.

Therefore, people who know how to go to Xiangqian will bring dragon vines with them, because only in this way can they prevent inadvertently falling into Gu.

After listening to Ning Nanxi's words, the heart that I was originally hanging on finally fell, so as long as we don't provoke the dwarf mule, it shouldn't be our enemy.

Just as I was thinking that the noise was getting noisier not far away, I turned my head to look at the sound, only to find that several dwarf mules had appeared in front of the dirt slope.

There were four or five of these dwarf mules, and there was not much difference in height, the shortest being more than 30 centimeters, and the tallest being more than 40 centimeters.

Each wears a hat made of rattan on top of his head, which is really comical from a distance, like a circus clown.

The dwarf mules were very happy to stand in front of the dirt slope and bounce on them, and they were still holding the freshly dug sweet potatoes in their hands and gnawing on them, and the clattering sound was very clear in the silence of the night.

"Since this dwarf mule won't hurt anyone, let's rest early, and we'll continue to hurry tomorrow morning." I looked at Ning Nanxi and proposed.

Ning Nanxi nodded when she heard this, and was just about to turn around and lie down on the wooden bed, when I suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly grabbed Ning Nanxi's arm.

Maybe it was because I was nervous that I was trying too hard, Ning Nanxi shook me off, and said with anger on her face: "What are you doing so hard, what's wrong!" ”

Seeing that Ning Nanxi was a little loud, I hurriedly put my finger to my lips and shushed, and then whispered: "Speak quietly, don't let them hear, you take a closer look at whether there is something wrong with those dwarf mules!" ”

Ning Nanxi was no longer angry with me when she heard this, and hurriedly turned her head to look at the position where the dwarf mule was standing before.

When she saw the scene in the distance, she looked puzzled and said, "What's wrong, aren't those dwarf mules already gone, and where else is there anything in front of the dirt slope?" ”

"Don't look at the front of the dirt slope, look at the top of the dirt slope, those few dwarf mules just now ran to the top of the dirt slope the moment you turned around, it seems that they are all lying down, you take a closer look at the dirt slope to see if there are a few straw hats exposed on the dirt slope?" I looked at Ning Nanxi and said in a deep voice.

Hearing this, Ning Nanxi immediately moved her gaze upward, and after a few seconds, she said in a low voice: "That's right, these dwarf mules do seem to be lying down, what are they doing, it's not like digging sweet potatoes." ”

"It's definitely not digging sweet potatoes, how can they dig on the ground, I think they seem to have seen something, so they lie down and watch, you say they won't find us, right?" I asked, puzzled.

Ning Nanxi shook her head after hearing this, and said definitely not, because the dwarf mules are not only not afraid of people, but also like to play tricks on people, if these dwarf mules find our traces, they will definitely jump over and play with us instead of lying on the ground to watch, according to her speculation, these dwarf mules must have seen something that shocked or frightened them, so they reacted like this.

Ning Nanxi's words are not unreasonable, I was just about to take a look in the direction of the soil slope, but at this time, I suddenly found that a layer of white mist rose out of thin air in the melon field in front of me.

With the white mist, a burst of cold air swept from all directions, this feeling was uncomfortable, and I saw that Ning Nanxi's face also changed in an instant, and it seemed that she also sensed that something was wrong.

"What's going on with the white mist in this melon field, how did it float from behind us?" I hurriedly asked.

"This is not a white mist but a yin qi, and it is an extremely thick yin qi, hurry up and wake up Li Hai, now there must be unclean things behind the grass hut, don't let his snoring disturb the other party, now the three of us are injured, if you encounter dirty things, it is easy to be in danger!" Ning Nanxi's face was gloomy and admonished.

Seeing Ning Nanxi's panicked face, I knew that this matter was not simple, so I hurriedly bent down and pushed Li Hai with my hand.

But at this time, Li Hai was sleeping deeply, and shaking it a few times didn't work at all, so I had no choice but to slap him in the face.

After feeling the pain, Li Hayden sat up, he saw that it was me who slapped him and just wanted to speak, I quickly raised my hand to cover his mouth, and then whispered: "Don't shout, we seem to have encountered something unclean, you must not make a noise, if we are found hiding in the grass hut, it will be troublesome!" ”

Although Li Hai was angry in his heart, he immediately nodded and agreed when he heard this, and then I slowly took down my palm, and then the three of them walked to the other side of the grass hut, slowly lifted the grass curtain and looked in the direction of the country road behind me.

It doesn't matter if I look at it, I was so frightened that I was scared when the scene in front of me came, Li Hai trembled like chaff, Ning Nanxi's face changed even more, and her eyebrows were tightly screwed together!