Hearing Zhang Shouzhong's inquiry, several people immediately followed.

Now, they all smell a strange smell.

"Popcorn?"

Wang Mingyuan shrugged the tip of his nose and sniffed it carefully, feeling that it was a fragrance very similar to popcorn.

After he said this, the rest of the people also nodded.

In this era, this is probably a taste that adults and children are very familiar with.

Bring some corn and hand it over to the master who specializes in popcorn when you rush to the market.

As the popcorn machine on the stove turns in circles, followed by a cannon-like bang, you can get a lot of fragrant popcorn.

This is one of the easiest snacks for most people to get in this year, and it is a favorite of many children when they are young.

As a result, there were also businessmen who walked the streets and alleys with popcorn machines and walked around villages and markets.

However, this is in the depths of the primeval forest, how can it smell like this?

Several people were very strange.

Following the smell, several people quickly found the source, and at the foot of a large tree, they saw a wet bunch of weeds, and the smell was the strongest here.

Zhang Shouzhong stretched out his hand and dipped the undripped water column on the lower leaf, rubbed it on his fingers, put it to his nose and sniffed it, and looked up at the top a little strangely.

"Could it be some kind of animal urine?"

Wang Mingyuan thought for a while and said: "Many animals have the habit of peeing to mark their territory or make certain markings. ”

In this regard, dogs are experts at doing this.

Hearing Wang Mingyuan say this, Zhang Shouzhong suddenly felt not very good, and hurriedly wiped his hand on the trunk.

"Quite possibly!" Zhang Shouli nodded and agreed with Wang Mingyuan's statement.

Zhang Shouyi said suspiciously: "Even so, I have never seen such an animal's urine smell like this!" ”

It's a question I don't understand.

The matter was skipped by several people and continued to search in the woods.

It's just that after walking a short distance, the smell of popcorn came again.

This time, several people saw the initiator, an animal with rough black fur that looked very similar to a black bear, but was only about 80 centimeters in size.

This animal, in addition to its small size, has something that is completely different from the black bear - a tail, a stout, almost body-length tail.

It's squatting on a tree to pee......

Seeing this scene, Zhang Shouzhong felt even worse.

Wang Mingyuan suddenly laughed, and even Kang Langxiang couldn't hold back.

Alarmed by the laughter, the animal immediately climbed higher up the tree, wrapped its big tail around the trunk, and hung upside down like an acrobatic dog, swaying and grabbing the branches of another tree.

The movements were not particularly flexible, but they were not very slow, and after a while, they disappeared.

Seeing it fleeing from the tree, Wang Mingyuan recognized that this animal, when he was chasing the fleeing white-faced dealer with Liu Li and Zhang Guangqing, he had seen it by chance: that kind of animal that seemed to walk on five legs.

He now understands that this fifth leg is the big tail of this animal.

"Third uncle, what's the name of this thing?" Wang Mingyuan asked.

Zhang Shouzhong shook his head: "I'm also a person who often goes up the mountain, but I haven't seen this thing before." ”

"I haven't seen it!"

Wang Mingyuan was a little surprised.

However, it is not surprising to imagine it a little. In the forest, there are always many strange things, and, with the development of the times, many have become extinct. Quite possibly, it's just that there are fewer of them.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's the five-legged beast that the older generation said!"

As the eldest brother, Zhang Shouyi suddenly spoke.

Five-Legged Beast ...... It's a very vivid name.

"I've heard the older generation say that there is a thing, it's very similar to this thing, it's probably like this, we have fewer places here, and I heard that there will be a little more near Banna. If it's a five-legged beast, it's a very peculiar animal. ”

Zhang Shouyi became interested: "I heard that someone has raised it before, don't look big, it's also very timid, if you get annoyed, it's also quite fierce, it doesn't feel like a good thing, and your own cubs are often eaten by yourself."

Moreover, I heard that if you are frightened, when you run away, you will be very cruel to bite your cubs to death.

The most puzzling thing is that this thing seems to be hermaphroditic. ”

Hearing this, Wang Mingyuan was stunned.

The strangeness of the creatures in this world, many beyond imagination, hermaphroditism is not nothing, such as the yellow eel, which can switch between male and female.

However, it is really unheard of for such a strange thing to be put on an animal that is obviously a beast.

In the human world, there are conjoined babies, and domestic animals such as pigs and cows occasionally appear conjoined, but if such a situation is considered hermaphroditic, this so-called five-legged beast does not have an extra head and arms.

However, the doubt was quickly resolved.

Because several people soon saw three cubs of this animal in a small cave in the mountain rock not far ahead, and they were carried out by Zhang Shouzhong from the stone cave covered with dry grass one by one.

Several people leaned over to take a look and found that this thing was indeed special.

At a glance, it is difficult to distinguish between male and female, but in fact, the organs are very similar, and there are some differences when you look closely.

Obviously, that thing just now is the five-legged beast that Zhang Shouyi said. Wang Mingyuan probably knew why it was considered hermaphroditic. However, because of the peculiar smell they left behind, Wang Mingyuan felt that it was more appropriate to call them "walking popcorn".

Probably because the cubs in his lair were being played, the five-legged beast, which was obviously extremely timid just now, came back at some point, and roared at a few people in the tree.

"Put it back!" Zhang Shouyi urged: "This is the female beast that nurses the young beasts. ”

Zhang Shouzhong nodded, put the three small things back into the nest, and the group of people did not stay too long and left quickly.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, the mountain people also have their own rules, not to kill pregnant or nursing mothers.

Except, of course, rats.

Along the way, several people focused their attention on finding medicinal materials, especially Wang Mingyuan, who was proficient in the identification of medicinal materials like Kang Langxiang, and seized the opportunity to ask questions.

Affected by the sound of talking and rummaging, the animals avoided early, and only occasionally saw a few fleeing rabbits along the way, or some birds and finches flew away, and more often the trees shook for a while, and they didn't see what they were fleeing for.

It's just that as I walked, a sharp barking suddenly appeared among the surrounding trees, more and more, one after another.

This made several people suddenly become cautious.

"It's a jackal!"

Zhang Shouzhong was the first to see the animals looking around.

Wang Mingyuan also saw that it was the jackal dog he encountered on the road when he led Han Xiaoling into the mountain together, which was an existence that dared to snatch food from the hukou.

A few people stopped, looked around, and found that more than a dozen could be faintly seen, and there may be more hidden among the trees farther away.

It's not a good thing to go out in groups.

All of a sudden, the air became tense.