Chapter 5: A Slash
"What about the monster?" Returning to his senses, Hou Zhu looked around and found that the monster was gone.
"Don't stay here, hurry up, maybe that monster will come back!" He hurriedly dragged Wang Zhe away.
The two of them went up the mountain, and on the other side of the mountain they saw three catchers lying on the ground and wailing, they were scratched by the monster just now, and the wounds had turned blue-black.
In this situation, it was certainly impossible to continue searching for "tomb robbers" in the mountains, and several people hurriedly carried the wounded down the mountain and returned to the village.
"Waste, a bunch of useless waste!"
The tomb robbers were not caught, and a few catchers were injured, and the angry county lieutenant scolded them.
Angry, people couldn't leave it alone, so they immediately sent the injured catcher back to the city to find a doctor for treatment.
When they returned to Guobei County, those people were not only wounds, but also large areas of skin near the wounds had turned pitch black, the blood that flowed out was black, and their faces were also ominous blue.
Wang Zhe secretly looked at these three people with the "Qi Hope Technique", and saw that the wisp of white gas above their heads had completely turned gray, which was different from the little gray when Lao Hou was sick.
He immediately realized that his life was in danger.
The doctor looked at their wounds, his face became very solemn, and he hurriedly asked how they were hurt.
When he heard Wang Zhe describe the appearance of the "ghost-faced badger", his brows furrowed, sighed, and shook his head.
"Hey, I can't cure their injuries, according to what this catcher said, the one you met should be the "ghost-faced badger" who feeds on the corpses in the tombs in the mountains.
It has been devouring its body for a long time, and it has corpse poison on its body, and to cure this poison, it has to use its teeth to grind it into powder. ”
"I can only prepare some medicinal herbs now, try to delay the onset of toxicity, and how long it can be delayed depends on their creation." The doctor said.
When the three catchers were sent home, their family members were very worried when they saw their appearance, and even cried on the spot.
People are fine when they go out, but how come they are like this when they come back?
"It's good you pushed me, otherwise I'd have to be like them!" Lao Hou said with emotion.
"Ah Zhe, how do you say you can catch that monster?"
"What, you want to save people? When you saw that monster in the mountain village, you were so scared that your legs went limp! ”
"I was defenseless for a while, and the monster was indeed scary, and when I saw it like that, my head buzzed, hey, don't you feel that way?"
"No, isn't it just a badger? It's a long bump point! Wang Zhe shook his head.
He was really not scared at the time, almost subconsciously drew the knife, long-term practice has become instinct, and then killed with a knife.
"Colleagues for so many years, we can't die without help, right?" Lao Hou said.
In the end, I have been with my colleagues for two years, and I still have some feelings.
"Why don't we go to that mountain village and ask the people in the village?" Wang Zhedao.
He knew that the "ghost-faced badger" had been killed, and the body should still be in the forest, so he could just go and retrieve it now.
"Okay, let's go." The two went back to the yamen and went to the mountain village.
After this toss, it was already afternoon when the two arrived at the mountain village.
"The monster that eats the corpse, you should be talking about the ghost-faced badger." The village was listening to the words of the two people, as if they remembered something terrible, and their faces showed a look of horror.
"That's a monster that feeds on corpses, it not only eats corpses, but also eats people, it is said that it is fast like a gust of wind in the mountains and forests, and looks like a ghost, and when you see it, you will be scared out of your soul, and if you are caught or bitten, you will bleed to death all over your body."
"Yes, yes, yes, this is it!" The old marquis on the side nodded straightly.
"It sounds so terrible, why did you die with a single sword, could it be that the one I killed was only a minor?" Wang Zhe had some doubts in his heart.
"So how do you catch it?"
After listening to the old marquis's intentions, Li Zheng said that he would ask the villagers to help.
After all, they are also afraid of such a monster in the mountains, and a few people have disappeared inexplicably in the mountains over the years, and they don't see anyone dead or dead, and they thought they were eaten by wolves, but now they think that they may have been eaten by the "ghost-faced badger".
"Ghost-faced badgers are afraid of fire and sunlight, and use ancient tombs as their nests."
They discussed it for a while, and while it was still dark, they went to the mountains to have a look, and they found a few men who were quite strong to follow them, with torches and clubs in their hands.
After going up the mountain, after arriving at the mountain, Wang Zhe followed the bloodstains in the barren grass in the mountain and quickly found the body of the "ghost-faced badger".
It's just that this corpse is mutilated, and the flesh and blood on the body have been eaten by something.
"This, this is what it is?" Lao Hou was stunned when he saw this!
Wang Zhe hurriedly used the "Qi Hope Technique" to look at the cave in the mountain forest, only to see that the black qi wafting out of it was thicker than what he had seen before leaving.
"What the hell is in there?"
"Well, what's going on with these people?" He caught a glimpse of the faint glow of blood between the eyebrows of the people who had gone up the mountain with them, and the white air above their heads was also bloody.
"Anyway, they're saved, let's go back quickly, shall we?" Lao Hou said.
He felt that this forest was eerie, and he felt hairy, and he didn't want to stay here for a moment.
Back in the mountain village, Wang Zhe found that there were other people in the village with blood on the top of their heads, which was not a good sign.
He inquired side-by-side, and those people were not a family.
"Could it be that something is going to happen in this mountain village? Plague, earthquake, banditry, or something to do with the black gas he saw in the back mountains? Wang Zhe thought of the black gas he saw in the cave behind the mountain.
Wang Zhe couldn't be sure, but he still found Lizheng in the village and specially reminded him. Remind him to be more vigilant recently, and report anything suspicious to the official in time.
"Hasn't the tomb robber already been caught?" Li Zheng listened to Wang Zhe's words and was very puzzled.
"There may not be only one of those mountain spirits, there may be something else in the mountains."
Then the two of them returned to the county seat with the mutilated body of the "ghost-faced badger", and when they returned, it was already dark, and they were able to enter the city only after revealing their identities.
They went to Lang Zhong first, removed the teeth of the "ghost-faced badger", ground them into powder, and first went to the nearest home of the catcher to the hospital, and gave him warm water.
After a while, the catcher began to vomit, and the smell of what he vomited was so fishy that the whole room smelled pungent.
After another piece of incense, Wang Zhe saw that most of the ominous blue-black on his face had dissipated with his "Qi Viewing Technique", and he looked like he had no worries about his life. Only then did I breathe a sigh of relief.
"It seems that the doctor's method is really useful!"