Twenty years ago, the battalion soldiers who protected Yehe Town would patrol at night, and one of the battalion soldiers heard Yelin shouting for help, and thought that the villagers were trapped by the trap of the beast, and they followed the sound and never came out.

When he found this battalion, he found that he was already sitting by the roots of the tree, the flesh and blood on his body had been sucked away, and a young man with strong blood and strength instantly withered and aged like an old man.

As soon as this incident came out, Yehe Town began to capture mandrills and drive away wild beasts, and it took five years to subdue the birds and beasts near Yehe Town.

It is impossible to distinguish whether the story recorded on the page is true or false, but this mandrill reminds Yue Guanchao of the strange things he had heard before.

He grew up in the Yingpanling Forest Farm when he was a child, the old hunters in the ridge lived a long time, saw a lot of things, and passed through the anecdotes and wild things are not less, whenever he rested after work, there were always a bunch of big men carrying wine jugs, surrounding the wooden house next to the mountain, he also liked to listen to these people talk about the ancients.

Snow will begin in September in the Khing'an Mountains, and it will probably not warm up until March of the following year.

The seven-month winter, coupled with the white-haired wind and thick snow that cut people's faces, is so cold that they can't get out of the house at all, and most people will save enough food to stay in the tunzi for the winter.

In addition to the harvested bud rice, sorghum, and buckwheat brown rice, it is also necessary to save enough meat for the family to eat for half a year.

The people in the tunzi are not so wealthy, although there are chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs, but the domestic ones are not as good as game.

As soon as September came, these old hunters would have enough dry food and take their fellows into the mountains to hunt.

This season happens to be a good time for beasts and birds to stick to autumn fat and save fat for the winter.

Most of the hunters have the ability, the prey they hunt is enough for the whole family to eat, and they can also be sold in the town.

The old hunter is most afraid of seeing tigers and lions in the forest, and the third is the mandrill, which is one of the terrifying legends in the deep mountains and wild forests.

Counting three generations up the eagle's beak ridge, there is such a number of people, named Yue Damao

This hunter is a young and strong man, who has been in the winter for half a month, and the game he hunts is not enough for the whole family to winter.

I can't hit anything, and I don't have a face on my face, this Yue Damao is the age when he is not afraid of heaven and earth, and he continues to walk towards the deep mountains and old forests on his horse, wanting to try his luck again.

When he got out of the Yingpanling Boundary Monument, it was already a deep mountain and wild forest that no one had set foot on, and there was not even a person to open up the wasteland to hunt, and it was getting dark, so he had the idea of turning around and going back.

As soon as he turned his head, he suddenly heard a cry behind him, and followed the sound to lift the grass.

The big girl who was bright and smart, rubbing her legs and stomach, looked like she had broken her feet.

He didn't want to care, but this girl looked like a flower, her face was like a silver basin, and she cried so much that she was so excited that he volunteered to send this girl home.

It turned out that this girl was the only daughter of the rich man's family, her surname was Yuan, and she was called Yuan Guifen!

Looking at this mahjong-like set of courtyards, he was quite jealous of the wealth of thousands of acres of this field.

The two of them are still young, Yue Damao looks flat and has a straight face full of strength, and when they come and go, they take advantage of the darkness at night to hook up with the landlord's daughter.

The landlord also intended to recruit a son-in-law, so he pushed the boat down the river and let him marry Yuan Guifen to recruit him as a son-in-law.

However, two years later, the old landlord passed away in a hurry, and Yue Damao replaced the old rich man and became the head of the family.

He looked at the pits full of grain and dozens of boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, thought of his suffering mother-in-law and children, and realized that he could not bear them, so he took advantage of the landlord's wife to go out to do business and escaped without permission.

Yue Damao is full of plans to bring his children and wives to enjoy happiness, who would have wanted to return home, his wife has been dead for twenty years, and even his grandson can make soy sauce.

His son did not believe that he had become rich, so he followed him to the old man's grange.

When I arrived at the place, the Grange was long gone, and there were only weeds and wild forests all over the mountains.

They searched for a long time before they saw a stone cave on a certain hillside, on which the Yuan family's compound was faintly engraved.

On the old locust tree next to the stone cave, there are many mandrills lying on their stomachs, and they are all as shrewd as people.

When Yue Damao saw this scene, he was so shocked that he fainted on the spot.

In the past few days, he has become an old man with white hair and teeth in only half a month, and it didn't take long for him to fall into the ground.

This matter, many elderly people in Yingpanling know about it, and the second uncle often takes Yue Damao's matter to scare Yue Erpao, who comes home late.

Although Yue Guanchao has heard this strange story, he doesn't dare to say that it is true, the people of Tunli like to add oil and vinegar when they speak, and the specific situation is that it is impossible to know the age.

The only thing that is frightening is the wild mandrills in the wild forest, they can confuse people to this extent, and they are probably old beasts that have become spirits for a hundred years.

Yue Guanchao thought in his heart that if he told the strange things he knew, it would only add to the horror, so he simply put on a disapproving face and joked a few perfunctory words:

"I've heard that mandrill saliva can confuse people, but if you want to say that you suck it into an old man, it's too bizarre."

"You're not going to write a story to relieve your boredom, are you?"

Ah Ying's head shook like a rattle: "Impossible, this is what I stole from my Ah Weng, he can't write a story for himself, I thought that the mandrill was really extinct in Yehe Town, but I didn't expect them all to escape into Witch Coffin Town." ”

Song Siyuan listened to Ah Ying's introduction, and suddenly realized: "If it is a mandrill, then I understand, it must be the mandrill that wiped its saliva on the leech vine to make us unconscious, plus we saw the old hunter who was sucked dry, so we had the hallucination just now." ”

"You guys, you should have seen that hallucination, too."

Everyone thought of the hallucination, and unconsciously shuddered, and Ah Ying got goosebumps!

He scratched the back of his head, still having lingering palpitations: "Fortunately, it's a hallucination, if it's true, it's too bad." ”

Song Siyuan's eyes became mysterious: "Don't you think that what we see in our hallucination is very unusual, why are Tang Dianrong's soldiers and bandits torn apart and chopped up by the people of the witch coffin, is this also what we have seen?" ”

Everyone looked confused, and no one knew.

However, one thing is clear, if their hallucinations are true, what Tang Dianrong did in Witch Coffin Town can be regarded as lacking great virtue!

Song Siyuan pondered for a moment and looked at everyone: "I think we have to go out to move the rescuers first, and before we started to investigate, we encountered such a strange mandrill, who knows what will happen later." ”

"What do you think?"

Ah Ying and Lu Fengjian were the first to raise their hands, and they had no opinion.

Yue Guanchao thought for a moment, and nodded: "Then let's go back quickly and bring the rescuers first." ”

"Wait!"

When Yue Guanchao was about to go out, Song Siyuan stopped him.

"If there's mandrills out there, we're in danger, and we'll have to find something that makes noise and beat it all the way."

Yue Guanchao glanced around, he looked at the gong that had not been burned, and his eyes lit up: "What is louder than the gong, let's take it." ”

When the long dang ~ bell bell ~ bell ~

Yue Guanchao and Lu Fengjian took the gong, and went out of the dancing ghost building to knock and beat in the grass, and there were indeed a lot of mandrills hidden here, and wherever the piercing roar went, they screamed and rushed out of the grass and swam into the distance, and when they were completely away from the grass, they put down the gong and breathed a sigh of relief.

They groped all the way back according to the route they came, thinking that they would go back smoothly, but they still thought that the witch coffin town was too simple!

When they returned to the pallet, the scene that appeared in front of them made everyone's hearts flutter!

Yue Guanchao tentatively stood on the shore of the charred trestle, it was difficult for him to see anything from the heavy gray fog, as if he was standing on a cliff standing thousands of miles on the wall, the wind whined and blew, waving even finer pieces of fly ash, whirring hot mist emerging from the deep valley, close, and he could feel the heat wave on his face.

"You... Who are you? ”

Everyone was stunned, and an old lady came out of the ruins next to her, and she saw a living person who did not know good or evil, and everyone did not dare to let her get too close.

Yue Guanchao carefully observed this old lady, she was wearing a black coarse cloth gown and pants, and the pattern of the cuffs of the pants had been worn off the line and faded, probably untaken with long gray hair, stained with grass roots and dead leaves, looking like a chicken nest, to say that the most terrifying thing was her face.

The old lady's face was full of strange wrinkles, piled up messily on her face, and it became clear on a closer look that these lines were old knife wounds, forming furrows on her face over time, and from a distance it looked like her face was full of wrinkles.

This old lady doesn't know what she has smeared on her body, she is always greasy and dirty, her cloak is long to her ankles, and the seams are full of holes, even if she is far away, she can smell the sour smell of not taking a bath for more than ten days.

The old lady was also wary of them, clutching the stone tightly in her hand, her cloudy eyes were full of blood, and she was extremely disgusted with everyone.

"Do you know what's going on, old woman?"

Yue Guanchao settled down and decided to set up a set of almost.

"Shhhh

The old lady did not answer, and put her fingers on her mouth and shhhhh

Out of curiosity, she looked around Yue Guanchao a few times, her eyes gradually changed from curiosity to shock, and the bloodshot under her eyes became more and more red, like an old Gu woman who urgently needed to release her Gu.

Then, her eyes welled up with blood and tears, and she grinned weirdly:

"After so many years of escape, you shouldn't have come back, you shouldn't have come back... Hahaha, ahahaha!! ”