Chapter 72 The Butcher in the Woods
Huanshui Town, located in the lower reaches of the Lijiang River, is also close to the Lijiang River, so the waterways here are developed.
Not only that, Huanshui Town is close to water on one side and mountains on the other, and it is a big mountain, so there are many hunters in the town, and there is an endless stream of people who go into the mountains to hunt.
Lao Daotou is a hunter in Huanshui Town, he is in his early fifties this year, he has been hunting with his father in the mountains since he was ten years old, and he has been hunting for forty years, and he is preparing to go into the mountains again to hunt these days.
I don't know what's going on, but the right eyelid of the old knife head has been jumping again recently, and he has been quite restless in the past few days, as if something bad is going to happen to him.
"This is not a good sign, is there any danger in entering the mountain this time?" the old knife head leaned against the door of his house and muttered to himself.
At this time, I saw two young men who looked five points similar, and the same young and strong walked to the door of the old knife head's house, and when they saw the old knife head guarding the door, they came forward with a smile on their faces.
"Uncle Dao, are you ready, everyone has already rushed towards the town gate," one of the young men said.
"Oh, it's the big baby, the second baby is also there, okay, I'm ready, let's go together!"
Seeing this, the two young men laughed and waited at the door for a while, while the old knife head also walked into his yard, carried an animal skin bag, equipped a hunting knife and walked out.
After locking the gate of his house, he and the two young men walked towards the gate of the town, where several companions who had said yes were waiting for them.
"Uncle Dao, this hunting is all up to you, my brother and I are helping behind you, don't you think?"
The younger brother and the second child were also smiling at this time, and the two brothers seemed to be very confident in this old knife uncle, and looked at each other with adoring eyes while laughing.
Looking at the happy smiles of these two juniors, the old knife head secretly scolded himself for being too superstitious, so he naturally agreed, which made the two young men snicker, and the three of them slowly walked to the entrance of the town in laughter.
I saw a seven-person Orion team gathered at the entrance of the town at this time, when they saw the three people coming, these seven people greeted them with a smile, and at the same time, they were also called 'Old Knife Uncle', 'Old Knife Head', which shows that Old Knife Head is full of prestige among these people.
"Alright, the time is almost up, let's see if there's anything missing, if not, let's go," the old knife head glanced at the other nine people, and then ordered.
The other nine people were naturally very convinced of the old knife head, and after each of them checked it, a group of ten people set off into the mountain in a majestic manner.
Under the order of the old knife head, several people first set up traps, and then the division of labor began to reconnoiter and ambush around.
For several hours, several people did not gain anything at all, which suffocated the two brothers who had just started to contact hunting.
"Strange, Uncle Dao, you can usually hunt a lot of prey here, what's wrong today?" One of the people in the team has also been hunting for many years, and when he saw that he had no gain today, he couldn't help but speak.
As soon as his words fell, the old knife head was also a little unable to sit still, and then several people stood up one after another, and then checked all the nearby traps, and after confirming that there was really no harvest, several people all gathered together.
"Looks like we'll have to go into the mountains again!" said the old knifeman.
Hearing that they were going to grope in the mountains, there was a commotion between the eldest baby and the second baby, and there were a few novices, some nervous, some scared, and even more excited.
"Everyone, what are you afraid of, Uncle Dao has visited the entire mountain over the years, and this time we have so many people, even if it is a lion and a tiger, we are not afraid!"
When the others heard this, they all glanced at the old knife, and then they all agreed to go into the depths of the mountain, and in this way, a group of ten people picked up their equipment and headed for the mountain.
When the ten of them walked towards the mountain for more than an hour, they had reached the depths of the mountain, and the surrounding trees were nearly twice as thick as when they came.
At this time, the old knife head and several other people were kneeling on one knee to check something, and what appeared in front of them was a beast corpse that had been half decomposed, and behind them, Dawa Erwa and several other young people were even more retching.
"This is a bear, it has been dead for almost four or five days, looking at the appearance of the wound, it should be a knife wound, the incision is neat and flat, there are no other external injuries on the body, it should be done by a master!"
Seeing the corpse in front of him, the old knife head relied on experience to analyze it calmly.
"So, other teams have come to hunt in the mountains?" said one of the team.
"Anyway, we're hunting us, it's getting late, let's find a place to camp," said the old knifeman, and when he saw that it was already dark, he ordered to prepare for the night.
The team was divided into three groups, some people camped, some people gathered dry firewood nearby, and the third group went a little farther away to see if there was any prey, and some game was also considered to satisfy their hunger.
When the old knife leader set up the camp, the few people who collected dry firewood returned to the group, but the three who went out to hunt did not move at all.
"It's strange, why haven't they come back for so long, are they in trouble?" the old knife head said suspiciously when he saw that the three people in the team had not returned for a long time.
"Or, let's take a look!" said one of the members of the team, and after saying that, he asked the old knife head to nod and left the team with one of them, and set off to find the three who had left the team before.
The old knife head had a bad premonition at this time, but he had been to this mountain countless times before, and it could be said that he knew every place in the mountain, so he comforted himself and talked to the eldest baby and the second baby.
"It's so quiet here, I didn't come to this mountain before, but it wasn't so quiet," after a while, another member of the team also spoke, and his words made the old knife head startled.
The old knife head didn't have the heart to continue talking at this time, and quickly stood up and carefully looked around, but it was dark in the eyes, and the surroundings were even more silent.
Years of experience have taught him that there must be demons when things go wrong, and this is already the depths of a dense forest full of wild beasts, but it is still so quiet, it is too unusual!
"Big baby, second baby, you come close to me, let's go find them together!" said the old knife head to the remaining four people after extinguishing the fire in the camp.
Of course, the other four listened to him, and the group did not dare to separate, and slowly groped in the direction that their companions had left just now.
A few people moved cautiously along the way, but there were only some rocks around except for the thick trees, and not even a single animal appeared, and the silence was a little scary.
After a few people groped in the forest for a while, the old knife head didn't find anything, but when he turned around, he found that in addition to the eldest baby and the second baby, there were two others who were also missing.
"Big baby, why is it only you, and what about the other two?" asked the old knife head a little scared.
Although he asked, he already felt that something was wrong in his heart, if he didn't guess wrong, there must be some danger in this forest, and maybe even some extremely vicious murderers.
"Ah, strange, Uncle Dao, they were still behind us just now?" the second baby hurriedly replied.
The big baby walked beside him, and suddenly his feet slipped, as if he had tripped over something, and the whole person fell to the ground, looking embarrassed.
"Brother, are you okay," the younger brother and the second baby stepped forward to help him, and when the second baby helped the brother up, he seemed to see something frightened, and shouted in his mouth: "Ah, blood, that's!"
When the old knife head heard it, he hurriedly reacted, and then looked in the direction of Erwa's finger, and then he felt a little creepy.
I saw that in the forest, a corpse covered in blood fell miserably to the ground, the chest of this corpse seemed to have been disemboweled with a knife, the whole chest was blurred with flesh and blood, and the two brothers were frightened when they saw the scene in front of them.
The old knife head took a closer look, wasn't this person the companion who was walking with him just now, "Could it be that there is really a murderer in the forest?"
"Uncle Dao, what should we do here?" the baby began to stammer.
The two brothers were just fledgling rookies, and they had seen such battles there, and they were naturally frightened when they saw such a ferocious method at this time.
When the old knife head was about to open his mouth to say a few words of comfort, he was interrupted by a sound of footsteps, which were extremely strong and traveled at great intervals, indicating that he was a fat man, and he was very large.
At this moment, a chain suddenly flew out of the dark forest, and the chain suddenly entangled the big baby, so that the three of them were caught off guard, just when the second baby was about to pull the brother, the chain was tightly closed, and the big baby was pulled into the darkness of the dense forest while screaming.
"Brother!" Erwa shouted in panic.
But it was not his brother's voice that answered him, but a burst of eerie laughter, which was extremely high-pitched, and was accompanied by the sound of slashing with sharp weapons.
"Friend, you, what do you want, we are just hunters, we went into the mountains to hunt to support our families, but we didn't do anything superfluous!" The old knife head's voice was also a little trembling at this time, and he said in a stammering tone.
The second baby was already on the verge of collapse at this time, and at this moment, a sharp and gloomy laughter made his whole body like ignited gunpowder, and he let out a loud cry in panic and rushed out.
"Second baby, come back quickly!" the old knife head desperately tried to stop the other party, but it had no effect at all.
"Ah, don't!" After a while, the screams of the second baby sounded, and the old knife head also knew that the second baby was following in the footsteps of others.
In other words, among the ten people who came out together, only he was alive, and the others should have been killed by the other party, which made him frightened.
"You can't sit still like this, you have to find a way to escape!" the old knife head forced himself to be shocked and quickly thought, and then the whole person rushed away in a certain direction in his memory.
Just when he started, a sound of footsteps sounded behind him, and he didn't need to look at it to know that the murderer had already killed the second child at this time, and was chasing after him.
The old knife head gritted his teeth sharply, and he accelerated and sprinted forward, while his body was slightly half-squatting, making sure that he would not be cut by some tree branches and affect his speed.
Just as the footsteps were getting closer and closer to him, the old knife head suddenly jumped, and then the whole man began to roll on the spot, for he knew that there was a slope here, and behind the slope was a small river with a rapid current.
The figure behind him didn't expect the old knife head in front of him to roll like this, and the chain that had just shot was in the air, grazing the opponent's body and flying over, almost hitting the old knife head.
The owner of the chain was furious, and then he flew into a rage, but after being furious, he chose to speed up the pursuit.
The old knife head rolled into the river at this time, and the cold river water stimulated him, and after the whole person was clever, he poked his head out of the river, and then looked towards the shore, and then he saw what was probably the most terrifying scene in his life.
I saw a huge figure standing on the shore, this figure was looking at him with a pair of shining red eyes, and in his hands, half of the body of the second baby was held in one hand, making this huge figure look bloodthirsty and fierce at this time.
The river was panting, so that the old knife head escaped his life, or it was possible that the huge figure did not know the nature of the water so he gave up the pursuit.
In short, the old knife head was fluttering in the water and moving towards the shore, and just a few miles away on the bank of the river, he finally came to the shore.
Just as the old knife head was about to go to the shore, a sharp laugh sounded in his ears, and when he heard this sound, he was frightened, and then his feet ran wildly with the strength of milk.
Just when he ran to the side of a tall slope, the old knife head felt a hot pain from his junior, and then he was knocked out by a huge force, and the whole person turned around in the air a few times, and after falling to the ground, he came to the back of the slope and then rolled up again.
In a whirlwind, the old knife head lost consciousness, but before losing consciousness, he used the corner of his eye to see that he seemed to have rolled into a cliff.
At this time, when the tall figure saw the old knife head disappear from its field of vision, it could only let out an unwilling roar, and the voice was extremely high-pitched, sounding extremely strange as the cry of killing a pig.