The so-called mandrill.

Folklore says that most of the apes that have become spirits in the mountains.

And because apes are active by nature and full of wildness, once this beast becomes a master and opens its wisdom, most of them will do a lot of evil and harm one party, and the folk will call this kind of spirit that harms one side as a mandrill, and its status is equivalent to that of a ghost in the grave.

It is no wonder that the young men who were recruited would change their faces when they heard the news of the mandrill, and their eyes were frightened, and they looked like they couldn't avoid it.

"What the hell is going on, mandrill, tell me more about it. At this time, he was highly respected, and after a lifetime and decades, Zhang Laogen had never encountered anything, so compared to other villagers, the corners of their mouths were blue, and they gasped, but he could still keep calm and asked at this time.

But there was still a hint of strange anxiety in his eyebrows.

As for Ning Caichen, he was just a guest, he was not suitable to interject, he was just watching from the sidelines.

At this time, perhaps it was Zhang Laogen's calmness that infected the village woman, she took a breath, and said with some palpitations: "Uncle Gen, I was washing clothes by the river with other women in the village, and suddenly a monster with a face like a demon rushed out of the mountains and forests by the river, and took Widow Li away in one hand. ”

"Yes, yes, we all saw it, it must be the mandrill will not be wrong, the daughter-in-law of the Wang family who married to our village a few years ago was taken away by the mandrill. With that, another village woman glanced at a woman from the Wang family next to her.

And this woman, who was also washing clothes just now, her face became more and more frightened, because the daughter-in-law of the Wang family who was taken away a few years ago was his husband's first wife, and she only married into the Wang family later because of this incident.

"That's ......" Zhang Laogen's brows furrowed when he heard this, it seems that the mandrill appeared again, and he thought that there was no trace of it for a few years, and the other party had already left this place, but he didn't expect that the other party was still in the mountains, and today he came out to kidnap people again.

"Let's go, we can't ignore such a serious matter as the mandrill kidnapping, a few years ago it was the daughter-in-law of the Wang family, today it is the widow Li, who will it be tomorrow? Call a dozen young men with the greatest strength and can shoot the bow to come together, let's go to the river to see the situation, and Dahua, you take people, call back all the people near the village, try not to go out, maybe the mandrill is still wandering around here and has not gone far. So, after thinking about it for a while at this time, Zhang Laogen commanded the people around him, his face was serious and very decisive.

But one of the timid villagers hurriedly said: "Uncle Gen, that's a mandrill, if we encounter it, I'm afraid that someone will die, so let's not go." ”

", do as I tell you, a brute who abducts women, if we don't drive it away today, tomorrow it will kidnap your daughter-in-law, and if the days go on, do you want us to go down to Lin Village to cut off our children and grandchildren. Zhang Laogen said angrily, and then he strode away without saying a word, and some young people behind them, they glanced at each other, and when they saw that Ning Caichen, an outsider, was following, they also followed.

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"Alas, the juniors are not angry, and let the guests laugh. At this time, Ning Caichen and Zhang Laogen were walking in the field, and a small stream could be seen in the distance.

"People's fear of monsters, that's instinct, Uncle Gen shouldn't be more harsh. "What does Ning Caichen want to say about what happened just now?

In fact, he couldn't say anything, so he could only comfort the old man next to him.

"Alas. Zhang Laogen shook his head and sighed.

Immediately, a group of people were depressed and silent, and then under the leadership of Zhang Laogen, they came to the creek after a while.

The stream was not large, only more than three zhang wide, and there were large pebbles on the river, and on these stones were scattered a lot of unwashed clothes, which were supposed to have fallen by the village women who were scared away.

"Let's go and see. Then everyone came to the river, and then looked at the scattered few large footprints that did not look like people, and disappeared into the forest along the river.

Therefore, this made Zhang Laogen's face silent for a while, and then he looked up at the sunset on the sky dome with a ray of sunlight, and then he gritted his teeth and crossed the stream and strode into the forest. Ning Caichen also followed with a serious face in the back, but those young and strong people were frightened one by one, their faces were pale, their bodies trembled, cold sweat broke out on their foreheads, and they didn't dare to move forward for a long time, allowing the two people in front of them to take risks.

And the village of Xialin.

The mountain forest it leans on is not a deep mountain old forest, if at noon, the sun is scorching, the whole mountain forest has light, and it does not look gloomy, so it usually has villagers who dare to go up the mountain to hunt and chop wood, and the mountain forest is not big, it stands to reason that such a place will not give birth to spirits, after all, the population is too dense.

But who would have thought that a mandrill would pop up here a few years ago.

"Hey, this footprint is lost, is the mandrill on the tree?" Suddenly, at this time, after Ning Caichen and Zhang Laogen tracked for a while, they found that they had lost the footprints of the mandrill.

Although it is said that this is not a deep mountain ancient forest, the ancient environment is too natural, and a small mountain forest is also full of trees and leaves, dense grass and trees, but it is not easy to track.

But these are not difficult for Ning Caichen, he suddenly jumped up, jumped on a one-meter-high branch, and looked into the distance, and then after he searched, he suddenly saw a small tree more than ten meters away, on which hung a small piece of red cloth, which was covered by leaves, and they were standing in the wrong line of sight just now, so they couldn't see it.

"Let's go, I've found a clue. Immediately, he jumped down again and said to Zhang Laogen.

Under the leadership of Ning Caichen, they came to the tree and took down a piece of cloth from more than one meter on the tree.

"This should have been left by Widow Li, and she was a little anxious to know that she would leave some clues. Ning Caichen smiled and said to Zhang Laogen next to him.

"Indeed, although Widow Li is young and widowed, she is also a wise and intelligent person. Zhang Laogen thought of Widow Li's personality on weekdays, and nodded appreciatively.

Then they immediately followed the trail.