Hu Zongren is right. To a large extent, Master Situ is not only a professional guide for Hu Zongren and me, but also a good teacher and helpful friend. Although he is quite old, he still insists on learning like young people.
Computer learning and surfing the Internet. Except that sometimes he can't tell the difference between computer viruses and cold viruses, he can always think of corresponding ways to solve most problems when they come into his hands. Situ is a knowledgeable person and a very skilled craftsman.
Man, I'm glad that we are old friends and not enemies. Otherwise, I would definitely not be his opponent.
I told Situ on the phone where Hu Zongren and I were currently and what kind of thing we had encountered. When I told Situ that we were in Tazi Mountain, because I knew this from the broken stone tablet before.
The name of the place is Tazishan. I asked Situ to help check some of the origins of the nearby place, because since the pagoda was built, it must have been planned at the beginning of the construction. Situ agreed and told us to pay attention to safety
, he then called us back.
Hu Zongren and I continued to circle around the tower a few times, and found that the closest opening to us that could enter the tower was also on the second floor of the tower, which was higher than the ground. Moreover, my visual inspection was not necessarily that the opening could be accessed.
A person got in. Hu Zongren told me, since you also think that such an empty tower should not emit black smoke for no reason, and the figure that Uncle Yang saw earlier seemed to be shrouded in a layer of black mist, this
The two things are probably related. Uncle Yang took over Hu Zongren's words and said that he also remembered one thing. After the black smoke came out of the tower, many villagers came to worship. Not long after that, every day
Every once in a while, one of the chickens you raise will disappear inexplicably.
Hu Zongren asked Uncle Yang, disappeared? Didn't you hear the crow of the chicken before throwing it away? Uncle Yang quickly said that it was not considered to have disappeared, because later he went near the tower and planned to pick it up.
When I brought some leaves back to make fire, I saw a dead chicken outside the tower, the same one I had lost at the time.
Uncle Yang said that he felt a little strange after finding the chicken carcass, because there were some differences between the dead chickens found that time and the chickens that died normally. Most of the chickens that died normally would not change much in body shape, but the chickens found that day did not change much.
The chicken seemed to have been dehydrated and shriveled, as if all the water in the body had been drained. Uncle Yang also said that he felt a little strange at that time, so he took the dead chicken home and used a knife to
I cut off the cockscomb and found that there was no blood inside. I told him that the blood of most dead animals would coagulate and stop bleeding. Uncle Yang said that was not the case, because there was not even a trace of blood in the cut cockscomb. It was like
This chicken's blood seemed to have been drained by someone a long time ago, but he also checked and found that except for the obvious marks of being pinched hard by external force at the base of the wings, there were no wounds at all on the chicken's body.
This is undoubtedly a big news for Hu Zongren and I. Originally, I believed that he, like me, when he heard Uncle Yang talk about his experiences in the past two days, in addition to feeling strange, he also had an inexplicable feeling.
It’s a funny feeling. Farmers like Uncle Yang who may not have a very high level of education in the first place will inevitably do some funny things when things happen that are far beyond his understanding. For example, we
When we first saw him, the hoe across his legs looked very majestic like when Guan Gong left Cao Ying. But now we can’t laugh, because according to Uncle Yang’s description, especially the part about holding the chicken
The content of blood draining is very similar to a kind of ghost I saw in a senior handbook of my master when I was studying art. It has a common name and is called "Lynx".
The lynx here is not the lynx in the animal, but a specific kind of ghost. The number is very small. Together with the mandrill, the mountain toad, and the mountain mouse, they are called the four monsters of the mountain family. I must spend some time to popularize the science here.
The so-called four monsters of the Shan family are not four mutated species or spirits. They are all formed by undead. If Hu Zongren and I encountered lynxes this time, then I have encountered two of the four.
A few years ago, I caught a mandrill on the back mountain of Xidao in Sanya City, Hainan Province. These four kinds of undead spirits are relatively special. The nature of their appearance is similar to that of ghosts looking for substitutes. They all need to be constantly hunted.
Replace the soul, and another one replaces the next. Mandrills are often regarded as a baboon-type animal, but in fact, in metaphysics, mandrills refer to specifically targeting people who are lost in the mountains, and then killing them to achieve their goals.
The evil spirit that escaped on its own. According to the records in the handbook, the mountain toad itself is an irregular mass of black mist. However, wherever it goes, it will definitely cause toads to come out of their holes and scream in unison. Therefore, strictly speaking, the mountain toad is not a single species.
It is a collection of various ghosts who died in the mountains. Its energy is the strongest and the rarest. So far, it has been heard by many people and seen by very few. Likewise,
It is also relatively easy to catch because it is relatively stupid. Mountain rats are actually ghosts found in deserted tombs in the mountains. Such ghosts are often not the original owners of the tomb, but pass by and occupy other people's tombs. They are more harmful.
When I was a kid, I often heard the old man say, if you hear someone calling your name while walking on a mountain road at night, don’t look back. People who call other people’s names here are mountain rats. The reason why they are called rats is because most of the barren graves gradually become clearer over time.
It is a tomb, so ignorant people can easily invade other people's territory. There must be an entrance and exit for ghosts to come in and out. For example, occasionally you see an inexplicable extra small hole on the mountain wall, similar to a snake hole or a mouse hole, that is very likely
Just where mountain rats come and go. Mountain rats have been harming people for thousands of years. There is no room for negotiation. If you encounter them, you must kill them. Fortunately, I have never encountered them so far.
The lynx is the strangest of the four monsters, because you have no way to determine whether it is going to harm you or not. Its appearance is highly random. Like the mandrill, it requires constant soul replacement.
But the mandrill will only attack people, which means that his target is single. The bobcat, no matter whether it is a human or an animal, as long as it is chosen by it, it often cannot escape. However, the bobcat has a quirk, it is used to
Yu lets you know of its existence in advance, in its own way. The meaning is probably that since I have informed you that I am coming, if you let me catch you and change your soul again, then you deserve it.
There is no fixed explanation for the formation of the bobcat, but it has a characteristic, that is, if the bobcat's previous state was just in the shape of a chicken, and if it targets a cow as the next replacement object, then once it succeeds, the next bobcat will appear.
It will be in the form of a cow. If it becomes a cow and then falls in love with a chicken, it will still be a cow. It can only maintain the state of its largest body shape after the replacement. Maybe you want to ask, what does this have to do with a cat?
Relationship, I have to tell you that bobcat is just a relatively mild cry. If you want to shout more fiercely, it is not an exaggeration to call it a tiger. There is an eternal law for this kind of freak, which is that every 12 years
If it appears once, the year it appears must be the Year of the Tiger, and the Tiger is Yin, which is why it is said to be a Bobcat. And 2010 happens to be the Year of the Tiger.
The Four Monsters of the Mountain Family are what folk masters call them. They are often confused by masters from the north and the south and cannot tell whether they are ghosts or demons. They are extremely rare in number. If you encounter one, it will be like catching a ride on MH370 without any reason. The probability is extremely low.
Hu Zongren obviously knew about this stuff, so we initially determined that Uncle Yang ran into a bobcat. The bobcat sucks blood and will warn in advance. The chicken without chicken blood in the body should be proof. And Uncle Yang for two consecutive nights
When we woke up in the morning, we found a dead chicken standing with its head facing towards our bedroom. To Hu Zongren and I, this probably means that you are the next person to attack.
But we still feel that there are too many suspicious things. First of all, the four monsters of the Shan family mostly appear in inaccessible barren mountains and wild ridges. It is precisely because of this that their number is very small. It is estimated that the mountain toad has not been recorded for at least 100 years.
In other words, no one who has encountered it has survived. Although Tazi Mountain is quite far away from the downtown area, due to the scarcity of land resources, many residential areas have been built near the mountain. You can still see it from a distance.
Seeing the giant gas tank of Chongqing Natural Gas Company, although it was not busy, it was by no means inaccessible. There were people living on the mountainside and at the foot of the mountain. Logically speaking, it should not be a place where bobcats hang out. We couldn’t figure it out for a while, so we just
I followed the original path back to Uncle Yang's house. Since I was speculating that a different kind of ghost like a lynx was causing trouble, my compass could capture the traces left by this undead spirit.
So after returning to Uncle Yang's house, I ran to the chicken coop despite the strong stench of chicken feces, and looked for the place where Uncle Yang said he saw a human figure. By the way, since what Uncle Yang saw was a human figure, that meant
This bobcat had killed people before. This was confirmed by Uncle Yang, because he was born and raised here, so I asked him if there had ever been anyone in this mountain.
Missing or dead. He thought about it at first and said no. How big is the mountain? Then he said that a man was found dead under the tower before. The man was a resident at the foot of the mountain. At that time, he was
He came to help the government protect cultural relics and help weed and cut trees. But he didn't go back all night, and his body was found the next morning. I asked Uncle Yang if the body had also been drained, and he said that he wouldn't
I know, the body had already been sent away when he went to watch. I asked him again when that happened, and he said it was more than ten years ago, probably 1998.
1998, another Year of the Tiger. Make no mistake, this time it must be the Bobcat.