"Where's the monster?" Hou Zhu looked around when he came back to his senses and found that the monster was gone.
"Don't stay here, leave quickly, maybe that monster will come back again!" 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 detectives lying on the ground wailing. They had been scratched by the monster just now, and their wounds had turned blue and black.
Under the current situation, we definitely could not continue to search for "grave robbers" on the mountain. Several people hurriedly carried the injured down the mountain and back to the village.
"Trash, a bunch of useless trash!"
The tomb robbers were not caught and several of the detectives were injured. The angry county lieutenant cursed at them.
They were so angry that they couldn't leave it alone, so they immediately sent the injured policeman back to the city to seek medical treatment.
When they returned to Guobei County, not only the wounds on those people, but also the large areas of skin near the wounds had turned pitch black, the blood flowing out was black, and their faces also had an unknown cyan color.
Wang Zhe secretly looked at these three people using the "Qi Watching Technique" and saw that the wisp of white air above their heads had completely turned gray, unlike the dots of gray when Lao Hou was sick.
He immediately realized that the lives of these people were in danger.
The doctor looked at their wounds, his face became serious, and he hurriedly asked how they were injured.
When he heard Wang Zhe describe the appearance of the "ghost-faced badger", he frowned, sighed, and shook his head.
"Hey, I can't cure their injuries. According to what the catcher said, the one you encountered should be a "ghost-faced badger" that specializes in eating corpses in tombs in the mountains.
It devoured the body for a long time and produced corpse poison, which can be detoxified by grinding it into powder with its teeth."
"Now I can only prepare some medicinal materials to delay the onset of toxicity as much as possible. How long it can be delayed depends on their luck." The doctor said.
When the three detectives were sent home, their family members looked very worried about them, and even cried on the spot.
You were fine when you went out, but why are you like this when you come back?
"Fortunately, you pushed me, otherwise I would have to be like them!" Lao Hou said with emotion.
"Azhe, how do you think we 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 weak!"
"I was unprepared for the moment. The monster was indeed scary. When I saw its appearance, my head started to buzz. Hey, don't you feel this way?"
"No, isn't it just a badger? It's just a little bit ugly!" Wang Zhe shook his head.
He wasn't really afraid at that time. He drew the sword almost subconsciously. After long practice, it had become instinctive, and he killed him with one strike.
"We have been with our colleagues for so many years, so we can't just ignore them, right?" Lao Hou said.
After all, they are colleagues who have been together for two years, and they still have some feelings for each other.
"How about we go to that mountain village and ask the villagers?" Wang Zhe said.
He knew that the "ghost-faced badger" had been killed and its body should still be in the forest. He could just go and get it back now.
"Okay, let's go." The two of them went back to the Yamen and said before going to the mountain village.
After all this trouble, it was already afternoon when the two of them arrived at the mountain village.
"The monster that eats corpses, you should be talking about the ghost-faced badger." After listening to the two people's words, the village leader seemed to have remembered something terrible, with a look of horror on his face.
"That is a monster that feeds on corpses. It not only eats corpses, but also eats people. It is said that it is as fast as a gust of wind in the mountains and forests, and it looks like a ghost. If you see it, you will be scared out of your soul. If you are caught or...
If bitten, the body will be black and blue and the orifices will bleed to death."
"Yes, yes, yes, that's it!" Lao Hou on the side nodded.
"It sounds so scary. Why did he die with just one stab? Could it be that the person I killed was just a minor?" Wang Zhe was a little confused in his heart.
"Then how to catch it?"
After hearing what Lao Hou and others wanted, Li Zheng said that he would let the villagers help.
After all, they were afraid of such a monster on the mountain. In recent years, several people had disappeared inexplicably on the mountain. They thought they were eaten by wolves, but now they thought they might 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 and decided to go to the mountains to take a look before it got dark. Zheng Zheng found a few relatively strong men to follow them, holding torches and sticks in their hands.
After going up the mountain and behind the mountain, Wang Zhe quickly found the body of the "ghost-faced badger" by following the blood stains in the grass in the mountain.
It's just that the corpse is completely mutilated, and the flesh and blood on it has been eaten away by something.
"This, is this what happened?" Lao Hou was stunned when he saw this!
Wang Zhe hurriedly used the "Qi Watching Technique" to look at the cave in the mountain forest, and saw that the black air coming 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 blood between the eyebrows of the people who went up the mountain with them, and there was blood in the white air above their heads.
"Anyway, they can be saved, let's go back quickly?" Lao Hou said.
He felt that the forest was so eerie and hairy all over his body that he didn't want to stay here for a moment.
Returning to the mountain village, Wang Zhe found that there were other people in the village with blood on their heads, which was not a good sign.
He inquired around and found out that those people were not a family.
"Could something happen to this mountain village? Plague, earthquake, banditry, or is it related to the black air he saw in the back mountain?" Wang Zhe thought of the black air he saw in the cave behind the mountain.
Wang Zhe couldn't be sure, but he still found Li Zheng in the village and gave him a special reminder. He reminded him to be more vigilant recently and report anything suspicious to the official in time.
"Hasn't the tomb robber been caught already?" Li Zheng was very confused after hearing Wang Zhe's words.
"There may not be only one kind of mountain spirit. There may be others in the mountain."
Then the two men took the mutilated body of the "ghost-faced badger" back to the county town. It was already dark when they returned, and they were able to enter the city only after their identities were revealed.
They first went to the doctor, took out the teeth of the "ghost-faced badger" and ground them into powder. They then went to the policeman's home nearest to the medical center and gave him some warm water.
After a while, the detective began to vomit, and the vomited stuff was extremely fishy, and the whole room was filled with a pungent smell.
After about a stick of incense had passed, Wang Zhe used the "qi-gazing technique" to see that most of the ominous black and blue color on his face had dissipated, and he looked like he was no longer in danger. Then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"It seems that the doctor's method is really effective!"