I wanted to go to Qipan Village, which is hundreds of kilometers away. I couldn’t bring a hearse there. If there were another casualty here in the city and I was in a hurry, it would delay things. So I called Xie Xin’an.
But I didn't tell her that I was going to Qipan Village to catch monsters. I just said that I was out on business and asked Xie Xin'an if she could lead the team for me. In the past few times, she was the hearse driver for me.
Although Xie Xin'an warned me not to provoke monsters, and Bai Sha is still Xie Xin'an's person, the person who promised to catch the monster was also Bai Sha, and she also said she would help me catch the monster, so I have a reason
I believe that at this point, Bai Sha and Xie Xin'an are not in the same group, and I am not afraid of her snitching.
Sure enough, Xie Xin'an said yes, and casually asked me what I was going to do. I said it was about decoration, so she didn't ask any more questions.
However, within half a minute, Alpha's co-pilot Bai Sha received a call from Xie Xin'an. Bai Sha agreed with me and said she would be busy with renovations in the evening, so she put her off - in fact, I hoped Xie Xin'an could expose it.
My little trick is to drag me back. Wouldn’t it be nice to be a hearse driver? I have to catch the monster. What if the monster catches me? It doesn’t matter if I catch it. What if the monster catches me?
How can I be cured by skinning my skin and gouging out my heart and turning me into a "hairless ghost"?
But it doesn't seem like anything. Now that I have become me, I am about to join the Yinza team openly, but the process may be a bit painful.
Thinking randomly, Baisha and I sent Elfa back to the funeral home, leaving the key in the duty room. She didn't have a car, and I didn't have a second car. Fortunately, the Cadillac had not been processed by the funeral home and was parked in the parking lot.
In the corner, many leaves have fallen.
After starting it up, it hasn't been started for a few days, and it's still the same. The sound is like a tractor. Although the old scalper is meat, it is more stable and will not put out the fire easily.
Baisha and I drove the Cadillac back to the city. On the way, I asked Baisha if I wanted to prepare some tools for catching monsters, such as ropes, fishing nets, etc. Baisha said it didn't matter and let me figure it out.
I think it is still necessary. Even if Bai Sha subdues the big fox, what will happen next? Doesn’t it still have to be tied up?
So, I went to the labor insurance store and bought a bundle of ropes that I thought was suitable in thickness. I also bought a scaffolding protective net, which is the kind of white rope net that is pulled between the scaffoldings to prevent workers from slipping and falling to death. It looks very good.
Solid look.
As for weapons, I have no room for consideration. I can't buy any powerful weapons legally in the city. I can't carry two kitchen knives to chop down foxes, right? I'd better go over there and borrow the patrol gun.
When I came out of the patrol room, Fangyuan told me that Liu Feng was over there.
The Cadillac can't run fast, and it was still early, so I didn't rush to drive. It took nearly two hours on the road. At 4:30 in the afternoon, I arrived at the town where Qipan Village is located. I called Liu Feng. He was visiting the village to investigate and asked about the bird.
To some extent, the villagers have heard about the demon thing. I asked if there was a restaurant in the village, and Liu Feng said no. All they had for the past two days was takeaway, delivered from the town.
Then I didn’t bother myself, and went straight to a relatively clean shop with Baisha in the town, and ordered two Yangjie dishes. I thought Baisha’s food was quite delicious.
After dinner, I went to the supermarket to buy enough dry food, water, and refreshing Red Bull drinks, and drove off the provincial highway to Qipan Village.
Most of the patrols were withdrawn, leaving only Liu Feng and seven or eight people staying here, and they were all wearing casual clothes. They might be afraid that the fox demon would attack their uniforms. When Liu Feng was asked about the situation in the village, there were less than a hundred people in total.
There are only about twenty people in their village now, and the remaining people have gone to find places to take refuge, for fear that the fox demon will attack again at night and take away their lives.
I listened to the information about fox demons that Liu Feng collected from the common people. It was fragmented and unsystematic, and felt of little value. After the report, Liu Feng asked me how I planned to catch the demons.
"I thought about it on the way. The demon is an animal after all. Let's use a strategy and set up a trap to catch it." After I finished speaking, I looked at Baisha. She didn't respond. She was carrying one from the supermarket in the town.
I bought a lollipop and ate it with gusto.
"Dig a hole?" Liu Feng asked, and I nodded.
"How big of a hole do you have to dig? You can't dig it all in a while!" Liu Feng frowned. He must have watched the video and knew the size of the fox demon.
I have experience in digging pits. I just dug one for Li Xiaotao two days ago. But if you want to trap the fox demon, ordinary small pits will definitely not work.
"The manpower is definitely not enough, Team Liu, please find a way to bring an excavator over." I said.
"Yes! The excavator is easy to handle!" Liu Feng walked over and made a phone call. I took the opportunity to secretly ask Bai Sha if this idea would work?
"I don't know either, I've never caught a fox demon." Bai Shabo pulled out the lollipop and said innocently, spitting out a strawberry smell.
"Then you still take this job?" I couldn't help but feel a little regretful and said sadly.
"To give you a chestnut," Baisha held up the lollipop and turned the deer into a horse, "The lions in the African prairie must have never caught the stupid roe deer in the Greater Khingan Mountains, right?"
"……yes."
"Then you said that if a lion encounters a silly roe deer, won't he catch it?" Bai Sha sneered and stuffed the lollipop back.
"You mean, in your eyes, the strength of the fox demon is just that of a stupid roe deer?" I smiled bitterly, I've seen stupid roe deer before, it's so stupid. If you stab it with a knife, it will still have to look down. You're in it.
What are you tinkering with?
"Didn't you just say that it is an animal after all?" Bai Sha chuckled and pointed to the vegetable garden of a farmer's house nearby, "Then follow your strategy. Just dig a trap here and make two more.
A chicken is used as bait.”
Do foxes like to eat chickens? Why do I remember that chickens are the weasel’s favorite?
I do know a friend who is a weasel spirit, but I don’t need to catch him. He is helping me guard Li Xiaotao’s body in the graveyard.
Fifteen minutes later, Liu Feng transferred a yellow excavator from the town through various connections. The driver was a graduate of Lan Xiang and had good professional standards. I simply designed a sketch and specified the dimensions of the pit.
The master operated according to the diagram and dug the hole in less than an hour. It was four meters deep, five meters long, five meters wide, and 100 cubic meters. As for why it was this size, because 100 is a whole hundred, which is more auspicious.
After digging the pit, Liu Feng found some thin bamboo poles from the surrounding areas, which were used by farmers to build cucumber stands. One was three meters long, and two poles were connected to form poles. There were eight poles horizontally and vertically on the pit, and he built a tic-tac-toe frame.
I removed a plastic sheet from a greenhouse, covered it, and compacted it on all sides. The plastic sheet was covered with a thin layer of soil. It actually looked fake. You could tell at a glance that there was a trap underneath, but it should be fine at night.
Bait is easy to handle. The farmer next door has a lot of chickens. I caught a few, tied their wings and claws, and put them in a sack next to the pit, ready to wait for the fox demon to appear before releasing the bait.
After setting up these things, it was already dark, and the stars were so dim that they could barely be seen ten meters away. Liu Feng pulled two wires over and set up two stands next to the trap, with a large 200-watt light bulb hanging on each of them.
—This is the brightest light that can be found in the village. I tried it and found that it is enough. The brightness of two lights can cover three or four nearby courtyards.
Wait for the rabbit, wait for the fox.
When everything was ready, Liu Feng turned off the lights, and everyone went up to the roof and looked in the direction of Qipan Mountain.
The Qipan Mountain in the black, a big black mass, stands abruptly on the horizon. At first glance, it looks like a bunker.
"Will it come tonight?" a young patrolman asked me.
"I don't know, it may come, or it may not come. What is supposed to come will definitely come. If it isn't supposed to come, it won't come at dawn." I said some nonsense.
The young patrolman nodded thoughtfully: "Well, that makes sense."
Baisha didn't go to the room, she was in the room below, doing something unknown.
Waiting and waiting until after ten o'clock in the evening, everyone was sleepy and there was no sign of the fox demon.
"Brother, you go down and take a rest, conserve your strength, and let us keep an eye on you." Liu Feng said.
It was true that my eyes hurt from looking into the distance, so I followed the ladder down to the roof and entered the house. Bai Sha was lying on the kang and fell asleep, with her coat scattered on the wall of the kang.
"Hey, why are you sleeping? What should I do if the fox demon comes?" I pushed Bai Sha's shoulder that was exposed outside the quilt.
Baisha opened one eye and said lazily, "What time is it?"
"At half past ten, what time do you think it will come?" I asked, feeling that Bai Sha had a little bit of an idea in her mind.
"It has to be Chenshi no matter what."
"What's the basis?" I asked.
"According to the lunar calendar, the moon will not come out until midnight tonight." After Bai Sha finished speaking, she closed her eyes, turned over and continued to sleep.
I counted on my fingers - it's not the lunar calendar, I don't understand the lunar calendar - Chen hour, that is, after three o'clock, it's still early. Maybe goblins like the moon more, just like humans like the sun. Didn't the ancients have sunrises?
As for the habit of resting every day, demons are relatively backward. In terms of adapting to nature, they are probably much better than modern people.
I was also sleepy, so I took off my shoes and lay on the kang to rest, but I didn't dare to take off my clothes for fear that the fox demon would suddenly appear and I wouldn't have time to react.
I was lying down and just about to fall asleep, when there was a rush of footsteps outside. I immediately stood up and asked outside the window: "Is the fox demon here?"
"No," the voice of the young patrolman on the roof said, "Teacher Wu, someone is looking for you."
"Who is it?"
"There's a little girl in the village. She said she came here to thank you." The young patrolman said, leaning against the window.