"impossible?
Dou Sprout looked panicked at this time and shouted: "How could this happen! Who the hell did this!"
Looking around with his head squinted, he turned to me and asked: "Yunfeng, when you were burying the soil, did you see any suspicious people?"
"No! Except...except for the farmer!"
"Something's wrong...if the farmer found something, then there's no need to dig him out, right?"
Just one night later, not only was the old woman Xu Zhaodi's body gone, but Yang Jun's body was also gone! There was only a big empty pottery jar left in the pit!
"Come here and take a look!" At this time, Brother Yu's voice came from the front.
We hurried over and Brother Yu pointed to the ground.
It rained in the mountains the day before yesterday. Since it is close to the woods and the sunlight is not strong, the ground here is still a little wet. We can clearly see that there are traces of something dragging on the ground.
There was also a row of strange footprints on the ground, which seemed to be human footprints, but after looking closer, I felt it didn't look like it, because the footprints were too wide. Without shoes, they might have been more than 20 centimeters wide!
Xiaoxuan asked doubtfully: "Last night, could a wild dog or bear from the mountains come over and drag the body away and eat it?"
I shook my head: "It's impossible for wild dogs. How can wild dogs have such big feet? As for wild bears, it's impossible! For hundreds of years, there have been no bears near Xisai Mountain!"
With his head and brows furrowed, he squatted on the ground and stared blankly at the strange footprints.
I asked the chief what he had found.
Still raising his head knowingly, he frowned and said: "It's not a dog, it's not a human, it's not a bear. This should be done by a badger with human feet."
"What is a human-footed badger? Is it a wild badger??" Dou Sprout asked curiously.
He stood up and said: "It is a rare animal that likes to make its nest in ancient tombs. I have seen this thing in a tomb before. Some badgers have lived in tombs for a long time and will learn to imitate people. They look like they are walking upright. They eat rats, poisonous snakes and other things in the tomb. If it is a new tomb, they may also open the coffin and eat the dead person."
"It's very abnormal. The human-footed badger is a burrowing animal. Although it is very ferocious, this thing is usually timid and rarely comes out to look for food so arrogantly. Something must have attracted it here."
After listening to what Tou said, I frowned and thought for a while, then asked: "Tou, could it be the smell in the big tank that attracted the human-footed badger here?"
He nodded: "It's possible. The top priority now is to find the body. Even if it was disemboweled, we still have to find it!"
I understand what it means.
There are two reasons. One is that he agreed to the old woman's last wish, which was out of love.
Second, there are many farmers in the mountains during the day. It would be a bad thing if these people saw the body. This is reasonable, so we must try our best to look for it regardless of circumstances or reasons.
Folks say that it is a taboo for corpses to be damaged before the first seven days if they are not buried properly. In the past, people who were beheaded had to ask someone to perform rituals before they dared to enter the coffin before being buried. Otherwise, it would easily lead to disaster.
As for what exactly this "disaster" is, everyone agrees.
at this time,
Suddenly, the black cat emerged from the woods.
It meows at us! The tail keeps wagging, I don’t know what it means.
Xiaoxuan squatted down and said, "You mean, you want to take us to find it?"
The black cat turned around and headed towards the woods, and we followed closely behind the black cat.
It was still just seven o'clock in the morning. When a group of us walked deep into the woods, there was a light mist around us.
Brother Yu walked in front with a mountain knife in his hand. If he saw a badger with human legs, Brother Yu would definitely be the first one to get in.
We followed the black cat around and around, and the deeper we went, the more remote we became. In the end, there was no path under our feet, and we were surrounded by all kinds of wild plants.
Finally, we came to an earth bag. There was a large earth hole directly under the earth bag, which was bottomless. Around the earth hole, Xiaoxuan discovered that the clothes worn by the old woman were in tatters.
The black cat kept barking at the hole.
"Boss, this seems to be an ancient tomb. Look! This layer of soil has been tamped!"
"Fengzi, when was this ancient tomb built?" Douyazai asked.
I walked around the bag and said, "It's from the Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty."
Obviously, the human-footed badger regards this ancient tomb as his home. It seems that the old woman and Yang Jun were dragged into the ancient tomb by this beast!
I have never seen this kind of animal before. I told you that this thing hides during the day and comes out at night. Although it is timid, it is very fierce and eats people!
Now I don’t know what’s going on underneath, so I don’t dare to get in rashly! But Dou Sprout thought of a way. He said he would light a fire at the entrance of the cave and use thick smoke to smoke this thing out!
We started as we were told, and found a pile of dry firewood and a pile of wet firewood, and we lit a fire.
After a while, thick smoke billowed out.
Dou Sprout took off his coat and fanned into the cave vigorously. He choked on the smoke and coughed. I took a stick, and Brother Yu held a machete in his hand. I watched nervously.
The fire burned for about seven or eight minutes. Suddenly, bursts of children crying came from the cave, which made people feel numb!
There was an ancient tomb from the Song Dynasty underneath, and there could not be any children. They told me that this was the sound of a badger with human feet.
Another minute passed, and suddenly, an animal the size of a goat swooped out!
"It's smoked out!"
Dou Sprout shouted, Brother Yu and I attacked this thing at the same time!
With my quick eyesight and quick hands, I picked up a stick and hit this beast on the head! Brother Yu also slashed the thing in the belly.
The thing screamed, the scream was sharp, and it sounded exactly like a child.
Brother Yu stepped forward and made two more cuts. The thing gradually stopped screaming, struggled for a while and then died.
"Boss, is this a badger with human legs? Why does it look so weird!"
I saw that this thing had a long pig nose, exposed teeth, and big eyes! It has a body shape like a goat, with brown hair all over its body. It weighs fifty or sixty pounds according to visual estimates. The nails on its limbs are very long and sharp, at least ten centimeters long!
This thing is definitely not a wild boar! Where do wild boars have such long nails? Anyway, this is my first time seeing this thing.
Tell me about the head, this is the human-footed badger, which is almost extinct now. In the past, it could only be seen in old tombs in the mountains of Liaoning.
Dou Sprouts proposed to burn the badger with human feet. He shook his head and objected: "It would be a pity to burn it. You are young and have little experience. You don't understand. This beast is full of treasures."
The head explained: "For example, if the blood of this thing is applied to the human body, the poisonous snakes and insects will not dare to come close. My master told me before that the meat of this thing can be eaten, it is a great tonic, and it can be used for refining." Oil can cure stomach problems, as well as enteritis and diarrhea. Yunfeng, haven't you had a bad stomach recently? You can try it after you go back."
I frowned and said, "Boss, I've never seen this thing before! Can it be eaten? Have you ever eaten it?"
He shook his head and said: "I haven't eaten it, but these are what my master Wang Pingling told me personally, so they should be true."
At the leader's request, we tied up the human-footed badger's limbs and put them on sticks, and put them aside, ready to be carried back to the camp later.
Then, I put on a headlamp, climbed down the earth hole, and got into the ancient tomb.
