Behind the bushes, there is a relatively steep slope, and there is an obvious dirt hole under the slope. The three people walked down the slope and came to the dirt pit.
I first reviewed the surrounding environment, assuming that this is the ruins of the ancient castle, but found that this place is too small.
Looking up to the mountain, if the old castle was built on top, and natural disasters such as landslides or landslides were encountered after the fire, it would be very possible to "rush" the pillars here.
I used a machete to dig into the bottom of the pit, and there was some sand and gravel below the bottom of the pit, and nothing similar to construction stones was found.
Zhao Guang said: "This will not be the site of an ancient castle, because this place is too small."
Xue Xiaomei asked: "Then where do you think the ruins of the ancient castle will be?"
"If there really was a castle here, it should have been on it. But after so many years, it would be difficult to find the original site."
Xue Xiaomei looked around and said, "We are mainly here to find someone."
Zhao Guang suggested, "Then we'd better go down the mountain to find the primitive tribes mentioned by Mr. Du, and find the primitive tribes. Whether you are looking for people or the ruins of the ancient castle, you will get some clues."
I pondered for a moment, and said, "Okay. Then let's go down the mountain first."
The three set out to walk down the mountain. We also made some marks along the way so that we could recognize the way when we returned again. Thailand has a standard tropical monsoon climate. Especially in August and September, it is also regarded as the month with the largest rainfall in Thailand's rainy season.
The weather was still clear just now, and in a blink of an eye there was a hazy drizzle.
We put on our raincoats and drove down the mountain. When the sky was about to darken, we finally reached the foot of the mountain.
Looking at the rain forest all around, there is fog everywhere, and I can't tell if it's fog or water. To be safe, I decided to camp and stay on the road after dawn.
So we set up two tents between the two big trees. After simply eating something, we started to make the itinerary for the next day.
After drawing up the itinerary, it was more than ten o'clock in the evening. Xue Xiaomei returned to her tent, and Zhao Guang and I fell asleep.
Half asleep and half awake, I was awakened by a burst of abnormal noises. I opened my eyes and saw that Zhao Kuo was poking his head out of the tent. He saw me sitting up.
Immediately signaled me not to speak out.
I cautiously leaned over and looked out with him. The sound of rustling rain came from all directions, and I looked around in darkness. I whispered, "What's out there?"
Zhao Guang said: "It's like some kind of beast, the size of a horse. But I didn't see it clearly, it was just behind that tree."
Following Zhao Guang's direction, there is indeed a thick tree in the dark place where he can see.
I held my breath and held the machete. After watching for a long time, I could see what was going on. I said, "You can't read it wrong. Wild beasts like lions and tigers are not as big as you said."
"No, that thing passed by the tent just now. I saw it through the tent. Look at the footprints on the ground."
In the mud of the grass, there were indeed a few footprints, the footprints were as big as a palm, and there were five toes. The footprints left are a bit like dogs or wolves, but they are much larger than the footprints of dogs and wolves, and the span between the two footprints is also very large, indicating that the thing is indeed not small.
At this time, Xue Xiaomei also poked her head out of the tent and asked in surprise: "What happened?"
We hurriedly signaled her not to say anything, and asked her to come over quickly. Three people crowded in a tent, and I said, "There are beasts."
Xue Xiaomei immediately became nervous. I showed her the footprints in the grass. Xue Xiaomei took a knife and touched it out. After observing for a while, she said, "It looks like some kind of canine." She looked around for a week and said: " We better climb up the tree to hide."
Xue Xiaomei’s suggestion was immediately adopted by Zhao Guang and I, so we simply packed our luggage and climbed up a big tree.
When I got to the tree, I felt more at ease and started riding on the tree trunk to shine in the dark with a flashlight.
Suddenly, there were several roars of "Yeah" deep in the jungle. The sound was as loud as playing a flute, but the sound seemed to be a bit like a donkey.
But the cry of the donkey would never be so fierce. What's more, how can there be a donkey in this mysterious jungle
The three of us all got up from the trunk and flashed our flashlights in the direction where the sound was made. After a while, the sound of the branches being broken was heard deep in the jungle, and the movement was beyond imagination.
In an instant, I thought of many legends about strange creatures. Could it be that we are about to meet a kind of never
Have you seen the creature
Just in the midst of our doubts, a donkey-like beast has come under the tree with a hare still in its mouth.
We hurriedly turned off the flashlight and held our breath.
The beast is about two meters long and more than 1.5 meters tall. Its size is twice as big as the wolf's foot I encountered in the Lop Nur desert. It has four strong and strong legs, and it has five sharp grippers on its feet. Its tail is thick. It's long, its head is like a donkey, but its body is like a gray wolf, just like a gray wolf with its head cut off and replaced with a donkey's head.
Looks nondescript!
We couldn't help taking a breath, what kind of monster is this? With the hare in its mouth, the wild beast turned around the tree twice, then looked up at us, then started to circle around the two tents, and finally put the "donkey's head" into the tent to take a look.
During the whole process, the beast was very quiet. After it turned the tent, it went under the tree and grabbed it twice on the trunk with its two front paws. It seemed to be tentative, can it climb up.
The scared hearts of the three of us were about to jump out, the atmosphere did not dare to breathe, and I don’t know how long it took. The unheard and unseen beast chose to leave our camp after looking at us for the last time. .
It walked into the jungle next to it, and when it passed a few trees, it suddenly speeded up and ran. The sound of its body passing by the trees seemed particularly harsh in the rainy night.
It wasn't until the beast disappeared that I let out a long sigh of relief, and I asked Zhao Guang, "What was that thing just now?"
"It's Shaya, also called donkey-head wolf. Shaya is neither a donkey, nor a wolf, nor is it a hybrid of the two. However, it is said that this creature is extinct."
Xue Xiaomei immediately said: "I have also heard of the donkey-head wolf. Legend has it that the donkey-head wolf is a monster with a wolf-head and a carnivore. In the 1960s, in the Shennongjia area of China, there were many People claim to have seen it, and many biologists believe that the donkey-headed wolf is a prehistoric animal sand, mainly living on the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa between 4.5 to 7 million years ago."
I said in amazement: "It's incredible, we will encounter this kind of prehistoric monster."
To paraphrase the Northeast folk sentence: In the mountains and forests, there are all kinds of things!
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