In this unknown small mountain village in the Outer Xing'an Mountains, the East Village was attacked by huge strange creatures two months ago. More than 180 people disappeared and their houses were razed to the ground.
Clues found at the scene indicated that the strange creature that committed the murder was a huge snake-like creature.
And now, right in front of Lin Shuo and the others, at the entrance of the West Village, there is actually a big snake entrenched!
Even if it is coiled like this, it is as tall as a two-story building!
Liu Qing, who was born in the Chinese Special Forces Sniper Brigade, while her pupils shrank violently, one hand was already inserted into the backpack behind her backhand.
Hidden in the backpack was a Colt M2000 pistol with fifteen rounds of ammunition.
This was the only weapon the four of them brought down the mountain. It was originally just in case, and it was not so convenient to hide it.
But Liu Qing touched this gun immediately, with such a big target, Liu Qing was sure that she could hit the right shot.
But Liu Qing had already touched the gun, but Liu Qing couldn't pull it back.
Because Lin Shuo reached out his hand like lightning and grabbed her wrist.
Liu Qing struggled subconsciously, but did not break free.
"What are you doing?" Liu Qing looked at Lin Shuo.
"What are you doing?" Lin Shuo raised his eyelids and looked at her, asking back.
"Snake!" Liu Qing said in amazement.
"Look carefully." Lin Shuo said lightly.
Seeing Lin Shuo's expression as calm as water, Liu Qing also calmed down, and carefully looked at the big snake more than 200 meters away in front of him.
"Why is it motionless?" Liu Qing also began to feel that something was wrong.
"Deputy Captain Liu." Yang Tuo adjusted his glasses and sighed, "Which snake have you ever seen, the structure of the snake's skin is the same as that of a tree bark, with lumps."
"That's the bark." Lin Shuo said, "It's fake."
Liu Qing's tense muscles finally relaxed, and she could see clearly.
That is a fake snake, just like the Chinese dragon dance, the difference is that the Chinese paper dragon dance uses paper, but this snake uses tree bark.
But it does look like it, from a distance, it looks like the real thing.
"People in this village, why do you have nothing to do with putting a fake snake at the entrance of the village?" Liu Qing couldn't help but scolded, "It's scary to death."
"I was attacked by a snake just now, and I put a snake at the entrance of the village." Yang Tuo was also puzzled, "What kind of logic is this?"
Lin Shuo let go of Liu Qing's wrist, and said, "Go in and ask, will you know?"
…
The village looked quiet from a distance, but when the four of Lin Shuo entered, they found it quite lively.
This kind of bustle is not noisy, but the kind of constant busyness. All the households were busy coming in and out, as if they were discussing something.
A pig cry broke the busy silence.
In the third courtyard that Lin Shuo and the others passed by, a pig was being slaughtered.
Five young and strong men held down the struggling big white pig on the chopping board.
An old man in his early sixties walked out the door of the main house with his hands behind his back, glanced at the scene inside and outside the yard, and ignored the killing of pigs in the yard.
He carried a bamboo chair to the gate of the courtyard, took off the tobacco rod pinned to his waist, struck a match and lit it, sat down and smoked, squinted his eyes, and began to look up and down at Lin Shuosi standing outside the courtyard gate people.
"Hi, sir." Anne greeted quickly.
"Where did you come from?" the old man asked after taking a few puffs of cigarettes.
It is only 20 kilometers away from Heilongjiang, and the local dialect is still the Northeast Chinese dialect.
Anne sneered at the Beijing film: "We are climbers from China, don't we get lost here? Can I ask you a question?"
"Hey, you came from the other side of the river. Then you have pretty good feet." The old man boasted, and then asked, "Forty miles to the southeast, there is a small town called Jialinda by the Heilongjiang River. Where did you come from?" Bar?"
"Yes." Anne nodded.
"Spent the night on the mountain?"
"Um."
"Look at you people with thin skin and tender flesh, you can endure hardships. Going north from here, there is a village that is bigger than this one. But it is more than forty miles away from here, and you can't walk in one breath."
Just as he was talking, the pigs in the yard screamed louder and louder. The old man glanced at the yard, his face froze.
The big white pig had escaped from the crowd and ran wildly in the yard.
The five men chased from behind and blocked from the front, making a mess.
The old man knocked on the cigarette bag and pot by the door, and cursed: "A bunch of stupid roe deer, they can't even kill a pig."
While cursing, the big white pig seemed to have finally found the exit, turned its head and rushed towards the gate of the courtyard.
The size of this pig is like a small tank, and it weighs about four hundred catties. When it changed direction, the men in the yard panicked:
"Grandpa be careful!"
"Father! Get out of the way!"
The juniors were anxious, but the old man looked calm.
There is no special butcher in the village, and whenever the village does slaughtering pigs, he, an old hunter, is usually invited to be the butcher.
In this life, he has sent away hundreds of pigs, big and small.
Unexpectedly, this time, retribution came.
The pig rushed over like this, the old man lost his mind, and it was too late to hide.
Just as the old man was in a daze, among the four people around him, a tall and thin young man took a diagonal step and stood in front of the old man.
And the big white pig in the yard, when it was about two meters away from the gate of the yard, braked suddenly and came to a stop.
The pig looked up at the young man, and then began to tremble all over. After a while, it was like sifting chaff.
The young man took a small step forward, and the pig suddenly became incontinent with feces and urine, and its limbs limp and fell to the ground.
Everyone in the yard was stunned.
"What are you still doing in a daze? Tie it up!" The old man yelled, and the men in the yard came to their senses, rushed forward and tied up the pig.
Lin Shuo saw that the pig had been tied up, and slowly turned around and exited the yard.
The old man looked at Lin Shuo with squinted eyes, hesitated to speak, and thought for a while before saying, "Boy, you four should stay and eat."
"Oh, how embarrassing that is." Anne answered.
The old man didn't look at Anne, but just stared at Lin Shuo.
Lin Shuo's mouth twitched, revealing an extremely forced smile: "I eat more than ordinary people."
The old man nodded: "I'm full here."
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On this day, the four of them ate two solid meals of pig-killing dishes at the old man's house.
The pigs here are not like the lean pigs in the city, they are big and fat, and every part is full of oil and water.
In Lin Shuo's eyes, the old man's family is not very good at butchering pigs, but they are very good at making pigs. Especially the hanging lanterns, that is, the pigs into the water, are done with gusto.
For these two meals, Lin Shuo ate comfortably. But he didn't eat it openly. After all, in this kind of village, it's not easy for people to kill a pig.
The enthusiasm of the old man is just like their homemade knives, which don't burn their mouths or burn their hearts.
After two meals, the old man and Lin Shuo had already talked about everything.
Especially Anne, this woman is not only beautiful, but also has a sweet mouth. She obviously didn't tell the truth, but she coaxed the old man's family into high spirits.
In her mouth, she, Lin Shuo, Liu Qing, and Yang Tuo are a young couple who graduated from prestigious universities in China and came here for hiking.
In order to cover up what happened to Lin Shuo this morning, she even made up the identity of a three-generation butcher for Lin Shuo, causing Lin Shuo to stare blankly.
After dinner, everyone was full of wine and food, Yang Tuo and Liu Qing said they were going outside for a walk to refresh themselves, but they actually went to other people's houses to find out information.
Lin Shuo and Anne stayed and chatted with the old man.
"Old man." Anne felt that the fire was almost ready, and asked casually, "When we entered the village this morning, what happened to that snake! It scared me to death!"
"Hey, girl, don't be afraid." The old man smiled, "That's the Black Water Dragon King, protect us."
"Oh?" Anne asked, "What is the Black Water Dragon King? Is it a god?"
The old man nodded: "It's normal that you outsiders don't know. This Black Water Dragon King is our patron saint with a radius of four to five hundred miles."
"Is this Black Water Dragon King a big snake, as big as the fake snake at the entrance of the village?" Anne asked again.
"Hey. The snake statue at the entrance of the village can't compare with the Black Water Dragon King. We can ask for a three-pointer at most." The old man's voice slowly sank. Slightly."
"It sounds like you've seen it before."
"That's right." The old man nodded and said, "I did see it with my own eyes when I was young."
"Really? You actually saw it with your own eyes?" Anne and Lin Shuo looked at each other and asked immediately.
"Isn't it?" The old man lit up the pipe, "I was about seven or eight years old at that time, and I was ignorant, and I lost my way while running around on the mountain. As a result, the old man appeared in front of me. Oops, put me I was so scared, I peed my pants and passed out."
Speaking of this, the old man smiled: "Hey, don't laugh at me for being worthless at the time. It really looks too scary. It's so big! The snake statue at the entrance of our village is like a small loach compared to it. It The head is about the size of a house, and the body is like a train. Not to mention that I was a child at the time, even you four boys and girls, when you see this old man, you have to feel sorry for yourself."
"If it's that big, of course it's scary." Anne answered, and then asked, "Then what happened next?"
"Then the next morning, I was woken up by my father at the entrance of the village, and I didn't have any injuries." The old man said, "At that time, an old man in the village said that it was the Black Water Dragon King. I sent it back."
After saying this, the old man looked out the window with a bit of regret on his face: "I have been hunting all my life, and I have suffered a lot of injustice. After I grew up and went to the mountains, I will never have the good fortune to see this old man again."
"Listen to you, this Black Water Dragon King is helping people?" Anne asked intently.
"That's right, bless us!"
"Grandpa, let me ask you something."
"What's the matter?"
"What happened to the ruins across the river?"