Walking five or six meters away from the other party, Wu Dongfang stopped and looked at the old man up and down. There was indeed a long tail hanging down behind the old man's buttocks. It was yellow and fluffy. This kind of tail usually belongs to weasels, foxes, squirrels and the like. animal.
Animals that become spirits and can transform into humans can be called monsters. Wu Dongfang looked at this monster with interest. It was already dawn, and he felt no fear, only curiosity.
"Do you still remember me?" The old man blew his beard and glared.
"Oh, you can talk." Wu Dongfang smiled.
"Of course I can speak," the old man said.
Wu Dongfang smiled and walked towards the old man. When he got close to him, he tilted his head and looked behind him.
"What are you looking at!" The old man turned around to prevent him from looking. When he turned around, his tail was gone. If he looked carefully, his crotch was torn.
"Where's your tail?" Wu Dongfang asked with a smile.
"What tail? How could I show my tail?" The old man tilted his neck and groaned.
The old man tilted his neck, and Wu Dongfang smelled a strong smell of alcohol. The guy's face was red and he was talking garbled. He was probably drunk.
"It turns out you are a fox." Wu Dongfang said.
"What's wrong?" The old man glared again.
"It's nothing, I just don't understand why you stopped me, and I didn't offend you." Wu Dongfang looked at the old man carefully as he spoke. Although the old man was transformed into a fox, he did not retain the characteristics of a fox. The tail that was exposed just now Doesn’t count.
"You're offended!" The old man poked the ground with his walking stick.
"Hahahaha, I don't know you at all, how can I offend you?" Wu Dongfang asked with a smile. Although he had seen monsters before, he had never had a conversation with them. He just took this opportunity to understand the temperament of this kind of thing.
"You killed my wife, and I will avenge her today!" The old man began to spin around in circles, tapping the ground with his cane as he turned, looking very angry.
Before Wu Dongfang had time to answer, a wretched-looking young man emerged from the grass on the side of the road. At first glance, this man looked like a fox, with his waist hunched over and a beard on his mouth.
"My dad is drunk, don't be the same as him." The young man bowed his hands to Wu Dongfang, then pulled the old man and walked into the grass.
"Don't pull me, I want to avenge your mother." The old man shouted loudly.
"Dad, you got the wrong person." The young man transformed from the fox tried hard to drag the old fox into the grass.
"I'm not wrong, I know that Tuomu bow." The old fox tried to break away from his son's drag.
"Wait a minute." Wu Dongfang said.
When the little fox saw Wu Dongfang asking them to wait, he stopped nervously, glanced at Wu Dongfang timidly, and then looked at the bow and arrow carried by Wu Dongfang on his shoulder.
"I know you are foxes, but I won't hurt you." Wu Dongfang said.
The little fox nodded repeatedly, "Thank you, thank you."
"He killed your mother, and you still said thank you to him, you are an unfilial son, you are an unfilial son." The old fox waved his crutch to hit his son.
"This bow and arrow are not mine. The owner of the bow and arrow exchanged the bow, arrow and waist knife for my wine." Wu Dongfang said.
When the old fox heard this, he stopped and turned his head. At this time, he seemed to be drunk and his eyes were red.
"That hunter lives in Hexi, right?" Wu Dongfang said.
The old fox shook off the little fox's pull, walked back and looked Wu Dongfang up and down, then turned to look at his son, "The person who killed your mother doesn't seem to be that tall."
"Dad, you're drunk again." The little fox said.
The old fox turned to look at Wu Dongfang again, "Did you trade for the bow and arrow?"
"Yes." Wu Dongfang nodded.
"Give me the bow and arrows." The old fox stretched out his hand.
"Dad!" Seeing that the old fox asked Wu Dongfang for a bow and arrow, the little fox hurried over to pull it.
"I have to burn it, otherwise your mother will not be able to rest in peace." The old fox shouted.
The little fox shook his head helplessly, sighed, picked up the old fox, and hurried south. The old fox shouted loudly on the shoulder of the little fox, and hit the little fox on the back with a stick. It broke free before going far, turned around and ran back.
The little fox had no choice but to let out a sharp cry. After the cry, the grass in the distance rippled. Through the ripples in the grass, it could be seen that several animals were running quickly under the grass.
Soon, several young women in common clothes stood up straight from the grass, walked over and dragged the old fox back together with the young man who had transformed into the little fox.
"I'm going to burn that bow, I'm going to burn that bow..." the old fox kept shouting.
Several young people who transformed into foxes dragged it into the grass. One of the older women turned around and walked back, hesitantly and tremblingly.
Not all fox-transformed women are beautiful. This fox-transformed woman is not beautiful. She has high cheekbones, a short stature, ragged clothes, and very long body hair can be seen on her arms that are not covered by clothes.
When she was more than ten steps away from Wu Dongfang, the fox girl stopped, imitated a human and bent towards him, then timidly said, "Can you give us your bow and arrows?"
"What do you have?" Wu Dongfang asked. This was not the first time he had come into contact with monsters, but it was the first time he had communicated with monsters. He was very curious about monsters and did not want to keep them away from them.
"I have a few shells and some other things." said the fox girl.
"I have the shells, what are the other things?" Wu Dongfang asked.
The fox girl thought for a moment and pointed to the abandoned village to the west. "Our things are stored there. If you are not afraid, you can go and take a look."
"Don't tell me it's daytime, I'm not afraid even at night." Wu Dongfang stepped into the grass.
The fox girl led the way, looking back nervously from time to time. Upon seeing this, Wu Dongfang knew that the other party was afraid that he would suddenly release an arrow, so he walked a few steps quickly and walked alongside it, "You don't live here, do you?"
"How do you know?" Fox Girl looked at Wu Dongfang in confusion.
"I exchanged this bow and arrow with someone in the mountains on the other side of the river." Wu Dongfang said.
The fox girl nodded, "We originally lived in the woods west of the river, but then we moved to the east of the river when we couldn't live any longer."
"How long have you been here?" Wu Dongfang asked.
The fox girl looked at him suspiciously again, suspicious, suspicious, the fox was particularly suspicious.
Although she was suspicious, the fox girl still answered his question, "It has been more than ten years since I crossed the river, and it has been seven or eight years since I came here."
"How did you cross the river back then?" Wu Dongfang asked again. This fox girl didn't speak very fluently, maybe because she didn't communicate with people often. In addition, she had a faint fox smell on her body, which was a bit strange but not difficult. smell.
"Come over the ice when it freezes," said the fox girl.
Wu Dongfang nodded. In such a fast river, no matter how good the water quality is, animals, let alone foxes, would not dare to go into the water.
At this time, the other foxes had already carried the old fox back, and walked three or four miles south to the vicinity of the village. The village was surrounded by very flat meadows, which should have been fields before they were abandoned. To the south of the village there was a It is a very large pool, covering more than ten acres. The water in the pool is blue, indicating that the water in the pool is very deep.
Coming closer, Wu Dongfang found that this small village was more complete than he expected. Most of the houses had not collapsed, and the doors and courtyard walls were also open.
The old fox was sent to a house in the west, and the fox girl took Wu Dongfang to a house in the north. The front of the house and the yard were covered with weeds, and there were no traces of walking or stepping on them.
When they arrived at the door, the fox girl walked in first, moved the grass and walked into the house. Wu Dongfang did not follow immediately because he saw a corner of the coffin exposed in the back room.
"No one has been here for a long time. How did you get the things in?" Wu Dongfang asked.
The fox girl turned around and replied, "We won't leave."
Wu Dongfang thought for a while and followed him in. When he walked to the middle of the yard, the fox girl had already entered the house. When he entered the house, the fox girl had opened the coffin. There was no body in the coffin, but a pile of mess. s things.
Wu Dongfang did not rush over to check the contents of the coffin, but looked at the room first. The living utensils in the room had been moved away, making it look very empty, but the heavier things were all there, indicating that the owner had left the same place when he left. Rather hurried.
"Did you scare away the people here?" Wu Dongfang asked.
"No, there was no one here when we came here." The fox girl started to take things out. Her action of taking things was very similar to a canine's pulling, but the difference was that she could grasp it.
"Why did you move to the east bank of the river?" Wu Dongfang looked at the things that the fox girl had dug out, including tattered clothes and quilts, nothing decent.
"Hunters are always chasing us." The fox girl took out a bronze object. Wu Dongfang took a look and found that it was a crane-shaped candlestick. Seeing him shake her head, the fox girl put down the candlestick and continued flipping through it.
"You can move to the mountains, why do you have to move so far?" Wu Dongfang asked again. Most of the things in the coffin were burial objects, and they should have been dug out of the grave by these foxes.
"There is a raccoon living in the deep mountains, which is more terrifying than the hunter." The fox girl took out another little beauty.
Wu Dongfang shook his head, "What is Fengli?"
"Fengli is Fengli." The fox girl took out another wooden box. This should be the jewelry box of the dead woman. Wu Dongfang shook his head again. At this time, he didn't recognize many animals, and the Fengli was among them. one.
At this time, two women and a man walked in from the door. The man was the ugly-looking little fox from before. The two women were even uglier. In fact, it can't be said that they were ugly. It should be said that they were not good enough and had not changed for the better.
After the three "people" entered the door, they chatted with the fox girl. What they said was not human language, but the barking of foxes.
After a short conversation, the three people began to help and dug out all the contents in the coffin. Wu Dongfang looked at it and found that it was in tatters and had nothing special.
"Forget it, no need to exchange, I'll give it to you." Wu Dongfang handed the bow and arrows and quiver to the fox girl.
The fox girl was a little embarrassed and didn't have the nerve to reach out, "Whatever you need, we'll find it for you."
"No, I didn't sleep last night. I want to take a rest here today." Wu Dongfang said. It felt weird to communicate with a group of foxes, but it was also very novel.
"You can rest here, but we can't ask for your things in vain." Fox Girl said.
"Okay, whatever you want." Wu Dongfang yawned.
The foxes put the rags into the coffin again and went out. Wu Dongfang turned around and found a large water tank in the house. He went to other houses and found a clay pot to fetch water from the pool.
Seeing that the water in the pool turned blue, he was worried whether there might be monsters like pythons dormant in it, so he asked the fox girl who was standing not far away. After confirming that the water pool was only deep and there were no other abnormalities, he approached the pool to draw water and went back and forth. After more than a dozen trips, I filled the water tank and lit a fire next to the water tank. The pheasant was cooked and the water was not so cold. I took off my clothes and went in to take a bath. The last time I took a bath was in the Jin tribe, a long time ago.
The pheasant had finished gnawing and bathed, and was about to come out of the tank when he turned around and saw the fox girl walking in from the door, and hurriedly squatted back down.
The fox girl walked to the door and stopped, tilting her head to look at him.
He wanted to open his mouth to chase people away, but he noticed a puzzled look on the fox girl's face. Following its gaze, he found that it was looking at the white tiger tattoo on his body.
"Have you seen this kind of tattoo?" Wu Dongfang asked.
"I saw it when I was very young," said the fox girl.
"Where have you seen it?" Wu Dongfang asked, this is the boundary of the Tu tribe's nine states, and the wizards of the Jin tribe will not come here at will.
"On a dead man's body..."