This is really Gao Wu.

Chapter 25
Tang Zhen, who was telling a strange story to the two, was startled by Li Erniu's dry howl, and said without delay:
"Erniu, why are you so surprised, why don't you listen to a story?"

A few people were Tang Zhen and his "Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Cubs". They guarded the village until midnight. Tang Zhen felt bored, so he pulled the two of them to tell strange stories... But when they were getting excited, they were cut off by Li Erniu's howl Already...

Tang Zhen was denouncing his dissatisfaction with Li Erniu interrupting his creative thinking, saying that he was not responsible for being forced to interrupt his creative thinking...but he heard Li Erniu say:
"Old, old, old...big...big, there's someone over there!"

While speaking, he pointed at Tang Zhen's back with trembling hands. The woods beside the small road outside the village seemed to be swaying...

Tang Zhen smiled disdainfully, and before he could speak, he heard Li Daniu call:
"Er Niu, you idiot, almost scared me to pee my pants... There is a hammer man..."

As he said that, he looked in the direction Li Erniu was pointing at, but the shock on his face...was even more terrified, he couldn't even speak, but just stared at him!

Tang Zhen looked at the performance of the two, and laughed:
"You two are okay, and you still want to punish me? The acting skills are not bad, on par with the big baby. I would like to call you the number one actor in the national costume..."

At this time, Tang Zhen also felt that something was wrong: he heard a rustling sound of walking...someone is very close!

Tang Zhen's hairs stood on end, and his vest felt cold. Before he had time to think, he drew his knife, turned around, and shouted:
"Who's over there?"

After drinking, he whispered to Li Daniu and the others:
"You two, pay attention to your vigilance, and light a few more torches!"

Just as Tang Zhen finished speaking, he heard the figure speak:

"Is it Boss Tang? Why are you still at the entrance of the village so late? I, Li Meng..."

Tang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the person coming: Li Meng knew about it. The son of the old man who burns fire is a stonemason who can mix with stonemasons. It is said that he often stays in the quarry in the mountains and comes back only two days a month...

As several figures approached, Tang Zhen could see clearly by the firelight... Well, it looks like a living person...

"I can't see clearly, it's Li Meng...huh?"

Tang Zhen didn't remember Li Meng, so he told a lie and was going to let Li Daniu recognize him... But when he turned his head, something that made Tang Zhen's scalp tingle happened: just turning his head to talk to the figure, everyone Niu Erniu two brothers actually disappeared!

"Boss, it's Brother Mengzi!"

"What are you two doing hiding behind the haystack?"

It turned out that when Tang Zhen was numb, two 'dog heads' protruded from a haystack more than 20 steps away. Yes, Tang Zhen really wanted to blow up these two things...

Facing Tang Zhen's inquiry, the two came over awkwardly, and Li Daniu said:
"Boss, in fact, the two of us are going back to call someone... I don't know if you believe it or not?"

Li Erniu nodded frantically beside him.

At this time, those outsiders also came up, and one of them was a slightly older man with a thin body and said:
"Huh? Boss Tang, is it really you? And you guys, what are you guys doing here so late?"

Before Tang Zhen could speak, Li Daniu spoke:
"Brother Mengzi, you guys are really back, you scared me to death..."

It was Li Meng and the other two stonemasons in the village who came with him.

After the crisis was resolved, the scene became more enjoyable. Li Meng didn't ask about what happened just now, while Tang Zhen unpacked a cigarette by himself and chatted...

"Hey, it's really evil... This village guard dog is a good dog that the village chief found outside. He said it is a descendant of a mountain dog. It has not had any problems for several years... I think it has something to do with what happened a few days ago..."

Several people chatted enthusiastically, and the topic naturally came to the village guard dog, and Li Meng immediately thought of what happened in the past few days, and felt that the village guard dog's problems should be related to these things...

"Some time ago, I don't know who spread the news, saying that there was a problem with the forbidden area in Qixia Town, and it was said that there was a riot by strange beasts..."

"But these are naturally managed by the adults above, and in the past few days, our quarry in the mountains has also gone wrong..."

"No, it should be said that those who rely on the mountains and forests to beg for food are all unlucky..."

"Just talk about our quarry. In the past few days, the beasts in the mountains have gone crazy and come out to hurt people from time to time..."

"At the beginning, no one cared. After all, they were begging for food in the mountains. There are still some ways to deal with it. It's not a big problem..."

"But gradually, everyone felt something was wrong... These beasts behaved very evil: they seemed to be specially designed to deal with humans... You know what I mean?"

Several people nodded and said yes.Da Niu Er Niu, this foolish man, Tang Zhen doesn't know if he understands it or not, but Tang Zhen himself understands it...

Wild beasts attack humans, generally divided into two situations, either because they are hungry, or to protect their own territory.

But these conditions do not exist in the quarries in the mountains. Where there is a lot of life and there are defensive means, ordinary beasts will walk around...

Tang Zhen didn't think about it for a while, so he withdrew his thoughts and continued to listen to Li Meng...

"...I even saw with my own eyes that a blind man who was beaten to pieces ran into the bushes on a small hillside and found no one chasing him, so he lay down on the hillside and looked at a group of us..."

"It's the kind that doesn't howl when it's injured, just lying there, looking straight at us... We couldn't stand this kind of staring, so we went to chase it before running away..."

Li Meng narrated with lingering fear, and everyone listened with great interest. Unexpectedly, Li Meng exploded another big melon:
"Just this morning, we received news that several lumberjacks who went into the mountain to cut trees yesterday died! The news came from the platoon gang. Their people cut bamboo on another mountain and rescued a man full of wood. A lumberjack covered in blood, shouting that the wolves are coming!"

"Wolf packs... We haven't seen this thing in Menliang County for decades, right? Several hunter groups are going to go into the mountain to check it out, so those of us who depend on the mountain for food should be careful first..."

"No, the bosses of our Stonemasons Association have decided to take a few days off, and we will see the situation..."

Li Meng talked heartily, seeing that Tang Zhen was still thinking about something in silence, he said to go home first, and talk during the day, and left with the other two...

Tang Zhen has been thinking about what's going on here, and his intuition tells him that there is a big problem inside, but he has never figured out the joints... He knows that this world is a world where the spirit energy dissipates, and there should be no power to make the strange beasts and beasts in the world come together. Beasts are riotous... right?

At midnight, Tang Zhen felt really bored, so he took Da Niu Er Niu around to see if there was anything in the jacket...

When walking outside the old man's house, the three of them heard an unknown voice...

"Boss, it seems like a cat is meowing... No, it's not the right season... And listen carefully, it seems to be a woman's voice... This voice sounds so miserable... Could it be a female ghost?"

Tang Zhen glanced unexpectedly at Li Daniu, who was shrinking his neck and looking around:
"It turns out that this idiot usually writes so many words because he is putting pens on..."

He said earnestly:
"Daniu, this is not a female ghost, but a female goblin. Children can't hear this voice. If they hear it, the female goblin will come to the door and drain the bone marrow..."

As he spoke, he took the two of them away quickly... Tang Zhen himself couldn't hear the voice, scratching his heart and lungs...

In the second half of the night, Tang Zhen couldn't bear it any longer. Seeing that the jacket didn't yield much, he suggested that they all go home and sleep—who the hell really kept watch all night...

Until early in the morning, the 'alarm clock' rang again...

"Boss, Boss, something happened again!"

Tang Zhen: "Damn!"

(End of this chapter)