Reasoning Notes

Chapter 42 Reasoning Notes 2: The Murder of the Fox Demon (1)
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Straw Village, a mysterious and weird night.

The moon was obscured by thick clouds, and the long restless night cast its eerie shadows over the surrounding mountains.

In front of a large open field, it was brightly lit.A group of people held torches and danced strangely in a circle.The firelight illuminated the faces with holy expressions but with a little fear, and the chanting prayers were constantly enlarged and echoed in the darkness.

No, it's a prayer sound, it should be more like a singing sound.Bao Xiaofan gradually understood that the villagers were singing a ballad from ancient times.

There is a fox on the mountain,
It has practiced for thousands of years to become a goblin.

One day, it was sealed in a scarecrow by the mountain god,

Can't see, can't hear, can't speak.

It waited 500 years and another 500 years.

The first man died, his ear fell on the scarecrow,
Our Lord Fox Demon can hear it again.

It waited 500 years and another 500 years.

The second man died, his eyes fell on the scarecrow,

Our Lord Fox Demon can see again.

It waited 500 years and another 500 years.

The third man died, his nose fell on the scarecrow,

Our Lord Fox Demon can smell blood again.

It waited 500 years and another 500 years.

The fourth man died, his mouth fell on the scarecrow,

Our fox demon can speak again.

The last 500 years, the last fifth man also died.

His blood was all sprinkled on the Scarecrow,
Our Master Fox Demon is resurrected, resurrected.

Lyrics like this are repeated over and over again from the dancing crowd.Bao Xiaofan suddenly felt chills down her spine, she subconsciously looked at the time displayed on her phone, it was eleven fifty.

It's almost twelve midnight.

Will the legend really come true?

Bao Xiaofan is a field manager of the TV station, and was sent to shoot a documentary about Fox and Monster Talk.This is a new supernatural program on the TV station, such as haunted houses, ghost forests, ghost bridges, in short, wherever there are supernatural rumors, there are them.

Of course, so far, all supernatural rumors are fictitious.Sometimes in order to achieve a scary effect, they deliberately create all kinds of weird atmosphere.After the show was broadcast, it was unexpectedly popular with the audience, so they rushed to film the next episode, which was the legend about the resurrection of the fox demon.

"Director, do you think it will be real this time?" While waiting, Bao Xiaofan couldn't help asking again.Colleagues in the program group were all laughed at by her words, and the director also laughed and said, "How is that possible? We grew up learning materialism!"

"But, don't you think the atmosphere here is weird?"

"The weirder the better, it's not weird, the audience doesn't like to watch it yet."

"But I heard... a strange thing really happened here four years ago!"

"You're talking about the killing of those five students, right?" The colleague next to him joined in the gossip, "The five students were really miserable, their eyes, ears, mouth and nose were gouged out."

"Yeah, the way of death is too weird. Why is their way of death the same as the legend and the lyrics of the song?"

"Oh, it must be the murderer deliberately confusing the public and using legends to kill people." The director who loves to read detective novels analyzed logically, "This kind of murder happens often, so there is nothing strange about it. It is a pity that the murderer has not been caught yet. That perverted killer might be right here!"

"The director is so annoying, it's scary here!"

Then the topic started to run to unscrupulous jokes.

Bao Xiaofan couldn't help but focus on the pious villagers in front of him.She has been in Daicao Village for three days, and she can feel how awed the villagers are waiting for this night at every moment, and the horrific murder four years ago added drama to this moment.

That year, six high school students made an appointment to hike and sketch in Daicao Village, but something happened on the second day they arrived.The five students disappeared first, and their bodies were not found until a month later.Their death conditions were horrific, their ears were cut off, their eyes were gouged out, their mouths, or noses were gouged out, and the blood was drained from the whole body of the worst corpse.Such deaths surprised the investigators. It was midsummer and the weather was hot. The corpses abandoned in the forest were highly decomposed. The police could only identify them by their clothes and student ID cards.

What's even more shocking is that there was a scarecrow at the scene, whose whole body was covered with blood, and the organs of the dead were all nailed to the face of the scarecrow.What's even more frightening is that those organs are very alive, and the blood that permeates every straw is constantly dripping down.

The organs and blood on the scarecrow proved the identity of the deceased.

Probably because of that case, the legend of the fox demon in Daicao Village began to spread again.People repeat what they say, and they spread rumors, witnesses continue to say that they saw foxes appearing in the mountains and forests of Daicao Village, and various other strange phenomena.There are also viewers who enthusiastically called the TV station and asked to investigate the authenticity of this incident.

Therefore, the program team moved into this straw village just in time for the resurrection of the legendary fox demon.

As the name suggests, Scarecrow Village is not only filled with scarecrows in the fields, but also has a scarecrow at the door of every household.Moreover, the scarecrow is meticulously crafted and made according to the shape of a human being. If you put on clothes, it looks like an ordinary person from a distance.

The reason why the scarecrow is made like this is probably because the soul of the fox demon is sealed in the scarecrow in the legend.It is said that the scarecrow who sealed the fox demon can still move around in the middle of the night when there is no one around.

Now, the fox demon in the scarecrow is finally coming back to life.

"It's almost twelve o'clock." Bao Xiaofan said.Colleagues in the program team were just like her, staring at the scene in front of them intently.

I saw that the dancing people stopped, and the noisy sound became less harsh.The villagers bent down and knelt down to the altar in front of them.It was an altar about ten square meters, about one meter high, with a big brazier on each side of it, and the blazing fire shot straight into the black night sky.

The kneeling crowd consciously moved out of the way, Bao Xiaofan and the others saw the four men dancing just now carrying a scarecrow slowly towards the altar.Their expressions were extremely serious and awe-inspiring, as if what they were carrying was not the scarecrow, but the body of the fox demon who was about to be resurrected.

No one in the program group spoke, and everyone seemed to be shrouded in a mysterious atmosphere that could not be expressed in words.

The men who carried the scarecrows went up to the altar, put the scarecrows in place, and then walked down, kneeling on the ground with other villagers to worship.The scarecrow stood motionless on the altar illuminated by the fire, surrounded by people's prayers.

"It's twelve o'clock." Finally, the moment of witnessing came, and the director hurriedly signaled the staff not to relax, "The fox demon is about to be resurrected!" He said half-jokingly.

Until this moment, there were probably not many people who believed that the fox demon would be resurrected.

Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and the scarecrow in the camera remained motionless.But people are still kneeling tirelessly, the scene looks very monotonous.

"Hey! It's another false rumor. Let me just say, how can there be such a thing as the resurrection of the fox demon?" The director didn't have any expectations for this, and planned to tell everyone to call it a day and go back to sleep.

Suddenly, the cameraman screamed: "Oh! The scarecrow is on fire!"

Sure enough, the scarecrow on the altar burst into flames for some reason.

"Hurry up and shoot! Hurry up and shoot!" The director's interest was brought up again, and his eyes widened excitedly.

The kneeling villagers also prayed more vigorously: "Master Fox Demon, come back to life! Lord Fox Demon, come back to life!"

"Please! It's a bit scary..." The female colleague next to her leaned against Bao Xiaofan in fear.Bao Xiaofan felt that the other party's body was trembling, but it could also be that he was trembling.She nervously put her hands on her chest, trying to calm her beating heart.

The scarecrow in sight was burning hotter and hotter, and the huge ball of fire reflected in his pupils looked like a person on fire.After a while, the fire died down again, slowly until it was completely extinguished.

Only a pile of ashes remained on the altar.

The silence lasted for a minute, and the villagers also stopped kneeling, all of them looked quite disturbed, and whispered to each other in low voices.Suddenly, someone shouted: "There is someone! There is someone on the altar!"

The crowd suddenly became commotion.The staff of the program group also tensed up, and the cameraman lost no time in aiming the camera at the altar.

"Oh my god!" Bao Xiaofan opened his eyes wide in disbelief, and covered his mouth with his hands.Her colleagues were also dumbfounded at what happened in front of them.In the camera, a figure slowly stood up from the ashes of the pile of scarecrows.Its movements are very slow, and at the same time it looks clumsy, as if it has been asleep for a thousand years, and it is not quite used to the feeling that it has just returned to human beings.

"Oh, God!" The director froze.

Not to mention him, even the villagers backed away in fright, and a large space was immediately vacated by the altar.

The figure standing up looked even more abrupt.The firelight clearly reflected its appearance—it was a girl.Because she was wearing the school uniform of a certain middle school, she looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a beautiful face, a slim figure, and a pair of beautiful big eyes.But at this moment, her eyes were full of evil spirits, and her whole body was shrouded in a gloomy black air.She stood in the middle of the altar, arrogantly looking around at the silent people below.

"It can't really be...it's a fox demon..."

Before the director finished speaking, the girl standing on the altar then spoke.

"I am a fox demon!" she said loudly, every syllable shook the whole air with an aggressive aura, "I am resurrected today, and you all have to submit to my feet! Anyone who dares to defy me will be punished." Terrible!"

(End of this chapter)