Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 291 Huge four-toed footprints

Bloody smell? !
Just now I was busy on my way, but now that I heard what Xiao Guoguo said, I stretched my nose and sniffed, and I really smelled a strong smell of blood, which drifted gently with the night wind.

Xiao Guoguo and I looked at each other, slowed down tacitly, and walked through the woods cautiously.

How could there be bloody smell here?
Is there another murder case here?
We identified the direction and walked quietly in the direction of the bloody smell.

After walking fifty or sixty steps forward, I found that the smell of blood became stronger, and it was so strong that it made people sick.

Xiao Guoguo and I squatted down in the bushes, looking around, looking for the source of the bloody smell.

At this time, Xiao Guoguo gently tugged at my sleeve: "Ten o'clock direction!"

I stuck out half of my head and looked in the direction of ten o'clock.

I saw a strong tree tens of meters high in the direction of ten o'clock. I can't name the species of the tree, but the tree is quite big anyway.The dark red blood is like a snake, winding down the trunk, forming a bloody graffiti on the trunk.

My eyes were immediately attracted by the blood on the tree trunk, and then my eyes moved up along the blood, and found that there seemed to be a black thing curled up on a branch more than 20 meters above the ground.Due to the dim light and low visibility, we couldn't see what the black mass was.

It can't be a person, can it? !
My heart skipped a beat, I turned my head and winked at Xiao Guoguo, and the two of them moved towards the big tree quietly.

When we came under the tree, the bloody smell became stronger and stronger, and when the mountain wind blew, the bloody smell hit our faces one after another, making us almost unable to open our eyes.

I took out the wolf eye from the backpack, turned on the switch, and raised the wolf eye to shine on the branch.

The white light from the wolf's eyes pierced through the darkness under the shade of the tree, and a white halo fell on the branch.

I don't know if I don't take a photo, but this photo actually shocked Xiao Guoguo and me.

What curled up on the branch was not a human corpse, but the corpse of a wild beast.

The beast was bloody and bloody, and the scarlet blood flowed out from the corpse and slowly trickled down the tree trunk.

I took a closer look, and saw the appearance of the beast in the pool of blood, and then took a closer look through its blood-stained fur, and found that the corpse of the beast hanging on the branch was a leopard!
At this time, Xiao Guoguo also saw it, and said to me: "It looks like a leopard!"

I felt chills, how could there be a leopard body hanging on the branch?It's more vivid to say it's a corpse than a pile of minced meat. The leopard's corpse is almost half-destroyed, and the fragmented corpse makes people feel chills down their spines.

This is not right!

Logically speaking, the leopard is also considered the king of the forest, and it is also a very ferocious beast. Moreover, the leopard has super explosive power and running ability. Come and fly, so it is not an exaggeration to be called "Jungle Killer".

But the leopard hanging on the tree was actually killed? !
In this primeval forest, there are only a handful of beasts that can fight against leopards, such as tigers, lions, and the terrifying blind bear, or even wild wild boars.Even if these beasts are capable of killing leopards, how did they hang the leopard's body on the tree?Whether it's a tiger or a lion, or a black bear or a wild boar, they can't climb trees!The leopard body is nearly 20 meters high from the ground, how did it hang up?

Could it be the masterpiece of the hunter?

But this leopard weighs at least two to three hundred catties. Who can carry such a weight and climb up a tree?
Moreover, if it was really done by the hunter, he must have been out of his mind, why bother to move the leopard's body to the tree?
What's more, humans simply don't have such strength!

It wasn't a beast, it wasn't a hunter, who did it?
"Strange!" I touched my chin and said, "Why did you move the leopard's body to the tree?"

Xiao Guoguo said: "I speculate that it may be to preserve food!"

"Preserve food?" I was slightly taken aback: "How do you say it?"

Xiao Guoguo said: "There are too many beasts in the dense forest. If the leopard's body is thrown under the tree, the bloody smell will soon attract the beasts. Before long, the leopard may only have a skeleton left." Yes. I guess after something hunted the leopard, it didn’t eat it completely, but kept the remaining half of the leopard carcass as food on the branch. Even if those carnivorous beasts came here, they would not be able to reach it! Of course, although I am here I grew up in the forest, but I can't guess what is hunting the leopard!"

A gust of wind blew past, rolling up a strong smell of blood.

I felt the chill behind me, as if something was watching us.

There was a chill in my heart, and I quickly turned around, looking over the surrounding bushes.

Yeah!

what is that? !

I rubbed my eyes, only to find that the thing was gone again.

Xiao Guoguo asked me in surprise, "What did you see?"

I said, "I seem to see a pair of eyes! But I don't seem to see clearly!"

"A pair of eyes?!" Xiao Guoguo was slightly stunned: "I think this place is a bit evil. I don't know if there are any scary things appearing around here. It's better to leave early!"

I nodded and agreed with Xiao Guoguo's suggestion, something that can hunt leopards is definitely not a good kind.

Just after taking two steps, Xiao Guoguo suddenly asked me to wait, then squatted down under the tree trunk, groping the ground with her little hands, with a dignified expression.

"Did you find something?" I asked cautiously.

Xiao Guoguo hooked her finger at me: "Come here!"

I squatted down with Xiao Guoguo, raised my wolf eyes to look at the ground, and couldn't help taking a deep breath.

In the mud under the tree trunk, several irregular footprints suddenly appeared. Those footprints were not ordinary footprints, but huge footprints. Each footprint was about half a meter long and [-] centimeters wide.What is even more strange is that these footprints are not like animal paw prints or hoof prints, but are very similar to human footprints.The only difference from human footprints is that human footprints have five toes, while footprints in the mud only have four toes, three toes are longer, and one toe is slightly shorter. Human toes are exactly the same.

I feel my scalp numb, which is really strange. What kind of footprints are these?Like a beast but not a beast, like a human being but not a human.If it was a human being, who would have such a huge footprint?According to the size of this footprint, the height of the human body is at least three meters. Who can grow to a height of more than three meters?That's a giant!

Xiao Guoguo and I scratched our heads and ears, but couldn't think of a reason. It seemed that our inferences were unreasonable.

In order to avoid complications, Xiao Guoguo and I left this place quickly, but this series of strange four-toed footprints stuck in our hearts like sharp thorns, and we always felt that something was wrong, but we couldn't figure it out.It feels like constipation and is very uncomfortable.

After Xiao Guoguo and I left, we walked deep into the dense forest for more than an hour, feeling a little tired, so we found an open place to stop and rest our feet.

I looked around, it was relatively dry and not humid, and I could still hear the sound of running water, which meant that it was not far from the water source, which was very suitable for camping.

"Let's settle down here tonight!" I put down my backpack and took out a small portable tent from it.

Because there are only me and Xiao Guoguo on this road, when I went to Xi'an, I asked Wang Xueyuan to help me prepare a small camping tent in the wild, mainly for the convenience of carrying.And there were only two of us, so it wasn't too crowded.

I set up a tent here, and Xiao Guoguo dug a hole to make a fire.

After the bonfire was lit, Xiao Guoguo asked me if I was hungry. I clutched my stomach and said yes, and then she said, "Wait, I'll go find some wild game!"

I told her: "Be careful, don't run too far, this forest is very evil, and the ghost that hunted the leopard might still be wandering around!"

After a while, Xiao Guoguo came back, holding two big mountain rats in his hands. The size of the mountain rats was as big as a rabbit, and each weighed ten catties. It was heavy in the hand, and the heads of the rats were heavier than my fist. To be big, it looks terrible.

"Rat tonight?" I asked.

Xiao Guoguo said: "The meat of the mountain mouse is delicious! What? You are not afraid of eating mice, are you?"

"No!" I smiled: "Since I heard Zhang Feng tell the story about the mouse spirit in Milong Cave last time, I feel a little scared when I see mice!"

When I mentioned Zhang Feng's name, I couldn't help but sighed slightly, a little sad, Zhang Feng was dead.

The mountain rat meat was roasted over fire, and it was really delicious. I gnawed all the paws clean.

After dinner, I got into the tent to sleep.

"Is there only one tent? Then where do I sleep?" Xiao Guoguo asked standing at the door of the tent.

I patted my side: "Sleep here!"

Xiao Guoguo said: "Lonely men and widows live in the same room, don't they? She's so shy!"

"Then you sleep outside! Anyway, you are a fox, didn't you just find a place to sleep before?" I said.

"Damn! Since following the master, I have never slept in the open air again. I have been humanized for more than ten years. Get up, put away your Hong Kong feet, and let me in!" Xiao Guoguo forced her way into the room while talking. into the tent.

The night in the mountains was quiet, and there was a crackling bonfire outside. Xiao Guoguo and I huddled in the tent, but it felt warm.

Although we had a day of sleepiness during the day today, we still felt tired from the continuous rush. The most important thing is that there were no entertainment activities and we were extremely bored, so we had to choose to sleep.

(End of this chapter)