Secret 1

Chapter 3 Golden Meat (3)
Then the face disappeared again, and the sound of beating on the roof continued.That evil spirit was on the roof of the car in the rain, no matter how the car shook, it couldn't get off.

The driver finally hit the brakes.Several girls hugged together in fright, while the men looked at each other.Finally, the long-haired man volunteered, "Let me get out of the car and take a look."

Xiao Fang hesitated for a moment and opened the car door. The 40-year-old long-haired man got out of the car with a professional camera on his back.His movements are quite proficient. He bent his waist in the heavy rain and walked around the entire car body lightly. He seemed to have a lot of experience in field work.He didn't climb directly onto the roof of the car, but grabbed the vines on the cliff, and climbed up like Tarzan.

He climbed to a height of three or four meters, and then looked back at the "ghost" on the roof.

No - he saw a huge monkey.

The shape of this monkey is somewhat like a large dog like a Tibetan mastiff, its height is about the same as an adult man, and its muscles are obviously stronger.The hair on his body is like a "fluffy head" from a beauty salon, growing all the way to his forehead and rising upwards in a triangular shape.It had a most grotesque face, with a mouth and eyes that looked terribly fierce.This "super monkey" seemed extremely anxious, slapped the roof of the car vigorously, and seemed to have a deep hatred for the people in the car.

The long-haired man was holding a vine with one hand, holding a camera in the other, and took a few photos of the big monkey on the roof of the car.Then climb down slowly and carefully circle back to the car.

Surrounded by everyone when he came back, he said calmly: "I already know what this is! I am a professional photographer and have photographed animals in many places around the world. The monster above our heads is called 'Mandrill'. "

"Mandrill?"

"Yes, the mandrill, also known as the ghost baboon, is a protected animal in the world. It is mainly produced in central and western Africa. The mandrill has thick olive-colored long hair, a horse face with a protruding nose, and a big mouth. The bigger the fangs, the higher the status. Male mandrills have violent tempers, changeable temperaments, great strength, and great danger. Five years ago, when I took photos of mandrills in Africa, I was almost attacked by them and almost died!"

The young man with a DV in the front row asked, "Since it is an African species, how could it appear here?"

"Mandrills are also mentioned in ancient Chinese literature!" Sun Tzuchu stood up from behind and said, with the face of a university history teacher again, "This is a very mysterious and ghostly animal, which still survives in some remote mountainous areas. Because of its huge size, ugly appearance and fierce behavior, it was often mistaken for a savage by the ancients, and there is a short article "Mandrill" in "Liao Zhai".

At this time, Yu Ling interrupted their discussion: "Do you know that the 'golden meat' you eat at noon is the brain of this kind of big monkey."

The whole carriage was immediately silent.Even the mandrill on the roof of the car seemed to have heard the voice below, squatting quietly waiting for the opportunity, only the heavy rain outside the window kept falling.

"You mean the monkey brain of 'Golden Meat' is the brain of a mandrill?"

The tour guide Xiao Fang opened his eyes wide and touched his chest again, as if he was going to vomit at any time.

"Yes, this kind of big monkey is very rare. Only herbal pickers and loggers have seen them, but there are reports of this kind of monkey hurting people every year. The most serious thing is last year, two villagers were torn alive by big monkeys eaten."

"No wonder there is an 'Exorcism Festival'! It turns out their devil is a mandrill!"

The professional photographer trembled and said: "Adult mandrills are very powerful, and it is difficult for ordinary people to capture them, unless they are young mandrills."

Yu Ling also nodded: "Maybe the monkey brain you ate at noon is the child of that big monkey?"

"Ah! We ate the brains of its children?" a girl tremblingly said, she hugged her shoulders, "It will definitely take revenge on us! No wonder it is after us, it's terrible! It's terrible!"

Yes, just like if a human child is killed, the parents will be overwhelmed with pain and will try their best to get revenge.

Animals also have the kinship between parents and children, and they also grieve for the loss of their own flesh and blood. This kind of blood relationship is no different from ancient times to modern times, and so is human and animal!
Human revenge can be rational, but animal revenge is crazy.

Crazy mandrills are overhead.

At this time, Ye Xiao thought of a "General of the Underworld" who swung a sword at him when he was beating the bronze drum to perform the "Nuo" divine dance at the entrance of the village at noon, almost piercing his heart.There was an obvious smell of blood on the blade, probably this sword killed the mandrill cub!

But why did that guy come after Ye Xiao?Could it be that he felt that Ye Xiao was shrouded in evil?Want to use a sword to ward off evil for him?

Just as Ye Xiao was thinking hard, the mandrill beat on the roof of the car more violently. The rhythm resembled metal drums, especially the sound of the bronze drum heard at the entrance of the village. animal related?
The driver's hands were also shaking, but he stepped on the accelerator decisively.The car flew out like flying, "drifting" crazily on the slippery road.

Sun Tzuchu almost hit the front row again, he grabbed the handle tightly and said, "It seems that the driver is trying to throw the monster off the roof."

On a more dangerous mountain road than Qiuming Mountain, this tourist bus carried a dozen people, kept making sharp turns and braked before starting. If there was a person on the roof, it would have been thrown to death countless times.But the mandrill still firmly grasped the roof of the car and slammed on the iron sheet. Its strength was astonishing, it was like a miniature King Kong.

"It has a strong desire for revenge! It wants to avenge its children and kill all of us!"

Sun Zichu was still chattering like he was teaching in class. When the American girl across from him was swaying from side to side, he reached out to hold her shoulders and said a long series of comforting words in English.

Although the American girl is already in a daze, she still hasn't forgotten how to say in Chinese: "Shut up!"

Just when everyone panicked, a "ghost face" suddenly appeared in front of the windshield.

Both the driver and tour guide Xiao Fang stared wide-eyed, and even Yu Ling fell to the ground.All the people in the car, men and women, screamed. The "ghost face" was hanging upside down and staring at the people in the car, with purple flames radiating from its fierce eyes.

A powerful claw hit the windshield.With a clear and loud noise, this piece of strong glass made in Germany immediately cracked a long gap.

The driver subconsciously raised his hand to block in front of him, the steering wheel turned to the other side, and the car ran out of control and rushed out of the road——

There is a cliff ahead!

Xiao Fang next to him looked at the ravine in front of him, and seemed to be opening his arms to embrace them.It was the embrace of death, and for a moment he felt that he was bound to die.

At the critical moment, the young man sitting in the front row quickly grabbed the steering wheel and slammed it in the opposite direction.

And the wheel had almost rolled to the edge of the cliff, and just turned back just like that-the whole car toured around the gate of hell, and was pardoned back to the world by luck.

However, the tourist bus rushed to the exposed rock on the other side, and it was too late for the driver to apply the brakes, and the front of the bus crashed into the rock.

Fortunately, it was the steering wheel, not the car that hit it head-on.Everyone only felt a violent shock all over their bodies, and the car stopped moving.

It was still raining heavily outside the car, but there was a rare silence inside the car.

They were still alive - the driver was strapped in so he was mostly unharmed.The tour guides Xiao Fang and Yu Ling had both fallen to the ground before, so they were not injured.Everyone else in the car grasped the handle tightly, and nothing happened.Even the Frenchman, lying in the last row, did not fall off his seat.

Just when everyone was rejoicing that the car didn't explode and they narrowly escaped from the edge of the cliff.The driver could no longer start the car.In fact, the car was not hit very badly, the front of the car was only slightly dented.But maybe some part of the engine has been displaced, and you need to open the hood to check it carefully.

However, no one dared to get out of the car.

There is also a ferocious monster on the roof.

People kept looking at their mobile phones, but there was still no signal.And the mandrill above his head was tired from work, so he didn't move much when he sat on it.This kind of silence made people even more crazy. In the sound of heavy rain outside the car window, everyone was terrified to the extreme.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the girls burst into tears again.They are trapped here like this, and can only wait for the rescue of passing vehicles.But until three o'clock in the afternoon, there was no car coming.Yuling said that it might be because of the heavy rain that all the vehicles coming out of Chiang Mai stopped.The tour group seems to be forgotten by the world, staying alone in this desolate corner.

Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering loud noise ahead, and then the whole road trembled.Like something exploding violently, or like the roar of a cannon in a world war.

Is there an army fighting ahead?

Some people thought of the night when the tour group just arrived at Bangkok Airport a few days ago, and found that the atmosphere was very abnormal, and many airport staff looked strange.On the way from the airport to the city, heavily armed soldiers can be seen everywhere.When I arrived at the hotel in Bangkok, I found several tanks parked on the street.Midnight was originally a bustling street, but there was no one there except soldiers.And the Thai TV programs in the hotel have all become documentaries about the king.

That night was September 2006, 9. They didn't know until the next morning that a military coup had taken place in Thailand last night-the army commander-in-chief Somthip led the army to control the situation in Thailand, while Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was far away abroad, lost power.This coup that shocked the world took place on the night the tour group arrived in Bangkok.This is a big ominous sign, maybe there will be more hardships on this journey?
On that day, someone proposed to fly back to Shanghai immediately, but there would be a lot of losses when returning to China halfway, and the travel agency would not refund the tour fee.Moreover, the coup in Thailand did not shed blood, and the travel agency also guaranteed everyone's safety.A few guys enjoyed the thrill more and hoped to continue this extraordinary and memorable trip to Thailand.

So, they continued to tour in Bangkok, and went to Ayutthaya the next day to visit the ruins of the ancient capital of Thailand.Then, they went to Pattaya and Phuket, basking in the sun by the sea and watching ladyboys.The travel along the way was not affected by the coup, and everyone thought the coup was just a small episode.

Yesterday, according to the original plan, the tour group arrived in Chiang Mai, the most famous city in northern Thailand.Surrounded by mountains, this ancient city was built in 1296 and still retains its city walls and moat. It is a summer resort in Southeast Asia.This place is rich in fair-skinned and tall beauties, and is also known as the "Northern Rose".They visited Doi Suthep Temple and the Thai King's Summer Palace, and the men competed to admire the beauties of Chiang Mai on the street.It's a pity that the time of the tour group was too short, and they had to leave after only one night.If grandson Chu is given another three days and five nights, I am afraid that he will be "unhappy to miss him" among the beauties.

But at this moment, their situation is almost desperate-there is a terrible mandrill monster above their heads, and a war broke out ahead, has it become Baghdad, a hell on earth?

"Let me go ahead and have a look!" The long-haired professional photographer stood up and said, "I hope we can find someone to help us."

Another well-dressed man in his 40s said, "What if there is a real war ahead? This place is close to the Golden Triangle. Wars are commonplace for local people. You should not take risks."

"Maybe, but we can't die here!"

"I'll go with you." Grandson Chu stood up excitedly, "I really want to see what war is like."

When Sun Tzuchu and the photographer walked to the door of the car, the tour guide Xiao Fang didn't dare to stop them at all, so he could only look back at the driver.The poor driver sighed and drew an ax and sickle from under the driver's seat.Driving at night in the wild often encounters bandits and robbers, which may come in handy.

The photographer holds an ax as skillfully as he holds a camera.Sun Zichu was also clutching a sickle tightly, but his palms were already sweating.When the two of them got out of the car carefully, they found that there was another young man behind them—Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao held a heavy iron rod in his hand, which was also taken from the driver.There were three of them now, walking out onto the road in the heavy rain, looking back at the monster on the roof of the car.

The mandrill's terrifying eyes also stared at them, and immediately climbed down from the roof of the car.It crawls on the ground on all fours like a dog, but the two forelimbs are obviously more powerful.The hair all over his body had already been drenched by the rain, and he looked eerie like a ghost under the water.The bloody mouth suddenly opened, and the white fangs were more than ten centimeters long, no less than a sharp steel knife.It leans its body forward slightly, which is a ready-to-attack posture.

Perhaps this guy has been eyeing the tour group with hatred ever since they ate that delicious "golden meat" lunch they will never forget.The villagers must have a way to drive away wild animals. Maybe the sound of the ancient bronze drum is the best warning to the mandrill—yes, Sun Tzu understood the function of the ancient bronze drum. Apart from being used for sacrificial ceremonies, it is to drive away mandrills and other monsters .

Since they did not dare to approach the village with the bronze drum, the mandrill had no choice but to take revenge on the tour group.It is a highly intelligent animal, knowing that the tour group will pass through this mountain road?So they took a shortcut across the mountains and waded through mountains and rivers, and finally jumped on the roof of their car.

Ye Xiao, who was a police officer, stood at the front, his sharp eyes met those of the mandrill.He knew that the eyes of all the people in the car were on him, and he must not make any mistakes, otherwise the whole tour group would be ruined!

The confrontation between man and beast lasted for dozens of seconds, and the mandrill finally launched an attack.

It roared and rushed forward, and the sound from its mouth was like the roar of an African lion!And Ye Xiao didn't flinch at all, his legs stood straight on the ground, like a bronze sculpture.His eyes stared straight ahead through the rain curtain, and the fangs of death were only a dozen centimeters away from his throat——

Everyone in the car was screaming.

"clang!"

Like metal colliding, the iron rod in Ye Xiao's hand hit the mandrill's head accurately.

And the steel-like claws of the mandrill slashed across his chest. There was a tear in the T-shirt, and there was faint blood oozing out.

But Ye Xiao still stood firmly in place, and the ferocious mandrill retreated.

Although it was hit hard on the top of its head, it was just a tickle to it, like being bitten by a mosquito.But its eyes showed a trace of fear, and the second attack was even faster, its whole body jumped high into the air, and its two iron claws pointed directly at Ye Xiao's eyes, just like some kind of martial arts technique in Jin Yong's novels.

He really didn't know how to deal with it, but Ye Xiao didn't want to take half a step back, so he could only raise the iron rod across his head.Just when the iron claw was about to scratch his eyeball, a cold light flashed in front of his eyes, and then the mandrill screamed, and the monster fell to the ground.

Ye Xiao panted heavily, and then looked at the photographer next to him, his ax was stained with blood.It turned out that the photographer's ax saved his life.Now, Ye Xiao, Sun Tzuchu, and the photographer stood side by side. Iron rods, axes, and sickles each performed their duties, forming a weapon formation.They approached the beast step by step, and the mandrill's front paw was hit by an axe, and blood was dripping out with the rain.

The mandrill roared again, and launched a final mad counterattack against the three brave men.But they didn't back down. Iron rods, axes, and sickles all came down, and they gave the mandrill a few solid blows, finally forcing the monster to the side of the road.

The road was already covered with blood, and the mandrill seemed unable to hold on, so it could only cry out in despair, and the whole valley was filled with its mournful cry.It is weeping for its children, and it is also sighing that it cannot revenge.At this moment, it can only retreat temporarily, but it will never let these humans go.The mandrill's eyes were still fierce, but its body gradually disappeared into the woods until it could no longer be seen.

But it will come back.

(End of this chapter)