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Gu Lili: "Then what happened in your village, do you know?"

"I know, but it's a long story."

Cherry glanced at Gu Lili and said,

"It's okay. Tell me everything you know in detail."

"Okay, Sister Gu, this story starts from half a year ago.

Because Liujia Village is backed by Daqing Mountain, villagers are used to letting cattle, sheep and other large livestock graze in the back mountain during the slack season.

But one afternoon half a year ago, my cousin Liu Erlang's cow was lost in the back mountain.

Liu Erlang found my family and asked my father to mobilize the whole village to help find the cow, and also promised several benefits.

If a countryman loses a cow, it is a very serious matter. Even if a child is lost, it is not as worrying as losing a cow.

That night, except for the elderly, the weak, and women and children who needed to take care of their children, the rest of the people gathered at the back of the village.

When everyone was gathered, they lit torches wrapped in pine resin and began to search in the forest behind.

It was getting dark, and the team going up the mountain to look for cattle had to have a large number of people and make a lot of noise, and most importantly, they had to hold torches as they moved forward.

This is the only way to scare away those beasts lurking in the dark.

I did not participate in the search, but I only know that the adults searched all night and only found a bull head.

~The cow was harmed by something.

No wild animals were seen harming the cattle, but everyone became alert and no longer went to the back hill to graze livestock. They also restricted the children in the family from going to the back hill.

But something happened the next night. The cow that Zhang's family kept in its own cowshed was attacked and killed by something.

The cow's stomach was completely hollowed out. When Old Man Zhang discovered it, he only saw a large black shadow flash by. He couldn't see clearly what it was.

Then on the morning of the third day, Uncle Liu's cow was also killed. Uncle Liu went out to chase the monster, but he only saw that the monster was huge, and the monster also injured three of Uncle Liu's ribs.

Now everyone couldn't sit still.

There are only six oxen in the village, and now half of them have been killed. The villagers are very angry and gathered at my house, asking my father to come up with a set of rules.

"We are young and strong, how can we be afraid of that beast? I suggest that we all go to the mountains to look for it, and kill it if we find it, so as to prevent future troubles." Old man Zhang suggested.

"Right, right. If we don't get rid of this beast, more livestock will suffer in the future, and we will have to abandon the large pasture on the back mountain," Liu Erlang also agreed.

When they heard that they were going to lose the ranch behind the mountain, they were immediately heartbroken.

The prosperity of Liujia Village is due to the extremely rich vegetation in the back mountain pasture, which is evergreen all year round, which allows them to raise so many livestock.

Once lost, the livestock will have no place to graze, and the source of income will be cut off.

Finally, after everyone discussed it, they decided to go into the mountain again to get rid of this harmful beast.

After two days of searching the surrounding forests, they still couldn't find any trace of the monster.

Later, the search area was doubled, and they finally found something. They found the monster in a remote underground cave.

It was a monster that was larger than a cow, with a cow's head, a snake's tail, and four hooves.

At first, the villagers were very scared, but later they realized that the monster was just looking at them curiously and had no intention of attacking them.

The group was discussing whether they had made the wrong decision.

Liu Erlang said, they couldn’t go out and return empty-handed, right?

Besides, this thing looks so weird. Even if it is not a monster that steals cattle and hurts people, it is still a monster after all. We can't just leave it alone.

Finally, it was Old Zhang who took the lead and threw the spear at the monster. The injured monster immediately let out a shrill scream.

But he still didn't come to attack them. It seemed like he was calling out for something.

Someone in the crowd said, could there be two monsters, one big and one small, and is the little monster calling for help?

Everyone saw that, although this monster was big, it was obviously not very smart, probably because of its young age.

"I remember now, the monster that attacked my father was much bigger than this one, and its hair was black, not like this one which is khaki."

Uncle Liu's son Liu Dashuan said,

"What should we do? We beat the small monster, but what if the big monster comes?"

"Let's just go all out and get rid of this little monster first. It doesn't seem scary at all. It's probably just a big monster."

"Yes, yes, we have weapons and so many people, how can we not defeat a big monster?"

"..."

The guys didn't care anymore, they all raised their tools and killed the little monster.

Finally, the prey was gutted on the spot and divided into pieces of meat, which were shared by all participants.

Three more days passed like this, and nothing happened in the village again.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that perhaps the so-called monster was the strange creature they had killed.

"On the evening of the fifth day after the incident, after dinner, I was washing the dishes.

Suddenly, I heard a deafening roar from inside the village.

After dinner, the villagers and children like to gather under the big elm tree at the east end of the village to chat and play.

Hearing the roars from the village, they all ran back to the village.

As soon as they entered the village, they saw a terrifying scene.

Old Zhang flew into the air, shouting in fear. At this moment, a huge black shadow stood behind him, as big as half a mountain.

The villagers who came out after hearing the noise followed the old man Zhang's shout and saw the terrifying shadow. Then, something even scarier was to come.

The shadow was extremely agile, and no one knew when or how it had thrown Old Zhang into the air.

As they got closer, everyone saw the monster in its entirety: a ferocious bull head, its body covered with dark, shiny scales, and its strong and powerful limbs stepping on the ground, causing the earth to tremble.

When Old Zhang fell from the sky, the monster on the ground had already opened its bloody mouth, revealing a mouthful of fangs thicker than a rake.

With a "crack", the old Zhang's head was bitten into two pieces, and a bloody rain immediately fell from the sky.