Strange Tales [Fierce Beast]

A gust of wind blows up countless yellow sand.

A team of more than a dozen people parked their car aside, and each of them picked up some saplings from the car and dug holes in the sand to plant trees.

In the world-famous Xhosa desert, there are hundreds of such teams.

"Team leader!" shouted one of the team members.

"What's the matter?" The team leader put down the sapling in his hand, and walked to the person who just shouted while talking.

"Look." The young man pointed to the small tree beside him, "We planted this last week. When we came here yesterday, we saw new shoots growing, but they withered today, and there are these." The young man led the group Walking forward, I saw many withered or yellowed saplings along the way.

Even the trees they planted a year ago are turning yellow.

"Tell everyone to stop, stop planting, count the number of such saplings, and analyze the reasons."

"Hey," the young man agreed, and shouted as he ran, "Hey everyone, stop planting, the captain wants to count the status of the saplings."

……

At this time, a few meters deep from the ground, there were countless circular passages with a diameter of half a meter intertwined, and in the very center lay a very strange looking animal.

The animal was curled up in its den, its belly rising and falling, sound asleep.

At night, the temperature in the desert was too low, so there was no one there.

Suddenly, a black shadow appeared on the ground with its head poking around. Seeing that the surroundings were very safe, it finally completely exposed itself.

This animal is the strange animal that sleeps soundly during the day, and its name is Lili.

It is said in "Qi Tan Zhi": there is a beast in the cabinet mountain, its shape is like a dolphin, there is a distance, its sound is like a dog barking, its name is Lili, and when you see it, there are many local skills in its county.

It means: Cabinet Mountain, there is a beast in the mountain, shaped like a common pig, with a pair of chicken feet, barking sound like a dog barking, the name is raccoon force, where there is raccoon force, there must be a lot of water and soil project.

Omnivorous, nocturnal.

"Wow woof..." Li Li barked a few times in a low voice, and quickly moved its four paws to climb up to a newly planted sapling. Then bury the soil again to cover the hole.

After digging for a few seconds, it came to the root of the sapling, opened its mouth to suck the most vital part of the sapling, and the sapling it sucked could not see any wound on the surface.

It then moves on to the next sapling.

Its speed is not fast, and it can only gnaw off the roots of the first sapling in one night.

The next day, it was the same team.

"What's going on!?" In one night, several saplings died.If this continues, their tree planting plan will not be implemented at all.

In the following week, they did not continue to work, and were determined to find out the reason for the withering of the saplings. However, more than a month later, almost all the saplings in the place their team was in charge of withered, and there were only a limited number of saplings left. not good.

Other groups sent people to help but found nothing. After discussion, everyone reluctantly gave up the land.

Soon, however, this phenomenon was seen in other groups as well.

If some people thought it was improper operation at the beginning, they now only feel that maybe this land is not suitable for the growth of saplings.

A year has passed, not only all the saplings they planted successfully withered, but the scope of soil desertification has also expanded.There were thousands of people who were full of confidence, but now there are less than 100 people who are still persisting.

Living in a dry place for a long time makes their skin red, dull and dull, making them look ten years older than their peers.Even so, they persisted.

"How about it?"

"everything is normal."

Everyone smiled when they heard this answer. This is the sapling they planted a month ago, but now it is alive!

The survival of this sapling is undoubtedly a boost to them, allowing them to continue to persevere.

"Let me take a look." The only remaining woman said and approached the sapling, but one foot suddenly sank into the sand, causing her to fall.

"Are you okay?" Everyone stepped forward with concern.

"It's okay." Feng Meijing shook her head. From her ability to persevere in the desert, it can be seen that she is not a cute little girl.

"What is this?" At first, everyone thought that Feng Meijing had accidentally tripped, but when she moved her foot away, she found the hole below.

Next to the hole was a tree they had failed to plant.

Almost instantly, everyone thought at the same time: Could it have something to do with this hole.

"Look, everyone, are there any holes around the dead saplings?"

Everyone agreed one after another, and after checking, they found holes next to most of the dead saplings, and even the places that had been abandoned before were checked and found.

Now everyone finally knows what's going on!

It turned out that the animals in the desert destroyed the living environment of these saplings.

In the evening, the few people who left the vigil today set up tents, took cover, and waited quietly.

In the dead of night, a few people held their ears, and suddenly heard a rustling sound of crawling, opened the tent and saw only a small animal figure in the darkness, and that black figure slowly crawled to the newly planted cute Next to the saplings.

Seeing this scene, several people have confirmed that it is this animal, and rushed towards this animal without any hesitation.

The light shines on the animal, most notably its pig nose.

Unexpectedly, the vigilance of this animal was not bad, and it was about to run away the moment they appeared, but its crawling speed was really not fast.

Several people quickly caught up with it, and the animal guessed that it would not be able to run away, so it suddenly yelled a few times.

"Wang Wang!"

In the middle of the night, I suddenly remembered two barking dogs, which were enough to scare people away. In just a short while, half of the animal's body was buried in the soil.

In a blink of an eye, he disappeared.

Everyone poked down along the hole, but found nothing.

It appears that this animal is not a fast crawler, but it is capable of burrowing very well.

The next day, several people who watched the night truthfully told others what happened that night.

"It's the entrance of the cave, but it's a pity that it escaped."

Looking at the hole that had been dug, everyone thought about it, and after discussing it, they decided to continue digging down the hole until they caught the animal.

They were also forced to think of no other way. It was too passive to wait for the animal to appear again, and what if it digs a hole and runs away next time.

Once everyone digs, it is a day.

I was stunned by the countless crisscross passages that appeared before my eyes.

With so many cavities in the ground, it's strange that those saplings survived!

……

Zhou Ling came to this place on the second morning of everyone's "pig catching operation".

As soon as he stepped here, he felt the desolation of life, all he could see was the yellow sand, and maybe he hadn't seen a single bird in the sky for a long time.

Of course, he also felt the existence of the beast.

Zhou Ling avoided the crowd and walked towards the depths of the desert. His steps seemed to be slow, but within a few breaths he was no longer visible.

Finally, he stopped in an oasis.

There are several huge and lush trees growing around the clear lake water. Small groups of animals by the lake are hiding from the sun under the shade of the trees, and some animals of different sizes hang their heads down to drink water.

A lizard quickly ran past Zhou Ling's eyes, plunged into the sand and disappeared.

Just looking at the vibrant appearance in front of them, it would not make people think that this place is actually a desert.

Zhou Ling "saw" that Lili was sleeping curled up in the sand at the bottom of the lake, and there were countless passages extending in all directions around it, wrapping it in the center like a web woven by a spider.

Because raccoons run slowly, their attack power is not high, and they have no advantages other than drilling holes, they are cautious and timid by nature, so they complete the cave they live in so that they can escape.

Seeing the target, Zhou Ling was not in a hurry to subdue Lili now. Although he can breathe in the soil, he is not good at digging holes after all. Using other attack methods will inevitably cause damage to this oasis-it is not impossible to disappear.

Zhou Ling poured some energy into a tree to make it more alive.And set up an enchantment around the root of the tree, only allowed to enter and not allowed to exit, waiting for Lili to walk into the trap automatically.

Just as the sun was setting, Lili moved his little body, smelling an unusually delicious smell, and moved before he was fully awake.

"Wang Wang" barked like a puppy, and moved closer to the roots of the tree, opening his mouth to suck the vitality of the tree.

At this moment, it felt the crisis sensitively, and the two paws in front were digging hard to escape, but somehow something happened to the soft sand, no matter how hard it tried, it could never leave any traces.

Zhou Ling removed the sand on the ground, revealing the raccoon force trapped in the barrier.

Bending down and grabbing the fur on its back to lift up the small thing, Li Li stiffened and began to play dead.

Zhou Ling was amused, and threw the little guy into the water forcefully.

Lili will not be drowned by ordinary water, but it is naturally afraid of water. It struggled the moment it fell into the water, and it took a lot of strength to climb up from the lake.

Lili knew that the person in front of him could not be offended by him and did not even think about running away. The wet fur covered his body pitifully, and his wet glasses looked at Zhou Ling beggingly.

Zhou Ling stretched out his hand and ordered, "Come here."

So Lili climbed onto Zhou Ling's hand, opened his mouth to spit out a piece of gold, and looked at Zhou Ling fawningly.

It is said in "Qi Tan Zhi" that the vicious beast like lili is as timid as a mouse but can accurately seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. While being greedy for money, it can also find all kinds of natural and earthly treasures.

Zhou Ling looked at the gold in his hand, and threw it into its mouth again, "Keep it for yourself."

"Wow!" The piggy-like tail wagged.

"Go in by yourself." Zhou Ling took out "Strange Tan Zhi".

So, Lili went in on his own initiative.

I saw that on the top of the page with raccoon power in "Strange Tan Zhi", there was a strange animal shaped like a pig but with chicken feet.