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Adhering to the principle that disease enters from the mouth, my junior brother and I decided to start analyzing everything we imported today. Is it the air we inhale?This is not very plausible, nor is it feasible. As a person who has learned some physiology and biochemistry, there should be nothing that can be inhaled by the human body so silently and cause such supernatural effects. It's what we eat.I asked my brother:

"What did we eat today?"

The younger brother pondered for a moment:

"What did we eat at noon? Instant noodles, is it a problem with instant noodles? Shouldn't it be bought from instant noodles supermarket, coffee? You bought coffee from Taobao."

I rubbed my chin with my hand, feeling the burr of the stubble on my palm, and looked at the cup with a little coffee stain left after making coffee in the morning:

"Do you think it might be a water problem? The water we use to make coffee and noodles is picked up from the water pipe and then boiled. Dapeng and the others went to the No. 14 barn last night. It will come out soon, and today I haven’t heard what happened to those houses in the back, there is only one possibility, that is, they went to the reservoir.”

When we first arrived at the cattle farm, we encountered heavy rain, and in addition to the occasional power outage, we also stopped the water several times. After asking the aunt of the cattle farm, we learned that the water used in the cattle farm is groundwater. The quality of groundwater here is Very good, there is not much scale after boiling. It is a deep well that I dug myself during the construction of the cattle farm. The well and the reservoir are near the No. 14 cattle house. In this way, the three of them, Manager Wang and Zhao Cong Dapeng I went to the cistern late at night, probably to put something unknown into the water that made me and my brother fall into a dream.

Speaking of this, I took a deep breath. In addition to connecting the water taps in the factory, the water in the reservoir is also connected to all the automatic water outlet devices in the cowshed. The infrastructure of Fuyuan Cattle Industry in some aspects can be regarded as relatively Advanced, the barn is equipped with a drinking water device for cattle, instead of traditional pools or sinks. If the cattle want to drink water, they only need to press their tongues on the pressure plate of the device to produce water, which can greatly avoid waste. Manager Wang They put the "dream medicine" into the reservoir, wouldn't every cow drink it?We have absolutely no idea what the consequences would be if the cattle drank the drug, but it probably wasn't used to strengthen the cattle.

My junior and I calculated it together and estimated how long we have been here, and it has been almost a month since we arrived at the venue. If something goes wrong because the cow drank water mixed with something, then we will pay for the one-month experiment. Thinking of this, my junior brother and I picked up the experimental equipment and went to the barn where we had selected the experimental cows to prepare for the mid-term sampling of the experiment. Although it will take a few days before the scheduled date, my junior brother and I Can't even afford to gamble, using cattle farm poisoning as an excuse for the failure of the experiment?The warden who was far away from the school might have killed me and my junior brother. Thinking of this, my junior brother and I were terrified.

On the way to the cattle house, I happened to meet Zhang Yi and the others. My junior made an excuse, saying that the school needs us to return some experimental data. Please help us collect samples, test data, etc. Zhang Yi and the others are happy I agreed, and called Lao Zhou, a worker in charge of beef cattle breeding. We also know Lao Zhou very well. After all, we do experiments in the area under his jurisdiction every day, and we sit and smoke and chat together when we have nothing to do. Lao Zhou said that he is young. I also read a lot of books, but unfortunately my family was poor and then I dropped out of school. I especially like to discuss world affairs with us, saying that my name has the same name and surname as a revolutionary martyr named Zhou Zhihua in Hubei.

The first thing I did when I arrived at the cowshed, I asked Lao Zhou to help screw on the valve of the water pipe, saying that it was to prevent the cows from drinking water, which would affect the experiment. After I ordered the water to be turned off, I wrote in the experiment notebook Huahua, while secretly observing the performance of Zhao Cong and the others, they were still helping us with our work, talking and laughing as usual, I secretly heaved a sigh of relief, the younger brother gave me a wink, which means that they have no other reaction, it should be nothing question.

The time passed quickly when I started working. After collecting the data of the last cow, a stone in my heart finally fell to the ground. With the precious experimental data, my junior brother and I went back to the room and found that the door of the next room was closed. It was open, and a bald young man was cleaning inside. He waved his hands and smiled at us when he saw us. The younger brother tentatively asked:

"Angkor?" After hearing the young man in the room, he put down the broom in his hand:

"You can just call me Xiao Wu. The headquarters said that a cow was slaughtered inexplicably in the factory. The surveillance saw that someone went in, right? I used to work as a veterinarian in this factory, and Mr. Ma asked me to come and have a look at it for a few days. Situation, I just arrived, what happened?"

After speaking, he took out a cigarette and gave each of us a cigarette, and he also lit it and took a puff. In the smog, my junior brother and I told what happened, but only about the cow being killed and the state of the cow carcass There is also the figure seen by the surveillance, and my junior brother and I have a tacit understanding without mentioning a word. Xiao Wuyue's frown deepened. At the end, he said that he would ask others to see if there are any details to add. By the way, he also I have to report to Accountant Chen.

Turning around, my junior brother and I went back to our room, feeling that we were surrounded by an invisible vortex, like rafting on a piece of black water. It seemed calm, but in fact we had no idea what was hidden under the bottom of the boat. This feeling makes us very uneasy. There are too many doubts to solve, but we can’t start. I said to my junior brother:

"I think we have no way to solve things related to people. We are not policemen or detectives. We have no ability to investigate others. If we are caught, we will be finished. We can only see from what we two see This minotaur is bought, if you know what it is, I think it should have something to say, it is not a groundless monster that just looks like a cow."

"Indeed, if you don't search the Internet to see if there have been similar incidents in nearby farms or other cattle farms, you may be able to find relevant reports."

So my junior brother and I searched aimlessly for relevant content on the Internet. After searching for a long time, we found nothing. Just when I was feeling irritated, I turned around and saw that my junior brother had already started watching teaching videos on fishing skills. I massaged my head and was about to click the fork in the upper right corner to close the webpage. The mouse drew across the screen, and the □□ I was hanging on popped up. I rolled the mouse wheel at will, and suddenly it occurred to me that someone might be able to help me.

The college entrance examination in Province J is very stressful. In the daily study and life of high school, even classmates don’t have much time to communicate with each other. The short breaks are either to solve the problem in the toilet, or take off the glasses and sleep on the ground. I can speak well. Apart from the same table, only the front and back tables were the ones who spoke. Fu Yingxue was my front desk in the third year of high school, a girl with a round face. There is a saying that goes like this: In a class, the first and second may be the enemy. But first and second must be friends.I was obsessed with playing games when I was in high school, and she was obsessed with reading fairy tales. This directly caused me and Fu Yingxue to be in dire straits even though we didn’t fall to the bottom. Therefore, we often went to the teacher’s office together and were punished. Open a small stove, and then be criticized together.

Fu Yingxue is a weak-looking girl, but she has a strange interest in myths and stories from all over the world, not only Chinese classical myths, local legends, but also many strange contents including Greek mythology and Nordic mythology. wide.After graduating from high school, I took the college entrance examination and went to an ordinary university to study biology-related majors, and she also chose a university to study a major she didn't like, and then changed majors to the Humanities College, changing from science and engineering to I became a liberal arts student, saying that I wanted to pursue my dream, and I got my wish and went to the Humanities College to study majors related to religious history.Later, I heard that she seemed to have chosen to go abroad for further study after graduating from university, and the contact between us gradually decreased.

Recalling the difficult high school years, I sent Fu Yingxue a message:

"Teacher Fu, is there any fairy tale with a cow?"

Due to the time difference, Fu Yingxue, who was far away on the other side of the world, would have to wait several hours to see this message after sending it, so I continued to look around on the Internet, and the web page opened one after another. One, turned his head to look at his junior brother, he was still learning fishing skills, very fascinated.Just watching, Xiao Wu came in, he saw the content in the search box on my webpage at a glance, and then said something to cheer me up and my junior brother:

"Dreamed about cows, didn't you?"

The younger brother pressed the space to pause the fishing teaching video, and then pointed at me:

"Senior brother, hurry up, quickly take out Zhonghua and give the big brother one! Big brother sit down and talk about it in detail!"

I took out Zhonghua and lit it for Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu took a sip, pinched the cigarette holder with two fingers and looked at the rising smoke, and said:

"Actually, I don't know much. Just now I reported to Accountant Chen, and I heard her talk about the factory. It seems a bit like a story I heard when I was young. It is only found in our small place. It is said that if someone wants to make a wish to the gods, they will use some methods to sacrifice, they can summon the gods, and then they will see a huge cow, but no one knows the specific method, and part of the content is that sacrifices are required , you all know the sacrifices."

As long as the original meaning of sacrifice is not a fish that slipped through the net of compulsory education, it is an animal used as a sacrifice. My junior and I expressed our understanding, and I asked:

"Was that cow just used as a sacrifice?"

"Looking at it like this, it should be that some people don't know where to know the method of sacrifice. They are going to summon the gods to make a wish. We can only know so much now. I don't know what this god is. I heard it from the adults when I was young. At that time, the factory hadn't been built yet." Xiao Wu took a deep puff on his cigarette.

While chatting, Xiao Wu talked about his own experience. He learned his veterinary skills from an old employee in the factory. Later, when the old employee got old and went home to take care of him, he stayed, but mainly at the headquarters. In the past two years, in addition to this Fuyuan Cattle Industry, he has run many other factories to provide livestock breeding services. Although he is young, he has enough experience. He said that he particularly liked his work experience in a cattle farm on the northeast border last year. The people on the border are very forthright and interesting, and there are many things to do near the border, which is especially fun.

Xiao Wu was talking to us about his time in Northeast China. As the smoke slowly shortened, the experience he spoke of gradually improved. He asked us if we had ever seen a real tiger. The ones in the zoo did not count. He and his younger brother said that there must be no such thing. He gestured a circle the size of a washbasin with his hand, and said that he was driving on a forest road in the northeast, with dense forests on both sides. He and other people in the car saw one side with their own eyes. There is a wild Siberian tiger in the mountain. According to his description, the paw of the Siberian tiger is as big as he gestured. Only then did he understand why the tiger is called the king of beasts. Its claws and strong body The muscles, the streamlined body, and the big mouth full of sharp teeth are really majestic, worthy of the title of king of beasts. Someone in the car urged them to speed up and drive away. You can't afford to mess with food.

After talking about this, Xiao Wu took out a wallet from his pocket. There were three silver-white plastic threads in the transparent interlayer. He said that these were the whiskers of the Siberian tiger. My junior and I took a closer look. The tiger beard looks very tough. There is a folk saying that wearing a tiger beard can ward off evil spirits and self-defense, but in the final analysis, it is a prohibited thing. If you don’t buy or sell it, you don’t kill it. We are curious how Xiao Wu got the tiger beard, and The authenticity of this thing.Xiao Wu said that on the other side of the border, there are often smuggling and smuggling, and there are various traders jumping repeatedly on the border. Many things that are prohibited in our country are not necessarily on the other side of the border. He said that in Russia, The chocolate over there is very popular. He often buys it there. This tiger whisker was given to him by a Chinese who was a lord in Russia. He said that we can’t smell the tiger whiskers, but animals have a good sense of smell. Spirit, the tiger's whiskers have a deterrent effect. There are not only teachers in the mountains, but also ferocious animals such as bears. Wearing them on your body can prevent you from being attacked by these fierce beasts.

Talking about these tiger whiskers, Xiao Wu said that he didn’t believe it was real at the beginning, so he just listened to it as a story and gave him some psychological comfort, until his wife once said that there was a dog in the community where they lived and she was afraid. Xiao Wu took a tiger's whisker for his wife to carry, but the dog really didn't dare to bark at her wife anymore, and even ran away with its tail between its legs when it saw her wife from a distance. Now Xiao Wu Only then did I realize that the few sticks in my hand were genuine, so I put them in my wallet and carried them with me every day.We were all amazed after hearing it.

Chatting and chatting, the sky gradually darkened, Xiao Wu went back to his room to rest, and the younger brother started to watch the fishing teaching video again, and I also received a reply message from Fu Yingxue, Fu Yingxue replied that this is a new thing , When she woke up early in the morning, she saw me asking her about fairy tales. We hadn’t contacted for several years, and asked me why I suddenly thought of asking her about such things.Then he gave me a popular science about the cow in the myth, and sent me a few pictures for me to see.I looked at the Kui Niu in China, the Minotaur with a bull-headed human body in Cretan mythology, etc., and they were all far from the bull monster image I saw in my dream.

The Kui Niu mentioned by Fu Yingxue has some similarities with the bull monster in the dream. It is recorded in the myth that the Kui Niu is an ancient beast. After being killed by the Yellow Emperor, the Kui Niu drum was made from its skin. Five hundred miles, and it is also described in ancient books that the roar of Kui Niu is as deafening as thunder, but this Kui Niu has a characteristic, that is, it has only one leg, which is different from the bull monster I saw in my dream .

I briefly described the cow I saw in my dream to Fu Yingxue. I didn't expect her to make a voice call, and the voice sounded very excited:

"Tell me quickly what you saw, in detail."

I told her about the appearance of the bull monster in my dream, and I also mentioned that the hind limbs of the cow were hidden in the gray fog and could not be seen. .After hearing my description, Fu Yingxue became even more excited:

"I have been studying for so many years, and I have never encountered such a thing. According to you, it is indeed a bit like Kui Niu. Kui Niu is also called Thunder Beast, and it doesn't have to have only one leg like the one in the picture. There is a saying that: Kui has one foot and one foot, and the description of Kui's one foot by later generations is likely to be false."

"Stop, stop, stop, you can't stop talking about this. I have a person who said that this cow is a local specialty. Do you have any ideas?" I quickly stopped or Teacher Fu would start teaching crazy.

Fu Yingxue was silent for a while, and asked me what the local specialties meant. I repeated what Xiao Wu told us before, and Fu Yingxue finished listening:

"According to this, you have to find it in the local annals of scenery. It's not easy to find. Some annals of scenery are very complicated. It will take some time to find it. It seems that the two of us used to be handed over to the office to suffer together. Grant, please give me more detailed information, such as your geographical location, and I will help you find it. This is very interesting. I read things written by foreigners every day. It’s time to change to some local dishes. It’s just my school. There are many translated Chinese classics in the library, I will go out and help you look at it now!"

"Teacher Fu, I'll leave this matter to you. I'll treat you to a big meal after returning home." I expressed my opinion hastily.

"I'm willing to do this kind of thing for money, just wait for my good news!" Fu Yingxue laughed loudly.

Since there was no headset, the whole process was played outside, and Fu Yingxue's voice was heard clearly by the younger brother. After a few cheap laughs, the younger brother leaned over and asked me:

"This girl's voice is really sweet, what do you think, brother?"

"You have to call her senior sister, this is my high school classmate."

The younger brother showed an expression of "I understand", and patted my shoulder:

"Brother, you're not too young, are you? Why are you beating a bachelor?" I silently clicked on the video of him fleeing for his life on the bed, and turned up the voice, and my brother sat back deflated and sighed.

When I was sleeping that night, I was woken up by the continuous beeping sound of my mobile phone. Without thinking about it, I knew it must be a message from Fu Yingxue. She confirmed with me whether I was located in the northeast of province A, and got my affirmation. After replying, Fu Yingxue sent a message:

"I found it in the local fengwuzhi. It's really hard to find. This might be what you saw in your dream." Then a photo of a book she took came in. The picture is quite large. After I downloaded the original picture , I saw the picture in the book, it was almost the same as the bull monster I saw in my dream, the only difference was that the hind limbs were also clearly visible, and Fu Yingxue sent a long list of messages, which meant that this thing belonged to our country very primitive and very early A religion, one of the gods believed by shamanism, and because shamanism is polytheism, the gods believed by each believer may be different, and the gods they believe in are also strange. This bull monster is a very detailed god in the agricultural belief, almost There are no relevant records, and the number of people who believe in it is very small.

Finally, she told me that the name of this thing was translated from Chinese to English and then translated back to Chinese by her. It should take the word "Mu Shen", which means the god of animal husbandry.