"Strange Tales of the Mountains" is not an encyclopedia, until later I met many earth beasts and ghosts that were not recorded in "Strange Tales of the Mountains", but it is understandable that this book has always been my most important treasure, because for me when I was younger, this book helped me so much.

After encountering the white-faced monster, I flipped through the book at night and saw a passage in it, which was not about the white-faced monster, but about an earth beast called the "life cat".

As the old saying goes, cats have nine lives, and psychic ghosts, among which black cats are fierce and should not be exposed to more.

"Life cat" was originally a black cat, according to the record of "Mountain Strange Talk", if the young black cat is not raised, it will attract lonely ghosts because of its special physique, these lonely ghosts and wild ghosts are lodged in the nine lives of black cats, and as the black cat slowly grows up and resentment infiltrates it, it becomes a "life cat", which is the worst of the murders. If it is encountered by mortals, if the yang energy is insufficient, or if there is no enlightened magic weapon on the body, it is easy to attract resentment into the body, not to mention the decrease in good fortune, and the number of lives will also deteriorate.

However, the "life cat" is very rare, and its iconic feature is the tail, which has a particularly clear white spiral pattern on the tail, and is not afraid of people, but is aggressive when it sees people.

The black cat I saw in the Lijiadu Garden seemed to be somewhat similar to the "life cat" written in the book, but I didn't see its tail clearly, but it dared to attack me at that time, which was much more powerful than ordinary wild cats. If what I saw in the Li Jiadu Garden was really the "life cat", then what would be the origin of the strange person who could eat the life cat?

It's a pity that there is no mention of similar earth beasts and ghosts in the book, which has become a regret in my heart.

The next day, I arrived at the fat man's house early in the morning, his house is close to downtown Shanghai, but it is the ground floor, an old-fashioned house, and he has built a yard at the door, which is considered an illegal building, but no one cares about it at that time.

When I entered the house, I happened to see the fat man's uncle, his uncle's name is Cui Yingchang, he is very tall and 1.85 meters, he should be quite burly in his impression, and he used to meet in suits and leather shoes, with wax combing hair, but this time he met and changed, the whole person looked haggard and slender, wearing a gray suit, sitting in the living room and smoking.

Seeing me, he smiled reluctantly and said, "Xiaoshan, thank you this time." ”

I hurriedly waved my hand and said, "It's okay, I'll go to the yard to find the fat man." ”

The fat man and I didn't tell him the truth, and the fat man lied to him and said that he had found a buyer who liked to collect specimens and got some money.

When I entered the courtyard, I saw a square grotto made of bricks and iron plates. "Fangwei" roared vigorously in the grotto, but his voice was hoarse, apparently howling all night.

The fat man's face was tired, and it was obvious that he hadn't slept well at night, and the floor was full of cigarette butts. I walked up, he handed me a cigarette, I waved my hand and said, "Smoke less, do you have a kitchen knife at home?" Hurry up. ”

After a while, the fat man came back with a kitchen knife, and I put on the thick gloves I used to pull the wires and walked to the side of the grotto. Squinting his eyes and peering through the gap between the bricks. "Square Tail" sensed something, looked a little frightened, and his round body shrank back, looking at me warily.

I grew up in the city, and I haven't even killed chickens in the past, at most I have slaughtered mice, and I don't know how to do it for a while. In addition, the appearance of "square tail" looks quite pitiful, and the whole person is clubbed and does not move.

"What's wrong? Can't get started? ”

The fat man walked up and asked.

I habitually pursed my lips, shook my head, and said, "It's okay, you move the iron plate and bricks on it a little bit, I'll grab it and do it." ”

The iron plate was lifted, the "square tail" screamed non-stop, I frowned and stretched out my hand to hold down its body, at this time the little thing in front of me suddenly released a large amount of black gas, scared me and the fat man hurriedly retreated, this black gas looked wrong, some like the resentment of Shui Yi spitting out. The "square tail" originally lived by sucking resentment, and when it came to a crisis, it was possible to spit out the absorbed resentment to save his life.

The retreat of the fat man and I gave the "square tail" a chance to escape, and the little thing jumped out of the gap above the grotto, nimbly climbing up the walls and pipes.

"This thing is going to run, stop it!"

I turned around and shouted, the fat man lifted the stone on the ground and smashed it, but the crosshair was really bad, and he didn't hit the "square tail" stone and flew out, and the square tail climbed along the water pipe to the edge of the wall, if you climb out of the wall and go outside, it will be difficult to catch it!

In a hurry, I could only throw the kitchen knife in my hand, this time I don't know if it was a mistake or luck, a knife slashed at the connection between the "square tail" butt and the tail, only to hear the "square tail" scream, blood flowed down the wall, the "square tail" with a broken tail was unbearable pain also threw off the wall, fell in the yard, convulsed a few times, and stopped moving after a while.

"What's going on? Dead? ”

The fat man asked nervously.

I took out Daba's amulet, paced over, and saw that the body of the "square tail" that fell to the ground was as if it had been burned by fire, and there was a large area of charred black, I kicked its body with my toes, without the slightest movement, and then walked over a little calmly, looked down at the broken tail on the ground, and at this look, my heart trembled violently, and shouted: "How can this be! ”

"What's the situation?"

The fat man walked over suspiciously, and also looked down at the broken tail on the ground, only to find that the tail that had just been cut off by me at this time and the body of the "square tail" seemed to have been burned by fire, I hurriedly reached out and picked up the tail and put it in the water to flush, I wanted the bone at the tail of the "square tail", if the bone was burned, I and the fat man would be all in vain!

But this time it didn't come to us. The bones beneath the charred flesh had been burned black, and when I pinched it, it immediately became splintering.

"Damn, is this still useful?"

When the fat man saw it, he was immediately anxious, but I couldn't say why, so I hurriedly borrowed his phone and called Lee Dunzhu. It took five or six long distances in a row to get through, and after explaining the situation, Lee Dunzhu replied to me as follows.

"You kid think it's hunting, huh? If the earth beast can be dealt with so easily, then the people who have made a fortune are not satisfied with the streets? The ghosts of the underworld and the monsters of the yang world are classified in a complicated way, and each classification has a different way to deal with it. It's good that you can run into an earth beast, at least after catching it, you have to ask a master to drive away the yin qi on the earth beast before you can kill it. What are you anxious about! The charred bones are useless to me, you throw them away. ”

I relayed the exact words to the fat man, who sighed and squatted in the yard to smoke. The two of them worked all night without saying anything, and they originally hoped to get some money, but they didn't expect to have no fart in the end.

I sat there and didn't speak, feeling a little depressed. After a long while, he spoke: "Fatty, we can't do this, Brother Zhuzi said that he would ask a master to exorcise evil spirits." Do you see that Master Han? ”

"People are old men, who cares about us little kids!"

The fat man shook his head and replied.

At this moment, both of them were broken, and it happened that the fat man's uncle walked in, looked at the situation and understood a little, and said with a smile: "Stinky boy, don't worry about me, you can't die." It's a big deal to hide for a few years. When I make a comeback one day, hundreds of thousands of dollars will not be taken into account at all. ”

To put it lightly, hundreds of thousands were astronomical in those days. The fat man and his uncle have loved the fat man since he was a child, and he took the fat man to eat in a famous restaurant in Shanghai when he was a child, the crystal shrimp at the Peace Hotel, the pine nut sea bass on the Huangpu River cruise, and the crab roe small cage made by the chef of Nanxiang Guyi Garden. The fat man ate it all over the place, and because of this, he was very close to his uncle.

"Uncle, it's okay! We've got a way to get money, don't worry about it, haha. ”

The fat man smiled reluctantly, but when he saw his uncle smiling, he took out a passbook and stuffed it into the fat man's hand.

"Uncle, what are you doing!"

The fat man asked, taken aback.

"Your uncle and I don't have children or wives, I have treated you as my own son since I was a child, and I will run away after a while. There are still a few thousand yuan in this passbook, which will be used when you marry your daughter-in-law in a few years, which is your uncle's last deposit. You're holding the ......."

Regardless of whether the fat man wanted it or not, his uncle left the passbook and left. Looking at the thin passbook in our hands, the fat man and I fell silent.

"Xiaoshan, let's go to Xuanming Temple again......"

After a long time, the fat man looked up at me and said solemnly.