Strange World: My Systematic Practice Life

Seeing this, Egret confirmed his guess in his heart.

Pulling out the steel knife from his waist, he brushed aside the dead grass on the ground.

Soon when the tip of the knife poked through the withered grass at the corner of the fence, there was a strand of long dark yellow hair in it.

Picking up the long hair, Egret felt a slight cold breath.

The breath is extremely light, and it seems that it may dissipate at any time, but it does exist.

"What did you raise here before?" Bai Lu looked at the two villagers.

The two villagers were taken aback for a moment, but they still scratched their heads before saying.

"I remember that there used to be a very fierce big black dog in Lao Zhu's house. The big black dog was so fierce that it was not afraid of wolves, so Lao Zhu tied it up. This should be the place where the big black dog was tied. place."

Speaking of which, one of the villagers added.

"By the way, the black dog disappeared with Lao Zhu and the others."

"Black dog!"

Egret muttered softly in his mouth, blowing away the dark yellow hair in his hands with one mouthful, and turned to the two villagers.

"Okay, you two go back first and tell the village chief that the three of us are resting here today."

"Uh...Okay, those three adults, be careful."

After speaking, the two villagers lit torches and ran towards Wang Defa's house.

When the two left, Dong Xiu couldn't help but said.

"Baitou, did you find anything?"

"This case is not man-made." Bailu said lightly, which made Lao Suntou and Dong Xiu slightly pale.

"It wasn't done by humans, so... what?" Dong Xiu said with a somewhat ugly face.

"I don't know, but it must not be a human being." Bailu said lightly, but his eyes fell into the darkness.

"Baitou, can we deal with it with the few of us? Should I go back and ask for reinforcements, and let the night watchmen handle it."

The old grandson also said at this time.

"Without evidence, would the night watchman run so far with us?" Bai Lu said lightly, which immediately made the old grandson's expression collapse.

You are right, there is no evidence, and with the style of the night watchman, it is possible to go so far.

"Don't worry, I didn't say to deal with it now, what are you worried about?"

Seeing the dubious looks of the two, Bailu said helplessly.

"Move all the dry firewood in the shed into the house, and light the fire to make it hotter. That thing is afraid of fire, so it probably won't come over."

"okay."

Hearing Bai Lu's words, the two men's expressions softened.

The egret really scared them just now, although they had already prepared to face that kind of ghost, but they were mentally prepared to let them go directly, and the two of them felt trembling for a while.

Lao Sun and the other two picked up the dry firewood outside the courtyard into the earthen house and set it on fire.

The home in the earthen house is neat, in fact, it is just an earthen kang and a wooden table.

The three of them sat on the kang, with a raging flame burning beneath them.

Seeing the flames that were almost touching the roof, Bai Lu couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth.

I told you to make the fire bigger, but I didn't ask you to burn the roof.

Fortunately, the roof was made of civil engineering, so it was not so easy to ignite. Otherwise, before the behind-the-scenes thing came out, the three of them might be burned to death first.

Although they knew that the thing was afraid of fire, Lao Suntou and Dong Xiu didn't dare to sleep, they just lay on the kang with the simple knife in their arms, but they dared not close their eyes.

"I've been driving all night, you guys should sleep, I will call you if there is a situation."

Seeing the two of them wanting to sleep but not daring to sleep, Bailu said.

"You white head..."

"Don't worry about me, the endurance of warriors is not comparable to yours."

Egret said angrily.

After that, he didn't say any more, and sat in a corner of the kang with the steel knife in his arms, closed his eyes and meditated.

In fact, it wasn't that he was so kind, but that he didn't intend to sleep in the first place.

That thing can take people away without anyone noticing, with Dong Xiu and Lao Suntou as two ordinary people, it is estimated that they are not much better than those villagers.

So to be on the safe side, it's better to stay on duty at night.

It was only one night, and with his physical fitness, let alone a night without sleep, even three days without sleep would not have much impact.

Time passed slowly.

Dong Xiu and Lao Suntou were already tired after traveling in the middle of the night, and they only lasted for a while before falling asleep one after another.

There was a dead silence all around, except for the crisp sound of firewood piles bursting from time to time.

The flame flickered and gradually weakened.

sand...sand...sand...

I don't know when the wind picked up outside the house.

The cold wind whizzed past and poured into the house through the gaps in the paper windows of the earth house.

There seemed to be a strange fishy smell in the wind.

It made people faintly sick, but Old Suntou and Dong Xiu didn't notice it at all, they just curled up, and the snoring gradually started, and they fell into a deeper sleep.

The egret who was leaning against the wall with his eyes slightly closed seemed to have fallen into sleep, but the hand holding Pudao in his arms was a little tighter.

The fishy wind kept pouring in, blowing straight to make the flames in the house jump for a while, as if there was a sign that it was going to be extinguished.

However, the flames are uncertain, but the light and darkness are not extinguished in the end.

I don't know how long it took, the smell gradually dissipated, and the cold wind gradually stopped.

The surroundings returned to dead silence again, and the fire in the house rose again, and it was actually a bit stronger.

All night.

The sky was bright, and it was almost noon.

Lao Suntou and Dong Xiucai woke up from the bed.

Looking at the dazzling sunlight outside the house, I was a little dazed.

"It's... dawn!"

"How did we sleep until this point??"

The two of them rubbed their heads, only feeling a little sore in the head.

As fast catchers, the two of them would get up early every day when the sky was bright, and they would sleep until the sun was high like now, so I can't say that they never saw each other, but I can only say that they never saw each other twice a year.

Both of them were senior police officers, so they naturally felt something was wrong.

It's just that the egret is no longer in the room.

After leaving the earth house, I saw the egret standing outside the courtyard.

"Gray-headed, yesterday..."

Dong Xiu rubbed his head and asked.

"Something came yesterday, but it didn't come in. That thing is afraid of fire."

Bai Lu seemed to understand what the other party wanted to ask, raised his chin, and spoke directly.

"thing!?"

Dong Xiu and Lao Suntou followed Bailu's eyes and saw two clear scratches in front of the window of the earthen house.

"A man?"

Dong Xiu exclaimed.

There are five fingers in the scratch, and it does look a bit like a human finger.

"Probably not." Old Sun stepped forward to look carefully, and said in a deep voice.

"This finger mark is very deep. The claws of this thing are much sharper than human fingers, and they are also smaller than the size of ordinary people's palms."

Thinking that I was sleeping soundly yesterday, a human being was staring at me through the window.

Both Dong Xiu and Lao Suntou broke out in a cold sweat.

"What the hell is this thing?"

Dong Xiu said with an ugly expression.

"I don't know, but this thing moves very sensitively, and its IQ is not low."

Egret said slowly.

"Help!"

"Help!"

At this time, the door of the earthen house was pushed open, and Wang Defa and several villagers broke in.

Seeing that Bailu and the others were fine, he was relieved.

But then he said with a look of fear on his face.

"Master Bai, last night... Last night, someone disappeared again!"

"Another person is missing?" Bailu frowned slightly upon hearing this.

"Isn't there a fire in every house in the village? Will someone go missing?"

"It's Da Hu's house, I don't know what's going on, do I?"

"Take me over there!"

"it is good!"

A group of people soon came to a farmer's house.

The same Tuyuan, but bigger than the old Zhu's house.

Bai Lu led Dong Xiu and the others into the house, only to see the tattered quilt spread out and the fire that had already been extinguished.

He squatted down and reached into the fire with his hand, only feeling a coldness.

There is already a guess in my heart.

It is estimated that the family slept too deeply at night, and there was not much firewood on the fire, so it was extinguished at night and there was no time to add firewood, so this disaster happened.