Fox in the Forest
Facts have proved that the city is different from the wilderness. It is very rich and the fox can eat its fill even if it just catches mice.
"squeak!"
With a scream, another mouse died tragically at the claws of a fox lying in ambush at the corner.
The fox tilted its head, pushed the mouse aside, lined up with its own kind, and continued to wait patiently.
The rats in the city didn't even have much vigilance. After eating and drinking, they ran away from people's homes, not knowing that there were natural enemies waiting at the corner tonight.
After a while, they caught enough food to fill their stomachs, but...
The little fox stared intently at the corpses lying in a row under its claws, feeling an inexplicable sense of disgust.
Although the fox's main food is various rodents, what it has eaten in the past few days is exceptionally tender chicken. Now looking at the original food, it is a little reluctant to eat it.
If it weren't for the nasty powder in that place...
After hastily filling his stomach with the prey he had just caught, the fox looked around and planned to explore a few more fixed feeding spots in human society while there was still plenty of time for activity at night, so as to avoid such a situation from happening again.
The red fox walked along the dim street, sticking to the corner of the wall. All it could see were unfamiliar human buildings. Every inch of land had a complex smell. The satisfaction of exploring new things soon made it happy again.
Human collective dwellings are really huge.
The fox was surprised that they could live in harmony in the same area and did not fight over territory on a daily basis.
“Pah.”
Huh?
The fox moved his ears, accurately locked onto the source of the sound and looked towards it, and saw a window with a faint light not far away.
It came closer curiously.
Um?
Is anyone still awake?
"It is so..."
Inside the room, the scholar lowered his eyes sleepily and nodded his head.
Only when he hit his head hard on the table did he suddenly raise his head, blink hard, and continue to recite incoherently.
In his field of vision, the candlelight flickered and the light flickered dimly, as if a soul was wandering out of the body, causing his eyelids to droop uncontrollably.
until--
In Yu Guangzhong's eyes, a mysterious silhouette suddenly walked past his window.
Click.
The scholar woke up almost suddenly, and the brush in his hand fell, but he didn't care at all about his sleeves splashed with ink. Instead, he quickly got up, held his breath, walked to the window, and carefully lifted the window.
There is nothing outside the window.
Filled with doubt and confusion, the scholar couldn't help but open the window a little more and stick half of his head out.
There was still nothing on the left. He breathed a sigh of relief and turned his head again.
But on the right, there was a figure waiting quietly. In the darkness, only its vertical pupils could be seen.
They are a pair of emotionless animal eyes.
"ah!"
The scholar was so frightened that he screamed and quickly closed the window. Without even taking off his clothes, he hid in bed.
Obviously he was still very sleepy just now, but when he saw that pair of eyes, he suddenly lost all sleepiness. Even though he was hiding in bed at this moment, his consciousness was unusually clear. All his senses seemed to be sensitive as if stimulated. He even had auditory hallucinations and wondered if the window was open.
He thought with trepidation.
Is that... a fox?
How could there be a fox in the city? And why was it hanging around his window? Was it still outside?
Heavy worries lingered in the scholar's heart, and tonight was destined to be a sleepless night for him.
The fox knew nothing about this.
It's just curious about what people who are still awake are doing at this time.
It is very polite. Even if it smells food in the room, it will not act rashly, but will look at people silently.
But after scaring four or five people who were reading with lights on late at night and making them hide in their beds, it finally gave up the idea of exploring humans' nighttime life. It sat on the eaves, enjoying the evening breeze, and fell into deep thought.
How do you feel...
Humans seem to be afraid of it?
Based on its size, it has always thought that humans are stronger predators than it, but now, why do they hide when they see it?
Aren't they actually that strong?
Tilting his head in confusion, the fox decided to randomly pick a lucky person to test.
But who would be outside in the middle of the night?
Da da da.
While he was struggling, the fox saw an old acquaintance - the man who often flirted with the woman under the wall.
At this moment, he looked hurried, walking quickly, and seemed a little absent-minded.
very good.
Let's test him.
The fox curled its eyes, followed the man for a few steps on the roof, then predicted where the man would go next, jumped down in advance, squatted at the corner, and waited for people with a smile.
"Damn it, where did I throw it...eh?!"
The man's words suddenly paused.
Things haven't been going well these past few days.
First, the meeting last night was seen by the kid from the Liu family, and it was not until the day that he discovered that his jade pendant was missing. He wanted to ask Liu to help keep an eye out, but the next day, the Liu residence was suddenly heavily guarded, and Liu had no chance to communicate.
As a planner who is providing guidance from outside, I have an ominous feeling that some plan is out of control.
And now, at the intersection in front of him, there was a fox squatting.
A beast that clearly belonged to the mountains and forests, with every hair gleaming in the moonlight.
Where did the fox come from in the city?
Isn't it afraid of humans? Why didn't it run away when it saw him?!
Especially when he saw its elongated shadow in the moonlight and the somewhat familiar shape of its ears, the man was horrified.
This is what happened to Liu that day?!
There were too many abnormal things, and he was already feeling guilty, so his heart beat faster and he unconsciously took half a step back.
It was this half step that allowed the fox to see his weakness.
Huh? Scared?
That would be bold.
The fox stretched his limbs lazily, stood up and walked slowly towards the man.
It was dark at midnight, with only a faint moonlight, and the fox waiting at the intersection walked towards people with a smile on its face, its eyes glowing. It was a terrifying scene.
"Go! Go away!"
After being startled, the man came to his senses and immediately shouted a few times in a ferocious manner, trying to scare the fox away.
But the fox in front of him was really abnormal.
Not only was it not frightened by his voice, it even laughed a few times in its throat and continued to walk towards him, as if it was here to collect a debt.
"You beast! How dare you! If you come one step closer, I will..."
Just what?
Well, if you haven't attacked for such a long time, you are definitely weak inside.
The fox came to this conclusion in his mind.
Not only did it not stop as the man expected, but it lowered its center of gravity and ran towards the man.
Try it and see if this can scare people away.
The fact is that it can.
When he saw that the strange fox was not only not driven away by his scolding, but was running towards him quickly, the man turned around and ran away.
Narrator:
"I was walking around late at night and saw someone I knew. I just wanted to go up and say hello, but for some reason, the person ran away when he saw me."
"Hmm... maybe he has done something wrong and feels guilty about it?"
"This can't be his problem, right?"
The audience can understand it very well.
【It’s me who runs faster ()】
[The previous one is useless! I accept that such a beautiful little fox is a fox demon. It's worth plucking a handful of its tail hair before it dies! ]
[The little fox is so friendly, it keeps smiling~]
[It's even scarier because it's laughing, hahaha. This is a heavy blow to people who already have a guilty conscience. 】
[I can only say that it’s fortunate that it wasn’t another passerby, but this person himself has problems, so it’s okay to scare him. ]
“Oh.”
Run, run.
The fox intended to test the human's physical strength based on the man's reaction, so it kept chasing him slowly, making noises from time to time to prove that it was still following behind, and to tell the people in front not to slack off.
It's simply the behavior of a living devil.
The man is about to collapse.
It would have been fine if it had only followed him for a short distance, but the fox had been following him like a shadow, and it was obvious that it was coming for him!
What does it want to do?
Demanding life or collecting debt? ?
What happens if you are caught?
The plot against the Liu family was not the only evil thing he had done in his life. When he was being chased by the fox, all the evil deeds he had done kept flashing through his mind.
As the saying goes, if you have done nothing wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door.
The scholars in front, even if they looked at the fox, were only scared and hid in bed, and did not have any further extreme reactions.
But the man was very nervous, and he became even more frightened when he saw the fox's strange behavior.
Damn it!
Who called it?
In the darkness of the night, a man and a fox ran a long way.
Coincidentally, their pursuit route passed by the houses of several scholars who had just been frightened by the fox. The scholars, who had finally felt sleepy, became alert again when they heard the faint cry of the fox, and fearfully opened the windows to check.
It was too dark and they couldn't see clearly what was happening outside.
I could only vaguely see that the fox seemed to be chasing someone.
"hiss--"
They gasped at the same time and immediately hid back in bed.
Sure enough, this fox is not an ordinary fox, it even dares to chase people!
God bless, I hope they are not targeted!!
“Hoo—Hoo—”
The man who had been chased all the way was about to despair.
He never expected that he could escape from people but not from foxes.
Before I knew it, I had arrived at his residence.
If the fox was determined to kill him, there was no point hiding in the house unless he never left the house.
Things have come to this point, so he might as well stop running.
He leaned against the wall and gasped for breath, waiting for the fox that was chasing him madly to come forward and then transform into a nine-foot-tall giant fox and swallow him up.
But the fox did not come closer until his breathing became steady and the dizziness was no longer evident.
He turned around and saw that the fox had disappeared.
At this time, there was a faint white light in the sky.
The man stared blankly at the sky, and suddenly his legs went weak and he fell against the wall.
It disappeared at dawn, it must be a demon, right?
Then, he actually saved his life from the fox demon...
The man gasped for breath after surviving the disaster and immediately made up his mind.
It's really uneasy here. The matter with the Liu family must be done as soon as possible. If not, run away quickly. There is no time for hesitation!
But in fact, the fox just got tired halfway through the chase.
After testing the humans, the fox went back to the rockery in the yard to sleep.
I just ate a few mice and ran so far. I'm so tired.
The little fox, yawning in the tree hole and unaware of the shock he had brought to the city that night, smacked his lips and closed his eyes.
The camera then moved to the human side.
First, there were a few scholars gathering in a restaurant.
There were dark circles under their eyes, and they all looked like they hadn't slept well.
I don't know who started the topic, but they finally mentioned what happened last night. When they learned that their colleagues had also encountered foxes, they all became excited:
"What? Brother Li saw it too?"
"I opened the window slightly to get some fresh air, but I didn't expect to meet a pair of golden eyes!"
"When I looked up while changing my pen, I saw a cat-like figure walking past my window..."
"In the second half of the night, it seemed to be chasing people... I told my family not to go out at night to avoid running into it."
"That scream, tsk tsk, is so terrifying!!"
Knowing that they were not the only ones who saw the fox, they felt relieved and hurriedly exchanged more details.
"fox?"
They were chatting in the restaurant, surrounded by people, and the topic was eye-catching. After a while, people around them also knew that a fox had sneaked into the city.
In the eyes of people at that time, the fox was a mysterious animal.
Especially after the scholars finished chatting like this, a man who came from a remote rural village also added weakly: "Actually... a fox demon also appeared in our city half a month ago..."
Everyone: What?!
Everyone: Let me hear it!
What happened in the dilapidated temple was relatively complete, with a reasonable and coherent beginning, middle and end. Everyone was shocked and believed the fox demon story to be 70%.
"Is it really possessing a person?"
"That Meng guy has such a vicious heart!"
"Could it be that because you all avoided it, it followed the human scent and found its way here?"
Liu Heng, who was standing aside, also heard these things.
He waited for a long time yesterday but the fox demon didn't appear in his dream. He began to suspect that everything was an illusion. But today he heard these things again.
He felt a little disappointed for a moment.
Why did the fox chase others?
That night, he clearly wanted to chase her, but he couldn't catch her...
well.
Audience: …
One look at the boy's expression revealed what he was thinking. Everyone else was shocked and terrified, but he was the only one feeling a little pity.
[Isn’t this the key evidence? The fox is not just a fantasy, it exists in reality and it chased people all night long! ]
[Okay, I understand why those two people look down on this young master. He is indeed not a threat.]
[Damn it, does the little fox have to throw the evidence in your face? ]
[No way, maybe he doesn't have a sense of crisis... When something happens to his father, he will probably be able to react.]
The next shot in the live broadcast room was the meeting of the affair group in the daytime.
As soon as they met, the man stuffed a larger amount of medicine into Liu's hands than usual and asked her to finish as soon as possible.
"So many?" Liu opened her eyes wide and lowered her voice, "You don't want to live, but I do. With so many, the old man will die very quickly!!"
The man's eyes were paranoid. He had been tortured all night and was a little crazy. "I can't wait any longer. Have you heard the fox that everyone in the city is talking about today? The person it was chasing was me."
Liu exclaimed: "It's you?!"
The man exhaled deeply: "Remember the voice you and I heard a few days ago? Perhaps it saw us at that time..."
Liu was panicked: "Why would a monster care about this? We didn't get its money, why would it care about our business?"
"Who knows what it's thinking! We can't gamble our lives with a monster!"
The medicine bag was stuffed heavily into Liu's hands again. The meeting time was short, so the man could only lower his voice and say word by word: "In short, finish this matter as soon as possible. Whether it succeeds or not, we have to leave here quickly."
"……Um."
Liu nodded anxiously.
The audience understood.
[Okay, they panicked.]
[If you panic, you're done for. You'll probably be discovered. ]
[Sure enough, it's the little fox who has to take action. He doesn't have to do anything, just take a stroll at night and the problem can be solved. Hahaha. ]
In the past few days, foxes have been wandering around at night, and the whole city knows that a fox with strange whereabouts has come to their place.
It is not afraid of people at all. When it sees people under the moon, it will stop silently, but when people approach, it will disappear silently.
It's everywhere.
Whether it was on the windowsill of an inn, in the backyard of a restaurant, or even on the stage of a brothel, people said they had seen a fox.
But when the sun rose, the fox seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth, without a trace, and could not be found anywhere.
Such strangeness, coupled with the incident of fox possession in the remote countryside, caused panic among the people in the city.
Especially the two who were planning to seize Liu family's property.
Their original medicine was a slow poison.
If they had followed their previous idea and fed him patiently for half a year, Mr. Liu would have died quietly as if he had a chronic disease.
But now that they felt they were being targeted by the fox, they became anxious and all sorts of small movements became obvious.
The opposite is Mr. Liu.
He heard about the fox. He was originally afraid of foxes because of his childhood experience. Now, seeing foxes running around the city, he became more cautious in his daily life, for fear that he would accidentally eat fox fur.
These two extremes finally allowed Mr. Liu to catch Liu's flaw.
That day, he saw some unmelted powder in the ginseng tea.
The Liu Mansion was in chaos for a while.
The noise continued until the evening, arousing the curiosity of the fox, who had originally thought of not going to Liu's house anymore, and he couldn't help but eavesdrop by hiding in the corner.
yeah?
Is there something new going on?
Let it see!
Narrator:
"TA never took the initiative to interfere in the family's affairs, but saw that the two people had bad intentions, so he watched them a few more times."
"But after just a few appearances, the group of people became suspicious. The victims became more alert, and the perpetrators made mistakes out of haste. Just like that, the originally foolproof event was exposed."
"Eh? To be honest, this has nothing to do with him!"
[Fox: Yeah, this is none of my business, just eating melon (innocent)]
[I was originally looking forward to seeing where the little fox would go to play tonight, but I didn’t expect the previous incident to be resolved so easily, hahaha. ]
[In this type of genre, the protagonist doesn’t really have to do much. There’s a certain inertia…]
[Eh, so Liu was caught? Where's the other guy? ]
While the little fox was lying on the wall watching the fun, the situation below was also in a stalemate.
The main thing is that Liu did not confess the man.
I don't know if she was really deeply in love with him, or if she was sure that the man was a way out and could save her, but in any case, Mr. Liu was so angry that he almost fainted while sitting on the chair.
"You, just tell me! How could you do such a thing alone?!"
"I did it, it has nothing to do with anyone else."
“You, you——”
The fox put up his paws, placed his chin on the wall, and ate the melon with a smile.
nice.
Love to watch.
It turns out that this place can be so lively, so it won’t be classified as a dangerous area anymore. Come and take a look from time to time.
"Mrs. Liu is such a person..."
Liu Heng had been in a trance from day till night, and only now had he finally woken up and regained his senses. Combining the abnormalities of the past few days, a subtle thought arose from the bottom of his heart.
So, he actually went out that night, right?
He was led by the fox to the foot of the fence. He waited for the fox to call him again as a clue. When he turned around, he saw a familiar figure - now that he thought about it, it must have been Liu!
At the end of his memory, he was knocked down by someone. That person must be the one who conspired with Liu!
And that jade pendant...ah!
"Dad, I know who that person is!!"
Liu Heng figured this out, and quickly took out the jade pendant that he treasured, and handed it to Master Liu: "This is the jade pendant of the adulterer!"
Master Liu looked at Liu who was kneeling below him. It took him a long time to catch his breath. Then he heard the news from his son. He was a little surprised and doubtful: "How did you know? Where did this jade pendant come from?"
Liu Heng then told the story of how he had been waiting for the fox that night, but was led by the fox to the place where the two were having an affair.
Now that I think about it, the fox entered Liu's mansion, did it mean that it knew about the conspiracy and wanted to help them?
In the restaurant, Liu Heng listened to the countryman's story about the ruined temple.
Although the villagers were very afraid of foxes, Liu Heng carefully observed that the fox did not hurt anyone from beginning to end.
Even though he was falsely accused of a crime and was hunted by the Taoist priest, he did not get angry. Instead, he possessed Wu Shusheng and told the truth through his mouth.
This is clearly a good fox!
The same is true this time.
The fox entered the house and only ate a few chickens, but it gave them guidance and prevented the family property from being swallowed up by outsiders.
That night he was so obsessed with the fox's beauty that he didn't notice anything unusual. The fox even made it sound like a thief had broken into the house, which kept him safe...
Thinking of this, Liu Heng suddenly asked Liu: "Your adulterer is the one being chased by the fox, right?"
Liu: ...!
Although she didn't say anything, the change in her eyes said it all.
The father and son did not speak loudly, and she was in a trance due to the torture, so she did not hear their conversation clearly, let alone Liu Heng's reasoning.
In her mind, only the two of them knew that the man was being targeted by the fox, and that was why they acted in a hurry and revealed the flaw.
And now, after Liu Heng said this, she could only think that the other person had been arrested, and her face suddenly turned gloomy.
really!
Liu Heng was secretly excited, and turned to his father and said, "Dad! Everything the fox does is to help our Liu family! We must quickly prepare some more food to entertain it!"
“…What nonsense!”
Unexpectedly, Master Liu's first reaction was to find it absurd, and he slammed the table and said, "How could a cunning and treacherous beast like a fox do such a thing?!"
Liu Heng argued: "Really! It's absolutely true!"
"Nonsense! I was the one who saw through the details and discovered the bitch's conspiracy. What does that stinky fox have to do with it?!"
"Dad...you'd better not say that to it, it will make it unhappy."
"I can say whatever I want! It's unhappy? What can it do to me? It can also--uh, uh!"
“Dad! Dad!!”
His emotions fluctuated greatly today, and he had also been drinking poisonous ginseng tea for a while. When Mr. Liu was halfway through his speech, he rolled his eyes and fainted.
The timing was perfect.
After just a few curses at the fox, the man who was full of energy just now fainted.
The people below didn't understand any of this. They only knew that the master spoke rudely to the fox and then fell down.
They instantly became nervous and whispered:
"We didn't say that, Master Fox."
"I, I, I love foxes the most, please don't hurt me!"
"I will offer you an offering tomorrow. Don't look at me, don't look at me..."
Hahaha——
The little fox on the wall had no awareness that it was the center of human conversation. It just yawned and smacked its lips.
A little hungry.
Probe into the brain.jpg
Is it over? When it’s over, I’ll go eat.
I wonder if I’ll be lucky enough to eat chicken today…
When the incident at Liu Mansion gave Fox another buff, the next day——
Fox: Is this outside for me? Oh, are these all for me? Eh? ? (Fox tilts his head)
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