Predatory map of ominous birds

The three gentlemen quickly ran to the other side of the house, leaving behind a victim Sir Henry who had stood up and was amazed at the huge black mastiff corpse on the ground, while Bo Fu slowly followed the footsteps of the three in front go ahead.After walking for about 5 minutes, the steeple of the house was already visible in the mist, and Bo Fu heard the scolding of the Scotland Yard police detective: "Damn it! He really ran away!"

When Bofu walked forward again, he saw Holmes and Dr. Watson rushing into a semi-basement at the corner of the house.Bo Fu didn't show his body, he just stood quietly under the trees outside. Because of the shadow and fog of the trees, the people in the house couldn't see him.Bofu looked at Watson supporting a woman. It was a bit inconvenient for the woman to walk, and she could see marks on her body that had just been bandaged, even though it was a little far away, and the woman couldn't see Bofu standing here at all. But Bo Fu could still feel the huge resentment and hatred in that woman.The three of them walked towards the swamp under the guidance of the woman. Bo Fu shook his head and stepped into the swamp from another direction very easily.

Under the bright moonlight, the fog had begun to dissipate at midnight, and the temperature was already very low. Bo Fu walked in the swamp like a stroll in the garden. He stepped on a clean place in the swamp with every step—even if it was A large area of ​​low-lying ponds, when Bo Fu's footsteps fell, would also form a solid block of ice where they landed.He didn't walk very fast, but because of the mysterious power, he actually approached their prey faster than Holmes and the others.At last Bofu stopped behind a stone, where there were thick bushes and beeches.Bo Fu stood there calmly looking at the quagmire ahead—the mossy ground that showed nothing unusual under the moonlight...

He just waited quietly.The fog is already very thin.Soon a man broke through the fog and ran to the right path.The face of this man was very cruel, and there was only a trace of remorse in his thin lips and ruthless eyes. As he ran, he muttered something in his mouth, and finally he stepped on the dry and solid ground on the other side of the swamp, turned around He turned his head and grinned in the direction of his own house and Baskerville Mansion in the distance. When he turned his head and prepared to continue fleeing, his pupils suddenly became almost invisible—appeared from the thin mist at an unknown time. A huge black dog.The oblong muzzle was dripping with burning saliva, and the huge ferocious head and red eyes that looked like burning coal balls were quietly staring at this guy... this fellow with the same surname Baskerville.

Bo Fu saw clearly from the other corner, he was smiling, "The hound of the Baskervilles has found its prey again after many years..." His words came out silently on his lips, and Bo Fu waited The progress of the following things.

The brutal man, the deadpan man, the man who had committed murder but had no remorse let out an inhuman scream of terror, pulled a revolver from his pocket, and waved it wildly. , and then pulled the trigger slowly.

The bullet flew to nowhere.The man was so terrified that he pulled the trigger even after the six rounds in the magazine had been drained.The giant black dog in front of him just looked at the man quietly.Then he began to trot... The man tried to turn around quickly with hands and feet, but the black mastiff quickly threw him down, and the huge square bloody mouth and sharp and thick fangs bit the man's neck from behind, Then, amidst the man's screams—because he was biting from the rear and didn't bite the trachea, the man could still bark, but his hands couldn't turn back to resist the mastiff's attack at all.The man screamed like this, digging his hands into the ground desperately, struggling hard, but was dragged to the edge of the swamp by the mastiff to no avail.

With the man's neck in its mouth, the huge mastiff jumped up lightly, leading the man into the middle of the swamp, and then disappeared like smoke... and the man was crushed like a stone Slurry engulfed.Bo Fu watched all this, and he also watched the mastiff drag out a shimmering figure from the man's body, and then disappeared into the mist that was about to dissipate...

After Bo Fu finished reading all this, he took out a flat wine jug from his pocket, unscrewed the lid and took a sip, then continued to wait.After about 15 minutes, a human voice came from the direction the man was running towards. It was a woman's voice, full of hatred: "I know! I know he escaped along the wooden pole mark I inserted! It would be great if I could pull it out in advance!" After sobbing, Bo Fu saw Doctor Watson pat the woman's back in the distance to comfort her, while Holmes and Lestrade were Searching for footprints on the ground like owls-they are destined to be disappointed, the footprints in the big swamp will soon be covered with mud, and finally they stand on the hard ground at the edge of the big mud pool marked by wooden poles, slightly He sighed in disappointment.

Then Holmes uttered a cry. He tried his best to grab the trees by the side of the quagmire, stretched his body vigorously, and used the cane in his hand to hook things floating in the middle of the quagmire. Lestrade grabbed Holmes' arm and added A layer of insurance.The cane finally hooked the thing over—it was a hunting cap soaked in mud, and the woman glanced at it and said, "It's his! It's his!"

"Then, this is the final outcome of Mr. Stapleton...I don't think we will see him again." Holmes casually hung his hunting cap on the tree beside him, and took a picture. Clap the dirt in your hands and say. "I'll have the police trap all the way out of the Great Grimpen Mire, and then I'll get a dog and I think we might find him..." Lestrade said a little Said unwillingly.

"I hope so..." said Holmes, and he made a sign that we were going back.

Bo Fu stood in the shadow and watched all this, "Indeed, it has always been like this... Then I will see you again." He turned around without a sound, and left along the way he came. this place.It's just that when he turned around, he still saw Sherlock Holmes's slightly frowning brows. His falcon-like eyes looked at the place where the hunting cap was raised, and then his eyes wandered to the other side of the quagmire, his brows furrowed even more. .

Bo Fu stopped, turned around to face Holmes and the others again, stepped back silently, and once again hid his figure in the deeper darkness, "Is it a well-deserved reputation? Maybe it's the scorching eyes of thieves? Can you find this trace at night... ..." Bo Fu also cast his eyes on the place Holmes was looking at - there were traces of the mastiff dragging Stapleton, which was not obvious, and it was not so bright under the moonlight, and the distance was not too far away. Not close, but Holmes saw it just by chance.

Lestrade, Watson, and Mrs. Stapleton saw Holmes suddenly stepping quickly but cautiously around the quagmire, walking towards the hard side, and followed him.What they saw was that Holmes bent down, looked carefully at the ground, then stood up like this, looked forward and backward, and finally turned his eyes to the middle part of the quagmire again, and sighed... .....

"Mr. Lestrade, there is no need to send policemen to guard the passage outside. There is no need..." said Holmes, and then he spoke again. "Let us go and see Staples. That's where Mr. Tun keeps his dogs, Mrs. Stapleton?"

"Please don't call me Mrs. Stapleton, Mr. Holmes. Please call me Berard..." insisted the woman.

"What have you found, Holmes?" asked Lestrade.

Holmes didn't speak, he just pointed to the place where he bent down to look - there was a shallow trace leading directly from the shore to the mire, in the trace there were several deep but very thin ditches, the mud Turned out from both sides.Lestrade raised his head and looked at Holmes. Holmes made a paw movement, and Lestrade gasped... "Did he be dragged down? sky!"

After more than ten minutes, Lestrade found nothing, and Holmes' eyes became brighter and brighter under the moonlight. He was obviously aroused by some interest, and he quickly walked forward—there was the place where the Stapleton dogs were kept. .........

When they left, Bo Fu also disappeared without a sound, "Mr. Holmes... the matter is not over yet." (To be continued...)