Northeast Golden Gradient Treats My Home as a Confinement Center

Chapter 233 Human-faced Bird

"Stick your ass out for me!"

Xiong Zhaocai slapped the female secretary's butt hard with his big hand.

The latter let out an "ah" and changed his posture.

"You little bitch, Daddy will kill you today!"

Xiong Zhaocai had a silver smile on his face.

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Unfortunately, the cell phone on the desk suddenly rang.

"Damn it, this is so unlucky!"

Xiong Zhaocai heard the bell and cursed inwardly.

The female secretary glanced sideways, looking disappointed.

Xiong Zhaocai got down from the sofa with a gloomy face and answered the phone casually.

"Fuck you, you said I was busy, don't you understand what I'm saying?"

"Who, Shi Baoguo?"

"Oh, someone wants to buy my abandoned yard?"

When Xiong Zhaocai heard the purpose of the call from the other end of the phone, he waved to the female secretary, who straightened her clothes and left the office.

"Tell me, who wants to buy my forest farm?"

Xiong Zhaocai was secretly delighted. His forest farm had been abandoned for many years and he wanted to sell it many times, but no one was interested even if he offered the lowest price.

Someone came to his door today and he was naturally very happy. He wanted to sign a contract with the other party immediately, sell the forest farm and make a fortune.

"What? Boss Shen?" Xiong Zhaocai asked in surprise.

"The boss Shen from Muwu Village? The boss Shen who sells wild boar meat and raises Siberian tigers? Are you sure it's him?"

"Okay then, give him my phone number and I'll talk to him in person."

Xiong Zhaocai hung up the phone with a look of surprise on his face.

The person who proposed to buy his forest farm turned out to be Boss Shen, with whom he had met before!

If Shen Xing were there, he would definitely recognize that Xiong Zhaocai was one of the customers who bought the most wild boar meat that day.

Yes, it’s the bald fat guy with a big gold chain around his neck!
Another person who bought the most was Manager Chen of the City Bank, who wanted to celebrate his father-in-law's birthday.

"Why did Boss Shen suddenly think of buying a forest farm..."

"I think I got a call from him..."

Xiong Zhaocai stroked his chin, deep in thought.

Xiong Zhaocai started his business in his early years by contracting a forest farm and gradually accumulated capital by selling wood. He not only bought a car and a house, but also married a hot wife.

In those years, the real estate market was booming, which boosted the construction industry. Real estate developers in the city needed timber, so they called Xiong Zhaocai to purchase it.

Originally the business was pretty good, and the money in his pocket was getting more and more. But after that incident, his business went downhill, and he couldn't even run the forest farm, so he was forced to close it down.

"Damn it! If I find the murderer, I will gouge him alive!"

The more Xiong Zhaocai thought about it, the angrier he became. It had been ten years, and the murderer who killed Xiao Chen's wife had not been caught yet. Because of this incident, the first forest farm he opened when he was young and started a business went bankrupt.

The forest farm he runs now was opened after he sold his house and car to raise enough money. Because of this, his beautiful wife, who earned more than one million yuan from him, divorced him.

"I remember adding Boss Shen's WeChat the last time I bought pork..."

Xiong Zhaocai searched on WeChat and soon found Shen Xing's WeChat.

He made a WeChat call.

On the other side, Shen Xing, led by the weasel, entered the nameless mountain.

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When he reached halfway up the mountain, the cell phone in his trouser pocket rang.

"Boss Xiong?"

Shen Xing looked at the incoming call and frowned slightly.

Who is this "Boss Xiong"? When was he added?

"Wait a moment." Shen Xing asked the dogs to stop.

He answered the phone, "Hello, who is this?"

A strange middle-aged man's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Boss Shen, you are a forgetful person. Have you forgotten me so quickly?"

"You are……"

"My last name is Xiong. I bought 50 kilograms of wild boar meat at the gate of your yard that day." Xiong Zhaocai said with a smile on the other end of the phone.

When Shen Xing heard this, he suddenly realized.

"Oh, it's Mr. Xiong."

Shen Xing nodded. He had some impression of the boss named Xiong. At that time, he and another person bought all the remaining wild boar meat. They were one of the two customers who bought the most.

"Boss Xiong, are you going to buy some meat? I don't have any right now. I'll let you know if I have some later."

Shen Xing thought that Xiong always came to him to buy wild boar meat.

"No, no, no, that's not what I'm looking for you for. I heard from Lao Shitou that you want to buy some land recently?"

"Old Shitou?" Shen Xing was stunned when he heard that, and then he remembered that the other party was talking about Shi Baoguo, the chief of Shiwu Village.

"Well, I do have this idea recently." Shen Xing did not hide it.

"Where are you now? Let's find a teahouse to chat?" Xiong Zhaocai said with a smile on the other end of the phone.

"…The Fortune Forest Farm is yours?"

Shen Xing finally understood why Mr. Xiong always called him.

"Of course I am. My name is Xiong Zhaocai. If the forest farm is not mine, then whose could it be?"

really!

What a coincidence! Shen Xing didn't expect that the owner of the forest farm he had his eyes on was actually his former customer.

While Shen Xing was deep in thought, Mr. Xiong on the other end of the phone changed his tone and said seriously:

"Boss Shen, let me tell you first, someone has died in my forest farm before. There has been unrest in that area in recent years. I heard from the villagers that there have even been ghosts."

Although Xiong Zhaocai is a businessman, he is a kind person and told Shen Xing everything about the murder and the haunting.

In fact, he didn't need to say it. As long as Shen Xing asked around in the area near the forest farm, he would know everything clearly.

"I know this." Shen Xing nodded on the other end of the phone.

"Aren't you afraid?" Xiong Zhaocai was surprised.

"What's there to be afraid of?" Shen Xing asked back.

"I'm heading towards the forest farm now," he added.

"What? You are in the forest farm now?" Xiong Zhaocai was shocked.

"Boss Shen, you're alone? You're so brave!"

Xiong Zhaocai said in surprise.

Ever since the murder happened, Xiong Zhaocai, who had been living in the forest farm, had nightmares every night after witnessing the woman's tragic death. He would wake up in a sweat and lost several pounds in just a few days.

Later, he couldn't stand it anymore and moved out of the forest farm.

Not only him, other workers also had this nightmare experience, some even dreamed of Xiao Chen, shouting "Give me back my wife's life, give me back my wife's life..."

It's wicked!
"Wait a minute, I'll be there right now, don't go up!" Xiong Zhaocai shouted on the phone, stopping Shen Xing. He was afraid that if Shen Xing went up alone, something might happen.

The phone hangs up.

"This boss is easy to talk to. It seems like I can make a good deal of him... Oh no, let me negotiate a good price!" Shen Xing raised the corner of his mouth and called to the weasel leading the way in front.

"Let's go, let's continue up the mountain!"

Led by the weasel, they walked for another ten minutes and finally reached the halfway point of the mountain.

Halfway up the mountain is the location of the abandoned forest farm.

After walking along a path for a few more minutes, an abandoned wooden house came into view.

There is a sign at the door of the wooden house - Zhaocai Forest Farm.

"It's here." Shen Xing nodded.

This forest farm was exactly the same as the scene he had vaguely seen on the top of the hill before.

Standing at the gate of the forest farm, Shen Xing looked inside the forest farm.

There were seven or eight wooden houses in total, all in a dilapidated state, with spider webs covering the beams. Some of the roofs even had large holes in them, littered with dead leaves.

The current site of the wooden house is filled with several wood cutting machines. Although fallen leaves are piled on the ground, rusty axes, oil saws, and carpenter's planers can be seen everywhere.

In a corner of the forest farm, there were large amounts of wood and planks piled up.

It is a pity that these woods and boards have turned black and rotted, and some are even covered with black fungus and wild mushrooms.

This forest farm is lifeless and dilapidated, and has indeed been abandoned for many, many years.

When Shen Xing looked at the forest farm, he felt no emotion at all.

He felt that the closure of the forest farm was not a bad thing.

The reason is simple. Deforestation can easily destroy the ecological environment of the forest and cause soil erosion, which is not conducive to the survival of wild animals.

To put it bluntly, people have destroyed the habitats of wild animals due to their greed. Now the forest farms are abandoned and businesses are failing. This is retribution for their actions.

"Let's go in!" Shen Xing waved his hand.

"Wang Wang Wang!"

"Wang Wang!"

"Wang Wang Wang!"

Just as he was about to step into the forest, Dalong and Gray Dog started barking in a certain direction.

"What? Any discovery?" Shen Xing asked.

Originally, he brought these dog generals to find Wong Tai Sin's girlfriend, but the weasel in the lead brought them to this abandoned fortune-making forest farm.

What a coincidence!

"Could it be that... the lair of that group of wild foxes is right in the forest farm?" Shen Xing asked suspiciously.

At this moment, a strange ghost cry suddenly rang out.

The forest farm was already in a very dilapidated state, with overgrown weeds, dense forests all around and dark clouds overhead. In addition, a murder had occurred in the forest farm ten years ago.

This inexplicable ghost cry, coupled with the cold wind blowing from the mountains, makes people feel terrified, give themselves goose bumps, and shudder!

"Where did the cry come from?" Shen Xing thought of the words of the drunkard Hu Lao Ba, and guessed that he must have heard the strange cry at that time and mistakenly thought that the forest farm was haunted.

But Shen Xing is not afraid, because there are so many local dogs surrounding him, and two great generals, Blind Bear and Fat Lynx.

Besides, animals like dogs are the most sensitive to things like ghosts and gods. Even if they really exist, they can give you a heads-up at the first moment.

After the ghost's cry sounded, the dogs did not behave abnormally at all, so it was obviously not haunted.

Since it's not haunted, it's most likely the wild animals in the forest causing trouble!

In the end, aren't all those ghost-hunting zombie and horror movies from the flower-growing world just human hallucinations?
Aren’t there some strange things at the end of Tianxia Bachang’s “Ghost Blowing the Light”? Aren’t “corpse-scented konjac”, “corpse moss” and “nine dead tomb armor” all some kind of weird plants?

Just as Shen Xing was deep in thought, the strange crying sound rang out again.

"It's that direction!"

This time, Shen Xing had sharp ears and keenly captured the direction of the ghost sound.

He suddenly raised his head and looked towards the southeast corner.

There were several tall pine trees there, and the shrill cries of a female ghost came from the trees!
Shen Xing narrowed his eyes and looked towards the treetop.

A pair of faces suddenly came into view!
The weird human face looked like he was wearing a ghost mask.

Shen Xing was startled, thinking he was dazzled. He looked intently at the so-called "ghost face".

Then I realized that it was not a ghost face at all!
It was a huge strange bird hanging upside down on the tree roots!

The strange bird has yellow-brown feathers all over its body, a sharp beak and claws, and very long wings.

The most notable feature of the strange bird is the weird grimace on its face. From a distance, its body is blocked by the shade of the trees, and only the grimace can be seen, which is chilling!

At this moment, Shen Xing clearly heard a strange sound of "tick, tick, tick" coming from the strange bird's mouth.

The cry was filled with anxiety and warning. It was obvious that the hunting dogs, blind bears and lynx behind Shen Xing gave the strange bird a sense of crisis, making it feel as if it was facing a formidable enemy.

"This human-faced bird... looks a bit like an owl?" Shen Xing thought uncertainly.

Fortunately, the signal on this mountain was good, so Shen Xing took out his mobile phone and searched on Baidu Encyclopedia.

"Found it!" Half a minute later, Shen Xing found the information of the strange bird.

"The eagle owl, the world's second largest owl, is widely distributed in the three northeastern provinces and feeds on voles, hares and snakes."

Shen Xing browsed the encyclopedia and put away his phone. He looked up at the human-faced bird again and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind.

"Isn't this the strange bird that Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang encountered in the Yunnan Worm Valley - the eagle owl?" Shen Xing pondered.

He had seen the movie "Yunnan Worm Valley" and had followed it for a long time. The strange bird, the eagle owl, was very aggressive and its cry sounded like a female ghost crying. It caused a lot of trouble for Hu Bayi, and the timid Wang Pangzi was almost scared to death.

"So that's it. This is what Hu Laoba said about the haunted forest farm!" Shen Xing nodded, feeling a little absurd. The case was solved.

But this is normal. Hu Lao Ba is an alcoholic. He drinks several times a day. He is not clear-headed when he drinks too much. Last time, he accidentally entered this forest farm. The forest farm was already dead, deserted and dilapidated. Add to that the cry of the eagle owl and the shrill cry of a female ghost, the background that was like a horror movie, and the murder case, it is easy for people to misunderstand that there is a ghost!
When Hu Laoba heard the ghost crying, he sobered up instantly and ran down the mountain like crazy, telling everyone everywhere that "the forest farm is haunted" and "the forest farm is haunted"...

The villagers started gossiping, and word spread quickly, until the news of the haunted Zhaocai Forest Farm spread like wildfire.

But this is not haunted at all!

This is the call of an eagle owl!
Shen Xing guessed that Hu Lao Ba and the blogger who came to explore were probably mistaken for invaders by the eagle owl just like him, so they made warning calls.

"Wang Wang!"

"Wang Wang Wang!"

At this time, the hunting dogs such as the dragon wolfhound also discovered the giant owl on the tree.

"Squeak!"

"Squeak!"

Wong Tai Sin's companions all retreated in panic, and some even hid behind the blind bear and the hunting dogs.

Apparently, these weasels are often preyed upon by eagle owls.

After all, weasels are also on the menu of the eagle owl, a bird of prey.

The strange ghost crying sound was heard again, this time from the northwest corner.

There are also some in the northeast corner.

There are also some in the southwest corner.

Shen Xing looked around and found traces of eagle owls in the trees.

The area near the Zhaocai Forest Farm has apparently become the nest of eagle owls, and they are everywhere.

"That's not right. Wasn't Wong Tai Sin's girlfriend kidnapped by a wild fox?"

Looking at the group of strange birds with human faces, Shen Xing looked puzzled.

at this time,

"Squeak..."

A weak cry came from a wooden house in the forest farm.

(End of this chapter)