Explore the ghost of the night

At the eastern end of an ancient town in the western Thar Desert in India stands a creepy "Fort of Death".

In fact, there is nothing special about this castle of death that has ended the lives of hundreds of people and animals: the four walls are made of wide masonry, the top of the castle is sealed with thick logs, and the ground is covered with neat long strips of stones., with a window on each of the east and west walls. The whole secret of the castle is that it can kill almost all the people and animals who are in it late at night, and there is no trace on the corpse. Not a single person or animal who stayed overnight in the castle was not carried out. In this regard, the only thing the government can do is to put a notice at the gate of the castle: People and animals in the past should not stay here!

An aristocratic young man came to the town while traveling with his friends. The highly educated young man only believed in science and did not believe in mysterious legends. In the only small hotel in the town, in front of the hotel owner, Uncle Suhe, the young man and his friends did not listen to people's persuasion and used their respective thoroughbred horses. Bet to stay overnight in the "Castle of Death". Uncle Suhe didn't charge the lad for dinner. The uncle was always like this, he offered every castle explorer a sumptuous dinner and said, "You come and pay tomorrow morning." Naturally, these all became the last supper, and Uncle Suhe never got the meal paid for the next day.

Before stepping into the castle, the noble young man tore off the notice at the gate that "people and animals should not stay here in the past" and threw it on the ground. The young man only tore off the notice about the god of death, but the god of death tore off the young man's life forever.

The forensic doctor checked the body over and over, but couldn't come up with an explanation. The police dug the castle three feet into the ground and found nothing. That night, three armed police officers were arranged to guard the "Castle of Death" to perform a battle between man and demon. On the third day, the Thar Regional Police Station in India lost three good and dedicated police officers.

People in the town once again felt the black wings of death hovering above their heads. In addition to re-posting the "no staying" notice, the government also issued a reward order: "Anyone who can solve the mystery of the ancient castle and capture the culprit will be rewarded 10,000 rupees."

In the autumn of 1923, the famous British explorer George Wells led his invincible expedition to the "Fort of Death". The expedition was starving, the food was running out, and the gold and silver coins were running out. George wrote a letter to send to a friend far away at Cambridge University, England, telling him that he urgently needed to fill his stomach and a fund.

In Uncle Suh's hotel, George read the government notice offering a reward of 10,000 rupees 12 times in one go. As an explorer, George certainly wouldn't act rashly and die in vain.

George and his expedition team made meticulous surveys and careful preparations for the castle: smooth the fine sand within 50 meters around the castle to record possible traces; loosen the sand under the windows to ensure that In an emergency, the team members are safe enough to cross the window; check the guns and ammunition of each team member to ensure that there is no mechanical failure at the critical moment; each person's position is chosen to be close to the doors and windows, but the body is not exposed from the doors and windows. George analyzes that if the top and walls of the fort are strong enough, the doors and windows are the only entrance and exit for the killer, and calculates the shooting angle accordingly. George didn't forget to bring a dog from town, and he knew that dogs were sharper than the sharpest people.

As usual, Uncle Suh provided George and his expedition with a sumptuous dinner paid for the next day. Uncle Suh and everyone in the town believed that the secrets of the castle were about to be revealed, and they had no reason not to pin their hopes on this exotic expedition from thousands of miles away. The town is filled with a rare vitality, and people re-guess the answer to the mystery of death.

The explorer added the story of the "Fort of Death" in the Thar Desert in India to the letter sent to Cambridge University, and told his friend that the name George Wells would stand in place of the "Fort of Death". In the hearts of the people of the town, as the sun rises tomorrow, he will be rewarded with 10,000 rupees. He handed the envelope to the mail carrier.

As night fell, the people in the town exited the "Castle of Death" and retreated to their homes, listening to the movement in the direction of the castle. In the middle of the night, a miserable and short dog bark came from the castle, and Uncle Suhe's youngest daughter covered her pale face with a quilt.

When the sun rose again, people pushed open the heavy gates of the castle. The explorer and his companions sat against the wall, frozen in the posture of last night, George holding a pistol in his hand. This world full of magic has lost an outstanding explorer and an excellent expedition team forever.

A few months later, a shriveled old man in the shape of a beggar came to Uncle Suhe's small hotel. The skinny old man rode a skinny horse, carried an iron box, and led a skinny monkey. People teased him and kicked the huge tin box, which contained nothing but a net. The skinny old man claimed to be here to unravel the mystery of the castle.

People looked at him contemptuously. Uncle Suhe understood that another person who couldn't afford a meal wanted to eat a full meal. In fact, they didn't even have the courage to look at the castle twice - this is a common thing. But the benevolent Uncle Suhe still gave the thin old man a full meal.

After dinner, the skinny old man seriously stated that when the sun rose the next day, he would pay for the meal with the government bounty. People were amused. The skinny old man said solemnly: "You should believe me, really, you should believe me!"

The thin old man asked someone to help him carry the iron box into the castle, saying that he would double the bounty the next day. But no one could bear to push a poor beggar into the castle of death, so the old man had to use the thin horse to carry the iron box by himself. Uncle Suhe believed that the poor thin old man must have been crazy about the 10,000 rupees.

The next day, when the sun rose, several young people carried the wooden board that had carried countless corpses to the castle, ready to carry the body of the thin old man to the morgue.

At this moment, a thin, shriveled figure appeared ghostly at the window of the castle. The young man was so frightened that he wanted to run, but he couldn't move. The ghost let out a long whistle: "Hey - lads, don't be afraid, it's me!"

People were stunned, they had never been so surprised, the ghost was the skinny old man who was mummified - he was still alive.

The thin old man threw bird-like objects from the window. It was a dead red bat.

It turned out that on the log layer on the top of the castle lived a group of nocturnal blood-sucking red bats. These blood-sucking red bats had a very thin and hard long needle. They could pierce the long needle at the moment when humans and animals had no time to react. The brains of humans and animals secrete a kind of anesthetic juice, which makes humans and animals unconscious. Originally, this kind of red bat, like the vampire red bats around the world, depended on sucking animal blood to maintain their lives, but they living in Tal Castle had mutated and started the evil business of sucking the brains of humans and animals. They made mummified corpses of countless humans and animals, but they ultimately failed to escape the net laid by the thin old man for them.

The thin old man laid the big net in the castle, tied the monkey under the net, and hid in the iron box, observed the situation outside through the small hole in the iron box and controlled the operation rope. The red bat swarm, which repeated its old trick at night, woke up the keen monkey when it emerged from the crevice of the log, and then the monkey alerted the thin old man. When the red bat pounced on the monkey, the thin old man pulled the operating rope, and the evil red bat was caught in a net.

Who is this beggar-like thin old man? Remember the letter sent by the explorer before he died? The thin old man is the recipient, a friend of the explorer George during his lifetime, and a famous biologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He has been working on red bats for more than 20 years, and most of what we know about red bats now bears his name.

His name is Tony Weir.