During the rebellion of Yu Qi, men were slaughtered like hemp. A villager named Li Hualong had fled into the mountains and was now making his way back home. He happened to run into an imperial army unit marching at night. Fearing that he might be killed in the indiscriminate slaughter, he panicked and found nowhere to hide. He lay stiff among a pile of corpses, pretending to be dead.

　　After the soldiers had all passed, he still dared not get up at once. Suddenly he saw the headless and arm‑less corpses rise to their feet like a forest. Among them, one corpse still had its severed head hanging from its shoulder. It spoke, saying, “The wild dog is coming. What shall we do?” The other corpses answered in a ragged chorus, “What shall we do?” In a moment, they all collapsed to the ground, and silence fell again.

　　Li was trembling with terror and was about to get up when a creature arrived. It had the head of a beast and the body of a man. It crouched down and began biting off human heads, sucking out the brains one by one. Li was petrified and hid his head under a corpse. The creature came to Li, pushed at his shoulder, and tried to get at his head. Li pressed himself down as hard as he could so that the creature could not reach it. The creature then pushed the covering corpse aside, and Li’s head was exposed.

　　Now Li was terrified beyond measure. With his hand, he groped under his own body and found a stone as big as a bowl. He clutched it tight. The creature bent down to bite his head, and Li suddenly sprang up, let out a great shout, and smashed the stone against the creature’s head. He struck its mouth. The creature screeched like an owl, covered its mouth, and fled in pain, spitting blood on the road.

　　Li went over to look. In the blood he found two teeth. They were curved in the middle and sharp at both ends, each more than four inches long. He tucked them into his robe and took them home to show people, but no one knew what creature they had come from.

中文如下:

野狗

【原文】

于七之乱，杀人如麻。乡民李化龙，自山中窜归。值大兵宵进，恐罹炎昆之祸，急无所匿，僵卧于死人之丛，诈作尸。兵过既尽，未敢遽出。忽见阙头断臂之尸，起立如林。内一尸断首犹连肩上，口中作语曰：“野狗子来，奈何？”群尸参差而应曰：“奈何！”俄顷，蹶然尽倒，遂寂无声。李方惊颤欲起，有一物来，兽首人身，伏啮人首，遍吸其脑。李惧，匿首尸下。物来拨李肩，欲得李首。李力伏，俾不可得。物乃推覆尸而移之，首见。李大惧，手索腰下，得巨石如碗，握之。物俯身欲龁，李骤起，大呼，击其首，中嘴。物嗥如鸱，掩口负痛而奔，吐血道上。就视之，于血中得二齿，中曲而端锐，长四寸馀。怀归以示人，皆不知其何物也。

【翻译】

平定于七之乱时，杀人如麻。乡民李化龙从山里躲避归来，正好碰上官兵夜里行军，他害怕官兵乱杀无辜，急乱当中找不到地方可以躲藏，就直挺挺地躺在死人堆里，诈作死尸。官兵的队伍过去以后，他也没敢贸然出来。他忽然看见一些缺头断臂的尸体纷纷站立起来，好像一片树林似的。其中一个尸身上断了的头还连在肩上，口中说道：“野狗子要来了，怎么办？”其他尸体都参差不齐地应声说道：“怎么办？”一会儿，他们忽然又都仆倒在地上，于是便寂静无声了。李化龙正惊慌颤抖地想起身逃走，有一个怪物就来了，那怪物长着野兽的脑袋，人的身子，趴在那里啃人头，一个接一个地吸尽人的脑浆。李化龙非常害怕，就把头藏在尸首下面。这怪物来到李化龙的跟前，拨弄着他的肩背，想找到他的脑袋。李化龙使劲往尸首下面钻，让它不能找到自己的头。怪物于是推开覆盖在上面的尸体，李化龙的头便露了出来。李化龙害怕极了，手在腰下摸索着找到了一块大石头，有碗那么大，把它握在手里。怪物伏下身来刚准备啃咬李化龙的脑袋，李化龙突然跳起身来，大声呼叫着，用石头猛击怪物的头部，打中了怪物的嘴。怪物像猫头鹰似地号叫了起来，捂着嘴带着痛逃走了，把血吐在了大路上。李化龙就近去察看，从血中捡到了两颗牙齿，牙齿中间弯，两头尖锐，有四寸多长。李化龙把它放在怀中带回去给大家看，都不知道是什么怪物。