During the rebellion of Yu Qi, men were slaughtered like hemp. A villager named Li Hualong, fleeing back from the mountains, happened upon a great army advancing by night. Fearing he would suffer the fate of jade and stone alike, and finding nowhere to hide, he lay stiff among a heap of corpses, pretending to be dead. When the soldiers had passed, he still dared not rise. Suddenly he saw the headless, armless corpses rise and stand like a forest. Among them one corpse, whose severed head still hung by the shoulder, spoke out: "The wild dog is coming—what shall we do?" The crowd of corpses answered raggedly, "What shall we do?" In a moment they all toppled down again, and all was silent.
Li, trembling, was about to rise when something came—with a beast's head and a man's body. It crouched and gnawed at the heads, sucking out the brains. Li, terrified, hid his head beneath a corpse. The thing came and pulled at his shoulder, wanting his head. Li pressed himself down with all his might so that it could not get it. The thing then pushed aside the covering corpse and moved it away, exposing his head. In great fear Li felt about his waist, found a stone as large as a bowl, and grasped it. The thing bent down to bite, when Li sprang up with a shout and struck at its head, hitting it in the mouth. The thing howled like an owl, covered its mouth, and fled in pain, spitting blood along the road. Approaching, he found in the blood two teeth, curved in the middle and sharp at the ends, over four inches long. He carried them home and showed them to everyone, but no one knew what they were.