Recorded Across Generations.
For Those Who Come After.
Shaped like an ape, with four ears. They do not catch what stirs nearby; they hear only what is coming. In the wind, in the water, in a footstep in the dark, wherever a scrap of killing intent hides, it hears it first. Those same ears are why nothing has ever caught it. Whenever harm draws close, it slips away a step before the blade falls. Men take it for a coward that bolts at shadows, never knowing it flees not the shadow but the unsheathed blade inside it. Eat its heart and you gain that ability. The blade is still sheathed and you have already turned; the arrow is still on the string and you are already low. You do not know why, only that your body moved first. But you will never know peace again. You can hear the knife in every hand, even the one held by the person you trust most. You slip every blow that ever comes for you and never trust a living soul again.
形如猿猴，生有四耳。这四耳不闻近处的动静，只听将至之祸。风里、水里、暗处的脚步里，凡藏着一分杀机，它先于万物听见。 也正因这四耳，它一生未曾被任何东西逮住过。凡有祸事逼近，无论来自天，来自兽，来自暗处的人，它总在刀落之前先一步遁走。人只当它生性怯懦，见影就逃，却不知它逃的从来不是影，是影里那把还没出鞘的刀。 食其心者，得此先觉：危险临身之前，你便知道。刀未出鞘，你已侧身；箭未离弦，你已伏低。你不知为何，只是身子先动了。 可你也从此再不得安宁。你听得见每一只手里的刀，连你最信之人的那一只，也听得清清楚楚。 你避得开每一场祸，却再也信不过任何一个人。
棲 長右之山 Mount Changyou
有獸焉，其狀如禺而四耳，其名長右，其音如吟，見則郡縣大水。