Chapter 20: Tracing the Trace

Ye Xuan blinked and said, "What are you looking for a corpse for?"

"I want to see if the person who was killed by Zhang Jun and them is a true Taoist priest. If so, the Water Moon View is still valuable to us. If the Taoist priest who died is also a wild man from outside like Zhang Jun and them, let's not waste time here. ”

I've heard my grandfather say that any true monk, whether he is a monk or a Taoist, will have a different body from ordinary people. Only when I find the corpse can I tell if there is a real Taoist priest in the Water Moon Temple.

Not to mention the barren mountains and mountains around the Water Moon Temple, there is not much difference, if we want to find a corpse in this kind of place, Ye Xuan and I have searched almost all around the Water Moon Temple, and we have not seen any places to hide the corpse. In the end, Ye Xuan set his eyes on the mirror lake at the door: "Old class, do you think the corpse will be in the lake?"

"Lake?" I looked at Ye Xuan: "Check the map and see where Longwan Lake is?"

"Go down from here......" Ye Xuan took the electronic map: "Oh, Longwan Lake doesn't seem to be far from here! It's only two or three kilometers." ”

"I see!" I walked quickly into the main hall and grabbed the incense burner on the offering table and lifted it up, and a disc-shaped groove immediately appeared under the incense burner.

Just now, I noticed this offering table when I walked around the Sanqing Palace. The size of the incense burner on the table was obviously out of proportion to the offering table, and a piece of the incense burner had been picked open, as if the incense burner had been deliberately stuck in a slot.

Many people think that the incense burner is just a swing to the offering table, but in fact, the placement of the incense burner is very particular. The simplest thing is that the incense burner should be relatively coordinated with the proportion of the offering table, so as not to affect the appearance, the large table and small stove, the small table and the large furnace will make the hall lose a few points**, the incense burner on the offering table is obviously too small. At first, I just thought that the people who built the Taoist temple didn't understand anything, so I came up with this kind of joke, but now it seems that this is not the case.

I drew my dagger and struck it twice around the pit, revealing a square gap beneath the flying ash.

"The outer disc is here!" I quickly took out four iron compasses from my backpack and put them in the center of the outer disc in turn. The four iron compasses fit together perfectly, but only the pointer is missing.

Ye Xuan knocked his hand on the compass twice: "Old class, remove the pointer on the compass and put it on?"

"The pointer is certainly not that simple!" I walked around the room with a frown, and finally my gaze fell on a bundle of yellow incense beneath the shrine. The bundle of incense had been sitting for some years, and a thick layer of dust had fallen on it. The outermost incense sticks were each broken off by an inch, a short section. I took the yellow incense in my hand and looked at it, walked back to the edge of the offering table quickly, broke off a piece of incense again, lit it with fire, pinched the incense stick and gently put it above the bottom of the compass.

As soon as my fingers loosened slightly, the lit yellow incense was held in the air by some force, and the pointer slowly turned.

"This incense is the pointer?" Ye Xuan's eyes almost popped out: "This is too mysterious, right?"

I also think it's incredible, but I'm not as surprised as Ye Xuan, my father told me: The secret methods in the world are strange. There is only what you can't think of, and there is nothing that can't be done by secret methods.

When Ye Xuan was still speaking, the yellow incense on the compass had already stopped, and pointed obliquely to the corner of the main hall, if calculated according to the direction, it should be the right place to build the main hall, I used a dagger to pull the compass out of the offering table, held it in my hand and walked to the door.

Ye Xuan followed closely behind me and said, "Old class, you can slow down! There is something strange about this! Think about it yourself, Shen Yihan took the compass from the Water Moon Temple, why hasn't Zhang Jun seen her? With Zhang Jun's courage, if she had seen Shen Yihan earlier, would she still be able to stay in the Shen manor?"

"I know it in my heart!" What Ye Xuan said, I had already thought of it. But I think Zhang Jun should have never seen Shen Yihan, just like Ye Xuan said, with Zhang Jun's character, if he really encountered Shen Yihan, he should have escaped from Shen's manor a long time ago, instead of staying there and waiting for his life.

Shen Yihan must have a secret on him that we haven't found.

I walked quickly to the door, the incense head on the compass turned back and forth a few times, and finally pointed to the mountain wall on the side of the Water Moon View and stopped, I handed the compass to Ye Xuan, and knocked the mountain wall with the handle of the knife, and there was a knocking sound there.

Tombs?

The first thing that came to my mind was the tomb.

It is not uncommon for the immortals of the Taoist masters to hide in the caves, and the descendants sealed the cave from the outside in order to protect the immortals, and the natural cave became a tomb. Is this also a burial place?

"Xuanzi, dig this way!" I lit the lantern and took a step back, Ye Xuan took the sapper shovel from his backpack and dug a hole in the mountain wall with a few strokes.

The situation behind the mountain wall is exactly what I suspected, that is, a small cave sealed by green bricks, and the Taoist priest of the Water Moon Temple painted a fake stone skin on the outside of the green bricks in order to hide people's eyes. If you don't look closely, you'll just think it's a complete cliff.

The cave was only a meter high, just big enough for people to sit in. When I carried the lantern to the cave, I saw the remains of two bodies sitting cross-legged on a futon with their backs to the entrance of the cave. The two corpses had already turned into white bones, but the robes on their bodies were intact, one of them had a money sword that was mostly spread out next to him, and the other corpse had a bamboo steel whip on his right hand.

I leaned into the hole and pulled the bamboo whip out. The steel whip, which is more than a meter long, is heavy in the hand, the whole body is pitch black, and the whip body is full of runes, but there is not the slightest trace of rust. You can see that it is a magic weapon. The steel whip can occupy a place among the eighteen weapons, and its power should not be underestimated. Especially when dealing with the enemy's heavily armored generals, the master who is good at using the steel whip is enough to smash the opponent's bones through the armor. Clashing with swords has the upper hand, often breaking the opponent's long knife and putting the opponent to death.

However, the steel whip is a weapon that requires extremely high arm strength from the user, and without superior arm strength, it is better to use a knife than to hold a steel whip. Therefore, there are many ancient and modern warriors who use swords, but there are very few people who are good at using steel whips, and there are only a handful of people who are good at using double whips. However, this steel whip is quite suitable for Ye Xuan, although he doesn't know how to use a whip, but he is a master with a knife, plus that guy's arm strength is amazing, this steel whip is just right.

I threw the bamboo whip to Ye Xuan: "This is a good thing, you can use it." ”

"Thank you...... Thank you......" Ye Xuan's thank you is not me, but the corpse in the cave.

I didn't bother arguing with Ye Xuan, and I even got into the hole.

Judging from the seal of the cave, the two Taoist priests in the cave had plenty of time to calmly feather and ascend to the immortals, and it was impossible for them to leave the world before turning around. Their posture is supposed to guard the inside of the cave.

I lowered my body and groped my way between the two corpses, and sure enough, I saw a hole deep underground. The gourd-shaped cave with a small mouth and a large belly is not very large, and when you look down from above, you can still see pebbles in a circle. At first glance, it looks like it's a nest of something.

Those two Taoist priests were not feathered in the cave, but to guard the cave?

This thought flashed through my mind, and I wanted to withdraw from the cave, but before I could move my body, I heard Ye Xuan shouting outside: "Old class, come out, Shen Yihan is here!"

I was just about to turn around, but Ye Xuan dragged Shen Yiyu into the cave and pushed me back into the cave.

"What are you doing here?" Before I could finish my sentence, I saw a flying fiery snake rolling from the direction of the cave entrance.

"Shen Yihan set fire to the outside of the cave?" Ye Xuan pushed me and squeezed into the cave.

The cave outside is only more than ten square meters of space, as long as Shen Yihan throws in an oil drum from the outside, a few of us will be burned alive inside, there is no way back in the cave except for the cave with the opening facing up, but if we jump into the hole, it is equivalent to waiting for Shen Yihan to catch turtles in the urn, which is also a dead end.

When I was still hesitating to jump down the cave, a plastic bucket had been thrown in from the outside, and the oil drum stuffed with cotton strips on the opening turned around on the ground several times, and when it slid in the direction of us close to the ground, Ye Xuan, who was blocking the outside, swept his leg and kicked it on the oil drum. The plastic bucket of more than ten catties flew out under Ye Xuan's heavy blow, and went straight to the corner of the cave and collided.

"Jump!" The plastic bucket would not have been able to withstand the impact, and we would have to wait to be burned to ashes if we didn't jump into the hole. I grabbed Shen Yiyu and stuffed her into the hole, and jumped down myself.

As soon as Ye Xuan and I landed, we got up at the same time and pressed Shen Yiyu under us, and the explosion outside exploded, and the flames that rolled out of the cave began to press down several meters from the entrance of the cave, and the rolling fireworks almost touched my back when the mouth lost its strength, although the clothes on my body were not ignited by the flames, the hair on the back of my head was burned off by the flames, and I reached out and touched my brains so painfully.

I didn't bother to check my injuries, so I dragged Shen Yiyu towards the edge of the cave and looked up at the entrance of the cave. At that time, the cave above us had been completely sealed by flames, and nothing could be seen except the blazing red light.

Shen Yihan's voice came from the entrance of the cave: "Chen Ye, where else can you run this time?" Hand over Shen Yiyu, and I'll let you go." ”

As soon as Shen Yiyu was about to speak, I covered her mouth. I said to myself, "You said let me go, how do you go, let me get out of the fire?"

Shen Yiyu said coldly: "If I can set fires, I can naturally put out fires." You can hand over Shen Yiyu, and you don't have to worry about other things. ”

I gave Ye Xuan a look, and the latter imitated Shen Yiyu's voice and said, "Yi Han, I'm your sister, why don't you let me go?"

Ye Xuan's voice was vivid, and even Shen Yiyu, who was covered by me, widened her eyes.