Looking at Ah Cai's complicated expression, Shen Chuanyuan didn't say it thoroughly, nor did he reveal his true intentions.

He just slowly moved his gaze to Ah Cai's cheeks, and pretended to open his mouth inadvertently: "It's better to find this place than to keep going around in circles in the woods, why don't you go in and rest first?"

Ah Cai's hesitation and hesitation at the moment was obvious, and he was reluctant to move the place for a long time.

"It's Chinese New Year's Eve this year...... We shouldn't have come here. ”

Shen Chuanyuan didn't know what Ah Cai's words meant, but at such a juncture, he didn't mean to continue to ask, just quietly observed Ah Cai's reaction, and looked at her as if he was very concerned. Ah Cai only thought that it was a man's kind care, but she didn't know that everything was very different from what she imagined.

Shen Chuanyuan was just thinking about how to make the plan go smoothly.

Shen Chuanyuan was sure that Ah Cai would not refuse, and even if the girl refused at this time, he still had countless ways to deal with emergencies. Not to mention that now the two of them are already standing in front of the gate of the temple, only one step away from the success of the plan, even when they are still walking around the mountains and forests, Shen Chuanyuan's purpose is also quite clear.

The facts are as Shen Chuanyuan expected-

Ah Cai obviously had concerns in her heart, but she had already arrived here, and she had no other way for a while.

As the night deepened, even Ah Cai, who was a local, did not have the courage to enter the mysterious woods again. After a brief hesitation, she could only choose the slightly best way to deal with the situation.

"Forget it...... Let's go hide in the first place. ”

Shen Chuanyuan nodded slightly, and the gold-rimmed glasses hid a dim and sharp light.

The moonlight was cold and bleak, and the sound of the wind whistling by was a little terrifying in the middle of the night. Like the shadows of the trees stretched by the light, swaying in the wind, projecting onto the already shattered window lattice, like a twisted and entangled ghost, Shen Chuanyuan and Ah Cai walked into the temple side by side.

The temple is dedicated to an extremely beautiful deity.

The stone carvings of the white jade are delicate and beautiful, even under the eerie moonlight. The woman on the idol is dressed in a white gauze skirt, her face is covered with a thin veil, and her left hand holds a net bottle, and her right hand is a long sword, with an illusory sharpness. And around the goddess is full of entangled and twisted totems, exactly the same as the photos left by He Sheng earlier.

"It seems that your grandma really didn't lie to me, there is indeed a secret of the totem I want to investigate. Shen Chuanyuan sighed in a low voice while looking at the solemn and beautiful statue.

Ah Caixin said, can there be no totem secrets here, but I just don't want you to find these things, so I stopped you from coming.

You know, these totems record the gods of the clan, which is an absolute taboo. What exactly is behind the gods worshiped by the Wu Clan, no one knows better than the Wu Clan. Behind this represents an uncontrollable disaster intertwined with desire, desire, and greed. This is like people who believe in the Thai Buddha card or raise little ghosts go astray, and behind the miracle is an uncontrollable danger, especially without the presiding over of the high priest, it has become something that cannot be touched.

When thinking about this, Ah Cai's delicate little face wrinkled together, and her sadness could hardly be concealed.

I don't know how long she was silent before she sighed in a low voice as if she had made up her mind.

"There's no way, the two of us can only make up for the night here. ”

"Okay, do you need my help?"

"You're ...... Help me pick up some hay. ”

Probably because she was upset, the little girl who had been working didn't notice how inscrutable the look of the man around her who was covered by the lenses had become.

Shen Chuanyuan looked at Ah Cai's busy appearance, and casually took out a dried flower from his coat pocket.

It was a bright red mandala, which was quickly crushed to ashes by Shen Chuanyuan with his fingertips. As the blooming mandala flower turned to ashes, the dim light dissipated into the night, and the expression of the goddess statue seemed to become even more gloomy. Against the backdrop of the bleak moonlight, it was like a tear about to fall.

"Do you smoke?" Ah Cai asked, sorting through the rubble and weeds on the ground.

"Well, what's wrong?" Shen Chuanyuan nodded.

"Lend me a lighter, it's too dark to see anything clearly. ”

As Ah Cai's words fell, Shen Chuanyuan quickly took out the lighter he was carrying with him and handed it to her. After the girl took it, she began to look around for the candle in the small cupboard, frowning and chattering.

"Strange, I remember that there were spare candles in the temple earlier, why are they gone?"

"Is this it, I put it away when I just saw it. While speaking, Shen Chuanyuan took out two pairs of red candles from his coat pocket and gave them to Ah Cai, "But the candle heart is a little short, you should be careful when you light it." ”

Ah Cai took the red candle in Shen Chuanyuan's hand with some hesitation, his eyes looked a little puzzled, and he quickly shook his head.

"Why doesn't this candle seem to be the same as anything I've seen before....... Forget it, maybe I'm misremembering. ”

When the two long candles were lit, the whole temple was filled with a warm light.

Ah Cai and Shen Chuanyuan sat side by side on the piled straw, as if to embolden themselves, and hesitated to speak: "Hey, I can only let you make up for one night." When I was a child, my mother and I used to hold several annual festivals here, and at that time our village was so lively, there were two big festivals every year, and now I think about it, it was the happiest day when I was a child. ”

"And then?" asked Shen Chuanyuan.

"Then a lot of things happened in the village, my father left, and then my mother also left, and my grandmother seemed to be a different person, and she became more and more fierce to me, and then I was never so happy again. ”

Shen Chuanyuan realized that this was a rare opening of the girl's heart, and was about to take the opportunity to ask a few more questions. But Ah Cai was only halfway through his words when he was stopped by the sound of a violent crash coming from outside the temple gate.

"Strange, what's going on all of a sudden? Was the wind so strong just now?"

The wind outside became louder, and Ah Cai stood up, and saw countless black charms flying from all directions in the night, all of which were attached to the dilapidated walls of the ancient temple. The flickering candle flame reflected the scene, and everything was swaying, like a ghost born out of thin air, shouting something with teeth and claws.

Even Ah Cai, who has lived in the village since she was a child, has never seen such a scene, she couldn't say anything for a while, just stood in place, her eyes full of fear.

Shen Chuanyuan also quickly stood up, and when he saw the scene in front of him clearly, he couldn't help frowning tightly.

"What do these charms mean?" Soon, Shen Chuanyuan bit his tongue and forced himself to calm down, "Is this a sacrifice in your clan?"

"It's ...... This is," Ah Cai didn't expect so many changes to happen tonight, her face was already a little pale, and her voice trembled a little when she spoke, "This is an ominous omen, what did we get into trouble?"

"A bad omen?" Shen Chuanyuan hurriedly asked.

"Because of these things...... These things aren't something we should provoke. The black spell repels evil spirits, and the blood spell enters the spirit, and it is approved as eternal life and never enters reincarnation. In our village, we believe in immortality, and when we are alive, we worship the goddess wholeheartedly, sacrifice our soul to the gods, and when we die, we return to the void, becoming the most faithful servants of the goddess, waiting for the gods' call. ”

"So when we came, the people we saw were ......."

Shen Chuanyuan didn't continue to say the next words, and Ah Cai's expression already said everything.

The girl's lips trembled slightly, revealing undisguised horror and fear.

"But why are all these charms here?"

The wind outside the temple was louder, and through the broken window lattice, you could see that the mud and sand mixed with snow were constantly changing, becoming figures formed by the condensation of loess, approaching the temple with teeth and claws. Or the figure is not accurate, it is just a monster formed in the void.

The fire on the altar suddenly lit up, as if a sacrifice was about to be ushered in.

However, this picture is far from being as grand and holy as the New Year's bonfire party that Ah Cai once described, but it is indescribably weird and gloomy. If I have to describe it, it is like the most terrible summoning in the world, triggering a collective movement of evil cults crawling out of hell.

"What the hell is going on, what are these sand and stones and human figures?"

Seeing that the shadows of the sand and gravel were gathering more and more, even if he was as calm as Shen Chuanyuan, he was a little panicked.

His brow furrowed even deeper, and there seemed to be a thunderstorm hidden in the depressed peaks.

It was only at this time that Shen Chuanyuan realized that the situation was a little out of control, and what was happening now had gradually deviated from his original plan. As keen as he is, it is impossible not to feel that all the changes are because of the mandala flower and the two red candles, so there is an accident at this moment.

And these things happened to be given to him for nothing, and they were what he called "a part of the plan that must be carried out".

Shen Chuanyuan's brain was running rapidly, and he couldn't help but delve into Bai's true purpose.

When Bai found him, he talked a lot about the secrets of the ancient kingdom of Loulan and the Wu clan, including the plausible hidden treasures of the relict king and the secrets of immortality behind the topic of He Sheng's investigation back then, as well as the cursed fate of the He family, those words have been chewed by Shen Chuanyuan countless times, and they are still vivid.

"It's not so much that your teacher provoked something that shouldn't be provoked, but that your junior sister's bloodline is really extraordinary. ”

"Manman's bloodline? Manman is just an ordinary little girl, what bloodline does she have?"

"Ordinary little girl, but can dream of the gods of Loulan, do you think this matter is very reasonable? Mr. Shen, everyone is an adult, you don't really think that this world is as simple as one plus one equals two—not everyone can know the secrets of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, and you have this opportunity thanks to your junior sister's dream." ”

"So why did you find me?"

"I found you because you found out what was behind Miao Jiang's topic selection, and after digging deeper, the clues still came from your little junior sister. Mr. Shen is a smart man, I have said it to this extent, can you still taste anything?"

Bai's voice was as mysterious as ever, with a mockery that was neither light nor heavy.

"If you want to save your little sister, of course, you have to get a glimmer of life when the gods recover, and before that, what you need to do is summon the gods, such as ...... Follow my plan to find the goddess's suit and awaken the sleeping gods. Tsk, of course you can choose to do nothing, anyway, the little junior sister you care about has never received your love at all. ”

That person's words hit the nail on the head and tore apart the secret that Shen Chuanyuan had hidden for many years.

How did he answer him at that time? Shen Chuanyuan clearly remembered that he knew in a short silence that he was right.

"You don't need to worry about these things. As for the cooperation you mentioned....... I'll think about it. ”