..... Zhang Yuanqing suddenly didn't want to stay in the main hall.

He has a kind of fear that he is in a desperate situation, so that the heavens should not be, and the earth is not spiritual.

It was extremely dangerous, but he couldn't ask for help from the outside world, and the only one he could rely on was himself.

After hesitating, he bit his teeth and crossed his heart, leaned over and pulled out the skeleton wrapped in overalls.

Woola~

In the process of pulling, the labor protection clothes were easily torn, and the clothes had long since decayed over the years.

Dragging the body to the candlelight, he endured the discomfort and began to examine it.

Although a person is dead, his body can speak, and figuring out the cause of the other person's death can help him avoid many dangers.

"The sternum and ribs were broken a few times, and there was a fine crack in the right shoulder, but it was not serious......."

The deceased had suffered heavy injuries during his lifetime, but the specific cause of death was too old to be seen.

Then, Zhang Yuanqing found a few yellowing and brittle pieces of paper from the pockets of the workers' predecessors, which had been around for a long time.

The paper is written in italics with small print.

Zhang Yuanqing was overjoyed, the paper was obviously found by the senior workers in the temple, which helped him understand the situation of this ancient temple.

By candlelight, he read intently on the paper.

"Another junior brother disappeared last night, and this is already the third mysterious disappearance of the same disciple in the temple. The brothers said that Sandao Mountain is haunted, or there are goblins with high Taoism, and they have to come to the temple every night to catch people to eat, but many disciples in the temple are accompanied, and the master is a famous real person within a radius of 100 miles.

"As for the ghosts, my corpse suppression talisman and spirit summoning talisman are enough to solve it, and I don't have to bother Master. I have a bad premonition in my heart, and I have to find the senior brother to sum up .........."

"Another person is missing today, this is the fifth person, Master told us to hide from the pilgrims, otherwise it will affect the incense in the temple, he must know something. My brother and I plan to patrol at night........."

"Three days have passed, during which three more people have disappeared, but my brother and I have not found any clues, and the night is calm. My ominous premonition deepened........"

"Senior brother is very strange today, he seems to have found something, he seems to be very angry, I asked him, but he didn't tell me. He's not in a good mood, so I'll ask again tomorrow. ”

"The person missing today is........ Senior brother, I searched the entire Sandao Mountain and didn't find him, I, I can't stand it, I'm going to go to the master to ask for clarification, and the senior brothers in the temple also support me, because they are also scared ......"

The handwriting of this passage is a little sloppy, which shows that the mentality of the owner of the note is somewhat broken.

Zhang Yuanqing continued to look down:

"After some questioning, Master finally agreed to tell me the truth, and my hunch was correct, he really knew the reason for the mysterious disappearance of my junior disciples. But Master said that there were many people talking during the day, and when the sun went down, he would come to my room and tell me a great secret that had risen and fallen for thousands of years. ”

"After dinner, I waited in my room, waiting for the sunset, and I had never looked forward to the dark of the day since someone disappeared in the night........"

This is the end of the paper record.

It's a little uncomfortable...... Zhang Yuanqing bared his teeth for a while.

He combed through the information on the paper, and in a certain year, the disciples of this mountain temple disappeared one after another.

The disciples were helpless, and panic spread. And for this matter, the temple in the temple, that is, their master, seems to know the reason.

This reason is a big secret that has risen and fallen for thousands of years.

"The reason for the decline of the mountain temple is unknown, can we complete the second main quest by exploring this source?" Zhang Yuanqing guessed.

He put the brittle paper back into the corpse's suit, pushed the other man back under the table, out of sight, and thought about what he was going to do next.

"There is so much information about the main temple, since you want to explore the ancient temple, you must go out, in this case, you must face the danger in the temple......"

"In the strange story of the Sheling Tunnel, there is a worker who has successfully survived, and following his trajectory, maybe you can find a way to survive. ”

After careful consideration, Zhang Yuanqing walked to the door of the main hall and opened the two lattice doors that were still in good condition.

"Squeak~"

The wooden door shaft makes a tooth-aching sound.

He propped up the doorframe, poked his head out and looked left and right, and there was silence outside, except for some desolation and gloom, and he saw no danger.

After observing for a while, he stepped out of the threshold and walked along the cobblestone path to the left of the main hall towards the backyard of the mountain temple.

The moon is like water, the grass is undulating, Zhang Yuanqing walked for a minute or two, and a building appeared in front of him.

It was a series of interconnected bungalows, forming a large courtyard with black tiles and white walls, a straight roof, and lattice windows and lattice doors under the eaves.

The lattice doors were dusty, open or fallen or closed, and the paper used to paste the windows was tattered and tattered under the erosion of time.

The moonlight was shining, like frost on the ground, and he glanced at the pattern of the backyard of the mountain temple with the help of the moonlight.

In addition to the courtyard in front of you, there is also an arched door on the east side, which is a bit like the back house of a big family in film and television dramas, and there will be such an arched door to connect different courtyards.

In the courtyard next door was planted a towering tree, with lush foliage and knotted branches.

"Huh....."

In the grassy yard, he found several skeletons wrapped in labor protection clothes.

Cautiously leaned over and carefully examined it, each skeleton was seriously damaged, and there was a truncated bone under the labor protection suit, but except for the one in the main hall, the skeleton shoulder bone here was well preserved and there were no cracks.

"These people all suffered terrible blows before they died, and they died a terrible ......"

A gust of wind blew, the branches and leaves "rustled", and vaguely, Zhang Yuanqing heard the "rustling" sound brought by the wind, mixed with whispers like weeping:

"Help, help......"

In this desolate and dead night, Zhang Yuanqing broke out in a cold sweat on his back.

He stood stiff and stiff in place, and for a few moments the wind stopped and the whispers of wailing ceased.

The yard next door seems to be a little dangerous, but the things in it haven't come....... He exhaled silently, stepped on the barren grass of the courtyard, and walked into the eaves, intending to explore the courtyard.

It seemed to be the place where the disciples of the temple lived, with worn, dusty furniture piled up, and a faint, decaying smell in the air.

Zhang Yuanqing explored the rooms one by one, finding nothing special until he pushed open the lattice door in the easternmost part.

"Squeak~"

The door of the room, which had been sealed for many years, was pushed open again, and the dust fell, Zhang Yuanqing patted the dust that fell on his shoulder, and his eyes swept over every corner of the room vigilantly.

In this long-abandoned room, by the window, there was a corpse lying crookedly against the wall.

It can be inferred from the costume and the tumbling miner's hat that it is another senior.

Crossing the threshold and entering the room, Zhang Yuanqing shuddered, and inexplicably felt that the temperature around him seemed to have dropped a lot.

"It's a little cold......"

He cautiously leaned over the corpse, unbuttoned his tattered clothes, and observed the corpse's bones as usual, this time, he did not see the broken bones, the skeleton was well preserved.

But when he looked at the shoulder bone of the corpse, his pupils froze, and there were exaggerated cracks in the shoulder bone of this corpse.

This is the same as the crack in the shoulder of the corpse in the main hall, the difference is that the corpse in front of him is more seriously injured.

"Is it a coincidence that only the shoulder bone in the room and the one in the main hall are broken?" he muttered to himself, a little uneasy.

Then, Zhang Yuanqing found that the corpse's trouser pocket was swollen, and it seemed that something was hidden.

Reaching out and digging it out, he took out a yellowed ancient book from the deceased's trouser pocket, a gray bronze mirror, and a yellow paper talisman.

The yellow paper talisman is painted with twisted lines of cinnabar, somewhat similar to runes, and these lines together converge into a traditional character for "corpse".

was looking at the yellow paper talisman, and a fluorescent blue message appeared in front of Zhang Yuanqing's eyes:

[Name: Zombie Charm]

【Type: Consumables】

[Function: Corpse Suppression]

[Introduction: The talisman made by the powerful Night Wandering God is the nemesis of all corpse yin things. Attach it to the forehead of the feminine to complete the seal. 】

[Note: It can only be used once.] 】

The glow-blue message was a bit like his stats panel, and it was obvious that this was a hint from the "Spirit Realm".

Since Zhang Yuanqing entered the strange ancient temple, it was the first time he had seen this kind of prompt.

"It should be an important item. Zhang Yuanqing folded it, put it in the pocket of his jacket, and zipped it up.

After thinking about it, he reopened the zipper again.

Because he remembered a stalk in a martial arts novel, a certain swordsman with superb swordsmanship likes to wrap his sword in a strip of cloth and carry it on his back.

One day, a challenger challenged the swordsman while he was eating.

And then the swordsman was gone.

The cause of death was the inconvenience of disassembling the strip of cloth......

Zhang Yuanqing then picked up the ancient book and the bronze mirror, but no relevant information surfaced.

He first put the bronze mirror aside, and carefully opened the booklet that was rolled up at the footer, yellowing and brittle.

It reads:

"It's been two and a half years since I entered the Sandao Mountain Niangniang Temple, and I have learned to read and write, and the senior brother said that when the master returns to the mountain after the soul of the dead, he can officially lead me to the beginning and practice the Moon Swallowing Soul Cultivation Technique. This is the way to get started with becoming a night wanderer. ”

"King Yan rebelled, wolf smoke broke out, and the master, as the strongest person in the Songfu Night Wandering God lineage, had to go down the mountain to surpass the dead, otherwise the war would be undecided, and the calamity would arise again, and the people would be even more unpeaceful......"

Zhang Yuanqing felt that his shoulders were a little sore, rubbed them, and preliminarily judged that this was an essay, that is, a diary.

The contents of the diary are the experience of the 'author's practice and life in the temple, and according to the handwriting, this diary and the paper on the corpse of the main hall come from the same source.

Through words like "King Yan's Rebellion", the timeline is the history of the Battle of Jingjing.

But he wasn't sure if the temple really existed in history, because the content of the essay was written with unclear words such as "cultivation", "night wandering god", "tunashu" and "talisman urn".

Zhang Yuanqing moved his sore shoulders, glanced at the room vigilantly, listened to the movement outside the house, and after making sure that there was no abnormality, he continued to read the essay.

Soon, he turned to the follow-up to the contents of the main temple, the first few pages were torn out, and the follow-up read:

"At sunset, it was finally dark, I heard a knock on the door, and I hurriedly opened the door, and it was not the master standing outside the door, but the senior brother who disappeared last night. ”

"The elder brother who had been missing for a day and a night has returned, but I don't have any joy because ...... He was dead, and he came back with a corpse. His chest was dripping with blood, and his heart was poached out by whom. ”

"Senior Brother stared at me directly, and he said: Don't believe Master'......."

These paragraphs are written crookedly, and it is conceivable that when the owner of the essay wrote this paragraph, his mentality was explosive.

When Zhang Yuanqing turned the next page, he found that there was no follow-up to the note, and the owner of the diary never wrote a diary again.

"Shhh........hh What does it mean not to believe Master?"

Zhang Yuanqing was shocked by this reversal, and his heart chilled.

Was it Miaozhu who killed that senior brother? Is he also the culprit behind the successive disappearances of the disciples? Zhang Yuanqing rubbed his shoulders, put the booklet back in the pocket of the corpse, and then picked up the bronze mirror and was about to leave.

But when he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he inadvertently glanced at the bronze mirror, and his body stiffened suddenly.

The moonlight was like water, projected on the mirror, and his appearance was reflected in the bronze mirror, and on his back, there was a person lying on his stomach.

The man's face was pale, his lips were dark purple, he had a pair of white pupils, his head was resting on Zhang Yuanqing's shoulder, and his white pupils were staring at him in silence.

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ps: This book has supernatural elements, but it is not the main supernatural, readers who don't like supernatural can rest assured.