Curious, Meng Zitao asked Xu Guanzhu's junior disciple, "Daoist Chongyuan, I don't know which master carved these statues?"

Chongyuan replied: "I don't know the author of these statues, I heard my senior brother say that there used to be a Taoist temple on the mountain, and the statues here were all carved by the Taoist master of the Taoist temple. It's just that for some reason, a hundred years ago, that Taoist temple was suddenly destroyed, and in the end only some broken ruins remained. ”

Meng Zitao's heart moved, and he asked, "Will you stop by for a while?"

"Not by the way, the Taoist temple is on the left, and Danmu is on the right. "Chongyuan Dao.

"When you come back later, is it inconvenient to take me to see it?" Meng Zitao said.

"There's nothing inconvenient about this, I'm afraid that there may be some time constraints at that time. Chongyuan smiled.

"If it's too late, I'll just come by myself tomorrow......"

After walking about two or three hundred steps, I came to a three-way intersection, and there were still some broken steps on the left that meandered upward, and on the right was a sheep intestine path.

According to Chongyuan, this trail was walked out by villagers who went into the mountains to collect medicine, but the location of Danmu is further away, and the villagers generally do not go there.

Following the trail, the servants walked for almost two hours before they approached Danmu.

The tree that is suspected to be Danmu is similar to what is said in the ancient books, "the leaves are red stems, and the yellow flowers are red", which is very conspicuous compared with the surrounding trees.

When they got closer, Meng Zitao suddenly felt a hint of danger, and at this time, Chongyuan and Ah Ming both stopped.

Ah Ming said: "Last time I noticed this danmu, I didn't encounter a poisonous snake, could it be that it is already dead?"

Chongyuan waved his hand: "It's not that simple, maybe that snake happened to go to forage, so you didn't encounter it." ”

"I'll go up and have a look. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Meng Zitao walked towards the tree, Chongyuan was startled, and wanted to hold Meng Zitao, but it was too late: "Meng Jushi be careful!"

Before the words fell, a snake, like a sharp arrow, jumped up from a bush next to Danmu and bit at Mencius, the speed was like lightning, and the human eye could not see clearly.

Seeing this situation, Chongyuan and Ah Ming were shocked, and wanted to go up to save Meng Zitao, but it was too late.

Seeing that the snake's mouth was about to bite Meng Zitao, he saw Meng Zitao's right hand reach, directly grabbed the back of the snake's head, and pinched it hard.

At this time, Meng Zitao took a closer look at this snake, as Ah Ming said, this is an unknown poisonous snake, the snake head is triangular, which is the basic characteristic of a poisonous snake.

This snake looks a little like a krait, but the snake body of the krait snake is white and black, but this snake is pale yellow and white, and Meng Zitao guessed whether it would be a mutated krait.

This snake is nearly two meters long, big, and powerful, after being caught by Meng Zitao, he used the snake body to coil on Meng Zitao's arm, strangled desperately, if it is an ordinary person, he has to strangle his arm weakly, but for Meng Zitao, it is no different from tickling.

At this time, Ah Ming and Chongyuan ran over one after another, and when they saw Meng Zitao holding the poisonous snake in his hand, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to be reckless. Meng Zitao explained to the two with a smile.

In fact, with the speed of Meng Zitao's shot just now, the two of them knew that Meng Zitao was a practitioner, and Ah Ming knew more about Meng Zitao, but the speed of the snake was too fast just now, and he forgot about it when he was nervous, of course, this was mainly because he didn't have much impression of Meng Zitao's skills.

Since the poisonous snake was caught, there was not much danger on Danmu's side, but the handling of this poisonous snake was a little troublesome, and finally Meng Zitao decided to take it back and study it.

Meng Zitao took out a sturdy bag from his bag, then put the snake in it and put it away, and then went to observe the Danmu in front of him.

After carefully observing for a while, Ah Ming asked, "Director Meng, do you think there is a problem with this?"

"Doesn't look like there's a problem, it's just ......"

Meng Zitao frowned slightly, this Danmu gave him a little strange feeling, but where it was strange, he couldn't say, he insisted on finding a word to describe it, he could only say that its "taste" was wrong.

"Doesn't taste right?" Ah Ming felt that what Meng Zitao said was a bit of a god, but he also knew that it was impossible for Meng Zitao to deliberately act very mysterious, and for a while, it was not easy for him to make a judgment.

At this time, Chongyuan spoke: "Meng Jushi, do you think that the 'spirit' of this Danmu is wrong?"

Meng Zitao nodded and said: "You're right, I do think that there is something wrong with its inner 'spirit', and I always feel that there is an evil spirit, but I don't know where the source of the problem is." ”

Chongyuan thought of the tea tree in his own view and said, "Could it be that there is something buried under it?"

Meng Zitao said: "There is this possibility, but it can't be transplanted yet, so let's wait for the experts to come and check it." ”

Seeing that it was not early, the group was ready to go back, as for whether Danmu would be stolen without poisonous snakes, Meng Zitao felt that it was unlikely that something would be so coincidental, even if he happened to catch up, he felt that it might be a good thing.

When the servants returned to the Taoist temple, it was already dark, and after learning that Meng Zitao wanted to go to the broken road tomorrow morning to watch, Xu Guan invited Meng Zitao to stay in the Taoist temple for the night, and Meng Zitao agreed.

As for Ah Ming, because there is no signal on his mobile phone, plus he has to prepare some things, he must go down the mountain and notify the people in the department to go up the mountain as soon as possible.

Early the next morning, Meng Zitao got up to practice boxing, but he didn't expect the three brothers to get up earlier, and after they exercised, they had to do morning classes.

Meng Zitao did not disturb them, and after breakfast, he went to the Broken Taoist Temple alone.

At yesterday's three-way intersection, Meng Zitao chose the stone steps on the left to continue walking, straight for two or three hundred steps, and a cave appeared in front of him, and the steps passed through the cave.

The cave is very long, and it is pitch black inside, Meng Zitao took out a flashlight to illuminate it, but he was alone, walking in the cave with a dark flashlight, there was always a sense of immediacy of a horror movie, and it felt a little gloomy.

After walking about seventy or eighty meters, Meng Zitao walked through the cave, looked back, and felt some emotion in his heart, when this cave was opened, it was still an ancient time when there was no automatic machinery, how much financial and material resources did people have to spend at that time?

Out of the cave, in front of me is a winding upward, partially broken steps, the length of the steps is estimated to be hundreds of meters, and the shrubs at the end are extremely messy, looking a sense of desolation.

Meng Zitao turned off his flashlight and continued up the steps, admiring the surrounding mountain scenery along the way, which had fallen into disrepair and was covered with weeds, but even this did not spoil the somewhat dusty scenery around him.