Coming to the bottom of the bell tower, they have already lit the torch, this hall is much smaller than the bell tower above, the space is not large, the wall is made of stone, as the master originally said, five secret passages lead to five directions, except for the one that leads to the north, the original master and they sealed the secret passage, now they have been cleaned up. These passages are all the same, one meter wide and about two meters high, the walls of the passages are grayish-white, and the air in the passages is damp and has a musty smell. Probably last time Master lit a fire to smoke them, there were still traces of fire on the walls.

Master Ran took us into the secret passage in the south, this is the one that the master walked on last time, walked forward a dozen steps, the secret passage was divided into two, I said that no matter how many secret passages, we will only take the right one, I will walk in front. Spread out the road, such a secret passage is easy to have a mechanism, after the master broke off, the two of them may be the first time to come to the secret passage, their hearts are very nervous, from time to time to look around.

I walked six more intersections in a row, but I still didn't reach the end, and I didn't find anything abnormal, but this road was a bit long after all, and after walking for a long time, Chen Qingjiu and Liu Xiyu unconsciously leaned together with me, more than two steps away from Master Ran, as if they had a sense of security in their hearts. Suddenly I felt a soft under my feet, and quickly stopped, who knows, the two of them didn't have time to stop, directly hit me, knocked me forward, only to hear a boom, the ground collapsed, I also fell, the two of them fell directly with me, the ground is not deep, about three meters, I just fell to the end, before I could get up, the two of them smashed on me, smashed all over the body, and when they got up, I also slowly got up, the dust was flying below, choking me even sneezed a few times. At this time, the torches below fell with us and were extinguished.

Master Ran's voice came from above: "How is it, it's okay." I hurriedly replied, "It's okay master, you can light the torch." ”

The master lit a torch on it, and we saw by the light of the fire that it was not a trap, and the bottom was the same secret passage as the top, perhaps because it was old, and the top layer had lost its weight, so it collapsed.

"There is a secret passage below the master, or you can come down too, let's go from below." A few of us cleaned up the ground, tidied up again and saw that no one was hurt, and there was nothing missing, and when Master Ran jumped down, we walked forward in the direction we had been heading again.

This time, I didn't find any more forks in the secret passage, because of what happened just now, we walked cautiously, if it was a trap just now, and then a knife was inserted in the ground, the three of us would be reimbursed. After walking more than fifty paces, I noticed that there was a light shining in the first ten paces away, so I quickly made a gesture to stop them, and put out the torches, and I whispered to them that they should wait here for me to go first. I walked five or six steps forward gently, and I followed the light to look ahead, and there was a hall in front of me, and there were shadows of people walking around.

After walking a few more steps, I came to the entrance of the secret passage, and looked inside against the wall, there was a lot of space inside, there were eight pillars in the hall, and a person was chained to each pillar, and there was a table in the middle, and a person was sitting on a chair next to it, and there was a huge coffin by the wall, and it was not good to see what was in the far light.

I looked at it for a while and noticed no change, and the people at the table didn't move, as if they were napping. I crept back and whispered everything I had found inside.

Master Ran said: "I'm in front, go and deal with the guard, Lei Yunzi, follow me, you two are waiting at the secret passage, after I get it, you come out again." ”-

After saying that, the two of us handed over the things we were carrying on our backs, but brought the ring knife, and came to the secret passage of the hall, and the master of Ran looked at it, and gestured to me, and in a few clicks he rushed to the person sitting on the chair, and the back of the knife hit the man's head, and before he understood what was going on, he fell under the chair. I followed briskly to the center of the room, looked around with my knife, and found no one but a few people on the chair and tied to the pillar.

They followed the two behind, and seeing that we had done it, they also made their way out of the secret passage to the center of the hall. The hall also has a doorway that leads to the other place.

When Master Ran saw them come in, he ordered: "The two of you are at the same door, go in ten steps and watch the point, and come back immediately to report any movement." Chen Qingjiu and Liu Xiyu left separately and walked towards the secret passage.

Master Ran and I saw eight young men tied to the pillar, naked, with an iron chain tied to their legs, all leaning against the pillar, and a few scars on their wrists, as if they had been cut by a knife. There were two porcelain basins in front of each person, one with clean water and the other with something black, which seemed to be rancid sorghum rice and a wooden barrel that smelled like a toilet.

I asked, "Master, what did they do, did they let them go?" ”

Master Ran said, "Not yet, we still have to go to Mr. Wang, they are all like this, we can't take care of them, if we can't get out with them, we will hurt them, let's see what is in this coffin first." ”

As he spoke, he walked to the coffin placed next to the wall, and I followed, this is a large coffin painted with red paint, which is one and a half meters high when placed on the ground, more than one meter wide and two meters long, and is covered with a coffin lid, and there are no coffin nails. I went up to the coffin lid of more than 100 catties moved to the side, a cold smell came to my nose, choking me hurriedly retreated, and the master also lit a torch on the coffin, only to see that there was a small coffin in the coffin, the gap between the big coffin and the small coffin, full of ice, the small coffin is marble, the coffin lid is transparent, I don't know whether it is crystal or glass. Through the lid of the coffin, I saw a naked and naked corpse lying in the small coffin, the corpse was male, looking at the age of about thirty, but there was no male root, and there was bright red blood in the coffin, the corpse was lifelike as if it was alive, and the corpse with bright red blood looked particularly weird. ”

I looked at this and asked, "Master, did you see it the last time you came in, and if this is their evil magic?" The master said, "The last time we came in, we were on it, and we have never been here at all, and we have never seen this. This is not the legendary Western Regions evil art, blood corpses. I remember one year a monk who placed an order once said in the temple that there is an evil art in the Western Regions, that is, soaking people's corpses with blood, coupled with special medicines, you can practice into an immortal body, half human and half ghost, not afraid of water, fire, knives and guns, no sleep, no food and no thirst. However, in the Central Plains, I have never heard of anyone who can do this kind of evil art. Could it be that the Yin Demon Sect is practicing this kind of thing here. ”

"Then what are we going to do with this bloody corpse?" I asked. Master Zhiran said: "Ruined him, you can't keep it to harm people." After saying that, the two of us came to the coffin with the knife, and I smashed the coffin lid with the back of the knife, and after a few smashes on the coffin lid, several cracks appeared, and the smell of blood wafted from between the cracks in the cracked coffin. It makes people just want to vomit.

I was pondering whether to continue smashing when I heard a boom, and the lid of the coffin rushed up, and when it reached the top of the hall, it was torn apart by resistance and fell in all directions.

Master Ran and I hurriedly jumped back, and even though there were still a few small pieces falling on my body, I grinned when I smashed it, and Master Ran was also hit by the same trick as me, and rubbed it straight there.

In the dim light of the room, I saw the naked corpse sitting up from the coffin, bleeding dripping from its body. Master Ran and I were both stunned, this thing can still get up, is it practiced? Stunned, he jumped towards Master Ran, the space in the hall was not large, and there were eight pillars, as well as the eight people on the ground, and for a while, Master Ran could hide, and in an instant, the robe on his shoulder was torn by a large piece of the bloody corpse, and his body was also thrown out and fell on a pillar

。 The blood brought up by the bloody corpses was scattered all over the ground, as if it was raining blood.