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Hu Guiyang felt that the scene in front of him was a little blurry, the green flames seemed to be more vigorous, but they did not illuminate the larger space, and they kept jumping, the heads in the fire were both real and illusory, and the voices of the people around them were far and near......

Hu Guiyang knew that he had been tricked, the problem was in the cup of tea just now, and maybe there were other effects, he vaguely smelled a slight aroma.

The kneeling crowd shouted and screamed, crazy and drunk, but no one left their place.

"Ask my mother to fax the fire to me, I am willing to sacrifice myself to kill the demon!"

"Give me real fire!"

"I'm willing to slay the demon!"

The words "true fire" and "demon slaying" spat out from almost everyone's mouths, and even He Wu was infected, kneeling on the ground and screaming.

Hu Guiyang also shouted a few times, secretly pinching his thighs to try to keep himself awake.

A man in the second row suddenly got up, roared, crossed the first row, rushed towards the flames, and was still more than ten steps away, when he was hit by a small ball of green fire shot from the mouth of the old mother who planted the fire, the man stopped, his whole body stiffened, and he seemed to be enduring great pain.

The hall was silent, and everyone was looking at the man who stepped forward.

"Ahh

No one stepped forward to help, and the man extinguished the fire on his body and returned to his place in embarrassment, with a look of shame and disappointment.

His defeat did not deter the enthusiasm of the others, and immediately another person got up and rushed to the front to accept the test of "true fire".

Everyone followed one after another, but it was rare to maintain order, one person got up, and the others never moved.

Hu Guiyang remembered a scene when he was a teenager, he and a dozen brothers secretly went out to drink, all of them were drunk, I don't know who started it, and jumped into the river one after another, not caring if it was safe or not.

The state of these people in front of me is similar to that of the time.

Even Hu Guiyang himself had the urge to give it a try, and even guessed that all this was prepared for himself.

But the hall is not a one-time effort, and the believers don't seem to be improvised patchwork, Hu Guiyang only decided to leave the city and come to He's house a few hours ago, even if the news leaked at that time, it was impossible for someone to set such a complicated trap in such a short period of time.

Hu Guiyang thought a lot, and his mind was not completely lost, but the mind next to him was much simpler-He Wu madman jumped up, rushed forward with strange steps, and shouted in his mouth.

Hu Guiyang didn't have time to stop it.

"I want to be really hot!" He Wu lunatic threw himself with open arms, limping, more urgent than others.

Unfortunately, he was not the winner, and the green fire immediately burned up, causing him to roll on the ground in pain, and screaming more fiercely than others.

When he returned to his place, he looked sluggish, and seemed to regret his actions very much, and he was very disappointed.

The light in the hall was extremely poor, Hu Guiyang took a few looks, and found that the placket of He Wu's crazy clothes did not have too many traces of burning, and the green fire just looked violent.

One by one, the believers went up to the ground to be "roasted" for the real thing, and went mad and languished, and some simply lay on the ground and did not move.

Hu Guiyang felt that he should play, his purpose was to "bite the bait", but I don't know what the reason is, others can choose the best time to get up, and they will not conflict with each other, as if they have discussed, but Hu Guiyang can't do it, he always stands up too late, and only once he takes the lead, but someone in the front row still strides forward and doesn't give him a chance at all.

I don't know how long it has been, Hu Guiyang has given up trying, and things have changed.

A somewhat familiar voice sounded in the background, stern and calm, completely different from the drunken group of people in the hall.

"Take down all these cultists!"

Hu Guiyang had always remained semi-conscious, but even he didn't find out when the officers and soldiers had arrived, and they had already surrounded half of the hall.

The others were not in the accident realm at all, as if they had not heard it, still facing the green fire, kneeling and paralyzing, and another person got up, not to run away, but to continue to seek the true fire.

The old woman in the flames saw the officers and soldiers, showed a look of rage, did not speak, quickly disappeared, and the flames weakened.

The fire-seeker who had just run through the first row seemed to have tripped over something, plopped down, and cried out "oops", which was more effective than the threat of the officers and soldiers, and all the believers woke up from a dream, and found themselves in a surrounding, and after a moment of confusion, they began to break through.

The sounds of orders, reprimands, screams, and fighting were incessant, and the only few torches were extinguished, leaving only the innermost green flame, a few feet high, still shrinking.

The familiar voice sounded again: "Block the exits, all exits!" ”

It turned out that there was not only one passage in the hall, but seven or eight more scattered in different places, and the believers were trying to disperse and flee.

Hu Guiyang stood up, turned his head to look, and could no longer find the figure of He Wu's madman, he didn't go to find someone, didn't turn around to look at the familiar voice, didn't follow the believers to escape, but went against the trend, running towards the shrinking green fire.

He has followed his father-in-law to catch demons for many years, poked through countless scams, and encountered unexplained phenomena, it is impossible for Hu Guiyang not to be curious.

And that premonition still lingers: this fire was prepared for him.

In the darkness, he collided with others several times, and almost tripped over the believers lying on the ground, but he still approached the green fire step by step.

The fire had not been completely extinguished, and Hu Guiyang came to the front and finally saw the true face.

It turned out to be a large square pit, and the pit was full of flammable materials such as wooden blocks, and there should be mechanisms on the left and right sides that could blow air at any time, or spray oil, paint, and the like.

Hu Guiyang bypassed the square pit, walked to the side to check, reached out and groped on the wall, and soon let him find a clue, it turned out that there was a small door recessed in the wall, only one person was allowed to enter, the color and the wall were integrated, and it was difficult to find.

Officers and soldiers and believers were still fighting, one side fanatically wanted to break out of the encirclement, and the other side was excited to make meritorious contributions, but they refused to back down.

Hu Guiyang dodged into the door, stepped on a small platform after a few steps, stomped twice, did not find the mechanism, turned around, and actually saw the scene in the hall, he reached out and touched it, his fingers were cold, it turned out that it was not a whole stone wall, there was a transparent thing in the position of most people high, like a crystal, the eyes could penetrate the past, just against the fire pit, and the scene he saw was slightly deformed, but it was very clear.

There are only two fires left in the hall, one is the green fire in front of Hu Guiyang, which looks weak, but in fact, there is still a high section in the pit, and the other is above the entrance steps on the opposite side, more than a dozen torches illuminate a large area, and the person standing in the middle to command the soldiers is the fifth brother Hu Guimeng.

It turned out that the fifth brother had already set his sights on this group of people, and Hu Guiyang followed the line of He Million to this place, but he didn't see He Million, and the old woman didn't know where she went.

Hu Guiyang was about to look for it carefully, when he heard a bang, and the fire in the pit was burning again, and it suddenly jumped up several feet, green as jade, startling him and taking a step back.

The officers and soldiers in the hall stopped fighting with the believers, and they all looked at the sudden green fire and the new avatar in the fire.

In front of everyone's eyes, Hu Guiyang laughed unhurriedly, raised his voice and said, "Who can say, am I becoming a god or a demon?" ”

No one answered, only the fifth brother Hu Gui on the steps in the distance screamed in surprise: "Third and sixth brother!" ”

Hu Guiyang felt that it was not enjoyable, so he had a whim, coughed, and said in a deep voice: "All beings, don't you bow down yet?" ”

He didn't see the reaction in the hall because something grabbed him by the belt and pulled him into the shadows.

Obviously down-to-earth, but his body was rising rapidly, Hu Guiyang was surprised and excited, "Ha, this is quite interesting." ”

A voice behind him said, "You're so bold." ”

"If you don't believe in nature, don't be afraid." Hu Guiyang raised his head and saw the faint light above.

The passage up was not long, but soon reached the top, a room, lit by oil lamps, six strong men divided into groups of two, twisted three turntables, and the ropes on the turntables dragged up the wooden disks underground.

Hu Guiyang stepped to the ground, turned to He Million and said, "It's disappointing, I thought I really met ghosts and gods." ”

He Million smiled: "Ghosts and gods are unpredictable, and they don't manifest in this kind of thing." ”

"Where's the old mother?" Hu Guiyang didn't see the old woman.

He Million didn't answer, but said to the six strong men: "It can be sealed, alas, decades of hard work will be abandoned in one day." ”

The strong men cut the rope with a knife, the wooden plate fell, and there were already prepared stone plates next to it, the thickness was equivalent to the passage, and the six people lifted it together, and only a few pieces were thrown into the passage, and it could be completely sealed, and the people inside could only come out of the other passages.

"Let's go." He Million said.

"Your son is still down there."

"Every man has a life, and surely he will not lose his life."

The strong man blocked the passage, Hu Guiyang and He Million walked out of the room, the sky was already slightly bright, He Million went out of the courtyard to check first, and quickly beckoned, indicating that there was no danger outside.

Hu Guiyang didn't know which alley this was, but he didn't see the officers and soldiers, "Fifth brother didn't investigate carefully enough this time." ”

"Hey, it's great that he was able to find the entrance to the Suzaku Temple. Let's go. ”

After turning around, the two walked to the east end of Shenmuchang Street, the sky was brighter, there were already pedestrians on the street, looking west, they could see a large number of officers and soldiers near the Fire Temple.

It was still He Million who led the way, turned into another alley, in front of a house, He Million stopped, looked left and right, saw no outsiders, pushed open the hidden door, and stepped into the courtyard.

Hu Guiyang followed in and asked, "It's time to see the 'relatives' of the He family, right?" ”

He Million smiled: "You are now the 'Descendant of the Fire God', you can see anyone you want." ”

"I want to see the guy who wants to turn me into a demon fox."

He Million put away his smile, "What a coincidence, in this regard, we are like-minded." Come on, I'll introduce you to a few people who will help you. You don't believe in ghosts and gods, I don't force it, I just want you to know that the world is vast, and it is not something that the imperial court can control all, let alone the emperor alone. ”