Chapter 31: Change

Seeing this, the little carpenter subconsciously became secret, and only when he noticed that there was no movement around him did he dare to poke his head out and look at the hanging man.

It was a corpse, with no signs of life, and it looked like it had been dead for some time, at least seven or eight days.

Judging from the clothes, that person should have been a nearby mountain man before his death.

Either he's a hunter or he's a herb picker......

When the little carpenter touched it just now, he had already seen a lot of carcasses of wild beasts, including carnivorous beasts such as wild boars and gray wolves, and even more rabbits and foxes, but it was the first time he had seen a human corpse.

The little carpenter squinted his eyes and looked at it, and after roughly figuring out the identity of the corpse, he couldn't help but feel a wave of anger in his heart.

Obviously, Cheng Lanting and his subordinates, in order to prevent idle people from disturbing his meditation, have set up a lot of traps around this mountain, and these traps have taken the lives of many innocent people while preventing many unnecessary troubles.

And what really made the little carpenter angry was Cheng Lanting and his subordinates, who treated these innocent and dead mountain people without any guilt or chagrin.

This can be seen in the fact that they let the corpse hang from the tree and did nothing.

The gang obviously wanted to use this demonstration to intimidate the villagers who rushed to the mountains.

This kind of heart is really a little too vicious.

But anger to anger, the little carpenter did not forget his duty, so he continued on his way, I don't know how long, at last he came to a slope only about fifty or sixty meters from the mountain temple, and then looked over the trees and looked there.

In front of the mountain temple, there is a vegetable field, where there is an old man dressed as a Taoist, put a load of dung there, and then hold a gourd scoop, and is watering the dung and fertilizing the buds in the vegetable field one by one.

While serving the vegetables, he hummed and chirped, looking very leisurely.

As for the mountain temple, there is no movement.

Although it was not transparent at a glance, the little carpenter had all five senses, and he could almost be sure that there was no one in the mountain temple.

If it weren't for Xiao Wu and them chasing them all the way, the little carpenter would never believe it, but that Cheng Zixiao came here with people, and he wouldn't believe that under this ordinary-looking mountain temple, there is very likely to hide a legendary ruins.

The little carpenter stared at the old Taoist priest guarding the temple for a while, feeling that he was ordinary, and he seemed to be just an ordinary Taoist priest, not a cultivator.

Of course, that Taoist priest may also be a master who has cultivated to the realm of returning to the basics.

After all, this is the secret cultivation place of Cheng Lanting, and the gateway of this place, there must be something to say about letting an old Taoist priest like him squat here.

The little carpenter looked patiently until the old Taoist priest poured all the dung on the vegetable patch at the door and returned to the temple.

On the way back, he made secret signs that he could recognize near all the traps he found.

Returning to the meeting point, the little carpenter saw that Qu Feng was waiting here, but Qu Menghu and Xiao Wu did not come back, so he asked, "Where is your teacher?" ”

Qu Feng shook his head and said he didn't know.

According to Qu Menghu's instructions, he finished looking at the area he was inspecting, and after confirming that there were signs of a magic circle, he came back, because he didn't have many tasks, so it had been about half an hour since he came back......

In terms of workload, even if Qu Menghu and Xiao Wu are more, they should come back before the little carpenter.

Did something happen to them?

Qu Feng was a little nervous, afraid that something would happen to the teacher, but the little carpenter seemed very calm.

He knew Qu Menghu's ability, as long as he didn't rashly break into other people's traps, Qu Menghu would never be in any danger.

Even if he encounters danger, he will definitely be able to find a way to escape.

He might be busy with something else.

After the little carpenter comforted Qu Feng, he directly found a place to sit cross-legged and began to meditate and practice.

There is likely to be an uphill battle ahead, so the little carpenter tries to keep himself in a good state as much as possible.

After all, it is difficult for him to return to his previous peak state now, and he can only be more diligent.

And just as the little carpenter expected, after two and a half weeks of his anger, Qu Menghu finally returned.

came back with him, as well as Xiao Wu.

The two seemed to be a little tired, Qu Menghu's steps were a little vain, and Xiao Wu was blushing, as if he had sweated a lot, which made Qu Feng very nervous, and asked in the past: "Teacher, is something wrong?" ”

Qu Menghu nodded and said seriously: "When I encountered a big worm, I didn't dare to fight to the death because I was afraid of being seen by Cheng Lanting's people, so I had to desperately flee and get rid of it......"

The big insect is the meaning of the tiger, Qu Feng heard it, his face was shocked, and said: "In this mountain, there is a tiger?" ”

Qu Menghu said yes, that tiger is terrible, with a big mouth, almost swallowed me......

Qu Feng said with some joy: "Fortunately, it's you, teacher, if I can escape, I'm afraid I will make a fuss and alarm those people......"

The little carpenter couldn't stand it anymore, coughed his throat, and then touched what he had found, and talked to everyone.

Hearing this, Qu Menghu's eyes, which were originally full of smiles, suddenly narrowed.

He said coldly: "Cheng Lanting is still the same Cheng Lanting, and in his eyes, human life is like a mustard......

When he said this, Qu Menghu's eyes were full of hatred.

It was this man who attacked his friend at the beginning, not only killed Qu Menghu's father, but also extinguished the whole house, and even burned it with a fire......

How ruthless!

After the little carpenter finished talking about the situation on his side, the rest of them also reported their findings one after another.

After everyone finished speaking, Qu Menghu concluded: "So we can basically be sure that Cheng Lanting should be in this mountain, and it is even very likely that it is under the mountain temple, and the construction of the mountain temple is very likely to cover up the remains of the Three-Eyed Witch Sacrifice Temple found by the tomb thief - Cheng Lanting laid a large array here in the name of building the mountain temple, and set up many traps, so as to ensure the secrecy and safety here, as for the mountain temple itself, it also uses various traps to block the way, making it difficult for ordinary people to enter the ......"

The little carpenter said: "From the outside, there should be only the paved bluestone mountain road without traps, but there should be a secret sentry there, outsiders will pass, first, there is a warning, and second, they will be stopped......"

The two of you analyzed word by word, Qu Feng is not very capable after all, he can only listen to the side, as for Xiao Wu......

This little girl's face was flushed, and she was looking at Qu Menghu with admiration.

Good guys, it's amazing that you can analyze so many things in such a short period of time with limited information.

It's not like her, and now her mind is full of mess......

Qu Menghu ignored Xiao Wu with a spring breeze next to him, and after summing up, he asked the little carpenter: "What do you think we should do next?" ”

The little carpenter thought for a while and said, "Before we find out the specific situation of the mountain temple, we'd better not act rashly and startle the snake - my idea is to wait and see the situation, if that Cheng Zixiao comes out today, let's go over, rob the person, and then interrogate the news inside; And if you don't come out, when it gets dark, I'll take you, the two of us touch it first, and take a look at the mountain temple, as for the matter of entering the underground, this has to be considered in the long run, don't act rashly......"

The little carpenter's words were old-fashioned, Qu Menghu recognized it very much, and nodded at the moment, and said, "It's so best, wait a minute......

They guarded the way up the mountain here, waiting for Cheng Zixiao to come down the mountain.

Everyone chased all the way, quite tired, Qu Menghu relieved the rested little carpenter and Qu Feng to star, and he ......

He planned to squint for a while, after all, it was too hard to travel before, and now, his waist is a little sore.

Ay......

The little carpenter hid in the canopy of a large locust tree, sniffed, and felt a strange smell, and then he looked at the mountain temple in the distance.

The vision here is good, but he has all five senses, but he can clearly see the movement over there.

The little carpenter, who has calmed down his mind through wood carving since he was a child, has enough concentration, so he is also looking at it seriously, not realizing that time has passed, until the evening, he did not see Cheng Zixiao come out, but there was movement on the other side of the road.

The little carpenter looked back and saw three or five people coming at the end of the bluestone steps in the distance.

When the men came near, the little carpenter saw that there were three men and two women, two of whom were quite old, about forty or fifty years old, but one of whom was only in his twenties, and looked quite handsome, and as for the two women......

One woman looks like a fat woman with a big waist and a round waist, and the other is interesting.

It was an acquaintance of a small carpenter.

Baolan.

This granddaughter of Ma One-eyed, the head of Longwu Village, was born in the Xiangxi Ganjun Army, the last time the little carpenter met her, it was at Dunzhai Miao Gu, when she tried to calculate Boss Luo, but was countered by Boss Luo, but fortunately, Boss Luo did not embarrass her, but let her go.

The little carpenter said goodbye to her, but she didn't expect this Miao girl to appear in the deep mountains and old forests of Wushan County at this moment.

What is she doing here?

The little carpenter frowned, and when he saw the group walking down the stone steps towards the temple on the opposite side of the hill, he felt that things might not have gone as they had planned......