Inside the temple, the candle flame burns faintly, and the light is extinguished.

The weak light of the fire seemed to be extinguished at any moment.

I stepped over the high threshold of decolorization and looked curiously at the contents of the temple.

There was only a pair of candles inside, resting under the huge clay statue in front of it, and there was no other light source inside.

It looked dark, even eerie, because the light of the candle flame was so faint.

I walked all the way to the statue of the god to be enshrined, and found that the layout of this temple was not much different from the layout of the mountain temple I saw when I was chased and killed by the snake people on the Heavenly Mountain.

There is a door on the left and right sides of the temple, which is a side room. It's just that I'm a little surprised that this huge temple actually enshrines only one statue of a god.

That is, the statue of Nuwa placed in front of me, legend has it that human beings were made by Nuwa kneading mud, and when natural disasters occurred, they even took five-colored stones to make up for the sky.

Human beings respectfully call her the Holy Mother, and she is considered a top-level existence in the gods, but few people know that in fact, Nuwa is also respected as the ancestor of all demons by the demon race.

But even if the status of the Virgin Mary is noble, this huge temple should not only worship her as a god?

However, the affairs of the temple are not something that we ordinary people can understand, and perhaps there is no reason for this.

The incense burner placed on the offering table only had two candles in it, and there was not even a stick of incense, which looked a little depressed.

But I obviously saw a big bundle of incense next to the incense burner, and I don't know if the old woman was lazy? No incense was given to the Virgin, only two candles were lit.

When I lit a stick of incense on the candle, I found a thick layer of dust on the desk.

Not only did the old woman not give incense to the Virgin on time, but she didn't even bother to clean it, no wonder few people came here to make incense, and I think it was the reason why she was scattered in this temple.

But at her age, even if she does something wrong, it's excusable, isn't it?

I shook my head, but I didn't pay much attention to it, lit the incense, and after paying my respects, I took a candle from the desk and lit it, and walked towards the closed door on the left.

"Grandma, are you in there?"

I knocked on the door and shouted.

But after a few shouts and no answer, I knocked on the door with more force, and the door opened by itself.

I walked inside with a candle and found that there was a kitchen, and in addition to the stove and firewood, there were many large black clay pots.

I walked up to look, and under the faint candle flame, I found that the iron pot had rusted, and I don't know how long it had been unused?

I frowned slightly, looked at the large black clay jars placed next to it, and when I opened the first one, I found that it contained water, that is, the water tank.

The second one was empty, and there was nothing in it except a few snakeskin bags.

But when I was about to open the third clay jar, I suddenly heard a strange sound coming from inside the jar.

"Squeak, squeak!"

This is the cry of a mouse, I think this is a rice tank, otherwise how could it provoke a mouse?

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and thought to myself, I hope it wasn't empty, even if it was ruined by rats, then I would admit it.

However, when I opened the cylinder head and looked inside with the candle flame, I was shocked and angry!

What do I see?

There was a lot of rice in the tank, but what I didn't expect was that when I heard the cries of rats just now, I thought it was just a rat entering the rice jar to steal rice to eat.

This is nothing, people who live in the countryside are accustomed to this kind of thing.

However, what I never expected was that the rats in this temple were so blatant that they actually settled directly in the rice jar.

Not only did they settle down, but they also gave birth to a litter of rat cubs!

Arrogant! It's really arrogant!

But to my surprise, there was a pair of rats nearly the size of a fist, one of which was dead, and the other big rat was struggling on the pile of rice, getting weaker and weaker, and it was not far from death, only the four or five rat cubs that had not yet grown hair were screaming anxiously and panickingly.

I wondered in my heart, I didn't see anything else in this rice tank, why did the two big rats die?

Just as I was wondering, I suddenly saw the rat, which was struggling to die, and a terrible thing came out of its belly.

It was a hundred-legged centipede with the thickness of a thumb, purple red in its body, and countless limbs under its abdomen.

It swam out of the rat and headed straight for the screaming rats......

Obviously, it is easy to see that the two big rats were bitten to death by this big centipede, and now they have to poison those rat cubs......

I slammed the lid on the cylinder and cursed that it was really fucking unlucky, it seems that the rice in this rice jar can no longer be eaten.

There was nothing else in the kitchen, and I was going to leave and go to the old lady who was guarding the temple to find out what was going on.

But after taking two steps, the more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and I quickly turned back, opened the rice tank, took a wooden spoon, and poured most of the water in the water tank into the rice tank.

"Damn, if Lao Tzu is hungry, you don't want to eat in peace!"

After doing this, I felt a lot more relaxed, and I stopped paying attention to the struggling and neighing rat cubs in the rice jar, and left the kitchen, came to the lobby, and walked towards the other party's side room.

In fact, I feel a little strange in my heart, the old woman guarding the temple doesn't seem to be here, otherwise she should have come out to see why she made such a big disturbance just now.

It's just windy and rainy outside, where can she go?

When I knocked on the door, there was still no response from inside, and when I pushed the door in and saw the scene inside, I was shocked again.

Inside was a bedroom, except that on the wooden bed there was a large red coffin on top of two low stools, and at the bottom of the coffin there was an unlit lamp.

The room was filled with the smell of red paint, I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said secretly: "The old woman lives alone on the mountain, this should be the longevity materials she prepared for herself a hundred years later, just like the old man treasured the black coffin given by the old woman Yan, this is nothing ......"

I comforted myself, calmed my mind, and walked in, trying to make myself feel as natural as possible.

But, after all, there is a big red coffin in the room, and it is impossible to say that it is not terrible.

If it is a black coffin, it is easy to say, because there are few people in our local area who use black coffins to hold corpses, and they generally use big red coffins, which is the shadow of childhood.

So, even if I am a mountain keeper now, you have seen many things that are even more terrifying than corpses in the Underground Burial Lake and the Heavenly Secret Realm, and you have even seen Yin soldiers.

However, the shadow given to me by the big red coffin still lingers. If a dead body really jumped out of the coffin, I might not be so afraid, just afraid of this silent but neon with a terrifying, eerie atmosphere.

After the coffin, the bedding on the wooden bed was a mess, and the old woman was really not in it.

When I saw that she was not there, I wanted to leave, this room was someone's bedroom after all. A stranger broke in, and it would be embarrassing if she came back and happened to bump into her.

At that moment, I glanced at the counter beside the bedside, and there was something terrible enshrined there.

If you look closely, it is a centipede nearly thigh-thick, and its body is coiled on the table like a snake, and if it is extended, it may be nearly a meter long.

It sat motionless on the table, and I was relieved to see the incense burner in front of it.

This thing turned out to be a clay statue, and when I first looked at it, I really thought it was a real centipede!

If there really is such a big centipede, then it may have already become a demon, right?

I reached out and touched the carapace covered by the centipede's surface, it was cold and hard, and I couldn't help but secretly admire: "I don't know whose handiwork this thing is, it's really realistic, and it must be very effective to take it out to scare people......"

"Where the hell has the old woman gone?"

I muttered to myself and exited the room, closing the wooden door.

When I walked outside the temple gate, I suddenly heard the sound of Suo Suo coming from the old woman's bedroom.

When I heard the strange noise, I didn't think much of it, thinking it was a rat moving.

Out of the temple, I walked around the neighborhood again, but I couldn't find the old woman at all, and finally had no choice but to return to Liu Xiaojiao's room.

As soon as I walked in, I felt that my eyes lit up, and I saw that Liu Xiaojiao really took off her pants and put them aside to dry as I said before leaving.

And she herself, somewhere, found a few wooden planks with mats on them. At this time, they were lying on it like kittens, and the two proud little white rabbits were half-flattened, and their eyes were staring at the burning bonfire in a daze.

Hearing the footsteps, she looked up at me, and when she saw me looking at her intently, she couldn't help but sneer, raised her head proudly, and snorted: "Why, didn't you say that I am bloated and my legs are like buckets, and I won't show you anything?" I can't even take my eyes off it now. ”

I came back to my senses and said secretly, "Anitabha, sin! Sin! ”

Then he pretended to sit by the campfire as if nothing had happened, and said to the latter: "Strange to say, just now I went to look for the old woman, and found that she was not in the temple at all, and I don't know where she went when the wind blew?" There is even more strange, I just went to the kitchen to see, the iron pot has rusted, the mouse has given birth to a nest of cubs in the rice tank, depending on the situation, the old woman has not been cooking for a long time. ”

I paused, frowned, and said, "If a big living person doesn't cook and eat, then what will she use to satisfy her hunger?" ”

"What's so strange about that? The first time I saw the old woman, I realized that something was wrong with her. "To my surprise, Liu Xiaojiao didn't show the slightest surprise after listening to my words, as if she knew everything in her chest.

"That's when you noticed something wrong with her?" I was intrigued and asked.

"Don't you see? The temple was so dilapidated, but when the old man brought us in, her clothes looked spotless and new, except for the rain. ”

"How could she have lived in such a place all year round, so how could she wear such new clothes? Unless you just bought it, there are ......," Liu Xiaojiao said.

After she reminded me of this, I suddenly realized that the clothes that the old woman was wearing just now were really new......

"What else?" I pressed on.

"There is also a possibility, you yourself should know that when a person is about to die, his relatives and descendants will dress him up well. Put on new clothes, new socks, and new shoes so that they can leave with dignity......"