After eating, Qi Lu looked at the travelers who were eating at the adjacent table, and couldn't help but have a little moist eyes. How many of these outsiders who don't know the truth and have a single thought of making a fortune in their minds can leave safely?

Qi Lu's mood became heavier and heavier, and he realized that there was not much time left for him. When he went up the stairs and was about to go back to his room to rest, he stopped Lao Wu, who was burping.

"Do you want to do something again?"

"Yes." Qi Lu did not deny it, "We slept for a few hours and went to another passage of the Taoist temple at one o'clock in the morning. ”

"Well, I knew you were restless." Lao Wu reluctantly agreed.

In the middle of the night, Qi Lu secretly woke up Lao Wu, and the two jumped out of the window like last time, and took advantage of the night to walk in the direction of the Taoist temple.

All the way, although those night owl-like villagers sat in front of the door like dead people, few people came out to hang out, and the two came to the Taoist temple relatively smoothly.

What made Qi Lu strange was that there was no one guarding inside and outside, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "Why is there no one, the situation is a little bad." ”

Lao Wu replied: "Don't be suspicious, the villagers stay in the Taoist temple to prevent outsiders from coming in and discovering the secrets of the temple, so late, the tourists are sleeping like dead pigs, who will have the same spirit as us." ”

Qi Lu was silent, and the two of them covered the door when they entered the view, and they didn't even dare to turn on the flashlight, and came to the corner of the wall in the dark.

The light was very dim, and he could only barely see a little bit of the wall with the help of the moonlight outside, Qi Lu asked in a low voice, "Where is the mechanism?" ”

Lao Wu pointed to a brick in the lower corner and said, "Here." ”

Qi Lu touched it and found that the brick surface was very smooth, knowing that Lao Wu had not made a mistake in judgment, if it wasn't for someone touching it often, the brick would not be smooth. But he groped for a long time, but he didn't find the mechanism to open the secret passage, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

Lao Wu laughed secretly, lowered his body, and wiped his hand back and forth on the brick surface three times, Qi Lu immediately heard a "quack", and the wall separated on both sides, revealing a stone step leading to the ground.

"Alright, let's go inside."

The two of them walked into the dark passage with their waists bent, the wall quietly closed, and the two of them suddenly fell into darkness. Lao Wu spat out, took out a flashlight, and shook the short knife in his hand, and the two groped their way to the depths of the cave.

There was a foul smell in the cave, and the further you went inside, the stronger the smell became, Qi Lu covered his nose in disgust, he and Lao Wu had already sensed that this was the stench emitted by the decomposing corpse.

The tunnel was very narrow at first, but as I walked, it suddenly became clear, and at the end of the road, I found that there was a fork in front of me, and there were actually two holes.

Lao Wu looked solemn, he shone the flashlight to the ground, and at the same time asked Qi Lu to look at the situation under his feet.

Qi Lu looked down and was speechless in surprise, he found that there was a gossip map made of stones on the ground.

"Do you think it's the work of the villagers, or is it the idea of the evil god?"

Qi Lu didn't answer, because he had discovered a bigger mystery. He thought for a moment, then pointed to the two holes and said, "Look where these two holes are." ”

Lao Wu opened his eyes and couldn't help but say in a lost voice: "Fuck, isn't this the gossip Gen and Kun on the ground?" ”

"Yes. These two holes are not dug casually, the left side of the hole is in the Gen position, the right side is the Kun position, according to the Qimen Dunjia Eight Gates, the left side of the hole represents the life gate, and the right side of the hole is the door of death. ”

At this time, the two also found that the source of the smell was wafting out of the hole on the right, and Lao Wu said with a little palpitation: "Those who were killed by the villagers can't be buried in this hole, right?" ”

"I think so, let's go in and see."

"It's the door of death, and the devil knows what's inside. We don't have any divine power right now, and it's dangerous to rush in. ”

"Are you scared?" Qi Lu said: "No matter whether we live or die, we must break through, otherwise how can we find out the truth?" ”

"Alright then, be careful when you go in, don't step on the trap."

After entering the cave, Qi Lu unexpectedly found that there was a cold wind blowing in the cave from time to time, like a yin wind blown by a ghost, which was so cold that it made him goosebumps.

Fortunately, I didn't touch any hurting mechanisms along the way, and there was a phosphorescent stone door in the deepest part of the cave.

The smell became stronger, Qi Lu signaled Lao Wu to stay away from him, and then stretched out his hand to push open the stone door, the stench suddenly came to his face, Qi Lu just glanced inside and his expression changed greatly, he took a few steps back one after another, bent down and vomited with a pale face.

"Hmph, look at your virtue." Old Wu knew Qi Lu too well, and suddenly knew that there was a corpse inside, so he squeezed forward and looked into the cave. Although it was psychological preparation, Lao Wu was still frightened.

He felt like he had arrived at the slaughterhouse, a hole of less than ten square meters filled with human corpses crawling with maggots. Because of the large amount of carrion used as food, these disgusting maggots actually grew several times larger than ordinary maggots.

Lao Wu was sad, he really couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so he withdrew and scolded his mother after closing the stone door.

Qi Lu gasped and said, "Save some effort, let's go in and see what clues are inside." ”

"You're nervous, this is where the villagers dumped their bodies, what important clues can there be?" As he spoke, Lao Wu smiled darkly, "Why don't you go in and find clues?" ”

Qi Lu shook his head like a rattle, he didn't want to vomit again.

"We'd better go to another hole, and that's where we can get the clues we want."

"Okay."

The two of them turned back one after the other, Qi Lu's heart seemed to be filled with ice, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he couldn't have believed that these villagers would be so cruel, cold-blooded enough to dig a pit to bury these unjustly killed tourists.

Entering the cave located at the location of the Shengmen, it was like walking into a narrow road, Qi Lu felt that the ground was much flatter, he looked at the flashlight and found that the road was actually paved with square stone slabs, and hurriedly reminded Lao Wu to pay attention to everything around, in case there were traps and traps under the stone slabs, it would be a loss of life.

But it turned out that Qi Lu was too worried, and they finally came to an end safe and sound. Like the cave earlier, another stone door blocked their way.

Qi Lu pushed the door forward, but found that it was locked, and he couldn't open it. Qi Lu calmed down, groping with his hand on the door while observing, five minutes passed, and he still couldn't find the mechanism to open the door.

Lao Wu laughed from behind, "No, this kind of thing is only what I am best at, and there is no mechanism in the world that I can't understand." ”

Qi Lu replied angrily: "You are sincere to see my foreign appearance, why don't you find a way to open it quickly." ”

Lao Wu did not come forward to open the door, but turned around and ran towards the road, saying as he ran: "You wait here, if the door opens, call me." ”

Qi Lu was stunned, he didn't know what Lao Wu's intentions were, he stretched out his head to look, only to see Lao Wu go and return, counting all the way with his head down. Standing at last on a stone slab, he bent down and looked at the slab carefully, as if it was hiding some secret.

But Qi Lu immediately discovered the abnormality of the stone slab, that is, the other stone slabs were all cyan, but this stone slab was made of black basalt. He couldn't help but be surprised: "The mechanism that opened the door won't be buried under this stone slab, right?" ”

"You're half right." As he spoke, Lao Wu suddenly stood up, and then jumped a few times hard, and the stone slab suddenly sank into the ground, Lao Wu quickly retracted his feet, and the person retreated to the side.

Qi Lu was overjoyed and said, "The door is open!" ”

Lao Wu ran back, his face full of showing off.

Qi Lu asked in wonder, "How do you know where the door opening mechanism is?" ”

Xie Yi said: "I just paid attention to the bluestone slab we walked through, from the entrance of the cave to the door a total of eighty-two pieces, the person who designed this mechanism should be a person who is well versed in easy reasoning, naturally understands the truth of ninety-nine to one." All I have to do is find more of this slab, and the door will open. ”

"It's a shame that you don't become a thief with such skills." Qi Lu was convinced, but he was afraid that he would have to ponder for more than a few hours to discover this secret.

Entering the stone gate, Qi Lu was disappointed, and he found that there was nothing else in the cave except for a sarcophagus standing upright in the south.

"I remember that the old grandson said that this is a place to sacrifice to evil gods, but there is no religious thing here, at least there must be an altar."

"This old man must have listened to others, and he certainly hasn't been in this hole himself."

Lao Wu's words are not unreasonable, but Qi Lu proposed another possibility. "Could it be that the place where the evil gods are worshipped is hidden in a dark cave that we haven't discovered?"

"There's a possibility, we'll go out and find out."

"And what's in this sarcophagus, it can't be a corpse, right?"

"It should be, you take care of me in the back, and I'll open the coffin. If there is any treasure in it, I will be rich. ”

Qi Lu was amused by him, "When is it, you still want to get rich." ”

But after Lao Wu opened the lid of the coffin, both of them were extremely surprised.

The sarcophagus was not the corpse they had imagined, but a stone statue with its mouth covered in blood. What made Qi Lu even more unsettling was that he recognized it as a beast from the appearance of the stone statue.

In an instant, Qi Lu felt that his brain was being struck by lightning, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

Old Wu sighed, "Damn, it turns out that the evil god who instigated the villagers to kill tourists is a beast!" ”

"No, it can't be, there must be one of them"

Lao Wu interrupted him and said coldly: "I think you are confused by this guy who is full of lies, think about how the ancient Mayans sacrificed to the gods!" ”

The Maya sacrifices were frequent and brutal, offering not only large quantities of precious offerings, but also the hearts of living people, who were captured by the defeated side in the war.

They would have sharp obsidian-tipped knives to slit the blood vessels of prisoners of war, smear their blood on the mouths of the gods, and dig out human sacrifices to sacrifice to the gods.

None of the Mayans considered their blood ritual cruel and bloody, because in their opinion, the power of the gods would gradually weaken, and only human blood could restore the gods. Therefore, blood sacrifices are an important way to gain the favor of the gods, and the gods will protect them, so that the sacrificers can gain the power of the god of war and the dead ancestors. Only by doing so will they be able to maintain the prosperity of the kingdom and the prosperity of the people.