Chapter 12: The Temple of the Woods
The setting sun hung on the branches for the final task, and the afterglow shone on the rolling clouds, glowing a fiery red glow, which would soon set.
Time was pressing, Yu Ge had no room for hesitation, ran to the front of the house at the moment, rushed in and closed the wooden door with his backhand, shaking a cloud of dust and black smoke.
After such a long period of worldly consumption, he was rested at this time, so that Yu Ge finally breathed a sigh of relief for a while.
Only then did he take a closer look at his surroundings.
At this time, he suddenly found that this was an old house, which was clearly a temple that had not been taken care of for a long time, so it was abandoned.
The temple looks small and is simply furnished.
The white walls have turned yellow and black due to the invasion of time, and the eyes are full of broken and peeling wall skin, like dense spider webs.
Occasionally, there was an intact patch of moss that had invaded the territory, like patches of markings.
In the center of the square base, there is a statue of a god with only half a body, and the upper half of the idol is missing.
In front of the statue was a heavy, rotten desk covered with dust, with two broken legs and two collapsed, and next to the table stood a rusty and broken shrine, full of cracks and messy cobwebs, and nothing else.
Regardless, it's a safe place for the time being.
For through the cracks in the wall, he could see the old toad and the mountain ghost with a looming black mist on his body, wandering around the temple, but in any case he did not step into the temple even a step.
Obviously, it's not that there are all kinds of mystical charms carved on the cornerstone like those in Yunji Town, or that there are things that make those ghosts fearful.
That way, then tonight can get through the time.
Yu Ge searched the front and back of the temple, but found nothing else, and found a few collapsed planks against the broken wooden door that was closed.
Although he knew that this rotten wooden door could not withstand the light touch of the mountain ghost or even the old toad, and it was not just such a wooden door that blocked them.
Blocking more now is a kind of self-comfort.
As time passed quickly, the sky gradually darkened, and Yu Singer held the slashing knife in his hand tightly, not wanting to relax for a moment.
After all, he has the ancient precept of not leaving the town at night, plus those unknown things in the red mist, spending the night alone in the wilderness, this is the first time he has encountered it before, and it is the first time for him.
He couldn't do it without being nervous.
At this time, the last remnant of the sun also fell, and the dark sky suddenly extended from the sky, and with it, it was a hazy fog that could not be seen clearly.
Yu Ge's eyes kept staring in the direction of the door, not knowing if it was an illusion or what, he seemed to see the fear of the mountain ghost and the old toad, and when the red mist swept in the sky, the toad and the mountain ghost seemed to have disappeared.
It's just that leaving at this time is no longer possible, and the arrival of the red mist has stopped him from any idea of going out.
As for him, he didn't want to try it in that weird red mist, after all, the people in the town had tried it before, and the end result was that the whole village went to his house for a meal.
The red mist in the sky was like an infinite tide, and then the hazy light, Yu Ge saw that when those red mist poured in front of this ruined temple, it seemed that there was an invisible and transparent barrier around the upper and lower sides.
The whole red tide rushed past, leaving a smooth glass bowl upside down on the entire house, and the edge of the bowl exuded a yellowish glow like a cloud gathering town.
Yu Ge, who was lying in the inner layer, looked at the flickering light, listened to the sounds in the red tide, and didn't know when he would close his eyes and fall asleep.
In the early morning, Yu Ge was awakened by a crisp birdsong, and he stood up suddenly, only to find that the entire sky had already brightened.
Warm light shone through the cracked walls, casting countless mottled afterimages on the ground.
Thinking of the strange red tide that was just a stone's throw away last night, Yu Ge felt a little afraid, and looked around and found that there was nothing unusual, so he loosened his muscles and stood up, and then leaned into the crack of the dilapidated wooden door to take a look.
I was stunned for a moment.
The mountain ghost was still well outside, next to the bushes, his whole body was covered by the black fog, and he couldn't see his body clearly, where it looked like he left last night.
In this case, it seems that they will guard him.
Yu Ge frowned and felt a little tired, the dry food he brought was limited, how could he withstand such a protracted battle.
It's okay to stay in the temple for a few days, but he has to go out without food, and when he goes out, he has to face the mountain ghosts that he can't resist at this time.
It all seems to be a dead end.
Yu Ge walked around the narrow temple, his eyes searching the surroundings, looking for something he could use.
Occasionally, when I turned my head, my eyes fell on a bluestone under the threshold in front of me, and a corner of the stone was exposed, carved with images of strange patterns, which looked like some kind of charm.
He raised his eyebrows slightly, and quickly gave up this idea, not to mention whether he could bring the cornerstone underneath, even if it was this destruction, I am afraid that the entire temple would lose its protective effect, and he was not sure that the single bluestone could guarantee its effect.
After a turn, his eyes swept over the heavy desk in front of the idol, his eyes paused, and he suddenly remembered the achievement he had triggered earlier.
Live horses should be dead horse doctors!
Secretly scolded, Yu Ge ran over, swept away the dust and broken tiles on it, and tried it in his hand, feeling almost a hundred pounds.
The amount was enough, and he immediately started to lift the stone lock in Zhao Ziming's yard.
Now what he is anxious to hope for is what is not yet completed, and the achievement of a miracle is vigorously produced, and the achievement reward he hopes to give is really a miracle.
One, two, three......
As time passed, Yu Ge sat down more than a dozen times, and then looked at the progress in his mind, and found that he had also improved more than a dozen times.
If he can complete it, he is not in a hurry, he will complete it more than a hundred times in the morning, and improve his progress by more than a hundred in the afternoon.
In the meantime, he often observed the situation outside through the crack in the door, and found that the figure of the mountain ghost barely moved, looking directly at this place like a stone sculpture, staying by the bushes.
As for the mutant toad, it had disappeared a few times, but after disappearing for a while, it reappeared not far in front of the temple.
It looks like it's on the wrong side of him.
However, Yu Ge wondered how this old toad found him, and besides, it wasn't him who got rid of the little toad!
How could he be sure that the old toad was here for revenge, if it was a coincidence, he didn't believe it, otherwise why only stared at him.
There is one thing he doesn't know, how did this old toad find him, could it be the mucus on his hands from the meat pieces he processed before?
He can't understand these things for the time being, but in retrospect, I'm afraid that the previous team suffered from him, when the team abandoned him, he was still angry, but at this time it was a lot more downplayed.
However, there was one point, Yu Ge still felt a little angry, because the other party ran away without giving money, and he felt that he had lost a lot.
This old toad hurt him so much that he didn't receive any money, thinking of this stubble, for the old toad that was still blocked outside at this time, he wanted to rush out and stab it underneath.