Along the mountain road, the three of them walked all the way, and soon, the three of them climbed halfway up the mountain, looked at the bare tree trunks around them, and wiped the hot sweat on their faces.

"It's really uncomfortable to sweat in winter." A layer of hot sweat also broke out on Wang An's forehead, "Shi Xing, where did you say this temple is, we have all climbed halfway." ”

Shi Xing wiped his sweat, took the water handed by Liudao, and took a small sip, "I don't know, but I think it should be about the same, but the three children can not go far, let's take a walk to the south." ”

After a short rest, the three of them set off again and walked along a fork in the road.

The dark sky in winter always comes very early, and it is not yet five o'clock, and it is already dark, and the three people who turned on the flashlight slowly groped forward.

Suddenly, Wang An shouted. "Punishment, there is a situation, you look ahead."

Looking in the direction Wang An pointed, Shi Xing vaguely saw that in the gap between the two mountains, there was a glimmer of light flickering.

"Let's go, go over and have a look."

Soon, the three of them followed the direction of the light, and soon, they walked to a flat ground, "Is this the place where the village chief said the temple?" ”

"It should be, look ahead." Shi Xing pointed to a small temple in front of him.

"The light came from inside the temple, could it be that there was someone inside?"

"If there is anyone or not, you will know if you go in." Shi Xing patted Liudao and Wang An, and walked towards the temple.

Walking to the temple, Shi Xing carefully looked at the small temple, the temple is not big, almost less than a hundred square meters, the age should be relatively old, and you can see the traces left by the years everywhere.

"Do you want to go in?" Wang An looked at Shi Xing with inquiring eyes.

Shi Xing nodded, walked in the front, and with a slight push, the door was opened.

Walking into the temple, it was empty, but all the candles around it were lit, and the fire was shining brightly.

There are no rooms in the temple, only a space, with a strange statue in the middle, some tables and chairs around it, and nothing else.

"Hey, it's strange, these tributes are quite fresh, have anyone come to worship recently." Wang An stepped forward and looked at the tribute in front of the statue, the fruit was still very fresh, and the meat was not spoiled and moldy.

Shi Xing didn't speak, slowly walked to the statue, and carefully looked at the grinning statue, "If I guess correctly, Liu Yunan may have really been here." ”

"Why?" Hearing Shi Xing's words, Wang An immediately walked over and asked curiously.

Shi Xing pointed to the statue, "Do you know this?" ”

Wang An looked at the statue, tilted his head and thought, "What kind of strange thing is this, Bull Demon King?" ”

"It's also Monkey King." After sneering, he explained, ""Copper head and iron forehead", "Eight humerus and eight toes", "Human body and bull head, four eyes and six hands, who do you think of when you talk about these?" ”

Liudao, who was staying on the side, stepped forward, looked at Wang An, and said, "Chiyou." ”

"Chiyou?" When Wang An heard the answer, he looked at Shi Xing in surprise.

"Well, that's right, it's the legendary Chiyou." Shi Xing nodded.

"Then this statue is Chi You."

"Yes and no, this statue is obviously portrayed by later generations according to the records in historical materials, out of thin air, as the leader of Jiuli, how can the real Chiyou be a monster, but it can be ugly." Shi Xing smiled.

"That's right." Wang An nodded.

Shi Xing picked up a fruit and pinched it, "Back then, the Jiuli clan of Chiyou was exiled, and the final place where they settled was now S Province. ”

In fact, although Chiyou has always been negative in the image of the public, some ancient myths and legends have always had a tradition of worshipping Chiyou.

For example, there are related worship activities in North China. For example, Ren Fang's "Shu Yizhi" of the Southern Dynasty records that Jizhou has a music name "Chiyou Opera", and people wear horns on their heads and counteract each other. The first emperor also personally sacrificed Chiyou, one of the eight gods of war, and later emperors and generals often worshiped Chiyou for protection before going on expedition.

"Then this temple was also built by people who worship Chiyou?"

Shi Xing nodded again, "This temple is almost hundreds of years old, and it should have been built by the people at that time. ”

"But in such a big place, there are no clues." Wang An looked around and shook his head.

"Let's see." After Shi Xing finished speaking, he asked Liudao and Wang An to walk around the temple to see if there was anything strange, and he climbed in front of the statue and groped carefully.

Suddenly, Shi Xing found that there was something strange in the eyes of Chi Youxiang, the three eyes were covered with dust and looked a little gray, while the surface of the other eye was a little neat, and there were even traces of touching.

"Strange." Shi Xing secretly said in his heart, and gently touched the clean eye with his hand, and the moment his fingers touched it, Shi Xing suddenly found that this eye was not fixed, but could be pressed.

Following his intuition, Shi Xing gently forced, and the eye began to sink, and suddenly a huge roar sounded, and a secret door suddenly opened at the back of Chi Youxiang.

"What's wrong, what's wrong." Wang An, who heard the sound, immediately walked over, went around to the back of the Chi You statue, and looked at the secret door. "Shi Xing, how did you find it?"

Shi Xing jumped down from the statue of Chiyou, walked to the back, and saw that there was an iron ring on the secret door that could be pulled, and as the iron ring was pulled out, the secret door slowly opened, and a staircase that continued to extend downward appeared in front of everyone.

"Wow, there's no cave." Wang An looked at the darkness below and sighed a little.

"Let's go down and have a look." After Shi Xing finished speaking, he held a flashlight in one hand and the surrounding wall in the other, and slowly walked down the stairs, and Wang An and Liudao behind him immediately followed.

"Be careful." Walking down the stairs, Shi Xing appeared in front of a larger statue of Chiyou, but this Chiyou was the image of a warrior with a knife in one hand and an axe in the other, and his whole body was wrapped in armor.

"This is the real Chiyou." Looking at the huge Chi You statue, Shi Xing exclaimed.

"My God, look over there, ah, there's still over there" Wang An suddenly pointed to the side and shouted in surprise.

When he looked at it, he saw that not far from both sides of the statue of Chiyou, there was a pile of bones made of white bones, and the dense skulls made the whole hall extremely weird.

"These should be sacrifices." Shi Xing looked at the human bones, and found that the existing bones still had large and small unused scars, and it was obvious that they had been abused before death.

"Wow, that's disgusting." Wang An shook his head with some disgust.

"There's a way to this." Liudao, who was standing on the side, pointed behind Chi Youxiang, and sure enough, there was a path behind him, and he didn't know where it led.

The path is so narrow that it can only be passed by one person at a time, and there is no light in it, so I don't know where it leads.

"Let's go." After speaking, Shi Xing prepared to take Wang An and Liudao into the alley.

Suddenly, a phone ringtone broke the silence, Wang An touched his phone and found that it was Huang Lao's phone, "Huang Lao, what's wrong." ”

"Wang An, where are you now?"

"I went to a weird place with Shi Xing, what's wrong, is there something wrong?" Wang An asked a little strangely.

Huang Lao was silent for a moment and said, "Something happened in the province. ”