Yu Nian took out the small compass and probed, and the pointer also pointed to the position of the statue very cleverly.

We looked at each other, and without waiting for the rain to stop, we all headed towards the Buddha statue.

After walking to the foot of the mountain, I went to look at the Buddha statue, and I had long lost the dignified and solemn feeling I had in the distance. There is a thick layer of paint on the outside, and the black paint has been peeled after a long time of wind and sun.

Teng Chong rushed to the ground with a slip and fell to the ground with a thud, sitting at my feet.

It didn't matter, the upturned lacquer on the Buddha statue began to stir, peel off, and finally swoop down on us with flapping wings.

Only then did I see that the thick layer was not lacquer at all, but a series of bats.

I subconsciously wanted to pull Yu Nian, but Yu Nian had already withdrawn from the bone umbrella at this time to prepare for defense.

Teng Chong grabbed my trouser leg at my feet, and I squatted down to protect her.

Liao Kao blocked Suihe nearby, and Lao Meng panicked to hug Tusuo, but was slapped away by Tusuo.

Yu Nian repelled most of the bats, and Tuso grabbed one with one hand, as simple as pinching a fly to death.

In less than five minutes, the bats, which were still black and oppressive, were left with a few old, weak, sick and disabled people twitching on the ground.

Tuso kicked it away and cursed in a low voice.

I was just about to get up, but Teng Chongchong pulled the corner of my clothes, and looked at me pitifully, "I'm afraid, can you not stay too far away from me." ”

"You just follow this husky, he's fierce."

After saying that, I went to check on Yu Nian's injuries and found that the wound had broken open again. Judging from the action of opening the umbrella just now, she was indeed injured.

"Don't you want it, don't you want your arms?"

Yu Nian shook off my hand, still a little angry. This temper is simply inexplicable, could it be that Yu Nian's aunt is coming soon?

Without the cover of the bats outside, the Buddha statue inside revealed its original face.

The facial features are evenly distributed, and the only thing that is a little uncomfortable to look at is the position of the left ear, which always feels that the tone is much darker than other places.

Yu Nian said to Tu Cable, "You have to go up with me." ”

I thought that Tusuo's character would never be obediently fiddled with. Unexpectedly, he listened to Yu Nian very much, and followed without saying a word.

We waited below, watching Yu Nian knock around our ears, and finally settled on a spot and gestured to Tuso.

With the force of his two hands, Tuso moved the ear away.

I heard a rumbling sound from the depths of the mountain, and then the rubble began to fall in parts. The Buddha statue, which was originally standing firmly on the ground, actually split from the middle, and slowly cracked a gap.

A few of us hurriedly went over and found that it was actually a repaired underground passage. Two staircases meander downward, as if to guide the way.

Outside began to rumble again, and the sound of raindrops falling on the leaves became more and more intense.

Yu Nian and I walked ahead, Tuso followed the group, and our group walked down with the residual light of my flashlight.

As soon as I walked down, I realized that this place was different from other places I had been before.

The staircase is wide and clean, as if it is constantly being cleaned. The walls on both sides were smooth and neat, and when I touched it, there was a faint smell of white sandalwood.

When my dad was decorating our house before, he accidentally told me that in ancient times, there was a way to build a wall, which was to burn a piece of the white sandalwood tree into ashes and mix it with the soil to keep the family safe.

Sandalwood is a very slow-growing plant, usually taking ten years to reach maturity. Therefore, it is generally used by large households. There are also people who will pound the white sandalwood into pieces to make a tomb wall when building the mausoleum, but that is also mostly the treatment that only the ancient high-ranking officials and marquis can enjoy.

Sandalwood, also known as sandalwood, belongs to the sandalwood family in plants, and generally has a pungent taste. It can be aged for a period of time to become a fine spice. Some are aged for decades or even hundreds of years.

The walls in the depths of the underground are spread out for hundreds of meters, and they are repaired with white sandalwood so lavishly?

We kept going down, and when we reached about 10 meters underground, the road beneath our feet began to flatten.

Turning a corner in front of me, Lao Meng suddenly stopped, and I just walked forward and hit his back.

When Teng Chong rushed to them from behind, he followed my gaze and froze in place.

Lao Meng looked at the scene in front of him and said in a daze.

I never imagined that in the depths of this underground, there was a nine-story octagonal tower. It's unbelievable, and it's beyond my knowledge of architecture.

Lao Meng was stunned and asked, "This, which god is cultivating here?" ”

When I looked up, I could only see the blue smoke around the tower, and there was a faint sound of shrill laughter. But the sound was ethereal, and I couldn't tell where it came from.

Yu Nian pushed open the door at the bottom of the tower and found that in the middle of the hall on the first floor of the octagonal tower, there was a half-human-high lacquered red coffin, and a statue of a woman was placed in front of the door.

The moment I saw the statue, it was as if the second vein of Ren Du had been opened, as if everything was right.

This statue is exactly the same as the woman depicted in the previous portrait of Tengchong.

The difference was that the woman's outfit was a little different from what we had seen before. Dressed in very national clothes, combing his hair in a high bun, his arms are naturally hemped, he has no shoes on his feet, and he is stepping on something like a lotus seat.

In front of him was an incense burner, as well as half of the ashes of incense, apparently prepared for someone to worship.

"The clothes on this body seem to be embroidered by Longshu." Lao Meng touched the clothes draped by the statue and said.

Longshu embroidery is a unique embroidery method that only exists among ethnic minorities in Yunnan. Because the production process is cumbersome and the requirements for fabrics are very high, it is not popular among the people and is only used by large local households.

This pattern mostly appears in paintings, because there used to be a picture of a beautiful woman dressed in Longshu embroidery in the living room of my home before, so I know a little bit.

Yu Nian looked fixedly, walked to the futon in front of the statue and knelt down, removed the bone umbrella in his hand, and solemnly kowtowed.

This stunned us all in place, and Lao Meng suddenly slapped his head fiercely, "Do you remember what I said before, I think the person on this statue is a little familiar?" ”

When he said that, I really felt a little familiar.

Lao Meng continued, "Like Yu Nian, don't you think? ”

As soon as he said this, I thought of the person on this statue and Yu Nian, and it seemed that it was really very similar.

Whether it is the delicate facial features or the alienated and indifferent eyes, they are very similar to Yu Nian.

Yu Nian kowtowed and got up indifferently, and the hundred bone umbrella on the ground suddenly began to feel uneasy at this time.

The tower is made of windows on all sides, and although there is no wind and sun on the ground, it is possible that the window frames have been crumbling and the wood is rotting due to disrepair.

Dangdang, there was a sudden knock at the door.

Sui He subconsciously went to open the door, and it was too late for Yu Nian to stop it at this time.

The puff of blue smoke that lingered outside came in through the doorway, gradually transforming into a pedestrian walker. The half-human-tall red coffin on the ground also made a noise, and there seemed to be something inside that was pressing against the coffin board one by one.

Yu Nian opened the umbrella and said to me, "You take them upstairs to hide for a while, and Tusuo will help me hold the coffin!" ”

Without too much hesitation, I rushed upstairs with Tengchong directly.

The second floor is no bigger than the first floor, but fortunately it looks safe for the time being, except for a circle of bookshelves against the wall, there is nothing strange.

After I told them to hide, I wanted to go downstairs to find Yu Nian.

But Teng Chongchong grabbed my clothes at this time, "Don't you go down, okay, I'm scared." ”

Lao Meng directly ripped her away, "What are you afraid of, what about me and Liao Kao, the two big men, I can't protect you two?" ”

Teng Chong said angrily: "When did you protect me?" ”

I took advantage of the two of them arguing and quickly slipped down.

If it's the aftermath of the past, I can still relax a little. But now she is seriously injured, and her combat effectiveness is not as good as before.

When I went down, Tu Suo was pressing the coffin board stiffly, and Yu Nian was holding a bone umbrella and entangled with the blue smoke.

The bone umbrella began to redden slightly at this time, as if the impact was not small.

The smoke had already transformed into a human form at this time, and a backhand push towards Yu Nian knocked her to the ground.

The bone umbrella was tossed into the air, and the thing was about to attack again. I rushed forward on three feet and two feet, one holding Yu Nian, and the other hand took the bone umbrella and blocked the top of our heads.

The umbrella fell to my palm in the open state, and the light that was only reddish turned red the moment it fell into my hand.

The thing slammed to the side after hitting the bone umbrella, scattering into a cloud of smoke again.

Yu Nian looked at me in shock, "In the Hundred Bone Umbrella, there is actually your blood?" ”

I don't know what she meant, but the umbrella wasn't the same as the white I had seen before.

I handed the bone umbrella back into Yu Nian's hand, and the crimson instantly receded, and the bone umbrella returned to normal.

Yu Nian threw up the umbrella and took the opportunity to put the blue smoke into the umbrella.

She barely got up, and looked at me with a look that was deep and complicated again, as if she didn't know me.

The coffin board of the red coffin on the ground seemed to have been broken open by something, and even Tuso was lifted open and flipped to the side.

Suddenly a corpse sat up in the coffin facing the door, with its back to me and Yu Nian.

The two of us stepped back in place, and Tuso got up from the ground to meet the man in the coffin.

He looked at the body in the coffin, then at me, and suddenly froze in place.

It's not the first time I've seen a dead man, but the look on Tuso's face is really inexplicable.

I walked around the front of the coffin from behind, looked at it for a moment, and then sat down on the ground with my legs limp.

The person in the coffin had a face exactly like mine.