The people around me were dragged away by these butterfly-faced guards one after another, I saw a janissary walking towards me, I held my breath and still held my grip on the gun, my heavy and powerful hand sank into my shoulder like an iron pincer, I felt like my bones were about to be crushed, I was grabbed by a guard and dragged on the ground.

Going down through the open passage in the middle of the stone chamber, there were burning fire troughs on both sides of the passage, and the smell of rancid and bloody came from the depths of the passage, I don't want to guess the unknown in the depths, but I believe it must be a place of horror and nightmares.

The guards threw me heavily in a stone house, then turned around and continued to go back to the stone room on the upper floor to clean up the rest of the people, and when the guards left me and looked at the place I was now, there was nothing special around, and the people who were taken down before were gone, but fortunately, the general and Tian Ji and the palace lord were there, I shook Ye Zhiqiu next to me, she was still stiff and unconscious.

"The Praetorian guards threw us here, and so many people were dragged down in front of us, so there should be something here to take the people in front of us." Wen Ru got up from the ground, covered his feet, looked around, and said to me vigilantly. "While the guards haven't returned yet, find a place to hide first."

I dragged Ye Zhiqiu to the corner of the stone house, and then turned back and pulled back the palace lord, Tian Ji and the general, I thought that I could save a few and count a few, but when I wanted to go out again, I heard footsteps from the passage, Wen Ru and I hurriedly held our breath and hid.

Fortunately, the returning guards did not notice the reduction of people, and the guards who came out of the other side of the stone house dragged the piled up people into the depths of the passage until they disappeared from our sight, and after waiting for a long time to make sure there was no movement, I leaned against the stone wall and let out a long breath.

I shook the others and didn't react, I looked back to see Wen Ru looking me up and down with a strange and surprised gaze, and finally his eyes looked at the place on my calf where the worm had been shot, and the spikes were still piercing inside, Wen Ru reached out to help me pull it out, and with the help of the faint light of the fire, I was surprised to find that the spikes had shrunk.

"You...... Why aren't you poisoned?! Wen Ru asked in a puzzled voice.

In fact, I've been asking myself all the time, the spikes that can paralyze people instantly, and I can't think of any other reason than believing that my life is big.

"I don't know." I shook my head blankly.

"You don't feel anything?" Wen Ru asked in surprise.

"It hurts, it hurts when you get shot, and then ...... Then I didn't feel it. I replied.

"The toxins on these spikes are very rare, they can paralyze the body instantly, and you are shot and there is nothing wrong with it, there must be something different." Wen Ru thought for a long time and asked me to roll up my trouser legs, the wound I was shot in was nothing unusual except for coagulated blood stains, Wen Ru checked the people I rescued, their wounds and spreading blood vessels were shocking purple and black.

"Blood! It's blood! Wen Ru looked at me and said with certainty. These toxins are spread by the blood, and the only explanation for your fineness is that your blood can resist this toxin, and your blood is the best antidote. ”

"My Blood...... Can you resist the toxins of those bugs? I frowned and looked at Wen Ru in surprise, I didn't believe him in the first place, let alone such a ridiculous explanation, I didn't believe that flowers could be conjured in my blood.

But the people lying next to me are relatives and close friends in my eyes, if I can save them, don't say it's blood, it's life, but I don't hesitate to take any hope, I rolled up my sleeves and clenched my fists, pulled out a knife from the general, didn't even think about cutting my wrists, poured blood into their mouths, and didn't react at first, and secretly cursed Wen Ru in my heart for not dying.

But after a while, I suddenly found that the purple and black at the wound of the palace lord was slowly dissipating, and the others were like this, and there was continuous black blood in the spreading veins, and their stiff bodies were slowly recovering to be soft, I frowned and opened my mouth involuntarily, it was really the cause of my blood, but I really didn't understand why my blood could restrain the rare venom on the insect I saw for the first time in my life.

But the palace lord and they didn't wake up in time, Wen Ru and I had to hide in the corner and wait for them to wake up completely, I tried my best to control the sound of breathing, any slight movement around me alarmed those strange things in the temple, once found here, it must be a dead end.

"This is what you do best, you saw the face of the Praetorian just now, you know who it is...... Something? I asked Wen Ru in a low voice.

"I don't know, the Miao people have the legend of the twelve ancient ancestral gods, the Miao people firmly believe that the butterfly is sacred, and created people, in Miao Jiang, the butterfly is the mother, is the highest totem myth, but any myth has roots, but I was really shocked, I didn't expect to see the monster of the human butterfly." Wen Ru shook his head incredulously. "The Miao religious system originated from Jiuli, and these guards may be related to the rumors of the ancient ancestral gods of Miaojiang, which shows that these guards have existed far beyond the era we can currently explore."

"If you say it, you don't say it, it's not a person at all, I really doubt what the Jiuli people worship in this temple." I said coldly.

"What about you...... Have you ever thought that maybe it is really God who is worshipped? Wen Ru's voice was a little weird, and with his rigor and identity, he shouldn't have asked such a question.

"You are an archaeologist, I am a tomb robber, we are also a trade, you dig during the day, I dig at night, ask yourself if you believe there are ghosts and gods?" I asked rhetorically dismissively. "If you really want these things, it's not good to say, what we both do is damage to yin morality, I don't know how many times we've died, there are really gods in this temple, I want to see what it looks like."

Suddenly, I felt Tian Ji's fingers move slightly, and I hurriedly clenched his hand, which was not as stiff as before, it seemed that my blood was really useful, but it would take a while to fully recover.

"Also, as you said, the Miao people originated from Jiuli, and the twelve ancient ancestral gods of the Miao people should also follow the legend of Jiuli, what are the ancient ancestral gods in this legend, cattle, sheep, chickens and horses." I glanced back at Wen Ru and smiled weakly. "Now that the butterflies have seen it, you have to believe that there is a god, maybe you can see a monster with a bull's head and a horse's face or a human body with a chicken's head."

"Any legends and myths are not groundless, even if they are apocryphal, they have origins and roots, the butterfly-faced guards you see just show this, in fact, I have studied the archaeological history of Miaojiang all my life, this is probably the biggest discovery in my life." Wen Ru didn't argue with me, and looked at me calmly.

"That's true, just the announcement of this temple is enough to make you famous in history, of course......" I still smiled coldly. You have to count on this temple to be stronger, and it would be a pity if it collapsed. ”

I was insinuating about Aoki Chuan, Wen Ru is a smart person must have understood it, not to mention Ye Jiuqing's words, he must have heard it, but Wen Ru didn't seem to have much reaction to this, and he couldn't even see the slightest change on his face, he just shook his head with a meaningful smile.

"A temple is not the biggest discovery for me."

"What's that?" I asked curiously.

The smile on Wen Ru's face is the same as his person, I don't understand it at all, Aoki River He blew up the underground altar, there are so many valuable things in it, Wen Ru doesn't care about it, it can be seen that he doesn't care about wealth at all, although this temple is weird, but for him in archaeology, it is enough to make him famous in history, but I feel that Wen Ru doesn't value it either.

A person who is about to die in his last years, fame and fortune are not in his eyes, but he doesn't care about the origin of the bronze mask after working tirelessly, life and death, I really can't think of anything else worth caring about Wen Ru.

The only thing I can think of is the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, a treasure ship as bizarre and mysterious as this temple, but why did Wen Ru come here? What does this temple have to do with the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, and why is the symbol of the Eye of the Earth the totem of the Jiuli Ancestral God?

These questions lingered in my mind more and more confused, and I realized that as I began to come into contact with the Moon Palace Nine Dragon Boat, I was caught in a huge whirlpool of mysteries, and the more I discovered, the more complicated things became.

Wen Ru stopped talking to me, I stayed by the others, the rest of the equipment was lost outside, I don't know how much time had passed, in this eerie temple, I experienced for the first time what it means to live like a year, and every second spent in fear was a kind of torment for me.

After waiting for a long time, I finally saw them gradually sober up, and I was relieved to see that each of them was safe and sound, although they were conscious, but because of the long-term paralysis, their bodies could not move freely.

They only remembered what had happened the moment before she fell, and when I told them what had happened next, even a man as strong and mighty as the general gasped.

"Looks like a butterfly?" Tian Ji is honest, so it is destined that his imagination will not be too rich. "You say these janissaries don't eat, and if they do, they don't have mouths to eat like this? Is it sucked by a tube? ”

"When you meet them, you can ask them in person." I gave him a blank look and said angrily.

"What are we going to do now?" Gong Jue asked.

"There is no way back, so I have to go forward, and maybe I can find another way out." The general took out a knife from his body and said.

"You have to be prepared to go forward, these guards are not the same as the ones we saw at the entrance of the temple, but it is clear that they are not the owners of the temple, they are just guards here, and we don't know what they are guarding yet." I handed the gun in my hand to Tian Ji. "Just a few of us, trying to fight these monsters is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg."

"Also, those bugs hatch from eggs, have you ever wondered what laid these eggs?" Wen Ru said next to him.

"I have a solution." Gong Jue rubbed his legs and tried to stand up slowly, his body was already moving.

"What's the solution?" We asked.

"Although the temple is large, it is full of mechanisms, and judging from the settings of the mechanisms encountered along the way, in order to support the operation of such a large temple mechanism, there must be a place where the core organs rotate, and to put it simply, a place to control these mechanisms." The palace lord looked at us with a grim expression. "Only if I can find this place, through the setting of the mechanism, I will have a way to find a way out."

"Can you find that place?" I asked eagerly.

Gong Jue nodded, saying that to support such a huge mechanism, the design is by no means simple, and it requires a lot of power to compare, Gong Jue pointed to the burning fire trough and said: "These fire troughs burned before we came, and they have not been extinguished for thousands of years, there should be a place where there is a continuous supply of grease, as long as you follow these fire troughs, you can find them." ”

Gong Jue's method is our only hope of leaving here, and after everyone else can move, we cautiously groped along the passage, Ye Zhiqiu was worried that Wen Ru was old and frail, so he supported him in the middle, and when he went out from the corner, I saw that Wen Ru had been rubbing his legs, presumably pinched when he was dragged down by the guards.

I accidentally caught a glimpse of two small holes in his pants, and I didn't pay attention to it at first, I asked Ye Zhiqiu and Wen Ru to go first, and when my eyes fell on Wen Ru's back, my eyes suddenly widened in shock.

A sharp spike was stuck in his back, I always thought he was pretending to be unconscious to get by, he was like everyone else, he had been hit by bugs, and the two small holes in his pants were the places where the spikes were penetrated, Wen Ru cleaned up the spikes on his pants, but he didn't know that there was another one on his back.

Looking at Wen Ru's limping back in front of me, I slowly frowned, why was he shot by the bug so unharmed, the most incomprehensible thing for me was why he deliberately cleaned up the spikes to hide this matter, how many unknown secrets are still hidden in this person......