Chapter 7: The Ancient Altar
What was presented in front of Huang Jun and Shu Yao was a large square. This square is the size of five or six football fields, but the area of the square is not immaculate, on the contrary, it is overgrown with all kinds of strange plants, which are like trees, and like vines, and the color is bright red, and what is even stranger is that there is a man-high hole in the middle of each plant, and strange plants are all over the square, and the mysterious strange hole also exists in every corner of the square, and there is a black shadow in each hole, because of the lack of light, Huang Jun didn't know what it was for a while.
But the boundless curiosity had made Huang Jun unable to control himself, he walked forward step by step, and Shu Yao also reflexively followed behind Huang Jun at this time. Finally, as the distance narrowed, Huang Jun finally saw what it was, but at the same time, they took a breath at the same time: what was hidden in each hole was a wooden coffin, looking at the color on it, it must have been some years, and the chains were firmly tied around the wooden coffin, and the chains were not known to be made of what metal, as if they had gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes, but they were still new and shiny.
"What is this?" Huang Jun couldn't help but look at Shu Yao.
"Don't ask me, I don't know," Shu Yao smiled bitterly.
"I'm not familiar with Xuancheng, so it's normal to not know, but if you don't even know, I'm afraid I can't say it" Huang Jun frowned.
"As a guardian, it's not my domain, it's just my hometown, and I left when I was a teenager, and it's normal for me to have a lot of things that I don't know," Shu Yao said confidently.
"Don't you have any impression?" Huang Jun immediately thought of the crux of the matter, as a native, no matter how unfamiliar Shu Yao is with his hometown, but such a place, if it really exists, it is impossible for her not to hear about it since she was a child, and now Shu Yao actually said that she didn't know, there are only two possibilities: one is that Shu Yao is lying. The second is that it didn't exist here before.
"I remembered what kind of place this was," Shu Yao said suddenly.
"Got an impression?"
"This is the Yin Mountain Slope, I'm sure, from the geographical location, this place should have been the Yin Mountain Slope before, but it's not right" Shu Yao thought tightly, as if she suddenly thought of something, but when she combed it carefully, she couldn't grasp it, and her face turned a little pale for a while.
"Don't worry, think slowly, we all have to be calm now" Huang Jun looked at the increasingly thick blood in the sky, and at the same time looked at the black crowd in the square, his face was not good-looking.
"According to my memory, there is no doubt that this is indeed the Yin Mountain Slope, but this was clearly not the case before, the Yin Mountain Slope in my memory is a deserted forest, but there are some old trees growing in it, and there are also many absurd legends, but I am sure that there should never be such a large altar on the Yin Mountain Slope, if there is, I can't not know" Shu Yao said with certainty.
"Maybe it's a year or two?" The Yellow formula is not sure of the Tao.
"Then it's even more impossible, you look at the scale here, if such a large altar really appears in Xuancheng, and it is still such a strange arrangement, do you think there will be no movement at all? In today's society, information is so developed, I'm afraid that even if the TV station doesn't come to interview, the Internet is already full of news, how can we wait until we come to find out?"
"You say, is this place where Cao Yang came to die?" Huang Jun suddenly thought of another question.
"As it stands, that's how it should be, and I think Ayan's death is likely to be related to this altar. I can feel that inside these wooden coffins, there is a very evil power sealed, if they are released, I'm afraid we will all be in danger," Shu Yao said worriedly.
"It seems that this is the innate magic circle in the center of the corpse transformation, I really can't imagine it, it turns out to be like this, I really want to see what will be in it." Huang Jun looked at the wooden coffin in front of him, but he didn't know what he was thinking.
"Be careful, this kind of congenitally formed magic circle is no better than a man-made magic circle, and the power contained in it is unimaginable to you and me, don't talk about us, I'm afraid that even our leader will be a dead end" Shu Yao couldn't help but remind when he saw Huang Jun's imminent appearance.
"So now, if we don't try, do you think we'll survive?" Huang Jun asked rhetorically.
Shu Yao was stunned for a while, thinking about it carefully, Huang Jun was right, the current situation is obvious, it is very dangerous inside, but if you don't go in, I'm afraid you won't be spared, for a while, I don't know what to do.
"By the way, what is the reason for this Yin Mountain Slope? What is the legend of Xuancheng about it? Huang Jun asked.
"Why are you asking all this at this time?" Shu Yao said impatiently.
"I think if we can know a little more about it, maybe we can know the solution, I think this kind of innate magic circle must have a certain scale to follow, grandpa said, the sky is unpredictable, but there will always be a way to live, will not block all the roads, I think we still have a chance" Huang Jun said firmly.
Shu Yao didn't answer immediately, but thought for a while, and then said with some uncertainty: "About this, I didn't pay attention to it before, but Ah Yang is very familiar, I remember when I was a child, he took me here once, but then my grandmother found out, and my grandmother beat Ah Yang severely, and then Ah Yang never dared to bring me again." However, I still probably know some of the legends here, but the problem is that there are many legends about this place, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false," Shu Yao said with a headache.
"It doesn't matter, you think about it slowly, see which one is the most reliable, after all, with your current knowledge and experience, you should be able to distinguish the true from the false" Huang Jun said solemnly when he heard the play. 、
"Well, there is a legend, I'm not sure if it's true, but I have the deepest impression of it, according to those old people, although Xuancheng is now very inconspicuous, but in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it seems to be a strategic fortress, is a place for soldiers to fight, every time there is a war, a lot of people have to die, among these people, some are the local people of Xuancheng, more are foreign soldiers, at that time the world was in chaos, the army did not have time to bury the corpses one by one, so they threw the dead corpses to the Yin Mountain slope, This became the tacit understanding of all the warring armies here, even if both sides were hostile armies, but the corpses of their soldiers after their deaths would be thrown to the Yin Mountain slope, for fear of the outbreak of the plague, I don't know which army started, dug a very deep and wide hole on the Yin Mountain Slope, and the corpses were buried in the hole, and later, the armies of various national factions fought here, and they all followed this tacit understanding, the more the battle was fought, the more people died, and the hole was buried deeper and deeper. However, the strange thing is that, generally speaking, there must be a lot of resentment and evil power in places where a large number of corpses are buried, which is why some people called this place Yin Mountain Slope at that time, but in fact, after so many years, Yin Mountain Slope can not help but make people feel the power of Yin and evil at all, but instead attract a large number of tourists from all over the ages, because the temperature here will always be warmer than outside, the water and soil are also very well maintained, and the plants grow particularly densely. You can also prolong your life, which is why Ayan likes to run here to play, but that legend has been handed down, of course, there are other legends that have been handed down, but this legend is the most impressive in the minds of the locals, so although the environment of the Yin Mountain slope is good, it is generally admired by people from outside, and the locals rarely set foot here. Shu Yao finished speaking in one breath, her tongue was dry, these things have always been in her mind, and she had heard them countless times before, but she didn't know why, at this moment, Shu Yao actually felt a chill seeping into her bones.
"What do you think of this legend?" Huang Jun asked.
"To be honest, before I went through the inheritance, I didn't believe in this legend, the reason why I rarely came to the Yin Mountain Slope in the past was also because my grandmother was in charge of it, but since I accepted the inheritance, I have thought about this problem carefully, I speculated that there must be a magical magic circle on the Yin Mountain Slope, which absorbs a large amount of Yin and evil power, and then transforms it into vitality, so as to maintain the balance of the magnetic field here, which is why the Yin Mountain Slope has been feeling good for so many years."
"But those yin forces have not dissipated, on the contrary, as the years go by, it accumulates deeper and deeper, maybe one day it will erupt, and then the great tribulation will really be mentioned," Huang Jun said in a deep voice.
"Yes, I didn't think about it before, but after you said that, it is very likely that it caused this corpse mutation."
"Not for sure, but for sure. You see, if such a strong yin and evil power is said to have suddenly arisen without going through a long period of accumulation, do you believe it? And, where did these wooden coffins come from? According to your description, when those soldiers killed people, they would not be kind enough to put those soldiers who unfortunately died in wooden coffins," Huang Jun said.
"I can't figure it out either, in fact, when we first saw that square, I thought of that legend, but as soon as I saw so many wooden coffins, I denied this idea in my heart, so I didn't immediately say the guess." Shu Yao was also at a loss, and the current situation was almost incomprehensible.
"I think most of the legend you said is true, but there must be something in it that we don't know, and, in my opinion, judging from the performance, this corpse transformation is much more serious than the description in the inheritance, you see, it is still in the brewing stage, once it breaks out, I am afraid that its power will exceed the corpse transformation of the past dynasties, I think by then, it is not only Xuancheng that has disappeared"
"You're saying that this mutiny could spread to other places? But how is that possible? Didn't all the corpses of the past generations destroy only one city? There have never been exceptions" Shu Yao was a little incredulous.
"I don't want to believe it, but if you look at the current situation, isn't it obvious? I think there must be something we don't know about, after all, the phenomenon of corpse transformation is generally innate, and it is maintained by the innate magic circle in it, but if in this process, some human factors are added to amplify the power of normal corpse transformation, it is difficult to say. Huang Jun said.
"You mean?" Shu Yao took a deep breath of understanding.
"I didn't say anything, it's just a guess, at least, I'm not sure until it becomes a reality."
"If it really becomes a reality, I'm afraid it'll be too late," Shu Yao said helplessly.