*Northwest Ancient Temple Killing Gods (2)*

On the northwest border, surrounded by mountains, Chen Xiaofeng and the bearded man drove the green grassland hunting on the Loess Plateau, and the two of them didn't talk much along the way, except for looking at the scenery outside from time to time, the little real person seemed so preoccupied.

The bearded man knew Chen Xiaofeng's thoughts, after all, it was difficult for a teenager to experience so many things at once, and it was difficult to accept and adjust for a while.

In this way, the two of them bumped around in the car for a whole week, and Zuihou finally reached the extreme cold land in the northwest. It is said that this place is really desolate, and you can only see a small village within a radius of hundreds of miles, and it is already cold winter at this time, so this area seems so desolate.

After arriving, after several hours of driving, the bearded man finally got out of the car in front of a slightly angry village, and then the bearded man said: "Brother Xiaofeng, this is the location of the 'Pujing Temple' that the old immortal of the tomb ancestor said, and it is said that the second treasure that broke the formation is within the surrounding mountain within the scope of this village. However, according to my intelligence, the ancient temple has a history of 1,000 years, and the incense was extremely prosperous in the early days, but I don't know what the reason for this ancient temple was abandoned overnight, and even the monks inside are nowhere to be found, so we may have to spend some time trying to find it ourselves this time. ”

After listening to the bearded man's words, Chen Xiaofeng nodded knowingly, and then said: "Brother Beard, since we have arrived in this cold land, let's go into the village to find a place to settle down first, take a rest, and tomorrow we will set off to the deep mountains to find the abandoned thousand-year-old temple." ”

Then the two of them set off to the center of the village, saying that the village in this cold place was really desolate, with dilapidated tiled houses in front and back, and there was no sign of chickens and dogs crowing around, as if the village had not been inhabited for a long time, and there was not even a trace of cooking smoke on the chimney on the roof.

Chen Xiaofeng and the bearded man knocked on the doors of several houses one after another, but there was no movement inside, all of them were locked. The two of them felt strange at this time, although this extreme cold place in the northwest was remote and far away from the capital, it was not desolate to such a point, and the whole village was lifeless, which really made people feel a sense of unhappiness.

Just when the sun was shining and the sky was getting darker, the two of them finally found a small hotel on the north side of this desolate village, with a dilapidated red lantern hanging in front of the door, although it was broken, but the lights in the red lanterns were indeed on, and there was a broken plaque above their heads, which was engraved with four big characters: "Peaceful Hotel".

Although this small inn is in disrepair, the door is open to the outside, and it seems that there are still people here for business, and then the bearded man stepped forward and rang the doorbell a few times, and entered the hotel with Chen Xiaofeng one after another.

After entering the store, the first thing they saw was a mess of furnishings, even the tables and chairs were lying horizontally and vertically, and at this moment, they saw a hoarse voice behind the counter made of lacquered poplar at the door: "Are you two going to stay in the hotel?" The shop is closed for the night, so you might as well go elsewhere. ”

When this hoarse voice sounded, Chen Xiaofeng and the bearded man were in a cold sweat, and said in their hearts: Where did this person come from, why didn't you find someone at this door when you came in?

After that, the bearded man walked to the counter with an unhappy face, and at this glance, he was scared to death, you said that the one sitting in the counter should look like an old lady who was more than half a hundred years old, but the outfit on her body was many years ago, the more she looked at it, the more she looked like the landlord's wife who used to say in people's mouths, sitting there with a gloomy face, and at first glance it looked like a wax figure.

At this time, Chen Xiaofeng also came over and said to the gloomy old woman: "Old woman, we are passing by here, it is dark, and we want to find an inn to stay, you can find a room tonight and let us take a while, and we will leave as soon as it is dawn tomorrow morning." ”

After hearing Chen Xiaofeng's words, he saw that the expressionless old woman was silent for a moment, and then said in a hoarse voice: "The moon is dark and the wind is high, visitors from a foreign land, you are going to jump into the fire pit by yourself." ”

The old woman's words made Chen Xiaofeng and the bearded man get goosebumps, and said in her heart: What is this old lady talking about? What kind of fire pit is not a fire pit, we live in a hotel, do you want to scare people by pretending to be a ghost?

Then the bearded man said to the old woman, "Well, I say old lady, what do you mean by that?" Are you afraid that we won't be able to pay for the store, and tell you that Brother Beard has money. ”

So saying, the bearded man took out a new stack of bills from his backpack and threw them on the counter, and then the gloomy old woman picked up the stack of bills with her dry hands. At this time, the old lady's actions attracted Chen Xiaofeng's attention, and I saw that after the old woman picked up the money, she didn't count the money directly with her hands like the general shopkeeper, but stuck out her tongue on it and kept chattering. ”

Just when he was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard a loud shout from the bearded man next to him, and then hurriedly looked at it, and saw that a figure suddenly appeared in the empty gatehouse, which should be a man from the way he was dressed, and the bearded man was frightened and shouted directly, and then he took out the black-handled nocturnal thorn on his waist and asked who the figure was, and then he heard the old woman who had been sitting at the counter Tian Qian suddenly spoke: "Old man, this is late at night, you don't sleep well, what are you going to walk around?" Beware of the mages on the mountain, who have sent little ghosts to snatch your soul away. ”

After the old lady said these words, she saw that the dark shadow that appeared before suddenly spoke: "Old woman, this guest has paid, why don't you do the business of the door, come, two guest officers, old man, I will take you to the guest room." ”

After making trouble for a long time, the old lady's wife came out, this gloomy and erratic, which made Chen Xiaofeng and the bearded man have a false alarm, since the old man said that he could live in the hotel, the two of them didn't want to talk nonsense with the old woman who was following the gods, and then followed the old man up the stairs on the second floor.

I saw that the area of the hotel was not large, but from the staircase, it seemed that there were three floors, upper, middle and lower, and the old man took them to the second floor of the corridor. Probably it seems that there should be four or five rooms on this floor, and then followed the old man to a room with the words "Qingzhuyuan" engraved on the door number, and then the old man opened the door with the key, and after entering, the pungent musty smell choked the two of them almost vomited.

The bearded man said angrily to the old man: "I said old man, the money I gave to the old lady just now is enough to buy your country shop, and you will let us live in this kind of broken room, you hurry up and change it for me, or the bearded man will ask you for the check-out money!" ”

After hearing the bearded man's words, the old man turned around and said gloomily: "Two guest officers, this is not enough, all the rooms in this hotel are now full, and now there is only this room left, although it is a little old, but the room is neat and clean, there will be breakfast early tomorrow morning, and you can directly see the mountain view outside the window, which is already very good, do you live or not?" ”

After the old man finished speaking, he turned his head away from looking at them, at this time Chen Xiaofeng walked in, and carefully observed the room up and down, although there was a musty smell in the whole house, but on the whole, the room was quite clean, the wooden shelf bed where the two slept, the large wardrobe with red lacquer, and the most conspicuous furniture was the old dresser used by a woman placed in the corner, and the mirror on it had long been covered with dust.

It's late at night, and the village outside the hotel is desolate, there is no place to stay, if you don't live here, then you can only go to the grassland hunting car for a night, Chen Xiaofeng can't stand the choking smell of gasoline.

Then Xiao Zhenren said to the bearded man: "Brother Beard, it's already so late, and there is no place to live anywhere else, this house is quite neat and clean, I think we can get together for one night, rest early, we still have a lot to do tomorrow." ”

The bearded man saw Chen Xiaofeng say this, so he couldn't say anything, so he had to walk into the guest room with his bag, and then the old man gave Chen Xiaofeng the key to the room, and then said gloomily: "Two guest officers, since this bearded man has given so much room money, we are not an unreasonable black shop, you can live in this room from now on, and you can live as long as you want." ”

When Chen Xiaofeng and the others heard this, they thought to themselves, "Hey, this old man is quite particular, it seems that he is afraid that we will look down on him, and he will act in righteousness at this time." Well, since you say so, we've just found a place to stay. ”

Then the old man was about to leave with the lantern, and when he just walked to the door of the guest room, the old man turned around again and said to the two people: "Two guest officers, there are a few things I forgot to remind you, the first is that you should clean up and go to bed quickly, and the windows must be closed, otherwise there will be animals on this mountain to steal the guests' things." Then, my wife and I slept very deeply at night, and if you have something to do, you can shake the bell on the first floor, and the most important thing is that you must not disturb other guests to rest, and you must not go to the third floor, where there is no one there. Well, you guys should rest early. ”

After speaking, the old man left with the lantern, and before Chen Xiaofeng and the bearded man could ask what was going on, what a mess, the animals on the mountain would steal things, what were they doing on the third floor in the middle of the night, it was really inexplicable.

It is said that the two of them have been on the road for several days in a row, and they are already sleepy at this time, so they just cleaned up casually, and the two of them fell asleep while lying on the bed.

Just when Chen Xiaofeng was sleeping in a daze, he faintly heard the sound of people walking on the floor on the roof, judging from the sound, it was as if someone was walking around on the floor wearing slippers, Xiao Zhenren was immediately awakened by this sound, and quickly pushed the snoring beard, and said: "Brother Beard, wake up quickly, did you hear a sound on the roof just now?" Didn't the old man say that there was no one on the third floor? How can there still be the sound of human footsteps??? ”

The bearded man was sleeping dimly at this time, and was pushed by Chen Xiaofeng like this, and replied dizzily: "Big brother, how did you sleep stupidly, in the middle of the night, where did the footsteps of someone come from, hurry up and sleep, I will go into the mountain tomorrow." ”

After saying these few words, it didn't take a second for the snoring to sound again. Chen Xiaofeng rubbed his face vigorously, thinking, "Maybe I'm too tired from traveling in the past few days, and I can't sleep well, I guess I was dreaming just now, or I'm sleeping in a daze." ”

Thinking of this, Chen Xiaofeng lay back on the bed again. Just when he was about to fall asleep again, the strange footsteps sounded again, this time Chen Xiaofeng heard it really, this was definitely not his dream, there must be someone walking around on it wearing wooden slippers.

Hearing this, Chen Xiaofeng couldn't sleep anymore, turned over and got up, looked at the bearded man sleeping in a daze, and didn't wake him up. Then Xiao Zhenren put on his coat, gently opened the door, and then lightly came to the second-floor corridor without a sound.

After that, Xiao Zhenren looked downstairs first, and saw that the range of the first floor was empty, and it was estimated that the old couple who were in charge of the shopkeeper had also gone to sleep, and then Chen Xiaofeng followed the corridor to the stairs leading to the third floor.

He had just taken a step up when he heard the whispering of people coming from the rooftop. Judging by the movement, there must be a few people whispering, but if you listen carefully, the sound does not look like people talking, but it looks like the "squeak" sound of birds or mice.

Now the little real person feels strange, to say that there are mice or birds on the upper floor, it is understandable, but the old man who was in charge of the store before clearly said that there was no one on the third floor, but where did the sound of trivial footsteps come from? This series of strange phenomena made Chen Xiaofeng vaguely feel that their treasure hunt trip this time must be associated with some ominous things, and then Xiao Zhenren raised his feet and was about to go up to the weird three floors to find out.

If you want to know what will happen next, please enjoy the next chapter, and the next one will be more exciting.