I nodded in agreement, anyway, there is no time to speak of now, sooner or later I have to go to see the earth immortals, so I decided to start acting immediately, leading everyone down the wooden ladder and straight to the door of the main hall.

The door of the Demon True Monarch Hall was closed after we entered, but at this time, it didn't move at all, and I didn't push the door open with more force, and I don't know when, the door of the temple was closed by the hidden machine.

When the fat man saw that I couldn't open the door, he came to help, and he copied out the sapper shovel to pry the crack in the door. I felt something strange in my heart, afraid that there was something strange in this hall, so I subconsciously glanced back. The beam of the tactical spotlight above his head flickered, and he saw that Wu Sheng Zhenjun, who was originally sitting in the hall, suddenly changed his face, and it was no longer the Guan Erye who was lying on silkworm eyebrows, Danfeng eyes, with a face like a heavy jujube, and long hair fluttering, but a stout black and short angry-eyed ghost, holding a piece of black Franc machine like dead wood in his arms. The mud looked down at the door, and it was falling on us. I had a very ominous feeling in my heart, although I had seen many temples and Taoist temples in my life, but I couldn't recognize what kind of fierce gods and evil spirits were offered in this temple.

I was shocked in my heart, I couldn't imagine that the earth immortal Feng Shigu was so blasphemous, even the Guandi Temple dared to set up, but I didn't know that it was the temple of the evil god, which was completely different from the previous solemn atmosphere, this good and evil, the difference is huge, it is really the crow and the magpie are together, it is difficult to determine the good and the bad, I am afraid it is not good.

My mind moved, and I hurriedly grabbed the fat man who was priing the door hard: "Don't touch the door, there are fierce gods and evil gods here, it is definitely not the true monarch of the demons, be careful that there are pins on the door wall to ambush." ”

Then everyone stood still, took a flashlight to shine around the hall, and found that not only the main statue in the shrine, but also Zhou Cang and Guan Ping, who were standing on both sides of the martial saint, did not know when they turned into ghosts in the underworld, wearing red robes, with pigtails on their heads, and their faces were terrified.

We also said that we were mistaken, and when we rubbed our eyes again to take a closer look, it turned out that the previous clay statues were covered with a layer of cloth tent lacquer shells, and at this time they were all hidden behind the shrine and pulled up, and hung empty and hung on the high place of the temple beam, which revealed the true body of the evil god in the temple.

Our attention was just now attracted by the omen in the coffin mountain, and no one paid attention to the movement in the temple. In fact, before coming in, I had already checked that there was no pin on the periphery of this building, but I didn't expect that the Guandi Temple would be a trap.

There was a dead silence in the hall, but there was no more opportunity for the time being, but the atmosphere seemed very wrong. I felt more and more bad, I had to get out of it, and I looked around with the tactical spotlight beam, and saw that the cold and heavy Qinglong Yanyue Knife was still on top of the gimbal at the moment, and I couldn't help but have an idea, and a thought popped up in my mind.

In the old Chinese society, the style of worshipping the ancestors of Wenwu has been passed down since ancient times, if the scale of the Guandi Temple is relatively large, there will often be a separate knife hall set up in the side compartment, dedicated to the Guan Gong knife; The small-scale temple is either carried by Zhou Cang, or placed flat on the Jinyun bracket.

I saw that Guan Gong's knife was heavy and extraordinary, and I thought that there might be a lot of brackets in the temple gate, although it was effortless to break the door and go out, but it might be a move to dig a grave by yourself, why not use this big knife that weighs dozens of pounds as a wall lock to break through the wall and go out? So he immediately beckoned the fat man to step forward and raise the knife.

Everyone just walked a few steps closer, but saw a wooden plaque behind the ghostly evil god clay statue, with gold characters on a black background, and the three big characters "Cannon God Temple" were written. My sister seems to know this, and she even calls it bad. In this hall, not only the doors and windows and walls, but also the glazed tile roof and beams and pillars cannot be touched, and there must be a ground-to-ceiling flowering cannon hidden inside, once triggered, the entire temple will be burned, and everyone will have to be blown into powder.

The fat man originally relied on a momentum, and planned to immediately sneak into the old mansion of the Feng family to touch the gold, but at this time, seeing that the teacher was unfavorable, he couldn't help complaining about bad luck, and it was estimated that he forgot to burn incense for the ancestor before going out. I shook my head helplessly and said, it's not that we have memorized the words, but the landlord class is too cunning, but I have never heard of any cannon temples in the world, is this temple a big powder keg? Is it really a desperate person who can't get in and out?

Shirley Yang also asked her sister, "What is the Cannon Temple?" And how can you determine that there is a floor-to-ceiling flowering cannon hidden in the temple? ”

As soon as I heard what my sister said, we understood what was going on. Originally, the folk custom of worshiping the god of artillery originated in Qingxi, Wushan, at first because of the use of earthen explosives when cutting down the Wuyan vein, because the conditions were extremely primitive and simple, and often killed the mining slaves, so the common people secretly built the cannon temple, as a Shinto dedicated to worship in the mine, at the beginning it was only similar to the low land temple, and usually the saltpeter gunpowder that blew up the mountain and blasted was all stored in this temple, and its function was similar to the explosives warehouse.

Over time, people found that the "cannon gods" in the temple often showed supernatural things, whether it was blowing up the mine pit and burying the mine slaves alive; Or the explosives warehouse has a situation of running water, but does not detonate a large number of explosives detonators, and so on, all of these things are said by the workers who work in the mine to be the "cannon god" grandfather manifested, just like the gunboat going to sea to worship Mazu, it is an ancient industry worship, in China should have been in the Ming Dynasty.

Later, a custom was gradually formed, in addition to the mining people, the firearms battalions in the officers and soldiers of the army, including the Hongyi cannon later imported from the Portuguese Hongmao State, all the places involving gunpowder had to worship the artillery god. In the Ming Dynasty, firearms began to develop, but the concept was still relatively conservative and superstitious, and the main Hongyi artillery used in the army would be crowned with the position of general, such as "Shenwu, Shenwei, Zhenwei" generals and so on. When the cannon is aged or damaged, it should not be recast and decomposed, but should be buried in a tomb. These are all extended from the custom of worshipping the god of guns.

Later, because the Qing Dynasty Taizu Nurhachi was injured by artillery bombardment outside Ningyuan City, and finally died, so the Qing Dynasty completely banned the Cannon Temple, all the Cannon King Tombs, and the Cannon Ye Temple were all demolished and destroyed, only in its birthplace there are still people secretly worship the Cannon God, and the temple site is mostly built in underground caves, and it is difficult for people from other places to know these things. The people in the Qingxi area make a living by mining gunpowder, which is well known to all ages. Because it is a secret offering, the Qingxi Cannon Temple has often been disguised as other temples since the Qing Dynasty, with the Yaowang Temple or the Land Temple being the majority, but no one has ever dared to use the Guandi Temple as a disguise.

In addition, in the honeycomb mountain, which specializes in making pins, there are also many traditions of worshipping the god of artillery because some gunpowder equipment is often made, such as the flying fire of the god crow and the water of the fire dragon. It is rumored that the statue of the cannon god has different shapes, but it must hold the Franc machine, and the red-robed fire-clothed boy will stand on both sides.

Franc machine is the name of the ancient Western artillery, since the Portuguese artillery was introduced to China in the Ming Zhengde period, it has this name, and it has always been the magic weapon of the cannon god. Although Shirley Yang and the others and I didn't know about the artillery god, we also knew about it, and we had seen many old weapon maps in Panjiayuan, Beijing, and there was this kind of firearm in it.

The firearms in the arms of the clay cannon god statue are naturally fake, but there is a special one here, and the folk worship of the cannon god holds the Fran machine, which is all red, with the meaning of red clothes and red medicine; There is also a black Franc machine, which means that there are murderous fire pins set up in the cannon temple, mostly five thunder flower cannons, or landing flower cannons.

Because this kind of explosive mechanism, in the honeycomb mountain called the fire pin, the gun god held the franc machine painted black, is exactly a kind of code used by the honeycomb mountain box maker, the difference in this, except for the craftsman who laid the cannon pin spring, outsiders never know. Although the younger sister had learned these tricks, she had never really seen them, and lacked the necessary experience, until she saw the black Francophone and the ancient plaque behind the clay statue, and then she suddenly remembered it.

In this artillery temple, there must be countless fire-selling gunpowders, fortunately, there was no reckless breaking the door and tearing down the wall just now, otherwise the cannon trigger would have been touched and everyone would have been blown to pieces at this moment.

Most of the thunderbolts in the temple are hidden in the beams and pillars of the door wall, and the doors and windows of the temple can not be opened, and the four walls are stressed by heavy force, which will trigger explosives. Although all the earth-made explosives buried hundreds of years ago may still explode in the place where the wind gathers in Coffin Mountain, and once the fire is blown up, it is by no means something that flesh and blood can resist.

Think that gunpowder was one of the four great inventions in ancient times, to the Ming Dynasty, the application of gunpowder firearms, has tended to mature and perfect, although the power of the original earthen explosives is not as good as modern, but the lethality can not be underestimated. As the name suggests, after the gunpowder is exploded, the iron nails and iron pieces hidden inside will cover and kill the surroundings like a goddess scattering flowers, while the five thunder flowering cannons will explode continuously. When everyone heard this, they all felt helpless, and as soon as the door of this temple was opened, the entire temple was probably going to explode into the sky, but if they didn't want to get out, even if they planted their wings, they would not be able to escape. The thought of the cannons all around makes people's hearts numb, like a cricket on a hot ground, and they can't stand for a moment.

I suppressed my anxious feelings, calmed down and thought about it, this time I came to Qingxi to find the ancient tomb of Dixian Village, almost every step was far from what I expected, and this was all due to Professor Sun's refusal to tell the truth, so that in the end he dragged everyone into a desperate situation, but now it is useless to blame anyone, the only meaningful thing is to do everything possible to deal with the current crisis.

I was about to discuss with Shirley Yang whether it was feasible to take the risk of demolishing the cannonball, but I heard Sun Jiuye on the side suddenly say: "I almost forgot, Dixian Village is full of yin and yang houses!" ”

We didn't understand this meaning, and wondered: "What is a yin and yang house?" Isn't Dixian Village an ancient tomb and a yin house? Sun Jiuye said: "No, no, there are too many things happening today, I am so confused that I ignore this section." I remember hearing my brother say that all the houses in Dixian Village are Yin and Yang houses. ”

The so-called yang house is the residence of the living, and the yin house is the tomb of the dead buried, the ancient Fengshi of Dixian Village has the addiction of collecting the treasures of the ancient tomb, and there is a quirk, not only the treasure of the tomb burial, but also the coffin, the ancient corpse, the tomb bricks, the murals and other things, but also to keep their own, as if the life of the family.

When he built Dixian Village in the coffin mountain, he once built the ancient tombs stolen by the Guanshan Taibao in the ground as they were, with the upper part being the Yang Mansion and the lower part being the Yin House, and all the houses and courtyards were all real tombs. The types of tombs are up to three generations, down to the Yuan and Ming dynasties, all-encompassing, and those tombs also have portals and tombs at the bottom, just like the streets of Yin and Yang houses, but no one knows why he did this.

Under the ground of this cannon temple, there will definitely be a cellar-like tomb, and the old mansion of the Feng family can be led from the tomb, but I don't know if there will be a ground-level flowering cannon hidden underground. It stands to reason that it shouldn't be, because the Earth Immortal Seal Master Gu would never destroy the Yin Mansion lightly, but it is said that the hidden weapons in the tomb are all set up in accordance with the old law, and if you go from the tomb road, you have to find a way to deal with all kinds of mechanisms in the ancient tombs of the past dynasties.

After Professor Sun swore a poisonous oath in the name of his ancestors and ancestors in the name of the spirit of heaven, coupled with the confirmation of various things before and after, I have temporarily dispelled my doubts about him at this time, otherwise it will be difficult to move an inch, and even if I agree, I said: "This is a solution, it is always better to be trapped here and suffering." There is a way that unique heroes drive tigers and leopards, and there are no heroes who are afraid of bears. Craftsmen who touch gold and fight upside down, what tomb is not afraid to enter? ”

In the case of no way to advance or retreat, everyone immediately decided to make a desperate bet and prepare to get out of the underground tomb, but the secret that Professor Sun's family has passed down from generation to generation, even he himself does not dare to guarantee that it is true, and it is difficult to say whether there is an ancient tomb under the temple.

So the five people lined up, carefully pried open the floor tiles with sapper shovels and stainless steel Emei thorns, and found that the ground near the wall in the hall had cannon pins, and the rows were hidden and laid, dense. The five thunder cannon is not a mine, there is no way to dismantle the fuse, you can only try to avoid it, and there is only a circle around the mud statue of the cannon god in the entire temple, and there is no fire pin hidden weapon.

Everyone is afraid of touching the fire pin, no one dares to use too much force, slowly move away from the top of a few green bricks, see that under the brick is a layer of clear mud rammed earth, the length of the sapper shovel is too short, digging and chiseling rammed earth can not make force, and the rammed earth may be mixed with glutinous rice and boy urine, the soil is dense and tough, we dug a few times with a shovel, and the forehead has been sweating.

I had no choice but to go with the fat man to carry the Guan Gong knife over, according to the ancient recipe of the cave tomb in the word "cut" left by the mountain man, first poured some soju on the ground, soaked the rammed earth loosely, and then reversed the knife head, and poked the ground with the three-edged cast iron knife. This Guan Gong knife is like a shovel that weighs dozens of pounds, chiseling up a hard layer of mud very handy.

This layer of rammed earth was smashed and dug up, and sure enough, it was a layer of plaster more than a foot thick, and there was another layer of sleepers under the mud. Digging here, it is enough to prove that there is indeed a zài tomb under the temple, the wood used is probably from the real ancient tomb, the square pillar-like wood has been half-decayed, unlucky, poked a few times with a Guan Gong knife, the neatly arranged rotten wood will sink from it, revealing a black hole in the ground, and the inside is swishing outward.

The fat man said happily: "It seems that the militia has connected the tunnels in the village. Before he could finish speaking, he heard the clay statue in the Temple of the Cannon God rumble and shake. It turned out that the sleepers in the ground had been soaked by the groundwater as early as the original site, and they were so rotten that they were overwhelmed, and a wooden stake collapsed, which actually drove several nearby beams to break together. The few sleepers that broke and collapsed were just at the bottom of the clay statue of the cannon god that embraced the Franco. The fairy shook, and the heavy mud statue slammed into the back wall, and the head of the cannon god was knocked off on the spot, and his body fell to the ground with a bang, only to hear a strange click sound from the back wall.

Everyone's hearts sank suddenly, knowing that this was the pin spring of the landing flowering cannon. I hurriedly pushed Sun Jiuye, who was staying in place: "Let's go, what are you waiting for?" ”

At this time, the walls and beams of the temple were filled with the sound of cannon springs moving, and while I greeted him, I didn't care about what was going on in the tomb, so I pushed Professor Sun down with a push, and then the rest of the people jumped into the tomb after me. The fat man felt that Guan Gong's knife was heavy and strong, and it was very easy to use, although a person would definitely not be able to pick it up, but splitting a coffin could just use it, and he was reluctant to abandon it, and he did not forget to drag this big knife in a hurry.

The space of this burial chamber, made of hundreds of sleepers, is so narrow that people cannot stand up straight inside, and there is a large ancient wooden coffin in it. I was the last to jump in, landing right on the lid of the coffin, and before the strength of the landing was gone, I heard a thunderous roar overhead, and the earth and dirt continued to fall on me.