Chapter 20: The Secret in the Manuscript

The church was a relatively foreign place to me. A long time ago, I followed Li Damin to the church to worship, I don't believe him or believe him, the reason why we went was just to experience the power of religion. We listened to the pastor in the church and saw the believers cry, and we were really shocked.

In front of you is a black Gothic-style church, and the sun shines on the cross at the top of the church. We looked left and right, but found no figure, and quickly walked in.

This church is different from anything I've ever seen, the dark dome is very high, the whole pattern is conical, giving people a strange feeling, everyone entering here seems to enter an alienated space that closes upwards, and the environment is very oppressive.

The main hall of the church is lined with wooden benches, and the walls on both sides are topped with thick stained glass with paintings of Western religious figures, which are indecipherable. There was an inexplicable panic walking in this strange church, we were walking cautiously, and suddenly there was a strange sound from the "bell", it turned out that there was a Ben clock hanging on the wall, and it rang on time. The voice is very thick, the church is still ringing, and the sound spreads inside in circles, and my brain is a little dazed when I hear it.

"Little Wood still believes this?" I asked incredulously.

He was a representative figure of his time, and even though he liked and admired European and American civilization, he had never heard of open religion.

"It's a bit evil here. Let's go. Ye Daining said.

He led us quickly through the main hall of the church to the front. Except for the pastor's pulpit, it was empty. Ye Daining looked left and right: "My house is down there, let's look for the passage to enter." ”

A few of us scattered and looked around, but we didn't find any doors or stairs below.

"Find out what's going on." Qin Dan said.

We checked around again, and even poked the rat hole, but we still didn't find anything. The interior of this church is very empty and deep, the voice is so low that they can't hear each other clearly, and the voice is shouting at the top of their voices, and the voice is humming out of shape, in this environment, it has been a long time, and people are extremely anxious.

I really don't understand why this church was built. The churches give people the feeling of holiness, solemnity, and tranquility. And this ghost place is full of depressive weirdness and is very uncomfortable.

Ye Daining thought for a while and said, "Now that's the only way, I will recall my family and let her come up and show us the way." ”

Whatever you want, get out of here as soon as possible.

Ye Daining opened the package, took out the porcelain bowl and poured in cinnabar, lit three sticks of incense, sat cross-legged on the ground, dipped his hand in cinnabar, and wrote on the ground.

The patterns he writes are so intricate that he can't tell what they are. He was engrossed in the words. I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but with the practice, the whole church suddenly became gloomy, like a dark cloud hanging outside. Shadows were clearly visible on the multicolored glass, and the light suddenly dimmed.

Just when he was concentrating on drawing talismans, he saw that the burning of the three long incense sticks suddenly accelerated, the white smoke was faint, and beads of sweat were also soaked on Ye Daining's head.

At this time, Qin Dan suddenly put his finger to his mouth and made a silent gesture.

"Listen~"

We listened intently, and there was a faint sound of footsteps outside, walking towards the church.

Not good! We hurriedly walked up to Ye Daining to remind him to hide. Qin Dan hurriedly stopped: "He is now at the critical time of his practice, concentrating and concentrating, once he stops halfway, it will hurt his energy." ”

"What then?" Copper Lock asked anxiously.

At this moment, a figure in the distance was reflected in the church, followed by heavy footsteps. What can I do, waking up Ye Daining will interrupt the practice, which is extremely detrimental to his body; If you don't interrupt, you're likely to be seen by outsiders.

Fortunately, the location of Ye Daining's practice was in the shadow corner of the pastor's podium, so he should not be able to see it.

"Scatter." Li Yang shouted.

We all hid.

I hid behind the draperies, and quietly opened a gap to look over, and saw two men entering the church in the gloomy main hall, sitting on the benches in the front row, clasped hands together as if in prayer.

They kept this action for a long time, and we didn't dare to breathe, and our palms were sweaty.

For a long time, they raised their heads.

"I heard I found it?" One of them said.

"Found it." The other replied: "The body that is not rotten or bad has been handed over to Master Ma for disposal." He looked at it and said that he had found the right one, and the person surnamed Ma in the Lantern League had really practiced the spell of becoming an immortal. ”

"I heard he was unconscious when he was found?"

Master Ma said, this person's soul is not there, only a body remains, I don't know how this happens, I think there is another master. This master is likely to have infiltrated Jiangxin Island, and I asked people to check. ”

"We can't let him spoil the great things of the ancestors."

"The old ancestor can no longer rely on children to prolong his life, and if he wants to live, he must cultivate the corpse that Master Ma said to become an immortal."

The two of them stood up, the shadows behind them stretched extremely long.

"You don't notice, it's a lot colder here." One person speaks.

"Maybe it's because of my ancestors. It's time to chant the longevity spell again, let's go check it out. The two men said, getting up from their benches. After a pause, he walked in our direction.

Our hearts raced as we watched the two of us get closer and closer. Because the light was too dim, I saw when I got closer that it was Lin Shuangxi, the big boss here, who was walking in front, who might be his confidant or good friend. Just as we hesitated, the two of them went to the front desk.

They didn't stop, and walked directly in the direction of Ye Daining.

At this critical juncture, Ye Daining's eyes suddenly lit up, and the whole person recovered from the chaotic state of practice. Knowing that danger was near, he pulled it with his hand, and everything was very cleverly packed into the package.

Then he flashed into the curtain next to him.

He was out of danger, but the pattern of cinnabar on the ground was still there. Although the shadows are thick and the cinnabar is dim, you can still see this icon if you look closely.

We all sweated, and once they found out about this thing, the consequences would be unimaginable, and no one would want to run out.

Fortunately, Lin Shuangxi and the man came to the other side of the pastor's podium, only to see them arching their bodies, not knowing what to do. We hid in the corner, couldn't see anything, and waited with bated breath. After a while, something strange happened, and Lin Shuangxi and the two of them never stood up after arching their bodies.

Ye Daining walked out generously and beckoned us: "Come out, they have gone down." ”

We gathered together at the podium, and in the place where they had just been, there was a secret door that was not easy to detect. There is no light here, and the shadows are so deep that you can't find them without a hint. I crouched down and gently walked along the edge of the secret door with my hands. The secret door and the surrounding wood were tightly fastened, leaving almost no gaps, and were tightly closed.

"What can I do?" We're out of ideas.

"It's okay, I summoned my family just now, and she's down there." Ye Daining said.

He held the secret door, and there were words in his mouth, only to hear a "click", and the door opened. An eerie tunnel underneath is revealed. As the secret door opened, a dark wind blew out of it and melted into his body. Ye Daining's face suddenly turned a little blue, and his whole body trembled very much, and it took a long time to calm down.

"Let's go." He said, taking a breath.

We looked at each other, couldn't say anything, and followed him into the secret hole.

There is a stone staircase leading down to the skull, which is very dark, and the two walls are cool to the touch, which should be made of green bricks. After walking for a while, there was gradually light in front of me, and I saw that a few meters away, there was a brazier on the wall, which contained lamp oil, and the green fire was burning, and everything around me was reflected.

We held on to the wall and cautiously continued our walk, stopping from time to time to listen to the sounds of the darkness below.

I walked for a long time before I reached the bottom. This scene is very much like the place where Lily describes the place of prayer for us. We know that this should be the core area of Jiangxin Island.

When you get to the bottom, it seems to have entered a labyrinth, and the passages lead in all directions, and there is no end in sight in the dark. We asked Ye Daining where to go, and he groaned and led us in the direction on the right.

The underground works here are also too big, and I haven't seen the end of this road after walking for a long time, and the dim light bulbs on the ceiling are faintly shining, and the atmosphere is very oppressive.

Ye Daining led us into a room next to the corridor, which was unlocked, and the decoration style inside was completely European-style study. There was a fireplace with a globe, rows of tall bookshelves, and a large European-style desk with intricate carvings on top of which some thick notebooks were placed.

"What is this place?" We asked.

Ye Daining's face was also a little puzzled: "I don't know what to do." I came with my family, and she said that this is the place where Lin Shuangxi comes most often, and his breath is very strong. ”

We walked over and flipped through the notebook on it. There are no electrical appliances, no computer typewriters or anything like that, notebooks are made of vintage kraft paper, with pens stuck in the pen holders.

We picked up a book and flipped through it, and the words on it should have been written by Lin Shuangxi. This man used a kind of cursive that almost flew up, and the writing was like painting, and even the lack of a pen was so serious that he couldn't see what it was.

We didn't dare to look deeper, and we hastily flipped over and returned to the original state.

After walking around, he didn't find anything worth seeing, and just as he was about to leave, the copper lock casually opened a book, and a page full of printed words slipped out of it. There are a lot of lines and annotations drawn on it, and it seems that Lin Shuangxi has studied this thing many times.

Let's pick it up and look at it, and the first line on it reads, "The fourth draft of the overseas interrogation of the small wooden physician." Underneath the three words of the small wood is written "Old Ancestor".

Only then did we understand that the ancestors that these people kept mentioning actually meant small wood. There are a lot of mysteries here, if the little wood is really the ancestor, from the information we have gotten, it seems that this little wood is still alive in this world!

How is this possible? How many years has he been dead?

Let's unfold the page and look down.

"At that time, I was by Xiao Mu's side. When he entered the house, there was already a river of blood, dark blood almost filled the entire room, and the small wood was lying in a pool of blood. When I saw this, I knew that he was hopeless......"