Chapter 36: The Imminent Death of Man

The little boy took Chu Liuyan and Lan Yu and walked up the mountain road, the more he walked, the more rugged it became, and in the end, it was still a little difficult to walk on it alone. That Mu Ying was still walking like flying, stopping from time to time to wait for Chu Liuyan and Lan Yu.

The three of them soon walked to the front of a temple-like building, which was built in the middle of the mountain, and looked very thrilling, and when they looked at it, they felt that it was ingenious. When they walked to the front of the temple to a hundred meters away, the lanterns of the temple illuminated the mountain road, Chu Liuyan and Lan Yu subconsciously looked down, and couldn't help but panic, it turned out that this mountain road was actually suspended, and the depth below was unknown. If you accidentally step on the air and fall, you may fall into the mountain stream and never recover. Chu Liuyan and the others only thought that Mu Ying was used to it, so they didn't care, so they didn't tell the two, and they didn't take it too seriously.

Walking to the temple gate, Chu Liuyan was about to look up to see the words on it, but Mu Ying pulled her sleeve and said, "Sister, be careful." Chu Liuyan was slightly frightened and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"You guys come in first." Mu Ying took Chu Liuyan and Lan Yu's hands and led them to the temple. As soon as she entered the door, Mu Ying exclaimed. Chu Liuyan hurriedly asked him what was wrong.

Mu Ying said with tears in her eyes: "The jade pendant left by my father and mother has fallen outside, I want to pick it up, this is the only relic left to me by my parents." Chu Liuyan saw that he was pitiful, and said, "Since this is the case, it is better for you to wait here, and my sister will help you pick it up." ”

Mu Ying shook her head like a rattle, and said continuously: "Don't, don't." Sister, you wait, I'll pick it up. As you can see, the mountain roads are rugged, and I am used to walking them. If my sister accidentally falls underneath, I won't feel at ease. He said very sincerely, Chu Liuyan was moved in his heart, and said: "Then you go and come quickly, we will wait for you here." ”

"Yes." Mu Ying picked up Chu Liuyan's hand and ran out. Chu Liuyan shook his head with a smile, and said in his heart: "After all, he is still a child." She was thinking about this, but suddenly she saw that the temple door suddenly closed, as if it had been born with hands and feet. Chu Liuyan and Lan Yu both felt that something was wrong, they stepped forward and wanted to open the temple door, but they didn't expect that the door was tightly sealed, and it couldn't be opened no matter what, it was like an iron wall.

Only then did the two feel that they might have been deceived by Mu Ying. However, it was too late. This temple is built against a cliff, with a cliff on one side and a mountain stream on the other.

As soon as Chu Liuyan raised his head, he saw that there was also a sign hanging inside the temple gate, with four big characters written in black lacquer: "Taoyuan Ancestral Hall". It turned out that Mu Ying actually brought them to the ancestral hall.

The lights in the ancestral hall were bright, the strange shadows were craggy, and Chu Liuyan and Lan Yu all felt shuddered. Chu Liuyan shouted "Mu Ying" a few times outside, but he didn't get half a response, presumably after Mu Ying trapped the two, he had already gone away. Chu Liuyan couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Such a twelve or thirteen-year-old kid has deceived us twice in a row, and it's really a laughing stock to say it." ”

Lan Yu also felt that she couldn't cry or laugh. He said: "There is no organ in this ancestral hall, Mu Ying is trapping us here, what can we do?" ”

Chu Liuyan was very worried, and said: "We are trapped here, and in a few days, we will die without water and food." Although Mu Ying is small, he is cunning and abnormal, if he is not very sure, how can he trick us here. The two of them couldn't help but feel uneasy when they thought of the days when they had no water or food.

Lan Yu and Chu Liuyan sat at the door of the ancestral hall for a while, only to feel very tired after tossing all day. Before I knew it, I was already asleep.

By the next day, when Chu Liuyan woke up, the sky was already bright. The sun shines on her, and she only feels warm and comfortable. Chu Liuyan pushed Lan Yu, and Lan Yu also woke up. When he saw himself leaning on Chu Liuyan and falling asleep, he felt a little sorry. Chu Liuyan is clear, his heart is clear, and naturally there will be nothing.

Chu Liuyan said: "Brother Lan, since we have already come in, it is better to go in and have a look, maybe from this ancestral hall, we may be able to find out something." Lan Yu nodded, and the two of them walked in.

The erection of this ancestral hall is no different from the ancestral halls you see on weekdays. The only thing that surprised Chu Liuyan and Lan Yu was that there were thousands of god tablets enshrined in the ancestral hall. The most surprising thing is that those spirit tablets do not have any "Taigong" and the like, almost all of them are "father", "mother", "brother" and the like, which shows that the people who worship are all new ghosts who are not very old.

Chu Liuyan carefully observed these god position cards, and found that the new and old god position cards were similar, and it could be seen that almost all of these people died at the same time. This made Chu Liuyan and Lan Yu feel very surprised. They all remembered what they had seen and heard in the rooster bar, when Chen Youliang sent people to slaughter the village and killed no one of the villagers. Could it be that there was some kind of massacre here?

But why did almost all the people killed in this massacre be in the prime of life, while the old and weak women and children were spared? Chu Liuyan thought of the people in this village, his resistance to outsiders, and remembered that Mu Ying had repeatedly tried to harm the two of them, and finally had a clue in his heart, that is-hatred!

The people in this village are full of hatred towards people outside. Because they all have loved ones who have died. Mu Ying harmed them, not just for the woman named Phoenix, I am afraid it has something to do with this massacre that happened a few years ago. Chu Liuyan remembered again that when she talked to the woman in white named Phoenix, "There is a general in our army, because of this aversion to victory, his mind is not under his control, and he has killed countless people, so that in one day, tens of thousands of lives are devastated", the woman's miserable and terrifying face, and the mystery in her heart was finally slowly solved.

Presumably, that woman had experienced the massacre that happened in Taoyuan Village, so when she heard that someone had been killed, she felt uncomfortable, so she burned the villain who killed Chang Yuchun and the eight characters of her birthday. She did it with all her heart. Chu Liuyan couldn't help but doubt her for herself, because she suspected that she listened to Mu Ying's words, and felt very unhappy.

Lan Yu and Chu Liuyan discussed for a while, both feeling hungry and thirsty. Lan Yu couldn't help but sigh: "In this ancestral hall, there are already many old ghosts, but I didn't expect that today, two more of us have been added." Chu Liuyan couldn't help but smile bitterly.

It's hard to get through a day without water and food. Lan Yu said it lightly, but he was just talking about self-comfort. Also, at that time, he was not so hungry.

In the evening, hunger and thirst tormented the two of them again. If hunger is tolerable, thirst is like a devil who tortures people to death. From yesterday to today, the two of them have been a whole day and a night, and they have not drunk a sip of water or eaten a grain of rice. And in this ancestral hall, it is empty. Now is not the time of sacrifice, there are no sacrificial items, and the two of them can only endure the torment.

At night, they finally fell asleep. But once it was daylight, the days were not so good. Chu Liuyan and Lan Yu's lips both cracked. The two of them were pale and pale, and they had no popularity at all. What's more, in this ancestral hall where thousands of tablets are enshrined, it is easier to destroy people's willpower.

It's been another long day, and it's been a long day. In the evening, Lan Yu said to Chu Liuyan: "I, Lan Yu, have fantasized countless times about how I died. I thought about dying on a horse, I thought about dying in the barracks, I thought about dying in the court, but I never thought that I would die in this ancestral hall. ”

Chu Liuyan held it up and said, "General Lan, don't speak, speaking will only consume energy." “

Lan Yu glanced at Chu Liuyan, she was dressed in red, shining with dazzling brilliance in the reflection of the sunset.

Once people lack water and food, their spirits will become sluggish and prone to all kinds of illusions. At this time, Lan Yu suddenly felt that Chu Liuyan, who died with her in front of her, had become as beautiful as the Nine Heavens Fairy. She was Chu Liuyan for a while, and Guo Hui for a while, Lan Yu wanted to see her clearly, but she couldn't.

"Brother Lan, I believe that we will definitely escape." Chu Liuyan shook Lan Yu's hand hard and said. At this moment, in this situation, Chu Liuyan did this, and he did not have half of the personal relationship between men and women. She just wants to encourage Lan Yu to support her survival with her, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, she will never give up.

In Lan Yu's heart, there was originally a thought that he wanted to do. But for a moment, he felt that his thoughts were very dirty and inhumane, Chu Liuyan encouraged himself so much, and shared life and death with himself, how could he have such beast-like thoughts.

People can't eat people, especially under any circumstances, they can't eat their friends and comrades-in-arms in order to survive.