"Those old people said that there is not just one Yunshan, but two, one on the ground and one underground."

After hearing Lin Xiangori's words, the atmosphere in the wooden cage suddenly became terrifying.

As a result, the "cousin" and "sister-in-law" couldn't help but get closer to Ji Que, making Ji Que form a situation of hugging left and right.

Now, the length of this chain has obviously exceeded her imagination, and Ji Que has already determined that they have encountered something dirty.

But where is the dirt?

"Watch out for the candles?"

At this time, Ji Que couldn't help but remember what Bai Lu said before.

The wooden cage has been sliding along the ropeway, and it has no intention of stopping.

Ji Que felt that he should do something?

He thought about simply flipping out of the cage and going to the iron rope above to see if he could walk back.

But he dismissed the idea for the time being.

This iron cable is obviously strange, and it is unknown whether it can go back, and when the time comes, it will be difficult to spread it on the iron cable.

Rather than wasting your energy on these things, it's better to wait for your work.

She doesn't believe that this ropeway can never end.

After making a decision, Ji Que regained his tranquility.

Lin Kaori and Bai Lu were affected by him and gradually calmed down.

The three of them have cultivated together during this time, and they really have the feeling of being in the same breath.

But it didn't take long for Ji Que to squint his eyes, only to feel that there was something in the fog.

But when she looked closely, he found that there was only a thick white mist.

Just when Ji Que thought he was wrong, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed that in the mist on the lower left, two brownish-yellow things appeared.

It was like two dimly lit lanterns that disappeared in the blink of an eye.

But it was this blink of an eye that made Ji Que feel more uncomfortable.

If there is no heaven and no earth in this place, how can there be lanterns?

"Damn, can't you come out to order something in the sun in broad daylight?"

Just as he was thinking about this, the entire wooden cage suddenly shook and creaked, and gradually stopped.

Ji Que found that it was the end.

The iron rope came to an end at this time, but would it still be Lin Xiangori's father's cave in front of it?

Ji Que hesitated for a moment, but finally opened the wooden cage and jumped up the cliff with a slight jump, Lin Xiangzhi and Bai Lu followed.

The three of them looked back at the clouds rolling behind them, and they still had palpitations.

Yes, they always feel that this is no longer the world.

The fog in front of me has lightened a lot, and the appearance of the cornices pavilion can be faintly seen.

"Is this it?" Ji Que asked.

Lin Xiangzhi nodded and said, "It seems to be." ”

The appearance of this building is really very similar to what I remember.

This place is located on the halfway of a mountain peak, and Ji Que and the three of them walked hundreds of steps forward before they found a pool of clear water.

There is a row of winding stones on the pond, which is considered a road.

After the pond, it is the entrance to the cave of Lin Xiangori's father.

It's not so much the entrance as the mountain gate of a Taoist temple.

These buildings are indeed very similar to Taoist temples.

Ji Que looked at the dark green water, and only felt a little depressed.

The color of the pond water is too dark, and the withered lotus leaves floating on the water are full of dead intentions, like pieces of corpses.

With a pop, a ripple appeared on the surface of the water, and a whitish carp showed its head and quickly sank into the turquoise water.

This carp is not small, very fat, and likewise, quite disgusting.

But if all the calculations, this should be the first living creature they saw here?

The gate of the Taoist temple was soon there.

The gate was open, and it looked like it had been unattended for a long time, and many vines hung down like snakes, looking a little eerie.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, the three of them decided to fight quickly and find the maggot grass and flash people.

This place is evil.

But as soon as they stepped into the mountain gate, Bai Lu suddenly jumped back, and his face was terrified.

Behind the mountain gate, there are two iron statues.

The iron figure was scrawny, and the shape of its bones could be seen at a glance, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was covered with a layer of skin on the outside of the bones.

They are beautifully carved, and their emaciated faces have expressions of horror.

The terrible emotion seemed to overflow through the iron man's face, sending chills down the spine.

They lie there on their backs on their left and right, and their posture doesn't look like people at all, but like four-legged snakes.

Lin Xiangzhi looked at these two fleshy faces, and his heartbeat also increased a little.

When she had sneaked here before, she didn't have any of these iron figures.

And the two iron statues were lying there, not moving, not reacting.

Behind this gate is a somewhat petty square.

In the center of the square stands a furnace, covered with dust and quite old.

Such a picture proves that Ji Que's previous observation was correct, this place is a Taoist temple.

It can be inferred from the tradition of the Lin family that Lin Xiangzhi's father, Lin Erye, is a cultivator, and this way has been watching for some years, and it should have been discovered by him and then occupied the magpie's nest.

The square was covered with dead leaves, and feet rustled on it.

At the end of the square, there is the main hall of this temple.

The main hall is not grand, it is even low, and the gray tiles with the gray brick walls look a little heavy.

Ji Que and the three of them soon found that there were more than a dozen iron statues standing in the hall.

These iron figures stand in the rather low Taoist temple, some lying on their stomachs, some standing, some asleep, and the expressions on their faces are different, some are laughing, some are crying, some are fierce, and some seem to be looking at you sinisterly.

These iron figures were all scrawny, with curly hair, as if they had been sucked dry by some kind of monster.

Why are there so many such ghost statues in this temple?

Ji Que asked about Lin Xiangzhi, and Lin Xiangzhi was also at a loss.

They soon discovered that there were no living people in this temple.

There are no living people, only these iron men, and they seem to have been abandoned here, which is very terrifying.

Behind the main hall is a courtyard, which is not large, and it will soon come to an end.

If this is Lin Xiangori's father's cave, there should be a lot of secret treasures, but now it seems that this place seems to have been abandoned.

Then the maggot dragon grass they were looking for might not be here.

However, Lin Xiangzhi shook his head and said: "According to the practices of our Lin family, we will not put good things on the surface." ”

"You mean there's a secret room?" Ji Que pondered.

Lin Xiangori nodded.

The Lin family has a big business, and the cunning rabbit has three caves, so it is very reasonable for the second master of the Lin family to have a secret room to hide things.

It's just that Ning Hongyu is better at finding a secret room, while they can only use stupid methods to find it inch by inch.

There is a well in the courtyard of this backyard.

Half of the iron man was exposed at the mouth of the well, and it looked like it was trying to climb out of the well.

Bai Lu looked at the iron statue at the mouth of the well, and couldn't help but say, "Brother Ji, this iron man looks like it's coming out, will there be something in the well?" ”

Ji Que felt a little reasonable, walked over, and found that the iron man was really climbing up, but one leg was missing.

This is the first time that the three of them have seen an incomplete iron figure since entering the blue water view.

Ji Que thought about it and went straight to the well.

The environment in the well was very dark, and as soon as Ji Que raised his hand, the Thousand Machine Sword emitted a soft light, illuminating the surroundings.

He touched it inch by inch, and in a moment he came across the well water.

The depth of the well water is pitch black, and when you use a thousand machine swords to shine it, you can see that the water quality is quite clear.

Ji Que began to knock on the walls of the wells around him, because this was the method used by Ning Hongyu when he opened the mechanism, but the other party basically hit it with one hit, and he could only try it many times.

As a result, knocking and knocking, only a clang was heard, and a certain place on the wall of the well sank, and sure enough, a downward fellow Dao appeared.

"Found it." Ji Que said.

So soon, Lin Xiangori, who turned into a cat, stepped on Bai Lu's head and came down with Bai Lu.

The three of them walked through this dark passage and found that there were many cracks in the stone wall, and there were even small collapses in some places.

Ji Que hunched over and walked in, and soon found himself in a relatively empty space.

It's a Dan room, but there should have been an accident.

The ground was covered with debris and dark marks, and the bronze Dan furnace in the center of the Dan room had completely exploded and was in the shape of a trumpet.

"Explosion?"

Lin Kaori looked around and found that although it was dim, there were many holes in the walls, like windows in the house.

At this time, some dim sky light was scattered from these holes, illuminating the space inside.

The trio quickly determined that there had indeed been an explosion here.

Involuntarily, Ji Que remembered the "whisper" that Bai Lu had heard in the wooden cage before—"They said 'be careful of the fire candle'. ”。

The damage to this Dan room is serious, and the ground at the bottom of the Dan furnace is a large crater, and there are metal fragments scattered around it, as well as human heads?

Yes, there are iron figures here, too, but in the form of human heads and some severed arms.

In particular, the stump of the leg at the entrance is a well-preserved place.

After seeing this scene, a scene naturally appeared in the minds of the three of them.

On a very ordinary day, the people in this Taoist temple are practicing and refining the pill as usual.

It's just that in this secret room, because someone accidentally lit a fire candle, or for some reason, the entire Dan furnace exploded.

The explosion directly shattered several people next to the furnace, and one of the disciples who was far away was blown off a leg, and then dragged the broken leg up to ask for help.

But when he climbed to the mouth of the well, he became an iron man.

After that, the entire Taoist temple, dead or alive, became iron men.

Skinny Iron Man.

This can also explain why those iron figures can be so vivid, after all, they are all made of people?

This is the most direct conjecture that the three of them can conjure.

The person who alchemizes becomes an iron man, how weird and terrifying this is.

And what if they were iron men in the first place?

The iron man is alchemy in the Taoist temple, so it's even more terrifying to think about it?

At this moment, through the glimmer of those holes, Hayashi Kaori noticed that there was a mezzanine on the wall on the right.

This mezzanine should resemble a built-in bookshelf for books.

It's just that after this explosion, most of the books on the shelves were burned, leaving only clumps of black ashes.

However, when Lin Kaori swept away the ashes, she soon found that there were several relatively intact books lying in the depths.

Only some of these books were burned, and they were barely readable.

Lin Xiangzhi pulled out these books and found that most of them were related to alchemy, and she couldn't understand them after a few flips.

But soon, she was attracted to the contents of an anonymous book.

This is because this is not an alchemy book, but a diary.

It's just that the diary is damaged in many places, and a lot of it has been torn up in the middle, and only a part of it can barely be read.

"On the fifth day of the first month of March, we practiced and alchemized in the way of the second master, and our cultivation became more and more sophisticated, but I couldn't be happy. Because I'm getting thinner and thinner, the whole audience is getting thinner.

At first, we didn't notice it, we just thought it was the result of hard practice, until one day, I noticed that the way my fellow disciples looked at me was like seeing a ghost, and I felt the same way.

We're so skinny, so thin that we don't look like people at all. ”

"On April 12, I couldn't help but ask about the reason for the second master, and the second master told us that this was part of the practice. Profits and losses will be converted into each other, and as long as we work hard to cultivate, sooner or later we will return to the way we used to be, and this will not hurt our lives.

Hearing this, my brothers and sisters and I relaxed a little. ”

"The eighteenth day of the lunar month, if I remember correctly, today is the eighteenth day of the lunar month, I find that the temple is becoming more and more strange, we can no longer easily leave the Taoist temple, the gatekeeper said, afraid that we will scare people.

But we are obviously human, why do we scare people?

But every time I saw the shadow in the water, I realized that what the guard said was right, maybe, we are not human at all? ”

"On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I wanted to wear a new dress, which my mother sewed when I left home. It's just that this dress is so big, I wear it empty, I want to see through the new clothes, but I find that the bronze mirror in the view seems to be gone.

Woo, we're getting less and less human, and the third senior brother is getting more and more irritable, and I always feel that he will throw people into the Dan furnace."

At this point, this should be the diary of a young woman, and it came to an abrupt end.

Lin Xiangzhi took this diary and looked around at this gloomy Dan room, only feeling a little cold.

She could imagine what had happened here in the past few years.

His father brought a lot of people here for alchemy and cultivation, and these people looked like he bought them outside.

But for some reason, maybe it's the exercises, maybe it's taking pills, and the people in the view become more and more affected until they are skinny.

They can't go out, they can only continue to live as usual, practice, and alchemy, until the explosion happens, and they all become iron men?

However, now that there is no living mouth in this Taoist temple, it is probably unrealistic to know the real process.

In particular, the torn pages of this diary may record the key to the secret of this view.

Was it the diary owner who tore off the pages, or someone else?

So the people in this view, in addition to the exercises and explosions, will this kind of abnormality be related to the strange fog?

Will they be like this?

Lin Xiangzhi looked at these severed arms and limbs and thought.

She told Bai Lu and Ji Que what she had found, and the three of them couldn't help but look solemn.

They were originally here to steal things, and there was no living mouth here, which should be a good thing, but the Taoist temple made them feel cold and terrifying.

At this time, through the dim light falling from the cave entrance, Bai Lu even had the illusion that the broken iron heads on the ground were looking at him with a very strange look.

Bai Lu didn't have any experience in subduing demons and eliminating demons, so the more she looked at it, the more she felt that this was the case.

But when she changed positions, the heads didn't seem to look at themselves.

To put it simply, it's all an illusion brought about by the angle of sight.

At this time, she suddenly looked at a place on the cave wall and wondered, "What is that?" ”

There were many small openings in the walls of the room, and two of them were inlaid with a brownish stone, like some kind of rough gem.

Lin Xiangori is in the shape of a cat, and quickly leaned on her light posture to turn over, wanting to see what was going on.

The brownish yellow thing was spherical in shape, and it was not until you walked in that you found that it was covered with fine holes, like honeycombs, which made people uncomfortable.

And at this moment, Lin Xiangori's hair suddenly stood on end, let out a cat meow, and fell.

Because just now, the two stones suddenly moved.

Ji Que also noticed something unusual, then remembered something, and said, "Eyes, what is the eye of this thing." ”

He had seen two yellow lanterns in the wooden cage that looked like a cable car, and now that he thought about it, he was afraid that this was the thing.

As soon as he finished speaking, the yellow stone moved again, and it really rolled in the sockets of his eyes.

Ji Que's scalp was numb, and he couldn't help but say, "Go!" Get out of here first! ”

(End of chapter)