Chapter 26 frescoes in the side hall
"How's everyone's rest at night?"
Everyone gathered in the cafeteria, and the tour guide walked over with her familiar high ponytail.
Shen Yingxing nibbled on bread, drank mineral water, and threw a little past to Lingxun.
"Tour guide, the bridge is repaired, when are we leaving?"
"Someone will come over in the afternoon to fix it, wait, don't worry."
The tour guide picked up the chopsticks and ate the vegetarian food in front of him, and the carrot was bitten rattling, not like biting a carrot, but like biting a bone.
"Why don't you eat it, this meal is delicious."
The tour guide raised his head and looked at everyone sincerely, and the people who were swept by her gaze bowed their heads one by one to dodge.
"I'm not a vegetarian fan."
Her gaze swept to Shen Yingxing, she tore the bread into small pieces and put it in her mouth, and the corners of her mouth curved into an upward arc.
"It's okay not to be a vegetarian."
The tour guide shook his head disapprovingly, but did not continue to admonish.
After breakfast, the tour guide let them walk around the temple by themselves, and left with a high ponytail.
"Hello, my name is Xie Shasha." After seeing the tour guide walking away, Xie Shasha leaned over with a long sword on her back.
"Hello, Shen Yingxing." Two outstretched hands clasped together.
"I cleared nine dungeons, Wen Min is a newcomer to our alliance, and he has passed two dungeons with me, but I didn't expect to die here for no apparent reason."
"The world is impermanent." Shen Yingxing didn't give her comfort, she could see that Xie Shasha didn't need this kind of senseless comfort.
"I want to team up with you in this dungeon, I went to a side hall yesterday and got some clues."
Xie Shasha said her intention straight to the point, the smaller the number of copies, the more difficult it will be, relying on her alone, the degree of exploration of dungeons is limited.
"Yes, as a teammate, I'll share some clues with you as well."
"Is this your teammate?"
Xie Shasha's eyes turned to Lingjun, she was used to seeing handsome men and beautiful women, and when she saw Lingjun, she couldn't help but lose her mind for a moment.
"Well, it's my teammate."
"I'll take you to the side hall, where there are some murals, and some words I don't recognize."
Shen Yingxing nodded, got up and left with Xie Shasha, and Ling Xun also left behind the two.
Xu Qian watched the three of them leave, and he was the only one left in the kitchen, and he entered the side door of the kitchen, and the kitchen was completely quiet.
"This is it."
This side hall is very remote, and it is also small and pitiful compared to other halls.
The three mermaids entered, and the lights were bright, and there was only one statue in the whole hall, and the statue was one person high, a statue that had never been seen before.
The statue has a wreath on its head, its eyes closed, a cracked gap in its eyebrows, its hands folded, and it is wearing a Taoist robe, but it is bald.
Such a nondescript statue is the first time Shen Yingxing has seen it.
"The mural is here."
Xie Shasha beckoned and motioned for the two to come over, interrupting Shen Yingxing's gaze as he continued to examine the statue.
The frescoes are carved into the walls, written in white paint on the pitch-black walls.
At first, it was a picture of the village, with a dozen or so families scattered around, and then there were more and more people in the village, some old and some young, but all of them were men, and there was not a single woman in sight.
Looking back, the first woman appeared in the mural, the woman was extremely beautiful, even if it was a mural, you could see the woman's face, extremely thin willow leaf curved eyebrows, round apricot eyes, tall nose, cherry mouth.
The woman did not know what had done wrong, and was buried by the people of the village, but she was still alive, but she was tied to a pillar and placed in the wilderness, and her limbs were cut open and bled out, and the smell of blood attracted the vultures of the sky and the beasts of the earth.
Soon the woman was eaten only to minced flesh and bones, and she died in agony, and she swallowed her breath with resentment as she watched herself be eaten.
Later, more and more women were buried in the sky, they died miserably, and their bones were piled up in sinkholes, densely covered layer after layer.
Then the mural records that the village suddenly built a fairy temple, and the whole village built this fairy temple with the financial resources of the whole village, but the people who built the temple died soon and strangely, but the fairy temple began to be famous, and the incense continued.
The mural came to an abrupt end here, and she didn't know some of the words written in it, and she couldn't get more specific clues just by looking at the picture.
"I don't know these words."
Shen Yingxing recognized the words again and made sure that he had never seen them.
"I should know."
Lingjun stretched out his hand, and his fingertips swiped the words on the first mural, the text was written in red lacquer, and the traces of red lacquer slid down, looking like blood was flowing.
"What is said here is that there was not a single woman in the village from the beginning, and the women were bought, and the children born were only boys, not girls, and the women who were bought were kept in dungeons and treated like livestock."
"This life lasted for a long time, and the ancestors of the village bought women for generations, until they found a sinkhole, and the first person to find the sinkhole bled to death on the same day when they came back."
"At first, everyone was not the same thing, there was treasure buried in the depths of the sinkhole, more and more people went, more and more people died, and finally the greedy brain came to their senses, and they thought of a more shady way."
"They carried out sky burials on the women in the village, sacrificed the flesh and blood of the women, and filled their bones into the sinkhole, which was useful at first, but as more people knew that there was a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry in the depths of the sinkhole, one or two women were no longer enough."
"They began to sacrifice more and more women to satisfy their greedy and ugly desires, and the women in the village died, and the bones piled up in the sinkhole."
"Not long after, those women came back, and they turned into ghosts and came back to ask for their lives, and the people in the village were very afraid, and took out the wealth found in the sinkhole, and built a fairy temple for those women, and all the people who built the fairy temple died miserably."
"The people of the village are cursed, they must be worshiped here for generations, they cannot leave the village, those who leave will not live to be twenty-five years old, they must repent of the sins they have committed, and worship the fairy temple for generations, so as to ensure that the incense of the fairy temple continues."
"That's the end of the record." Lingjun deciphered all the words of the mural.
Shen Yingxing stroked the mural, and behind this mural, there were blood-drenched lives.
"The most terrible thing is always the discontented heart." Shen Yingxing was full of emotion.
Xie Shasha clenched her long sword tightly, perhaps the woman was more likely to empathize, she was now full of anger, and she wanted to lift her sword and kill the people in those villages.