Chapter 156: The Empty City (2)
The hairpin star's gaze wandered over the two of them, thoughtful in his heart.
Immediately afterwards, Gu Baiying covered the handle of the temple door with one hand and pushed the door violently.
Everyone unanimously clenched the spiritual weapon in their hands, lest any demons and monsters suddenly burst out of this door.
The door was slowly pushed open with a dull loud thud.
At first it was just a small slit, then the black slit grew larger and larger, and from behind the door came a smell of stale dust. It was as if the gate of this splendid temple had not been pushed by anyone for years. There was some dim light coming out of it, and Mimi let out a "whoosh", jumped and slipped in through the crack in the door.
There was no other movement for a while.
Hairpin Xing breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, Gu Baiying had already held the embroidered bone spear and walked into the hall. She hurriedly followed.
This place is somewhat like the front hall of the Taiyan Sect, but it is much more gorgeous and magnificent than the Taiyan Sect. The whole temple was very empty, and it seemed to have several floors. On the walls and on the ground are some beautifully decorated lamps, and some faint light comes out of them, which makes the temple even more beautiful.
In the middle of the place, there is a circle of stones stacked in a circle, which at first glance looks a bit like a teleportation array, but it is probably not a teleportation array, and there are some medicinal herbs and glowing crystals scattered on the ground, and I don't know what kind of rune paper is written on it. Gu Baiying bent down and picked up a piece of talisman paper and twisted it, his eyes were stunned: "It's an altar." ”
"Is this the altar of the Serpent Witch?" Hairpin looked around: "What is painted on this mural?" ”
On the four walls of the temple, all are painted with colorful murals, and the colors are very bright and bold. If you look closely, it is the same as the totem they saw on the wall of the city gate when they came. It is carefully depicted with a beautiful woman holding two green and red snakes, looking into the distance in the desert.
"There's dancing here." Mendong pointed to the wall: "This painting is the Ji Snake Society, right?" ”
Sure enough, the mural also depicts two snow-white camels pulling ornate chariots next to a blazing bonfire in the desert, a veiled woman looking back, and the crowd enthusiastically holding the snake lamp in their hands above their heads, prostrate and prostrate.
In addition, there are women sitting on high seats, and the people below kneel on the ground to pray to her, or the shadow of a serpent in the light of the fire. The whole mural is indeed depicting the legend of the "snake witch clan".
However, Hairpin always felt a little strange. Is the Serpent Witch really that high-profile? It seems to be a little different from the snake witch clan in the mouth of the silver chestnut.
"The mural seems to have been painted with gold dust." Tian Fangfang smacked her lips and began to touch it: "I don't know if I can scrape a little and take it away." I thought that no one was so generous except for the Emperor of Li'er, and it seems that no one else is too rich. It's because our sect is too poor. ”
Hairpin was silent for a moment: "You are disrespectful to the mural of the snake witch clan, be careful that the snake will come out of the mural and take you away." ”
"Where to take it?" Tian Fangfang asked happily: "Is it to go to this kind of place full of gold and silver?" Amitabha, then I really can't ask for it. ”
Mimi jumped in front of the mural and curiously scratched a corner of the mural with her paws. The hairpin looked up, and in all fairness, the painter who depicted this mural was really very skilled. Not to mention the vivid streets, even the folds of the clothes of each tiny figure are extraordinarily detailed, and after looking at it for a long time, one will even have the illusion that it is not a mural, but a living person is reduced to the size of a palm and placed directly into this wall.
As soon as she thought of this, she suddenly saw the holy woman on the mural, and her eyes outside the veil turned slightly.
Hairpin Xing was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had made a mistake, and was about to turn around to ask Tian Fangfang on his side, when he saw Tian Fangfang stretching out one hand to the saint in the mural, with a strange obsession.
"Senior brother!" Hairpin Star grabbed him by the back collar and tried to wake him up, but Tian Fangfang, who was still teasing and laughing with Hairpin Xing, didn't hear it, staring straight at the mural and walking forward, as if she was going to walk into the painting all the way.
The hairpin Xing's heart was not good, and he was about to wave the flower stick, and the next moment, a silver light stabbed from in front of him, only to hear a "bang", the embroidered bone spear split the mural in front of him into two from the middle, and the head and body of the saint were split into two sections by the silver spear, and a crack appeared abruptly on the painting wall.
As if waking up from a dream, Tian Fangfang's eyes gradually cleared, and when he saw the painting wall in front of him clearly, he was startled, he pointed to the wall and shouted: "Who? Who scratched the painting on this wall! ”
"It's me." Gu Baiying put away the embroidered bone spear with a cold face, and his eyes were still angry: "I said that I should be careful, I was actually confused by this kind of lowly illusion, and I went back to the sect to punish and copy the exercises a thousand times." ”
"What illusion?" Tian Fangfang looked at the hairpin in confusion: "What does Uncle Shi mean by this, was I confused just now?" ”
Hairpin Xing sighed: "Senior brother, you just looked at this painting and was fascinated, I didn't hear you no matter what I called it." What's going on? ”
"I don't know." When Tian Fangfang heard this, she hurriedly moved away from the mural: "Is this thing so evil?" ”
Meng Ying and Mu Dianxiao walked over, and Meng Ying looked at the half-destroyed mural: "Uncle Shi, this is not an ordinary illusion. ”
Gu Baiying was angry with Tian Fangfang's carelessness, so he said the words "low-level illusion", but obviously this illusion is not something that ordinary people can do. Most immortal cultivators are reluctant to practice illusion because illusion is too easy for people to see through. If many people face the same illusion together, the person who performs the illusion will easily show his feet.
And at least for now, what they all see is the same.
"Did the devil make it up?" Mendong hid behind Meng Ying: "Uncle Shi, we won't be in danger, right?" ”
"Didn't you say that Damselfly must not be a bad person, it's all because of our hearts?" Hairpin deliberately teased him: "What, now I know I'm afraid?" ”
"Who's afraid?" Mendong blushed: "I'm afraid that you don't have any yuan power now, and when the demon demon comes out and is captured by the demon, Uncle Shi will have to work hard to save you!" ”
This kid just has a hard mouth and is not cute, and Hairpin Star is too lazy to care about him. Mu Jiexiao walked up to the mural, squatted down and stroked the bottom corner of the mural, and muttered, "There seems to be something here." ”
Everyone was stunned.
Mu Jiexiao had already reached out to uncover the corner of the mural, at first only a small corner was uncovered, and gradually, the corner that was uncovered became larger and larger, revealing the blackened stone wall underground.
"This is ......," Meng Ying clenched the long sword in his hand.
The walls of the original temple looked very flat, and the walls were mostly wrapped in weaving, and the weaving was depicted with pigments mixed with gold and silver. And Gu Baiying's shot split the entire wall into two, and the weaving that was wrapped extremely tightly on the wall rolled up a corner at this moment, and it was just discovered by Mu Jiexiao.
The golden, peaceful and lively mural was torn open, revealing a completely different focal wall underneath. It is a stone wall without any decoration, as if it had been burned by a fire, revealing some black colors.
"There seems to be a painting on it." Hairpin noticed that there was also a little white pattern on the stone wall below.
Mu Jiexiao moved quickly, but after a while, he removed the layer of weaving covering it, so the stone wall below was completely exposed to everyone's eyes.
As if it had been stripped of its ornate garments, the temple was devoid of the bright murals, and instantly became eerie and terrifying. The walls were painted with scribbled patterns, apparently not as delicate as the outer paintings, as if the person who painted them had been hastily applied in a very urgent situation, and could only get a vague glimpse of the shape.
The farthest picture is supposed to be a woman. Because she has long hair and holds two long snakes in her hands.
Meng Ying spoke: "This should be the holy daughter of the Snake Witch Clan." ”
The "holy woman" stood on a high slope, stretched out her arms and waved the two long snakes out, and not far away, a blue-faced and fanged demon beast was prostrate on the ground, as if it had been injured by the holy woman. In the distance, inside the city walls, many people were praying with their hands folded.
"This ......," hairpin considered the sentence, "it seems to be a picture of the Holy Maiden protecting the people of Wufan City." ”
In the second painting, a little further on, the demon beast is defeated, and the people hiding in the city carry the corpse of the demon beast back to it, and some people hug the holy woman, apparently very grateful to her.
"This demon beast doesn't look good," Tian Fangfang touched her chin, "but the holy woman is very righteous and courageous." ”
Then in the third painting, the picture began to change. The holy woman seemed to have settled down here, and she sat on a high seat, and a commoner-like woman knelt before her, as if she were begging for something. She held a baby in her arms, her eyes closed, and a pile of gold in front of her.
"I seem to understand this," Mendong said, pointing to the drawing, "it must be that this woman's child is sick, and she asks the holy woman to help him heal." Mendong said and wondered again: "Does the holy daughter of the snake witch clan still know medical skills?" Isn't that the right thing to do with a doctor? ”
Hairpin Xing's heart moved, looked at the fourth painting, and sure enough, on the fourth painting, the woman left with the baby with her eyes open, and the gold was left at the feet of the saint.
"I'm afraid it's not a cure." After confirming the conjecture in his heart, Hairpin Xing spoke: "It's a deal." ”
Meng Ying frowned: "Deal? ”
"When I was in Li'er Country before, Ginri once told me that he made a deal with the snake witch of the snake witch clan. The snake witch helped the merman turn the fish's tail into human legs, and the price was to take away his demon pill. ”
"The snake witch of the snake witch clan only makes equivalent trades." The hairpin looked at the woman in the mural: "She's not healing, she's just making a deal with this woman." She made the woman's child healed, and the woman paid the gold as the price of the bargain. ”
"In exchange for the healing of the child's condition. That's the deal. ”