Walking step by step into the darkness, Qi Chao, who was following Li Yi, was a little scared.

Darkness has been the most feared thing of human beings since ancient times, but in fact, more often than not, darkness does not hurt people, and it is basically human beings themselves who hurt people.

As An Su walked to the dungeon with a torch, the orange light finally dispelled the darkness and illuminated all the surrounding conditions.

Li Yi looked at the neat floor tiles under his feet and the colorful patterns on the surrounding walls, and he was sure that this was indeed the underground palace of the temple.

It's just that what puzzled him was that the scale of the temple they were in was actually not very large, and the specifications of this underground palace obviously exceeded the regulations.

Although the main room of the dungeon in front of him is about thirty steps, there are doors on three of his walls, which means that this dungeon has at least three auxiliary rooms in addition to the main room in front of him.

"You Dayu people are also extravagant, and you can build such an underground palace under the temple."

It was the first time that Hai Yin had seen the temple's underground palace, and in his opinion, the Dayu people's act of building a luxurious underground tomb was a waste.

The underground palace in front of you is actually a tomb in a sense, but what is enshrined here is a golden body and relics that have attained high morality.

Although the funerals of the various tribes of the grassland are different, none of them can be as costly and labor-intensive as the Dayu people.

And when they are buried in their relatives, the Xianbei tribe actually doesn't care much about their tombs, but will pay more attention to the location of their tombs and burial goods.

This is not to say how rich the Xianbei burial goods are.

When they are buried in their relatives, the Xianbei tribe usually faces the head of their relatives to the north, because that is where the Wolf Residence Mountain is located, so that the deceased relatives can find the direction to the Wolf Residence Mountain, and then return to the arms of the Wolf King God.

And after the death of a loved one, they will also burn the deceased's favorite items in front of the deceased, and this favorite thing may be clothes, jewelry, utensils or even war horses.

In addition, among the sacrifices burned must be a dog with a colored rope, which is said to be a messenger who leads the souls of the deceased back to the embrace of the wolf god.

"I also agree with Lao Hai's statement on this point, and our Zhaowu Jiu family will not build a luxurious cemetery so extravagantly."

Although Ansu has lived in Dayu for many years, he is basically a more authentic Dayu person, but in some aspects he still respects the tradition.

Compared with the burial method of the Xianbei people, their Zhaowu nine surnames are even simpler.

Because the nine surnames of Zhaowu in the past all believed in the Yuanjiao, and the most sacred thing in the Yuanjiao was the flame, so the people of the Zhaowu Nine surnames believed that only the holy flame could wash away the sins of the deceased, so they would all choose cremation.

Then they will let the ashes of the deceased flutter in the wind.

Li Yi didn't say much about Haiyin and Ansu's feelings, after all, the cultural customs of all ethnic groups are different.

He walked to An Su's side, took the torch, and carefully observed the dungeon in front of him.

First of all, in addition to the stories about the Buddhist scriptures painted on the four walls of the main room, only the middle of the main room has a raised stone platform.

The stone platform is carved into a regular octagonal shape, and the eight faces are beautifully carved with Buddha images.

Directly above the stone platform, there is a small octagonal groove, and there are also exquisite patterns around the groove and a circle of swastika Buddha seals.

Li Yi took the torch and took a closer look.

"Senior brother, do you see if this is a place to put the relics pagoda?"

After hearing this, Keiko also stepped forward to take a closer look and nodded.

"Yes, this is supposed to be the place where the relics are stored, but now I don't see the relics and it seems that someone has taken them."

This so-called relics stupa is actually a tower-shaped container, which is generally made of gold, and there are generally ninety percent, and each layer can be installed with the relics of the great monks.

"Did you take this stupa away?"

Hearing that something was missing from the stone platform, An Su kicked the guy who was leading them to the ground and asked viciously.

"No, we haven't seen any stupas!"

The person who was kicked down immediately rolled over and fell to his knees, then explained eagerly.

"It shouldn't be that they took it, after all, the general stupas are made of gold, and if they take it and melt it, it will be worth a lot of money, you see how they look like they are rich."

Li Yi saw that An Su was going to continue to ask the two people who led the way, and he immediately stopped him.

Seeing that there was nothing else in the entire main room except this boss, Li Yi asked.

"Where did you find these weapons?"

As soon as the trembling two heard Li Yi's question, they immediately got up and bent down in front to lead the way.

Li Yi and the others followed them into the left side room of the main room.

After entering, Li Yi and the others were stunned on the spot, but the scene in front of them completely shocked everyone on the spot.

The first thing that catches your eye in this sub-room is a wooden table, which is about three meters long and one meter wide, and it should be made of ash wood.

It's just that what shocked everyone was not the case, but the objects visited on the case.

There were a few iron objects scattered on the case, and a closer look revealed that they contained sharp steel cones, sharp knives, strange claws, heavy axes, and even some saws.

Although these things have rusted a little after not being used for a long time, they still give people a sense of calmness.

After seeing the things on the desk clearly, and then looking at the case, everyone's scalp couldn't help tingling.

Because according to the firelight, everyone found that this desk was a seeping purple black, and there were uneven knife marks on the table.

All the people present were people who had experienced the battle, and everyone was familiar with this kind of purple and black.

Only the color after the blood has dried up will show this color.

Combined with these things on the desk, everyone can immediately imagine what happened on the desk.

As for whether it was a human or an animal that was slaughtered before, everyone already has an answer.

Li Yi squinted his eyes and walked around the desk, although no remains of the corpse were found at the scene, but from the hair sticking to the desk and the blood droplets splattered on the wall, it could be seen that it was like a hellish scene here in the past.

"That's where we found the weapon."

The two men trembled and pointed to the northwest corner of the sub-chamber.

Li Yi stepped forward with a torch and found that there were some rotten sacks in the corner of the wall.

Li Yi kicked the sack slightly, and the sack shattered into some hemp rope.

"Your weapons were found in these sacks?"

Keiko asked the two of them, pointing to the sack on the ground.

"No, our weapon was found under a floor tile next to the sack."

One of the two said tremblingly, pointing to a floor tile in front of the sack.

Li Yi reflected the firelight and saw that this floor tile was a little different from the surrounding floor tiles, and it was obviously raised by the surrounding floor tiles.

No wonder these guys find the weapons underneath the tiles.

After taking a turn in this sub-room, Li Yi and the others walked to the opposite side of the sub-room again.

Compared with the eerie horror of the sub-room opposite, this sub-room is much more normal.

In the second room of this room was a bed in the innermost part, and now only the bed frame remained, and the bed board on it was gone.

"We removed the slats on this bed and burned the fire."

The man who led the way saw that everyone was looking at the bedframe, so he hurriedly explained.

"Actually, it's sheltered and warm here, and there are beds to sleep in, why do you have to endure the wind and cold in the hall above?"

Li Yi turned his head and asked the guide who spoke.

"This good man, you have also seen the case just now, and the things on it are obviously the torture instruments of evil murder."

The man's voice trembled a little as he spoke.

"Yes, no one knows how many people died in that sub-room, and we really don't have the guts to let me wait in such a place, so although it is a little cold in the main hall, at least there is still half a Buddha statue to suppress the evil spirit."

The other hurriedly explained.

"You guys are doing things all day long, and you're still afraid of ghosts and gods?"

Qi Ning said behind Hai Yin, where Qi Ning was.

"Guys, we only do some tricks and abduction on weekdays, and we don't dare to harm people's lives!"

The guy who led the way immediately said with a sad face.

At this time, he was already drenching the bloody dog scolded by the damned Xu Laoliu in his heart, thinking that they were originally just some beggars who specialized in stealing, but this time they hid in this dilapidated temple far away from the city of Luozhou because they were wanted by the government for stealing the property of a big man.

But when Xu Laoliu saw the convoy of Li Yi and others, he temporarily wanted to stun everyone and rob them of their horses and belongings, so that they could escape from Luozhou and enter Anzhou.

But what they didn't expect was that there was a former bandit boss in this group of people, and the little tricks of his own people were simply an axe in front of him.

Li Yi didn't care about this, he was staring intently at a row of iron chains on the wall at this time.

Normally, there should be no such thing as chains on the wall of a room.

But there is a row of iron chains on the wall opposite the bed in the sub-room in front of me, which seems very unreasonable.

Li Yi reflected the firelight and approached and took a closer look.

It turns out that all of these chains pass through the other side of the wall, and these chains are the thickness of a little finger and look very strong.

The ends of these chains all have an iron ring made of two pieces of iron, and the ring has a hole in the iron ring and an iron bar in the hole to lock it.

Seeing this, Li Yi understood what these things were.

If nothing else, these things in front of me should be shackles for imprisoning prisoners.

"Senior brother, come and see these things."

Li Yi pointed to the six chains on the wall and said.

Keiko was immediately stepping forward to observe, while the others were all focused on the firelit wall.

"These should be the shackles that bind the prisoners."

Keiko Masashi also gave the same opinion.

"But this room is obviously for rest, and there is a bed, and these shackles are facing the bed, isn't it a little unreasonable?"

Li Yi pointed to the bed that had been dismantled into a bed frame.

When Li Yi said this, everyone's brows couldn't help frowning.

Indeed, who would put so many shackles in their bedroom? When I slept, there were a few prisoners tied up on the opposite side, how could I sleep peacefully?

Just when everyone was still thinking hard, Haiyin on the side walked to the edge of the chain, picked up one of the chains, and then observed it carefully.

It didn't take long for him to see the clues.

"Childe, I have to say that you Dayu monks can play!"

When everyone heard this, they all looked at him with an inexplicable look, and they didn't understand what he meant at all.

"Let's look at the shackles at the very end of this chain."

As Hai Yin spoke, everyone carefully observed the iron circle at the front of the chain.

"Is there anything unusual about this?"

Qi Chao directly carried an iron chain and took it to his eyes for a closer look.

"Don't you notice that this shackle is a little small?"

Hai Yin said as he gestured to Qi Chao's neck.

Qi Chao was also very cooperative, and he was about to put it on his neck after opening the iron ring, and Qi Ning next to him directly kicked him in the ass when he saw this, and Qi Chao gave up.

"Haijun, you mean these iron rings are not used to shrink people?"

Li Yi also saw that if this iron ring was located, it would look a little strangled on the neck of a normal man.

"No, these shackles are indeed used to lock people, but the people who are locked up are not ordinary people!"

Hae Yin gestured at the size of his neck and said.

"Lao Hai, do you mean to say that these shackles are for women?"

Ansu, as a former bandit boss, is much more sensitive to this aspect than others.

"That's right, such shackles are either for children or for women, and combined with this bed, it can basically be concluded that these shackles are for women."

As soon as Hai Yin said this, the faces of the people around him all changed, if it was really as Hai Yin said, then the scene that had been staged in this side room was not much better than the side room with a few cases.

"What the hell is this a temple or purgatory?"

Jing Zizheng, who has always been more elegant, finally couldn't help but report the foul language.

He really couldn't imagine how many terrible tragedies had been staged in the underground palace of this temple, and how many lives had been tortured and killed here.

"Let's go to the last side room."

Li Yi's face was pale, and his whole person looked like a volcano about to erupt, but he was trying to suppress his anger at the moment.

He didn't expect that the evil of human nature could be so evil, and he didn't expect that the dirt in this world could be so dirty.

Originally, he thought that there was still a basic bottom line in this world, but now he knew that he was wrong, it turned out that there were really people in this world who could have no bottom line to such a point.

With a cold face, he walked into the last side room.

And there was nothing else annoying in this side room, nothing to be feared.

Only a few boxes were left in the corners of the entire side room, and the rest of the room was empty.

Li Yi walked to the corner of the wall and opened it casually, but there was nothing in the box.

Li Yi took a closer look at these boxes and found that there was nothing special about them at all.

"Li Gongzi, these boxes in front of you should have stored copper coins or silver before."

Yang Ping saw Li Yi's doubts, so he hurriedly explained.

"Oh, how did Shopkeeper Yang see it."

Li Yi was very curious, he had carefully observed it just now but didn't have the slightest clue, but this Yang Ping told the origin of these boxes in one bite, which was a bit incredible.

"Oh! I just saw a copper coin on the side wall of this box. ”

As he spoke, Yang Ping pointed to a place on the side wall of the box and said.