"Hurry up, everyone, just work harder."

In the depths of the dimly lit underground secret room, the dozen or so monks in gray robes pushed the two coffins into a huge stone room in an orderly manner.

There are many stone chambers of different sizes around this stone chamber, and some of them are closed with stone doors closed, so that they can't see the inside clearly.

The dozen or so monks worked together to carry the coffin down, and there was no communication from beginning to end.

Suddenly, one of the monks who was carrying the first coffin did not seem to stand still, and his body shook, and he almost fell to the ground.

"What's wrong?" The monk at the head looked at him with some displeasure in his tone.

The monk looked up at him, then quickly lowered his head and said respectfully, "This coffin seems to be heavier." ”

Before the words fell, I saw the monk at the head of the monk: "Okay, don't worry so much, there will be nothing for us to do when the things are shipped, move them quickly." ”

"Yes."

More than a dozen monks moved the coffin down and put it on the ground, and then left in an orderly manner towards the outside of the stone.

In the coffin, Bai Qiurui's whole person pressed on Shen Yuan's body, she didn't dare to move at the moment, the whole person was like a human-shaped pendant.

Shen Yuan also didn't speak, and the two of them were silent for a moment until they couldn't hear any sound outside.

"There's no one out there."

Bai Qiurui spoke quietly, she remembered the lesson she had learned in the trees in the back mountain before, and she didn't dare to move when she lay in Shen Yuan's arms.

For a moment, she only heard the man's voice in her ear, 'um', and then she slowly moved down with a clumsy step.

"Click-"

A dull sound stood out in the huge stone chamber, and a brown mahogany coffin slowly slid open the lid, followed by a pair of white slender hands trembling out.

At first glance, eight out of ten people can be frightened and faint.

Bai Qiurui was like a stroke patient with serious uncoordinated body movements, and crawled out of the coffin awkwardly at this moment.

From her point of view, she just took a look at Shen Yuan, who was lying flat in the coffin.

She didn't know what was going on in her head, so she subconsciously glanced at it.

It wasn't until she met the man's dark eyes that Bai Qiurui suddenly came back to her senses. The embarrassing and ambiguous scene before made her whole body almost burned by her feverish face, and she couldn't care about anything else, so she hurriedly climbed out of the coffin.

After being in it for so long, her legs and arms were numb, and now it was as if she was on the outside, and everyone went their own way and didn't listen to her.

Compared with the two people, Shen Yuan was obviously much better than Bai Qiurui.

I saw that after he followed Bai Qiurui, he held the planks on both sides of the coffin with both hands, supported his body with his arms, and sat up from the coffin naturally.

Bai Qiurui was enduring the soreness of her legs and feet and looked around, and she found that she and Shen Yuan were now in a wide stone room.

Moreover, there are several coffins around this stone room.

However, unlike the reddish-brown wooden coffin where they were hiding, the rest of the coffins were black all over the body, and they were also covered with black cloth.

Apart from these coffins, there is nothing else in the entire stone chamber, and it can be seen at a glance.

During this period, Shen Yuan also came out of the coffin, and he stood beside Bai Qiurui and carefully scanned the black coffins around him.

Bai Qiurui looked at Shen Yuan, and then glanced at the coffin where Fang Cai and he were hiding. Right at their feet, there were two tightly wrapped balls of black cloth.

This should be gunpowder!

She pointed to the black package in the coffin, and Shen Yuan nodded in understanding.

The two of them were gathered on both sides of the coffin, and Bai Qiurui watched as Shen Yuan bent down and reached out to untie one of the black packages.

The ball of gunpowder was covered with a black cloth on top.

After Shen Yuan untied the two layers of black cloth, he revealed a ceramic jar with a large volume inside.

At the same time, a strong and pungent smell of gunpowder emanated, which was even more choking than what Bai Qiurui had smelled in the coffin before.

When I opened the seal on the ceramic jar, it was black gunpowder inside.

"Why are they carrying so much gunpowder here and still in coffins?"

Bai Qiurui opened her mouth in a low voice, not understanding what the abbot of Nanyue Temple planned to do.

Shen Yuan's gaze wandered back and forth between the coffin in front of them and the few black coffins not far away, his expression serious and serious.

"Perhaps, the other coffins are not filled with gunpowder."

As soon as she spoke, Bai Qiurui coldly noticed that Shen Yuan's voice sounded very strange, and there was a different tone in the darkness.

She turned her head to take a look, and suddenly found that Shen Yuan, who was across the coffin, had a somewhat unnatural face.

If you look closely, the man has turned red at some point.

The ambiguous atmosphere that was inexplicable before suddenly spread again, and Bai Qiurui, who deliberately approached him in order to see Shen Yuan's situation clearly, was even more ashamed, and immediately stood up straight and withdrew his gaze.

She seriously wanted to suppress strange thoughts, but her mind uncontrollably remembered the feeling that was pressing on Shen Yuan.

She hadn't felt it in the coffin yet, but now it was so strange that she began to recall the touch on Shen Yuan's chest.

Not to mention, the man's chest is quite broad......

Just when she didn't know how to open her mouth to break the atmosphere, it was Shen Yuan who spoke first.

"Go look at the other coffins."

Even if the man was trying to suppress it, Bai Qiurui still had a little special listening to his current voice.

Bai Qiurui said softly, and followed Shen Yuan towards the black coffins.

Walking on the side of the man, Bai Qiurui found that Shen Yuan's ears were red even at the root, but his handsome face still maintained his usual cold and indifferent image.

Looking at it this way, there is an inexplicable taste of pure desire.

Thinking like this, she couldn't help but look at it twice, until she was already standing in front of those black coffins, and Bai Qiurui quickly withdrew her gaze.

The coffin in front of him was the same as the coffin Bai Qiurui and they were hiding in, and it could accommodate two people.

The black coffin lid revealed a strange aura, and as the coffin lid slowly opened, the things inside made Bai Qiurui almost scream.

"Yes...... Is it dead? ”

Bai Qiurui stammered as she looked at the things in the coffin, and she began to tremble involuntarily when she spoke.

I saw that in the dark and deep coffin, there were two people lying side by side, a man and a woman. The two of them were wearing white clothes of the same shape, their eyes were closed and their faces were pale, and they looked like they were both at the right age.

After Bai Qiurui saw that there were two people in the coffin, she couldn't help but take two steps back, with panic on her pretty face, a little at a loss.

Shen Yuan frowned, his eyes fixed on the two people in the coffin, and after a pause, he stretched out his hand to probe the snorts of the two people.

Just probed like this for a moment, only to see him suddenly withdraw his hand, with a hint of shock in his eyes.

Bai Qiurui looked at him, and for a moment she didn't know whether people were dead or alive.

She could only ask softly, "What's wrong?" ”

Shen Yuan's expression at this time was very complicated and very solemn, he looked at Bai Qiurui and said, "The breath is weak, but it is still alive." ”

With just such a sentence, Bai Qiurui understood why Shen Yuan had such an expression.

If it is said that in the thinking and understanding of normal people, those lying in coffins must be dead people. The sudden presence of a living person lying inside does make it a little difficult for people to come back to their senses.

"And in the other coffins, will it be the same?"

Bai Qiurui looked at the few black coffins nearby, and opened a little uncertainly.

Shen Yuan looked at the two people in the coffin, he reached out and stroked the shoulder of the young man in the coffin, and shook it vigorously.

After shaking several times in a row, the other party was like a real corpse, without the slightest sign of waking up.

Then, he shook the woman on the other side and tried to wake people up, but there was no response either.

In desperation, Shen Yuan had to give up for the time being, and he moved his gaze to the rest of the black coffins.

With two muffled sounds, two coffins were opened one after another, and there was no accident inside, and there were also two big living people, a man and a woman.

Bai Qiurui's current mood can no longer be described as surprised, she looks at the living people in this room, and they are not all living people, but more like people who are living dead.

I have already begun to think in my heart, is it that the abbot of Nanyue Temple is also an evil monk, in order to pursue immortality and prolong life, those absurd thoughts, so I caught young boys and girls to refine the elixir.

And just thinking about it, she suddenly realized that maybe it might really be like this.

In ancient times, the pursuit of immortality was very popular, not to mention these folk monks and temples, even in the royal family is not unusual.

Not to mention anything else, in the dynasties recorded in the history books alone, there have been many emperors who are bent on seeking immortality.

So, Bai Qiurui boldly put forward the conjecture in her heart to Shen Yuan, and said that there were Taoist priests who used people to refine medicine.

"There have been no such rumors in recent years, and if these people were really arrested here, the Criminal Department and Dali Temple have not received any reports of people missing."

Shen Yuan looked at the three coffins that were opened in front of him, and then his eyes turned to the remaining four black coffins, as if he was thinking about whether to open them together.

"But if these people weren't captured, why would they be put to sleep and put in coffins?"

Bai Qiurui looked at these unconscious men and women, and couldn't think of the rest of the possibilities for a while.

"Why are they here for the time being, where did you learn about the ancient monks refining the elixir with people?"

Shen Yuan suddenly asked, which caught Bai Qiurui off guard.

She was stunned for a moment, and then immediately reacted: "These things should have always been there, and I also heard my father talk about it by chance." ”

At this time, Bai Qiurui decisively took out her father as a shield, and she didn't have to worry about Shen Yuan debunking it.

Sure enough, just after she said the reason she heard in Bai Hong's mouth, Shen Yuan really stopped asking.

"What now? These people can't wake up, and it's too dangerous to leave them like this, and it's easy to be discovered. ”

"Cover it back." Shen Yuan said.

Bai Qiurui was surprised: "Cover ...... Cover back?!"

Shen Yuan nodded, and he had already begun to close the lid of the open coffin in his hand.

"I can't save them now, and if there is any movement, it will startle the snakes. These black coffins are not sealed inside, and they will not have an accident for a while. ”

After covering the three coffins again, Shen Yuan returned to the mahogany coffin where they were hiding, resealed the opened gunpowder porcelain jar, and put it back as it was.

After doing all this, the two of them moved their eyes to the door of the stone room.

In the underground chamber, the slightest movement would be amplified, and during the time they opened the coffin, not a single monk appeared here.

Bai Qiurui followed Shen Yuan's steps, and the two walked to the entrance of the stone room.

I saw that there were several identical stone chambers of different sizes outside the stone room.

"These stone chambers won't be filled with coffins, right?"

Bai Qiurui swallowed her saliva quietly, feeling a little hairy in her heart.

If all these stone chambers were filled with coffins, and those coffins were filled with large living people, then it would be terrible.

In terms of numbers alone, there are already dozens of people, which is by no means a trivial matter.

Shen Yuan obviously had the same idea as Bai Qiurui, he paused slightly, and after seeing that there was no abnormality around him, he walked to a nearby stone room.

Pushing open the door, there were dense black coffins inside, and there were as many as twenty or thirty of them.

Bai Qiurui followed Shen Yuan closely, and naturally saw those coffins, and her eyes widened unconsciously.

At this time, several footsteps sounded, gradually approaching the location of the two.

Shen Yuan's eyes were quick, and he pulled Bai Qiurui and hid behind one of the coffins in the stone room.

Because this coffin is tall and the shape of a two-person joint burial coffin, it is not easy to be found when hiding behind.

As soon as they had taken refuge, the sound of footsteps had already reached their stone room.

"Are all the pilgrims gone?"

A neutral man's voice sounded, and his tone was quite majestic.

Then another man replied: "Back to the abbot, the pilgrims have all left, but they are just ......."

"Just what?"

"The monk who received the return gift, there is ...... There are two people who seem to be still in the temple and have not left, I don't know if they have gone a fork in the road. ”

These two people just listened to the sound of a majestic and respectful one, as if they were superiors and subordinates.

And Bai Qiurui and Shen Yuan, who were eavesdropping, flashed a glimmer of light in their eyes at the same time when they heard the man call the word 'abbot'.

This is really a nowhere to find out the iron shoes, and it takes all the effort, and I am thinking about how to find out this abbot of Nanyue Temple, and now it is just delivered to the door.

"A bunch of waste, can't even a few people who worship incense look good?"

I only heard the abbot's displeased mouth, and his tone sternly admonished the man.

Bai Qiurui didn't care about the man's pleas for mercy and confessions, she turned her head to look at Shen Yuan beside her, and asked silently.

"What do we do now? Keep up with them? ”

Shen Yuan looked at Bai Qiurui, and only felt that since she entered the stone room, the little girl beside her seemed to be extremely dependent on herself.

Consult him for everything, and he is a well-behaved and obedient little daughter's family image.

A smile appeared in his eyes, and then he nodded his head: "Follow them and see what is hidden here." ”

With Shen Yuan's consent, Bai Qiurui understood. After a brief exchange between the two, the two men outside had already walked past their stone chamber.

Immediately after, Bai Qiurui followed behind Shen Yuan, and the two of them walked to the stone chamber and followed in the direction of the two abbots.