Sun Daqiao touched his beard and shook his head: "The fish business is done, but it's just a pretense, it was sold out and bought early in the morning, and most of the people who really came to do business were secretly Taozi." ”

"If that's the case, there are also secret doors in the Dragon King Temple, and this Cui Daoist is likely to be also the one who presses the gods?"

Song Siyuan listened to Sun Daqiao's words and guessed.

Yue Guanchao pouted: "Do you need to say this, if there is no Taoist Cui to dream for us, we will not be able to see what kind of fish god, the role of Taoist Cui is very important, but I don't quite understand, how he used a few sticks of incense to create this kind of hypnotic dream for us." ”

Song Siyuan said: "The cloth we covered our heads was probably specially treated, and there was a strong medicinal smell on it, and the incense stick in his hand probably had a problem, I remember that this incense stick was burned in front of us before we were immersed in hallucinations, and it is not surprising that we can do this if it is accompanied by the bell sound of the old hypnosis." ”

"Of course!" She changed her words: "The most special point is that our dreams are actually connected, and this connection can be directly communicated in dreams, and I am really curious about this." ”

"Song Qianjin, didn't you say that this is the collective subconscious?" Yue Guanchao recalled his words and asked curiously.

"That's right, the dreams we create are indeed the collective subconscious mapping brought to us by the Dragon King Temple, but if our dreams want to communicate with each other, it is completely impossible with today's technology, which is also an unsolved mystery to me."

"I suspect that the secret may be hidden on the prayer platform, and I didn't mean to deceive you."

Speaking of this, she explained matter-of-factly: "Judging from the introductions of Sun Daqiao and Tan Yanqiu, Daoist Cui's reputation as a god has been around for many years, which means that these things of his are not specifically against us, but he does have some secret techniques. ”

"This also means that the hallucinations we see are likely to have been seen by other people, and even they are convinced that these things are the soul of the underworld, and that a person can make everyone dream for many years, either because this person has some kind of special function, or because he borrowed the power of something, or used some mechanism."

"Then, these things are likely to be on the prayer platform, and I am curious about the prayer platform for this reason."

Yue Guanchao listened to her words, raised his eyebrows and grinned: "Do you want to check the details of the Dragon King Temple again?" ”

Song Siyuan glanced at everyone meaningfully: "No, let's go to the rain prayer platform and take a look in person." ”

……

Hankou, Chinatown, Longwang Temple

Hankou also had a curfew, and at night there was no light at all, and if you wanted to do something, you had to carry a lantern at night.

The sun has just set the clouds, the foreign port of Hankou has been lit up with modern neon, the colorful light boxes are inlaid in the high-rise buildings, the traffic street lamps are inexhaustible on Jianghan Road, you can see the pictorial like color, neon stacking, Jue Le wonderful song is spreading, as if going to the metropolis of the West.

With the guidance of the foreign port world, the Chinese world not far from the foreign port is also a car like a flowing water horse like a dragon, the lights are brilliant all night long, the Chinese lanterns are endless, there is a great intention to compete with the foreign port world, if you stand on a high place and look down on Hankou, you can see that the whole city is bustling, day and night are endless.

Only the Dragon King Temple, not far from the Jiangtan Wharf, was immersed in darkness, only to see sporadic lights outlining the outline, as if a square window appeared in the bright galaxy, and it was pitch black and lifeless.

At this moment, Yue Guanchao took Song Siyuan, Xu Xiake, and the three of them got off the rickshaw and came to the theater not far from the Dragon King Temple.

Xu Xiake said: "The Dragon King Temple is a religious occasion, it should not be wrapped in the downtown area, such a temple should take the quiet place of the hill alone, so that the world can overlook the common people independently." ”

"How did you put it in the middle of nowhere?"

Yue Guanchao asked with his hands behind his back.

Xu Xiake mentioned this and had something to say: "Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, who knew that Hankou would develop like this!" ”

In those years, among the three towns of Jianghan and Han, Wuchang Town was the main town, all over the official offices, full cities and patrol battalions of the previous dynasty, and Hankou, which was far away from the river, was just an ordinary commercial town, even though it was a prosperous commercial town with a population of hundreds of thousands, under the slogan of the previous dynasty's heavy agriculture and suppression of commerce, from the emperor to the locality, no one took Hankou in his eyes at all.

After the opening of the port, the prosperity of the foreign port attracted many Chinese and foreign businessmen to come here to set up factories and establish trading houses.

However, in just 20 years, under the management of Chinese and foreign businessmen, Hankou has become famous in international trade, and it is no longer a commercial town in China, but an international trade metropolis.

Under the original geographical pattern, the Yangbu boundary and the Chinatown boundary are almost all the land of Hankou, and the river beach where the Longwang Temple is located is not far from the Yangbu boundary, and the business is prosperous and developing, and the surrounding commercial streets and buildings quickly surround the Longwang Temple.

At that time, the land of Wuchang Town was mostly the governor's office, according to the rules, no building was allowed to cross the governor's palace, which also caused most of the houses and shops to be built only one floor, and not allowed to be built at will, these conditions directly limited Wuchang Town to death, could not build high-rise buildings, the value of the land has never come up, and far away in Hanyang, the old county town and the common people, dirty and crowded, the land price has no value to increase.

From the perspective of speculative businessmen, it is still Hankou's foreign towns and Chinatowns that have the most potential, and they began to buy land in Hankou for the construction of factories and houses, and after the influx of hot money, the price of land began to rise, and the land in the foreign port boundary changed from one hundred oceans to two thousand oceans and one square.

The land in Chinatown has also appreciated, and each square meter is at least between 500 oceans and 1,500 oceans, which is more than 20 times higher than the original low price.

This money is a big mouthful of meat, and the government at that time was also very moved, and they were willing to give up this piece of meat, entirely because the Dragon King Temple was not simple.

In the year of the opening of the port, the Dragon King Temple should have been moved to the nearby mountains, but the Dragon King Temple was here to suppress the dangerous beach, and the government also knew that after the Dragon King Temple was destroyed, there was a strange thing of flooding the tidal flats, and they felt that the rash move of the Dragon King Temple was likely to be unfavorable to the river beach, so they did not start construction for the time being.

After the price of land soared, many businessmen fancy this land to buy, they only then remembered to move away, before the start of construction, just came out of the news to move away, has seen the river beach wharf began to rise, if because of a dragon king temple, and then flood the wharf and the high-value land of the river beach, it is a loss-making deal.

In this way, the government and compradors did not dare to fight the idea of the Dragon King Temple, and also built the willow tree heights outside the Dragon King Temple, so that no one could covet the land in the willow heights, and let the Dragon King Temple stay in the downtown area safely, and did not dare to mention the relocation.

No one would have imagined that the demarcation of the foreign port boundary, Hankou would develop today's modern fashion atmosphere, and now the land price has soared to 5,000 taels of silver to lay the foundation, no one dares to eat this land anymore, just to buy such a large land, it will hurt a lot of muscles and bones.

Now that the situation between the North and the South is still unclear, many people are also watching the situation and leaving some room for themselves.

When they spoke, the three of them were already standing on the willow heights of the Dragon King Temple, which did not belong to the official office, there were few Taoist priests in the temple, and there were no patrols and guards, covered by countless willow trees, and few people found their whereabouts in the dark night.

Yue Guanchao and Xu Xiake jumped onto the courtyard wall with their legs and feet, pulled Song Siyuan up, found a soft mud and fell into the courtyard, and the three of them looked for the afterglow of the neon lights around them, and quietly walked to the rain prayer platform.

In the dark night, the dragon-shaped courtyard wall was like a dark beast, dormant in place, and they couldn't help but be more careful when walking, only to walk up to the prayer platform, which was a little relieved.

"This table is not a sophisticated structure, but it is just an ordinary countertop, and I don't think there is anything different, what mechanism can it have?"

The black light is blind, and the prayer platform is not particularly clear, but they have seen the general structure during the day, and after a little exploration at night, they already understand that the structure is very simple.

"It doesn't have to be on the surface, maybe it's under the feet."

Song Siyuan picked up the flashlight and slightly covered the lamp head with a cloth, revealing only a little light, and let them look at the falling water tiles like honeycomb coal around the prayer platform: "I also observed the pavilion during the day, and the falling water tiles outside the tent are all fine round holes. ”

"Isn't this normal, in order to drain the water when it falls, so as not to be flooded when it rains." Yue Guanchao didn't seem to realize the strangeness of it.

Song Siyuan said: "Is it possible to accumulate water here, this platform was originally flat, and it was built on a high place, but wherever there is water, it is gathered at a low place, and it is impossible to discharge water on the table, and the place where there is no need to drain water is made of falling water tiles, don't you think it's strange?" ”

With this reminder, the two instantly understood what Song Qianjin meant, and they began to check the surrounding falling tiles, most of these tiles are one meter long and wide, similar to the masonry tiles on the eaves, the surface is frosted, and the fine holes are mostly the size of fingernails, and they can't see anything from the outside.

After checking around, it was only a half-meter-deep canal into the platform, and a special tile was found after a round of inspection.

This tile is the same as the shape of other tiles, but the cold wind coming out proves that there is an air flow under this tile, probably something.

Yue Guanchao opened the tiles, and there was no longer a culvert below, but a black tunnel that was constantly facing downward, he grabbed the gravel on the ground with his hand, left a stone down, and made sure it was not very deep, and jumped down the tunnel with them.

After landing, Song Siyuan removed the rag on the lamp head, judging from the distance of the landing, it was only two meters high from the ground, and at present, it was already below the ground.

The three of them looked back, their eyes couldn't help but widen, there were such delicate things under the rain prayer platform!