The statue is very exquisitely depicted, and the lines on it are done to the extreme, and there is no flaw.

Ji Lanqian swept around with a flashlight and shook her head at them.

Then, Qi Baye raised his finger and pointed at it, signaling to go around and go to the back to check.

The huge statue was placed on the altar, and the black blind man approached the platform, climbed up lightly, and looked into it sideways, and the carved lines behind him were faulted.

It seems that there are other craftsmen who have inserted a foot horizontally, separating the lines that originally belonged to the sacred bird and the sparrow, and carved it into a mourning bird, and when you look closely, it seems to be spliced on it.

The black blind man held a flashlight in his mouth, and then wrapped a bandage around his hand, according to the experience of these years, this is estimated to be a secret door, and the movement of the squirming underneath, close to listen, is the obvious sound of footsteps.

Suddenly, there was the sound of pulling the mechanism, and the secret door opened directly, revealing a human figure.

The corners of the black blind man's mouth hooked slightly, and he moved his wrist, and pressed the future man on the statue with his backhand.

In an instant, the other party's face changed, "Who are you?" ”

"High priest?" Xu Nanshan raised his feet and stepped forward, "Why are you here in the middle of the night?" ”

The man who was called the high priest was a man in his thirties, named Xu Weng, whose ancestors were the high priests who presided over the sacrifice of the gods.

He was wearing round glasses, submissive, with a little white face, and now he was restrained by the black blind man and had no power to fight back, so he could only shout, "Xu Nanshan? Nanshan, this is your friend? Let him go, his arm is about to break. ”

Xu Nanshan didn't reply, which made him unacceptable, he lived for more than 20 years, and would come to Shenyuan every year to participate in the sacrifice, and he knew for the first time that the statue of the sacred bird of this sacrifice was a hollow.

Qi Tiezui came up from the steps on the side and walked towards Xu Weng, holding a wooden stick in his hand that he didn't know where to pick up, and gestured back and forth on his face, "Look at this face, a bookish body, these facial features mainly look at the eyes, and these eyes are full of shrewdness, you are the high priest, right?" ”

Xu Weng nodded.

"What are you going to do with the coffin to carry us here?" Qi Baye asked very abruptly.

The black blind man quickly understood, according to what Qi Baye said, that little ghost was mostly artificial, and he used a slight force on his hands.

Xu Weng's face was distorted, and he said, "Big brothers! My arm is really going to be broken, what coffin is not coffin, I just check the sacrificial supplies according to the rules, and the next sacrificial event is coming soon, I don't understand what you are talking about! ”

"You don't understand, do you?" Qi Baye glanced at the black blind man, "Kill him." ”

The black blind man raised his eyebrows, this eighth master, he spoke quite bravadoly.

Xu Nanshan stepped forward to stop him, "Don't mess around, Xu Weng, according to the rules, he wants to check the temple in advance." ”

The black blind man snorted, and then let go of his hand.

Xu Weng fell to the ground all of a sudden, his round glasses fell to the side, he wailed, and his hand was still touching his glasses on the ground.

Ji Lanqian tilted her head and looked inside, it was black and mushy, and she couldn't see anything.

Hu Yuzhi spoke up on the side, "What's under the statue?" ”

The black blind man's flashlight shines into it, it is a step that goes down deeply, and it is very dark at the bottom, so you have to go in to know it.

Xu Weng found his glasses and stood up with the pillar on the side, "There's nothing under the statue!" You young people are also too curious, and this is where the incense and candles for the sacrifice are stored. ”

The black blind man and Qi Tiezui glanced at each other, and the black blind man understood, and went down directly without a trace of hesitation.

Ji Lanqian was not stunned, and followed in the next second.

Qi Tiezui hadn't reacted yet, "Hey, Miss Ji, you belong to a monkey, run so fast?" Xu Xiaosan'er, you and Xiaohu look at this high priest, let's go down and see what is down there. ”

Xu Nanshan nodded, and grabbed Xu Weng's collar.

Hu Yuzhi turned the pipe in his hand and stared at it.

Below the statue of the Sacred Bird.

A long spiral of wooden steps was walked.

After reaching the ground, the black blind man shook his flashlight, "It's nothing special, it's like a cellar, Xu Weng didn't lie." ”

The bottom of the circle is surrounded by earthen walls, and around it are some incense, candles, paper money, and various things used for rituals.

Ji Lanqian looked around, "Could there be any mechanism?" ”

The black blind man's fingers touched the earthen wall, and knocked again, and the sound was very muffled, not like there was a secret door.

"It's like... No. ”

Ji Lanqian was surprised, she looked at it again, "I don't believe it if there are no ghosts here, I definitely don't believe it, he came to the temple in the middle of the night to pack up some sacrificial supplies, he can't come during the day?" What's the matter, it's coming to the night shift? ”

Qi Tiezui didn't come down, but sat on the spiral stairs, lighting them with a flashlight, and when he heard Ji Lanqian's words, he laughed, "What Lan Lan said is right, but we have no evidence, and Xu Nanshan's fool won't believe it, he is different from us, he has faith." ”

"Faith?" Ji Lanqian raised her eyes and looked up, and could only see Qi Tiezui's figure sitting there, with a blurred outline of his face and a different sense of mystery.

She didn't care about the name, but Lan Lan's nickname is usually the name of the family.

"Yes, the people of the gods have a faith, they believe in the gods, and it is very difficult to completely break the curse of the gods." Qi Tiezui said, his voice softened.

"Xu Nanshan begged me for three years, but I still didn't want to come over, because I knew that it was too difficult for them to break the century-old faith, and there was indeed something underneath this, but this organ should not be under here."

The black blind man also agreed, even if it was a secret door, it was too heavy, and in order to open this door, it was necessary to find the mechanism.

The three of them came out from underneath.

Xu Nanshan's eyes instantly looked over, "What's underneath?" ”

"It's a sacrificial thing, and we're too careful." Qi Tiezui coped perfunctorily.

Xu Weng, who was shrinking in the corner, silently breathed a sigh of relief.

Hu Yuzhi approached Ji Lanqian, tilted her head and whispered in her ear, "Really?" ”

Ji Lanqian raised her eyebrows and said, "Fake." ’

Hu Yuzhi looked at the back of the statue, and then glanced at Xu Nanshan, her distant cousin, who knew too little about the matter of the gods.

Maybe it's because insiders have never been suspected.

Xu Nanshan finally took Xu Weng out alone.

Outside the door, Xu Nanshan lit his cigarette and said in a low tone, "You came to inspect the sacrificial supplies at night and treat us as fools?" ”

Xu Weng put on his round glasses, and his eyes were a little smaller.

"I couldn't sleep at night, and I came to check again before the sacrifice to make sure there was no problem, and I haven't asked you yet, what are you doing with friends from other places at the temple?"

Xu Nanshan's eyes fell on him, swept a few glances, and then said, "Come and worship the gods, go to bad luck." ”

Xu Weng sighed, looking at the other party's appearance of swallowing clouds and spitting fog, he must not believe it.

In the end, he just said, "Okay, you guys, I'll go back to sleep." ”

Looking at the direction Xu Weng left.

Xu Nanshan finished smoking a cigarette, the corners of his mouth were slightly pressed, and his expression was obscure.

And Xu Weng, when he walked, his legs were still a little unfavorable, he looked back at the direction of the temple again, and his eyes gradually became ruthless.