Chapter 51: Crazy Fear

Lu Yizhong waved his hand and sent out a gentle palm force, and the gate was pushed open with a "squeak", and the dam inside the door was piled up with thick snow, and it was white. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info took a step forward, creaking on the snow, only to see a large bulge on the flat ground not far away.

When he was a child, his adoptive father and adoptive mother would take him to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha every year on the day of the Guanyin Festival. Looking at this raised place, it should be the place where the tripod is placed. Judging from the shape of the snow piled up on it, the tripod below it should have been shattered. Dings are generally made of copper and will not be broken. Thinking of this, he waved his hand and struck out two palm forces, and the wind of his palm swept through, rolling up the snow on it.

A huge tripod turned into two pieces, as if something had split the tripod in the middle. Lu Yizhong was very shocked at this moment, guessing what kind of sharp weapon split this tripod, because the tripod was very thick and hard. He took a few steps, moved to the side of the tripod, squatted down, looked at the place where the tripod was split, and denied the speculation of splitting it with a sharp weapon.

Xia Xiyun walked over, "It seems that he used a blunt instrument to split the tripod into two pieces at once." Pointing to the top half of the tripod.

Lu Yizhong stood up and looked at the position of Xia Xiyun's finger, only to see that the bronze ding, where it was broken, had been deformed by a blunt object. Looking down at the hollow of the ground, his eyes glancing down the hollow. I feel that the place where it is dented is smashed out by a blunt object, and this blunt object should be bar-shaped and large.

In order to confirm his guess, he moved more than ten steps and stood at the end of the depression, facing Ding. With a wave of his hand, he shot out a palm wind, and its strength struck along the depression, only to see the accumulated snow being swept up by the palm wind. A long and narrow groove appeared in front of him, and the stone bricks at the bottom of the groove had been shattered, and the cross-section of the entire groove was rounded, as if it had been formed by slamming a large and long iron pillar into the ground.

Hearing Xia Xiyun muttering to himself, "What the hell is it, the iron pillar "Yaoyao Head" is such a big iron pillar, even if the martial arts are high, it is impossible to pick it up." ”

Lu Yizhong walked towards Xia Xiyun with steps, and just took two steps. It felt like stepping on something, but it was buried in the snow and I didn't know what it was, a bit like stepping on a rock. Moving away, he pulled out the scythe at his waist and carefully slashed it to the spot he had just stepped on.

"What are you looking for" Xia Xiyun walked over and squatted down.

Lu Yizhong cut away the snow and used a sickle to hook out a piece smaller than a palm, "What is this?" With questions, he picked up this piece of thing, wiped the snow on it with a strip of cloth, and looked a little familiar.

"It's fish scales," Xia Xiyun said.

Lu Yizhong looked at it, "Yun'er, don't you think this thing is a little familiar?"

"Familiar" Xia Xiyun looked puzzled.

"Netherworld, the caverns underground, the serpent I slain. Lu Yizhong recalled the giant snake he had killed.

Xia Xiyun was a little panicked, and pointed to the thing in Lu Yizhong's hand, "You are talking about snakes......"

"Yes, if you look at the shape, you can tell it's snake scales. Lu Yizhong paused, "Not only is the shape the same as the snake scales, but the color is the same as that of the giant snake under the Nether Sect." ”

Xia Xiyun was even more confused, "Isn't that snake already killed by you, how can there be snake scales of that snake here." ”

Lu Yizhong shook his head lightly, "Yun'er, don't you think that the snake scales that I killed the snake are not so large, and what happened here should have been decades ago." Besides, snakes can't grow longer and smaller. ”

"You're not talking about one snake, you're talking about two snakes, and the giant snake that attacked this temple decades ago is bigger than the snake in the Nether Cult. Xia Xiyun said.

Lu Yizhong snorted and nodded, "That's true, and the size of the giant snake statue in the Netherworld Sect is about the same size as the snake that attacked this temple. However, the Nether Cult has made the serpent their totem. A question crossed his mind, and he continued, "There must be some secret in this." "What the hell is the secret, he doesn't have a clue himself, anyway, he just feels that something is wrong, maybe this kind of thing is called intuition.

"Secret" Xia Xiyun muttered in his mouth and walked towards the eaves not far away.

Lu Yizhong also walked over, the house in front of him was the main hall of the temple, and he thought as he walked: Why is the door of this so-called main hall closed. Thinking about it, another question came to mind, after the temple was attacked by a giant snake, there were almost no survivors here. Subconsciously thought that the old monk he met at the bottom of the mountain was the only survivor of this temple.

However, since the giant snake is making waves in the temple of Fengming Mountain, it poisons the living beings. But the rumor in Fengming Town is that there is a giant snake eating people near the Batu Cave behind Fengming Mountain, what is going on? So, why did the survivors go outside to fake news? Thinking of these questions, Lu Yizhong felt as if his head was about to explode.

"Where did the giant snake that attacked this temple go?" Xia Xiyun walked under the eaves, turned around and stood, facing Lu Yizhong who walked over.

"yes, that's the problem that's coming. Lu Yizhong walked under the eaves and looked at the wooden door, which was not painted. I turned my head again and looked at the door on the other side, which was painted. Obviously, the unpainted wooden door was installed later. "The door has been broken and will be installed later," he said. ”

Xia Xiyun nodded, "It should be so." ”

"Then the person who installed the door later, presumably out of good intentions, did not let others in. Lu Yizhong pointed to the lock on the door, "This temple seems to have been full of incense, so there should be many monks in the temple." Since he was attacked by the giant snake, where did those monks go?" In fact, he already had the answer in his heart, and those dead monks were in the main hall. The closed door and a lock on it all speak for themselves. Turning his head to Xia Xiyun, he said, "Borrow your hairpin and use it."

After taking the hairpin, Lu Yizhong opened it with three strokes and five divisions. In fact, to enter, a wooden door was simply too simple for him, and he pushed the door open with a single palm. The reason for this is to see what is going on inside, and then close the door and lock it, so that it will not break the door. After removing the lock, push the door open with a "squeak".

The scene in front of him made him dumbfounded. I heard Xia Xiyun, who was standing next to him, say, "Why are they all white bones, this appetite is really big." ”

The weather was as cold as it was, and in the snow outside, the body of the dead monk did not decompose, but the monk in the main hall was only a mountain of white bones. Visually inspected the pile of white bones in front of him, and there were twenty or thirty skeletons.

"There's a big hole over there," Xia Yun said, pointing over there.

Lu Yizhong looked in the direction pointed by Xia Xiyun, and sure enough, it was a hole, the size of the Eight Immortals Table, and the bricks on the ground were scattered all over the ground. It's just that the hole seems to be sealed from the outside, and no light comes in, and when I first came in, I didn't find it. It seems that a giant snake broke through the wall from the outside and suddenly attacked the monks. First he cast venom on them, then swallowed them one by one, spitting out his bones.

He walked forward, bypassed the pile of bones, walked in front of the tall statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and folded his hands together, "Great mercy and compassion Guanyin Bodhisattva, you just let that beast poison the creatures, but you are indifferent." The wording and tone of his voice were full of reproach.

"It's just a statue, it's useless to say more, let's get out of here. Xia Xiyun turned around, "It's weird and scary here." ”

After Lu Yizhong and Xia Xiyun went out, they closed the wooden door and locked it. Walk towards the temple gate, and after leaving, close the temple gate. Let everything be the way it was. He sighed and said, "Actually, it is rumored that there are giant snakes eating people near the Batu Caves. Although this is not the truth, the person who falsely spread the news to the outside world is also out of good intentions. At least no one dares to go up Fengming Mountain anymore. Turning his eyes to the corpse of the monk in front of him, he gently slapped his palm, rolled up the snow on the ground, and covered it all.

At this time, the sky was snowing like goose feathers, and he turned his head to look at the cedars that were split by thunder and lightning not far away, and sighed: "Come down, let it rain a little bigger, and let this beautiful snowflake cover the fear of the past." "As I walked, I could see that it was a stone staircase, even though it was covered with snow.

They carefully stepped on the snow-covered stone staircase, looked up, and saw a pavilion standing in the distance, chatting as they walked.

Lu Yizhong painted such a picture of the temple being attacked by a giant snake: except for the old monk who went out at the bottom of the mountain and met in the tea shed. The monks in this temple were reciting scriptures in the main hall when suddenly the giant snake broke through the wall from the outside and sprayed venom on the monks who were reciting the scriptures, so that they could not escape after being poisoned. But fortunately, it was the monk who died in front of the temple gate. Although he was poisoned, he still desperately escaped. The serpent chased after him, but at that moment, the sky thundered and lightning. Fearing being struck by lightning, the serpent fled to the vicinity of the cedar and was struck by lightning. He also chopped the cedar to death. Later, the old monk came back and saw the young monk who had been poisoned at the entrance of the temple asking for help. But the old monk still didn't dare to touch the poisoned young monk, so he survived, and spread the news outside, so that for so many years, no one dared to go to Fengming Mountain.

Lu Yizhong talked endlessly as he walked, and the sun had set. They had come to the pavilion they had seen before, and had entered the pavilion.

Xia Xiyun sat down, "What you said is basically in line with the situation at the time, but it is still very far-fetched." ”

Lu Yizhong hurriedly wanted to know and asked, "Yun'er, tell me quickly, which point is far-fetched?"

"The old monk we met at the foot of the tea shed and Fengming Mountain, how could he know about the poisoned young monk at the temple gate. The poison in the place is the poison of the mourning needle, and if you don't hurry to rescue, you will run away and go for a walk. Xia Xiyun said as he scrutinized, "And according to those people in the rivers and lakes, the mourning needle first appeared in the rivers and lakes twenty years ago, and I observed the extent of the ruins of this temple before, at least thirty years ago when it was attacked by a giant snake." ”。

Lu Yizhong nodded, "It makes sense, what the shopkeeper said in his mouth, the rumor that a giant snake eating people occurred near the Batu Cave was probably more than thirty years ago." Suddenly, a bold idea blurted out: "The old monk you mentioned already knew the poison of the mourning needle more than 30 years ago, and it has the characteristics of infection and poisoning by touch. Therefore, when the old monk saw that the young monk was poisoned, he immediately recognized that it was the poison of the mourning needle. Instead of helping, they spread the news outside. ”

"Well, I just don't know how the old monk knew. Xia Xiyun leaned against the pillar.

Lu Yizhong sat down beside Xia Xiyun, watched the sky gradually darken, and fell into deep thought. I thought to myself, I didn't find the body of the giant snake, it should have been killed by lightning and rolled down the hillside. In his childhood memories, he was most afraid of snakes. But the snakes I had seen before on the roadside, in the woods, and in the fields were only small snakes, and the largest was only as thick as a wrist. And he always knew that snakes survive in hot places, and there are no snakes in cold places.

The kind of big snake that the elders said was struck by thunder and lightning was sparsely populated and cultivated in the high mountains. As the so-called high places are not cold, the mountains are high and cold for three minutes, and it has been cold all year round. He believes in the existence of goblins, and goblins can spell, and peerless martial arts can't compete with them.

He had always believed that the giant serpent had been killed by lightning and rolled down the hill. Therefore, despite the cold weather, I leaned against the pillar in the pavilion and slept beautifully for the night.

When he woke up the next morning, he saw Xia Xiyun waking up earlier than him, dragging his chin with both hands, looking into the distance, as if thinking about something. Looking at Xia Xiyun sideways, I saw tears flashing in her eyes.

Lu Yizhong kept looking at Xia Xiyun sideways, only to see the tears in her eyes rolling down, passing through her fair cheeks, and then dripping from her chin, one drop, two drops, three drops......

He kept looking at it, every teardrop dropped by Xia Xiyun was like dropping in his heart, it was so sour and bitter.

Xia Xiyun looked into the distance attentively, not noticing that Lu Yizhong had already woken up, nor did he notice that he was looking at her from the side, let alone that tears were falling down one by one.

What the hell is going on, Lu Yizhong is at a loss, and if he asks her, he will definitely not say it.

Because last time in the inn, after Mengcai Butterfly taught Lu Yizhong martial arts. Xia Xiyun came back, his eyes were crimson, and they were swollen, obviously he had cried. But she just didn't say it, since she didn't want to say it, Lu Yizhong never asked about it again. Now I saw her crying, and I would definitely not admit it later.

After thinking about it, Lu Yizhong decided to pretend to be asleep, so that Xia Xiyun could see that he was still asleep from last night to now.

About half an hour later, Xia Xiyun gently swayed Lu Yizhong's arm, "Quick, don't sleep." ”

Lu Yizhong slowly opened his eyes and yawned twice, "Ouch, when is this, let's hurry up and get on the road." He stood up and stretched. looked at Xia Xiyun, "Your eyes are swollen, have you ever cried?" He knew in his heart that he would definitely not admit it.

"No, let's hurry up and find Batu Caves as soon as possible. ”

Xia Xiyun not only did not admit that he had cried, but also deliberately diverted the topic so that Lu Yizhong no longer cared about this matter.

Lu Yizhong stepped onto the snow-covered stone staircase, thinking to himself that since she was unwilling to say it, she must have a hard time.