The voice sounded a little weak, like the voice of an old man.
I was stunned, then turned to look at Dongzi and Yan Na, but saw that they had no reaction. It seemed that they had not heard the strange sound.
I was the only one who heard it.
"Girls are not ordinary people, so they can naturally hear my voice, but they can't hear me!"
As if knowing my doubts, the voice rang in my ears again.
"Where are you?" I asked doubtfully, "Why don't you come out?"
From the tone of that voice, it did seem like he wanted to help us, but he was so secretive that he refused to show up, which made it difficult for me to tell whether he was an enemy or a friend.
"Oh, the little old man has been trapped in the backyard for twenty or thirty years! You can find me in the backyard!" the voice replied.
"Hu Ling, who are you talking to?" Dongzi stopped scaring Yan Zigui, turned around and looked at me doubtfully and asked.
I shrugged and said I didn't know who it was.
Then I told him about the strange sound I heard.
After I finished speaking, I looked at the old mayor and asked, "Old mayor, do you know who the old man who spoke is probably?"
The old mayor shook his head in confusion.#@$&
"Wait for me here for a while, I'll go to the backyard to take a look." I turned to Dongzi and Yan Na and said.
"I'll go in with you!" Dongzi put away the dagger and said worriedly.
"No, I just felt a yin energy rushing out. You go to the backyard with me. What if that thing comes back?"
I shook my head in denial, "You and Master Yan are here to guard the old mayor and Erzhu, and just wait for me here."
"Come in together! I can help the old mayor remove the poison from his body, otherwise their souls will be unstable after three hours!" the voice said again.%&(&
I glanced at Dongzi, but he still didn't hear anything and was trying to argue with me.
"He asked us to take the old mayor and Yan Erzhu in with us!" I said.
Dongzi nodded, glanced at Yan Zigui again, and tightened the rope around him to prevent him from escaping.
Dongzi carried the old mayor on his back, Yan Na carried Yan Erzhu on his back, and the four of us walked through the storage room toward the backyard.
"The backyard is a forbidden area of Liuyun Temple. Even envoys are not allowed to enter. Stop!" Yan Zigui shouted behind us.
No one paid attention to him.
The courtyard that Dongzi and I entered before was probably just the middle courtyard of Liuyun Temple. In front of this is the main hall, with high courtyard walls on both sides. The cliff is behind the row of houses and is some distance away. The backyard that the person mentioned should be right there.
There it is.
No one is there.
The guard and the woman named Ziyun have long since disappeared, and the soul named Baiyun must have returned.
It's a pity that the villagers who came to intercept us were all men. Dongzi and I have both seen Baiyun. If she came out, we would definitely recognize her by her appearance.
There was nothing in the room where Ziyun and Baiyun made the spiritual Buddha. The table before was also missing. There was no clue at all.
Several other rooms are also visible through the windows. Except for a bed and a few tables, there is no other furniture.
I haven't seen any room with a back door that leads to the backyard.
"This should be the backyard!" Dongzi looked around with the old mayor on her back and said, there is no other road or door that can lead to the back!
"Definitely Not!"
Yan Na said: "Liuyun Temple is built against the cliff. There should be a courtyard behind it."
"But there is no door or road here!" Dongzi said: "Isn't the backyard only for people to go to?"
Dongzi laughed again as he spoke, and continued: "Didn't the guy outside just say that no one is allowed to go to the backyard? That fairy girl you have here is not a human being, and it is not a place for people to go in the first place!"
"There must be a path leading to the backyard!"
I shook my head and said, "Although this Taoist temple has been renovated, the layout inside is still the same two hundred years ago. It should not have changed. Since the layout has not changed, the backyard should have been there before Liuyun Xiangu died."
"Miss Hu Ling is right, the layout of this Taoist temple has indeed never changed."
The old mayor lay on Dongzi's back and said: "The Taoist temple has only been renovated and repaired, never rebuilt!"
"But there is obviously no road here. Maybe Lady Liuyun didn't go to the backyard before she was alive? Or maybe there was a back door but it was sealed?" Dongzi asked doubtfully.
"Look carefully in several rooms, maybe they are really sealed!" Yan Na nodded and said.
Dongzi and Yan Na both ducked into a room each, and I stood in the middle of the yard without moving.
This row of houses is built very high, almost four meters. It is not a problem to let Dongzi climb up, but it will make the old mayor and Yan Erzhu unable to get in. Even if they find a way to get them in, it will be very troublesome.
thing.
After looking around, I suddenly thought of a place.
When I came in last night, there was an aisle about one person wide between the door of the central courtyard and the row of houses. Could it be that the aisle is the road leading to the backyard?
Thinking of this, I walked towards the alley.
Dongzi and Yan Na happened to come out after checking two rooms behind their backs, and both shook their heads and said no.
Seeing me walking towards the aisle, everyone followed me.
The passage was filled with weeds as tall as a person. The grass was now withered and yellow, and some roots were still half green.
There are many thorns intertwined together, it looks very deep, and at the end is a rugged cliff.
I raised my feet and walked inside.
No one has passed here for a long time. I don’t know where the water came from, mixed with the soil washed away by the rain on the cliff, making it very wet and sticky when you step on it.
After walking a few steps, a large number of unknown bugs crawled out of the grass, and even a few mice squeaked out from my feet.
I don’t know if these bugs are poisonous or not. Fortunately, I wore thick clothes in winter and they didn’t crawl on me or bite anyone.
"Hu Ling, wait a minute, I'll go in front of you!" Dongzi called to me.
His current physique is equivalent to a walking anti-virus agent, so there is no problem in walking ahead in such a situation.
I didn't want to be polite to him, so I stepped out and tied the old mayor's shoes, socks and trouser legs tightly to prevent poisonous insects from crawling in through his trouser legs. I raised my hand with a smile and made a "please" gesture to Dongzi.
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Dongzi carried the old mayor on her back and walked inside.
As Dongzi walked in step by step, there was a rustling sound in the grass, and more unknown insects quickly emerged from the grass.
We followed closely, but kept a distance of one or two meters from him.
When Dongzi walked halfway, a green-shelled red-headed centipede that was half a meter long suddenly jumped out of the grass and crawled quickly towards the wall. This chapter has been completed!