Seeing the ghost team holding blue will-o'-fire lanterns and walking on tiptoes in the rainy night, Nangong Fancong and I held our breaths almost at the same time.
There were seven ghosts in that ghost team, six big and one small. The six big ones were all male ghosts, and the small one was a little girl.
The little girl walked in the front, holding the blue will-o'-the-wisp lantern in her hand.
Their speed was not very fast, and it took them a while to get a few dozen meters away.
Nangong Fanxong and I looked at each other, and then Nangong said: "This ghost team may have something to do with Beiyu Desert Village. Let's go up and have a look."
I nodded.
The ghosts in that ghost team are all around the shadows, so even if they follow them, I'm not very scared.
Nangong Fancong and I cautiously followed dozens of meters behind. Although Nangong Fancong kept using magic to protect us from the rain along the way, the water droplets on the weeds and shrub branches on the roadside still made our clothes wet.
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Looking at the ghosts in front, the rain passed through them, and there was no need to worry about whether their clothes were wet.
Sometimes, I really envy them.
Nangong Fanxong and I didn't dare to walk too fast because the ghosts in front were walking too slowly. They took every step very carefully, and almost all the steps were consistent.
After following the group of ghosts for a while, I curiously asked Nangong Fancong in a low voice: "What are those ghosts doing?"
Nangong Fancong shook his head and said, "You don't know, how could I know? I'm not one of them."
After following the group of ghosts for a while, Nangong Fanxong and I were stunned at the same time, because not far in front of me was the Jade Emperor Temple. The temple was surrounded by grass, which was basically the same as the one on Cai Yun's scroll.
After seeing the Jade Emperor Temple, Nangong Fan Zong smiled and said, "Haha, it takes no effort at all to get here!"
I said: "We have been walking for almost a day and a night, and it doesn't take much time!"
Nangong Fancong snorted and said, "Why, why don't you go back and wait until dawn tomorrow to walk again?"
I quickly shook my head.
When we followed these ghosts, we did feel that we were much closer, but if I were allowed to walk by myself at dawn, it was really hard to say whether I would be able to find this road.
Although this section is not very long, when we walked during the day, we found that it seemed to be a blind spot. We had to search carefully to find traces of the road. If we did not follow the road, we would only go further and further away.
I tried to observe the surrounding situation, but I didn’t feel any magic like ghosts covering my eyes, so I asked Nangong Fanxong what was going on. She told me that it was a formation that connected the road and the surrounding mountains.
, the vegetation is built on top of each other, forming a maze-like existence. There is only one right way, and if you go wrong, you will not be able to find the exit.
After the ghost team arrived at the Jade Emperor Temple, they turned to the left. Then they seemed to have evaporated and suddenly disappeared.
Nangong Fancong and I waited for a short while before catching up to the Jade Emperor Temple.
We looked around and didn't see the so-called deserted village in Beiyu. As Zhao Ling said, there was no deserted village here at all.
I glanced a few times in the direction where the ghost team disappeared. In the rainy night, I couldn't see the scenery in the distance clearly at all. I could only vaguely see a patch of green hills, but one thing was certain, there was no village in the green hills.
Nangong Fancong looked away from the place where the ghost team disappeared, and focused on looking at the Jade Emperor Temple in front of her. I asked her if there were any clues about the Jade Emperor Temple.
She ignored me and walked directly to the dilapidated temple gate.
I quickly followed him. The temple door was no longer there, but it was pitch black inside. I couldn't see clearly what was going on inside. Nangong Fanzong took out his flashlight and looked at it. I found that the temple was also empty. The entire temple was empty.
There is not a single idol in the temple.
We walked directly into the temple, where there were several dilapidated tables and a few rickety chairs. The tables and chairs were so rotten that I felt like they would completely fall apart if I touched them lightly.
There were still tea bowls and teapots on the nearly falling apart table, and two teapots had been knocked over.
I couldn't help but wonder: "Who would set up a tea table to drink tea in the Jade Emperor Temple?"
Nangong Fancong did not answer me, but continued to look around. There were also a few rolls of red silk thrown in the corner. Those red silk cloths often appear in temples and are usually used to wrap around the statues of gods. This shows that the original
There is a statue here. As for why the statue disappeared, we need to further investigate.
Perhaps the disappearance of the statues is related to Beiyu Village turning into a deserted village.
Nangong Fancong slowly walked to the side of the red silk cloth, then looked around and then walked to the side of the rotten wood chair. She removed a chair leg from the chair, and then she used the chair leg to turn over the red silk cloth.
cloth.
There was a burst of dust, and Nangong Fancong and I quickly covered our noses.
As the red silk cloth was slowly pushed aside, Nangong Fan and I were stunned because there was a child's skeleton wrapped in the red silk cloth. Judging from the size of the skeleton, it seemed to be the same as the one covered with blue silk just now.
The ghost lantern, the little girl who leads the team looks similar to the ghost.
When I just thought about it, Nangong Fanzong said directly: "It's the little girl just now!"
I said "Ah" and then asked her how she was sure.
Nangong Fan said: "I can see the connected auras on them. I have the eye of the galaxy, so I can recognize them at a glance."
I nodded. Nangong’s eyes were very powerful. Since she said that, it must be right.
But why did the little girl's bones stay in the Jade Emperor Temple?
I couldn't help but be curious.
Nangong Fancong looked at it for a while, then used the old chair legs to cover the little girl's bones with the red silk cloth.
Next, she threw the chair legs to the side and walked outside the Jade Emperor Temple. At this time, the rain outside had gradually become lighter, and it looked like it would stop soon.
Looking at the mountainside in the distance, there is already a hazy light, and it is about to dawn.
I did not walk out of the Jade Emperor Temple, but continued to look around in the temple. I picked up the chair leg that Nangong Fancong had thrown away and touched the teapot and tea bowl on the useless table. I found that the teapot was very heavy and could not be pushed at all.
It doesn't move, as if it's stuck to the table.
The same goes for teacups.
I tried pushing a few times, but after no effect, I threw away the chair legs and started to touch them with my hands. Nangong Fancong said at this time: "If you want to die, just touch it!"
I quickly retracted my hand and looked towards Nangong Fan. She stood at the door of the Jade Emperor Temple and looked at me with a sneer. Her smile made me feel a little chilled.
I asked Nangong Fan Cong why these tea bowls and teapots cannot be touched.
Nangong Fanxong said: "Because it is poisonous, and it is highly poisonous!"
I was curious and asked what the poison was, and Nangong Fanzong said: "It is a sinister poison, a sinister poison that can kill even ghosts. If an ordinary person accidentally touches it, if the treatment is timely, the soul will be injured, and if not in time, the soul will fly away."
Hearing what Nangong Fan said, I was so frightened that I took several steps back. I never thought that there are poisons in this world that can directly poison people to death.
Nangong Fanxong added: "There is nothing surprising about this. The poison of your snack is also very powerful. It can also directly hurt people's souls and make people lose their souls. However, the amount of poison needs to be controlled by you and the snack."
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I curiously asked: "The snack guy must be very sensitive to toxins, right? Why didn't the snack guy remind me when I was going to touch the tea bowl?"
Thinking of this, I got in touch with the snack food, and the snack food told me in my mind that it is not afraid of the toxins. Even if I am poisoned, it can eat those toxins again without hurting me.
I couldn't help laughing when I heard the snack guy's explanation.
"What are you laughing at?" Nangong Fanxong asked me.
I told Nangong Fanxong what the snack foodie told me, and she said with some envy: "You have taken advantage of the snack foodie again."
Although the snack foodie said this, I still didn't dare to touch the teapot and tea bowl with my hands. Instead, I continued to ask Nangong Fan Zong if he had found anything else.
Nangong Fancong pointed to the surroundings of the Jade Emperor Temple and said, "It's almost dawn now. Use this light to take a look around."
When I walked out of the temple gate, I saw a series of ruins among the weeds all around. If I looked at them from a distance, I couldn't see them at all, so they were not reflected in Cai Yan's scroll.
Nangong Fancong continued: "This shows that the Jade Emperor Temple was originally quite large, but it was later demolished. I suspect it was the villagers of Beiyu Village who did it. As for why only the main temple was not demolished later,
I think something happened when they were demolishing the main temple. Everyone in the village died, and Beiyu Village became a deserted village!"
"This can also explain why there are tables, chairs, teapots and tea bowls here. These should have been left behind when the people who demolished the temple here were resting."
Nangong Fanxong has a rich imagination, but she is not just thinking wildly, but slowly deducing it based on some clues. What she said is most likely the truth, provided that the Jade Emperor Temple was really demolished by people from Beiyu Village.
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Thinking of this, I curiously asked: "Could it be that the Jade Emperor got angry and killed everyone in the village?"
Nangong Fancong smiled and said: "You are so naive. Most of the gods with divine status have disappeared, including the Jade Emperor, so it is impossible for him to come to kill people. I am a person living in the upper world."
I nodded.
I looked around carefully and said: "The temple should not have been simply demolished, but moved. First of all, the statues disappeared, so they should have been moved. After these temple walls were demolished, no bricks were left.
Shi, he must have moved to another place."
If we want to find those bricks, stones and statues, we might be able to find Beiyu Village.
While we were analyzing, a ray of sunlight shone over us. Following that ray of sunlight, we couldn't help but take a look at the place where the ghosts disappeared last night. A village slowly emerged where there were only green hills.
That village is the Beiyu Village in the scroll! (To be continued)