After going down dozens of stairs, the light of the flashlight slowly made it clear that these stairs were actually covered with cinnabar, and looked like a red road of blood.
Without the celestial eye, I can only see the scene twenty or thirty meters away with my naked eyes and the light of a flashlight. My ability to sense danger is much worse.
Yang Xiao was at the front, and Mi Rongheng was at the end. Strangely enough, they were all soaked in corpse oil, but nothing happened to him, Yang Xiao. He seemed to be sensing through another method
Dangerous around.
There are about a hundred steps on the stairs, and we come down to a long and slender corridor. After we came down, Yang Xiao looked around, discussed with Wu Rendi for a few words, and then decided to continue walking forward.
After walking a few steps, Fatty Sun suddenly shouted: "Look! What's on the wall!" Before he could finish speaking, four or five flashlight beams were already shining on the wall. I saw the walls on both sides.
, every ten meters, there is a strange statue.
These statues all depict the same character, who is dressed like a Taoist priest. Although he looks a few years older, he does not have a beard, and his face shows a ruthless look.
Xiong Wanyi saw the origin: "It's ghost Taoism!" But he didn't dare to confirm what he said, so he turned back to Mi Rongheng and said: "Young Master Heng, it's ghost Taoism..."
Mi Rongheng stepped forward and took a closer look: "Yes, he is the guide of Ghost Taoism. It's impossible. Ghost Taoism had not disappeared before the Republic of China. How can this place be related to Ghost Taoism?"
Fatty Sun heard this with curiosity and asked: "What kind of ghost Taoism? Can ghosts and Tao become one religion?"
Xiong Wanyi and the others looked at Yang Xiao intentionally or unintentionally, and lowered their heads without answering.
No one answered him, but Fatty Sun became more and more curious. He asked me: "Lazi, have you heard of it? What is ghost Taoism?"
I have actually seen the word "Ghost Taoism" in the data room: "Ghost Taoism is a religion that suddenly emerged in the late Qing Dynasty. It only took place in a very short time, and the data records only last for more than thirty years. Ghost Taoism and Orthodox Religion
The difference is that Ghost Taoism does not respect the Three Pure Ones, but only respects ghosts and gods, so Ghost Taoism is also called Ghost Worshiping Cult. Now it is a serious cult."
I paused for a moment when I said this, and then suddenly remembered that the information recorded that Ghost Taoism is famous for manipulating gods and ghosts. During the Guangxu period, there was an incident in which Ghost Taoists extracted people's souls and used ghosts to control other people's life and death. Isn't this the most recent incident in our team?
Was it what the person in front did?
I said half of what I said, and Fatty Sun felt even more uncomfortable when he heard it: "Lazi, keep talking, don't say half and leave half."
I winked at him: "That's all I know. From now on, you can check it out yourself."
It was too dark down there, so Fatty Sun didn't see my wink, and he said, "There are people in front of me who know the situation, right, Lao Yang..."
Yang Xiao also stopped at this time and looked back at Fatty Sun, but it was too dark below to see the expression on Yang Xiao's face.
** was speechless, so he could only poke Fatty Sun with his elbow. The guy reacted, and then said the last two words of the previous sentence: "...You ask Ximen Lian if he knows?"
Ximen Lian also took over the conversation very wisely: "I haven't heard of it. Go back to the bureau and go to the data room to check it yourself."
Yang Xiao was speechless, turned around and continued walking forward.
When he was far away, Fatty Sun whispered to me: "Can't you talk about ghost Taoism with Yang Xiao?" I said: "He is probably a good person himself, but you still go up the pole to provoke him." Fatty Sun curled his lips and said: "I
Where do you know where to go?”
This corridor is more than three hundred meters long. I really didn't expect that there is such a place under the college. At the end, there is an arched door, but this door has been locked. Mi Rongheng originally wanted to kick the door open directly.
Before he could take action, Fatty Sun stopped Mr. Heng and said, "You are a layman on this, I will do it."
Fatty Sun found a piece of wire from somewhere. He shined it with a flashlight and looked at the keyhole inside. Then he twisted the wire back and forth a few times to find the right angle. He pushed the wire in while moving up, down, left and right.
After twisting the wire, in less than a minute, a "crack" sound was heard, and the door lock was opened by Fatty Sun. Then Yang Xiao followed.
We didn’t know what was inside the door. We didn’t dare to neglect. Xiong Wanyi and Fatty Sun had already swung their sticks and pulled them out. I also pulled out my pistol and turned on the safety. When I looked back at Wu Rendi, he already had a short pistol in his hand.
The sword is exactly the same as the one my third uncle gave me.
Yang Xiao pushed the door open a crack and peeked inside a few times. Then he took out a small wine cup, which was the same small wine cup that contained the black gas that Shao Yiyi sprayed out just now.
Yang Xiao muttered something in his mouth, shaking the wine cup regularly in his hand, and saw the black air slowly drifting out of the wine cup, first circling around Yang Xiao, and then drifting in along the crack in the door.
Inside the gate.
After about three to five minutes, the black air slowly floated back and returned to the wine cup held by Yang Xiao.
Yang Xiao didn't say anything, and used the light of the flashlight to gesture to the rest of us to follow him. Then he pushed the door open and walked in. Wu Rendi waited for a moment, also said nothing, and followed through the door.
Inside.
Seeing that there was no movement when they entered, the few of us arrived at the door one after another.
The scene inside the door shocked me. Inside was a large hall enshrining hundreds of statues of gods. Each of these statues had grinning teeth. I had never seen them before.
"What was this college used to do? Why is there such a place underground?" Fatty Sun looked at the statues and said, "These statues are neither Buddha nor Taoism, and I don't know what kind of Bodhisattva they are for."
"This is the sky full of gods and Buddhas in ghost Taoism." The speaker was Yang Xiao, who was staring at the largest statue of gods in a daze.
Are these the gods of ghost Taoism? With the light of a flashlight, I took a rough look at these statues. The craftsmen who carved these statues were considered to be skilled craftsmen, and they made each of the gods lifelike.
They are said to be gods. Except for a few evil-looking ones outside, most of them have the faces of ordinary people. The most outrageous thing is that there are a few pushing carts and carrying poles. In short, they are scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and they have everything. Ghosts and Taoists
Gods, the threshold is too low. What is the position of these gods? Are they the gods of the vegetable market?
When I saw the last one, that is, the statue that Yang Xiao was facing in a daze, I was shocked by the appearance of the statue. This god looked to be in his twenties, with a baby face. There was a smile on his face.
His smile was exactly the same as that of Yang Xiao who was confronting him.
Not only me, but also several flashlight beams shone on the face of the statue of 'Yang Xiao'. Fatty Sun and the others also saw the connection between Yang Xiao and the statue. Only Wu Rendi next to him didn't seem to notice it. He was completely focused on it.
On Shao Yiyi's body, Wu Rendi had already taken off her coat and put it on Shao Yiyi's body, fearing that she would be frozen due to heavy rain.
Finally, Yang Xiao's attention came back. This time's distraction was a bit good, as he seemed to remind Yang Xiao of something.
"Director..." Yang Xiao turned around and shouted to Wu Rendi: "According to the rules of Ghost Taoism, if you go further, you will find the road behind you. Do you want to go?"
"Don't ask me, you make the decision now." Wu Rendi said to Yang Xiao calmly: "We will leave as you say."
Yang Xiao nodded and ignored the rest of us. He turned around, entered the group of statues, and walked to the wall in a zigzag manner. We followed him and saw Yang Xiao reaching out and groping on the wall.
After a while, he seemed to have found the mechanism, stretched out a finger, and inserted it into the wall silently.
I thought his action looked familiar. When I saw Fatty Sun staring at Yang Xiao with a frown, I suddenly remembered the scene when Fatty Sun and I first met a few months ago.
In the Water Curtain Cave, I did the same thing as Yang Xiao, but at that time I had clairvoyance and could still see the white face on the wall.
From the moment Yang Xiao inserted his fingers into the wall, the wall began to change, and the entire wall began to sink slowly.
Fatty Sun glanced at me, lowered his voice and said, "Lazi, this trick is from Yunnan Shuiliandong, right?"
I nodded and said in a low voice: "Great Sage, be careful. Either Yang Xiao has something to do with Ghost Taoism, or Ghost Taoism has something to do with the living corpses in the Water Curtain Cave."
As he spoke, the wall had sunk to the bottom, revealing the scenery behind the wall.
It was different from the time of Shuilian Cave. After this wall fell, what appeared in front of us was not a main hall, but a gloomy corridor. This must be the 'road behind' Yang Xiao just said.
Unexpectedly, Yang Xiao's face turned ugly when he saw the Yonglu. Wu Rendi also frowned. Neither of them spoke. They just looked at the Yonglu for a while and then looked at each other in a tacit understanding.
Apart from them, among us, Mi Rongheng is the one who knows the most about ghost Taoism. Seeing the corridor behind the wall, Mr. Heng almost blurted out: "It's not the road behind you!"
As soon as Mi Rongheng said these words, our eyes were fixed on him. Fatty Sun said: "Young Master Heng, please explain clearly, what is in front of you and what is behind you?"
Mi Rongheng glanced at Yang Xiao and saw that he had no objection, then said: "The path behind the ghost Taoist religion is two roads of good and evil. The rules of the ghost Taoist religion say that it is left to the dead, and it must take two people.
The above steps should be taken separately, otherwise they will not reach the end. People who accumulate virtue will take the good road, and those who are immoral will take the evil road, but the destination is the same place. There is only one road now, and it is not the road behind you."
While Mi Rongheng was talking, Xiong Wanyi and Ximen Lian were holding flashlights and shining randomly on the Ningbo Road. The distance between the Ningbo Road and the Ningbo Road was not short, but Ximen Lian had a good eye, and he saw some clues: "There are forks in the road.
It seems like they are separated."
Yang Xiao seemed to have noticed the changes in the Yonglu. He was not in a hurry to go in. He glanced at us and said: "Let's divide into groups. Eight people are divided into four groups."
Mi Rongheng was stunned for a moment: "There are only two roads behind us, why should we divide into four groups?"
Yang Xiao looked at the dark end of the Yong Road, took a deep breath, and said, "You'll know when you go in, I..." He looked at the people around him, thought about it in his mind, and said, "Director Wu and Shao
all……."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Wu Rendi: "You and Shao will team up one by one, Shen La and I, and the rest of the group will be free to team up."
Huh? What does he mean? I can understand entrusting Shao Yiyi to Yang Xiao, but what does it mean to actively bring me into a team with him? This is not like Wu Rendi's style at all. I don't understand, I don't understand, Wu Rendi said it,
Just do it.
Just like that, the remaining four people, Fatty Sun and Xiong Wanyi were in a group, Ximen Lian and Mi Rongheng were in a group.
Before walking into the corridor, Wu Rendi whispered a few instructions to Shao Yiyi.
After entering the cave, Shao Yiyi's performance was beyond my expectation. Although she was a little nervous and scared when she first came down, compared with her peers, Shao Yiyi is already quite calm. She
His attitude toward Wu Rendi has also changed a lot, and he has begun to rely on him a little. The student who was most dissatisfied with the group just now was Shao Yiyi. Wu Rendi whispered a few words to her. Shao Yiyi reluctantly agreed to follow.
Yang Xiao's group.
We entered the Nong Road and kept walking forward. When we reached the end, we realized why Yang Xiao divided us into four groups. There were four forks at the end of the Nong Road.
"Old Yang, didn't you say that there are only two roads behind you, good and evil? What are these four roads now? Good, good, evil and evil?" Fatty Sun is one of the few people in the polling bureau who doesn't take Yang Xiao seriously.
(He was sure that with Wu Rendi around, Yang Xiao didn't dare to do anything to him).
Yang Xiao ignored Fatty Sun at all. However, Mi Rongheng explained for him: "Someone redesigned the path behind him. This is not the path of ghost Taoism."
Yang Xiao walked around the four forks in the road, then took out the small wine cup, and let the black air in the wine cup go around the four forks. It took more than an hour to make these four trips.
"There's nothing important in there." After saying that, Yang Xiao took out three sticks of incense from his arms and gave them to the three groups of us respectively. He then said: "Light the incense and put it in. The incense can only burn for half an hour, but half an hour is enough for you to go there."
After you get out, be sure not to wander around, I will pick you up."
After Yang Xiao finished his instructions, he led Shao Yiyi into the first fork on the left. Before Shao Yiyi entered, he glanced at Wu Rendi reluctantly.
Mi Rongheng and Ximen Lian lit incense and entered the fork in the road next to Yang Xiao.