"No way! Who else is there besides ghosts in this deserted mountain? How could anyone come here...",
Fat Wei was a little unconvinced and carefully turned over the incense ashes in the incense burner in his hand. Sure enough, there was some residual incense in it. The incense body was very complete and not very old.
"There are probably people who have been worshiping and cleaning this place all the time, but you just don't know it.
You smashed the statues and left, but those who often came to the temple to worship and sweep the statues restored the mountain statues. These people cannot come from outside, they should live in the mountains, maybe...,
They still live here."
Chen Zhi said silently on the side. From the beginning, he discovered that the location of this mountain temple was too special. It completely matched the map that Ning Bin gave him. If he kept walking forward, he would arrive in a few days.
That mysterious village.
But the old village chief didn't understand what Chen Zhi said. He looked at Chen Zhi with a puzzled look on his face.
"These are unimportant. Where is the altar full of corpses you mentioned?",
After Chen Zhi looked around, he asked the old village chief.
This sentence reminded the old village chief, and he hurriedly looked around the temple, looking for memories of this place decades ago. Finally, he pointed to the back of the mountain god statue and said,
"I remember that after we smashed the statue, a room was revealed behind it. There was a circular altar on the ground with a big gap on it, and the bodies of the children were piled inside the altar.
"
After the old village chief finished speaking, Chen Zhi and Pang Wei took a closer look at the statue. They saw that the statue was strictly blocking the front, and there was no secret door around it. They had to fumble around the body of the statue, hoping to
Find an entrance that leads inside.
Finally, they found a gap under the clothes of the mountain god statue. The gap was about one meter long. It was dark inside. Fat Wei used a lighter to poke inside and found that there seemed to be space inside, so Fat Wei
He turned sideways and got in through the gap first.
"Come in! It's quite big inside!",
Fat Wei lit the lighter inside and took a look around, then shouted.
So Chen Zhi, Ji Ying and the village chief got in through the gap one after another.
After entering, they found that it was indeed a large inner room, surrounded by darkness, with no ventilation or light at all.
The searchlights on their work clothes came in handy at this time. Chen Zhi and Pang Wei both took off their coats, turned on the searchlights on your headsets, and shined their light on the entire inner room.
Seeing these high-tech products made the old village chief very frightened. He kept following the team, not daring to move or speak nonsense.
This is a small inner room. Some extremely ancient Jurchen texts are carved on the surrounding walls, and some large shamanistic masks and magical instruments are hung. But what is different from the outside is that the magical instruments here are very old.
It seems to have the spirituality of shamanic magic on it, which makes people feel an inexplicable fear and pressure.
There is no trace of gold or silver decoration in the whole room, it is very dark and low-key.
There is indeed a circular altar on the ground, but the altar is pressed down by a large strip of square stone, and the situation on the altar cannot be seen.
Chen Zhi and Pang Wei each carried one side of the stone, and it took a lot of effort to lift the stone off the altar.
After the stone was lifted away, I saw that there was indeed a large gap on the altar. The gap was more than one meter long. The gap had turned black, and it was so dark inside that it was difficult to see clearly.
Chen Zhi lay on the gap and shined a searchlight into it. When he saw what was inside clearly, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
The bottom of the crack is very dark, and you can't see the depth clearly. It looks like a big natural stone, like a naturally formed rock crack. But on both sides of the crack, there are many small bones neatly placed. These bones are all wearing Jurchen clothes.
Judging from the size, the dress looks like the skeleton of a three or four year old child.
"It seems that in this mountain temple, boys and girls are really sacrificed to the gods...",
Fat Wei lay down next to Chen Zhi with a searchlight on, looked down, turned to the old village chief and said,
"I'm telling you, old man, your ancestors did a lot of bad things with the emperor of the Qing Dynasty! Just sacrifice to the gods! Why did you sacrifice such a child alive? Isn't this a bit outrageous! The lives of our people
You can’t do this if you don’t have enough money…”.
"Hey! How old is this? I don't know what my ancestors did. How can I care so much!",
The old village chief didn't dare to look down from above, so he turned away his face and said.
Chen Zhi turned on the searchlight and kept shining it down below. He soon discovered that there seemed to be several rows of stone stairs arranged in the darkness at the bottom. Although he could not see clearly, there were obvious traces of manual excavation there.
"There seems to be a passage down here, and there must be something else underneath...",
Chen Zhi turned on the searchlight and said,
"Yeah?",
After hearing what Chen Zhi said, Fat Wei also looked down with a searchlight. After looking at it for a long time, he said,
"Looking like this, there should be a basement below. This kind of basement was often seen in Manchu homes in the past. It is to build a basement below the house above to store some valuables or gold, silver and jewelry.
, but it’s really incomprehensible that they dumped the bodies of these children in this place.
"Let's go down and have a look! Maybe there's a cave underneath!",
After Chen Zhi finished speaking, he leaned down. The gap was not big, just big enough for a person to pass through.
The village chief was determined not to go down, and Chen Zhi was afraid that something else would happen up there, so he left Ji Ying to accompany the village chief on the lookout, while he and Pang Wei tied ropes around their bodies and got in through the gap.
.
Although Chen Zhi is now used to seeing dead people, so many corpses of children around him still make him very uncomfortable.
He and Fat Wei carefully opened the bones of the children and walked to the darkest place at the bottom. They found that there was indeed a set of artificial steps that led all the way down to a dark underground cave.
Chen Zhi and Pang Wei turned on searchlights and carefully walked down the stone staircase. When they reached the end of the stone staircase, a stone chamber appeared in front of them. But it was very dark here, and the air was filled with a strong agarwood fragrance.
Mixed with a strange spice smell.
Chen Zhi and Pang Wei used searchlights to scan the walls and floor tiles, and found that compared to the temple above, the stone chamber below was more like the most primitive temple. There was an ancient and mysterious atmosphere shrouded here, and the smell here
It's weird and unusual. The floor and walls are all carved with old white jade, with Jurchen mantras densely carved on them. It's white, flawless and crystal clear, and it seems to be a holy place that cannot be invaded.
They turned on the light and walked a few steps inside. Suddenly they saw a white thing in front of them shaking in the light, which seemed to be a human figure.
After so many things happened before, Chen Zhi and Fat Wei no longer had any fear at this time.
They grabbed their weapons and used searchlights to shine directly on the shadow, but what they saw in front of them still shocked them.
In the darkness ahead, they saw a pale-faced woman in gorgeous clothes sitting in front of them.