I squatted down, carefully touched the dents on the ground, and then began to clean the dents. When the top layer of adobe and dead grass was cleared away, a narrow gap was exposed underneath, and the gap was very deep.

It feels like it was formed by cracks in the ground.

I had some premonitions in my mind, so I got up and walked around the main temple, keeping my eyes on the ground, looking at it very carefully. I also used my feet to deliberately kick away the debris that had been blown in by the wind and mixed with soil and piled on the ground.

Grass.

Soon, in addition to the one gap I saw at the beginning, I found three similar gaps intermittently. The four gaps were intertwined to form a square exactly in the middle.

Zhao Xiaodao, who had wanted to ask for a long time but was stopped by Mei Niang, finally couldn't hold himself back when he saw this and asked: "What are you doing?!"

I ignored her and muttered to myself as if I was trying to straighten out my thoughts: "During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Li Keyong sent people to build the Guandi Temple. At the beginning, it must have been carved beams and painted pillars.

The ground was also paved with slates or bricks. Unfortunately, it has been abandoned for thousands of years. The doors and windows are rotten and the pillars are crumbling. The wind and sand have blown the dust and weeds from outside and piled them on the ground. The original paved floor has also been gradually buried...

…

Well, the large stone slab used to pave the ground here should be shaking a little. You were fighting here and accidentally stepped on it, so cracks appeared on the soil covering it. When the cracks were put together, they happened to be underneath.

The shape of the floor, which explains why the cracks look so new..."

"this……"

Zhao Xiaodao asked suspiciously: "It's just a stone slab buried in the ground. It's been a thousand years. It's not bad if it hasn't rotted. Is it normal for some shaking?"

"It's indeed quite normal. However, besides the loose slate, there is another possibility. Moreover, Wei Boyan once pointed out that the beauty who escaped from Linzi will be here. I firmly believe that he will not have the wrong target, so... any strangeness is worth it.

I’ll pay attention.”

I shook my head and sighed: "It's a pity that we only brought the murderer with us on this trip, but no other tools. I'm afraid we will have to make another trip..."

"Do you want to dig up the soil?"

Yu Linglong suddenly said: "If you just need tools, we have them here. When we came here before, it was just for exploration. We still have some basic tools. Just wait a moment..."

After saying that, she turned around and went behind the altar, only to hear a clanking sound. Then she came out with a sack, threw the sack on the ground, opened it, and found that it was full of tools, including a folded shovel.

There are conventional tools such as crowbars, without any signs of wear, but there are a lot of rust stains on them. It seems that they have been placed here for a while and have never been used.

I immediately called Wu Shuang in, who was sitting at the door eating snacks. This guy went out trying his best to put some snacks in his pockets, his cheeks were bulging.

I opened a folding shovel and threw it to him: "Stop eating and do some work. Brother Yaozi and Brother Shuisheng have been working outside for most of the day. They don't know how to help, so they only know how to eat..."

"Isn't this a fight? I'm hungry. The emperor still has hungry soldiers. If you take me out to kill people, why don't you let me eat?"

The guy retorted confidently and held his head high. As he spoke, some of the ham sausage dregs spewed out from his mouth. Suddenly he no longer had the mood to talk back. He looked at the dregs that fell on the ground with a tangled expression.

.

It’s so embarrassing!!

I was afraid that he would pick it up and eat it again, so I hurriedly said: "Okay, okay. I know you are hungry, so bear with me. We will leave after finishing the work. We should be in the county town at dawn. I will take you to drink mutton soup. Damn it."

A bowl of mutton soup in the morning on a cold day will make your whole body warm, not to mention how comfortable it will be."

Wushuang swallowed hard, and the Shaqima in his hand no longer smelled good. As soon as he wrapped the bag and stuffed it back into his pocket, he picked up the shovel and started working. Encouraged by the mutton soup, he was full of energy.

, the shovel was swinging very fast, like a super excavator, it was like flying sand and rocks for a while, and the shoveled soil was thrown into my face several times.

This scene shocked the three people of Yu Linglong. Looking at their expressions, I thought with malice - aren't you known as the flower boat's three religions and nine schools, have you seen everyone? Have you seen the wonderful flowers in the Zhenwu Temple?

With Wushuang's full energy, the pile of soil was quickly dug away, and a pit more than one meter deep was dug out. This shows how much dust the strong winds in northwest Shanxi have brought in over the past thousand years.

Below is a square stone slab made of huge rocks in the mountains. Because it is buried under the soil, the surface is already pitted. I stood on it and stepped back and forth with my legs. Sure enough, it shook a little and made a "rumbling, booming" sound.

, the movement was dull, and one could roughly tell from the sound that the weight of the stone was probably to an astonishing level. It would not be accurate to say it was a slate, it was simply a huge stone, probably several meters thick...

Surrounding it, buried under the soil, are regular stone slabs, about the same size as the surface of this boulder, but only twenty or thirty centimeters thick, and most of them are broken...

This huge boulder is located among many stone slabs, it is definitely an outlier!

Mei Niang and Yu Linglong, who jumped down to help, had a look of surprise on their faces when they saw this.

"Brother Wei is really... very good at predicting things. He knew something was going on underground after just one look. My sister is convinced."

Yu Linglong praised it and then asked: "But why is there such a thing on the ground?!"

"Secret passage!"

Without thinking, I said: "This huge stone is used to block secret passages. It is a very common method. How could there suddenly be a secret passage in the good Guandi Temple?"

Then I walked around the boulder a few times, and then looked at the simple tools in my hand. I thought it might be a bit difficult to get this thing working, but it would be easier to bypass the boulder and dig a hole from the side to the bottom of the boulder.

It's unrealistic. It's more laborious than removing this stone, because underneath it is all the foundation of the main hall. The entire Guandi Temple has almost collapsed, but the main hall remains unchanged, and the main structure is still very handsome.

You can imagine how deep it is and how strong it is...

I had no choice but to turn my mind to Wushuang: "There are some gaps in the foundation between this boulder and the surrounding floor. You can use a crowbar to pry open some gaps. Can you pick this thing up?"

"Brother, a bowl of mutton soup isn't enough, is it? You're not treating me like a beast, you're treating me like a crane!"

Wushuang made a few gestures with a desperate look on his face and said: "It's not easy to exert force in this place!"

Seeing me waiting for him, he immediately changed the subject: "How about... let me try?!"

Later, Yu Linglong and I used crowbars to move the boulder upwards as much as possible. Wushuang took off his shirt for the convenience of exerting force. His skinny body muscles were not particularly big, but they were extremely coordinated.

He held the two legs of the boulder with both hands and acted like a king lifting a cauldron directly in front of me.

As he shouted, the muscles all over his body were twitching into strips, the veins on his forehead were pulsing, and his skin gradually turned red, and finally even covered with a layer of light gold, and his expression was full of energy and blood.

The rainbow was like a wild beast being awakened. I felt it so clearly that even I was shocked.

The huge boulder embedded in the ground was pulled up from the ground bit by bit with the friction sound of "rumbling, booming". The thickness of this thing was so amazing. When it was pulled out to almost the same height as Wushuang's side, Wushuang started to pull it up.

He pulled it, making it tilt slightly so that it wouldn't fall back if it got stuck. Then he simply hugged the stone, and with an angry shout, he pulled the entire stone out of the ground and threw it to one side. Looking at the size of the thing, I

I swallowed subconsciously, secretly glad that this bastard knew how to restrain his strength when fighting with me in the past, otherwise he would hit me all at once and beat me to death on the spot?

It was the same for me, not to mention Yu Linglong and Mei Niang. The two women who were the best at flattering were so shocked that they forgot to praise them for a moment.

Under the boulder, there is really a dark passage, there are even steps leading down, and waves of faint fragrance float up.

Mei Niang recovered from the shock and said subconsciously: "It smells so good. What is the fragrance?"

I squatted at the entrance of the cave and looked inside. Suddenly, deep in the darkness, a green mass flashed away.

Obviously, this was not an illusion. Yu Linglong also saw it and asked in surprise: "What is that? A will-o'-wisp?"

Her exclamation seemed to have alerted a ghost in the darkness, and the thing that had just flashed away suddenly flashed right in front of us, and then rushed towards us with lightning speed!

It really looked like a will-o'-the-wisp, but it wasn't. When it rushed toward us, it suddenly swayed and changed its shape. A human face emerged. It was unclear whether it was a male or a female. It looked distorted.

It was painful again, and I let out a shrill scream...

That cry can penetrate people's souls, and I felt a sharp stabbing pain in my mind at that time!!

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Chapter completed!