The secret passage is narrow and cramped. It was not dug directly from the foundation of Guandi Temple. The two sides were reinforced with stones, and there were steps paved with stones at the foot. It was obvious that it was not a temporary foothold.

Many snails huddled in the gaps between the stones, sealing their shells with white secretions and entering a long hibernation.

Fortunately, the poison formed by the love flower poison has no interest in these weak lives. According to my spiritual perception, the long-term residents here are basically little things like them.

The aroma when the secret passage was opened has dissipated. Those aromas are emitted from the corpses of people who died from love flower poison. Even if the skin and flesh are rotten, there will not be any rancid smell. This is one of the characteristics of love flower poison.

The secret passage was not long, and soon the few of us stepped into the underground chamber holding torches.

This place...is really not small!!

At first glance, almost the entire main temple of Guandi Temple has been hollowed out. It is arranged like a well-proportioned courtyard. Facing the entrance of the secret passage is a rectangular space, with many dark rooms separated on the left and right sides.

, the walls supported the entire main hall of Guandi Temple, otherwise the main hall would have collapsed long ago.

It would take a lot of effort to open up such an underground space, which would probably be much larger than the amount of work Li Keyong dispatched to build the entire Guandi Temple. After all, it is underground.

Who would take such a thankless job to create such a place? There must be a big plan.

I became more and more interested.

The ground is piled with thick humus, like fermented and fluffy dough, which is soft when you step on it. Facing us is a dark altar statue, which is almost as high as the darkroom.

The only thing, in order to prevent any poisonous gas, we only held torches in our hands. The light was not strong enough. Only when we got closer could we clearly see the appearance of the statue on the altar.

This is an image of a god that we have never seen before, carved from stone.

Its body has obvious female characteristics, and its clothing is somewhat similar to Wu Fu, but it is obviously earlier than Wu Fu. It should be the dress of Wu Fu when it was in its infancy. It is simple and elegant, but her face is definitely not human.

Almost all the paint has fallen off, but judging from the remnants of the potholes, it should have been painted with white paint in the past. The eyes, ears, mouth, and nose are undoubtedly human, but there are four seven-pointed sticks on both sides of the forehead and the left and right sides of the chin.

Eight-inch long bone spurs appeared, the bone spurs on her forehead grew upwards, and the bone spurs on her chin grew downwards. Her hands were placed on her lower abdomen. There were scales on the back of her hands and webs between her fingers.

On the altar, a one-foot-tall incense burner was placed in front of the statue. The incense burner was covered with black rust and turned out to be a silverware. Looking at the dregs and humus accumulated inside the incense burner, someone must have burned incense here in the past.

Weird idol.

I picked up the incense burner and poured out the humus inside. A nest of rat women living in the humus was unwilling to leave. They climbed up quickly along the incense burner and even wanted to climb on top of me for a sightseeing tour.

All my fingers flew away, and it seemed that none of them could survive. Then I looked at the incense burner carefully.

The things are very delicately made, with patterns of flowers, birds, fish and insects in the middle, and cloud patterns on the top and bottom.

Lao Bai is still at the bottom of the mountain. Although I am not an expert like Fu Huicheng and him, I have followed them for a long time and have done some research on these things. After looking at them for a while, I said: "Gold and silverware, this thing has been around since the Qin Dynasty."

, basically all are filigree inlays, welding taper gold beads and other techniques. There are no such traces on this stove. Instead, there are traces of casting and welding. The multi-dimensional carving decoration and relief-type convex workmanship on it are typical of the Song Dynasty.

thing!"

After saying this, I raised my head and looked at the statue. At this moment, the cold air outside had gradually poured in. When I breathed, a stream of white air came out of my mouth and nose. I said softly: "This Guandi Temple was built by Li Ke during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period."

The person who built this darkroom probably came here during the Song Dynasty. At that time, the Guandi Temple must have been abandoned and there was no dove to occupy the magpie's nest, but he still went to great lengths to build a darkroom underground and hide it here.

, what are they hiding?"

Then, after a moment's hesitation, I quickly stuffed the incense burner into Wu Shuang's hands, then looked around with my hands behind my back and continued to observe.

Brother Yaozi and Brother Shuisheng also crossed their arms, as if they didn't see it.

Wushuang looked at the stove in his hand, then at the three of us, a little hesitant.

Brother Yaozi couldn't stand it anymore, so he patted Wushuang hard on the shoulder and said earnestly: "Here, there are only three of us. God knows and the earth knows. You know and I know. No one knows, and we are not Lao Bai.

I won’t betray my teammates. Of course, you can also give it to Xinya. But if you give it to Xinya, it has nothing to do with you. Understand? This is not an incense burner, but freedom. You can chew it without any worries.

Pork paws, mutton soup, and the freedom to eat ham sausage!”

Wushuang blushed and said excitedly: "Why don't you three do it and let me do it?"

"Because you are little!"

Brother Yaozi said: "Even if you did it and were found out, you would be pinched and scolded at most. The three of us are different. The consequences will be serious. Anyway, you can take care of it yourself. I have given you the thing. What is it?"

Should you give it to Xinya, or wait for Lao Fu to come back? You go to Taiyuan to give it to Lao Fu, the choice is yours."

Probably thinking of the tragic past when he offended Zhang Xinya and had several big holes in his pants, but could only swing back and forth on the swing, Brother Yao Zi looked a little depressed.

Wushuang's face turned red. Under the double torture of conscience and pig's claws, he finally silently chose pig's claws and stuffed the incense burner into his backpack without saying a word.

Seeing this, I smiled happily. Although the thing is not a valuable thing, for us brothers, two thousand yuan is just the Chinese New Year. Once this thing is sold, how long will the brothers be free and easy?

When there is a dream in my heart, a person's energy and spirit are different. Even if I find nothing more in this place, I don't feel lost, so I turn around and go to another darkroom.

This darkroom is very small, only three or four square meters at most, not as big as a toilet. There is a bed-like thing made of bricks inside, which is filled with humus. In the dark mud-like humus

, occasionally protruding a rounded white object, which glowed softly under the firelight, like mutton-fat jade.

I stepped forward and used the Tianguan Blade to pull apart the humus on it, and the full picture of the buried objects emerged...

Those were two corpses!!

There is no skin and flesh, only bones, and the bones all over the body are as white as jade!!

The two corpses hugged each other. They experienced tremendous pain before death, so that the posture of the corpses was a little distorted. They could only relieve the pain by hugging each other.

I looked at these two corpses, remained silent for a long time, and then slowly uttered two words: "Beauty!"

…
Chapter completed!