spirit walker

Chapter 6 The Story of the Mountain Temple
Fuck. Zhang Yuanqing suddenly didn't want to stay in the main hall anymore.

He has a kind of fear that he is in a desperate situation, making every day unresponsive, and the ground is not working.

This place is extremely dangerous, but he can't turn to the outside world for help, and he can only rely on himself.

After hesitating again and again, he gritted his teeth and bent down to pull out the skeleton wrapped in overalls.

chila~

During the pulling process, the labor protection clothing was easily torn, and the clothes had long since rotted over the past few years.

Dragging the body to the candlelight, he endured the discomfort and began to examine it.

Although a person is dead, his body can speak. Knowing the cause of death can help him avoid many dangers.

"Several broken sternum and ribs, fine cracks on right shoulder, but not serious."

The deceased suffered severe injuries during his lifetime, but the specific cause of death cannot be seen due to the age.

Then, Zhang Yuanqing found several pieces of yellow and brittle paper from the pockets of the senior workers, which were quite old.

The petite characters were written in italics on the paper.

Zhang Yuanqing was overjoyed. The paper was obviously found by the senior workers in the temple, which helped him understand the situation of this ancient temple.

With the help of candlelight, he read the content on the paper intently.

"Another junior disappeared last night. This is already the third member of the same sect who disappeared mysteriously in the temple. The brothers said that Sandao Mountain is haunted by ghosts, or there are some goblins with high morals who come to the temple every night. They catch people and eat them, but many disciples in the temple are accompanied by cultivation bases, and the master is a real person with a reputation within a hundred miles. No goblin dares to come here to look for food without opening his eyes.

"As for ghosts, my corpse-suppressing talisman and spirit-calling talisman are enough to solve it, so I don't need to bother Master. I have a bad premonition in my heart, so I have to find the senior brother to calculate it."

"Another person is missing today. This is the fifth person. Master told us to keep the news from the pilgrims, otherwise it will affect the incense in the temple. He must know something. My senior brother and I plan to patrol at night."

"Three days have passed, and three more people disappeared during the period, but my senior brother and I didn't find any clues, and the night was calm. The ominous premonition in my heart deepened."

"Eldest brother is very strange today. He seems to have found something and looks very angry. I asked him, but he didn't tell me. He is not in a good mood. I'd better ask tomorrow."

"The person who disappeared today is Senior Brother. I have searched all over Sandao Mountain but I can't find him. I, I can't take it anymore. I'm going to ask Master to find out. The brothers in the temple also support me, because they Scared too."

The handwriting of this passage is a bit scribbled, which shows that the owner of the note has a broken mind.

Zhang Yuanqing continued to look down:

"After my questioning, Master finally agreed to tell me the truth. My premonition was correct. He really knew the reason for the mysterious disappearance of the juniors. But the master said that there are many people talking during the day, and he will come to the room after the sun goes down. Me, tell me a big secret, this secret is related to the rise and fall of thousands of years."

"After dinner, I waited in my room, waiting for the sunset. I have never looked forward to the dark so much since someone disappeared in the night."

The content of the paper record ends here.

Gone?This broken chapter makes people feel a little uncomfortable. Zhang Yuanqing grinned for a while.

He sorted out the information on the paper, and in a certain year, the disciples of this mountain temple disappeared strangely one after another.

The disciples were helpless, and panic spread.As for this matter, Miao Zhu in the temple, their master, seemed to know the reason.

This reason is related to a big secret of thousands of years of rise and fall.

"The reason for the decline of the mountain temple is unknown. If we discover this source, will we be able to complete the second main task?" Zhang Yuanqing guessed.

He put the brittle paper back into the corpse's labor protection uniform, pushed the other person back under the table, kept out of sight, and then thought about what he was going to do next.

"There is only so much information about the main hall. Since you want to explore the ancient temple, you must go out. In this case, you must face the danger in the temple."

"In the strange story of the She Ling Tunnel, there is a worker who survived successfully. Following his trajectory, we may be able to find a way to survive."

After careful consideration, Zhang Yuanqing walked to the entrance of the main hall and opened two well-preserved lattice doors.

"Squeak~"

The wooden door hinge made a toothache sound.

He leaned on the door frame, poked his head out and looked around, there was no sound outside, except for a bit desolate and gloomy, he saw no danger.

After observing for a while, he stepped out of the threshold and walked towards the backyard of the mountain temple along the cobblestone path on the left side of the main hall.

The moonlight was like water, and the wild grass was undulating. After Zhang Yuanqing walked for a minute or two, a building appeared in front of him.

It was several connected one-story houses, forming a huge courtyard with black tiles and white walls, a straight roof, and lattice windows and lattice doors under the eaves.

The latticed doors were dusty, and they were either open, upside down or closed tightly, and the paper used to paste the windows was torn and tattered under the erosion of time.

The moonlight was as bright as frost on the ground, and he took advantage of the moonlight to glance at the layout of the backyard of the mountain temple.

In addition to the courtyard in front of you, there is an arched door on the east side, which is a bit like the back house of a wealthy family in a film and television drama. There will always be such an arched door to connect different courtyards.

In the yard next door, a towering tree was planted, with lush branches and gnarled branches.

"what"

In the yard with undulating grass, he found several skeletons wrapped in labor protection clothing.

They approached carefully and inspected carefully. Every skeleton was severely damaged, and there was a broken bone under the labor insurance suit. Except for the one in the main hall, the shoulder bones of the skeletons here were well preserved without cracks.

"These people all suffered horrific injuries before they died, and died horribly."

A gust of wind blew, and the branches and leaves "rustled". Zhang Yuanqing vaguely heard the "rustling" sound brought by the wind, mixed with weeping whispers:
"Help, Help"

In this desolate and dead night, cold sweat broke out on Zhang Yuanqing's back.

He stood there stiffly, and after a while, the wind stopped, and the wailing whispers also stopped with the wind.

The courtyard next door seemed a bit dangerous, but the things inside did not come. He breathed out silently, stepped on the weeds all over the courtyard, and walked into the eaves, intending to explore the courtyard.

This place seemed to be the place where the disciples of the temple lived. There were dilapidated and dusty furniture piled up here, and there was a faint, decaying smell in the air.

Zhang Yuanqing explored the rooms one by one, but found nothing special until he pushed open the lattice door on the far east.

"squeak~"

The door of the room, which had been dusty for an unknown number of years, was pushed open again, and the dust fell down. Zhang Yuanqing patted the dust on his shoulders, and scanned every corner of the room warily.

In this room that had been abandoned for many years, by the window, there was a corpse leaning against the wall, lying there crookedly.

It can be deduced from the clothing and the rolled miner's hat that it is another senior.

After crossing the threshold and entering the room, Zhang Yuanqing shivered, feeling that the surrounding temperature seemed to drop a lot for no reason.

"a little cold"

He cautiously leaned towards the corpse, untied his tattered clothes, and observed the bones of the corpse as usual. This time, he did not see any broken bones, and the skeleton was well preserved.

But when he cast his eyes on the shoulder bones of the corpse, his pupils froze. There were exaggerated cracks on the shoulder bones of the corpse.

This is the same as the crack on the shoulder of the corpse in the main hall, the difference is that the corpse in front of him is more seriously injured.

"Is it a coincidence that only the one in the room and the one in the main hall have broken shoulder bones?" He murmured to himself somewhat uneasy.

Then, Zhang Yuanqing found that the trouser pocket of the corpse was bulging, as if something was hidden.

He reached out and took out a yellowed ancient book, a dusty bronze mirror, and a yellow paper amulet from the deceased's trouser pocket.

On the yellow paper talisman, there are distorted lines drawn with cinnabar, which are somewhat similar to runes. These lines converge together to form a traditional Chinese character for "corpse".

While examining the yellow paper talisman, Zhang Yuanqing saw a glowing blue message:
[Name: Corpse Town Talisman]

【Type: Consumables】

[Function: Town Corpse]

[Introduction: The talisman made by the powerful Yeyou God is the nemesis of all corpses and ghosts.Paste it on the forehead of the genitals to complete the seal. 】

[Note: It can only be used once. 】

The fluorescent blue information is a bit like his attribute panel. Obviously, this is a hint from "Spirit Realm".

It was the first time Zhang Yuanqing saw such a reminder since he entered the weird ancient temple.

"It should be an important item." Zhang Yuanqing folded it, put it in the pocket of the jacket, and zipped it up.

After thinking about it, I opened the zipper again.

Because he remembered a stalk in a martial arts novel, a certain swordsman with superb swordsmanship likes to wrap the back of his sword with cloth strips.

One day, a challenger challenged the swordsman while he was eating.

Then the swordsman is gone.

The cause of death was the inconvenient removal of the cloth strips
Zhang Yuanqing then picked up the ancient book and bronze mirror, but no relevant information emerged.

He put the bronze mirror aside first, and carefully opened the yellowed and brittle booklet that was rolled up at the footer.

It reads:

"It has been two and a half years since I entered the Sandaoshan Niangniang Temple. I have already learned to read and write. The senior brother said that when the master saves the souls of the dead and returns to the mountain, he can formally introduce me to practice the art of swallowing the moon and nourishing the soul. This is to become a night wandering god way to get started."

"The king of Yan rebelled, and the smoke was everywhere. Master, as the strongest person in the lineage of Songfu Yeyoushen, had to go down the mountain to save the dead. Otherwise, the war will not be settled, and the disaster will recur, and the people will be even more restless."

Zhang Yuanqing felt a little sore in his shoulder, rubbed it, and preliminarily judged that this was an essay, that is, a diary.

The content of the diary is the experience of the 'author' practicing and living in the temple. According to the handwriting, this diary and the paper on the corpse of the main hall come from the same source.

Through words like "Yanwang rebellion", the timeline is the history of the Jingnan battle.

But he is not sure whether this temple really existed in history, because the content of the essay contains unclear words such as "practice", "night tour god", "breathing technique" and "talisman".

Zhang Yuanqing moved his sore shoulders, scanned the room vigilantly, listened to the movement outside the room, and continued to read the essay after confirming that there was nothing unusual.

Soon, he turned to the continuation of the content of the main hall. The first few pages were torn off, and the continuation read:

"Sunset, it was finally dark, I heard a knock on the door, I hurriedly opened the door, the person standing outside the door was not the master, but the elder brother who disappeared last night."

"The eldest brother who disappeared for a day and a night came back, but I didn't have any joy, because he was already dead, and what came back was a corpse. His chest was dripping with blood, and his heart was dug out by someone."

"Brother stared at me straight, he said: Don't trust Master."

These few paragraphs are written crookedly. It is conceivable that when the owner of the essay wrote this content, his mentality exploded.

When Zhang Yuanqing turned to the next page, he found that there was no follow-up to the notes, and the owner of the diary never wrote a diary again.

"Hiss, what do you mean by don't trust Master?"

Zhang Yuanqing was shocked by this reversal and felt chills in his heart.

Miao Zhu killed that senior brother?He is also the chief culprit for the disciples disappearing one after another?Zhang Yuanqing rubbed his shoulders, put the booklet back into the corpse's pocket, then picked up the bronze mirror, and was about to leave.

But when he glanced out of the corner of his eye and inadvertently glanced at the bronze mirror, his body stiffened suddenly.

The moonlight was like water, projected on the mirror, and his appearance was reflected in the bronze mirror, and on his back, there was a person lying on his stomach.

The man's face was pale, his lips were deep purple, and he had a pair of white pupils. He rested his head sideways on Zhang Yuanqing's shoulder, and those white pupils stared at him silently.

ps: This book has supernatural elements, but it is not the main one. Readers who don't like supernatural can rest assured.

(End of this chapter)