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Cheng Ke raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, then looked again, and his whole body froze on the spot.

"This, this is... the Lantern Goddess Temple!"

Looking at the familiar scene in front of him and the faintly visible statue of the Goddess of Lanterns in the temple opposite, the weird scene made Cheng Ke stop breathing for a while.

"How could this happen? We were clearly in Qingkou Town, how did we end up back in Linchuan Town? No! Something must have gone wrong!"

After calming himself down, he looked around and his sights fell on the closed door behind him. According to what he had seen before, this door should be the exit.

I walked over, grabbed the door handle, and tried to open the door, but the wooden door in front of me didn't move at all.

He stopped in surprise and checked the door carefully, but there was indeed no lock on the door.

So he tried to open the door again, but found that even if he used all his strength, he still couldn't open this strange door.

"Why can't it be opened? Is there really a ghost?"

As he muttered the word "ghost", a gust of cold wind suddenly blew on his back. He turned around vigilantly, but found that there was nothing behind him.

Afterwards, he tried to jump out of the low wall, but the strange thing was that although he could see the normal scenery outside when he stood on the wall, once he climbed over the wall, a dazzling white light flashed in front of his eyes, and when he opened his eyes, he was back in the temple.

This time, Cheng Ke felt more and more unsure, but he tried to calm himself down, and after analyzing the situation, he came to several conclusions.

The first is that he was trapped in some kind of formation that could trap a person; the second is that he was trapped in an illusion, and what he saw just now and is seeing now are all illusions; the third is that there must be someone behind the scenes manipulating things, and the most likely person is the shopkeeper, who has just shown all kinds of abnormalities and is obviously leading himself into the trap step by step.

Then a new question arises: does the shopkeeper know them? Why is he targeting them? And are the two brothers safe and sound now?

Thinking of Cheng Xing and Cheng Yi, Cheng Ke became really anxious. He no longer hesitated, but simply explored the entire Lantern Goddess Temple.

But he searched all the rooms around him and found nothing unusual, let alone the existence of the formation eye. However, he was an alchemy practitioner and had only a superficial understanding of formations, so it was possible that he would not even recognize the formation eye if it really appeared in front of him.

Standing in the middle of the clearing, the fear in his heart had slowly receded, replaced by a sad face. He didn't know how long he would be trapped, and he didn't know what the purpose of the person behind the scenes was, and what he would do to him later.

As I was thinking, as if guided by some unknown force, another gust of cold wind blew by, sweeping the ashes in the incense burner towards the upper left corner.

"Is that... the marriage tree?"

Indeed, he searched everywhere here but did not check the marriage tree behind the temple. Perhaps the key to escape lies there.

Cheng Ke hurriedly walked to the small path leading to the back, but his steps became slower and slower, and finally he even stopped in the middle of the path.

"Why do I feel uneasy? Like I forgot something?"

There was silence all around, only his whisper was amplified, which scared him again.

The train of thought that he had finally recalled was interrupted. Worried about the safety of his fellow brothers, Cheng Ke no longer hesitated and headed towards the marriage tree.

The familiar big tree covered with red ribbons appeared in sight. The whole tree seemed to emit a layer of light red, which was particularly creepy against the backdrop of the dark sky and ground. The sacred feeling of the Lantern Festival was completely gone.

Cheng Ke tried hard to see the surroundings clearly and find anything unusual, but except for the marriage tree, the surroundings were so dark that he couldn't see his hand in front of him. It felt like anyone who stepped in would be swallowed up by the darkness.

Therefore, he dared not act rashly and wanted to retreat back to the path, but when he looked back, he found that the path behind him had disappeared. There was also darkness behind him, and if he looked at it for too long, he would even have the illusion that he had been swallowed up.

With no way to retreat and no other options, he could only rush closer to the marriage tree.

Standing under the tree, with red ribbons fluttering in the wind above his head and the darkness beneath his feet, the whole world seemed to have no time, and staying there for too long would make people collapse. Fortunately, there was this marriage tree as a reference, so he didn't go crazy on the spot.

He walked carefully around the tree, but as expected, found nothing. He tried to take the red ribbon tied to the tree, but every time he jumped, the red ribbon would slip out of his hands very smoothly.

He tried to use magic, but the basic spells of the Qi Refining Period were useless here, and there was no response when he entered the darkness. He was really in a dead end.

After busying around for a while, he sat down dejectedly under the marriage tree with his back against it, staring blankly at the red ribbon above his head, and his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of bright red.

Suddenly, a red ribbon slowly slipped out of the knot, detached from the branch, and fell lightly. Cheng Ke caught it with his quick eyes and hands. Otherwise, he would not know whether he could find it again after it flew into the darkness.

He couldn't wait to unfold the ribbon to see if there was any clue on it. With the dim red light of the marriage tree, he actually found some words on one side.

"I hope I can be with Tanghulu for the rest of my life and eat it every day!"

As he read out the contents of the text word by word, Cheng Ke's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"Tangtangtanghulu? Isn't that just..."

At this moment, a ethereal whisper suddenly came into his ears.

"Keke, I've been waiting for you for such a long time..."

"Wow ah ah ah ah!"

A sharp scream echoed throughout the world, and the echo lingered for a long time, adding a sense of misery.

Cheng Ke's legs went weak and he fell to the ground. He used his hands and feet to crawl forward for a long distance before turning around and staring back.

A red ribbon was tied to a branch of the marriage tree, formed into a circle, and put around the neck of a little girl. It was obviously a scene of hanging.

The girl had long hair hanging down her back and was wearing a red robe with wide sleeves that covered her hands. She also had a pair of red embroidered shoes on her feet.

Because the silk ribbon was tied around her neck, the little girl's head was drooping, but Cheng Ke happened to be sitting on the ground at this time and looked up, so he could see her pale face clearly, including the ten-centimeter-long tongue that was hanging down.

"Lololo... Yiyiyiyi..."

A gust of cold wind blew in from somewhere, swaying his body back and forth, as if he would open his eyes and come back to life at any moment, making Cheng Ke's heart rise to his throat again.

It often takes only one straw to break the camel's back. The ethereal whisper sounded in Cheng Ke's ears again.

"Keke, I died such a miserable death!"

Cheng Ke turned around slowly and mechanically, and a pale little face appeared right in front of him.

The other person stared at him with a pair of big black eyes, and a drop of liquid was slowly dripping from the tip of his long tongue. The key point was that the liquid also dripped onto the back of his hand that was supporting the ground. He seemed to smell a hint of blood on his nose.

"..."

His eyes changed from horror to emptiness, and the next second, Cheng Ke finally happily - fainted.