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Ye Qiutang became more and more confused, but the word "weird" frightened her inexplicably, "What on earth are you talking about? Please explain it clearly!"

Jiang Cheng turned to look at Ye Qiutang, "Miss Ye, if my guess is correct, the danger we are about to face may be more severe than Mr. Song said. There are some things I must explain to you clearly.

"My friend and I have more experience in dealing with this kind of thing than you. We have solved similar things many times, so you must trust us. Don't hide the next actions, especially at critical moments. You must never make any decisions and obey the arrangements.”

Feeling Jiang Cheng's gaze, Ye Qiutang slowly frowned, as if she wanted to see through the other face under Jiang Cheng's face. After a while, she did not express her position but said in a low tone: "Mr. Song is indeed right, you two Unusually, he even suspected that these evil spirits in the temple were coming for you. The only thing we did wrong was that we should not have saved you."

Hearing Ye Qiutang's slightly complaining tone, Jiang Cheng acted very calmly, "Miss Ye, I don't want to shirk responsibility, but what happened has already happened, and it's meaningless to talk about it now."

"I can only tell you that we have the ability to solve problems. Not just us, I have four other friends who have also been scattered to different places."

"Everyone's experiences are similar, but if everything goes well, we will meet soon. Then you will take your Yangguan Road and I will cross my single-plank bridge. We will not interfere with each other and everyone will be happy."

Jiang Cheng's words were somewhat unkind, and the fat man found them harsh, but Ye Qiutang didn't react much. She just stared at Jiang Cheng's face, and then asked after a long while: "I only want to ask you one question. Are these two agents sent by the Southern Barbarians, and is this all a trap set by you? "

Jiang Cheng responded mercilessly: "I think Miss Ye is overthinking this issue. If the Nanmanzi have such means, they have no reason to use it on you."

Ye Qiutang thought for a while and nodded slowly, "I, Ye Qiutang, have absolute sincerity when I say cooperation. Don't worry about this. I believe you can lead us out of this ghost temple."

"That's good." Jiang Cheng's face softened.

"By the way, what is the weird thing you just talked about?" Under the simple stone wall of the Taoist temple, Ye Qiutang stopped. This question seemed to be very important to her.

"Miss Xie Zhenye should understand. If it's weird, just think of it as an extremely powerful evil spirit. You can't defeat such things. It's best to find their flaws." After nightfall, Jiang Cheng tried calling Wu. , but there was no response at all. This ghost temple trapped them like a cage. What made Jiang Cheng even more worried was that until now, Li Baiyao, Shunyu, and Zhu Jie and Tang Qisheng had not made any movement.

Jiang Cheng's previous words were a reassurance for Ye Qiutang. She didn't think it was necessary for Jiang Cheng to deceive her in a life-or-death situation. "Where are we going now?" Ye Qiutang asked. Since she didn't understand, she didn't make any trouble and just gave him some advice. Suggestions: "Tibetan Scripture Pavilion?"

Taoist Lingxu made it very clear last night, tonight is the deadline, and the purple gold alms bowl must be smashed, it is a great evil thing.

"No, it's not time yet." Jiang Cheng stood still and briefly identified the direction, then raised his feet and walked to one side, "Let's go to the Merit Hall first."

Fatty had a very bad impression of Gongde Hall. Every time he woke up at night, he would go to Gongde Hall. The way the monks in Gongde Hall cultivated "merits" also repeatedly refreshed Fatty's physical and psychological limits as a human being. The fat man clearly remembered last time that not only were men and women having sex under the Buddha statue, but there were also monks lying on top of the monks. This monk from the precepts temple was really not taboo about meat and vegetables. The fat man was so disgusted that he almost vomited.

The three of them were cautious along the way, but luckily, they didn't encounter any trouble. When they arrived outside the gate of the courtyard where Merit Hall was located, the fat man frowned instinctively. He suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"There's no such noisy noise anymore, aren't you used to it?" Jiang Cheng glanced at him and knew what the fat man was thinking. Everything was written on his face.

"Ah, yes, yes, I wonder why it feels weird."

Although the appearance of today's Gongde Hall has not changed much, the style is very different from before. The stone walls and gray tiles here have a Taoist atmosphere that is free and easy and respects nature.

There was a faint light coming from inside, not the light of a torch, but really just some light, a small mud lamp, or a candle.

As we got closer, we could hear the sound of chanting Taoist scriptures coming from inside.

The sound was buzzing, but not annoying, but it could be heard that there were many people inside.

Not daring to go to the old place, the three of them carefully went to another window. Jiang Cheng poked a small hole in the window paper with his finger.

Ye Qiutang followed suit.

Just when the fat man was about to poke him with his thick fingers, Jiang Cheng stopped him, "You don't have to, you stay and be careful around you."

Through the small hole, Jiang Cheng saw dozens of Taoist priests sitting cross-legged inside. These Taoist priests had their backs to them, with green straw mats underneath them, and an open scripture in front of each of them.

Candles stood between the Taoist priests, standing so casually. The tears of the candles slid down along the candles and dripped on the ground.

A breeze blew and the candlelight swayed fiercely. Jiang Cheng could see clearly. The walls around him were covered with portraits. Judging from their appearance and the gestures of their hands, they should all be immortal figures in the Taoist sect. .

"hiss--"

Ye Qiutang took a breath, and then she gently touched Jiang Cheng with her hand.

In fact, she didn't need to remind him, Jiang Cheng himself also saw that the thin back was very familiar to the right of the Taoist priests who were meditating and chanting scriptures.

It was Monk Huicong, but now Huicong has grown hair, so he should be called Xuan Cong.

Xuan Cong's body moved from time to time, and his head drooped slightly, and it seemed that he was chanting scriptures with everyone.

After changing several postures in a row, Jiang Cheng and Ye Qiutang could only see the backs of these monks.

"Let's go around to the other side, and we must move lightly." Jiang Cheng lowered his voice.

Soon, the three of them tiptoed around the Merit Hall for most of the circle and went to another direction. There was another window that looked even more dilapidated.

After confirming that there was no danger, Ye Qiutang carefully poked a small hole in the window paper with his fingers, and then leaned close to the small hole to look inside, but the next second, the fat man suddenly noticed that Ye Qiutang's body stiffened, and then trembled uncontrollably.

Jiang Cheng saw something was wrong and immediately pulled Ye Qiutang back, "What's going on?"

He was on guard just now and had not had time to make a hole in the window paper. He did not choose to look at the small hole left by Ye Qiutang, because he knew that if Ye Qiutang was really affected by something, he would also be affected if he continued to look, so he chose to ask Ye Qiutang first, which was also the experience of experiencing many nightmare worlds.

"What's going on with them?" Ye Qiutang looked terrified, "I just saw the backs of these Taoists, they still had their backs to me!"

As soon as these words came out, the fat man immediately imagined the scene inside, and the whole person was not good.

Jiang Cheng was silent for a moment, then poked another hole and looked inside. After a moment, he retracted his sight and nodded to the fat man with difficulty, "She is right, these Taoists still have their backs to us."

It is impossible for the Taoists inside to completely change direction in such a short time without making any sound, so Jiang Cheng judged that they were affected.

Jiang Cheng once read a post about a campus supernatural story. The post was titled "The Girl with Braided Pigtails". It was about a high school girl's dormitory. On the night of the holiday, all the roommates in the dormitory left, leaving Xiaomei alone. As a result, Xiaomei, who was sleeping soundly late at night, was suddenly awakened by a sound of footsteps in the corridor.

The footsteps were very strange, walking back and forth in the corridor. Xiaomei felt strange, so she looked out through the cat's eye on the dormitory door and saw a girl with a ponytail. The girl stood outside her door, stopped and did not move, with a thick ponytail hanging behind her head, black and black.

Xiaomei did not remember that there was this girl in the school. At the same time, it was late at night and most of the students who lived there had left. Xiaomei became more and more scared. At this time, she suddenly remembered that a girl in the dormitory opposite did not seem to go home either. She took out her mobile phone very quietly and sent a message to that girl.

As a result, not long after, she received a reply, but the moment she opened the reply, Xiaomei was shocked, because it was a not very clear photo, as if it was taken secretly from the crack of the door, and the photo also showed a girl with a ponytail facing away from the camera.

So the girl outside the door had ponytails on both sides, and she had no face at all.

Originally, Jiang Cheng would only regard it as a pastime of a third-rate novelist when he was bored, but many stories were extended under this post, some of which were quite interesting. Some said that the dormitory opposite Xiaomei was actually uninhabited at that time, and Xiaomei’s friend was fake. Others said that the girl with a ponytail outside was Xiaomei’s friend, but this friend was killed by Xiaomei, and she came to seek revenge on her. There was a post that was pinned to the top that left a deep impression on the young Jiang Cheng. It said that Xiaomei was really cursed after opening the photo, and the ponytail in the photo was the girl’s face.

Thinking of this, Jiang Cheng's heart suddenly "snapped". He immediately looked into the room. It was still the same inside, with the Taoist priest with his back to him, a green straw mat, and candles with dim flames. However, he felt that something had changed. However, he scanned the Taoist priests one by one, and the Taoist priests inside did not move.

"Hiss--"

The next second, Ye Qiutang, who was also observing, seemed to have discovered something and took a breath of cold air. "Don't, don't look anymore!" Ye Qiutang pulled Jiang Cheng and pulled him back.

Ye Qiutang's voice was trembling, and her eyes became fearful. She kept looking around, as if she was worried about something.

"Keep your voice down, aren't you afraid?" Ye Qiutang's voice just now scared the fat man, and his face turned green. The Taoist priests inside were evil, and it would be troublesome if they were provoked.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Cheng tried to comfort Ye Qiutang, "You have something to say, take your time."

"Don't look, there are fewer people inside." Ye Qiutang said hurriedly, "Last time I looked at a Taoist priest a few more times, so I have an impression of him, but when I looked again just now, the Taoist priest disappeared!"

"Gone" Jiang Cheng frowned, "To be honest, Miss Ye, I have been on guard against this, so I always pay attention to checking the number of people. I counted twice, and each time it was 44 people, including Monk Huicong."

"Impossible, I clearly remember there was a Taoist priest under the pillar on the right, but he disappeared just now." Ye Qiutang said with certainty.

After saying that, Ye Qiutang continued to move closer to look, and this time her reaction was more intense, because not only did the previous Taoist priest disappear, but even the other Taoist priest next to this Taoist priest also disappeared, and their scriptures and the green straw mats under them disappeared with them. All this happened particularly naturally.

The fat man also wanted to come over to take a look, but as soon as he raised his hand, he was forced back by Jiang Cheng's look, "Don't cause trouble, you are the only one who didn't get hit, and you jumped into the fire pit."

By now, Jiang Cheng probably knew what the problem was. Today's Merit Hall was a trap. The other party knew that they wanted to look carefully at Monk Huicong's face, so they set up this trap.

Before, they were indeed looking at the backs of the Taoist priests inside, but now they were looking at the front faces of these things.

And seeing the frontal face means that they have also been discovered by the ghost inside.

At the end of that post, Xiaomei disappeared, and she became the next ponytail girl, like a water ghost looking for a substitute.

After briefly explaining the story of the girl with the ponytail to the fat man Ye Qiutang, both of their faces became excited. To be fair, Ye Qiutang thought that she was not that afraid of death. After she became a famous general, she had seen many bloody scenes. , but what she was afraid of was such a strange death, silent and full of despair.

"Is there anything you can do? If so, then..."

Before Ye Qiutang finished speaking, her eyes suddenly stopped. She stared straight at the position behind Jiang Cheng, her eyes falling.

Jiang Cheng turned around and made a blocking movement at the same time. He subconsciously thought that there was a sneak attack. Anything could happen in this damn place.

But a gust of night wind came, and there was nothing behind him, with no trace of anyone at all.

But the next second, as his eyes turned downward, he found a pair of shoe prints on the mud.

The shoe prints were large and round, which was completely different from the shoes of the three of them. Jiang Cheng immediately realized that these shoes were black cloth shoes often worn by Taoist priests, which were round-topped shoes.

But when had a Taoist priest been around them? The shoe prints are very new, and it looks like they were left not long ago.

Slowly, Jiang Cheng discovered something even more terrifying. There was only one pair of these shoe prints. There was wet mud nearby, but there were no traces of the shoe prints coming from or walking out of, as if they were just there. It seemed like it suddenly appeared in a certain moment.