Chen Yuanyuan looked at the masked man in front of her and asked, "Why did you give us this map?"
The masked man seemed to have known that Chen Yuanyuan would ask this question, so he did not hesitate, just smiled and replied: "Of course you hope that you can find the big tomb of Wang Meng."
Chen Yuanyuan continued to ask: "But what good does this do to you?"
Facing Chen Yuanyuan's question, the masked man smiled slightly and chose not to answer. He just said lightly: "If I guessed correctly, the reason why those monkeys attacked you is because you took things you shouldn't have taken..."
After saying this, the masked man turned around and left without stopping.
Seeing the masked man about to leave, Chen Yuanyuan immediately shouted: "Wait a minute! You haven't answered my question yet... Why are you doing this?"
The masked man did not answer Chen Yuanyuan's question, but left a sentence and disappeared into the woods not far away, "It won't be long before we meet again. Let's talk about anything you have to say then!"
Chen Yuanyuan looked at the direction in which the masked man disappeared, wondering what he felt in his heart.
She stood there for a long time, recalling every word the masked man said. Suddenly, the sentence "Some of you took something you shouldn't have" caught Chen Yuanyuan's attention.
"Grandma, is it true that someone had a hand and took something they shouldn't have?" Thinking of this, Chen Yuanyuan no longer delayed, turned around and ran towards Menshan Temple.
Chen Yuanyuan hadn't chased him too far before, and it only took five or six minutes at most. So she lowered her body and ran back to Menshan Temple in a short while.
Chen Yuanyuan listened carefully. Menshan Temple was as quiet as ever, and there seemed to be no sound of fighting inside. Chen Yuanyuan took a deep breath and thought to herself: "Maybe the purpose of those monkeys is just to lure us out into the forest..."
Chen Yuanyuan thought as she stepped across the gate of Menshan Temple, took long strides and ran towards the back hall where the statue of Wei Tuo was placed.
Menshan Temple is not big, and the distance from the main gate to the back hall is only one or two hundred meters. After more than ten seconds, Chen Yuanyuan returned to the Wei Tuo Hall where they had hidden before.
But what Chen Yuanyuan didn't expect at all was that the entire back hall was already in a mess. Blood almost dyed the entire Wei Tuo Hall red. Even most of the clay statue of Wei Tuo turned dark red. Countless limbs and broken arms were scattered everywhere, and more than a dozen corpses in extremely miserable conditions lay motionless in the hall. The smell of blood blew in the wind, stimulating every nerve in Chen Yuanyuan's body. …
"Grandpa Zhou...Sister Xiaofeng..." Chen Yuanyuan burst into tears when she saw this. She rushed into the Wei Tuo Hall as if she was crazy. She shouted the names of Zhou Ziping and Lu Xiaofeng with all her heart. While rummaging through the pile of corpses.
Fortunately, Chen Yuanyuan searched for a while and saw that most of the corpses in the hall were the new generation disciples of Qianmen. Some of them were even people whom Chen Yuanyuan had never seen before. In other words, those corpses were not them at all. People from thousands of gates.
"Who are these people?" Chen Yuanyuan looked at the unfamiliar faces and couldn't help but wonder in her heart: "Are they here to help us? Or are they planning a sneak attack? Or..."
Chen Yuanyuan didn't think about it anymore. She just silently put the bodies aside. Even though the sudden appearance of these people was very suspicious, the most important thing for her at this time was to find Zhou Ziping and Lu Xiaofeng.
Chen Yuanyuan checked all the nearly twenty corpses lying in the Wei Tuo Hall, but did not see Zhou Ziping or Lu Xiaofeng. Only then did she let out a sigh of relief and murmured: "No... not seen." If we get to their bodies, that means...at least they are still alive for now..."
Chen Yuanyuan shook her aching arms, found a pillar and sat down against it. At this moment, the originally clean clothes on her body were already stained with blood stains. Chen Yuanyuan was originally a very clean person, but at this time She didn't care about that much anymore.
She took a breath and stretched her hands to her waist, intending to touch the kettle that had been hanging on her waist, but after touching for a long time, she found nothing.
Chen Yuanyuan then remembered that she probably fell outside Menshan Temple when she was fighting with the monkey just now.
Thinking of the monkey, Chen Yuanyuan couldn't help but think of what the masked man said before leaving. Immediately afterwards, Chen Yuanyuan turned to look at the strange corpses lying on the ground, "Could it be that these people are the same as those people?" Are the monkeys here just for that kind of thing? But what exactly is that kind of thing? Why do these people and that group of monkeys even risk their lives?"
The more Chen Yuanyuan thought about it, the more outrageous she felt. Then she slowly stood up and walked towards one of the corpses.
This is a young man who looks like he is in his twenties. Although his appearance is not handsome, he is still passable.
This young man was wearing local clothes and holding an antique long knife in his hand. Chen Yuanyuan had no research or interest in old objects, so he didn't care about the long knife and just slowly put it aside. .
Chen Yuanyuan looked at the corpse in front of her up and down, and secretly thought: "Judging from the damaged parts of the clothes, this man's wound was in the heart, but why didn't he see a drop of blood here?"
Thinking of this, Chen Yuanyuan tore off the clothes of the young man in front of him, but what surprised him was that the skin of this guy who originally looked like he was only in his twenties turned out to be like an old man in his eighties or nineties. Not only that, there were many ulcers on this guy's body, and large drops of goose-yellow pus flowed out from the ulcers.
What surprised Chen Yuanyuan the most was that, where the fatal wound was on the guy's chest, there was a black-backed and white-spotted millipede the size of a palm lying there.
When Chen Yuanyuan saw that there were bugs on the corpse, she instinctively took two steps back and cursed in her heart: "Why is there still bugs in this guy's body? Is this a voodoo technique from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau? Or..."
Chen Yuanyuan was thinking about it when suddenly a scream came from the front hall.
Chen Yuanyuan recognized this voice, and a name suddenly flashed in her mind, "It's Xiao Shen...! In the front hall...!"
Thinking of this, Chen Yuanyuan no longer delayed, turned around and rushed out of the Wei Tuo Hall, running towards the front hall where Sakyamuni Buddha was placed at the front.
But what Chen Yuanyuan didn't expect was that when she ran to the front hall, she didn't see even a single figure.
"Xiao Shen...! Where are you? Xiao Shen...!" Chen Yuanyuan shouted loudly: "What happened?"
But Chen Yuanyuan shouted for a long time, but didn't even get a response.
Chen Yuanyuan's heart began to sink, and she thought to herself: "Did I hear it wrong? But that statement just now..."
At this moment, a cold light suddenly came rushing towards Chen Yuanyuan and pierced his left ribs.
Chen Yuanyuan was shocked and hurriedly ducked away.
But she still took a step slower, and the cold light struck her ribs, leaving a slap-sized gash on Chen Yuanyuan's body, followed by blood splattering everywhere.
