Mysterious World, I Have Special Understanding

  Chapter 185 Iron Man

   "Those old people said that there is not one Yunshan Mountain, but two, one on the ground and one underground."

  After hearing what Lin Xiangori said, the atmosphere in the wooden cage suddenly became horrified.

   As a result, "cousin" and "sister-in-law" couldn't help getting closer to Ji Que, which made Ji Que hug on left and right.

  Now, the length of this chain has obviously exceeded her imagination, and Ji Que is sure that they have encountered something dirty.

   But where is the dirt?

   "Watch out for fire candles?"

  At this time, Ji Que couldn't help but think of what Bai Lu said before.

  The wooden cage has been sliding along the cableway, and has no intention of stopping.

  Ji Que felt that he should do something?

  He thought about simply turning out of the cage and going to the iron chain above to see if he could walk back.

   But he temporarily dismissed the idea.

  This iron chain is obviously weird, and it is unknown whether it will be possible to go back. Not to mention, when there is trouble, it will be difficult to use it on the iron chain.

   Rather than wasting energy on these things, it is better to wait for work at leisure.

  She doesn't believe that this ropeway can never end.

   After making a decision, Ji Que regained his tranquility.

  Lin Xiangzhi and Bai Lu gradually calmed down under his influence.

  The three of them practiced together during this period, and they really felt like they were connected.

  But not long after, Ji Que squinted suddenly, only to feel that there was something in the fog.

   But when she and he looked carefully, they found only thick white mist.

   Just when Ji Que thought he was wrong, he suddenly found out of the corner of his eye that two brownish-yellow objects appeared in the fog on the lower left.

  Those things were like two dimly lit lanterns that disappeared in the blink of an eye.

  But it was this blink that made Ji Que feel even more uncomfortable.

  There is no sky or earth in this place, so why are there lanterns?

   "Damn, it's broad daylight, why can't you come out and order something from the underworld?"

   Just as he was thinking about this, the whole wooden cage suddenly shook, made a creaking sound, and gradually stopped.

  Ji Que found out that the end is over.

  The iron chain has come to an end at this time, but will it still be Lin Xiangzhi's father's cave ahead?

  Ji Que hesitated for a moment, but finally opened the wooden cage, and jumped up the cliff with a light leap, followed by Lin Xiangzhi and Bai Lu.

  The three of them looked back at the rolling clouds and mist behind them, still feeling lingering fear.

  Yes, they always feel that this is not the world anymore.

  The fog in front of it has lightened a lot, and the appearance of flying eaves and pavilions can be seen vaguely.

   "Is it here?" Ji Que asked.

  Hayashi Kaori nodded and said, "It seems so."

  The appearance of this building is really similar to what I remember.

   This place is located on the mountainside of a mountain. Ji Que and the others walked hundreds of steps forward and found a pool of clear water.

  There is a row of winding stones on the lake water, which can be regarded as a road.

  After the lake, there is the entrance of Lin Xiangzhi's father's cave.

   It is not so much an entrance as a mountain gate of a Taoist temple.

  These buildings are indeed very similar to Taoist temples.

  Ji Que looked at the dark green water in the pool, and felt a little depressed.

  The color of the pool water is too dark to tell the depth, and the withered lotus leaves floating on the water are full of death, like pieces of corpses.

  With a bang, a circle of ripples appeared on the surface of the water, and a whitish carp revealed its head, and quickly sank into the emerald green water.

  This carp is not small, very fat, and also quite disgusting.

   But after all the calculations, this should be the first living thing they saw here?

  The mountain gate of the Taoist temple will arrive soon.

  The door is open, and it looks like it has been left unattended for a long time, and many vines are hanging down like snakes, which looks a bit gloomy.

  In order to avoid long nights and dreams, the three of them decided to make a quick decision and escape when they found the maggot dragon grass.

  This place is evil.

  But as soon as they stepped into the mountain gate, Bai Lu jumped back all of a sudden, with a panicked expression.

  Behind the mountain gate, there are two iron statues lying on their stomachs.

   This iron figure is skinny, and the shape of its bones can be seen at a glance. It is not an exaggeration to say that the bones are covered with a layer of skin.

  They are carved vividly, and their extremely thin faces all have expressions of extreme horror.

  The terrifying emotions seemed to overflow through the face of the Iron Man, sending chills down the spine.

  They were lying there on the left and right, and their postures did not look like people at all, but like four-legged snakes.

  Ling Xiangzhi looked at the two bony faces, and her heart beat a little faster.

  When she sneaked here before, she didn't have these iron figures.

  The two iron statues lay there lying there without moving or responding.

   Behind the mountain gate is a square that looks a bit stingy.

  In the center of the square stands a cauldron furnace, which is covered with dust and looks quite old.

  Such a picture proves that Ji Que's previous observation is correct, this place is a Taoist temple.

  Through the tradition of the Lin family, it can be inferred that Lin Xiangzhi’s father, Lin Erye, was a monk. This Taoism seems to have been observed for some years, and he should have discovered it and then occupied the magpie’s nest.

  The square is covered with dead leaves, and the feet rustle on it.

   At the end of the square, it is the main hall of this Taoist temple.

  The main hall is not grand, even short, with gray tiles and gray brick walls, it looks a bit heavy.

  Ji Que and the others soon discovered that there were a dozen iron statues standing in the hall.

These iron figures stand in a rather short Taoist temple, some are lying down, some are standing, some are sleeping, and the expressions on their faces are also different, some are laughing, some are crying, and some are vicious , and some seem to be looking at you sinisterly.

  These iron figures are all skinny, with curly hair, as if people have been sucked dry by some monster.

  Why are there so many ghost statues in this temple?

  When Ji Que asked about Lin Xiangzhi, Lin Xiangzhi was also at a loss.

  They soon discovered that there were no living people in this temple.

   There are no living people, only this kind of iron man. They seem to be abandoned here, and they look very scary.

   Behind the main hall is a courtyard, not too big, and it will end soon.

  If this is Lin Xiangzhi's father's cave, there should be a lot of hidden treasures, but now it seems that this place has been abandoned.

  The maggot dragon grass they were looking for might not be here.

  But Lin Xiangzhi shook her head and said: "According to our Lin family's practice, we don't put good things on the bright side."

   "You mean there is a secret room?" Ji Que thought about it.

  Hayashi Kaori nodded.

  The Lin family has a big business, and the cunning rabbit has three caves. It is very reasonable for the second master of the Lin family to have a secret room to hide things.

   Ning Hongyu is good at finding secret rooms, but they can only use stupid methods to find them inch by inch.

   There is a well in the courtyard of this backyard.

   Half of the iron man was exposed at the mouth of the well, as if it wanted to climb out of the well.

  Bai Lu looked at the iron statue at the mouth of the well, and couldn't help but said, "Brother Ji, it looks like the iron man is about to come out, so could there be something in the well?"

  Ji Que felt that it made sense, walked over, and found that the iron man's gesture was indeed climbing up, but one leg was missing.

   This is the first time the three of them have seen an incomplete iron statue since they entered the Clear Water Temple.

   Ji Que thought about it, and threw himself into the well.

  The environment in the well was very dark, and as soon as Ji Que raised his hand, the Qianji Sword emitted a soft light, illuminating the surroundings.

  He touched down inch by inch, and in a while he encountered the well water.

  The depth of the well water is pitch black, but if you use the Qianji sword to illuminate it, you can see that the water quality is quite clear.

  Ji Que began to knock on the walls of the surrounding wells, because Ning Hongyu used this method when turning on the machine before, but the opponent basically hit with one blow, and he could only try many times.

   As a result, I knocked and knocked, only to hear a bang, and somewhere on the wall of the well sank, and a fellow descending appeared as expected.

   "Found it." Ji Que said.

   Soon, Lin Xiangzhi, who had become a cat, stepped on Bai Lu's head, and followed Bai Lu down.

  The three of them walked through this dark passage, and found that there were many cracks on the stone wall, and some places even had small collapses.

   Ji Que walked in with a bowed body, and soon found himself in a relatively empty space.

   This is a pill room, but an accident should have happened.

  The ground is full of debris and black traces, and the bronze alchemy furnace in the center of the alchemy room has been completely exploded, in the shape of a trumpet.

"explode?"

  Lin Xiangzhi looked around and found that although the place was dark, there were many holes in the walls, like the windows of a house.

  At this time, some dim sky light scattered from these openings, illuminating the space inside a little.

  The three of them quickly confirmed that there had indeed been an explosion here.

  Involuntarily, Ji Que remembered the "whisper" that Bai Lu heard in the wooden cage before - "They said 'be careful of the candle'.".

  The alchemy room was severely damaged. The ground at the bottom of the alchemy furnace was a large pothole, with metal fragments and human heads scattered around it?

  Yes, there are also iron figures here, but they have been turned into human heads and some severed limbs.

  Especially the broken leg at the entrance, which can be regarded as a well-preserved location.

  After seeing this scene, a scene naturally appeared in the minds of the three of them.

  It was a very ordinary day, and the people in this Taoist temple were practicing and alchemy as usual.

   It was just in this secret room, because someone accidentally lit a candle, or for some reason, the entire pill furnace exploded.

  The explosion directly blew up the few people beside the stove to pieces, and a disciple who was far away had a leg broken, and then dragged the broken leg to climb up, wanting to ask for help or something.

   But when he climbed to the mouth of the well, he turned into an iron man.

  Afterwards, the entire Taoist temple, dead or alive, became iron men.

   Skinny Iron Man.

  This can also explain why those iron statues are so lifelike. After all, they are all made of people?

   This is the most direct guess that the three of them can think of.

  The person who made alchemy turned into an iron man, how weird and terrifying no matter how you think about it.

   And what if they were originally Iron Man?

  Iron Man is refining alchemy in a Taoist temple, is it even more terrifying to think so?

   At this moment, through the twilight of the openings, Lin Xiangzhi discovered that there was a mezzanine on the wall on the right.

   This mezzanine should be similar to the kind of built-in bookshelf, which is specially used to put books.

   It should be that after the explosion, most of the books on the bookshelf were burnt clean, leaving only black ashes.

  However, when Lin Xiangzhi swept away the ashes, she soon found that there were still a few relatively intact books lying in the deeper depths.

  These books were only partly burned and barely readable.

  Lin Xiangzhi pulled out these books, and found that most of them were related to alchemy, and she couldn't understand it after reading it a few times.

  But soon, she was attracted by the contents of an anonymous booklet.

  Because this is not a book on alchemy, but a diary.

   It's just that the diary was damaged in many places, and a lot of it was torn out in the middle, and only a part of it was barely readable.

"On the fifth day of March, we practiced and refined alchemy according to the way of the second master, and our cultivation base became more and more refined, but I couldn't be happy. Because I became thinner and thinner, and everyone in the temple became thinner and thinner. .

  We didn’t notice it at first, we just thought it was caused by our hard work, until one day, I found that my fellow disciple looked at me like seeing a ghost, and I also felt the same way.

  We are so thin, we are not human at all. "

"On April 12th, I couldn't help but ask about the reason for the second master. The second master told us that this is part of the practice. The profit and loss will be converted to each other. As long as we work hard, we will return to the way we used to be sooner or later. This is not true. Can be fatal.

  Hearing this, my brothers and sisters and I relaxed a little. "

   "The eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, if I remember correctly, today is the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month. I found that the temple has become more and more strange. We can no longer leave the Taoist temple easily. The gatekeeper said that we are afraid that we will scare people.

  But we are obviously human, why do we scare people?

  But every time I saw the shadow in the water, I found that what the guard said was right, maybe, we are not human at all? "

"On the first day of the new year, I want to wear a new dress. My mother sewed it herself when I left home. It's just that the clothes are so big that I wear them empty. I want to see what the new clothes look like, but I found that the bronze mirrors in the temple seemed to be missing.

  Woooo We are becoming less and less human, the third senior brother is getting more and more irritable, I always feel that he will throw people into the alchemy furnace"

   Arriving here, this should be the diary of a young woman, and it came to an abrupt end.

   Lin Xiangori held the diary and looked around the gloomy alchemy room, feeling a little cold.

  She can imagine what has happened here in the past few years.

  His father brought many people here to practice alchemy and practice. These people looked like he bought them outside.

  But for some reason, maybe it's the exercises, maybe it's taking the elixir, the people in the view become more and more tired, until they become skinny.

  They can't go out, they can only continue to live, practice, and make alchemy as usual, until the explosion happens, and they all become iron men?

  But now there is no one alive in this Taoist temple, and it may be unrealistic to know the real process.

  Especially the torn pages of this diary may contain the key to the secret in this view.

  Was it the owner of the diary who tore off those pages, or someone else.

  Then, besides exercises and explosions, could this abnormality of the people in this view be related to the weird fog?

  Will they also become like this?

  Lin Xiangzhi thought as she looked at these severed limbs.

  She told Bai Lu and Ji Que what she had found, and the three couldn't help but look solemn.

  They came here to steal things. There are no more people to live here. It should be a good thing, but the Taoist temple made them feel cold and terrifying.

  At this time, through the dim skylight falling from the entrance of the cave, Bai Lu even had the illusion that the broken heads of iron men on the ground were looking at him with strange eyes.

  Bai Lu has no experience in subjugating demons, so the more she reads, the more she thinks so.

  But when she changed positions, those heads didn't seem to be looking at her.

   After all, this is an illusion brought about by the angle of sight.

  At this time, she suddenly looked at a part of the cave wall, and asked in confusion, "What is that?"

  There are quite a few openings like small windows on the walls of this alchemy room, and two of them are inlaid with a brownish-yellow stone, like some kind of rough gemstone.

  Lin Xiangzhi was in the shape of a cat, and quickly rolled up with her brisk figure, wanting to see what happened.

  This brownish-yellow thing is spherical in shape. It was not until I walked in that I found that it was covered with fine holes, like a honeycomb, which made people uncomfortable.

   At this moment, Lin Xiangzhi's hair suddenly stood on end, let out a meow, and fell off.

  Because just now, the two stones suddenly moved.

  Ji Que also noticed something strange, then remembered something, and said, "Eyes, what kind of eyes are these?"

  He saw two yellow lanterns in the wooden cage that looked like a cable car before, and now that he thinks about it, it's probably these things.

   As soon as he finished speaking, the yellow stone moved again, and it really rolled with the eyeballs in the eye sockets.

  Ji Que's scalp was numb, and he couldn't help saying: "Let's go! Get out of here first!"

  (end of this chapter)