smuggler

Chapter 145 Sacrifice to the Snake God

Chu Yuan's voice was a little helpless: "This painting only reveals a small piece, what do you want me to say?"

I couldn't understand it at all, but I didn't dare to disturb him, so I became a little assistant diligently. Every time he looked at a piece, I leaned down and pouted my small mouth to help him blow the dust on the ground.

"Hoohoo!"

I blow the dust vigorously.

At first Chu Yuan didn't pay attention, but after a while, he raised his head to look at me and smiled for the first time.

"Aren't you afraid of blowing your breath?" He smiled, unexpectedly gentle.

"hey-hey!"

I wiped the gray dust off my face, and followed suit.

I don't know if it was moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand and took off a piece of dry grass that was stuck on my head, but when he took it off, his hand stopped again.

His pitch-black eyes stared at me fixedly, a little absent-minded.

"What's wrong with you?" I looked at him suspiciously.

When Chu Yuan came to his senses, he shook his head, and a different look flashed in Ru Shentan's eyes.

He said, "Do you want to know what is painted on it?"

I nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

Chu Yuan stared at it for a while, then slowly said: "This painting is about a snake village. The village painted on it is the descendant of snakes! You see, this painting was made by them at sunrise, and they died at sunset. This painting is a custom that they are not allowed to intermarry with people from other villages!"

"But these paintings don't seem to be complete." Chu Yuan didn't continue talking.

I stared at the paintings on the bluestone slabs on the ground for a long time, but one of them caught my attention.

The painting seems to be a lot of people kneeling on top of a snake statue, as if holding some kind of ceremony.

I stretched my neck to watch, and said to Chu Yuan: "What is on this painting? Why do these villagers seem to be worshiping something? Is it the Dragon King?"

"No, it's the snake god!" Chu Yuan said in a deep voice, "They are worshiping the snake god!"

"how do you know?"

These paintings appear on these bluestone slabs, which makes me feel very incredible.

Chu Yuan said: "These villagers all think that they are descendants of the snake god, and of course they worship the snake god himself."

What he said was very reasonable, but I still couldn't figure it out, "How could there be such a bluestone slab with strange paintings carved in the Dragon King Temple?"

Chu Yuan's eyes brightened slightly, and he murmured in a low voice, "Maybe...it wants to turn this place into a snake village!"

"Snake... village?" I asked with question marks all over my head, with an incredulous expression on my face.

Chu Yuan didn't answer me, but stared at these shallow painting marks and said: "These things in the paintings always give me a very familiar feeling, I seem to have seen them somewhere before!"

I don't know if Chu Yuan thought of something, but when he said this, his expression showed some reminiscence,

"The painting is crooked, and I can't see anything." I stared at it and said, "But there is definitely something wrong."

"There are no dragons in this Hualong Village!" Chu Yuan's pupils suddenly tightened, revealing a faint cold light.

I nodded, and was about to speak, when suddenly a woman's ghostly laughter came from behind, which made my expression change immediately, and I turned my head to look behind me suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Chu Yuan suddenly asked solemnly.

I moved slightly, hid behind Chu Yuan, pulled up the corner of his clothes, and said in a low voice, "It seems that a woman is laughing."

At first, there were a lot of weird snakes in the temple, but now it made me feel like I was in a panic, and any trouble made me very nervous.

Chu Yuan suddenly raised his head, looked at the cloth banners whistling by the wind on the beam above his head, and fixed his eyes on a dot protruding from the wall.

"It's the wind!" He said in a low voice, asking me to be safe.

After speaking, he picked up a small stone from the ground, flicked his fingers lightly, the stone was ejected, and the dots on the beams immediately retracted.

Chu Yuan said nonchalantly: "There should be secret passages or something in this temple, we are looking for it!"

"How do you know?" I tilted my head and was very puzzled. What logic did he use for this analysis?

Chu Yuan focused his eyes on the two-meter-tall Dragon King statue: "This Dragon King Temple is just a cover to cover up the truth of Hualong Village, but the villagers of Hualong Village come here to worship every year, which shows the root of their worship. It's not a dragon king!"

I nodded half understanding, and we walked around the temple several times, and finally Chu Yuan found a secret channel mechanism.

He calmly said: "Here is a Huarong Taoist outfit!"

I shone the small flashlight and saw his gaze fixed on the lotus lantern next to the statue of the Dragon King.

This lotus lamp is carved out of stone, one on each side of the statue.

I was a little surprised that he spoke with such confidence: "How did you see that?"

"There is a thin layer of dust on the surrounding ground and walls, and the same is true on the lotus lamp holder on the right, but this one is smooth, indicating that someone has touched it, and more than once."

After finishing speaking, Chu Yuan's eyes were sharp, and he stretched out his generous palm to hold the lotus lamp holder and turned it gently.

Suddenly there was a "crack" sound in the temple, as if something huge was pushed away.

I turned my head and used the flashlight to shine towards the place behind me, and a wall not far away was slowly opening to reveal a crack.

"I didn't expect it to exist!"

I was overjoyed immediately, thanks to Chu Yuan, otherwise I might not have discovered it with my ability.

"Kaka!"

The sound came again, and the wall began to move again, but it was slowly closing.

"Go in first, the passage will be closed soon." He said as he pulled me, and quickly squeezed in through the gap.

As soon as the two of us squeezed in, it was completely closed with a strong snap, and there was no more gap.

But because I left too hastily, I didn't even know that there was a greater danger waiting for me at this moment.

As my foot slipped, I fell backwards.

"careful!"

Chu Yuan who was standing aside quickly reminded him, but it was still too late.

I lost my balance and fell straight down.

Because I didn't have any defenses, I didn't have time to call, and I didn't even know what was going on, but I stopped falling soon because someone held me.

"Why are you so reckless?"

Chu Yuan's dissatisfied voice came from above his head, and he grabbed the back of my neck by the collar with one hand.

Then I was picked up by him like a little chick, and it took less than a few seconds before and after.

I patted my chest with lingering fear, and felt that I was too reckless just now.

Just now, because I was not used to the darkness, I didn't notice anything wrong after I came in. In this strange place, it's better to be careful in everything.

I was still in shock and said, "Thanks to you being here just now."

He said in a deep voice, "You'd better listen to me in this place, don't move or run around."

I nodded honestly in response to saying I heard it, and then I didn't dare to move any more, standing where I was and carefully shining the flashlight around me.

Only then did I realize that the place I was in was not what I imagined, but a huge cave.

Just now I stepped on the ground because I stepped on the edge of the cave. Fortunately, Chu Yuan reacted quickly, otherwise I might have fallen to my death in the abyss by now.

"The Dragon King Temple is halfway up the mountain, so we should be in the mountain behind the Dragon King Temple now. I didn't expect there to be a cave here!"

I looked at the dark cave in front of me with lingering fear.

(End of this chapter)