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The two were vigilant all the way, passing through many Buddhist temples, but they didn't find a single figure.

"Wait," Qin Fengchi stopped and said, "There is a meditation room next to it, go in and have a look first."

Qin Song nodded nervously and mustered up the courage to walk ahead of him: "Master, I will find the way for you."

"No, first stabilize your knife and don't shake it." Qin Fengchi lifted him away in disgust, and stepped into the yard.

Qin Song lowered his head to look at his hand, and it was just shaking a little.He followed up lightly with a mournful face, thinking, we are really not timid, we are just afraid of ghosts!

This is a row of back-cover houses, and the monks who are responsible for cleaning, planting vegetables and chopping firewood live in it, called Jingtou Yuantou Chaitou.There is no dust on the ground of the yard, but a layer of leaves has fallen and no one has cleaned it.Maybe because it was midsummer, the doors of this row of houses were not closed, only covered with blue coarse cloth curtains, but the wooden windows were not erected, and the doors were closed tightly.

Qin Fengchi walked to the room closest to the gate, stood on the side of the curtain, picked it up with the tip of a knife, and looked inside.He glanced around in a hurry and saw that there was no one inside, so he motioned for Qin Song to go in with him.

"Master, this is too strange," Qin Song muttered while checking, "The people in the room seem to disappear out of thin air."

indeed so.

Qin Fengchi only checked it briefly, and this incredible idea also appeared in his mind.

It is not just that there is no one in the room, whether it is the half-drunk cup on the table, the thin quilt that is spread flat on the bed with only one corner lifted, or the neatly arranged monk shoes with the toe facing outwards at the foot of the bed, it all shows The owner of the house was probably still sleeping on the bed when he disappeared.

They checked the other houses one by one, most of them were the same as the first one, and the owner seemed to disappear in his sleep.There is only one room, the bed is neatly folded, but there is a piece of yellow paper spread out on the desk by the window, only a few lines of Buddhist scriptures are copied on it, and it is copied to the end of "I invite the World Honored One to testify to the five turbidity and evil world first". When the word "enter", dragged down a long stroke, it came to an abrupt end.

Putting on silk gloves, Qin Song picked up the pen from the ground next to the desk. The tip of the pen was already dry and there was nothing unusual about it.He carefully put the pen back in place before taking off his gloves and throwing it on the ground.

"Let's go," Qin Fengchi frowned, "Go and see the old lady."

They walked to the back of the entire temple, separated by a large vegetable garden and fruit grove, and saw an independent two-entry courtyard hidden behind.

This is where the birth mother of the son of heaven lived.

Qin Song's whole body was as tense as a rock, with the horizontal knife in front of him, moving every step.If the emptiness of the entire Donglin Temple just now made people nervous, at this moment he had already begun to feel fear.After all, when it comes to suitable places for ambush, isn't Linzi the first choice?

Qin Fengchi was very impatient, he picked up his apprentice by the collar and jumped onto an old peach tree.

The apprentice whose face was shaved by the branch: "..."

The peach tree is not young, and its height is high enough to overlook the entire vegetable orchard, so you can tell at a glance if someone is lying in ambush.Qin Fengchi looked around, then turned his eyes to the small courtyard in the distance, his pupils suddenly shrank.

Qin Song only felt that the hand holding him was suddenly loosened. He was just about to look up at the master, but the neckline tightened suddenly. The whole body was dragged by a strong force. He jumped into the air again——he was strangled until he rolled his eyes, and the scene in front of him suddenly dropped again, and then he turned upside down.

He was thrown to the ground.

"Ahem——" Qin Song covered his neck and coughed, looking up at Master's back mournfully.His lightness kung fu is not bad, why does the master always drag him like a piggy.

Qin Fengchi couldn't care less about him.

The second courtyard in front of me can be called simple, without even a stone courtyard wall, it is only surrounded by bamboo fences, and only the second courtyard is surrounded by mountains, and a wall is built around it.

There was someone in the front yard.

This person was probably a servant girl, with her back turned to them, bowing her head, not knowing what she was doing, and she was making every move.

Qin Song got up and took a look, gasped, and subconsciously hid behind the master.

With a bitter face, he whispered: "Oh my god, is this a human or a ghost?"

Qin Fengchi also had no answer in his mind.He looked at the servant's back, very much like Xiuzhi, the eldest palace maid next to the old lady.If it wasn't for the fact that something happened to the temple earlier, looking at the picture in front of me, there would be nothing unusual.

But looking at it now, I can't help but feel hairy.

The old lady, like most of the women in the palace, started to believe in Buddhism very early, but she only officially kept the precepts when the emperor got married and opened the mansion, and came to Donglin Temple.In fact, everyone knows that no matter whether the old lady believes in Buddhism or not, coming here to clean up is like a cold palace.But for the sake of the emperor's smooth life, the old lady came here without complaint and stayed for more than ten years.

Therefore, the people in this yard, like the old lady, are ordinary people without the power to restrain a chicken.

The monks in the entire temple disappeared without a trace, so why are the women and children in the small courtyard an exception?

There is no reason.

Qin Fengchi's expression was cold, the tip of the knife was slanted to the ground, and he was ready to go.The two walked towards the small courtyard step by step, and did not deliberately take their steps lightly, but the woman who turned her back to them seemed to have never heard of it, still bowed and didn't know what she was doing.

"Aunt Xiu?"

He called softly, and the toe of his boot stepped on the ground in the yard.

hum ——————

There was a strange buzzing sound in front of her, and the middle-aged servant woman turned around—yes, her entire upper body turned around completely, revealing a frightening face with shrunken bones.

This face looked at them, and in a very short moment, the black eyeballs suddenly reversed, turning blue and white!In the next second, "she" opened her entire mouth, and three or four golden shadows swept into several golden threads and shot towards Qin Fengchi's master and apprentice.

"Get out of the way!" Qin Fengchi yelled sharply, throwing his apprentice into the distance, blocking his eyes with the horizontal knife!He only heard a few "ding ding" sounds, and the golden shadow was actually nailed to his knife. He didn't care to take a closer look, and his internal force was shaken, and the golden shadows exploded into a few small balls of black mist, which were scattered by him.

Qin Fengchi twisted his waist and jumped, using the point of the knife to lightly tap the ground, he jumped several feet away in an instant.

"Her" face had been split in two at this time, making it difficult to look closely. Her upper body seemed to be broken, and she slowly folded to the ground and fell to the ground.

Qin Song was completely stupefied with fright. He collapsed by the fence on the other side and couldn't even stand up.

"Stay still!" Panting heavily, Qin Fengchi stood up with his knife in hand.

He looked at the knife with his backhand, and there was no small hole in the knife as he thought, it was very smooth and hard, but there seemed to be some unknown liquid hanging on it, black and red, quite viscous.

"...Insects?" Qin Fengchi felt a little disgusted, took out a handkerchief from his arms, wiped the knife clean, and threw it on the ground.

Xiugu's corpse on the ground was completely motionless. He walked over to bear the discomfort and inspected it carefully, and found many small black spiders protruding from the corpse's ears, eyes, and nose, but these spiders seemed to have their own discipline, moving Growing up, bypassing Qin Fengchi and hurriedly climbing to the bamboo fence on the other side.

He also observed that when the spiders first came out, the corpse's head even moved a bit, so he didn't dare to move the insects rashly, so he had to watch them disappear outside the bamboo fence.

Qin Fengchi stood up thoughtfully, and looked at the courtyard at the back of the main room.The scene just now reminded him of some sects in Yunnan Province, those sects did not believe in people or gods, but bugs.

From the time they stepped into the mountain gate, it has been confirmed that the accident in Donglin Temple occurred within three to five days at most, but the state of Xiugu's body is not like being dead for only a few days. In such a damaged state, she can act independently. It cannot be explained simply by having worms.

This is already a witchcraft.

Qin Fengchi murmured, walked up to his apprentice, and kicked him: "Get up, let's look behind."

The little apprentice wiped his mouth in embarrassment, then got up limply, trembling all over.Looking at it this way, it looks like a small animal wet by the rainstorm, pitiful.He is really not afraid of death!He is not afraid of seeing blood, let alone killing people!But—but isn't this really a zombie?He can only kill people, not ghosts...

"Look at how promising you are," a certain master laughed at him maliciously, "I shouldn't have pushed you away, but let you kowtow to Aunt Xiu."

When Qin Song heard this, his eyes turned black, and he almost knelt down in fright.

"Useless thing," his master snorted coldly, scolding him as he walked, "Why should I raise you? It's better to raise a grasshopper."

Qin Song thought dumbly: Didn't we talk about mynah last time?

But when he thought of the grasshopper in his master's mouth, and then thought of the black swarm of insects he saw just now, he felt an urge to vomit.why!Why did the master insist on comparing him with worms? !

Does it have to be at this time?

It's not that Qin Fengchi is really bored, he insists on stimulating his apprentice right now.

He reckoned that there might be a few more like this in there, and if he didn't say hello in advance, then he wouldn't be able to take care of Qin Song, and Qin Song would be paralyzed if he got scared again, wouldn't that mean giving away his head?If he didn't react in time just now, it is conceivable that those few bugs would go straight to his face. If one is not good, he will be like Xiugu.

The second courtyard is very quiet, the door of the main house is wide open, and the left and right wing rooms are hung with blue curtains, but the windows of the wing rooms are all open, so you can clearly see the layout inside.

"...the old lady is here." Qin Song's courage was completely broken, and he pointed to the window of the wing on the left with a thin voice.

From the window, we can see that on the wall facing them, there is a statue of Bodhisattva Bodhisattva of Inexhaustibility, with an incense table under it, and a futon on the floor. An old woman with white hair and plain clothes is kneeling on the futon with her back to them. Go up, knock on the wooden fish one by one.

But Qin Fengchi noticed that the fragrant fruit on the incense table had been rotten, surrounded by flies, and the incense had long been burned out. These details made the situation in the house even more strange.

He ordered his disciples in a very soft voice: "Find a piece of cloth and cover your nose and mouth." After speaking, he also took out a black cloth covering his face and covered his nose and mouth tightly.In case the insects cannot be blocked head-on, you can also block them a little.

Qin Song hastily closed his mouth and covered his face.

The two stood outside without moving.In fact, they already knew it in their hearts. Compared with the tragic scene outside, the old lady was probably dead. The reason why the people in the house could still move was due to bugs.

Qin Song looked at his master, and many thoughts frantically flashed through his mind.

For example, the Empress Dowager's maiden name is Bai, which is an unusual surname.

Because the ancestors of the queen mother were chieftains of Yunnan and Guizhou.

The author has something to say: Qin Song muttered: Master dragging me is like dragging a pig.

Qin Fengchi sneered: Pigs can eat, can you?Don't insult pigs.

Qin Song: Outside, I rely on Master to show off my might, and in front of Master...

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Also, Mr. Qin really has a lot of handkerchiefs, and he took out one after another

Master Xiao Qin has as many handkerchiefs as Master