September is full of flowers

Shen Man took a few steps back until he touched a cold wall behind him.Stuttering, "Why are you staring at me again, Miss Tang, can my unlucky temperament really attract ghosts?"

Tang Jiuyue looked around, "There are no ghosts in this world."

"Then what do we see hidden in the mist?"

Tang Jiuyue looked at her contemptuously, but didn't answer.

"Tick-tock-"

"Tick-tock-"

In this humid and foggy cave, there was originally a lot of water vapor. The water vapor in the air condensed on the wall of the cave, and it was normal for the top part to drip down along the protruding rocks.But——Shen Mo wiped the water stains on his forehead, and felt a little sticky and fishy. Needless to say, according to the usual scary routine, it must be blood.Shen Man rubbed the corner of his clothes, hoping to get rid of the sticky liquid. Tang Jiuyue hated getting dirty, and if she was found with these things on her hands, she might not hold her hand later.

"Tick tock—" Another drop landed on Ding Lou's head impartially, and then slowly flowed down his forehead.If it wasn't for Ding Lou's eyeballs still rolling and the person standing still, Shen Man would have thought this person was dead.

Ding Lou wiped off the blood on his forehead, and then made a movement that made Shen Man dumbfounded.He lowered his head slightly and stared at the blood on his fingertips in a daze for a while, then lowered his head as if he couldn't help being attracted, and raised his hand at the same time, then he stuck out his tongue greedily, and he was about to lick the blood. Bright red blood!

"Pa—" Tang Jiuyue walked over at some point, raised her hand high, and slapped Ding Lou neatly.He was clearly beating someone, but there was no violence at all.

Blood slowly overflowed from the corner of Ding Lou's mouth, just now, Shen Man felt pain for him.

"what are you doing?!"

"What are you doing?" Tang Jiuyue's voice was cold, "Do you want to drink human blood?"

Ding Lou was shocked, looked up, his pupils suddenly dilated. "This... this is..."

Shen Man just wanted to look up, but he heard Tang Jiuyue softly say, "Xiao Man, don't look up." So Shen Man listened, and continued to just glance ahead, looking at Tang Jiuyue.

On top of their heads, there is a concave circular top, which suddenly becomes larger because of the depression in the top.It is inlaid with colorful gemstones, like a starry sky, with a huge yellow agate stone in the middle to make a pattern symbolizing the sun, and a slightly smaller crescent-shaped gemstone on the other side should be the moon.

But what shocked and frightened Ding Lou was not these brilliant jewel starry sky, but the densely packed corpses around the center of the circular depression!These were men of age, dressed in various clothes, some of which had rotted away.Not only are some people's clothing rotten, but their bodies are also rotten and full of worms.Their backs are attached to the wall of the circular depression, forming a circle around the gem starry sky.

The death was horrific, some opened their mouths, some had their eyes widened, and they all looked frightened.And what's even more weird is that these corpses, like the corpses in the hanging burial below, all have no arms!

There is a groove under their feet, this groove is like a track for transporting blood, and the blood is gathered in a vessel in the middle, and now this vessel is hanging above the heads of Shen Man and others, the fog in the cave is extremely thick, the vessel It was already full, so some blood spilled out and dripped on people.

Shen Man didn't raise his head after hearing Tang Jiuyue's words, so he wasn't enough to be frightened by the scene above his head.But gradually, the dense fog in front of her eyes seemed to come alive, playing jokes on her, and even vaguely reflected the scene above her head.With trembling lips, Shen Man walked to Tang Jiuyue's side and grabbed her sleeve, asking, "What's on it?"

Tang Jiuyue was obviously taken aback, but since Shen Man saw her and didn't explain, it would be even more frightening. "It's a spell."

"Curse?" Shen Man murmured, "I look like some kind of sacrifice." She remembered that when she was in Chenzhou, she had also been cast by Lian Yi's spell, and almost made a sacrifice.Judging from the current situation, the spells in this cave are far greater and more vicious than what I have encountered. "Some people above seem to have been dead for a long time, but the blood we just saw is still fresh, could it be—"

Ding Lou's pupils shrank suddenly, and he found a good cliff to climb and climbed up with his bare hands, standing on one of the broken stone pillars.The stone pillar is still some distance away from the dead human sacrifices, but the situation inside can be seen more clearly than below.He squinted his eyes and searched around, finally his gaze was fixed, his lips were tightly pressed together, and a sentence came out between his teeth, "The elder is here too..."

Shen Man finally couldn't help but follow his voice and looked up, but didn't want a pair of cool hands to cover his eyes at this moment, Shen Man's thoughts flickered, with an indescribable feeling, "Miss Tang, I just have a look."

"It won't help if you look at it. You don't need to look at such a thing." Tang Jiuyue's voice was indifferent, revealing a trace of displeasure.

Shen Man had no choice but to give up and said, "Okay, I promise you not to watch it."

Only then did Tang Jiuyue withdraw her hand.Looking at the figure squatting on top of the pillar, she also felt a little sad.Although this is what happened in the past, let her experience it again, and it is inevitable that she will still feel the same in her heart as before.He finally died, died in this dark corner, as a sacrifice in embarrassment, buried here alone.Did the person who found him later sigh like himself? A person like him would die with such no dignity in the end.

"The blood is still fresh, he just died not long ago." When Tang Jiuyue spoke again, her voice was steady, as indifferent as ever. "If you want to take him back, do it now."

At this time, Ding Lou discovered a large transparent net spread out in front of him. This net is composed of seemingly tough and fine silk threads, spread out at the bottom of the concave cave roof.He faintly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.

"Who brought the elder here and killed him?" Ding Lou looked at the elder's body, his face turned slightly blue, and his eyes were sullen.The man who was alive the day before was now tied there lifelessly, with his head hanging limply and looking down with a pair of empty eyes.

Tang Jiuyue sighed quietly, "He was the one who brought him here."

"What?!" Ding Lou's eyes were bloodshot, staring at Tang Jiuyue, "The elder knows the rules of our village, how could he come here alone?"

"Because—" Tang Jiuyue's eyes flashed brightly, as if she had seen through everything, "He also made the same mistake as your predecessors. He greedily wanted what didn't belong to him here."

Ding Lou got down from the pillar, rushed to Tang Jiuyue, stared into her eyes and said fiercely, "Don't slander the elder!"

At this moment, the fog has dissipated for no reason. At least the place where they are located is empty, and they can already see the surrounding scenes, as well as the murals that were previously covered by the fog.

Tang Jiuyue took a step back, pointed sideways at the wonderful mural on the wall and said, "The painting on it is enough to prove that what I just said is true."

Shen Man and Ding Lou walked over at the same time, and looked carefully along the murals.

At the beginning of the mural, the colors are dazzling, and there are exquisite court scenes inside, and the people are singing and dancing, which is very lively.The temple is full of golden yellow, and on the high platform and high seat, there is a man wearing a bright yellow robe and a crown holding a beautiful-looking woman in the arms of a red hairpin.The woman smiled sweetly, although she was not the prettiest, but she had a good temperament, she must be the legendary imperial concubine who was buried here.

In the second painting, it is a scene of a woman in a boudoir. It is still a palace with the same color tone, but there is only a woman in a beautiful dress in the scene. She is sitting upright behind a screen, holding a silk thread in her hand and embroidering seriously.The sunlight from outside was projected in from the window sill, causing her side face to emit a faint halo under the sunlight.

Shen Man looked at her arm, and a thought suddenly popped up in his heart, but it was too illusory to be real.So I decided to keep watching and make a decision.

In the third painting, the tone of the mural has become gray and white, and it seems that it depicts the scene of the destruction of the country and the family.The young emperor fled with his young imperial concubine. He lived and slept all the way, and finally arrived at the place where the Miao people settled down.The emperor and the imperial concubine bid farewell, and his subordinates rebelled, forcing the emperor to kill the imperial concubine.In the end, Shen Man saw many soldiers in armor hanging the coffin of the noble concubine here.But at the same time, a black figure appeared in the picture, he was wearing a black cloak to cover his whole body tightly, and he was here to direct the funeral of the noble concubine.

Shen Man's temples suddenly throbbed, and his brows were tightly wrinkled again.

"Xiaoman?" Tang Jiuyue called out with concern, "Are you okay?"

Shen Man seemed to feel much better when he heard her voice, he forced a smile and shook his head, "It's okay."

Tang Jiuyue stared at the man in the mural and said, "The imperial concubine is buried here. Although the emperor has been defeated, he still has a certain amount of financial resources. He buried a treasure with him here along with the imperial concubine. The Miao people heard this rumor, Some people came up to steal treasures with evil intentions, but they didn't want to discover another secret."

"I warn you—" Ding Lou rushed up suddenly, trying to grab Tang Jiuyue's collar to question, but Tang Jiuyue dodged it. He caught nothing with one hand and could only point at Tang Jiuyue and said, "Say one more word!" , I won't show mercy any more!"

Tang Jiuyue looked at his arms and said for a long time, "Do you know why they don't have both arms?"

"What's the meaning?!"

"Because your ancestors coveted the concubine's arm, and she has the most aura and skillful hands in the whole world. And your ancestors listened to someone's instigation, thinking that as long as you replace the concubine's body with an arm, you can make the concubine The future generations enjoy the honor. So driven by the desire for profit, he sneaked into the burial place of the noble concubine, opened the coffin of the noble concubine, cut off the arm of the person inside, and moved her out, and then lay down on his own. In the imperial concubine's coffin, cut off my own arms to replace the imperial concubine's..."

"No, it's impossible..." Ding Lou shook his head desperately, "No one will be so confused..."

"If you don't believe me, let's go to the imperial concubine's coffin and see who is lying here at the moment."