The scholar was startled for a moment.

Because the figure of that man looked very familiar to the scholar, as if he was the old man in the nightmare just now.

The moment he recognized that person, the scholar's legs felt weak and he collapsed to the ground.

When the old man standing at the door saw the scholar collapsed on the ground in fear, he raised his feet expressionlessly and was about to walk towards the temple.

"Don't come over, don't come over!" The scholar lay on the ground and kept pulling back with his hands, trying to move his body inside bit by bit, but it was in vain.

Because he couldn't muster any strength at all.

It was also at this time that the scholar saw clearly who this old man was.

This old man was not the same old man who showed him the way in the town below the mountain.

But why does this old man appear here?

The scholar couldn't help but think too much. The old man had already walked into the temple and came to the scholar. He stretched out his hands, which were like a pair of withered old tree bark hands.

It’s just that for some reason, the old man’s eyes looked a little distracted. They didn’t look like the eyes of a living person at all, but like the kind of scattered eyes that only a dead person could have. After seeing the old man’s eyes, the scholar’s ​​face suddenly turned pale.

, I couldn’t help but shout in my heart, my life is at an end.

Suddenly, a white light burst out from behind the scholar. The white light struck directly at the old man. The old man let out a scream and disappeared.

After the scholar had recovered from his shock, he turned around and looked at the place where the white light had just emitted. However, the place was empty, with only one plaque, which was the plaque of the Xishan Empress Temple.

"Did this plaque save me just now?" The scholar sighed.

Fortunately, he did not just throw the plaque outside the ruined temple, but brought the plaque into the temple and planned to hang it up tomorrow.

If not, the old man just now might have really killed him.

But why did the old man appear in this temple?

Regarding this issue, scholars naturally cannot understand it.

It's still dark, and the scholar doesn't know what time it is. He wanted to continue reading, but he was frightened again just now, and he didn't dare to continue reading. The scholar felt that if he had been studying just now, he wouldn't be able to continue reading.

If you notice the old man standing at the door of the temple, will the ending be different?

After the scholar composed himself, he quickly came to his backpack, took out his water glass, and drank a few sips of water before he calmed down.

I don't know why, but at this time, the scholar always felt that there seemed to be a pair of eyes staring at him in the temple, which made him feel very uncomfortable. He raised his head, trying to find what was staring at him.

But the temple is empty. There is nothing else except the stone statue in the middle of the temple. It can be said to be very simple.

Intuition told the scholar that the eyes staring at him came from the direction of the stone statue.

"Could it be that stone statue?" A sudden thought came to the scholar's mind.

But this idea was quickly rejected by him.

The scholar felt that he was really confused. How could he have thought that the stone statue was staring at him? The stone statue was dead and in dilapidated condition.

This stone statue was already so broken, so how could it suddenly have a pair of eyes staring at him? The scholar still didn't believe in ghosts. Even if such a bizarre thing happened just now, he felt that he might be hallucinating. Maybe

It's because my nerves have been too tense these past few days, plus I didn't get a good rest here tonight, that's why I had the hallucination like this.

In other words, the old man he just saw was still a dream. Thinking of being born here, he hurriedly slapped his face, trying to wake himself up from this dream.

The scholar slapped his face hard and it hurt. Doesn't it mean that you can't feel pain in dreams?

The scholar pinched his thigh hard again, but it still hurt.

The scholar was a little panicked now. How could this dream be so real? The scholar did a lot of things to wake himself up from the dream, but in the end it was all in vain.

Each fact proved that what he was experiencing now was not a dream, but something that really happened.

The scholar had to accept this fact, so now he felt at a loss.

It's the kind of confusion you feel after being in extreme fear and gradually regaining your composure.

So at this time, the scholar did not plan to do anything else, but just sat on the ground holding the temple's plaque, quietly waiting for dawn.

The scholar didn't know how long he had been sitting in the temple. He felt sleepy, tired, hungry and cold, but the sky was still not bright.

The scholar felt that it was very inappropriate.

It's not that he has never slept in the mountains, and he also knows that usually when he sits down like this, it will be dawn soon, but today, no matter how much he waits, it will still be dawn.

So gradually the scholar gave birth to the possibility that he was still in a dream, because only in dreams would such strange things happen.

So the most important thing now is how to wake up from this dream.

You can't just sit like this forever, right?

The scholar still felt that he should do something, so he stood up. However, after sitting for too long, his legs were numb. At this moment, he was actually a little unsteady and almost collapsed on the ground.

After standing there for a long time, the scholar felt his legs regained consciousness, so he came to the stone statue.

He felt that if he wanted to wake up from this dream, he should say something to the stone statue first.

The name of this temple is Xishan Niangniang Temple. If the name of this temple is correct, then this stone statue should be Xishan Niangniang.

The scholar stood in front of the stone statue holding the plaque, pondered for a moment, and then spoke to the stone statue.

"I don't know if you are the Empress of Xishan, but the name of this temple is the Empress of Xishan Temple, so I'll call you that."

"I came to this temple and really just wanted to stay for one night. To show my sincerity, I will help you hang up this plaque after dawn, and I will also help you clean the temple from top to bottom. As for the surrounding collapsed

In the wing, I will definitely come here to help you renovate the temple someday after I pass the exam."

The scholar didn't know if it was useful to say this, but he could only do this at this time. It was strange to say that after the scholar finished speaking, the eyes of the stone statue moved and even made a sound.

A clicking sound.
Chapter completed!