The space behind the door is not as dark as Ye Tiancheng thought. There is light inside. Although it cannot be called bright, the lighting is enough to at least allow people to see clearly the scene inside.

The village chief's house has a local ethnic style on the outside, and relatively modern facilities inside. However, after entering this secret room, you can clearly feel a very uncomfortable atmosphere.

The layout inside is also very old and has a strange atmosphere, with no modern elements at all.

There are wooden structures inside, and various furniture decorations are basically made of wood. There are also shrines, and the lighting is very dim. It looks like a very old-fashioned oil lamp. The light of a bean is burning quietly in the lampshade.

I don't know how long it will burn and when it will burn out.

This seems obviously unreasonable. Either the lamp can stay on forever, or the village chief will enter here frequently and refill the lamp oil regularly every day.

Thinking of how difficult it was to open the door of this secret room, Ye Tiancheng felt that the village chief's perseverance was very amazing as he had to come in at a fixed time every day to refill the lamp oil.

There is nothing wrong with having this kind of spirit. You have to worship evil gods...

Ye Tiancheng is basically convinced. If it is normal to pray to gods and worship Buddha, there is no need to build such a secret room and offer shrines and statues in it. Unless the person who worships it knows that there is something wrong with this kind of thing.

, cannot be put on the bright side.

He noticed that the secret room was only two or three meters wide, and the space was quite large. However, when people walked in, especially an adult man standing in it, they would feel very crowded, but there was still a staircase.

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Ye Tiancheng walked to the edge of the stairs, looked down, and found that there was a staircase in the space downstairs. In other words, this secret room mezzanine also had three floors, but he didn't know if there were other entrances below.

If I had been able to think of the spatial differences caused by the mezzanine before, would I also have discovered these on the first and second floors?

If there was no entrance downstairs, they might still be wandering around downstairs.

This was really thanks to the cleverness of the little fox, who happened to discover the secret room on the third floor, and they also discovered the mechanism.

Ye Tiancheng did not rush to explore the secret room space downstairs, but chose to focus on what was in front of him first.

Of course, what he cared about most was the statue of the god. They had to solve the problem. After getting to the bottom of it, the root cause was still with the "Mountain God". Ye Tiancheng naturally couldn't miss anything that might be related to the "Mountain God".

Ye Tiancheng walked to the statue and looked carefully at the statue in the secret room.

Among the onlookers who were parading in the street before, because the statue of the "mountain god" parading in the street was inside the sedan chair, and the sedan chair was not an open one, so the situation inside the sedan chair could not be seen, so Ye Tiancheng did not know about this "mountain god".

What does the idol look like?

Now it can be seen. Ye Tiancheng saw that the statue on the altar has a ferocious face and a strange appearance. It has horns on the top of its head. It looks like antlers of a deer, but it does resemble the legendary dragon horns. After all, dragon horns are shaped like deer antlers.

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The upper body of the statue is very tall and strong, with bulging muscles. It is indeed in the shape of a human. The clothes are not very neat, revealing a strong chest. The lower half of the body is not a pair of legs, but a thick one.

long tail.

Ye Tiancheng looked at the thick tail, hovering on an upright column. Looking at the scales, he felt that it was not necessarily a dragon tail, but at least it was very similar to a snake.

Snakes themselves are called dragons, and dragons may not exist, but snakes definitely exist. It is not impossible if there are snakes pretending to be dragons.

Looking at the various records in history, there are many snakes pretending to be dragons. Not only do they exist, there are also many. Those snakes often yearn to become dragons and like to use the reputation of dragons to act outside.

He has a fanatical pursuit of transforming into a dragon.

As for the pair of horns on the statue, it either has horns or it must be a dragon, and it doesn't necessarily really have horns. This is a statue after all, and this "mountain god" can choose to conjure horns for himself.

, or you can ask the person who made the statue for him to add this pair of horns.

There are still six burned out incense sticks on the incense burner in front of the statue.

Ye Tiancheng looked at the incense in the incense burner and couldn't help frowning. He didn't know if the incense candles were lit at the same time. This looked very wrong. There are rules for burning incense. Generally, you can light one, three, etc.

Wait, but you can't order six.

In many people's minds, six should be a lucky number and a good number. However, in fact, this is not the case. Six itself is actually an unlucky number. Six or six is ​​auspicious. The original meaning is probably similar to whether you can be extremely lucky or not, and you can gain from a negative situation.

Principles such as righteousness.

To worship gods, it is not allowed to light six incense sticks. Three sticks of incense are enough to worship the righteous God. Burning six sticks will easily attract evil spirits and ghosts who are greedy for incense.

Anyway, the tradition is like this. No matter whether it is true or not, and whether it makes sense or not, at least serious worshipers will never do this. If the six incense sticks inserted in the incense burner are really lit at the same time, it will be even more serious.

It proves that the person enshrined here is not a serious god, but definitely an evil god who has not escaped.

Ye Tiancheng carefully observed the incense burner and finally confirmed this. The person offering the god had indeed put six incense sticks on it at the same time.

It shouldn't have been too long since the incense was lit, and it doesn't mean that the time when it was lit was very recent. It shouldn't have been long since the six incense sticks were burned out, and the ashes still have a faint residual warmth. If Ye Tiancheng guessed correctly, it should be the village

I clicked on it before I went out to preside over the "Mountain God" parade.

Even though the village already believed in the Dragon God, they still secretly offered sacrifices to the gods. Ye Tiancheng couldn't help but doubt that the village chief's worship was really not the Dragon God they originally had.

Most people in the village believe in the Dragon God. If you want to worship the Dragon God, there should be no need to be secretive. I am afraid that some evil god has taken advantage of the loophole and pretended to be the Dragon God.

I don’t know why the head of a village would do such a thing.

No matter how he thought about it, Ye Tiancheng felt that maybe it was all for profit. Profit drives people's hearts, and it is not surprising that people who are too greedy will do anything. As long as something is beneficial, someone will do it, and the greater the benefit,

, the more people dare to take risks.

He thought about the sudden development of this village in recent years and turned it into a tourist resort. After thinking about it, he felt that this was reasonable.

Because Ye Tiancheng remembered again that when the villager brother introduced it to him before, he said that the "Mountain God" parade started in the past few years.

Thinking about it, maybe the "mountain god" is trying to increase his popularity and influence, trying to attract more believers.

Think again about the results of the development of the tourist resort in the past few years, the grand scene when the "Mountain God" paraded through the streets just now, the things Nie Chongyang found, and the reason why little Miaomiao appeared here, you can get a glimpse of the results.

There are more and more believers in the "Mountain God". Regardless of whether they truly believe in the "Mountain God", at least they will continue to worship after receiving benefits after worshiping.

And the faith and incense that the "Mountain God" needs are naturally available.

But things will not be that simple. After all, the conditions for the "Mountain God" to fulfill people's wishes have been basically determined, and I am afraid it will harm the interests of innocent people, or even their lives.

There is no problem in praying to God and worshiping Buddha. Most people also seek psychological comfort. They are not doing bad things per se, but it is better to destroy such harmful things.

Ye Tiancheng came to a conclusion in his heart.

But now you are definitely not allowed to touch this statue. Ye Tiancheng knows this in his heart. He is even more worried that the statue in the village chief's home may be even different from the one in ordinary people's homes.

The main reason is that others have already come in and have seen everything, so it is better to observe more, since he is not that easy to get into trouble anyway.

The most important thing is, no matter whether you have been discovered or not, if you are really discovered, then of course you should look more and lose less. Opportunities are rare and must not be missed. The time will never come again.

After confirming that there was nothing of special value on this floor, Ye Tiancheng decided to continue walking down the stairs.

He has checked various places on this floor and found no trace of the village records, so he has to look again. Of course, if there is anything else of value, Ye Tiancheng will definitely pay more attention to it.

There were more things stored in the two floors below. Ye Tiancheng finally found what he wanted inside, and there were even more things he needed. It was a bit hard to look at it.

Ye Tiancheng thought that since he had already come, there was no need to hide so much, so he unscrupulously took everything he wanted. Anyway, he had the Nuwa Stone with him, and he had so many things, although it was not

It's so convenient, but he can ask Nuwa Stone to hold it for him, and then he can check it again after they go out.

He swept away all the village records stored here, and even got something interesting - the village chief's diary.

Unexpectedly, when the village chief was young, he was still a literary and artistic young man, and he also liked to write diaries to record some daily things. Ye Tiancheng took a rough look and found that the diaries of the village chief from childhood to adulthood are all here. It seems that there have been no more diaries in recent years.

I wrote it, but all the previous ones are there, and Ye Tiancheng didn’t miss any of them.

Because he saw something interesting inside, he might be able to determine the origin of this "mountain god".

After Ye Tiancheng found what he wanted, he started to walk back. After walking back to the third floor, maybe the sound insulation in the secret room was pretty good. It was only on the third floor that Ye Tiancheng heard the little fox's voice.

"Brother, brother, come out quickly! Someone is coming! If you don't come out, I will have to close the door! Brother, can you hear me?"

When Ye Tiancheng heard what the little fox said, he quickly walked to the door in three steps and two steps at a time, and replied to the little fox: "I'm coming out, right away!"

The little fox kept urging, and Ye Tiancheng said: "Hurry up, hurry up, the sound is very close!"

Ye Tiancheng did not dare to delay, so he immediately ran out of the door. After the little fox confirmed that Ye Tiancheng had finally come out, he gently twisted the secret door mechanism of the vertical clothes hanger back a little, and then let go. As expected, the secret door of the bookcase opened.

Started to close up quickly.

After Ye Tiancheng went out, he actually heard the movement outside the room. Someone was walking towards the village chief's room. The footsteps were not very clear, but Ye Tiancheng and the others' ears were different from ordinary people, so they could still hear it.

The footsteps got closer and closer, slowly, and finally stopped at the door.

Who on earth would come to the village chief's bedroom at this time?

Is the parade over yet?

Ye Tiancheng felt that before the "mountain god" parade ceremony was over, unless the sky fell, the village chief was unlikely to show up at home early.

Could it be the village chief's mother? Did she come suddenly?

But he also thought it was unlikely. Although the footsteps were light, they could still make people feel very solid and stable. The person's health was at least not too bad, and the conditions of the village chief's mother were obviously not the same.
Chapter completed!