Behind the second gate is the Xiangtang, which is generally the place where ancestors are worshiped in an ancestral hall.
We pushed open the door of Xiangtang, and in front of us was a mass of unexplained darkness...
Zhang Jisheng turned on the hernia lamp, but the power supply was a bit insufficient and the aperture formed was very limited.
Xiangyu suddenly screamed again.
My heart suddenly beat violently.
Taking a closer look, there should be tablets in the south of Xiangtang. They are densely packed and high. However, for some reason, each tablet is covered with colorful silk cloth. Under the illumination of the xenon lamp, it looks very special.
Like the illusion of facial makeup on the wall at the entrance of the ancestral hall...
There are two wing rooms on the left and right sides of the Xiangtang. The doors are all closed, but, without exception, they are spotless. It feels like someone is cleaning them all the time, and they don't look like they have been abandoned for a long time.
The structure of the Xiangtang gave me a very familiar feeling. Vaguely, I thought I was back in the Zhou family's old house, in the back hall where ancestors were worshipped.
At this moment, I was a little impulsive and wanted to open the door of the wing on the right to see if it was also set up like my grandfather's study.
"Xiangyu, what are you yelling at? Do you think we were scared enough?"
Zhang Jisheng's complaining voice interrupted my thoughts, and I suddenly came back to my senses.
"Don't you think this is very impressive?" Xiangyu said tremblingly.
Chen Mo walked forward, stopped in front of the sacred table where the tablets were enshrined, looked at the table, and then said: "The Thorny Snake Mackerel Oil Lamp, our power supply is about to run out, please light it."
After he finished speaking, he took out the lighter and lit the oil lamp.
Almost at the same time that Chen Mo lit the lamp, "dong dong dong", three dull knocks on the door sounded one after another! It echoed in the silent hall for a long time.
The knock on the door made my hair stand on end, and the sweat on my back started to flow down.
"Did the monster in the mirror come out?"
Ten frightened eyes passed through the door of Xiangtang and looked out.
"Dong dong dong," there was another knock on the door, and this time the rhythm seemed a little faster.
"Chen Mo, did this lamp bring out the monster in the mirror? How about we blow out the lamp first?" Zhang Jisheng's voice felt a little trembling.
With a squeaking sound, the other door of Xiangtang was slowly pushed open...
However, there was nothing but gray outside the door.
Suddenly, a few small green lamps lit up on the Yangcheng that separated the second gate and the Xiangtang. The cold and faint light made people feel goosebumps all over their bodies.
A gust of wind blew by, and several small lights rose into the sky and disappeared into the night sky.
I just felt like the blood all over my body was rising.
At this time, a cat meowed from the eaves.
"It turns out to be a wild cat." The old man breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
After waiting for a while, there was no movement outside the door.
Zhang Jisheng moved forward and arrived at the door of Xiangtang. He turned on the xenon lamp and looked at Yangcheng. There was no mirror monster.
Everyone's worries were finally relieved.
"Mom!" Xiangyu's trembling scream sounded from behind me again.
Xiangyu is always startled, and I was already a little numb at this time.
However, the moment I turned around, the scene in front of me made me have several cold wars involuntarily.
The scene in front of me was so incredible that it almost subverted all my values.
I saw that the colorful cloth covering the memorial tablet on the sacred table slowly lifted up a corner.
It felt like the ancestors enshrined on the tablet were about to rush out of the tablet and come out to talk to us.
The colorful cloth is lifted higher and higher, the higher it is lifted, the higher it is...
Gradually, a pair of eyes appeared!
Those eyes were shining with golden light under the light of the thorny snake and mackerel oil lamp, looking at us fiercely. I couldn't help but look at Chen Mo nervously.
"Chi—" The colorful cloth covering the memorial tablet on the sacred table was lifted almost at the same time, and a black shadow flew out on the tablet.
I was frightened by the sound, and with an "ah" sound, I subconsciously squatted on the ground holding my head.
Chen Mo immediately protected me.
"What is this?"
"It's a butterfly."
This is Chen Mo's voice.
After engaging in such a big battle, in the end it turned out to be a butterfly.
I raised my head and saw that the black shadow had dispersed some distance away. Under the light of the spiny snake and mackerel oil lamp, long-tailed silkworm moths were dancing in the hall.
Zhang Jisheng seemed to be thinking deeply, "They should have built a nest on the wood of the memorial tablet, and they were frightened by us, so they flew out en masse."
"So that's it," Xiangyu looked shocked.
I didn't speak, feeling that my head was still dizzy and I still couldn't figure out the specific situation.
"No, it must have been the Spiny Snake and Mackerel oil lamp that woke them up, so they all broke out of their cocoons collectively. There are still pupae left on them." Chen Mo held a tablet in his hand and was studying it carefully.
There were also long-tailed silkworm chrysalises flying out continuously on the memorial tablet. It took a while before the butterflies completely flew away.
"Where are they going to fly to? This ancient temple is in a closed cave." Xiangyu asked.
Xiangyu's words seemed to wake up Chen Mo. He put down the tablet in his hand and said to us: "Let's go and have a look. Maybe the butterfly can show us a clear way out." Then he walked quickly.
Step out of the Xiangtang.
The long-tailed silkworm chrysalis led us to the entrance of the ancient temple.
"The butterfly actually flew into the abyss. Isn't there an underground river below?" Zhang Jisheng opened his mouth wide. The scene in front of him was really shocking.
Countless long-tailed pupae rushed to the underground river.
"These little creatures are all spiritual. Since they all fly into the abyss, it proves that there is a way to survive here." The old man said.
"In this case, does Professor Wang still have a glimmer of hope?" I immediately thought of Wang Zhishui.
The old man glanced at me, and then said: "I hope it will be auspicious."
"It's better to go back to the ancestral hall and take a look first." Chen Mo said, turned around and walked into the ancestral hall.
We followed him up, but he stopped for a moment in front of the gatehouse and stared at the patriarch on the relief for a while. We all thought he had discovered something, but in the end, he didn't say anything and stepped over
The stone threshold.
Zhang Jisheng shrugged at me and made a helpless expression. I forced a smile and followed him in.