Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 283 Thunderstorm Mountain Temple

This dilapidated temple looks gloomy and dilapidated from the outside. Inside the dark door is also a dark room with almost no light. A large statue can be vaguely seen stopping in the temple, but its head is just blocked by the eaves, so it cannot be seen from a distance. Which god is worshiped in this temple?

Renyi Xu hesitated for a moment, he didn't even feel sure that this was a shelter where he could settle down, it seemed more like a demon cave waiting for him to throw himself into the net.

At this time, there was another thunderclap, and several bolts of lightning crawled across the sky like centipedes.Renyi Xu was so frightened by the thunder and lightning that his whole body trembled. At this moment, he had no choice but to run into the ruined temple.

When another series of thunder exploded, he just staggered and fell into the ruined temple, as if he had been struck by lightning, his feet went limp and he knelt down on the futon in front of the statue in the temple.

He raised his head, and through the light of the lightning outside the temple, he saw that the statue was completely black. He didn't know whether it was painted black or intentionally painted black.The statue sits in the center, wearing a fairy robe, holding floating dust in the crook of his arm with one hand, and holding a thing that is not known to be a ganoderma lucidum or a mushroom in the other hand and put it on top of his head.

Looking at the head of the statue, it turned out to be a half-human, half-monkey figure with a flat face, gnashing cheeks, bared teeth and angry eyes, and a beard and hair.

Renyixu was frightened by this thing, and immediately collapsed on the ground, thinking that he might as well not come in.He grew up in this generation, never heard of anyone enshrining such a strange thing, and even built a small temple for it.

At this time, the sound of rain in the mountains was even worse. The temple had been in disrepair for a long time, and some of the tiles were broken and leaked. Some rainwater mixed with dust, mud, and bird droppings hit Xu Er's forehead, and the water splashed and fell into it. into his neckline.The turbid and cold rain was shocked.It made him sober up in an instant.

At this time, look at the dark statue, but it is just a strange thing that looks like a monkey.He once heard the old man say that the so-called mountain gods are mostly mountain spirits and wild monsters, such as monkeys, snakes, deer, birds, flowers, plants, rocks and trees, etc., and they are mixed with human faces and human bodies to varying degrees, and they are dressed in immortal medical robes. With some magical tools, magic tools, etc., a mountain god statue is formed.

From this point of view, this half-human, half-monkey is probably the mountain god here, but I don't know how many years this temple has not been enshrined, and the mountain god has no incense, so it is naturally forgotten.

In any case, when I cried out anxiously at a critical moment, the mountain god master showed me the way, which was considered a kindness to him.Renyi Xu took out a dried baked sweet potato from his bosom, broke off half of it and placed it in front of the god statue to worship. He thanked the mountain god for his protection. He found a corner to lean against, gnawed on the remaining half of the sweet potato and listened The sound of the pattering rain, waiting for the rain to stop before going out to find a companion.

But after eating the sweet potatoes, the rain is still falling.With his sleeves tucked in, he kept a posture of nesting in the corner of the wall, a warmth slowly surrounded him, and sleepiness also surged up.

In the dimness, he seemed to see a little flame coming in from outside the temple gate. It was a short figure wearing a straw hat and coir raincoat, entering the temple with a lantern.

The man saw half a sweet potato on the table, put down the lantern, lay down on the table and smelled it carefully, then grabbed the sweet potato and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it.

Ren Yixu looked at the slightly hunched figure, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that he was three parts like a human and seven parts like something else.After the man finished eating the sweet potatoes, he licked his fingers "zizi" again, as if he still had more to say.

This picture of a starving ghost made Ren Yixu feel [-]% loathe and [-]% fear.The man in coir raincoat turned around while licking his fingers, saw Renyi Xu who was huddled in the corner of the wall, stopped the movements of his hands for a moment, then dragged towards Renyixu.

At this moment, Renyi Xu's heart was three parts disgusted and seven parts feared, feeling that when this thing came over, he was about to eat him like that baked sweet potato.But his whole body seemed to be numb from sleep, and he couldn't even move a toe.

He watched the coir raincoat man come and squat down in front of him, he felt his heart was about to jump out, and he couldn't even breathe.The man in coir raincoat slowly took off his straw hat, and then tore off the scarf on his face.

The face of the man in coir raincoat looks almost the same as that of the god, with the same changed face and gills, with black hairs growing all over his face, a red tongue hangs down between the layers of sharp teeth in his mouth, and the halazi drips down the tip of his tongue on his body .

The only difference is that there is a gray and white mushroom growing on the top of the coir raincoat man's head, and many roots are stuck on his head, even several clusters of roots grow out of the eyes.

Ren Yixu felt that he had become a fish on the board, but he couldn't use all his strength, and he couldn't even scream.The man in coir raincoat clasped his wrist hard, and he kicked his legs hard in anxiety, and then his whole body trembled...

He woke up panting heavily, but there was still a crooked figure in front of him, which made him scream out in fright, and bounced up from the ground suddenly.But he felt dizzy for a while, so he fell to the ground again.

"Hey, why are you panicking...I'm not a ghost..."

The hunchbacked figure suddenly spoke, with a hint of an accent from a certain province in the southwest.He took a closer look through the light leaking from the roof, and saw that it was a short old man, wearing tattered patchwork clothes, with a gray beard all over his face, so thin that his cheeks had no flesh, he looked like an old monkey.

Seeing that Renyi Xu was a living person, he relaxed.After talking carefully, I found out that the old man lived in this forest and looked at this mountain temple by the way.

The mountain god enshrined in this mountain temple is a rare mandrill. Because it likes to eat a kind of fungus that grows in the mountain, it is called a mushroom mandrill. The old man called him a mushroom mandrill.

The old man said that this temple was built deep in the mountains, and people who have never been there usually cannot find it.Being able to touch it in a heavy rainy day must be under the care of the mountain god. If you can offer tribute, maybe the mountain god will reward the mushrooms.After eating this kind of fungus, it can prolong life and even live forever.

Speaking of this, the old man pointed to the sweet potato residue on the altar table, and said that the mountain god had already enjoyed the tribute, and as long as he kowtowed again, he could reward benevolence and righteousness.

After hearing this, Renyi Xu walked to the altar in a daze, looking at the baked sweet potato that had been gnawed until only pieces of skin remained, feeling disgusted in his heart.Obviously it was this old man who ate it, but he said that some mountain god enjoyed it.But when he turned his head, the old man had disappeared.

He was flustered for a while, and turned his head to look at the statue, only to see that the head of the statue had been replaced by the face of the old man, who was looking at him with grinning teeth, and then let out a piercing scream.

Renyixu's legs gave way, and he knelt down on the broken mat in front of the altar.

He woke up from the dream again, opened his eyes suddenly, and felt that the back of his neck was covered with sweat.At this time, the rain outside had stopped, and the chirping of birds came from outside.He quickly patted his face, and a burst of burning pain spread from his cheek to the root of his ear.

After confirming that he was really awake, he felt that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so he quickly got up and walked outside the temple, trying to find a way out of the forest while the sky was clear.

When he walked out of the temple gate, he subconsciously looked back at the portrait, and suddenly felt his scalp tingle.

In the mouth of the god, baring its teeth, was holding the half baked sweet potato he put.

(End of this chapter)