I made myself the protagonist

Chapter 160 Li's Ancestral Hall
On the way away from the village chief's house, Tang Yao saw that no one was following her, so she habitually looked at Ling Yun.

However, after noticing that the other party was following Erika, she opened her mouth, but finally did not speak.After confirming that no one was following him, Lin Yuanqi broke the silence and said, "Do you feel that there is a big problem with that Village Chief Li?"

"No, according to what he said, the ancestral hall is an important place in this ancient Xun village, and even the villagers can't get close to it easily. Now he let us go by ourselves, but he didn't send anyone to follow. Isn't it contradictory."

Zhao Sicheng sneered and said, "I think there must be ghosts in it!"

Shen Tinglan looked at the ground around him, thoughtful.Due to the flood season, the mountains are rainy and the ground is muddy and wet: "This is the only way to the ancestral hall in the village. These footprints are still fresh, and they should have been left by people in the fifth district just now. But other than that, the surrounding area There are still many shallow and messy footprints. These should be left by the villagers when they walked here a few days ago."

"We have traveled all the way, and with yesterday's search, we can confirm that there are no weddings, funerals, birthdays and other ceremonies to be held in this village recently. But if there is nothing wrong, the villagers will not come here. Combined with the time when Ling Yun asked the village chief about the sacrificial matters The other party's ambiguous attitude..."

Su Li said firmly: "Not long ago, they held a ceremony to worship the God of the River. Then, the coffin of the girl who died in vain was parked in the ancestral hall and worshiped by people."

"Just now I noticed that when the village chief mentioned the ancestral hall, the expressions of the villagers were very unnatural." Shen Tinglan said: "It wasn't anger caused by outsiders offending the ancestral hall. In my opinion, it was more like A fear."

"That's right." Ling Yun, who had been silent just now, finally spoke.

Recalling the secretive attitude of the village head when he and the villagers discussed with the villagers when his group first entered the yard, he already knew it in his heart.

If outsiders break into such an important place as the ancestral hall, the first reaction of the village chief and the villagers must be to expel them.Probably because there is still information to ask in the follow-up, the fifth district did not show its true strength, but simply intimidated the village chief.

That being the case, why didn't the village chief resist?Back then when Zhao Sicheng offended the village's taboo, those people had the guts to copy him and desperately, why did they all shrink back when it came to matters about the ancestral hall?

Combining the above signs, before the players arrived in the village, something strange must have happened in the ancestral hall.

It is also because of this that everyone, including the village head, keeps this secret. Even if outsiders force their way in, even if they offend their ancestors, they dare not approach the ancestral hall.

Although everyone knew in their hearts that going to the ancestral hall may mean encountering new risks, and the fifth district is also there; but the clues in their hands are too fragmented and difficult to link together. If they do not go to the ancestral hall to verify, they will not be able to crack the truth.

10 minutes ago.

"Captain, there isn't any suspicious aura inside, you should be able to go in." Park Minjun looked at the ancient Chinese-style building in front of him, and raised his hand to retract the shadow owl hovering in mid-air.

This is the ancestral hall mentioned by the village chief. It is located on an open flat land surrounded by bamboo forests, making it extremely quiet.

Zhao Zhengxun nodded, and then, a man and a woman beside him walked quickly to the gate of the ancestral hall.One of the muscular men was holding the iron lock inserted on the doorbolt, and exerted force with his arm suddenly. With a "click", the iron lock broke and fell to the ground in two halves.

The thick and simple elm door was pushed open, and there were also inner doors inside, one large and one small.Among them, the small door barely reached Zhao Zhengxun's waist. If it hadn't been opened from the ground, at first glance it would have been just a window.

Han Xianzhen pushed open the small door and asked curiously, "Strange, why are there two doors here?" She didn't want to bend down to get in, so she quickly closed it and followed Zhao Zhengxun into the ancestral hall from the door.As Koreans, they naturally don't know. In the old days, the concept of hierarchy was very strong. Only men can go through the main door, while women and children can only go through this side door.

Looking around, a quaint plaque came into Zhao Zhengxun's eyes.There are four characters inscribed on the plaque: Li's Ancestral Hall.The pen is vigorous and powerful, like flowing clouds and flowing water, and it looks particularly solemn against the backdrop of green walls and black tiles.

There are six stone pillars lined up on both sides of the courtyard, with strange patterns engraved on the pillars. Because of the age, the specific details can no longer be seen clearly, but the outline can be vaguely recognized.

In the courtyard is the four-corner sky surrounded by tiles, and the plaque is hung above the dormitory.The dormitory is the most solemn place in the ancestral hall, where the ancestral tablets of the Li family are displayed, and it is also the place where the clansmen worship and worship.

The area of ​​Li's ancestral hall is not large. It is a two-entry ancestral hall, mainly composed of the ancestral gate and the dormitory; the two sides are connected by corridors, and the middle is the entrance hall.

The eyes of Zhao Zhengxun and his party were attracted by a dark coffin parked in the hall from the moment they entered the ancestral hall.

In the dim dormitory, candles were burning quietly.Mourning cloths were hung on the surrounding stone pillars, black and white mourning scarves and spirit-calling banners fluttered strangely with the penetrating cool wind, and the weak candlelight flickered unsteadily, making the coffin in the center of the hall seem more eerie and penetrating.

There are two paper figurines on each side of the coffin, their pale faces are smeared with bright red rouge.It was obviously daytime at this time, but after entering the ancestral hall, everyone felt an indescribable strangeness in their hearts.

In the queue, a middle-aged man wearing silver-rimmed glasses walked around the coffin, walked to the stone pillar, and carefully identified it.The man looks gentle, full of a scholarly atmosphere.

He stretched out his hand to stroke the stone pillar, and murmured: "This seems to be a snake totem. In Chinese mythology, the creation gods Fuxi and Nuwa also have the image of a human head and a snake body, and snakes are also regarded as the incarnation of dragons by them." ;The snake had a very high status in ancient China, and the ancients would regard it as a symbol of gods."

"Captain, I remember that there seems to be similar graphics on the stone pillars in the temple on the mountain." In the team, a female player named Jin Suyan said.

"Snakes are obviously the incarnation of demons. How can any nation enshrine these things as gods? It's really ignorant and ridiculous." The previous muscular man was named Jiang Taiyu, and he was a combat fanatic who admired force very much.He sneered,
"I'm very surprised, why they parked the coffin here. There should be a corpse there?" Liu Xiuna said.

"Probably another strange custom in this village." Jiang Taiyu said in a rough voice.

Zhao Zhengxun walked briefly around the dormitory, stretched out his hand and stroked the stone pillars one after another, and after finding nothing, he walked slowly to the coffin.

"Captain, do you want to open it?" Liu Chengyou, the middle-aged man who analyzed the stone pillar totem before, opened his mouth cautiously.

Among all the people, he is the one who understands Chinese culture best. Before entering the space, he was a professor of modern history in the history department of a South Korean university.

"In China, there is a saying that the dead are the greatest, and the buried is safe. Opening the coffin means disrespecting the dead and disturbing their rest and soul."

Liu Chengyou said cautiously: "This place seems to be a bit strange. I think it is necessary to go back to the village head's house and ask him clearly. Then I will bring him here and force other villagers to open the coffin. This should be safer."

"Brother Chengyou, you have too many worries. Are you questioning my ability?" At this time, Park Minjun on the side showed a dissatisfied expression, and pointed to the coffin and said, "Just now I let Ying Xiao detect Yes, this ancestral hall is normal, and there is no breath of curse spirits."

"Open the coffin." Zhao Zhengxun made a quick decision.

The deceased had been coffined, and seven coffin nails were nailed into the coffin. Without tools, it would be difficult to open it.

Jiang Taiyu cracked his joints, and walked to the coffin, clutching the coffin lids around him with both hands.He let out a low snort, and steaming white air rose from all over his body, not only that, but also a layer of black thick and short mane grew on his skin.

Accompanied by this change, Jiang Taiyu's already muscular figure swelled twice, with blue veins criss-crossing and floating on the surface of his arms like tree roots.

"Crack-"

With the sound of wood breaking, a gap began to appear under the coffin lid.

The coffin lid fell to the ground, and at the same time, there was a sudden strong wind in the courtyard.All the burning candles in the dormitory were extinguished at this moment.All the doors of the ancestral hall, which were originally open, were also slammed shut.

(End of this chapter)