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Chapter 252: The Man-Eating Temple of the God of Longevity
This greatly aroused Lu Yue's curiosity.

Could it be that the other party also knows the legendary art of disguise?
The more Lu Yue chased, the more weird it felt. The butcher-looking superhuman and the masked man were both speed-type superhumans, and their abilities were almost identical.

The weird thing is that Lu Yue always felt like it was just the lower body.

What kind of operation is this? ! ! !

Lu Yue continued to chase, hoping to catch the other party and ask him questions. However, not long after the chase, perhaps because the other party's anti-reconnaissance capabilities were too strong, he discovered that someone was following him, so he sped up and went into a forest.

Seeing that the other party is about to disappear from sight.

Lu Yue made a prompt decision and raised his hand to use the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.

Vaguely, he heard a shrill scream coming from a distance.

Lu Yue quickened his pace while sorting out the information he had previously obtained.

He actually had a guess about the identity of the masked man.

Taoist Fang had said before that in the operation to clean up the corpse-stitching lineage, in addition to the one who deceived everyone by faking his death thirty years ago and actually hid in the debris of the ruins, there was still a young corpse-stitcher who had not been caught.

Back then in Taicheng, only a resident's body that had been cut in half was found at the scene where the masked man was knocked away. According to Lu Yue's understanding, that lineage of corpse-stitching people had the habit of using limbs to replace organs, so their style of doing things had such a distinctive feature.

The control of the wound location is extremely precise.

In short, the positions chosen by that lineage of corpse-stitchers when killing people are mostly key parts such as the neck, waist, and shoulders, because only in this way can they better ensure the integrity of the limbs.

Therefore, the masked man at that time was most likely the wanted corpse-stitcher.

Recalling the familiar feeling from all directions when he first entered the ruins, as well as the butcher's legs just now, a bold idea came to his mind: the escaped corpse-stitcher disassembled his own body and assembled it on others.

In this way, he deceived the ticket inspectors and blended into the ruins.

This kind of operation is terrifying even if you just think about it, but the other party still did it. No one knows what the corpse-stitcher wanted to do by entering the ruins, but it is definitely not a good thing.

While thinking, Lu Yue had already arrived at the place where the scream occurred before, and found that the butcher had disappeared without a trace, but there was a piece of paper left on the ground.

When I picked it up, I found it was actually a map.

Lu Yue let out a light exclamation.

This map seems familiar. Isn’t this the island he saw when he came into contact with the human head statue and entered the memory scene of the past?

Now it has been drawn.

Although the clarity of this map is not high enough and it is not as detailed as the maps in the real world, it can still give us a rough idea. Moreover, the locations of rare treasures are actually marked on this map.

This is simply a treasure map!

You know, for the extraordinary people who enter the ruins, the most troublesome thing is how to find rare treasures. If you have this map, it will be easy to live for a few hundred years in the ruins.

Lu Yue carefully examined the map and found that in addition to the locations marked with rare treasures, there was another location that was specially circled in red.

There are no markings or comments there.

What does this red circle represent?
After careful confirmation and comparison of directions, Lu Yue found that the location marked by the red circle was not far away, so he put away the map and decided to go and take a look.

Following the instructions on the map, we meandered along the western edge of the woods.

Soon after, he walked out of the woods.

Everything in front of me suddenly became clear. It was a towering mountain range shaped like a dragon's back. The mountain had sparse vegetation, rugged rocks, and sharp edges. The bare ridge glowed with a faint silver glow under the sunlight.

Under the mountains, there remains a dilapidated temple.

The words on the temple plaque are unclear, but what is certain is that this dilapidated temple is quite old, much older than those gathering places and villages, and judging from its design and construction, it is by no means comparable to the crudely built wooden houses of the extraordinary people.

When Lu Yue arrived, there were already several people gathered in front of the temple.

From the way those people were dressed, it was obvious that they knew each other. They were most likely a team like Zhao Wentao that was formed in the ruins.

"Are you sure it's here?" one of them asked doubtfully.

"What is marked on the map should be correct." Another person answered affirmatively.

"I spent a year of my life to buy this map. The locations of some of the natural treasures on it have been verified to be true, but this place is circled without any annotations. There must be something wrong here..."

"Could this be the location of the core?"

"Shh... don't make any noise... someone is coming."

Someone looked at Lu Yue who was eavesdropping and immediately became alert.

Lu Yue retracted his ears, put his hands in his pockets, and pretended to be completely uninterested, but he was very disappointed in his heart. He thought this map was unique, but he didn't expect that someone else also had it.

Just as Lu Yue was observing his surroundings, another group of people came from the distance. This group of people were wearing uniform combat uniforms, and the leader was an acquaintance.

It was the person who had previously planned to recruit Lu Yue to join the mutual aid association.

It's true that being organized is different. The first time I saw him, he was still at the fourth level of the Shenzang realm, but now he exudes the aura of the fifth level of the Shenzang realm.

The leading man in combat uniform also discovered another group of people at the scene and saw the map in each other's hands. The two groups looked at each other and then fell silent.

At the same time, he secretly cursed the profiteer in his heart.

A map was actually sold to two parties.

However, it is not difficult to guess that this may not be just two...

At this time, the leader of the mutual aid association also noticed Lu Yue and seemed a little surprised. He then walked up to him and greeted him politely: "What a coincidence, meeting you here."

Lu Yue also smiled and responded: "What a coincidence."

"You have a map in your hand, right?" the leader asked directly.

Lu Yue nodded and took out the dropped map from his pocket.

"As expected, I knew this map couldn't be sold to just one person. Never mind, now is not the time to talk about this. This is the only place on the map that has a red circle drawn around it, which proves there must be something wrong here."

"You might as well join us so that we can look after each other. I am the captain of this team of the Mutual Aid Association. My name is Duan Feng."

"Lu Yue."

After a brief greeting, Lu Yue agreed to this arrangement, and followed Duan Feng and his party, and entered the ancient temple together with another force.

The temple only had one main hall, and the space inside was much wider than anyone had expected, except that the light was a little dim. Fortunately, with everyone's strength, they could barely see clearly within a distance of more than ten meters.

When everyone stepped into the hall, they were all extremely surprised.

The inside of the hall was in ruins and a mess. The various human-shaped stone statues that should have stood majestically on the left and right sides were now tattered. The stone bricks on the entire floor were uneven, and even the key stone pillars supporting the hall were cracked and looked shaky.

It seems that a great war once broke out here.

At this time, Lu Yue frowned slightly. Although most of the stone statues here were in tatters, he could still see a few stone statues with relatively intact faces. Some of them looked like the longevity gods of other eras that he had seen in the memory of the first generation of longevity stone statues.

This temple enshrines stone statues of the gods of longevity from past dynasties?

Lu Yue slowly stopped at the back of the team, and when he approached a broken stone statue, he picked up a piece of rubble and found that the piece of rubble was extremely heavy.

Then he squeezed it hard, and the broken stones were intact.

With his current strength, he couldn't even crush them, so what caused these broken stone statues, the rubble on the ground, and the cracked stone pillars? Suddenly, Lu Yue remembered the battle between the stone statues of Shou Shen and Yin Shen.

His expression suddenly became serious.

Perhaps only gods could cause such horrific destruction.

"Generally, temples enshrine gods, but the stone statues here don't match the gods we remember. Do you see anything?"

"This is the remains of the God of Longevity. Could it be that everyone here is a God of Longevity?"

"There are so many stone statues, they can't all be gods of longevity, right?"

"What you said makes sense. It should be a guardian or something like that."

"Look, there is a stone platform over there."

Everyone was very curious about everything inside. As they went deeper, someone pointed straight ahead and found a stone platform, but the platform was empty.

Logically speaking, there should also be a stone statue enshrined there.

Moreover, the status of this kind of main seat, the stone statue must be extraordinary.

But where did the statue go?
After some discussion, everyone split up and carefully checked every corner of the hall, only to find nothing except a large amount of rubble from the battle.

Soon someone exclaimed: "Do you feel that the concentration of spiritual energy here is so high? It is completely different from the outside."

"It's true. It's actually three or four times higher than our village."

No one was surprised, instead their faces showed deep confusion.

You should know that those extraordinary people who entered the ruins earlier usually chose places with richer spiritual energy when choosing a site for building their village, and the concentration of spiritual energy here is actually higher than that of the village they are in.

So why didn't you choose to build a village here?
In the following time, everyone found nothing and did not discover any danger.

Could it be that the red circle on the map simply represents a high concentration of spiritual energy?
Everyone felt that things were not that simple, but they could not say anything for a moment. At this moment, someone from another force looked around and asked in confusion: "Have you seen Lao Wang?"

"I didn't see him. Wasn't he with you?" someone responded.

"No, we checked separately."

The man shook his head and then shouted Lao Wang's name loudly.

The man's shouting echoed in the empty and dim hall, but no one responded. Finally, the man's face changed, as if he realized something. He immediately called his teammates together. After counting the number of people, he found that one person was missing.

"I seemed to see Lao Wang going to the stone platform above." A companion said uncertainly. When several people looked up, they found that there was nothing on the stone platform.

At this time, Duan Feng from the Mutual Aid Association also discovered that someone had disappeared.

After questioning, someone recalled that the man who disappeared also walked onto the stone platform.

The two forces looked at each other and quickly gathered together, looking at the stone platform in unison. There was still nothing there, and they did not find anything strange.

But this is exactly the most terrifying thing!

Two living people disappeared mysteriously.

What danger did they encounter?
But even if you encounter danger, you have to at least make some noise.

But the reality is that so many of them were completely unaware.

A strong feeling of uneasiness lingered in everyone's hearts. Suddenly, they heard a sound of breaking air. Everyone was startled and turned around to find that it was Lu Yue who picked up the broken bricks on the ground and threw them towards the stone platform.

After noticing everyone's gaze, Lu Yue clapped his hands.

"I want to try to see if there is any hidden mechanism here."

"It seems that this won't work."

Everyone: "..."

They looked away and did not dare to move forward for a moment.

At this time, there was an extraordinary person in the team who had been staring at the empty stone platform hidden in the darkness in front of him. Suddenly, his eyes became dull and his body began to run towards the stone platform uncontrollably.

"Feng Wei! What are you doing?!"

His companions shouted to stop him, but he ignored them as if he had gone mad.

This scene happened so quickly that his companions had no time to react.

The man came to the stone platform, muttering something continuously, then put on a weird smile, and disappeared under the gaze of everyone.

This scene made everyone feel cold in their hearts.

However, what was even more terrifying was that several more people at the scene were inexplicably hit, their eyes also became dull, and they ran towards the stone platform. Fortunately, with the lessons learned from the previous experience, the two forces quickly subdued their teammates.

"This place is too weird, everyone retreat!"

The two sides evacuated quickly and orderly without any hesitation.

Lu Yue, who also failed to see the trick, followed him out of the hall. Only after they came to the outside world did everyone breathe a sigh of relief and then tried to rescue those teammates who looked distraught.

And asked what had just happened.

The group of extraordinary people who were hit answered in a daze: "I... I don't know why, there is a god in my mind who calls himself the God of Longevity, who told me to go find him. He is in the mountains..."

Everyone gasped.

A terrifying, creepy feeling came over me.

There is a mountain behind the temple, but there is no secret door on the mountain.

What does it mean when the so-called God of Longevity says he is in the mountain?
The group felt that this ancient temple was becoming more and more evil.

However, just as everyone relaxed, another piece of bad news came.

"Look at your wrists. We have reduced our life expectancy by one year."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone began to check their wrists, and sure enough, their lifespans were indeed reduced by one year. They had been inside for an hour, but they had to know that it was daytime now.

The rules of this cannibalistic temple are actually different!
"The places marked with red circles are not good places."

"I suggest you leave here first. I'm worried that something bad will happen."

Everyone nodded silently and prepared to leave this cannibalistic temple. During this time, Duan Feng once again tried to win over Lu Yue, but was rejected again.

Lu Yue once again turned his gaze towards the main hall.
He found that the sunlight outside was like being cut by a sharp blade at the entrance of the temple.

The inside and the outside are more like two completely different worlds.

When everyone left, Lu Yue suddenly thought of the negative people. It is said that when the lifespan of negative people reaches zero, they will sign a contract with the God of Longevity. So is the God of Longevity who signed the contract the same one as the God of Longevity mentioned by those who were hit just now?
You know, all the longevity gods of all generations have disappeared, and the last one has also fallen. Could it be that a new longevity god has appeared in these ruins?
Or is someone pretending to be the God of Longevity?

In the end, Lu Yue found nothing, shook his head and left.

There are only six hours of daylight here, and it won't be long before dark.

Another thing is that his Peace Hotel is about to open for business.

(End of this chapter)