In that instant, Ning Qiushui felt a constant chill rise up his back.
He vaguely felt that something very horrible might have happened in the village during that great drought back then ...
While Ning and Bai were carefully observing the portrait, Liu Chengfeng came to the side and checked the notes on the portrait.
"Sure enough, it's a great drought ... Hehe, you guys, come look!"
Liu Chengfeng seemed to have discovered something, his face changed and he called out to the duo beside the portrait.
The two immediately came over, and when they saw the direction of Liu Chengfeng s finger, they were stunned.
There ... unexpectedly appeared a new name.
Guang Xiu.
"Also surnamed Guang? Could it be related to Guangchuan?"
Ning Qiushui's eyes brightened slightly as she quickly skimmed through the annotations on this picture.
The notes roughly read-
About a hundred and twenty years ago, there was a three-year drought in Praying Rain Village, the streams were cut off, and not only were there no crops, but even the flowers, plants, and trees on the mountains were completely withered.
At that time, the entire village relied on an ancient well drilled by a predecessor to continue their water supply.
But after the drought came the famine. Seeing more and more people starving to death in the village, some of the villagers went to the house of Guangxiu, who was the only member of the village at that time, and wanted to borrow some food from Guangxiu to eat.
But those people went there and never came back.
Other villagers noticed something strange, so they quietly went to Guangxiu's door, lying on the wall and found Guangxiu even went to their home to borrow food villagers killed, chopped up and fed to the dog!
After this incident was exposed, the whole village was furious!
Led by a middle-aged man named Ruan Kai Huang, the villagers went into Guang Xiu's house and chopped him up on the spot, while his wife and children were imprisoned in the Smoke and Rain Temple.
The Temple of Smoke and Rain was built by Guangxiu with the wealth of the whole village, and the villagers offered tributes every year to pray to the land for good weather.
In reality, the temple was only a means for Guangxiu to collect money.
Strangely enough, the night Guangxiu was chopped to pieces, a rain fell from the sky.
The Temple of Smoke and Rain was struck by lightning and caught fire.
Some people saw that the fire in the heavy rain, but did not extinguish, but more and more burning, so Guangxiu's wife and children were burned to death in the smoke and rain temple.
The villagers said, this is God's eyes, the evil people were condemned.
In the end, the villagers gradually restored a peaceful life under the leadership of Ruan Kai Huang.
In order to commemorate the contribution of Ruan Khai Hoang to the village of praying for rain, the descendants cast a pocket-sized statue of him in gold and built a shrine.
Above, that's all the note says.
"It seems that the one holding the sickle in that painting is Ruan Kai Huang, and the ones tied up on the ground are Quang Xiu and his wife and son."
"In that case ..."
Ning Qiushui immediately took out the tablet in his hand, looked at the word Guangchuan on it, and said with slight excitement:
"Could Guangchuan ... be the son of that Guangxiu who was burned to death?"
Bai Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement.
"The probability is so."
As she said that, she seemed to have discovered something, and let out an 'eek' sound from her mouth, pacing to the front of that note, her eyes looking up and down, and then pulling out a small torch from her body and shining it, and her voice suddenly became a lot more serious:
"There is something behind this note!"
Ning and Liu sniffed and immediately came forward.
"What is it?"
The light in Bai Xiaoxiao's eyes flickered.
"Not sure, but there's a large space in the wall behind the note."
"You guys ... get out of the way first."
The two knew what she was going to do, Liu Chengfeng glared to stop it and said.
"Sister Bai, don't mess around ah, didn't the old man who swept the floor before say that the things here can't be moved around?"
Bai Xiaoxiao calmly said.
"Don't worry, I know in my heart."
Seeing her insistence, the two of them both backed off a few steps, Bai Xiaoxiao was also not polite at all, she fished out a few coins from her pocket, she picked a coin from it and fiddled with it for a while on top of the note box, and the screws on it were unscrewed!
"Crap, it's still possible to unscrew a screw like this!
Liu Chengfeng looked dumbfounded all.
As the screws on the note box were unscrewed, Bai Xiaoxiao carefully took down the note, and the wall behind it really did have a large inward-facing groove!
And the terrifying sight inside the recess made all three of them freeze in place!
Only to see that there were two extremely twisted corpses crammed into that not-so-large alcove!
This alcove was about 50*50*50cm square, it was hard to imagine how such an alcove could hold two adult corpses!
The expressions of these two corpses were incomparably terrified, as if they had seen something horrible before they died, entangled with each other, their two ghastly white faces, one on top of the other, staring at the outside of the alcove like this ...
"It's them?!"
Ning Qiushui let out a dark cry.
The two looked at him.
"Little brother, you know them?"
Ning Qiushui nodded and returned.
"Do you guys remember what that old man sweeping the floor said just now, that last night between 8 and 9 o'clock, there were two tourists who came to this place ..."
"Yesterday when we just entered the Blood Gate and gathered in the open space, although I didn't see everyone's faces clearly, but I was able to remember the clothes roughly, these two people are just like us, they are all people from outside the Blood Gate!"
"This morning I was still curious, obviously there was only one corpse outside in the clearing, why are there three people missing amongst us!"
"Now it seems ... that the other two missing people are here!"
As Ning Qiushui finished speaking, Liu Chengfeng however gulped: .
"What do you guys say ... is the thing that turned them into what they are now?"
Both of them fell silent.
Theoretically, it was impossible for a human to do this.
At least it was impossible to do it without seeing blood, knead two corpses like dough and stuff them into such a narrow space!
So ... what exactly is it?
Just as the three were silent, a voice that made their scalps numb suddenly came from behind them!
"Haven't I already told you guys ... not to just touch anything in the shrine?"
"You guys ..."
"Why don't you listen ..."