Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

Chapter 657 Map, Taoist Temple, and Sign

It’s not that there are no plants in Hellfire, but the plants here have long since changed into special forms in order to adapt to the extremely high temperatures.

Most of the plants here are as hard as metal and dark green or black in color. They often have sparse and broad branches and leaves and well-developed root systems.

However, the plants in front of us are all low shrubs with lush branches and leaves exuding greenness. They look like small and lively plants that can only be found in moist and warm water towns.

Li Nian also poked his head out of the car.

"Wow, this place is truly a paradise. I have a feeling I'll find something good once I get in there!"

Sanyang drove the escort car closer, and when they stepped into a certain distance around the Taoist temple, it seemed as if they suddenly passed through an invisible barrier!

A real coolness that needs no contrast hits me.

"This place... is so mysterious. I've been escorting for many years, but I've never heard of such a place."

Yue Zhenqiao couldn't help but mutter.

Chen Yuanye shook his head. "This place isn't on the main road, so few people pass by here. Furthermore, there was a maze trap in the past...it's only become ineffective in recent years."

"If my family hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known there was such a good place."

A group of people got off the escort vehicle and slowly approached the Taoist temple.

The bluestone slabs in front of the Taoist temple were spotless, with only occasional dead branches falling on them, making a slight rustling sound when stepped on.

Lin Yu raised his head and saw that the walls of the Taoist temple had almost no signs of time. Only moss covered the base of the wall, and only a few collapsed gaps showed that the place was abandoned.

The writing on the plaque on the lintel is unclear, and one can only vaguely make out the words "Lay Buddhist Retreat", but the prefix "Lay Buddhist" is unclear.

Although Chen Yuanye had been here before, Lin Yu was still a little cautious.

Just as Lin Yu was looking carefully, he saw Li Nian coming over with Charmander and several other players.

"what happened?"

Lin Yu looked at Li Nian and asked.

Li Nian said in a low voice: "He said that this place is where they first entered the dungeon!"

Lin Yu raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"That's not right. Isn't that Taoist temple outside of Shuangsaw Mountain? That's also what it's drawn on the map!"

Li Nian moved aside, and the little fire dragon said confidently: "But the Taoist temple we entered at the beginning is exactly the same as this one... Either the Taoist temple has moved, or there are two exactly the same Taoist temples."

"Of course, since we got lost, there's a possibility that we made some mistakes... but like you said... that's how the map is drawn!"

Hearing what Charmander said, Lin Yu frowned slightly.

"Let's look at the map again."

He unfolded the map again and took a look. The location of the Taoist temple marked on the torn map should indeed be some distance away from Shuangsaw Mountain.

The place where they are now is not marked on the map.

Lin Yu let out a breath.

"How strange... According to what Chen Yuanye said, this Taoist temple should have been here for quite some time—yet you saw another identical Taoist temple half a day's journey away."

"There must be something strange about this!"

Deadshot, who came over, also spoke and expressed his opinion.

"Then shall we go in?"

Feidao asked carefully.

"Of course we have to go in. This weird thing has already set its sights on us. If we don't take the initiative to deal with it, do we expect it to let us leave and go to Liu Town?" Lin Yu said calmly, "I'm not used to leaving my back to an enemy."

"Since the three people over there said they've seen this Taoist temple before, we should go in and take a look... and see if we can figure out the structure inside."

As he spoke, Lin Yu pushed open the creaking wooden door and stepped inside.

After all...his mental perception didn't detect anything wrong.

The courtyard of this Taoist temple is overgrown with weeds and full of vitality. There are even a few white flowers growing in the soil in the cracks of the bluestone slabs.

The roof tiles of the main hall were incomplete, and the sunlight, which was obviously much softer than outside, shone through the gaps, casting mottled light and shadows on the ground.

The incense burner in front of the hall fell over, and the ashes were scattered all over the ground. Only the broken statue in the hall was still standing, but it was also covered with dense and worn spider webs, just like the beams and bricks in the hall.

Chen Yuanye and a group of bodyguards walked in and rested and caught their breath in this Taoist temple with normal climate.

Although the crisis has not been resolved, this place with a suitable temperature is indeed suitable for relaxing and taking a break.

Lin Yu looked at Deadshot, Charmander and Squirtle.

"How is it? Is this the same place as you saw?"

Deadshot nodded. "Yeah...all the furnishings are basically the same."

"If you go to the backyard now, you can still find a skeletal corpse wearing a tattered Taoist robe."

As he spoke, Lin Yu nodded and walked straight through the back door of the main hall and came to the backyard of the Taoist temple.

And just as Deadshot said, there was a dried-up skeleton sitting in the backyard of the Taoist temple.

Other than that, there's nothing special about the backyard.

Lin Yu stepped back and fell into deep thought.

"Hmm...it's really strange. They're so similar, it's impossible for them to be two identical Taoist temples. They must be the same one."

"Then the question is... why can it teleport a hundred miles in just a few hours?"

Lin Yu didn't worry about how the Taoist temple did it. After all, in this Yushan Realm, it was not impossible for a building to be suddenly moved a distance by some alchemist using some magic or supernatural power.

What's more, this building already has many magic arrays, so it might be able to move around by itself - anyway, its own style looks like it was suddenly inserted here.

Therefore, the key issue is not what happened, but why it is so.

Lin Yu carefully thought about this new weirdness.

Since entering the Prison Mountain Realm, I've encountered too many inexplicable strange things...

This made Lin Yu recall the information from his senior sister - logically speaking, the majority of the dungeons in the Prison Mountain Realm are [Confrontation] and [Fighting] dungeons, so there shouldn't be too much intrigue.

After all, although the demons here are cunning and deceitful, their methods are definitely not as strange as those in Kirishima and Night Valley.

Thinking of this, Lin Yu looked at the map he got from the little fire dragon again.

"Speaking of which...Brother Chen, was this the demon you were ordered to defeat that day?"

Lin Yu pointed to the mark on the map and asked.

Chen Yuanye casually replied, "The demon I'm here to eliminate is rumored to be a vampire bat demon. Your map... eh?"

Chen Yuanye was a little surprised. "Using skulls to identify demons? That's a method that the Taoist sect stopped using a long time ago. But my master taught me that one skull is six strings of cash... and two is twelve strings of cash. Because this classification is too crude, the Taoist sect and alchemists later unified with us warriors and called them all "guan."

"But what's up with these three skulls? Are they drawn wrong?"