Logically, the person guarding this place should be a monk slave from the temple, but the person behind the door was wearing an upper garment, dressed similarly to the monks in the temple.
Upon seeing the golden Buddha in Yang Xiao's hands, the strange man opened the door, said "follow me," and turned to walk inside by himself.
When Yang Xiao entered, he noticed the threshold of the door was very high, even higher than the threshold of the Buddhist Hall.
Once inside, there was a not very even dirt road, with two clear tracks left on it.
One on the left, one on the right, about a meter apart, looking very symmetrical.
Yang Xiao immediately realized these were wheel tracks; carriages often traveled here, but despite observing closely along the way, he saw no hoofprints or droppings.
Soon, the group followed the masked stranger to an old wooden house. Even before getting close, Yang Xiao could smell a stench of decay.
