"Senior Brother Gu, there. Lu Weiwei pointed behind a nun and said, "That guy is right there." ”

Gu Chen also followed his gaze.

Indeed, the three people who had just assembled had obviously been broken into pieces by now.

One man was in the left aisle of the main hall, while the other was next to Master Xuan Jing, and the two seemed to be stuck at the point.

"But where is the other person, aren't they together?" Gu Chen hurriedly glanced at it.

From afar, there are all heads, and it is difficult to find a third foreigner.

The two searched for nearly ten minutes, but still found nothing.

At this time, the bell rang in the early morning, and outside the main hall, a nun was striking the bell with a wooden stake.

The entire summit of Heian Temple was suddenly silent in a different atmosphere.

The nuns in the front row began to babble the scriptures......

Unlike just now, this time the scripture was recited louder.

The man, who was about 60 years old, suddenly stepped forward and cut his palm with one hand, agreeing with the nun beside Master Xuanjing.

"Lord Hu, thank you for your donation to this temple. An old nun with glasses immediately bowed her head in greeting.

"Where. The man suddenly waved his hand and said: "This Buddha statue was originally an item of the Heian Temple two hundred years ago, because it was stolen by thieves and lost to the rivers and lakes, and was later recovered by the ancestors and exchanged for the Heian Temple. ”

"But at that time, the host of Heian Temple said that this item was related to the ancestors, so it was given to the ancestors, and it was not a valuable object originally, but two hundred years later, the value has soared, and now I am willing to return this Buddha statue to Heian Temple again, in order to express my ......."

The two of you began to talk politely when you came and went, and they were crepe.

Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen were dumbfounded, and even almost fell asleep, seriously suspecting that these two had memorized their lines.

But the focus of the two is not this, but the two foreigners.

At this moment, the two foreigners were still standing in the position they had just now, without the slightest movement.

And the pilgrims in the main hall have also begun to look forward to this Buddha statue.

"Many people come by car, could it be just to see the honor of the Buddha statue?" Lu Weiwei was curious, looking at Gu Chen beside her and asked.

"Probably. Gu Chen held his chin and thought slightly: "You don't know how many fans there are in this circle, it can be seen from Zhang Jinlan's donation of 500,000 yuan that these people are all dedicated to Buddha." ”

"It's terrible, a donation is 500,000, 500,000, how many potato chips do you have to buy. Lu Weiwei thought that when Zhang Jinlan stretched out those five domineering fingers, the whole person was not good.

On the other side, Bai Xiaolan and Wu Jun also walked over from the side passage, and the two of them were already standing behind one of the foreigners according to Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei's gaze.

And the foreigner didn't seem to notice anything unusual at all.

After the old nun exchanged pleasantries with the man, the man suddenly gestured to the two men carrying wooden boxes.

Soon, the three-dimensional wooden box with a length of half a meter and a height of half a meter was opened, and a delicate statue of the Buddha's head was displayed in front of everyone.

The scene suddenly boiled, and everyone leaned forward.

And the lay disciples who wore long robes consciously acted as order maintainers, holding hands to stop the crowd on the periphery.

"Don't crowd, lean back, don't stand forward. ”

"Don't go forward here, don't move. ”

"Backwards, backwards. ”

The crowd also erupted in amazement.

"Oh my God, this is the Buddha statue that the host often mentions. ”

"I heard that the market value has soared to tens of millions. ”

"The two-hundred-year-old object has returned to Heian Temple today, which is gratifying. ”

"Lao Hu is really good, he even donated family heirlooms, it seems that we donated one million or hundreds of thousands, which is really shameless. ”

......

After hearing the conversation of these people, Lu Weiwei on the side was a little uneasy.

One hundred thousand is still called faceless?

Tsk, the strangeness of these people is really far beyond Lu Weiwei's imagination.

And Gu Chen also had his own concerns, and hurriedly asked a middle-aged man beside him: "Big brother, if the Buddha statue is donated here, aren't you afraid of theft? ”

"Measures, what measures do you want, haven't you seen so many people at the scene?" The man directly laughed at Gu Chen's worries.

And another man suddenly said: "Tonight is the day of the return of the Buddha statue, everyone has to gather here to chant the scriptures, tomorrow there will be a special anti-theft facility company, to help in the main hall, set up a special anti-theft box, this company is still introduced by me." ”

The man said this, and he was also quite proud.

"I see. Gu Chen nodded, obviously he didn't think things would be so simple.

In the entire hall, not to mention these three foreigners, there were more than a dozen suspicious people in Gu Chen's eyes.

Bai Xiaolan and Wu Jun came to Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei from the location just now, pointed at the foreigner and said, "They are already together, what about the other one?"

"I don't know. Gu Chen also shook his head and said, "After these people separated, I could only find traces of these two people, and I don't know what they were doing." ”

Bai Xiaolan was timid, her face turned yellow with fright, and she hurriedly said: "I always feel that these foreigners are not simple, I have been standing behind that foreigner, and his head seems to have been observing left and right. ”

"I had a feeling that he must be waiting for something, and I always felt that something was going to happen later, because my right eyelid was jumping all the time, and I knew that it was a disaster in my left eye and a disaster in my right eye. ”

Gu Chen patted Bai Xiaolan on the shoulder: "It's okay, let's wait and see." ”

"I think it's enough to keep an eye on these two foreigners. Lu Weiwei stood on tiptoe, observed the two foreigners, and said: "The three of them are a collective anyway, even if the other can't be found, these two can't run away." ”

"I agree with Senior Sister Lu's opinion. Gu Chen also said.

Lu Weiwei wanted to go with him.

Buddha statues are placed on yellow cloths, and nuns babble and recite scriptures.

On the outside, lay disciples and pilgrims came to the outside, and everyone sat on the ground around the Buddha statue and began to recite the scriptures silently.

Gu Chen also noticed that the two foreigners were also sitting in the ranks of lay disciples at the moment, reciting the scriptures as everyone did.

1 a.m.

The inside of the main hall is still the same.

2 a.m.

Many people were sleepy, and many pilgrims stood up and slowly retreated, heading to the meditation room prepared at the Heian Temple.

Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, as well as Bai Xiaolan and Wu Jun, the four of them felt very offended.

Of course, the four of them are not used to such an atmosphere, but for the sake of that unsolved answer, everyone has been persevering.

Bai Xiaolan and Lu Weiwei's eyelids were heavy, and the two shrank in a corner of the main hall, leaning together to support each other.

Wu Jun began to pretend to insist, but then he couldn't hold on.

He looked at Gu Chen beside him, this guy was like playing chicken blood, and the whole person was excited.

Of course, Gu Chen would not mention to Wu Jun that he had already stocked up on nearly a hundred bottles of functional drinks at the moment.

Gu Chen drank the two bottles together, and suddenly the whole person felt that he had not slept for two days and two nights, and he could still fight until dawn.

I looked down at my watch, and it was already 2:13 a.m.

It stands to reason that this is the most exhausting time of the day for human beings.

Gu even found that many lay disciples began to be a little unable to support it.

Of course, Gu Chen also asked the pilgrims around him, and heard that such a ceremony would take all night.

If you think about it this way, it's even harder than the night shift of the police, isn't it?

But just as Gu Chen was thinking about it, the entire hall suddenly dimmed, and all the lights went out instantly.

Not only in the main hall, but also in the corridor of the row house next to it, and even near the parking lot, almost all the lights were extinguished at this moment.

The entire hall suddenly fell into a panic.

"What's going on?"

"Why is there no power?"

"Don't crowd everyone, please sit in your place, don't walk around. ”

"Has anyone gone to see the switch?"

"Xuan Jing knows that it is there, Xuan Jing, go and take a look. ”

"Okay, senior sister. ”

......

In the midst of the noise, there were all kinds of sounds.

Although all the lights went out in an instant, fortunately, there were still many red candles still lit in the main hall.

But I don't know who suddenly screamed, and in an instant, everyone fell into a panic.

"Oops, the Buddha statue is gone. ”

"What...... What? The Buddha statue is gone, wasn't it still here?"

"No...... I don't know, I saw it here just now, why is it suddenly gone?"

"It's over, it's over, it's over, the Buddha statue is gone, Amitabha Buddha is good, good. ”

"Quick, go and find it, don't let anyone take it away. ”

Inside the main hall, there were some nuns shouting.

It was quiet just now.

Exhaustion just now.

All of a sudden, at this moment, because of the disappearance of the Buddha statue, everyone fell into fear.

"Senior Brother Gu. Lu Weiwei hurriedly came to Gu Chen's side and said, "As soon as the lights went dark just now, those foreigners disappeared. ”

"I know. Gu Chen also regretted a little, he thought that these two foreigners had been under his observation.

What I didn't expect was that the lights in the hall would be extinguished for no reason.

Of course, Gu Chen didn't believe that it was because of a circuit failure.

It won't be such a coincidence.

The only explanation is that the other of the three foreign men disappeared.

Bai Xiaolan and Wu Jun also hurried over.

Neither of them had ever experienced this kind of thing, and it seemed that at first, they thought that everything was under control.

But looking at it now, it's not like that at all.

"Present...... What now?" Wu Jun was a little at a loss and asked Gu Chen.

"Block the junction down the hill and ......"

Before Gu Chen's words fell, he heard the roar of a vehicle's engine near the parking lot.

"Oops. Gu Chen seemed to realize something, his eyes were stunned, and he looked at Lu Weiwei, Bai Xiaolan, and Wu Jun.

Several people also seemed to understand Gu Chen's consciousness in seconds.

He ...... Are they trying to escape?" Lu Weiwei was the first to react.

Several people almost didn't discuss, and directly rushed out of the main hall tacitly, and rushed directly towards the road with vehicle lights.

"Get in the car. ”

Wu Jun took out the car keys, but was snatched by Gu Chen and said, "I'll drive it." ”

Several people didn't care who was driving, so they jumped into the interview car.

Under Gu Chen's fierce operation, the wheels quickly rubbed in place for a few turns, and then quickly chased in the direction of the car in front.

Several nuns in long robes were also chasing after them, waving their arms in their mouths, probably thinking that Gu Chen was a thief who stole the Buddha statue.

It may be that it was dark and the road was slippery, and Gu Chen clearly saw several nuns falling to the ground from the rearview mirror.

But time was pressing, and Gu Chen couldn't take care of it too much, so he galloped all the way.

On the dark road, after driving for nearly two kilometers, Gu Chen suddenly found that there was a serious abnormality in the tire pressure display gauge, and red alerts appeared on all four wheels.

Gu Chen braked and parked the vehicle on the side of the road.

"How...... What's going on?" Bai Xiaolan was stunned.

"I don't know, I'll go down and take a look. Gu Chen pulled up the handbrake, opened the door, and got out of the car to check the tire condition.

Gu Chen turned on the strong flashlight he was carrying and observed that there were industrial claw nails on different positions of the four tires.

And there are still some other claw nails scattered on the road.

"Senior Brother Gu, what's the situation?" Lu Weiwei closed the car door and came to Gu Chen's side.

Gu Chen swept the light across the ground and said, "These guys are professional, they have all been splashed with claw nails on the road, and from the time we have abnormal tire pressure to this side, it is at least a few hundred meters." ”

"In other words, in order to prevent tracking, these people splashed claw nails all the way along the road?" Lu Weiwei couldn't believe what she saw.

Gu Chen nodded and said, "Although I don't want to admit it, this is indeed the truth, our car can't run." ”

"How can this be?" Bai Xiaolan couldn't stand it, and after getting out of the car, she also squatted on the side of the road: "It's over, it's over, it's over, I can't catch up, and the wheel platform has been punctured." ”

Looking at the four flat tires, Bai Xiaolan's whole person was not good: "Still leaking four?"

Wu Jun also said after checking it: "It seems that we can only spend the night here tonight." ”

At the same time that everyone was anxious, from the direction of Heian Temple, the lights of vehicles shone again.

Gu Chen suddenly stood up and blocked the incoming light with his left hand.

A Range Rover off-road vehicle suddenly braked sharply and stopped steadily in front of Gu Chen, followed by a Mercedes-Benz big G.

Gu Chen saw a group of nuns jumping out of the car.

All of them were holding long sticks, and they looked like they were not good.

"That's it...... That's them, don't let them escape. ”

"Surround them, these thieves, and see where they go. ”

"Don't let these scoundrels go. ”

......

A group of nuns babbled, and after a while of nagging, they divided into two teams and surrounded Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei, Bai Xiaolan and Wu Jun from both sides.

It can be seen that this group of nuns is very timid, but they have a guy in their hands, and there are many people, so they suddenly have some confidence.

Gu Chen couldn't see the person on the opposite side clearly under the dazzling light.

It can be said that these nuns have achieved the ultimate in suppression with high beams......

"I think you've misunderstood......"

As soon as Gu Chen wanted to speak, he felt a sound of breaking the air in his ears.

A slap of the stick, at the same time that Gu Chen was suppressed by the light, suddenly came from the side.

"Smack!" Gu Chen dodged his body, caught it with one hand, and then threw it hard, and the other party fell directly to the ground.

"Ouch. ”

"Still beating people?" Seeing that the companion nun was falling, the others suddenly became timid, and everyone couldn't help but take a few steps back.

Gu Chen directly threw it lightly, and the wooden stick flew up in the air, and then Gu Chen caught it with both hands, and bowed his knees upward.

"Click!"

Under Gu Chen's knee attack, the wooden stick was directly broken into two.

"Hiss!" Seeing Gu Chen's attack power, the other nuns immediately took a few steps back, and the entire formation retreated backwards.

At this moment, a familiar voice came out of the nun's procession, and the other party came up and asked, "Who are you? Why did you steal the Buddha statue of Heian Temple?"

"I think you're mistaken. Gu Chen threw the broken wooden stick in two aside, and said: "I am Gu Chen, a police officer of the Third Criminal Investigation Group of the Furong Branch, this is my partner, Lu Weiwei, this is Bai Xiaolan, Wu Jun, they are reporters and photographers of Jiangnan TV. ”

"Police, reporter?" The nun on the opposite side was stunned for a moment, and cautiously stepped forward and walked a few steps.

And Gu Chen also turned sideways and took a few steps back, dodging the strong light source of the high beams.

"Are you...... Master Xuan Jing?" Gu Chen recognized the person, it was Xuan Jing who showed him the way during the day.

"You...... Aren't you the policeman who eats fast at Heian Temple......? But why haven't you left yet?"

When Xuan Jing saw Gu Chen, she was also stunned.

Seeing this, the other nuns also hurried forward and muttered to each other.

"Are they really police?"

"But why are they here?"

"I remember that at dinner, there were indeed a few people in police uniforms eating fast. ”

"Did we misunderstand them?"

......

Just when everyone was puzzled, Lu Weiwei also stepped forward and said: "Master Xuanjing, I think you have misunderstood, we are just like you, we are also chasing the thieves who stole the Buddha statue, but these people are so hateful, the road along the road is full of industrial claw nails, our vehicles, and all four tires are wasted." ”

Seeing that this group of nuns hesitated, Bai Xiaolan immediately took out her press card, and said in front of this group of nuns: "I am Bai Xiaolan, a reporter from Jiangnan City TV Station, we met in the afternoon, and you didn't let me do an interview in the meditation room at that time." ”

"Yes, yes, yes. Xuan Jing also patted her head: "You are the little girl, but haven't you already left? Why did you appear in the Buddha Hall again, and how could you escape by car? This ...... You've got to give me an explanation, right?"

This kind of thing happened one night, not to mention that the nuns in Ping'an Temple were a little confused, even Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei were a little at a loss.

Gu Chen said: "We found out in the afternoon that there were three foreigners with suspicious appearances, so we decided to stay and investigate. ”

Seeing that Xuan Jing was listening carefully, Gu Chen said again: "But it's a pity that we lost one of the foreigners, and the power outage of the Ping'an Temple, I think it should be from the hands of this person, I found that there was a vehicle movement near the parking lot, so I took a few of us and drove after it together, but we were trapped by these industrial claw nails, and then ...... And here you come. ”