Chapter 215: Something Isn't Right

The tree wall was more than two meters high, and the branches were covered with sharp thorns, and James tried to touch it lightly with his hand, but he was pricked with blood, and the pain in the place where he was pierced was unbearable, obviously there was a certain amount of poison, and he quickly squeezed out the poisonous blood.

The people split into two paths and looked for the end of the tree wall on both sides, but they met on the other side of the tree wall, indicating that the tree wall was circular and planted in a circle around the ruins of the temple.

However, both groups found a phenomenon: there were many gaps in the middle of the tree wall that could allow one person to pass through, but after entering the gap, they would encounter several forks in the road, and because they were afraid that they would not find their way back, neither group went deep into the tree wall.

After the two groups met, Durin said,

"This tree wall is probably a labyrinth wall, and we need to find the right way to get inside the tree wall. ”

"It would be nice if we had a drone with us, and we could fly over the tree wall and take a panoramic picture of the tree wall, and we could analyze the correct path to the maze from the photo." ”

Zhu Zhonglin asked, "Then do you have drones with you?"

James spread his hands, "Unfortunately, I didn't bring it." ”

"Then what's the use of you saying this?" Zhu Zhonglin rolled his eyes.

"I think you can do without a drone, do you have a compass?" said Doolin.

"Of course I brought a compass. James took a compass from his breast pocket and handed it to Durin.

It is a military compass issued by the U.S. military, and the "ARMY" logo is also printed on the lid.

After using his compass to determine the direction, Durin led the group towards the southwest of the tree wall.

"If I'm not mistaken, this tree wall should be arranged in eight trigrams, divided into the door, the door of remission, the door of life, the door of injury, the door of Du, the door of view, the door of death, and the door of shock, only by finding the door to open the door, the door of remission, and the door of life can you enter the inside of the tree wall, in addition, from which door to enter is a dead end. ”

Durin walked to a gap in the southwest direction and stopped.

"This gap is where the tree wall is located. ”

"Mr. Du, how do you know that this tree wall is arranged according to gossip. ”

"If this is the treasure left to me by Mr. Zhu's ancestor Zhu Yunwen, then he should know very well that my ancestor once studied under Zhang Jinghe to learn the art of Nine Palaces Bagua and set the tree wall as a way to bagua and gossip, which is also a test to verify the authenticity of my identity as an ancestor descendant. ”

Zhu Zhonglin said, "I agree with Mr. Du's opinion, my ancestors must find a way to verify whether the person who came to take this treasure is the descendant of the benefactor." ”

Durin led the group into the gap, and after a few steps came to the first fork in the road.

"Shengmen corresponds to the Gen hexagram in the Bagua, and the hexagram of the Gen hexagram is yang, yin, and yin, and the corresponding directions are left, right, and right, so if I guess correctly, the first intersection should turn left. ”

After saying that, he led the people to the left side of the fork in the road.

After a few steps, they came to the second fork, and according to Duhring's speculation, the group went to the right, and then turned right at the third fork.

The rest of the road was long, and although it was also winding and twisting, at least there were no forks in the road. The crowd walked for more than a minute, and finally saw the exit at the end of the road.

After everyone walked out of the tree wall, they thought back to the distance just now, and were surprised to find that this tree wall was actually not very wide at all, and the straight-line distance was only thirty or forty meters at most.

But without the right guidance from Durin, the six of them would not have been able to find the right path without a whole day.

Because there will be three forks in each entrance after entering, and each fork will have three choices of left, middle and right, which means that there can be a total of 216 different ways to move at eight intersections, and only three of these 216 ways are correct.

"Mr. Du," Zhu Zhonglin patted Du Lin on the shoulder, "It seems that you have passed this test of my ancestors. ”

Durin smiled and didn't speak.

A gossip maze of this difficulty is simply pediatric for him.

Cracking this maze is as easy as eating and drinking.

However, it is difficult for the designers and builders of the labyrinth, and a lot of manpower and material resources were spent to build such a labyrinth wall, but in the end, it was in vain.

Because Du Lin believes that as long as he has a little knowledge of Bagua Mathematics, he should be able to easily break this labyrinth wall.

After walking out of the labyrinth wall, everyone found that they had entered the tree wall maze from the southwest, but when they came out, they unconsciously walked to the south direction, because the exit was facing the gate of the temple, and the door of the temple was naturally facing south.

The group finally saw the ruins of this legendary temple.

This is a Buddhist temple with Indian style, a Buddhist temple in China, divided into the front hall, the apse and the left and right side halls, and there will be a meditation room and a vegetable garden after the apse.

Only Buddhist temples in China have vegetable gardens in the world, because except for China, monks in other countries do not produce anything, and mainly live on the incense money and fortune of believers.

Therefore, I would like to remind all readers that if you meet a monk in our country, please do not be deceived, he is 100% a fake monk.

In front of this temple, you can only see a front hall, and there are no buildings behind the front hall, so far you can't see it.

The cornices of the corner of the temple are very high, and the tip of the eaves corner is hung with a pair of bells.

It seems that no one has been here for a long time since this temple was abandoned, otherwise, no one would have let such a large piece of gold shine here.

The front hall, also called the main hall, is the most important building of a temple. Several wooden doors at the entrance of the main hall were dilapidated and decayed, and they fell crookedly next to the door frame, and the window paper on the door lattice had long since weathered, and even the door frame was crumbling, as if it would collapse with a kick.

James was the first to enter the main hall, and as soon as he lifted one foot, he was stopped by Durin.

"Is there a mechanism?" James said, nervously.

"Not really, but you almost hit the threshold. ”

"What's wrong with stepping on the threshold?" James looked puzzled.

"There are rules for entering the temple," Du Lin pointed to the threshold and said, "The threshold of the main hall must not be stepped on, this is a great disrespect to the Buddha, and there is no considerable identity, it is best not to go through the main gate, only the Son of Heaven, that is, the emperor, can go through the main gate, ordinary people may suffer karma when they walk through the main gate, and they must go through the doors on both sides." ”

As he spoke, he walked into the door on the left, "Enter the left door and step with your left foot first, and enter the right door with your right foot first......" Without waiting for Durin to finish, James stepped on the threshold and entered the main hall through the main entrance.

"I believe in God, and your Buddha has no control over me. ”

Then Francis and Jones entered through the main entrance, giggling.

Only Pique believed Durin and entered the door from the left.

Durin stood in the doorway, looking at James's back, his face sinking like water.

Zhu Zhonglin patted Du Lin on the shoulder, "Brother Du, don't be angry, a bunch of Western barbarians, where do you know this, let them go." ”

Durin wasn't angry, he was wondering, since the time of meeting in Kathmandu, he felt that James's attitude towards him was hot and cold, far less in awe of himself than before.

Durin is not so bad and likes to make people afraid of himself, but what is the reason for James's change in attitude?

Walking into the main hall of the temple, the dust on the ground had accumulated and almost submerged the threshold, and it seemed that it had been abandoned for hundreds of years, to say the least.

In the middle of the main hall is a pure copper incense burner, which is covered with patina. Behind the incense burner was an offering table that had been half crooked, and the offerings placed on the offering table had weathered into a black mass, and it was impossible to see what they were.

Behind the offering table, there is a high altar, on which there are three statues, from left to right: Buddha Burning Lamp, Buddha Shakyamuni and Maitreya Buddha, which are also the three most common Buddha statues enshrined in the main hall in Buddhist temples.

They represent the past, the present, and the future.

Among them, the Buddha of the Burning Lamp is more ancient than the Buddha of Shakyamuni, so it is called the Buddha of the past, and the Maitreya Buddha is the Buddha who became after the extinction of Shakyamuni, so it is called the Buddha of the future.

The three Buddha statues, although the golden body has long been dilapidated, the top of the head and shoulders have also fallen with a thick layer of ash, and the body seems to be covered with a robe made of spider webs, but it does not affect the solemnity of the three Buddha statues, silent and solemn, so that people can't help but admire at a glance, and even a little ashamed of themselves.

There are some traces of murals on the walls on both sides of the main hall, but after hundreds of years of wind and frost, they have long been mottled and blurred.

After the group walked around the front hall, except for Du Lin, who felt that he didn't know what was wrong, everyone else found nothing special, so they turned from the back of the Buddha statue to the apse together.

After coming out of the back door of the front hall, after passing through a not very long passage, you came to the back hall.

At this point, Durin finally understood what was wrong.

The apse is dedicated to the eighteen Arhats.