"Phineas!"

"Feng Jianfei!"

Xu Jin and Youmi also shouted loudly, but they didn't respond, and three seconds later, there was a sudden choking sound, and Feng Jianfei popped up on the other side of the river, took a deep breath, and immediately entered the water.

"Phineas?!" Xu Jin shouted in disbelief, and suddenly, the flow of water in the middle of the river slowed down, and strange black shadows gradually rose to the bottom of the water, and the black shadows were arranged neatly, leading to the opposite bank.

Feng Jianfei climbed ashore, knelt on the ground and spit out a few mouthfuls of water, beckoned to Lin Hainan and the three of them, and then spread it on the ground.

A simple stone pillar bridge rises from under the water.

Lin Hainan and the others didn't have time to be surprised by the stone bridge, so they immediately ran across the stone bridge and rushed towards Feng Jianfei.

"What's going on? How did the rope break? ”

"I untied it myself." Feng Jianfei took Yumi and took out a tissue from his backpack and wiped his face, "There is a place at the bottom where the speed of the water flow suddenly becomes very slow, I opened my eyes and saw that it was a stone bridge, and under the bridge was a large stone box, the sound of the water slapping up was very strange, like an empty space, I saw that there was an iron chain, and looked along the iron chain, there was a plug on the opposite bank, and when I pulled it out, good guy, the water poured into it, and the bridge was propped up." Feng Jianfei looked at Lin Hainan and smiled embarrassedly: "I have a little distance from the chain connected to the stopper, but I can't reach it, I am in a hurry, and I untie the rope." ”

"Next time! Alas, there is no next time. Lin Hainan originally planned to count Feng Jianfei in two sentences, but he thought that such an unreliable thing was proposed by him on a whim, and instead promised not to joke with Feng Jianfei's life next time.

"Haha, didn't you find the switch," Feng Jianfei smiled heartily, "It's also a blessing in disguise." And," Feng Jianfei looked into the depths of the forest, "this proves that we are in the right direction." ”

"The design of this stone bridge is very mysterious, the top is a stone pillar, the bottom is hollow, after pouring water, the stone slab rises, and the stone pillar surfaces to become the bridge ......" Sitting on the bank of the river, the four members of the Forbidden City team did not rush to set off, but rested on the spot, Lin Hainan took off his clothes and carefully dived into the water to investigate the structure of the stone bridge, while Youmi and Xu Jin inspected the carvings on the stone pillars on the stone bridge.

"It's a carving of an ethnic minority, right?" Xu Jin thought while taking pictures.

Yumi concentrates on the recording work in her hands, "It's not clear. Could it be from that tribe? But these patterns are not complicated, have you noticed? ”

"And there are very few patterns. Look at this stone pillar, it only made two circles. Xu Jin pointed to a stone pillar, but Yumi did not answer, Xu Jin looked over suspiciously, only to see Yumi squatting in front of the last stone pillar, carefully recording something. Sensing Xu Jin's gaze, Yumi hurriedly greeted Xu Jin, "Come and see!" ”

Xu Jin hurriedly ran over, the stone pillar in front of Youmi was the same size and shape as the other stone pillars, and the other stone pillars were more or less simply decorated, and the stone pillar was no longer a decorative painting, but two lines of words. And what shocked Yumi was the appearance of the words.

"Look, it's the same text as the document in the terracotta figurines!"

Xu Jin looked at it, and sure enough.

Just as Lin Hainan came ashore, Xu Jin and Youmi hurriedly ran towards Lin Hainan and told Lin Hainan and Feng Jianfei what they had found.

Lin Hainan and Feng Jianfei were also very surprised, but at present, they were still at a loss for the content of the document, so they could only record the words on the stone pillar first and go back and study them together.

"Let's go." Yumi entered the information into his database, "It doesn't matter if it's a Bodhi tree or not, but about the clues of the paperwork, this is the first one in two months!" There's definitely something ahead! ”

Lin Hainan, Feng Jianfei and Xu Jin all agreed, and the four of them immediately packed up their things and set off.

"Where are we headed?" Xu Jin asked.

"Let's look around, maybe there's a mark."

The four members of the Forbidden City team scattered and searched around, and finally found the symbol of the double fish ring under the stone under a tree.

Seeing the Pisces ring logo appear in the forest, Xu Jin and Yumi were a little complicated and a little excited.

As they searched for the markers, they moved forward, and after three hours, a long stone staircase appeared in front of the four of them, zigzag upwards, and there was no end in sight below, only lush trees. On the side of the stone steps, there is a small Buddha statue, about half a meter high like Jizo Bodhisattva, with a kind and lovely face. On either side of the Buddha statue, there are also two smaller stone statues.

"It's ...... The Three Saints of Amitabha? Lin Hainan was surprised.

The "Three Sages" specifically refer to the Three Sages of the West, also known as the "Three Amitabha Statues", that is, the collective name of Amitabha Buddha, the leader of the Western Elysium, and the Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Great Trend Bodhisattva.

Amitabha is a transliteration of Sanskrit, which translates as "Amitayus", so Amitabha Buddha is also called Amitayus Buddha.

The Buddhist scriptures say that Amitabha was a king before he became a Buddha, called Fazang, and he abandoned the country and became a monk, and he was deeply inspired to follow the Dharma of a Buddha called Shizi Wang, and he made forty-eight vows in front of the Buddha of Shizi, indicating that after he became a Buddha, there would be no hell, hungry ghosts, and beasts in the Pure Land of the Buddha Kingdom under his jurisdiction, and all sentient beings could be reborn here and live a peaceful and comfortable life without worrying about food and clothing and without any suffering. Later, Fazang really became a Buddha, called Amitabha Buddha, and the scope of his teachings was the Western Elysium.

And Elysium is full of gold, silver, glass, agate and other treasures, shining with brilliance and magnificence. The temperature is moderate, and there is no heat or cold. The beings of Elysium live in houses made of all kinds of treasures, and when they want to eat, fragrant food appears in front of them, and their clothes are "at the sight of the thought." They have no worries or sorrows, they are free, and they live a long life. As long as sentient beings recite the name of Amitabha Buddha wholeheartedly, they will be led to the Elysium by Amitabha Buddha after death, so Amitabha Buddha is also called "Receiving Buddha".

So, is the stone staircase in front of you the place that leads to Elysium?

Walking up the stairs, Lin Hainan felt a cool breeze. Since entering this place, it is like stepping into another world, especially peaceful and quiet.

No one around spoke, Feng Jianfei, Youmi and Xu Jin seemed to be immersed in it, and no one made a sound to break the silence.

However, the length of the stone steps was much longer than the four had imagined.

"We walked for half an hour, a total of 396 steps." Xu Jin opens the clipboard to view the data.

"But there's still no end in sight." Yumi exhaled. "But the environment is so beautiful. And it's not tiring at all, but where will this staircase lead? ”

"Huh-" Lin Hainan also let out a sigh of relief, stopped with Feng Jianfei, and looked back, the winding steps were already hidden in the woods, and the road from which they came was buried in a verdant greenery. And looking up, it is also a zigzag upward step.

After walking for another hour, the Forbidden City team stopped to rest.

"Did you notice, it's very quiet?" Yumi sat down on the steps and looked down. The steps are not steep, and the climb doesn't feel obvious, but they are indeed going higher. "It's that feeling of time standing still. It was afternoon when we set off, shouldn't it be dark all the time? ”

Lin Hainan and Feng Jianfei glanced at each other, Feng Jianfei put down the water bottle, watched Lin Hainan take out his mobile phone and look at the time, showing a strange expression.

"How?"

"Time hasn't moved." Lin Hainan showed the time to the three of them, "This is the time when I am awake, and it is still this time." And Lin Hainan also looked at the time twice along the way, because the sky was always bright, Lin Hainan didn't even notice that the time had not changed.

Feng Jianfei took out his mobile phone, the time on the mobile phone was later than Lin Hainan's, and Youmi and Xu Jin were later.

"It's time for each of us to wake up." Feng Jianfei thought for a while and said, "In the order in which we are sober." ”

"Why does time stand still today? Is the system of the holographic world pumping again? ”

"That's right. After all, we are not still, and the river is always rushing, the time of the things around us is still moving, our time is also moving, but the time of the overall environment has not changed, it should be that the system has a problem again. Xu Jin, give me feedback. ”

"Hmm." Xu Jin opened the operation interface, gave feedback on the problem, and before closing the operation panel, Xu Jin glanced at the recorder again: "We walked for an hour and forty minutes, with a total of 1026 steps." ”

“...... How long are these steps? Since there is a problem with the system, won't we be trapped on this staircase and climb all the way? ”

"It's hard to say, but there are still 3,000 steps in the Shennongjia Scenic Area, let's go up again." Feng Jianfei pulled Yumi and Xu Jin up, pushed the two to move forward, Lin Hainan took back his mobile phone, "We have no way back, we have climbed the steps for so long, do we still have to climb down?" Even if we go down, where are we going? Do you want to cross the river and go back? ”

"Spare me." Feng Jianfei said with a smile. The four members of the Forbidden City team continued to move forward, and after perceiving the stillness of time, they gradually felt tired, and after walking and stopping for three hours, they finally saw the end of the steps.

Stepping on the last step, the four of them also reached the end of their physical strength. Xu Jin said weakly: "Four hours and fifty minutes, 3060 steps." ”

"It's finally here." Feng Jianfei sat down tiredly, and Lin Hainan also let out a long breath: "Yes, it's finally here." ”

Lin Hainan's tone was full of relief, excitement and shock, Feng Jianfei raised his head and looked at Lin Hainan's gaze, fifty meters away, there was a huge tree, ten stories high, the huge crown diameter was three or four meters, a thick dark green.

When you get closer, you can see that the bark is silvery-gray, the whole plant is smooth, the bark is flat, the lower end is slightly longitudinal, the trunk is uneven, the branches have aerial roots, drooping like whiskers, and the side branches stretch out to the surroundings, and the crown is wide. The branches and leaves are sparse, and the shade is restored.

“...... Bodhi tree? ”