I pulled out my phone and tried to navigate, but there was no signal at all. In desperation, I pulled up the compass on my phone, but it didn't work......

At this moment, I don't know how much I regret that I have gone blind, and all kinds of terrible speculations have popped up in my heart. The more I reminded myself not to think about it, the more positive those thoughts came to me - I panicked, and ran through the woods, when suddenly there was a cry ahead......

"Who?" I trembled against a pillar and reached into my bag with one hand to grasp the "Soul Mirror" - I couldn't help but think of the wails I heard in front of the stone tower that day, could they be related, or were they just the same voice?

I tried to walk forward, and the cry became clearer and clearer, coming from all directions, and it was terrible!

I ran and thought to myself that it would be good to be able to go back to the stone tower. However, it backfired, and I found that no matter which direction I ran, the bamboo became denser and denser, as if trying to trap me in it. At that moment, I saw a white skeleton lying in the depths of the bamboo.

"Ahh I was a little exhausted, so I stopped to hold on to the bamboo, gasping for breath, and felt a little strange in my palm. I hurriedly took it away and looked at it, and my palms were bright red - could it be that these bamboos were crying?

"Nope! No! ...... "I ran forward without my life, never daring to stop, screaming silently in my heart, hoping that someone would come to save me-suddenly, my body shook, and the whole person was stunned for a moment, and then I heard a familiar and terrible voice - "Ding~Ding~"

The brass bells echoed in the bamboo forest, and I noticed that the crying sounded like ...... Gone! I was amazed, could it be that the brass bell saved me? Perhaps, this brass bell has other functions, but I don't know!

I hurriedly took out the brass bell from my bag, all along, I only regarded it as a warning bell for the appearance of ghosts, and then I suddenly remembered that the old lady said that it was also a "rare thing" with spiritual power! I felt the brass bell vibrating, but soon it regained its calm as the bell disappeared. I looked at this bronze bell, puzzled, really responded to the sentence "everything has two sides", and this is the reason why good and bad depend on each other.

I put the brass bell back in my bag, and it was not a good place to stay for long, so I could only keep running. I don't know how long I ran, but fortunately, I finally saw a bright light on the endless road.

"Who's where?" Master Fa Yan said sharply.

In the distance, I saw the eye-catching yellow monk's robe again, and suddenly I felt like I was going to live for the rest of my life!

"Master!" I excitedly shouted, "I've finally seen you!" ”

"It's you!" Master Fa Yan looked at me in surprise and said, "How could the donor come out of the bamboo forest?" ”

I walked up to Master Fa Yan and said in shock, "This bamboo forest...... It's so weird! ”

Master Fa Yan furrowed a pair of eight-figure eyebrows and asked, "You have been in the forest just now?" ”

I nodded and replied, "I just got lost and heard someone crying, and then I ......" I raised my hand and looked - it was gone, the bright red bamboo tears were gone!

Master Fa Yan looked at me incredulously and said, "The donor can actually walk out of this Devil May Cry Bamboo safely, Amitabha!" ”

"Devil May Cry?" I looked at him in amazement, "You mean there's a ghost in this forest?" ”

Master Fa Yan deliberately changed the topic and asked, "Is the donor here looking for Lao Wei?" ”

I remembered the purpose of this trip, and hurriedly replied: "I just came to you, and they said that you were taking a lunch break, so ......"

"Lunch break?" Master Fa Yan interrupted me and said in surprise, "Lao Wei has just finished his morning class, and it's not time for lunch break!" ”

"What!" I glared at him in horror, "But, I obviously ......" I hurriedly took out my phone from my bag and looked, oh my God, I actually walked in the bamboo forest for a day and a night!

Master Fa Yan looked at the reaction of the person in front of him, and suddenly understood: "You, come with me!" ”

I followed Master Yanfa back to the meditation room in a panic, and he poured a cup of tea and handed it over. I held it in my hand, felt a hint of warmth, and quickly drank it in one gulp, and immediately felt hunger in my belly.

Master Fa Yan sat aside, and after a long silence, he asked, "Do you know the origin of this Dharma Temple?" ”

I looked at him quizzically and shook my head. Master Fa Yan said: "More than 70 years ago, the area around Langshan was sparsely populated, and the nearest village was hundreds of miles away. One year, when a plague broke out, the local army sent all the sick people to the foot of the mountain to be treated. Later, some people were not spared, so the villagers moved the corpses and the unconscious living people here and cremated them! ”

"Those who didn't die are burned!" I was shocked, could it be that the cries I heard in the bamboo forest were those plague patients who were burned alive and buried under the bamboo forest?

"Yes! They were also burned alive! Master Fa Yan said with a look of regret: "They did not get relief from this, on the contrary, they were angry after death and went down the mountain to take revenge...... For a while, people were panicked, so the villagers asked someone to do a seven-day and seven-night ritual to calm down! ”

"Then the bamboo forest is where those people are buried?" I asked.

Master Fa Yan nodded: "Back then, it rained heavily here for several days, and there were people in several villages who died suddenly for no reason, and some people found out that it was because the heavy rain washed away the magic circle, so the unjust soul went down the mountain to ask for his life!" He turned his head to look at me and sighed faintly, "Fortunately, there was a wanderer who came up the mountain alone in the rain." At dawn the next day, everyone thought that something had happened to him, but he went down the mountain unharmed. Not only that, but no one was disturbed by the unjust spirit for several days. Therefore, according to what this traveler said, we planted bamboo and wood here on a large scale, and built this Dharma temple, so that the villagers could come to chant the scriptures spontaneously, and surpass the souls of those relatives. ”

Master Fa Yan suddenly stopped and was silent, I didn't rush to urge, just looked at him. After a while, he stood up, walked to the door, and looked up at the sky. Curious, I walked over and stood beside him.

"What do you see?" Master Fa Yan asked suddenly.

I looked at the sky seriously and replied, "Clouds! ”

"A storm is coming!" Master Fa Yan said uneasily.

I thought of the stone tower in front of the bamboo forest and the "thunder wood" under the stone tower, and I vaguely felt that the matter did not end because of this, so I asked, "What about later?" ”

Master Fa Yan looked at the dark clouds and a touch of sadness appeared, and it took a long time for him to speak: "According to the older generation, this forest is strange, and most of the people who walked in it have disappeared. Those who escaped said they heard the cry of a ghost, so the locals would take a detour and call it 'Devil May Cry'! He paused, then turned around, "Twenty years ago, a few people came to this temple to spend the night. When I saw that they intended to go to the back mountain, I told the old host, who advised them to take a detour, but they insisted on going their own way or entered the bamboo forest! ”