Chapter 10: The Bell Tower is Trapped

I saw the dusty door of the bell tower, squeak, pushed open from the inside, the door opened only to see a little girl in red clothes appeared at the door of the bell tower, the little girl's face was yellow, combed two pigtails, looking at us at a distance of four or five steps from us, the eyes were gray, the face was full of evil spirit, the blurred eyes looked at us unkindly, four or five steps away from the distance can smell a rancid smell coming to the nose, I jumped in front of Wang Jinhuai, took out a peach sword, pointed at the little girl and said: " Whose little girl are you, how did you end up here? I saw the red-clothed child, who didn't say anything, and ran out of the bell tower in a flash and ran towards the temple courtyard wall behind, there were several gaps in the courtyard wall, and in the blink of an eye, the little girl ran through one of them. As soon as I saw that she was going to run, I knew that there was something strange in it, and I also used my light skills to follow behind, I went out of the courtyard wall to see, there was a cemetery outside, there were a lot of towering trees, under the trees were unkempt weeds, and there were a lot of shrubs that I didn't know the name of, the cemetery was very close to the courtyard wall, even though I had a good light effort, but when I chased to the edge of the cemetery, the little girl had already dodged into the groves of the cemetery and disappeared.

I took a look, only to see that this cemetery is not small, several graves that are not covered by weeds and trees have no tombstones, it should be a mass graveyard like a cemetery, there are such cemeteries in every place, it can be regarded as a public welfare nature, buried here are all dead in a foreign land or poor people, no money to buy a cemetery, so they have to be buried here, this kind of place is generally close to the temple, every year on the Ghost Festival, the Qingming Temple will do things, but also for these homeless people no one to send paper money to the lonely ghosts have a response.

I took a look, the cemetery is full of all kinds of plants with hooks and long thorns, if you go in, it is not easy, the little girl flew in, I went around the cemetery again, the general situation is the same as I saw at the beginning, there is no road in the cemetery, there is no trace of people entering, the cemetery is around, except for the side of the temple, the three sides are crops, planted with sorghum, you can't see the surroundings, such a place in the daylight is also gloomy, a person does not dare to come here.

As soon as I saw this, I didn't insist on going in anymore, and the gentleman went back to the temple along the gap without risk.

In front of the bell tower, I didn't see Wang Jinhuai, I came to the front hall again, and I didn't see him, I searched the temple room and didn't find him, I saw that the luggage in the hall didn't move, he wouldn't just say goodbye, a big man can still run away, is it said that he is in danger. I'm back to the bell tower again, since we broke up here, then I'll start looking for it from the bell tower, even if I dig three feet into the ground, I will find him, people are here to accompany me, I can't leave it alone.

Thinking of this, I entered the bell tower, the bell tower is a fifteen-meter-high square blue brick building, the bottom of the bottom is about four meters wide, the inside is empty, except for a wooden staircase in the middle leading to the top of the building, nothing, the corpse of a few dead wild cats in the corner, exudes a rancid smell, similar to the smell of the little girl in red, there are many murals painted on the walls around it, but unfortunately there is no time to see what is painted now, first find Wang Jinhuai and then say, I shouted a few loudly below: "Mr. Wang, Mr. Wang." Are you on it?" There was no sound except for the echo of buzz, buzz, buzz from the building.

Seeing that there was no movement, I climbed up the stairs to the top again. The stairs are covered with dust, and there are a lot of bird droppings, and there is no trace of anyone walking, so no one has walked over, where is the little girl in red, didn't she climb up, only downstairs, and Mr. Wang will not leave footprints if he comes in, such a thick dust in the building, the traces will not disappear so quickly. I didn't find anything unusual along the way, and after a while I climbed to the top of the building. There is a big bell on the roof of the building, and the rope hanging the big bell is probably rotten, and the big bell is buckled upside down on the ground on the roof, and I remember that the master said that when this big bell strikes, it can be heard within a radius of twenty miles. Once upon a time, the bell was the alarm clock for the residents of the neighborhood. Now the temple is abandoned, and the bell has ended up like this.

I stood on the roof of the building and looked around, because the roof was extremely high, and there were no obstacles around, and I could see clearly from a radius of several miles, and the whole building of the temple to the south could be seen clearly.

The east side can also see the towering city tower of Shouguang City Gate, there is a village more than four miles away in the west, it seems that it is not big, the north is the cemetery, from above, the cemetery is also in addition to the tree, it is difficult to find anything unusual, just see the faint fog in the trees in the middle of the cemetery, this is broad daylight, the sun is shining, if it is in the morning, there is still a say, but now it is afternoon, there will be fog there, it seems that there is an unusual place, It's just that it's not so easy to get in with so many trees around, and if you can't do it, you can use light skills to go over from the top of the tree, but once there is any danger, it will be difficult to come out, and the safest way is to cut a road to get in, but when I want to cut it myself, and there is no tool, I knew that it would be good to let Wei An and them stay a little longer, and it would be too late to say anything, so it is better to go down quickly and find a way to find Wang Jinhuai, I am afraid that there will be danger if it is late. Turn around and head downstairs.

I came to the staircase to see, the staircase was gone, it was built together when the bell tower was built, and the whole bell tower building is one, how can you say that it is gone, and then why I didn't come up when I came up, if it was to prevent me from coming up, then simply let the stairs disappear in advance, it seems that someone is deliberately trying to trap me here, and I can't jump from a height of fifteen meters no matter how good I am. I thought it was an illusion, so I took my foot down to test it, but I didn't step on the stairs, it didn't seem to be an illusion, the stairs really disappeared out of thin air, and I couldn't meet ghosts in the daytime, but I could feel ghosts at night.

The Iron Buddha Temple is so weird, is it possible that the master has been a monk here for more than ten years, and he doesn't know at all, if he knew that the master wouldn't tell me, why did the master tell me to come to the Iron Buddha Temple to find Elder Ran.

With a stomach full of doubts, I leaned against the daughter wall of the bell tower, and I couldn't help it in a hurry. Still have to find a way to go on. Looking around, there was no figure in sight in a field, and occasionally there were a few pedestrians on the old official road, but they were too far away for anyone to hear if I shouted. Now there is no way to think about it, I will rest first, people are often more anxious and confused, I found a clean place to sit down, thanks to the roof on the bell tower is not completely broken, but also can block a little sun, or miserable, the sun in August stunned people. If I can't go down, I don't need others to clean me up, I will die of hunger and thirst, although my cultivators have also learned to Bigu, but it takes many years of cultivation, and I have to have a good understanding, a little Taoist priest like me understands the truth, and I don't have that ability.

After sitting for a while, I really couldn't think of any good way, so I still had to think of ways to save myself.

The moment I stood up, I saw the big clock in the middle, and it seemed that this was the only way to try. The big bell because it is upside down on the roof, if it is knocked like this, because it touches the ground, the sound can not be transmitted at all, I pushed the big bell, the big bell does not move at all, it seems that there are more than a thousand catties, relying on my strength is not able to lift, I saw a few bricks scattered on the ground, I had an idea, found a relatively strong wooden stick from the roof, found a gap and inserted it under the big clock, used the lever away from a little bit to pry up, and then kicked the brick under the bell with my foot, worked hard for a while, and finally let the big bell leave the ground, I found a sturdy brick, and I knocked the brick on the bell, and there was a bell in my ears, bell, bell, bell, and with my strike, the deep, deep, long, and distant bell sounded in all directions.