Night......

I don't know when it started, the crescent moon hovering alone in the sky has become miserable, faintly still showing a blood-red color, and the light is dim, like the tears in the corners of the female ghost's eyes, and like the pus and blood on the rotting corpse, winding over the sky and the earth.

In the west wing, Liang Zheng held a candle in one hand, constantly wandering along the four walls, searching...... As if looking for something, he looked very carefully, even missing every brick joint.

Suddenly!

The closed door creaked open, and a dark shadow flashed into the room.

"Who?"

"It's me."

What came to his ears was Sun Zixian's nervous voice, but what was stuffed in his hand was a thick stack of paper.

"You got the blueprints for the mansion?" Liang Zheng moved the candle closer to the paper and began to flip through the pages.

"It took me a lot of energy." Sun Zixian said, "I don't know what that dead old ghost is doing hiding it so tightly...... By the way, what do you want it for? ”

"There are sentry posts everywhere in the West Cross Courtyard, and we don't have the ability to go high and high, if we want to enter the West Cross Courtyard, we naturally have to work hard in this West Wing Building that is only separated by a wall......" Liang Zheng responded casually, while looking at the drawings quickly, and said again after a while: "Found it." You see......"

He pointed to one of them: "There is a well next to the back house of the west courtyard, and the corner of the well is planted with a century-old acacia, which happens to hide the area around the root of the wall, and from the drawings, the place corresponding to the root of the wall ......"

He kept his gaze switching between the drawings and the four walls, then pointed to the wall in the northwest corner and said, "This is it!" ”

"You mean......" Sun Zixian asked, "let's dig in from here?" ”

"Exactly." Liang Zheng picked up the pickaxe and handed it to her, "Do it, be careful not to make too much noise." ”

The two carefully dug out the bricks on the neat wall, and after digging for a while, Liang Zheng signaled to stop, put his ear to the wall and listened to the movement on the opposite side, until he confirmed that there was nothing abnormal, and then continued to dig.

After a long while, a one-foot-square hole was dug through, and the head could be inserted through the hole. He leaned to the entrance of the cave and looked, there was no one left and right, so he was relieved to smash the hole in the stone wall bigger, lit the torch, and drilled the past first, and sure enough, he had arrived in the west courtyard, and a huge locust tree in front of him was as tight as a cover, densely blocking the front of him, hiding the situation in the courtyard.

After a while, Sun Zixian also came from the thief hole, Liang Zheng motioned for her to hide behind the tree, not to act rashly, poked her head out, and looked into the courtyard.

At this time, I don't know when a layer of fog has fallen in the sky, the thick fog fills the courtyard, as if a very thick and very wide curtain has fallen from the sky, and all the pavilions and pavilions in the house are hidden in the thick fog, and the sight is faintly visible, only the flower beds on both sides, but there is no longer the original bright and verdant beauty, only the shadow can be seen in the dark shadow, and it has become indescribably weird and gloomy under the rendering of the dark night and fog, but there is no human voice.

Sun Zixian twisted her fingers, and there was an extraordinarily wet feeling on her fingertips. It creeped her knew.

"This ...... Why is it so trendy here? Sun Zixian's lowered voice trembled.

Liang Zheng frowned, the humidity in the air was a little excessive, even if it was a rainstorm, the density of water vapor should not be so large.

"You say......" Sun Zixian tugged at his sleeve, "It can't be yin, right?" I remember the old people saying......"

"It's said that there are no ghosts in the world, don't think about it." Liang Zheng patted her hand and comforted, and looked ahead again, her vision was all blocked by fog, as if it was only as big as in front of her in the space, and she couldn't help but feel happy in her heart:

"God help me, this fog came at the right time, such a thick fog, even if there are patrols in the courtyard, they are not afraid of being discovered."

While thinking, he pulled Sun Zixian out of the tree, looking around was full of dense fog, visibility was extremely low, and he could only vaguely see that the courtyard seemed to be chaotic, the pillars collapsed and the walls were peeled, and there was a dense patch of weeds and moss, which did not look like someone was cleaning at all, but it looked like it had been barren for many years, and there was no popularity at all, not to mention the sound, not even the footsteps of the patrol sentry. Only a little farther away, the dim light, was attracting their attention. Liang Zheng pointed to the bright light and said:

"Let's go over and have a look."

The two of them crept along the light, and after a few steps, they saw a stilted wooden building of a different style standing there weakly, the gray masonry looked white and miserable in the moonlight, and the small lattice windows were desolate and open. A handful of light came out of the hut.

"There...... What will it be? Sun Zixian asked softly, her voice so sharp that it almost changed tone.

"Everything, everything."

Liang Zheng took a deep breath.

There was a dead silence all around, and this extremely quiet air seemed to hide all the most terrifying, all the weird and inconceivable evil things in the world, and the thick fog brought the human imagination to the extreme, and a cold terror permeated the body, almost not bursting their hearts!

The two couldn't help but look at each other, and no one could make a sound.

"Let's go inside!"

Liang Zheng bit his lip with his thin white teeth, squeezed out these words between his teeth, and with that, he swayed his waist lightly and pulled Sun Zixian to climb in through the half-open window. Unexpectedly, as soon as he stood still, he only heard a "squeak", and the small half-open window had been closed, and even the faint light from before was gone.

Liang Zheng's consciousness sank into darkness almost all at once, as if he had lost his connection with the world at this moment and was thrown into the endless void.

What does that feel like? All around was darkness that could not be seen, as if there was nothing, and as if it contained everything, an extremely strange intuition hit my heart, it was clear that danger was nearby, but apart from this sense of danger, there was no other spiritual sense, no other movement! It was as if something ghostly was quietly approaching......

He snapped his eyes open.

It was still a sight of his fingers out of sight, but as his vision gradually adjusted to the darkness, he began to faintly see the shadows in the room.

The house is a large space, arranged like the hall of a temple, surrounded by clay stone carvings, but not gods, but a thousand strange demons, more than contained in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", with a face full of fear and hideousness, or a look of pain and reverence, all lifelike.

At one end of the hall was a large, strange-looking black table, shaped like a palm, with six fingers. On the large table, some incense was offered, and a couplet hung on both sides, which clearly read:

Uplink:

Only know where the world belongs, and the phoenix falls to the ground and turns into a sky. Since then, I have been free, and there is not a cloud left.

Allied:

What do you do to redefine the world? In front of the lotus platform, sit on the Buddha, and I am the king of the world.

In the room, the dust is everywhere, exuding a thick dust and obscure mildew, coupled with the cobwebs everywhere, covered with thick Ai flying mites, it looks ghostly, as if it is in the underworld in the Senluo Palace.

Sun Zixian stretched out his hand and groped around, on the uneven wall, along every gap, pushing hard outside the uneven and uneven walls, but he didn't move. She couldn't help frowning and said:

"Let's take a look around and see if there's a mechanism here. I'll go to the left, you go...... Hey, what are you looking at? ”

Only then did she realize that Liang Zheng seemed to be absent-minded, her two eyes were only staring straight at the couplet in front of her, and there were words in her mouth.

Sun Zixian read it again, but she didn't know why, and asked, "What are you just looking at this?" Aren't we looking for agency news? ”

When she said this, Liang Zheng seemed to wake up from a dream, and exhaled softly with an "ah":

"It turns out that these people are the White Lotus Sect!"

"White Lotus Sect?" Sun Zixian was stunned.

Of course she knew what the White Lotus Sect meant, and thought that her husband Li Shiqing actually had an affair with the White Lotus Sect, isn't this a big crime of raiding the family and destroying the clan? Thinking of this, I couldn't help but tremble all over my body, and asked in a trembling voice:

"White Lotus Sect...... Is the old ghost going to rebel? ”

"It's hard to say right now. But what is certain is that these people who live in the West Cross Courtyard of your house are definitely the White Lotus Sect. Liang Zheng replied in a deep voice, but his heart kept sinking.

The matter involves the White Lotus......

It seems that this incident has completely exceeded his expectations.

Faintly, an extremely ominous feeling hit his heart.

"You...... How do you know? ”

Liang Zheng didn't answer, he muttered for a long time, stepped forward and patted the words "only", "me", "white", "lotus", "heaven", "down", "for" and "king". I don't know where it touched, but I heard a soft "click" somewhere, and then the floor under the offering table suddenly cracked, and a dark passage appeared in front of the three of them.

"This ...... Is there a mechanism?! Why don't I know about this mechanism? Sun Zixian was startled, and couldn't help but secretly praise in her heart: "This mechanism is wonderful!" Who would have thought that the mechanism that opened the secret passage would be hidden in the beginning and end of a poem. Hang in front of you clearly. ”

I only heard Liang Zheng say: "I still remember, that day you said that you heard countless undead shouting signs, like the sound of purgatory?" ”

"Not bad. I heard it clearly, but I didn't know where that terrible sound came from. ”

"Now it seems that the voice you have heard must have come from here. All the secrets must be in it. Liang Zheng looked at the deep Yongdao in front of him with a faint gaze, "Let's go down and take a look." ”

As he spoke, holding a candle in one hand and pulling Sun Zixian in the other, he walked forward along the passage, and instantly disappeared into the darkness.

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The two of them cautiously groped their way forward, stopping and stopping all the way, paying attention to the movements around them at any time, but there was still no popularity in the corridor. I felt that the road was inclined all the way forward, and the lower and lower it was, and after walking about fifty zhang, suddenly there were two identical forks in front of me. The two of them looked left and right, they didn't know where to go, and they were hesitating, Sun Zixian seemed to have suddenly discovered something, and let out a slight "huh":

"Look, there's a line here."

Liang Zheng lit up the fire fold, and when he stepped forward to take a look, he saw that there were two lines of words engraved on the stone wall of Yongdao, which turned out to be a couplet, and the upper couplet was:

True and false, false and false, one true and one false, one false and one true

The next link is:

Life and death, life and death, life and death, life and death, life and death.

"This couplet, does it mean that one here is a way of life and the other is a way of death?" Sun Zixian asked.

Liang Zheng nodded: "It seems that it is." ”

"But......" Sun Zixian looked left and right in embarrassment, "These two roads look exactly the same from the outside, how can you tell which one is the way of life and which one is the way of death?" There are no hints in the couplet, but how do people choose? ”

Speaking of this, he secretly glanced at Liang Zheng, and saw that he was looking at the couplet on the stone wall in a daze, and he didn't know what he was thinking, so he couldn't help but sigh secretly.

"Do you think the hint must be hidden in this couplet?"

"Not bad." Liang Zheng replied casually, "It's just that we didn't understand it thoroughly for a while." True and false, false and false, true and true...... Life and death, life and death...... What does that mean exactly...... What does that mean......"

Sun Zixian thought for a while, and suddenly clapped his hands and shouted, "I know!" True and false, life and death. This must be a hint! Tell us that we need to follow the literal order, right true and left false, right life and left death? ”

Liang Zheng shook his head and said: "If it is so simple, then anyone can think of it, so why set up this identical fork in the road to confuse us?" ”

"This ......" Sun Zixian couldn't help but hesitate when she heard what he said, and thought to herself, feeling even more clueless. saw Liang Zheng say in a low voice:

"Go this way!"

Before the words fell, he rushed to the left fork without hesitation.

Sun Zixian hurriedly grabbed him: "How do you know that this is the way to live?" ”

"I don't know." Liang Zheng shook his head.

"You ......" Sun Zixian suddenly gave him a big roll of his eyes, "You don't know if you still go this way, what if it's a dead end and triggers a powerful mechanism?" ”

Liang Zheng said with a smile: "The Huayan Sutra clouds: 'Life and death, death and death, life and death. 'Born of the false union of all beings, and from the birth of many, because there are too many births, they are called sentient beings. Where there are beings, there are many deaths. Many are born, and many die, so many are called to death. A sentient being has been born and died, died and reborn in the six realms of reincarnation, and I don't know how many times I have been born and died? So, why not stop the cycle of life and death? ”

Sun Zixian's eyes widened involuntarily!

She is a very smart woman, Liang Zheng reacted immediately, clapped her hands with "ah", and suddenly said: "I understand!" What do you mean - in fact, there is no difference between life and death at all of these two paths, and the mechanism itself is in front of you! ”

"Clever." Liang Zheng nodded and praised: "Many times, we are always faced with such and such choices, and we are afraid because we can't make judgments, but have you thought about it, maybe the essence of the matter is not in the choice itself, but in whether you have the courage to make a choice." This organ, this couplet, is really just a pretense, and there is no difference between these two forks in the road. Imagine what you would have done without this couplet. ”

"I'll take a path."

"But with this couplet? Why is it so intimidating? Just because it tells us that one of them is a dead end. So the question itself is not how to choose the fork in the road, but this couplet, which gives us a blind eye. ”

"Yes, that's it." Sun Zixian couldn't help but admire and sigh again, "This truth is easy to say, but when the world comes here and sees this couplet, who is willing to bypass it and not bother to study the mystery in the couplet?" But I didn't know that because of this, I was hesitant and timid. ”

It is not difficult for a person to die at any cost......

But if he were to make his own judgment to decide his own life and death, it would be two different things entirely.

That's why this couplet is the real thing!

People who do not have the courage will never dare to leave, and they will often even change their minds and temporarily retreat, and the purpose of setting up the organ will be achieved.

So......

Liang Zheng: "Being able to set up such a mechanism, the White Lotus Sect is really good." ”

"Are you trying to say, 'I can break this mechanism, so I'm more capable?'" Bah, baba, so shameless. Sun Zixian smiled and stretched out her hand to scrape him.

"Alright, don't make a fuss." Liang Zheng naturally laughed at it, and immediately straightened his expression, "Although I haven't encountered any danger at the moment, I always feel that this place is strange and inexplicable, and the situation is dangerous, so I should be more careful." ”

After that, they naturally blocked in front of Sun Zixian, and the two continued to walk forward.