Chapter 43: The Patrol Anomaly
In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival came, and I stayed on duty because my home was far away and I didn't go back.
Because the docents who receive tourists and the people who patrol at night also go back a lot on vacation, but the climate is dry on New Year's Day, there are many tourists, and the requirements for fire prevention and theft prevention work are very high. And among the people who stayed, there were still some who had to help receive tourists during the day, and the few men who were left of us were lined up to patrol in shifts at night.
A few of us discussed it, one person was too tired for one night, fortunately every night to change shifts, one person for two hours, patrol and then shake can come back to change people to sleep, anyway, there is no impact on not doing things during the day.
During the night, I was sleeping soundly when I was woken up, and I knew it was two o'clock and it was time for me to go out on patrol. Reluctantly, I got dressed, grabbed the oil lamp, the key, and the horn, and went out the door.
The cold wind of minus 10 degrees made me shiver for a while, and I quickly jumped twice, and my whole body still trembled. I complained in my heart, the guardrail and iron doors are all well installed, what are you doing tossing people in the middle of the night?
After thinking about it, I still couldn't run away, so I still walked towards the grottoes. In fact, there is no oil lamp, there is a night light hanging all the way, although it is dim, but it is enough to walk and patrol. Keys and horns don't really need to be used, there are no special circumstances when it's so quiet in the four corners, and you can hear any rats running past.
Walking and walking, it doesn't take long for people to completely wake up in this environment, sleepy, and even a little refreshed. But walking alone in the dark night, it is impossible to say that it is completely calm, and the last experience also made me nervous a little.
Although I have experienced a lot of things, I should be more and more courageous, but I am still a little afraid when I think of what happened to me that day. People's fear often comes from the unknown, you can understand that you see unclean things, deceitful corpses, murals move the eyes, open your eyes, what kind of thing is this? I just hope that everything is okay tonight and that I can go back and sleep well.
Cave M is like a north-south corridor, with a total of four floors, which is not too high, so you don't need to climb the building, as long as you walk on the main road on the first floor, you can see the whole area. I walked carefully for two rounds, but I didn't find anything, and I was still walking hot, and I walked around the shelter at the gate, and I estimated that the time was about the same, and I went back to change the guard. In any case, it was also safe to complete the duty task.
The next day was my birthday. On this year's birthday, I have no relatives, no friends, and I eat a bowl of noodles in the cafeteria at night, even if it's over, I miss going out to eat with my brothers at this time, and I'm a little disappointed.
However, in life, many times the house leak coincides with overnight rain, although it is not so serious, but it is very uncomfortable to think of getting up in the middle of the night to be on duty.
At two o'clock in the morning, I was called punctually again. With great reluctance, I got dressed and took the dick out of the warm room.
I don't remember who said it, many times, forced by life, I can't resist, it's better to accept it. Anyway, if you want to, you have to go, and if you don't want to, I just hummed a little tune all the way, and I was jumping around patrolling.
Anyway, no one else, except the janitor, no one can see me, as long as nothing happens, no one will ask about it, it's like dancing in the middle of the empty road in the middle of the night, the heart is as big as the stage.
But it didn't take long for me to realize that something was wrong in front of me, and when I looked closely, a cave on the third floor actually emitted a bright light.
You know, the night lights are installed underneath, and the glow in the cave is nothing more than two situations, the oil lamp used for the visit is not extinguished, but if the lights are not turned off, the first few rounds of patrols have not been found? So, is it possible that he was really robbed in the middle of the night?
Thinking of this, I realized that something was wrong and immediately wanted to call someone. But my mind turned, no, this big iron door is closed, the key is in my hand, it is impossible for people to enter! I looked back and confirmed my thoughts.
I see it really, the light comes out of the crack in the door and the gap between the top and bottom, but the size of the two cracks, can't get into people at all, at most crawl in cats and rats, but small animals it can't use lights?
I quickly had an immature hypothesis in my head - cat spirit and rat spirit! But it was quickly denied by me. I've only heard of spirits, but even if there really is, I don't sleep in the middle of the night on such a cold day, and I run out of the waste boss to visit the diamond cave and increase my knowledge? This is also outrageous.
I struggled with whether to call someone, so I quietly hid in the dark on the first floor, and observed for a while, but found that there was no movement, and the light did not flicker. You must know that one thing is the same thing about tomb robbers and murals, as people keep moving, the light source on the side will definitely be blocked one or two times, so there are people who are staggered. However, looking at today's situation, the possibility of outsiders coming in is basically ruled out.
I think I may be too nervous, a false alarm, maybe it's a yellow light here, and the patrol on duty just now didn't look good, but I found out, which is the most likely explanation at the moment. So I got bold and planned to go over and have a look, and if the lights weren't turned off, I turned them off.
I climbed up the stone staircase to the third floor with an oil lamp, and after a few breaths, I stopped talking. Cautiously walking towards the grotto over there, listening carefully to my ears, if there is any movement, I am ready to run away.
But it was very quiet, and there was nothing but the occasional sound of the wind. I slowly approached, and gradually relaxed.
When I walked to the entrance of the grotto, I found that there was nothing abnormal except for the light inside, and the door was well locked.
I looked at the top of the grotto, there are more than 320 caves, I thought about it, this seems to be a small cave from the Tang Dynasty to the five dynasties, and there are seven or eight statues in it. I still remember that when I came to draw it before, the sixteen flying figures in the outermost layer of the caisson on the top of the cave attracted my attention, and I stared at it for a long time. But I remembered that the roof of this cave was painted with thousands of Buddhas. The south and north walls are also painted with a thousand Buddhas.
Last time, I was frightened by the opening of the eyes of the thousand Buddhas, and I was afraid in my heart, and I said that I will go in and turn off the lights today, and I can't do this again, right?
I took out the key a little nervously, and just as I was about to open the door, I felt that the light in front of me suddenly increased, and I was shaken by the strong light, and I couldn't open my eyes.
When I got used to it, I looked into the light and saw that the iron door had opened, or rather, vanished. And inside is not a grotto, but a corridor, which looks relatively ordinary, like the passage of the grotto, but it also looks very solemn and heavy under the illumination of golden light.
I'm a little overwhelmed, which one is this playing?
I was frozen in place, and I faintly heard a voice whispering from inside. I got nervous, this scene, it shouldn't be a person in it, so what could it be?
I was instinctively ready to run, but curiosity seemed to hold me back to see what would happen next.
The call grew clearer, and I could hear it clearly, it was none other than a woman's voice.
Oh, it's a woman. Thinking of this, I am actually very cold, and sure enough, "rare and strange, more and less strange", maybe I am more accustomed to this kind of existence now. Ay? The last time the woman's eyes moved in the mural, was she also doing it?
But I thought about it, no, no matter what, this place is also a holy place of Buddhism, and if there are strange things, it shouldn't be here?
The call gradually became louder and clearer, it was a female voice, no, a group of female voices, bouncing out word by word or two, huh? They...... Calling me by name?
I wondered if I had misheard, and as the voices got louder and louder, I was sure that yes, they were shouting: "Zhou Hua, Zhou Hua......"
I felt a chill in my back, I've heard that the legend says that the two soul-hooking people will call people's names like this when they come, and it won't be my turn today, right? That's not right, this sound, obviously it doesn't seem like black and white impermanence, although I haven't heard it either.
Looking at the bright corridor and listening to the call, my mind became a little trance-like, and I even had a bold idea - do you want to go in and have a look?
Yes, go in and see, who's afraid of whom, I'm not afraid of LL's Yin soldiers, even if it's a woman, she knows who my surname is, at least it should be an acquaintance, what am I afraid of?
I don't know how I had the courage in my heart, and I walked into the golden corridor.
However, as soon as I entered, I regretted it, and the peripheral vision of my eyes noticed the change in things behind me, but when I looked back, it was too late, and the entrance just behind me was gone, and it became a dead end. Right now, there is only one choice before me - to move forward.
I looked closely at the corridor, and there was a strong light at the end of the hall, and I couldn't see clearly, except that I heard the incessant call coming from there. I can feel my heart beating fast, who can be calm in the face of such an unknown.
I hesitated, but I thought there was no way back, so I decided to go ahead and find out. It's impossible to say not to be afraid.
I walked towards the golden light at the end of the hallway, and the gradually intense light made me unable to open my eyes, so I simply closed my eyes and walked forward. But even through the eyelids, I could see the outline of the hallway.