Director Wang held Abbot Mo Ran's hand, Zhao Zimeng mentioned Master Mo Ran in front of Director Wang, Zhao Zimeng guessed that the person who wrote the note was likely to be Master Mo Ran: "Abbot Mo Ran, we have caused a lot of trouble to your temple. ”

Abbot Mo clasped his hands together and bowed his head to salute: "Director Wang is polite." As long as the temple can do it, we will spare no effort. ”

The group walked through the Jingwu Hall and came to the back door of the Ming Chen Temple.

Abbot Mo took out a bunch of keys from the monk's robe, unlocked the door, and watched his comrades disappear into the depths of the forest.

When the comrades walked out of the back door of the Jingwu Hall, Master Yan, Master Chen, and three apprentices ran over from the Tibetan Scripture Hall—three apprentices with shovels and ropes in their hands. They also wanted to go to Ziyunguan with their comrades to help. Zhao Zimeng did not object.

Before entering the woods and Tallinn, Zhao Zimeng looked back at the back door of Mingchen Nunnery, and the silent abbot stood motionless outside the door.

Ten minutes later, the group came to the grotto.

From south to north, Zhao Zimeng and Linghu Yunfei counted the grottoes, a total of thirteen grottoes, and the thirteen grottoes were chiseled on more than a dozen very large boulders. Behind the grotto is a high mountain. When everyone first came, the moon was dark and the wind was high, so I only looked at a rough idea.

In front of and above the grotto, there are some strange-shaped stones, from which it can be seen that this mountain may be a karst landform, if it is a karst landform, there must be a karst cave.

Xiang Daimo and Ma Jianping went from north to south, counted to the fifth grotto, and then walked in.

There is indeed a very large sitting Buddha in the grotto, this sitting Buddha is about two meters high - the stone Buddha sits on a high platform of about one meter, the stone Buddha's hands naturally droop, and the index fingers are interlocked; The seated Buddha faces east, his eyes are slightly closed, but the thin light from his eyes is bright.

The seated Buddha faces the entrance of the cave, and there is a relatively small standing Buddha on each side of this stone Buddha. At the foot of the two standing Buddhas is a high platform of about 50 centimeters. There is hardly a gap between the three stone Buddhas, so pilgrims generally do not run behind the stone Buddhas to see what is going on if they are not particularly curious and want to make a mistake.

The light inside the grotto was very dim, Xiao Luhan and Lu Qian turned on two emergency lights, and Ling Hu Yunfei and Xiang Daimo turned on two flashlights.

Linghu Yunfei was the first to climb the high platform with a flashlight, and Zhao Zimeng took the emergency light from Lu Qian's hand.

Behind the first standing Buddha, there is only a space of sixty or seventy centimeters wide, and the back of the sitting Buddha is different, there is a relatively large space behind the sitting Buddha, and its area is equivalent to the size of the table top of the Eight Immortals.

Xiang Daimo handed a shovel from the right shoulder of the seated Buddha to Linghu Yunfei.

The light of the emergency light and the flashlight were aimed at the large area of the table at the same time.

Ling Hu Yunfei and Master Chen took off their coats, rolled up their sleeves, and began to dig the soil.

Zhao Zimeng pulled Director Wang onto the high platform in front of the seated Buddha.

The soil layer is a shovel thick, about 40 centimeters.

Soon, the head of the shovel hit the stone beneath the layer of soil. To be precise, it should be a slate. This should be a relatively large slate.

Sure enough, when Linghu Yunfei dug up all the soil, a stone slab about 80 centimeters long and about 70 centimeters wide was presented in front of the three people.

Underneath the slate should be the mouth of the cave.

Xiang Daimo and Ma Jianping also climbed onto the high platform, and there were only four or five people behind the sitting Buddha. Everyone else stood below and waited patiently.

Ma Jianping used a crowbar to pry up one side of the slate, so that Hu Yunfei and Xiang Daimo held the slate, and the two of them used force at the same time to slowly lift the slate and move it to the side.

Zhizhen's strength was really great, so that Hu Yunfei and Xiang Daimo used all their strength to lift the big stone slab.

Everyone was stunned.

Sure enough, there was a hole about sixty centimeters in diameter under the slab - the hole was an irregular circle.

The people standing on the high platform all felt a current of air and smelled a special smell coming from the cavern.

Zhao Zimeng focused his flashlight on the hole, which was so deep that he couldn't see it at a glance. It's no wonder that so many young nuns have disappeared from Mingchen Nunnery, and their feelings have been hidden in this dark hole.

Master Chen picked up a small stone from the soil and threw it into the hole, and after more than ten seconds, an echo came from the hole.

A few people stepped aside, and Master Yan and Master Chen erected a tripod at the entrance of the cave, loaded pulleys, and put ropes on.

Without waiting for Zhao Zimeng's order, Xiang Daimo had already tied one end of the rope to his waist.

Linghu Yunfei stood next to Xiang Daimo, also making preparations before going down the cave.

Xiang Daimo has a very prominent characteristic, as long as he encounters a dangerous situation, he must be the one who takes the lead. Xiang Daimo is bold and careful, and he is calm, he takes the lead, and Zhao Zimeng is very relieved.

In addition to Xiang Daimo, Ling Hu Yunfei is also a cadre who charges forward and walks in front, so as long as Xiang Daimo and Ling Hu Yunfei take the lead, Zhao Zimeng's heart is very down-to-earth.

One of Xiang Daimo's feet was already standing on the edge of the hole.

Director Wang asked Lin Di to bring a mask and gloves for Xiang Daimo to put on.

Lin Di helped Xiang Daimo put on a mask and gloves, and hung the camera around Xiang Daimo's neck.

After Director Wang and Xiang Daimo told him a few words, everyone slowly put Xiang Daimo into the hole.

Ma Jianping, Xiao Luhan, and Master Chen's two apprentices tightly pinched the other end of the rope, and the rope was lowered little by little.

Everyone held their breath, so that all they could hear was the screeching sound of the rope moving on the pulley.

The light of emergency lights and flashlights can only shine on the cave wall, and the hole entrance is relatively small, and the bottom is relatively large; The person squatting at the entrance of the cave can clearly feel a cold air, and the cold air is mixed with a special smell - this smell has never been understood by everyone.

Xiang Daimo was holding an emergency light in his hand, and a flashlight was inserted in his jacket pocket.

As the light pillar of the emergency light continued to move downward, the original relatively smooth cave wall was replaced by one after another oblique turbulents, and these strange-shaped, abrupt stones were distributed around the cave wall.

"Stop." Zhao Zimeng said loudly.

The four men grabbed the rope in their hands.

The emergency light in Xiang Daimo's hand drew two circles - this was a code that had been agreed in advance. As long as the emergency light in Xiang Daimo's hand is circled, the rope must be stopped.

"Xiang Daimo, what's the situation?" Linghu Yunfei lay at the entrance of the cave and said loudly with his head down.

There is no echo below.

A third of the rope loop in the hands of the four people was left, and the length of a bundle of rope was thirty meters—that is, Xiang Daimo had already descended to a place of about twenty meters.

Soon, an echo was heard below. It's a pity that no one heard clearly what Xiang Daimo said, and at this time, Zhao Zimeng couldn't see Xiang Daimo's figure.

There was a barrier to communication.

Just when Zhao Zimeng and everyone were at a loss, the light of the flashlight turned on again - it flashed twice, and Xiang Daimo meant to continue to put the rope.

"Hurry up and pick up the rope - it's coming to an end." Ma Jianping said loudly.

Linghu Yunfei picked up another bundle of rope from the ground, and Master Yan connected the two rope heads together, and then pulled them a few times.

The rope continues to be lowered.

"Oops." Zhao Zimeng said suddenly.

Everyone understood what was going on, and the flashlight's attention suddenly disappeared, leaving only a faint light.

There must be a bend in the cave wall.

At this time, the rope in the hands of the four people had been placed at the joint - that is, Xiang Daimo had already descended to a distance of thirty meters.

When everyone was anxious, the rope shook three times - this is also what Xiang Daimo and Zhao Zimeng said, as long as the foot lands, shake the rope three times.

Everyone's hanging hearts finally fell to the ground.

With Xiang Daimo's landing, the ropes in Ma Jianping and Xiao Luhan's hands were also loosened.

Zhao Zimeng took the mask and gloves from Lin Di's hand. He's ready to go down, and with the two of them down there, things are better.

"Zimeng, I'll go down!" Linghu Yunfei pinched Zhao Zimeng's wrist.

"I'll go down first, and if you need to, you go down."

Director Wang and Master Yan tied the rope firmly around Zhao Zimeng's waist.

Before Zhao Zimeng went down to the cave, Director Wang fixed an emergency light on Zhao Zimeng's waist. The underside of the cave needs to be bright.

Sure enough, the cave wall changed direction at a distance of more than 20 meters. Turning the corner, Zhao Zimeng saw the light below and the figure of Xiang Daimo next to the light.

Why did Xiang Daimo suddenly stop about twenty meters away?

The reason is that there are two more abrupt pillars about twenty meters away, and there are some intertwined tree roots in the middle and west of the pillars, and on top of these two pillars and roots lies a corpse.

The clothes on the corpse were still there—the clothes were black and gray—judging from the color, the deceased should have been a Taoist priest, and Zhao Zimeng also saw a Taoist hat, which was still pressed under the deceased's skull, and the soft tissues on the deceased's face were no longer there. There were a lot of uneven folds on the clothes of the deceased. The deceased was left with only a skeleton on his body, and his clothes wrapped around a skeleton, which should have looked like this.

In this case, the victims are all nuns of Mingchen Nunnery, how can there be a Taoist priest's body in this cave? Could it be that there is another case besides the disappearance of Ming Chen'an? Zhao Zimeng didn't expect that in this deep mountain, in the two thousand-year-old temples, there were so many evils hidden.

Zhao Zimeng finally saw Xiang Daimo's face, and Xiang Daimo also saw Zhao Zimeng's face clearly.

Xiang Daimo hugged Zhao Zimeng's legs with both hands and slowly lowered him to the ground.

After Zhao Zimeng's feet landed, Xiang Daimo shook the rope three times.

"Captain, look—" Xiang Daimo said.

Zhao Zimeng looked in the direction where the flashlight pillar moved, and among the uneven stalactites, there were seven corpses, and one corpse was hanging on a stone that was leaning out from the side. The clothes on the corpse were still there, probably because the temperature in the cave was relatively low and the temperature was constant, and the clothes on the deceased's body had not yet rotted - or not completely decayed.