Chapter 35: Exploring the Nameless Temple at Night
"Almost." I'll look at Lu Yan.
Lu Yan nodded, but before he could speak, a faint bell suddenly sounded in the cave.
"Morning bell and dusk drum, morning class has begun!" Liu Dongxi stood up, his face was black and gray, revealing funny.
"Let's go!" I tightened my belt.
Originally, I planned to let Xiao Kan and Wang Dake wait outside, and we would come out when we went in to have a look, but they didn't want to live or die. I also thought that it was not certain that there was any danger in this place, and that if something really happened and lost contact, it would not be beautiful, so I agreed to go with them.
As you can see from the outside, the space in the cave is not large, it is a bit like a basement, and a small door opens on the east side, which is the entrance that Liu Dongxi drilled out.
Although it is underground, it is not very dark around. We emerged through the small door and were immediately stunned by the spectacle before us.
Liu Dongxi's narration is really monotonous, and his description is simply a summary compared to the grand scene in front of him.
In front of us was a cluster of buildings that swerved downward, and from our vantage point it looked like there were hundreds of them. Because all the buildings are missing the part above the second floor, it is difficult to estimate how many houses remain unseen under the shadow of those magnificent halls.
The red and yellow candlelight shines through the countless doors and windows, accompanied by curling green smoke, like a magical fuel, dyeing the whole space mysteriously. The sound of the deep and melodious chanting came from afar, and it shook our eardrums into our hearts, making it impossible to arouse a little evil thoughts and delusions.
Among the few of us, only Lu Yan was unmoved, this old monster has seen all kinds of weird things, and the things in front of us are shocking, and he is only afraid that it is very boring.
"What is this?" Lu Yan frowned and muttered to himself.
I'm a little blind, a layman like me, I feel the same when I listen to any sutra, it's like a popular chant a long time ago, I always listen to it and I don't feel it.
"How many scriptures do you know and still ask that?" Liu Dongxi began to look for trouble, in his eyes, his ancestor Lu Yan could pretend to be able to do it every day.
Lu Yan ignored him, but Wang Dake thought very seriously and said, "I don't know, I've never heard of it." ”
Xiao Kan understands this thing, I heard that her grandmother who died early was a layman, she has been following her grandmother to copy and listen to the scriptures since she was a child, and all kinds of awkward Buddhist scriptures come when she opens her mouth.
"It's like Sanskrit, but it's different, I can't hear it......" Kan shook his head.
"Sanskrit? I sound like a ghost! Liu Dongxi was looking for trouble on the side, but after saying this, his face suddenly changed, "Damn, it seems to be a ghost!" ”
The ghost name that Liu Shixi said has a history, and he once told me about it. There is a kind of text that is specially written for ghosts, and generally Taoist priests use a lot, and this kind of text is generally interpreted as only words, no pronunciation, and when used, it is also drawn to communicate with ghosts. But he had heard someone read it.
That man was a close friend of his, a tomb robber, and his ancestors had been Taoist priests for several lifetimes. Liu Shiyou touched a jade pillow from the ground, which was engraved with words he didn't know, and it happened that this guy had research, so he took it to him. The man's face changed greatly after seeing it, and he asked him to quickly prepare some big gifts and send the jade pillow back honestly.
According to Liu Shi's character, how can there be any reason to spit out the meat in his mouth? Of course, he didn't agree, but when the friend saw that he was stubborn, he didn't persuade him much, and gave him a talisman to get him out.
Although Liu Shifu didn't want to return the jade pillow, he didn't want to suffer a loss, so he honestly took the talisman home, read it nine times before going to bed according to his friend's request, and put it next to the pillow.
Something strange happened at night, and in the middle of the night, Liu Dongxi was suddenly awakened by a strange voice. The voice was sometimes shrill and sometimes deep, but it was not like the sound of a human voice, but like a ferocious beast teasing a pack of rats.
Although he was scared into a cold sweat, Liu Dongxi was also a time-tested professional, lying on the bed without moving, and secretly opened his eyes to see.
This look was deadly, and his friend entered his room at some point, and was holding the jade pillow and chanting words in his mouth, which was more terrifying than seeing a ghost.
Liu Shiwu didn't dare to act rashly, and after trembling on the bed for a while, he saw that the man was holding the jade pillow and got up to leave, so he was in a hurry, turned over and got out of bed and shouted, **What are you doing?
The man was startled, rolled his eyes and slowly looked back at him, and fell to the ground with a thud.
Liu Shixin pinched and slapped his mouth for a while, and he didn't forget to stick the talisman on the jade pillow like in the movie.
After working for a long time, the man woke up leisurely, and was startled when he saw Liu Dongxi, and listened to Liu Dongxi talk about the scene just now, and he was careless.
It turned out that this guy couldn't sleep in the middle of the night and wanted to come to Liu to drink, but when he arrived at the door, he suddenly became childlike and wanted to sneak in to scare Liu Dong. Who knew that after poking the door lock in, he couldn't move the jade pillow anymore, and he didn't know what happened later.
At that time, what the person read in his mouth was the kind of text for ghosts, that is, the ghost screams in Liu Dongxi's mouth.
At that time, Liu Dongxi told us about this past, and when we heard it, we tried to explain it. It is about this kind of words and charms that hypnotize people through special strokes, and the same is true for ghost texts and runes.
In fact, the two of them have been hypnotized by the jade pillow during the day, Liu Dongxi read the runes nine times before going to bed but just unlocked the hypnosis of the jade pillow, and although the friend has been doing this for a long time, he doesn't know the reason, and he inadvertently fell into the way of the jade pillow.
The content of the ghost text hypnosis on it should be that the person who sees this jade pillow should immediately send this jade pillow back to the tomb, as for whether it will accompany the tomb owner to nag not to come back after sending it over, we don't know.
The reason for remembering this past is that this kind of ghost text can be hypnotized, and the chanting sound here is mixed with this kind of ghost text, so can it be said that the people here have been hypnotized, so they will live here for a long time and worship the Buddha all day long?
The more serious question is that this kind of text can hypnotize people, so does the sound have the same effect?
I was still thinking about it, but Liu had already cut two pieces of skin from the belt and dipped them in water and stuffed them into his ears. At this time, the method commonly used by their tomb robbers to plug the holes in the body, the raw cowhide soaked in water will swell, which is more tightly blocked than the foam rubber plug.
"Don't be stunned, hurry up and plug it all up, or I won't care about you if you're enchanted in a while!" Although Liu Dongxi deliberately lowered his voice, his voice was still very loud. On one side, he also cut two pieces of skin to be stuffed for Wang Dake.
I hurriedly made a silent gesture at him, and Liu Dongxi immediately reacted and shut up. Wang Dake raised his arm to hold his hand, and took it himself and stuffed it into his ear.
Although it may sound sensational, we still plugged our ears as Liu stuffed things. The surroundings suddenly fell silent, and although there was no danger of being hypnotized, we could only communicate with each other by gestures.
We continued to move forward, the houses here seem to be some side halls, which enshrine some unknown Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues, although they are all very tidy, but the iron nails in the eyes bring those compassionate and peaceful faces out of a very strange color.
The hall is full of incense and candles as in ordinary Buddhist temples, but it always makes people feel a kind of eerie smell, I know that it is because of the sealed eyes of the Buddha statue, I can't help but sigh in my heart that these two small iron nails have brought such a big change.
There are also some rooms that are occupied, and at this moment everyone should be in the main hall for morning classes, so the rooms are empty. We went in to see, everything was very neat, and when we entered the door, there was a large shop, and it seemed that there were still a lot of people.
It's just that in addition to the smell of sandalwood, there is an indescribable smell around, a bit like the feeling of coaxing in the bathhouse. After thinking about it, I was relieved that people in this Tibetan area can't take a bath all year round, and so many people live underground, which will more or less taste a little.
Just as Liu Dongxi said, a large amount of cigarettes began to collect from the central hall, piling up on the roof of the cave like a low cloud.
Before, I thought Liu was a bit exaggerated, but now I think what he said is not excessive. The monks in this place must have burned all the inventory, and it looks like it has long expired.
The monastery is very large and haphazard, and it seems to be a cut above the number of famous Buddhist monasteries I've visited. Although the buildings are incomplete, the essence of the Sino-Tibetan joint venture can still be seen from the still vermilion pillars and the Aga on the ground.
This unplanned design must also be caused by the expansion of the scale again and again, and such a large Buddhist temple has finally become like this, which is suffocating.
A side hall, behind which is a monk's bedroom, and then walking inside is a scripture building. As we navigate through these strange compositions, we have to meet the empty eyes of countless gods and Buddhas, and the pressure on us can be imagined.
Since we couldn't hear the chanting and didn't know how long the morning service was, we couldn't help but feel apprehensive. With so many people leaving their morning classes to go to breakfast, there must be a crowd everywhere. A few of us swaggered in this weird underground Buddhist temple, not knowing if it would be eaten by the monster monks.
Lu Yan walked in front, crossed a sandwich road, and was just about to turn when he suddenly stopped. I was still looking at the smoke above my head and hit him on the back without paying attention.
This time it was like hitting a wall, and I almost screamed, but Lu Yan turned around and covered my mouth.
A man walked slowly towards us.
The man was extremely thin, dressed in a long robe of no visible color, with long hair draped over his shoulders. Holding a common red plastic bucket in both hands, it was a little unmoving, and it shook very much.
When it was over, I was discovered, I subconsciously pulled out my sword, and as soon as the man made a move, I went up and fought with all my might!