The association of hell once again made me and Gao Lingkai creepy.

I was about to retract my flashlight, but I noticed that along the edge of the dark slit, there seemed to be shadows squeezing and crawling out.

I was startled and immediately stood up.

Gao Lingkai also saw it, and got up with me with a "ahhh

The beams of light from the two flashlights were projected on the ground, and although the ground itself was pitch black, we did see that countless black shadows were pouring out of the slit, rendering the already dark ground with a darker color.

"These dark shadows are attracted by the light of the flashlight, quickly turn off the flashlight!"

As I spoke, I quickly turned around and shone the beam of light of the flashlight forward, remembering the road conditions on which I was returning, and then I quickly turned off the flashlight.

Gao Lingkai also turned off the flashlight, and the entire cave immediately fell into darkness.

But it wasn't completely dark, for from the top of the front, you could still see the light of the dusk butter lamp.

Gao Lingkai and I were stiff for a while and didn't dare to move, the cave was silent, and we could even hear the pounding heartbeat of me and Gao Lingkai.

After a long time, Gao Lingkai first asked softly: "Gao Li, it should be okay, right?" ”

"It should be fine!" I said, my voice feeling very dry, "Let's hurry up, look at the light in front of us, don't turn on the flashlight!" ”

Gao Lingkai agreed, and simply reached out and grabbed my clothes.

Afraid that there would be such a black shadow clinging to the cave wall, the two of us did not dare to reach out to touch the cave wall, so we could only carefully drag and drag up the slope.

In just about 20 meters, we walked for five or six minutes, and when we finally got out of the "kang" made of black stone, the faces of the two people were quite pale, and the shirts of the two people were soaked with cold sweat and stuck to their bodies.

The two monks, one old and one young, were still tied and sat on the ground, and the old monk was too old and looked sluggish.

But we didn't care about loosening the ties for the two of them, because we were full of fear of the slit in the ground, Gao Lingkai and I reached out together, and first lifted the thick wooden board blocking the door, and still covered it tightly on the "kang" that hid the hole in the ground below.

After that, Gao Lingkai and I all sat down on the ground, and after a little gasp, I got up, helped the old monk untie him, and rubbed his bound arm with my hands, while saying "I'm sorry" in English.

Gao Lingkai also untied the little monk's bonds, ignoring the little monk's hateful eyes, but took out the water and dry food in our bag and distributed them to the old and young monks.

I also took the dry food and chewed slowly, but I always felt that there was something I had overlooked.

Then I suddenly understood, and immediately dropped the dry food, opened the little wooden box, took out the black cylinder from inside, opened the door, and walked to the temple.

"Why are you going?" Gao Lingkai asked me.

"I'll be right back!" I didn't answer the question.

Pushing open the back door of the temple, I used a flashlight to walk in front of the seated Buddha, and in the palm of the seated Buddha's hand, the three round pits still looked very abrupt.

I held the cylinder in my hand and stuck it vertically into the three pits.

After trying several times, I turned my head again, and finally inserted it firmly into the pit in the middle of the palm of the Buddha statue.

The cylinder was very heavy, and the top was not very flat, and the pit was only two inches deep at most, so it was not supposed to be very secure.

However, after I inserted the cylinder into the middle pit, the cylinder and the pit fit tightly, and I shook it with my hand, only slightly loosening.

Obviously, the three pits in the palm of the seated Buddha's hand are designed to insert into this cylinder.

Even the entire seated Buddha is shaped by the presence of this cylinder.

But there are three pits in the palm of this Buddha statue, and if each pit has a cylinder, then where are the other two cylinders?

I couldn't help but start to tremble as I thought about where the other two cylinders were.

One is in country H, and the other has at least stayed in the city of Olang!

In other words, the kind of black shadow that can kill people is likely to have something to do with these three cylinders.

I don't know why this thought suddenly came to me, there are countless black shadows in this temple, and I have just seen with my own eyes, all of them come from that slit in the ground.

However, I just have this inexplicable but definite intuition that the other black shadows will not kill, only the black shadows related to these three cylinders will kill.

One of the two black shadows killed the three executives of the Dingzhen Group in Country H, one killed Plang in Aurang City, and the other was a black shadow related to the cylinder in front of him, who almost killed Gao Lingkai before!

And I, just held this cylinder in my hand and looked at it over and over for a long time, fortunately it was already dark at that time, otherwise I dare not guarantee whether I still have my life now.

But where does this cylinder come from?

The black shadow that kills people, like the other black shadows, returned to the slit in the ground after dark, or

I suddenly had a terrible thought, imagining that the strange black shadow that would kill people would be directly rolled up on this cylinder like a scroll painting unique to China.

Although the length of the cylinder was not enough, the black shadow itself had no volume, and it was not impossible for it to cling to it, even if it was a small thing.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt a chill in my heart, and I didn't dare to touch the cylinder again, but got up directly and went back into the backyard, and entered the room where Gao Lingkai and the others were.

Gao Lingkai saw at a glance that my face was wrong, and immediately asked me what was wrong, I shook my head and sat down on the edge of the "kang" first.

But when I remembered that there were countless black shadows drilling in and out of the slit below, I still felt hairy on my body, so I stood up again.

The old monk sat cross-legged on the futon, the little monk sat next to the old monk, and Gao Lingkai sat on the wooden box containing clothes.

Seeing me get up, Gao Lingkai also got up and said, "What's wrong with you?" Why don't you come and sit here? ”

He let out the wooden box and sat down on the edge of the "kang" by himself.

I pondered in my heart, and suddenly I opened the big wooden box, grabbed a random piece of clothing from it, picked up the small wooden box in one hand, and went out to the temple again.

Gao Lingkai chased after me and asked me what I was going to do, but I ignored it.

I wrapped the old monk's clothes around my hands, pulled the black cylinder from the palm of the seated Buddha, and quickly put it into the wooden box, and then returned to the back with the wooden box.

Entering the house and putting down the wooden box, Gao Lingkai glanced at me, opened the small wooden box strangely and looked at it, and said, "What is this, how many times have you walked back and forth?" ”

As he spoke, he reached out to take the cylinder out of the box.

I was so frightened that I hurriedly stopped and said, "Don't move, that dark shadow...... The dark shadow who wanted to kill you before is likely to ......"

I stopped suddenly, afraid that if I said it too directly, Gao Lingkai would be as frightened as I was.

But Gao Lingkai didn't give up, and chased after me and asked, "What is it like?" ”

I took a breath and said slowly, "It's likely that the shadow is wrapped around this black thing right now, but it's just ...... It has no volume and is completely transparent, so we can't see it! ”

Gao Lingkai let out an "ah" and blurted out: "No!" Aren't all those shadows in the cracks in the ground below? We just saw it with our own eyes! ”

"I can't tell!" I shook my head blankly, "I always thought that those dark shadows in the cracks in the ground would not kill, and you saw it before, they did not cling to my body, but they would give way to me every step I took!" Only...... That dark shadow who wants to kill you, I don't know...... Why is it different from other dark shadows, but I just have a gut feeling that the black shadow is not in the crack in the ground below, but ...... Closely related to this thing! ”

Gao Lingkai made another "ah" sound, almost instinctively, and closed the lid of the box with a "snap".

"Your instincts have always been accurate, so let's ...... What now? He couldn't help but turn a little pale.

"You don't have to be so scared!" I hurriedly comforted him, "That thing should be non-lethal at night!" ”

"But the night will always pass, unless we leave now, or wait until dawn, it will be able to toss us, and we can't do anything about it!"

I couldn't help but smile wryly at what he said. For it is true that under the attack of that black shadow, we have no power against it except to look for a place in complete darkness to save our lives.

I turned my head to look at the two monks, and the old monk closed his eyes, and there were words in his mouth, as if he was chanting sutras.

The little monk's eyes were also closed, as if listening to the old monk chanting.

"Let's just go to another room and don't disturb their master and apprentice!" I say.

"It's okay, the farther away from this thing anyway, the better!" Gao Lingkai said, taking a look at the two monks, he couldn't help but add another sentence, "I don't know if these two monks will make trouble in the middle of the night!" ”

"One of them is old and one is young, what the hell can they do?" I said, after thinking about it, I still explained to the old monk in English, "Old man, let's go to the next room to rest, so we won't disturb you, this wooden box is placed here, you should be careful yourself!" ”

I said it casually, but as soon as I said it, I felt weird myself.

The reason why I said the words "be careful yourselves" was because I was very afraid of the cylinder in the small box, so I naturally said it.

But the small box and the cylinder were their own things, as can be seen from the three pits in the palm of the Buddha sitting in the temple, and they even worshipped this cylinder as a holy relic.

In other words, if my inference is correct, if the black shadow that kills people is really related to these three cylinders, the black shadow will only hurt the people from outside, and will never harm the people in the temple.

But why don't they hurt the people in the temple, they only hurt the people from outside? How do they distinguish the difference between the people on the outside and the people in the temple?

(See Chapter 560 "The Origin of the Murder Shadow")