I was secretly thinking in my heart, Gao Lingkai couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, and said: "This is their own thing, what's the ...... be careful?"

He didn't finish his sentence, and it was clear that he had thought of the question that came to mind.

"Colliers, why don't these dark shadows harm them, is that the black shadow ...... Can you still recognize people? ”

He blurted it out, looking at me in amazement.

I nodded, crouched down again, and whispered "old man" twice in English.

When the old monk opened his eyes and looked at me, I moved the small box and asked him in English if the black shadow that could kill people was on this cylinder, and how we could escape it.

It's a pity that the old monk always looked at me blankly, as if he couldn't even understand what I was talking about.

Gao Lingkai couldn't help but interject and said: "This old monk is completely confused, you ask him in vain, if you want me to say that we will directly smash this black thing, maybe the black shadow will not exist!" ”

"You have a point!" I turned my head with a wry smile and looked at him and asked, "But this thing is obviously very hard, what can we use to smash it?" At most, it's a half, right? But is it useful to break in half? Will it make the shadow even more insane? ”

Gao Lingkai was speechless, and said again for a long time: "Even if we can't smash this thing, if your inference is correct, then there must be such a thing in H country!" So let's go back to country H and just find another ...... Something similar to this one, and then use a large machine to crush it at night, and see if the black shadow can still hurt people! ”

He actually made a lot of sense, but the problem was that I wasn't entirely sure that my inference was correct;

Second, if this cylinder is smashed, not only will it not make the black shadow disappear, but it will become more powerful, and even split into countless pieces, wouldn't it be too late to regret it?

But the old monk couldn't understand what I said, and if it didn't work, he could really only try Gao Lingkai's method.

So I got up with a wry smile, and prepared to go to the other rooms with Gao Lingkai first, and then discuss what to do next.

Unexpectedly, when we walked out of the door, I turned around and wanted to close the door for the two monks, but I saw the old monk turn his face to look at me, and his originally cloudy eyes became extremely bright at this moment.

I was slightly stunned and blurted out "old man".

But I saw the old monk raise his hand and beckoned to me.

I didn't hesitate to re-enter the door immediately.

Gao Lingkai had already walked to the courtyard, and when he saw that I didn't follow, he immediately walked back and asked me, "What's wrong?" ”

I didn't speak, just looked at the old monk.

The old monk let out a long breath, and suddenly spoke, saying, "I can now be sure that you are both good people, so ...... If you have any questions, I can answer them! ”

He spoke English, with a strange accent, but he was fluent.

I was overjoyed, and Gao Lingkai called out directly.

"You old monk, you have been pretending to be stupid to deceive us!"

I hurriedly called "Ling Kai" to remind him not to be rude to the old man.

Fortunately, Gao Lingkai spoke Chinese, and the old monk couldn't understand it at all.

However, with the expression on Gao Lingkai's face, the old monk should be able to roughly understand what Gao Lingkai meant.

So the old monk sighed softly and said, "Since the temple was built, the people who have entered the temple for hundreds of years have all coveted the sacred stone and vainly wanted to take the sacred stone out of the temple and take it for themselves!" So...... I'm a little more wary of you, and that's a last resort! ”

"It's okay, it's okay!" I hurriedly replied while sitting in front of the old monk, "Old man, this so-called ...... Where did the Divine Stone come from? Also, what is going on with that crack in the ground and the dark shadow that can kill people? ”

The old monk sighed and said, "This matter is a long story, you all sit down, and I will tell you slowly!" ”

Gao Lingkai also sat down busily, put on a respectful posture like me, and listened to the old monk talk from the beginning.

It turned out that as early as five or six hundred years ago, a few monks who were practicing asceticism in the forest saw countless black shadows gliding freely in the sunlight in this area.

The monks regarded this as a miracle and knelt on the ground and prostrated their heads.

Later, they discovered that the moving shadows came out of a hole in the ground, and they spent years building this temple above the cave, and they continued to burn incense every day.

And those dark shadows will always crawl out of the cracks in the hole after sunrise, and glide up and down freely in front of the temple.

Such miracles have spread far and wide, and many believers from the surrounding islands have come from thousands of miles to worship.

Many monks also come to the temple to practice. So much so that for a while, the temple had hundreds of monks.

The temple could not live in it, and the monks lay on the ground in front of the temple, and lived in the sky.

"But what's going on with this Divine Stone? And also...... How did that kind of dark shadow that can kill people appear? I couldn't resist interjecting.

The old monk shook his head with a wry smile and said: "These three sacred stones, it is first said that they are scattered on the side of the cracks in the ground, and they should be broken fragments when the cracks are cracked. Unexpectedly, about three hundred years ago, an incident suddenly happened that turned these three sacred stones into murder weapons, but at the same time, they were also sharp weapons to protect the temple! ”

I opened my mouth to ask him what was going on, but I knew that he would say it if I didn't ask, so I endured it again, just quietly watching the old monk and waiting for him to continue.

"As I said before, many people who come to the temple will covet the three sacred stones! On that day, a few donors came, and we were supposed to treat each other with courtesy, but unexpectedly they borrowed the temple that night, but in the dead of night, they secretly got up and wanted to steal the sacred stone. Fortunately, one of the monks in our temple found out and shouted and fought with them. As a result, those people were heartbroken, stabbed the monk a few times, and pushed the monk down in front of the idol, causing the monk's blood to soak the three divine stones in an instant. Later, the other monks in our temple heard the commotion and rushed to the scene, and in a fit of rage, they tied up a few thieves first......"

The old monk was too old, and he couldn't help but gasp lightly when he said this.

Gao Lingkai opened his mouth and asked, "Did you kill those thieves?" ”

The old monk said, "How can a monk kill at will? At that time, the monks in the temple just tied up a few thieves and panicked to wake up the monk who had been stabbed several times. After that, when it was dawn, the monks sat down together and discussed what to do with the thieves, who knows...... The most terrible thing happened! ”

The old monk paused again, closed his eyes and recited a few verses before he reopened his eyes and said, "The monks saw that three divine figures first climbed on the bodies of several thieves, and in a short time suffocated several thieves. Immediately after that, the three divine shadows attacked the monks. At that time, there were still dozens of people in the temple, but the three black shadows killed people when they saw them, which frightened the monks in the temple to hide. Some of them fled the temple directly, and some of the more devout ones were suffocated to death by the three gods......"

He stopped again, closed his eyes again, and recited the sutra.

I waited for him to calm down a little before cautiously asking him, "What happened later?" Why are you able to kill with these three now...... The so-called peaceful coexistence of gods and shadows? ”

The old monk opened his eyes and said with a wry smile: "At that time, the monks were almost all gone, but the injured monk was lying on the bed, but the three divine figures did not attack like him. However, the monks all knew that when it was dark these shadows would go underground, some of the monks who had fled at night turned back, and after knowing that the injured monk was not attacked, they also tried to smear their own blood on the three sacred stones. ”

The old monk's words made me feel like I had a sudden realization.

Gao Lingkai even blurted out: "What does the old man mean that if we also smear blood on this black stone, that black shadow that can kill people will not harm us?" ”

He spoke in Chinese, and I helped him translate it, and the old monk nodded and said, "That's true!" It was the realization that more than a dozen lives were exchanged, and at that time, many monks fled outside to spread the word about the murder of the gods, and since then...... The temple gradually declined, and it was no longer prosperous! ”

Again, he sighed.

I still had doubts in my heart, and said, "Since you have three divine stones here, have the other two been stolen by someone, or have they been taken out by your apprentice?" ”

"It was taken out by my apprentice!" The old monk showed a look of chagrin on his face, "Those three criminals, it is useless to say that the Divine Stone is white in the temple, it is better to take it out to earn prestige for them!" ”

"Three scoundrels? But there's still a divine stone left here? I said.

"They originally wanted to take away all three sacred stones, but I didn't see the situation right, so I first took the largest one from the palm of the Buddha, locked it in this small box, and told them that if they wanted to take this one, they would kill me first!"

The old monk stopped at this point, as if he recalled the situation at that time, and still felt heartache now.

I thought that this old monk could really disregard his life in order to save the "Divine Stone".

It's a pity that this so-called "divine stone" is a holy thing in his eyes, and in my opinion, it is just a harmful thing.

The old monk was quiet for a while before continuing.

"Although my few criminals are not greedy enough, they still dare not deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors and harm my life. So the big apprentice took away a divine stone alone. The second apprentice and the third apprentice were originally brothers, and the two of them took one together. Now only my little apprentice is still guarding me, and I really don't have the ability to protect the temple, so when you come today, I will release the divine shadow to scare you away. But I didn't expect it...... The two of them were so clever, for more than ten minutes, the divine shadow couldn't help this little brother! ”

(See Chapter 561 "The Induction of the Dark Shadow")