I tried to ignore the horror caused by the dark shadows, and stood at the door of the temple, observing the situation inside the temple. m.

In the center of the shrine is a mighty and benevolent Buddha statue, and on either side of the Buddha statue stands a statue that looks like a Dharma protector Arhat.

Judging from these three statues alone, this temple is not dedicated to evil gods.

The temple occupies most of the entire temple, and on the left and right sides of the temple, there is a doorway without a door, and behind the statue, the light comes in, and there seems to be another back door.

I mustered up the courage to cross the threshold and enter the temple, but the dark shadows that filled the ground did not swarm upon me as I had imagined, but as I had done when I was outside, and every time I landed, they crowded to make way for me.

It's just that the light in the temple is much dimer, and in comparison, the dark shadows are not as clear and frightening as they look outside.

I quietly breathed a sigh of relief, first walked to the left, and glanced at the doorway on the left, and found that there was a much smaller side hall inside, which also contained statues of gods, but the physique of the statues was much smaller than the Buddha statues in the main hall.

I guessed that there must be another side hall in the doorway on the right, and I didn't have time to look at it carefully, so I immediately ran to the back of the temple, and when I found the Buddha statue, there was indeed a wide back door.

I'm sure the temple doesn't have windows, so I usually open the front and back doors to ventilate.

But inside this temple, it is not suitable for Gao Lingkai to hide.

Because there must be a crack in the front and back doors, and this door is too tall, not to mention that I don't have a quilt at hand, even if there is, it is difficult for me to block all the door cracks.

What's more, there is a tile peak on the roof, and I can already see the slightest ray of light seeping in when I stand in the temple and look up.

And in my experience, as long as there is light, even a very faint light, the black shadow can seal the mouth and nose of a human being.

So I didn't dare to delay, and immediately went out through the back door of the temple, and first I saw that there was a small courtyard behind the temple.

There are three houses on the left side of the courtyard, and all three doors are closed. There are only two doors on the right, but because the left and right sides are equidistant, the two rooms on the right will definitely be much more spacious.

At the top of the courtyard is a courtyard wall, and a small doorway has been opened in the courtyard wall.

In addition, at the door of the house on the right side of the courtyard next to the courtyard wall, a large clay jar is placed.

I could see it clearly in just a glance.

And as I walked out of the temple, all the dark shadows came out of the back door of the temple, and quickly filled the entire courtyard.

But because the sun was about to set, the small courtyard was already shrouded in shadows, so those dark shadows were just like in the temple, and they couldn't see very clearly.

So I didn't care about the dark shadows, so I let go of my throat and shouted twice: "Is there anyone? Is there anybody, please? ”

My voice echoed through the courtyard and received no response. I looked underground in fear, but fortunately the dark shadows all over the ground were still crowded and surging on the ground, as if they were not disturbed by my shouting.

I was about to go into the left and right rooms to search one by one, but I caught a glimpse of the large clay jar again.

My heart moved slightly, and I secretly scolded myself for being stupid, and hurriedly stepped into the small courtyard and ran to the pottery jar, and found that the pottery jar was not only huge, but also intact, and the pottery jar was filled with half a jar of water.

In fact, in ancient times, before the invention of fire hydrants and fire extinguishers, ordinary temples and even ordinary people's yards would put a large vat. It is usually used for water storage, and in case of fire, it can also be used for fire fighting.

I didn't care about searching the room, so I immediately turned around and walked to the back door of the temple, wanting to go through the temple to the front, take Gao Lingkai into the small courtyard, and directly buckle him upside down under the clay jar, which will definitely be 100% cut off from the light.

But before I could approach the back door of the temple, I heard Gao Lingkai's voice first: "Gao Li! Colliers! ”

After I entered the temple, I didn't close the front door of the temple, so with the shouting, Gao Lingkai's figure appeared at the back door.

"How did you break free!" I was pleasantly surprised to ask.

"I don't know! Maybe the sun went down, and the black shadow automatically broke away from me and entered the temple! ”

His words startled me, and I hurriedly looked back and forth, left and right.

The ground was still full of black shadows, and I couldn't make out which one was trying to kill Gao Lingkai just now, but I was surprised to find that the black shadows that had been covering the small courtyard were crowding towards the door of the temple on the left.

These black shadows are superimposed on each other, and with each layer, the color becomes darker, forming a three-dimensional illusion.

But they are not three-dimensional after all, and even though the door is closed at the moment, they still squeeze in through the crack and the bottom of the door without hindrance.

It didn't take much effort for the small courtyard to be clean, leaving only the shadow of a normal, not so dark house, and the entire courtyard was still shrouded.

"It's just ...... It's like a dream! Gao Lingkai, who was standing beside me, whispered.

I also felt like I was in a dream, and I couldn't help but look up at the sky and see a faint white cloud in the sky. Although the sun has set, the afterglow reflects the sky, still giving this white cloud a touch of red halo.

I took a deep breath and was about to go to the closed door to see what was going to happen inside, why all the shadows were pouring into the house, when I heard a "creak" the door open and an old man came out of it.

The man was clearly a monk, dressed in a gray monk's robe, with a bald head and a scorched gray beard under his chin.

The wrinkles on his face seem to be not a hundred, but eighty.

A young man of sixteen or seventeen years old followed closely behind the old man, holding the old man with both hands, but his eyes were full of vigilance and looked at me and Gao Lingkai.

He was also bald on the top of his head, wearing a gray monk's robe, with dark skin and deep-set eye sockets, and he looked like a native of country F.

Maybe it's because these two monks are old and young, but I don't think they are evil.

I even guessed that the dark shadows all over the ground did not attack me, perhaps because of the compassion of the two monks, the old and the young.

So I hurriedly bowed to the two of them and said in English, "May I ask the two masters, are those countless black shadows just now raised by the two of them?" ”

The use of "breeding" and "black shadow" is associated with it, and even I feel weird.

But the shadows were indeed alive, and they did pour into the room where the old and the young had come out.

I can't think of any other word other than the word "nourishment" that can describe the relationship between this old and young man and the dark shadow.

I saw that the little monk was at a loss, obviously unable to understand English, so I could only turn my head to look at the old monk.

The old monk squinted his cloudy eyes, also showing a confused look, and opened his mouth to squeak and say two words.

It was supposed to be an indigenous language in country F, which I didn't understand, and the translator couldn't translate it.

Gao Lingkai said: "Why are you so polite to them? There was a dark shadow that almost killed me! ”

I don't understand why all the black shadows all over the ground are safe with me, but there is a black shadow who wants to kill Gao Lingkai, is it that these black shadows are also the same as humans, most of them have good intentions, and only one or two will be so evil that they want to kill?

I'm amused by my ridiculous speculation.

But I think that since the black shadow who intended to kill Gao Lingkai broke away automatically, he must have followed all those black shadows into this house just now.

And at this moment, the sky will be dark, and these black shadows should no longer have the ability to do anything to me and Gao Lingkai.

So I asked Gao Lingkai to watch the two monks, one old and one young, and I went to other rooms to search to see if there were any other people in this temple.

"If you don't look at them, I'll search them!" Gao Lingkai said immediately.

I shook my head after a moment's thought.

Gao Lingkai has a rough temperament and is very arrogant in doing things, I am afraid that in the process of searching, he will not only let go of important clues, but may also be ambushed.

Of course, I won't say this kind of thing at this moment, but I just told Gao Lingkai to be cautious, and once he realized that something was wrong, he should immediately shout loudly.

After that, I went into the rooms in the backyard to take a closer look.

The two rooms on the right side are indeed relatively spacious, and the one next to the temple seems to be a place for monks to give lectures and lectures, and it is empty, with only a few round futons.

The other room is the kitchen, where there are some wild dried vegetables and wild mushrooms, and there is also a small clay jar, and there is half a jar of rice in the jar.

We didn't see rice fields or anything on the way, but the temple was hidden deep in the primeval forest, and it is unlikely that this half jar of rice was bought from the market outside, and there must have been crops near the temple that we did not see.

The second and third rooms on the right are all bedrooms, but instead of a single wooden bed, they are made of wooden planks.

Judging from the quilts placed on the bunk, there should be at least four or five people in this temple.

That is to say, in addition to the two monks, one old and one young, there should be two or three people who are outside or hidden in a certain place in the temple and do not appear.

I first skimmed the first room on the right side of the old and the young and walked out, and didn't check it, and directly said hello to Gao Lingkai, and then went to the temple in front of me to search.

I searched the main hall and the two side halls on the left and right carefully, and even checked the back of the statue, but I didn't find half a figure.

However, there was something strange about the Buddha statue in the main hall that caught my attention.

It was a majestic Buddha statue sitting cross-legged with one hand on his chest and the other palm on his lap.

This is the common posture of Buddha statues, and the hand with the palm facing upwards will hold a Buddhist holy weapon.

For example, on the palm of Guanyin Bodhisattva's flat hand, she will hold her jade bottle.

But in the hands of this Buddha statue, not only do there not have any holy weapons, but there are three round pits.

The pit is nearly two inches deep, and it feels like it was in the palm of this Buddha statue, which was originally inlaid with three round things, but now it has been taken away.

Other than that, nothing odd was found.

(See Chapter 558 "Crack in the Dark")