I simply closed the front door of the temple and bolted it directly.

After returning to the backyard, Gao Lingkai asked me if I found anything, and I shook my head with a wry smile.

Now only the room where the two monks, an old man and a young monk, came out, and the room where the dark shadows poured in, were not searched.

So I and the two monks bent down apologetically, squeezed past the old monk who was still confused, and the little monk with hostile eyes, and entered the door behind them to search.

The two monks immediately turned around, but they didn't follow the door, they just stood in the door and looked at me.

I ignored the hostile gaze of the little monk and carefully examined the situation in the room.

It was getting late and the light in the room was dim, but I could still see the room clearly. And I can be almost sure that there is no such dark shadow in the room that can move and kill.

But those dark shadows have clearly entered this room, where can they hide?

Could it be that they are at my feet, beside me, or even crawling up and down the room, but the light is too dim for me to see clearly?

This kind of imagination creeps me out, and I need to do everything in my power to control my feet and not get out of the room right away.

This room is supposed to be the residence of the old monk, and there is no bunk in the room, but a fairly large bed.

Because country F is located in the tropics, it is only hot and not cold all year round, so there is no bedding on the bed, only a straw mat.

In addition, there is a small wooden table with a wooden statue of Buddha on the wooden table.

The Buddha is solemn and kind, and he is also upright.

There is an incense burner under the Buddha statue, and the incense burner is constantly curling with cigarette smoke.

Near the corner of the wall is an old futon, next to which are two wooden boxes, one large and one small, and an oil lamp is placed on top of the small wooden box.

In fact, there was also a large wooden box in the other two bunk rooms, which contained some new and old clothes.

Because there is a lock on the small wooden box, I first move the oil lamp on the wooden table, and then pick up the small wooden box with my hands.

This wooden box looks small, but I didn't expect it to be extremely heavy, as if it contained an iron lump.

I put the small wooden box aside first, lifted the lid of the large wooden box, and sure enough, it also contained some new and old clothes.

I dug down with my hand to make sure there was nothing else, so I closed the lid on the big wooden box and carried the small wooden box back onto the big wooden box.

The small wooden box seems to be well-made, and the surface is engraved with some auspicious cloud patterns.

Hanging from the wooden box is an old-fashioned padlock, which is not quite the same as the old-fashioned padlocks in China.

Luckily, after I tried to insert the knife into the keyhole a few times, the lock popped out with a "click".

I pulled the padlock out of the keyhole, and then I opened the lid of the small wooden box, and I saw a black thing inside.

I picked it up with my hand, and it felt very heavy, as if it were made of pig iron.

But pig iron has a strong thermal conductivity, and it should be cold when touched, but this thing is warm to the touch, but it is more like some kind of jade.

But it doesn't look like jade, it's so black, just like an ordinary black stone strip.

Its overall shape resembles an irregularly polished cylinder, nearly a foot in length and a little over an inch in diameter. The two ends are about the same size, only slightly thicker in the middle.

Because it was already dark at the moment, I simply turned on my flashlight and looked at it carefully.

It really didn't look like jade, but like an ordinary stone bar, and when I shone it with a flashlight, it was still pitch black, without a halo or anything like that.

But if it's just an ordinary stone bar, why is it so heavy?

I couldn't figure out what it was, so I put it in a small box again.

It happened that Gao Lingkai said at the door: "It's almost dark, have you found anything?" ”

"I found something black, and I don't know what it was for!"

I replied, standing up and peering into the room.

Then I noticed that the bed in this room was not made of wood, but was made of flat black stones, the same kind of black stone used for the walls of the temple.

And the bed that is "built" like this is very common in the northern region of our country, and it has a professional name called "kang".

However, the reason why the north sleeps on the "kang" is mainly because it is too cold in winter, and the "built" kang can be heated by burning a fire in it at night.

But country F is in the tropics, and the bunks in the two rooms next to it are all wooden, why does the old monk sleep on the "kang".

I was puzzled, and immediately lifted a straw mat on the top of the "kang".

Under the straw mat was a plank, which was very thick and heavy to carry by hand.

I lifted the plank with both hands, glanced under the board, and suddenly saw that there seemed to be a hole in the black underside of the board.

I immediately called Gao Lingkai in, and the two of them lifted the plank together.

Indeed, there is a dark hole under the plank, and when I shine it with a flashlight, I feel that it is quite deep underneath.

The two monks, one old and one young, had been standing at the door and watching us, and did not come forward to stop us from lifting the plank.

The old monk was still trembling and dumbfounded, and the little monk was becoming more and more hostile.

But because of the language barrier, I couldn't explain or ask them, so I could only discuss with Gao Lingkai, and he watched the old monk and the little monk from above, and I went down to investigate.

Gao Lingkai immediately shook his head and said, "Who knows what will be down there, it's too dangerous for you to go down alone!" If you're afraid that these two monks will make trouble after we go down, then let's just knock them out or tie them up with ropes!" ”

I glanced at the old monk with a wry smile and said, "This old monk is old like this, can you bear to knock him unconscious, or tie him up?" Besides, wouldn't it be worse if we tied them up, if after we went down, someone else from the temple came back and locked us in the cave? You don't think that this temple is just two monks, one old and one young, right? ”

Gao Lingkai frowned, looked at the old and young monk, and then looked into the room, and said, "Anyway, I won't let you go down alone!" Otherwise, let's tie up the two monks first, and then use this plank to block the door. The planks were so heavy that it would have been impossible for someone to come back from the outside and break open the door. Let's hear movement down there, just come up quickly. ”

That's what he said.

And as he said, no one knows what is in this hole below, and if I really go down alone, I am honestly a little hairy in my heart.

So I stopped arguing with him, and did as he said, first tying up the two monks, the old and the young.

I didn't care if the two monks understood it or not, but I explained to them in English that we were going to go to the cave to investigate, and that we had to tie them up first just in case.

The old monk's face was blank and he let me tie him up, but the little monk looked angry and seemed to want to fight with us.

The old monk hurriedly said something in the native language, and the little monk gritted his teeth and angrily allowed us to tie him up.

I'm really sorry, although we have established that there are indeed many dark shadows in the temple, and one of them is trying to kill Gao Lingkai.

But after all, the vast majority of dark shadows did not show hostility towards us, and in the end, they did not provoke us, but we bullied them to the door.

So I said "I'm sorry" to the two monks several times, and told them in English that we were not here to covet any of their possessions, but that there was a dark shadow that was harming people in the big city outside, and we were just trying to find a way to deal with it.

Gao Lingkai was a little impatient and said, "Why are you telling them this?" Don't say they don't understand, even if they can, the black shadow also came out of them, do you think this old man and young man can be a good person? ”

I glanced at the old monk again and said, "Whether they understand it or not, I want them to know that we have no ill will towards them!" And if you look at this old man, I always think he can't be a bad person! ”

Gao Lingkai really glanced at the old monk a few times, shook his head and said, "This old monk is so old that he has no temper, I can't tell if he is good or bad!" But your instincts have always been accurate, just say what you want, I'll light the oil lamp first! ”

The room was already very dark at this point, and if the door were to be closed, it would be even darker.

So Gao Lingkai took out the lighter and lit the oil lamp on the wooden table.

I took advantage of this time to tell the two monks, one old and one young, in English, asking them to be wronged for a while, and when we came up from below, I would immediately help them untie them.

Then we closed the door, latched it, and pressed it against the plank that made the bed.

Estimating that even if it was a strong collision outside, it would be impossible to knock the door open all at once, so Gao Lingkai and I each turned on our flashlights, jumped into the black hole under the "kang", and walked down the downward slope.

The bottom is not as wide as we thought, and it doesn't look like a cave dug by hand, but rather a natural formation.

The four walls of the cave are very hard and black, and at the top of the cave, there is suddenly a black slit.

The slit was about half a foot wide and about two meters long, and a burst of coolness came out of the slit, making the whole hole a little cold? Person.

Gao Lingkai and I coincidentally shone the light of the flashlight into the slit.

But because the slit was too narrow for light to penetrate deeply, we could not see the bottom of the slit, only the smooth stone walls on both sides of the slit.

But judging from the slightest coolness that came out of the slit, this slit was only unfathomable.

"You say...... Could it be that those hordes of black shadows climbed out of this slit? Gao Lingkai had a whim.

I actually agree with his idea, but if this idea is true, then where does this slit lead?

Those dark shadows are so weird, don't they come from outside the sky, but from the center of the earth?

I suddenly thought of a very terrifying word, I didn't dare to say it, but Gao Lingkai spoke again.

"Colliers, do you know what I'm thinking?" He asked me, and without waiting for me to answer, he just said, "Hell! ”

Yes, only hell will dwell deep on the surface of the earth! Only hell will have that kind of black shadow that is so weird that it completely subverts the laws of science!

(See Chapter 559 "Hell Associates")