"Don't, don't say it," I shouted in fear to stop, not daring to listen any further, the more Chai Yue analyzed, the more I felt that we were dead.

I'm also a ghost cultivator, and I have to go back to my little nest every two days to replenish my vitality, or I'll have to drink the mysterious water that the enemy poet gave me, just in case the mysterious water I bring is limited.

"That, that, maybe, this candle is weird, we just scare ourselves. Anyway, I'll take a look around, and you can look for any wooden signs, maybe the main hall is not the same every time we go to. "At least the Buddha statue is different, isn't it?

Then I turned and left, once to hide the uneasiness in my heart, which made me dare not even stay with Shibatsuki.

Walking out of the main hall, I was not in a hurry to find my way again, I found a place to sit down outside the main hall, and looked at the candle in my hand, which was burning normally and consuming normally.

But I still took out the contents of the bag and looked at it, fruit bread, mineral water, a jade bottle with mysterious water, runic paper just in case, and candles...... Wait, why are there two candles missing?

It's impossible, the last time I entered the main hall, I deliberately counted them!

I looked at the seemingly normal candle in my hand again, turned it around twice, and finally realized that this candle was no longer the one I had before, that is, before I knew it, the candle had burned out.

Is the time here really out of order?

Sweeping everything back into the bag, I didn't look for another way, I rushed back to the main hall, and then I didn't see Chai Yue inside, but saw peace...... I'm obviously outside the main hall, I didn't see Chai Yue go out, and I didn't find that I came in safely?

I looked at the Buddha statue, and the Buddha statue had really changed again.

Ping An saw my suspicious face, probably guessing what I was thinking: "You also found out, we seem to have been back here." ”

"Ah, yes." I responded sluggishly.

"What should I do, you seem to be a ghost cultivator, don't you know more about this kind of ghost hitting the wall?"

What kind of ghost cultivator am I, I'm only ...... at most Opened the golden finger.

After thinking about it, I said, "Each ghost has different abilities, some are good at ghosts hitting walls, and some are good at others. ”

"Oh." He hung his head in disappointment, feeling that if he had two long ears, he would have been hanging down at this time, "Then how many times have you turned?" I've turned around three times, and I met you, Jia Yongzhen, Liao Junming, by the way, Liao Junming is also a ghost cultivator, and he also said that he can't help it, you said that you ghost cultivators still have so many abilities to do something, can't you learn them all? ”

"This, it also depends on talent." I sighed, "Are you going to look here to see if there are any wooden signs?" If you're looking for it, I'm just going around. "I don't believe it, I can't get out.

Look for it, I've just flipped through it a little. He pulled himself together and walked past me.

But when I staggered with him, I thought of something that I had just overlooked, and hurriedly grabbed him: "You just said that you have gone back and forth three times, and who have you met?" ”

He replied to me, though strange: "You." ”

"And there's more."

"Jia Yongzhen, Liao Junming."

"That's it? Gone? What about Chai Yue? ”

"I haven't met her since we separated."

My eyes widened in shock, and he waved his hand in front of my eyes in confusion: "What's wrong?" ”

"No," I let go of him, "nothing. ”

He was puzzled, but didn't ask any more: "So, I'm leaving?" ”

I nodded a little sluggishly, and didn't come to my senses until he was gone, and my whole body was a little cloudy.

If my memory is not wrong, when I met Chai Yue before, what she told me was that she had already turned four times after deducting the first set, except for Liao Junming, everyone else had encountered it.

But Ping'an said that he had not met Chai Yue.

Who the hell lied?

I swallowed, my head was dizzy, my mind was full of lines, and it took a lot of patience to sort it out, but every time I sorted it out, the truth made me hesitate and be afraid.

With my head in my hands, I sat in front of the Buddha statue, looking at the gate in front of me, desperately trying to calm myself down, the dead man said, you can't be in a hurry when you encounter this kind of thing, the more anxious it is, the easier it is to ignore the details, and when you don't know who to believe, you don't believe anyone, and rearrange it with the clues and intuition you get.

Yes, how did I forget, before the competition, didn't the organizer specifically remind us not to trust any "people", why did I forget?

The reason why I ignored it was because the Liao Junming, Chai Yue and Ping'an I met should not be fake, so I didn't pay much attention, maybe they didn't lie, but now the time is wrong, the road is wrong, so the information they know may also be wrong, or the information they know, because of the error of time, so when it is passed on to others, the right becomes wrong?

A light flashed in my head, and I seemed to have found the key point, but I couldn't catch the light for a while.

I stood up and picked myself up again.

I can't catch the key point of inspiration, maybe I have too few clues at the moment, I should come a few more times, and also, I have to look for the wooden card, I have been focusing on these time routes and so on, and I have not looked for the wooden card well.

In addition to the Buddha statue, the layout or items of each main hall are all the same, I have carefully rummaged through, I have met peace here, and there will be no other players and I will meet, so I looked very carefully, mainly to remember some details, if I can, I can't wait to count how much dust there is, so that the next time I come to the main hall, maybe I can distinguish whether I am in the same place.

I found a few wooden signs, some long and some short, but all of them are ordinary wooden cards, which should not be needed for the task, and they will not be placed on the bright side, so easy for people to find, right?

I was about to leave and come back in, and before leaving, I deliberately found a corner and made a small mark.

When I came back in, I met Jia Yongzhen, and when he came, he really tried to rummage through it, and when he found me, he immediately became vigilant: "Didn't you say that everyone is looking for their own, why are you here?" ”

I looked at him suspiciously, and then I understood that this person hadn't met anyone yet, and I guess I could only think that this place was similar to the main hall, and I didn't doubt it too much.

This situation is also contrary to what Chai Yue said.

And I didn't know how to explain it to Jia Yongzhen, I told him, he was skeptical at most, and he wouldn't fully believe my words, so he said: "I found this place when I searched for it, are you done looking for it, let me look for it here too?" If I don't finish looking for it, I'll leave now? ”

"Forget it," he said angrily, "I've almost gone through it anyway, if you want to look for it again, you can look for it, if I can't find it and let you find it, then it can only mean that I don't have that luck." ”

Although he didn't look very good-tempered, he was quite generous, and he left directly after speaking.

I immediately ran to the place where I made the mark, and when I saw that there was no mark I made at all, was it really a different place? I checked the candles again, and found that not only were the two candles gone, but three more, leaving only one candle in my hand.

I immediately withdrew and came back in, first to see how burning, then to count the candles in the bag, and found that all the candles in the bag were basically back, only one was missing, and I ran to the place where the mark was engraved, and this time, I finally saw the mark I had carved.

So, all the time I came in the same main hall, just at different times.

However, this method, I think about it, I met Chai Yue before, she has experienced it five times, and she never thought of making a mark like me?

But she didn't say anything.

But this is an individual competition, and she should have reservations.

I went back to the main hall and looked up at the Buddha statue.

"Banlan?" Miao Banxian came in at this time, and he didn't look at me too surprised, thinking that he knew the current situation.

Something suddenly flashed through my mind, and I didn't bother to say hello, but as soon as I opened my mouth, I said, "How many candles do you still have?" ”

The number of candles was different every time he entered the main hall, and Miao Banxian checked the bag before saying, "There is only one left." ”

There are six candles in total, and I have five more.

What I have always been unable to understand is the time corresponding to the candle, if it represents my time, it is obviously not right, if it represents the other party's time, I still remember that when I met Chai Yue, she had already entered the main hall five times, and the candle should have burned more than the peace later, but I only burned a little bit of the candle.

When I first met Liao Junming, I only noticed that I burned a large part of the candle in my hand, and I didn't notice the bag, when I met Ping'an, I was missing two candles in the bag, and when I met Jia Yongzhen, I only had one candle left, and now, I have five candles with Miao Banxian.

In this way, my candle is the opposite of the candle left over from the time it took the other person.

For example, Chai Yue, she has turned a lot of times, and she should only have a little candle left, so I have a lot of candles left, and I can form six candles with her.

Another example is Miao Banxian, he should have spent a lot of time, he still has one candle left, all I have five, it can be seen that the algorithm of the remaining number of candles of other people is different from mine, but no matter what, the number of candles relative to everyone is two by two to form the original six.

I suspect that the reason why Chai Yue was able to tell me so many things without making a mark to confirm whether it was the same place was because she didn't just turn it five times as she told me, she probably went back and forth five times after five times, back and forth, so she would say that if you don't find out where the secret is, everyone may be stuck here forever.

Let Miao Banxian hand over his only remaining candle to me, after all, he has been mixed together since the preliminary competition, so he handed me the candle very trustingly, probably because, even if there is no candle, at most the eyesight is limited, these cultivators, they have more eyes, or things that can illuminate, if they are replaced with water and food, then it is estimated that they will have to think more about it.

I put one of his candles together with my five candles, and then fixed them one by one somewhere on the ground to form a array, which was taught to me by the dead man to arrive at the best hour, six candles, one representing two hours, and I also found that the gestures of the Buddha statue were different from time to time, pointing to one of the six hours separated by the twelve hours.

That is, Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Haizhongzi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen, and Xu, and the position of the candle also corresponds to it.

I took out a piece of talisman paper, I am not very good at using spiritual power now, I can only catch the power of the talisman.

Pinch the rune paper to make a handprint, and at the end, blow a breath towards the rune paper, and throw the rune paper into the array, the rune paper burns, as if a cluster of flames came out of the town, and after a while, the flame extends in a certain direction, and finally forms an hour-like light, pointing to a certain direction.

It's the time of the child!

It's between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m., and the direction the flame points to, and it just so happens to be the Buddha statue.

Then the flame was extinguished, but the fire on the candle was still there, so the main temple was still lit.

After thinking about it, I climbed directly onto the Buddha platform.

"What do you do?" Miao Banxian asked from the audience, guarding me from falling under me, "Everyone must have looked for the Buddha statue, but there is nothing." ”

"I know that." So I didn't come up looking for something.

I was standing next to the Buddha statue, probably I was a ghost, so I had an inexplicable awe of this Buddha statue, and I bowed to it with my hands together and respectfully, and then I had the courage to climb onto the Buddha statue.

The statue was very tall, and I stood on his crossed legs, and my hand could reach the hand of the statue, and I held its fingers, and it took a lot of effort to break the fingers downwards, and as I expected, this wrist had a mechanism and could be turned.

Little by little, I turned it in the direction of my finger upward, the same direction that the flames in the circle had just pointed.

And then there was an earthquake...... No, it was the Buddha statue I was shaking, sinking little by little, I hurriedly jumped to the Buddha platform, watching the Buddha statue sink little by little, and when the shaking stopped, the place where the Buddha statue was located was already empty, I looked at it, the Buddha statue was still there, but I could only see a top of the head, it seemed that there was a small square at the bottom, which could be used to put the Buddha statue, and there was no other dark room or the like.

Just as I was in my doubts, I heard the sound of "babbling", and when I looked up, a door appeared on the wall behind the original Buddha statue, and the door was still open.

Miao Banxian also jumped on the Buddha platform and pulled me up, and the two of us looked at each other, suddenly smiled, and walked towards the door together.

Beyond the gate, there was a brand new courtyard, and the gate of the courtyard and the temple inside were all lit with lanterns, and even though we didn't have any candles at this time, we could see it more clearly than before.

"I've finally got out of that obstacle." Miao Banxian exhaled exaggeratedly, and wiped the non-existent sweat, "I'm sleepy, everything else is fine, those who are not firm in their hearts will go crazy every minute." ”

I glanced at him: "I see that you are not crazy, are you boasting about your determination in disguise?" ”

He smiled heavily, I didn't bother to pay attention to him, but, "It's good to come out, let's go in and have a look." ”

"Hmm."

Compared with the main hall, this place that should be a side hall is actually more simple, but the difference is that this place is clearly inhabited, because both the courtyard and the front of the temple have been cleaned and organized.

The side hall is not large, but there is no web-to-web spider silk, and the house is full of choking dust, it is cleaned very clean, and there are a few simple pieces of furniture, judging from the degree of wear and tear of the furniture, it must have been used for many years.

There is also a statue of Buddha in the side hall, much smaller than the main hall, and on the futon in front of the Buddha statue sits the old man who gave us food, water and candles.

He opened his eyes slightly: "You can find this, and you do have some ability." ”

I touched my nose: "It's just luck." ”

"I still believe in your luck the first two times, if you still call it luck this time, where will you put your qualified and capable face in this world?" Without waiting for the old man to speak, Miao Banxian complained about me first.

I glanced at him, came to the old man, took a futon, and sat down in front of him.

The old man opened his cloudy eyes: "Miss, what are you doing?" ”

"I used to like to listen to my grandmother's stories, because the old man is well-informed and tells wonderful stories."

He looked at me fixedly, and it was a little scary to look at, but I said, "I want to hear your story." ”

Every anomaly has its cause, from the supernatural events that the dead man took me to solve, the first thing he does every time is to understand the beginning and end of the matter, and only when he knows what happened, can the corresponding result be deduced.

That's what I did in the semi-finals.

"Since we've all found this, reward us with a story to hear."

The old man's eyes were gloomy, faintly murderous, but he didn't deny it in the end, but said: "Okay, I'll tell you about this ancient temple." ”

Miao Banxian felt that there was a drama when he heard it, so he found a leftover futon with a hole and sat next to me.

"Fifty years ago,......," the old man's voice came slowly.

Fifty years ago, this ancient temple will be Qingtan Temple, in that meeting, Qingtan Temple is also quite famous in the local area, even if it is in the deep mountains, there are still often believers come to worship, therefore, Qingtan Temple also lives in more than ten monks, the oldest is eighty or ninety years old, the youngest, only five or six years old, the monks here, are rootless people, either by the death of both parents, or abandoned by the family.

The abbot is charitable and adopts one or two orphans every year or two.

Qingtan Temple never collects money from pilgrims, at most it is to buy some incense candles or tribute to worship, and the monks in Qingtan Temple do not treat pilgrims because of this, but do their best to solve their doubts, the monks of Qingtan Temple have their own fields, are self-sufficient.

Therefore, Qingtan Temple makes many pilgrims particularly respectful, and these orphan monks are also under this peaceful atmosphere, not resentful, and live actively.

This is a beautiful and longing-for pure land.

Who would have expected that one day, a piece of news would spread out somehow, and it would be known to everyone.

It is said that there is a treasure hidden in Qingtan Temple, just because of this treasure, those monks hypocritically pretend not to want incense, to gain a good name for themselves, in fact, they don't look down on that little incense money at all, it can be seen that the number of treasures is huge.

Some people don't believe it, but some people feel suspicious the more they think about it, since then, there are often people who are not pilgrims, and they also go to Qingtan Temple to inquire, and the monks of Qingtan Temple have come forward many times to clarify that there is no treasure in Qingtan Temple, but some people are blinded by money and don't believe it at all.

Later, it was even rumored that someone really got the treasure in Qingtan Temple, so he provoked some extremely vicious people and did extremely evil things.

One night, the villain arrested more than a dozen monks in Qingtan Temple, tortured them to force out the whereabouts of the treasure, whether they were forced to ask what is unknown, only that in the end all the monks of Qingtan Temple, whether it was the old abbot or the five or six-year-old baby, were all killed by the villains.

Strange is that after the tragic death of the monk of Qingtan Temple, Qingtan Temple has become what it is now, no matter who breaks in, it will circulate in the main hall infinitely, if you are lucky, you will walk out of Qingtan Temple after dawn, and if you are unlucky, you will be trapped in the main hall.

There are many people who still want to find treasures, and they have retreated, no matter how much money they have, they have to have their lives to enjoy, right?

Gradually, there are fewer and fewer people who set foot in Qingtan Temple, even if there are still people who are worried about it, after entering the deep mountains, they find that they can't find Qingtan Temple, and among a hundred people, there are only one or two who are destined to be able to find Qingtan Temple, but they can only look at the door.

Fifty years have passed, and those who can remember Qingtan Temple are either dying old or have passed away, and Qingtan Temple has disappeared in everyone's memory, as if it never existed.

Only the dozen or so unjust souls have always been coiled in Qingtan Temple and have never left.

When Miao Banxian heard this, his head looked left and right: "More than a dozen unjust souls who have been wandering here for fifty years, this ...... It's a blessing that we're still alive. ”

I naturally understand what he means, he died tragically and was trapped here for fifty years, and the resentment can be seen, you may think that a ghost is nothing, but what about a dozen? Plus those who die in the main temple before and after, and their souls are likely to become their tonic...... The more I think about it, the more scary I feel about it.

I looked at the old man in front of me, "Then who are you?" Why are you staying here all the time? ”

Miao Banxian also retracted his gaze and stared at the old man: "Yes, I am also very curious, looking at the layout here, your time here is not short, you can go to the main hall to send us something, presumably you also have a connection with our organizers, and you can enter and exit this Qingtan Temple, since this is the case, why do you still want to stay here?" ”

The old man was silent for a while, and then lowered his eyes, and the wrinkles around his eye sockets made him look like he was resting with his eyes closed: "Back then, there was a sixteen-year-old baby in Qingtan Temple, and that was my grandson. ”

"Huh?" This surprised me, if that was his grandson, how old the old man was this year.

The old man continued: "My daughter-in-law cheated on me and had a falling out with my son, and my son suspected that my grandson was not his species, so he secretly sold my grandson while I was not paying attention. My grandson has been raised by me since he was a child, whether it is my own grandson or not, I can't give up, and finally found out that he was in Qingtan Temple, and before I could recognize him, he and several senior brothers who raised him died tragically. ”

"I want to have hatred in my heart, but I don't know who the murderer is, so I want to find out the bones of my grandson and bury them well, together with a few monks who raised him, who would have thought that I have been here for 50 years, not to mention my grandson, I haven't even found the bodies of those people who broke in and died here, I am not reconciled, so I have been looking for 50 years."