"Let's take a look at this dark passage first." Ouyang Ping walked into the dark passage to the south, "According to the direction and location of this secret passage, the entrance is very likely to be in the meditation room where Jingping once lived. ”

Under the guidance of emergency lights and flashlights, everyone walked more than ten meters to the south, and the dark passage began to turn to the west, and at a distance of about three meters from the bend, four stone steps appeared, and there were also four stone steps below the first entrance.

At the top of the stone steps, there is a square exit made of long stones with a side length of 60 centimeters.

Chen Jie walked up the stone steps and pointed the light of the flashlight at the square hole, which was topped by a wooden plank.

Chen Jie held the wooden board with his right hand and tried to move it, but the wooden board seemed to be pressed by some heavy object and did not move.

"Lao Chen, you and Zuo Xiangdong go to the quiet meditation room, first lift up the floor on the meditation bed, then listen to the sound, determine the approximate location, and try to open the entrance of the secret passage. We started knocking on the plank in three minutes," Ouyang Ping rolled up his sleeves and looked at his watch, "It's eight o'clock and five o'clock." ”

Chen Jie and Zuo Xiangdong took the order.

At 8:08, Liu Dayu took the hammer from Master Chen's hand and struck it hard six times on the wooden board.

Everyone held their breath and listened to the reaction from above, and a minute passed, and there was still no response from above.

Liu Dayu knocked six more times.

After a while, there was a dull sound from the top of the wooden board, and Ouyang Ping held the wooden board with his hand, and his hand obviously felt the vibration.

After a while, some chaotic sounds came from above, although the sound was not loud, but relatively clear.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes, the clutter of sound became clearer and clearer. It is like the sound of prying bricks and the sound of digging in the soil.

Twenty minutes later, there were three rings above the plank.

After a jumbled sound, one side of the plank began to tilt upwards, and as the plank was warped, some dirt fell.

Immediately afterwards, the people below saw the light, first a line, and then the area of the light became larger and larger.

At the same time, the people below could already hear the voices of Chen Jie and Zuo Xiangdong talking.

When the planks are lifted completely, a square hole is revealed.

Liu Dayu walked to the stone steps, stretched his head out of the square hole, and there were many green bricks around the hole.

There is no doubt that there is indeed an entrance to a secret passage in this meditation room where Jingping once lived, and since Jingping left the temple - or Jingping disappeared - Lan Simeng reported the crime, the entrance to the secret passage has been sealed. The person who blocked the entrance to the secret passage also arranged for two nuns to live in the meditation room.

Chen Jie's words confirmed Liu Dayu's judgment: "There is a very thick layer of soil above the entrance of the cave, and under normal circumstances, it is impossible for us to dig so deep. ”

Needless to say, Lian Luo Dan did not leave Mingchen Temple. Similarly, Shimizu and the other four missing young nuns never left Mingchen Temple.

Liu Dayu and Ouyang Ping climbed out of the cave one after another.

The color of the soil sealing the entrance of the cave is the same as that of the entrance of another meditation room, the location of the cave is on the east side of the meditation bed, last time, the comrades found the place where the diary is in the west of the meditation bed, and there is a wall in the middle of the meditation bed, which divides the bottom of the meditation bed into two.