It may not be entirely correct to say that he is a monk, but after listening to Uncle Liu's story before, my preconceived ideas made me think that this person was a monk.

He has hair, his hair is very thin, and it is very long, at this time, he is sitting on the futon in the room, looking at his figure, thin and dry, the clothes on his body, I don't know how many years have not been washed, criss-crossed, all patches, clothes and mouths, are also broken and cracked, from a distance, shiny and shiny makes people feel very uncomfortable.

I walked over to take a look, the old man's complexion, reminded me of the "flesh bodhisattva" mentioned before, the skin is the kind of dark brown slightly reddened strange look, he lowered his head, closed his eyes, a very long beard has been drooping to the ground, the muscles and fat all over the body have been consumed and shrunk almost to the bottom, visually, at this time, he may only have less than thirty kilograms.

Stretched out his hand and put it under the other party's nose to test it, the old man was no longer breathing, looking at the surrounding environment and his shape, it seems that the old man has not moved since he died, but, how he died, and why he did not rot is unknown, but, looking at his appearance, it seems that after death, his hair and nails did not stop growing, this situation, but it is somewhat similar to the legendary zombie

Forget it, it's better to think about it yourself, if it's really a zombie, and when you meet a living person, you should immediately change your body, this one is so quiet, it shouldn't be, thinking of this, I sighed and stood up, thinking in my heart, before I came, the white snake sister said to us, she said, the person I'm looking for was still alive at the time, it's just that this person's time is running out, I have to hurry, and then look at this old man, it is estimated that he will have to die for decades, it shouldn't be him.

But then again, if the person we are looking for is not him, who will it be? Thinking of this, I took out a flashlight to shine around, and was very surprised to find that on the walls around me, there are some fading murals, there are many murals, and they are very messy, at first glance, there is no logical order in several murals in succession, and the content of the picture is mostly some immortals riding clouds and cranes, the three sacred mountains are clustered among them, fairy children and fairies are everywhere, it looks like a group of immortals gathering in the sky

It turned out to be a god, not a Buddha

Could it be that the owner of this corpse is not a monk in the real sense, but a master of the Taoist sect who seeks immortals and Taoism? Thinking of this, the doubts in my heart became a little thicker, and after going around the surrounding walls without finding any results, I took the flashlight and focused on the row of sarcophagi in the corner of the wall.

The coffin is generally wooden, good materials, like gloomy wood Jin Sinan, are extremely expensive, cheaper, then there are more, you can use stones to make coffins, there are really not many, hide the body in the coffin and then put it in the cave in the mountains, such a thing seems to be in the Hunan and Jiangxi regions, but in the north, it is extremely rare.

Besides, whose coffin would be like this? The head of the coffin rushed out, the tail of the coffin was against the back of the monk, and counted carefully, no more, no more, nine, arranged in turn to make it like a fan strands to open a semicircle, if the atmosphere is not quite right, I really think, a bit of a peacock to open the screen

The number nine has a special meaning in China, saying that among the Chinese characters, which number is the largest, different people have different opinions, and the masters of Chinese culture generally agree with two statements, one is three, and the other is nine.

Saying that the number of three is the largest, the most consideration is a sentence that Lao Tzu Li Er said back then: "Tao gives birth to one, one life gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things" It is said that at the beginning of things, it is a chaotic one, and later under the action of a certain force, it is divided into two extremes, "Yin" and "Yang", and more things, between these two extremes, are different and changeable, and on this basis, all things in heaven and earth are derived, so many people feel that three gives birth to all things, and the number of three is the largest.

However, we also know that in the Chinese characters, in addition to three, there are four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, hundred, thousand, ten and so on, saying that three is the largest, it is inevitable to pass, so the ancients found out a number, "nine", the number of nine, said to be the largest in the "yang number", in the past, the gate in the emperor's palace, are eighty-one nails, nine horizontally, nine vertically, one no more, no less.

Now, there are nine coffins in front of me, is there any connection with this number? Touched his chin and thought about it, but he didn't dare to be sure, so he stepped forward and took a flashlight to shine on the coffin

Especially in the one on the far left, this coffin, there are obvious traces of water immersion, the color of the sarcophagus has changed because of the rust-like thing, and the patterns on it have also been corroded away on a certain period of dù, looking at others, there are similar situations, from this point of view, these sarcophagi, it seems, were moved here from the outside world.

But who has such power?

The stone steps on the stone wall can only accommodate one person, and the end of the stone steps can be about ten meters away from the ground, not to mention carrying the sarcophagus up, even if it is a person who climbs up by himself, it is extremely difficult to do. Does that mean that there are soft ladders and other things to climb, or do the people who enter and exit this place have the ability to fly through the walls?

Frowning slightly, I was a little puzzled, thought for a while, took a few steps back and bowed twice to the old man who had sat down, and then said: "This senior, under is the disciple of Maoshan Lu Li, passing by here, there are some questions I don't understand, now I want to open the sarcophagus behind you to see what is going on, if there is any disturbance, please forgive me." ”

After saying this, I looked at the dry corpse, the other party was sitting there, motionless, and did not make any strange moves, I nodded, walked to the side of a sarcophagus, reached out and buckled the lid of the sarcophagus, and tried to move it to the side with all my strength.

This thing, heavy and wide, is really not something that one or two people can move, and it took a lot of effort to move a fist-sized gap.