Chapter 54: The First Sight of the Temple of Reincarnation

"We're here? What do you mean? ”

As Stern wiped the last handful of rain off his face, he immediately understood what Anne meant when she said we we'd arrived. The first thing that caught his eye www.biquge.info was a large patch of green grass, scattered with some low trees, and small pagodas and temples scattered around the riverbank.

There is a magnificent building clustered in the grass! It is mostly hidden in a small dense forest, and although the base and arcade walls loom in the woods, its Sumeru-like tower has protruded above the canopy. Compared to the mountains behind the trees, it seems to be taller and more eye-catching.

The strange thing is that from a distance, the top of the tower seems to be particularly dazzling, as if there is light reflected from the top of the tower! Stern rubbed his eyes with his clothes, making sure he wasn't delusional.

"Have you noticed the light at the top of that tower?"

"I saw it too! Odd! Isn't it built of stone? How does it seem that there is light reflected out? ”

"Oh my God! It's incredible! It wasn't even destroyed at all! ”

"Annie, the tower in that forest is the Temple of Reincarnation?"

"That's right! That's right! ”

"What about the river the professor is talking about? Why can't you see it? ”

"Wait, I'll see what's under the grass!"

With that, Anne took the lead along the approach paths, which began with the ruins of the grotto and ran through the reeds and grasses that stretched through the woods to the temple, and if she guessed correctly, the approach should have reached the moat that surrounded the temple of reincarnation. It was again that she walked to the edge of the approach road, and when she had cleared the thick reeds and grass, she saw the marsh under the grass.

"The water level here is supposed to be seasonal, it's the rainy season, and if the water level reaches an all-time high, the reeds and grass we see in front of us will actually be flooded and turned into a moat," Anne explained as she walked. Then I had just pushed under the approach of the reed grass and found that the approach that had been built on the swamp from here was supported by many stone pillars. ”

"So what are we waiting for? Hurry up and walk along the approach road to Samsara Temple, find a boat, and leave here along the river! ”

Stern took a step up first, then pushed aside the dense grass beside the approach road, and sure enough, he saw the stone pillars below, which looked very strong, so they still looked relatively strong, and motioned for them to move forward.

However, Anne thought of the unknown professor, and her mouth moved and wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything after all, so she had to follow Stern and step on the approach to the swamp.

From time to time, a pair of squatting stone lions appeared on both sides of the approach, with their mouths and fangs open, and they didn't know whether they were welcoming them or guarding the place.

Halfway through, Stern noticed that the rain had stopped, and looked up to see that the sky was gray. But at some point, he noticed that the wind was picking up again, and the cumulonimbus clouds at low altitude were being pushed rapidly in one direction, and the tall reed grass was blown by wave after wave of strong winds, making the rustle of leaves rubbing against each other.

"Why is there such a strong wind all of a sudden?" Stern was already wearing little clothes, and as soon as the wind blew, he began to get goosebumps when he was soaking wet.

Anne looked at the sky: "I don't think the wind is going in the right direction!" It's all going in one direction! It's as if it's a typhoon transiting! ”

"I don't think the wind is right, too! But I don't seem to have experienced a typhoon in Cambodia for so long, so why did it suddenly blow a typhoon? ”

"Cambodia is a tropical country, and although it is not a coastal typhoon-prone area, there is a possibility that typhoons will pass through this season. No, if it's really a typhoon, we need to find a stable building to avoid it, otherwise if the center of a strong typhoon passes by, we will be blown into the grass. ”

After hearing this, Stern said that he would leave quickly, without thinking about it, because he had just looked at the grass swamp under the approach road, which was almost two meters deep, and if it was blown down by the wind, it would be difficult to come up and lead the way again.

And so they all began to quicken their pace through the rustling of the reeds, and the wind from their sides increased, and then it rained again. And this rain was not at all like the thunderstorms they had encountered in the forest before, and the rain struck them like bullets under the strong wind. There was a whining in the air, mixed with the rustle of reeds coming at them.

Donnie shouted loudly while holding on to the stone statue while trying his best to stabilize his body, "No... No... No, I... Fast... Stand... I'm unstable, I... We... And also... Many... Long... Just... Arrive? ”

Stern, who was at the front, was no better, and he could only barely bend forward, occasionally trying to catch the stone lion statue in case he was blown away. In order to avoid being scratched by the reeds, he blocked his eyes with his hand and looked ahead to the right, and found that there were not so many reeds in front of him, but he still couldn't see the end.

"Quasi... Prepare... Arrive... Finish! Solid... Hold... Live! As soon as he finished speaking, a fierce wind blew towards him, and he fell down because he did not stand firm when he stood up to look, and as soon as he was not careful, he was blown to the edge of the stone steps, and almost fell into the swamp. I saw that he quickly grabbed the statue's neck with one hand, so it was not scraped out, and even then he was scared into a cold sweat. Because if it was really blown down, he would probably die, because such a large wind station would not be able to stand steadily, let alone climb back to the approach road from the deep muddy swamp.

But when they finally struggled out of the reeds that were almost blown down by the wind, they suddenly saw a large area of turbid yellow water in front of them surging downstream! It turns out that this moat turned out to be living water! The approach road on the river was washed away by the river very early, and only a few crumbling stone pillars remained on the river, which means that they could not go to the reincarnation temple on the opposite side at all, and there were no ancient boats around.

At this time, there was a look of despair in Stern's eyes, and he almost knelt by the river, because he thought that it was impossible to turn back now, not to mention that the wind was so strong now that it was very likely that it would be blown away before he returned to the woods!

But at this moment, Anne pulled off his clothes, pointed to the right hand side with her finger, and opened her mouth wide as if to go the other way.

Stern turned his head and followed the direction of Anne's finger, and it turned out that there was a low tower temple in the reeds and grass not far to his right, and if he didn't look closely, he almost thought it was just a stone statue. Anne shouted at him several times

It is said that he will take refuge in the tower temple first, and wait until the typhoon has passed.

Stern thought about it and felt that the only way to do this was to find a place to avoid it first, and then make plans when the typhoon was gone. So everyone climbed down another approach road leading to the tower temple under the brick and stone temple under the strong wind and rain. When they reached the bottom of the temple, they found that it was much smaller than they had imagined, with only a doorway that Stern had to bend down to enter. Stern pushed the wall of the temple and felt very stable, he reached in and looked at it, and found that there were no extra gaps inside, indicating that there would be no wind and rain inside. Although it was pitch black inside, he had to avoid it in an emergency, so he let Donnie and Anne sneak in first, and then he bent down to go in.