Chapter 57: The Chamber of Secrets
Seeing that Miss Pan had long since disappeared, and the surroundings were also burned in a mess, I couldn't help but say angrily: "If you stop and you don't listen, it's better to do this kind of virtue now." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
The monk sighed: "Isn't it like I'm dizzy for a while. Besides, who knew there would be that thing hidden in the treasure letter. ”
That Miss Pan must have known in advance that there was something wrong with those treasure letters, so she waited for the monk to set herself on fire, and then she took advantage of the chaos to escape. But now is not the time to regret it, the wall of fire won't last long, and the monk says we have to find a way to get out of here.
I looked around and suddenly noticed that there was a stone gate on the nearby stone wall that had not been there before! After a closer look, I realized that this stone door was knocked out by the bookshelf that the monk had knocked over.
Could it be that there is a secret room hidden in this scripture pavilion? The monk said, how can I manage so much, seeing that the wall of fire is about to be unable to withstand it, he hurriedly beckoned me to hide in first.
The two men quickly fled in the direction of the stone gate. The monk removed the bookshelf and squeezed in first. As soon as I stuffed my baggage in, I heard a long beep not far behind me.
The monk grabbed me and said hurriedly: "Come in!" I slammed into the chamber with my strength, and the monk quickly closed the stone door. The two men once again had a thrilling escape.
The secret room was pitch black, and the monk blew out the last of the fire, which he had secretly taken from Miss Pan's baggage before. As soon as the fire fold is lit, you can get a rough idea of the situation in the secret room. I thought that the secret room would be full of Yelang King's funeral goods, but after seeing the situation clearly, I realized that I was thinking too much.
This chamber must have not been entered in years, and there was a fine layer of dust everywhere. The scale of the secret room is not large, but it is densely packed with many things. I took a cursory glance and saw that the vast majority of Buddha statues of various sizes were in large proportions, and the rest were piles of Buddha scrolls.
However, these things were hastily placed here, and it didn't feel like they were funeral goods, but rather like they were urgently hidden here to avoid trouble.
When the monk came in, while packing up his baggage, he found that the Ugin crossbow was missing. In addition, even the Buddha scroll he brought out from the Dushan Underground Palace was missing.
I saw that he was stunned for a long time before he coldly spit out a sentence: "His grandmother's was yin by that girl again." ”
Only then did the two of them understand why that Miss Pan seemed so cooperative all the way. Feelings, she was beating the idea of the Buddha scroll in the monk's hand. And we don't even know it, when did she take the scroll away?
This is really a loss for the lady and the soldiers, and the woman is simply unguardable. Seeing the monk's dejected look, I persuaded him: "Anyway, the things have been lost, and it's useless to think about anything now." Besides, the Buddha scroll is in vain in our hands, and letting her take it away can be regarded as making the best use of it. ”
"Besides, that's what you should think. After she took the crossbow away, she fortunately didn't fall into the well and didn't take advantage of the chaos to attack us. Otherwise, think about it, are you sure you'll be able to escape alive from her? ”
The monk laughed angrily at me, and said angrily: "I haven't seen you so persuasive." Something was stolen, but you kid said nice things for the thief. I'm speechless for you. ”
Everything has already happened, and nothing can be said to undo it. I looked at the dusty Buddha statues around me and asked the monk, "Do you feel that these things are being thrown here, a bit illogical?" ”
The monk leaned against the stone gate, rubbed his stomach and gasped: "To be honest, although my monk can't say that there are countless upside downs, he is still a little famous in the Tao. I've stolen enough large tombs to blow for a lifetime. But this is the first time I've encountered this situation today. You said, this Yelang King is really incomprehensible, taking so many monks' things for burial. Isn't it in this place, in all these small countries, that this custom? ”
I said you don't know, how would I know. It stands to reason that after entering the underground palace, there should be various burial rooms and ear chambers around the outermost periphery of the underground palace, and this is the first time I have heard of this kind of scripture pavilion. And, so far, apart from various types of Buddha statues and scrolls, we have not found any regular funerary goods.
Regardless, we're safer for now. The priority now is to find alternatives to the source of fire. But at the moment, apart from the Buddha statue, which is the Buddha scroll, we don't seem to have any other choice.
But this time, even the monk had some difficulty. If it is said that those Buddha scrolls outside the secret room were burned, it was purely accidental. This time, the meaning is very different. Moreover, since these scrolls are not placed outside, but are hidden in a secret room, it means that what is written on these scrolls is even more precious.
If you really want to burn it, don't talk about me, even the monk can't do it. After all, ancient Buddhist scrolls are not like ordinary spiritual objects, and they have unique historical value in themselves. If it really burns, I feel that from now on, the two of us will become sinners of history.
We had no choice but to look for other alternatives. I was rummaging back and forth in the pile of Buddha statues, when suddenly I heard a monk scream. I thought something was wrong with him and hurriedly asked him what was going on?
The monk seemed to be startled by something, pointed to the pile of Buddha statues at his feet and said, "Hell, there is a dried corpse here!" ”
He removed the Buddha statue at his feet, and by the dim light of the fire, I saw a middle-aged male corpse as thin as dry wood lying on the ground.
If I had been in the past, I would have been scared half to death by the sudden appearance of corpses. But since I experienced the Dushan Underground Palace, I have found that during this time, I have developed an extremely high immunity to corpses.
And the dried corpse in front of him, judging from the degree of dryness of the corpse, this person has been dead here for at least ten years. The body was completely dehydrated and dried, and although the clothes were rotten to pieces, the whole body was still intact.
The monk looked a little uncomfortable, after all, the sudden appearance of a corpse probably means that this secret room hides some threats that we have not yet discovered.
"How could this man die here? What is the cause of death? The monk asked as he checked the condition of the dried corpse.
I probably checked it once, and the corpse didn't have any wounds, so it wasn't supposed to be from a traumatic injury. The monk suspects that this corpse is also a parasite of that blood cicada, but I think it's unlikely. First of all, I didn't find that cicada chrysalis in the corpse's mouth, and the most obvious thing is that the corpse did not show necropsy phenomenon.
And what was the cause of death of this dried corpse? I couldn't see it for a while.
But seeing that the fire fold in his hand was about to die, the monk was forced to have no choice at this time, so he simply said: "Anyway, Lao Tzu is already a sinner, and he doesn't care about adding sin to sin." ”
Although the monk is usually a bit of a scoundrel, he is actually very principled, or a person with a bottom line. Without the source of fire, we are really unable to move an inch. I knew in my heart that he was forced to do it as a last resort. And if the monk wasn't there, I would definitely do the same. After all, compared to those false names, it is the most real thing to be able to live.