Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Cliffs
Sankra said that it was not that the monks were not determined, but that it was really unnecessary, because the place where the holy water was hidden was not at the bottom of the canyon, but in a strange cave in the cliff. www.biquge.info The cave, on the other side of the road we were, was seventy or eighty meters apart, but there was no road leading to that side.
When everyone heard this, they all felt a little strange, if it was really as Sankra said, there was no road to the land of holy water, then how did the ancient ancestors keep the drought there?
Sankra sighed and explained, "Originally, there was a natural stone bridge leading to the land of holy water, but it was destroyed by the first batch of eminent monks of this sect. “
Everyone was taken aback, and they all showed puzzled looks, not understanding why the monks of the Nyingma sect would destroy a good stone bridge?
Sankra continued: "The holy water is very important, and the predecessors of this sect are also afraid that some "well-intentioned people" will find it too easy to get the holy water after discovering this place, so they destroyed the big stone bridge and set up three checkpoints on the way to increase the difficulty of finding the holy water. “
The outspoken Li Gao said casually: "What are you afraid of" people with a heart " to get the holy water, I think that the group of monks have too much selfish desires and just want to swallow this treasure alone, so they do this kind of thing that harms others and is not beneficial to themselves. “
When he said this, everyone nodded their heads in approval, and even showed disdain on their faces. Sankra, on the other hand, was embarrassed on his face, and kept reciting the word "sin" in his mouth, thinking that he was also saddened by the practice of the senior monks.
I saw the expressions of the people in my eyes, but my heart was a little complicated, and I couldn't help but think, if one day, all of you here accidentally found a shocking treasure, would you still be as righteous as you are now, and have the idea of announcing it to the public? Instead of thinking about how to possess it alone?
After being silent for a while, the mark asked puzzledly: "Since the stone bridge was destroyed, how can you get there yourself?" Could it be that a hidden passage has been recreated, which is difficult for outsiders to detect? ”
Sankra nodded noncommittally, and he said: "There is naturally another passage, but that road is built on a cliff, the road is narrow, and it is extremely difficult, and if you are not careful, you will be at risk of falling off the cliff." ”
I said, "Since it is built on a cliff, isn't it a plank road?" ”
Plank road, also known as pavilion road and compound road, is a kind of passage built on a cliff, which is composed of wooden structures. The plank road first appeared in the Warring States Period, and during the Qin Dynasty, there was a sentence: Ming Xiu plank road, the idiom of dark Chen Cang, is also talking about the plank road.
Sankra earnestly emphasized that the dangerous path we are going to take is not the kind of wooden plank road as imagined, but a stone path attached to the cliff, which is very narrow and has no guardrails, which the first generation of monks did not hesitate to carve out from the cliff bit by bit.
We talked and walked, and after about ten minutes, there was a bend in the road ahead.
Walking through the curve, the light of the headlamp shone through, and found that the place in front of me was the end of the road, and below the road, there was nothingness, presumably the abyss as high as 100 meters.
It is worth mentioning that the width of the corridor suddenly increased here, more than double the width, and the four walls are no longer stone brick structures, showing the most primitive stone cave form.
Sankla stopped, turned back to us, and said, "There's the huge cavern ahead, let's go see what's going on inside, but be careful, don't fall down." ”
Everyone nodded, adjusted the lights above their heads, and followed Sankra cautiously towards the end of the road.
When I arrived at the edge of the road, I felt that a cool breeze was hitting my face, which made everyone who was already a little cold shiver involuntarily.
Looking into the cave through the beam of the headlamp, I was immediately shocked by the image in front of me!
I've never seen a cavern this large in the Underworld, no, on this scale, or a canyon would be more accurate.
That's right! It's the Grand Canyon in the underworld!
I carefully stuck my head out of the cliff and looked in the direction of the right, about 200 meters away, when I was blocked by a cliff. I turned my head and looked to the left, but there was no end in sight, but it was conservatively estimated that it was at least 500 meters long, because the distance from which our lamp heads shine is almost 500 meters.
I looked overhead, about 30 meters high, and there was an uneven top wall; And looking down, about a distance of about 100 meters, sure enough, I saw a huge dark river with a width of tens of meters, the river flowed to the left, without making too much sound, presumably the river was not turbulent.
Everyone was shocked by this magical underground world, and in addition to the exclamations, only the sound of breathing remained.
Sankra took the opportunity to tell the crowd that the holy water was hidden in a cave directly opposite us, and that the destroyed natural stone bridge was originally directly connected to where we are now.
I looked down and looked closely, and sure enough, there were traces of broken stones at the edge of the end of the road, and it seemed that the previous stone bridge was just connected to the ground of the road.
The sign illuminated the cliff on the right with his headlamp, looked at it for a while, and then turned back to Sankla and asked strangely, "Didn't you say that there is a path on the cliff on the left?" Where? Why didn't I see it? ”
Although Sankra had heard the living Buddha talk about the general situation in the canyon, after all, he had not seen it with his own eyes, and now that he was there, he was shocked, so he naturally had to take a closer look.
Sankla was looking at the dark river at the bottom of the canyon at this time, and after hearing the question, he said without looking back: "Didn't see it?" No way! If you take a good look at the cliff on the right, there must be a path. ”
The mark was stunned for a moment, suspecting that he was dazzled, so he went over and looked again.
Soon, Biaozi turned around, and he said slightly angrily: "Is the living Buddha old, and his memory has deteriorated, and this cliff is bare, where does the path come from?" If you don't believe it, come and see for yourself. ”
Sankla was no longer interested in seeing the spectacle, and he looked up at the cliff to his right with some disbelief. After looking at it for a while, it seemed that he had gained nothing, and then he showed a look of "How can this be?" Expression.
Before, everyone only cared about watching the situation in the canyon, but they forgot to find the path on the cliff, and now they were marked out, and they suddenly came back to their senses, after all, the path on the cliff is what we need to care about the most now.
But listening to the meaning of the sign, on the cliff on the right, there was no path that Sankra said, and even Sankra himself did not find it, and at this moment, everyone could no longer sit still, and immediately leaned out and looked carefully on the cliff on the right.
The cliff on the right is very steep, and the angle is almost straight up and down, and the only point above which you can see is the junction between the rock formations, except for the exposed gray-brown rock. Other than that, the rest of the place is bare, not to mention the road, and even the protruding rock layer that can be stepped on is pitiful.
Seeing this, I faintly felt bad in my heart, so I said: "Didn't the old man tell you about such an important matter, or did you remember the wrong direction of the path?" ”
Everyone also thought that my guess was very likely, so they turned their heads to look at the cliff on the left, but the result was the same as before, and they found nothing, and this time, everyone realized that something was wrong.
Sankla looked a little distressed, he recalled, and said, "Impossible, the master told me in all his truth, there is a dangerous road on the right cliff. He also said that the reason why this dangerous road was built very narrowly, in addition to preventing anyone from stealing the holy water, was mainly to test the great perseverance of our monks. ”
Probably unwilling, Sankla muttered to himself, saying things that didn't make sense, while poking his head out again, looking at the cliff on the left and right, looking at it for a while, his eyes stayed on the cliff on the right, and let out "Huh?" It seems to have made a discovery.
When Sankla retracted his head, the impatient crowd immediately asked him how he was doing, if he had discovered the hidden path.
Sankra did not answer immediately, but shrugged his head and was stupid, and after a long time, he came back to his senses and said to us: "I found the road, but I did not expect it to be so narrow, unimaginably narrow. ”
Biaozi was stunned again for a moment, and said, "Yes, why didn't I see it just now?" Is it that the road is so narrow that I can't see? ”
Sankra didn't know how to explain, his expression was very aggrieved, but he blamed loudly: "Damn master, you really killed me, what kind of cliff is there a path for people to pass, but how can there be such a narrow path in the world, is it for mice?" ”
Hearing this, everyone was even more strange in their hearts, listening to Sankra's tone, it seemed that the path was surprisingly narrow, and even letting people pass through it was a problem.
Curious, everyone leaned towards the edge of the cliff again, and leaned out to see the cliff on the right. But after looking at it for a while, I still didn't find it, except for a few stones that occasionally protruded from the cliff, only the fault points between the rock layers were more eye-catching, and other than that, nothing else was found.
Just when everyone wanted to ask Sankra where the path was, Wu Jian, who had always been careful, seemed to have discovered the clue. He pointed to a cliff on the right, and said to everyone with some schadenfreude: "If the outline between the faults is also a road, then this last level will be played today." (To be continued.) )