The soft music in the café sounded peacefully, and there were a few people sitting scattered in the hall, each whispering to each other. Suddenly, a piercing scream sounded, followed by the sound of the porcelain cup breaking, and the people around looked at it.

"You bastard!" The woman slapped the boy across the face in the face, while the man blushed in annoyance and remained silent.

I recognized the boy at a glance, Gao Yu. When I was in school, I was known as the invincible three friends with him and Xiao Jian, and when the boys were together, they definitely discussed the question of which girl was beautiful, while Gao Yu looked at the chest, Xiao Jian looked at the legs, and I cared about the face.

The girl who hit Gao Yu left the café angrily, and Gao Yu squatted on the chair all of a sudden, grabbing her hair with both hands and looking extremely annoyed.

I got up and walked over, handed Gao Yu a cigarette and said, "Brother, long time no see!" ”

When Gao Yu saw me, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, but it was more of a surprise. Then he hugged me tightly and cried. I was stunned by his crying, I used to fight at school, bleeding without tears, I had never seen him shed tears, but now he cries like a child, I can only describe it as crying bitterly!

"Good...... Okay......" I didn't know what to say to comfort him, so I just patted him on the shoulder.

Murong Yi also came over at this time, looked at Gao Yu who was crying a handful of snot and tears, patted him with sympathy and said, "Okay, don't cry, what's the big deal, don't cry......" and then took out a tissue to wipe Gao Yu's tears.

I thought to myself what I was going to do, I thought that this kind of woman would not have any feelings at all. Gao Yu's tears soon wet my shoulders, and at the same time, my worldview was completely destroyed by Gao Yu, a man can cry like this bear for a woman, which makes me feel that it was a sin to speak loudly to a girl before.

In order to alleviate Gao Yu's sadness due to the loss of love, I invited him to join our team, and along the way, Murong Yi and him talked and laughed and were unhappy. Actually, I still have selfish intentions in pulling Gao Yu to join, after all, I am not very safe by myself, in case I turn my face and fight at that time, how can I be their opponent.

There were a total of eight of us in our group, in addition to me and Gao Yu, Murong Yi, Xiyan, and Xiluo, there were also three other thugs, all of whom were said to be veterans. It looks like he is in his thirties, and it is estimated that he is one of those soldiers again, who can't stand the life of the army, and after two years of work, he ran out and bragged about eating under the banner of a soldier.

Eight people drove two Land Rovers in two groups, Murong Yi and I sat in a car, Xiyan sat in a car, and Gao Yu sat in a car with three other veterans. Their intention to separate me from Gao Yu is also obvious, probably because they are afraid that we will have some trouble.

Along the way, I felt that Xi fell in their hands more like a hostage, and Murong Yi would follow him wherever he went. As for Xi Yan, she obviously has no family affection for this sister.

When we came to the temple again, it was not yet dark, so we had to walk around the foot of the mountain for a while, and waited until it was dark before entering the mountain. Then we left two people to watch the car, originally Murong Yi was going to let Gao Yu and a veteran stay, but I insisted on not agreeing, and she had to give up. The end result was that two of the three veterans stayed behind to look after the car, while the rest went to Guta together.

Along the way, Sunset grabbed my hand, maybe she was a little scared. I gradually felt that Sunset had become a little dependent on me, and that it had lost the strange feeling it had at the beginning.

The moon hung dimly in the sky, the night was gloomy and gave people a sense of oppression, the night wind blew desolately, and the bamboo trees in the mountains made a rustling sound, which made people feel a little chill down their spines.

The front yard of the mountain temple is empty at the moment, and those incense cases do not know where they have gone. The doors of the temple were closed, so we had to climb up the hill and make a detour to the ancient pagoda.

In the night, the ancient tower stood alone, the surrounding trees swaying in the wind, enduring the devastation.

Suddenly, I seemed to see a glimmer of light flashing in the ancient tower, and I thought I was dazzled, but then the lights in the tower brightened, and Murong Yi was also full of surprise. I thought that this ancient tower had been abandoned, but I didn't expect that there were still people inside.

We wandered into the woods inside the ancient tower, waiting for an opportunity to enter. But the lights don't go out for a long time, and it looks as if it's on the third floor. After saying hello to Murong Yi, the veteran unloaded his equipment and slipped lightly under the tower gate.

Just as he was about to test whether the tower door was closed, the lights on the third floor suddenly went out, and Murong Yi hurriedly said to the headset: "Come back quickly!" Before he finished speaking, he saw that the tower door had been opened, and the veteran was startled, and then the whole person was dragged in. We were also taken aback, there was something in the tower!

Gao Yu rushed forward with an arrow at this time, turned on the strong flashlight and shone it into the tower, and then slammed into the tower door with his body! We are not far behind. Sunset's body shrank visibly at this point, but I didn't have time to think about it, so I grabbed her hand and ran forward.

I hadn't planned to let Yuki come, but the last time she suddenly appeared here, maybe somewhere needed her, in case she could remember something.

"Bang!" Gao Yu's body and the tower door collided with a muffled sound, Gao Yu originally belonged to the type of person who was relatively tall, and his body was relatively strong. The wooden temple door was slammed open before it could be closed, and the dust stirred up fluttered under the bright flashlight.

"What is it?" Murong Yi asked. The others entered the tower with a flashlight and swept around, the space in the tower was not as large as expected, and there was an incense table in front of the door, and some blue-faced and fanged gods were painted on the wall. The damp smell in the tower came to the nostrils, and there was a rotten smell in the thickness, and the temperature seemed to have plummeted by a few degrees.

"It's human!" Gao Yu leaned over to look at the veteran lying on the ground at the moment and said, "It's dead." ”

"What!" Murong Yi shouted. The veteran's neck was cut with a knife, which was now blackened, and the knife must have been smeared with poison. Everyone present felt a chill in their backs, and the sunset was so frightened that it leaned close to me. The development of things is obviously beyond our control, and no one expected that there are still people in this ancient tower, and they will be so vicious.

"Who could it be?" Murong Yi said in a low voice.

"It should be someone else." Xiyan said, "It seems that we have an opponent." ”

"Which way?" Gao Yu asked.

"I don't know." Xiyan shrugged his shoulders and said.

Looking at the dead veterans on the ground, Murong Yi said, "What should we do now?" "Everyone looked at each other, and there were two questions before us, whether to move on or to go back right away. After careful consideration, we decided to move on, but the three of us men walked in front. Murong Yi also gave the pistol to Xi Yan, probably because he didn't give it to me because he left a shadow in his heart when he saw me use a gun last time.

I clenched the stun baton in my hand and watched warily ahead. The stairs in the tower were about two or three meters wide, Gao Yu and Xi Yan walked in front, I followed closely behind, Xi Luo followed behind me, and Murong Yi broke behind.

We made it to the third floor, but we didn't find anything, and the north wall was still depicted with a mural of a demon with a blue face and fangs. We slowly made our way up to the eighth floor, the top of the ancient tower, and we were all looking forward to discovering something, otherwise the trip would have been in vain.

Disappointingly, it was still empty, save for a few murals painted on the walls.

"Looks like we've come for nothing." Xiyan said with some frustration.

"Look at the contents of these murals." Murong Yi said, "It tells the story of Shakyamuni Buddha who was about to become a Buddha under the Bodhi tree, and the demon king Bo Xun led the demon army to attack. ”

The mural has faded a little, but you can still see the content of it, Shakyamuni was originally the crown prince of Kapila, who was frightened by birth, old age, sickness and death, and began to seek the Tao wholeheartedly and carry out penance under the guidance of a practitioner, but he found that penance could not achieve positive results after all, so he began to realize the Tao wholeheartedly.

On a certain day, the Buddha finally came to his senses, when he was about to become a Buddha, the demon king Bo Xun came to stop, the Buddha under the Bodhi tree was blazing, the demon army surrounded the Buddha violently, but no one dared to approach, the demon king Bo Xun held the magic hook and angrily pointed at Shakyamuni, but there was nothing to do. Intimidation, seduction, and inducement could not get the Buddha to leave his vajra throne.

At that time, the demon army came from all directions, and the earth was shaken, but even if the demon king launched this ancient battle against Siddhartha, it could not prevent Shakyamuni from becoming a Buddha, and finally ended in the defeat of the demon king.

The Buddha realized that everything in the universe could become a Buddha, but he was trapped by troubles, so he began to spread the Dharma in an attempt to transform sentient beings. Legend has it that Bo Shun is the demon king who incarnates himself in the heavens, and has an inseparable relationship with the Buddha. So was this stupa built for Shakyamuni or for the demon king Bo Xun?

Do you say this stupa was built for the Buddha or for the Demon King? I asked Murong Yi on the side.

Neither. Murong Yi said, I think this tower is used to raise something extremely yin, and it is also being offered while suppressing it.

"Can you remember anything?" I asked about the sunset. She approached the wall, reached out and stroked the mural on the wall, and after a long time, she said, "Empty." ”

"Empty? What is empty? I asked.

"The walls are empty!" Sunset said.

Xi Yan had already knocked on the wall of the ancient tower one step ahead, and sure enough, "Bang...... The sound of "dong ......" reverberated around, and it was strange that the sound of the shock did not dissipate for a long time, and the sound was similar to the sound of a copper bell!

"It's a tower within a tower!" Murong Yi said excitedly.

Hearing her say this, I also had a clear understanding in my heart, no wonder I saw that the ancient tower was so big outside, but the space inside was very small, and at first I thought it was because the walls were thicker. As for why the tower can make a sound similar to that of a bronze bell, we all feel very strange.

We groped around the walls of the tower a few times, but we didn't find any secret doors or anything like that. Only the sunset stood alone in the middle of the tower, as if looking at something. I walked to his side and followed her gaze with a strong flashlight, and at the top of the ancient pagoda was a Taiji diagram of yin and yang reincarnation! The Taiji diagram is a symbol of Taoism, and a Taoist pattern appears in a pagoda, what does this mean?

Although as early as the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, the three cultures of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism were staggered and integrated, but this is the first time to see such a strange building, and it is even more unheard of. At that time, although it was a fusion, it was more of a last resort, and the representatives of each family wanted to attack each other, and they all wanted to kill each other, so as to become a great unification that everyone in the world believed in.

"Could it be that it's not just Buddhist monsters that are being suppressed here?" Murong Yi said, "Will the entrance be at the top?" "Each floor of the stupa is only two or three meters apart, so the top is not very high.

Gao Yu understood, and immediately put on a posture of stacking Arhats, and then Xi Yan jumped up with a leap, Gao Yu took advantage of the situation and lifted it hard, and Xi Yan suddenly flipped the top of the Taiji Diagram with a gun, revealing a black hole with a diameter of about one meter. Murong Yi took a flashlight and shone it inside, but he couldn't see the top.

In the end, Xiyan took out some glow sticks from his backpack, broke them and threw them in, and also placed an infrared monitor at the staircase, and the connected watch would ring a warning if someone passed by.

After sorting out everything, Gao Yu lifted Xiyan up first as he did just now, and sent me up after making sure it was safe, followed by Xiluo and Murong Yi, and finally we pulled Gao Yu up as well.

The space above is larger than we thought, and from here we can see the top gradually closing upwards, and finally it comes down to the spire. In the center of the tower was an incense table, on which there was a box about the size of two palms and an empty incense burner, both covered with a thick layer of dust.

Xiyan said with some excitement: "Great, I finally found it!" After Murong Yi gave him a blank look, he didn't continue. I saw all of this in my eyes, and I couldn't help but wonder what they were looking for.

The box was not locked, Murong Yi opened it carefully, only to see a Buddha statue standing on a small box inside, and when the small box was opened, there was a very small piece of white bone inside!

"What is this!" Gao Yu was surprised and said, "I thought it was a treasure so tight!" ”

"This is a Buddha bone!" Murong Yi said, "It should be the Buddha bone relics left by a certain monk after his death and cremation." ”

"There are words here." Sunset said, standing by a wall.

"It seems to be an inscription." I also walked over and stroked the inscriptions on the wall, which had a strong metallic texture.

There are more than one inscription on the wall, and there is not only one type of Chinese character used, but also Sanskrit and Taoist tadpole script. In desperation, we had to look at the Chinese character part, and it is estimated that the three scripts should be the same. One is reserved for mortals, and the other two are for gods and Buddhas.

The inscription on the wall roughly tells a story: during the Qianfeng period, a rock wall on the mountain suddenly became a smooth and smooth mirror, and the people of the mountain village at the foot of the mountain came to watch, and then there was a strange situation, there was a village on the mountain, but no one had heard of anyone moving here within a hundred miles, let alone a village with hundreds of people. One day, a man went up the mountain, and found that all the people in the village were from his own village, and greeted him warmly, but he met himself! The government came to investigate, and soon sealed the mountain, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

People thought that it was a demon, so they invited a Taoist to come and subdue the demon, but it was in vain, because those people were indeed alive. People had no choice but to close the mountain, but the villages on the mountain were still thriving, and like the people at the foot of the mountain, they went out early and returned late every day.

Finally, one day, out of curiosity, someone went to the mountain to hunt and kill one of them, and the number of people on the mountain finally began to decrease, but the people below the mountain also began to disappear inexplicably......

When people were helpless, a monk and a Taoist appeared in the village. Under the command of monks and Taoist priests, people built this double pagoda, the outer stupa Yibo common sense built eight layers to gather the demonic qi of the place, and the inner nine layers represent the pure yin and yang to seal it in. The rock walls were shattered, and some copper metal was melted and refined to create several copper mirrors. As for the whereabouts of these bronze mirrors, there is no clear record, only to say: scatter the world in all directions, looking for the lord of the first sun. After the twin towers were built, the people on the mountain disappeared, and the missing people below gradually returned, but they no longer remembered who they were or where they had been. After reading it, I thought that the amnesia of the sunset might be related to these, but I couldn't find any clues.

"What do you think this tower is made of?" Xiyan knocked on the tower body and said, the sound of fluctuations vibrating back and forth was endless.

"Could it be refined?" I said, "I built a tower-shaped furnace directly outside the tower, and then made this tower directly out of fire." ”

"You mean that the outer tower is the furnace?" Murong Yi said, "Impossible, what a huge project this is, and how long will it take for them to burn?" I think this tower was built out of that rock wall. ”

"It's highly likely!" Gao Yu said.

Just as we were talking, Xiyan's watch suddenly remembered.

"What's going on? Is someone coming? Murong Yi said.

Gao Yu hurriedly made a silent gesture, and Xiyan immediately opened the pistol safety and vigilantly faced the entrance at the foot of the entrance. We stood motionless for more than ten minutes, nothing happened, everything was horribly silent.

Xiyan carefully pulled out a light stick from her backpack, and then nodded at us, and we nodded understandingly. Xiyan pulled off the drawstring suddenly, and threw it out at the same time, everyone stepped back and stuck to the wall, except for the sound of the burning of the lighting rod below, nothing was heard, and just when we wanted to take a look, we suddenly heard a few gunshots! Bullets flew in through the hole, hitting the top of the tower, leaving a cloud of rubble. Gao Yu also unceremoniously threw down the lighting rods one by one at this time, and Xi Yan also fired a few shots indiscriminately at the entrance of the cave. In a few moments, smoke was thick below, and it rose from the mouth of the cave, stinging his eyes. At this point, I climbed to the entrance of the cave and climbed over the Taiji diagram to cover the entrance.

"Hurry up and figure it out!" I coughed and said that I had just inhaled some smoke and stabbed my throat.

"Fight with them!" Gao Yu said.

"Spell what? We don't know who they are or how many they are. Don't you see they have guns? Murong Yi said.

Just as we were talking, we suddenly felt a shaking of the tower, and Gao Yu said, "I'll go, what's the situation?" These people are going to blow up the tower! ”

"What tower to blow up? They're still in the tower! I said, "Is there anyone out there?" ”

Just when we were stunned, we suddenly heard a strange and familiar voice......