Chapter 2 Ancient Tower

A gentle breeze blew, and the fallen leaves on the ground made a rustling sound. The sweeping monk glanced at me and then unhurriedly continued to sweep the floor. Looking straight at it, rows of incense cases are displayed in the middle of the avenue. At the end of the incense case is a bluestone staircase that goes up in turn, and at the end of the stairs is the first temple since entering the temple.

To the left of the temple is a wishing fountain, and the few coins left inside have grown a little moss.

The temple is enshrined in a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha, and behind Shakyamuni Buddha is the Cihang Dao person. There was a damp smell in the room. I faced the Buddha statue and bowed respectfully, and since I entered this ancient temple, my mind has calmed down a lot.

The incense table in front of the Buddha statue is already covered with dust, but there are still several large plates of incense hanging next to it. I remember that these incense sticks were originally intended for people who came here to pray for incense, but I don't know who ordered them.

After entering the inner courtyard of the temple, I walked towards the ancient pagoda in the back mountain, and walked forward with the memories of my early years. The weather was gradually overcast, there seemed to be a rumbling thunder, and the mountain breeze made me feel a little cold. Suddenly, I noticed a small door in the rocky side of the road, a house that opened in the middle of the mountain, to be exact. The steel bars on the iron windows were rusty, and the walls were faintly sprayed with a few green letters.

I can't help but wonder about the "bomb shelter", could it have been a battlefield here? But the next moment I turned away and didn't think much about it. Now the first thing I have to do is find Sunset as soon as possible and take her back.

After arriving at the back mountain, I saw the ancient tower in the photo, the tower body and the eaves corner have been incomplete, and it looks even more dilapidated than in the photo. The trees around the ancient pagoda have also fallen into decay. Walking through the thick leaves, I walked to the door of the tower. Strangely enough, there was a thick iron chain hanging from the door. What's inside the tower? Curious, I leaned on the door and looked through the crack in the door, but it was pitch black and I didn't see anything.

"Ah......h Will it be sunset? I thought to myself.

I ran through a wooded area and still didn't see anyone, and the sound didn't sound again. Suddenly, I felt a chill in my neck, and at some point there was a man standing behind me, holding a dagger around my neck.

"Who are you?" Judging by the voice, it turned out to be a woman.

"Zhou Zhong." I asked, "Who are you?" ”

"What are you doing?" She apparently didn't take my words to heart and continued to ask her questions.

"Find someone."

"Looking for whom?"

"A friend."

"What friend?"

"Ordinary friends."

"Ah......h

"Answer my questions honestly!" She said fiercely.

Just as we were talking, there was a strange sound.

"What sound?" She wondered.

"It seems to be...... The sound of chanting and knocking on the wooden fish ......," I whispered. Then she lowered the knife and jerked me to the side and fell to the ground. Just when I was about to turn around and see her face clearly, I was suddenly hit on the head, and I fainted as soon as it was dark in front of me.

"Heavy ...... Wake up...... "When I woke up, I found that the person who called my name was Sunset. At this moment, she is still in a green shirt and white dress, her long black hair is flowing to her waist, and her white face is full of unpredictable eyes in her black eyes.

"Sunset!" I got up excitedly, but I felt a swelling pain in my head, and I didn't know where the woman had run just now.

Sunset pulled me up and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

"Didn't you ask me to come?" I asked rhetorically. But I saw that Xiluo shook his head and didn't speak. But I always felt that something was wrong, if it wasn't for Sunset to let me come, then who would it be?

A gust of mountain wind blew, and the faint cold fragrance emanated from the sunset, which made me feel that everything was good.

"No matter, let's go back!" I pulled Sunset to leave, but she stood still and didn't move.

"Where to go back?" Sunset asked suspiciously.

"Back to ......" I was suffocated by the question, yes, where to go back? Maybe in her mind I was just a stranger who had only met a few times.

"Listen to me, Sunset, I can remind you of everything. I can help you! "I looked into the eyes of the sunset, but what I saw were ordinary eyes.

"How can you help me?" Sunset said suspiciously.

"Help you get your own memories back." I tried to find the answer in my sunset eyes, but I still found nothing.

"No, I'm dead." After Xiluo finished speaking, she turned around and left, I wanted to reach out to grab her, but I couldn't move, it felt like I had fallen into a bottomless abyss, and the invisible oppression made me breathless. Just when I felt like I was about to die, I suddenly woke up, it was a dream! But I still gasped for breath, as if everything was real.

I looked around, and I was in a groove behind a huge rock. I touched my head, and the pain hit me immediately, but luckily it didn't bleed. I hurriedly crawled out, and in the blink of an eye I saw a man lying behind a rock not far away, looking down.

Judging from the back, it was a woman, could it be the one who knocked me unconscious, I muttered in my heart, leaned down and found a stone to hold in my hand, thinking that it would be better to wait for self-defense.

When I looked at the man again, she had already turned around, and she was pointing at me with something in her hand, and when I got closer, I realized that it was, a gun!

"Uh......" I thought to myself, who the hell this was, even a gun, and at the same time consciously let go of the stone in my hand. Now I can see her face clearly, she is a woman with a delicate face, wearing a pair of black tights, highlighting her graceful figure, carrying a black multifunctional backpack behind her back, and some small knives and daggers hanging from the belt around her waist.

"Let me ask you again, who are you looking for?" The woman put a gun to my chin and said plainly but murderously.

"I came to my girlfriend. Her name is Sunset. "I lied, and if I could, I hope it will come true.

"Oh?" The woman said with interest, "What do you do?" ”

"Nothing was done." I replied firmly.

The woman put away the pistol after giving me a blank look, and I quickly asked, what do you call it?

"Murong Yi."

"Aunt Murong?" I thought to myself, that's an old name. Murong Yi went back to the place where she was hiding and looked down, the place we were near the top of the mountain, I don't know what she was looking at?

Out of curiosity, I followed, and it was just above the ancient tower, so I could see everything around the ancient tower at a glance.

"What are you looking at?" I asked cautiously. I'm not sure if she really believes in me or if she thinks I'm a good person. I tried to see something through her eyes, but she always avoided my gaze as if she knew I was going to see hers.

"See for yourself." Murong Yi replied angrily. I couldn't see it clearly because of the distance, and it seemed that some people had gathered under the ancient tower. I took the binoculars in Murong Yi's hand and looked at it, and clearly saw a group of monks under the ancient pagoda wearing red robes, sitting in a circle. There was a woman in white lying in the middle, and it turned out to be sunset!

"Sunset!" I cried out in a panic, got up in a panic and was about to run over, but was grabbed by Murong Yi.

"What are you doing?" I shook her off angrily.

"You're looking for death!" Murong Yi yelled at me.

"Xiyan, prepare to act!" Murong Yi said suddenly. That's when I realized she was wearing a headset. Looks like she's not the only one here.

Could it be a criminal gang? I thought to myself. Murong Yi took out a square box from his backpack, and the box was engraved with ancient symbols and characters, but I still recognized it at a glance, and there were three words carved on the box with a small seal: Huayang Mirror. It seems that it is still useful to learn more knowledge in ordinary times, since Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he has implemented the "book with the same text, the car with the same track." It can be seen that the mirror in this ancient box is an antiquity more than 2,000 years ago. Murong Yi asked, do you know the origin of this mirror? I shook my head and said, I don't know.

Murong Yi said, let's go, let's go save Sunset. Although I listened to the clouds, I did not delay for a moment and ran down the hill with her.

The sky became even more gloomy, and Murong Yi and I rushed all the way to the foot of the ancient pagoda, where a total of eight of those red-robed monks sat in a circle, each of them knocking on the wooden fish and humming a mantra. Xiluo lay peacefully in the middle, and there was a bronze mirror on his body. Underneath him is a lotus flower embroidered on a monk's robe.

I couldn't help but feel a pang of grief and indignation, as the lotus flower is often considered to be a symbol of cleanliness and self-purity in Buddhism. But in Tibetan Lamaism, the lotus flower represents the opposite meaning, but represents the female yin, and even boasts that she is a reincarnated living Buddha to cover up her dirty behavior.

Seeing my gloomy face, Murong Yi asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

I glared at her and didn't answer.

At this moment, suddenly a person fell from the sky and landed next to the sunset, probably jumping down from the ancient tower.

"Action!" Murong Yi had already rushed over as he spoke, originally I thought it was just a few monks who had something difficult to deal with, but the next moment I saw that the eight monks had been trained to divide into two groups, four surrounded the person who jumped from the ancient pagoda, probably the Xiyan in Murong Yi's mouth, and the other four blocked Murong Yi's way. Murong Yi was agile and fighting with the four monks, and I stood aside anxiously and didn't know what to do. Suddenly, I found that Murong Yi's backpack was still there, so I turned out the pistol in it, because my dream since I was a child was to be a policeman or a soldier, and I usually knew some knowledge of firearms, so I recognized it at a glance as the most commonly used M9 pistol, loaded with 15 rounds.

"Don't move!" I yelled, and then fired into the sky but couldn't pull the trigger, and suddenly thought that maybe the safety was not opened, just when I opened the safety with my lower hand, a monk had come to me and slapped me in the chest, when I flew out a few meters away, I felt the pain in my chest was about to breathe.

"Be careful!" Murong Yi saw that the monk was about to step forward and make a move on me, so he threw a flying knife over, hitting the monk's calf, and the monk fell to the ground on one leg on the spot. I endured the pain and scratched at the ground for a while, trying to find something like a stone, until finally I found a wooden stick and smothered it against the monk. The monk stretched out his arm to block, and the wooden stick broke in response. At this time, I stopped attacking forward, but took a hole and picked up the sunset on the ground and ran. Fortunately, Sunset is relatively thin, otherwise I would not have been able to run fast even if I picked it up. Murong Yi and Xiyan saw that I ran away with Xiluo in my arms, and they didn't love fighting, so they chased after me after me, but the monks didn't chase anymore, but ran away separately.

"Who are you?" Xiyan chased after me and asked me. At this time, I found out that Xiyan was a man, and I saw him beautiful and red-haired just now, which once made me think that he was a woman. In my amazement, I found that Xiyan and Xiluo not only have similar names, but also look a little similar.

"A friend." I say. Xi Yan smiled at the corner of his mouth and stopped talking, but turned his head to see if those monks had caught up again.

"Hurry down the mountain!" Murong Yi said, "There is our car in the woods next to the road. ”

After running for a while, I gasped out of breath, Xiyan continued to run forward with Xiluo on his back, and Murong Yi pulled me all the way.

Strangely, we didn't encounter any obstacles along the way, and when we passed the front yard, the old monk who swept the floor was gone. By this time the sky had completely darkened, and heavy clouds were tumbling in the air. "Wow!" Finally, the heavy rain that had been brewing for a long time poured down, splashing showers on the bluestone pavement.

When we came to the car, we immediately got in, and Shen Yan immediately started the car and rushed onto the road, but after rushing onto the road, the car gradually stopped.

"What's going on?" Murong Yi asked.

"It's out of gas." Xiyan replied, "We must have been discovered a long time ago, what now?" ”

"Grab your stuff and get out of the car." Murong Yi looked at the sunset that had passed out and then looked at me, "You are responsible for carrying her." ”

Just as we were about to get out of the car, suddenly a dazzling light came on the opposite side and slowly moved towards us. As I got closer, I saw that it was a large white truck. After the truck stopped, a person jumped from it and shouted, "Xiaoyi! Yuyan! ”

"It's the Professor!" Xiyan said happily, and jumped down after opening the car door, Murong Yi was also obviously relieved at this time, and smiled at me.

The bed of the truck turned out to be a laboratory, and after we carried Sunset up, the professor injected her with an injection, and it didn't take long for Sunset to wake up.

"Sunset!" I tried to suppress my excitement and whispered.

Sunset looked at everything around her in confusion, seemed to be trying to remember, and then looked at me and said, "Why am I here?" ”

"Do you remember me?" I asked with concern. Sunset nodded. The three people on the side seemed a little surprised.

"Sister, do you remember me?" Xiyan said, "Your cute and beautiful brother! ”

Sunset shook her head. Murong Yi on the side laughed faintly.

"I forgot to introduce you......," Murong Yi said to me, "This is Professor Han." ”

"Professor Han, this is, Sunset's friend......"

"Hello, my name is Zhou Chong." I smiled at the so-called Professor Han, a middle-aged man who was not too old, with a pair of eyes like most professors.

On the way back, I learned from talking to them that Professor Han was leading a team working on a project about "Ancient Mirrors", and that Sunset had suffered from selective amnesia due to an accident. Sunset's amnesia seems to be related to the ancient mirror project they are studying, and no one knows why she appeared in this ancient temple deep in the mountains. According to Murong Yi, she also received a message from Sunset to come here. If you reason like this, it is likely that Sunset's amnesia is temporarily cured, and then she found out something, so she came to the ancient temple alone and found the pagoda, but an accident happened. But I always felt that something was wrong, as if something was missing. I still can't see what she has experienced through the eyes of the sunset, and when I look at the Xiyan on the side, through his eyes I see an innocent and lovely child, laughing and running on the grass......

When I got back to the city, I got out of the car and went back to my den alone. After all, Sunset is much better with them than with me. When I walked to the door, I found that the door was open, so I guess there would be a thief, right? I hurriedly ran to the house, only to find Xue Yan sitting in front of the computer leisurely soaking coffee and watching videos.

"Why are you here?" I took a sip of the coffee in her hand, and a warm current flowed through my body, making me feel a little warm.

"Seeing that you're not there, and don't say hello, just come in! Look like you're acting like a beggar, what's wrong? Xue Yan looked at me with disgust and said.

It was then that I realized that I was already wrinkled, so I hurried to the bedroom to change my clothes.

"Let's go out to dinner later, I have something to tell you." Xue Yan said.

"Okay." I replied, "What's the matter with you?" ”

"Confidential!" Xue Yan said playfully.

At nightfall, Xue Yan and I went to the food stall on the street, and the autumn night was cooler, so the two of us chatted one by one. Xue Yan was actually my classmate, but we didn't know each other well at that time. A few beers went down and I felt a little dizzy. So he asked, "What do you want to tell me?" ”

"I'm leaving!" Xue Yan said.

"What?" I couldn't believe it, "Why are you leaving?" ”

"Go do something, I'll come back when I'm done."

"What's the matter?" I asked.

"I'm not going to tell you!" Xue Yan smiled, then raised his wine glass, "Come, let's get drunk!" ”

I raised my cup and stared at Xue Yan's eyes, but she reached out to block it, "Don't look at it, I also have a secret, okay?" ”

"Okay, then I wish you a nice trip! See you in the future. ”

After sending off the snow rocks, I walked along the river alone on the way home. Looking back on what happened today, I really can't believe it, and the scenes are like being in a dream. I wonder what happened to Sunset at this time? What are you doing? I shook my head, trying to shake off these distractions, I was just meeting her in the water, is it possible, I suddenly lost confidence in myself. Just as I was about to get home, a car suddenly pulled up in front of me, and two people who got out of the car put me in the car without saying a word, and then I was shocked and fainted......