32. Reincarnation Temple

How did the Cultural Relics Bureau of Jianhe come here? I suddenly thought of Gan Lao, who was far away in the Sword River Library.

"What's wrong?" Wang Lei asked when he saw that I didn't speak.

"You see this person is from Jianhe." I said I handed it over. "I don't think they're going to come all the way here."

"There's a purpose."

"That's right, this place must be hiding some secret that no one knows, a secret other than that mountain god. But then again, where do we go next? Now it seems like I'm really lost. "The summer brought us to this place before, and set up a maze," he didn't move himself, and the rocking chair that kept rocking had lost us, and we went through two circles at that time, the first ghost hit the wall and didn't know how to get out of it, but think about it, because at that time the summer disappeared from the same place for a while, in order to go to the next ghost to hit the wall and set up a maze for us. So it's evidence that we've stumbled out of the first labyrinth. I said.

We've walked out, but if we want to go back, will we go back the way we came? And the first journey we still walked out inexplicably, if you want to go back, it may not be easy to walk, I glanced at the fat man and said, "But let's go back?" Figure out the route first. ”

"Let's go ahead! Always pull the fat man out. Wang Lei disagreed with my statement. After saying that, we walked forward, the road ahead was in a small space, but after a while, our flashlight shone on a completely collapsed building, which was the temple of reincarnation. I saw it at a glance.

In the middle of the mountain, the building in front of us is truly incomplete, it is inserted in the mountain at an angle of 90°, and the degree of fragmentation is beyond our imagination. We walked up to him, and Wang Lei said, "Can you still go in?" ”

"Shall you go in?" I frowned and said, "Take a look around, maybe there's somewhere to go in." "I walked against the stone wall in the crack of the mountain, the roof of this building fell to the left, the roof was all overturned, I can imagine the situation at that time, the stone wall rubbed against the soil layer, I walked over and touched it with my hand, and found that the stone wall here was hard and there were no cracks, so it seemed impossible to enter from here. I turned my flashlight out of the side, thinking to myself that it was indeed the voice of a fat man, but the direction was not clear, but it looked like it should be here.

But there seems to be no way into this place, all the wood and stone are crushed and deformed, and the windows and even doors are not intact, so how did the fat man get in? I was thinking about it, but suddenly I saw several wrist-thick steel bars jumping out of the dirt, forming a natural hanging ladder, I took a hand and slowly climbed up to it, my hand stuck in the mask, and there was a window not far above, I struggled to climb over and saw through the window that it was a cathedral inside, and a huge wheel-like thing in the middle of the church fell to the ground.

But the windows were covered with iron thorny steel railings, and I couldn't get inside at all. I had no choice but to go back to the ground and walk to the "main entrance" of the house to meet Wang Lei, but I don't know if he found the entrance.

When I walked to the old place, I saw Wang Lei standing there waiting for me not far away, and he saw me coming over and ran over to me and said, "There is a second-floor window in front of me that has burst out, and it seems that you can go in there." ”

"Really?" I followed Wang Lei without saying a word, and sure enough, the degree of damage to the house over there was much smaller than the roof surface, after all, the foundation of the house was here, and it fell unilaterally from this side, but the degree of deformation of the middle part of the house can still be imagined, so in this relatively strong and strong impact of the place, a window was squeezed out by the roots.

"But climb up?" I asked.

"It should be possible, climb from the crack of the collapse of the first floor to the layer of soil, and jump under the deformed eaves." Wang Lei said confidently

"Die." I said indignantly, "You think you're playing Assassin's Creed! ”

"You can give it a try." After that, Wang Lei climbed up with his hands on his feet, and sure enough, according to his thoughts, he quickly climbed up, and then let out an exclamation, it seems that he seems to have seen the wheel, and if he enters from this place, it should be close contact, and it is estimated that he has already seen what this thing is.

"What is it?" I asked below.

"Come up on your own!" Wang Lei took the flashlight and disappeared from my sight as he spoke.

"Damn." I said, how do I get in, this dog thinks everyone is a policeman! Extraordinary, isn't it? I was a little chilly in the dark, and I looked at the window above with a dark face and thought about finding another way. There is definitely more than one such squeeze in such a large house, right? I took the flashlight and walked around, and soon found a crack that could accommodate my small body, I first shone the flashlight into it to make sure that it would not be stuck, and then slowly walked in sideways, but soon found that the road in front of me was much narrower, and it was estimated that it would be stuck inside.

I had no choice but to turn around and go back, but at that moment, a human face suddenly jumped out of the dark crack.

Suddenly, I was almost unable to resist, instinctively shouted out, that face, that face was the mountain charm we saw on the rocky hill before, her face seemed to have been highly squeezed and her facial features no longer existed, only a pair of eyeballs hung outside the eye sockets to look at the person only felt a cold air coming up, I shouted hoarsely, and desperately squeezed into the crack inside, although the stones and steel bars in the crack continued to press my back and chest, but I had no choice, I can only use pain to dispel my fear.

Without a hint, I didn't even know where the mountain charm came from. But finally I squeezed in, covered in scars, and it was an open place, with nothing in between, only some wooden beams and stone pillars, and cracked tiles instead of dirt under my feet, "This is a fallen house, I can't imagine that it looks like this inside." "When I look up and sweep the flashlight, it's like you've entered an illusory space, and everything is attached to the "side" of the wall, so my neck is a little sore when I look at it. But fortunately, in the crack in the back, the mountain charm did not chase in.

"What's wrong?" At this time, Wang Lei also heard my shout and ran over.

"The mountain charm from before is outside the house." I gasped.

"No, it won't." Wang Lei was shocked: "Could it be that you broke into her nest?" ”

"Where is this?"

"Reincarnation Temple!" Wang Lei said, pointing to the left, only to see a huge turntable appear in our field of vision, at the same time, there are two huge bronze pillars on both sides of the turntable, there are a lot of patina on both sides of the bronze column, I walked over and knocked on it, and found that there was a muffled sound inside, as if it was wrapped in a layer of wood, and I brushed off some patina with my hand, and found that there were some ornaments on this copper wooden pillar.

"It's a dragon pattern." I said after looking at it for a long time.

"Dragon?" Wang Lei was a little puzzled.

But I do know that the dragon pattern was first seen on the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. It is a theme very close to the dragon pattern, so it is also known as the "tiger dragon", and the tail also has the difference between the abduction type and the curly grass type. There are two theories about the dragon: one is one of the sources of the dragon in Chinese legends. Also known as the tail of the worm, is a kind of sea beast, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty when someone said, said that the dragon is a water spirit, can be fireproof, it is recommended to put it on the roof to avoid fire, and the copper skin on the dragon pattern wrapped on the wood is probably to prevent the wood from being burned out! And on this copper skin, this dragon pattern is used as several carved lines, those dragons in terms of details, the head and claws are not much like dragons, but absorb the image of beasts, the body is not carved scales, the body is fat and thin, the difference is huge.

But no matter how it changes, I can still be sure of one thing, that is, this thing is definitely not a fake, this is a genuine antiquity!

The two seemingly ancient stone pillars on the copper pillar are carved with images and patterns. A monster with a large face corroded by patina holds a long knife and divides the pillar into two layers, the upper layer is heaven, the lower layer is hell, the upper layer is the golden palace of flowing clouds, the dragon flies and the phoenix dances, the lower layer is fire, black water, and a hundred ghosts are singing, although it is a carving, but the reverse head of the scene is bad, enough to give people a visual shock, two stone pillars, respectively carved with different scenes, but still with the theme of heaven and hell, looking at the evil ghost with open eyes, as if thinking of the terrible mountain ghost.

"What does this mean?" It occurred to me that all antiquities must have a meaning to be expressed, so what about this? Heaven and hell? Reincarnation? Could it be that this is the column that holds up that huge "wheel"? So that wheel is the so-called reincarnation disk?

I have imagined in my mind that the turntable like a waterwheel, placed vertically in a hall the size of a basketball court, can reach the top of the hall from a high place, supported by a wooden frame on both sides, and a wheel axle in the middle of the mold fork, and a large plate at both ends of the wheel axle, close to the turntable, carved with the scene of heaven and earth alone, on both sides, a piece of wood is horizontally on the wheel, and on the wood chip is written your life, your good and evil deeds. The ancients thought that the souls of those who died would be divided into samsara and that this samsara disk was the entrance to hell and heaven respectively.

"Damn, where did this black thing come from?" Wang Lei suddenly said: "This turntable is made of autumn maple wood that has been used for many years, and there will never be such a blackened color without a hundred and eighty years of soil burial." ”

"Sure enough, this is an antiquity, this temple, but the whole attraction here is weird." I said, "Could it be that the woman who died here found this?" That's not right! Isn't this the scenery of the scenic spot? Wait, maybe there's something else in the underground here besides that reincarnation disk? So what's down here? Tumulus? What are you kidding, have you ever seen that tomb put a turntable? Damn, I hate it, what the hell was the guy who designed it all looking for here? And what did he die for? ”

"Non-mainstream, you you." Wang Lei suddenly said in that trembling tone, but when he was halfway through his words, he couldn't say anything.

"What's wrong?" I turned my head and saw Wang Lei holding something similar to a dead man's spirit card and trembling constantly, as if he had seen something that terrified him extremely.

Spirit cards? Reincarnation? This should be a place to place the dead man's spirit position, I took a flashlight to shine on the ground on all sides, and sure enough, a large number of dead people's spirit cards were scattered all over the ground, and those black and white photos were pasted on the spirit cards, looking at me with a weird smile, I suddenly felt a little uneasy, and was thinking about whether to go out, after all, we came here with such a big movement, if the fat man was there, he would definitely be able to find us. But then Wang Lei screamed suddenly, as if he couldn't stand the fear, and threw out the spirit card in his hand.

What I saw was that the spirit tablet had a man's name written on it, and it was engraved crookedly

"Summer."

And there is also a black-and-white photo that is different from the other spiritual positions that has been pasted under the name with double-sided tape, and that photo is impressively summer.

Immediately, the hairs on my body stood on end

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