Seeing the huge stone ox reappearing unscathed, Frankimir was stunned and had no idea what was going on.

Nine huge stone oxen, not intending to let Frankimir stand there and ponder carefully, rushed towards Frankimir in the wilderness.

The nine-headed stone ox was menacing, and Frankimir did not dare to slack off, so he did not believe that this stone could be continuously restored, and decided to completely smash them here.

In the face of the stone ox's simple and brutal attack, Frankimir also used a simple and brutal way to fight back.

The huge stone ox, as hard as it was, could not withstand Frankmir's golden fist.

The stone oxen were shattered one by one by Frankimir, and in an instant, they all turned into dust and fell into the sand of the treasure temple.

Frank Mire breathed a sigh of relief, but unexpectedly, the wind and clouds suddenly changed in front of him, and the rolling dust and sand rose without wind, flying all over the sky, and in the blink of an eye, endless dust and sand, all turned into nine stone oxen, and the stone ox appeared in front of Frankimir's eyes again.

As soon as Frankie Mill breathed a sigh of relief, he was completely deflated, and his all-out attack just now could be said to be completely ineffective.

Nine stone oxen pounced on Frankimir again, and the helpless Frankimir was defeated, so he had to concoct the same method, and destroy these stone oxen one by one in the same way.

However, soon the stone ox appeared again, and Frank Miir had to strike again, and now the cycle has been repeated, and after dozens of rounds, nothing has changed at all, but Frank Miir has been tired enough money.

And so on. Frank Miir died early, not by a stone ox. It's just being exhausted to death by the stone ox, and it won't do him any good anyway.

Frankimir could not continue like this. He had to find a way out of here, not to let such aimless consumption continue.

The only place in the treasure temple where Frankimir can hide is the stupa behind him, at this time, in order to avoid the danger in front of him, Frankimir has no time, and then think about whether there is a more terrible danger in this stupa, he can only avoid the catastrophe in front of him, and then it is possible to think about the problem of following.

Frankimir hurried towards the gate of the stupa. Before the stone ox could launch a new attack, Frankimir pushed open the gate and plunged into the darkness inside the stupa, desperately closing the gate.

Frankimir could hear the roar coming from outside the vermilion lacquer gate, but strangely enough, the stone ox outside the door did not seem to launch any attack on the pagoda, so that Frankimir at least did not have to worry that those huge stone oxen would break through the door.

Frankie Mire didn't wait to breathe a sigh of relief. He immediately began to examine the situation in the stupa, the two candlesticks were the only light source in the stupa, and in the center of the stupa was a shrine that Frankimir could faintly see. Inside the shrine is a small golden bull.

On both sides of the shrine stand separately, as if guarding the gates of the heavens, and the giant statues of the god of wind and thunder are enormous.

In shrines in Japan. Images of the god of wind and thunder can be seen everywhere, although Frankimir knows very little about Japanese culture. But he still recognized the god of wind and the god of thunder.

If nothing else, it's just in the Shadow of the Moon. Frankimir has seen statues and murals of the god of wind and thunder in many shrines and temples, so he will not be mistaken.

In front of the god of wind and thunder, there are six stone carvings of divine dogs, like the patron saints of the shrine, and their exquisite skills are lifelike, so that Frankimir is always worried that these divine fists will suddenly come to life, just like those stone oxen outside the pagoda.

There are a total of nine main beams in the stupa, and each beam is painted with a ukiyo-e, three of which are landscapes, which are mountains, seas, and heavens, and three paintings of women, which are noble women, maidservants, and artists, and three are ghosts, which are yakshasas, tengus, and rakshasas.

These ukiyo-e paintings, painted vividly, at first glance must be from the master's handwriting, such a small village and town, how can there be such a national treasure-level work, it is really breathtaking.

What puzzled Frankimir the most was not why these national treasures appeared in such a place, but what kind of meaning did they contain, if he could solve this mystery, maybe he would be able to know the situation of this village.

There are not only nine paintings in the stupa, but also an even larger scroll, which surrounds the walls around the stupa and is supported and fixed by various brass metals.

This aroused Frank Mire's curiosity even more, and he walked towards the long scroll, took a closer look, and soon recognized that the depiction in the scroll was the research and development of Japanese biochemical beasts during the Meiji Restoration.

Backward and closed Japan, in that era of civilization at the beginning, was just a wild corner of the Far East, not at all in the eyes of the world powers, not even by those uncivilized second- and third-rate countries, it was the Wise Restoration that changed everything, the emergence of the Wise Eight Holy Beasts, made Japan among the world powers, even surpassed Spain, Italy, and even Tsarist Russia and other European powers, creating a miracle that shocked the world.

It was the most glorious era of Japan, and it was also the most incredible era for Japan, and it was the era of the most proud of Japan, and Frankimir certainly knew it.

Frankimir didn't just know a little about that era, his father, Professor Ivan, had experienced the Russo-Japanese War of that era, which was the first time that a white country in the world had completely lost to a non-white country.

This can't help but deal a great blow to the spirit of the self-superior white country, and also set a pattern for non-white countries, that is, the death of the white race is not impossible to war.

Almost every Russian knows it, and every Soviet citizen today knows it.

It was the dark rule of the Tsar that brought the huge Russia to the end of its rope and the decaying dynasty to the brink of collapse, which led to the birth of a new Soviet, with all mankind to this day. The most advanced and perfect new system, and it has created the history of mankind. An unprecedented superpower.

The displays in the stupa are so different that they don't seem to be connected at all. This puzzled Frankimir as to why these unrelated objects were present in the stupa at the same time.

This is obviously a Buddha relationship, the worship should be the god Buddha, but the shrine is enshrined in a golden bull, the worship of animals, should belong to the traditional primitive beliefs, which is very similar to Buddhism, even in the 13th century Tatar temple in Vladivostok. They have long since abandoned the traditional animal worship, and the worshippers are all gods and Buddhas without exception.

However, the depiction of secular women and demons and monsters depicted in ukiyo-e makes Frankimir even more ridiculous, and he does not know what he intends to do, and no Buddhist temple will enshrine secular women and demons and monsters, which seems completely unreasonable, and it is not clear whether this is a Buddhist temple or not.

Finally, there is this long picture scroll of the Meiji Restoration, such things appear in Buddhist temples, more than secular women and demons. Even more incomprehensible, it's like portraying Darwin as a messenger of God and a guy who completely denied the Bible. To be regarded as the most devout saint in human history, such a thing is not only ridiculous, but it is absolutely impossible.

Something can't happen. The entry just appeared in front of Frank Mire's eyes, which made Frank Mimir have to accept the fact in front of him.

At the same time, this also gave Frank Miir some clues. He wasn't sure it was not what it seemed, it was a temple for the Holy Buddha. And it is very likely that it is the lair of the [Eight Qi Nine Palaces].

In the monastery where the Holy Buddha is enshrined, these things will never appear, but it is not surprising that if it is the lair of some evil force, whatever appears.

With all this, Frankimir could not assert that he needed to find more clues to confirm his reasoning and speculation.

Frankimir walked around the stupa and found nothing but futons scattered on the ground.

This makes it difficult for Frankimir to determine what this place is.

So Frank Mire, seeing that his attention shifted to the two lit candlesticks, no candlesticks could burn forever, so that by the degree of burning of the candles, it was possible to roughly judge how long the candles had burned, which was a technique of time inference that the secret police had to master.

Frankimir walked towards the menorah, and although he looked closely, he could tell from the degree of melting of the candles under the table that the two candlesticks were lit at about the same time, and that they were lit about an hour or so from now.

That is to say, before Frankimir came to the village, there were people who had come to the town, otherwise it would not have been possible for the menorah here to light itself.

And it is clear that this is a new pair of candlesticks, and there is not much wax around the candlestick, which means that the candlestick is constantly being cleaned, and the candles on the candlestick must be changed from time to time.

This also shows from the side that the pagoda is always present, otherwise because of who will change the candles?

There is only one thing that puzzles Frankimir the most, that is, this pagoda obviously has seven floors, but at the moment there are no stairs inside and outside the pagoda, so how to go up this pagoda?

Puzzled, Frankimir walked over to the Golden Bull Shrine, wanting to see what else he could find on top of it.

At least at this time, it seems that there is no possibility of discovering anything else here, so Frankimir has to hope for the Golden Bull Shrine.

Frankimir came to the Golden Bull Shrine, and after some searching, he found a bunch of white candles, these candles are unremarkable, but the length is really amazing, not to mention about one meter and a half, there is really no other place in the world, to find such a long candle, Frankimir also doubted that such a long candle, if it really stood up, would not break.

Suddenly, Frankie Mill had an idea and remembered something he had just overlooked, that is, above the two candlesticks, which happened to be more than a meter high, two butterfly-shaped copper discs were hung.

This made Frank Mimir instantly think that if such a long candle was placed on the candlestick, would it be blocked by the two copper plates, because the position of the copper plate and the candlestick were firmly fixed, so if the candle was too long, it would naturally not be able to be placed on the copper plate.

This made Vladimir can't help but want to try these candles to see if he can do it, and which candlesticks to put on them.

Frankimir looked back at the menorah, and the two candles standing on the menorah at the moment were indeed long enough, and perhaps they were indeed these candles.

From the shrine, Frankimir took out two new candles to replace the two candles on the menorah, and the two candles were just right, and the flames burned on the two copper plates.

If the candle is longer than a minute, it will be blocked by the copper plate, and it will not be able to put it into the candlestick, and if it is shorter, the flame of the candle will not be less, and the two copper plates hanging in the air, it seems that these candles are really made of two sounds.

Just as Frankie Mill was watching the candle glow, he suddenly heard the sound of metal grinding and gears turning, followed by the sound of something being seen.

At this time, Frankimir noticed that the futon in front of the Golden Bull Shrine was moving slowly, and he immediately ran towards the shrine to see what was going on, and suddenly found that under the shrine was full, and a secret passage appeared at some point.

Frankimir suddenly turned his head and looked at the two candlesticks again, could it be that he had inadvertently touched the mechanism that opened the secret passage, so that the secret passage was revealed.

Sure enough, there is a story behind the story, this deserted village and town, there are still more secrets, everything that is presented in front of you now, it is very likely that it is just an illusion, and the last truth may not have been discovered by Frankimir until now.

When Frankimir came to the entrance of the secret passage, a strong rancid smell wafted out of the secret passage, which made Frankimir suddenly have a premonition of unease.

Could it be that this is the entrance to the Nine Palaces Chain Fort, could it be that Naoto Akiyama and Ishikawa Kiko are at the end of this secret passage, maybe this secret passage can tell Frankimir the answer, but he is wondering whether he should really go alone.

Now the pointless mental struggle is nothing more than wasting time in Brandy, and it is necessary to figure it all out as soon as possible, find Naoto Akiyama and Kiko Ishikawa, and put an end to the crazy plans of those fanatics so that they cannot launch an attack on Sapporo, and perhaps only then can he find Elena.

Frankimi even began to wonder if he could meet Elena who disappeared in this dark secret passage.

Where exactly did Elena go? Who exactly kidnapped Naoto Akiyama? And what kind of person is Kiko Ishikawa?

Frankimir couldn't explain all of this, but he was looking forward to finding out.

Frankimir re-lit a candle and slowly walked into the dark passage by the dim light of the candle. (To be continued.) )