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Chapter 6
☆、Chapter 6 Entering the Temple
The night was dark, and everyone walked in the icy cold wind holding torches.
The heavy snow that had been fluttering before had stopped, but the wind was still frighteningly cold, and Lin Qiushi's feet made a crunching sound when he stepped on the ground. He was wearing thick clothes, pulled up his hat to cover his ears and the lower half of his face, slightly arched his body, and carried a beautiful girl behind him.
There was no conversation whatsoever on the way, and the atmosphere was eerily quiet.
When the temple mentioned by the carpenter appeared in front of everyone, someone finally broke the silence.
"This is a temple?" Zhang Zishuang said, "This temple looks... too weird."
The temple in the night looks really weird. At first glance it looks very old, but if you look closely, you will find that this temple is actually very delicate. The reliefs on the two pillars at the entrance alone are not ordinary.
Lin Qiushi put Ruan Baijie down, raised the torch and looked at the specific content of the relief on the pillar. He found that the relief engraved on the eighteen layers of hell, whether it was an evil ghost or a suffering soul, appeared lifelike on the pillar.
"This pillar is so beautiful." Ruan Baijie suddenly praised.
"It's pretty." Lin Qiushi agreed.
These reliefs don't look like the products of this backward mountain village at all, and they are almost called handicrafts.
If it weren't for everyone else having more important things now, maybe Lin Qiushi would take the time to take a good look at it.
"Who goes first?" Xiong Qi asked.
He asked who was going in first, but no one answered. This kind of thing is too dangerous. If entering the temple is a condition for triggering death, wouldn't the first person to go in will become the victim.
"Why do you have to go in alone?" Ruan Baijie said suddenly, "What if the old man lied to us?"
Xiong Qi said: "But listening to him is better than working against him."
Ruan Baijie: "It's not necessarily." She turned her head to look at Lin Qiushi, "Qiushi, I'm afraid, let's go in together."
Lin Qiushi was a little hesitant when he heard the words: "But if two people enter the temple is the trigger condition?"
Ruan Baijie said: "I don't know all the answers now. I'd rather take a gamble. After all, if I go in alone, no one knows what really happened." After she finished speaking, she glanced at the temple in the darkness in front of her. " After all... it's a person who goes in, and it's not necessarily something else when it comes out."
Her words made everyone get goosebumps, even Lin Qiushi. He reached out and rubbed his arm, glanced at Ruan Baijie's expression, and finally gritted his teeth: "Okay."
Xiong Qi frowned: "Do you know what you are doing, if two people are..."
He seemed to be trying to persuade, but was interrupted by Ruan Baijie, "What if there is only one person? Who can say this?"
This was indeed the case, Xiong Qi was silent.
"We don't care how you arrange the order." Ruan Baijie said softly, "It's too cold today, Qiu Shi, let's go first and go home early to sleep."
The word "sleep" was probably mentioned, reminding everyone that the terrible night was coming soon. If they linger here again, it is very likely that they will be wasted here, and what they will encounter at that time is completely uncontrollable.
"Let's go." Ruan Baijie took Lin Qiushi's hand and put her whole body on him.
Lin Qiushi was accustomed to Ruan Baijie's clinginess, and after nodding, he gritted his teeth and walked away.
The two of them walked towards the temple.
The others watched their backs and fell into a brief silence.
The temple is a wooden door, half hidden, it is dark inside, and nothing can be seen. Ruan Baijie stretched out her hand and gently pushed open the door in front of her.
With a crisp crunch, the door swung open, and the air inside rushed in.
Lin Qiushi smelled a faint aroma, which was very light, but it was very out of place in such an environment.
Lin Qiushi used the weak light of the torch to see the decorations in the temple clearly.
The temple is not big, and the structure is very simple. There are incense cases and some immortal statues in the middle, and a huge merit box is next to it. There seems to be something engraved on the merit box, because the distance is too far, and Lin Qiushi can't see it clearly.
"Let's go." Ruan Baijie said.
The two continued to move forward, towards the futon in front of the statue.
The deity is a Buddha statue, which Folin Qiushi doesn't know, but it looks kind and has the smell of saving all beings.
Ruan Baijie's expression was calm, she knelt down on the futon and bowed to the Buddha statue.
Lin Qiushi stood by and held his breath.
After a quiet wait, nothing happened. The Buddha statue was still merciful, and his half-closed eyes silently looked at the believers in front of him. Except for the whistling wind, there is a reassuring tranquility in the temple.
Lin Qiushi breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's okay." Ruan Baijie stood up and cleaned the dust from her knees, "Come on."
Lin Qiushi nodded, handed the torch to Ruan Baijie, and knelt on the futon to worship. Lin Qiushi didn't know what Ruan Baijie was thinking when he worshiped. Anyway, he was very pious when he worshiped, praying for the protection of the gods in front of him.
"Okay." The few short movements seemed to exhaust everyone's strength. When nothing happened after the prayer, Lin Qiushi breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go." Ruan Baijie turned around, "It's time for us to go out."
So the two slowly left the temple.
When the people standing outside saw the two of them come out intact, they all showed surprised expressions, Xiong Qi said: "Did something happen?"
Lin Qiushi shook his head: "No."
Although everyone didn't say anything, the expressions on their faces were very strange, and some people hesitated.
"Why don't we just go in together?" Xiong Qi said, "Since the people in front are all right..."
"Are you sure they're all right?" A member of the group looked at Ruan Baijie and Lin Qiushi vigilantly, "She said just now that people who go in are not necessarily what come out, so how can you be sure of the two of them? Or human?"
Lin Qiushi, who was suspected of identity, was about to explain, but Ruan Baijie waved her hand to stop him from speaking. She said casually, "We don't advise you, you can do whatever you want."
"Brother Xiong, I'm afraid too." Xiao Ke said, "Let's go in together?"
Xiong Qi seemed a little hesitant.
Its timid members began to look for partners, and some were stubborn and still refused to go against the old carpenter's statement.
"Then come with your own ideas." Finally Xiong Qi made a decision, "Xiao Ke, let's go in together."
Xiao Ke nodded in surprise.
According to the order they had decided before, the second group who entered the temple was a single man. He went in and came out alone, and there was no accident during the whole process. It's just that when he came out, there was some doubt in his expression, as if he wanted to say something.
But before he could say anything, the third group had already entered.
"What did you see in the temple?" The man who was alone asked Lin Qiushi in a low voice.
"I didn't see anything." Lin Qiushi said, "It's just the statue and the futon."
"Don't you think that statue is a bit strange..." the man said, "I have never seen such a statue before."
Lin Qiushi was stunned when he heard the words, not understanding what the man meant.
The man whispered: "Have you seen it before? The appearance of the statue is too strange..."
Lin Qiushi shook his head and didn't quite understand what the man meant, but after thinking about it, a chilling thought appeared in his mind: "What kind of god did you... see?"
"It's a woman." As soon as these words came out, the smile on Lin Qiushi's face disappeared, and the man was still talking in a low voice, not finding that the expression on Lin Qiushi's face was not right, "If you say that he is a bodhisattva and doesn't want a bodhisattva, he just smiled and looked at it. The thing in my hand doesn't look like the magic weapon in the hand of the god, it's more like..."
"Like what?" Lin Qiushi asked dryly.
"It's more like an axe for chopping trees." After the man said this, he glanced at the temple, "And after I prayed, she seemed to move a bit..." He said here, and finally found Lin Qiushi's His expression was not right, "How about you? Did you see it too?"
"No." Although it was cruel, Lin Qiushi still told the man the truth, "The Buddha statue we saw is different from yours."
"Why is it different??" The man's face changed instantly when he heard this, "What kind of statue did you see??"
"A Buddha..." Lin Qiushi said, "Male."
The man's face was as pale as paper, and his eyes looking at the temple were full of fear and despair. , it must be you..." After he said these words, he looked around vigilantly, as if he was afraid that what he said would be heard by others.
The third group of people was Xiong Qi and Xiao Ke. When they came out, their expressions were also very calm, and it seemed that nothing strange had happened.
Next is the fourth group...the fifth group...these groups consist of males and females, one person and two people, but Lin Qiushi quickly discovered the pattern, as long as one enters, his expression is not very good when he comes out.
When the last person came out, everyone finally determined a certain pattern - when one person went in and two people went in together, they saw completely different statues.
Lin Qiushi and the others saw a Buddha statue, but when one person went in, they all saw a woman, a woman with a weird smile and an axe.
"They must be wrong, we followed the carpenter's instructions..." Someone began to break down after finding out about this, and kept muttering, "It can't go wrong, we can't go wrong, the statue must be It's the woman... yes, it's the woman."
Lin Qiushi can only comfort them: "It's not certain yet, don't be too nervous."
In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that that woman can never be a deity in the temple. Which temple would enshrine such a thing?
"Yes, not necessarily." Ruan Baijie laughed, she stretched out her hand and brushed her hair, and said softly, "Besides, so many people entered the temple together, even if they want to die, it is not necessarily that they will die. Well."
"Can you stop laughing?" Xiao Ke said rudely beside him.
"Why don't you laugh?" Ruan Baijie retorted coldly, "It's better to die smiling than dying crying."
After she said this, someone shouted: "Look at the pillar!!!"
When Lin Qiushi heard the words and looked up, he found the relief on the pillar and began to slowly wriggle.
The author has something to say: 70 red envelopes are still sent to the front row, and 30 red envelopes are random.
While writing today's chapter, felt numb and scared...