The night was heavy, and the people walked in the cold wind with torches.
Before the drifting snow has stopped, but the wind is still cold and scary, Ling Jiushi the feet on the ground issued a crunching sound. He was dressed in thick clothes, his hat pulled up over his ears and the lower part of his face, and his body was slightly hunched, with a pretty girl on his back.
There was no conversation along the way, and the atmosphere was eerily quiet.
When the temple that the carpenter had spoken of appeared before the crowd, the silence was finally broken.
"Is this a temple?" Zhang Zi opened his mouth, "This temple looks... It's so weird."
The temple at night looks very strange indeed. At first glance it looks very old, but if you look carefully, you will find that this temple is actually very delicate. The reliefs on the two pillars of the doorway alone are not ordinary.
Ling Jiushi Ruan Baijie down, holding the fire to see the specific content of the column relief, he found that the relief carved above is about the scene of the eighteenth layer of hell, whether it is evil ghosts or suffering souls, in the column appear liflike.
"It's a beautiful column." Ruan Baijie suddenly praised a sentence.
"It's pretty." Ling Jiushi agrees.
These reliefs do not seem to be the product of the backward mountain village in front of them, and even have been called arts and crafts.
If we don't have more important things now, maybe Ling Jiu will take time to observe.
"Who's first?" Bear Lacquer asked.
He asked who would go in first, but no one answered. This kind of thing is too dangerous, if entering the temple is the condition that triggers death, then the first one will not become the victim.
"Why do we have to go in alone?" Ruan Baijie suddenly said, "What if the old man is cheating us?"
Xiong Qi said, "But it's better to listen to him than to work against him."
Ruan Baijie: "I'm not sure." She turned to look at Ling Jiushiup, "Jiu pickup, I am afraid, we both go in together."
Ling Jiu Shi Wen Yan slightly hesitant: "But if the two people into the temple is the trigger condition?"
Ruan Baijie said: "Now all the answers do not know, I would rather gamble, after all, a person to go in, really what happened, no one knows." "She said, looking at the temple in the darkness before her." After all... What goes in is a person, but what comes out is something else."
Her words made everyone a thin goose bumps, even Ling Jiushi is no exception. He stretched out his hand to rub his arm, looked at Ruan Baijie's expression, and finally clenched his teeth: "Good."
Bear paint frowns: "Do you know what you are doing, if the two talents are..."
He seemed to still want to persuade, but was interrupted by Ruan Baijie, "What if a talent is?" Who can say that?"
Indeed, bear paint silence.
"We don't care what order you put it in." Ruan Baijie soft voice, "This day is too cold, nine pick, let's go first, go home early to sleep."
Perhaps the word sleep was mentioned, reminding everyone that the terrible night was coming. If they continue to linger here, it is highly likely that the whole thing will be wasted here, and what will be encountered by then is completely uncontrollable.
"Let's go." Ruan Baijie arm Ling Jiushi the hand, the whole person are attached to his body.
Ling Jiushiup has been used to Ruan Baijie sticky, nod after gritting teeth way to go.
The two men walked toward the temple.
The others looked after them and fell into a brief silence.
The temple was a wooden door, half closed, it was dark inside and nothing could be seen. Ruan Baijie reached out her hand and gently pushed open the door in front of her.
With a creak, the door opened and the air poured in.
Ling Jiushi a smell belongs to the light aroma, this breath is very light, but in such an environment is very incompatible.
Ling Jiushi through the fire to the weak fire, see the temple decoration clearly.
Temple is not large, the structure is very simple, placed in the middle of the incense table and some immortal statues, next to a huge merit box. It seems that there are some words engraved on the merit box, because the distance is too far, Ling Jiushi some can not see clearly.
"Let's go." Ruan Baijie said.
They walked on to the futon in front of the idol.
The idol is a Buddha statue, what Buddha Ling Jiu Shi does not know, but it looks kind, with the taste of universal sentient beings.
Ruan Baijie's expression was calm. She knelt down on the futon and bowed toward the statue of Buddha.
Lingjiu stood next to hold his breath.
After a quiet wait, nothing happened. The Buddha is still compassionate and looks at the believers in front of him in silence with his half-closed eyes. Apart from the howling wind, there was a reassuring silence in the temple.
Ling nine pick up a sigh of relief. "It's all right." Ruan Baijie stood up, cleaned the dust on the knees, "you come."
Ling Jiushiup nodded, the torch to Ruan Baijie, he knelt on the Pu Tuanjie worship. Ruan Baijie worship when how to think Ling Jiushi dont know, anyway he worship when very devout, praying for the protection of the gods in front.
"All right." A few short actions, but it seems that people exhausted their strength, when nothing happened after worship, Ling Jiushi a great sigh of relief.
"Let's go." Ruan Baijie turned, "we should go out."
So they walked slowly out of the temple.
The people standing outside looked surprised when they saw the two of them come out intact. Xiong Qi said, "What happened?"
Ling Jiushi shook his head: "No."
Although everyone did not say anything, the expressions on their faces were strange, and some people hesitated.
"Why don't we just go in two by two?" Bear Lacquer said, "Since the people in front are all right..."
"Are you sure they're okay?" There is a member is alert to look at Ruan Baijie and Ling Jiu Shi, "just now she also said, go in is a person, out may not necessarily be what, how can you determine the two of them or people?"
Suspected identity of Ling Jiu is to explain, Ruan Baijie is a wave of the hand, stopped him from speaking, she is not salty not light way: "We do not advise, you at will."
"Brother Bear, I'm afraid too." Xiao Ke said, "Shall we go in together?"
Bear Paint looked hesitant.
Some of its timid members began to find partners, and some stubbornly refused to go against the carpenter's old man.
"Then do what you want." Finally bear paint made a decision, "Xiao Ke, let's go in together."
Xiao Ke nodded pleasantly.
The second group to enter the temple, in the order they had decided, was a single man. He went in and out alone, again without incident. He just came out with a confused look on his face, like he was trying to say something.
But before he could speak, the third group was already inside.
"What did you see in the temple?" The only man who entered the body quietly asked Lingjiu.
"Didn't see much." Ling Jiushi said, "It is the idol and the futon."
"Don't you think there's something strange about that idol..." The man said, "I've never seen such a statue."
Ling Jiushi smell speech leng Leng, dont understand the man's meaning.
The man whispered, "Have you ever seen it? The statue looks so strange..."
Ling Jiushi shook his head, not quite understand the man's meaning, but on second thought, he had a chilling idea in his mind: "You... What was the image of the gods seen?"
"It's a woman." As soon as this sentence came out, the smile on Ling Jiu's face was gone, the man was still whispering, and he did not find the expression on Ling Jiu's face was wrong, "It is said that Bodhisattvas do not want Bodhisattvas, and he looked at me with a smile, and what he was holding in his hand was not like the rituals in the hands of gods, more like..."
"Like what?" Ling nine pick up dry ask.
"More like an axe for chopping trees." The man said this and looked into the temple, "And after I was done, she seemed to move..." He said here, finally found Ling Jiushi look wrong, "you? Did you see it, too?"
"No." Although very cruel, Ling Jiushi still told the man the truth, "The Buddha we saw is different from you."
"How is it different??" The man's face suddenly changed when he heard this, "What kind of idols do you see?"
"A Buddha..." Ling Jiushi road, "male."
The man's face is white as paper, looking at the temple's eyes, full of fear and despair, he trembled, his mouth began to say: "No, no, not like this, how, the problem must be you, must be you..." After he had said these words, he looked around warily, as if he were afraid that what he had said would be heard.
The third group of people are Xiong Qi and Xiao Ke, and when they come out, their expressions are also very calm, and nothing strange seems to have happened.
And then there's the fourth group... The fifth group These groups have men and women, there is a person there are two people, but Ling Jiu ten soon found the rule, as long as it is a go in, out of the expression is not very good.
When the last person came out, the crowd finally established a certain pattern - when one person went in and two people went in together, they saw completely different idols.
Ling Jiushi they see is the Buddha, and a person in, have seen a woman, a strange smile, holding an axe woman.
"They must have been wrong, we followed the carpenter's cue..." Some people began to gradually collapse after discovering this thing, and their mouths could not stop chanting, "There will be no mistake, we will not make a mistake, the idol must be the woman..." Yes, women."
Ling Jiushi can only comfort them: "This thing is not necessarily, you do not be too nervous."
In fact, everyone knows that the woman can never be a statue in the temple, which temple will worship such a thing?
"Yes, not necessarily." Ruan Baijie laughed, she reached out to lift her hair, soft words, "and so many people into the temple, even if you die, it is not necessarily their own death."
"Would you stop laughing?" Xiao Ke beside very impolite said.
"Why don't you smile? Ruan Baijie coldly retorted, "Laughing to die, it is better than crying to die."
As soon as she had finished speaking, someone cried out, "Look at the pillar!!"
Ling Jiushi wen speech look up, was actually found on the column relief, began to slowly creep up.