"Are you surprised?" The grim-faced Taoist smiled bitterly and said, "The poor Taoist was extremely shocked when he remembered it. How could this Bodhisattva's dojo become the 'unbounded and lawless place' that the guide said?"
"Could this be some unique saying in Bon religion?"
The Taoist priest with a grimace shook his head: "Impossible. Don't forget that there is a sentence behind the guide, 'a place where evil spirits gather.' Who believer would say that about a place where Bodhisattvas practice."
"That's right." He Siniang smiled helplessly: "Even though the Bon religion is called the 'Black Sect', it would not be so blasphemous. But wouldn't it be strange? Is this Bacho City a Bodhisattva dojo? The land of evil spirits?”
"Do you think it's possible that they are all?"
He Siniang was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then asked: "What the Taoist Master means...maybe this place has changed from a Bodhisattva dojo to a place of evil spirits?"
"right."
"Why didn't it change from a place of evil spirits to a Bodhisattva dojo?" Luo Laoqi suddenly said.
The grim-faced Taoist glanced at Luo Laoqi, pointed at the broken walls and ruins everywhere, and said, "Look at the appearance of this city. Does it look like a place where Bodhisattvas practice?"
Luo Laoqi scratched his head and murmured: "It looks a bit bitter."
"This is not bitter, it is too tragic." He Siniang said: "I seem to understand what the Taoist Master is thinking. Do you think something happened here, which caused Bacho City to transform from a holy place for Bodhisattva practice? , turned into a place of boundless and lawless evil spirits?”
"Yes, the dilapidated scene in this city may be proof. Even the group of corpses at the city gate are related to this."
"But what happened to cause a city to be completely abandoned? Is there really something we can't understand?"
Luo Laoqi turned his head: "Is this place haunted?"
"You big-headed ghost!" The grim-faced Taoist priest punched Luo Laoqi: "We all say that the unbounded cannot be beyond the three realms that we understand."
"The Taoist priest thinks..." He Siniang asked.
The Taoist priest with a grimace shook his head: "Now I don't dare to make any guesses. There are many things in this world that we cannot measure with common sense, so I plan to go to this high tower to have a look. If I can see the whole city , I feel confident at least."
When the grim-faced Taoist priest mentioned the tower, both He and Siniang turned their gazes behind them. The stone tower in front of them was standing quietly just steps away from everyone. This is a nine-story stone tower. Its shape is similar to the pagoda, but it is square in shape and more primitive in shape. It looks more like a slender stone tower, but the top is pointed, so it is best described as a stone tower. More relevant.
The stone tower is about ten feet high and four or five feet wide at the bottom. It is made of stones and is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. There is a wooden door as high as a person in the middle of the bottom.
The wooden door was tightly closed, and there seemed to be a lock on it.
Seeing this, He Siniang said: "Nine out of ten buildings in the city collapsed. I didn't expect that this stone tower is still so well preserved. There can't be anything strange in this, right?" She pointed to the lock on the door.
"What are you afraid of?" The grim-faced Taoist priest winked at Luo Laoqi and motioned for him to pick the lock, and continued: "This city has been abandoned for I don't know how many years, and whatever is there has long since turned into ashes."
Luo Laoqi stepped forward with a crowbar, and with three strokes, the door collapsed. When the flying snow dispersed, a dim doorway appeared in front of everyone.
The grim-faced Taoist priest was already used to Luo Laoqi's stable performance. He stepped forward and stood still, as if waiting for the pent-up air to dissipate, and at the same time kept looking at the door.
The light inside the tower is very dark, and you can only feel that the space is not large, and there is a faint upward staircase in the innermost part.
After waiting for a moment, the grim-faced Taoist priest finally waved his hand and walked into the tower first.
The inside of the tower is very dry, and the ground is covered with thick dust. After being trampled by the Taoist priests with grim faces, they float in the reflection of the setting sun.
The grim-faced Taoist couldn't help but put up his mask, and soon he could clearly see the situation on the first floor of the stone tower.
It can be said to be empty inside, so empty that only dust is left. There are no utensils or decorations around, and there are no windows on the stone walls. There is only a stone staircase in the innermost part.
The stone staircase is built spirally upward according to the wall, using the "raised step method". This is the simplest and most primitive method of staircase construction. The disadvantage is that it consumes space and requires a large amount of work. From this point of view, the residents of Bacho City The level of craftsmanship at that time was probably not high.
Luo Laoqi and He Siniang both followed from outside the door. Seeing that there was nothing to gain from the first floor, the three of them walked directly up the stone steps and started to climb up.
The stone steps are not long, because from the first floor, the height of the stone tower is not high, only about one foot. With Luo Laoqi's height, it is easy to touch his head, so the three of them arrived at the second floor within a few steps. layer.
The light on the second floor was even darker, almost to the point where it was difficult to see.
The grimace Taoist priest did not dare to use fire rashly, so he could only take out the fluorite and use the weak green light to explore around.
Soon the second floor was also explored by three people. It was the same as the first floor. There was nothing there. There was only one stone step going up. The only difference was that the stone steps on the lower floor were on the north side, while this floor was on the west side.
The three of them did not worry about this, because the stone steps were built in a spiral upward. In order to maintain the overall balance of the tower, the direction of the stone steps would inevitably change.
Compared with this, the empty interior of the stone tower made the three of them even more strange. Luo Laoqi couldn't help but said: "Why is there nothing in this cock tower? Even if there is no treasure, there should be some tables, chairs and benches, right?"
He Siniang nodded: "It is indeed too empty, as if it has been thoroughly cleaned. What do you think, Taoist Priest?"
The grim-faced Taoist priest heard the words and replied: "I feel the same way, but we don't know the purpose of this stone tower. Maybe it was so empty before."
"Then why put a lock on it?" Luo Laoqi muttered: "There's not even a bird, so it's not worth the money to lock it up."
"Whatever." The Taoist priest with a grimace said, "We are here to observe the terrain, not to fish, just go higher."
"I'm just afraid that there won't even be a window if I go up there."
"Why not? You idiot." The grim-faced Taoist priest said as he walked up the stone steps and continued: "The poor Taoist observed from outside that there is a window on the tower, but it is located near the top of the tower. Otherwise, why would we come up here? Let’s go! If every floor in the stone tower is so empty, we won’t stop one by one and go straight to the tower floor with windows above.”
"All right."
After the three of them finished speaking, they continued walking to the upper level.
Sure enough, the situation was still the same on the third floor, followed by the fourth and fifth floors. After climbing to the seventh floor, there was faint light coming from the floor, but the light was very dark. It seemed that the light came from below this floor. superior.
The three of them didn't waste any time and went straight to the eighth floor. When they climbed up the stone steps, they saw a ray of sunlight passing through the room from the west wall, which made the three people's eyes blurred for a moment.
