Luo Laoqi walked into the room panting heavily and said, "Now that I have met Liangzi, whose grandma's window is built on the top floor so that his grandpa can easily climb in."
"Isn't this the top floor?" He Siniang asked suspiciously after hearing this: "Why do I remember that I only climbed eight floors?"
"There is indeed another floor." The grim-faced Taoist priest said and pointed to the innermost part of the room, where a doorway was clearly exposed, but strangely there was no stairs below the doorway.
"Huh? Why is there no way?"
The three of them walked towards that direction with doubts, but they all stopped after taking a few steps, because from the angle at this time, they could already see the inside of the doorway, which was actually blocked by an iron railing.
The grimace Taoist priest was shocked, secretly wondering why the structure on the top floor looked like a prison?
Looking at the iron railings thicker than their thumbs, the three of them were speechless for a moment. It was obvious that this situation had completely exceeded everyone's expectations. The top floor of this stone tower is completely different from the lower eight floors, and most importantly, why is there no upward stone steps on this floor?
After a moment of silence, the grim-faced Taoist priest spoke first. His voice lowered a bit unconsciously, and he said, "There are really 'surprises' everywhere in this ghost place. What do you think is going on up there?"
"My body feels like a prison cell." He Siniang said and looked down at her feet: "Isn't this stone tower a prison?"
"Then why does the top floor have no stairs and is sealed with an iron door? Is it true that only the top floor of the entire stone tower is a prison cell?"
"possible."
"Would you know if you go up and take a look?" Luo Laoqi moved closer to the bottom of the doorway, raised his head and stretched out his hand to gesture, and then said: "It's not that high." After that, he made a gesture to jump up.
"Don't!" The grim-faced Taoist priest hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Luo Laoqi, and said angrily: "It's pitch black up there, you idiot, you really dare to put your head up, get back!"
Luo Laoqi turned around angrily and said dissatisfiedly: "Why don't you two keep shouting and wondering what's up there?"
"I am still curious about the queen's clothes. Why don't you go and steal them?"
"You won't have any share in stealing it. The Sa family will keep it for themselves..."
"Oh, you two, stop it now." He Siniang interrupted: "Don't argue every time you have time. The sun is about to set."
The Taoist Priest with a grimace glanced out the window after hearing this, and sure enough he saw the sun hanging precariously on the Western Mountain. The setting sun in this plateau area seemed different from that in the Central Plains. Unexpectedly, the sun went from setting in the west to setting in the mountain so quickly.
At this time, the grim-faced Taoist priest stopped delaying and hurriedly walked to the window and said, "Siniang is right, it's more important to do business. What the higher ups are doing is none of our business."
The window where the grim-faced Taoist was facing faced the west. As soon as he poked his head out, his eyes were shocked by a towering mountain like an axe-cut in the northwest.
This mountain was exactly what everyone had explored before, and it was the one immediately behind the city. The entire Bacho city was built on this mountain.
When he first arrived in Bachok City, the Taoist Ghostface also noticed the mountain, but because the mountain was covered with clouds and mist, he couldn't feel how high the mountain was. But now the clouds were visible, and the Taoist Ghostface lamented that the height could not be compared to that of a hundred people. This... this damn thing is like inserting a screen between heaven and earth.
The grim-faced Taoist priest looked at the high mountain that reached straight into the sky, and then at the people busy on the snow. He instantly felt that the people were extremely insignificant, and the high mountain seemed even more oppressive in this contrast. The Taoist priest with a grimace couldn't help but take a deep breath and thought to himself: It took everyone a long time to climb the mountain to get to Bacho City, and the mountain is so ridiculously higher than Bacho City. Comparing his grandma's appearance from the valley, Wouldn’t it be a thousand feet to climb to the top of the mountain?
The Taoist priest with a grimace waved his hand to greet He Siniang and the other two, and while turning sideways to let them the window, he said: "Look, Bacho City is leaning against this mountain, as if half of the millstone is embedded in the bottom of the wall. .”
He Siniang's voice of wonder immediately sounded: "Wow! It's so tall! Why didn't we notice it when we came?"
"When we came, the sun was rising and the clouds had blocked it. Now the clouds have opened..."
"Eh?"
He Siniang and the grimace Taoist were stunned at the same time, as if they had thought of something.
Seeing that the two of them suddenly stopped talking, Luo Laoqi couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with you two?"
"Yun Kai..." The Taoist Priest with a grimace murmured, "When I mentioned 'Yun Kai' just now, I suddenly remembered something."
"Is it the reminder about the mausoleum?" He Siniang asked.
"Yes! It's exactly what Jia Wusuan said that day in Zuixian Pavilion."
"What did that guy say?" Luo Laoqi asked.
"'On the top of the mountains, the Bodhisattva is sitting upright, and the mountains are like staircase halls. When the clouds open, you can see them.'" He Siniang turned to look at the grim-faced Taoist priest: "The Taoist priest said that this place used to be the dojo of a Bodhisattva, so what will happen between this place and the Taoist priest?" Isn’t there really any connection?”
"It's very possible." The grim-faced Taoist priest came to the window again, looked at the mountain and said, "Is this mountain the Void Mountain?"
"If that's true, what does the 'mountain like a staircase' in the prompt mean?"
"Hmm... It seems that it means to describe the shape of the mountain, but I really can't figure out what the shape of the 'staircase' should be."
"Although I don't understand it, I have a vague feeling that it is not like this mountain."
"Why?"
"Because of the word 'ladder' in it, no matter what shape this stair hall is, it should always be adjacent to the word 'ladder', but look at this mountain..."
The Taoist priest with a grimace nodded: "It does have nothing to do with 'ladder'. It is said that a coffin lid is more reliable than a ladder, and the phrase 'Bodhisattva sits upright' also seems a bit far-fetched to me. There is no such thing as a fucking Bodhisattva." , and still sitting upright with a hammer."
"Yes, it is indeed a forced explanation, but it also provides us with an idea."
"Um?"
"It's the phrase 'the clouds appear before they appear'. Taoist priest, do you think the real Void Mountain is like the mountain in front of you? You can only see it when the clouds clear up at sunset?"
The grimace Taoist fell silent after hearing this, and then said after thinking for a moment: "If this is the case, it means that Void Mountain is very high, and the first sentence of the cryptic language just confirms this, right! Doesn't this just prove Siniang's thinking? Is it correct?"
He Siniang said: "Actually, the first sentence 'top of the mountains' reminds us that perhaps this lingo is not as complicated as we thought."
The Taoist priest with a grimace nodded: "And according to this idea, we just need to find the highest mountain nearby. As for the phrase 'Bodhisattva sitting upright', maybe it is just some kind of adjective. The longer we struggle with this, the easier it will be to be confused." Deviated."
"That's right, the only two sentences that are really worthy of our attention are 'the top of the mountains' and 'the mountain is like a staircase.'"
"Then what are we waiting for!" The Taoist priest with a grimace slapped his thigh: "There are windows on all sides of the tower. Maybe there will be clues if you look at this one?" Then he turned around and walked south towards the window.
Seeing this, He Siniang nodded with Luo Laoqi and said, "Lao Qi, let's split up quickly." After saying that, she was about to turn around when she heard a crisp sound suddenly coming from behind her, as if something had fallen. The sound on the ground.
