The most important thing now is to find the real Bodhisattva among the two statues.
Yao, Shun, and Yu raised their heads and looked at the two Bodhisattva statues on the left and right. From the appearance, the two Bodhisattva statues were almost identical. The paintings on them were also quite old, giving the impression that they had been displayed here for a long time.
Walking to the Bodhisattva statue on the left, Yao, Shun and Yu boldly stretched out their hands, bent their knuckles and tapped lightly on the statue.
The feedback sound from the statue was very muffled, and it didn't look like there was a hollow part inside. Yao, Shun, and Yu went to the statue on the right and did the same thing again, but the result was the same. The other statue was also solid, so this method didn't work.
In fact, the simplest and crudest way is to find an inconspicuous place on the statue, and then use a hard object to open a gap. If there is still a clay sculpture inside, then it is naturally real, but this method is too dangerous. If flesh and blood are found inside, , Yao, Shun and Yu knew that he was not far from death, and the disturbed Empress Zhusheng would not let him go.
"boom."
"boom."
…
The wooden window frames were constantly shaking by the wind, and they made knocking sounds from time to time, which made Yao Shunyu, who was already anxious, even more irritable.
He took a deep breath, sat down slowly, and began to carefully sort out tonight's clues.
"Kowtow before the devil, gold is rubbed on the Buddha's face, and there are two words of Feng Shui..."
While thinking about Yao, Shun, and Yu, he wandered around the hall. Subconsciously, he felt that something he had overlooked was nearby.
A few seconds later, Yao Shunyu's eyes rested on the wall on the side of the hall, or to be precise, the wooden window that was constantly shaking by the wind.
"wind……"
Yao, Shun and Yu looked at each other for a moment, where did the wind come from?
They walked outside for a stick of incense and didn't notice any wind.
Quite a bit in hindsight, tonight is really strange, there is no wind at all, and the night is surprisingly quiet.
I walked to the window cautiously. The wooden window had also been severely eroded by time. The edges could no longer fit the window frame completely, leaving some gaps.
But the strange thing is that when Yao, Shun and Yu stretched out their hands to touch the gap, they could not feel the trace of wind.
But looking at the shaking of the wooden window, it was clearly blown by the wind, and it was still very windy.
"Feng Shui... wind..."
Thinking of this, Yao, Shun, and Yu no longer hesitated. He removed the wooden latch inserted behind the window. The next second, the trembling window was suddenly blown open, and a strong wind poured in.
The night was a bit cold, but the wind was not biting. On the contrary, it also had a soothing warmth, which made Yao, Shunyu and Yu relax.
But as Yao Shunyu turned around, his face that had just relaxed suddenly tightened again, and the scene behind him made his hair stand on end.
I saw the colorful prayer flags on the Bodhisattva statue on the left dancing wildly in the wind, making a clattering sound, but the prayer flags on the Bodhisattva statue on the right did not move, as if time and space had stopped.
The next second, the candle burning in the hall was suppressed by the wind, and then went out with a "pop". The Bodhisattva statue on the right also instantly disappeared into the darkness, leaving only a vague outline.
I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but Yao and Shunyu felt a malicious sight. The feeling was very strong, as if a cold blade was scraping against the skin little by little, and it was projected from the outline of the Bodhisattva on the right!
It turns out that the key tonight is the wind!
After stabilizing his mind, Yao, Shun, and Yu no longer hesitated. He tried his best not to look at the Bodhisattva statue on the right. He walked towards the Sumeru Seat in the main hall, found the incense stick nearby, and then used all his strength to lift the bronze statue. The incense burner was gradually moved to the Bodhisattva statue on the left.
After doing this, Yao, Shun, and Yu had no time to take a breath, so they took out three incense sticks from the incense tube wrapped in red cloth, lit them in the lantern they carried, bowed to the Bodhisattva statue, and respectfully inserted them into the incense burner.
"Bodhisattva bless you. I hope that my friends and I can turn the bad luck into good. I came in a hurry today and did not bring enough incense and offerings. When the disciples are out of trouble, I will build a new Dharma altar for the Bodhisattva and bring my friends with me." Add more incense to the Bodhisattva!"
Yao, Shun, and Yu spoke these words sincerely, and then knelt on the cold bluestone slab and kowtowed three times to the Bodhisattva in front of him.
Then he stood up, stuck the lantern on a pillar nearby, stuck the sickle behind his waist, and climbed towards the Bodhisattva's head using his hands and feet.
The process went smoothly. The Bodhisattva statue was 5 meters tall. After finding a place to rest, Yao, Shun, and Yu took out their sickles. After silently chanting "Bodhisattva is not to blame" in their hearts a few times, they began to use a not very sharp blade to scrape the gold powder off the Bodhisattva's face.
"Crack."
"Crack."
…
Bursts of heart-wrenching friction echoed in the dim hall.
"Click..."
Yao, Shunyu, who was scraping gold, suddenly moved his ears, and he heard some unusual sounds, right behind him! 33
The sound sounded like something dry and cracking apart bit by bit.
After a moment, a terrifying scene appeared in Yao and Shunyu's mind. The swollen and black-green Empress Zhusheng was breaking out of the shell of the Bodhisattva statue behind her. The "crack" sound was the cracking of the dry clay shell. A crisp sound.
An unprecedented curiosity drove him to turn his head and look, even just for a glance. But the next second, Yao Shunyu was frightened by this idea in his heart. He bit his lips and his neck became a little stiff. , and then speed up the hand.
After an unknown amount of time, the sound behind him disappeared, and the gold powder in Yao and Shunyu's hands had accumulated a thick layer. He exhaled a long breath, then stepped on the statue and returned to the ground little by little.
After landing, he slowly moved his stiff neck. The scene in front of him made Yao, Shunyu's heartbeat slow down for half a beat. He saw many peeling mud blocks scattered in the hall, some with bright colors.
These scattered pieces of mud extended all the way from behind him, leading into the darkness opposite him.
The other Bodhisattva statue that was originally hidden in the darkness disappeared.
Yao Shunyu lowered his head and picked up a piece of clay with eyes painted on it. His heart was beating hard. The back of the clay was covered with a layer of filthy mucus, which constantly exuded a stench, like meat that had been rotting for a long time.
The most terrifying thing was that the fragment was less than 2 meters away from him.
It can be imagined that not long ago, when he was concentrating on scraping gold, another Bodhisattva statue behind him moved. The Empress Zhusheng who was hidden in it struggled to crawl out while approaching him, and finally even stopped a few meters behind him. A very close distance, if... if he had not stopped his curiosity and turned around...
Yao Shunyu shook his head violently, interrupting his increasingly terrifying thoughts. It was meaningless to talk about it now. The mission was over. He survived. No matter how thrilling the journey was, he also won.
"The key to my mission is wind, so the key to Li Bai's mission should be water!" Yao Shunyu collected the gold powder and strode out of the palace.
Some people died, but not completely...
