There was no place to buy anything near the temple, so it took me almost an hour to buy the spray gun and welding rods. It was almost afternoon, and we hadn't had lunch yet, so on the way back to the temple, I bought some steamed buns and soy milk. After all, in the temple, we still can't eat too much. So the three of us squatted like beggars at the entrance of Luohan Hall and devoured our food. Then we got under the desk, lit the spray gun and started working.
It seems that only Songzi can complete this work. Neither Qin Bukong nor I have any work experience in this area. With the assistance of modern tools, the work was done much faster. Soon Songzi was welding along the previous place, We burned it through again, and then removed the base of the bronze statue. We burned a big hole in the Arhat statue that had been preserved for thousands of years.
Songzi shouted to us under the desk, please get in and take a look, there is really something there. So Qin Bukong and I followed and got in. I squatted on the ground and looked through the light of the pine nut flashlight, and found that looking inside the bronze statue at our current oblique angle, we could see a boxy thing. It was wrapped in a piece of red silk cloth. Judging from the shape of the red silk cloth, the thing wrapped inside was very similar in size to the three stone boxes we found earlier. However, because it was covered, the specific size was still unknown. We can only find out if we can take it out, or we can get in and take a look.
And I had predicted before that as long as we get close to the stone box, there will definitely be some dangerous situations. This is really the meaning of the existence of every ghost guarding the Qisha Pass. So when I squatted there and looked in, I felt a long-standing smell in my nose. In addition to the burnt smell after welding, there was also a faint, but every trace of it could be clearly smelled. The smell of rotten eggs. In addition, there is an even stranger smell in this smell, like the feeling of a rotting corpse after a dead animal. This bronze statue has been opened for the first time in thousands of years. Even if an animal got in when it was sealed, it would no longer smell, so this smell reminds us that danger is approaching.
My heartbeat quickened, and I squatted down as low as possible, then took the flashlight from Songzi's hand. While being vigilant, I changed the angle and shined the light inward, trying to see clearly the environment inside the copper body. After some observation, I found that the environment inside was actually as I expected at first. It was a hollow place. In other words, except for the base of the bronze statue which was slightly thicker, other places were shaped according to the shape of the bronze statue. I could see from the bottom to the top of the Arhat's head, and found that there was nothing else. Even the orange color of the copper was still there, but it had lost its luster over time.
I reached into my bag and grabbed a handful of rice, spread it in the palm of my left hand, then pinched two fingers with my right hand and wrote a big purple tab on the rice in my palm, then spread it out and rotated it left and right three and a half times. , and then poured some rice into my right hand as if pouring rice, and then threw the rice up with my right hand. The rice in my left hand was divided into seven parts, and I also threw it seven times. Under normal circumstances, if rice like me, which is well-known, is thrown into a sealed space, if there are ghosts or anything that can be harmed by Ziwei, then I will definitely see the ghosts and other things interacting with the rice grains. When it came into contact, there was an explosion without sparks, just like corn that would explode instantly after being heated. But after I threw away seven handfuls of rice, apart from the crisp sound of the rice grains falling on the copperware, , I couldn't find anything else.
I wondered for a while, then looked at Qin Bukong helplessly and spread my hands. Qin Bukong asked me what was wrong, and I said there was no reaction. Did he say you lost it everywhere? Where is the top of the bronze statue inside? I said there was no way I could throw it at such a high height. Even if I could throw it, I would have to stick my upper body in to do it. Qin Bukong said, then just stick your head in. What are you waiting for? I said, are you crazy? There is something in here. Why don't you stick your head in?
After some debate, it turned out to be fruitless. I obviously couldn't risk entering the statue's body like this, and why should I? We had no choice but to find another way. When I thought of this, I took out my rattle from my bag, placed it face down on the ground, and then took out a stack of money paper with holes in the shape of copper coins punched into it. Then I took out three more incense sticks, lit them and inserted them on the copper coins of the money paper, and then started to summon soldiers and horses.
My soldiers and horses have actually been rarely used in actual combat since I started breaking through the Seven Evils Pass, because they are really no match for these ghosts and monsters, so why let them out and get damaged? Now that Mi Li has written the taboo, there is no reaction, but I can't be sure that the ghost is not here, so I have no choice but to let the soldiers come out to explore the way. But after lighting the incense, the smoke bounced around under the already narrow desk for a while, and it seemed to have found the right direction, drifting crookedly towards the opening of the base of the bronze statue.
I originally thought I had found the right direction this time. I only needed to see which direction the smoke was drifting into the body of the bronze statue. Even with just a glance, I could accurately determine the location of the ghost. But I didn’t know what was going on, because the ghosts guarding the three levels we had encountered before were all ghosts that we could clearly see in reality, but now that we couldn’t see them, it made me panic. But when the fragrance of my soldiers and horses floated to the opening we opened, it seemed to have hit an invisible layer of glass, spreading out in all directions and turning into an umbrella shape. No matter how I move the position of the incense of soldiers and horses, it always drifts towards one position and then crashes away.
Qin Bukong and Songzi saw all this, and they also knew that something was wrong with the situation. The fragrance of soldiers and horses could not enter the Arhat's body. There were only two possibilities. The first was the majesty of the Arhat, and the five rampant soldiers and horses were evil things after all. So it was impossible to enter. The second is that the ghost occupying Arhat's body at the moment is too powerful, so powerful that it doesn't even give the soldiers a chance to enter. Considering that Guiyuan Temple has repeatedly suffered catastrophes, the incense offerings have been interrupted for a long time, and there have been wars and chaos for thousands of years, and it is unknown how long the pause was, so it is really open to question whether this Arhat still has "majesty", plus the red inside It's like a box wrapped in silk cloth. If it is really the stone box we are looking for, then it means that the purpose of the existence of this bronze statue is to preserve this box, and there is no spirituality at all.
So at the moment, it seems that the second possibility is the most likely. This is a very dangerous signal for us. If the second situation is true, then since we have opened the hole, the ghost refuses to come out. Not only does it not come out, but it also hides to prevent us from seeing it. Judging from its power to block my soldiers and horses, it must be a difficult guy to deal with. If it doesn't come out and we don't go in, we won't be able to get that thing, and it seems to be competing with us for patience to see who can. Wait a little longer.
Qin Bukong saw that there was nothing he could do, so he squatted closer to us, lowered his head and looked inside. Then Qin Bukong asked me, besides these useless things, what else did I bring in the bag? ? I said there are also small wooden figures, iron scissors, master's orders, etc., as well as the scimitar you gave me, etc. Whose things are you saying are useless? Qin Bukong ignored me and asked, have you brought a Bagua mirror?
I said I brought it with me, it’s quite commonly used. So I reached out and took out the Bagua Mirror from my bag, and then handed it to Qin Bukong. After Qin Bukong took the Bagua Mirror, he pointed back and forth on the hexagram positions, as if he was calculating something, and then he stopped the hexagram position on the Xun Gua. This was when we discussed the initial Qisha Pass , based on the Bagua azimuth, he calculated the position of "Fairy", so he pointed the Xun Gua position of the Bagua Mirror in his direction, then stretched out his right hand to pinch the thumb, drew a cross on the concave mirror of the Bagua Mirror, and then There is a word written on each of the four openings of the cross.
Since there was no pen and ink, he was just writing blankly, and his pen was so fast that I couldn't understand what he was writing. When I studied with Master before, I had never used the Bagua Mirror like this, so I didn't know what he was writing. What to do. After Qin Bukong finished writing, he snatched Songzi's flashlight from my hand. I'm not exaggerating, he really grabbed it. He then said that the light beam was aimed at the mirror surface of the Bagua Mirror. Because it was a concave mirror, the light hit Then it was reflected in a diffuse form, and I felt a sudden light in front of my eyes, which made me close my eyes slightly. Then I saw Qin Bukong using the reflection of the Bagua Mirror to shine light into the body of the bronze statue. Only then did I understand his intention.
It turns out that he wanted to find traces of ghosts and monsters that we couldn't see on the magic Bagua Mirror. This is indeed a good way. So Songzi and I squatted on the ground with him and looked up. This time, I clearly saw a completely irregular black dot-like smoke-like thing in the body of the bronze statue, close to the head and shoulders. The thing is slowly flowing like ink dripping into the clear water, flowing irregularly, and it is also looming, hiding in a place where I couldn't throw the rice grains just now.
Maybe it's because this black guy doesn't have a fixed shape. When we saw it, it actually started to float towards a higher place, and then squeezed into a ball, and the area suddenly became smaller, as if it was avoiding us. The light from the Bagua Mirror. And I know that Qin Bukong's actions are definitely not just for us to see it. Any light reflected by this cursed Bagua Mirror is lethal to ghosts. In other words, when When we hit it, it should be injured and then dodge violently.
But this guy took his time, as if he didn't take us seriously at all.
