A large hole as wide as one person was quickly dug into the ground.
Tang Seng knew that he had no way to control these outsiders. After discouraging them from the beginning, he sat on the futon in the pagoda and chanted sutras with his eyes closed. He simply stayed out of sight and out of mind.
Everyone in the team never turned a deaf ear to Lin Biao's words. This was mainly because Lin Biao never did useless work. Since he asked everyone to dig up the ground, there must be something underground.
The soil under the floor does not look like old soil that has not been turned over for a long time. Instead, it is extremely bright in color and looks like it has been turned over frequently.
Not only that, just after the surface soil was turned up, a thick and irreversible odor instantly surged out from below, making everyone frown slightly.
Tang Seng on the side couldn't keep calm when he smelled this smell, and turned his head to look.
The stench mixed with the smell of incense in the tower made people feel sick. In less than a quarter of an hour, it became difficult to treat people here.
Everyone opened all the doors and windows in the tower, and the air circulation made the smell here slightly better. However, everyone in the team still frowned and looked solemn at this time.
Lin Biao was the first one to discover the abnormality, and Qi Zhen was naturally the second one. Just after he put his mental power into the ground for a moment, his expression suddenly changed and his eyes narrowed.
"Here is a piece of cloth." Liang Sicheng said.
"This is a piece of clothing." Wang Jianguo said.
"Brothers, I know what this smells like." Zhang Chi suddenly said.
Everyone looked at him.
"It's the smell of rotting corpses," he said.
Everyone was shocked.
"You should have discovered what is down here." Lin Biao said to Qi Zhen at this time.
Qi Zhen's face was extremely ugly at this time, probably because her mental power had completely explored the situation underground.
"No need to dig any more." Qi Zhen gritted her teeth and said.
"What's down here?" Wang Jianguo asked.
"Corpse." Although Qi Zhen answered Wang Jianguo's question, her eyes kept staring at Tang Monk on the futon, "Many, many corpses."
"How many...are there down here?" Sun Jie hesitated, but still couldn't help but ask.
"Roughly calculated, there are no less than a hundred. The latest corpse must have been dead for no more than ten days. The oldest corpse has turned into white bones. It is too deep underground. Maybe I haven't explored some of them yet, but there is one thing I can tell you. There are still things inside. There are many children." Qi Zhen said expressionlessly.
"Amitabha." Tang Monk said a Buddhist verse, "The poor monk must recite sutras for these people who have died in vain."
"The heads of these dead people are illuminated by the 'Buddha's light' of the pagoda every day. Do they still need you to chant sutras?" Zhang Qi's face was extremely ugly and he said without hesitation.
Tang Monk was silent.
"If you know the original function of the pagoda, you will know that it is actually necessary for Monk Tang to do this." Lin Biao suddenly said.
"What's the point?" Zhang Qi asked.
"The pagoda, also known as the 'Buddha', is a place used to enshrine relics, scriptures and religious objects. We often say 'saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda', which is what it means." Lin Biao explained, “But if the thing is not in the stupa but underneath it, the meaning changes.”
Lin Biao let out a long sigh, "That is to rely on the Buddha nature of the pagoda and the power of the treasures inside to suppress it!"
All was quiet.
"Can I understand that the reason why these people who died in vain are buried under the tower is to suppress their souls after death?" Zhang Chi said.
"Which one is better, or eternal life?" Lin Biao nodded and said.
"The Great Sage only burned down the Zen monastery in Jinchi, but he showed mercy after all." Qi Zhen said with narrowed eyes.
"Although Elder Jinchi covets the poor monk's cassock, it is not known whether they did these things." Tang Seng suddenly said.
"Then let's go and ask, why don't we get married?" Qi Zhen responded directly without mercy: "But if they really did it, why did Elder Tang teach me?"
There was obviously a trace of anger on Qi Zhen's face. Not only him, but the faces of everyone in the team were extremely ugly.
Games are one thing, but if everyone in the team doesn't do something when faced with a situation like the massacre of women and children, then they will really be in vain.
"Amitabha." Tang Seng closed his eyes again and did not answer Qi Zhen's words at all.
"Nuolan Sunjie, the two of you stay here to protect Tang Monk. The rest of you will follow me to the main hall to meet Elder Jinchi." Qi Zhen said coldly.
Qi Zhen, who coveted the treasure, had no problem with it, so seeking money and killing Qi Zhen was regarded as a temporary obsession of the other party, but the scene under the tower was not something that could be solved so easily.
Everyone headed towards the main hall with great momentum. At this time, Elder Jinchi was leading the monks in the temple to chant sutras in the main hall. It was not known whether he was praying for himself or atone for his sins.
The crowd's momentum was so great that it naturally alerted the monks in the hall immediately. A monk stepped forward to stop Qi Zhen and his party and asked them their purpose.
Qi Zhen didn't want to talk nonsense to the other party, so she blasted towards the other party's sea of consciousness with a mind blast.
The other party didn't even hum, and his body collapsed to the ground.
Almost all the monks in the hall had their foreheads twitching suddenly.
It seemed that they were not concentrating on reciting Buddhist scriptures. They were afraid that they would have discovered it the moment the team appeared outside the door.
At this time, Elder Jinchi had already carried out simple cleaning, but he still had a look of embarrassment on his face. He could no longer pretend and turned to look at the team at the door.
Naturally, everyone in the team was unscathed as he expected, but the more this happened, the more regret he felt in his heart. Why did he offend these guys who shouldn't be offended?
"I just want to ask you one thing, are you the ones who made those corpses under the pagoda?" Qi Zhen said softly, but his voice echoed throughout the whole hall through his powerful spiritual power.
A trace of uncontrollable panic flashed in Jin Chi's eyes. Not only him, but also the monks in the hall all showed a hint of fear after the incident was revealed.
Then their hands involuntarily touched under the futon they were sitting on.
Everyone in the team glanced at these monks. How could their movements escape the clear sight of everyone in the team?
"If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your acquiescence."
Qi Zhen took the lead and walked into the hall. Zhang Qi and Zhang Chi slowly closed the heavy hall door behind them.
"If you don't take the road provided by heaven, you will fall into hell without any door." Elder Jinchi sneered, finally showing his fierce look.
Canglanglang!
The sound of countless long knives being unsheathed was heard, and the monks who had just been sitting quietly chanting sutras had already stood up and pulled out the long knives under the futon!
"It turns out that this is not an evil monk motivated by wealth, but a den of thieves full of evil." Qi Zhen laughed angrily, sniffed and said without looking back: "No need to show mercy, I will kill everyone who dares to attack!"
"ah!"
The monk closest to the team roared angrily, took three steps and two steps at a time, drew his sword and slashed!
…
A quarter of an hour later, the palace door slowly opened again.
The team slowly walked out of the hall almost intact and sat neatly on the steps in front of the hall.
"Actually, I don't quite understand. What they did was obviously very evil, so why do they dare to hang up the temple sign? Are they really not afraid of retribution?" Qi Zhen murmured, seeming to be asking his teammates, and Or just mumbling.
"The common people are good-hearted and are not very wary of temples. They probably took advantage of this to stay here for a long time to make money and kill people." Lin Biao said.
Qi Zhen played with the stolen long knife twice and said with narrowed eyes: "The money for building temples and pagodas was stolen. Do you think these Buddha statues can still bless people?"
"That's really putting the cart before the horse." Lin Biao said.
"Buddha who has cultivated his teachings!"
call out!
The long knife suddenly flew out of Qi Zhen's hand and hit the chest of the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva.
The blood on the knife splashed on the Bodhisattva's face, like a drop of blood and tears.
Immediately afterwards, the Bodhisattva statue collapsed and turned into countless pieces and fell to the ground.
I don't know if it was a coincidence, but one of the broken pieces happened to knock over the candlestick on the table, and then ignited the curtains in the hall.
Fire once again filled Guanyinyuan.
After doing this, everyone in the team did not feel the pleasure of punishing evil and promoting good. Instead, everyone in the team felt very heavy.
In the end, someone actually begged them for mercy, begging everyone in the team to let him go, and tell the whole story of the Guanyin Temple.
This Guanyin Temple did not originally exist, and these people were not monks. They were actually a group of bandits who robbed homes and homes.
Just as Qi Zhen said, they relied on building Buddhist temples in the wilderness, robbed travelers or wealthy businessmen, and then killed people and buried them under the pagoda. No matter whether they were old, young, women, or children, they were not spared. Yu Difficulty.
But the amazing thing is that the incense here is still good, mainly because the location is remote enough, which always gives people the feeling that there are immortals and spirits wherever the mountains are not high.
This business of making money and killing people has actually not been discovered until now. Guanyin Temple is getting bigger and bigger, and it is gradually gaining scale.
Except for the occasional temporary intention to continue their old business, these bandits headed by Elder Jinchi in the end really regarded Guanyin Yuan as a regular business as if they were doing business.
It's a pity that the evil deeds were finally revealed after meeting the team. Jin Chi probably never thought until the end that he was discovered because of a pair of eyes that can see through the reincarnation of the world.
The blazing fire burned for a whole day, seeming to burn away all the evil that happened here.
The bandits who begged for mercy naturally had no chance of being spared when everyone in the team learned that they were carrying several lives on their hands.
Tang Monk saw the fire of the Main Hall in the pagoda, but after Qi Zhen and the others came back, he didn't ask a word, he just said that God has the virtue of good life.
Qi Zhen chuckled and answered him with a sentence that was famous in her world.
Forgiving them is a matter for the Buddha, and my duty is to send them to see the Buddha.
