Because the donkey is a domestic animal, it can enter and leave Gusu City freely, so it likes to go for a walk when it has nothing to do.
After it discovered the intention of the old ape and several beasts to sneak into the temple, he joined them without hesitation.
Although Hanshan Temple is very wary of outside strangers, the care of un-demon beasts like them is relatively lax, and even if they are discovered, they will not waste manpower to catch them.
So much so that the donkeys and beasts succeeded several times in a row, which made them become more and more unscrupulous.
Later, for them, the mountain behind Hanshan Temple was equivalent to their own home. They could come and go at will. Most of the herbs only consumed the most essential parts and discarded the rest.
Moreover, these herbs are full of medicinal properties, which are very helpful for them to strengthen their own strength.
As time went by, they found that the group of monks paid little attention to them, so they focused on the pagoda in the back mountain that was lit by candles all night.
There are many monks patrolling around the pagoda, and in the old ape's opinion, the medicinal materials are not taken care of at all, so there must be something more precious in the pagoda.
This pagoda has a total of seven floors. The lower three floors have always contained the ashes of monks, and the upper four floors contain the golden relics of eminent monks from the monastery in the past.
The four beasts covered each other and cooperated, and they actually slipped in.
However, donkeys are not suitable for petty theft due to their size, so the old apes have to do it for them due to their dexterity.
The old ape climbed from the outer wall to the tower, while the other beasts were responsible for watching the wind.
It looked through the windows one by one. There was nothing in the room except a large number of earthen jars.
When he reached the highest level of the pagoda, the old ape poked a hole in the window with his finger, and the dazzling Buddha light emanated from it.
This Buddha's light seems to be real. You can vaguely see something placed in the center of the room, which is the source of the Buddha's light.
In the room were the bones of eminent monks from past dynasties, but they were all dried up and their skins were covered with a layer of gold paint.
The old ape couldn't help but become nervous, and accidentally made some noise, and the bones of these eminent monks suddenly opened their eyes.
Then the Buddha's light came out, and the sound of chanting Buddhist sutras came. In the white light in the center, something seemed to wake up.
The old ape only felt his eyes sting, but the monkey's curiosity was so strong that he couldn't help but squint and look around. When he could clearly see what was inside, the white light suddenly disappeared.
The floor turned into pitch-black scorched earth, and the golden body of the eminent monk was a corpse bound by blood vessels, and the ends of the blood vessels were connected to objects in the room.
The object could vaguely look like a finger, but it was three to four meters in size.
The skin of the fingers is covered with ravines, and dozens of blood vessels extend from the fractures, connecting with the golden body of the eminent monk, forming a strange and inexplicable symbiotic relationship.
Seeing this scene, the old ape dared not stay for long. It fled from the tower in a panic, but was discovered by the patrolling monks.
A large number of monks swarmed up and captured the old ape directly, while the donkeys and others had already escaped into the forest when they saw the opportunity.
The old ape was imprisoned in a remote side hall. He didn't dare to show his intelligence, so he had to pretend to be an ordinary beast.
When Qin Bai and others stole the Buddha statue, the donkeys and others were also secretly carrying out rescue operations. The statue of Guanyin attracted most of the attention, but there was no danger.
After a while, Qin Bai explained the matter clearly to the old apes, and then prepared to leave the forest and return to Gusu City.
He then roughly described the situation the old ape encountered to the two of them.
Zhiqiu Yiye said that it might be some kind of unique Buddhist treasure, but Zuo Qianhu didn't have much contact with Buddhism and didn't say anything.
However, Qin Bai always felt that it was not just the Buddha treasures. The purpose of raising demons in Hanshan Temple was not simple, and there might be something hidden in it.
He couldn't help but look in the direction of Hanshan Temple. Although he didn't know where the demons came from, according to Zhiqiu Yiye, there were demons in the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue.
The gold paint on the Buddha statue has not completely dried yet, and it may have been newly painted, which made Qin Bai feel that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it.
He intuitively felt that the demon among them was probably related to centipedes. After all, the villain of A Chinese Ghost Story 2 was a centipede demon named Pudu Cihang.
If this monster is indeed just raised by Hanshan Temple, then as long as some methods are used to deal with centipedes, it is likely to arouse its ferocity and defeat itself.
Qin Bai suppressed his thoughts, at least until the support from the border patrol arrived, otherwise if a bigger disaster was caused, it would probably affect the people of Gusu City.
Zuo Qianhu needed to rearrange the positions of his soldiers, so he continued to choose to go deep into the mountains and forests.
The other two people quickly returned to Gusu City. Zhiqiu Yiye hurried back to the inn because he was exhausted and needed to meditate.
Qin Bai came to the county government office. After he and Wei Lianzhang made a plan, they sent a government official in civilian clothes to Hanshan Temple to check.
As a result, everything in the temple was as usual. It was impossible to tell from the monks what happened the night before, and the Guanyin Hall was closed due to renovations.
Qin Bai knew that Huixin was definitely on guard, and it would be difficult to get close to the Hanshan Temple.
So he planned to use this period of time to make more preparations and simply knock the mountain to shake the tiger, even if he couldn't draw out the centipede demon.
Qin Bai immediately returned to the inn for retreat. He redeemed many recipes from the points mall and read through them one by one.
More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and just as New Year's Day was about to come, a group of merchants escorting escorts came riding fast horses on the official road outside Gusu City.
They were all wrapped in thick cotton clothes. Although their faces were a little tired, their eyes revealed excitement.
The leader took off his bamboo hat. It was Wang Sheng. His skin had become darker after not being seen for a while.
The border patrol troops disguised themselves as traders and came to Gusu City, covering an unknown distance.
Wang Sheng originally thought that after the desert, the border patrol troops could change their status quo in the army through the sudden increase in strength. However, they were still not taken seriously and could only suppress bandits.
Many of these twenty-odd people have been in the army for seven or eight years. They have great abilities but are unable to display them. For the border patrol, this trip to Gusu City is an excellent opportunity.
Qin Bai was mentioned in the letter conveyed by Wei Lianzhang, so Wang Sheng knew that he was facing a demon and rushed over without hesitation. This was better than staying in the barracks doing nothing.
A group of people found an inn to stay. The county government was already aware of the arrival of the border patrol, and soon Wei Lianzhang contacted Wang Sheng.
With no time to rest, Qin Bai directly led the border patrol and Zhiqiu Yiye to the mountains.
In his opinion, even if the border patrol troops were disguised as businessmen, they could not hide Hanshan Temple from them. If the other party was given time to react, the chance would become slim.
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