I have to say that Jia Sidao's suggestion is very wise. First of all, guarding the only way out of here is equivalent to, uh, staying in the Throat Fortress, letting us master the gate of life and death.
Secondly, there are at least 20 or 30 people sent by the Mao family. Among them, there are probably cultivators. Jia Sidao and I can handle it. The other three are not opponents at all. If they all go up, in case we get started, It will definitely be subdued by the other party, then the gain is not worth the loss.
However, only two people can go up, so who will go up
Zhang Ling reported that he was courageous and said, "Master, I will go up with you."
Jia Sidao waved his hand and said, "You can't do well, let Anzi go up with me."
Zhang Ling looked at me with a face full of disbelief, and said, "He is better than me?"
I took a step forward and said with a smile: "Big detective, I am no longer who I was before. I am also a practitioner now."
Zhang Ling was unwilling to say something, but Jia Sidao interrupted him and said, "That's it, An Zi and I will go up, and the rest will stay here and keep in touch at any time."
Although Zhang Ling was still a little unwilling, but since Jia Sidao had made up her mind, she couldn't say anything. So, Jia Sidao and I started walking up the path full of light.
Jia Sidao looked at the inverted triangles formed by the bright lights above, and said: "If an inverted triangle represents temples, then there are eighteen temples. To enter the last Dobala temple, you must pass through those temples in turn. This place is stranger than the gate of life. I believe there must be a lot of organs. We must be careful."
I couldn't help but nodded and said, "Fortunately, the Mao family didn't know that we were following, otherwise they would not leave the rope behind and would not send anyone to guard it."
"Well, this is our advantage."
Ten minutes later, we saw a pagoda-style building about nine stories high, but it was turned upside down. The entire inverted pagoda was suspended in the air, like a fairy mountain in traditional Chinese Taoism. My first feeling was: incredible, there is an illusion, how can such a huge building hang upside down in the air!
When I got closer, I once again clearly saw more than one, seven-story, twelve-story, large and small inverted pagodas, like mountains floating upside down in the air, hidden in the dark for a while. I don't know how many.
I counted it carefully, as Jia Sidao said, one
There are 18 seats in total. The only difference is that Jia Sidao previously said it was a temple, but now he sees a pagoda.
This also shows that we still don't know where the Dobala Temple is, at least among the stars we have seen, we still cannot be sure that it is it.
Not long after, we came to the end of the road. Here is the top of a stupa, with an area of more than 100 square meters, like a regular octagonal altar, surrounded by a circle of stone railings. Outside the stone railings, there is a dark abyss. In the endless darkness, at high or low places, the light is inverted hanging stupas, and to enter the stupas, you must walk from the top to the bottom.
In this way, if you want to reach the next upside-down stupa, you must pass through the stupa in front of you.
In the center of the octagonal altar is a three-meter-high Buddha statue, surrounded by eight small grotesque Buddha statues. The three-meter-high stone statue was moved, a floor was lifted, and the path to the pagoda was below.
Needless to say, this was done by the Mao family.
But fortunately, they were in front of us. Without them, we would find the entrance to the inverted stupa. We don’t know how much time it would take.
Jia Sidao went down first, and I followed closely. The downward stairs are spiral, and the steps are made of plank road technology. Gouge holes in the tower wall or leave a gap when the tower is repaired, and then insert one. Root stone beams, and then build wooden boards on the stone beams, slanting down all the time.
Those wooden boards didn't know what material they were, and they didn't rot after thousands of years. When we walked into the next circle of steps, we found many carvings on the stone beam above our head.
Those sculptures like Fei Tian Yasha, as well as various little ghost images, seem to be looking at us overhead. There are still countless images of Tibetan Buddhism stories painted on the wall of the tower, but most of them are already mottled, and neither Jia Sidao nor I can figure out the meaning.
There is a wooden fence on the dangling end of the plank road. It feels safe to walk on the plank road. However, there are many iron rings on the wooden fence, and some of the iron rings are hung with rusty chains. You can just touch them lightly. "Straight. There seemed to be something on the thick pillar in the middle, but it was too far away to see clearly.
This also makes me very puzzled about the construction of the pagoda. Why should it be built like this, and it is hollow
The countless torches in the tower illuminate the surrounding area, and occasionally you can see burned out burning rods on the stairs.
Looking from the bottom up, I only feel that the dangerous building is a hundred feet high and it is chilling.
The thick pillar in the middle is like the golden cudgel of the Monkey King, stabbing it from the underground palace to the heaven...
Jia Sidao looked around and said, "These torches were all lit by the Mao family." He stepped on his feet and said: "The floor is made of cedar, coated with gelatinous paint, and it will not rot for thousands of years."
I pointed to the big pillar and asked, "What's the use of the big black pillar in the middle?"
Jia Sidao said, "If you guessed it correctly, it is the solid shaft that supports the entire inverted pagoda and the arms of the Buddha statue."
I nodded suddenly, and I saw the ground not far away. I leaned forward and looked down. The result was that a corpse was inserted on the spike. The spike pierced his body, leaving only a little exposed.
I called Jia Sidao over and said, "Goddaddy, there is a corpse. It should be a member of Mao's family who got caught in the agency."
Jia Sidao walked over and took a look, and said, "It seems that we will be careful later. Maybe there are still mechanisms that haven't been touched."
We stopped staying, and then continued down the spiral staircase. The spiral circle became smaller as we went down. We were walking, and suddenly heard Jia Sidao yelling: "Be careful!"
Then, he stretched out his arm and caught me, and the two suddenly flew up, and finally landed on the next circle of wooden boards without any risk.
I was in shock and asked, "What happened?"
Jia Sidao turned around to look at the place where we had just jumped up, and said, "The board suddenly bounced and threw us up."
"Huh?" I was shocked.
Jia Sidao ignored me, but tentatively stepped on the wooden board in front of him with his feet. I followed him cautiously. When Jia Sidao tentatively stepped on a wooden board again, there was a sudden "bang" and the wooden board was violent. The bomb rose about half a meter, like a trebuchet, but quickly retracted.
Fortunately, Jia Sidao only put on one leg, so he was able to shrink back in time.
Jia Sidao said: "The projectile force of the floor is amazing, at least 200 kilograms of objects can be thrown. This wooden board is like a gear spring machine. Everyone steps on it, and the gear presses down a grid of compression springs. When the accumulation is enough, it will be released all of a sudden."
I said, "So, these bounceable wooden boards don't know when they will bounce. Was the body just thrown to the ground because of its elasticity?"
Jia Sidao said affirmatively: "It can't be wrong."
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