While the monk was yelling at the phone, the other party had already hung up. I immediately called Dou Po: "Dou Ma, what happened to Lu Xiaoying and the others?"
Dou Po was silent for a few seconds before she said, "When Lu Xiaoying and his men went to reinforce you, they ran into trouble. It was the people from Hell Gate who deliberately provoked them, and Ye Jin failed to hold back his anger, and he crippled the other side's two big ghosts. Hell Gate falsely accused Lu Xiaoying and his men of destroying the arena..."
Dou Po hesitated for a moment before saying, "Jiu Chong Pavilion has sent someone to pick up Lu Xiaoying. She can calculate, so nothing should happen. Even if they are captured by the Hell Gate, they won't dare to hurt them easily. You must stay calm, understand?"
I took a deep breath and said, "I understand, don't worry."
"I'm worried!" Dou Po warned again, "Duan Yunfei is forcing you to test the ghosts. Don't act rashly now. Be careful not to fall into his trap."
"Don't worry, I won't!" I knew Dou Po must be hiding something.
It is unlikely that Hell Gate will seize Lu Xiaoying and threaten me to quit the ring. With Dou Po here, Jiuchong Pavilion will not allow Hell Gate to break the rules. Then, all they can do is to make some changes within the rules.
If my estimate is correct, whether Lu Xiaoying is sabotaging the game or not can only be determined after the victory between me and Hell Gate. Hell Gate should have detained Lu Xiaoying and Ye Jin.
If I want to get them out, I have to finish the game as soon as possible.
I don't want to admit defeat, so I can only take action first to test the depth of the ghost.
Duan Yunfei's calculations were linked together. He and Nangong Ling gave me six days to delay. During these six days, Duan Yunfei could passively defend, but I couldn't. I had to deal with the ghosts' pursuit while looking for clues that had been cut off.
After six days of running back and forth, even if I didn't die, I would have been forced to the point where I couldn't fight back.
What Doupo said was right and wrong. I did need to stay calm, but not in the sense of waiting calmly, but in the sense of taking action calmly.
I hesitated for a moment and then said, "Monk, let's find a temple or Taoist temple nearby. You can block the way for me first, so that I can have some time to calculate."
I don't know when the ghosts will find me, and once I enter the state of calculation, I will have no ability to resist. It is far from enough for Monk Shi to protect us alone. The only place that can keep us safe temporarily is the temple or Taoist temple.
Monk Shi took out his phone and searched on the map for a while: "There is a temple nearby, follow me."
Monk Shi and I walked along the avenue for a long time before we stopped a taxi. Monk Shi got in the car and said, "Let's go to Yingshan Temple."
As soon as the driver started the car, he stepped on the brakes and asked, "What are you doing there in the middle of the night?"
"Don't worry about what I'm doing, just drive." Shi Heshang took out a few big bills and slapped them on the dashboard, "You'll need the car fare."
"I'm not going, you guys get off..." Before the driver finished speaking, I threw a stack of bills at him, "Stop talking nonsense, drive, you'll have to pay for the ride when we get to the destination. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll find another car."
"No, no..." The driver tried several times to start the engine and drove the car to the suburbs. Not long after, the outside of the car looked more and more desolate, and the shadows of graves could be seen faintly on both sides of the road.
After the driver drove the car a distance further, the graves on both sides of the road began to increase in number, and finally turned into a continuous cemetery. Those graves were all abandoned graves with no one taking care of them, and my heart was slightly lifted.
Monk Shi whispered, "Zhaozi, there are only desolate graves here, and Yingshan Temple may not have any incense. Should we still go?"
"Go!" I also knew that there was no incense in the temple, and it would take some effort to inspire the power of the gods to drive out the evil spirits, but it was too late to turn around and look for another temple.
The driver, who had been silent the whole time, said in a trembling voice, "Hey, you two, why are you going there? You must have been deceived by someone. I heard that the temple over there is efficacious, so you want to go and burn incense, right? That temple is a famous haunted temple, no one goes there to burn incense!"
Monk Shi asked, "Can you tell me what's going on with Yingshan Temple?"
The driver said, "I heard that the temple was built to protect the tombs at the foot of the mountain. Otherwise, where would there be so many tombs at the foot of the mountain? In the past, there were monks in the temple, but later the monks were gone and the temple became deserted. No one has been there for many years, not even those who visit the tombs."
Seeing that we were silent, the driver simply continued, "Let me tell you, that temple is a bit weird. A few years ago, there was a woman living inside. Someone saw a woman in white clothes sitting outside the temple gate, meditating in front of the graves."
"In the morning, she would sit down after the sun rose, and she would meditate at night when the moon was big. Someone went to the temple to look for the woman out of anger, but found nothing. Some people said that the white snake had become a spirit, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon to cultivate..."
Monk Shi sneered when he heard this: "Why didn't you say that she had transcended the tribulation and ascended to heaven?"
The driver said, "You know what, someone really said it. A few years ago, there was a thunderstorm over there. I heard that the thunder circled around the temple and blew off the roof of the temple. The tiles were blown all over the ground. The thunder didn't stop for the whole morning! Since that thunderstorm, all the women in the temple have disappeared."
Monk Shi asked quickly, "Is the temple still there? Did it get burned down by thunder?"
"The temple is still there," the driver said. "Later, I don't know who paid to renovate the temple, and it looks exactly like the original one. But that person didn't move the Buddha statues in the temple, and I don't know why."
"As long as the Buddha statue is there, it's fine!" Monk Shi finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Hurry up and open the door..."
After driving a few kilometers, the driver stopped the car on the side of the road and pointed to a small temple halfway up the mountain. He said, "That's the Yingshan Temple. You can go up from here. I won't wait for you."
"Thank you!" After throwing the money to the driver, I followed Monk Shi along the mountain road into Yingshan Temple.
Yingshan Temple doesn't look big. The main hall is right inside. The Buddha statue on the altar has been there for who knows how long. At first glance, it looks like a clay block that has not yet been fired.
I turned to look at Monk Shi: "Is the Buddha statue still usable?"
"It's hard to say." Monk Shi shook his head and said, "It has come to this point. We have to try it out to see if it works."
I took a deep breath and said, "Then don't waste time on the Buddha statue. I figured that if anything happens, you should get me up first."
I told Monk Shi, took off the ghost eye coins, sat cross-legged on the ground, used the Xuanming Qi to protect my body, and then began to shake the ghost coins. After a moment, the first ghost coin slid past my eyes.
At that moment, I clearly saw a white hand gently lift up the head of the Buddha statue behind me and place a piece of paper under the neck of the Buddha statue.
Someone left a message here? Who is that person
Before I could see the man's face clearly, the first ghost coin fell to the ground in front of me. Someone had made arrangements to interfere with the secrets of heaven, forcibly cutting off my possibility of calculating the past.
The other party wants me to see that I left a message here, but doesn’t want me to see her face
After this thought flashed through my mind, the second ghost coin was moved in front of me.
I saw a numbered door from the ghost eye coin, which seemed to be a hospital ward. Through the glass of the door, I could see a man in a hospital gown tied to the bed in the room. The man seemed to feel someone was watching him and simply turned his head. After I stared at the man for a few seconds, the last two ghost coins collapsed to the ground, and I suddenly woke up from my calculations.
When Monk Shi heard the ghost money fall to the ground, he quickly turned around and asked, "Zhaozi, what happened?"
I said in a deep voice: "There are some clues!"
I saw that there was indeed only one clue. The man lying on the bed might be the key to breaking the deadlock, but I didn't know where to find him. I could only remember his appearance, not his name, and I didn't know which hospital he was in. I couldn't draw his appearance, so I couldn't go to every hospital to look for him. Not to mention that I didn't have the time and energy, even the hospital wouldn't allow me to check every ward in the hospital, right
More importantly, the third ghost coin fell to the ground before it even had an image... Based on my experience in Xiangxi, the third ghost coin should have seen the future. In other words, the ghost eye coin cannot see the future, and even the ghost eye coin cannot predict the outcome of this gamble!
I stood up and turned to look at the Buddha statue behind me. There should be a note hidden there, a note about my next plan.
After looking at the Buddha statue for a few seconds, I jumped onto the altar and stretched out my hand to push the top of the Buddha statue. Monk Shi was frightened by my action and said, "Zhaozi, don't mess around. This is a desolate mountain!"
Everyone in the art of magic knows that one cannot touch the statues in deserted temples at will, and the older the statues are, the more they should be kept away from them. Every statue that stands in the wilderness but has not been destroyed by time and wind and sand may hide terrible taboos, and even a magician may be killed if he violates a taboo.
The barren mountains, barren tombs, and barren temples are all strange, but I can't help but touch that Buddha statue. The ghost eye money will not give me a useless hint, so there must be something I want underneath.
When Monk Shi’s shouting stopped, my fingertips had already touched the statue’s ears, and the clay Buddha head fell to the ground with just a light touch from me. As expected, a square groove had been dug out on the neck of the Buddha statue, and the note I saw through the ghost eye was inside.
After I unfolded the note, I couldn't help but take a deep breath: "Corning Hospital, Ward 608 - Seventh Shuilan."
The seventh water blue? The seventh water blue again!
The driver said that someone once saw a woman practicing outside the temple. Was that person the Seventh Shui Lan
Seventh, Shui Lan could even predict that I would go to the temple to predict the past and the future, so couldn't she figure out that I was fighting against the Hell Gate? Why would she help me
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Thanks to Doudou and Fushengruomeng for the reward! (To be continued)