Chapter 215 Something is wrong

This tree wall is more than two meters high, and the branches are covered with sharp thorns. James tried to touch it lightly with his hand, and he was immediately pricked with blood. The pricked place was numb and painful. Obviously there was

It was quite poisonous, so he quickly squeezed out the poisonous blood.

The crowd divided into two groups, looking for the end of the tree wall to both sides, but they met on the other side of the tree wall. This showed that the tree wall was circular and planted in a circle around the temple ruins.

However, both groups of people discovered a phenomenon: there are many gaps in the tree wall that can allow one person to pass through. However, after entering the gap, you will encounter several forks. Because they were afraid of not being able to find the way back, neither group of people did it.

Go deep inside the tree wall.

After the two groups met, Du Lin said,

"This tree wall is probably a maze wall. We need to find the right way to enter the tree wall."

James said, "It would be great if we brought a drone. We can fly the drone over the tree wall and take a panoramic photo of the tree wall. We can analyze the correct path of this maze from the photo."

Zhu Zhonglin asked, "Do you have a drone with you?"

James spread his hands and said, "Unfortunately, I didn't bring any."

"Then what's the point of saying this?" Zhu Zhonglin rolled his eyes.

"I think it's okay without a drone. Do you have a compass?" Dulin said.

"Of course I brought the compass." James took out a compass from his breast pocket and handed it to Dulin.

This is a military compass issued by the U.S. military, with the "U.S. ARMY" logo printed on the cover.

After Dulin determined the direction with a compass, he led everyone towards the southwest direction of the tree wall.

"If I'm not wrong, this tree wall should be arranged in the eight trigrams of the eight trigrams, namely the Separate Gate, the Hugh Gate, the Life Gate, the Injury Gate, the Du Gate, the Scenery Gate, the Death Gate, and the Surprise Gate. The only way to open the door is to find the Hugh Gate.

Only through the living door can one enter the interior of the tree wall. Other than that, entering through any door is a dead end."

Du Lin walked to a gap in the southwest and stopped.

"This gap is the entrance to the tree wall."

"Mr. Du, how do you know this tree wall is arranged according to Bagua?"

"If this is the treasure left to me by Zhu Yunwen, Mr. Zhu's ancestor, then he should know very well that my ancestor once studied the art of Nine Palaces and Bagua from Zhang Jinghe, and set up the tree wall in the way of eight Bagua gates.

A test to verify the authenticity of my identity as an ancestor and descendant."

Zhu Zhonglin said, "I agree with Mr. Du. My ancestors must find a way to verify whether the person who came to get this treasure is the descendant of the benefactor."

Du Lin led everyone into the gap, and after walking a few steps, they encountered the first fork in the road.

"The Shengmen corresponds to the Gen hexagram in the Bagua. The hexagrams of the Gen hexagram are Yang, Yin, and Yin, and the corresponding directions are left, right, and right. So if I guessed correctly, you should turn left at the first intersection.

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After saying that, he led everyone to the left side of the fork in the road.

After walking a few steps, we came to the second fork in the road.

, according to Du Lin's speculation just now, everyone walked to the right, and turned right again at the third fork.

The road that followed was very long, and although it was also winding and twisting, at least there were no more forks. Everyone walked for more than a minute, and finally saw the exit at the end of the road.

After everyone walked out of the tree wall, they recalled the journey and were surprised to find that the tree wall was not very wide at all, and the straight-line distance was only thirty or forty meters at most.

But without Du Lin's correct guidance, it would have been impossible for the six of them to find the right path without a whole day.

Because after entering each entrance, there will be three forked roads, and each forked road will have three choices: left, middle and right. In other words, there can be a total of 216 different ways to walk at the eight intersections, and these 210

Of the six moves, only three are correct.

"Mr. Du," Zhu Zhonglin patted Du Lin on the shoulder, "it seems that you have passed the test of my ancestors."

Du Lin smiled and said nothing.

The Bagua maze of this difficulty is simply child's play for him.

Solving this maze is as easy as eating and drinking.

It's hard for the designers and builders of the maze, who spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build such a maze wall, but in the end their efforts were in vain.

Because Du Lin believed that anyone with a little basic knowledge of Bagua magic should be able to easily crack this maze wall.

After walking out of the maze wall, everyone found that they entered the tree wall maze from the southwest, but when they came out, they unknowingly walked due south, because the exit was facing the door of the temple, and the door of the temple naturally sat

It faces north and south.

The group finally saw the ruins of this legendary temple.

This is a Buddhist temple with quite an Indian style. A Chinese Buddhist temple, it is divided into a front hall, a back hall and left and right side halls. There is also a Zen room and a vegetable garden behind the back hall.

In the world, only Buddhist temples in China have vegetable gardens, because except for China, monks in other countries are not engaged in production and mainly make a living from believers' incense money and alms.

So a friendly reminder to all readers, if you meet a monk asking for alms in our country, please don’t be deceived, he is 100% a fake monk.

In the temple in front of you, you can only see a front hall. Whether there are any buildings behind the front hall is currently not visible.

The cornices at the corners of the palace are raised very high, and a pair of bells hang on the tips of the corners. If you look closely, the glittering gold is actually made of pure gold!

It seems that no one has been to this temple for a long time since it was abandoned. Otherwise, no one would let such a large piece of gold lie here in the wind and sun.

The front hall, also called the main hall, is the most important building of a temple. The wooden doors at the entrance of the main hall are dilapidated and rotten, and they are lying crookedly beside the door frames. The window paper on the door lattice has long been weathered and even the door frames are crumbling.

It seemed like it would collapse with just one kick.

James was the first to enter the hall. As soon as he raised one foot, he was pulled by Dulin.

"Is there an agency?" James looked nervous.

"That's not true, but you almost stepped on the threshold just now."

"What's wrong with stepping on the threshold?" James looked puzzled.

"There are rules for entering the temple," Du Lin pointed to the threshold and said, "You must not step on the threshold of the main hall. This is a great disrespect to the Buddha, and without appropriate status, it is best not to go through the main entrance. Only the emperor can also

Only the emperor can go through the front door. Ordinary people may suffer karmic retribution if they go through the front door, so they have to go through the doors on both sides."

As he spoke, he walked through the door on the left as a demonstration, "If you enter the left door, step your left foot first, and if you enter the right door, step your right foot first..." Before Du Lin could finish speaking, James stepped on the threshold and entered the main hall from the main entrance.

"I believe in God, your Buddha has nothing to do with me."

Then Francis and Jones also entered through the main entrance, laughing.

Only Pique believed Dulin's words and entered the door from the left.

Du Lin stood at the door, looking at James's back, his face sinking.

Zhu Zhonglin patted Du Lin on the shoulder and said, "Brother Du, don't be angry. They are a bunch of Western barbarians who don't know anything about this. Let them be."

Dulin was not angry, he was confused. Ever since they met in Kathmandu, he had felt that James's attitude toward him was hot and cold, and he was not as awe-inspiring as before.

Du Lin is not that bad-tempered and likes to make people afraid of him, but what is the reason for James's change in attitude?

Walking into the main hall of the temple, the dust on the ground piled up and almost covered the threshold. It looked like it had been abandoned for hundreds of years at least.

In the middle of the main hall, there is an incense burner made of pure copper, which is covered with patina. Behind the incense burner is an offering table with half of it crooked. The offerings placed on the offering table have weathered into a black mass and cannot be seen.

original appearance.

Behind the altar is the high altar. There are three statues sitting on the altar. From left to right, they are: Lantern Buddha, Sakyamuni Buddha and Maitreya Buddha. This is also the main hall of Buddhist temples.

There are three most common Buddha statues enshrined here.

They represent the past, present and future respectively.

Among them, the Deng Deng Buddha is a Buddha older than Sakyamuni Buddha, so it is called the Buddha of the past, while the Maitreya Buddha is the Buddha who became after Sakyamuni's extinction, so it is called the future Buddha. Sakyamuni

Needless to say, Buddha, in Buddhist terms, he is the leader of our current world, that is, the current Buddha.

Although the golden bodies of the three Buddha statues have long been dilapidated, and there is a thick layer of dust on their heads and shoulders, and their bodies seem to be covered with a layer of cassocks made of spider webs, this does not affect the solemnity and silence of the three Buddha statues at all.

It's so solemn that one can't help but feel admiration at the sight of it, and even feel a little ashamed of oneself.

There are some traces of murals on the walls on both sides of the hall, but after hundreds of years of wind and frost, the colors have long been mottled and blurred.

After the group walked around the front hall, except for Du Lin who felt that something was wrong, everyone else found nothing special, so they all turned from behind the Buddha statue to the back hall.

After coming out of the back door of the front hall, you go through a not-so-long corridor and arrive at the back hall.

At this point, Du Lin finally understood what was wrong.
Chapter completed!