Zhang Xuzheng was staring attentively at the Maitreya Buddha statue above the main hall. The bronze Buddha statue has been rusted by the erosion of endless years. The Buddha statue sits in lotus posture, with his left hand raised on the left side of the body and his right hand on his right knee. His face is peaceful,
He smiles as soon as he opens his mouth and is in a harmonious mood. He wears a monk's temple inside his upper body and wears a cassock outside. The pattern of his clothes made of bronze is realistic and natural, and his round and smooth belly can accommodate all things.
But at this moment, the smiling Buddha's face strangely shed two lines of blood-like tears from his eyes. The drops fell on the incense table in front of him. The incense table made of huge rocks was burned with holes one by one.
It was holey, with wisps of green smoke coming out.
A crack was quietly cracked in the middle of the Buddha's head, and the crack got bigger and bigger... Bursts of black mist emerged from the crack, quietly spreading toward the main hall. There were cracks all over the Buddha's body, making a "ka-ka" sound.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Xu hurriedly shouted: "No, the Buddha is going to fall!"
"Run out quickly!"
"Be careful! Don't let the Buddha hit you!"
The sandstorm outside has stopped.
Cheng Yuanming was the closest to the door. Seeing that the situation was not going well, he was the first to rush out. In panic, he knocked the bronze weapon picked up by Hand Wu all the way out and ran for about a hundred feet in one breath before he gradually stopped running.
, took a deep breath and calmed down. He glanced in the direction of Xiao Yi in the temple, straightened out his clothes that were messy because he ran too fast, and found that he was already in a mess.
Seeing that Xiao Yi was running too slowly, Zhang Xu couldn't care less in his hurry. He picked up Xiao Yi and carried her on his back before running forward. Sweat dropped from his cheeks drop by drop, hitting his dry and pale lips.
Run forward, run forward, Zhang Xu's subconscious kept telling himself that he must leave there, he must leave this temple. This temple is definitely not good for him who carries the "Tao Jing". Gradually, he can't run anymore.
He could only walk quickly, his face was extremely pale.
Hu Zi and Liu Lei quickly followed up while holding Lin Chenggu hostage.
As soon as everyone ran out of the temple gate, they heard a loud bang, and the Buddha statue fell down from the platform. It collapsed suddenly amid shouts of surprise.
Immediately afterwards, there was a loud noise, and the ancient temple was reduced to ashes and turned into ruins. Smoke and dust billowed out from the desert, and the head of the Buddha statue and the divine body carved from white bones were turned into pieces and splashed at the feet of everyone. Looking from a distance, only the Main Hall was left.
The stone monuments on both sides still stand among the ruins.
"Why did the Buddha statues and the ancient temple turn into powder without warning?" Everyone was stunned. Did the ancient temple exist to evolve the miracle of the ancient war?
Lin Chenggu looked around for a moment and said: "The reason why the ancient temple has stood for hundreds of millions of years and has not been destroyed is mainly because of the copper oil lamp. In the past, Zhuge Liang of Wuzhangyuan used the star to increase his life, but the lamp went out and people died. This is the reason. Think about it.
After the burning of the copper lamp, the oil had dried up and the lamp was exhausted. The ancient temple, which was already feeling sad and ashamed because of the destruction of Mount Sumeru Buddha Land, lost the meaning of its existence, so it collapsed."
Liu Lei was extremely excited at this moment, and said with hope on his face: "The ancient temple is efficacious. It seems that the gods and Buddhas have knowledge. There really are gods in this world. I want to find immortals and cultivate myself, and return to the village to be a great person!"
Everyone in the group was stunned by him! However, upon careful consideration, what this rough man said made sense. From the bottom of the Yellow River to Mount Sumeru to the ancient temple, many common senses have been subverted and broken. Maybe God really exists!
"It's getting dark. We must go to the place where ancient trees grow before dusk, otherwise we will spend the night in the desert!" Zhang Xu reminded everyone to get on the road.
"Yes, the only way to survive is to go there. Maybe it is a small oasis, the only pure land left in the desert. Otherwise, over time, we will die of thirst!"
Everyone understands and rush towards the ancient tree quickly! At this critical moment of life and death, we must unite as one.
The yellow sand is long and barren, and human footprints in Mount Sumeru, the ancient Buddhist land for thousands of years, are reflected in the quicksand and then disappear in the quicksand. Only the cracked earth and the weathered sand sea are left.
What everyone saw along the way was human skeletons and animal bones covering the wilderness in the desolate desert. Under the vast and uplifted sand dunes, there were cities and temples half-covered by quicksand. They were the property and bones of the ancient ancestors.
It was beyond recognition. It seemed that all the scenes in the desert were tumbling, screaming, and bending. The decaying atmosphere of world destruction is still nauseating to this day.
Under the scorching sun, the scorching heat wave swept through every inch of the desert, making people breathless. At a glance, there was yellow sand everywhere. The vastness of the desert made people tired, and it seemed that they would never end. Looking far into the distance,
There is still a little green shadow in front of us, the size of a pot lid, which gives people hope, otherwise, people's spirits would have collapsed long ago. Everyone supported each other and walked forward, no one said anything.
"Brother Zhang Xu, if there wasn't an oasis ahead, we would have walked into a death trap." Huzi panted heavily, with little drops of blood seeping from his cracked lips, and finally spoke to break the dull atmosphere.
Zhang Xu looked ahead, seeing continuous sand dunes, and the messy Gobi desert formed by yellow sand, gravel and white bones, one after another. He turned his head and replied: "There is no other way out. The touch of green ahead is the hope of life."
Liu Lei opened his mouth wide, with stars and white foam on the corners of his mouth, and said: "There are no clouds in the sky, and it's hard to find water dripping from the ground. Where else can we go if we don't go there? I'm dying of thirst." Although Liu Lei is strong,
But after all, I haven't had a drop of water for two days, and I was so thirsty that I couldn't bear it anymore.
"Hoo! The sun in this desert is so warm. Roasting a human is like roasting a whole lamb. This human meat must be the most beautiful delicacy in the world when it is roasted. It's a pity that I can't eat it. This is a fly in the ointment!" Wang Meng wiped his sweat.
He said with a crying and laughing face.
"Xiao Yi, are you okay? Can you hold on?" Zhang Xu asked worriedly, worried about Xiao Yi.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Yi was not tired at all, nodded to Zhang Xu and replied, "I'm fine, let's go!"
Everyone's physical strength was gradually exhausted, and they had to walk for a while to rest. Whenever they saw a hillside, they would quickly run up it, go straight to the top of the hill, and then climb down again, never going around.
It wasn't until it was almost dusk that they saw the outline of the tree. They were finally saved! Everyone couldn't restrain their inner ecstasy.
But at this moment, Lin Chenggu, who was walking at the back of the team, first rushed forward, staggered, then braked hard, leaned forward and backward, then swayed left and right, turned around in mid-air, and then
After turning around in a circle, he finally stretched out his limbs and hugged the desert.
Lin Chenggu was in his sixties, and his physical strength was different from that of young people. After exhausting his energy and strength, he finally fell first.
Zhang Xu approached and knelt down, tentatively stretched out his arm, and touched Lin Chenggu's face. He had his eyes closed tightly. He looked like a piece of charred and dark wood due to days of hard work and the scorching sun.
At this time, Zhang Xu's joints were creaking with fatigue. He held the sand and stones with both hands and tried his best to stabilize the mountain-like heavy head on his shoulder blades. He murmured in his heart: Mr. Lin, is he dead like this?
After all the hard work to get to this point, there is no reason to die! Scenes of the friendship between teachers and students in the village in the past came to mind again... Now we are just a stone's throw away from the oasis, but Mr. Lin has fallen.
Zhang Xu's vision blurred for a while, and his eyes became moist. The intense heat in the sand sea had left his eyes with not much moisture, which was equivalent to the usual tears rolling down his face.
"He's overly thirsty and dehydrated. Give him some water to drink, maybe he can recover." Seeing this, Hu hurried over and said to Zhang Xu.
"Where are you looking for water in this desert? You can only try your luck at the place where there are trees in front."
"Then we have to hurry up. People will die if it takes too long. I'm afraid it's too late."
Zhang Xu was about to run in the direction of the green shadow.
Seeing this, Xiao Yi quickly walked closer, grabbed Zhang Xu and said, "I still have a berry that I don't want to eat. The berry has a lot of water, so feeding it may help."
"Try it." Zhang Xu quickly took the berry handed over by Xiao Yi. He saw that the berry was crystal clear, and there was a hint of cool air in his hands. When he touched the cool air, he immediately felt extremely comfortable all over his body.
Zhang Xu is such a smart person. He immediately understood the reason why Xiao Yi, a woman with a liquid constitution, could persist walking in the scorching desert to this day.
Zhang Xu carefully tilted the berry towards Lin Chenggu's mouth, squeezed it hard, and saw that a trickle of water came slowly, with a thick texture, and was injected into Lin Chenggu's mouth accurately and accurately.
In the mouth.
When the juice enters the mouth, it turns into a stream of cool air that goes down Lin Chenggu's throat, penetrates into the two main meridians of Taiyin and Shaoyin, and travels against the meridian. Wherever it goes, dryness, heat, dryness and thirst disappear immediately, and the whole body
Every pore in the body felt comfortable, and it felt extremely cool.
Lin Chenggu slowly opened his eyes. He was still not clear about the scene, but his tongue was greedily licking his lips. Seeing this, Zhang Xu simply put the fruit directly into Lin Chenggu's mouth.
Lin Chenggu didn't mean to refuse. Instead, he swallowed unambiguously like a dry seedling in the rain, his mouth still smacking, and a trace of life gradually appeared on his withered face.
Zhang Xu breathed a long sigh of relief, and at the same time he was secretly amazed. This berry seemed to not only increase his strength, but also bring him back to life, making him a medicine of immortality.
Lin Chenggu stood up and felt that the breath in his body was extremely pure, his mind was smooth, warm and refreshing, and his thirst, thirst and heat were all gone. But he was completely unaware of the rescue process just now. He listened to everyone's brief explanations, one by one.
: "I am so old that I am really useless. I have hindered everyone at this critical moment. I would like to apologize to everyone."
Huzi pushed Zhang Xu, then pointed at Xiao Yi and said: "Mr. Lin, don't thank us. If he (her) hadn't saved your life today, you might have really gone to hell.
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Lin Chenggu bowed to the two of them and said: "As for Zhang Xu, I have a teacher-student relationship, so I won't say anything more. I have to thank Miss Xiao for her life-saving grace, and I will repay you in the future!"
Xiao Yi said humbly, "Mr. Lin, please don't be too polite. I should save you. Isn't it just a fruit? I didn't do anything."
"Oh, a fruit? The elixir of life!" At this time, Lin Chenggu's eyes flashed with a mysterious light that was difficult to detect, and was soon replaced by a hazy look.
Seeing Lin Chenggu's eyes flashing past, Zhang Xu shivered suddenly and trembled all over. He thought to himself: "The heat is unbearable, what's wrong with me?" Seeing Lin Chenggu come to life again, he felt in his heart
Once it got hot, I didn’t want to think about it anymore. I just hoped that I could get out of the desert and reach the green shadow area in front of me immediately. I suddenly helped Lin Chenggu up, supported me, and led everyone forward.
After walking steadily for nearly two quarters of an hour, we climbed over a huge sand dune and finally approached the desert oasis.