Stepping on the stone brick floor with a layer of dust, Jiang Hao followed Li Leping into this strange temple, and then moved forward all the way to the steps leading to the main hall.
The foundation of the main hall is very high, and there are dozens of steps, which is daunting.
A rectangular incense burner was placed in front of the steps, with three large sticks of incense inserted in it, but there was no trace of burning.
However, the incense burner was filled with ashes.
These ashes look similar to incense ashes, showing a gray-white color, but if you look closely, you can see a lot of fragments left on the surface.
These fragments are very much like bones that have not been knocked clean, but have been burned by fire, so they are now gray-black in color and look similar to incense ashes.
What accumulates in the incense burner is not the ashes, but the ashes.
Such a weird scene couldn't help but make Jiang Hao's face darken, and he felt a sense of forlornness.
"It's unlikely that there will be anything meaningless in this place."
Li Leping also saw the ashes accumulated in the incense burner, but at the moment he did not pay too much attention to these ashes, but focused on the three unlit incense sticks.
"Since the incense is placed, it means that these three incense sticks will be needed in the next eight days. Maybe these incense sticks will have some miraculous effects after being lit?"
Li Leping made a guess, then looked at Jiang Hao: "You said before that the link here is probably related to the so-called Water and Land Dharma Assembly, so in the Dharma Assembly, on which day is it necessary to burn incense?"
Jiang Hao thought for a moment, frowned for a moment, and shook his head: "This question is too general. If it is a serious Dharma conference, incense will be burned almost every moment from the beginning of the Dharma conference on the first day.
After burning one batch, start the next batch immediately, and will not stop refilling the incense until the puja is completely over."
"But even though the incense in this incense burner is large and can burn for at least several hours once burned, it is still too unrealistic to burn it for eight consecutive days. If the three incense sticks are burned one after another,
At most, it can only burn for half a day."
Listening to Jiang Hao's analysis, Li Leping measured the incense sticks again: "So there is a high probability that this incense will not be lit now. It must be used in a key link next."
Just like Jiang Hao said, after the general ceremony starts, the incense is basically burned from beginning to end, and it is impossible to stop the burner.
However, although these three incense sticks are large in size, if they are really burned, they will only last for half a day at most and then burn out.
So it is obvious that these three incense sticks need to be lit at a certain important stage in the next step.
"Then let's leave these incense sticks alone for the time being and go see what else is in this courtyard."
After saying that, Li Leping walked to the left side of the hall.
He did not intend to immediately climb the steps and enter the main hall to inspect the situation.
This temple is very big, and there are many steps in front of the hall. It is too troublesome to go up and down. It is better to find out the situation around the hall now, which can save a lot of trouble of running back and forth.
Soon, Li Leping walked around to the left side of the temple.
There is a walkway on the left and right sides of the temple, which seems to lead to the back of the main hall.
If this temple is compared to a Hui shape, then the main hall in front of you is the word "口" in the word "Hui", and the aisles on the four sides are the big "kou" characters surrounding the small "kou" character.
However, when Li Leping came to the left side of the aisle, he stopped before he could walk in.
There is actually a bamboo planted on the left side of the temple.
This pillar was planted in the middle of the walkway, with a height of more than ten meters, and it stood out unusually under the moonlight.
But the strange thing is that this bamboo is only a solitary one, and there are no other bamboos around it.
No.
wrong.
Suddenly, Li Leping's eyes narrowed and he looked further away.
That's the back of the temple.
Outside the towering wall, there is actually a bamboo forest planted.
The bamboos planted outside the temple wall by someone unknown seemed to have grown over the years, and were much taller than the wall. The bamboos seemed to have been deliberately arranged, densely connected together.
It's just that the distance is too far, and Li Leping can't tell whether the bamboo in the bamboo forest is the same species as the bamboo on the walkway.
Let's just assume that they are of the same species.
"Why is this bamboo planted alone in the temple?"
Li Leping stared at this very lonely-looking bamboo, always feeling that its purpose of being here was not simple, let alone being placed here randomly.
This place is a supernatural place, and the things that can exist here are unlikely to be ordinary things. Everything in this temple is likely to be made of supernatural beings.
And just when he was thoughtful.
Outside the gate, twenty ghost masters from Southeast Asia have also entered this strange temple one after another. Their faces are tense and they are looking around warily, also paying attention to everything around them.
"Go and tell them not to touch anything here, especially the three incense sticks. Also, wait until I arrive to go up to the main hall. No one is allowed to touch anything before I turn back."
Li Leping looked back at the ghost masters who were entering the temple one after another, and immediately gave orders to Jiang Hao.
He never likes to force others to do things, but the current situation is very special. He will never allow idiots to run around at this time, let alone disrupt the layout of the temple.
Information is too scarce now, and many things can only be guessed. Although many things are right in front of you, no one knows what the consequences will be.
"Okay, I'll go right away."
Jiang Hao, who was also aware of this, said nothing. He immediately walked back while the ghost masters had just entered the temple and had not yet dispersed.
Li Leping continued to explore forward.
He walked through the aisle on the left side of the temple and took a few more glances at the bamboos planted next to the aisle.
The color of this bamboo is abnormally dark, as if it is sick, but it does not seem to be in any danger.
Li Leping did not investigate the pillar in detail at this time, nor did he choose to touch it tentatively. Instead, after confirming that the bamboo was not in danger for the time being, he immediately walked to the back of the temple.
The back of the temple is empty, and the only thing that attracts attention is the wall behind it. There is an inconspicuous small door on the wall.
This small door seems to be the back door of the temple. The back door is naturally not at the same level as the front door we just saw. Compared to the imposing front door, this slightly moldy wooden door has not even been painted, showing a kind of
It was a rotten dark brown color, as if one push could push down the entire door.
However, Li Leping obviously doesn't care whether the door is domineering or not, he only cares about the practicality of the door.
"Behind the temple is this bamboo forest, and opening this door can lead to the bamboo forest outside."
Li Leping understood this but did not choose to open the door immediately and go out to check the situation.
It's not that he's afraid that there might be something unclean in the bamboo forest, but that the current time doesn't seem to allow him to leave the temple to investigate.
The center of the incident, that is, the main hall has not yet been investigated, and Li Leping also does not know how long Jiang Hao can suppress the gang of ghost masters from Southeast Asia, so at this moment, he can only seize the time to find out about the temple.
situation, and then return immediately.
Soon, Li Leping turned from the back of the temple to the right side of the temple.
"A well?"
When Li Leping came to the right side of the temple, he saw a well at first sight.
This well, like the bamboo on the left, is also located in the middle of the corridor and is extremely conspicuous.
But the moment he saw the well, Li Leping's eyes couldn't help but become gloomy.
"Before the Ghost Temple incident, there was another nickname, and that was Ghost Well."
He recalled the files provided by the Ghost Temple Incident regarding the ghost temple incident.
The Ghost Temple Incident is also known as the Ghost Well, because before the Ghost Temple appeared, mysterious wells appeared inexplicably in many places in Tokyo.
Overnight, such wells appeared in the streets and alleys of the city. The shapes were exactly the same, and they were placed in various places simply and crudely, just like they were copied and pasted.
No one knows what these wells are for, let alone when they appeared.
However, at the beginning, many people did not actually pay attention to these sudden wells. Instead, they slapped their foreheads and asked in confusion: "Oh? So there is another well here?"
Or they just don't take it seriously. After all, it's just an extra well and it won't affect normal life.
However, in fact, these mysterious wells that suddenly appeared are just like the haze before the starving ghost incident in Dachang City, a precursor to a supernatural outbreak.
As time goes by, more and more water wells appear on the roads of Tokyo, not only on the sidewalks, but also on the roads for motor vehicles.
There are even such wells in some shopping malls and office buildings.
The most exaggerated thing is to wake up and suddenly find that there is an extra person in the living room.
For a time, the strange phenomenon frightened many citizens.
However, more people who did not know the truth chose to take to the streets in groups and gathered in front of the Tokyo government office building to protest, demanding the removal of these wells that hindered normal life.
However, before these people had time to get a response from the office building, someone was horrified to discover that something suddenly appeared in the well.
They were corpses that had died in mysterious ways and had turned white and swollen.
No one knows how these people died in the well.
However, as the first drowned corpse appeared, in the next few days, more and more corpses appeared in the well. In the end, the number of dead people seemed to be enough to fill the well.
As for some corpses, they were even pushed out of the underground to the outside of the well.
The most horrifying thing is that in addition to the bodies that were washed out of the well, there was something that overflowed from the depths of the well.
It was a gray, haze-like thing.
At this moment, the whole city was completely in panic.
However, when people tried to escape Tokyo in panic, they found that they could no longer leave the city.
At some point, the sky was shrouded in gray haze floating from the wells, and the entire city was surrounded by this weird haze.
Many citizens who tried to leave Tokyo eventually disappeared into the smog by car, and not long after, they appeared next to a certain well with bodies and bodies.
Not long after, a strange temple appeared in the center of Tokyo, looming in the haze. The guy who wanted to investigate the situation disappeared. A few days later, the body was soaked in the well, with a thick look on his face.
Fear illustrates his despair in his final moments before death.
You die if you stay in the city, you die if you try to escape.
With everything leading to a dead end, this prosperous city with no one to save it will die.
Because of this, when Li Leping saw the well in the temple, he couldn't help but feel a chill.
This well is probably closely related to the ghost temple. Now that it appears here, I don't know what it means.
"Let's see and then talk."
However, Li Leping was not afraid of a well.
Anyway, he has arrived at the center of the incident now, and the horror he is about to face can be said to be even worse than the ghost temple incident.
No matter how terrifying one S-level incident is, it cannot be more terrifying than the fusion of two S-level incidents.
immediately.
Li Leping came to the well, then suddenly poked his head and looked at the bottom of the well.
I don't know if there is not enough light in this place, but the well under the sight is extremely dark. Although there is water in it, no one knows what is hidden under the water.
The only thing that is certain is that there are currently no bodies floating in the well.
"Jili gua la! ji li gua la!"
Suddenly.
Just when he looked left and right, he couldn't see clearly what was going on under the well.
There was a faint sound of quarreling in my ears.
"Those people are in chaos."
Li Leping immediately withdrew his gaze and looked in one direction without any surprise.
Although the foundation of the hall blocked his view, the sounds that reached his ears were enough to let him know that Jiang Hao might not be able to control the situation.
After all, Jiang Hao was alone and weak. How could it be possible to keep all twenty ghost masters in place with his own strength?
The reason I didn't attack you was because I was afraid of the uniform you wore as the person in charge of the Asia headquarters.
But if you insist on blocking it, it will be like making everyone blind in the next action.
When you don't know anything and haven't figured out anything, don't you just have to resist the attacks of ghosts in a daze?
If you resist the attack of the evil spirits, you will die.
Knowing that he could not continue to let Jiang Hao control the situation alone, Li Leping could only give up spying on the well for the time being and quickly returned to the front of the hall.
But that's just at this moment.
After everyone has gathered in this temple.
Outside the temple, in the quiet flower field.
I don’t know when the bright red flowers showed signs of withering. The withering speed was so fast that the flowers that were bright red one second lost their original brightness and turned yellow the next second.
Like a decadent person, the flower crown hangs down feebly.
soon.
The bright flower sea lost its former red color and became withered, filled with a dead smell, which smelled a little disgusting.
But amid the stench of dead flowers, there was a faint smell of corpses.
at the same time.
The corpses that had been lying in the sea of flowers for who knows how long suddenly stood up straight and stood in the flower field, looking at the temple in the distance with their dark, dead eyes wide open.