However, I don't know if it can be called lucky. At least so far, the more than 20 people who entered the temple have not encountered any danger, and not even a ghost has been seen.
This made many people breathe a sigh of relief and start exploring every corner of the temple.
Temple center.
Li Leping, who had already walked around the temple, had a very clear goal.
Now only the main hall in front of me remains to be investigated.
Immediately.
He took action and was the first to step onto the steps.
Jiang Hao followed closely behind him, and behind them were several ghost masters from Southeast Asia.
These guys were obviously like most of them, they didn't dare to search this weird and conspicuous hall immediately.
However, when they saw Li Leping taking action, driven by curiosity, they finally chose to follow Li Leping to inspect the hall at this time.
In this regard, Li Leping did not stop him, but walked alone at the front of the team.
The thick stone steps are cracked, and the surface is covered with a thick layer of dust. When you step on it, it will even scatter everywhere. When you feel short of breath, you also understand that no one has visited this place for a long time.
.
The steps do not appear to be dangerous.
After climbing dozens of steps, the main hall hidden in the darkness finally appeared before Li Leping's eyes.
The shape of this hall is very similar to the main hall in the temple. Whether it is doors, windows or beams, all building materials are made of wood, and most of them are coated with a layer of red paint. I just don’t know if it’s because it’s been here for too long.
No one has taken care of it, so the paint color on the building's surface looks a little dull.
The combination of red walls and black tiles, coupled with the deserted environment, gives people a sense of dead silence and depression.
Looking around, I saw that the door of the palace was not closed.
However, although the door was not closed, it was pitch dark inside the palace. The moonlight seemed to have lost its ability to illuminate here and could not shine into this mysterious darkness, making people outside the palace unable to see anything.
arrive.
The dark hall is like a bottomless abyss. Once a mortal enters, he is likely to disappear completely.
And directly above the door, there is a plaque with writing on it, which glows faintly with golden light under the moonlight.
"Ghost Palace?"
Li Leping immediately saw these two words on the plaque clearly.
The glowing golden font seems to be written in gold paint and cannot be changed by supernatural powers, making it particularly conspicuous in this strange world.
Jiang Hao behind him also saw the writing on the plaque, and his whole body suddenly felt a chill: "The Main Hall is generally the main hall of Buddhist temples used to enshrine Buddha statues, but now this hall is a ghost hall, so what will happen inside?"
What is being enshrined?”
Being born in Buddhism, he naturally understands Buddhist culture.
But the current situation is obviously not suitable to be brought into normal Buddhist etiquette.
"Go in and have a look."
The darkness of the hall was not enough to scare Li Leping, let alone to make him turn around and leave at this moment.
This hall is obviously the center of supernatural events and must be investigated.
But.
When Li Leping crossed the threshold and entered this ghost palace that no one had set foot in for a long time.
Suddenly.
His eyes suddenly shrank, and his palms subconsciously touched his back, as if he was planning to attack something that appeared in front of him.
Behind him, Jiang Hao and several ghost masters were even more tense, their hairs stood on end, and their hearts trembled.
When everyone entered the hall, the light of the flashlight shone on several faces in the hall.
What makes Li Leping and others feel numb the most is that these faces are almost sticking to the faces of living people like them.
It seemed that these faces had been staying a few meters behind the door, but the darkness obscured their existence. Only when Li Leping and others stepped into the hall could they see these faces standing behind the door.
Four faces stood in a row behind the door, with stiff expressions and different skin colors. Some were painted purple, some were painted green, some were painted red, and some were painted blue.
color.
A dead man stood at the door, his lifeless eyes looking at Li Leping as he entered the hall, revealing an unusual sense of terror.
However, what really makes people feel horrified is not the expressions on these four faces, but the four faces themselves.
Because these four faces don't look like human faces at all.
The elongated face, the nostrils on the chin, and the eyes elongated to the corners of the forehead, these facial features are simply not something humans can possess.
"Paper horse?"
Li Leping, who took a few steps back, immediately recovered from the shock and stared at the faces in front of him.
After taking a closer look, Li Leping breathed a sigh of relief when he looked at the four motionless faces.
Looking at the incongruous facial features and facial features, he thought of something less common, but actually existing.
With this thought in mind, he boldly walked towards these four faces.
"really."
He changed his angle slightly, and after seeing the stretched neck, his suspicion was immediately verified.
As analyzed, these four faces do not belong to humans, or even to paper figures, but to items used in folk sacrifices.
Paper horse.
"What bad luck."
Jiang Hao looked at these paper horses that frightened everyone and couldn't help but cursed in a low voice.
The four paper horses in front of you can be said to be lifelike, but compared with normal horses, these four paper horses are obviously much smaller. Although the weird colors make people feel uncomfortable, they do not seem to be dangerous.
"what is that?"
Suddenly.
After being frightened, Jiang Hao, who followed Li Leping, took a step forward before he could take a deep breath. He seemed to have discovered something, and the light of the flashlight suddenly swept over the paper horse.
Then, his neck subconsciously shrank back.
These four paper horses are not the only ones standing behind the door.
Since there are horses, there must be people who ride them.
However, the person who can ride the paper horse will naturally not be a living person.
Sitting on the backs of these four paper horses are four paper figures.
These four paper figures are equally lifelike, and the colors are exactly the same as the paper horses riding underneath them. The painted facial features look particularly scary under the illumination of the flashlight.
Fortunately, everyone had already been frightened by the paper-horse faces before, so they were not frightened by these four strange people on the horse.
"Four paper figures, four paper horses..."
Li Leping looked at such a strange combination in front of him. While he was mumbling something, his face gradually became serious as he thought about it.
"What, what did you think of?" Jiang Hao, who was patting his chest to calm down, couldn't help but ask.
"I remember that when you gave me the popular science about the Water and Land Dharma Assembly, you mentioned that there would be a part in the Dharma Assembly where talismans are distributed, and there is also a part where saints are sent off."
Li Leping said this with a somewhat uncertain tone, because this was also the first time he encountered such an incredible scene.
The ghost did not appear immediately, but instead, various strange and supernatural phenomena appeared in front of him that did not affect his life.
"Distributing talismans, sending saints..."
After hearing these two words, Jiang Hao's eyes flashed and he focused again on the paper man and paper horse in front of him.
The so-called hair talisman means sending an "invitation letter", but this invitation letter is not given to ordinary people. In the etiquette of the Dharma assembly, the invitation letter is used to send up to heaven and down to the underworld, so as to report to heaven and earth.
When and where the Dharma Assembly will be held, I hope that all the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and sentient beings in the six realms who have received the invitation can rush to the Dharma Assembly.
However, Jiang Hao knew very well that in this ghost palace, even if there were invitations to be sent out, the recipients would not be gods and Buddhas, but a group of fierce ghosts.
After a moment of silence, Jiang Hao slowly spoke: "Do you suspect that these four items will be used in the next eight days?"
Since it is a talisman issued, there must be a messenger responsible for issuing the talisman.
The four paper figures riding paper horses in front of me seem to be very suitable for this position.
"It's not doubt, it's affirmation, because this is a supernatural place, so the things that can exist in the supernatural place must not be decorations, they must have existential significance, but I can't determine which part of the day these things are in.
Use it." Li Leping's tone was very determined.
"Indeed." Jiang Hao agreed.
"It's a pity that there are no other instructions on these paper figures and horses, so I have no way of knowing when these items will be used, and how to use them is also a big problem."
Although Jiang Hao nodded in agreement, he had no idea how to use these items and when to use them.
Although these four horses are already in front of us, the problem is that no one knows how to make these four horses move.
"Lets see."
Li Leping also knew how mysterious this incident was. Supernatural incidents were not like movies and would not follow the script.
Next, we can only take one step, look at it, and use whatever can be used in the matter.
Soon, Li Leping withdrew his gaze, bypassed the paper objects blocking the door, walked deeper into the hall, and continued to explore.
The few ghost masters who had been frightened since entering the door followed the two of them without saying a word.
But after taking a few steps forward, Li Leping stopped, and his face turned gloomy again.
This should be the middle of the hall.
There is a huge altar in the middle of the hall.
If it is inside a temple, it is normal to place an altar.
However, what makes people feel creepy right now is that what is placed on this spacious altar is not a Buddha statue, but three coffins.
The three coffins are large, two are black and one is red. They look very old, especially the paint on the surface of the vermilion coffin has shown signs of fading. It looks a bit like deep red, giving people a sign that it is gradually getting closer to black.
The most disturbing thing is that these three coffins of different colors are not placed flat on the altar, but are placed upright.
Vaguely, you can smell a bit of putrid smell coming from the coffin.
This shows that there is a corpse in the coffin.
It's just that such a strange arrangement makes people imagine that the person in the coffin seems to be unable to live in peace even after death, and may push open the coffin lid and run out at any time.
The one placed in the middle is the red lacquer coffin, which seems to imply that this coffin is the most precious.
"According to folk saying, the Buddha statue that can be enshrined in the middle must have the most noble status."
"But, what about now?"
"What does a red coffin placed in the middle mean?"
As Li Leping stopped again, Jiang Hao and others who were following him also stopped. After seeing the scene in front of them, their bodies began to tremble involuntarily.
Paper figures and horses placed in front of the door, coffins enshrined in the main hall.
All this seems so inconsistent, so subversive of ordinary people's cognition, that people have to think about the worst.
"What's this?"
After his eyes stayed on the three coffins for a moment, Li Leping turned to look in front of the coffins.
Although the coffin looks very scary, at least there has been no problem so far. It is unnecessary to pay too much attention to it. After all, no one dares to open the coffin for an autopsy at this time.
There were some things placed on the altar in front of the coffin, which looked very much like sacrifices.
There is a wooden fish placed in front of the vermilion coffin, and five bullocks are placed next to the wooden fish.
The so-called jianzhi is the wooden stick used to knock wooden fish.
There is a stack of trays placed in front of the black coffin on the left.
The pallets were made of mahogany, and there were quite a few of them, at least twenty. They were piled almost as high as half a coffin. If it weren’t for the fact that the coffin behind the pile of pallets was too conspicuous, people who would have come to the altar would have
This stack of trays will definitely be the first thing you see.
In front of the black coffin on the right, there are the most things.
A roll of golden cloth tied with a rope, with a bottle placed next to it, with a willow branch stuck in the bottle.
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"Pure bottle?"
Suddenly, when they saw this small white bottle, both Li Leping and Jiang Hao's eyes moved slightly.
"It seems that your guess is correct. There is indeed a sprinkling ceremony on the first day." Li Leping turned around and said to Jiang Hao.
As early as when he was an island nation, Jiang Hao speculated that a purification ceremony would be required on the first day of the eight-day mission based on the process of the Dharma assembly.
Right now, there happens to be a clean bottle placed here.
The appearance of this thing seemed to confirm that Jiang Hao's idea was correct.
"It looks like this place will really hold a water and land ceremony."
Li Leping thought to himself while looking around the dim hall.
Then, he began to think seriously and analyze the information.
But at this moment.
"Whoosh——!"
The sound of something being set on fire suddenly sounded in the hall.
The sound came from the four corners of the hall.
Looking around, I saw that there were actually oil lamps placed in these places that I had not had time to investigate before.
But the oil lamp placed in the corner lit up without anyone lighting it.
"not good."
The oil lamp shone on Li Leping's pale face. Looking at the suddenly lit oil lamp, he felt a deep uneasiness in his heart.
He didn't think the oil lamp would light up for no reason.
The quiet atmosphere that has always been maintained is broken, which inevitably means that this place is no longer stable.
"Either there is something in this hall targeting us, or..."
I haven't had time to think about it yet.
"Bang! Bang bang!"
The sound came from outside the temple and echoed throughout the temple.
It sounded like someone was banging on the temple door, rushing in.
"When the lights are on, they will start. This ceremony is about to begin."
Li Leping's eyes were solemn as he figured out the meaning behind the lighting of the oil lamp.