Guo Jianlong looked like he was about to collapse. Qin Yu and Mo Yongxin looked at each other. Qin Yu nodded slightly, indicating that Guo Jianlong had almost said everything.
"Guo Jianlong, as long as you cooperate honestly with us to find a way out, the 500,000 promised to you will be given back to you." Mo Yongxin finally spoke, and Mo Yongxin's opening meant that she believed what Guo Jianlong said, then
The bodyguards took a few steps back, but their eyes were still fixed on Guo Jianlong's every move.
"Don't worry, Miss Mo. I, Lao Guo, also want to leave here. According to my grandfather's map, the exit of this underground palace is in this hall."
Guo Jianlong pointed to the main hall in front of him. Everyone looked towards the main hall, where a bell could be heard from time to time. However, after everyone had been chatting for so long, the white-haired beast still knelt in front of the entrance of the main hall and did not move.
Qin Yu took the map and looked at it for a few times. Guo Jianlong came over and pointed it to Qin Yu. Qin Yu was sure that Guo Jianlong was not lying. The exit marked on the map was indeed inside the main hall.
The bells in the hall were ringing melodiously. Because of Guo Jianlong's incident, no one except Qin Yu paid much attention to it. Now when they heard the bells, Mr. Bao and Mr. Fan frowned and looked at each other.
, a trace of doubt flashed across both of their eyes.
"Guo Jianlong, has your grandfather ever mentioned this bell to you?" Mr. Bao suddenly asked Guo Jianlong sternly. Everyone was startled, and they all looked at Mr. Bao. They didn't understand why Mr. Bao suddenly became so serious even though he was fine.
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"No, my grandfather never said that." Guo Jianlong shook his head and replied.
"What's wrong with Senior Brother Bao? Is there anything wrong with this hall?" Qin Yu asked Mr. Bao.
"Junior brother Qin, have you ever heard of morning bells and evening drums?"
"Morning bells and evening drums?" Qin Yu thought for a while and shook his head. He had heard of this idiom, but the "morning bells and evening drums" mentioned by Mr. Bao definitely did not mean the meaning of this idiom.
"The morning bell and evening drum are a special set of magical instruments, which is a bell and a drum. Because of the special function of this set of instruments, it is called the morning bell and evening drum by people in the metaphysical world." Mr. Bao looked serious, stared at the door of the hall, and said: "What if
The ringing of the morning bell is nothing, but the most feared thing is the ringing of the evening drum. Once the evening drum rings, wherever the sound reaches, all living beings will enter their twilight years and age rapidly. A young man in the prime of life can be heard in just seven drums.
After the sound, he turned into a 70-year-old man. He said the sound for ten years, which was extremely terrifying."
After Bao Lao's words fell, everyone present changed their expressions. Meng Fang frowned and asked: "Bao Lao, you heard it right, right? I think the sound of this bell is similar to that of the monks in ordinary temples who ring the bell to do their homework in the morning.
The bell sounds almost the same.”
"Morning bells and evening drums are originally described as this. All morning bells are no different from the bells in temples and Taoist temples." Fan Lao on the side explained: "There is a reason why Lao Bao and I think the morning bells are ringing here.
Yes, have you seen this white-haired beast?"
"Judging from his previous performance, this white-haired beast knows how to sneak attack and must have a high IQ. But now that so many of us are standing here, this white-haired beast doesn't pay any attention to it and is still kneeling at the door of the hall.
, don’t you think it’s strange?”
Fan Lao's words made everyone frown. The behavior of this white-haired beast was indeed difficult to understand. Judging from its previous behavior, it was full of defense and aggression towards humans, but now so many people are surrounding it.
I'm holding it but it still won't go away. There must be some unknown reason for this.
"This is because it was purified by the morning bell." Old Fan said quietly.
"Purify?" Mo Yongxing curled his lips and said: "Mr. Fan, have you watched too many American movies and evolved? This white-haired beast is not a zombie. Besides, purification was done by foreign Taoist priests.
Don't tell me that there is a foreign Taoist priest sitting inside."
"Haha." Mr. Fan stroked his beard and said: "I haven't seen the American blockbusters you mentioned. I just used the word purification to describe the current state of this white-haired beast. There is a very important part in the set of morning bells and evening drums.
The characteristic is that when the evening drum sounds, the living body will immediately age, and when the morning bell rings, those non-human life forms will be purified, which is somewhat similar to what Buddhism calls transformation. There is a saying in the metaphysical world to describe the morning bell:
There is nothing strange in front of the morning bell. Look at the state of the white-haired beast, does it look like the state of taking refuge? It is just that it is not taking refuge in Buddhism but in Taoism."
Qin Yu understood what Mr. Fan said. It happened that Qin Yu had talked about Buddhism and Taoism with Master Zhiren of Guangxiao Temple for a few days, and they also talked about the enlightenment of Buddhism.
The so-called salvation is not, as most people think, that the person being saved realizes the true meaning of Buddhism and takes refuge in Buddhism. In fact, salvation is the use of a special ability to treat the person being saved.
It is a kind of brainwashing, but this kind of brainwashing is deep-seated and goes straight to the soul of the person being converted. Once the person is converted successfully, he will never betray Buddhism for the rest of his life. Therefore, the emperors of ancient dynasties both loved and hated Buddhism.
The sad thing is that the Buddhist teachings promote the afterlife and can be used to deceive the people. The sad thing is that Buddhism's magical power of salvation is too terrifying. Once you are transformed, you will become a complete Buddhist.
The several famous incidents of extermination of Buddhism in history were actually caused by some Buddhist temples at that time using Buddhism's magical powers to encroach on the fertile land of local gentry and causing panic in the temples.
"Then according to the opinions of Senior Brother Bao and Elder Fan, what should we do now?" Qin Yu asked.
"I can only take a gamble. I bet that there are only morning bells but no evening drums, or that the evening drums will not ring."
"This is too risky." Qin Yu shook his head. He didn't like to do something that was uncertain and leave the fate to God. "Brother Bao, didn't you come down from Emperor Jing's Mausoleum? Let's follow your lead."
Can’t we just go back the way we came?”
"Hey, it would be great if we could just go back the way we came." Mr. Bao sighed. His words made everyone in the audience dim. Only Qin Yu and Guo Jianlong had puzzled expressions on their faces.
I don't understand what's wrong with everyone.
"I'd better let Miss Mo tell you this matter, but I'm afraid we don't have much time. It's best to keep the story short." Mr. Bao was a little reluctant to mention this matter, so Qin Yu had to turn his attention to Mo Yongxin, who pondered.
After a while, he opened his mouth and said:
"At that time, after Guo Jianlong and his vanguard lost contact with us, we immediately followed them and encountered those leeches. However, leeches are afraid of alcohol, so we poured all the alcohol into the water, and we walked safely.
That stretch of waterway..."
Mo Yongxin opened her mouth softly, and Qin Yu finally understood what their group had experienced.
When Mo Yongxin and her group walked through the waterway, what was in front of them was a tunnel that went straight downwards. This tunnel was so deep that even the flashlights could not illuminate the end. However, naturally, everyone would not give up, so they stepped in one after another.
Entered the tunnel.
Except that the tunnel was a little deeper, no one encountered any danger along the way. Just when everyone relaxed their vigilance, there was a sudden roar from behind. When they looked back, they realized that it was a huge stone ball rolling towards them.
Come here, with the size of this boulder and the speed of rolling down, if it is hit, I am afraid that it will be rolled into a human meat pie in an instant.
Mo Yongxin and his group naturally ran forward desperately. Among them, Mr. Bao and Mr. Fan were the slowest because they were old. In the end, they were carried by two bodyguards. Originally a stone ball, Mr. Bao and Mr. Fan
Mr. Fan didn't take it seriously. With the level of his two physical physiognomists, they could use the energy of the earth's veins to crush the stone ball or stop its downward trend.
However, Mr. Bao and Mr. Fan soon discovered that there was no trace of the earth's energy in this tunnel. Without the earth's energy, the two of them were no different from ordinary old people.
Fortunately, there is no end to the road. Seeing that the stone ball was about to catch up with them, a corner suddenly appeared in front of them. This was a 90-degree corner. Although it was also facing downwards, with this corner
Buffering allows them to push the stone ball.
After everyone ran around the corner, they all put down their packages and threw them on the ground. They stacked up a package wall that was as tall as a person and nearly one meter wide. Then everyone leaned against each other against the package wall, and then the nine
A ten-degree corner will definitely reduce some of the stone ball's downward rolling speed, so using this wrapping wall is like a buffer to stop the stone ball from rolling.
Finally, after passing the buffer at the corner, the stone ball was indeed blocked by them, but several bodyguards were also injured by the shock. After dropping most of the packages and placing them in place to block the stone ball, Mo Yongxin and others
The people continued walking forward, but their danger did not end there.
Then they encountered many traps and lost several people. If it weren't for the two old men, Mr. Bao and Mr. Fan, they would have lost at least half of them.
Among them, Mo Yongxing, Fan Lao and several bodyguards were separated from Mo Yongxin and others only when they fell into a trap and fell into another passage.
"That road is no longer possible. It has been completely destroyed by the secret passage of the agency." Mo Yongxin's words are equivalent to telling Qin Yu that the only way to leave this underground palace is the exit drawn by Grandpa Guo Jianlong on the map.
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"In that case, don't go in yet. I'll go in first to check the situation." Qin Yu was silent for a while and then suddenly said.
"Okay, Junior Brother Qin and I will go in and take a look first." Mr. Bao also agreed.
"no!"
"Can't!"
The next two voices belonged to Meng Yao and Mo Yongxin respectively. After the two girls finished speaking, they looked at each other, and then looked at Qin Yu. Meng Yao continued: "Qin Yu, I want to go in with you."
Mo Yongxin opened her mouth several times, wanting to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything. Watching Meng Yao walk up to Qin Yu, she sighed softly. (To be continued)