Chapter 164: Darkness

Chapter 164: Darkness

Chapter 164: Darkness
"The well mouth is at least ten meters below. If you are an expert in rock climbing, you can climb down through the gaps in the bricks below. You can also use the existing ropes. It's faster."

"This rope is very strong and has been there for a long time. It must have been put there by the monks here. You said to cut it off? Someone has done it before, but the next fortune will definitely be a bad omen, so it's not worth it. Besides, cutting the rope won't trap anyone inside."

"Be careful, there are some areas below that are artificially carved out, and there are protrusions in some places. It's easy to hit your head, bend over, and crawl, because there is a section of the road that is very low, less than four feet high."

In absolute darkness, Lin Qiqi whispered instructions to Luo Xi.

She really felt like she was crazy.

"I, Lin Qiqi, am not a talkative person. I am cold and taciturn. Why am I talking so much now?"

While giving these instructions, he was judging himself in his heart.

It was as if there was another personality criticizing her, but Lin Qiqi would immediately find reasons to refute it.

"I'm pursuing you, it's normal to take the initiative, okay?"

It was like two identical Lin Qiqi were arguing.

"Although I can't see it, I want to ask, do you feel that the current terrain is the same as what you know?" Luo Xi asked at this time.

The two of them were very close.

The kind that you can reach out and touch.

This is done because if danger or accidents occur, it can be used for both offense and defense.

"Same." Lin Qiqi knew why Luo Xi asked that.

Or is it the so-called speculation that there may be different dimensions and spaces before the presence of light and the absence of light?

Speaking of which, Lin Qiqi also felt that this possibility existed.

Just like Luo Xi said, this is the day of confinement, and anything incredible can happen.

"After passing through this low passage, which is about four meters long, you will see a bright and open space. There are bamboo poles stuck in the ground, tied with ropes, connecting each other. On the ropes are the six-syllable mantra: Om Ma Ni Pa Mi Hum."

"Six-word mantra? There won't be a small plot mission, right?"

"Yes, it is actually to find a complete set of six-character mantras, but there is no special reward. Doing so will only open the entrance to the backyard of the underground Buddhist temple. In fact, it only needs to be opened once every cycle day, and the next person can also enter. By this time, someone has already opened it, because it is not difficult to collect the six-character mantra of Om, Ma, Ni, Ba, Mi, Hum."

While Lin Qiqi was speaking, they had already passed through the low passage. Just as she said, the view here suddenly became clear.

Sure enough, there was no change in the terrain.

This means that in a dark and lightless environment, the possibility of the existence of another space and dimension is extremely small.

Later, Luo Xi also arrived here and touched the bamboo pole stuck in the ground, the hemp rope tied to the bamboo pole, and the talisman paper on the hemp rope.

"If you can't see it, who knows what the truth is?" Luo Xi suddenly asked at this time.

"This, I can't see, so there must be light."

"Om!" Luo Xi said suddenly.

"What?" Lin Qiqi was stunned.

"Shh!" Luo Xi asked Lin Qiqi to be quiet, and then he recited the six-character mantra one by one: "Ma, Ni, Ba, Mi, Hum"

When he chanted "Hum", Luo Xi suddenly felt the talisman in his hand vibrate.

"Turns out it's voice-controlled!" Luo Xi muttered.

Then he told Lin Qiqi about this situation, and the latter tried it and found that it worked.

"Something is not going right. If the six-word mantra can be confirmed by just seeing it, why do we need to set up a mechanism to determine the mantra by sound?" Lin Qiqi thought of a possibility.

Because we can't see, we need to use sound.

There is only one explanation.

"Is there really a dark dimension without light?" Lin Qiqi's curiosity also emerged.

She and Luo Xi first collected the six-character mantra.

Just as she said, there are plenty of mantra talisman papers here, just like the wild flowers and weeds on the roadside, you can easily find a handful of them. It is not difficult to collect all the six-character mantras. If you are lucky, you can do it in a few minutes.

"Done!"

"Give it to me. I'll try to activate it." Lin Qiqi took the six prepared mantras from Luo Xi and chanted: "Om, Mani, Ba Mi, Hum!"

The next moment, she felt as if the talisman paper in her hand was forcibly pulled away by a force and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Activated?"

Lin Qiqi was shocked.

Because under normal circumstances, the six-character mantra in the Buddhist temple underground would have been activated by someone long ago, and it would not have waited until now. Moreover, before this, when she and Luo Xi came here, they had seen many people who had recalled memories crawling out of the well, which meant that someone must have activated it.

This thing is like a door.

Open it once and the door will open.

Unless it's the first time you open it.

And now it feels like opening this door for the first time.

Real hammer!
"This is not a normal underground Buddhist temple." Even though Lin Qiqi didn't dare to believe it, she couldn't find anything to refute it based on the solid evidence.

At the same time, a strange wind blew from afar, bringing with it a hint of oldness, like the musty and stale smell of a secret room that had not been opened for thousands of years suddenly opening.

This kind of smell could not be smelled in the previous Buddhist temple underground.

Along with the wind came the faint Buddhist sayings and Zen sayings.
I was stunned and wanted to listen carefully, but I couldn't hear anything, as if I was hallucinating.

"Luo Xi, did you hear what I just said?"

Lin Qiqi asked in a low voice.

No one responded.

"Luo Xi?" She called again in a low voice, but still no response.

Lin Qiqi's face darkened in the darkness. She was not worried that Luo Xi was cheating her or joking with her, because he was not that kind of person. Luo Xi didn't speak, there was only one possibility, he couldn't speak, or he couldn't speak, or even he was not by her side at all.

Lin Qiqi stopped making any sound and reached out to touch her side.

I felt empty.

I expanded the range and searched around, but still couldn't feel anything. It was so quiet around me that it seemed like there was no one around.

The feeling of loneliness and fear immediately came over me like a tide.

Lin Qiqi bent her knees and lowered her body.

The advantage of doing this is that if you encounter an emergency, you can burst out your strength in the first moment, whether it is to attack or escape.

Lin Qiqi is also a true veteran and master. She knows that if someone attacks Luo Xi, she'd better not make any sound, because then the other party will attack her next.

If Luo Xi is still here and the other party remains silent, there must be a reason.

You should cooperate and remain silent.

We can only grope our way forward.

She calmed down and felt around in this place where she couldn't see anything. Then, she touched something on the ground. It was cold, soft, had hair, and had open eyes.
Someone's head.

Lin Qiqi's heart sank.

Her first reaction was that Luo Xi fell to the ground, so she hurriedly reached over with both hands, and then, she felt nothing behind the head.

Uh?
Only the head?

Dead head?
Her hair stood on end, because there was no corpse in the Buddhist temple underground in the well.

"Is it Luo Xi?"

I touched the neck and found a wound and sticky, cold blood. It seemed like the person had been dead for some time.

"It's not Luo Xi!" Lin Qiqi breathed a sigh of relief. She now held the head, which might be covered in blood, with both hands and continued to confirm.

"The hair lengths are different, so the facial features should be different as well. Uh, ha, this person has a scar on his face, but Luo Xi doesn't. That's great, it's not him!" At this point, Lin Qiqi was completely relieved, but another problem soon arose.

"Whose head is this?"

Lin Qiqi immediately ruled out the possibility that this was a "prop corpse" that originally existed in the Buddhist temple underground.

Because if it was a prop, the corpse shouldn't be so fresh.

It felt like I had been dead for less than half an hour.

The blood was cold, but the flesh was still soft.

The eyes, well, you can press them in, they’re soft.

I picked it up and smelled it, and there was no rotten smell, only the smell of blood.

"Who is it? Could it be another memory collector?" Lin Qiqi kept analyzing, and then she realized: "There is no dangerous mechanism like beheading in the underground Buddhist temple. And normally, people would worship Buddha here, get the fortune and leave. How could he die here?"

"Unless, this is not the Buddhist temple under the well that I thought it was, but another place. A place without light?"

Lin Qiqi put down the head in his hand and continued to grope.

See if you can touch the body.

But she looked around and found nothing.

"How's your body?"

Lin Qiqi thought about it and felt that if she stayed where she was, there would be no point, and she hadn't found Luo Xi's location, so the other party might have left, or been captured by something.

So she continued to grope forward.

Finally, she touched something crucial.

The stone lions in front of the Buddhist temple!
Of course, the Buddhist temple under the well is very small, the small houses in the yard are small, and the stone lions are also small, but after touching it, Lin Qiqi was finally able to confirm the existence of the lightless place, because the stone lions she touched were different from what she knew.

The stone lions here don't look like lions at all when you touch them. In short, their heads are not heads, their claws are not claws, and they don't even have tails.

I can't figure out what it is specifically.

Lin Qiqi continued to grope and found the door. The door was open and she walked in slowly.

Luo Xi walked forward, holding his hand.

Judging from the touch, it should be Lin Qiqi's hand.

But after Luo Xi was led by this hand for a while, he found something was wrong.

"Qiqi?"

Luo Xi called out in a low voice.

There was no response, but the hand still pulled him forward.

Luo Xi stopped, only to find that the hand was extremely strong and was actually dragging him forward.

Luo Xi took a step forward and planned to capture the opponent. No matter who the opponent was, he would pin him to the ground first.

But the next second, Luo Xi was stunned.

He should have grabbed the opponent's shoulder, but what he grabbed was the arm.

Judging from this length, this arm is quite long.

As he touched it, the length of the arm refreshed Luo Xi's perception.

At that moment, Luo Xi even suspected that it was the long-legged nurse from the second ward who came here to make a guest appearance, but even the long-legged nurse's arms were not so long, and, so, soft.
What on earth was grabbing me?

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