Kowloon coffin

Chapter 129
The monk didn't even talk about the poor monk in the end. Although he didn't know what Shen Jingnian and the others were looking for, the sky that had never lit up and everything that happened in the Chanjing Temple seemed weird. Harmful, plus he is also considered smart, slowly guessed something from the conversations of a few people, and naturally he took refuge here.

Under the advice of the monk, several people entered the scripture building. Looking at each floor, none of the floors were similar to the scripture building that Bai Miaomiao was talking about. Except for some ancient books, there were some cultural relics here. To be able to distinguish the authenticity of these cultural relics, there is no god that can convert merit.

Later, they searched for a long time, but they still found nothing.

After they came out, Bai Miaomiao and Feng Mu were a little anxious. They were low-level, and the longer they stayed in the barrier, the more tired they became. If Shen Jingnian and the ghost prince were not there to protect them, their condition would be even worse.

Just when the four of them were at a loss, the monk suddenly thought that apart from these places in the Chanjing Temple, there was also a small courtyard that had been abandoned for a long time. The burial ground, since Xue Jingxian took control of the Chanjing Temple, he stopped offering incense to these graves during festivals every year, and gradually this courtyard faded out of everyone's sight.

The monk mentioned this place, but Bai Miaomiao had no impression that he had heard that there was such a place in the Chanjing Temple, so he had some doubts about what he said, so he looked at the monk and saw that his expression was normal and did not seem to be lying, so he rushed to Shen Jingnian Nodding his head, he said, "Anyway, we've wasted so much time since that great elder couldn't come out. Why don't we just listen to him and go take a look."

Shen Jingnian said "OK", then walked up to Lord Ghost and whispered to him, "My lord, please pay attention to this monk after you fall behind us, I always feel that something is wrong."

This monk is too cooperative. On the surface, there is indeed no problem, but it is necessary to pay more attention.

A few people turned around and followed the monk's guidance and walked to the back of the Chanjing Temple. The ghost prince listened to Shen Jingnian's instructions and hid himself in the end to pay attention to the surrounding situation. frequency.

At the beginning, although the monk's heartbeat was a little faster, it beat very rhythmically. When several people saw the desolate courtyard that the monk said, the ghost prince keenly found that the monk's heartbeat slowed down a few beats. Obviously, what the monk said before There must be some reservations about what he said. The defeated courtyard that appeared in front of several people is definitely not as simple as he said.

So the ghost prince immediately sent a message to Shen Jingnian, and appeared to stop Bai Miaomiao and Feng Mu.

The monk was walking behind the three of Bai Miaomiao, seeing the prince of ghosts appearing to stop Bai Miaomiao and the two of them subconsciously stopping. At this moment, Shen Jingnian, who was leading the battle, turned around and waved to the monk, "Come and follow me in."

The monk was taken aback, looked at Bai Miaomiao and the others, and then looked at Shen Jingnian, seeing the small courtyard in front of him opening its mouth like a beast lurking in the darkness, there was an indescribable sense of crisis, but Shen Jingnian was not called Bai Miaomiao Instead, they asked themselves to go in with him alone. Could it be that he discovered something and wanted to use himself as cannon fodder to explore the way?
"Why don't you go, keep going!"

The ghost prince smiled sinisterly, and suddenly flashed in front of the monk, a ghostly face shining with faint blue fluorescence, against the background of the small courtyard that also looked very gloomy, this grimace was particularly frightening.

The monk's throat moved, and he said "Amitabha". The situation forced him to make a choice, and he reluctantly walked towards Shen Jingnian. Halfway there, he looked back at Bai Miaomiao and the others, and said again. With a word of Zen, resigned to fate, he followed Shen Jingnian to the small courtyard.

The courtyard here has been abandoned for a long time and no one has renovated it. The dilapidated wooden door can be kicked open with a few kicks, and the rusty lock can only hear a "click" when Shen Jingnian pulls it hard. It fell to the ground.

Shen Jingnian raised his chin and signaled the monk to push the door, the monk who had been kicked out had no choice but to take a step forward, stretched out his hand tremblingly and pushed open the wooden door.

—— squeak

The moment the wooden door was pushed open, the monk took two steps back in fright, Shen Jingnian put his hand on his back so that the monk could not run back directly.

"Stand still and don't move."

Shen Jingnian warned the monk to step forward, the small courtyard where no one weeded was overgrown, and there were many small mounds obscured by weeds on the uneven ground, which should be buried by the former monks of the Chanjing Temple. Grave bag here.

Through these weeds is an old tile-roofed house that is not high. It is the same as the people who could not afford to build a house in the countryside 50 years ago. It's tall but very big, occupying half of the small courtyard, and only looking at the appearance of the apartment, it gave Shen Jingnian the appearance of a coffin.

After taking a second look at Shen Jingnian, he took a few steps back. He obviously didn't step over the threshold to go in, but when he stepped back, his footprints on the ground were like stepping on the dirt inside, leaving a few mud marks on the ground.

Shen Jingnian pretended not to notice this strange situation, and calmly said to the monk: "Has anyone been in or out in recent years?"

The monk shook his head and said to Shen Jingnian with certainty: "Ever since Daoist Xue was in charge of various affairs in the temple, this place has been deserted. Except for patrolling monks who would pass by this place, we monks and Taoist priests generally never go this way."

"Really, I don't think there's anything we're looking for here, let's look elsewhere."

Shen Jingnian lowered his head so that people couldn't see the expression on his face clearly. After saying these words, he made a gesture to leave. Seeing this, the monk subconsciously raised his hand to stop him, but then felt that this action would make Shen Jingnian and the others suspicious and quickly put down his hand .

Not far away, Lord Ghost and the others had a panoramic view of the monk's actions, even the monk's hidden sideways movement, but they pretended not to know, and didn't say anything after Shen Jingnian walked back with the monk. .

When Shen Jingnian walked up to Lord Ghost, he gave him a look. The murderous intent in it made Lord Ghost realize that it was for him to throw the monk into the small courtyard as bait for temptation, so he quietly appeared on the left side of the monk. , before the monk reacted and took precautions, the ghost prince subdued him neatly.

"Thank you, old bald donkey, for bringing us here."

"what?"

The monk only came to ask a question, and the next second, the world was spinning, and the king of ghosts directly threw a high-altitude parabola, swept him with a gust of wind, and threw him into the defeated courtyard.

The moment the monk landed on the ground, the wooden door of the small courtyard squeaked and closed itself, and then the few people standing outside heard the screams of the monk from the courtyard, scratching their hearts and lungs continuously, just like The lingering magic sound caused Bai Miaomiao and Feng Mu, who were not very skilled, to spit out a mouthful of old blood.

The things in the small courtyard also smelled blood outside, and the dark red wooden door creaked open again, like a giant beast with its fangs open, waiting for its prey to be sent in by itself again.

The sharp-eyed people all saw a bulging small grave mound with mud surging on the ground closest to the door. It seemed that a new corpse had been wrapped inside. The black and yellow mud was mixed with a little red. Dare shouted sharply: "Look quickly, is that monk in the small bag at the door?"

Shen Jingnian walked back on the gravel road, and said to Bai Miaomiao without turning his head, "Don't look, this is not an old courtyard where no one comes and goes, it is simply a place where Xue Jingxian and other beasts raise their corpses, and that monk is not Good thing, none of what you told us just now is true, let's go back to the Sutra Library immediately."

"why?"

Bai Miaomiao couldn't figure it out, the three-story scripture building just now was not the scripture building mentioned by his grandfather at all, and they didn't find any hidden compartments or secret rooms inside, even Shen Jingnian and the ghost prince said it wasn't there. to go back.

Although he couldn't figure it out, Bai Miaomiao still kept up with Shen Jingnian's footsteps.

Shen Jingnian didn't give her an answer, instead, the ghost prince floating in the air explained: "Everything we saw just now is just a trick of this monk. He is not a monk in the Chan Sutra Temple at all, but the Fourth Elder of the Alliance."

"Ah? How do you know?"

Bai Miaomiao was puzzled, why didn't she see that the monk was not from the Chanjing Temple, she felt that this monk knew the Chanjing Temple quite well.

Compared to Bai Miaomiao who couldn't figure it out, Feng Mu figured out the key point after his master spoke, and said: "Miaomiao, do you think the monks and Taoists in the temple will hear that we are looking for the Buddhist scriptures building? After that, he took us there without saying a word, even if he had to do it because of our threats, he is always curious, and he will always find out what we are looking for along the way?"

Not only did this monk not insinuate and ask them why they were looking for the scripture building, but even offered to continue to help find it after Bai Miaomiao said that it was not the scripture building. What is even more strange is that the ghost prince scared him twice. How could the performance after being frightened be so exaggerated, and you can still sit on the ground. Ordinary monks and Taoists see ghosts, even if they know they can't beat them, their subconscious action is to cast spells and attack, rather than take no measures.

After Feng Mu's explanation, Bai Miaomiao suddenly realized: "So the monk just now, no, it should be the fourth elder. He has been acting. The scripture building we are looking for is the scripture building just now."

That's right, knowing that they can't beat Shen Jingnian and Lord Ghost, the Fourth Elder still pretends to be a monk in the temple and hides beside them, in order to lure people to the small courtyard just now. Originally, he planned to fight Shen Jingnian and the others to the death, but he didn't want to die in the end It's still only himself.

(End of this chapter)