Several people stood at the top of the steps. Behind them was the temple's gate. The name of the temple should have been written above the gate, but the words on it were blurred.
Keli looked up and identified it for a long time, but he could only make out that there should be three words on it. What temple?
The first two words are so worn out that they are hard to read.
When Shirley thought that there was really something fishy going on here, she hesitated. Although she had entered many copies before, every time she reached this stage, she wanted to delay entering this dangerous map.
"Hey? Look there." She found that the villagers came again at the foot of the mountain.
Everyone followed her gaze and found that the villagers were gathered at the foot of the mountain. There were a few people standing among them. Judging from their clothes, they should be players.
Shirley's eyes lit up: "Let's wait for all the players to come up before going in."
After all, there is strength in numbers, and it is safer to have more people.
Zhou Zhou has good eyesight and can see that there are four players at the foot of the mountain. Together with their six people, is this a ten-person copy?
Soon, the four players at the foot of the mountain also came up. Seeing a group of people gathered at the entrance of the mountain, these players were obviously a little alert.
They must know each other as they were standing very close to each other.
Zhou Zhou took the initiative to explain: "We are also players who are here to complete the mission. We don't know what's going on inside yet. Let's go in together."
The four people looked at each other and agreed. They had just looked at the task panel. The task required to eliminate the ghosts in the temple. Now they didn't know the number and distribution of the ghosts, so more players could provide more help.
There is a gravel road behind the mountain gate, and lush pine and cypress trees are planted on the cliffs on both sides. From the outside, you can see the temple in the front, inside which there is a golden statue sitting. The statue is a chubby man with a chubby belly and smiling expression, looking kind.
Everyone stood outside the door, looking at the golden statue inside, and the same question popped up in their minds: Who is this?
Zhou Zhou recognized it immediately: "It's Maitreya Buddha!"
"who?"
Zhou Zhou looked at everyone in surprise and found that no one seemed to have heard of it: "Don't you know the gods and Buddhas enshrined in the temple?"
Keli: "I know Guanyin."
Eddie: “I’ve heard of Amitabha.”
Others have only heard some fragments and are actually unaware of many of the theories and common sense of Buddhism.
Elvia: "The culture of the Earth has gone through many faults, and much of it has disappeared. This replica should also be constructed based on the relevant ancient cultures that were recently excavated."
Elvia explained it to Zhou Zhou. After all, most of the knowledge Zhou Zhou knew originated from thousands of years ago, and a lot of knowledge has disappeared in the long river of history.
But to everyone, it seemed that Elvia's words were meant for them. When they heard that this was about the culture of ancient Earth, they became interested and chased Zhou Zhou to ask questions.
"Look, the threshold of the temple is so high. Why is it so high? Won't you trip when you walk?" Qian Le raised his foot high, stepped into the door, then stepped out, and stepped back in.
He was having fun when he looked up and saw a hideous statue glaring at him.
"Oh my God, what is this?" He ran out quickly, but was tripped by the threshold. He stumbled and almost fell to the ground. He ran forward a few steps to steady his feet, and quickly ran to Zhou Zhou to seek a sense of security.
Eddie: "It's just a statue."
A group of people walked into the temple. In front of them was Maitreya Buddha, and on both sides stood the Four Heavenly Kings holding magical instruments. They were tall and looked very dignified.
The four sculptures are much taller than ordinary people, and everyone seems to be able to feel that these statues are slightly lowering their heads to look at them.
There was something under the feet of the four statues. Keli walked to the feet of the statues and found that they were some strange-looking people, some of whom were carrying a tortoise shell on their backs or had shifty looks.
"Could these be the ghosts we want to eliminate?"
Shirley: "These are just dummies, and they don't look like ghosts."
This was Zhou Zhou’s first time to come to the temple. He had always stayed in the game world and had not been to the real world for thousands of years. All he knew about the world came from books.
Such Buddha statues can be found in some books introducing architecture from various places, and even the buildings are very similar to the pictures and descriptions he has seen before.
When Zhou Zhou saw a cushion placed in front of the Maitreya Buddha's seat, he thought about it, knelt on the cushion, and kowtowed three times to the Maitreya Buddha.
"Zhou Zhou, what are you doing!" Everyone else was stunned.
After Zhou Zhou finished his kowtow, he stood up and said, "If you come to the temple and kowtow, the Buddha will bless you with good health and academic success."
“Does it work?”
Zhou Zhou: "Sincerity is the key to success."
Others had never heard of this saying and wondered, “What if the heart is not sincere?”
"If you're not sincere, it won't work. It won't have any impact anyway."
Shirley looked up at the smiling Maitreya Buddha and asked, "Can he bless me to get rich soon?"
Zhou Zhou thought about it seriously and said, "Logically, we should worship the God of Wealth to get rich, but the Buddha should also hear it."
"Then I'll try." Shirley knelt on the futon, imitating Zhou Zhou's example: "Please bless me to lose weight successfully, get rich soon, find a partner, and stay young forever..."
Keli: "...You are asking for too much."
The others were not interested in this. Speaking of the philosophy of the interstellar age, if you want something, you must work hard to get it, and you won’t believe in such illusory things.
There is a door behind the Maitreya Buddha. Outside the door is the temple courtyard. The courtyard is square with a hall on each side. In the middle of the courtyard is a huge incense burner with a thick layer of incense ash accumulated in it, which should be left by the villagers when they usually worship and pray.
Whenever Zhou Zhou and Shirley saw a Buddha, they would go in and worship. Later, Qian Le also became interested and started to worship together. The others focused on looking for suspicious things.
Because they were unfamiliar with the various things in the temple, everyone would ask Zhou Zhou to explain them. Zhou Zhou was familiar with some of them, but he was also unfamiliar with some of them.
Directly in front of the courtyard is the Main Hall, as well as the Manjusri Hall and the Ksitigarbha Hall. Behind the Main Hall is the Guanyin Hall. Zhou Zhou recognized all of these, but he had never seen the statue of the deity opposite the Guanyin Hall.
This deity sits upright on a lotus platform with his head slightly lowered. Only his ears are visible, and no other facial features are depicted on his entire face. It looks very strange.
"I have never seen any god or Buddha without facial features." Zhou Zhou thought for a long time but couldn't remember what kind of Buddha this was.
"Maybe the villagers wanted to build a new Buddha statue, but halfway through the construction the temple was haunted, so construction was stopped." The four-person player guessed.
"That's possible, but we can't rule out the possibility that there is something wrong with the statue. The key is that we don't know whether it was newly built or has always been like this."
"Why don't we go down the mountain and ask the villagers?"
Keli recalled the attitude of those NPCs and frowned, "They only answer the questions that are set, and ignore us for other questions."
"Maybe the problem with this Buddha statue will tell us something. We should give it a try."
In the end, it was decided that Eddie and one of the four players would go down the mountain together to ask about the faceless statue, while the others would continue to look for clues in the temple.
Eddie and another player came back after a while. It turned out that they reached the last step at the bottom of the mountain and couldn't get out at all. There were no villagers around. It was probably because there was a restriction and they could only get out after they eliminated the ghosts on the mountain.
There was no way to ask now, so everyone searched the temple but didn't find any other suspicious places.
"Could it be that those ghosts only appear at night? We have to wait until night to kill them."
"It could also be that there are too many of us. With ten of us acting together, any ghost who dares to come out will be surrounded and beaten."
"Should we separate to search? If there really is a ghost, won't it be defeated one by one if we separate?"
Everyone was talking about it, and no one could make up their mind. Shirley subconsciously asked Zhou Zhou. From her previous experience in dungeons, as long as Zhou Zhou was there, she wouldn't have to worry about this kind of problem, and she would be right as long as she listened to him.
Zhou Zhou: "I think we should not separate. After all, we are in the light and they are in the dark. We are the passive party. There is no time limit for the mission. We can look for clues while looking for the hiding places of those ghosts. As long as we find one, we can find the rest according to the rules. If we separate, those ghosts hiding in the dark may eliminate us one by one, and then we may not be able to find any clues."
Naturally, no one in their team would refute Zhou Zhou, but the people in another group had different opinions.
They have also gone through many copies, and in many copies, the shorter the time spent in the early stage, the more advantageous it is for clearing the level in the later stage. Now they are searching around like headless flies, which will only waste the advantages in the later stage.
Since the two teams have different opinions, they can only search separately.
The six-member team Zhou Zhou was in was always in a place where they could see each other and were very close to each other. The four-member team had some unknown idea and went to look for clues inside each house.
There is a clear boundary between the two teams. They have never communicated verbally, but they have never disturbed each other and will not search together in the same place.
I searched the entire temple but still found nothing.
"Now we can only wait until dark to see if there will be any changes. If there are no changes, it means that the appearance of ghosts may require some kind of opportunity." Zhou Zhou thought.
Shirley: "It should be getting dark soon. Don't run around. We must act together."
Keli glanced at his sister and asked, "Are you scared?"
"Yeah, I'm afraid you'll be eaten by a ghost."
Alvia suddenly glanced to the left: "There seems to be some movement over there."
"What's going on?"
"I don't know, but it sounds like something happened."
"Go and have a look."
When Zhou Zhou and others went over, they found that the team of four was missing one person.
The remaining three people stared at a water tank with serious eyes.
This water tank is placed next to the door of the monk's residence. The half-person-high water tank is planted with lotus flowers. The green lotus leaves cover the entire mouth of the water tank. A few pale pink lotus flowers stand tall and sway in the wind.
Almost all the players couldn't help but cast their eyes towards the water tank when they searched here. The earth-colored, big-bellied water tank wasn't much to see, but inside it was a miniature lotus pond scene that made people stop and watch.
At this time, the ground near the water tank was full of water, and the water tank seemed to be stirred by someone, and the lotus flowers and lotus leaves on which the lotus depended for survival turned into dead branches.
"What's going on?"
Alvia looked at the three of them.
One of them pointed at the water tank and said, "Just now, Lin Yi was talking to me with his back to the water tank. Suddenly, a pair of hands stretched out from the water tank and pulled him in. I didn't even have time to save him. He disappeared in the blink of an eye."
The other two didn't even see clearly what it was. When they reacted, they only saw water marks all over the ground.
The first ghost is in the water tank?
Alvia stepped forward first, and the others stared at him nervously, fearing that the ghost would suddenly appear again.
But this time, when Elvia walked to the water tank, nothing happened.
Without the lotus leaves, you can only see your own reflection on the water surface, but you cannot see what is happening underwater.
Zhou Zhou also followed forward and found that he could not see anything. He trotted into the monk's residence, took out a long bamboo pole, and then put the pole into the water tank.
The water tank was only half a person's height, but the bamboo pole extended a long way down before reaching the bottom. He even stirred it and didn't feel any obstruction.
Zhou Zhou: "What we saw was only part of the water tank. Most of the water tank is buried underground."
"Then it's impossible for us to push over the water tank and pour out the ghost." Qian Le analyzed seriously.
Eddie: "...Of course not. It's not a can."
Keli: "I don't know what happened to that player."
One of the players in the four-person team said solemnly: "We have a special way of communication. He has been eliminated."
A player was eliminated so quickly that no one even knew what the ghost in the water looked like.
Qian Le simply stretched himself and said, "I'll go down and take a look. Someone has to act as bait."
Zhou Zhou shook his head: "Underwater is the opponent's home ground. You might be eliminated as soon as you go in, and we won't be able to get any useful information."
"So what do we do now? Are we just going to stare at this tank?"
Shirley seemed to remember something and came close to Zhou Zhou and whispered a few words. Zhou Zhou's eyes immediately lit up.
“You can give this method a try.”
Keli was curious about what other good ideas his sister could come up with. "What what?"
A hand grenade suddenly appeared in Shirley's hand, and then she handed it to Zhou Zhou.
Keli: "So this is it, maybe it's really useful!"
Keli and Shirley also saved up some props while doing the dungeon. Most of the props they bought were more offensive. The last time they did the dungeon, they had used up most of the props and had not had time to replenish them. This hand grenade was the last one left.
"Blow up the water tank and whatever is inside will come out." Qian Le said excitedly.
So the remaining players stood far away and handed the grenade to Elvia, because only he could ensure that it could be thrown into the water tank accurately from such a long distance.
"The grenade won't go out if it enters the water."
Shirley covered her ears and said, "No, I tried it in the last instance. It can even explode in the sea, so a water tank is nothing."
Elvia pulled the ring open, and her next move was not to throw it, but to continue holding it, without throwing it immediately.
The players behind were dumbfounded.
Eddie: "No, big brother, just throw it, why are you holding it?"
Shirley: "It's going to explode."
Keli: "Run away quickly."
Qian Le: "What's wrong with Al? We are clinging too closely to Zhou Zhou. Are you going to blow us up and kill us all?"
The other three players reacted very quickly and started running back.
Only Zhou Zhou didn't speak, but he also covered his ears like Shirley and stared at Elvia.
Alvia listened to the chaotic shouting of a group of people behind him, calculated the time and then threw it out.
The grenade fell accurately into the water tank and exploded violently the next moment.
The huge noise shook the sky, and the players could even feel the ground shaking under their feet. The water tank was blown into pieces and the water inside burst out and filled the ground.
At the moment the water tank exploded, a person flew out of the tank and fell directly to the ground.
"Fuck, it really exploded!"
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