Only then did I know that the black storm also attracted Warner's army. When they saw the mighty camel team coming through the sand, Lao Jiang and the others could only jump into the tornado.
"Without further delay, since we have already entered, we must seize the time to find the relic and make a quick decision." This was Xiang Wanli's voice.
After entering the pagoda, Professor Xiang Wanli was obviously very excited!
But right now, we don’t even know where we are in the pagoda.
This trip happened in a hurry, and no one brought a flashlight, so they had to rely on a few lighters for lighting!
Diaoye's sharp eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of a strange ever-burning lamp on the wall.
The ever-burning lamp is entirely carved from crystal, but it has no wick!
The shape seems to be that of a Western Buddhist monk holding a mirror high and praying to God for light, which seems to imply something.
Why is Master Diao the best tomb robber in the Northwest?
But seeing his brows move, he quickly walked towards the crystal lantern and turned the image of the monk holding the mirror to point it at the slightest hint of sunlight at the entrance.
In an instant, the crystal lamp is full of energy like a battery and refracts sunlight onto the mirror of another lamp.
Repeating this cycle, the crystal lanterns in Xixiali were all illuminated at once, reflecting colorful light!
We also took the opportunity to see the surrounding environment clearly. It turned out that we fell into a closed secret room. On both sides of the secret room, there was a row of Western-style murals, which were colorful and lifelike.
The painting is of a monk holding a thin horse, a travelogue in a Central Plains country.
"It's Monk Le!" Diao Ye said.
Lao Jiang and I immediately observed carefully and found out that Monk Le was going to Southern Liang this time to persuade the king to stop fighting with Northern Liang and protect the peace of the Silk Road together.
The king ignored Le's arrival. Instead, he clapped his hands and asked his men to carry in an iron cage.
He said that Fanbang had just presented a ferocious tiger as tribute, but the tiger had been bumpy all the way and had not eaten for three days. I heard that Buddha cut off a piece of meat to feed an eagle. In order to prevent the eagle from starving to death, Buddha actually cut off a piece of meat from his own body and fed it to the eagle.
Le Ruo is willing to cut off his own flesh and feed the tiger.
He just let Le continue talking...
I can even see, in the mural, the set of sharp meat-cutting tools and bone-picking knives brought by the king’s guards!
We thought that Monk Le would be scared away, but what everyone didn't expect was that Le in the painting was smiling from beginning to end.
He clasped his hands together, chanted Amitabha, and then took off his monk's robe and put it aside.
Then he picked up a knife, cut off a piece of meat from his thigh, and threw it into the tiger cage.
Some maids covered their eyes, and some guards turned around unbearably, but a miraculous scene happened. When Le cut off his flesh, golden blood flowed out!
And when the piece of meat was thrown in front of the tiger, the hungry tiger did not pounce on the food. Instead, a line of clear tears flowed from his eyes, and he knelt down in front of Le with a bang.
The tiger shed tears and the beast knelt down. This scene made the king immediately think that the Bodhisattva appeared.
He was greatly surprised, and then agreed to let the frontline troops withdraw from Dunhuang West County!
"This monk Le is so ecstatic..."
I said, "If the story in the mural is true, he was indeed persuading the warlike kings one by one, even willing to sacrifice himself."
"But why is the blood he sheds golden?" Yin Ling'er asked puzzledly: "Isn't he a human?"
We really can't answer this question.
The final explanation to Professor Wan Li was that when people highly respect a certain sage, they will continue to mythologize him. For example, Fuxi and Nuwa have a human head and a snake body, and Liu Bang was born from a dragon. These are all false.
But what we didn’t know at the time was that Le was not a myth. He was indeed flowing with golden blood, and everything he did was a miracle.
And the secret that the Warner family is searching for is related to him...
At the end of the mural is a thick wall. On the wall is a kid with teeth and claws. This kid is blue all over, has long green hair, two long fangs protruding from his mouth, and is holding a handle in his hand. The gleaming steel fork.
It's like it's about to stab us, it's very scary!
"Yaksha, this is Yaksha from the Eight Heavenly Dragons!" Several of us shouted in unison.
I took another look at the mural and understood its meaning instantly: "Yaksha is the messenger of hell and represents death. The monk Le in the mural chose to feed the tiger after seeing through life and death. Only in this way can all living beings be moved. ”
The problem is that there is no way forward. How are we going to get out?
I rubbed my hands carefully on the wall with the Yaksha painted on it, and for the first time I was told that if there was any mechanism, it must be here.
Just when my fingers touched Yasha's thigh, there was a sound of machinery coming from the secret room.
The row of bricks with Yasha's thighs drawn on them all retracted, and instead, a long stone platform stretched out!
There is also a plate placed on the stone platform. On the plate is a meat-cutting knife, which is exactly the same as the knife in the mural.
Yin Ling'er was startled, covered her eyes and said, "Oh my god, isn't it going to require each of us to cut a piece of meat from our bodies and put it on a plate before we can go out? This is too scary."
Diao Ye narrowed his eyes and said: "It is indeed possible. If you are not determined to feed the tiger with your body, how can you prove your devotion to the relics?"
Just when we were at a loss, Xiang Wanli suddenly walked over. He was the first to roll up his sleeves, cut off a piece of meat from his thigh with the knife on the tray, and put it into the tray through gritted teeth.
He was obviously just a scholar, but he didn't say a word the whole time!
It seemed that he didn't feel any pain at all, but the left leg was bleeding profusely.
Yueyue immediately rushed forward, used a bandage to bandage him, and said in an anxious tone: "Professor, why are you doing this? We can also think of other ways."
Xiang Wanli waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, this is the simplest and fastest way. I guess this mechanism does not require all of us to cut off a piece of meat. As long as someone shows the determination to feed the tiger with his own body, it will open."
"Bai Bing and Xiao Wu sacrificed their lives for their faith. What does it matter if I lose a piece of flesh?"
"I Xiang Wanli will never become a burden to the team!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the stone platform actually shrank back with a 'whoosh' sound.
Not long after, the stone wall in front of us began to slowly rise. I didn't expect that this level would really be broken like this!
But as the dust cleared, our hopes turned to disappointment.
Because what appears in front of us is not a magnificent tomb or a treasure box for storing relics, but a larger maze!
