World Tibet Bureau

Chapter 895 Don’t panic when big things happen

I said: "We seem to be still on the third floor!"

Xia Xi looked very speechless, as if she wanted to call me crazy.

I pointed to the mural on the wall: "Asura! It's still it!"

Xia Xi said: "What's so strange about this? It's a bell in an ancient Buddhist kingdom. All the walls are carved with statues of Asuras. Is there anything wrong with it?"

I replied: "Nothing wrong! But when we were looking at the carvings of Asura just now, we each smoked a cigarette. Look at the cigarette butts on the ground!"

Xia Xi turned around and looked at it with a twisted look on her face: "Fuck!"

This time I was really confused.

We had been walking up the stairs before, so why were we suddenly back here?

On the way here this time, we encountered a sand pile maze, but it was only a horizontal space because it was once used as a sacrificial place. There was a weird sand pile layout around it, similar to the stone formation where Zhuge Liang trapped Lu Xun, plus the moonlight A mirror phantom appeared under the haze, and we were so nervous that we couldn't choose a way out.

But here is an extremely simple bell tower. How can the vertical space fall into an endless loop?
Asura hits the wall?
Only Ah Piao could believe such a thing!

Xia Xi looked around with the searchlight, turned to me and said, nodding: "Don't panic when something big happens, come with me!"

After speaking.

He took the lead with a searchlight and continued up the stairs.

Seeing that he looked confident, I had no choice but to follow him.

The two walked up the stairs for another ten minutes.

Finally reached another floor.

I was about to praise Xia Xi for being awesome, but I turned around and saw the cigarette butts left by the two of us before, as well as the Asura carvings on the wall.

"what happened?"

"We are back on the third level again. That's it. Are you saying it's unexpected or magical?"

"It's amazing, your sister! I mean, you just promised that you could break the formation. Why are you pretending to be a failure now?!"

"Who said I failed? Don't panic when something big happens, come with me!"

Xia Xi started to take the lead up the stairs again.

I didn't move.

He turned to me and said, "Let's go! Are you going to stay here for the New Year?"

I said: "No... can you do it? If not, let's sit down and study it carefully. Don't keep spinning like a little hamster playing with a basket!"

Xia Xi said: "This is indeed a spatial circulation array! But think about it, the bench king and others have also been here. They are not on the third floor now, which proves that the bench king and others broke the formation and left here to go up!" These guys who have been suffering from hydrocephalus for more than ten years can leave. How can I, Mr. Xia, be trapped by this thing? Just believe me!"

There is nothing wrong with what you say!
Compared to Cheng Fang et al.

I definitely believe in Xia Xi's ability more.

I gritted my teeth and followed.

Only two steps up the stairs.Xia Xi said to me: "Turn off the searchlight, close your eyes, feel your body carefully, and walk up without any distractions!"

I don't know why we do this, but we don't dare to ask, so we have to listen to him.

It's only been four or five minutes.

Xia Xi said, "You can open your eyes and turn on the lights."

I turned on the searchlight and opened my eyes.

The space in front of me was obviously narrower than the one before, and there were no cigarette butts on the ground. Looking at the wall next to it, I saw that it was no longer an Asura sculpture.

The walls were carved with all kinds of animals, all bloody and terrifying, like a large slaughterhouse, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

I asked Xia Xi: "What's going on?"

Xia Xi explained: "To put it bluntly, it is just a staircase, but when you get halfway, the staircase slowly bifurcates. One fork goes up one level, and one fork goes down slowly, and this one goes down. The fork is in the shape of a slow arc, and its terminal end is cleverly connected to the opening of the previous three floors."

"When we go up with a searchlight, we are easily confused by the narrow space of the stairs and the specially designed walls that can change the visual sense. Our footsteps will involuntarily follow the downward fork without realizing it, thus creating a kind of An endless cycle.”

"Actually, this is a relatively common construction device in the ancients, called a suspended ladder. The purpose of the walk I just took was to confirm whether it is a suspended ladder. After confirming, turn off the searchlight and close your eyes to prevent the feeling. If the observation affects our judgment of taking the stairs, we can break the formation, isn't it so easy?"

I frowned and said, "Is this called simplicity?!"

Xia Xi replied: "It was simple for ancient architects, but today's architects cannot achieve this effect."

I gave him a thumbs up: "Comrade Xia Fengxian is indeed a top celebrity!"

Hearing this, Xia Xi replied with great pride: "Of course! Give me a bottle of snowflakes, and everyone can bravely go to the end of the world... No, why do I feel that you are humiliating me? With this kind of floating ladder, even under the bench king If you can crack the three-legged cat, you are a big shot!"

I asked: "Why can't I crack it?"

Xia Xi replied: "Because you have no experience in tomb robbing... Forget it, I won't talk to you about this, let's study the murals."

I said: "There is nothing to study. The lower layer is filled with Asuras, and this layer is full of animals. This shows that the carvings on the walls of the bell are based on the Buddhist theme of six paths of reincarnation."

"It can be speculated that the first and second layers buried in the sand are the heavenly path and the human path respectively. The third layer we entered is the Asura path. The current fourth layer is the animal path. The next two layers are the evil path. Ghost realm, hell realm.”

Xia Xi smiled and said: "It's awesome! But this tower has seven floors in total. What's on the top floor?"

I said: "After going through the six paths of reincarnation, different sects of Buddhism have different interpretations of what will become in the end. What kind of carvings are on the top floor? We have to wait until we go up to know. Maybe we can also see the scene of our next life."

Xia Xi asked: "Is it so magical?"

I replied: "It doesn't matter if you have it or not, I know what your next life will be?"

Xia Xi asked: "What is it?"

I pointed to a duck with its neck twisted off on the mural: "Look! This will be your next life!"

Xia Xi replied, "Get out!"

The two of us continued up.

(End of this chapter)