I'm a Hokage in Tokyo

"Buddha? No, I am just an enlightened being in the process of cultivation, just like you."

The majestic shadow in the seven-colored Buddha light continued to transmit ethereal sounds.

Although this unknown, almost god-like being was so modest, Kanhara Yuji didn't dare to take such words seriously.

What a joke, I'm just an ordinary policeman, how can I be compared with such an extraordinary existence.

"I don't know. Do you have any advice for me?"

"In the year of the devil, the world changes drastically, demons and evil spirits appear, and the end of the law has arrived."

The voice of the majestic shadow was full of compassion and mercy, which made people unable to help but believe it.

"The catastrophe is approaching, but I cannot bear to see the lives of the living beings destroyed. Although I am far away in the other side and cannot interfere with the human world, I have left something in the world that can protect all living beings."

"Kanhara Yuji, he's at Sensō-ji Temple."

Chapter 279 Chapter 280 Buddha’s foot, it’s really Buddha’s foot!

"Why did you choose me?"

"You bear the mark of the Fire Temple, and you are destined to be with me."

Kanhara Yuji suddenly woke up, with dense beads of cold sweat on his forehead. He opened his eyes and looked around in the meditation room in confusion.

Buddha statues, wooden fish, and futons are all familiar decorations.

Was that just a dream of mine? What you think about during the day you dream about at night, or was it an out-of-body experience?

However, the final words of the unknown god and Buddha to Kanhara Yuji are still ringing in his ears.

The Fire Temple is a Buddhist temple where the holy monks of the Earth Land practice. The deity pointed this out, which made Kanhara Yuji dare not be careless.

Moreover, He said that there was something left in Sensō-ji Temple that could protect all living beings.

is that true? !

Thinking of the direction pointed out by the unknown gods and Buddhas, Kanhara Yuji's heart was pounding. He didn't even bother to attend his morning lessons and got up and walked out of the meditation room.

"Master Kanhara, you haven't finished your morning homework yet."

The novice monk who was waiting at the door of the meditation room saw Kanhara Yuji pushing the door open in a hurry, and politely reminded him.

The Metropolitan Police Department thoughtfully arranged a novice monk at Sensō-ji Temple to take care of Kanhara Yuji's food and daily life during his practice at Sensō-ji Temple.

"Wait a minute, I need to confirm something."

"But the abbot ordered..."

Before the monk could finish, Kanhara Yuji interrupted impatiently: "I understand, I will not leave Sensō-ji Temple."

The novice monk's face changed slightly, and he quickly followed closely behind.

It may be because Yuji Kanhara is an old man who has worked in the Metropolitan Police Department for 20 years and is well-known to the police. He has elderly parents and young children to take care of, so the Metropolitan Police Department is relatively confident in him and has not restricted Yuji Kanhara's personal freedom.

Yuji Kanhara walked out of the Denin Courtyard on the west side of the Hozomon Gate, which is the courtyard where monks live.

According to legend, in the 628th year of Empress Suiko's reign, that is, in AD, two fishermen salvaged a golden Buddha statue from the Miyato River. People in the surrounding area then raised funds to build a temple to worship the statue. This was the predecessor of Sensoji Temple.

Today, Sensoji Temple is one of the most famous ancient temples in Japan.

The main gate of Sensō-ji Temple is called the Furaishinmon Gate. On the approach leading from the main gate to the Hozomon Gate and the main hall, there is a Nakamise shopping street.

Looking from this angle, Kanhara Yuji saw that Nakamise Commercial Street was packed with people, with pilgrims shoulder to shoulder, so crowded that there was no place to stand.

"Are there so many pilgrims to Sensō-ji Temple?" Kanhara Yuji couldn't help but be amazed.

"Our temple has always been the most visited temple in Japan!"

The monk had a proud look on his face and hesitated for a moment before saying:

"But the number of pilgrims these days is indeed comparable to that of New Year's Day and the Obon Festival. Perhaps it is because of the great disaster in Sapporo that they come to pray for their own safety and peace in the world."

"Amitabha."

Kanhara Yuji lowered his head and silently chanted a Buddhist name.

He was arranged to practice in Sensō-ji Temple for these days. Except for one day when he was mysteriously taken on a helicopter, he never stepped out of the gate of Sensō-ji Temple again.

On that day, Kamiyahara Yuji didn't even know where he was. He touched an ancient stone bowl amid layers of security.

Yuji Kanhara still remembers the expectant expressions of the other researchers in the laboratory at that time. They seemed to want to see whether he and Shibo would have any miraculous reaction, but in the end nothing happened.

Although Yuji Kanhara's confidentiality level in the Metropolitan Police Department was not enough to know the inside story, how could he not know anything about such a major event as the Sapporo Superhuman War that triggered global public opinion?

In such times of social unrest and panic, the number of people praying to gods and Buddhas for psychological comfort naturally increases.

Thinking of the existence of that unknown god or Buddha, Kanhara Yuji couldn't help but feel refreshed.

If what He said was true, it would undoubtedly be a great thing that would benefit the country and the people in the upcoming chaotic times.

"Sorry, please make way!"

There were so many pilgrims that Kanhara Yuji and the novice monk had to swim upstream in the Nakamiya shopping street with great difficulty. If they were not wearing monk robes and were not respected, they would probably have been unable to move forward.

After finally arriving at the Wind and Thunder Gate, Kanhara Yuji raised his head and looked at the eye-catching "Thunder Gate Lantern" right below, and his pupils couldn't help but tremble.

Unknown gods and Buddhas exist, and the direction pointed out in the dream is here!

At this moment, under the Wind and Thunder God Gate, the huge Thunder Gate lantern began to sway left and right like a ripe fruit.

"Everyone be careful! It's going to fall!"

"I'm scared! I'm going to die!"

Immediately, some pilgrims noticed the change in the Leimen lantern and shouted loudly, causing an uproar.

If an object weighing thousands of pounds were to fall down, someone would definitely be killed!

The crowd under the Fenglei Shenmen suddenly dispersed, some people accidentally fell to the ground, breaking their heads and bleeding, and there was almost a stampede accident due to the overcrowding.

After the crowd was evacuated, they gathered outside the danger zone and stared at the Kaminarimon lantern that was shaking more and more violently.

Finally, in full view of everyone, the Leimen lantern fell from the door and landed lightly on the ground.

There was an almost inaudible "puff" sound.

"this!"

Looking at the intact wind and thunder lantern, the novice monk touched his bald head and couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

The Fenglei Lantern is a large lantern that was sent to the temple as a gift by Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of Panasonic, after he prayed in Sensoji Temple and recovered from his illness. It weighs 670 kilograms and is not made of paper, so how could it make such a small sound when it falls to the ground?

Suddenly, from where the Wind and Thunder Lantern fell, golden Buddha light spread like ripples.

One after another, golden lotus flowers bloomed from the ground.

Golden lotus springs from the ground!

There are still dots of dew on the petals of each golden lotus, full of vitality. They sway in the breeze, and there seems to be a refreshing fragrance wafting towards them.

The beautiful scenery on earth, which is like a Buddhist kingdom, is also short-lived and disappears in a flash.

When Kanhara Yuji looked carefully, there was no sea of ​​golden lotus flowers, only a large group of stunned pilgrims.

Is it an illusion?

No, absolutely impossible!

"My scratch, how did it heal?"

A man who had accidentally fallen to the ground and had a scratch on his forehead that was bleeding, let go of the wound he was covering and said in disbelief.

"Ahem, my throat doesn't hurt anymore."

An urban beauty wearing a mask made a clear voice like an oriole, and her eyes behind the mask were full of surprise.

Her swollen and painful throat due to a cold healed without any medicine.

The most incredible thing was that an old man with a plaster foot in a wheelchair, who was pushed by his family to Sensoji Temple to pray for health, stood up tremblingly!

He prostrated himself on the ground with tears streaming down his face, and kowtowed repeatedly in the direction of this palace.

“The Buddha has appeared!”

"Greatly compassionate, holy Avalokitesvara!"

"Amitabha!"

As if a chain reaction had begun, the pilgrims and believers who witnessed the golden lotus emerging from the ground near the Wind and Thunder God Gate all knelt on the ground devoutly, chanting various Buddhist mantras.

A few hours later, the Sensoji Temple, which was originally bustling with tourists, was completely blocked by the Metropolitan Police Department.

The doors of the formerly bustling Nakamise Shopping Street were all closed, and the shop owners were asked to leave.

At the main entrance of Sensoji Temple, the fallen wind and thunder lanterns had been moved away, and the surrounding area was dug up with potholes like a construction site.

"Dig it!"

A huge blue-gray rock was dug out from a depth of five or six meters underground.

No, after digging up the surrounding soil, the rock gradually revealed its true form: a foot.

The feet of the stone Buddha.

Chapter 280 281 Don't say that the stone Buddha has only one eye, Ah Fei sent a notice letter

"The test results are out. The stone material of the Buddha statue is exactly the same as the stone bowl in front of the Buddha!"

As the night deepened and the moon rose high in the sky, several industrial lights near the main entrance of Sensoji Temple cast dazzling beams of light, making it as bright as day. A group of workers wearing safety helmets were busy working.

A huge hole has been dug in Nakamise Shopping Street by the Metropolitan Police Department.

Digging backwards from a Buddha's foot found under the gate of the God of Wind and Thunder, they finally discovered a giant bluestone Buddha over 20 meters long lying flat on the ground.

"Do the monks of Sensoji have any advice on the origin of this Buddha statue underground?"

Inspector Matsuura of the Metropolitan Police Department's Fourth Investigation Section asked the bewildered abbot of Sensō-ji Temple and several monks.

Seeing the land-scarce Nakamise Commercial Street being dug up into its current state, the abbot of Sensoji Temple felt so heartbroken that his heart was bleeding, but he also knew that he could not do anything about it.

Fortunately, the Metropolitan Police Department knew the limits and only excavated the ground on Nakamise Shopping Street, without affecting the Fuu Lei Shenmen Gate and other major buildings.

"This temple worships Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. This secret Buddha is not a statue of Avalokitesvara... This temple really doesn't know."

The huge stone Buddha excavated from the ground has a simple style, a broken upper body, and the remaining right hand is suspended in front of the abdomen. Half of the Buddha's face is also missing, so the features cannot be seen clearly.

For a moment, I couldn't tell which Buddha it was, but it was obviously not the statue of Guanyin.

Senso-ji Temple, also known as the Asakusa Kannon Temple, is the main sect of the Japanese Kannon sect. However, the Asakusa Kannon statue, which is regarded as a national treasure of Japan, cannot be seen in the temple because it is an absolutely secret Buddha.

The so-called secret Buddha refers to the Buddha statues that are not made public.

When Buddhism was introduced to Japan, it was inevitably influenced by Shintoism, which combined gods and Buddhas. Shintoism believed that all things have spirits and that gods exist in nature. They are invisible and divine beings without fixed forms, and have a strong tendency towards mysticism.

On the other hand, there are many Tantric Buddhist statues, including those of the Vajra King with terrifying and ferocious faces, and the Laughing Buddha in love with men and women. In order to prevent ordinary believers from feeling fear and misunderstanding Buddhist principles, these statues are not displayed publicly.

Many secret Buddha statues in Japanese temples are only displayed a few times a year, or once every few years, which is called "opening the account."

There are even absolutely secret Buddha statues that are never opened, such as the Asakusa Kannon statue enshrined in Senso-ji Temple, which has a history of 1,300 to 1,400 years.

That is the golden Guanyin statue that was salvaged from the Miyato River that year.

Even the abbot of Sensoji Temple only knew where the Asakusa Kannon statue was kept, but had never seen it with his own eyes.

This huge stone Buddha, which has been buried deep underground in Sensō-ji Temple for who knows how many years and has only been unearthed today, can be considered an absolute secret Buddha to some extent.

According to the ancient legend passed down orally in Sensō-ji Temple, the Absolute Secret Buddha is an existence that mortals cannot look directly at, and anyone who dares to offend will be punished by heaven.

and also……

The abbot of Sensoji Temple secretly opened his eyes and looked at the half of the Buddha's face left, with his only remaining left eye looking compassionately towards the sky.

"Don't think the stone man has only one eye, he will stir up the Yellow River and the whole world will rebel!"

When the abbot of Sensoji Temple thought of this, his heart began to tremble, his scalp went numb, and big beads of sweat appeared on his bald head.

This nameless stone Buddha was unearthed in Sensō-ji Temple. It is not a good omen, but a very bad omen!

Inspector Matsuura didn't think too much about it. He looked at the huge stone Buddha lying flat in the pit and pondered in silence.

The stone Buddha's feet alone are as big as a rockery, and its body is over 20 meters long. It would be quite spectacular if it stood upright.

More importantly, the color, hardness and texture of the stone used to make the Buddha statue are exactly the same as the stone bowl in front of the Buddha that fell into the hands of the Metropolitan Police Department!