A slightly dull knock echoed in the not too big room, as if it was directly knocking on everyone's heart.
Here we go again...... Long Yuehong felt palpitations.
It's endless!
Jiang Baimian frowned and thought for a few seconds, and said to Shang Jianyao:
"Ask who it is."
She wanted to attract the attention of the monks on the same floor in this way, so that those "enlightened beings" could use what skills they had and what skills they could use, and solve this very strange thing.
Shang Jianyao, who was right next to the door, let go of his throat:
"Who is it?"
His voice came out, no one responded, and there was no echo, as if there was an abyss outside with no bottom and no end in sight.
"Boom!"
The same knock sounded again, and the wooden door seemed to tremble a little.
If you don't open the door and don't respond, just by this performance, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao can naturally appear in their minds of a person standing outside.
He and Shang Jianyao are only separated by one door.
"The sound doesn't seem to be able to reach too far." Bai Chen, who was also at the door, expressed his feelings just now.
"Are we isolated, isolated?" Long Yuehong's heart tightened.
Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said:
"If someone really uses the ability of interfering matter to manipulate the air, change the wind pressure, and simulate the movement of knocking on the door, then he can naturally confine the sound to this area."
"Boom!"
As soon as Jiang Baimian finished speaking, the door moved again.
The people outside the door seemed to be waiting to come in.
"Open the door?" Shang Jianyao consulted the team leader.
Jiang Baimian pondered for a moment and said:
"Wait a little longer."
This wait lasted nearly half an hour, and it was quiet outside the door, and there was no sound coming in.
The person who knocked on the door seemed to have completely given up after waiting for it.
Jiang Baimian turned over and got out of bed, walked to the door, and said seriously for a while:
"I'll open the door and try, you take precautions."
Bai Chen took two steps back and aimed the gun in his hand at the wooden door, and Long Yuehong also made a similar action, but he was in front of the bed further away from the door.
Shang Jianyao took off the flashlight hanging from his armament belt and took out a mirror.
Seeing Jiang Baimian looking at himself, he explained seriously:
"This is what I learned from Lord Zhou Guan, what if it is really a ghost?"
But Zhou Guanzhu's set is not used to deal with ghosts...... Jiang Baimian took a slow breath and spat it out again.
She lifted her left hand and twisted the doorknob with her right palm holding "Ice Moss" and pulled it back.
The light of the street light in the distance flowed into the room through the gradually widening gap, causing the faces of several members of the "Old Tune Group" to intertwine with light and dark.
Above the corridor, no one came and went, and even where the street lights couldn't shine, the shadows seemed to be asleep.
"There is indeed no one left." Jiang Baimian observed carefully for a while and came to such a conclusion.
She carefully closed the door again to see if there was any knocking sound next.
The "Old Tune Group" waited for more than half an hour, and there was no more "dong" sound.
This made their experience just now feel like an illusory dream.
If it weren't for Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen still waiting there, Long Yuehong would definitely think that there was no knock on the door, then everything was just her own illusion.
"It seems that it has stopped......" Jiang Baimian said "hmm".
Bai Chen frowned and said:
"What is that 'person' knocking on the door for?
"He 'left' without doing anything......
"Could it be that we have any bad experiences when we open the door during the three 'dong' movements behind?"
Shang Jianyao laughed:
"When did you have the illusion that we didn't have a bad experience?
"Maybe we have been unconsciously affected, but it hasn't happened yet, just like at the ruins of Wasteland 13."
Thinking of the three "hunters" who committed suicide due to Wu Meng's hidden influence, Long Yuehong couldn't help but shudder:
"No......"
"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Jiang Baimian didn't dare to be careless about this, "Anyway, we are all on duty at night, looking at each other, and when we find anything abnormal, we immediately remind each other."
In this regard, they still have some experience.
"Garibaldi" Giuseppe, who was still tied up and enjoying the feeding treatment, interjected in a low voice:
"I don't think you need to worry so much.
"This is the headquarters of the 'Crystal Consciousness Sect', and no kind of ghost can turn over the storm.
"In the beginning, when some parts of the city were 'haunted', they often invited monks from the 'Crystal Consciousness Sect' to purify them."
"I'm afraid it's not a ghost." Jiang Baimian sighed.
She didn't explain anything more to Giuseppe, and said to herself:
"If there is really something abnormal, you can indeed inform the monks of the 'Crystal Consciousness Sect' and ask them for help.
"If there is no quiet and hidden influence, then what happened just now, the focus is on the act of 'knocking on the door', well, there is no contradiction between this and the quiet and hidden influence, since Wu Meng can use radio waves to transmit power, it is not too unacceptable for the person who relied on the knock on the door just now to exert influence.
"In addition to this, 'knocking' may be trying to convey some information to us, just like the paper in a scripture."
Jiang Baimian linked the "knocking on the door" incident just now with the previous "List of Holy Places".
After all, this happened after they entered Sikaro Temple and witnessed the chief enter and fall into silence.
"Convey information......" Bai Chen's eyes moved slightly, "The first group knocked on the door seven times, and the last group knocked on the door three times, what does this mean?"
The "Old Tune Team" has special courses to train knowledge of code and passwords.
"In simple and direct terms, it represents the numbers 'seven' and 'three'." Jiang Baimian replied, "Since we want to convey information to us as outsiders, it will not be too complicated."
"Seven, three ......" Long Yuehong began to think about the meaning of these two numbers.
"Plus, it's early in the morning." Shang Jianyao gave his thoughts "confidently", "The answer is that in seven days, at three o'clock in the morning, let us go see him."
"Do you think I knocked you on the head three times?" Jiang Baimian couldn't help but laugh.
The corresponding story has been shared within the "Old Tune Group".
Without waiting for Shang Jianyao's response, she asked further:
"So, where are you going to see me?"
"I don't know." Shang Jianyao replied very simply.
Long Yuehong helped remember the reason:
"Maybe in seven days, at three o'clock in the morning, he will come here again to find us?"
"Then why didn't you come in directly just now, and you had to wait seven days later?" Jiang Baimian skillfully picked out the loopholes.
Long Yuehong was speechless and couldn't answer.
"But according to your logic." Bai Chen joined the discussion, "What information he wants to convey can come in directly, why do he have to knock on the door and leave a secret code?"
"This is indeed a problem." Jiang Baimian nodded, "Maybe the person knocking on the door can't communicate with us directly, he can only do it this way, uh, so it is not ruled out that he will be able to talk to us in seven days and will visit at three o'clock in the morning, but why does he have to come knocking on the door in advance, be patient, wait until then?"
"Ceremony!" Shang Jianyao replied quickly, "He is in a special state, he must complete the knocking on the door, and he will not be able to communicate with us in seven days."
Bai Chen proposed another possibility:
"Maybe he is afraid that we will escape from Sikaro Monastery in the next few days."
Jiang Baimian nodded slightly:
"Both explanations have some reasonableness, and the only way to verify them is to wait until seven days later."
Speaking of this, Jiang Baimian looked up at the ceiling:
"The numbers 'seven' and 'three' may have other meanings.
"From the perspective of 'Crystal Consciousness Sect', 'seven' represents the seven-level pagoda, and also represents the seven-story Sikaro Monastery, which represents the layer above our heads."
This makes sense...... Long Yuehong nodded slightly invisibly.
Compared with Shang Jianyao's slightly air-to-air speculation just now, Jiang Baimian's speculation based on the characteristics of the Buddhist organization seems more grounded.
Jiang Baimian continued:
"If 'seven' represents the seventh floor of Sikaro Monastery, then 'three' may be the number of a room there.
"The person knocking on the door wants us to go find him?"
This...... Long Yuehong and Bai Chen looked at each other, feeling that this explanation might indeed be not small.
"Go now?" Shang Jianyao asked eagerly.
Jiang Baimian was silent for a while and said:
"Don't rush first.
"What if it's a trap? Whether that person is good or bad, I can't judge at the moment, maybe ...... He is not good at directly confronting Master Zenaga for the position of chief, and in this way he lures us to the past, accusing us of violating the temple rules and affecting Master Zenaga......
"Perhaps, his power is limited to that room, only a small part can be revealed outside, and it must lure us in to be effective......"
Hearing the team leader's assumptions, Long Yuehong thought that it was better to be cautious.
At this time, Jiang Baimian looked around and said:
"Wait until dawn to find an opportunity to inquire about what is on the seventh floor of the temple and who lives in room three, and then make a decision.
"Well, go to sleep, the people on night duty look at each other and be on guard."
So far as the discussion has ended, the "Old Tune Group" has not encountered anything strange that night.
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In the early morning, the young monk brought oatmeal and toast.
Jiang Baimian said unintentionally:
"Who lives in the rooms on the top floor of your temple? There seems to be movement at night."
The young monk said with a puzzled expression:
"No one lives there."
"......" Long Yuehong really realized what a ghost story is at this moment.
"Is it a place to store scriptures and classics?" Jiang Baimian asked further.
The young monk nodded:
"There is also a small hall dedicated to my Buddha and Bodhi."
"There is no worldly freedom Tathagata?" Shang Jianyao interjected curiously.
"We mainly offer to my Buddha Bodhi." The young monk did not hide this fact that could be heard everywhere.
"What else? What room on the 7th floor? Maybe it's a mouse?" Jiang Baimian began to knock on the side.
The young monk thought for a while:
"Impossible, it's very strict...... There is also a room for the magic player, and there is a ......."
His expression suddenly became solemn:
"There is also the sleeping meditation room of the 'Buddha's Body'."
(End of this chapter)