Day of Imprisonment

“The wellhead is at least ten meters from the bottom. If you're a rock climbing expert, you can climb down along the cracks in the bricks below, or you can use the existing rope to go down faster.”

“This rope is very sturdy and has been here for a long time. It should have been put here by the monks. You said cut it? Someone has done it before, but the next time they draw a fortune stick, it will definitely be a bad omen, so it's not worth the risk. Besides, cutting the rope won't trap anyone inside.”

“Be careful, part of the area below is man-made. Some places have protrusions, so you might bump your head. Bend over and crawl, because there's a section that's very low, less than four feet high.”

In absolute darkness, Lin Qiqi whispered instructions to Luo Xi.

She really thought she was crazy.

“I, Lin Qiqi, am not a talkative person. I'm cool and reticent. Why am I talking so much now?”

While giving instructions, she was internally judging herself.

It was as if another personality was criticizing her, but Lin Qiqi would immediately find a reason to refute it.

“I'm chasing after a guy, being proactive is normal, okay?”

It was like two identical Lin Qiqis were arguing.

“Although I can't see, I want to ask, do you feel that the current terrain is the same as what you know?” Luo Xi asked at this moment.

The two of them were very close.

Close enough to touch with a hand.

They did this because if there was danger or an accident, they could attack and defend as one.

“Same.” Lin Qiqi knew why Luo Xi asked this.

It was still the so-called guess that there might be different dimensions and spaces with light and without light.

Speaking of which, Lin Qiqi also felt that this possibility existed.

Just like Luo Xi said, this is the Day of Confinement, and anything incredible could happen.

“After passing through this low passage, about four meters long, it will suddenly open up. There are bamboo poles stuck in the ground here, tied with ropes, connected to each other. The ropes have the Six-Syllable Mantra on them: Om, Ma, Ni, Pad, Me, Hum.”

“The Six-Syllable Mantra? Could there be a side quest?”

“There is, actually it's just finding a complete set of Six-Syllable Mantra talismans, but there's no particularly good reward. Doing this will only open the entrance to the backyard of the Buddhist temple under the well, and in fact, each cycle day only needs to be opened once, and later people can also enter. Someone has already opened it a long time ago, because collecting these six-syllable mantras of Om, Ma, Ni, Pad, Me, Hum is not difficult.”

When Lin Qiqi spoke, she had already passed through the low passage. As she said, it suddenly opened up here.

Sure enough, the terrain had not changed at all.

“What?” Lin Qiqi was stunned.

“Shh!” Luo Xi told Lin Qiqi not to make a sound, and then he recited the Six-Syllable Mantra one by one: “Ma, Ni, Pad, Me, Hum.”

When he recited 'Hum', Luo Xi suddenly felt the talisman paper in his hand shake.

“So it's voice-activated!” Luo Xi muttered.

Then he told Lin Qiqi about this situation, and the latter tried it, and it really worked.

“Something's wrong. If you can see, you can confirm the Six-Syllable Mantra, so why set up a mechanism to judge the mantra with sound?” Lin Qiqi thought of a possibility.

Because you can't see, you need to use sound.

This is the only explanation.

“Could it be that there really is a dark dimension without light?” Lin Qiqi's curiosity also popped up.

She and Luo Xi first collected the Six-Syllable Mantra together.

As she said, there were many Mantra talismans here, like wildflowers and weeds on the roadside, you can easily find a lot of them. It's not difficult to collect the Six-Syllable Mantra. If you're lucky, you can get it done in a few minutes.

“It's all here!”

“Give it to me, I'll try to activate it.” Lin Qiqi took the six configured Mantra talismans from Luo Xi's hand, and then chanted: “Om, Ma, Ni, Pad, Me, Hum!”

The next moment, she felt that the talisman paper in her hand was forcibly snatched away by a force, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

“Activated?”

Lin Qiqi was shocked now.

Because under normal circumstances, the Six-Syllable Mantra of the Buddhist temple under the well would have been activated long ago, and it was impossible to wait until now. Moreover, before this, she and Luo Xi had seen many Memory Retrievers crawling out of the wellhead, which meant that someone must have activated it.

This thing is like a door.

Open it once, and the door is open.

Unless it's the first time it's opened.

And the feeling now is like opening this door for the first time.

It's confirmed!

“This is not the normal Buddhist temple under the well.” Even if Lin Qiqi didn't dare to believe it, she couldn't find anything to refute under the solid evidence.

At the same time, a strange wind blew from a distance, with a touch of oldness, a kind of musty and old smell brought about by a secret room that had not been opened for thousands of years.

This smell could not be smelled in the previous Buddhist temple under the well.

Along with the wind, there were also faint Buddhist Zen words.

In a daze, I wanted to listen carefully, but I couldn't hear it again, as if I had a hallucination.

“Luo Xi, did you hear that just now?”

Lin Qiqi asked in a low voice.

No one responded.

“Luo Xi?” She called out again in a low voice, but there was still no response.

Lin Qiqi's face sank in the darkness.

She wasn't worried that Luo Xi would trick her or joke with her, because the other party wasn't that kind of person. There was only one possibility for Luo Xi not to speak: he couldn't speak, or couldn't speak, or even, he wasn't by her side at all.

Lin Qiqi didn't make a sound either. She reached out and touched her side.

She touched emptiness.

She groped on a larger scale, but still couldn't touch anything. It was as quiet as if no one was there.

A sense of loneliness and fear immediately came like a tide.

Lin Qiqi bent her knees and lowered her body.

The advantage of doing this is that if she encounters an emergency, she can explode with strength at the first time, whether it is to attack or escape.

Lin Qiqi is also a true veteran and expert. She knows that if someone attacks Luo Xi, then she should not make any sound, because that way the other party will attack her next.

If Luo Xi is still there, and the other party remains silent, there must be a reason.

She should cooperate and remain silent as well.

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She can only grope.

She calmed down and groped around in this place where she couldn't see anything at all. Then, she touched something on the ground, cold, soft, with hair, eyes open.

Someone's head.

Lin Qiqi's heart sank.

Her first reaction was that Luo Xi had fallen to the ground, so she hurriedly groped over with both hands, and then, she touched emptiness behind this head.

Uh?

Only the head?

A dead man's head?

Her hairs stood on end. You must know that there are no corpses in the Buddhist temple under the well.

“Is it Luo Xi?”

She touched the neck, there were wounds, and there was also viscous blood, cold, and had been dead for some time.

“It's not Luo Xi!” Lin Qiqi breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, she grabbed this head, which might be covered in blood, with both hands and continued to confirm.

“The hair length is different, and the facial features should also be different. Uh, ha, this person's head has scars on his face, but Luo Xi doesn't. That's great, it's not him!” At this moment, Lin Qiqi completely relaxed, but soon another question popped up.

“Then whose head is this?”

Lin Qiqi immediately ruled out one possibility: that this was a 'prop corpse' that originally existed in the Buddhist temple under the well.

Because if it is a prop, the corpse should not be so fresh.

It feels like it hasn't been dead for half an hour.

The blood is cold, but the skin is still soft.

The eyes, um, can also be pressed in, soft.

I picked it up and smelled it, and there was no rancid smell, only a bloody smell.

“Who is it? Could it be other Memory Retrievers?” Lin Qiqi continued to analyze, and then she reacted: “The Buddhist temple under the well doesn't have a dangerous mechanism similar to beheading, and normally speaking, you should worship Buddha here, get a fortune stick and leave, so how could you die here?”

“Unless, this is not the Buddhist temple under the well that I thought it was, but another place... the Land of No Light?”

Lin Qiqi put down the head in her hand and continued to grope.

See if she can touch the corpse.

But she groped around and found nothing.

“Where's the body?”

Lin Qiqi thought about it. If she stayed where she was, it wouldn't make much sense, and since she didn't touch Luo Xi's position, then the other party might have already left, or been caught by something.

So, she continued to grope forward.

Finally, she touched a key thing.

The stone lion in front of the Buddhist temple!

Of course, this Buddhist temple under the well is very small, the courtyard is small, the house is small, and the stone lion is also small, but touching it, Lin Qiqi can finally confirm the existence of the Land of No Light, because the stone lion she touched is different from what she knows.

The stone lion here doesn't feel like a lion at all. In short, the head is not a head, the claws are not claws, and there is no tail.

I can't tell what it is specifically.

Lin Qiqi continued to grope, touched the door, the door was open, she slowly walked in.

Luo Xi walked forward, a hand holding him.

Judging from the touch, it should be Lin Qiqi's hand.

But after Luo Xi was led by this hand for a while, he realized something was wrong.

“Qiqi?”

Luo Xi called out in a low voice.

There was no response, the hand was still pulling him, dragging him forward.

Luo Xi stopped, only to find that the hand was extremely strong, and actually dragged his whole person forward.

At the moment, Luo Xi stepped forward, intending to make a grappling move. No matter who the other party was, he would press them on the ground first.

But the next second, Luo Xi was stunned.

The position he reached out to grab should have been the other party's shoulder, but what he grabbed was still the arm.

According to this length, this arm is long enough.

Following the touch, the length of the arm refreshed Luo Xi's cognition.

At that moment, Luo Xi suspected that the long-legged nurse in the Second Sanatorium had come here for a cameo, but even the long-legged nurse's arm was not that long, and it was so, soft.

What exactly is grabbing me?

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