Quotation

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"Do you think that when the pagoda catches fire, people will stay in the pagoda and wait to die?"

A sentence popped up suddenly, Xie Yaozhi replied without thinking, "Of course not."

Su Jianxing pursed his lips slightly, and asked again: "Then why didn't a single monk escape from the pagoda or go to the lower level of the pagoda?"

As soon as the movement stopped, Xie Yaozhi looked at Su Jianxing involuntarily, but saw that there was no expression on his stiff face: "Actually, it's very clear when you think about it the other way around. It's not that they don't want to run, but that they can't run away." .”

The air paused, but the voice still came quietly: "I remember that when we first checked the pagoda with Master Dianzuo, we saw that the side door was not locked. Since the Buddha treasure was not locked when it was there, now that the Buddha treasure has been lost, it is not locked. Why do you need to lock it again?"

"You only see that the side door on the sixth floor is locked, so how do you know that the bottom door of the tower is not accessible?"

"That's why I said, if."

While speaking, the door lock has been lightly removed, and the corridor is completely black, impervious to light like ink, and like an abyss, the depth is unpredictable.

Su Jianxing's eyes drooped slightly, and he walked straight in. Xie Yaozhi lit up the torch and followed closely behind.

As Su Jianxing said, all the dead died in the side towers, but some were evenly distributed on the middle floors, and some were crowded in front of the door on the bottom floor. , but it is difficult to distinguish the appearance.Trying to push the door at the bottom of the tower did not work.

——Being locked from the inside is different from being locked out of the door, because it may be possible to try to unlock the door from the outside, but the people inside can only sit and wait for death, with no hope at all. This should be, what kind of despair.

Su Jianxing looked around at everything in front of him coldly, his eyes getting colder.

"Zhuo Ru, it's very strange that the people here don't seem to have died at the same time." Xie Yaozhi frowned, and pointed to them one by one, "Look, the burns of those near the tower gate are lighter, or, It is more likely that they were burned after being stunned by the smoke generated during the burning, and the people scattered on the middle floors were so burned that they were completely unrecognizable. It stands to reason that they all died in the tower, even if they were in different places. It shouldn't be that big of a difference."

Xie Yaozhi paused subconsciously: "The most important thing is that the people who died in the middle of the side tower, although there is soot in the mouth, although it is evenly distributed, but it is too shallow-Jian Shilang once said that people who died in the fire There must be soot in the mouth of a person, and the ashes must be evenly distributed, and the distribution must go deep into the throat. If there is no ashes in death, the person should die before the fire; If the soot does not go deep into the throat, it means that the person died before someone else stored the soot between the reed pipes and sprayed it into the mouth of the deceased—Asu, this is indeed not an accident, and, You are right, these people are indeed not monks.” From the perspective of those who died in front of the door, it can be seen that the calluses on the hands were born on the pads and bases of the fingers, but not on the second knuckles of the thumb and index finger Origin: Monks knock on wooden fish and twist Buddhist beads all the year round, the cocoons must be on the thumb and index finger, and the cocoons on the belly of the finger are due to writing all the year round, and the cocoons on the root of the finger are caused by holding weapons.

Xie Yaozhi paused: "Asu, when did you notice it?"

"When we first visited Luming Temple." Su Jianxing looked back lightly, "When Dianzuo greeted us, he stretched out his right hand—the calluses on the index finger and thumb were very thin, and even the Zhike monk's was thicker than him. Such a person, Either he has not been a Jerry for a long time, or he is too unqualified to be a Jerry, but such a person has become the seat of the royal temple, I am afraid it is not without intention." Sighing, he said, "Luming Temple Collection The pagoda of the treasure, the great virtue of a temple did not step in, but entrusted everything to the Dianzuo to take care of, is it true that the great virtue master does not care about world affairs, or should he not intervene in all of this?"

"Even the great master has no right to ask, so it's no wonder that the Sangha don't know what's in the pagoda." Xie Yaozhi nodded, "And Dianzuo is too clever. Now that I think about it, he seems to have been intentionally or unintentionally distracting us from the topic. , plus the space of the side pagoda we have mentioned before, and the wall lamp setting that is quite in line with Long Chiwei's habits, that's why you said at that time: This pagoda is up and down, it's too strange." After a moment of silence, Xie Yaozhi raised his eyes, Facing those deep pool-like eyes, "Asu, sometimes I am really afraid of you, not because you can see clearly, but because you can see through others, but others can't see through you, and I don't even know when I was caught by you." see through."

"I'm just not as drunk as you." Su Jianxing turned around silently, looking away, "After we left last night, at least three groups of people came here—one group died before the fire, and the other group died in the fire , and another group of people trapped the second group to death in the burning side tower."

"So, how did the sky fire start this day? Who killed the first group of people? And who were they? Why did they trap the second group of people in the side tower and burn them alive?" Xie Yaozhi frowned.

"Axie, I'm not a god." Su Jianxing shook his head helplessly, "However, have you noticed that the number of people in the two groups is the same?" Su Jianxing said, raising his cuffs, revealing a square shape, "When I got down just now, I put this on a corpse." Holding it up to the fire, it turned out to be a bronze medal. The bronze medal was burnt gray and black, very inconspicuous, but Su Jianxing was shocked—— That bronze medal is clearly in the same shape as his own Longchiwei waist medal!But she is a follower of Long Chiwei, and the background of the waist badge has branches but no flowers, but there are three flower buds on the bronze medal.

With eyebrows frowned slightly, Su Jianxing couldn't help murmuring softly: "He is actually an envoy, Tang Shao, Tang Shao, could it be that he is the deputy envoy of Caiweitai Water Department?" Go, see if you can find other people's badges."

"Okay" The lights faded away, and the bottom of the tower fell into darkness again. I thought that the sky must be clear and clear outside the tower at this moment, but the walls are separated, and there is only darkness inside the tower.Hope and despair are sometimes like a parallel flower on the line where heaven and earth intersect, leaning on each other with great joy and great sorrow, longing but unattainable.

Su Jianxing sighed softly, wiped his own fire, and leaned over to examine the clothes of the dead at the bottom of the tower. Everyone was dressed in ordinary clothes, not to mention that they were hard to find in the crowd, and they might be forgotten just by looking at them—but this It's also Long Chiwei's style——Long Chiwei is originally a shadow!

Thinking back to the corpses on the middle floor of the tower, even though their clothes were almost burnt away, they could still be seen in the corners and corners of the uniforms of Long Qiwei.If this pagoda is really the place where the envoys of Longchiwei usually gather and work, there is nothing wrong with wearing uniforms, but——a light flashed through my mind, and before I caught it, it fell into chaos. Su Jianxing tried in vain Shaking her head, this feeling made her inexplicably feel a chill down her back, as if she was about to grab something.What is caught is only air.

This kind of aimless thinking didn't last long, there was no other reason, but when she turned over the skirt of the deceased, a flash of golden light attracted her attention: a golden hairpin decorated in the shape of red beans that was extremely exquisitely crafted.This is nothing more than a slightly more expensive hairpin ornament, but to Su Jianxing, it looks like a lightning strike.

She still remembered that at that time they practiced the method of deduction, and they often judged the owner's identity and preferences by one thing. On a whim, she sneaked out the wooden hairpin that Jian Shao put in his skirt: "The messenger's hairpin is not worn on the On the head, but carry it with you, I think it has some special meaning... The red bean is an object, which means lovesickness... Although this hairpin is wood-colored, it is heavy. If I guessed correctly, the inside should be made of gold. Gold objects are precious, but they are painted in an inconspicuous wood color. Is it not to attract attention, or is it a symbol of a heart like gold and stone?..." He said pretending to be surprised, "Mr. A token of love, right?" Su Jianxing finally had no chance to verify whether this inference was correct or not, because Jian Shao's livid face at that time made her realize that the joke was too big.There is no doubt that this hairpin is of great significance to Jian Shao.

In my memory, it was already three years ago, and now this lacquered golden hairpin fell into her hands again—who is this person?

There was a roar in his ears, and Su Jianxing turned over the corpse without calmness, but the fire had destroyed him beyond recognition, how could he still be able to tell?Sitting slumped aside, Su Jianxing took a deep breath until the roar in his ears faded away, trying to calm himself down.At that moment, she suddenly realized that the abyss that lay before her eyes had turned into a huge vortex at some point, sucking everything into it.It turned out that she had never been a bystander, and it turned out that everything was destined to come in sooner or later from the beginning, and there was no way to escape.

"Asu" called out in astonishment, breaking the dead silence, and seeing Xie Yaozhi rushing downstairs with a bronze medal, he couldn't hide the look of surprise on his face, "Asu, I turned over the dead body above. Come out, find out Jian Shilang's badge!"

Xie Yaozhi also had a bronze medal in his hand, with three flower-shaped dark patterns on the back, and the bronze medal was written: Lang Jianshao, envoy of Zhen Mingtai Jian Department.

Jian Shilang, Jian Shao.

Seeing that Su Jianxing took the bronze medal in a daze, and then turned to look at the corpse beside him in a daze, it was not as calm and calm as usual, even Xie Yaozhi, who was in shock, noticed something strange: "Asu——"

Su Jianxing stood up dumbly: "You said that you found Jian Shilang's bronze medal on the body on the top of the tower? Then, who is he?"

"What are you talking about? Who is he? The hairpin in your hand isn't—"

"It belongs to Emissary Jian. I found it on this corpse. He always attaches great importance to this hairpin."

"How could it be? Jian Shilang is he..." Looking back blankly, "Which one is..." Xie Yaozhi was still in a daze, but saw that Su Jianxing had turned to go up the tower, "Where are you going?"

Candlelight flickers,