After a minute or so, Li Rui's voice came from the cave again, "Let me tell you what I saw first … There are stone platforms within two meters of the entrance. They are about one meter high. There are steps down from the stone platforms, and they are very smooth. There are about a dozen steps. At the bottom, there is a passage. The width is uneven, and the bottom of the passage is not very smooth either. It is all mountain rocks. As for how high the cave is, I really didn't see it clearly. The light of this phone's flash is too weak. Like Daina said, it can't shine to the top … If I go further in, the humidity is too high, and the temperature is very low. I don't dare to go further in. There is no danger. "
Long Baoyu shouted, "You talked for a long time, but you didn't see the Sarira?"
Li Rui smiled bitterly, "No, it's quite deep inside. I haven't even gone to the end. How can I see the Sarira? You can come in. Baoyu doesn't have to come in, but Daina has to come in to light the torch. "
Long Baoyu shouted, "Why can't I go in? I'll wait." Then she lay on the ground and followed Li Rui into the cave.
Xie Duzhong and Daina followed closely behind and went in one after another, leaving Lin Meidian outside to guard.
The four people in the cave soon gathered and stood at the entrance of the passage under the stairs. The three of them turned on the flash of their phones and shone it in one direction, but it only illuminated a radius of a foot.
Long Baoyu cried out in surprise, "Why is it so dark?" Xie Duzhong laughed, "We didn't come in vain today. It's an eye-opener."
Daina ordered, "Put the torches together, I'll light them for you."
Li Rui and the other two placed the three torches on top of each other. Daina took out something from her trouser pocket and placed it on top of the torches, rubbing it against each other. Soon, there were countless sparks. Some of the sparks touched the bark of the small branches on the torches and suddenly started to burn. Soon, the three torches were burning fiercely, and the surroundings were much brighter.
Daina snatched Xie Duzhong's torch from his hand. Holding it in her left hand and a screwdriver in her right hand, she led the way. Li Rui followed closely behind her, while Long Baoyu and Xie Duzhong followed at the back. The four of them stepped on the mountain rocks and slowly explored the passage.
The passageway was carved out of the mountain. It wasn't as smooth as a mirror, but it was pretty good. It didn't hurt to walk on it at all. However, the deeper they went, the more water vapor permeated the air. It was very wet, sticking to their faces and necks, making them very uncomfortable.
"Stop!"
After walking for about ten meters, Daina, who was leading the way, shouted to stop. She instructed Li Rui and Long Baoyu to use torches to illuminate the surroundings.
Long Baoyu didn't understand and asked, "What do you mean by shining all around?"
Daina explained, "So that we can see the surroundings clearly. If there are any unsafe places, we can discover them immediately. For example, there are cracks in the ground and so on. We can't rule out the possibility of traps and mechanisms in here. In short, there's no harm in observing more, so we won't get injured carelessly."
What she said was very reasonable. No one had been to this cave before, so no one knew what was in the passageway. It could be a place to worship Buddha's sarira, or it could be full of mechanisms and traps. Observing the surroundings first, they could roughly judge something from the clues, so that they wouldn't rush in like headless flies. It would be too late to regret it if they got into trouble.
You don't say, the few of them looked around and really found something.
It was a pine wood used as a torch. It was as thick as an arm and about a foot long. There seemed to be an oilcloth tied to the front, which was burned black and had been carbonized. The wooden handle was completely decayed and old, and was casually discarded at the side of the passageway. It looked so rotten that it could be crushed into pieces with one step.
"Someone has been here!" Daina asserted.
Li Rui said, "Of course. Look, the stone platform and stone steps are all polished and carved by people. It shows that there was a lot of labor here in the past. Is this really a place to worship Buddha's sarira? "
Long Baoyu laughed, "Isn't that great? We can help Professor Wang dig out Buddha's sarira, haha. "
They chatted for a while, but they didn't find anything valuable, so they continued to walk deeper into the passageway.
The passageway was about two meters wide, and it was difficult for two people to walk side by side in the narrow places. The ground was polished flat, but there were gravel scattered on the road from time to time, which hurt their feet. The deeper they went, the heavier the damp smell. There was also some mold in the damp air, and occasionally there seemed to be a fishy smell.
Li Rui smelled it for a while, and felt that the fishy smell was more and more strange. He didn't know if there was something wrong with his nose, or if there was really such a smell. He asked Daina, who was in front of him, "Can you smell a fishy smell?"
Daina was stunned and said, "What fishy smell?" Li Rui nodded and said, "Then you can't smell it."
Daina said, "No, I think I can smell it too. I thought there was something wrong with my nose, but it turns out there is. I can't tell what the smell is exactly, but it's a little weird. It smells like dog urine, but it's heavier than dog urine."
Li Rui frowned and murmured, "The smell of dog urine? Heavier? What's that smell? Is it the urine of a wild dog? Or the smell of a wolf? "
Daina couldn't answer this question, but she raised her vigilance and explored more carefully.
After walking for another five or six meters, the passageway suddenly narrowed, leaving only a narrow and low aisle, which only allowed one person to pass, and they had to bend down to get in. Daina shone the torch into the depths of the aisle. It was dark there, and seemed to be a large space, but they didn't know where it was.
At this time, the four of them had already walked twenty or thirty meters from the stone cave to this position, and they had already reached the middle of the mountain. If they didn't come here personally, no one would dare to believe that there was another mysterious world in the middle of the mountain.
As the "leading sister", Daina didn't hesitate to go through the narrow and low aisle, and Li Rui and the other two also went through one by one. The four of them spread out slightly, and after standing still and shining the torch, they found that there was another world outside the aisle. The place in front of them looked like a stone room, and it was not small. It seemed to be more than ten square meters larger than the stone cave outside. However, the torch's light was limited, and could only illuminate a few square meters, so they couldn't see clearly in the distance.
Li Rui sniffed the air here, and felt that the air was less damp and musty, and more fresh. It seemed that they were close to another exit, but they could still vaguely smell that indescribable fishy smell. He reminded the three of them, "There's still that fishy smell, maybe there are wild dogs and wolves, so we have to be careful."
Daina tightened her grip on the screwdriver in her right hand and said, "This stone room is not small. I suggest we stick to the base of the wall. Firstly, we can see the entire stone room clearly. Secondly, we can avoid being attacked by wild beasts from all directions, if there are any living beasts here."
Li Rui said, "Mm, good idea, everyone move to the side."
Thus, the four of them lined up and walked along the wall to the left, one by one. As they walked, they shone the torch in front of them and their surroundings. The light from the three torches lingered together, and they could still see two meters around them. After the four of them turned a corner, they saw that there seemed to be something standing not far to the right.
Because the target was too obvious, the four of them all saw it, and when they saw it, they all subconsciously stopped in their tracks, so there was no need for anyone to warn them. The four of them shone the torches over, but the distance was a little too far, so they couldn't see the thing at all, but they felt like it was a person.
Xie Duzhong whispered, "It looks like a dead person." Long Baoyu said, "It looks like a stone statue to me."
Daina said casually, "Let's go and see." After she finished speaking, she walked over, and when she saw the thing clearly, she laughed, and her laughter was full of relief and amusement.
Since she could laugh, it must be fine, so the other three also came over and stood in front of the thing, and after taking a closer look, all of them let out a sigh of relief. Long Baoyu was right, the thing that looked like a person was indeed a stone Buddha statue. This Buddha statue was a half-body statue of a senior monk sitting cross-legged, and under his butt was a stone platform, so the total height of the statue was like an adult.
"Hey, there's one here too!" Long Baoyu called out, and walked two steps to the right, and pointed ahead.
They hurriedly shone the torches around, and saw that there were more than ten stone Buddha statues on the ground in two rows.
Long Baoyu said happily, "There are so many Buddha statues here, isn't this the place where Buddha's relics are enshrined?"
Daina pointed in the direction of the middle of the two rows of Buddha statues, and said, "If I'm not wrong, Buddha's relics are enshrined there."
They looked at each other, and all of them were very happy. Long Baoyu held the torch and ran in that direction, shouting, "Baby, I'm coming!"
Li Rui was worried that he would be in danger, so he hurriedly chased after him, and grabbed his clothes, saying, "Don't worry, let's go together!"
The two walked for four or five meters, and had already reached the head of the two rows of stone statues, where a stone platform suddenly appeared. The stone platform was not big, only one square meter in size, and one or two meters in height. The inner side was attached to the stone wall, and the outer three sides were isolated from the ground, as if they were chiseled out by force. On the stone platform, there was a blue and white, translucent, and slender stone box the size of a woman's shoe box!
At this time, Daina and Xie Duzhong had also caught up with the two. The four of them cast their eyes on the stone box at the same time, and everyone's face was full of surprise. Although they had already thought that there was a high probability of finding Buddha's relics in this cave, when they really found the stone box containing Buddha's relics, they still couldn't help but be shocked and happy. Even if Daina just entered the cave with Li Rui and the other two for fun, and it didn't matter whether they found it or not, now that they really found it, they were happy from the bottom of their hearts, and that was a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.
"Haha, if Professor Wang knew that we found Buddha's relics so quickly, he would probably regret it to death!"
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