Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1921 Catch
Faint moonlight penetrated through the window sills and hit the dark statue of Arhat inside the room.

Ying Baoyue stood up, staring blankly at the room in front of her.

This room is about 34 square meters in size, and the interior is empty. There are only three long altars against the wall. There are six statues of arhats on each altar table, which fits eighteen arhats together.

These statues of arhats were similar to but different from the ones she had seen in temples in her previous life. The biggest difference was that these statues were very large.

The statues of arhats she saw in tourist attractions in her previous life were at most half the height of a person, much smaller than Buddha statues, but in this room, the statues of arhats in this room were lifelike to real people in terms of size, proportion, and appearance, and even the blood vessels, muscles and bones were clearly visible.

Because it was so similar to a real person, Ying Baoyue stared at these vajra glaring eyes, and a chill suddenly appeared on his back.

Under the icy moonlight, the eyeballs of these clay sculptures seem to be turning in the next second.

Chunyuye quickly regained her composure after being initially surprised.

"what happened to you?"

He frowned and glanced at Ying Baoyue who was standing stiffly on the side, "It's just fake things made of mud, are you still afraid of these things?"

"There are gods standing three feet above your head," Ying Baoyue lowered his head, "Aren't you afraid of these things?"

Could it be that Chunyuye is not affected by the so-called uncanny valley effect?

"Arhats seem to have nothing to be afraid of," Chunyu Ye sneered, "What I'm afraid of is..."

His voice stopped abruptly, and Ying Baoyue raised her eyes to stare at him, "What are you afraid of?"

Chunyu Ye's eyes were gloomy, and after a moment of silence, he said lightly, "Buddha statue."

Especially the golden Buddha statue.

"Buddha statue?"

Ying Baoyue was a little surprised.

The so-called uncanny valley effect means that as the degree of anthropomorphism of humanoid objects increases, people's fear of them will gradually increase.

The degree of simulation is very low, because you know it is fake, and it will not scare people. However, the degree of simulation of anthropomorphic objects is high to a certain extent, and it is difficult to determine the authenticity. Treating a real person as a dummy and a dummy as a real person will scare people.

Arhat statues are very close to people, but Buddha statues are the opposite. Buddha statues are full of divinity. Those huge statues painted with gold can make people see at a glance that the other party is different from themselves, so there is nothing uncanny valley effect.

Ying Baoyue didn't understand why Chunyuye was afraid of the Buddha statue.

"Okay, look here, and if you don't find it, get out," Chunyuye said impatiently, noticing Ying Baoyue's scrutinizing eyes.

"it is good."

Because he had searched for two hours before, Ying Baoyue was already familiar with the process of finding the antidote in these houses.

She and Chunyu Yebing divided into two groups. Chunyuye was responsible for the floor tiles and walls, knocking all the way to see if there was any interlayer, and she was responsible for checking other parts, such as tables and other furnishings in the house.

There were no other decorations in this room except the altar for the Arhat. Ying Baoyue collected his mind, walked towards the altar, and began to grope for the table and check if there was anything hidden behind the statue.

Touching these arhat statues so close at hand, Ying Baoyue's heartbeat accelerated inexplicably.

"Are you OK?"

Chunyu Ye, who was checking the ground, glanced back at her, "If you're afraid, let's change?"

"No, I can't check the ground again."

Ying Baoyue smiled wryly, thick places like the ground and walls need to use real energy, and she is not as comfortable as Chunyu Ye in this regard.

"Okay, if you really can't bear it, just let it go, I'll look for it later," Chunyu Ye said calmly, "I didn't expect you to be able to do anything."

Ying Baoyue stopped searching and looked at Chun Yuye's back, "You..."

"what happened?"

"It's nothing," Ying Baoyue collected himself and resumed the work at hand.

Is this her illusion or is it real?

Chunyu Ye's way of speaking seemed to have changed.But his changes are different from Murong Heng's. Murong Heng's changes make people feel refreshed and at ease, and can make people feel that his whole person is really reborn.

But Chunyuye still seemed to be hiding at the bottom of the lake, but the part where he stuck out of the lake had changed.

Ying Baoyue lowered her gaze slightly. When facing Chunyu Ye, she often felt like she was standing in front of a dark lake.

If it was said that before Chunyuye poked out of the lake there were pitch-black vines, then after the battle of Xiling Snow Mountain, all the vines turned into shriveled withered vines.

But at this time, a few green leaves seemed to grow on those withered vines.

"How, have you found it?"

Just when Ying Baoyue touched the sixth arhat, Chunyuye walked over after checking the ground.

Ying Baoyue shook her head and looked at the towering statue in front of her, "These things are quite a lot."

"Hmph, there are quite a lot," Chunyu Ye walked to the other end of the altar and began to inspect the statues, and said lightly while doing it, "It's as many as those old things."

old stuff?
Ying Baoyue's heart skipped a beat, "Are there also eighteen elders in the monastery?"

Based on the piecemeal information disclosed by Wu Chanxu and Chunyu Ye before, she briefly speculated on the power structure of the monastery.

The Chanyuan should be divided into internal and external. The interior is mainly composed of the master, elders and disciples of the Chanyuan. The exterior has branch halls, which are led by the so-called branch hall masters.

The hall masters and elders of these branch halls will overlap in identity, just like Wu Chanxu, he should be both an elder and a hall master.

"Are you good at guessing?" Chunyu Ye looked up at her, "That's right, there are indeed eighteen elders in the inner courtyard."

eighteen.

Ying Baoyue's heart skipped a beat, and she couldn't help but look up at the vivid statues of Arhats in front of her.

To be honest, when she saw the statues of the Eighteen Arhats, she felt abrupt. She never expected to see a place in Xirong where the Eighteen Arhats were enshrined.

What's even more strange is that so many exquisite statues are not placed in the main hall of the temple, but are all enshrined in this humble small room.

Are the Eighteen Arhats related to the Eighteen Elders of the Buddhist Temple?

At this moment, Ying Baoyue's hand suddenly touched a bump behind an Arhat statue.

"Chunyu Ye."

Ying Baoyue's fingers were slightly stiff, "I seem to have found something."

"What? You don't move."

Chunyu Ye immediately walked towards her, "Wait for me."

"It's not that I want to move."

Ying Baoyue looked at him with a complicated expression, "It's moving."

A creaking sound came from behind the Arhat statue beside her.

Chunyuye's green pupils shrank violently.

Under the moonlight, two long black shadows suddenly appeared behind the Arhat statue where Ying Baoyue was standing, and the two black shadows grabbed her arms violently and tied her to the Arhat statue.

The altar table that was close to the wall was split into two halves, two cracks appeared on the wall, and the wall turned backwards, revealing a black hole one person tall.

The statue of Arhat turned backwards, and with a bang, it brought Ying Baoyue into it.

(End of this chapter)