CHAPTER XXII

Bai Wuchang also recovered the same face he had when he came before, "Don't talk nonsense, it's time to do something serious, this time, we must take our thoughts back." Originally, our ghost domain has no right to interfere in the affairs of your demons. But it is always inconvenient to miss our people, and it is always inconvenient for her to stay with you. This time, I was ordered by the King of the Ten Palaces to take her back. ”

Chongming shrugged, "I understand the truth, but it's a pity that you came a step late, and Miss is no longer here, she went to our young master." If you have to take her away, I'm sorry, it seems that I can only trouble you to go to the young master to ask for someone. He made a gesture of please.

Bai Wuchang was silent for a moment, his eyes turned white, and he seemed to sense the fluctuations of his spiritual power here. Later, his eyes returned to normal and he bowed to us, "Farewell." With that, he stepped out. Chongming and Zuo Liang breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and their bodies gave up their defensive posture.

At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew in from outside the door, and I was really caught off guard. I saw two slender arms stretched out in the black wind, and pulled me in, and at the same time, a voice said, "Since the thoughts are in your young master, and this human being seems to be very important to you, then exchange your thoughts for her!

Then, the black wind carried me through the barrier with ease, and I saw Chongming and Zuo Liang chasing after me, and Chongming had already thrown the chain ring to this side, but suddenly, we came to a strange environment, and the shadows of the two of them were no longer visible.

"Chongming! Chongming!" I shouted, but there was nothing around me but black rocks.

A cold wind seemed to blow through the bone marrow, and I was so cold that I had to crouch down near a rock, which temporarily helped me resist some of the cold. The black and white impermanence has disappeared nowhere, and it seems that they just left me here at random. Neither afraid of me escaping, nor of me being saved. I couldn't help but scream in my heart, "Where is this, why am I always the one who is hurting?"

I don't know how long it took, but I fell asleep cold and hungry. Well... Maybe I was unconscious, but when I opened my eyes again, I found that there were more than a dozen people squatting around me like me. They were all hiding behind rocks, cloaks of heavy linen, pale and sluggish, as if they had just woken up from sleep, just like me. The strange thing is that their eyes are all fixed in the same direction, without blinking, as if waiting for something.

Suddenly, a sound similar to the tapping of wood sounded from the distance of the sky, and I made a closer look, and it was actually a sound like that of a wooden fish. Then the sky gradually turns white until it becomes clear. I saw the people around me stand up one after another, and no one spoke, just began to move forward mechanically. I didn't know what was in front of me, so I stood up, but I saw that there were more than a dozen people in front of me. As far as the eye could see, it was all crowded with people! They were all moving in a mechanical way, moving quietly!

Looking in the direction they were going, there seemed to be a ferry crossing, as if there was a bridge. In a trance, I felt that this scene was so familiar, not familiar, but indescribably familiar. Then an old woman with a pole came from the bridge, and she went to this side of the bridge, found a smooth stone and sat down. She placed an altar-like object in front of her. I saw that the crowd around me immediately lined up in an orderly manner, and one by one they came to the old woman's stall, and the woman handed over a bowl, and they drank the soup from the bowl and went to the bridge. My heart chuckled, and I said that this should not be the bridge between Meng Po and Naihe! Oh my God! I was actually in the Yellow Spring! Could it be that I was already dead?

I reached out to my heart, and my heart was beating violently with nervousness and fear. I touched my face with my hand, although it was cold all night, but it was obviously warm! Fortunately, I was still alive! Just thinking about it, I saw Meng Po waving to me. I looked back and there was no one behind me. Meng Po coughed, and said in a kind and soft voice, "Don't look, come here!" I turned to look at her, this Meng Po actually didn't have any ghosts, and gave me the feeling that she was just a kind old lady, not only was she not afraid, but she didn't have any resistance in her heart, I walked towards her, and said to myself in my heart as I walked, I have seen a lot of demons, and I also saw the famous Meng Po today. Now let's get acquainted with my face, and when I die in the future, this is also a connection! Don't worry about finding a way out, and not being able to get a good baby!

I walked to Meng Po's side, but I didn't dare to get too close to her, she looked up at me a few more times, and continued to distribute soup to those ghosts in her hand, "Young people now!" she said again, "If you don't do your job, you have to come down and have a look at the Yellow Spring! You are a girl, why are you so bold! What kind of place is this! You dare to come down and walk around!" Although these words were reproaches, I felt so warm. Since I was a child, I have never seen my grandmother or grandmother, and suddenly my heart was touched by these words of loving reproach from Meng Po, and I couldn't help but feel hot in my heart, and tears flowed out.

Meng Po saw me crying, and wiped the tears on my face with her sleeve, "Now you know how to cry? You said you don't know how to be afraid, there are ghosts and ghosts here, and they eat you in minutes!" I sighed helplessly, grabbed me back with black and white impermanence, and was about to exchange me for thinking and briefly told Meng Po, Meng Po listened angrily and threw the soup spoon in her hand into the jar, and the soup in the altar splashed on a soul who was waiting to get the soup, and the ghost immediately greedily stretched out her tongue to lick it, and Meng Po waved her hand impatiently," It's closed, come back tomorrow!" The ghosts who had not yet received the soup and had not crossed the Naihe Bridge let out a huge helpless sigh together, and they all returned to the mountain rock where I had been hiding before, and dispersed.

Meng Po patted a stone beside her and motioned for me to sit down. Without the slightest hesitation, I sat down against her. She reached out and handed me a gray linen cloak, "Put it on, child." When I put it on, it was indeed much warmer, and Meng Po said in a trembling voice, "What a sin!"

I sat down beside her, and she looked at me and continued, "You're a friend of your thoughts, or the two brothers wouldn't have used you as a candidate for their thoughts." "I said in my heart, I don't know if we're friends, but she protects me, and we live together for a few days, so we should be friends!

Meng Po sighed again, "Poor good boy, why don't these people let her go!"

I heard what Meng Po said, so I asked if something had happened to Sinian.

Meng Po sighed, "It's a long time ago, so don't ask again." Let's go, didn't you just say the two-day deadline, you have no place to live here, if you don't dislike it, go to my wife's house to make do with it!"

As soon as I heard this, I felt good, at least I didn't have to sleep in the middle of nowhere with so many ghosts tonight. took the initiative to help Meng Po clean up her things, but Meng Po slapped my hand off, saying that my yang energy was too strong, and once it was mixed into the soup, it would be useless. As he spoke, he shouldered his shoulder and walked in front of me.

I followed her and found that there was not a drop of water under the bridge, and the surroundings were desolate. I don't know if Huangquan has always been like this, but I always feel that something is missing in my heart.

Meng Po's home is on the other side of the Nai He Bridge, and there is a thick stone pillar surrounded by ten people at the door, and there are many words on the pillar, but after the baptism of wind and sand, many words are no longer clear. Looking further back, you can see a very high black tower in the distance, and an extremely miserable cry faintly comes from the tower. The oni who had drunk the soup before were being guided into the tower by some demons dressed in black and white costumes. You don't need to ask to know that it must be the legendary eighteen layers of hell. I told Meng Po my guess, and Meng Po narrowed her eyes into a line, looked at the place and nodded.

"But if there is life, after death, there will be no escape from reincarnation. This sentence makes me think to myself, if I die, what kind of person will I become in the next life? Maybe I will do a lot of evil in this life, and I will become a pig or a dog in the next life.

I asked Meng Po, "Will demons be reincarnated after they die?" but Meng Po asked me instead, "Do you know the difference between demons and gods?"

"God?" I shook my head, I only believed in ghosts before I met them. Because there are many realities that cannot be explained by science, these are all phenomena controlled by "ghosts". And God, no matter how devout I have prayed or supplicated so far, those high gods have not helped me or ignored me once. So, I firmly said, "I don't think God exists." ”

Meng Po smiled, "You've seen ghosts and demons, but you don't believe in gods?" I nodded.

Meng Po clapped my hand, "Girl, in fact, there is only one step between the demon and the god, but this step is like heaven and earth." She saw that I didn't understand, so she continued to ask me, "Do you know what Nuwa Niangniang looks like?" I nodded, there are many depictions of Nuwa in film and television works in recent years, "Human face and snake body!"

Meng Po nodded, looked at me with a smile, I was a little baffled, and suddenly seemed to think of something, so I asked her back, "What does my mother-in-law mean, Nuwa is just a demon?"

Meng Po immediately covered my mouth and looked around cautiously, "The so-called god only did something beneficial to the environment at that time, so he was helped to the altar. God blesses man, and demons are evil. ”