Volume 1 Juvenile Exhibition Scroll Painting Dust Chapter 97 Ghost Market
The city is the inevitable product of the development of the human world, and it is also a deformed fetus conceived by nature.
Although most of the areas of China today have no sense of mystery in front of the world, many times, people still yearn for the reckless landscapes outside the city, and still fantasize about the adventures and adventures of unknown countries.
It's just that very few people realize that many corners of the city they are in are unknown to people.
On Yingpan East Road, the ancient city of the original city, there is a sewer fifty meters behind the newsstand, which is only a few tens of meters away from the bustling commercial street, but it is one of the entrances to the ghost market.
Xiao Er took a purple bamboo cane today and came here early.
Strange to say, there is a street dozens of meters away, but it is miraculously deserted.
There are rows of neat storefronts on the left and right, and only this open space, like a row of neat teeth missing, has some impact on the cityscape on this main road, but no one has cared about it for so many years.
Although Xiao Er had entered the ghost market, it was the first time he had come to the original place, and it was also the first time he had seen such an entry and exit portal, so he couldn't help but squat down and observe the concrete manhole cover with "urban drainage" written on it, and reached out and knocked on it.
"Daoist friends don't think that you can enter the ghost market by jumping into the sewer, right?" Ji Yutong's voice came from not far away.
Xiao Er turned around and saw that Ji Yutong had changed into a neutral jacket and trousers today, his face was slightly covered with spells, and his temperament still looked outstanding, but he would not be recognized at a glance as the goddess of the Ji family.
"How do you get in?" said Xiao Er with interest.
Although Xiao Er knew the time and place of the opening of the doors of ghost markets in various parts of Shenzhou in the past, he really didn't know that the portals in various places were so different.
"As long as you bring a token, you will naturally be able to enter it when the time comes. Ji Yutong walked to Xiao Er's side and took out a small silver knife coin, with a simple style and the words "wealth can be the same as ghosts" written on it.
Xiao Er nodded, and took out another knife coin, but the material was brass.
The ghost market uses knife coins as tokens to distinguish the size of the cost of entering the market, so as to provide corresponding reception specifications. This knife coin is divided into five types: purple gold, gold, silver, copper, and iron, and the classification standards are extremely strict.
The knife coin in Xiao Er's hand was taken out from home and passed down by generations of ancestors, and the knife coin in Ji Yutong's hand was obviously owned by the Ji family, otherwise according to the standards of the ghost market, it would be impossible for the age of the two to reach the gold and silver level transaction quota in the ghost market anyway.
After the two waited for a while, Ji Yutong suddenly said, "It's time." ”
Xiao Er looked up and saw that everything was silent, the streets were still streets, the vacant land was still the vacant land, the newsstand was still the newsstand, the sewer was still the sewer, and everything had not changed at all.
"Look behind you. ”
Xiao Er turned his head and was shocked to see that the bustling city behind him and the high-rise buildings of the original city had disappeared without a trace, and there was only a long corridor leading to the unknown darkness.
The walls of the corridor are bright red stones, and the open space where they are located happens to be the entrance to the corridor.
Looking up, the front is still a clear urban sky street, but behind is a deep and strange cave rock wall, as if it is a very clumsy picture stitching technology, the two pictures are directly put together, and the surrounding space has a strange sense of distortion.
There is no sense of dizziness when entering the small world of the cave, what is directly presented in front of Xiao Er is a hunting scene that can only be seen in dreams.
Then there was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, and a man in a black cloak walked up to the two of them and bowed slightly: "The ghost market in Hexi welcomes two distinguished guests, and Jinnaro Seventeen will lead the way for the two." ”
The staff in the ghost market borrowed the Tianlong Babu people as the number, and all the visitors with silver knife coins or above, the ghost market will have a special person to receive and guide the way, Xiao Er looked carefully, and found that it was the same as the last few times, and he couldn't see whether the person under the cloak was male or female, and he couldn't find out his cultivation realm.
"I remember that the people who received me were all 20 Mohurakas. Xiao Er asked curiously, "I thought that every time the person who was introduced was fixed. ”
"The two of them came together, and the ghost market according to the usual practice, only according to the higher level of the knife coin, sent a person to pick up. Kinnara's voice was soft, but he couldn't hear joy or sorrow, and turned his head and walked slowly forward.
Xiao Er sensed that other monks had entered the surroundings, so he didn't ask any more questions, and silently followed the guide with Ji Yutong.
The path seemed to go straight underground, but the zenith went higher and higher until it sank into the dark sky. After a few quarters of an hour, it suddenly dawned on the three of them to a wide flat field.
The sky was dark, but there were bright fluorescent flickering lights on the ground, and strange vegetation and bewitching flowers grew everywhere, extending to a huge city community not far away.
The juxtaposition of several cities, from afar, you can see high-rise buildings, crowded markets, faintly audible noise, and it seems that there is no difference from the world.
On the suburban roads around him, it can be seen that there is a surge of people, all of them are monks who have entered the ghost market, most of them are unguided, they meet each other, and they don't say a word, just bury their heads in the city.
Kinnara XVII led the two men straight to the city gate, and when the other monks saw that they all dodged and gave way, some people watched, but no one stepped forward to take a look.
The standards in the ghost market are strict, and the VIPs who can be led by special personnel are at least the forces that have been inherited for more than 200 years with a knife coin.
Walk to the end of the road, close to the main city of the ghost city, you can see that there are six huge city groups, built in a semi-ring, and the road is divided into six forks here, leading to six directions, wide and strange seven forks next to the road, set up a stone tablet, there are four big characters with faint fluorescent eyes: "six divisions".
Jinnaro 17 stopped: "The ghost market has arrived, and the six realms are divided, dare to ask where the two of you are going?"
Since ancient times, the ghost market has been divided into six regions according to the name of the six realms of reincarnation, so in many secular legends, the ghost market, the largest cave in the world, is directly regarded as the underworld.
Xiao Er looked at it, and the six cities in front of him were arranged from left to right, with the three good ways on the left and the three evil ways on the right, which was quite a bit clear.
On the far right, the "Hell Road" is the place where many monks trade freely, and it is also the widest of the city, although there are neither walls nor tall buildings, but the crowds are constantly flowing and the noise can be heard from time to time.
Next to the "Hell Road" is the "Animal Road", and when you look up, you can see a hideous building in the city towering into the sky, which is the Colosseum for foreign beasts to fight. This Colosseum is extremely tall and huge, forming a circular loop, the whole body is golden, but there are bursts of blood mist, and even the sky above the city is shrouded in a cloud of blood mist, which looks very evil.
And the three evil paths near the center is the "hungry ghost road", although it is not wide, but because it is a place to gather people to gamble games, so high-rise buildings are everywhere, all kinds of neon lights shine non-stop, there are melodious music in the air, the lights are green, the joy is constant, it looks like the most like the place of the ordinary city.
Looking further to the left, the gray air that can't see anything clearly is the most mysterious "Heavenly Dao", where many residents who only abide by the rules of the ghost market live, and there are also many organizations and murderers who are not tolerated by the world to settle down and hide here, for hundreds of years, how many dangerous people have been contained in it, I am afraid that even the residents themselves can't remember.
The second city from the left is the "Asura Road", which is the most unlike city, because in the empty mining area, only a lone tall tower juts out into the dark clouds, which seems to be a bridge between heaven and earth. The tower was clearly under extremely strong prohibitions, and there was silence inside and out.
The last city is the "way of man", although the city is small, but it is also full of people, and there are golden passages extending from the sky, connecting the other five cities.
"It's okay left and right, I want to go to Hell Road first. Ji Yutong asked Xiao Er's opinion.
The Hell Path is a place where monks trade freely, and it is also the most chaotic and lively place, where they can always come across good things, but it is difficult to find certain items. Xiao Er originally wanted to go directly to the tower of the Asura Dao to auction off the magic weapons and talismans on his body, but after listening to Ji Yutong's words, he suddenly thought about it again: "It's better to try your luck first." ”
So Kinnara XVII led the two to the right, and in a short time the noise reached their ears.
"I wonder if you two need me to keep you company?" asked Kinara.
Sometimes we have to believe that there is really such a thing as a "butterfly effect" in the world, maybe the heads and tails of a coin you throw when you joke today will determine the oil production of the Middle East in five years, maybe you choose to take the bus at the next intersection or fight black, and it will determine whether a person you don't know died tragically in a car accident. The so-called cause and effect is like this, each of us has countless choices converged into clues, and countless clues converged into something, which we call fate.
Mount Yuelu is not high, but there are many tall trees. In such a climate, once you enter the forest, you can hardly see the light of day. And at this moment, in the lushness, there are two figures rushing and chasing, sometimes staggered and sometimes separated.
Suddenly, the figure in front stopped at the treetop of a maple tree, and the person behind stopped immediately.
"Song Chengcheng, you still came along. The person in front of him showed his figure, but he still couldn't tell his appearance, gender, and clothing, and he completely looked like the murderer of Conan's fan.
"I was so beaten that my mother couldn't recognize me just now, and now what's the matter with the tone of 'you've fallen into my trap and you're going to die soon'?" Song Chengcheng sneered, "Yuelu Mountain is protected by the power of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, don't tell me what kind of ambush you can lay here." ”
"Boom..." The mysterious figure laughed, "Song Chengcheng, have you forgotten your attributes?"
"Attributes?" Song Chengcheng looked left and right, and then looked at himself, "Do you mean that I am handsome and cool, or do you mean that I am talented?"
"Oh, you really don't forget narcissism until you die, then let me remind you..." The shadow man was proud, "The land under your feet has laid the most pure and solemn Buddha Gate Fu Magic Array. ”