"I've ...... Dead?"

Jiang Yao only felt a "pop" in his heart, and suddenly there was a feeling of five thunderbolts, but he immediately realized a problem.

Wait a minute...... If I'm dead, how can I still have a heartbeat?

He hurriedly lowered his head, saw that his legs were still standing on the ground, and looked up at the toad ghost, but found that the other party's short and fat figure reflected his own shadow, and judging from the blood on his hands, it was too normal to be normal, how could he have the appearance of an undead.

"Cluck...... Even if you don't die now, it's only a matter of time, anyway, you won't be able to leave when you come to the Netherworld!" As if seeing Jiang Yao's doubts, Frog Murray began to shout again. "Let's go, let's go, the living dead!

As he spoke, Frog Moon began to wave the spirit flag again to beckon Jiang Yao to step forward, and the shackles on Jiang Yao's body also emitted a ghostly light again, pulling Jiang Yao towards the direction of the golden long river.

"It's called 'Netherworld'...... After you have passed Lethe, you will enter the real 'Netherland', where the mansion of our noble Hades is located......!

The frog babbled, as if he was very excited about the next errand, but Jiang Yao didn't bother to pay attention to it, he struggled desperately, trying to break free from the shackles of his hands, but found that the shackles were not loosened at all, but became heavier and heavier with his struggle, and after a while, Jiang Yao was pressed and panting.

"Cluck...... It's useless to struggle! This thing is called 'Soul Ring Lock', and nothing can be opened except for this spirit banner in my hand, and it will get heavier and heavier if it is hard to open!"

Frog Frog laughed and proudly raised the spirit banner in his hand, and Jiang Yao saw that his struggle would only backfire, so he decisively stopped his unnecessary movements. He looked at the stupid-looking frog in front of him, and then glanced at the unfamiliar netherworld around him, and decided to set up some information first.

"Okay...... I gave up, and I couldn't escape anyway. Jiang Yao deliberately showed a resigned appearance and sighed. "Then what's next? Do I still want to drink Meng Po soup, cross the Nai He Bridge or something?"

"That's the treatment for people who can enter reincarnation, croak...... A sinner like you has to go through the judgment of Lord Hades first!Speaking of this Lord Hades, it is very beautiful, very open-minded, and very capable!" As soon as he mentioned Hades, Frog Moon's face suddenly showed an extremely worshipful look, and even those big green eyes seemed to be shining, and Jiang Yao saw the other party's expression, so he continued to shoot along the fart.

"Then since you can be a trainee ghost, you must be quite important, Hades must like you very much, right?"

"Quack~ Of course!" Frog Moon's eyes were about to narrow into a line with laughter, obviously quite useful for Jiang Yao's flattery. "Our underworld has always been understaffed, and the black and white impermanence adults are too busy to run around, it is our current Lord Hades who ordered the expansion of recruitment, and civilians from the underworld like us also have the opportunity to become ghosts and enjoy the treatment of civil servants~ Quack......"

As soon as Frog Frog opened the switch, he couldn't hold it anymore and began to talk endlessly.

"Since the retirement of the last Lord Hades, our current Lord Hades has begun to carry out large-scale reforms, streamlining the process of the 'Reincarnation Division' to improve efficiency, and also increasing the urban construction of the Netherworld to improve the lives of our Netherworld residents, croak...... Really, very, very wise king!!"

"Oh, there are still cities in the Netherworld?" When Jiang Yao heard this, he suddenly remembered the shadows of those buildings he had seen before, and he suddenly became curious. "I thought the Netherworld was just a place where everything reincarnates...... That's what is said in myths and stories. ”

"Cluck...... Reincarnation is just a function of the Netherworld! The Netherworld is so big, not only are there aborigines, but there are also many beings who do not want to be reincarnated and choose to settle here! Most of them live in the cities of the 'Netherlands' in a regular manner, and are under the jurisdiction of Lord Hades, but there are some exceptions......"

Frog said as he stretched out his little finger to point to the shadow of the building that Jiang Yao had seen before in the mist, and said.

"Do you see that dense and messy building? That place is called 'Nine Springs Walled City', and it has existed since the reign of the last Hades! There are some monsters who escaped from the ancient wars to escape the war, and there are some guys who are not qualified to cross the Lethe River and cannot enter the reincarnation, anyway, some rabble who do not enter the stream, and ...... croaking" Frog Stud continued.

"Those guys haven't left since they were stationed in Jiuquan Walled City, and they have been living on the Netherworld Border, and they have begun to occupy the mountains as kings since they began, and even our ghosts don't dare to go there easily, and the leader of these guys, Si You', is very powerful, and he is completely a soil king, and although the previous Hades had the intention to expel them, because of the lack of manpower, they also turned a blind eye, gradually, ' The Nine Springs Walled City has become a three-regardless area in the Netherworld, and it's very chaotic, and our current Hades also have a headache for this place, croaking ......"

"...... Jiuquan Walled City, did you just say that some of them are ......guys who are not qualified to cross Lethe River and cannot enter reincarnation?" Jiang Yao suddenly remembered that Tao Tao had claimed that he could not enter reincarnation, and his mood suddenly became a little delicate.

"Cluck...... Yes, some guys are not complete with three souls and seven spirits, and they have no * back at all, such as them. Frog Murmur blinked, and pointed to the shadows that lingered beside the golden river in the distance.

Jiang Yao was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked in the direction that the frog was pointing. He hadn't paid much attention to those shadows before, but now when he looked closely, he found that those shadows looked like people and non-humans, and he saw that they were shrouded in a black fog all around them, and their behavior was strange and uncertain. The only thing that can be recognized is the pale mask that resembles a skeleton on the faces of those shadows, with joy and sorrow, sorrow and anger, which is reminiscent of the image in the famous Western painting "The Scream".

"...... are they?"

"They're all soulless guys. Frog Murray said. "Those who lack one or two souls can still retain their consciousness and mingle in the Nine Springs Walled City, but if they lack more than half of them, they will be alienated into this kind of puppet undead who only have instinct and no consciousness. Not only could these beings not cross the Lechuan River and re-enter the reincarnation, but they also did not even accept the Jiuquan Walled City. Having said that, this kind of puppet was almost impossible to see before, but for some reason it seems to have become more and more over the years......

"Wait, you just said that losing half or more of your souls will turn into puppet undead!......?

Jiang Yao's face turned white all of a sudden, and he suddenly remembered the scene he had seen in Ah Li's illusion, if half of Xiao Yuan's soul was really taken away by that mysterious black shadow at that time, that is to say...... Xiao Yuan not only lost his qualification to re-enter reincarnation, but even ...... It is possible to degenerate into that kind of monster without consciousness!????......? But that's not what Yunlan said at the beginning!

Jiang Yao was shocked, and the expression on his face became a little cloudy, and Frog Moon saw Jiang Yao's strange appearance obviously misunderstood something, and began to shout loudly again:

"Cluck...... Don't worry, don't worry, your soul is not only complete, but also has one more soul than others!"

"What?" Jiang Yao came back from the shock and looked at the frog with an inexplicable expression, as if he didn't understand what the other party meant.

"And that extra soul in your body...... It seems like...... It's delicious, croaking ......."

The frog stared at Jiang Yao with a grin, and a trace of greed flashed in its big green eyes, but it immediately came back to its senses, wiped the saliva from the corner of its mouth in a little panic, turned around with a look of chagrin, twisted its fat body, and said:

"It's not good, it's not good! I, I'm actually having evil thoughts! This can't be done! Hades will hate my ......!!I can't be tempted by you anymore!!Cluck......!"

The frog shouted and began to close his eyes and shake the spirit flag like crazy, Jiang Yao only felt a roar in his eardrums, and suddenly a huge pressure hit from all directions, and his chest seemed to be pressed against a heavy stone. He fell to his knees, almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, and the air ripples spread out by the spirit banner also seemed to attract the attention of those shadows on the edge of the Lethe River, and when Jiang Yao raised his head and recovered from the suffocation, he suddenly found that there was a circle of unconscious puppet undead around him, a pair of blood-red eyes stared at Jiang Yao, and there were words in his mouth:

"The Living...... Living...... Give me...... Give me ......!"

"What are these!?" Jiang Yao was startled, struggling to stand up, but the puppet undead had already begun to roar and pounce.

"Cluck...... Oh no! your human aura has drawn those puppets in!!"

When Frog Stud saw that something was wrong, he was suddenly a little overwhelmed, and hurriedly took out the ghost token on his body and waved it vigorously, shouting loudly:

"With the order of the king of Hades, I order you to retreat quickly!

A dazzling light burst out from the token, and the puppets who surrounded them showed a look of horror as soon as they saw the light, and with a burst of piercing ghost cries and screams, in a short moment, those puppet undead scattered and disappeared without a trace.

"Cluck...... It's so dangerous, it's almost an accident!" Frog Frog withdrew the token with palpitations, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly felt empty in his hand, turned his head to look, and found that the spirit flag that was originally in his hand was gone at some point!

"W-...... this?!"

"Bind!" a sonorous voice suddenly sounded from above, and before the frog could come back to its senses, its body stiffened suddenly, only to see a thread-like pale yellow light rope that had coiled around its body at some point, and the other end of the light rope went straight up, being led by a man in a gray hooded cloak, who was squatting on a huge rock not far away.

"Ahh

Seeing that his conjuring banner was held in the hands of the mysterious man, the frog was so anxious that tears were about to come out, and it stumbled vigorously trying to break free from the light rope on its body, but instead one accidentally fell to the ground and kicked his legs straight in vain, while the mysterious man was too lazy to talk nonsense, and directly pulled the light rope and stretched out his hand, and the poor toad ghost almost drew a long arc in the air, turned into a meteor, and was thrown into the golden river in the distance with a "poof".

“……”

Jiang Yao's gaze followed the frog's flying figure into the distance, but quickly moved back, and looked at the mysterious man who jumped off the rock and walked towards him with the spirit flag in his hand.

"You...... Are you?"

The inexplicable situation made Jiang Yao a little stunned, but before he could get up from the ground, he felt that something was slammed on his feet, and he fell to the ground on his back again under the unstable center of gravity, and then he realized that his feet were also wrapped around a pale golden light cord, and then a shadow fell from the sky and pressed heavily on him.

"Hand over ......"

The mysterious man roared and rode on Jiang Yao's body, and under the shadow of the hood, a pair of gold and silver eyes flashed with anger.

"Put the 'key'...... Hand it over!"