It was a long time after nightfall.

in a city in central China.

Under the warm yellow light of the room, a man under his thirties, but still struggling in front of his computer desk - his name is Guo Lu, his position is a software engineer, and he belongs to the software development department of Hu Nanqihuang Cloud Computing Technology Co., Ltd.

There are many bags and boxes of fast food on the table, scattered in many places, and the screen is also flickering with a gradually beating light, and its fingers have been moving like playing a piano, pressing one key and pressing another, agile and smooth.

In the sound of the "pop pop" buttons, too much restlessness and fatigue have already been accumulated, even if from time to time, I will raise my hand to push the frame on the bridge of my nose, it is difficult to relieve the soreness of my fingertips.

Concentrate and time flies.

But at a moment, his face suddenly relaxed, and after pressing the Enter key numbly, he glanced at the time in the lower corner of the screen again.

"03/25/2023 01:13."

"Hurry up, hurry up, you must succeed, it's up to you", stretched his waist and turned his neck again, Guo Lu quickly entered the previous state of work again, but his mouth kept chattering and praying, very nervous, and like trembling.

The code bar was scrolling rapidly, characters flashed and newlined, paused and continued, and the cursor flashed thousands of times on his mirror, until nearly half an hour later, it was finally under his great expectation that a "Congratulations!" popped out. ”

"it!"

"Nima!"

"Finally—it's done!"

Seeing that the computer screen automatically exited to the desktop, and then the prompt box of "DF cloud system was successfully run" was displayed, the table slammed down, but Guo Lu immediately jumped up. It was obviously a protracted project, and it was finally completed at this moment, and I couldn't help but be excited.

However, the next moment, there was a muffled sound of "bang", and he fell to the floor with a flushed face, sweating on his forehead, clenching his chest with his left hand, and struggling to climb the table and chair with his right hand...... Uh", the voice was indistinctly spitting, and the eyes were also blurred and dizzy, causing the scratching to either knock over the chair or shake down many bottles and cans.

Acute myocardial infarction!

He tried to call for help, but he couldn't get up.

After struggling for five or six minutes, his reaction gradually slowed down, and he finally closed his eyes in extreme reluctance.

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"Hey, hey, what kind of place is this?"

", all talking......"

Lying on a stretcher, tied up by five flowers, and carried by four strange-looking, hideous and vicious little guys, all the way forward, Guo Lu struggled and couldn't shake the slightest.

None of the four looked at him, but he was still terrified and felt great absurdity.

As a code farmer in the new era, although he has really no deeds, he has never believed in Buddha or worshiped God, but he is also a firm believer in the socialist scientific outlook!

Atheism, right?

Materialist thought, there is wood?

But the wretched thing is, who can tell me what is going on in front of me?

A good Chinese new-type otaku, how could he fuck run into such hanging things as Ghost Gate Pass, Huangquan Road, Nai He Bridge, Meng Po God, and Sansheng Stone?

Are you teasing me?

How is the ghost gate in the style of a triumphal arch, and there is a bunch of black and white neon? Oh, could it be that hanging a plaque and writing "Ghost Gate" is the Ghost Gate?

How did Huangquan Road pave a 3D printed floor? Wouldn't it be nice to print some sea and sharks? What does it mean to draw some skulls and rotting corpses? Scary to play like this?

But why are there so many three-roller gates for ticket inspection on the bridge? You've never been on a high-speed train or a plane, have you?

Meng Po God doesn't give Meng Po soup, what kind of thing is sitting there and playing? If I'm not mistaken, didn't the iPad only reach the 10th generation in '23? How is this ...... Seems a little more advanced?

Shouldn't the Sansheng Stone be a big stone that bleeds? Why is the blood word describing the three lives made by using the LED screen? Is there such a similarity between the thick and bewitching blood and the red LED light?

……

Everything is very grotesque, like entering a haunted house somewhere, or a scary joke carefully made by someone else that happens to pick him on.

But he had no breath, no heartbeat, no blood temperature, and four humanoid creatures around him who were as silent as dead bodies, these strange things or phenomena were clearly telling him: what he saw and saw was really true.

However, it wasn't until a long time later, with a "bang", that he really woke up and really panicked:

"Put him down, and you can go."

"Next, you will come, put him in the drum altar, and carry out the orders of the lord."

"Yes."

"Hey! Don't mess around, I'm not afraid of you! ”

"Hey! Damn, why are you taking off my clothes? ”

……

"Don't touch there, don't touch there!"

"I said it! Don't touch it! ”

"Nima, everyone is male, you touch my crotch to hang me?"

"Oops, hey, I can't take off my underwear, I can't take it off......"

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"Your uncle, who allowed you to shave my chest?"

"! That's what Lao Tzu left for three years to keep! My day! You dogs *day* of you! ”

……

"You ...... What the fuck ...... What the hell is it? ”

"Pain...... Pain...... It hurts......"

It seems to be unhappy, and it seems to be helpless, in this gloomy hall, behind a screen composed of white bones, when a sigh suddenly arises, a person also walks out lightly.

"You say we're ghosts, so we're ghosts."

He raised his neck hard, but after all, he didn't raise his gaze or open his eyelids from the recess of the humanoid altar, but Guo Lu still heard the difference.

"Who are you? Principal? ”

"I'm King Qin Guang."

"King Yama?"

"I said, I'm King Qin Guang!" The man repeated with black lines on his face.

"What kind of king is Qin Guang?"

The voice suddenly became more serious: "The Netherworld is divided into ten halls, so there are ten halls of the king of Yama, this monarch is the king of Qin Guang of the first hall, and the king of Yama is the king of the fifth hall."

"Is this really a netherworld?"

"Not bad."

"How can there be such high-tech as computers, iPads, and 3D printing technology?"

"Those inventors and scientific and technological geniuses, Yang Shou will one day be exhausted."

"Therefore, the Three Realms of Immortals and Ghosts, as the upper realm of the human world, of course, have everything. And what your human world has produced and invented, the three worlds of gods and ghosts, there will always be corresponding things, even higher than them-"

"Oh, so hanging?!"

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