Chapter 140: Afterimage

Boom!

The man boarded the boat, and the boat rocked as if it were a little overwhelmed.

Fortunately, it was quickly corrected again, which shocked Jin An into a cold sweat.

At the last moment, he finally succeeded in boarding the ship, and Jin An looked back at the footprints of the child behind him, and the child's wet footprints stood at the end of the trestle, motionless.

It's like there is a drowning child who has fallen into the water and is dripping water invisibly, staring at Jin An all the time, refusing to leave so easily.

Even though he had boarded the ship, Jin An still had a chilling feeling of palpitations.

It was a premonition of danger that was on my back.

Although in the end, no one can see anything.

Only a pair of wet footprints of a child were seen in the same place.

But instead of being calm, the atmosphere became even more eerie.

Jin An felt that if he hadn't been clever, if he ran fast this time, he was afraid that he would really be entangled by the evil spirit child who had been invisible, and if he didn't use the Five Thunder Evil Talisman, it was really hard to say whether he could escape.

And the Five Thunder Slashing Evil Talisman, now there are only two Lei Tu left, and if you use it once, it will be one less, and it is a life-saving trick at the bottom of the box sealed by the Five Thousand Yin De Edict, and it cannot be easily wasted.

At this moment, the trestle, which was already getting more and more dilapidated, finally overwhelmed and overturned, and even the wet footprints of the child disappeared, and the feeling of being targeted by dangerous eyes disappeared.

It was only at this time that Jin An had time to look at the Ye Xiaozhou in front of him.

He was in a hurry to escape for his life just now, and he didn't look too closely, and then he looked at the boat in front of him again.

Jin An was surprised to find that the flame of the lantern on the bow of the ship was actually dark green, which seemed a little strange and magical in this black and white world.

Is this the soul-attracting lamp that Lao Dao told me?

The soul-attracting lamp is transformed by the obsession of the five visceral dao before his life, so the small boat under his feet should also be the soul-attracting boat, which is used to ferry people to find the place where the five visceral dao people finally died on the boundless and boundless Huangquan Road.

The Five Visceral Daoists were killed by the clay statues in the coffin temple.

So find the place where the five visceral people died.

It is equivalent to finding the coffin temple.

"Senior, you are the one in the black coffin... Mr. Yin and Yang?" Jin An asked, holding on to the edge of the boat and sitting firmly.

At this time, the boat, with the penny, slowly moved forward on the water, and the boat gently rippled a circle of ripples under the boat.

The surroundings are still thick and hazy, and it is impossible to see the surrounding environment, and the whispering voice in the ears that seems to be the whispering of countless people is still invading Jin An's brain and nerves all the time, as if there is an invisible great horror crisis hidden in those dense fogs, and there are thousands of invisible white shadows and ghosts hovering in the sky, and the gloomy atmosphere is heavy.

The atmosphere in this underworld is so weird.

It is very different from the mythical underworld in Jin An's imagination.

In the face of Jin An's questioning, the thin but not rickety back of the bow of the boat was always silent.

"Senior, I don't know what to call it?"

Jin An called softly again.

But the other party was still focused on supporting the penny, and there was no response.

Jin An was puzzled and puzzled, could it be that he was on the wrong ship?

After calming down for a while, just when Jin An was in this oppressive calm, a huge building appeared in the dense fog and water in front of him in this monotonous black and white world.

The dense fog next door could only vaguely see the outline, but Jin An always felt how to look at it, how to be so familiar.

After getting closer, Jin An suddenly stood up and looked carefully, and the expression on his face was stunned, isn't this the chief helm of the Qingshui Gang who has been destroyed?

It was the helmsman of the Qingshui Gang, a strong fortress on the water that was connected by seven or eight big boats.

"The helmsman of the Green Water Gang?"

"Is this already past Xiba Village, already near Chang County?"

"Doesn't that mean I'm swimming against the Yinyi River right now?"

The helm of the Qingshui Gang had turned into ruins at this time, and in the fog on the river, the huge hulls of the ships were like broken halberds sinking into the sand, standing silently and desolate in the shallows by the river.

Dead.

Silence.

Calm.

Behind the helm of the Qingshui Gang, it is the county seat of Changxian County, but because of the thick fog around it, a huge black shadow can only be faintly seen standing in the dense fog.

The huge black shadow was like a cover, hazy, blurry, like a terrifying shadow distorted in a thick fog, Jin An was a little afraid to confirm for a while whether it was Changxian that he was familiar with?

Or is it something more bizarre......

Changxian County has fallen into a dead city, the black shadow in the dense fog is exceptionally calm, quiet, there is no sound coming out, it is as calm as a deep mountain and old pool that has not been broken for a hundred years, secluded, cold, bottomless.

Jin An has always wanted to try to see the huge strange black shadow behind the dense fog, whether it is Changxian that he is familiar with, and what Changxian has become in the end after he escaped from Changxian... But the boat under his feet did not mean to stop, and continued to ripple in a circle, slowly propping forward.

Jin An silently stared at the helm of the Qingshui Gang and Changxian behind him, slowly dimmed, blurred, and disappeared into the thick fog, until he was completely out of sight, he turned back a little silently.

"Have you ever learned about the underworld and the underworld?"

The person who had been holding the fence at the bow of the boat finally took the initiative to say the first sentence at this time, his voice was a little dull, and Jin An noticed that the other party was wearing a bronze mask on his face, and he didn't want Jin An to see his facial features.

It's also strange to say.

The voice of this Mr. Yin and Yang is not as old as Jin An imagined.

Faced with the other party's sudden question, although Jin An was a little surprised, after organizing the language, he replied: "People often say that people die like lights go out. ”

But after the lights went out, there was still a wisp of green smoke remaining, and it took a long time to disperse. ”

"This world is like a sea of suffering, human life is like a grass mustard with shallow roots, people die every day, some die at the end of their lives, some die without cure, some become sick with thoughts, some die unexpectedly, and some die unjustly in vain......"

"When people die, the lights go out, those dead people are distributed all over the world, and finally they are all under our feet every day, and the ubiquitous rivers, lakes, seas, and streams connect their souls, obsessions, and resentments together to form a complete and huge world of spiritual wills, which have good thoughts, joy, anger, sorrow, evil, weirdness, darkness, curses, pollution, mystery, horror, and heresy, and the people of later generations collectively call it 'Hades'. ”

"And those rivers, lakes, seas, rivers and streams that connect all the souls and remnants of the dead together have also been given another awe-inspiring name by later generations after they arrived in the underworld, called 'Jiuqu Huangquan Road', life is impermanent, and there are dead people on the Huangquan Road, which is derived from this. ”

These are the details of the underworld that Jin An learned from the old Taoist priest before he went to the underworld.

And these details of the underworld, the old Taoist priest also heard from his friend who walked in the underworld.

The underworld here is different from the underworld that Jin An is familiar with, with a bull's head and a horse's face, and the black and white impermanence of the underworld.

If he hadn't learned these details from the old Taoist priest in advance, I am afraid that he would have just gone down to the underworld and saw the underworld in front of him, which was different from what he imagined, and Jin An's mind would not have calmed down so quickly.

Jin An groaned as he continued to speak.

"Normally, this remnant of the soul of the deceased does not linger for long, and will disappear as the body is highly decomposed or after the first seven years have passed. ”

However, the stronger the obsession after death, such as the unfulfilled wish in the yang world, or the resentment of the person who died in vain is too strong, these situations will make the remnants of the person after death linger longer. ”

It is precisely because of the reason why good thoughts dissipate quickly, and evil thoughts accumulate for thousands of years, that this underworld has gradually become a strange and cursed spiritual world, which can pollute the souls of the living. ”

And that's the main reason why we go down to hell. ”

"The cannibal clay statue in the temple of the horn urn coffin has been integrated with the place where the yin gathers, so it can't be killed in the outside world, so it can only be killed by going to the underworld and going down to the underworld, finding the remnants of the cannibalistic clay statue hiding in the underworld and killing it. Because as long as it is a dead person, whether it is a corpse or an evil spirit, after death, he must go to the underworld, and after death, he must go down to Jiuqu Huangquan Road. ”

Of course, all of the above are naturally said by the old Taoist friend, Jin An relied on his own comprehension and reorganized the wording before saying it.

"Therefore, the underworld we are entering now is not a world of remnants that belongs to one person of the Five Visceral Daoists, but a complete and huge world composed of thousands of dead souls, covering the entire Kangding country, and even including the southern barbarians, northern deserts, and grasslands outside the Kangding country... The underworld is vast and endless, and it is even greater than the yang. ”

After listening to Jin An's self-opinion, Mr. Yin Yang nodded.

"Then have you learned about the taboos of walking in the yin?"

When Jin An recited the three taboos of Yin, Mr. Yin and Yang suddenly fell silent.

"What's wrong with sir?"

"But what am I saying wrong?"

"If you make a mistake, please advise me. ”

Jin An saw that the other party suddenly became silent, and thought that he had misremembered something, so he hurriedly humbly asked for advice.

In the face of Jin An's humble request for advice, Mr. Yin and Yang wearing a bronze mask said: "......"

"Your answer is already good, I have nothing more to teach you. ”

Mr. Yin Yang said with a little cry after being silent.

"Sir, can a Yin walker really go around all the borders of Kangding Country for 100,000 miles in one night?"

"Yes. ”

As soon as Mr. Yin Yang finished speaking, he seemed to have guessed Jin An's thoughts: "But there must be a soul-attracting lamp as a guide." ”

"The world of the underworld is not as calm as it looks like a lake mirror, there are yellow wind disasters on the Jiuqu Huangquan Road, there are unknown and mysterious fogs, there are black wind disasters on land, there are magic lands, there are forbidden places, there are mass graves, there are human head mountains, there are battlefields with stumps and broken arms, throughout history for thousands of years, which mountains and rivers have not killed people on land... Let's not talk about the land, just refer to the waterway, if there is no soul-attracting lamp to guide the direction, you will be lost in these fogs on the river in a few breaths. ”

"Going back to walking on the dry road, it's like the ruins of Changxian County that we passed by just now, the people of a city are dead, and the wailing, pain, and resentment of tens of thousands of dead souls have already turned into purgatory on earth. And in the underworld, there are as many man-eating demon caves like this in the sky, Changxian is just a corner of the sea, there are living forbidden places in the yang world, there are all in the underworld, there are no living forbidden places in the yang world, there are all in the underworld. ”

"It's hard to walk on the waterway, but it's even harder to climb the sky on the dry road. ”

"Therefore, if you want to travel around Kangding Kingdom in the underworld, you can do it on paper, but the real situation is not realistic. Without the soul-attracting lamp, you can't even get out of the territory of Chang County, and your soul has been polluted by all kinds of obscure and evil qi in the underworld, and finally you have ended up with a dead soul. ”

All right.

After listening to Mr. Yin Yang's words, Jin An once again had a clear sense of the great horror of the underworld.

To put it simply, this is a place where you don't spit out your bones, and the water here is even cooler!

The Soul Ship continues to move on.

All the way upstream.

During this period, Jin An also repeatedly knocked on the side about Mr. Yin Yang's identity, origin, and skills, but the former was like the bronze mask on his face, and there was no result.

The boat traveled some distance in the Yinyi River, and finally, boom, the bow of the boat bounced slightly, and the boat stopped.

It has been docked.

"It's here. ”

"This is the closest place to the coffin temple in the land of the yin, and the rest of the journey is deep in the mountains, and there is no waterway to enter, so you can only enter through the dry road. ”

Hear the words.

Jin An looked at Mr. Yin and Yang.

Mr. Yin and Yang looked at Jin An.

The two of them stared at each other, you look at me, I look at you.

In the end, it was Jin An who spoke first: "Sir, won't you accompany me ashore?"

Mr. Yin and Yang's voice under the bronze mask was slightly dull: "Your road is ahead." ”

Jin An: "?"

No, sir, you're playing a pantomime with me?

"I am a dead man, and I can only cross others ashore, but I cannot cross myself ashore. Mr. Yin Yang turned around and picked up the soul-attracting lantern on the bow of the boat and handed it to Jin An.

......

The bank of the river is muddy and wet, the road is not easy to walk, and Jin'an walks one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Walking in the thick fog, it always makes Jin An think of the cemetery in the early morning, the night fog is shrouded, dead silence, the air is moist and cold, people walk in these dense fogs, there is a kind of skin like a cold feeling that has been peeled off layer by layer, lifeless, no life.

It wasn't until the fog around him became lighter and lighter, and when the vision in front of him suddenly became empty, people finally walked out of the range of the river bank, and there was already some distance from the waterway.

Jin An turned around thoughtfully, and looked at the dense fog behind him that shrouded the Yinyi River.

It seems that the fog must be water mist or something, and it is only shrouded in the place where there is a waterway, and it cannot leave the waterway......

On the next journey, Jin An began to follow the guidance of the soul-attracting lamp and looked in the direction of the Horn Urn Coffin Temple.

This soul-attracting lamp is guided by the obsession of the five visceral Taoists, as long as the corpse of the Wuviscera Daoist is found, the coffin temple must be near the corpse.

The environment in the mountains is rugged and complicated, full of tall shrubs and thorns that cover the sky and the sun, and Jin An has long forgotten the specific location of the horn urn. And after listening to Mr. Yin Yang's introduction to the many unknown horrors of the underworld, he didn't dare to run blindly, and honestly followed the guidance of the soul-attracting lamp and moved forward cautiously.