Chapter 159: The Ghost City of Xudu
Chang Ya smiled faintly and said in a low voice: "Tell me where Wutan is, after we see Wutan, we will naturally not stay in the underworld for more than half a moment, you know this matter, and naturally keep you fine." ”
Shen Tu had a bitter face, and very reluctantly told Chang Ya Wutan where he was, and put him into the underworld.
Mo Xue's words were not wrong, it turned out that Wutan had really been guarding the Lechuan River in the underworld, waiting for his daughter's arrival. He is a water demon, but he is not an ordinary water demon. His essence is the embodiment of the water of the thousand-year-old Icy Ice. Emperor Xudu attached great importance to this water ghost who came to take refuge, and saw that he had no intention of being reincarnated, so he had the intention to recruit him and take him for his own use. However, a new ghost who has nothing to do should not be given too high an official position, so the Emperor Xudu thought about it and finally sealed the errand of a ghost shepherd official in Wutan.
The ghost shepherd's errand is very leisurely, except for the ghosts who go to the entrance of the ghost gate at night and the dawn when the golden rooster announces the dawn, and the usually idle Wutan will stay on the bank of the Lechuan River all day long, carrying a small basket, picking the manzhu shahua by the river one by one......
Chang Ya quickly found Mao, he informed her of the location of Wutan, and gave her a small wooden sign made of peachwood.
"What is this?" Shigeru fiddled curiously with the small wooden sign as he walked.
"It's given by the gods, and the ghost can't see you with it, so it's safer." Chang Ya took her hand and walked forward, and Mao's sleeve was torn by the gods, revealing a snow-white forearm. Chang Ya frowned, silently reciting the Returning Technique, and Ah Mao's cuffs were instantly intact.
Her heart was excited and apprehensive, and she didn't pay attention to Chang Ya's small movements, but just looked around curiously, "What kind of peach trees are we brought?" There are no ghosts at all! ”
Chang Ya scoffed at Mao's IQ, and secretly wondered how she could fall in love with such a brainless girl. "It's out of town! Of course, I can't see ghosts. ”
"Is this still divided into inside and outside the city?" Ah Mao was shocked, her mother said that the underworld is the place where the dead gather and are reincarnated. Mao rolled his eyes, everyone lined up to wait for reincarnation, what kind of city to build, it's a waste of resources.
Half a moment later, they finally walked to the gate of the city, the towering gate was wide open, and there was a huge wooden plaque hanging above the city gate, on which were written two big characters depicting the gold edge, "酆都", which seemed to be in the trust of the gods and Yu Lei, and the city gate did not set any barriers. Chang Ya was a little relieved and walked inside with Ah Mao.
The layout of the city is no different from the city in the world, with chess clubs, tea rooms, taverns, gambling houses, and street stalls. The only difference is that it is only illuminated by a miserable white lantern without any sunlight.
From time to time there were a few white-clad ghosts with disheveled hair and pale faces, who were expressionless, their eyebrows lowered, they did not speak, and they did not seem to feel anything, wandering alone in the streets like walking dead.
Suddenly a ghost approached A-Mao, this ghost was very strange, his face was completely covered by his hair, he couldn't see his original appearance clearly, he laughed in a low voice as he walked, A-Mao clenched Chang Ya's hand a little scared, she wanted to speak, but Chang Ya covered her mouth.
Chang Ya used immortal magic to transmit the voice to her, telling her not to speak, although these ghosts can't see them, but if they speak, they will still leak the breath of the born, those ghosts will quickly rush up out of the yearning for life, and the ghosts with higher cultivation can even attach themselves to others.
Chang Ya solemnly shook her head at Ah Mao, who stared at the nearby ghost people in horror, she didn't want to be possessed, so she unconsciously restrained her urge to scream.
A gust of wind blew, and Mao couldn't help but have goosebumps on his body, and when he looked up, he saw the terrifying face of the ghost people! No! He didn't have a face at all, it was just the back of his head. head
Mao's eyes widened, the head of this ghost was reversed, the back of his head was a face, and the "face" in front was actually the back of a head full of hair!
This scene is too weird, and she sees this strange and terrifying ghost people getting closer and closer to her......
"Ah!!!h Shigeru screamed in unbearable fright.
Chang Ya secretly said that it was not good, and hurriedly covered her mouth again, signaling her to silence, but it was too late.
"Hey, hey!" A poignant and eerie laugh made Shigeru's hair blow up at once. She hugged Chang Ya's waist in fear and hid behind him tremblingly.
"Do you want to swap heads with me?" The ghost folk said and easily took off their heads from their necks, the headless ghost holding the head was as non-threatening as air in Chang Ya's eyes, and he swiped lightly in the air, and the ghost folk immediately fell to the ground as if they had been drugged.
He gently dragged Mao out from behind him and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be afraid of ghosts?" ”
"I, I didn't! But, it's, it'......" Shigeru pointed to the headless ghost underground, stammering incoherently.
She is not afraid of heaven and earth, but she has a fatal weakness, she is afraid of ghosts.
Chang Ya stepped forward to check the ghost people lying on the ground, and said calmly: "Don't be afraid, he is just a ghost people who just died with a broken head, and it should be that his soul has not yet dispersed, so he is so abnormal." ”
Mao didn't dare to look at the headless ghost at all, and moved her gaze away, her mood was extremely bad, she thought, Chang Ya must be laughing at her in her heart at this moment! What a shame! "That...... When will we get to Lethe? Shigeru hurriedly changed the subject.
Chang Ya didn't answer, just walked a few steps, stopped in the middle of the intersection of this street, he looked around, and suddenly fixed his gaze in one direction, he noticed that all the expressionless ghost people came from the north, and the ghost people from the south were mostly like the headless ghosts just now, with different emotions on their faces, they were confused, or sad, or relaxed, or angry. Obviously, they are all new ghosts who have just drunk Meng Po soup.
"If my guess is correct, Lethe should be to the south." Chang Ya raised her finger and pointed to the guide, and said to Ah Mao.
"Legend has it that Lethe is the only way from the human world to the underworld, and you mean that those who have just passed through Lethe must be the newly dead ghosts, so they will have different expressions on their faces. Is that so? Mao looked up at Chang Ya, followed the direction he was pointing, and walked a few steps south with some eagerness.
"Hmm." Chang Ya replied approvingly, looking at the soft color in Ah Mao's eyes, he raised his lips and smiled: "You are finally smarter." ”
Mao didn't want to say anything, just stared at the endless street to the south, said that time was pressing, and went south with Changya.