Chapter Twenty-Five: A Suicide Man Travels to the Underworld
The northern scorching cold wind chills people's eyes,
Sanjiu harsh winter is haunted by evil words.
The thinnest is better than the love of the world,
A paper spring has changed its face.
In the early hours of the morning, the stars and moon were gone, the streets were becoming less and less pedestrian, and the whole city was as silent as death, except for the rows of street lamps standing in the desert of the night.
Above the building, a middle-aged man is sitting dangerously on a cliff.
The man's expression was in a trance, his face was dull, and he was muttering to himself, as if he had indescribable desolate words.
At some point, next to the man, there was suddenly a young man dressed in khaki color, carrying a bag on his shoulder, wearing a beret on his head, and holding a lollipop in his mouth.
The young man is five short in stature, sitting on the rooftop, his two legs fiddling back and forth like a swing, his expression is leisurely, and his state is calm.
The middle-aged man turned his head to look at the young man, his face was puzzled, and he said, "You want to jump off the building too?" ”
When the young man heard this, his face was expressionless, he just nodded and did not speak.
The middle-aged man spoke again: "Hey, I owe a lot of debts, old and young, my dad is still lying in the hospital, but I don't have the money to treat him, I'm so useless!" I'm really useless, it's better to die in vain! ”
The young man nodded but did not speak.
Seeing the young man's strange behavior, the middle-aged man couldn't help asking, "Little brother, what about you?" What's not to think about? ”
The young man turned his head to look at him, and said silently: "No, yes, say, speak!" ”
"What? What are you talking about? The middle-aged man was ready to lean his ears to listen.
Then the young man's hand was on the middle-aged man's shoulder, revealing a wicked smile, and then with a gentle push of his hand, the middle-aged man instantly slipped off the eaves, accompanied by a scream of "Help, ahhhh
Then, the young man pushed his hands back, and his feet ran down at the speed of light as if he had stepped on Hot Wheels...
Just as the middle-aged man was about to dive to the ground, a hand reached out from the darkness and firmly grasped one of his legs.
At this time, the middle-aged man had already fainted with fright, his body was naturally drooping, and the tips of his hair were just touching the ground, and the one who grabbed this middle-aged man was the strange young man who had just pushed him.
The young man's body is like Spider-Man in the movie, hanging upside down in mid-air, chic and free.
Suddenly, three people appeared in front of the young man, one black and one white on both sides, one of them was black and one was wearing a green coat, with a resolute face, and the white one was wearing a white suit, and his tongue was stuck out under his neck, yes, it was the black and white impermanence!
And the one in the middle happens to look exactly the same as the middle-aged man who was pushed downstairs, needless to say, this is the soul of the middle-aged man.
Seeing this, the young man just waved his hand casually, signaling them to leave, and after the black and white impermanence understood, he carried the man's soul and disappeared into the night.
When they were gone, the young man tugged at the man's arm and pulled it up hard, followed by a deft somersault, and the two of them landed safely.
Then, the young man squatted down, with a lollipop in his mouth, and looked up and down at the middle-aged man lying on the ground like a dead body, thoughtful......
Saying that, the black and white impermanence carried the man's soul to the underworld, for the man who first climbed the precious land, he was both frightened and curious, looking left and right along the way, cautiously, and closely followed behind the black and white impermanence.
The difference between the underworld and the yang world is that there is no trace of the sun, moon and stars at all, and there is a thick fog everywhere, the environment is humid and cold, and from time to time there is the scorn laughter, which makes people feel creepy and chilling.
The three of them first walked through a barren grassland, and after walking not far, a city vaguely appeared, and the three big golden characters of "Ghost Gate Pass" were written on the city tower.
After the ghost gate, you can vaguely see the palace complexes dotted around.
The architectural style of these palaces is somewhat similar to that of the Forbidden City, but their colors are very different, with purple walls, green tiles, and dark blue doors, with a strange style and a terrifying atmosphere.
First of all, the black and white impermanence escorted the man's soul to the first hall, on which were written the three big characters of "Senluo Palace", and the king of Hades guarding this hall was called King Qin Guang.
Black and white impermanence pushed open the door of the temple, and followed the man's soul to enter the familiar path.
"See King Qin Guang." Black and white impermanence is a matter of course.
"Black and white impermanence, who is Your Highness detaining?" A deep and powerful voice resounded throughout the hall.
"Back to King Qin Guang, this person is a person who died in vain, and he committed suicide by jumping off the building!"
"Bold! Is it a trade-off of your life that you, a mortal, can do the Lord! A man with green eyes, a beard, and more than eight feet tall in an ancient official uniform walked out.
When the man saw Hades for the first time, he was inevitably timid, and he unconsciously took a few steps back under the pressure of his aura.
"Brute, how dare you look directly at King Qin Guang! Don't kneel down quickly! Black Impermanence shouted angrily.
The man had never seen such a battle, he panicked instantly, was at a loss, and hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "Hades spare your life, the villain has never done anything bad in his life, I am a good person!" ”
"Regardless of the good or bad character, just because you don't cherish life, you can't be a human again forever!" King Qin Guang said.
"Okay, okay, I don't want to be a human anymore anyway." The man secretly rejoiced.
"What did you say?" Hades shouted.
"Well, I mean that the villain in the world is really powerless, he can only die, there is no other way, and I hope that the king of Hades will find out!" The man said.
"Really? Hahahahaha..."King Qin Guang laughed wildly, this laughter was like ten thousand years of ice, it seemed that the entire hall was about to be frozen.
"Someone, present the book of life and death." King Qin Guang roared.
With that, two wizened imps brought up a thick stack of life and death books.
"Brute, don't hurry up and report your name, place of origin, and birthday!" Bai Wuchang scolded.
"The villain's name is Xu Xiaohua, a native of Xianyang, Shaanxi, and his birthday is the eighth day of the second lunar month in 1985." The man replied resignedly.
King Qin Guang flipped through a few pages, found this name, and said after a while: "Xu Xiaohua, you have old people to support and children to take care of, just because you owe millions of foreign debts, you leave your wife and children to die?" ”
The man trembled and fell to his knees, bowing his head and saying nothing.
"Do you think you can be liberated by dying? If everybody thinks so, then wouldn't the underworld be a refuge for you cowards! Where is the majesty of the underworld! King Qin Guang slapped the table angrily.
"This king tells you plainly that what you want to escape in life will not be escaped after death! Moreover, the punishment of the underworld is much harsher than that of the yang world, and black and white are impermanent! ”
"Humble duty!"
"Escort this person to the Evil Mirror Terrace, be sure to show all the bad deeds of this person in his life, and immediately send him to the second temple for trial!" King Qin Guang commanded.
"Yes!"
Soon, black and white impermanence carried the man's soul to the evil mirror platform.
The man looked up and saw a mirror platform about ten feet high, with a huge mirror about eight meters long and six meters wide.
"Boy, have you heard a word, there are no good people in front of the evil mirror." Bai Wuchang said sharply.
The man hurriedly shook his head: "What do you mean?" ”
"What do you mean? You'll know when you go up! ”
After that, the black and white impermanence pushed his hand up, and the man floated to the mirror, only to find that there was a bottomless black hole in the mirror.
Suddenly, a whirlpool similar to that in the water appeared in the middle of the giant mirror, the whirlpool was from small to large, from slow to urgent, and the suction generated in the mirror was like a huge magnetic field, sensing everything in the man's life.
I only heard a dragon roar, and the giant mirror suddenly became calm again, and some pictures appeared in the shadows...
In the mirror, a child of seven or eight years old appeared, crouching on the ground, burning ants with lit incense for amusement.
Hei Wuchang took out a tablet out of thin air, and typed it as he muttered: "All living beings in the underworld are equal, this move is a crime of intentional murder, and the crime is unforgivable, and it should be punished in the cold and ice hell of the stripping pavilion!" ”
The mirror flashes, and the picture is split into two parts, with a man having fun with a woman on the left.
On the right, a pregnant woman sits at the dining table looking forward to her husband's return, her eyes are empty and desolate, and she is looking at the delicacies on the table with her hands on her cheeks...
Hei Wuchang wrote: "This is an act of adultery, it is a crime of covetousness, it is a crime of lust and pleasure, and it is an unforgivable sin, and it should be sent to hell and punished in a small prison with sixteen hearts!" ”
As soon as the picture turns, the man and his group are in a small smoky room, full of desires, spitting fragrant mouths, red-eyed and bloodthirsty, staying up all night, gambling all night...
Hei Wuchang wrote: "Greedy and excessive, gambling, implicating others, and unforgivable sins, he is also sent to hell and punished in a small prison with sixteen hearts!" ”
In the picture, an elderly couple slumped on the ground and wept bitterly, complaining incessantly until they fainted...
"Mom, Dad!" The man burst into tears when he saw this scene and cried out.
Hei Wuchang wrote: "The crime of unfilial piety cannot escape its blame!" The sin is unforgivable, and it should be sent to the great hell of fever and annoyance! ”
The mirror flashes again, and in an office building, a man with a pompous expression is exchanging words with his colleagues, as if telling something interesting...
At this time, the giant mirror suddenly automatically amplified the volume, and an evil voice entered the ears: "How does our company pretend to be forced, how to pat the leader's ass, in order to get to the top by any means, I heard that even his wife slept with the leader, and his achievements today all depend on the side door..."
Hei Wuchang wrote: "This is a jealousy of the virtuous, and the evil words behind it are also ........."
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Black Impermanence registers the man's guilt one by one, until the picture disappears in the giant mirror and returns to its original state.
Bai Wuchang pointed his hand, and the man fell to Black and White Impermanence as if weightless.
"Come with us." Bai Wuchang said.
"Where are you going?" The man stammered, looking terrified.
"Less nonsense, of course go where you need to go." Bai Wuchang said.
As soon as the man heard that something was wrong, he turned around and strode away to escape.
Bai Wuchang held his palm, and a blue light wave struck, and the man was frozen in place, and in an instant, there were more deputy handcuffs and leg shackles on his body.
"Toast and don't eat and drink, believe it or not, I'll send you to the eighteenth layer of hell, so that you will never be reborn!" Bai Wuchang roared.
"Spare your life! Spare your life! The villain doesn't dare anymore, the villain knows it's wrong..."The man knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic.
Immediately, Black and White Impermanence took out a mourning stick to lead the way, and the man followed closely behind, not daring to hesitate for half a step.
Not long after walking, there was a memorial arch similar to the city tower, and there were three big golden characters on it, "Dead City".
There was a man and a woman standing at the gate of the city, and the strange thing was that these two people looked and dressed very similarly to the boys and girls who were tied up in the mourning in the sun!
"Hello Bai Ye! Hello Hei Ye! The boy and the girl bowed.
Black and White Impermanence just nodded and pushed open the city gate, leading the man in.
When I entered, I found that the scene in the city was much more desolate than I had imagined, gray and foggy, and there was no daylight, and from time to time a few crows flew over the sky, and the houses where they lived were dilapidated, and the streets were empty.
The most striking thing is a patched water tank, in which a corpse is planted, with its head stuck in the bottom of the tank, and its feet split and drooping outside the tank, like two forked tree trunks, revealing the humor of a work of art.
There is also a large lone locust tree, which is covered with decomposed limbs. As soon as the wind blew, the limbs began to squirm slowly, and the leaves lifted by the wind emitted a pearl-like light.
Suddenly, there was a sound in the air like a bird flapping its wings before flying high, and the three of them looked up together, only to see a person wearing a crown, dressed in an ancient imperial costume, with a short face and a wide mouth, and holding a wat in his left hand like a huge kite floating in the air.
"See King Chu Jiang!" Black and white impermanence salutes.
"Who is the detainee and what crime is he committed?" The voice of the king of Chujiang was like thunder falling from the sky.
"Qiqi King Chujiang, the villain obeyed the order of King Qin Guang to escort this person to the evil mirror platform, and his guilt and despicability have been recorded in the record, look forward to the investigation!" Black impermanence said, and took out the tablet out of thin air.
"I already know, you two should step aside for the time being." As soon as King Chu Jiang stretched out his hand, the tablet was instantly transferred to his hand.
King Chu Jiang clicked on the tablet, looked at it carefully, and said, "Since Xu Xiaohua's guilt is true, what else do you have to say?" ”
"The villain..."
"Villain..."Xu Xiaohua's whole body shrunk into a ball, trembling, and his speech was incoherent.
"Huh?" Chu Jiang Wang Wei shouted.
"The villain has nothing to say..."
"Good! Someone's coming! King Chu Jiang shouted.
"The villain is here!" The pair of boys and girls in front of the archway appeared in front of them.
"Throw this person into the Great Hell of the Ruler and make him suffer from the Shadow Mountain! After the completion of the sentence, he was sent to the sixteen small prisons to suffer, and after the completion of the sentence, he was transferred to the third temple and sent to prison for an additional sentence. King Chu Jiang ordered.
"Yes!"
After King Chu Jiang finished speaking, the boy and the man took the man around and quickly came to the foot of the Yin Mountain.
"Boy, this is the legendary Beiyin Mountain, when you climb to the top of the mountain, we'll see you again!" The boy smiled eerily.
After speaking, the boy and woman disappeared along with the clothes on Xu Xiaohua's body, leaving only a naked male body.
Xu Xiaohua held his arms in both hands, his whole body was shivering from the cold, and he looked up at the cold hell in front of him, crystal clear, cold and pressing, and there was no end in sight.
Helpless, Xu Xiaohua had to start this unusual mountaineering journey naked.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Xu Xiaohua started climbing, his hands and feet were firmly stuck to the ice, and he couldn't get out even if he tried all his strength, like a fly that strayed into a spider's web, sparing no effort to break free from the shackles of death.
Xu Xiaohua failed to break free many times, he was angry, he held back his strength, desperately, and pulled out his hands suddenly, this time he finally broke free from the confinement.
Xu Xiaohua let out a sigh of relief, inadvertently glanced at his hands, was suddenly dumbfounded, and let out a frightened cry: "My hands, ahhh......h
It turned out that Xu Xiaohua had all the fat and muscles on his hands embedded in the ice cubes due to excessive force, and only a bloody skeleton was left on his hands.
At this moment, from the top of the mountain, there was a sudden sound of rapids that resounded through the valley.
Xu Xiaohua looked up, and a majestic stream of water roared along the mountains and rivers...