Chapter 161: A magical half-step
When I opened my eyes, I saw that the scene had completely changed. [No pop-ups. 】
It's no longer the hotel town I used to be in, it's like a strange town.
The place was completely dark, there was not a single star in the sky, and the air was fresh. But there are all kinds of auras in the air, including ghosts, people, and demonic auras similar to Hu Xueer's body.
However, the dappled atmosphere did not affect the general calm and peace of the place, and it gave me a sense of peace that I had never experienced before.
I looked ahead and saw an old building in front of me, and the building was emitting a dim light, which looked like the light of a burning candle.
Except for the ancient building, the rest of the surroundings were black holes, and there was nothing, as if there was only one building in this space.
I walked towards the building, and as I got closer, I heard a cacophony coming from the building.
That's when I saw the building clearly. The building looks like a small inn.
The outside of the inn is mottled, and at first glance it looks like it has spent an unknown number of years, and the ancient one looks like a dilapidated small temple in disrepair.
Above the door of the inn, there was a wooden sign, which swayed back and forth with the breeze, and on the sign there were three ancient characters written diagonally: more than half a step.
"Xin'er, more than half a step is an inn." I was a little surprised.
When I first came here, I thought the whole town was just over half a step. Now that I saw the sign on this inn, I realized that this inn was the real half-step.
"Otherwise, you think it's more than half a step to remember, and when you go in later, no matter what you see, you can't do it." Xin'er instructed me.
I nodded in answer and walked towards the door of the half-step inn.
Outside the inn, there was no one to greet customers. But I saw people and ghosts coming in and out of the doorway.
The people and ghosts who entered and exited the inn did not know where they came from, and disappeared as soon as they went out, and those who entered from the outside seemed to have suddenly emerged from the darkness, and walked into the inn with their legs raised.
When I reached the door, I didn't hesitate for a moment, and walked in with my legs raised.
As soon as I entered, I saw that there was a high counter inside the inn, and a few candles were lit on the counter. The light is bright red.
Inside the counter stood an innkeeper-like shopkeeper, dressed in a gray cloth robe and with a black mustache, who looked like an honest businessman, but there was an indescribable majesty in the depths of his eyes. He is a saint.
Outside the counter, the identities of the figures standing are even more complicated, some people also have ghosts, all with dull eyes and wooden expressions, and they are waiting in line with a confused face waiting for the shopkeeper to handle something for them.
I saw the shopkeeper either take a small wooden sign from the hands of the ghosts, or give them a small wooden card.
Whoever it is, after handing over or getting the wooden card, their face will change. There was a little more sparkle in his eyes.
After handing over the wooden card, the human ghost walked out of the inn door directly, and disappeared here in a blink of an eye, and those who got the wooden card hurriedly walked towards the inn.
Seeing this, I also hurriedly joined the group of people and ghosts in the queue, waiting for the shopkeeper to give me a small wooden sign, because there were still new people and ghosts coming in behind me.
The queue here was silent, not even the shopkeeper spoke, and those noisy voices came from behind a screen next to them.
Listening to it, the scene behind the screen was as lively as a tavern, and there were shouting voices everywhere, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a person or a ghost calling, but although those noisy voices sounded very noisy, they were all happy voices from the heart, and there was no disharmony, let alone fighting.
It was as if behind the screen were some old friends who hadn't seen each other for many years, each happily telling their own things.
After about ten minutes, I finally got in line, and the shopkeeper didn't ask anything, didn't want anything, and just threw me a sign.
Except for one more look at me, the shopkeeper's attitude towards me is the same as that of other ghosts.
It can be seen that the shopkeeper looked at me more and seemed to have discovered my identity, but he did not show any surprise.
I asked my heart suspiciously, who is this shopkeeper, and he has such an attitude towards everyone
Xin'er said, this shopkeeper is the owner of more than half a step, don't say it's me, even if the gods come to him, all the people, ghosts, fairies and demons are the same in the eyes of the shopkeeper, and they won't look at each other differently because of whose identity is special.
When the fairy heard Xin'er mention the immortal, I asked her if there really were immortals
Xin'er nodded, saying that the fairy world is too high to contact with any other world, and they are also the strictest in managing the people in the world of immortals, and they are not allowed to interfere in any other affairs in the world, especially the human world.
Whoever is caught secretly leaving the fairy world will be punished the most severely.
I said, isn't this fairy world too ruthless, and doesn't care about the suffering of the world?
Xin'er pouted, saying that they were playing and enjoying themselves every day, and they would take care of the things of the mortal world, and if they could take care of it, they wouldn't have become like that, how could we people fall into the current situation.
I said that this is our own business, and it is up to us to solve it, and it is useless to expect others.
Seeing that Xin'er seemed a little unhappy, I quickly changed the topic and stopped mentioning the matter of the fairy world.
I asked again if I hadn't made trouble in the past half a step
I don't believe it, it's all good people who come here, and it's not uncommon for evil spirits and demons to come here.
Xin'er said that the real evil ghosts and those demons can't find a way to come more than half a step, more than half a step is the only place where there is no fighting, everyone who comes here is confused and avoids disasters, in their hearts, they must come to more than half a step by the good roots.
If there are people and ghosts who don't open their eyes to make trouble, they will be directly sent into the Ah Nail by the hidden power of more than half a step, so since the existence of more than half a step, there has only been one trouble in tens of thousands of years.
More than half a step can be said to be the only remaining pure land in the various realms.
A Nose Hell
Isn't that our place, this half-step hidden power can actually send people directly into this terrifying hell, which I am puzzled about.
"It's not surprising, no one knows how more than half a step was formed, or who built it, even if the great immortal of the immortal realm came here, he couldn't resist the hidden power of more than half a step, and more than half a step can lead to various worlds, and each world has an entrance in more than half a step." Xin'er patiently explained.
"Are these people or ghosts who have left more than half a step back to where they came?" I asked again.
"Not necessarily, most people return to the place where they came, but if the ghost is a ghost, it is very likely that they will directly enter reincarnation, or they may be taken directly to the underworld." Xin'er said.
More than half a step can allow ghosts to enter reincarnation
This makes me a little incredible.
"That's right, most of the ghosts who come more than half a step are lonely ghosts, some strayed into more than half a step, some deliberately came more than half a step to avoid the capture of other evil ghosts or our yin ghosts, and some ghosts that conform to the reincarnation cycle will be sent directly into reincarnation as soon as they leave here." Ignoring my surprise, Xin'er continued.
It seems that this half step is a magical place.
"There's more to it than you can get to know if you stay here for three days." Seeing that I was full of curiosity about more than half a step, my heart said again.
Since this is the case, then I will stay here for three more days, and I don't know where Meng Zhen is in this inn at this time.
The aura here is too chaotic, and I can't sense Meng Zhen's aura here at all.
Also, Xin'er seems to have said that something happened here before I came here, so I can't see any signs of it, and if someone dares to do something here, won't they be directly sent to the Nose Prison by that hidden force?
I was very conflicted about this, but I didn't mention it, and I was too embarrassed to ask more, as if I was suspicious.
I asked Xin'er one last question, and asked her shopkeeper not to ask how long it would take for the people who came here to be in charge.
Xin'er said, the wooden sign says, no matter who needs to stay in half a step longer, the wooden sign will automatically show the time of staying.
I hurriedly picked up the wooden sign in my hand and looked at it, only to find that the wooden sign still had three words written on it
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