Xudu River crosses the ghost gate

The Black Mandala Man Breaks the Soul

Darkness engulfs everything behind the bronze door.

It seemed to swallow everything here in an instant, the light, the air, and even all the life here.

The silence, the silence of death, the sound of the snake's belly rubbing against the ground that was so noisy that it made people's scalps tingle, had long been isolated from the bronze door.

The wind gradually stopped, making everything here seem to be static for a moment.

I don't know how long it took, but a little fire suddenly lit up.

The light of the fire was small, but it was like the brightest star in the night sky, illuminating this almost completely dark world for a moment.

Where there is fire, there is light.

Where there is light, there is naturally hope.

The light of the fire came from the fire fold in Ice's hand.

And at the moment when the fire fold in Ice's hand lit up, the wall lamps on both sides of the walls of this place, for some reason, also lit up, they were like dominoes, one after another.

Then, a wide, long corridor appeared in front of the three of us.

I saw that this corridor could accommodate ten people side by side at the same time, and there were human-shaped copper lamp stands on both sides of the stone wall of the corridor about three meters each.

The shape of these lampstands is extremely strange, although they are all adult men, but all of them are skinny, with protruding ribs, surprisingly large heads, and pitifully small bodies, and every muscle and blood vessel on their bodies seems to be seen very clearly, as if the craftsman forgot to carve the skin when he sculpted them.

From our vantage point, these guys look like demons crawling out of hell, and they make people feel terrified.

Each of these guys was holding a copper kettle in his hand, and he didn't know what was in the pot, and after nearly a thousand years, he was able to burn again when he encountered a little spark.

The firelight, beating in the breeze, is like a fairy moving in a copper kettle.

In the light of the fire, there seemed to be an indescribable smile on the faces of the strange lamp stand on the wall, and what was even more terrifying was that their eyes were all looking at the three of us at this time.

"How could anyone build such a strange light stand?" Li Yan'er said in a trembling voice.

"These stands aren't supposed to be made!" I walked under the nearest lampstand and looked at it for a long time before I said slowly.

"Don't know how to build it? How did that come about? Could it be that it grew out of this wall? Li Yan'er said disdainfully.

"It's really coming out of the wall!" I looked at the face of the strange humanoid lampstand, and after a while, I said slowly, "It's just that it didn't grow out of the wall!" Rather, it crawled out of it! ”

"What? You say these guys crawled out of this wall? Li Yan'er was surprised.

"Tianyi is not wrong!" Ice sat on the side panting, she had a high fever, there was a toss just now, although there was a lot of sweat on her body, and her body temperature began to drop, but her physical strength dropped terribly, at this time she could only lean against the door where to gasp.

After a long time, Ice gasped and continued, "This is the ghost boy guarding the door!" The so-called lampstands you see now are actually living people. ”

"What? Are they made of living people? Li Yan'er said in surprise.

"You're coming to the City of Gold, but you don't know anything about it?" Ice looked at Li Yan'er in surprise.

Li Yan'er's face seemed to turn red in an instant when she was asked by ice, as if she didn't know what to say for a while, and after a long time, she said slowly: "I...... I just don't know much about it. What the hell is this place? ”

"This is Xudu!" I observed both sides of the stone wall for a long time before slowly turning around, looking at Li Yan'er and saying.

"What is the Drunken Capital?" Li Yan'er looked at me and asked.

"Yu is the ghost prison in Taoism, that is, the hell in Taoism." I looked at Li Yan'er and said, "If I'm not mistaken, these bronze lamp stands should be some special children." These people were subjected to a special way of rearing them from birth, and when they had reached a certain age, they were brought to the torture chamber, and a small infusion was made on the top of their heads, and then mercury was poured into the wounds, and then they were so itchy that they would try to find a place to keep burrowing out, and they would skin themselves themselves. ”

"How...... How can you ......" When Li Yan'er heard this, her whole body trembled with fright.

But I didn't seem to feel it at all, and I looked at the face of the bronze man lampstand through the blindfold of my gas mask, and saw that there was an indescribable pain and sorrow on that smiling face.

I slowly turned around and sighed, "They kept digging out, just trying to escape the unbearable pain as soon as possible, but who would have thought that beyond that pain, what awaited them was a road to death. ”

As I said this, I pointed to the top of the stone path, and saw that there was a small round hole every three meters.

"That'...... What is that? Li Yan'er said with the intention of vomiting in her stomach.

"That's the mechanism that poured them on the lampstand of the city! Where it was originally filled with copper water, once these people climbed here, the copper water would fall, and in an instant these poor fellows would be doused into bronze figures. I looked at Li Yan'er and said slowly.

"But...... But why would these people do this? Li Yan'er asked in surprise.

"It's all said, this is the capital of Xudu! This is hell, and the purpose of this is, of course, for the sake of criminal law! I looked at Li Yan'er and said.

"So what crime did they commit? Why treat them so cruelly? Li Yan'er said in a trembling voice.

"They may not have committed any crimes, they may have just been sat together." Ice gasped.

"If you even sit down and have this kind of criminal law, isn't it the one who really commits a crime...... Isn't it ......" Li Yan'er didn't continue, because she couldn't talk anymore at this time, if she wasn't wearing that old-fashioned gas mask, it is estimated that at this time, she would have vomited out a long time ago.

Ice didn't bother with Li Yan'er anymore, she turned her head to look at me, and said slowly, "Tianyi, have you seen it?" ”

"I saw it!" I didn't look at ICE, but stared at the eyes of a bronze figure on the left.

"You ...... What do you see? Hearing the conversation between me and ICE, Li Yan'er walked over to the side and asked.

"Nothing!" As I spoke, I walked over and helped Ice up, and then whispered to Li Yan'er, "If you want to die, just leave!" ”

"What the hell is going on?" Li Yan'er said in surprise.

"How can there be so many words, if you don't go, let's go!" After saying that, Ice ran with me towards the depths of the stone path.

"Hey, don't go! Wait for me! Li Yan'er screamed in horror and then ran over.

The stone path is very long, and it takes about 200 meters before the first turn appears.

And within this distance of nearly two hundred meters, every three meters or so, a bronze figure hung in the air on the wall, looking down on the three of us with an extremely strange posture and expression.

They were laughing, as if sarcasm, as if mocking, as if they were contemptuous, and as if they were full of murderous intent.

The stone path is not flat, it has a large staircase every three meters, and the steps lead downward, as if it really leads to the endless hell.

At the beginning of the period, the three of us just blindly ran downward, and although there were countless strange guys around, we didn't feel any real threat.

However, after running for about five or six minutes, Li Yan'er suddenly grabbed me from behind, only to hear her say loudly: "You...... Look! Why are those guys laughing? ”

Laughter, everyone will, it's just that some people smile beautifully, and some people laugh ugly.

However, there is a kind of person who can't laugh, and it is impossible to laugh.

That's the dead man.

At this time, however, the dead man laughed, not only laughing, but laughing very happily.

I saw that these bronze figures hanging in the air suddenly turned their heads to the three of us, and then grinned at us and "giggled".

Their mouths grew bigger and bigger, almost to the base of their ears, and their laughter was terrible, like a rooster being pinched by the neck screaming with all his might.

Not only that, but at this time a black flower began to grow outward in the mouths of these guys, the flower was very beautiful, the beauty was like a priceless handicraft, its color was very black, the black one did not have the slightest impurities, and the black one was like the most expensive black pearl in the world.

The flowers are small, at most the size of a woman's palm, and under the light of the fire, they shimmer with a light that is enough to captivate everything in the world.

"This ...... This is the Black Mandala! I suddenly screamed when I saw the black flower, and then, I grabbed Ice and Li Yan'er next to me and ran.

"What is a black mandala?" Li Yan'er asked as she ran, "Isn't it just a flower?" What is there to be afraid of a flower? ”

As she spoke, she walked to the bottom of the nearest bronze figure, and she looked at the black mandala, which seemed to know that she was looking at her, and turned the stamen in her direction.

"Look! It seems to be conscious! It's so good to know I'm looking at it! Li Yan'er said a little excitedly.

"Run!" I said out loud.

"Why run?" Li Yan'er said in surprise.

"Black mandalas are not flowers, they are ......"

I didn't say anything more, because I didn't have to explain anything more.

Just as the three of us turned to run down, the black mandala, which was originally incredibly beautiful, suddenly moved.

Flowers, how can they move?

Flowers, naturally, do not move.

So what if they're not flowers?

If they weren't flowers, what would they be?

Insect!

A small, black insect that likes to nestle together.

The black mandala is such an insect.

The sudden movement of the three of us obviously alarmed the black mandalas who were ready to attack, and in an instant, those black guys suddenly rose into the air, and then rolled towards the three of us like black mist.

The wind is still blowing, but now the wind is blowing in addition to the chilling "buzzing" sound, there is also a chilling song.

"The sky is shaking, the earth is shaking, and as soon as you enter the drunken capital, people will break their intestines. The gods are shaking, the ghosts are shaking, the ghosts are drunk, and the blood is flying. You panic, I panic, the gods and ghosts are here, and there is no hometown. ”