Known details about the underworld:

1. The first stop for the dead to enter the underworld, but not all the dead will necessarily be born in the underworld.

2. Men and women live together, women are in a relatively dangerous situation, there is no visible manager, and the total number of prisons is very large.

3. Core rule: You must not starve to death, or you will be taken to a more terrible place.

4. The food on the iron plate can be enjoyed to your heart's content, but it must not be kept private, otherwise, very terrible things will happen in the cell, of course, tobacco and alcohol, useless dishes, and cutlery can be left.

5. No one knows what the world outside hell is like, but it is certain that the inside is much safer than the outside.

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Through the vertical patio where the food was delivered, the woman upstairs was staring at me, and the light was too dim for me to see exactly what she looked like.

Lao Song once warned me that this woman on the 35th floor is terrible and must not be provoked, so I was very vigilant at that time, I don't know what she wants to do, if something happens, I must immediately call Brother Chen Liang and get me back to the palace.

Carefully observing my meditation posture, the woman finally spoke: "I can't imagine that you can meet peers here, what kind of aura are you cultivating?" ”

"Yin Qi." I replied, "What about you?" ”

The woman jumped up to me from the upper floor like a piece of paper: "Bloody." ”

Only then did I see her appearance clearly, she was at most a year or two older than me, fair-skinned and beautiful, and very attractive, but there was a haze of resentment between her eyebrows, which made her whole temperament particularly gloomy.

"What do you call a girl?" I asked tentatively, but because of the loss of aura, I couldn't see her way clearly.

The woman said, "You don't deserve to know." ”

I smiled and said, "Then I'll call you a woman." ”

"Call it whatever you want."

She stood beside my bed, tilted her neck and asked, "You know at a glance that you are new here." ”

I looked at her with some bewilderment, and the woman continued, "I saw you meditating, and I knew that you wanted to be in a hurry to resume your path, right? You don't have to worry about this, in the underworld, the recovery of the Dao is very fast, at most two or three days of effort, you can return to the peak of your life. ”

Good news! I breathed a sigh of relief and thanked her, "Thank you, woman, for your advice." ”

The woman sneered, and a basin of cold water was poured on me: "In the underworld, there is not much difference between having and not having this thing, anyway, as long as you leave the underworld, it is impossible for you to survive outside for more than five minutes." ”

I raised my eyebrows: "You've been outside?" Tell me, what is it like out there? ”

The woman hesitated, pointed to the floor and said to me: "The underworld is very large, very vast, there are at least millions of hells like this, they are connected to each other, and there is no end in sight, and when you are released from prison, you should flee with the sea of people, and flee to the nearest refuge fortress, if you can really escape there, you can be safe for a while, but at least ninety-nine percent of the people will die on the road, and then be resurrected, repeating this mortal escape, which will never end......"

I swung to the side, motioned for the woman to sit down, and when she was sitting on the edge of the bed, I asked her again, "What is that killing crowds?" ”

"It is a dead thing condensed by the resentment of the underworld, there are many of them, they come out in groups, and they feed on all forms of souls, and this kind of dead thing belongs to the lowest species in the underworld, right? There are many more unknown species that are more terrifying than them, and there are even things that use them as food. ”

Through the woman's story, I learned that the food chain in the underworld is huge and complex, and the richer the aura, the more likely the soul is to be coveted and killed by unknown dead objects, so the life of a cultivator in the underworld is often ten million times more dangerous than that of ordinary people.

It wasn't until now that I finally realized that I was still wondering why a broken military star like Sadness Wuxue and Pang Ying was so embarrassed in the underworld, and desperately tried to tie me up, just to get the qualification to enter the palace for refuge.

It turns out that the higher the Tao, the more like a magnet, the easier it is to attract a large number of dead objects to attack.

Under such rules, the situation of ordinary people is much safer.

"But I think that Taoism is a double-edged sword, there are disadvantages, and naturally there are benefits, right?" I said in a deep voice.

The woman said noncommittally: "The biggest advantage is that once we die outside, there is a high chance that we will return to the underworld, although the Tao is cleared, but it is only a matter of time before recovery, it is a big deal to stay up until we get out of prison, and then go back on the road, those ordinary people will be miserable, if they die outside, it is almost impossible to return to the underworld." ”

"They're going to a more terrifying place."

I looked at her soft side face: "So the woman you?" ”

She blinked her long eyelashes and said in a cold voice: "The place where I died last time was on the way to the fortress, but unfortunately, it was only a few hundred meters away from the fortress, and the skull was bitten by the dead thing...... So, I'm back here again. ”

"This has happened to me hundreds of times." Her eyes became darker: "I think, death itself is not terrible, because no matter what, we will be resurrected, what is terrible is that before death, watching yourself surrounded and drowned by those terrible dead things, the flesh and skin are torn, the bones are shattered, and you are gnawed, and you witness the process of being eaten, except crying and shouting, you can't do anything, that heart-rending despair and pain...... It's the most painful. ”

"You don't die immediately, the process of being eaten is extremely long, and you can clearly perceive the parts of you, the hair, the skin, the muscles, the blood vessels and the internal organs...... That feeling is 10,000 times more painful than being dissected by a living body without anesthetic......"

"Even after repeating it hundreds of times, the taste of pain still became a nightmare, tormenting me every night."

I felt both sympathy and palpitations for what happened to her, and I knew that similar experiences could happen to me.

As for the so-called fortress, it is actually a small city built by those who have successfully escaped from the hunt of dead things, and it is said that it is a city, but in fact, the actual scale of the fortress may be at most the size of a small county town in the world.

In the underworld, there are many, many such fortresses, each fortress is independent, and there is not much connection with each other, in fact, the entire underworld, human settlements can only exist in the form of scattered sand such fortresses, there is no so-called kingdom, alliance or anything.

And the closest fortress to this hell is the fortress of sequence 207.

"After hundreds of attempts, have you ever managed to enter the fortress?"

"No, not once." The woman's silver teeth bit her lip stubbornly: "The closest is the last time, damn it, I already saw the outline of the fortress......"

I lowered my head and thought for a while, and said, "Woman, is it convenient to tell me your Taoism?" ”

She replied without hesitation: "Asura, but it is not yet consummated, the main reason is that there are too many deaths, and there is little aura in the hell, otherwise I would have been consummated a long time ago." ”

"So, you want to end the death loop, and you want to make it to Fort 207?"

The woman turned her head and glared at me: "Nonsense! In this damn place, eating human flesh...... Is this life a human being? I've had enough of going out and being used as food and hunted by those dead things! I must end this cycle of curses! ”

"Otherwise, even if you survive, what's the point? You have never tasted the painful taste of being eaten, but once you taste it, you will know. ”

Her chest was rising and falling rapidly, her emotions were on the verge of collapse, and Lao Song on the other side slept like a dead pig and didn't hear our conversation at all.

After a while, the woman's mood stabilized a little, and she sighed and said: "As long as you enter the fortress, even if you settle down, at that time, you can withdraw and practice well, and when you reach the Huangquan Realm, it will not be so easy to die." ”

During the time when she vented her emotions, I kept silent, in the underworld, everyone is lonely, even if the person with a cold temperament is rare, it is rare to meet peers, and it is inevitable to confide a few words, so it is not strange for a woman to take the initiative to come down to me to chat.

Taking a deep breath, I told her, "Thank you for the valuable information, and in return, the day I leave the Netherworld, I will take you with me, and I will make you to Fort 207 alive." ”

"This is my promise to you, Li Zhiwen."

The woman looked at me with straight eyes, and after a while, she laughed fiercely: "It's up to you? You little shit? ”

"At best, you're just an asura, at most a little more powerful than me, even if you're perfect, how can you say such arrogant words? You know how terrible those dead things are? Within 1 minute, your throat will be bitten off. ”

I looked at her with a calm face: "Trust me, I will keep my promise." ”

The woman shook her head: "You're crazy, I won't say anything more to the madman, goodbye." ”

After speaking, she flew upstairs along the patio, and I suddenly remembered that there was still something very important that I didn't ask, so I hurriedly chased over and shouted:

"Woman, tell me, how can I get out of hell as soon as possible?"

A cold voice came from upstairs: "Either turn all the floors around, or kill enough hundred people, and you'll be free, easy, right?" The premise is that you can't starve yourself to death. ”

"I'm looking forward to seeing how embarrassed you were when you first ate human flesh."

I silently returned to the bedside, sat down, and recalled the conversation I had with the woman just now, and an illusory scene appeared in my mind:

In the endless desert, there is a long procession, and if you zoom closer, you will see that this is not a leisurely outdoor hike, but a crazy escape to the death!

Men, old people, women and children, all of them exude terrifying horror! Like a flock of sheep, people instinctively gather together when faced with predatory animals.

On both sides of the team, there are many huge dead things, and there are stupid, distorted smiles on their faces, they are chasing the crowd, but they are not in a hurry, because they know that the team of tens of thousands of people, all of whom are spared, will become their belly food, and they can play to their heart's content before dismembering and gnawing on them.

I am part of the team, and I am not immune, fortunately, after death, I will return to the relative safety of the Netherworld, and unfortunately, this long journey to the fortress, this bloody road of despair, I will repeat it countless times......