Chapter 8: Signing an agreement with Hades
"What is the judge looking for me?" I was a little frightened, because I heard that the judge sentenced people to the cycle of life and death, so I thought they were coming to take me away.
But Tan Xiao shook his head and said: "Of course the agreement is signed, if it is after tonight, the agreement will not be signed, so hurry up." ”
"But my parents are still in there, I ......"
"You don't care about it yet, I'll watch it for you, you go to sleep." After Tan Xiao finished speaking, he pulled me to the side of the bed.
After lying down, I sighed and said to her, "Then please help me watch it." ”
She nodded, and then continued to stand by the window, and I closed my eyes and prepared for bed, but where did I sleep, and I came back today to find too many strange things.
Thinking about it, I suddenly heard a voice, which seemed to come from far away, and it was beating gongs, ringing bells, and a group of people chanting something in unison.
Slowly, the sound got closer and closer, while the surroundings became quieter and quieter.
"Zhang Xiaobei!" Suddenly, a deep voice called my name.
I opened my eyes in horror, only to find myself sitting at a table, surrounded by darkness, and in front of me stood an old man dressed in black antiquity with a big beard and a booklet in his hand.
It seems that he is the judge, and those behind him may be the yin who escorted him over.
But this battle is really imposing, and it should be good to be like him if he dies, I suddenly thought.
But soon this idea was dispelled by me, after all, not everyone can be a judge, so I definitely can't either, then I will only be arranged to live, then I might as well live in the yang world.
"Alright, let's sign." As he spoke, the judge placed the booklet in his hand on the table in front of me.
I looked at the content on it, with my name and body in it, and my home address, of course, the most important thing is that paragraph: Zhang Xiaobei voluntarily cooperated with the underworld for a period of ten years, and the underworld promised to extend Zhang Xiaobei's ten-year yang life after the end of the cooperation.
Seeing this, I know that Eyeless didn't lie to me, and it can really be exchanged for Yangshou, but there are still many things I don't understand. and was ready to ask the judge.
But before I could speak, he said: "This is just our promise to you Zhang Xiaobei in the underworld, as for the others, everything is a certainty, whether it is good or bad, we will not intervene, but considering that you are still alive, so as for what you want to do, it is your business, but you can't forget the duty of Yangcha." ”
"What do you mean?" After listening to him, I was even more confused.
"We will not interfere in your living affairs, but you must also complete the tasks assigned to you in the underworld."
After listening to him, I seemed to understand a little, so I asked, "In other words, I can do things that are living people, but if it involves places where impotence is not allowed, I can't do it, right?" ”
"That's right, so we'll arrange for a ghost to be by your side to help you, as you've already seen."
I nodded, but now that he said that, how could I have a Tan Xiao by my side to supervise me?
"No matter what you think, if you have no opinion, sign it, and I'll give you something more." The judge said, placing the pen next to him.
I picked up my pen and was about to sign, but I thought about my parents and stopped again.
Seeing that I hesitated, the judge said indifferently: "Some things are already predestined, and you can't change them, and you can't change them." ”
"What if you have to change?" I looked up at him.
"That's fighting with the sky, I don't need to say whether you win or lose, you can have today, it's already all the luck of your family, cherish it." The judge seemed to have something to say to me.
I thought about it and finally signed it.
When he had finished writing, the judge took it and looked at it, then called for Yin Cha to put it on the table.
It looked like a token, and I looked at him suspiciously, "What is this?" ”
"Don't worry, there's more!" After the judge finished speaking, he called another yin cha to bring the things.
After a while, there were three things on the table, and then the judge began to introduce me to the first one, "This is the Yang Difference Token, with this, all the ghosts will know that you are Yang Difference when they see you, and you remember to carry it with you at all times." ”
After speaking, he picked up a book next to him, blue paper shell, which felt like a martial arts cheats, but it wasn't, because he said: "This is the Yang Difference Manual, specially customized for you, considering that you are a complete novice, so it is clearly written on it what you can and can't do?" If it's okay, take it out and take a look. ”
I nodded after hearing this, thinking that it was a little humane, knowing that I wouldn't, and getting me a book to study, it would be regarded as on-the-job training.
"And this!" Saying that, the judge picked up the last thing, which was a fairly delicate wooden box, "The things in this are used to deal with disobedient ghosts, you should know that some ghosts who are still in the yang world are very persistent, so when you encounter the kind of ghosts that are disobedient, disobedient to the arrangement, and intend to harm you, you can decide for yourself whether to let their souls fly away." ”
Hearing this, I was a little shocked, so I quickly asked the judge, "What is this?" ”
"It doesn't matter what it is, don't take it off when you put it on, don't give it to anyone who wants it, recite a mantra when you need it, there is a mantra in it, and burn it after the mantra is memorized." He replied to me.
I nodded, then took the box and opened it, and found that it was a bracelet like a Buddhist bead, and a yellow note pressed underneath, which looked like a mantra.
"Is it enough to put this on and say a mantra?" I asked.
"Well, but when Yang Cha is a physical work, if you encounter a murderous ghost, if you want to completely destroy him, it will be even more wasteful, so with your current physique, exercise more." The judge looked at me and said.
"I know, but I see that other people have weapons to exorcise ghosts or something, should I prepare one too?"
"Whatever you want, if you don't feel used to it, you can do it with your bare hands, and besides, you are not a ghost exorcist, you are a yang cha, and the most important thing for you is to help the underworld bring back those ghosts who are unwilling to leave the yang world." The judge said to me very seriously.
I nodded in understanding, and he waved it in front of my eyes, and I walked away from the place.
"Are you awake? Is the agreement signed? Seeing that I sat up and opened my eyes, Tan Xiao came over and asked.
I nodded, and then I turned my head to see the three things the judge had given me next to my bed.
Then I picked up the wooden box and opened it, and took out the bracelet inside, and asked Tan Xiao to stand a little farther away.
Knowing that I was taking something from the judge, Tan Xiao didn't say much, and quickly stepped back and stood aside.
Then I took out the spell and read it again, because it was very short, so I remembered it once I read it, but now the trouble is that I don't have a fire to burn this spell, so I looked in the room, and I didn't find a lighter or match.
"Zhang Xiaobei, what are you looking for?" Tan Xiao asked.
"Fire, I need to burn this thing." I told her directly, because the judge had already told me that Tan Xiao was the ghost who supervised me, so it was rare for me to hide it from her.
"I can burn it for you!" After listening to me, she replied to me.
"No, I have to come in person!" I shook my head in refusal.
Knowing that I didn't believe her, Tan Xiao cut off, and then said, "I'll put the fire on the ground, and you can burn it yourself." ”
"This can be!" As I spoke, I found some waste paper and put it on the ground, and then Tan Xiao's hand ignited with a finger, so I walked over and put the yellow paper with the spell written on it and burned it.
And I watched it burn before I picked up the ashes and threw them out of the window.
After doing this, I put the token and the impotence manual in my backpack, and then I went to the window and asked Tan Xiao, "Are my parents out?" ”
Tan Xiao shook his head, "I haven't come out since I went in, and it's almost twelve o'clock." ”
"I don't think it will come out again tonight." I sighed helplessly.
But how do I feel that my eyes are unusually clear now?
It seems that I can see at night, and I feel quite comfortable in my body, is it because I am wearing this bracelet? I looked down at what I was doing.
"What is this?" Seeing that I looked down at the thing on my wrist, Tan Xiao also asked curiously.
I shook my head, didn't say anything, leaned back and looked at the cowshed.
Because it's the Midyear Festival, there are a lot of ghosts outside, but most of them have goals, and they don't stop because of this, but I found that they almost never come near the cowhouse.
"Forget it, let's do this tonight, I'll go in tomorrow anyway." He said he wanted me to go back to bed and lie down.
It was Tan Xiao, she still stood there with a serious face and didn't move, probably because there was only one bed, she couldn't sleep.
I left her alone, just lay there and closed my eyes.
Although it took a long time to fall asleep, I still fell asleep.
It was only the next morning that as soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a terrifying face looking at me in front of me, and I was so frightened that I waved my hand and punched it.
Then I got out of bed and looked at me with a pitiful face, "Yocha-sama, why are you beating me?" ”
"Why are you scaring me?" I sat up and replied speechlessly.
"I just wanted to wake you up!" He sat on the ground and looked at me aggrievedly.
I didn't pity him at all when I saw a terrifying-looking ghost pretending to be pitiful, but I still asked, "What are you trying to wake me up?" ”
"It's the oni-sama who asked me to call you." He replied.
"What did you want me to do?" I asked again.
"She said that a corpse was found in the wasteland at the entrance of your village, and now many people are there to see it, so let you hurry over."
As soon as I heard that I had found the body, I quickly got up and pulled the door, which I thought was still locked, but it opened as soon as I pulled it.
Could it be that my parents have already come out of the cowshed? Thinking that I hurried to the hall and heard a sound in the kitchen, I cautiously walked over to take a look.