Chapter 9: The Little Devil Is Difficult
The River Styx seems to have the quality of "goose feathers", no matter what comes, it can sink anything, even if the heavenly steps fall into it, it is difficult to get out, and there are those water ghosts who are haunting, Xiaobai, who was not able to live before, was kicked away by Wen Quai, and was pulled by countless miserable white ghost hands when he fell, and sank in the River Styx in an instant.
Wen Quzhi kicked and borrowed strength, took advantage of the situation, swept up quickly, swept over the remaining section of the river, and landed directly on the Styx beach, and turned around to see Xiaobai being pulled into the water by the ghost hand, and disappeared, and the only fragmented wreckage of the boat was slowly sinking.
...... Is that guy really dead?
It said that it was the gatekeeper of the Hades, and its plan was not to come here to make trouble, but as soon as it came, it first destroyed the gatekeeper, and then went to the Hades Emperor but didn't know how to explain?
However, this gatekeeper of the underworld is also too messy, he actually robbed the boat of the Styx ferryman, and also took the opportunity to rob the souls of the dead who want to cross the Styx...... According to the information he collected before, the keeper of the underworld should be a three-headed ghost dog, when did he become this inexplicable iron-masked monster?
Moreover, as far as I know, the horror of the River Styx is because it is deep and unfathomable, and it can swallow everything that sinks into it, except for simple thoughts, even evil spirits can't do anything in it, and the hands of those water ghosts just now shouldn't have appeared in it at all.
...... Could it be that his own information is wrong? After all, even the gatekeeper has changed from a three-headed ghost dog to this inexplicable iron-masked monster, so it is not surprising that there are any other misinformation...... Or, it was something abnormal that had happened in Hades, and it didn't change in the morning or late, but it changed when I came.
“...... I always feel that this place seems to be very messy...... All kinds of demons and monsters have popped up...... Isn't Hades supposed to be a place of order? ”
Touching his chin, Wen Quzhi suddenly raised his head suddenly, looked at the corner of the mountains on the north side, and sensed that there seemed to be two lines of sight over there, looking here, staring at him.
...... What the hell? No, what the hell?
That side is already where the underworld is located, you can see the outline of the mountains and the city, but there is only the outline, the whole is like a black shadow, everything in it is hidden in the black shadow, it is a veritable shadow city, not only is it difficult to see through the eyes, even the divine perception of the heavenly level is also greatly blocked, even if the powerful spiritual sense of Wen Qu is sensitive to the gaze, but it is impossible to see what the divine is doing.
It may be that the guards of Hades noticed the movement by the river and cast their eyes over, wanting to find out what was going on, after all, he and Xiaobai had a big battle, and in the end even the boat sank, and there was a water ghost This Styx mutation, it is not strange to attract the attention of the guards, but it is also possible to ...... It's just for me!
Wen Quzhi didn't dare to be careless, and he didn't stay long, he flew up directly, and swept towards the Black Mountain as fast as possible, wanting to enter this immortal place of the famous heavens as soon as possible.
As soon as he entered the underworld, the most intuitive feeling of Wen Qu's illness was to deeply understand the lack and imperfection of the Heavenly Dao creation.
According to the original meaning of the Heavenly Dao, the underworld should be the place where the souls of the dead are tortured and washed away and enter the reincarnation, here there should be only the Emperor of the Underworld and the Ten Halls of Yama on the top, judging all the souls, and then there is the prison of the underworld and the hundreds of millions of souls who have sunk in it, but as far as I can see, the entire Hades is a super large city, similar to other cities, with everything, although it may not be as terrifying as the ghost city of Xudu, but there are many ghosts in it, and it is by no means just hundreds of billions.
The Hades, which really allows the souls to be tortured and washed away and re-enter the reincarnation, is located in the core of this city, surrounded by a circle of towering walls, separating the inside and outside, as if the eternal ones are transformed by supernatural powers, and the heavenly ones are not allowed to trespass, and the outside is the residence where these ghosts live, with houses and buildings, food, clothing, housing and transportation, and a world of its own, not at all like the legendary Hades, just like a small world inhabited by ordinary people.
Wen Qubing drove all the way through half of the outer city to a city gate under the wall, but it could only go so far.
As long as you find a boatman to cross the River Styx, you can pay for it, but if you want to pass through this gate, you must have the qualification for reincarnation, and you don't know if you have it, and even if you do, you haven't died, so you really have to run stupidly to go through the procedure, in case it turns out to be true, and you are thrown into reincarnation, then the consequences will be serious.
Therefore, Wen Quzhi simply put away the big sword, carried it on his back, and told the ghost guard guarding the door that he was the red wolf of Xudu, and he was entrusted to come here, asking to see the Emperor of the Underworld, and please report on his behalf.
"I know, go over there to get the form, fill it out and hand it in, and then you can go back and wait for the notice. ”
The ghost pawn's calm and indifferent attitude made Wen Quai's whole person stiffen there to stand in a human shape, and for a moment, he really wanted to take the form to the side to fill it out, but after taking the form and walking a few steps, he still turned around and said to the ghost pawn: "Brother...... Uh, Brother Bing, I'm not an ordinary revenant, in fact, I'm already a Heavenly Rank, a five-heaven power, and I'm here to see the Emperor of the Underworld......"
"What's wrong with the Heavenly Steps?" the ghost pawn looked disgusted when he heard this, "The Fifth Heavenly Power doesn't need to fill out the form? Hurry up and get the form next to you, line up, and wait for the notification after handing in the form." ”
"No, I'm not just an ordinary power. Wen Quzhi looked helpless, first looked left and right, and then said in a low voice: "I am actually a new generation of Ghost Dragon Emperor, the inheritance of the Ghost Monarch of Xudu, very powerful!"
The ghost pawn shouted loudly: "What's the matter? What's wrong with the Ghost Dragon Emperor? Can the Ghost Monarch inherit without queuing? Even if the Ghost King himself comes, he has to get the watch, go to the side to get the watch, queue up, and wait for the notice after submitting the form." ”
Wen Quzhi said helplessly when he heard this: "Uh...... Actually, I didn't come to reincarnate, but the Great Bodhisattva Jizo asked me to come, saying that it was ......."
"Jizo Golden Dragon?" the ghost pawn's eyes showed a little more disgust, full of righteousness, "This is the Hades, there is no back door to go through, and there is no specialization! You, this little comrade, in order not to queue up, even carried out the Dizang, completely ignoring the law and discipline, disrupting the order of the Hades is very serious, and the social impact caused is extremely bad!"
Wen Quzhi was even more dumbfounded when he heard this, and was dumbfounded by the righteous and awe-inspiring words of the ghost pawn, only to see the eyes of the countless ghosts lining up around him looking at them together, as if they were looking at something very shameful, and let themselves deeply understand the shame that Qianfu was referring to.
The ghost pawn waved his hand, "Go to the side, fill out the form, and line up!"
Looking at the other party's posture, Wen Quzhi only felt that the body of this ghost pawn was so bright that it was about to emit sunlight, and he was really righteous in his chest, sweeping away the injustices in the world, and he had no way to deal with such a little ghost who did not enter the oil and salt.
...... Do you want to just turn your face and blow it up and break in?
It's a solution, but it doesn't seem to be there yet.
There was nothing to be done left and right, so Wen Qu could only go to the side and take a form casually, fill it out randomly, and then write the seven big characters "Jizo sent me to pick up things", and after queuing up to submit it, he walked away.
...... For the time being, we can only do this for the time being, see the reaction of the Hades Emperor, wait for a few days, and if the stone sinks into the sea, it is not too late to break in or invade.
On the other side is the Eternal, if it is not necessary, don't play around here for the time being, the stick in someone's hand is much thicker than the one in your own hand. Although it is righteous to come to get the knife by himself, but if the Emperor of the Underworld gives himself a clear reward and punishment, does not cancel each other, and gives himself a generous knife, he also has to compensate for the previous crime of negligence, and at the same time investigate himself for trespassing in the underworld, and put himself in prison to be punished, it will be really unlucky......
But......
Wen Quzhi sighed, as soon as he arrived in the underworld, he really realized that the legendary Hades are aggressive and the little ghosts are difficult, although this is indeed very in line with the image of the order of the underworld, and it is indeed absolutely fair, but I always feel that something is not quite right here......
Impatience is useless, Wen Qu is sick and simply wanders around the outer city of this underworld, looks at the local environment, walks in the market, chats with local ghosts, inquires about information, and then finds that the dead souls here can basically maintain normal sanity, compared with other places in the ghost world, there is not so deep resentment and obsession, closer to people, worthy of being a preparation station before reincarnation.
But when casually asked about the meaning of the existence of this city, Wen Quzhi's expression was not very good-looking.
“...... You're all here waiting for reincarnation?"
Looking at the undead vendor pushing the herbal tea cart in front of him, Wen Quzhi was puzzled: "Why do you have to wait for reincarnation?" I always thought that the ghosts who could come here were all ...... who had been reviewed and qualified to be reincarnated."
"Brother, you're new here, right? This kind of thing has to be asked? Of course, those who can come here have been reviewed, but don't you know the efficiency of public units?"
The peddler snorted, "The revenants are fortunate enough to come here, and they are all qualified to enter the reincarnation of the underworld. But if you want to reincarnate, you first have to run the program, get a single and fill in the form, and then you have to wait for the number, and when the number arrives, you will enter the underworld, cross the hometown platform, walk the Nai He Bridge, look at the evil karma, and see Yama in the ten halls, and then serve the sentence and wash the crime, get rid of the grudge and reincarnate, this process is written on the notice that you just received here, you can catch a ghost here, you can recite it backwards, but ...... There is a limit to the number of things that Hades can handle per day. ”
Wen Quzhi was dumbfounded and said, "There is an upper limit?
The peddler said: "We didn't understand it when we first came here, but if you think about it, it takes time to look at the criminal karma on the Mirror Table, right? It also takes time for the Ten Palaces Yama to interrogate and sentence, right? There are only twelve hours a day, and even if they do it early or late, the cases they can handle are always limited, right? After the sentence, they enter the sword mountain, the sea of fire, and the pool of blood...... Serving a sentence in these places always requires space, right? There must always be a place to carry out the torture of pulling out the tongue, pumping out the intestines, gouging out the eyes, and digging out the marrow, right? If the ghosts in front don't come out, don't the ghosts who come behind have to queue up? How can there be no upper limit?"
Wen Quzhi shook his head and said: "Of course it shouldn't be like this, the sword mountain and the sea of blood, and even the entire hell, are all transformed by the Great Dao, under the evolution of the Hades Emperor's supernatural powers, theoretically the space can be endless, how can it not be fitted? As for the interrogation and sentencing, it does take time, but the Hades Emperor is an eternal, so he can naturally divide power and incarnate himself, and at the same time he can try tens of millions of souls, what is the problem?"
Ordinary little ghosts, I don't know the truth of the avenue, but for a great power like myself, the magic power is transformed, I don't know how to know the trick, even I can incarnate dozens, with the power of the Eternal, and at the same time incarnate tens of millions, theoretically it is not impossible, at most, it is to become a sweat laborer, from morning to night, a person works part-time for tens of millions of people, tired to the point of wanting to hang, but ...... Anyway, the eternal ones don't die, and they can't hang up if they want to, so what's there to be afraid of? What's more, the Emperor of the Underworld, as an innate deity, is originally a tool made by the Heavenly Dao, so how can there be a tool to complain about the truth of suffering?
As for the place of the near road, it contains the mysteries of heaven and earth, and the space can not help but expand, and it is not as easy as these little ghosts imagine, so easy to burst up, this truth is purely a frog at the bottom of the well, in order to peek into the sky.
Wen Quzhi gave an explanation, but found that the vendor opposite had an unkind face, looked at him as if he was looking at an idiot, and after a moment, shook his head.
The peddler sighed, "...... New here, you should be good at cultivating, right? If I'm not mistaken, you'...... At least it's a ghost king, maybe it's still the kind of earth level perfection, only half a step away from the heavenly level, right?"
Wen Qu secretly scolded the other party in his sick stomach, what kind of eyes is this, he is dignified and powerful in the five heavens, and he is actually regarded as a small earth-level ghost king, not to mention that the ghost eyes look down on people?
"Shopkeeper, you really have good eyesight, yes, I am indeed the king of ghosts, half a step of the heavenly steps, I should be able to step up soon, and then I will become a ghost venerable, and the future is limitless, what's wrong?"
"Sure enough!" the shopkeeper had a look of "you don't want to hide it from me", "but even if you become a ghost venerable later, it's not a big deal, the reality of this world is far more complicated than those of you who think you have come into contact with the laws of heaven and earth. ”
Wen Quzhi opened his mouth wide when he heard this, and felt very funny, since he ascended to the sky, it was the first time he was talked like this, if the other party was eternal or eternal, condescending to guide the juniors, it would be okay, but a frog at the bottom of the well, jumping up and pointing fingers at the sky, this is too funny......
"You say, the Hades Emperor can incarnate tens of millions and try tens of millions of souls at the same time?"
"Yes, the Emperor of Hades is an eternal man, and he is not a fart like me, so he can definitely do it. ”
...... Although this will definitely be so tired that I want to die, this is not something that I and other fart people should care about, big people are born for eternity, how many advantages they take, there will always be a time when they should repay their debts, and they should be sweat laborers.
As soon as Wen Qubing had this idea, he heard the peddler say, "Then how many inhabitants do you think there are in this city of Hades, and how many ghosts cross the river here every day?"