Chapter 10: The Underworld
The night sky was emitting a turquoise light, these rays fluttered slowly in the sky like silk, Ye Dong only knew that his head was blank at that time, and he couldn't even feel the slightest pain, and when he opened his eyes, he found that the entire night sky was turquoise.
"Aurora?" Ye Dong looked up at the sky in surprise.
"What's going on?" a familiar voice sounded beside Ye Dong.
Ye Dong turned his head to stare at Su Mo's body, and was surprised to find that Su Mo's body was emitting a light blue light. Su Mo also lowered his head and looked at his hands.
Ye Dong smiled bitterly. "We should be dead. ”
"It turns out that people really have souls after death. Su Mo looked Ye Dong up and down, and burst out laughing.
Ye Dong was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he frowned and became angry, "Why do you want to do this, you can run away! Do you have to be like this to be happy? Don't your parents care?"
Su Mo put her hands behind her back, lowered her head and pouted and kicked the stones under her feet, but her body seemed to be transparent through the stones on the ground.
"I'm talking to you. Ye Dong pressed Su Mo's head with a big hand.
"What are you doing, you're dead, what can you do. Su Mo was like a child at this time, pouting his buttocks and raising his head, his hands still behind his back.
Ye Dong looked down at Su Mo for a long time, and he opened his arms to hug Su Mo tightly. I thought that she would choose this way because of herself, because she didn't let go of the previous relationship, and she was afraid that the next relationship would not come to fruition, and she obviously liked her very much.
The two figures emitting a pale blue light hugged each other, and Su Mo thought to himself, it wasn't too late.
"It turns out that when a person dies, he wears clothes. Su Mo, whose cheeks were flushed, also hugged Ye Dong tightly, and was curious about what he would say in the first sentence, but he didn't expect it to be such an opening statement.
Su Mo raised his head in Ye Dong's arms, "What do you think." ”
Ye Dong laughed, lowered his head and looked into Su Mo's eyes again, and whispered, "I'm sorry." ”
Su Mo shook his head lightly, "I'm sorry for what you said." ”
"What are we going to do next, to be a pair of wild ghosts wandering around the city?"
"It's good to be together. Su Mo buried his face in Ye Dong's chest.
Ye Dong looked at the staggering zombies at the gate, he wanted to take a look at his corpse, but if he thought about it, it must be miserable.
None of them noticed that there was a person sitting on a rock behind them, and they just immersed themselves in the world of the two, but unfortunately it was not in the real world. The man had been sitting there for a long time, he was wearing a black trench coat, the long trench coat was a little tattered, and the black fabric fluttered on the edge one by one, like tentacles.
The buttons of the trench coat were buttoned down to the throat to cover the chin, and the pale and slightly bluish skin seemed to have a body that had been dead for a long time, as if it had been maintained with preservatives.
He was wearing a slightly wide top hat on his head, and his gray-white hair was showing his sideburns underneath, and he was looking at Ye Dong and Su Mo with a smile at this time.
Feeling a little uncomfortable feeling behind him, Ye Dong let go of Su Mo and turned around.
The man held up a hand and said "Yo." ”
The first feeling that this person gave Ye Dong was very weird, "Who are you?"
Su Mo also saw this person, and his first feeling was probably the same as Ye Dong, looking this strange person up and down.
"Ye Dong, Su Mo, hello. I'm your guide, and you can just call me "Three." "The sound of the number three is very magnetic.
"Three, is this your name or?" asked Su Mo puzzled.
"Yes, that's my name. From the very beginning, the third had been putting on a smiling face, and when he replied to Su Mo, his eyes were bent into a half-crescent.
Ye Dong raised his eyebrows. "Lead-in?"
No. 3 turned his head to stare at Ye Dong and continued to smile: "When your mortal body dies, the soul will be separated from the mortal body, my job is to take you back, arrange the next mortal body according to the situation, and I will explain it in detail after I go back." ”
No. 3 stood up, his tall and thin figure was about the same as Ye Dong. He raised the slender fingers of his arm and scratched in the air, and the space immediately distorted, and a cloud of turquoise smoke slowly expanded from the air, forming a circle, and the inside was also turquoise.
No. 3 walked in first, still with a smile on his face, "Come with me, two." ”
Ye Dong and Su Mo glanced at each other, Su Mo nodded, and the two walked into the strange turquoise door together holding hands.
As soon as he stepped inside, Ye Dong's vision suddenly became completely white in an instant, and all around him were white, but he could still see his hands and feet, and Su Mo on the side was gone, Ye Dong turned his head around in a panic to look for it, and after a while, the white background dissipated and retreated everywhere as if it had been burned.
A starry turquoise night sky appeared in Ye Dong's vision, countless stars twinkled in the night sky, and a magical light light was revealed in the large light blue cloud, which was a crescent-shaped moon. Looking down is a magnificent city, which looks like a huge castle from afar, with houses with towering roofs all over the house. Each house is brightly lit with white highlights.
At the foot of Ye Dong is a very wide stone bridge that leads directly to that magnificent city. There are orange firelight street lamps every five meters on both sides of the stone bridge, and the sculptures on the side are also some creatures that Ye Dong has never seen, like human bodies, with fangs on their mouths, two horns on their heads, and bat-like wings on their backs.
"What a beautiful city. Su Mo's eyes flickered, and he was a little excited and excited with his hands on his chest. Ye Dong was slightly relieved to find that Su Mo was still by his side.
But they don't know that more and more people are around them. Ye Dong was startled, grabbed Su Mo's hand and pulled it to his side.
The pale blue shimmer of light people stepped out of the turquoise door one after another, and looked up at the beautiful scene in front of them, and the blue pressed people stopped on the huge and spacious bridge, numbering almost thousands, but it was not very crowded on such a wide stone bridge.
These are also the souls of the dead who have been brought here, Ye Dong thought in his heart.
Su Mo turned his head back and forth to observe, "What about the three?"
Ye Dong was also looking for No. 3, and found that there was no No. 3 figure at all, he was dressed too conspicuously, especially the black top hat. After looking around, Ye Dong found that some people's clothes were too different from modern clothes. Some people wore robes that looked like ancient times, and some people wore heavy armor that looked like the Western Middle Ages.
"Why are these people dressed so strangely. Su Mo also saw these strangely dressed people.
"What do they have tattoos on their forearms?" Ye Dong found that there were very few people who showed the lines on their forearms, some people had one circle, and some people had two circles.
A boy standing next to them heard their conversation, his yellow eyes flashing like cat's eyes, and he stepped forward and said, "It's called War Paint." ”
Ye Dong Su Mo lowered his head and found a boy, Ye Dong looked at him with interest, because the clothes he was wearing were also different from modern ones.
"War paints? What is that? Ye Dong asked with a smile.
"Don't you know, War Tattoo Artist and Magic Tattoo Master?" said the boy in surprise.
Ye Dong and Su Mo glanced at each other and laughed, with an expression that this kid estimated that he had watched too many cartoons.
Su Mo bent down and asked, "What's your name?" ”
"My name is Qin Tian. The boy replied.
"The name is so nice, and the people are so cute, why did you come here? Su Mo then asked.
"Hmm... I was killed, my nails pierced my body, and then an uncle picked me up. Qin Tian lowered his head as he spoke, and he could see that he was very sad.
"Nails?" Ye Dong shook his head after hearing this, and rolled his eyes.
"The other party is a local ability war tattoo master, and his trait is that his nails are very long and very sharp. Qin Tian said to Ye Dong.
"Boy, where are you from?" Ye Dong was confused when he heard this, and asked with a frown.
Qin Tian may have never been asked such a question, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I am from Tianyi. ”
"Tianxuan people?" Ye Dong turned his head in surprise and glanced at Su Mo.
Dingding.
The crisp sound of bells rings in everyone's ears. Ye Dong couldn't hear the voices of the people around him for an instant.
"Did you hear that?" Ye Dong asked Su Mo.
I saw Su Mo opening her mouth anxiously to speak, but there was no sound, her mouth shape should be, "What do you say." Looking at Qin Tian's mouth again, it seemed like saying something to him, but he couldn't hear it at all.
At this moment, a dreamlike woman's voice sounded.
"Welcome back to the underworld, and invite your souls to the Ancient King's City. ”
On both sides of the bridge, I don't know when there were two more people in hooded black robes, their faces could not be seen clearly, they were hunched over with a cane in one hand and a lantern emitting blue light in the other.
The two black-robed men turned around slowly, and the lantern in their hands made a guiding movement as if opening the way, and then Ye Dong's legs moved on their own, and he followed the two black-robed men step by step, and everyone in the bridge walked slowly.
Ye Dong wanted to turn his head and look around, but found that he couldn't turn around, and his body seemed to be controlled by someone. There were also many people walking in front of him, who could only look at the back of the head of the person in front of him and move forward slowly.
A group of people emitting a blue shimmer on the stone bridge moved slowly on it, and after a long time, Ye Dong found that the bodies of several people walking in front of him began to turn red, a total of three people's bodies slowly changed from blue light to blood-red light, and some people's bodies mostly turned yellow.
What's going on? What's wrong with them. Ye Dongzheng wondered, his eyes were attracted by the movement in the sky, he looked up and found a group of things flying in the sky, like a swarm of bats in the moonlight.
The group of bat-like creatures were getting closer and closer to them, and Ye Dong would see it clearly. The human body is pale and dull, with two large black horns on his forehead, bat-like wings flapping on his back, a tail growing behind his buttocks, his whole face is covered by a sandy yellow cloth, his bare upper body reveals his fierce muscles, and there are dark green lines covering his whole body, and his lower body is wearing a black hakama, and he holds a blood-red three-pronged spear in both hands.
This is... Ye Dong had seen a movie before, and the demons in it looked a little similar to them, and they looked quite infiltrating.
They flew above the heads of the crowd, and what happened next made Ye Dong's eyes widen and chrysanthemums tightened. I saw them roar with a roar, and then raised the blood-red three-pronged spears in their hands and stabbed at the people in the crowd who emitted red light!
The three-pronged spear hit them in the chest, but there was no blood, and it looked like the stabbed ones were in great pain, and then the demons picked them up and flew under the bridge.
If Ye Dong could break out in a cold sweat at this time, he should be soaked all over by now. It seems that only those who glow red will be captured, why is that?
Ye Dong, who had many questions, walked on the stone bridge like this, and he didn't know how long he had walked, until the end of the bridge slowly approached those gorgeous houses, but Ye Dong felt that there was something hazy in front of him, and the space in front of him seemed to be twisting rhythmically, like a barrier.
Ye Dong found that the person walking in front of him disappeared after stepping into the barrier, and then he was almost to Ye Dong, and when he touched the barrier, there were many ripples, and he didn't feel anything, only a familiar person.
"Yo. No. 3 sat on a bench under the street lamp and looked at the book, and when he saw Ye Dong and Su Mo entering, he smiled and raised his hand to say hello.
Ye Dong ignored him after seeing No. 3, turned sideways to look for Su Mo's figure, and breathed a sigh of relief after simply seeing that she had not disappeared.
"Those people are really scary. Su Mo's expression was a little stiff.
"It's okay. Ye Dong held Su Mo's hand and comforted.
"Actually, I'm quite worried that you'll be taken away by the waiters. Three stood up, closed the book, and put it in his coat pocket.
"Punishment? You mean the demons? By the way, why are they arresting the people who turn red?"
No. 3 looked at Ye Dong with interest, and his smile gradually became brighter. "Sure enough, every time you come here, you'll ask. ”
Ye Dong was stunned for a moment, as if he had thought of something, and then opened his mouth in surprise, "Every time? How many times have I been here. ”
"I'll tell you every time how many times you've been here. Forget it this time, because you'll never remember. Number Three turned around and said, "Let's go, talk as we go." ”
Ye Dong didn't rush to ask, the two of them walked beside No. 3, walking slowly side by side on the street, the houses on both sides were brightly lit, and there were people living in them.
"Those who turn red are wicked people in the mortal world, who have done things that hurt heaven and reason, and they will naturally accept the highest punishment in the underworld after they die. The third number silently continued, "There is a large prison under the Gujun Bridge, called the "Confessional Blood Prison". They will suffer infinitely in it, every day, every minute, every second, every breath, they will be subjected to... The pain of those who have been harmed is multiplied. ”
Ye Dong nodded, feeling that this punishment was very reasonable. Wouldn't it be a bargain for the wicked who have sinned and poured their pain on the world when they think that they will be all gone after death.
Su Mo stared at No. Three, she felt that there was something wrong with No. Three's last words, as if she had experienced it herself, she turned her head and said tentatively: "But they won't stay in there forever, right... Three. ”
No. 3 stopped, turned his head and looked at Su Mo with some surprise, and after a short period of surprise, No. 3's pale face smiled again, "You observed so carefully." He lifted his feet and walked on.
"That's right, after the penitent came out of the blood prison, they were doing the work of guiding people in the underworld, forever..."
At this time, the back of the third number looks a little lonely.