Chapter 036: The Underworld and the Capital City
The moon and stars are scarce, and everything is silent.
My soul fluttered and floated out of the cave, but fortunately, the formation I laid out did not harm the soul that came out of the cave, but only guarded against the ghosts entering the cave from the outside.
Because I have to come out of it, I have to arrange it like this, or I will lift a stone and shoot myself in the foot, and I will be trapped in it and unable to get out.
As for whether I can enter the cave after I come back, this is not a problem, just let Lin Lan break the formation when the time comes.
It was the first time I had gone to the underworld, so I couldn't find the way, but I had heard my grandfather say that the crossroads of the yang are the places where the yin and yang intersect.
Crossing any of the intersections, you can enter the Netherworld.
I fluttered outside, and I remember that the beach and the valley forked into a crossroads.
After a few minutes, I finally found the intersection.
In fact, it is not a road at all, it is just a cross.
I walked through the cross, and then I felt my soul descending, and the ground was so soft that I felt like a drop of water, constantly penetrating the earth.
There was a vast gray field in front of me, and I couldn't see anything.
Lonely soul, gray world, I am lonely and keep falling.
But I'm not afraid, because I only have Liu Tingting in my heart, and I only have one thought, that is, to bring Liu Tingting up.
The sword mountain and the sea of fire, the oil pot and the guillotine, I am also fearless.
Tingting, I'm here.
In the gray sky, my hoarse voice came.
You must wait for me.
……
I don't know how long it took, but my eyes lit up and I came to another world.
But it's still a gray place, but it's just a lot of space.
There is actually a moon in the sky, but this moon is different from the human world, and it is also gray.
The air was a bit cold, and I wasn't used to it.
A river appeared in front of me, and it was wide and long, and the current was fast.
But the strange thing is that although the water is turbulent, rolling eastward, and the waves are turbulent, there is no sound.
It's really strange that the water is so fast that there is no sound in the river.
Boundary river!
On a stone tablet, there are two bright red characters, these two words, as if written in blood, are very strange.
I once heard my grandfather say that when a person dies and comes to the underworld, he will pass through a boundary river, and after crossing this river, he will officially step into the territory of the underworld.
Many people think that when people go to hell after death, they will first pass through the Nai He Bridge and then drink Meng Po soup.
In fact, this is wrong, because Meng Po soup is not something that any ghost has the opportunity to drink.
If you want to drink Meng Po soup and want to be reincarnated, you must have creation, if there is no creation, there is no chance to drink Meng Po soup.
For those who have died will be judged in hell.
If you accumulate good things before you are born, and when you arrive at the Netherworld, you don't have to suffer the slightest sin, and the judge will let the ghost send him to Naihe Bridge, drink Meng Po soup, and reincarnate from a new reincarnation.
But this is a person who has been created, that is, a person who has accumulated virtue.
If you are a great traitor, you need to endure all kinds of torture before you have the opportunity to be reincarnated.
Not far away, there is a swarthy bridge with many souls swimming on the bridge.
I ran over quickly, then stepped onto the Boundary River Bridge, walking among the ghosts.
Standing on the Jiehe Bridge, I looked down, but it was okay not to look at it, but I was startled when I saw it.
Under the bridge hundreds of meters high, in the black water, human faces actually appeared.
No, that's grimace.
The dense grimaces were soaked in the boundary river, and those grimaces seemed to be very painful.
It is said that this is also a kind of criminal law, and some people who commit great crimes become ghosts after death, and are sent by the ghosts of the underworld to throw their souls into the boundary river.
Because the boundary river is the boundary between the yang and the underworld, the yin and yang alternate, and the ghosts are immersed in the river water and will be tortured.
The water in the river is like sulfuric acid to the ghosts, and it is better to live than to die.
Although the water below is fast, the Hei Yo Yo Jie River Bridge, spanning the river above the river, is still very strong.
I don't know how many ghosts have walked over this bridge, and I don't know how many dynasties have been witnessed.
Despite the vicissitudes of life, this bridge still lasts forever.
Although there were many ghosts walking on the bridge, these ghosts were very quiet, and they all kept their heads down and did not speak.
After walking across the bridge, I saw a male ghost sitting there crying, crying very sadly.
Thousands of ghosts passed by, but none of them stayed to comfort him, just took a few more looks, and then moved on.
The male ghost was crying while saying that he missed his wife, was sorry for his wife and children, and so on.
From his cries, and from his own words, I had a rough idea of what was going on.
It turned out that this male ghost was a gambler before his death, and he lost all his family's wealth, gambled all his family's savings, and even lost his house.
But his wife still follows him silently, and still never abandons him, marrying a chicken with a chicken, marrying a dog with a dog, many women will have this deep-rooted concept.
Because she was so poor, the man's wife went around picking up garbage with her children on her back, wanting to earn some change to subsidize the family, but unfortunately she flew into a tragedy, and a car sped by, and the man's wife and children died on the spot.
At that moment, the man suddenly woke up and changed his ways, but it was too late.
In desperation, he committed suicide by poisoning.
But when he arrived at the Netherworld, he couldn't find a wife and children, so he sat here and cried.
Some people who die unexpectedly, the ghosts of the underworld will not detain the soul and let them become lonely ghosts.
As for Liu Tingting's soul, why was it caught by those two ghosts, I can't figure it out.
But one of the two ghosts seems to have said that he caught one more and so on.
But the other ghost doesn't seem to matter, saying that there is no more than one more, and one less is not too much, and then Liu Tingting is brought down in a daze.
I'll go to his uncle's.
Those two bastards, with the mentality that there is not much more, made me miserable.
Their small gesture made me tired like a dog, and I had to risk my life to come down.
At the head of the Jiehe Bridge, there are many lonely souls and wild ghosts wandering, and there are also many crying and crying.
But their situation is the same as that male ghost.
I despise these people, no, these ghosts.
I didn't cherish it when I was alive, and I didn't know that I regretted it after I died, and now it's a use to cry.
How good it is to be like me, I cherished the school flower when I was alive, and I have no regrets when I die now.
But I don't think I'm dead yet!
Anyway, whether you die or not, in short, it's just a sentence, life is short, treat yourself, cherish your family, love your wife and daughter, honor your parents, and don't know regrets after death.
After crossing the bridgehead of the Jiehe River and a small plain, I saw a glorious city wall appear in front of me under the gray sky.
The capital city!
I looked up, and under the gray sky, on the majestic city wall, there were three words written on the city.
Under the city wall, there are actually two gates.
At one of the gates, there were many ghosts holding mourning sticks, holding iron chains, hooking lonely souls and wild ghosts one by one, and from there they entered the gate into Xuducheng.
At the other gate, there are also many lonely souls and wild ghosts entering, but these lonely souls and wild ghosts are not locked by the ghosts, but they have to pay money to enter.
Lonely ghosts who want to enter through this gate must be given Stygian coins.
I anxiously ran towards the other gate, to see if Liu Tingting was there.
If Liu Tingting is still there, then I will snatch her over.
Even if it's not the opponent of these ghosts, I'm going to snatch her back, Made, I have to fight if I can't beat her.
After I ran under that gate, I found that among the ghosts in the queue, there was actually Liu Tingting.
She was chained by a ghost, and stood there in agony waiting.
I'll go to his uncle, this ghost is too much, he actually locked Liu Tingting's neck, even if it was handcuffed.
I really want to rush over and beat this grandson.
"Liu Tingting."
I screamed and ran quickly.
It's just that when the female ghost turned around, I was disappointed and felt cold all over, because she was not Liu Tingting, but her back was a bit similar.
In the disappointment, my heart was cold and cold, and my whole body had no temperature, but I had no temperature in the first place, because I was just a soul now.
"Sorry, I recognized the wrong person." I apologize.
This is a mistaken person, and it is clearly a mistaken ghost.
After taking a look at the group of ghosts and not finding Liu Tingting, I wanted to enter the gate.
"Stop, this is not where you came, enter through another gate." A majestic voice came.
But I didn't bring the Stygian with me, and if I were to change the route, I guess I wouldn't even be able to get close to the gate, let alone get in.