Chapter Twenty-Seven: Alone in the Underworld
The wind that swept over me quickly kept the sound out of the cyclone.
When I opened my eyes again, I was already outside the great tomb. The faint light of the street lamps shone from the fifth section of the cemetery, but it was not enough to illuminate the road ahead of me.
I turned on the light on my phone,!
I thought my eyes were dazzled, because on both sides of the path that winds up from the bottom of the mountain, there is a black "thing" standing on the side of the road every five or ten meters.
I was very strange, when Granny Zhong called me outside the giant tomb just now, except for me and her, both sides of the road were empty. I entered the huge tomb and Granny Zhong's house has only been out for a quarter of an hour. Is it really because I have become a half-human and half-ghost, and I can see ghosts without shedding cow tears?
"Gollum......" I swallowed in frustration. Now that I'm going to be able to see things that no one else can see, every night from now on.
Walking along the narrow mountain road to the fifth area below the mountain, every time I passed in front of a ghost, a cold feeling would reach me. All the way down the mountain, I met seventeen or eighteen wild ghosts who had no home. And these ghosts are not scary, they just quietly find a place to nap in the mountains.
I stepped over the fence at the foot of the hill and came to the boundary of Anmin Cemetery. It wasn't until then that I realized what it meant to be small compared to the dozen or so ghosts I saw on the mountain road.
In the eyes of the living, the cemetery in the early morning is only a patch of snow-white tombstones. But they were wrong......
Not far in front of me, in the seven lanes of the Fifth District, a ghost with half of its head cut off and crooked on its shoulder, with only half of its head standing upright on its neck, stood in front of a tombstone and waved his fist.
"Bang...... Bang...... "His fist slammed into the back of an elderly male ghost lying on the ground.
......Every time he hits, the old male ghost will let out a wail.
"Your sacrifice...... Every time...... and sprinkled it all on my monument. It's dirty...... I don't allow ......"
This ghost who was like a ghost who was cut off on the head before he was born, mechanically beating the old ghost at once. Next to them, there were a few ghosts who were busy with themselves, indifferent to the beatings that were happening around them.
There is a ghost wiping the tombstone with its transparent hand, and a female ghost is standing in the moonlight, dancing with a rich expression. Judging by its graceful and skillful dancing, this ghost must have been a great dancer before his death.
"Good...... Beautiful ......", the ghosts who gathered around to watch the dance clapped their hands slowly, and their faces were full of expressions of enjoyment.
I walked quickly through the five districts, and I really didn't expect that the ghost world that existed in the human world was so rich.
However, I didn't have time to waste on them, so I walked through the front few cemeteries as fast as I could, and returned to the office where Uncle Qi and Brother Guo were waiting for me.
I pushed the door into the house and walked in with one foot, "Hiss...... It's cold. Hadron, you're back! You...... How is it different from just now? ”
Brother Guo sat on the sofa and shivered, after all, he was a ghost catcher with many years of experience, and he could see at a glance that I was wrong.
"What's wrong with you, Granny Zhong hurt you?" Brother Guo and Uncle Qi checked my body together.
This look, that touch, tickles me and I'm embarrassed. I was thirsty, so I avoided their hands and came to the table to drink.
"Hey, what's going on......"
I grabbed the teacup twice in a row, and my hand went through the cup.
"Hadron, what's wrong with you!" Brother Guo found that I couldn't catch the cup, and asked in surprise.
I'm so depressed, I can't just become a half-human, half-ghost form, and I can't even touch the things in the world.
"Hey." I sighed, "Let's sit down and talk." ”
Luckily, I just couldn't catch the cup, and the sofa was able to sit down.
Uncle Qi poured a glass of water and fed it to me in his hand.
The smoke in my throat and eyes was poured down, and it was much more comfortable. I organized the language and told them about going to Granny Zhong's house after separating from them.
"In other words, you are now in a half-human, half-ghost state, and you can take the ghost bus to cross the Yin-Yang Road without affecting your lifespan?" Brother Guo's eyes widened and he stared at me.
"Well, that's what it means. Granny Zhong said that when I finish the matter, rescue Liu Xin and the little ghost, and then return my half of yang energy to me. ”
"Okay, since that's the case, let's go back and don't disturb Uncle Qi's rest."
Brother Guo also expressed my thoughts.
There were gains, regrets, and shocks on this trip.
The harvest is that I probably know from Granny Zhong who snatched Liu Xin and the little ghost. It's a pity that I couldn't ask Granny Zhong to help me bring Liu Xin back from the underworld with a direct thunderbolt blow, of course, there is a price to pay for doing so, that is, I must die, and the human skin on my body will be used as the price to pay.
In the end, it was this trip to Granny Zhong's house that shocked me the most. Because, the Lord of the Netherworld, whom I didn't know and had no impression in my mind at all, actually saved me directly from Granny Zhong by distorting space, and also said that I was his person.
This was the biggest question he left me, and the biggest surprise. Why did the Lord of the Underworld say that, and why did he know me, it is still a mystery to me now.
At nine or ten o'clock last night, Brother Guo and I drove out. first went to the paper man to take the paper man, and then went to Gao Lin's house to recruit the soul of the old ghost. The old ghost Liu Guifen said that she came by herself, and she wanted to give Gao Lin a dream and ask him to come to Granny Zhong to save the little ghost, but she ran into us by mistake and told us that Liu Xin was not in her hands.
And now I have been pulled out of half of my soul by Granny Zhong and have become a half-human and half-ghost state where I can see ghosts. The above series of things have tired my brother Guo into a dog.
The sky was white, and I was yawning as I drove. Brother Guo was so sleepy that he fell asleep in the co-pilot. When we got home, we both climbed into bed.
We slept until the afternoon, when it was time for dinner, and we woke up one after another. I got out of bed and looked at my phone, and Lao Wu sent a message, saying that he was working overtime to make a plan for the customer, and the customer had been changing it for two days, and it was estimated that he would be able to get it in another night. When the time comes, please have a big meal.
He also said that he didn't accompany us to investigate the old ghost in the past two days, which is a great pity for an enthusiast like him who likes horror events.
When he's done busy, ask us to rub it off, and wait for the first seven nights of the first seven days of the tunnel crash in three days, and he will definitely accompany us to catch the sack ghost!
I said okay, I'll be waiting for you on the first seven days. After speaking, I suddenly remembered Wang Fang, who died in the car accident. By the way, I have to call Gao Lin, and ask him to prepare more high-end sacrifices on the night of Wang Fang's first seven, and help us increase our chips to lure the sack ghost to the bait!
I pulled out a slip of paper and listed the things I needed to do next.
I was extremely nervous, nervous, and scared. Because just a few hours later, I, who was made into a half-human and half-ghost by Granny Zhong, was going to take the ghost bus again, accompanied by the ghost lady, the ghost woman, and the little yellow hat, through the Yin and Yang Road, and killed the ghost underworld!
Brother Guo also got up, and when he came over, his spirit was shocked. He saw the text message from Lao Wu, sighed and said, look at Lao Wu, sitting in the office and blowing the air conditioner, looking at the beautiful female colleagues in short skirts, drawing pictures and earning a lot of banknotes.
This life is more moisturizing!
"Brother Guo, don't say that. There are easy lines of work, but there are also difficulties in the industry. You only see me and Lao Wu, us designers, sitting in the office blowing air conditioners. Do you know how many tubes of hemorrhoid cream we have to use up in a year? Brother Guo, you run around every day to catch ghosts, you have never used a tube in your life! We both burst out laughing.
In the blink of an eye, it was eight o'clock in the evening, and I was ready to leave for the tunnel entrance on Panshan Road to wait for the ghost bus. On the night two days ago, the old ghost Liu Guifen and the little ghost were standing at the exit of the tunnel crying Wang Fang, and then the ghost bus drove out of the tunnel.
Brother Guo and I know the route, time, and stops of the No. 41 ghost bus well. Brother Guo patted me on the shoulder and said apologetically, brother, as a ghost catcher, I am ashamed that I can't go to the underworld to compensate you and save people......
He was going to go on and on, but I stopped him.
I said Brother Guo, I don't blame you, it's originally my family's business, and only those eminent monks and masters have the ability to go to the underworld. If you save people at the cost of reducing your life expectancy by ten or even fifteen years for my affairs, and give you no amount of gold and silver, I will not be able to compensate you for the loss of life. Brother Guo, you don't need to say much, I have been turned into like this by Granny Zhong, I can go myself!
After that, I put all the things I had prepared that I estimated to be able to use in the underworld into my backpack and carried it. Grab your car keys and drive to the tunnel exit to wait for the ghost bus.
I drove the car, thinking in my heart that in an hour, I would be able to get on that infinitely looping ghost bus and go to the underworld alone!
Forty minutes later, I drove the car to the tunnel exit of Panshan Road, where Brother Guo was going to watch me get on the bus. I didn't agree, let him drive back, preferably no one was watching the car around.
The ghosts in the car are better than the other, in case I noticed that there was a ghost catcher hiding in the grass next to me, and as soon as they were scared, they stepped on the accelerator and drove away without stopping, I really walked through the long yin and yang road with my legs, and walked to the underworld, as Granny Zhong said.
I don't do it, it's too tiring.
Brother Guo also felt that I was right, and before he left, he told me again which pocket of my backpack had water, which pocket had a ghost charm, and which pocket had a pen and paper, and that I would draw a map in the underworld and mark it.
After saying that, we encouraged each other, told each other to be safe, said goodbye, and drove away.
I stood where the old ghost stood that day, bored waiting for the ghost bus. I was in a nervous mood, sitting on the ghost bus for a while, rushing towards the hard rock at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, will I feel that my body will be completely torn apart, and the five horses will be torn apart......
"Hoo ......"
"Drip ......"
I was thinking when suddenly, a cold gust of wind was squeezed out of the tunnel. Then I heard the beeping sound of the car horn.
The 41 ghost bus, which was cursed and looped here forever, appeared on time!
My heart was pounding and pounding, my thoughts were myriad, and I was on the ghost bus for a while, where would I sit?
Or sit in the last row like last time? Sit in the ghost lady and the ghost woman, or change to a new position, sitting next to the schoolboy in the harmless little yellow hat?
I've been like this since I was a kid, and when something I'm waiting for is coming soon, my body reacts nervously. My saliva would suddenly increase, gather under the base of my tongue, and swallow the saliva that was overproduced by the tension one bite at a time.
"Squeak...... "My mind was occupied by the question of where to sit, and I didn't even notice the arrival of the ghost bus.
It stopped, and came to a steady stop at the tunnel exit station, in front of me.
"Bang!" The door of the ghost bus opened, and all the passengers turned their heads to look at me under the bus. The ghost conductor poked her head out of the window and looked at me.
"No. 41 night bus...... To ...... Underworld! Please get on the bus ......"