I'm a little scared. If the ghost boat hadn't died, I would have crossed the river with a can of fish on my back, and it was really possible that I would have been eaten by the water ghost who jumped out of the ghost swallowing river. In that case, I won't even have a chance to go out into the woods and be kicked into a pit by the ghost of the condemned prisoner.

Fortunately, things went in a different direction.

I got all my things back, and the "commission" that should have been paid was also given to Xie Shanlin. The current time is two o'clock in the morning in the underworld, which is the best time for Brother Guo to ask me to use the compass to test Liu Xin's position.

The two of us stood under a tree fifty meters away from the gate of the Wang's house, in case the condemned prisoner woke up and found that his backpack was not on the ground; In case the ghost maid of the Wang family finds that the congratulatory gifts are less; In case the ghosts who stole things from Xie Shanlin found out that they were missing something, they chased them out, and we couldn't escape.

It's not safe here, I told Xie Shanlin about my worries, and he nodded and said that it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, and we will talk about it if we have anything to do.

I put the huge backpack on my shoulder again, carried the blue schoolbag containing twenty catties of ingots in my hand, and walked quickly into the distance with Xie Shanlin.

Ten minutes later, about a kilometer away, we stopped in a flat area. I put the two bags on the ground, and Xie Shanlin also opened the bag in his arms with a smile on his face and checked the loot.

Not to mention, this old fritter is very powerful, just after a few laps at the wedding banquet, he touched a lot of valuable things from the storage room of the palace and the ghost guests.

I opened my backpack and took out the compass and the charm that Brother Guo had written for me.

The thin pointer of this compass was soaked in black water after Liu Xin's hair was turned into black water, and with the charm I chanted for a while, the compass pointer could help me point out the general direction of Liu Xin's location in the underworld.

"Is this the compass you have to get back?" Xie Shanlin went over the loot in his hand and turned his head over excitedly.

"Yes, it's important to me. I'm going to measure things with it. I said as I opened the piece of paper full of charms and placed the compass flat in my hand.

Xie Shanlin didn't know what I was going to do, so he stood by and watched quietly.

I read the charm on the paper twice, and silently familiarized myself with it in my mouth. It was almost familiar, so I asked it if it knew the location of Ghost City.

Xie Shanlin said easily that he knew. Because although there are several ghost towns on the ground for hundreds of miles in the vicinity, there is only one city called Yin Ghost City.

Saying that, it pointed to the location to the west, and said that the Yin Soul City was about three hundred miles over there, and it was the city that more than thirty Yin had just come over from the wedding banquet. Then it asked me puzzled, do you want to settle in the Netherworld City, this new ghost?

I said don't ask, I'll take a bearing, or I'll wait until tomorrow night when the time is over. After that, I adjusted my breathing, calmed down, and quickly recited the charm on the paper.

"Click......

When I read it for the third time, the compass suddenly shook slightly, and the hands made a slight sound.

I continued to read, and when I didn't know whether it was the sixth or seventh time, I was excited by a scene where the pointer painted with Liu Xin's hair and fingernails turned into water moved a little slightly, and in just a moment, the pointer stopped moving.

I know that this is the approximate location of Liu Xin in the underworld now.

"It seems to be pointing in the direction of Yin Soul City!" Xie Shanlin looked at the pointer and said.

"Yes, it's in the direction of Yin Soul City!" I said with some excitement.

The advantage of this compass is that it can measure the direction of living people or ghosts, but it also has the disadvantage, that is, it can only measure the direction, not the distance.

For example, it measured that Liu Xin was in the direction of the west, on a line that overlapped with Yin Soul City. But five meters to the west is also west, five hundred meters, fifty miles, five hundred miles, fifteen hundred miles, any distance point to the west, how far and near, all overlap on this line.

I don't know if Liu Xin is now a hundred miles away from the west, or three hundred miles from the Yin Soul City, or if she is sleeping somewhere in the west a few hundred miles behind the Yin Soul City.

But in any case, I can at least rule out all other directions in all directions. I just had to go in the direction the pointer was pointing and head west. I can ask the ghosts on this line, has anyone seen a few dead snakes with two girls.

Yes, that's it!

"Is it done?" Xie Shanlin probably saw my excited expression and asked with a puzzled expression.

"Hmm", I nodded, "Brother Xie, I'm going all the way west in the direction of Yin Soul City." That, your home is not living nearby. Hey, maybe we're going to have to separate here. ”

After I said this, I suddenly felt a little reluctant.

I've only known this thief for two hours, who is more than 20 years older than me, but I feel like an old friend I've been with for years.

Although Xie Shanlin stole other ghosts' things, that was his way of life, and he took my backpack back from the death row ghost by means, and it really helped me!

Although its stealing behavior is despicable, it is not bad-eyed, it does not eat me in black, it does not swallow me in one bite like a man-eating water ghost, and it is not like a death row ghost who snatches my things and kicks me into a pit and buries me.

"Oh, you're going to the City of Ghosts, brother? That place is three hundred miles away, which is a distance of one hundred and fifty kilometers. Oops, a bit far! ”

As I expected, Xie Shanlin showed a very embarrassed expression.

I know that the world is divided, and while I make some friends, I will also lose some friends for various reasons. The ghost world is the same, I have to go to the direction of Yin Soul City to find Liu Xin, and Xie Shanlin still has a home and its ghost children, it is difficult for it to leave them and go with me to a place three hundred miles away.

"Brother Xie, I'm going to Yin Soul City to find someone. Or, go further behind the Netherworld. Brother Xie, we may be separated. ”

"Well," Xie Shanlin also nodded, but it said, "Yin Soul City is three hundred miles away from here, and you will only walk there in the Year of the Monkey." Brother, don't you have ingots with you, I'll take you to a place and break them into small pieces. Buy a horse and you ride it, so you save effort and time. ”

"Horseback riding?"

I was stunned when I heard Xie Shanlin's words, why did I ride a horse. Can't you take a bus or take a taxi? It's a hundred and fifty kilometers away by taxi, and it's two hours faster.

This is the underworld, and although there are no living people who are all ghosts, there should be things in the underworld that are in the yang world.

"Hey, brother, it seems that you newly dead ghost still doesn't know about our underworld." Xie Shanlin stretched out his dead ghost's cold hand and patted me on the shoulder.

"Ten years ago, when I was driving with my son and daughter-in-law to play, I rushed down the mountain road, and we all died, and when we came to the underworld, it was the same as you think now. We also think that there are things in the yang world and things in the underworld, but this is not the case. ”

"If a person in the yang world wants to be promoted, he needs political achievements, building buildings, building bridges and paving roads. But the underworld is different, the living are ghosts when they reach the underworld, and even their lives are gone, what is there to do. And at any time, it is possible to be dismantled or eaten by another ghost, and it will never be reincarnated. Except for some kind ghosts who were born and were arranged to drink Meng Po soup to be reincarnated, the vast majority of ghosts could only survive in the underworld. Think about it, the ghost is even dead, who is going to build bridges and pave roads. ”

After listening to Xie Shanlin's words, I seemed to understand something.

"You mean that there is no wide road in Hades?" I asked.

Xie Shanlin nodded and said That's right, that's what it meant. Don't look at the relatives in the yang world who burned the car and the house to the dead ghosts. The house is habitable, but the car can't drive far at all. Because everywhere there are muddy paths, ditches, ditches, creeks, and big rivers. Moreover, do you think there is a gas station in the underworld!

I'll go!

Hearing this, I suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem.

It turns out that in the underworld, in the ghost world, there are no gas stations, let alone buses and taxis!

But think about it, the ghosts of the underworld don't even need to eat, where can they get gasoline at the gas station!

"So, I'm going to have to ride a horse?" I asked.

After saying that, I felt a little hairy in my heart. From here, it is three hundred miles to the Yin Soul City, which is a distance of one hundred and fifty kilometers. I've used my phone to check that the world's most durable and fastest horse is the best horse in the world, stopping and stopping for 100 kilometers in a day, and it's the best horse in the world.

If it is replaced by an ordinary horse to run, it is estimated that the horse will hang up for 50 kilometers a day. But I've only had two days in the underworld, and my head instantly gets bigger when I think about it......

"Giggle......

Xie Shanlin, the old ghost, suddenly laughed beside me: "Brother, don't worry. If you're willing to spend money, I'll be able to get you a horse that will never die. Hehe, you'll never die......"