"What is this place?"

"Why are we dressed like this?"

"-What is this stuff you're putting in my mouth?"

What the girl stuffed into my mouth tasted like a coin, and I wanted to spit it out to see what it was, only to see that she had also stuffed the same thing into her mouth.

She glared at me, motioned for me to be quiet, and then opened her mouth and pushed her tongue forward, and I could see that it was a copper coin with a round outer circle and a square inner circle.

The smell of fish on my tongue made me feel very uncomfortable, and I felt very confused as I held the copper coin: "Why do we put money in our mouths?" ”

"Shut up! If you don't want to fall into the hands of those guys anymore, do as I say! The fierce girl lowered her voice very low, and as she spoke, her two big eyes kept wandering over the ghosts who were wearing old Qing military uniforms and holding whips in their hands.

And those ghosts with whips, they wore military uniforms with a striking word 'pawn' printed on the front, and at the moment they were whipping some souls that were walking more slowly.

I looked down at the apricot-yellow, Tang costume-like robe I was wearing, and I always felt that something was not quite right, and when I took a closer look, I realized that it was the sleeve of the dress.

The patterns on the sleeves are almost embroidered, large and small, and some flowers, fish and insects are embroidered.

But the left sleeve of this robe is obviously shorter than the right sleeve, although the color is very similar, but if you look closely, you can still see that the color of the two sleeves is different, the left sleeve is goose yellow, the right sleeve is wheat tooth color, and most importantly, the color of my gown is clearly apricot yellow.

I don't know which tailor made this dress, if it is on it, it must be a proper bad review.

I turned my head again to look at the blue cheongsam worn by the fierce girl on the side, wrapping her somewhat thin figure, and said in confusion: "Where did you get these two strange outfits?" ”

The fierce girl smiled contemptuously, and then turned her head: "When you were only thinking about gnawing on the two white potatoes I threw to you, I took them off the other ghosts." ”

"What the hell?" I felt my right eyelid jump involuntarily: "You mean, it can't be those ghost corpses on the pile of stumps, right?" "I suddenly felt a little sick when I thought that the clothes I was wearing now had been ripped off those green, slimy, and mutilated arms and thighs.

The fierce girl swept me from top to bottom, as if she was very satisfied with my outfit, and her tone was quite soothing: "Otherwise, where do you want me to find a living ghost to come out and pick it up for me in such a short time?" ”

"No, I mean, can you wear the clothes that were ripped off those things?" I remembered the place that surrounded the stench and frowned: "That arm, that thigh, that guy, all torn like that-" Speaking of this, I couldn't help but pat my head, and for a moment I was filled with emotion: "Ah-I seem to finally understand why this dress is long in one arm and short in the other." ”

"I just spelled it out, but I didn't expect it to look good." The fierce girl said, grabbing the hand that I put on the door of the head with one hand: "But you guy, why is there so much nonsense?" It's okay to line up, don't mess with those things in a moment. ”

I looked up and looked forward, and said helplessly, "No, I said—when does this line have to go?" Even if you buy a concert ticket, you can't wait in line for such a long time, right? ”

As soon as I finished saying this, a crisp 'click' sound sounded under my feet, and I thought I had accidentally stepped on some mechanism or something, but when I looked down, I realized that it was a beetle the size of a palm.

Of course, I've never seen this bug before, so it's likely that people don't call it a beetle at all.

But no matter what it's called, it's now crushed by me, and the milky white worm juice has burst into my pants.

"The bugs in this place of yours are really big." I sighed for a moment, then continued with my initial question, "Can you tell me what the hell this is?" ”

As far as I can see, there is a long road that twists and turns, and on this long road that twists and turns, there are countless souls.

The souls lined up in a long line in a very orderly manner, and on both sides of the long line stood some ghosts wearing old Qing military uniforms and holding leather whips in their hands, these ghosts all looked fierce and vicious, and the leather whips in their hands came and went, whipping the souls who were slowly moving forward in a long line, and they never stopped.

I looked closely for a while, and found that these fierce and vicious ghosts especially like to pick those thin and weak souls and whip them, and when those souls are beaten to a dying appearance, and are so weak that they can't walk and start begging for mercy, these weak souls will be taken out by these fierce and evil ghosts and put into a pot of oil with billowing smoke on the side.

The spirits who are put into the oil pot will let out a terrible wail, and this wail seems to make the fierce spirits with leather whips even more excited.

Finally, at the end of the long road filled with whipping, screams, and wails, there is a tall archway, although the archway is far away, and even almost flooded by a thick miasma, but the momentum is compelling, and it is intimidating, and at the highest point of the archway, you can vaguely see the shadows of two human figures hanging on it, one black and one white, I don't know what it is.

The girl and I were the last to come in line, so we were at the end of the long line, and our luck happened to be relatively good, we didn't get whipped or put in the oil pot.

But, to be honest, from the bottom of my heart to my heart, I didn't want to stay in this place for another second.

"Where is this?" The fierce girl's gaze crossed me and looked at the tall archway in the distance, with regret in her voice that could not be hidden: "This was originally the first entrance for the souls to go to the capital city, and it is also the place where the souls of every dead person should go. ”

"The first entrance?" I thought about it for a while, and then I realized that I had almost zero things about ghosts in my head, so I had to listen patiently to the fierce girl and continue to elaborate.

"Every person who dies, their soul will be brought to this place, walk through the ghost gate, step on the Huangquan Road, see the Sansheng Stone, and then go to the Nai He Bridge to drink a bowl of unpalatable soup, forget everything about it, and then enter reincarnation." Talking and talking, I don't know why, I always feel that this fierce girl's regret also has a trace of sadness: "And this is the Ghost Gate." ”