Chapter 60: The Book of Life and Death
I walked back to the small courtyard at the back, there was no furnishings here, so it was not destroyed, I found a random place to sit down, and took the Order of Impermanence out of my bracelet.
I heard Emperor Xudu say that this thing is still a treasure, it can collect ghosts, and it may also fight ghosts. But I'll use it to collect ghosts, but how to fight ghosts, is it just to pick up the token and greet you? This...... Hehe~
The corners of my mouth twitched a few times, and I almost scolded my mother. I thought that he was a yin official impermanence, and he could go sideways in the ghost world, after all, the legend of impermanence is one of the top ten famous marshals, and his status is only a cut worse than that of the ten palace kings, but I, the impermanence, am really competent enough!
After a small complaint, my mood quickly calmed down, and I took out the book of life and death from my bracelet, turned the first page, and began to read.
The Book of Life and Death is a black booklet that looks thin and can be easily destroyed, but it is not.
The toughness of each piece of paper is terrible, and it is a waste to use it as body armor, and no matter how much I tear it, I don't pull a corner off it.
There are thousands of life and death books, and each city has a separate life and death book, which can be easily carried and managed by local magistrates.
For example, the Lord of the Land, the Lord of the City God, and the officials of the Yin Cao Official, who work for the underworld in the yang world, they all have the life and death books of the place under their jurisdiction.
And what I have in my hand is the life and death book of Chengdu, which only records the life and death fate of all the people living in this small city, and the sins of their lives. And what I have to do is to send out ghosts every day to capture the souls of the dead and bring them to the underworld for trial. Those who have sinned deeply will be sent to hell to be punished, and those who are good to others will remain in the city of Xudu to wait for reincarnation.
The first page of the book of life and death records all the names and times and places of the people who will die within 24 hours of that day, such as: Li Minzhong, born on July 23, 1959, was poor all his life, helped others, good outweighed evil, lived for 50 years and two months, and will die of cancer at noon on August 3, 2009.
Liu Mingli, born on March 28, 1977, was a lifelong evildoer, repeatedly murdered and injured people, killed people and set fires, evil was greater than good, lived for 32 years and nine months, died at 7 o'clock on August 3, 2009, and was hit by a car and died!
Du Wenqing, born on August 9, 1995, because he did too much evil in his previous life, he lived for 14 years and 5 days in this life, and died at 3 minutes of ugliness on August 3, 2009.
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Looking at the life and death records of these people, I can't help but sigh in my heart, people have lived a lifetime, and they have left such a few short lines of words and a body of debt.
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I took out the impermanence order from the bracelet and muttered in my mouth: "The Supreme Apocalypse, the lower is for me, the impermanence order starts, and a hundred ghosts must do it!"
Impermanence emitted a black light, and more than a dozen uniformly dressed ghosts appeared five meters in front of me, and two of them were the most conspicuous, standing in the front.
The one on the left was missing an arm, and the one on the right was missing a leg, but fortunately they walked with floating, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to stand up.
The corners of my mouth twitched twice unconsciously, this Emperor Xudu, who had been stabbed with a thousand knives, actually sent me such a pair of strange soldiers.
Forget about deducting my strength, and replace the only two ghost generals with the worst, ah, God, this is a naked bullying of honest people!
The missing arm ghost has a big beard, triangular eyes, broad shoulders and a broad back, and is very strong. The one with few legs was impatient, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and he looked to be twenty-seven or eighteen years old, tall and thin.
They saluted me at the same time as the twenty people behind them, "Meet Lord Impermanence." ”
Since I had seen a big scene before, I also knew a little bit of the rules of the underworld, so I accepted their salute. But their expressions didn't seem to be as respectful as I had imagined, and they stood aside after the salute and didn't move.
Their behavior made me very unhappy, but I didn't say anything, my position came through the back door, if it really started, I was not the opponent of these two at all, and they should have a little temper.
It is said that the new officials will take office with three fires, but I can't light the fire, the laws of the Yin Division are very strict, I know that they dare not blatantly disobey my orders, if my task is not done well, they are guilty of the same crime as me, so I am not afraid of them messing around.
I coughed lightly, took out the book of life and death and put it in front of them, and looking at their changing faces, I said in a kind tone: "You two should know the rules of the underworld, then I won't say more." The task of capturing souls is left to the two of you. Those twenty demons are assigned to you by me, and as long as the task can be completed, they are at your disposal, how about it? ”
The bearded man with the missing arm nodded, bowed respectfully to me, and took the book of life and death.
"As long as it is something ordered by the adult, the subordinates will do their best to do it, please rest assured."
Of course I'm relieved, twenty-two ghosts, twenty-two hours a day to catch the souls of the dead, even if there are a lot of deaths every day, it's busy. If it really doesn't work, I can still go to the Hall of Impermanence and send a group of ghosts to send them over, anyway, they are idle when they are idle.
"That's it, in a few days, I'll send twenty ghosts to the underworld to work with you in shifts, you have to hold on for a day or two, maybe I'll be very busy in the next few days."
The two ghosts with missing arms and legs have no opinion, and they look at me strangely, which makes me feel very strange.
I touched my face to make sure I was wearing a mask on my face, and then ...... "Why are you looking at me like that?" ”
The ghost with missing arms and the ghost with young legs glanced at each other, and the ghost with missing arms seemed to be better at talking, so he walked up to me and whispered flatteringly: "My lord, my subordinates don't know whether to say a word or not, don't blame you if you say it!"
I raised my eyebrows, I didn't think anything was so serious to him, and they were old fritters in the underworld, and they knew a lot more than a hairy boy like me, maybe he wanted to mention something to me.
"If you have something to say, just say it."
The ghost with the missing arm saw that I had such a good attitude, and there was no arrogance, and he was more respectful to me. He smiled and said, "My lord, didn't the two impermanence adults of black and white tell you about the rules of the Soul Detention Department?"
I shook my head and said no. At the same time, I also greeted the eighteen generations of the black and white impermanence ancestors in my heart.
I said that their attitude towards me was so good all of a sudden, it turned out that they wanted to trick me.
"In fact, the rules of the Soul Detention Department are very simple, we only need to bring the souls of the people who have died back to the Third Division, the Fourth Division, the Sixth Division, the Judgment Division, and the Good and Evil Division, so the twenty-two of us are fully qualified for the task of Soul Restraint. You just need to send another group of ghosts to escort you. ”
I nodded in realization, I almost forgot about this stubble, but fortunately there was a ghost reminder of the missing arm, otherwise it would have been a joke.
After thinking about it for three minutes, I made a decision: "You will stay in the Yang Realm for your daily soul detention mission, and I will send five more teams of four people to pick you up in the city of Xudu, as long as you do what you should do, I will give you the rewards you deserve based on your performance." On the contrary, the bribe-taker will be severely punished! Do you understand? ”
"Got it!"
More than 20 ghosts responded in unison, and none of them objected to my words, not that they didn't want to, and they didn't dare!
According to Article 7 of the Law of Yin Si, those who violate the orders will be convicted of rebellion and will be punished directly in Daoshan Hell!
"From now on, this will be your home, and you must return here when you don't have a mission, and you are not allowed to wander around, and you are not allowed to scare the living, you know?"
"Got it!"
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After arranging this place, it was already morning, and the white fish belly on the horizon reminded me that it was dawn. I gave the Missing Arms the Book of Life and Death to the Missing Ghosts, told them to start detaining the souls in the order of the list on the first page, and sent them away.
Chengdu is so big, it is impossible for me to be busy alone, so it is the right decision to hand over the book of life and death to them, as long as they are not brain-dead, they will not mess around.
I walked to the front of the store and looked at the damaged store, my phone vibrating.
I took out my phone and looked at the unfamiliar phone number on the screen, I already knew who it was calling, and his message was really fast. I had only been back for a day and he knew.