Chapter 374, Crossing the Yellow Spring
The underworld is not a strange place for me or the team I brought underground. Although we are not the inhabitants of this land, we still have the deepest respect for this place.
In our supernatural circles, there is such a saying, the cold of the world is no better than the cold of the underworld. The hatred of the world is no match for the resentment of the underworld. The love in the world is no better than the suffering in the underworld.
I used to think that this was a warning to us young supernatural people not to think that we had some practices to ignore this terrible land.
However, it was only today, when I stood in front of the Three Realms Gate with my team, that I understood what the real underworld was, what was the true face of this terrible land.
The Three Realms Gate is not the three gates, but the three mountains of the underworld, each of which reaches into the sky, and each of them is not visible at a glance. I've heard of the name of the Three Realms Gate in the past, but I didn't know that the Three Realms Gate turned out to be Guan Cheng's old nest. I didn't know that this time I led my team into the underworld, not so much to chase and kill Guan Cheng, but to die generously, which is extremely dangerous!
There is a river in the underworld that will never stop, flowing slowly and endlessly, it is called the Yellow Spring, in which there are countless unjust ghosts and ghosts, and even the Yin Si dare not touch the terrible river, only one boatman will take a boat to carry passengers across the Yellow Spring.
However, the boatman will collect a lot of money, and, sometimes, even money will not satisfy its desires.
Yuhan, Li Xun, Muliang Junzi, Heidan, and I, with Guan Delirium, stood by the Yellow Spring. It was a big black river, and I had never seen the Yellow Spring so closely, without the restlessness of my imagination, and without the sound of weeping.
There is no sun and moon in the sky of the underworld, let alone starlight, but on this slow-flowing black river, there seems to be a dark light.
"It's actually beautiful."
Yu Han's eyes were firmly fixed on the yellow spring in front of him, his eyes were occupied by black light, and he slowly walked to the water's edge, but her shadow was not reflected in the water. Nothing, as calm as a mirror.
As if bewitched, Yu Han stretched out his hand, and his fingertips touched the yellow spring water that was close at hand. Faced with such a beautiful river, anyone, especially a woman, wants to reach out and touch it.
However, at the moment when Yuhan stretched out his hand to the Yellow Spring Water, there was an exclamation, Yuhan and we were both startled, I saw an unjust soul burst out of the water, and grabbed Yuhan's hand, Yuhan's body was pulled by the unjust soul, and fell towards the Yellow Spring.
Hei Dan and Li Xun reacted the fastest, and they were also the closest to Yu Han, they grabbed Yu Han's two legs and pulled her back. Yuhan sat on the shore in horror, and all of us looked at the yellow spring water that had just been calm, but at this time there were countless lonely souls and wild ghosts, struggling in the water, and no sound came, as if the cries and screams of these unjust souls were swallowed by the water.
I saw the black river rippling with waves, burying all the souls deep into the water, and the yellow spring became so calm again. It's still beautiful, it's still calm, it's still looking so safe.
It's just that now I know that those myths about Yellow Springs are true, and this is really a terrible river.
"Looks like we're still looking for a ferry."
I sighed and said, and the governor taught me a way, and he said that as long as you put money, preferably gold, on the river, the ferry will appear. Junko Kiliang contributed one of her own gold rings, and I placed the gold ring on the edge of the Yellow Spring, waiting for the boatman to arrive. After a while, I heard the sound of a rattle coming from a distance, and with the sound of a gentle stroke, I saw a boat that was not very large rocking and rowing from a distance.
It's just that the oars are plucked on the water of the Yellow Spring, but they don't make any sound, calm and soothing. There is not the slightest change in the yellow spring water, there is no unjust spirit, and there is no wild ghost crying, just like any river in the world.
It was only when the ship got closer that I could see that the boat was not made of wood, but of bone. The bones of an unknown creature, black in color, made of this boat looked like a wooden boat from a distance, but when you got closer, you could tell the difference.
There was a boatman on the boat whose face I couldn't see, but I was sure it wasn't a human, it was a spirit. It seems to be a powerful ghost, and it seems to be a ghost, but it doesn't give me a deep feeling, it's just very mysterious.
"You guys, you want to cross the river?"
It was hoarse, it sounded like the grinding sound of sand rolling past my ears and scattering on the ground. Guan Wei told me that the boatmen on the Huangquan River are famous for their love of money.
Money and treasures fascinate them, but their character is notoriously poor. Maybe it's in a good mood today and will send you to the other side, but if it's in a bad mood today, it might knock you directly into the Yellow Springs.
"Yes, we're going to cross the river. This gold is the fare of the boat, and it will send us over. ”
I said out loud.
But I saw the boatman stretch out his hand, make a silent gesture to me, shake his head slightly, and say, "You crossed the river, where are you going?" ”
I was slightly stunned, thinking that this boatman was really in charge, but I still said truthfully: "I'm going to the Three Realms Mountain." ”
This time, the boatman didn't ask again, but pointed to its small boat, and there was not enough space for us to stand up, so we had to separate the two boats to deliver it.
I'll be on the first boat with Black Egg and Junko Kiro, and then I'll come back with the boat and pick up the next group of people, because I'm really worried about this ghostly-looking boatman.
The three of us boarded the bone boat, and the boatman gently shook the oars, and the bone boat gradually left the shore and sailed towards the yellow spring. I don't know how wide the Yellow Springs are, or how deep they really are, and the Bone Boat is moving very slowly.
"How wide is Yellow Spring?"
I asked, standing on the boat, looking at the black water rippling.
The boatman did not answer my words, and for a while, the atmosphere was very quiet and strange, and I turned around and wanted to talk to the black egg, however, when I turned my head, I found that the black egg was gone. It's not just the black egg, but Junko Muliang is also gone!
I was amazed that I was the only one left on the boat, and I looked around at the water, but there was no one to be seen. The water surface of the Yellow Spring is still calm, could it be that the black egg and the wooden beam Junko have already fallen?
"What about my friends? Where did you get them? ”
I asked aloud, however, the boatman still did not speak, just rocked the boat by himself, I began to get anxious, began to panic, and stretched out my hand to grab the boatman in front of me, but something stranger happened! My hands couldn't touch the boatman's body at all, the boatman seemed to be transparent, my hands were like they were touching an illusion, as if everything around me was not real!
"Speak, my brother? What about my friends? ”
I roared loudly, a strange sensation I had never experienced before, and though I had seen many realistic visions, and I had seen countless horrific tricks, there had never been such a hallucination as this one, when I was still awake, when my brain was still normal.
"I didn't turn them away, but you pushed them down, have you forgotten?"
At this moment, I couldn't touch it, and the boatman, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke. I couldn't comprehend this for a while, and I didn't know what this guy was talking nonsense.
"Don't talk nonsense, I've been here, what the hell is going on?"
I asked aloud anxiously.
"Have you really forgotten? It was you who pushed the yokai and the woman off the boat. Because the boat had a hole in it and could only carry the weight of one person, you threw both of them off the boat. You see, we're on the shore......"
I looked up and saw in the distance, the land of the underworld appeared, but the black egg and Muliang Junko did not appear! I started banging on my head and the pain came very really, I wasn't dreaming, it was all real!
I looked around the blank space in amazement, could it really be that I threw the black egg and the wooden beam Junko down in order to protect myself? How can it be? I'm not going to do that kind of thing!
I started shouting at myself, however, the truth was in front of me, the two of them were gone.
"It must be you, it must be a good deed you did, you say, what about the black egg and the Muliang Junzi?"
I was about to walk over and attack the mysterious boatman, when I was tapped on the shoulder. I turned my head and saw the black egg standing behind me, a smile on my face, but it disappeared in an instant.
Because, I saw that the lower half of the black egg's body had been torn apart, and its eyes were blurred, and it was hit hard.
"Duanmusen, you hurt me......"
I heard its muffled voice, and the whole person fell heavily into the boat, and the black egg actually choked in front of me!
"No, no, how can this be?"
I knelt in the boat and began to get up without a master, this time crossing the river, why did this tragic event happen that I don't seem to have experienced at all, I have no memory!
What's going on? I asked myself.