Chapter 16: The Styx Ferryman
I took out the soul knife and held it in my hand: "I wonder if this can cross the river?" ”
The man's eyes flashed with a strange blue light, and then he invited me to the boat with great humility, and then slowly rowed up. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Although there are no ripples on the surface of the water here, the fiery red earth that gradually fades away shows that the ship is constantly moving.
There is almost no scenery to enjoy here, except for the bustling city that is gradually approaching, there are only those paper-folded boats and lotus flowers that have almost reached the side of the boat, I quietly watched those things in a daze, and the man's voice came again: "These are the soul-attracting lamps, they are all soul-attracting lamps lit by people in the human world to the people they care about in their hearts, so that those souls do not have to lose their way in the spiritual world, you see those souls who follow the soul-attracting lamp, isn't it beautiful?" ”
Looking in the direction he said, I saw that the other side of the river I was going to keep flying out of colorful bubbles, and there were small people in it slowly approaching those candles, and then falling on those paper boats and paper lotuses, and then those bubbles also burst one by one, and the people who were originally active inside were sitting cross-legged, slowly closing their eyes one by one with a look of serenity, sadness or joy, and soon a little light flew out of their bodies, like fireflies under the night sky, and gradually flew towards the blood-red continent I left.
"Actually, it's very strange, you are the rumored path to the Pure Land of Bliss, and it is said that no more than nine people have come out of that path so far, and you happen to be the ninth! However, the previous ones heard that the ending was not very good, because this is the spiritual world, it is easy to get in and difficult to get out! As he spoke, he put the iron oar in his hand aside and stretched out his hand and said, "Okay, because you chose the way back, I didn't charge you your boat fare first, so you can pay it." ”
I looked around, at this moment the boat was parked in the River Styx, there was no place to stay, I looked at the dark river again, the man seemed to see my hesitation, very indifferently said: "Don't look, this is in the River Styx, here only my ferry can help you cross the river, so you can only pay the boat fare obediently now, in addition, I want to make it clear to you, I am talking about all the boat fares, and your Hades treasure can only be the fare for you to sit here." ”
"What, you're a little greedy, aren't you, a treasure is only enough to sit halfway? You're even better than robbing and stealing! I said with some resentment.
The man still responded very calmly: "It doesn't matter, whatever you think, anyway, I've always been at this price, Tong Su has not been bullied for thousands of years, just by virtue of these two points, he can be regarded as a very sincere businessman, why are you still not convinced?" You look at what you do in the human world, you also live by supporting the boat, you can't afford to pay the boat, and you even ask for a sky-high price, my reputation in the past thousand years is much stronger than yours. ”
I looked at the soul knife in my hand and kept calling Rumeng and the others, the strange thing is that there has been no response, just when I held the knife and didn't move, the man was a little impatient and asked again, and then he suddenly stood up and said: "Since that's the case, then don't blame me, in fact, I don't want to do this, but at least I can get the iron nail for this trip, if you want to resent it, don't resent me, I still have a lot of taxes to pay, so I am also helpless." ”
After saying that, he picked up the oars and spun them a few times, and then the two oars turned into two small fans and were pinned behind his waist, and then he touched the side of the boat, and suddenly an iron rod appeared in his hand, and then the iron rod quickly stretched out to one end, and when he reached the shore, he clung to the iron rod, and I watched in amazement as it was all done in just a few seconds, and before he could move, he had reached the opposite shore.
"One last time, would you like to pay all the boat fare?" His voice was hoarse, but it was unusually clear in the silence of the space.
"What exactly do you mean by all the fares, and you don't want a Stygian Treasure, do you?" I forced myself to compose myself and then planned to take one step at a time.
"Haha, that's not necessary, no matter how to say that this psychic treasure has only ten pieces that can enter my eyes since ancient times, although you haven't seen it, but you can also reach this level from the breath, I believe that I can also be promoted to a new position by submitting your treasure this time, if we can still meet at that time, I will sell you a favor, this is also a fate between you and me." Hahaha! The man laughed out loud.
"Oh? That means that in addition to my knife, there are ten other things you care about? If you tell me what it is, maybe I'll have a clue. "Suddenly, I noticed that the hull seemed to sink slightly.
"Hehe, if you think it's necessary, I'll tell you, but I remind you, don't think that there is nothing on the ship, this ship is a treasure that recognizes the master, if I am not on the ship, it will slowly sink, so you had better hurry up and think about it, after all, this Styx is a strange area that is rumored to be impossible for even Da Luo Jinxian to fly on for too long, so I will briefly tell you, and you should quickly decide what to do." The man appeared to lie down.
Then he seemed to say slowly and deliberately: "These ten psychic treasures are the Book of Life and Death, the Judge's Pen, the Soul Hook Rope, Meng Po Soup, the Prenatal Stone, the Ghost Mother Tears, the Reincarnation Dao, the Soul Renewal Lamp, the Corpse Coffin and the Ghost Yin Talisman, which such as Meng Po Tang and the Reincarnation Dao have become exclusive to the Spiritual World because they have been contaminated with too much aura in the Spirit World all the year round, and the rest are designated by the descendants of the Spiritual Realm Hades for generations because of their powerful effects or functions to be passed on to the treasure recipients, and these treasure recipients have been classified as spiritual people since they were born. So most of them I can only salivate, except for the ghost mother tears and the ghost yin charm, which are the only ones that don't have a designated successor. ”
At this moment, the hull of the ship was only less than ten centimeters high from the River Styx, and the man seemed to be aware of it, so he interrupted the topic and asked, "So what is your choice now?" May it be wise. "I looked at the soul knife in my hand, although it was just a dagger, but it involved too many secrets, and Meng Caiyi seemed to have been said to be an extremely mysterious identity before, if it was handed over to others, I am afraid that there will be a series of bad results, just when I hesitated, a warmth emerged in my chest and slowly surrounded my body.
Approaching me, I felt as if I was slowly ascending, and at the same time, the hull of the ship also accelerated the speed of descent, and the man smiled very proudly on the other side: "Haha, you people in the human world are just reluctant, even if you are dead, you are still hesitating, I really don't know what the point of your insistence is, but also, it is not easy to get a treasure that ordinary people are willing to do, but unfortunately greed is not enough to swallow elephants, especially in Hades, greed will make you quickly sink into the eighteenth layer of hell, and now I collect the treasure of Hades......"
His words came to an abrupt end, and now the iron ship was completely submerged by the River Styx, but I was wrapped in a layer of red flames, and my feet were firmly on the River Styx, as if I were standing on a flat earth, and slowly walked towards the land where he was.
"No, it can't be! There is no mortal who can walk on the river Styx, where there is no return, can it be said that you have a treasure in you? No, no, red flames! I see, the karmic fire talisman of the Buddha's path! You have this almost lost spirit rune, who are you! The man's speech became clearer and clearer, and even in the end, not only did he lose his hoarse voice, but his tone was mixed with surprise and panic.
"Who am I? I'm just an ordinary mortal, it's just that your greed has blinded your eyes, so you'll always be just a ferryman who holds the boat, and you can't get to the other side. As I spoke, I brandished the soul knife and slashed at his face, and suddenly a stream of black blood spurted out of his wound like an arrow, and then there was a faint black qi on the soul knife that slowly drilled into the blood groove on the knife surface.
"Ahh It hurts! Why, why is there a treasure that can hurt me, no, no, you are a soul knife, and it is a fused soul knife, who are you, you can't be a mortal at all, ahhahaha, it's changed, it's really going to change! It's a pity that I can't appreciate the prosperous and colorful scene, this abnormal aura between heaven and earth may not be inseparable from i, maybe ......" He seemed to be more and more excited, and finally he danced a little, but before he could finish speaking, a short arrow with a pitch-black body roared and instantly disappeared into his eyebrows, leaving only one arrow tail trembling slightly.
I was so frightened that I jumped to the side, and when I looked up, I saw a dark shadow in the mountains and forests in the distance. I hurried to the man's side, at this moment the man's iron armor slowly grew speckled rust, and the bare skin on his body slowly decayed and withered as if it had gone through thousands of years, and then black blood continued to appear at the corner of his mouth, and he said to me with difficulty: "I, I have leaked, too many secrets, so, so I was extinguished, but, it's just that I'm very unwilling, there are originally, there are still three reincarnations, I, I can go to reincarnation with my wife, together." ”
"I, I actually once got one, an iron token, although I can't be sure, but, but I think this should be, it should be the ghost yin charm that has been missing for a long time, at least, at least with it, you can find, find the ghost yin charm. Actually, this is also my last wish in these reincarnations, reincarnation days, but unfortunately, it's a pity that I will never see my wife again! Maybe, maybe after I am controlled by them, I, I won't be able to see Xiulian again, yes, I'm sorry, Xiulian, I personally promised to take you with me, to reincarnation together, I, I lost my trust......" The man's iron armor gradually turned into a piece of flying black ash and slowly drifted towards the River Styx, and his whole body was gradually filled with black gas.
There seemed to be a sad atmosphere in the air, even the land that was originally flying red on the opposite bank slowly fluttered with dark red petals, and the originally windless River Styx gradually blew a cool breeze, the sound was long and swirling like a person sobbing in a low voice, with a soft clang, half a white token fell in front of me, and then the man gradually returned to his original human form, he floated lightly in the air, smiled and waved at me slightly, and then turned around and floated to a paper lotus, The candlelight on the paper lotus flower also became extremely bright, and then a woman's figure also appeared in mid-air, the two hugged each other tightly, and a rain of red and white lotus flowers suddenly fluttered between heaven and earth, and at the same time, a conversation also sounded leisurely between heaven and earth:
"My name is Maggie Cheung, what about you?" It was a man's voice.
"Gong Xiulian! Nice to meet you. "It was a woman's voice.
"I swear, I only love Gong Xiulian in this life and this life, if I disobey, I will be hit by five thunders from the sky, and I will not die well!" The man's voice was unusually firm, "I believe you, don't say it again!" The woman's voice was unusually soft and sweet.
"Why! Why did you choose to commit suicide, Xiulian, I'm late, I'm late! Now that I finally have fame, but you are gone, what is the point of my life, you wait for me, you wait for me! I'm going to look for you in the underworld! The man's voice was unusually sad and angry.
"I do! No matter how long it takes to be ten years or a hundred years, as long as I am finally reincarnated with my Xiulian, I am willing to give up these five hundred years of glorious reincarnation, and I am willing to stay on this cold and lonely Styx River and be a ferryman without self! As long as you can deliver on your promises! As long as I can reincarnate with her! The man's last firm words gradually dissipated in the distance, the paper lotus flower was slowly enlarged and suspended in the air, and the two embracing human figures also emitted bright light, shining the originally dark surroundings as bright as day, and then a glorious passage suddenly appeared above the lotus, and soon the lotus carried the two people quickly rotated and sank into the depths of the passage.
"Humph! I really didn't expect that in the end, it would be fulfilled for both of them! But it's okay, he seems to have left you something that doesn't belong to him, so you should know the rules, hand over the token and I'll let you succeed him as a Styx ferryman, and enjoy immortality forever! Just as I watched the lotus flower depart with great joy, a cold voice came from behind me. (To be continued.) )