Chapter 4: The Secret of a Thousand Years
"Hell Bounty?"
Ning Xiaoxian felt very strange about the old man who suddenly appeared, and what also made him strange was Ji Han's identity. Hell Bounty? What's that?
Ji Han was silent, she stood there with her hands vertically and indifferently, releasing an arrogant and indifferent aura like a fairy.
Subconsciously, Ning Xiaoxian shifted his gaze to the old man, the old man's wrinkled face had a faint smile, Ning Xiaoxian was looking at him, and he was also looking at Ning Xiaoxian.
"Who are you?" Ning Xiaoxian frowned and asked puzzled.
"Hell Bounty." The old man replied softly.
Hell Bounty Again? What the hell is this Hell Bounty?
"What is the Hell Bounty?" With doubts in his head, Ning Xiaoxian opened his mouth and tried to ask.
The old man didn't answer Ning Xiaoxian immediately, the smile on his face slowly put away, and the wrinkles quickly weaved a face of vicissitudes, he leaned on crutches and slowly approached Ning Xiaoxian a few steps.
"Do you believe that there is a hell in this world?" The old man asked.
Ning Xiaoxian didn't believe it originally, but what happened to him last night made him start to believe it, so he nodded.
Seeing Ning Xiaoxian nodding, the old man continued: "There is a bright side to this world, and naturally there is a dark side. What you can see is light, and what you can't see is darkness. ”
Ning Xiaoxian was silent when he heard this, and the old man's words had not yet reached the point.
"When there is darkness in this world, hell is there, it is the conversion station of the soul, responsible for balancing the soul of this world. This world is not only human beings have souls, but all living objects have souls, from the birth of a life to the end of life, the soul exists in this life, and at the end of life, the soul will return to hell, where the soul will be washed, erased everything from the previous life, and live again in the form of the next life. ”
"Reincarnation between past and present lives?" Ning Xiaoxian seemed to understand the meaning of the old man's words.
The old man nodded lightly and did not continue on this topic, "Hell is in this form to maintain a relative stability of the soul of this world. However, just over a thousand years ago, the hell that maintains this stability has changed. ”
"Change? What's changing? Ning Xiaoxian frowned, and his nerves were naturally brought in by the old man's words, and they became tense.
"The gates of hell are closed."
"The gates of hell are closed?"
Ning Xiaoxian's eyes widened, his eyes full of puzzlement.
The old man nodded again, "The gate of hell is closed, and the connection with the outside world is cut off, without hell, the soul will not be reborn, and it will slowly begin to stagnate in this world, and as more and more souls are stranded, the balance of yin and yang in this world will gradually begin to be broken, and the light will gradually be swallowed up by darkness......"
The old man's tone began to become rapid, and Ning Xiaoxian, who seemed to be listening to a story, couldn't help but be moved, and his whole body became nervous.
"And then?" Ning Xiaoxian couldn't help but ask.
The old man took a deep breath, gradually calmed down, and continued: "Later, the pseudo-hell appeared. ”
"Pseudo-hell?" Ning Xiaoxian was puzzled, "Fake hell? ”
The old man shook his head and said, "Although it is called pseudo-hell, it is not a fake hell, what you saw just now is a pseudo-hell." ”
"What I just saw?"
Ning Xiaoxian subconsciously looked at Ji Han, he knew that the old man was referring to the world where the volcano and the sea of fire were connected, he looked at Ji Han, just curious why Ji Han made him feel that pseudo-hell.
The old man didn't know what Ning Xiaoxian was thinking, he continued: "The difference between pseudo-hell and hell is that hell is born with heaven and earth, while pseudo-hell is created. ”
"Who created it?" Ning Xiaoxian couldn't help asking.
The old man glanced at Ning Xiaoxian, and spit out a word in his mouth: "God!" ”
"God?" Listening to the old man's words, Ning Xiaoxian was immediately stunned, if it was before, he would definitely not believe it, but now, he feels that these may really exist.
The old man nodded, he leaned on crutches, slowly turned around, turned his back to Ning Xiaoxian, and continued: "Seeing that this world is about to be chaotic, it is impossible for those gods to let it go, so they exist in a pseudo-hell, and this pseudo-hell, except that it is not born with heaven and earth, is not very different from hell, and this world has returned to normal order. ”
"And then?" Ning Xiaoxian asked subconsciously again.
The old man said so much, he always felt that all of this was just foreshadowing, and the things that were really related to him had not been said.
The old man was on crutches, and slowly turned around and stood face to face with Ning Xiaoxian.
"The rest of the story is up to you."
"Something to do with me?"
The old man nodded, then walked slowly in the direction of Ji Han with a cane, and when he was still more than two meters away from Ji Han, he stopped, turned around, and turned his back to Ji Han.
"The pseudo-hell has a flaw, that is, it does not have the function of summoning souls, and for those souls who are extremely resentful, it has no way to forcibly reincarnate, so when those gods established the pseudo-hell, they set up a very special position, the Hell Bounty."
"The soul is another life that has been separated from the living body, but once the soul kills the life, it will become a ghost, and once the soul becomes a ghost, Hell will issue a wanted warrant, and the role of the Hell Bounty is to capture these ghosts for the pseudo-hell, forcibly reincarnate or, directly destroy."
After listening to the old man's words, Ning Xiaoxian couldn't help but be slightly stunned.
Hell Bounty Messenger, isn't that the police? Hell's cops? That is, the legendary, the yin?
The old man seemed to know what Ning Xiaoxian was thinking, so he interrupted: "Hell Bounty Envoy, it is not a soul, it is a person, and its nature belongs to inheritance, and the bloodline is passed down from generation to generation. ”
Ning Xiaoxian seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and after thinking about it, the identities of the old man and Ji Han were already roughly understood, and he didn't think so much when he listened to the story just now, but now he suddenly remembered that the old man told him so much, mainly for himself.
"I'm the same ...... Hell Bounty? Ning Xiaoxian cautiously tried to ask.
The old man shook his head.
Seeing this, Ning Xiaoxian immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"In this world, there are only twelve Hell Bounty Heralds, and you are not." The old man said.
"Then you didn't come to me just to tell me a story?" Ning Xiaoxian was puzzled.
The old man still shook his head, "Looking for you, there is indeed something else." ”
"What?"
"You're fit to be, Hell Bounty Hunter."
Hell Bounty Hunter? Ning Xiaoxian was stunned, and his face immediately became more puzzled.
"More than a thousand years ago, the original twelve people were called Hell Messengers, twelve Hell Messengers, and there were countless ghosts, even if all the Hell Messengers were tired to death, it was impossible to capture all the ghosts, so when the pseudo-Hell issued a wanted warrant to the Bounty Messenger, the twelve Hell Messengers issued a bounty order, and those who could catch those ghosts were given the corresponding reward, and over time, the Hell Messengers were called Hell Bounty Messengers, and those who received the bounty order were called Hell Bounty Hunters."
Although Ning Xiaoxian understood the general situation, he still didn't understand why he found him.
"Why am I going to be this Hell Bounty Hunter?"
The old man shook his head and said, "Hell bounty hunters are not for everyone. ”
Ning Xiaoxian was silent, waiting for the old man to continue.
"First of all, he can pass through yin and yang, and see the existence of ghosts." The old man said.
"Wait a minute." Ning Xiaoxian couldn't help but interrupt, "I was also very strange to be able to see ghosts last night, but I have never seen them before, so I don't have yin and yang eyes, don't be mistaken." ”
The old man shook his head and continued, "Secondly, and most importantly, he can perceive the existence of pseudo-hell. ”
"Perceiving the existence of a pseudo-hell?" Ning Xiaoxian couldn't help frowning.
"The pseudo-hell is the fundamental source of all this, and being able to perceive the pseudo-hell means that there is a certain connection with the pseudo-hell, and there is no yin and yang eye, and it is not difficult to open it."
Ning Xiaoxian shook his head again and again, he basically figured out all this now, in the words of the cage, it was Ji Han who came to recruit workers, but the nature of the work was very different from the usual ones. He is not a bold person, a hell bounty hunter, to put it bluntly, he is a person who charges ahead, he will be afraid when he sees ghosts, let alone capture them, so from the moment he knew the purpose of the old man and Ji Han, he resisted from the bottom of his heart.
"You don't want to do it?" The old man looked at Ning Xiaoxian a little strangely.
Ning Xiaoxian shook his head, "I don't want to, I'm just living quietly." ”
"Your life is not peaceful anymore." The old man said.
"What do you mean?" Ning Xiaoxian frowned.
"That ......"
"Dong Yan, let him go." The old man just wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Ji Han's indifferent words.
"This ......" The old man who was known as Dong Yan turned around, looked at Ji Han, and stopped talking.
Dong Yan's behavior was all looked at by Ning Xiaoxian, he knew that all this would not be so simple, Ji Han suddenly asked him to leave, could it be that he wanted to kill him?
Ning Xiaoxian didn't dare to think about it, and his eyes became vigilant when he looked at Ji Han.
"You go, I won't embarrass you, when you want to do it, come to me."
Leaving a few indifferent words, Ji Han turned around and left, leaving Ning Xiaoxian's back inexplicably.
Passing through the bamboo forest, Dong Yan followed closely behind Ji Han, and several times, he moved his lips, but he stopped talking.
"If you have anything to say, just say it." Halfway through, Ji Han suddenly stopped and turned his back to Dong Yan.
"Miss, why are you ......?"
"Why don't you make him a bounty hunter?"
Dong Yan nodded and let out a long sigh, "Over the years, bounty hunters have become more and more withered, I'm afraid...... Alas! ”
"He's different."
Ji Han turned around suddenly, his bright eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of thin ice, his gaze moved slightly, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and his fair face was arrogant and cold. Dong Yan suddenly felt the temperature around him drop suddenly.
"He'll come back to me."