I'm kind of a nervous person, and since I can't figure out why I'm in this place, I don't bother to think about it.

I didn't try to shout or jump into the water to try the depth, and since I was confused about this unfamiliar environment, it was better to observe it carefully.

Internally, I've seen this place as an enclosed space similar to an escape room.

My instinct told me that whether it was the magic of the mountain spirits or some other situation, since they got me here, there must be some purpose.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, the best way to deal with it is to adjust your emotions and deal with what is going to happen next.

It seemed that a long time had passed, estimated that it would be about six or seven hours, and the fog in front of me gradually faded, and a faint white glow appeared in the field of vision.

That little bit of ghostly light flickered, and it gradually approached.

Finally, with a slight vibration of the hull, the bow of the ship came to a place similar to a pier, and in front of the pier was a bamboo pole on which the lantern hung from the remnants of the First World War, and the ghostly light was emitted by this lone lamp.

It is said that it is a lamp, but in fact it is an upside-down skull, and I don't know what kind of lamp oil is in the skull, and the light is actually white, and the fire does not burn vigorously, and it seems that it will go out at any time.

I didn't venture ashore, I cautiously observed the environment.

The pier is not a straight line, but zigzag, looking at the shape of the whole pier, I vaguely feel a little touched, some pictures seem to flash in my mind, I always feel that there is something familiar, but I can't find a clue.

I just stood on the boat, watching carefully, trying to grasp that glimmer of inspiration, when suddenly I heard a sigh in my ears.

My heart tightened, and I followed the prestige, and the thick mist rolled up, and I searched carefully......

At the end of the field of vision, there seemed to be a rickety figure standing, and I was hesitating whether to go over, when a hoarse voice came from that direction: "Chen You, Ren Shen Nian Ren Yin Yue Xinhai Ri Sheng, Bingshen Nian Xin Mao Yue Bingshen Ri died, no ......fault in his life"

The voice was not loud, as if it had been spoken by an old woman, and word by word came to my ears clearly.

When I heard the words "Xin Mao Yue Bingshen Day Death", my heart was cold.

Am I ...... Really dead?

……

No, there's something strange about this matter......

……

I struggled to recall it in my mind.

……

Regarding what happens after death, I still heard a lot from my second uncle when I was a child.

Take Huangquan Road, cross the Nai He Bridge, climb the Wangxiang platform, enter the Yama Palace, pay for the sins of this world, drink Meng Po soup, and enter the Santu River......

Now that I think of these stories, I haven't seen any ghosts in the connection, so why ...... Went directly to Meng Po?

Could it be ......

This river is a three-way river, I have no sins in my life, and I have directly reached the place of reincarnation?

Wrong!

My intuition tells me that everything that is happening here is treacherous.

I always think that the clues are nearby, but I can't find a clue.

With doubts in my mind, I naturally became wary of everything.

The rickety figure stopped talking, and seemed not to be in a hurry, waiting for me to pass.

Need more leads...... So, I thought about it for a moment and made a bold decision.

Come ashore and see!

Cautiously walked to the bow of the boat, hesitated, and stepped out of the ......

Well!?

It was as if a flash of inspiration flashed through my mind.

This step stepped on the dock......

I seem to understand what the problem is!

Glancing back, the wooden boat was still in its original position.

I secretly estimated the direction in my heart.

……

I tried to take a few more steps forward......

I took every step carefully, carefully observing everything around me as I walked.

……

Finally, when I was still a dozen meters away from the rickets, I stopped.

In this position, you can already clearly see the other party's appearance.

It was a scrawny old woman, hunched over and holding a bowl in her hand, staring at me with a sparse look through her long sparse silver hair.

"Come on......"

Seeing me stop, a hint of discoloration seemed to flash in her eyes, her lips moved, she lifted the bowl slightly, and continued in a hoarse voice: "Chen You, drink this bowl of soup, go back to reincarnation." ”

I looked at her quietly and asked, "Are you Meng Po?" ”

She nodded.

"Can you tell me why I don't take the Huangquan Road after I die, but I don't take the bridge, I don't climb the Wangxiang platform, and I don't enter the palace of the king of Hades?"

Her lips opened and closed slightly, and she said slowly, "Because you are not mortal." ”

"Not mortal?" I couldn't help frowning: "Please make it clear that I am not mortal, but what am I?" ”

"Don't ask me, this division only cares about reincarnation, and I don't know the previous life and the previous life," Meng Po replied calmly: "Come on, enter the reincarnation early, and it is your blessing not to suffer from the eighteen layers of hell." ”

I sneered in my heart, the corners of my mouth twitched, and I said with a smile: "Don't go!" ”

Meng Po was stunned, and there was a hint of anger in her tone: "Nonsense! After dying, the dust was gone, and he made a mistake in his cultivation, and he went to be a lonely ghost. ”

I already had a deduction in my mind, so I simply took two steps back, sat on the ground, looked her in the eye and said, "Why don't you come." ”

"Bold!" Meng Po's face changed greatly, and she shouted: "This division is a dignified star monarch and ghost division, and the kid dares to be so presumptuous!" If you don't kneel down in front of us quickly, if you are sincere, I can spare you......"

"Phew!" I interrupted her with a sudden burst of applause.

"Sure enough!"

Looking at the embarrassed, confused but speechless expression of the Meng Po in front of me, I couldn't help but feel weird and funny in my heart.

The second uncle once said that when the demons and monsters want to charm the mind with words, you just need to shout at the other party in anger, and the other party is caught off guard, and you must fight back.

"Fortunately, I heard the story of this ghost from my second uncle, but I didn't expect it to happen to me."

I sat on the ground and looked carefully at "Meng Po", who was speechless for a while.

"I didn't expect it, in fact, your layout is very clever, if you are a careless person, I am afraid that you will really be deceived."

……

I cleared my throat and continued, "This wooden boat. Actually, it's the sofa in my living room, right? ”

The corners of "Meng Po's" eyes jumped, and her originally fierce eyes couldn't help but flicker slightly.

"Distorted time, intended to use a closed environment to irritate me, anxious, right?"

I looked around and continued: "It's a very clever approach, but it's a pity that I'm not afraid to be alone, but I will disappoint you, normal people will ignore some things in such a mood,"

I glanced back at the boat, the dock.

"I've always thought it was strange and familiar, why is this pier so crooked......"

I reminisced and continued: "Actually, it might seem strange that I was to just stand and observe, but the moment I stepped out of the boat to the dock, I wanted to find the problem, and I took these steps, basically, it was determined. ”

"The direction of this pier, I can easily walk several times even if I close my eyes, because ......"

"This is my house at all!"

Hearing me say this, the ferocity in the eyes of "Meng Po" finally completely dissipated, and was replaced by an indescribable meaning.

"And the distance of these few steps is basically the distance in my living room, through the hallway, to the front door...... At the end of the pier, at your feet, is the gate! ”

"And between this boat and the dock, it's not water at all, but the cinnabar ink I drew before, right?"

"As long as I took the initiative to step on the cinnabar at that time, I would wake up, and all these dreams you arranged would naturally disappear! Am I right? ”

I looked her in the eye and said word by word, "And you...... It's not Meng Po at all! If I'm guessing correctly...... You're a ......."

"Nightmare!"

Hearing the last word, "Meng Po"'s expression suddenly became hideous, like a vicious wolf who wanted to choose someone to eat, she raised her head and howled, the sound was like a night owl, very harsh.

I couldn't help but cover my ears and felt like my eardrums were going to crack.

The scene around me changed, as if rags had been torn apart, and after a flash of consciousness, I found myself sitting in front of the hallway, and my strength was back on my body.

"I'll go to your grandfather's!"

As soon as I looked up, the door had been opened at some point, and the uncle who had delivered food was standing outside the door.

This uncle was completely different from the afternoon, and he looked like he had goat madness.

His neck was crooked with a hideous face, his upper and lower teeth were polished, saliva kept flowing from the corners of his mouth, his whole body twisted unnaturally, and he trembled a few times from time to time.

I am not a bold person, I can even say a little timid, at this time I am alone at home, although the lights are bright, but when I see a terrifying figure about a few steps away in front of me, I am about to be scared on the spot, I want to stand up, my legs are trembling and I don't obey the call.

No, the more scared you are, the more calm you have to be, you can't give the other party a chance, I said to myself secretly in my heart.

"Sure enough, it's you, you didn't leave just now, but took advantage of my inattention and cast a spell on me!" I lifted my breath and shouted, the reason why I shouted was because I felt very cold all over my body, and if I spoke normally, my voice would definitely tremble.

I thought hard about how to get rid of this nightmare.

It seems that what my second uncle wants me to watch out for is probably a ghost similar to this guy, but why did this nightmare find me?

Nightmare is a kind of strange ghost, I heard the second uncle say, the strength of the nightmare itself is not strong, but the talent of ghost magic is unguardable.

I reminisced about it carefully, and remembered that when my second uncle was telling a story, he mentioned how to deal with a nightmare.

Nightmare, is a very intelligent type of ghosts, its nature is suspicious, alert and cunning, and knows how to forbear, often observe for a long time, taking advantage of the opponent's physical and mental exhaustion or physical weakness and illness, with dreams to trap the opponent's soul, and then take its body, eat its essence, eat its flesh and blood.

Therefore, if ordinary people encounter a nightmare, as long as they break the dream created by this ghost thing, half of the Taoism on its body will be broken, at this time the nightmare is relatively weak, and its nature is alert and suspicious, as long as it scares it with a few words, it is estimated that it can be scared away.

How do you scare it?

At this point, an allusion suddenly flashed through my mind......

During the period of the Three Kingdoms, the Wei army came to attack, the Shu army could not retreat, and was besieged, Zhuge Liang knew that the enemy general Sima Yi was suspicious by nature, and in the case of no soldiers in the city, he opened the city gate and went to the city head to play the qin......

Yes, that's it!

glanced at the "uncle" in front of him who wanted to rush into the door, but hesitated and didn't act, and thought to himself that if it could really get in, I probably wouldn't be able to run away.

I also said that I was also a bachelor, thinking of this, but I was not so afraid, so I simply went to the ground, took out my mobile phone from my trouser pocket, sent a text message to my second uncle, and said while typing: "This door is freshly ground cinnabar ink, you can't get in anyway, let's just do it." ”

I typed in the text message: "Second uncle, the nightmare is really here, come back quickly." ”

I noticed that the "uncle" was staring at my phone screen, and I secretly said that there was a drama in my heart, pretending to be afraid of being seen by it, and hurriedly turned the phone sideways after typing, looking at the other party vigilantly.

"Uncle" and I looked at each other, his eyes flickering, not knowing what he was thinking.

Although I look confident on the surface, my heart is pounding, thinking that you should go quickly, I can't do anything to exorcise ghosts except this cinnabar ink.

Now I actually regret it in my heart, I just listened to his story at my second uncle's house at that time, why didn't I learn a few tricks to catch ghosts properly, otherwise it wouldn't be so dangerous now.

I secretly swore in my heart that I must go to my second uncle to learn some "real kung fu" when I go back.

Just when I was thinking about it, the behavior of "uncle" made me instantly colorless.

The fierce light in its eyes flashed, as if it had made some decision, and it took half a step back and rushed straight into the door!

"I'll fuck your sister!"

I was so frightened that I crawled backwards.

But when I saw that the "uncle" was just about to pounce on the door, the cinnabar ink red light in front of the door flashed, and I seemed to hear a "bang" in my ears, and its body shook and was bounced back.

The "uncle" had a painful expression and wailed bitterly, and his voice was piercing.

Where its body came into contact with the barrier formed by cinnabar ink, there was a sneering green smoke!

I found that the few pieces of flesh were scalded by the enchantment formed by the cinnabar ink, and there seemed to be flesh buds wriggling on the wounds.

The fierce light in the uncle's eyes flickered, and he seemed to be very unwilling, and he hit the enchantment again frantically, but the result was still the same, and he couldn't shake the enchantment in the slightest.

"Your sister! I'm scared to death! You brute, this is cinnabar ink. Even if you break your head, you won't be able to get in! Wait for my second uncle to come later, and see if he won't accept you! I stroked my chest and gasped and cursed, a cold sweat broke out on my back.

Although the nightmare was blocked outside the door, I looked down at the cinnabar ink at the door, but I was still not at ease, so I turned around and went to the living room to find the brush stained with cinnabar ink.

"Uh......"

As soon as I entered the living room, I froze.

I saw that outside the balcony and window, there was a hazy mist, and the center of the mist vaguely formed a human face with hideous expressions.

These human faces, which were originally wandering outside the house, all showed longing expressions the moment they saw me appear, and a few particularly large fogs even screamed directly into the windows, but fortunately, I carefully hooked each window and glass door with cinnabar ink more than once, and the fog that hit the windows was bounced back, and the face in the center of the fog showed a painful expression.

"Uncle, what are these ......?"