For about 10 minutes, I tried to control myself from thinking about anything else, but I couldn't help but think about it, this kind of insecure moment when I closed my eyes, for me, it was like walking at night in the dark mountains, or about to open the wooden door of an old house that had been abandoned for a long time, I couldn't predict what would happen next, and personally, it wasn't that I was afraid to face the unknown, but that I lost courage from the beginning. The more I wanted to relax, the more I couldn't relax, and my hands and feet were naturally sagging, but my feet couldn't help but tremble because of the tension.

It's a shame, I know that, but I don't want to do that. Maybe it was an effort to calm myself down, I took a few deep breaths, and then slowly exhaled, at this time, Granny Huang, who was originally next to me, suddenly grabbed my left hand with her right hand, and after a few strokes, Granny Huang said to me in the usual old tone, if you can't be quiet, just want to order something else, such as the taste of tea in your mouth.

As soon as Granny Huang said this, I began to subconsciously search my mouth for the taste of the previous cup of tea. It smells good, but when you eat it, it feels slimy. Nausea doesn't count, at most it feels like sesame paste. The taste is not an ordinary tea taste, but the bitter and astringent, dry feeling, this taste is difficult to describe in a specific word, I only know the way, the more I want to distinguish the taste of sweet and sour, bitter and salty, the more I find that this taste is simply from the sides of my tongue, so real and obvious.

Gradually, my consciousness became blurred, and it was pitch black with my eyes closed, but I saw a lot of sensations like fireflies flying, but when I tried to focus on a certain bright spot, it quickly fled, as if I was looking at it. The sound in my ears began to become very muddy, a bit like the feeling of a radio with a dead battery, very slow, but very loud, and I first noticed a patch of red in front of my eyes, as if someone had lit a red lamp in front of you when your eyes were closed at night, and even though you didn't open your eyes, you could feel its light through your eyelids. Then there was a burst of smoky red light and black alternating with each other, and the voices in my ears began to become noisy and overlapping, and among these voices, there were crying, laughing, and terrible screams, but because the speed of speech slowed down, it became so low that I couldn't tell the difference between men and women.

It's a strange feeling, it's like being drunk and staying where you are, but you feel like your body is spinning at a certain speed in mid-air. I felt dizzy, but I didn't want to vomit, and then all the sound stopped abruptly, the light disappeared, and the sound of an old-fashioned pendulum clock began to become more and more pronounced, and more and more real. I recalled that this ticking sound came from the pendulum clock in Granny Huang's room, which was said to have existed since the early days of liberation, and then a sound of footsteps came from my left, which made me wake up all of a sudden. I tentatively moved my fingers, and found that my fingers could move, and then I felt Granny Huang pat the back of my hand as if she had just done just now, and then said to me that I could open my eyes.

My heart was beating fast because I had never been to the so-called "underworld", what would I see when I opened my eyes? Is it the huge lord of Hades who wears official uniforms, or those strange-looking bull-headed horses with a court staff in their hands, black and white? Am I going to see those Yama imps with weird horns on their heads, or will I see the refuge souls who are going up and down the oil pot on the knife mountain and deserving of the blame? Extremely quickly, I flashed back in my mind everything I had read from all kinds of sources and all kinds of books about the depiction of Hades, but I could not recall the courage to open my eyes. Until Granny Huang said, open your eyes, don't be afraid.

So I slowly opened my eyes, and as the light poured into my eyes, the situation around me became clear, but I found that I was sitting on the chaise longue of Granny Huang's house, and everything around me had not changed from when I had just fallen asleep. I was very puzzled, so I asked Granny Huang, what's going on, is it a failure? Why are we still here? Granny Huang said that it was over. As he spoke, he wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Watching Granny Huang's action of wiping sweat, I touched my forehead and found that it was also full of sweat. Winter clothes were already thick, and I noticed that the sweat of my vest had stuck to my underwear. I was surprised and asked Granny Huang, how... It's over? I didn't see anything! Granny Huang didn't answer me, maybe she was tired, she just pointed to the old-fashioned pendulum clock in the corner of the house. When I looked, it turned out that it had been almost four hours since we started to go cloudy. I still couldn't believe it, so I took out my phone and looked at it, and when I reached into my pants pocket, I found that the inside of my pocket was also soaked with sweat. The time displayed on the phone was the same as the time of the pendulum clock, and it was only at this time that I really believed that we had not only gone through the clouds once, but also came back smoothly and safely.

Granny Huang shouted outside the house, "Children, you all rest for a while." We're out of business. Then she shouted again, Master Situ, please come into the house for a while. The benevolent believers stopped their red tracks, and one of them came in and asked Granny Huang, is there really anything wrong? Granny Huang said, there's nothing to do, it's good, you've all worked hard, let's go and rest. Within a few minutes, the group of good believers departed.

Situ walked into the room and looked at us with surprise and joy. We were surprised that we came back safely, and we must have been happy because of that. I also stood up and moved my legs, but I felt a numbness in my thighs. Granny Huang poured a glass of water and drank it, then poured another glass and handed it to me. Then he said to me, son, you behaved very well and didn't worry me. I was so confused by her praise that I couldn't remember what had happened.

To be precise, it's not that I don't remember, but I can't remember clearly. I have some very vague fragments in my head, but I can't find an accurate way to recall them carefully. During these few long hours, it seemed to me that I had just fallen asleep, not asleep, in a half-asleep state, during which I may have received some sporadic messages from the outside, but after all, I couldn't believe that it had really happened, and I always thought it was just a dream that I couldn't remember.

So I drank water, wiped my sweat, and then asked Granny Huang what was going on, and I needed to borrow her mouth to piece together my fragmentary memories. Granny Huang said, when you closed your eyes, you saw some flying points of light, right? I said yes, like fireflies. Granny Huang said that this is the tipping point where your soul and body are about to separate. I said that the next thing I felt was red and black in front of me, and the rest was completely unimpressive.

Granny Huang said that it is the red and black, which is exactly the one in which we keep moving down, and the black part is the middle compartment every time we enter a deeper place. I asked Granny Huang what the red ones were. Granny Huang said that those are flames. There are many people in the fire, who are suffering endless torture. Granny Huang said lightly, but in my ears, it was so creepy, because I can remember this fragment, I just didn't open my eyes, so when she described it like this, a picture immediately appeared in front of my eyes, plus the strange sounds I heard, or crying, or screaming, are expressing a feeling to me, that is, terrible.

Granny Huang said that everyone's primordial spirit is at the bottom, and she knows Hu Zongren and my eight characters, so she can find them quickly without asking those little ghosts for directions. But when he found Hu Zongren's Yuan Shen, he found that his Yuan Shen was already surrounded by silky vines, and only one head remained. When his head is buried, Hu Zongren can't be saved even if he is an immortal. Around Genshin, there was a child without pants, who looked white and chubby, but had an extremely hideous face, a mouth that was wider than expected, and a mouth that was thin and full of countless teeth. I don't know much about the Yin people, so when Granny Huang depicted it like this, I naturally connected it with the images of the ghosts I had encountered in the past, but Granny Huang told me that the appearance of the Yin people was even more terrifying, and the ghosts may just be eerie, but the Yin people are equivalent to the people who are already in hell, and the hell is originally full of sinful people, and these Yin people are the worst and most aggressive of this group of guilty people.

I was thrilled to hear it, and even though I knew that we had finally come back safely, I couldn't help but blink my eyes a few times, for fear that I was dreaming at the moment. Granny Huang said, the yin man saw the two of us from afar, and kept grinning at us from approaching, and it also smelled that you were a living person. I say how should the living people here understand it? Granny Huang explained to me that the body is still alive, but the soul has come to the place of the ghost, and it is the lowest layer. I was puzzled and asked, but does that make any difference? Granny Huang said that the difference is big, and when it comes to the people at the bottom, if they are not the existing primordial gods, they are the ones who are bound to die. The two of us walked to that place, and we should have died, but I've been there countless times, and you're the first time. You're acting rusty, and you're instantly recognized by the guy.

I asked Granny Huang, what happened next? Granny Huang took a sip of water and said to me, "Ah, the kid pounced on the two of us."