52. Mistakenly entered the underworld

I woke up in the dark.

In addition to the darkness that seemed to be deep and boundless, there was also a strong suffocation, I moved, and found that my body was in a very small space, and I just moved and hit the edge, as if I realized something, I immediately touched my surroundings with my hand, and found that I was actually in a box. But soon I felt that it was not a box, it was a coffin.

After realizing that I was locked in the coffin, I pushed the lid on the top with my hands, but the lid was so tight that I couldn't push it open.

I lay motionless and slowed down, and when I had enough strength to push again, this time because I had mastered the strength, I only heard a "bang", and the lid of the coffin was pushed open, and the fresh air poured into me and I gulped in and gasped, gasping so loudly that I surprised myself, I sat up, looked around, and found that I was completely in a place I had never been before, surrounded by fluttering soul flags, flying paper money, and wooden tombstones like wooden stakes. There are mass graves everywhere, it is like coming to a mass grave, desolate and eerie and terrible.

The coffin that trapped me was in between, a dilapidated old coffin that seemed to be in harmony with the place, as if it had always been here.

And there are many such naked coffins around, or dilapidated, or damaged, in short, they are all related to the dead, but there is no one. I came out of the coffin in a daze, and I didn't know where I was, but walked forward without any direction, because I saw a slope in front of me, and I didn't know what was below.

I walked through the mess of coffins, tombstones, and mounds, and when I came up the slope, I saw a much larger cemetery below. It's the same here, except that I see a person sitting on top of a coffin not far away, and I don't know who it is.

Seeing that there were people in this strange place, I went down the slope. Got a little closer.

When he got closer, he spotted me and looked me up and down, a strange man, who should have been a little older than me. But he was only in his early twenties, and I saw that he was boredomically swaying with a white note with a soul banner in his hand, and he didn't stop when he saw me coming.

I was the first to ask him, "What is this place, I don't know how I got here." ”

He looked at me, then turned his gaze back to the note he was playing with, and replied to me in the same tone as a stranger, "I see that your life lamp has not been extinguished, how did you come to this place?" ”

I was stunned by his words, and maybe when he saw that I didn't respond, he looked up at me again, and then asked me, "How did you get here?" ”

I just felt dazed and confused, so I replied to him, "I don't know, I woke up and lay in a coffin." Coming out of the coffin is already here. ”

He kept looking at me when I said this, and when I saw him look at the slope after listening to it, he asked me, "Where is it?" ”

I nodded yes, and he jumped down from the coffin, stood on the ground, and said, "I'll go and see with you." ”

He and I went back to the coffin where I had just woken up, and I pointed to the coffin with the lid lifted and said, "This is it." ”

He glanced at the coffin and said, "You lifted the lid of this coffin and came out of it yourself?" ”

I replied, "Yes." ”

He looked at me in astonishment, and then he went and turned the lid of the coffin over, as if looking for something, and I looked at him next to him, and he found nothing on the lid, so he came to see the coffin again, and then he found a stick of incense in front of the coffin, and a stick of incense that burned half and then went out.

He didn't say anything, just looked at me, but his expression began to grow a little surprised, and then he asked me, "Do you know who brought you here?" ”

Puzzled, I asked him, "Recruit me?" ”

He said: "This is the underworld, you are a living soul, no one has recruited you, how can you come here, and you look at this incense, this is the person who recruited you stayed." ”

I couldn't understand what he said, so I looked at him and said, "I don't understand." ”

He probably didn't understand it with me, so he said, "No matter who recruited you, this is the underworld, and a soul like you can't come, and if you stay for a long time, you won't be able to go back." ”

When I heard him say this, I was startled and said, "But I don't know how to get back, and I don't know how I've come here in a daze." ”

When he heard me say this, he threw away the incense in his hand, and then he took my hand, as if the incense was looking at something, but when he took my hand, I suddenly saw that his whole body seemed to be electrocuted, and he suddenly let go, and then looked at me in horror and said, "Why are you?" ”

I was taken aback by his surprise and asked, "Do you know me?" ”

He looked at me carefully, and then slowly calmed down, and said, "You wait here for me for a while, and I'll send you back." ”

Then I saw him hurrying over there, and I didn't know what he was going to do. I waited for about a quarter of an hour before I saw him come back, but when I came back I saw him walking very slowly, holding something in his hand, and when I got closer, I realized that it was a sea lantern.

He said, "It should be that your yang lantern went out to come here, and I will use this sea lantern to help you light the yang lantern, and you can go back." ”

As he was saying this, I suddenly saw something moving in the mound, and when I looked again, I had jumped on top of the coffin, none other than a snow-white cat, and if I was not mistaken, wasn't it the one that appeared in my yard?

So I said, "Why is this cat here?" ”

He seemed to be no longer surprised by the cat, he said, "The cat can walk yin and yang, and this cat is not an ordinary cat. Nature can come and go freely on both sides. ”

I asked, "Not an ordinary cat?" ”

He said nonchalantly, "This cat feeds on the ghosts of the dead, and fortunately I'm here, if you meet it alone, it will probably be eaten by it." ”

When I heard him say this, my heart was terrified, and I said, "Cat Gu originally ate the souls of the dead." ”

Who knew that this sentence happened to be heard by him, and he said, "Cat Gu? This cat is much more powerful than the cat Gu, what an inconspicuous imp the cat Gu is, how can it be compared to it. ”

When I was about to ask again, he had already changed his tone, and he said, "There are too many things you don't know, and I can't explain it clearly to you, in short, this place is not the place you should come to, go back early, lest you stay here forever as a lonely ghost if you delay." ”

As I spoke, I saw him holding the sea lantern and forgetting my left shoulder, and I felt that everything in front of me began to be in a trance again. It was as if he had fallen into an abyss, constantly falling, and finally woke up and sat up.

When I woke up, I found myself at home, lying on the sofa in the hall, almost soaking wet, cold, and I heard my mother still crying, but the moment I woke up, it seemed to frighten all of them, I only saw my dad, my grandmother and my mother all looking at me in horror, as if they hadn't reacted to what was going on.

I looked at them, then at the outside of the house, and then asked, "What's wrong with me, I remember seeing the sea lanterns in the house go out." ”

As I spoke, I looked at the sea lantern in the house, and I didn't know when it was lit up again, and my grandmother followed it and exclaimed: "This sea lantern is lit again, which means that the wood is fine." ”

But soon I felt some pain in my left shoulder, so I pulled the collar and looked at it, but I saw a pair of tooth marks deeply imprinted on my shoulder, especially the tooth marks, which were already a little black.

When my grandmother saw this, she asked me, "What's going on, who bit you?" ”

I thought about it, and suddenly I understood, so I said, "It's the evil spirit of the house." ”