Chapter 53: Come, Drink Medicine (Ask for Recommendation Votes, Ask for Collection)
The woodcutter wakes up from his slumber.
When I woke up, I had a bad heart.
He knew that a little person like him might not be cared about, but he also had his own burden.
There are also sick old mothers and children waiting for him to cut wood and wood to earn money to support the family.
Why did I sleep so hard this night, and I don't know how long I slept, I really damn it.
When he opened his eyes, he was not in his own home, and he did not have a wife by his side.
My stomach was empty, hunger hit me, and I only felt my stomach twitch.
The body was weak, as if he had a serious illness, and his whole body was sore.
Where is this?
Woodcutter Ba looked at the surrounding environment in confusion.
It seems to be in a cave.
This cave seems to have been inhabited, but there is a faint smell of blood in the cave, and this smell of blood is old and decaying, as if it has been integrated with the cave.
Ba came back to his senses, and he finally remembered what had happened before.
Oh no, this is Sanjin Mountain.
The woodcutter didn't care if he was hungry or not, so he crawled out with a rolling belt.
His body was very rusty, as if he hadn't exercised for a long, long time, and he rolled on the ground for a long time before he found out of the cave.
As soon as I got out of the cave, I felt that it was dark outside, and the cold wind was like a knife, which was not the weather that should be in June.
Woodcutter Ba faintly heard a commotion in the distance.
Is it a mountain god?
There is only one way down the mountain, but fortunately, the grass and trees on the mountain are luxuriant, and the woodcutter is careful to hide his traces.
Relying on his rich experience in mountain and forest activities, he finally touched the bottom of the mountain.
Oh my God, are these the monsters of the mountain god!
I saw several oxen standing up, they were tall and strong, and they were arguing with a horse demon who was four meters tall and held a pair of four-meter-long spears.
"Lord Ma Mian! It's not that we deliberately find fault, the adults have said, this mountain will be returned to the Yin Division personnel to live and work, and the adults also said that this is the welfare of the Yin Division employees, what is the distribution or something, we don't understand, it should be to let us live in, why don't you let us in? ”
"That's it, those ghosts in the city are too noisy, and there are those poisonous ghosts, although they are slaves assigned to us, they can't comb my hair!"
"And that group of bastards of the Li Geng clan, they spied all night last night, and they said that it was too much to study how our horse demon clan reproduces!"
The horse demon known as Lord Ma Mian sneezed.
"My lord said that it is a welfare house for our Yin Si employees, and it is required to work for ten years before it will be distributed, but you are not employees, and your family members are not yet qualified, so what is the hurry!
And you, the body of a poisonous ghost is a benefit for you, it's good to have it, what's the fuss?
If you don't like it, go back to the city, where there is a shortage of laborers. ”
"Why can't family members enter, let's go in first to find a good position!"
"Why do you have to wait 10 years? Our old cow has shed blood for the yin, and our old cow has rushed through the battle for the yin, why don't you let us live! ”
"yes, yes! We want to find an adult to complain, you Ma Mian is too much! ”
"I heard that Lord Niudou raised a female ghost, hmph, who knows if this is the hidden benefit of your Yin Division, you don't let us go up the mountain, there must be a problem."
Ma Mian didn't open his mouth, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he seemed to have burst the powder keg, and the crowd was excited.
Woodcutter Ba looked dazed, what are these monsters talking about?
But the more noisy they were, the more it was for the woodcutter to escape, and he crawled in the grass, ignoring the thorns and weeds.
There was some stinging pain on his body, and his skin was bruised in several places, but the woodcutter held back until he could no longer hear the sound of the group of monsters, and he breathed a sigh of relief and got up.
Looking up, he was a little confused.
I actually ran out of the mountain god mountain? Bless the mountain god!
But where is this?
In front of the woodcutter was an empty and barren plain, not far from which was dusty.
When he looked at it again, it was actually a city! A city of a very large scale, all those flying dust, turned out to be a group of people building city walls.
Strange, where is this, how I have never been.
Woodcutter Ba became more and more confused, and looked around, but he could not find a trace of familiarity in this place.
When he turned his head to look at the city again, he saw a monster with no legs and three faces appear in front of him.
"Damn!!"
Woodcutter Bar screamed.
The tattoo on the monster's chest swallowed, as if it had absorbed something.
"It's boring, I didn't cultivate, huh? You're a living person! ”
The monster seemed to react, and its voice gradually became clear: "Hey, hey, hey, the land of the underworld, no living people are allowed to enter, trespassers, die!" ”
The woodcutter was frightened, lying on the ground and kowtowing repeatedly: "The king spares his life, the king spares his life, I didn't mean to come, I don't know what's going on, just ...... I slept on the mountain and came here. ”
The monster didn't say anything more, but all three pairs of eyes showed a satisfied expression at the same time.
Hmm, it's not easy to follow Luo Yu Mountain to the underworld.
Lord Ma Mian is arguing in front, so let's go find Lord Niudou.
The monster turned into a gust of wind and vanished.
Woodcutter Ba couldn't hear the reaction, and looked up in confusion, only to see that the monster was gone.
He only let him die as a monster, and hurriedly got up and ran to the city gate.
In any case, let's talk about advanced cities.
That city looks okay from a distance, but it looks a little scary up close.
The whole city seemed to be shrouded in a layer of blood mist, the walls were gray and dark red, as if they were composed of countless flesh and blood, and there were soldiers patrolling the walls and walls, supervising the construction of many people.
The closer he got, the more annoyed he became, and many images of accidental death could not help but appear in his mind, as if he had experienced it himself.
Approaching a position about fifty paces from the city, the woodcutter stopped.
He didn't dare to go.
Those soldiers were not the officers and soldiers of Daqi he had seen at all, their bodies seemed to be made up of dry bones, some of them still had a few pieces of carrion hanging from them, and their eyes were glowing with a faint green light, which looked extremely terrifying.
Some of those who were in the custody of the soldiers turned their heads, some had their abdomen dissected, some covered their faces with hair, and some had their faces covered with scars.
This...... These are ghosts!!
The woodcutter was about to scream, but his mouth was covered by a rough palm.
"Don't shout, you're a living person, it's not easy to attract their attention."
Woodcutter Ba calmed down, turned around and was about to thank him, but saw that it was a sturdy bull demon covering his mouth.
This bull demon is nearly five meters tall, with a dark body, full of bulging muscles, one by one with sharp edges and corners, and a huge bull nose with a thick and black iron ring, although it looks hideous, but it tries to squeeze out a smile at him, and nods at him.
"I know you, mortal, are you an ordinary person who was deceived by the ghost cultivator of Yinfeng Mountain to go up the mountain that night, or did I put you in the cave mansion."
Woodcutter Ba has seen too many demons and monsters in the past two days, but he is a little numb, he looks at the black bull in a daze, and he doesn't know what to say for a while.
Hei Niu continued: "My name is Niu Dou, it is the ghost hunt of the Yin Division of the Difu, the ghosts of Yin Feng Mountain have been exterminated by our Yin Si, you don't have to be afraid, at this moment Yin Feng Mountain has belonged to Yin Si and has been renamed Luo Yu Mountain."
You entered the underworld because of our negligence, and I will find an adult to send you back to the world, you can rest assured.
But there are rules in the underworld, and the living are not allowed to enter, so if you don't make a noise, they will find out, and it will be difficult for us to do it.
Follow me. ”
The woodcutter covered his mouth, nodded, and followed the big black bull around and around into the city through a path that was not ghostly.
The city was densely packed with many cages, and the sound of wailing was incessant.
There are also some monsters of the kind I saw before, floating in the sky, commanding some ghosts, kowtowing to Luo Yu Mountain behind them, and I don't know what they are doing.
There was a long procession, some bull demons and horse demons and monsters floating in the sky, watching over them like prisoners.
They lined up in the distance to a large hall, their faces sad and annoyed, but more of them panicked, as if waiting for some kind of fate to be announced.
Bulldou seemed familiar with the route, and took him to dodge most of the patrolling monsters.
Occasionally, there are monsters who find them, and they just nod and joke at Niu Dou, or something, and they slip or something, it sounds like Niu Dou has a good relationship with them.
Woodcutter Ba breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and couldn't help but have a good impression of this honest-looking old cow, but thinking of the other party's warning before, he still didn't dare to speak.
As he walked, he was surprised to find that there was still a city in the city.
The inner city looked a bit poisonous, but it was clearly much more normal than the outer walls.
There is a huge plaque hanging at the gate of the city, with the words "vain dead city" written on it, and the vicissitudes of life are magnificent.
Niu Dou sighed with emotion: "In the future, this sign will be hung in the outer city, and I am still a little reluctant." ”
Woodcutter Ba couldn't help but ask curiously: "Lord Niudou, which yamen is the Yin Division of the Difu, and where is the city of vain death?" Why haven't I heard of it? ”
Niu Dou smiled: "This is the underworld, only the undead can reach it, and the city of vain death is a place where the ghosts of vain death are imprisoned."
The outer city is inhabited by demons awaiting judgment or sin, who have to work all the time to atone for their sins in life.
The inner city is a place for the good people who die unexpectedly to live, and they can live as if they were alive inside.
As for Yin Si, of course, it is the yamen who manages ghosts. ”
When the woodcutter heard this, he couldn't help but shudder.
I actually went to the underworld, in a ghost town!
Niu Dou led him to a small courtyard with birds and flowers, which was out of step with the surrounding environment, and the woodcutter couldn't help but feel hopeful.
It seems that the so-called adult is still a normal person!
The voice of Niu Dou came: "This is the residence of my lady, my lord is not in the underworld these days, and you are hiding here for two days." ”
After that, Niu Dou shouted: "Wan'er, open the door quickly, I'm coming to you!" ”
The wife of the bull demon? That's a cow too?
The woodcutter Ba looked curiously, the small courtyard opened, and a woman with a pale face in a wedding dress walked out, giving a white look.
"Dead ghost, why are you slipping away at tolerance time again? I'm not afraid of being blamed by adults! ”
The woodcutter is terrible, can different species intermarry?
Is it true that there is no ploughed land, only tired oxen?
……
Niu Dou took the cranky woodcutter Ba into the courtyard and told the cause and effect.
Wan'er was a little embarrassed: "But he is a living person, he has entered the underworld, what should he do if he goes out and talks nonsense?" ”
Niu Dou smiled: "So I brought him here, lady, do you remember Lord Li's tears?"
I've heard that ghost tears can make people forget bad memories, why don't you try it and make a pot of soup for him to drink? ”
Wan'er glared at him: "That's the treasure I prepared to put on the official uniform for adults, how can I use it at will." ”
Then she pondered for a while, and then said: "But it's not impossible to try some leftovers, and I'm also curious if it can make people forget the past." ”
Woodcutter Ba looked at this strange couple, and had a faint bad feeling in his heart.
It's like when he was a child, he coaxed the children of the neighbor's house next door to eat dirt.
It's just that he feels like he's the one being coaxed now.
A gust of wind blew outside the door of the house: "Niu Da, hurry up, the lord ordered, the Yin Division belongs to the assembly, we have to make a big move!" ”
Niu Douhan responded with a smile: "Okay, you go first, the official uniform that Wan'er made for the adults will be good immediately, I'll bring it later!" ”
The female ghost in red had already walked out of the kitchen, holding a bowl of liquid that made the woodcutter nauseous, and said with a smile: "Brother woodcutter, you have slept in the underworld for a few years, and your body is too weak, come, drink the medicine." ”