Chapter 1: Immortality in Great Calamity
"Well, where is this?...... Is it the Netherworld?...... I didn't expect that the legendary Netherworld really exists, and there will really be ghosts left after people die...... If this discovery were to be reported to the modern scientific community, I don't know how much of a sensation it would cause...... However, this is the age of atheism, and if I can't let anyone see the existence of ghosts, I'm afraid no one will believe me, no matter how true my description is!"
I don't know how long it took, Ye Qiuli, who was lying on a rocky ground, suddenly moved, as if he had finally regained consciousness, opened his eyes slightly and looked at the surrounding environment, and then immediately closed it again, and did not get up, just lying on the ground, muttering something in a voice that only he heard. Obviously, his spirit has not yet returned to the normal state that ordinary people should have, and he is still a little ignorant.
Indeed, the thrilling scene he experienced not long ago left a deep impression on him, so profound that he still vividly remembers and empathizes with him. The strong sense of falling from a height of hundreds of meters into a hundred zhang canyon, the violent weightlessness that was completely helpless, has been deeply engraved into the depths of his memory, and he will never forget it for the rest of his life.
At that moment, he felt very intuitively the approach of death, the fear and anxiety of rapidly moving towards destruction, frantically gnawing at his mind, making his psychology collapse directly, and the whole person's mind was blank. Even now that his mind was beginning to return and regain consciousness, he still felt that his mind was empty, and there was nothing to feel except the intense feeling of weightlessness that had occurred when he had fallen into the canyon.
Although he had tried his best to remember the past, it was a pity that he still found nothing, and in his senses, his intuition had left no trace of many years of life experience, and no matter how much he searched, there was no clear sign, as if a bucket of water had suddenly been completely emptied without warning, and the whole person was filled with an indescribable sense of nothingness.
"Sure enough, the legends are true, after a person dies, even if the soul does not die and becomes a ghost, he will lose most of his memories before his death, leaving only the most impressive part, even if he is still alive in the world, he is no longer the person he was before!" After finding that he couldn't recall his previous experience no matter what, Ye Qiuli had to force himself to accept the reality in front of him - he was already dead! Yes, he thought he was dead!
Death is such a mysterious and distant word! At this point, no matter how much nostalgia and reluctance he has for life in the world, and how much hope and prospect he has, he has to cut it off and completely separate himself from it. The entangled love, hatred, and hatred in the world no longer had anything to do with him, and his heart could no longer feel any other superfluous emotions except for regret.
Getting rid of the entanglement of the disturbing red dust, Ye Qiuli suddenly felt that his whole person had become much lighter and more transparent, as if he had a legendary epiphany, and in an instant, he seemed to have completely become another person, and it was absolutely appropriate to describe it with the word rebirth.
Under the new spiritual realm, his senses were infinitely sharp, his mind was infinitely vast, and many things that he had not cared about before, or could not care about at all, were all clearly manifested in his mind, which made him feel that he had missed too many meaningful things in his past life.
"Since people can become ghosts after death, then the legendary Netherworld and the judge Hades should also exist. ...... I don't know how they will send down this unjust soul of mine?" After confirming in his heart that he was indeed dead, Ye Qiuli couldn't help but speculate about the situation he was about to face. The things behind his body that he had never thought about before were suddenly in front of him like this, so that he could no longer turn a blind eye and turn a deaf ear.
"However, it seems that those who die in vain will be thrown into the city of vain death, and they will never be reborn. I stepped on the air inexplicably, fell off the cliff and fell to my death, is it a vain death...... I don't know if I can be reincarnated safely, and if the underworld really throws me into a city of death, I will definitely not give up with them, even if I fight to the death, I will make a world upside down! Anyway, I am already a lonely ghost now, and no matter how bad the result is, it will not be much worse!"
Thinking of the various situations in the legend about the underworld, Ye Qiuli couldn't help but think of the prison specially prepared for the people who died in vain, the city of the dead in vain, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and immediately secretly decided that even if he tried to die again, he couldn't let such a thing happen. For Ye Qiuli, who has accepted modern thought for decades, even if there is really such a thing as reincarnation, if he can't preserve the wisdom and memory of this life, he may not be able to give up if he is not himself.
"I'm arrogant and lascivious, no matter how big the flood is after death!" I'm afraid this is the truest portrayal of human beings in modern society, Ye Qiuli thinks that in the case of not seeing the future, he will inevitably take this sentence as his code of conduct. Instead of living a hard life, it is better to work vigorously, maybe you can use the sword in your hand to open up a bright future for yourself, even if you fail, you have no regrets.
"However, then again, countless protagonists in reborn and time-traveling novels are not just because they are making trouble in the underworld, making Hades, judges and other ghosts and gods annoyed, and they have to give the green light and calm things down, so that they can achieve an opportunity that is enviable to no return! Or save the memory and reincarnate and start all over again, with a detailed understanding of the future, quickly amass countless money and wealth, and finally use it to reach the pinnacle of power, or pass through the possession and start a new life in a new environment.
As for this brand-new environment, there are many more, the ancient Chinese world can do it, and the modern foreign world can also do it; it may even be far away from the earth at all, and come to a new planet of life, fighting the heavens and the earth, turning the clouds and rain, there are many powers, beautiful women, and it is also possible to become gods and sanctifications......"
Thinking of making a big fuss in the underworld, Ye Qiuli's thinking involuntarily turned to the experience of the protagonists of those time-traveling and rebirth novels that he had read, and he couldn't help but think about it at the moment, thinking about what kind of thrilling and heart-wrenching story he would deduce when he was in the position of those protagonists, leaving behind an eternal and eternal myth and legend.
To say that Ye Qiuli's nerves are indeed big enough, in this case, there is still leisure to think about the infinite nothingness such as crossing and rebirth. No matter whether the world you have crossed into is a world of singing and dancing, the prosperity of humanity, or the flames of the world, or whether the object of crossing is a rich and handsome child, or a dwarf and poor dick, it is much better than being an ordinary second generation who will always be at the bottom of society and cannot turn over.
"Well, it's so decided, a fierce life, starting from the big trouble in the underworld! If you can go back in time and be reincarnated, then naturally there is nothing to say, it is best to return to the prosperous era of the Tang and Song dynasties, be a bully and a bullying gentleman, live a corrupt life of three wives and four concubines, and play the majestic majesty of the second ancestor of Yanei! At the very least, I will also travel to another world, be a promising young man such as a god of law and a sword saint, and earn a glory for the human beings on the earth. Thinking of the encounters of those protagonists who crossed over and were reborn, Ye Qiuli immediately decided to refer to their experiences and made up his mind to compete with the prefecture department.
"Okay, boy, stop thinking nonsense, you're not dead yet, what are you doing with so many useless things, let's hurry up and think about how to get out!" Just when Ye Qiuli made up his mind to make trouble in the underworld, ready to get up to meet the legendary black and white impermanence, waiting to go to the underworld to meet the judge, the king of Hades and other ghosts, a strange voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
"Ah! Who is it, who is talking? Come out quickly! Come out!!" was thinking about the ghosts and gods of the underworld in his heart, when he suddenly heard a mysterious and strange voice in his ears, Ye Qiuli was really frightened, his face changed drastically, and he immediately jumped up from the ground, and quickly turned around to search the environment around him to see if anyone was near him.
People are scary, scared to death, ghosts are scared of ghosts, and ghosts can also be scared to death. Under the blue sky and white sun, there was no one around, and it had been silent before, when an invisible person suddenly appeared talking to him in his ear, this bizarre and strange situation made Ye Qiuli's scalp tingle for a while, the hairs all over his body stood up, and a layer of goosebumps wrinkled on his skin. Obviously, he was extremely nervous inside.
Even if he had already identified himself as a ghost, Ye Qiuli's perception of ghosts couldn't quickly change for a while, and in this sudden situation, the innate human fear of supernatural creatures contained in his body immediately burst out. This incident was so mysterious that he didn't notice the fact that he wasn't dead in the voice for a while, and he didn't realize that his current physical condition was a normal reaction of a normal human being, and it was completely inconsistent with a ghost's behavior.
It's just that at this time, Ye Qiuli no longer has time to pay attention to the strangeness of his body, all his attention is attracted by that mysterious voice, and he just wants to find out the origin of that voice as soon as possible and see what it is.