After entering the gate of hell, there is an extremely muddy road.
At this moment, everyone finally understood why you must drink the spring water from Ghost Spring before coming in, because during this journey, not only is there no air at all, but there are also a lot of floating objects in the air, with large particles floating everywhere.
If you wave it casually in the air, you can touch your hands full of dust. The dust is so turbid that if you breathe, you will be choked to death immediately. It is difficult to walk even with an oxygen mask.
But the ground was exuding waves of stench. The smell was as if countless corpses had rotted for thousands of years and had deteriorated and condensed here after years of backlog. It was as sticky as glue, making every step they took very difficult.
They kept walking forward in this dark space, and found that their vision was getting worse and worse. The searchlight beam in their hands became smaller and smaller here, and finally turned into a point of light and nothing could be seen.
Chen Zhi repeatedly adjusted the searchlight, and Fat Wei even turned on the fire switch, but the result was the same. These lighting objects could be turned on normally, but the light disappeared in a flash, and the surroundings were still dark.
"The air here is too turbid, sucking away all the light sources..." Ji Ying reminded Chen Zhi in a low voice.
After losing the light source, it became more difficult for everyone to walk. It was simply unrealistic to find the way in the dark, let alone within such an urgent time limit.
When everyone was in darkness and didn't know what to do, Qin Yueyang was a big help. She was always good at swallowing clouds and turning into mist and other natural spells. She silently recited the incantation and created clouds of light yellow luminous smoke. This kind of smoke
The light inside is created by witchcraft. It is different from normal light and illuminates the surrounding darkness.
And when they saw their surroundings in the glowing smoke, they couldn't help but feel nervous.
At this time, they had walked in through the gate for a long time. The entrance behind them had long since disappeared. However, the area in front of them could not see any boundaries at all. The sky here was so dark that they could not see how high it was.
The surrounding area is empty, endless as far as the eye can see, no mountains, no plants, no rivers, no mountains, not even any iconic objects.
But under their feet were large swaths of black sludge. The sludge spread everywhere and slowly crawled on the ground, like an endless black swamp, but it looked more impressive than the black swamp.
despair.
"Is this hell? It really lives up to its name!" Chen Zhi thought in his mind, waving his hands for everyone to gather together and not get separated, and then slowly find their way forward along the glowing smoke.
There is endless black mud everywhere, and it is so dark that it is impossible to see the road or direction. However, Chen Zhi discovered that Qin Yueyang's smoke has been flowing in one direction. From a physical point of view, the movement of all matter is
As a result of external force, if the smoke surges in that direction, there should be a little air flow in that place.
"Everyone, speed up, go over there..." Chen Zhi pointed forward.
Under Chen Zhi's order, everyone began to speed up and move quickly through the mud.
Guidao was injured in the battle, so he was no longer a forward. Chen Zhi asked him to find some emergency medicine in the treasure bag to take first, and walked in the middle of the team with Qin Yueyang, firstly to protect her safety, and secondly.
Just pay attention to her movements.
After everyone trudged hard in the mud for a while, they soon discovered that the black mud under their feet was getting deeper and deeper, and there was even no bottom in some places. It was really like a death swamp. If you make a wrong move, you will fall into it.
Fortunately, everyone in the team was very skilled. Only Qin Yueyang missed the mark a few times, but was pulled back by the ghost sword.
After walking for a while, they finally came to the place where the glowing smoke was surging. They found that the light yellow smoke stopped moving here, and they all gathered together, forming an image like a big tree.
It seemed to be wrapped in something.
Qin Yueyang silently recited a few mantras and dispersed the light yellow glowing smoke. Under the smoke, an extremely tall black iron tree was revealed.
The black iron tree is more than thirty meters high, very tall and majestic, and the forging process is very rough, but the branches on the black iron tree are all sharp blades with shining edges.
And on those sharp-edged branches, there were actually strips of fresh meat hanging on them. The meat strips were still stained with blood, as if they had just been torn off. It was shocking to see.
"This..., what is this? It's so fucking disgusting",
Fat Wei grinned when he saw it, "Aren't there no living creatures in this underworld? Where did these raw meat strips come from? Why are they still so fresh? They are so bloody, so damn disgusting...".
"Those are not strips of raw meat, those are tongues..." Chen Zhi looked up and said, "It seems that the legend in the world is really not groundless. This place should be the legendary eighteenth level of hell, the Tongue Pulling Hell."
The Tongue Pulling Hell is the first level of hell among the eighteen levels of hell in myths and legends. In ancient times, there were many pictures describing the Tongue Pulling Hell, the contents of which are extremely bloody and terrifying, shocking the living.
According to legend, anyone who sows dissension, slanders, harms others, is glib, glib, or lies will be sent to the tongue-pulling hell after death. The ghost will open the person's mouth and clamp the tongue with iron pliers.
, it was pulled out repeatedly, not all at once, but stretched, pulled slowly, and then hung into the iron tree.
Therefore, in old age, there is often a saying that someone's daughter-in-law was dragged into the tongue-pulling hell and tortured after death because she liked to chew on other people's faults. Moreover, many elderly superstitious women believe it to be true.
Hearing what Chen Zhi said, everyone looked up carefully, and then they saw clearly that the strips of meat hanging on the branches of the tree were indeed huge tongues.
But these tongues are so fresh, they are basically slender, and each one is more than half a meter long. Compared with human tongues, they are more like the tongues of large animals. These tongues are all cut from the tail of the tongue.
down, and hung on the iron tree.
"If these tongues are freshly cut off, it proves that there are living things nearby..." Ji Ying looked at the living tongues above and held the long knife warily.
"These tongues should have been hanging here for thousands or even tens of thousands of years. The reason why they are still so fresh is because they are not human tongues at all, but the tongues of gods..." Chen Zhi looked up at the bloody tongues.
Tongue, said indifferently,
"Actually, I have long thought that human beings have such a humble status in the underworld, like animals, so why is it necessary to enter the Ten Halls of Hell to be judged, and then enter the Eighteen Hells to receive punishments.
Just like the human world does not set up courts for animals to judge their good and evil, and set up prisons to punish them.
So if I guess correctly, starting from the Hall of Ecstasy, the only people who can enter the inner city of Yingdu are the gods. This so-called eighteen levels of hell that punishes the wicked are actually prepared for the gods..."
"What..., isn't that right?" Fat Wei said from the side with his eyes widened, "Those gods are so awesome, how could they be captured and sent to the underworld to suffer like this? Besides, the old Pluto is also a god, how could it
How about dealing with your own compatriots? Isn’t this a step beyond the level of abusing your own compatriots?”
"They are the same gods, but their identities are different..." Chen Zhi said indifferently, "According to the information we have learned now, the world of gods does not talk about morality, but only believes in power.
The Pluto of Fengdu Ghost City, Emperor Fengdu, is very ancient and has a noble status. Who knows whether in his eyes, these ordinary gods are as lowly as human beings...".
"Damn, that's right! These gods are so arrogant on weekdays, so they have nothing to say this time, right? Their tongues have been chopped off, let's see how you still show off in the future..." Fat Wei said with a smirk.
"Hoo~~~",
Suddenly, from behind everyone, a woman's gasping sound came.