The ghost smiled evilly and grabbed my fur collar: "Let's go, little girl, come in with us."
The door of the ghost gate was thick and heavy. I watched it get farther and farther away from me, and then I was thrown to the ground by the ghost.
"Nuanting wuwuwu." Lulu hugged me tightly and cried so hard that she couldn't say a word.
I stood up angrily: "I came in with you, why didn't you let Lulu go?"
The ghost servant holding the chain picked his nose carelessly: "Don't be willful, little girl. You have entered the underworld now, and no one can spoil you anymore."
After that, he stared and grinned and grabbed the chain tightly. Lulu was immediately lifted by him: "Let's go! Come with us to the Palace of Hell and let our southwest judge judge what your fault is!"
"Lulu!" I staggered forward two steps and grabbed Lulu's hand.
Lulu's little hands were bitingly cold, but I was not willing to let go at all, but I was not as strong as Gui Cha, so the little hands we held tightly were still forcefully separated by Gui Cha.
"Nuan Ting! Go back quickly!"
Lulu's figure was whisked away by the ghost. I opened my mouth in surprise. How could this ghost be so fast?
No, I have to follow.
But as soon as I got up and ran for two steps, a tall and brave iron horse suddenly rushed past me!
At that moment I could guess what would happen if I was stepped on!
You might even be out of your mind.
Frightened, I rolled back several times before I managed to avoid the iron horse's hooves. The hurricane that the iron horse passed through caused my cloak to fly up.
I sat on the ground and patted my chest nervously for a while before I woke up little by little.
I'm... already in the underworld, and the second lamp on my wrist is broken, which means I still have five days.
Five days... I must find Lulu!
However, as soon as I made up my mind to raise my head, my courage was shattered by the ruthless reality.
I saw the whole picture of the underworld.
Just like the wild battlefield in the story told by my second uncle, there are no plants, only flying sand and rocks, and a vast land.
The scary thing is that the ghosts who are being punished are so miserable.
Some of them were cowering and dodging on the ground, and the iron eagles swooping down from the sky took away their eyes in an instant.
Some ghosts were tied to an iron bed, and one spike after another kept coming out of the iron bed, piercing him into a sieve.
Some had their hearts ripped out by iron tigers, some were cut into pieces by iron horses, and some were cut into pieces by iron snakes.
Some go up mountains of knives and go down to frying pans, but in short, everything they see is made of iron.
There are countless forms of punishment, and all kinds of punishments are dazzling and horrifying.
The ghost on the iron bed wanted to run away, but finally broke free. Unexpectedly, the iron bed moved as he moved. Two ghosts came immediately, beating and scolding him while tying him up.
The shrill screams gathered from all directions and filled my ears. Both the horrific scenes and sounds in front of me made me want to vomit.
But I don't have time to wait any longer, I'm so afraid that Lulu will become like this.
I shivered and wrapped myself in a ball with my cloak, and ran around on the ground dodging for a while, but unfortunately I didn't see Lulu.
I could only stop panting, leaning on my knees to take a few breaths, and planned to look for it again, but there was no way to go on like this.
I looked left and right, and finally hesitantly selected a ghost that couldn't move, which was the ghost on the iron bed.
I quietly hid beside the bed and looked over at the bed.
The male ghost on the bed was about fifty or sixty years old. He was wearing ancient clothes. He was covered in blood and was screaming.
"Ouch! Ah! Aha! Help! Lord Yama! Let me go! I know I was wrong! I know I was wrong!"
"...Yuck." His puddle of rotten flesh was so disgusting.
Hearing my voice, the male ghost stopped screaming immediately. He turned over, frowned because of the pain, and looked towards me.
His eyes suddenly burst into joy: "Hey, kid, why weren't you punished? Are you a sinless soul? Why didn't you reincarnate? I have been tortured here all year round, lonely and alone, can you tell me something?
say?"
He asked several questions in a row, and he was very verbal. I was already uncomfortable, so I didn't listen to anything.
"vomit……"
"Don't do this." The male ghost sighed deeply and stared at me eagerly, as if he was afraid that I would run away.
My second uncle said not to trust ghosts easily, so I didn’t dare to directly say that I was a living soul, but I thought, since he was already a ghost who was being tortured, does that mean he knew where the Palace of Hell was?
Can I just ask him?
Lu Qi can go to the sky to grab the elixir. When I find the Palace of Hell, I will report Lu Qi's name, and maybe I can be rescued.
Well! That’s it!
I wiped the saliva from my lips and stared at his round, fat, but abnormally white face: "Uncle..."
No, I can't ask directly, otherwise it will be bad if he catches me. What if he is very smart? It won't be good if he guesses that I have a soul.
When the words came to my lips, I quickly turned around and said, "Why are you tied up here?"
The male ghost lamented and said, "I am the king of the mountain. I committed all sorts of evil things, including burning, killing, looting, and that's why I ended up like this."
Although I didn’t understand what burning, killing and looting meant, I understood that no evil was committed, and I was so frightened that I took several steps back.
He seemed to be very afraid of me leaving, and hurriedly waved to me: "Don't go, don't go, don't be afraid, I have changed my ways."
I looked hesitantly at the iron thorns on his back that kept coming out and falling down.
He sighed: "In my later years, I realized that evil will be punished, so I began to correct my evil ways and pay for food and medicine to save the people. I thought I could at least make up for some of my mistakes, but I didn't want the Lord of Hell to tell me that my merits and demerits cannot be offset.
Only after you have been punished can you go and receive the reward."
"Then after you are reincarnated, be sure not to do bad things again." I rubbed my nose. When he just spoke, he looked toward the southwest with resentment.
Maybe the Palace of Hell is there.
I'll go over and have a look first. If there's nothing there, I'll come back and talk to him again.
"Uncle, I have something else to do, so I'll leave first. Goodbye, uncle."
"Hey? Little girl? Don't leave! Come and chat with me for a while longer!"
His figure was pulled further and further away from me.
Wrapped in a cloak, I scurried around in a pile of punishments in embarrassment, and finally saw a magnificent palace.
Above the entrance of the main hall, there is a plaque with a red frame and a blue background, which reads these three protruding gilded characters: Palace of the King of Hell.
This should be it.
I took a deep breath. There was no way out anyway, so I walked in blankly.
"Hey, when will this Prince of Hell from the Northeast be able to leave?"
"Then it depends on when she will raid our King of Hell."
"Why……"
I turned around and walked back in a daze.
There were ghost guards guarding the door. Fortunately, they didn't find me. But if I didn't go in, I wouldn't be able to find Lulu!