Chapter 8: The City of Death
"Help me, help me......" I shouted, as if I had grasped a life-saving straw, and grabbed the ghost's hand.
"Brother, now you know you're scared? Hehe, although the old couple is a little capable, but if they want to save you, they are still far away, I have to come one step later, and you will fall into this iceberg hell! ”
I kept looking down with a pale face, and for a moment, I seemed to have hope for life again, I didn't want to die, I just wanted to go back.
"How? Brother, ...... when you go back."
"I listen to you, and I listen to everything."
I immediately shouted, and the ghost smiled in satisfaction, pulled me back, and got back on the road in mid-air.
"What now?"
"Well, once you pass the ghost gate, ordinary ghosts can't turn back, let's go to the city of the dead first, there is a way back there."
The ghost walked ahead, and I followed him carefully, and the road behind me, although it was still disappearing, was not as fast as it had just been.
Along the way, I saw all kinds of hell below, some little ghosts were constantly torturing the punished ghosts, I had heard about hell before, but now, I saw it with my own eyes, far more terrifying than I had heard before.
I kept lowering my head, and although I was a little scared, I couldn't help but look at it twice, and suddenly the ghost in front of me stopped, and I bumped into him.
"Here we are, brother."
I raised my head and looked at it, a huge city, the archway is written on the three big characters of the dead city, behind the city, there is a green waterfall, green water, flowing into the moat, a trace of steam from the water constantly rising.
The more you enter the city of the dead, the louder the wailing becomes.
"Brother, you know what? People who die in vain usually wait here until the end of their life before they can be reincarnated, and you still have sixty or seventy years of life, oh, look, I'm not good to you. ”
I didn't say anything, I continued to walk forward with the ghost, and suddenly, I was so frightened that I took several steps back, and the green drink, one by one, kept trying to climb up, but seemed to be pulled by something, the ghost who couldn't climb up, the eyes of the black hole, the mouth of the black hole, kept howling.
And these ghosts, the skin on their bodies, are corroded by the green water little by little, and the steam is corroded after the corrosion, and when it corrodes to the point that only white bones remain, new flesh grows again, and the pain of corrosion continues to guard again and again.
"How can I go back?"
"It's a little difficult, brother, if you had begged me earlier, there would have been a better way."
I was in a hurry.
"I'm going to have this kind of thing, and it's not all your fault."
The ghost turned around, looked at me, and smiled.
"Brother, listen well, later, you go in first to report, you see the king of the six halls of Yama Bian Cheng, remember, no matter what he asks you, don't open your mouth, even if a little ghost beats you, don't open your mouth, you know?"
As he spoke, the ghost in front of him disappeared, and the drawbridge of the city of vain was lowered, and two ghost pawns came out, their sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, some like monkeys, with ravines on their faces, green and fangs.
Without saying a word, one of them held a chain around my neck like a dog, and the other took a thorn strip and whipped me.
"Don't fight, don't fight."
The thorns struck me, and immediately the skin and flesh were swollen, and the flesh was blurred, and I pulled and struck them, and brought them into the city.
As soon as I entered, there were large iron cages all around, and there were many ghosts imprisoned in them, and the eyes of the black hole seemed to be invisible, so I could only sniff with my nose.
"There's a new guy here." A voice came from a ghost with long white hair next to him.
My back was in terrible pain, I didn't know what kind of torture I would be subjected to, but after passing the cage where the ghosts were imprisoned, I saw a lot of torture cells, and the ghosts in it were tortured by the little ghosts, pulling out their tongues, hooking flesh, sawing bones, and the most terrible thing was in a cell.
Huge swarms of rats, constantly gnawing at the ghosts that were thrown in.
I was taken to a large hall, and behind a desk sat a bearded man wearing a crown of beaded curtains and a black brocade robe.
I was about to drink from the devil's pawn and fell to my knees on the ground.
"Whoever comes, report the name." It seems to be in a TV series, the tone of Peking Opera singing, I almost didn't laugh out loud, but I just lowered my head and didn't say half a word.
The strange thing is that the back that was just beaten by the ghost pawn now doesn't hurt anymore, as if the wound has healed.
King Bian Cheng seemed to be a little angry, and stood up.
"Be bold, this king asked you, and you dare not answer."
The ghosts and ghosts next to me began to talk and shout, and all of a sudden, seven or eight ghost soldiers came over and lifted me up on all fours, and one of them was holding a saw.
"Why is your evil spirit so heavy, when and month were you born, and why can't this king find out your origin."
It's another problem, but I still have to tighten my teeth, and I know what kind of torture I'm suffering from here, at most, it hurts for a while, and it will heal after a while.
Right now, all I have to believe in the ghost is that he told me not to say anything.
"Come on, blow him up first, then cut it into pieces, and see if he says it."
A hot oil pot was pushed to the temple by a few ghost pawns, and the hot oil was boiling inside, and I was taken to the oil pot by the ghost pawns, and a wave of heat came to my face.
"To say, or not to say?"
King Bian Cheng asked again.
I closed my cigarette, gritted my teeth, and there was a sound of footsteps, as if it was King Bian Cheng, who walked down in person.
With a "bang", I finally couldn't help screaming, my hand was pressed into the oil pot, and suddenly, the severe pain spread to every cell in the body, as if it had been pierced by tens of thousands of small needles.
"Tell me or not, what does your origin have to do with those seven ghost venerables?"
I didn't understand what King Bian Cheng was talking about, I shook my head vigorously, and with a bang, my other hand was also pressed into the oil pot, I was about to call the sky through, in my life, I have never suffered such a crime.
Immediately after, I felt a big hand press my head down on the hot oil pan, and I struggled as hard as I could.
"You can think about it, whether to say it or not." King Bian Cheng whispered in my ear.
I was so scared that I had just two hands, and now I was in terrible pain, and if I pressed my head into the oil pan again, it would be worse than death.
I felt a heat wave in front of me, my face had been splashed with hot oil, my whole face had been scalded and blistered, and my face was less than a centimeter away from the oil pan.
"Oh no, my lord, someone has released the ghosts."
At this moment, a ghost pawn stumbled into the hall, and King Bian Cheng looked extremely angry and let me go.
"Watch this guy, wait for me to come back, and then interrogate it well."
There was a mess outside, and I seemed to have escaped death, and there were five little ghosts, holding me, and they tied me up with chains.
My hands were back in shape, they had just been blown up like twisted flowers, and now they were back in shape, and the pain was gone.
I couldn't understand a word of what the ghosts were talking about, but I could tell from the smiles in their eyes that I was afraid that they were discussing how to torture me later.
At this moment, suddenly, a hand stretched out from the chest of a ghost pawn, and he was completely penetrated, it was the ghost, he quickly slashed the five ghost pawns and solved them, and the green blood splashed all over me.
"Brother, hurry up." As soon as I went out, I saw ghosts with missing arms and legs, and even heads dropped, lying in all directions of the cage, and the ghosts inside were gone, only a small part of them were still on the run.
"What did you do?" I asked weakly.
"Hurry up, otherwise the Six Palaces Yama will find out, and you and I won't be able to leave."
At the back of the city of the dead, there was a small door, which had been opened, and countless ghosts rushed to the door.
"Get out." The ghost in front of him looked at the ghosts that couldn't be opened, and shouted viciously, and the ghosts got out of the way.
We escaped from the city of Vain without incident, and we were surrounded by rolling hills.
"Where are you going?"
"After crossing this mountain, it is the Nai He Bridge, and when you get there, there is a way."