Chapter 115: Fengdu Guest (V)
Outside the gates of hell, Bian Cheng, the criminal suspect, stood opposite the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons, who represented justice. Behind the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons stood the victim, Lu Ren, who was holding a teddy bear.
Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Guards were happy to stand up for Lu Ren, and they didn't even have to listen to Bian Cheng's arguments.
Although the human race has always had a bad reputation among non-humans, they are both insidious and cunning, and trusting them will lead to great losses. But if it is Bian Cheng who suffers, then the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards think that even if they trust him wrongly, it is not a big problem. So, between the seemingly kind and helpless human and his long-time boss Bian Cheng, the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards decisively chose the former.
No need to ask, it must be Bian Cheng's fault.
Although they had long known that Bian Cheng was a bastard, they did not expect that Bian Cheng was such a bastard that he could do such a tasteless thing as "raping a man from the people".
On this day, Ox-Head and Horse-Faced decided to enforce justice on behalf of Heaven.
Having made up their minds, the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards took a step forward and stood in front of Lu Ren. Holding their iron forks and halberds horizontally, they confronted Bian Cheng in unison, saying, "Lord Bian Cheng, what's going on? Even in the underworld, human trafficking is illegal."
Bian Cheng, who was caught red-handed, showed no sign of remorse. He said nonchalantly, "It's so ugly to say that I'm trafficking. I just asked you to help me."
The Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demon refused to give in and said righteously, "But he doesn't look like he is doing this voluntarily."
Bian Cheng raised his eyebrows and looked at the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced, saying in a righteous manner, "What a joke! Does it matter whether he volunteered or not? Looking at the entire underworld, is there anyone who is truly willing to work for me?"
This really doesn’t exist.
Bian Cheng was quite self-aware. He had been causing trouble in the underworld all day long and had long been hated by gods and ghosts. The ghosts in the underworld would avoid him as much as possible when they saw him.
Then the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demon said, "So you admit it? He is a living person, not from the underworld, and he is unwilling to work for the Lord of the Underworld. Then according to the rules of the underworld, we should naturally send him back to the world of the living."
Lu Ren, who was behind him, secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. He thought thankfully, "It seems that not all people in the underworld are like Bian Cheng. There are still some reasonable people."
Lu Ren, relieved, stood behind the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards, and straightened his back. He was very proud of his successful identification, and he almost pointed his finger at Bian Cheng and said to the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards, "Uncle police , that's the man."
On the other hand, Bian Chengcai ignored the accusations of the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards and took two steps forward, preparing to pass through the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards and walk in front of Lu Ren. Of course, the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards would not let him succeed so easily and reached out to stop him.
But Bian Cheng was no pushover either. He easily resolved the two men's moves, but the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons refused to give in.
So the three of them started fighting right away.
After several rounds of fighting, Bian Cheng still held his own against two opponents, and even had the upper hand. However, he could not resist the ruthless moves of Niutou and Mamian, and each of their moves directly hit Bian Cheng's vital points.
Lu Ren, who was watching the fight from behind, felt a little confused: Even if it was for the sake of justice, no law enforcer would aim the iron fork at the suspect's eyeballs, or extend the iron halberd towards the suspect's crotch.
Lu Ren vaguely understood: "This is clearly a personal vendetta."
It can be seen that the Ox-Head and Horse-Face and Bian Cheng must have had a grudge for a long time.
The three men in front were fighting fiercely, and the originally careless Bian Cheng finally got really angry. He was fighting one against two, and although he was at ease, there was always a loophole. Even if there was a mistake in one move or half a move, the Ox-Head and Horse-Face would seize the opportunity to cut off his foundation. The scene seemed extremely dangerous for a while. Even a clay man can still get angry, not to mention that Bian Cheng was not someone who could be easily dealt with.
The battle reached a fever pitch. The three men twisted and turned, moving all the way into the corridor of the Ghost Gate city gate, slowly moving farther and farther away from Lu Ren until they were completely out of sight.
A moment later, there were faint sounds of collision, explosion and weapons clashing coming from inside the Ghost Gate, and the sounds seemed to be moving away from Lu Ren.
Lu Ren was still there. He was standing outside the gates of hell at this moment, looking at the law enforcer with shock on his face as he actually ran away with the human traffickers.
Lu Ren, who was left alone, was a little at a loss. He hesitated whether he should follow in.
Just as Lu Ren was struggling, a gust of wind swept up from the Styx, mixed with the desperate cries of countless ghosts, and blew across Lu Ren's cheek. The wind was icy cold, and Lu Ren felt as a cold blade had rubbed his cheek.
Lu Ren felt a little uneasy: "Is there anything going to jump out of this place?"
But then again, he has now entered a den of ghosts, so it is normal for one or two to jump out from time to time.
While Lu Ren was thinking about these things, a sound of breaking water came from behind him. Lu Ren turned his head quickly like a frightened rabbit and looked at the Styx behind him, only to see a pale hand reaching out of the water and touching the shore.
The water ghost came ashore! This frightened Lu Ren so much that he didn't dare to think too much and hurriedly took two steps towards the gate of hell.
As he walked, Lu Ren told himself to stay calm. He stopped and took a deep breath, then tried his best to calmly analyze the current situation, and finally came to the conclusion that it would be safer to follow the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards who were willing to do what was right.
So, Lu Ren resolutely embarked on the road to the gates of hell.
The passage inside the Ghost Gate is quite long, and Lu Ren did not expect that the corridor of this city gate would be unexpectedly long.
Bian Cheng and the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons should have run far away. The sounds of fighting that could be heard just now gradually faded away. The passage became terrifyingly quiet, and the only sound that could be heard was the sound of Lu Ren's own footsteps on the bluestone bricks.
It was so quiet that the originally short distance seemed particularly long, but fortunately, as Lu Ren walked, he saw the light at the end of the passage.
Out of his yearning for light, Lu Ren quickened his pace and came to the exit of the Ghost Gate.
There, Lu Ren saw a narrow yellow mud path and a sea of red flowers. That was the 800-mile Yellow Spring Road and the red spider lilies . The wind blew through the flowers, making a rustling sound, and it looked like a peaceful life. But in fact, if you look down carefully, you can easily find that the roots of the flowers are actually attached to the dead bones, and the branches extend from the eye sockets of the white skulls, swaying in the wind, weird but charming.
At this time, the figures of Bian Cheng and the Ox-Head and Horse-Face could no longer be seen in the boundless sea of flowers. All that could be seen were beautiful blood-red flowers.
Lu Ren wasn't sure whether the three men had run too far because of the fight. While he was thinking about it, he subconsciously took a step toward the yellow mud path.
With just this one step, the world turned upside down and everything changed. The sea of flowers and the path that were just in front of Lu Ren flashed past him, and the next second, he appeared in a place he had never seen before.
The overwhelming sea of red spider lilies disappeared, replaced by a vast blood-red lake. Not far from the lake sat a huge city-state.
This happened because Ghost Gate was not actually a building, but rather a teleportation array. Wandering souls who came here for the first time would be automatically teleported to Qin Guangming, Lord of the First Hall, to inquire about their past lives.
It was also Lu Ren's first time to go to Ghost Gate, so of course, Ghost Gate would automatically start the teleportation mode. But because Lu Ren had half of the Sixth Hall Ghost King Seal in his body, he was naturally teleported to the Sixth Hall.
The Lord of the Sixth Palace is the lord of the Yellow Springs City of the Dead.
