Chapter 116: Fengdu Guest (VI)
Lu Ren’s state at this moment can be accurately summarized in four words: Aba Aba.
He didn't know what exactly happened. He just felt a flash before his eyes, and then he was teleported from the gates of hell to a place he had never been to before.
Lu Ren looked around and saw only black jagged rocks all around him, and right in front of him was a dark red lake. The color of the lake was not an illusion caused by the refraction of light, because Lu Ren could clearly smell the strong smell of blood coming from the lake.
What Lu Ren didn't know was that this lake formed by the gathering of blood was one of the tributaries of the Blood Basin Bitterness Realm. The Blood Basin Bitterness Realm was bottomless, and below it was an endless sea of suffering, where countless murderous and violent evil ghosts were imprisoned. Those who committed murder in their lifetime would be imprisoned here and suffer endless torture after death, and would not be able to escape from generation to generation. And these souls that had been imprisoned for a long time had already lost their reason and seven emotions and six desires. After thousands of years of torture, their souls had lost their original light, leaving only the most primitive desire to kill. Not to mention the living, even if there were lost souls here, they would also be dragged into the blood lake and eaten by the ghosts.
The bloody world of suffering can be said to be extremely dangerous and full of murderous intentions.
But even if Lu Ren escaped from the Blood Basin Bitter Realm , he was not safe. Not far from the Blood Basin Bitter Realm, a city could be vaguely seen. That city was the City of the Wrongly Dead. The city was full of the souls of the wrongly dead, who loved to eat the hearts and livers of the living. They would never return.
In other words, to summarize Lu Ren’s current situation in one sentence: he is like an old man thrown into a crocodile pond. The only thing he can do is to tidy up his clothes and die with more dignity.
Of course, it’s not all bad news.
The good news is that Lu Ren himself didn't know how evil this place was, so he was not scared to death. Instead, he stood there and endured the strong fishy smell emanating from a lake of aged blood.
Although Lu Ren was an expert at killing chickens and fish, it was the first time he smelled such a strong smell of blood, and he couldn't help but retching. He was bent over, trying to suppress the sour taste rising from his stomach. He looked very uncomfortable, and it took him a long time to stop.
Then, perhaps because he was too frightened, or perhaps because he had consumed too much energy from dry retching, Lu Ren felt a little weak. He took a deep breath and planned to lean against a rock beside him to have a good rest, and by the way, analyze the current situation and where he was.
But fate did not seem to give Lu Ren any time to catch his breath, because soon he heard the sound of water breaking coming from behind the stone.
Lu Ren, who had just seen the Styx ghost come ashore not long ago: "..."
No way, just out of the tiger's den and into the wolf's den?
Lu Ren half-crouched down, clinging to the rock behind him in fear, trying to minimize his presence, trying not to be discovered by the thing that was about to come ashore from the water.
He held his breath and concentrated, not daring to breathe.
It was at this moment that Lu Ren felt that his little finger seemed to be pulled by something.
Lu Ren was stunned for a moment, then he looked down and found A Bing who had finally recovered from his serious injury. A Bing stretched out a small and hooked Lu Ren's finger as usual, as if to comfort Lu Ren.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Although A Bing tried hard to comfort Lu Ren, it was obvious that his tentacle seemed thinner and had significantly less strength than before he was injured.
This time, A Bing was indeed hurt by Bian Cheng. In fact, if the opponent was not Bian Cheng, A Bing would have been able to fight.
It is true that Xuhai was born from chaos, but because Guixu is located under the Nine Netherworld, Guixu is filled with the evil spirit from the Yellow Spring. And Xuhai grew up in Guixu, and as an aboriginal, it is inevitable that some of the Yellow Spring's breath is mixed into Xuhai's body.
A Bing's misfortune is that Bian Cheng is the Lord of the Underworld who is in charge of the Underworld. He controls the breath of the Underworld as easily as he controls his own hands and feet.
On the "Yellow Spring Express", Bian Cheng didn't actually cast any advanced magic. He simply let all the Yellow Spring Breath in A Bing's body dissipate out of the body in one breath. However, this alone was enough to make A Bing lose all ability to resist in an instant, like a deflated balloon.
Fortunately, the survival ability of the ruins is only slightly worse than that of the cockroach.
After resting in Lu Ren's arms for a while, A Bing finally replenished his lost Huangquan breath from the air of the underworld. He recovered some of his physical strength. Although he was still a little weak, seeing Lu Ren's panic and helplessness at the moment, A Bing dragged his sick body to comfort this weak human.
Looking at A Bing, who looked a little depressed and curled up in the teddy bear, Lu Ren couldn't help but feel guilty: If he hadn't used A Bing to attack Biancheng before he figured out the situation, A Bing wouldn't have been injured so badly. Thinking of this, Lu Ren rubbed A Bing's tentacles with his fingers distressedly, and secretly thought in his heart: "When I get home, I must make more delicious food for A Bing to replenish his body."
While the man and the corpse were having a great time, the sound of water behind the stone was still sporadic and continuous. It sounded like there was a wet person standing in the middle of the water, and water drops were falling from this person's body into the water.
With Ah Bing's comfort, Lu Ren calmed down a little, but he still couldn't help but think anxiously: "I don't know when this water ghost will be able to return to the water."
Waiting can easily make time seem very long, such as the last half hour before getting off work and the time it takes for food to be served before dinner. Every second feels like a year and can easily make people anxious.
But at this critical moment of life and death, Lu Ren could not afford to slack off in the slightest. He tried not to make any sound, sticking closely to the rock behind him, listening attentively to the movements behind him, and waiting quietly for the water ghost to leave.
Fortunately, hard work pays off. As time passed, the sound of water behind the stone gradually calmed down.
It seems like... gone?
Lu Ren waited for another minute before he dared to emerge from behind the stone. He clung to the huge black stone and looked into the blood lake, wanting to confirm whether the water ghosts had returned to their nest and whether he was safe.
Unexpectedly, the water ghost did not go far.
Lu Ren was surprised to find a figure standing quietly in the center of the blood lake.
The man in the water was naked from the waist up, revealing his porcelain-white skin. The skin was completely bloodless, and it really didn't look like a color that humans could have. The red blood just reached the man's waist, and the scarlet and viscous water formed a sharp contrast with the pale skin.
Although the man had long black hair, his body shape showed that he was a man. Since he had emerged from the blood lake, the blood on his body had not yet completely dried, and his long hair was tightly attached to his skin, making him look messy and embarrassed.
He just stood in the middle of the blood lake, looking down at the water, not knowing what he was looking at. Lu Ren noticed that the surface of the blood lake was not calm. There were countless tiny whirlpools. It was as if countless small fish were hiding under the water.
But in this bloody lake deep in hell, could it really be that what’s hiding beneath the surface are just fish?
Lu Ren heard the man standing in the middle of the water staring at the water and sighing, then he said in a helpless tone: "No, you can't go out."
Along with these words, a huge splash of water began to explode from the center of a vortex, and then, one splash after another exploded from the center of one vortex after another. One after another, each time more violent than the last. The huge explosion scared Lu Ren, who was some distance away from the blood lake, but the mysterious man standing in the blood lake seemed to be completely unaffected and continued to stare at the blood lake water as if no one was around.
Lu Ren wondered whether he should take shelter. Although the guy standing in the lake didn't look afraid at all, Lu Ren was a mortal and would be completely turned into a resident of the underworld if he was blown up.
Not knowing whether the lake water would harm him, and not knowing whether the explosion would spread to the shore, Lu Ren should have made plans early and stayed away from this dangerous place.
But Lu Ren was still hesitant. He didn't know if his rash actions would lead to the mysterious man discovering his presence. Once discovered by the mysterious man, would he be put in a more passive situation?
While he was hesitating, the aftermath of the explosion became higher and higher.
In the end, it was as if someone had dropped countless bombs into the blood lake. The water in the blood lake was blown up to the sky, and the blood flew up to the sky and then fell like raindrops. For a moment, it was as if a bloody rain had fallen between heaven and earth. And the mysterious man with black hair stood in the bloody rain, letting it wash over him.
There was an endless sea of blood under the mysterious man, and a bloody rain in front of him. But the man didn't even blink, still whispering to the countless unknown creatures in the blood lake: "It's not okay even if you lose your temper."
Lu Ren was a little scared. Although the man in the lake didn't seem to have many arms or legs, he was not shaken at all in such a strange environment. He could even chat with the unknown strange creature in the water in a friendly manner. This in itself was much scarier than having more eyes or legs.
So Lu Ren decided to take A Bing away while this person was still obsessed with frying fish in the water. After all, the sound of people's footsteps on the stone road should be negligible against the background of the explosion.
It should be so.
Lu Ren bent over and moved cautiously on the gravel road. He saw a pair of bare feet in front of him just after walking about a hundred meters. Lu Ren looked up in surprise and saw the mysterious man who was naked in the blood lake just now.
The mysterious man almost teleported in front of Lu Ren.
The mysterious man was a little taller than Lu Ren. Lu Ren raised his head and saw that he was observing him with his head down, his eyes fixed on him without blinking.
Lu Ren was frightened by those eyes, not for any other reason but because each of his eyes had two pupils!
The man with the pupils looked at Lu Ren, frowned and said, "Strange, how come someone came out."
Lu Ren was still in shock and hadn't recovered. It was precisely because of Lu Ren's daze that he missed the best opportunity to explain.
In an instant, the double-eyed man, who determined that Lu Ren had escaped from the blood lake, stretched out a pair of arms as hard as iron, tightly pinched Lu Ren's neck, and pushed Lu Ren towards the direction of the blood lake.
As the man with the pupils walked, he muttered, "You can't come out, go back quickly."
Lu Ren was strangled to the point of being unable to breathe. He slapped the man with double pupils on his arm, trying to explain that he did not come out of the lake. However, due to his breathing obstruction, he was unable to utter a complete sentence.
Lu Ren was getting closer and closer to the blood lake, and just behind him, the lake surface, which was still splashing, suddenly became quiet because of his approach. Then, countless bubbles appeared under the water, making the entire blood lake look like boiling water. It is not difficult to guess that the monsters under the water are excitedly waiting for Lu Ren to fall into the water.
The evil ghost in the blood lake: Brothers, it’s time to eat!
