Chapter 121: Fengdu Guest (XI)
Lu Ren was shocked when he entered the City of the Dead.
Because from the outside, the City of the Dead looks more like a dead city. There is no light in the city. It is square, dark and quiet, standing alone in the wilderness like a closed coffin.
Lu Ren took it for granted that this was an abandoned city.
But who would have thought that just as he and Chongtong reached the city gate, the gate of the City of Wrongful Death actually opened by itself. The wooden gate made a long "creaking" sound in the quiet night, like the last groan of a dying person before he took his last breath, which made people shudder.
Lu Ren felt goose bumps all over his body as he heard the sound. Just when he was facing a formidable enemy, two figures appeared behind the city gate.
There were two young men, one of whom was short, had dark skin, and was wearing a security uniform. He looked kind and was greeting Lu Renhe with a silly smile. The other man was wearing a suit and tie with an exquisite tie clip on it. There was also a neatly folded handkerchief in the pocket of his suit. He looked like he had just got off work from an office building in the CBD of a big city.
In short, the appearance of these two people in this deserted village inn really made Lu Ren dazed. If they had not just escaped from the giant snake's mouth, Lu Ren would have suspected that he had accidentally entered the filming site of a TV show.
The man in security uniform, Lao Li, began to greet Lu Ren and Chongtong from afar: "Welcome to Huangquan City of the Dead." He looked very enthusiastic, while the man in a suit walking next to him, Mr. Zhang, remained silent.
When the two walked in, Lao Li was suddenly shocked. He sniffed the air carefully, then knelt down in front of Lu Ren and Chongtong with a plop, shouting, "Greetings to the two Hades!"
Mr. Zhang, who was walking beside him, was very surprised to hear him call the two people in front of him "King of the Underworld", but Mr. Zhang just frowned slightly and did not show too much expression on his face, nor did he imitate Lao Li's action to kneel down.
As soon as Old Li knelt down, he observed Mr. Zhang's actions . He was surprised to find that Mr. Zhang had no respect for the Lord of the Underworld. He became very frightened in an instant. You know, that was the Lord of the Underworld who could destroy the two of them with just a flick of his finger.
Old Li, who had been poisoned by feudal ideas all day long when he was alive, performed a standing jump on the spot, then kicked Mr. Zhang on the back of the knee, forcing him to kneel down, and then pressed Mr. Zhang's head and knocked it on the ground. Although Mr. Zhang was a domineering president, he had someone to do everything for him. Although he also worked out, he was just a show-off. How could he compete with poor farmers like Old Li in strength? He was pressed to the ground and rubbed on the spot.
Mr. Zhang had no time to react before his head hit the ground heavily, making a "duang" sound.
Does it sound good? If it sounds good, it's a good start.
Chongtong had no reaction to this. He seemed to be used to others kneeling down to him at every turn. However, Lu Ren had never seen such a scene before. He hurriedly bent down and helped the two people up: "What are you doing? Get up quickly."
Old Li, who had been holding down Mr. Zhang's head to prevent him from raising it, was stunned when he heard this. He hesitantly asked, "Aren't you the Lord of Biancheng?"
The face of Lord Biancheng was erratic and could not be used as a criterion for judging Lord Biancheng, but the Ghost King Seal could. The Ghost King Seals of the Ten Courts of Hell all had their own special smells, and the creatures in the underworld used this to judge the identities of each Lord of the Underworld.
Thinking of this, Old Li couldn't help but secretly look at Lu Ren in front of him. He hadn't seen Biancheng Mingjun for more than a hundred years. Although his face was different from more than a hundred years ago, the person in front of him did have the unique smell of the Sixth Hall Mingjun. But Biancheng Mingjun couldn't help him up in such a panic after he knelt down. He was already used to people's worship.
In fact, even Old Li himself didn't understand why Lu Ren panicked and asked him to stand up. Even if he was not the Lord of the Underworld in Biancheng, since he smelled of the Ghost King's Seal, it would always be right for Old Li and Mr. Zhang, as ordinary resentful ghosts, to kneel down and worship him.
Old Li was confused. The half of his brain left was not enough to handle so many things, so while his brain's CPU was overloaded, Lu Ren helped him up.
While supporting him, Lu Ren explained his origins: "I am indeed not Bian Cheng. I was brought here by Bian Cheng, and now I am looking for a way to go back."
He was just about to help Mr. Zhang who was standing beside him, but Mr. Zhang refused Lu Ren's kindness and got up by himself. He brushed the dust off his clothes and glared at Lao Li with gritted teeth . In the end, he swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth, and it felt like his gums were about to bleed from being bitten by him.
Mr. Zhang asked Lu Ren: "Where are you going back to?"
Lu Ren was about to say, of course, to go back to the human world, but he changed his mind and realized that he was currently in the underworld, and it would be inappropriate to expose his identity as a living person when surrounded by evil spirits, so he changed his words and said, "Go back to the gates of hell."
Mr. Zhang seemed to be thinking about what he said, and seemed to be suspicious of Lu Ren's identity. But Lao Li was different. He was always a bit stupid and hospitable, so of course he was happy to show Lu Ren the way.
"Then you must want to go to Fengdu from the City of the Dead. This is easy, just follow me." After saying that, he made a gesture of invitation to Lu Ren and led Lu Ren into the City of the Dead.
Lu Ren hesitated. He was not sure whether he should trust the two people who suddenly appeared. So he turned his head and looked at Chongtong behind him. Chongtong had been active in this generation for hundreds of years and should be very familiar with the situation here. Seeing that Chongtong had no intention of stopping him, he finally felt relieved and entered the gate of the Wrongful Death City.
After Lu Ren went in, Chongtong followed, and then Mr. Zhang and Lao Li.
When Chongtong passed by Lao Li, Lao Li, who had been looking down and didn't dare to look closely at the appearance of the Lord of Hell, finally saw his appearance clearly for the first time. With just one glance, Lao Li instantly understood that Lu Ren was definitely not the Lord of Hell in Biancheng - because Chongtong was standing next to him.
Although Lao Li did not know Chongtong himself, he recognized his face. Apart from the fact that he had two pupils, the outline of his face had not changed at all—it was the face of the previous Taishan Lord.
It is said that the evil ghosts in the blood sea have long lost all their basic human forms in the blood sea, leaving only a mass of flesh and blood floating in the blood sea. There are also ten evil ghosts floating in the blood sea since the creation of the blood basin world. No one knows their origins. It is said that their origins can be traced back to the time when the underworld was first formed.
The previous Lord of Mount Tai was good in everything except his excessive curiosity. He wanted to find out the origin of the underworld and why these evil ghosts were thrown into the sea of blood. So he specially opened up a small blood pool and collected all the ten evil ghosts in the sea of blood into his dead blood pool, wanting to carefully observe the movements of the evil ghosts.
Originally the sea of blood was vast, but the several evil ghost kings were not seeing each other, so everything was relatively peaceful.
But the blood pool of the Lord of Mount Tai was only a small area, so friction was inevitable over time. However, the Lord of Mount Tai had always suppressed it at first, so it never caused any major trouble. That day, the Lord of Mount Tai went to Huangquan Road to handle official business, but because he was delayed on the way back, he returned to the blood pool ten days later.
It was during these ten days that the evil ghosts in the blood pool began to kill each other like poisonous insects buried in a jar, and eventually a ghost poison king was born.
But the newly born ghost Gu had no thoughts, no body, only the endless desire to kill from the sea of blood. The ghost Gu that swallowed the other eleven evil ghosts was too powerful, and had no sense of pain. It was reckless and fierce without regard for the consequences, like a killing machine. The previous Taishan Lord was finally defeated and swallowed.
The ghost Gu successfully transformed into the face of the Lord of Mount Tai and inherited the Ghost King Seal of the Lord of Mount Tai.
The first time Old Li saw the man with double pupils was eight hundred years ago. At that time, he already knew that the Lord of Mount Tai had been eaten by a ghost, so he was really shocked when he first saw the man with double pupils.
Chongtong was taken to a newly built small church in the city by a foreign ghost. Lao Li had seen Biancheng Mingjun walk into the church with a gloomy face. Lao Li thought they would fight, after all, no one could accept the monster that ate their friend and robbed their friend's face.
After Biancheng Mingjun entered, the door of the church was slammed shut. Less than an incense stick later, the sound of "ding-ling-dang-dang" of things being smashed could be heard from the church. The noise was so loud that the wronged ghosts in the whole city of the dead could not help but stick their heads out of their houses to see.
But a moment later the church door opened again.
Biancheng Mingjun put on his smiling expression again, but his face was no longer the face of the previous Lord of Mount Tai. Instead, it was a very ordinary passerby face. You could not find him at all in the crowd. You could only remember that you had seen him, but you could not remember where you had seen him.
Bian Cheng Mingjun walked away with great strides, and behind him was a messy church, and the priest and ghost Gu who were safe and sound...
Everything seemed to have happened, yet nothing seemed to have happened .
Later, the Western priests returned to their homeland, and the church was occupied by the blood sea monster alone, and gradually it became deserted.
Old Li was thinking aimlessly while leading his men towards the City of the Dead. Behind him, Lu Ren was shocked because he originally thought that he would be inside the city after entering the city gate, but he did not expect that after entering the city gate, he would find a downward passage.
No wonder he saw no lights in the city from the outside. It turned out that the city of the dead was built under the desert. The long corridor was dark and narrow, and could only accommodate one person at a time. There were many blue ghost lights suspended in the corridor. They were sometimes high and sometimes low, sometimes near and sometimes far away, and their positions were erratic, which looked very creepy. But at the same time, they also illuminated the road ahead for Lu Ren, making it easier for him to move forward.
After walking in the dark for about twenty minutes, I saw a light in front of me - the real entrance to the City of the Dead was finally here.
Lu Ren walked out of the corridor. Before his eyes could adjust to the sudden brightness, he was dazzled and could hardly open his eyes. He closed his eyes and rested for a while, then slowly opened them. When he had fully adjusted, he could not help but look at the scenery in front of him and was attracted by it.
The entire City of the Dead is like a bottomless well, surrounded by huge stone walls. The residents of the City of the Dead built circles of square corridors along the stone walls. Each corridor should be connected to five or six houses, and all the houses are embedded in the stone walls. Straight stairs are randomly built across the patio, some across one floor, some across two floors, and some even have houses built directly in the middle of these stairs.
From a distance, these stairs look like clotheslines extending from various corridors, intricate and with no regularity at all.
This is the underground world outside the rules - the City of the Dead.
