Chapter 122: Fengdu Guest (XII)
On the other hand, when Lu Ren and his friends arrived at the City of the Dead, what was the real lord of the City of the Dead doing?
The answer is: the real owner of the City of the Dead, Bian Cheng Mingjun, is currently building a bonfire among the red spider lilies, trying to start a fire - he is preparing to roast beef and horse meat.
Not far from him, the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons were tied up back to back. Unable to move, they could only sit on the ground and yell at Bian Cheng: "Mr. Bian Cheng! Are you really crazy?...￥%￥%%#￥"
Anyway, a lot of harsh words have been said during the fight just now, so there is no need to continue pretending to maintain superficial decency.
Bian Cheng, who had Lu Ren's appearance, turned his head and looked at the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons. Although he was cursed, he did not look angry at all and even smiled at them.
Bian Cheng now used Lu Ren's face, whose eyebrows and eyes were very gentle, so this smile seemed very friendly at first glance, making people feel like being bathed in spring breeze. But in fact, Niu Tou and Ma Mian knew that Bian Cheng must have a lot of bad intentions, so they lowered their eyes and looked at the cold and sharp long sword in Bian Cheng's hand.
Bian Cheng's kind smile and the sharp blade in his hand complement each other. In the misty blood-red flowers of the other shore, he looks like a mentally ill executioner, which is chilling.
When Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Guards saw this scene, they dared not curse anymore, for fear of provoking him and getting beaten to death.
The reason why they easily took action against Bian Cheng for Lu Ren was, on the one hand, because Bian Cheng had indeed broken the rules, and it was their job both emotionally and logically; on the other hand, they also wanted to teach this troublemaker who was causing trouble all day long a lesson, but what they didn't expect was -
"Bah! Bian Cheng is so good at fighting."
The Horse-Faced Guard extended his long tongue and licked the blood flowing from his nose. He looked at the Bull Head with a broken horn and said, "I created such a good opportunity. Why didn't you attack from the left instead of causing trouble for me from the right?"
Niutou was also very angry.
"If you had joined me in attacking his right side with all your strength, we might have been able to break through head-on. But you wasted such a great opportunity for some sneaky battle plan!"
As he was talking, the Horse-Faced Guard also got really angry. He twisted his head and looked behind him. Although he couldn't see anything, it didn't stop him from venting his anger: "What do you mean by sneaking around? I mean using my brain!"
"Are you saying I have no brains?!"
"You just have no brains!￥#@&..."
The Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Warriors are in a fierce conflict due to the internal strife caused by the review of the game.
Bian Cheng, who was standing by, was very understanding and gave the two space to quarrel.
He stopped what he was doing and sat down to watch the performance. He didn't care, he just sat cross-legged on the ground, then put his arms on his legs, propped up his chin and watched the quarrel between the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons with interest.
Neither interrupting nor stopping, just watching the fun.
After arguing for a long time, the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demon finally came to their senses. The most important thing at the moment was to deal with the pleasure offender in front of them. Otherwise, with Bian Cheng's moody personality, he might really roast them and eat them. At that time, they could only wait for their souls to fly away.
Thinking of this, Niu Tou and Ma Mian stopped arguing and said to Bian Cheng in a serious tone: "Lord Bian Cheng, if you really kill us, Lord Qin Guangming will not let it go."
Bian Cheng raised his eyebrows after hearing this.
"Oh? Are you using Qin Guang to pressure me?"
After saying that, Bian Cheng stood up. He slowly brushed off the dust on his pants and said condescendingly to the two people who were tied up: "Qin Guang will not give up, what can I do?"
The words of the Bull Head and Horse Face seemed to have the opposite effect, and Bian Cheng, who was originally in a good mood, suddenly became unhappy. His eyes were cold, and he looked at the Bull Head and Horse Face with an expression as if he was looking at two ants at his feet.
When Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Guard saw his expression, they almost bit off their tongues as they were speaking.
Yes, what can Qin Guangming Lord do? Lords of the underworld cannot harm each other, this is an iron law set by the way of heaven.
The Ghost King Seal symbolizes the authority of the underworld. In fact, it is the ten causes and effects that the Heavenly Dao cast into the underworld when the Nine Netherworlds were first formed. These ten causes and effects check and balance each other, and assist each other in an endless cycle, and finally become the Yellow Springs.
This is also the reason why the Nine Nether Realm has been living in Fengdu for so many years. Because if karma is away from the underworld for too long, the underworld will begin to collapse, the sea of blood will overflow, the mountain of swords will overturn, and there will be endless disasters.
As the most important link in reincarnation, the Underworld cannot make mistakes, so the Ghost King Seal cannot make mistakes, and therefore, the King of Hell cannot make mistakes.
If the two Hades fought to the death, the cause and effect would interfere with each other, and the order of the underworld would collapse instantly. When the Nine Netherworlds collapsed, the countless wandering souls would have nowhere to rest, and even no reincarnation.
Therefore, Niu Tou and Ma Mian knew very well that even if Lord Bian Cheng really beat them to death today, Lord Qin Guangming, no matter how angry he was, could only complain to Lord Bian Cheng, and it was impossible for him to really seek justice for the two of them. So bringing up Lord Qin Guangming was a very unwise move, because it would only anger Lord Bian Cheng, which was useless.
Thinking of this, cold sweat ran down the foreheads of the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Monsters.
But Bian Cheng didn't seem to really intend to do anything to the two of them. He seemed to remember something, then raised his head to look at the moon that kept changing over Huangquan, and murmured, "It seems that the time is almost up."
Then he put away the gloomy expression on his face and stopped scaring the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Monsters.
"Forget it, I won't scare you anymore."
He put on his smiling face and said goodbye to Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards in a friendly manner: "I still have things to do, so I won't play with you any more."
After saying that, Bian Cheng stopped looking at the two of them, stood up and walked towards the gates of hell.
He's going to do his own thing.
After passing through the gates of hell, Bian Cheng walked all the way to the Styx. He looked at the dark bank of the Styx and stepped onto the dark lake without hesitation. Strangely, the deep and bottomless Styx was just like flat ground to Bian Cheng. Not to mention falling into the water, he waded through it as if he was walking on flat ground.
The dark fog lingered above the Styx all year round. A ghost figure appeared in the fog, roaring and stretching out its sharp claws towards Bian Cheng's thin body. Just when it was about to approach Bian Cheng, it shrank back into the thick fog as if burned by something.
The endless sound of ghosts crying began to become quiet.
Bian Cheng walked alone on the wide Styx, his expression unclear. The water surface he stepped on only spread out circles of ripples, which finally disappeared into the darkness.
The world is just a temporary inn, and we all share the sorrow of the eternal dust.
While Bian Cheng was on his way, Lu Ren was also on his way in the City of the Dead.
Lu Ren, Chongtong and the others were currently at the bottom of the City of the Dead. This location looked more like a deep well, and they were like trapped beasts at the bottom of the well.
Lu Ren looked up and saw countless staircases intertwined and interwoven into an impenetrable net. Most of the sky was blocked, leaving only a tiny gap through which the moonlight could be vaguely seen pouring down.
There were many white lanterns hanging high or low on the stairs, hanging down like huge cocoons. There was a big Chinese character "甸" written in ink on the lanterns, which was very appropriate. There was a blue flame inside the lanterns, which should be the same kind of flame as the ghost fire floating in the corridor, which looked weird and ominous.
Lu Ren was stunned for a moment. He remembered that Chongtong had said that they needed to go through the Wrongful Death City to get to Fengdu. But now it seemed that as a well, the Wrongful Death City was only a few hundred meters from one end to the other, and could be walked in a few steps. So why not just go around it directly? It also saved the trouble of entering the city.
So he asked Chongtong, "I remember you said we were going to Fengdu from the City of the Dead. Does that mean we can just go to the other side and exit?"
"No." Chongtong replied, "The exit of the City of Wrongful Death is over there."
After saying that, Chongtong raised his head and looked towards the almost invisible sky.
Lu Ren was stunned: "On it?"
After hearing what Chongtong said, Lu Ren couldn't help but raise his head and look at the top of the City of the Dead. There was no end in sight, and because it was blocked by countless stairs, it looked very complicated.
But why is the exit at the top?
Although he could understand every word Chongtong said, the combined meaning was beyond Lu Ren's comprehension.
So Lu Ren thought about it again. They were in the underworld, which should be considered underground. Since they were underground, it seemed reasonable to go back to the human world. But this high city seemed a little too high, and you couldn't see the end at a glance.
So Lu Ren couldn't help but ask worriedly: "How long will it take to climb?"
I don’t know if his old arms and legs can hold on.
Mr. Zhang, who had been standing at the back without speaking for a long time, stood up at this moment and said to Lu Ren, "Don't worry, there is an elevator."
"elevator?"
Old Li nodded. "Yes, yes, yes. More than a decade ago, a construction team encountered a mudslide while building infrastructure in the mountains, and the entire team was sent down. When their contractor arrived at the City of the Dead, he said that our infrastructure was too backward, so he organized the entire construction team to spend a year building a sightseeing elevator."
He really loves what he does and never forgets to focus on his career even when he dies.
Before the elevator was built, the City of the Dead had a total of 180 floors, and the stairs between floors could not be inferred by common sense, making it very easy to get lost. Often you thought you were going uphill, but in fact you were going downhill, which is the legendary ghost wall. Those who strayed into this place would wander in the City of the Dead for eternity, unable to be reborn.
This was also a way for the relatively weaker dead ghosts in the City of the Dead to protect themselves from evil spirits.
Of course, Lu Ren didn't know about the twists and turns in between. He was just overjoyed when he heard about the elevator: "If that's the case, then we can just take the elevator and get there directly, right? Let's go."
Unexpectedly, just as Lu Ren took a step forward, a shrill scream suddenly came from the ground. Lu Ren looked down and saw a human face suddenly appeared on the ground!
