Death is the Beginning

Chapter 1

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Pei Jiao is very depressed. Anyone who has experienced what he has experienced will feel depressed...

He died, in a car accident.

Yes, Pei Jiao was driving home on a rainy night, because the rain was heavy and slippery, and it was a dark and hazy rainy day. Even though there were neon signs on the street, in such a hazy heavy rain, the line of sight was still only ten meters away. He drove away, so at a corner, he collided violently with another car coming around the corner. Not only that, he was thrown out of the car window without wearing a seat belt, and was embedded in the street forcibly. In the high-voltage transformer box next to him, the whole person was burned to charcoal without even making a sound. This time, even a god could not save him.

"Damn it, what kind of car is this? Where's the airbag? If I'm still alive, I'll sue the manufacturer, and I must sue the manufacturer until the other party goes bankrupt!"

Pei Jiao was suspended in the air about ten meters away. Looking at the noisy scene below, he was still screaming hysterically, from when he was thrown out of the car to being embedded in the high-voltage transformer box. In the midst of that moment, he was already standing outside his body in that instant of pulling feeling, watching his body being burned into charcoal without feeling any pain. Yes, he is now very sure that there is a so-called of the soul, and now is looking at the world in the state of the soul.

From the car accident to the arrival of the police and ambulance, it only took more than ten minutes. Judging from the traffic in this city and the current time and weather, these policemen and doctors can be regarded as respectful. But no matter how dedicated they are, Pei Jiao is already dead, and he can only look at everything below in a very depressed mood, from the onlookers who kept making phone calls, to the arrival of the police who rescued the person in another car , and the roaring ambulance sent the man and woman to the hospital, during which time no one paid attention to his body... Although it had turned into a ball of coke that was still sparking, he was still suffering, anyway, Is there any justice in this world? Is there still Wang Fa

"Hey, Comrade, at least you can get my body out of that high-voltage transformer box? If you continue to burn like this, I don't think you need to do all the cosmetic and funeral procedures for the corpse. Just rub it and you can use it as ashes ... Hey!" Pei Jiao really couldn't stand it anymore, he floated down from mid-air, and floated directly beside a policeman who looked like the captain, and roared loudly at the same time.

But it is a pity that no matter how loudly he yelled, the policeman couldn't hear him at all, and just frowned and thought about something until another policeman came to him and said, "Captain Wang, the policeman just now The identities of a man and a woman have been confirmed. Their ID cards are in their respective wallets. The man's name is Li Mingwei, and the woman's name is Ling Jiao... The woman is the deputy mayor's daughter, and she has been confirmed through her mobile phone just now. Identity, the deputy mayor said he would come right away, and also said... "

The policeman named Wang Dui was about thirty years old. He frowned and said, "What did you say? You are talking."

The policeman looked around, then moved closer to Dui Wang's ear and said, "The deputy mayor said to temporarily seal up the contents of the traffic camera until he comes..."

Dui Wang frowned, and he also said to the policeman in a low voice: "Contact the chief immediately and ask him to seal up the content of the traffic camera, and then..."

When Pei Jiao heard this, his heart was already cold. This is the corner of the intersection. The traffic bureau must have installed traffic cameras here to take pictures of those illegal vehicles. When the car he was driving collided with this car just now, The traffic camera must have taken a panoramic view. Logically speaking, on such a rainy night and with such low visibility, both parties must be responsible after the collision. But now he died on the spot, and it can be said that there are no bones left. Then The other party must bear most of the responsibility, but it's not a big deal, at most a sum of money will be paid, but the identity of the other party is actually the daughter of the deputy mayor, and it seems that the other party must use some unspoken rules... In other words In other words, his family will hardly get any compensation, and they may even beat him up and put all the responsibility on him, the deceased...

Pei Jiao's family background is not very good. It can only be said that he is a middle-lower class family. His parents are both working class. After the country's economic reform, both of his parents have been laid off from state-owned enterprises. He has real talents, so he can barely find two jobs to support his family. Besides him, his family also has a sister who is five years younger than him. It can be said that this family has just been dragged away.

Because of the poor family situation, Pei Jiao studied hard since he was a child, until he graduated from university last year. With his excellent oral English and knowledge, plus a diploma, he graduated from a key university, and he successfully entered a foreign-invested company. The company became a lower-level white-collar worker, and during this year's hard work, he was successfully promoted from a lower-level white-collar worker to a lower-level supervisor. He was promoted in just one year. Because of his flexible mind, and his future is also optimistic about this foreign-funded enterprise, the enterprise also intends to focus on training him, and put his name in the training list for the next year.

Because of this, Pei Jiao can occasionally use the company's car, such as today's heavy rain, because he worked overtime at the company until night, so he can also drive this car home, and this car actually belongs to the company … If his death cannot be compensated by the other party, then his family will bear the cost of repairing the car, and there may even be subsequent lawsuits, etc., which makes his family unable to afford it at all, especially the young His salary is enshrined, so the younger sister who is still studying...

Thinking of this, Pei Jiao felt all hope was lost, and when he thought of his parents and younger sister, and a girlfriend who fell in love with him when he was in college, and now is a white-collar girlfriend in another city, his heart really hurts. Born out of courage, when his heart was in extreme pain, he looked at the two policemen who were still discussing how to deal with the car accident, and he really wanted to kill them immediately.

"Fuck you!" Pei Jiao was in pain, anger, and annoyance. He couldn't vent all kinds of emotions. He finally couldn't help but punched the king team hard. He could only pass through the body of the person in front of him without even touching him. This kind of powerlessness and pain made Pei Jiao even more desperate, and he screamed fiercely. .

"Crack!"

A flash of lightning flashed beside Dui Wang and the policeman, almost jumping up in fright, but the flash of lightning only made a soft noise, and then disappeared immediately. It looked a bit like an electric current. The brief sparks generated during the short circuit were ordinary, and the two looked at each other, while walking a few steps away from the high-voltage transformer.

"Xiao Li, quickly get that corpse out, it won't be fun if the transformer explodes..." Wang Dui glanced at the charred corpse, then turned his head and said something to the policeman beside him. Then he shook his head and walked towards the police car.

When the flash of lightning erupted before, Pei Jiao didn't notice it because of his excitement. It wasn't until King Dui had walked away that he slowly recovered from the despair and grief. Now, he has already He became a soul, his body was also burned into coke, Yin and Yang were separated, everything could not be changed, no matter how much grief, anger and despair he felt in his heart, it was a foregone conclusion, Pei Jiao could only accept all this sadly and helplessly, but But his heart became even heavier, and he felt extremely sorry for the parents who gave birth to and raised him, but caused them to be white-haired and black-haired.

"Go back and have a look at them again, and take a look at your parents and younger sister before Black and White Wuchang appears... It's a pity that Xue Na is in Nanjing, but maybe I won't have the chance to see her again..." Pei Jiao sighed sadly, and never saw her again. Instead of looking at the policemen, he just got up and floated towards the street he was familiar with, where he had his home, his parents, his sister... This might be the last time he saw them.

Along the way, Pei Jiao also gradually calmed down. His current situation sounds a bit unbelievable. He didn't expect that after death, people actually have souls, consciousness and thoughts. They are not dazed zombies. Apart from the physical body, it is basically no different from normal people. In other words, maybe many myths in the legends are also true? For example, in the underworld, there may also be so-called impermanence in black and white, and even those gods and the like may really exist...

Thinking of this, Pei Jiao's heart slowly warmed up again. He is not a person who gives up easily. Since he was young, because his family was poor, he worked hard to study, and he never envied other people's money, nor asked his parents to buy it for him. It can be said that he is a tough and strong person since he was a child, and he has a domineering aura of not admitting defeat in his heart. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he is willing to try everything.

Since the soul is real, then the underworld probably should have it, regardless of whether there are gods or not, but since there are souls, so many people have died since ancient times, so where are their souls? It is estimated that the soul also has a lifespan. Once the lifespan of the soul is exhausted, then even the consciousness and meaning may really disappear, but when the soul is still alive, it is impossible for the souls of countless people to disappear in vain after death? It is estimated that they will settle down together and form a world similar to Yangshi. If he can enter this soul world first to work hard and earn a share of the family business, when his parents die, he can let them die. If you lose it, you will enjoy the blessings, but this is not considered unfilial.

Thinking of this, Pei Jiao's heart became even hotter. He made up his mind to go home immediately to visit his parents and sister, and then go to the world of soul to work hard, even though the world of soul may have different knowledge and worldview, even if what he learned His knowledge may not be needed anymore, but in terms of his hard work and diligence, there will always be a day when he will stand out, but he doesn't worry about it at all, so...

It wasn't until Pei Jiao settled down and had an idea that he took a closer look at the world around him. The world in front of him was not much different from before. The only difference was that there seemed to be black air currents floating above the city. These black air currents It looks like a chemical airflow caused by environmental pollution, but if the environment is so polluted that such a black airflow appears, then the government and the news media will definitely not be indifferent. In other words, these black airflows are likely to be invisible to the naked eye. Arrived, only the soul can see

Pei Jiao is also curious, but he is a restrained person. Although he probably guessed that the black air flow can only be seen by the soul, he has no plans to touch it, at least not for the time being. Air current, what if he was immediately transported to the underworld? What if this airflow is specifically aimed at the airflow that devours souls? Moreover, the color was so pitch black that it made people feel chills just by looking at it. He definitely didn't intend to touch the air current.

"Go back and see your parents and sister immediately!" Pei Jiao made up his mind, he was a filial son since he was a child, besides that, he felt more attached to his family after he died, perhaps it was because of the loss that he cherished it more, Thinking of the possibility that they will never see their parents and sister again in the future, this feeling is even more intense.

Pei Jiao's flying speed was getting faster and faster. In order to take a shortcut, he even flew a hundred meters into the sky. When he was two to three hundred meters away from the black air current, he stopped and continued to fly towards himself. Flying near his home, and looking down at the whole city from this height, he discovered the difference in horror.

This is Shanghai, which is one of the most densely populated cities in China. When Pei Jiao looked down from mid-air, he actually saw souls in mid-air. Many souls stayed outside various houses, and there were a few Souls also floated out from a large hospital. Looking down from mid-air, there were actually hundreds of souls in the entire city of Shanghai.

When Pei Jiao was sighing to himself, he suddenly discovered that these souls were very different from him. There was a trace of black air entangled on the surface of these souls, as if they were all bound by a loose bond, and vaguely, The soul in this black silk box seems to be still struggling.

Pei Jiao was horrified, an ominous feeling appeared in his heart, he hurriedly drifted towards the soul closest to him, this soul was floating in an apartment building more than 20 floors high, through the black silk Looking inside, it was about an old man in his sixties, who seemed to be still struggling. After Pei Jiao flew close to him, the old man immediately yelled: "Young man, help me get it out of it. When you touch it, your skin burns and hurts... ".

Sure enough, the old man wanted to stretch out his hand out of excitement, but as soon as he touched the black silk, a faint blue smoke rose immediately where his skin touched the black silk, as if a branding iron was imprinted on the skin, and the touched part immediately disappeared. It became pitch black, and the old man even stretched out his hand amidst a painful groan.

"What are these black threads?" Pei Jiao was even more shocked, but now he didn't dare to get any closer, and asked loudly about ten meters away from the old man.

Only then did the old man raise his head in surprise and said, "Young man, why is there no cause and effect outside your body? Impossible, could it be that nothing happened to you since you were born?"

Pei Jiao immediately asked: "Old man, what is karma? Is it the black silk wrapped around your body? By the way, uncle, you are also a dead soul? Why don't you go to the underworld?"

The old man stared blankly at Pei Jiao, and after a long time, he pointed to Heisi sadly beside him and said, "This is the cause and effect of stealing sweet potatoes from the neighbor's house when I was a child, and being hated by the neighbor's house. The cause and effect caused by several teachers, this is the cause and effect of fighting with others, this is the cause and effect of owed money to friends, and it has not been repaid for a long time, this is the cause and effect of the older son being jealous of my doting on the younger son, this is..." The old man was thinking like this Nagging, he pointed to the traces of black air around him and murmured. While he was speaking, those black air got stronger and stronger, as if they had been nourished from his memories.

When the old man finished speaking, he suddenly looked deeply at Pei Jiao and said, "Young man, what method did you use to free yourself from karma? Everyone should be entangled in karma, which is what we experienced when we were still alive." , As long as there is an intersection with others, good or evil will eventually be rewarded, and these causes and effects will occur. They are all gratitude and resentment that others have towards themselves. It is impossible for you to have nothing happen in decades of life? "

Pei Jiao was startled and frightened when he heard this, he quickly looked around, and sure enough, all the souls in his line of sight had black air currents floating around their bodies like silk threads, but his There was nothing on the surface of the body, but there was none of the black threads on the body of the soul, which really surprised and amazed him.

But the old man continued to say: "Young man, come closer and talk, don't worry, these karma will only entangle the person who got the karma, even if I want to infect you, because as long as I touch these karma, I can I clearly feel that the thoughts I keep inside are all things that are blurred in my memory, all of them are my memories... "

Pei Jiao saw that the bodies of the nearby souls were all covered with black silk threads of airflow. He was really anxious and scared, as if he had goosebumps. Not at all, he was relieved, and immediately floated three meters away from the old man, but he didn't dare to get too close to him, he just asked: "Old man, how do you know that these things are called cause and effect? And why do you Why don't you go to the underworld?"

The old man shook his head and said: "I don't know what these things are, but they are all things I have done in the past, and there are so many memories, so I call this thing cause and effect, not all Buddhists say What kind of cause is planted, what kind of result is reaped, it’s not that there is no retribution, the time has not come, and now that I am dead, these wrong things I have done in the past will naturally entangle me, I think this is cause and effect... As for the hell? I have never seen it, and it has been more than ten hours since my death, why didn't I see that black and white impermanence come to arrest me?"

Pei Jiao was stunned. He thought it was easy to go to the underworld. It should be something that every soul knows innately, or it will go there automatically at three and a half quarters after death. Who knows that the person in front of him has been dead for more than ten hours. He was still trapped here all this time, he looked into the room through the glass window, and sure enough someone was setting up the mourning hall in the room, it seemed that it was someone who just died today.

"Could it be that you have to wait until midnight to enter the underworld? Otherwise, the souls accumulated day by day, there should be many souls in Shanghai. There are only more than a hundred souls in such places, and it looks like they died within today. The number of people dropped is average," Pei Jiao said in surprise, and at the same time he looked around.

And at this moment, about a few hundred meters above the sky, there were probably places where the black air currents were floating indefinitely. Like a crack, finally, the space was completely torn apart, revealing the dark unknown world behind.

At the same time, all the souls trapped in the black silk box screamed in pain, those black silks that originally only wrapped them began to invade their bodies, merging into them continuously, until the whole thing was thrown into their bodies, Then these souls all began to float towards the sky, being sucked by the big black vortex.

And the old man beside Pei Jiao also screamed in pain. At the same time as these black threads merged into his body, faint scales and armor fragments appeared on the old man's surface. Not only that, the old man's body also began to swell rapidly, short In just a few seconds, his figure swelled to a height of nearly two meters, and when he was in extreme pain, he subconsciously grabbed Pei Jiao's shoulder, and his long nails pierced into Pei Jiao's shoulder.

Pei Jiao only felt a kind of soul tearing pain coming from his shoulder, he immediately roared loudly, at the same time he turned around and pulled the old man's arm away, but it didn't matter, he actually saw the old man's figure The swelling and body began to change. Not only did the body become taller and bigger, but the expression on the old man's face also gradually began to distort, showing a hideous look at first glance.

"Old man, let me go, I have no grudges against you, even if you want to become a ghost, you should go find someone who has hurt you, why come to me?" Pei Jiao called and said At the same time, he tried hard to tear open the old man's palm, but he was still a weak old man just now, but now he was so powerful that no matter how Pei Jiao tried to tear it, he couldn't move at all. In this way, Pei Jiao was pulled by the old man to the black whirlpool Float over.

Pei Jiao also saw the vortex in the sky, and he was so frightened that he struggled desperately. For some reason, he was full of fear for the world inside this vortex. It seemed that once he entered there, he would never be able to return to the present world. The so-called underworld...

"Let go of me! Let go!" Pei Jiao looked at the black vortex that was getting closer and closer to him, and he struggled desperately to get away, but no matter how hard he struggled, the old man's hand was still clenched Hold him so that he can't move at all. In a moment, the two of them are getting closer and closer to the vortex...

"No!"

Pei Jiao yelled loudly, and when the sound fell, he was completely involved in the vortex, and he couldn't make any more sound.

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