Perhaps, in the eyes of the wandering ghosts outside, the underworld is still an unattainable and terrifying existence. It is high above, and its tentacles are spread throughout the hell and extend to the world of the living.
Its will is equal to the will of Hell.
However,
People outside often don't see it clearly, just like the principle of building shields on both sides of highways to block the dilapidated houses on both sides of the road.
Only those who are on the inside can truly sense whether the foundation beneath their feet is solid or not.
Inspectors, especially those on duty in the underworld, are considered middle-level cadres.
Among the people Zhou Ze came into contact with, Lawyer An kept shouting "The wind is blowing, the wind is blowing" all day long, and Feng Si'er openly helped the big shots in hell to do private matters. They had actually made their choice, and there were many people who made the same choice as them. Before the ship was about to sink, everyone was looking for their own lifebuoy.
Old Zhang rode his horse forward.
Entering from the valley,
Inside, huge rocks are piled up and the dark cracks give people an uncomfortable feeling of being spied on.
Old Zhang got off his horse, sat down, and put his hands to cover his abdomen. There was a faint purple light in that area, which was the injury he had suffered before.
He participated in the fight against the defectors but failed. If Gengchen had not spared him, he might have been dead by now.
It was he who told Gengchen that the bookstore in Tongcheng could solve this trouble, or at least put the trouble in the hands of someone who could control it.
However, later, Old Zhang tried to send a message from hell to the coordinates of the bookstore in the world, but he didn't get a response because it was such an unfortunate coincidence that Lawyer An and others were still in Chengdu and had not returned.
at the moment,
He can't help with the rest.
The reason why I rode here with all my might,
I also want to see how bad the situation here is.
Old Zhang had this kind of energy when he was alive, and even after he died and became a ghost, his nature did not change. When everyone was stepping back, he chose to die facing forward.
Given the current situation in the underworld, if any problems arise here again and those old immortals run out again, the Yellow Springs Road probably won’t be able to be defended again.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva stayed indoors in the rebuilt Buddhist temple and did not go out. From that location in the mountains, only occasional sounds like the snoring and thunder of Di Ting could be heard.
Among the Ten Kings of Hell, King Lu of Pingdeng fell, and the Ninth Hall is still vacant. A while ago, it was said that a judge named Lu wanted to take over and reorganize the Ninth Hall, but before he could do it, he and his cronies died in the small hell under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Hall while suppressing it.
The other nine Yamas no longer took care of things. The indifference of the top leaders and the panic of the middle leaders caused big problems to finally appear in this originally majestic machine.
Old Zhang rested for a while, walked a distance inside, and stopped under a broken wall.
He was stunned.
For everything you see,
Totally unbelievable.
Yes, he was wrong. He had previously thought that the underworld was so absurd that something had happened here but they still hadn't sent anyone over.
actually,
Someone was sent over.
Because on this wall,
It was full of corpses.
In the middle is a man in a red official uniform. He is nailed to the rock wall. His soul has long been exhausted, but his form is still preserved.
It’s a bit like someone who really knows how to eat shrimp, who can eat all the shrimp meat while still keeping the shrimp shell intact.
Old Zhang knew this man. He was a judge under the throne of King Chujiang in the Second Hall. He had a bad temper and was extremely cruel to his subordinates, but he was highly appreciated by King Chujiang.
The system of the underworld is actually very simple. The original Ten Kings of Hell are equivalent to the ten great princes. Each of them has his own government office, his own territory and jurisdiction, and he also has his own bureaucratic and military system under his command.
But there is also a central system that is responsible for overall operations. This system has the largest number of people and the greatest responsibilities, but it is also the least authoritative one.
Old Zhang belongs to this system. Lawyer An and Feng Si'er also belonged to this system. Some people wanted to go to the Ten Kings of Hell but there were no vacancies. Of course, there were also many people who were happy to have a leisurely life.
The body of a judge was nailed to the rock wall.
Beside him, there were more than twenty inspectors in official robes and the bodies of hundreds of headhunters, all nailed here neatly as if they were specimens.
This group of people should have been sent by the underworld after the defector got into trouble. Old Zhang estimated the time he had wasted to recover from his injuries and calculated that this group of people should have arrived here a little faster than here, but they ended up being wiped out.
Old Zhang was not afraid of anything. After all, the Zhang family had a glorious tradition from him onwards, and he didn't mind being glorious again. He was just curious. Some of the origins of the Haozhi who caused the rebellion had been taken away by defectors, so who was the one who continued to kill the officials of the underworld here
This sealed place in the far west is becoming less and less like a prison. Instead, it is more like an entertainment plaza where anyone can come in and out and even perform square dance.
Instead of going back, Old Zhang continued to move forward. In a shallow area very close to the inside, there were hundreds of corpses, including a judge whom Old Zhang knew.
The judge's surname was Chen. He had a strong character and had criticized the Ten Kings of Hell for sitting in office and doing nothing in public more than once, and criticized Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva for corrupting the foundation of the underworld, saying that if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beams will be crooked too.
Then he was kicked here like a ball, and was considered the leader of the underworld guards in this far west before the incident.
The defector did appear, but he definitely did not defect, so he died.
A group of people who were unwilling to defect were also killed.
Old Zhang sighed, picked up the wine flask he carried with him, and sprinkled it on the ground. The wine from hell had the effect of intoxicating the soul. He was not doing this to commemorate anyone, nor was he thinking of putting on a show. After all, the wine might not have dried up yet, and he would have to deal with this place later, so he might as well regard it as a sacrifice to himself in advance.
“Woo woo woo…”
There were cries of howl.
It is difficult to tell whether it is the mountain wind or some terrifying creature howling because it can't stand the loneliness.
The only thing you can see is,
Overhead,
There is a light blood mist.
Diffusing, spreading,
It was like a ferocious beast that opened its bloody mouth and slowly swallowed the vast expanse of water into its mouth.
Old Zhang looked around, very alert, but nothing really happened, except that the sky above his head seemed to change color.
The surroundings began to become quiet again.
Keep going.
Old Zhang saw a huge cave.
The entrance of the cave is extremely smooth.
The seal of this place has been destroyed, and there are signs that a terrifying creature has drilled out!
However,
When he got closer, Old Zhang discovered that in the gully outside the cave entrance, what he thought was a pile of rubble was actually half of the body of a giant python.
Because the flesh had long been worn away, leaving only bones of similar color to the rocks, it was really difficult to tell them apart at first.
There are still traces of runes on the bones, which should be a creature that once roamed hell, but now it has fallen here.
So,
This cave should have been created when it broke the seal
Since it broke the seal, how could it die here
Old Zhang was a little confused. It was obviously not like he was killed by the guards outside or the officials who came over. It was not that Old Zhang looked down on them, but...
A judge, with a group of officials, might be able to watch over and stabilize the situation, but it is simply impossible to let them lead a team alone to kill the ancient ferocious beast.
Besides,
Those people are dead.
You can't say that they died here together, right
Was it this giant snake that nailed them to the rock wall, and then they suddenly felt that their life had lost its purpose after they got out, so they committed suicide
Old Zhang rolled over the snake and came to the entrance of the cave. He suddenly found that there were several huge footprints at the entrance. When he was standing at a distance and looking at them, the footprints and stones were mixed together and difficult to distinguish. After getting closer, the sunken parts and broken stone parts could be clearly distinguished as traces of footprints.
Obviously,
Snakes have no footprints.
Old Zhang just felt his scalp tingling.
How many ferocious beasts were revealed after the seal was broken
And they are so wealthy that they can start killing each other here
Old Zhang walked inside. He was completely relaxed and having fun. He went wherever there was danger. When a person doesn't care about his own life, he is truly fearless.
After walking a little further inside,
This cave is quite deep.
The further I walked in, the more I felt a moist breath.
Waves of air carrying heat waves kept sweeping out.
Old Zhang stabilized his body and continued to move forward along the rock wall.
soon,
He saw a coffin lying in the center of the deepest part of the cave!
This is a purple coffin with a restrained brilliance. Just one look at it makes people want to surrender.
Old Zhang had to avoid the area where the coffin was. He was really worried that he would not be able to get up after kneeling in front of the coffin.
However,
When he forced his gaze to the other side of the depths,
I saw a huge black ape crouching there with its eyes closed, as if it was sleeping. The warm breath I sensed when I came in was the breath of this monkey!
So, it was this monkey that killed the giant python at the entrance of the cave and left footprints
Under the monkey's body, there is a purple stone tablet with a line of ancient and simple characters engraved on it:
"Tarzan's Resting Place"
Old Zhang's eyes widened.
Mouth opened wide,
The underworld has excavated the tombs of several generations of Taishan Lords, and even used their coffins as weapons of war to summon the souls of the dead to return. However, there were two Taishan Lords who did not leave behind any tombs.
One was the last Lord of Mount Tai, and he was missing.
One is the first Lord of Mount Tai, and no one knows where he is buried.
turn out to be,
The first Lord of Mount Tai who ended the turbulent era of hell,
After sealing those rebellious giants here,
Also here,
Treat it as your own mausoleum!