The underworld steward, called Li Gui, lives in the underground pavilion, which is the closest place to the human world in the entire underworld.
"I heard that he was over a hundred years old when he died. When he first came here, his soul was very weak. Later, he became a steward and lived in the underground pavilion. Now he is much better than us lonely ghosts." On the way to the pavilion, the starving ghost dutifully explained, like a tour guide.
Xu Wang heard the envy in his words, and said, "Although you can't live in the underground pavilion, you can live next to the underground pavilion. If you can get a little bit of ghostly energy, you will be obsessed with it."
The starving ghost sighed and shook his head: "The good places have been occupied, which round can I get."
This starving ghost had a bitter look on his face, and even more mournful and drooping head, he looked even more sympathetic.
Wu Sheng looked at the starving ghost all the way, and finally asked a question at this moment: "You pushed the ghost eating ghost into the well just now, and I looked very neat in those few strokes. You will be bullied in the underworld for such a skill?"
The starving ghost stopped at his feet, turned his head and said: "I was there to save you..." After he finished speaking, he blinked, as if he just understood what Wu Sheng was asking, and quickly added, "I, I didn't talk to the others. Ghosts fought."
Wu Sheng: "..."
Xu Wang: "..."
To be so honest! ! !
While talking, the ground floor arrived.
The two of them entered the door. There was a large tank full of sand in the middle of the house. Behind the tank sat an old man with crane hair. He was not tall and had a slightly hunched back.
Before they could say what they meant, Li Gui patted the side of the tank with his hand and said concisely: "Let the ghost qi here."
In the assessment of entering the world from the underworld, there is no need to dance with knives and guns. The person in charge depends on one thing - the level of ghosts.
And that big vat was used to measure ghost qi.
Xu Wang swallowed his saliva, and suddenly became nervous. He quickly turned his head and asked Wu Sheng in a low voice, "What should I do if my visa is refused?"
Wu Sheng: "...Then we won't go abroad. It's good to travel domestically."
Xu Wang was amused by his cooperation, and his nervousness was inexplicably relieved. He took a deep breath and stepped forward first.
He didn't go to the edge of the tank, but stopped two steps away, closed his eyes, and concentrated.
For a while, the spirit behind him was close to him, and suddenly sprang out, like a black snake, swooping down, and sank straight into the sand tank!
Silence for a few seconds.
The sand in the tank suddenly moved "sand". It wasn't the kind that was stirred and driven by the spirit behind it. It was as if the sand had its own life, and it started to wriggle, wave after wave, getting faster and faster!
"It's alright." Li Gui raised his drooping eyelids, under his long white eyebrows, his eyes swept over Xu Wang, "Are you a possessed ghost?"
This person in charge is different from the gatekeeper in the Western Courtyard. Just being scrutinized by him like this made Xu Wang feel a little guilty.
Others are all alone, just buy one get one free from him, Li Gui did not doubt him, but gave a guess of "possessed ghost", which is already equivalent to "simple mode".
But the problem is that he and the starving ghost spoke eloquently, saying that he was the spirit behind him, and he had to change his mouth again, and there was no way to explain it.
"Cough," clearing his throat, Xu Wang tried his best to calm himself, "It's not an authentic possessed ghost, I'm the spirit behind me." He manipulated the shadow in the tank to get out, raised his hand and pointed at the spirit behind him, "This is me ."
It's still an old routine, but Li Gui doesn't seem to buy it.
Xu Wang was so stared at him that he did not dare to come out.
After a long time, I finally saw Li Gui waved his hand and sighed: "When you live to my age, you will understand, the body is nothing but a skin, whether it looks good or not, whether it is a well-built body with handsome features or a dark shadow with blurred outlines. , it doesn't really matter."
"..." Li Gui seemed to have misunderstood that he was disgusting himself with a black shadow, so he found a body to block in front of him.
but-
"You just said that you have healthy limbs, but what are your facial features?"
Li Gui thought he didn't hear clearly, so he emphasized his tone: "The facial features are handsome."
Xu Wang let out a long sigh of relief and listened.
Wu Sheng, who has already seen everything through: "..."
Li Gui's palm swiped across the tank, the sand leveled, and then looked at Wu Sheng: "It's your turn."
Wu Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly, but did not move.
In just a short while, he has gone through all his stationery in his head, but none of them are supernatural.
He is wearing a man-catching vine, and his visual deception is okay, and if he truly measures the power of ghosts, he will definitely reveal his secrets.
"What are you dawdling for?" Li Gui frowned impatiently, "Come here if you want to go to the world, and leave if you don't want to."
Xu Wang turned around and walked back. As he walked, he glanced at Wu Sheng—hand it to me.
It's not that Wu Sheng never thought of letting Xu Wang use his back to help secretly, but he always felt that he couldn't escape Li Gui's eyes.
However, the matter has come to this point, we can only bite the bullet.
Stepping forward and passing Xu Wang, Wu Sheng also stopped two steps away.
Hold your breath, concentrate, the man-catching vine slowly crawled on his body, the next moment, the man-catching vine suddenly stretched out a vine and plunged straight into the sand!
The roots of the vines were still wrapped around Wu Sheng, and only one third of the ends were placed quietly in the sand.
Wu Sheng and the vines stopped moving.
The sand didn't move either.
Everything was eerily still.
Finally, the sand flowed at a slightly slower speed than the previous Xuwang test, but I could also feel the faint ghostly aura shrouded in the sand tank.
Wu Sheng's dangling heart dropped half, and looked at Li Gui with a trace of inquiry.
Li Gui waved his hand: "Okay, you just passed, and if you are weaker, you won't be able to pass."
Wu Sheng let out a sigh of relief and finally calmed down.
"You, just say you," Li Gui crossed Wu Sheng's back and said to the starving ghost, "Don't be stupid, come over quickly."
"Me?" The starving ghost was stunned and shook his head, "I'm not going to the world."
Li Gui frowned: "What are you doing here if you don't go?"
"I, I'll accompany them both." The starving ghost was reprimanded a little vacantly.
Li Gui looked at him up and down a few times, and seemed to feel that he was the same regardless of whether it was predicted or not. Seeing that it was the life of the underworld, he stopped talking nonsense.
Trembling to his feet, he turned back, and Li Gui looked at the wall in front of him.
In an instant, the wall "jumped" down, revealing a dark and dark passage.
"At the end of the road is the human world." He stepped aside and looked at Wu Sheng and Xu Wang, "Let's go."
Xu Wang wanted to say goodbye to the starving ghost, but when he turned his head, he caught the envy in the other's eyes that he had not had time to put away.
Xu Wang suddenly got a little angry: "Try it and you won't lose a piece of meat!"
The starving ghost was stunned: "Huh?"
"I said, what can you do if you just try it in the sand tank?" Xu Wang was furious, "If you say no before you try, then you won't be able to do it for the rest of your life."
"But… "
"It's nothing! You just want to wander on the edge of the underworld all your life? You can't even touch the ghost? You starved to death before you died, and you want to be so hungry after you die?"
"I know you're kind," the starving ghost grumbled aggrievedly, "but why does it sound like a curse..."
Xu Wang was angry and funny, and let the spirit behind him push the starving ghost forward: "Hurry up and try."
Li Gui stood beside the tank and didn't stop him, but he looked contemptuous, making it clear that he didn't believe this one could pass.
The starving ghost hesitated, burying his hands in the sand.
Xu Wang held his breath unconsciously, for no reason, he was even more nervous than when he was testing.
The sand near the Hungry Ghost's wrist was the first to move, rolling back and forth one by one, as if being blown by the breeze.
After that, the sand moved slowly, but it couldn't be seen whether it was stronger or weaker than Xu Wang and Wu Sheng, because the sand tank under his hand was not flowing, but slowly created a not violent vortex.
Li Gui raised his long white eyebrows, quite surprised: "I can't tell, there is still some ghost power."
Starved Ghost was affirmed and immediately relaxed, but his face became worse.
Li Gui looked at him for a long time, as if he had seen something, and sighed, his voice rarely revealing a bit of kindness: "How much suffering you have suffered in your life. Hurry up and go to the world to breathe more ghosts."
The starving ghost came down alone and did not speak any more.
The group walked into the dark passage and walked silently for a while before Xu Wang tentatively called out, "Little hungry?"
There was no light in the dark passage, no one could see each other, no expressions, only voices.
"Huh?" Fortunately, the starving ghost answered.
"How did you die before you were alive?" Xu Wang asked about something he had been thinking about, but quickly added, "If you don't want to tell me, just pretend I didn't ask."
"Actually, there's nothing that can't be said." In the darkness, in the voice of the starving ghost, there was a wry smile, not the bitterness of complaining, but the bitterness of self-deprecating, "I was cheated by a friend, he took all my money. , I was left alone in the barren mountains and ridges, and in the end I was penniless, and I couldn't find my way home, so I starved to death."
"Then, after you died, didn't you seek his life?" Xu Wang suddenly hoped that Xiao Hungry was a serious ghost.
"I was going to look for it," the starving ghost suddenly grumbled twice, and smiled embarrassedly, "I was too hungry and didn't have the strength to go."
Xu Wang: "Can you be too lazy to take revenge?!"
Wu Sheng: "Can you be too lazy to take revenge?!"
The duet came suddenly, Xu Wang and Wu Sheng glanced at each other subconsciously, but in the dark secret passage, they could not see each other's figures, but the overlapping aura of "clear grievances and grievances" was still very strong.
Since high school, they have acted on the principle that you respect me one foot, I respect you ten feet, if you hit me, at least I have to kick you, and probably pay an elbow interest.
So I can't understand the "generousness" of starving ghosts at all.
"Hey, don't talk about me," the starving ghost obviously couldn't argue, so he changed the subject altogether, "I'll see someone in charge of the world later, have you two decided how to deal with it?"
Wu Sheng: "You said earlier that he was looking for available talents for the heavens?"
Hungry Ghost: "Yes, both civil and martial arts are fine. I heard that the Western courtyard has been restless recently, so the boss is also nervous."
The word "Western Courtyard" made Xu Wang and Wu Sheng feel a little tighter in their hearts.
It is human instinct to be a thief with a guilty conscience. Some people are strong and some are weak, but it is impossible to have none at all.
"Western courtyard?" Xu Wang pretended not to understand.
The starving ghost did not suspect that he was there, so he told them all: "This house is divided into two courtyards, east and west. Here we have the east courtyard, which is clearly hierarchical and orderly. Whoever has a strong ghost will be king..."
"Originally, the two courtyards have always been well watered, but the current boss of the west courtyard always thinks that our east courtyard is an outstanding ghost.
"Actually," Xu Wang thought about his words, "it's not necessarily a bad thing to have the Western Court come over. You see, now, if you want to go to a place closer to Guiquan, you still have to be assessed layer by layer. In fact, Guiquan belongs to everyone. The truth can only be approached by a few people, right?"
The starving ghost was silent again.
Xu Wang's final voice was scattered in the dark passage, and the air was suddenly awkward.
I don't know how long it took, when the light at the end of the dark passage came through slightly, the starving ghost suddenly asked, "Have you been to the Western Courtyard?"
Xu Wang hesitated for a moment.
All the way up to now, they and the starving ghost are half friends, and the guilt of lying with their friends is growing little by little.
Ruthless, he whispered, "No."
"If you've been there, you won't think it's good there," the starving ghost said faintly, "there will be a boss in a few days, and whoever is stronger will be the king, fighting every day and chaotic every day, and the weaker one. Lonely ghosts can't live a peaceful life at all, and if they are unlucky, they may just sway around and be involved in chaos for no reason, and their souls will be scattered."
"You asked me to choose between the war and Taiping, I will definitely choose Taiping, and—" The dark passage came to an end, and the moonlight came in from the exit, reflecting the starving ghost's face, with a little energy, "If here and there and The western courtyard is just as messy, and I might never meet you again."
He bared his teeth and smiled, but there was sincere happiness in his ghostly anger.
Xu Wang suddenly didn't dare to look him in the eyes, and lowered his head to change the subject: "You just said what is the most important thing for people in charge of human affairs?"
The starving ghost didn't notice the difference, and said naturally: "I heard that you are particularly cherished, and you value your talents the most, and it is better to understand the art of war."
…
Fifteen minutes later, in the human world, the management's assessment office.
Wu Sheng: ""The Thirty-Six Strategies", the strategy of victory, the strategy of the enemy, the strategy of attack, the strategy of melee, the strategy of combined combat, and the strategy of defeat, each set of six strategies, a total of 36 strategies, the details are as follows: Surrounding Wei to save Zhao, borrowing swords to kill people, waiting for work…”
Wu Sheng: "Sun Tzu's Art of War consists of thirteen chapters in total, including "The First Stratagem", "The Combat", "The Conspiracy", and "The Form of the Army"..."
Wu Sheng: "In the "Beginning Plan", Sun Tzu said: Soldiers are the major events of the country, the place of life and death, the way of life and death, and it must be observed..."
After half an hour.
The person in charge of the human world: "If I give you a team of ghosts, do you have the confidence to assist the boss and defend the west courtyard?"
Wu Sheng: "You don't need a ghost army, two ghosts are enough."
Person in charge of affairs: "Which two?"
Wu Sheng: "The one on my left is as beautiful as jade, and the one on my right is yellow-faced and thin."
…
At the same time, the East Courtyard, the Underworld.
Lao Qian and Xiao Kuang got lost.
The underworld is not only large, but also chaotic. The ghosts are not bad. The roads and trails criss-cross, often after walking for a long time only to find it, and then come back again.
Finally, when they were overwhelmed, they smelled a faint scent of fat powder mixed with the smell of a corrupt haunted house, which was as refreshing as Fengyoujing.
Following the smell, the two entered a remote courtyard, and before they reached the root of the window, they heard the laughter of men and women.
Sticky, ambiguous, with a certain taste that is not suitable for children.
There was no ghost in the yard, and one person sneaked quietly under the window, the window was wide open, and the beautiful spring came in.
I saw an undressed male ghost, lying on the bed, surrounded by four or five female ghosts with only veils, some snuggled in his arms and rubbed their ears and temples, and some fanned him beside him. Others are feeding grapes one by one into his mouth. The male ghost looks comfortable and enjoys it, just like Ximen Qing in the ghost world!
Qian Ai looked troubled, resisted the urge to slap him to death, and tried to look around the various bodies, searching on the bed.
A veil suddenly flew out of the bed and came straight to the window!
Qian Ai instinctively dodged, and Qing Sha rubbed against his face, but she bumped into Kuang Jinxin's shoulder. The moment they touched, Qing Sha immediately tangled, and instantly wrapped Kuang Jinxin tightly!
Before Qian Ai could react, Qing Sha shrank back and "flyed" back to the house with Kuang Jinxin!
Mummy-like Kuang Jinxin landed on the ground in front of the bed with a "thump".
The Merry Ghost pushed away the female ghost beside him, and with a light hook of his fingers, the veil was undone.
Kuang Jinxin slammed his eyes into gold stars, and before he could see the Merry Ghost, the Merry Ghost had already come over.
Kuang Jinxin was frightened, but his body didn't move, so he let the possessed ghost look at him from a very close distance, and then secretly, quietly manipulated the severed hand, and touched the "ghost bed" little by little - the badge's prompt was "bed lover ghost". ”, that is to say, the badge is either on the bed lover or the bed it loves, and now, this romantic ghost who is wearing nothing is "obvious", and there must be no badge on his body, so it can only be a bed.
The Merry Ghost and a few female ghosts all focused on Kuang Jinxin, but no one noticed that there was a "broken hand" on the bed.
"Where did you come from? It's very delicate and tender." The Merry Ghost looked at Kuang Jinxin with interest, and said frivolously, "I am a man and a woman, do you want to try it with me?"
Just as he was about to raise his hand to touch Kuang Jinxin's face, a loud shout suddenly came from the window: "Try with me!"
The romantic ghost, the female ghost, and Kuang Jinxin turned their heads together, and saw a head coming from the sky.
Qian Ai ran to Kuang Jinxin's side in a "flying head" posture, pulled the person to the side suddenly, and then put himself on Kuang Jinxin's position, using a head and a romantic ghost nose to nose, eyes to eyes.
"What do you think of me?" Feitou flung his stubby hair in a variety of styles, "I'm very energetic!"
"..." The Merry Ghost, at a speed visible to the naked eye, withered.
After half a minute.
"Hey, if you don't agree, you don't agree. What are you running?" Qian Ai looked at the back of Bai Huahua, who was running away, and suffered a serious physical and mental blow.
As soon as the Merry Ghost ran away, the female ghosts lost their interest and drifted away.
Just in line with Jin Xin and Qian Ai's wishes.
The two little friends quickly climbed onto the bed and groped.
Soon, the bed had them turned over, but there was nothing, no flash, and of course no badge.
Four eyes facing each other.
Kuang Jinxin: "Where is the dream ghost?"
Qian Ai: "There is only one possibility left."
Just after saying these two sentences, a series of hoarse screams went from far to near, which really broke my throat.
Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin were shocked, and when they raised their heads, they saw the romantic ghost who had just escaped, running back like a whirlwind, all the way into the house!
The two quickly got off the bed and were on guard!
But the romantic ghost didn't look at them at all, and ran directly to the bed, curled up into a ball and shivering, how could there be the slightest bit of romantic energy just now!
Qian Ai swallowed hard: "Is the shadow I left so strong..."
At the gate of the courtyard, a group of little devils gathered, and they all looked in, as if watching the excitement, and whispering while watching.
Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin went out and asked curiously, "What happened to him?"
The ghosts in the underworld floated casually and saw two unfamiliar faces coming out of the romantic haunted house. The little ghost onlookers didn't feel anything, and was very happy to share the gossip: "He didn't know what he got, and he went crazy, and he actually floated on the bed of the dream ghost."