In the Public Security Bureau, one street away from Tongfuyuan.

Zhou Xun sat on the chair very stiffly, and explained the case to the police on duty: "Yes, I was at my friend's house. He said he was a friend of my friend, so I let him in. I didn't know what happened. I was in the living room, and he asked me to check the bedroom. Then he didn't come out. I shouted twice and felt something was wrong. He had been like this before."

The police station is in a state of chaos at the moment. Many incidents have occurred tonight. Most people are out on field duty, and the few who remain are busy taking photos and collecting evidence as soon as possible.

There was no other way. The man who called himself Zhou Xun came to the police station with a suitcase containing a dead body. It was obvious that the body had been frozen to death! Even if they worked as police officers for their entire lives, they might not encounter such a thing once.

The police officer who inquired was also very puzzled: "Then you put him in a box and dragged him here to report the case? Why didn't you just call 110?"

Zhou Xun was silent for a moment: "I was afraid that he would get rotten and dirty the floor of my friend's house."

The police officer was even more shocked: "Staining your friend's floor is more important than a dead person?!"

Zhou Xun didn't even think about it and nodded directly: "Yes."

Police: "I advise you to tell the truth now so that your sentence will be lighter."

"Hmm..." Zhou Xun thought for a moment and changed his words, "It doesn't matter if this person dies, but it doesn't matter if the person dies."

Police: "Prepare medicine——"

"Wait," Zhou Xun suddenly turned his head. There were no windows here, but his sight seemed to penetrate the wall and see the distant sky behind it. "It seems that my friend won't be back for a while."

——

On the rooftop, the battle came to an end.

The small and dark place was filled with the broken limbs of ghosts and monsters. Because of the overly strong negative energy on the rooftop, these limbs disappeared very slowly, making this place look like a corner of hell.

The man held Zhang Yao in one hand and stood on the railing on the roof. His body was covered in the blood of monsters. The howling wind blew Zhang Yao's hair. No monsters were climbing up anymore, but the silver halo in Zhang Yao's pupils dimmed, making her eyes look like a lighter gray.

"Is my choice right?" Zhang Yao still looked calm, but her voice was a little confused. She looked at the door in the sky and asked softly.

"That's right," the man said.

Zhang Yao smiled, her smile was extremely weak: "I probably won't leave a body after I die."

She broke free from the man's embrace and managed to stand firmly on the guardrail. Then she opened her arms to face the strong wind and looked at the man and closed his eyes: "Goodbye."

The girl closed her eyes in the dark night, fell backwards, and jumped from the tallest building in the port city.

The man's expression did not change at all. He followed without hesitation, grabbed Zhang Yao's body, and then hugged her.

"goodbye."

The bodies of the two began to decompose and turned into wisps of black gas, which disappeared little by little against the backdrop of the brightly lit high-rise buildings in the port city.

——

Chi Shen stepped through the "gate".

A fishy smell mixed with ghostly aura blew towards him, a dark sky covered the sky, a sticky river of blood flowed under his feet, both sides of the river were charred battlefields littered with corpses.

Looking at this doomsday-like scene, Chi Shen was very calm and even nodded: "Well, it's still a familiar place, still a familiar smell, nothing has changed."

This was the final battlefield of the death game. They defeated the Ghost King here and were able to open the door and leave.

The corpses of ghosts and monsters on both sides of the river piled up at that time. The time here is still, so these corpses did not rot or turn into ghosts and disappear, but remained here.

Chi Shen walked upstream along the Blood River. At the end of the river, there was a huge corpse of a ghost. The head and body of the corpse were separated, and the blood flowing from the neck was this blood river.

There were still many weak ghosts hiding in the scorched earth after the war on both sides of the river. They were too weak and chose to hide during the final battle and were not affected. The closer Chi Shen got to the source of the Blood River, the more ghosts there were. They all walked downstream of the Blood River in panic. When they saw Chi Shen appear, they became even more frightened. Some of them even looked behind them and then quickly dived under the scorched earth.

Chi Shen also discovered the unusual aura at the source of the Blood River. Logically, he had cleared out most of the ghosts here before leaving, and the powerful ones were all killed. The source of the Blood River should not have such a strong ghost aura.

The further he went, the denser the ghost energy became. Chi Shen discovered that all the ghost energy avoided him. He could only "see" the dense ghost energy in front of him, but could never touch it.

Chi Shen came to the source of the ghost energy, which was also the source of the blood river. He saw two people standing back to back in the blood river from afar, but when he walked closer, the two people disappeared.

The ghostly aura in the blood river became even stronger. Chi Shen looked at the place where the two figures disappeared, pondered for a moment, and looked to the other side of the blood river.

On the other side of the source of the blood river is the head of a huge corpse. Unlike the still bleeding body, the head only has dry bones left, and it is a huge skull.

On top of the skull, there is a throne made of bones, and on the throne, there is a ghost corpse nailed by bone spurs. That was the previous Ghost King killed by Chi Shen.

Wen Qin was stepping on the bones, walking up to the hill-like head step by step.

Seeing Chi Shen coming, he stopped, stood in front of the throne, and looked back with a smile.

"I have heard a lot about you." Wen Qin spoke slowly and calmly, "Although you have gained power here and killed the former king, you don't know what this place is, right?"

Chi Shen looked around and shook his head: "I don't know."

Wen Qin laughed: "This is hell, the place where the dead souls return. Thousands of years ago, this place was ruled by Hades. The dead came here through the Gate of Rebirth. Evil spirits were suppressed here, and wandering souls rested here."

He reached out his hand to touch the throne of bones, his eyes looking at the blood-red earth: "Later, a rebellion broke out here, the Hades was killed, and the ghost who killed the Hades became the new king here."

"but--"

Wen Qin looked at Chi Shen this time: "The Hades used the last of his power to freeze the time here and start the selection of a new Hades, looking for a suitable candidate in the human world to rule the underworld."

"This kind of selection lasted for a long time, probably several hundred years, but every time the person was selected, he became a delicacy in the ghost king's stomach. The king who seized hell naturally would not allow this kind of selection to continue. He did his best to break the rules here, so you don't know why you came here. Even if you kill him, you don't know that you need to inherit the throne here."

Chi Shen didn't interrupt him, but listened to him quietly, then nodded: "It's about the same as I guessed."

After reading the ancient books of the Zhong family, Chi Shen discovered that there were more and more ghosts. He reasonably suspected that there was something wrong with the organization that handled the ghosts. Combined with Zhang Yao's mutterings and his own experience in the death game, he guessed that the turmoil in hell was almost certain.

Wen Qin looked at Chi Shen with a deep look in his eyes: "You guessed it, so why don't you come back?"

Chi Shen looked at him as if he were some magical creature: "Workers can slack off at work and fight for the right not to work overtime, but being a boss starts as a 007. You may not make money if you work too much, but if you work too little, you can't even pay the wages of your subordinates. Do you think it's so easy to be a boss?"

Wen Qin didn't respond for a moment. He seemed to not know what to say. After a pause, he asked him, "So what are you doing here?"

Chi Shen asked, "Where is Ji Xingchen?"

"Oh?" Wen Qin looked a little surprised. He smiled and said, "You didn't see him when you came here? It seems that he doesn't want to see you."

Chi Shen thought for a moment and said, "I understand."

Wen Qin looked at him with interest: "What do you understand?"

"The broken rules need to be recast. The rules of the entire underworld have been broken, which requires huge energy, but you don't want to use your own power to repair it, so you tricked Ji Xingchen in." Chi Shen said.

Wen Qin laughed: "No, he volunteered, because he knew that if he repaired the reincarnation that was destroyed by the Ghost King, all the evil ghosts and wandering souls would have a place to return to."

Chi Shen did not continue. He suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Do you know how Zhang Yao's ability to predict things was achieved?"

"What?" Although Wen Qin didn't know what he wanted to say, he felt something was wrong.

"Zhang Yao told me that of all the futures she saw, I could only choose one: me or Ji Xingchen still existing." Chi Shen said, "All the futures she could see were calculated through what she saw, heard, and felt."

Looking at Wen Qin's frown, Chi Shen continued, "In the eyes of many people, the future is random. If you had filled out another application, you would have had another future. If the apple had not hit Newton, the world would have gone in another direction. But in Zhang Yao's eyes, the future is fixed. There is only one future in this world. Because of the maturity of the apple, the apple will definitely hit Newton. Because you have weighed all the pros and cons, you will definitely fill out the current application at that time. Such calculations can be accurate to the atomic state. She can even include light waves in the calculation variables. I know this is incredible. This is an impossible amount of calculation for the human brain, so she has been very weak because the calculations put too much pressure on the body."

Wen Qin's expression turned serious.

"Oh, maybe you'll wonder why she said there are many futures. That's what she calculated. What would happen if she changed a certain time point? Telling others about the future she saw would definitely change the future. She can calculate what would happen in the future she changed. And in all the futures she could see, even in all the futures she could see after exhausting her life, she saw that Ji Xingchen and I could only choose one."

Chi Shen felt around in his pocket and pulled out his cell phone. He turned on the phone and said, "Although I have no idea of becoming Pluto, I won't let you, who made him look like this, become Pluto. If we want to change the future predicted by Zhang Yao, it's very simple. We just need to create a world that she can't observe."

There was no signal on the cell phone, but Chi Shen still entered a phone number and called it.

"I only need one step to become the king." Wen Qin knew that there could be no signal here, so he panicked. He grasped the bone spur on the Ghost King's body with both hands and pulled hard, but the bone spur did not move at all and he did not pull it out.

The phone was quickly connected, and a businesslike voice rang out in this silent hell: "Hello, this is the Life Retirement Center, how can I help you?"

"Open the door, there is a job, the location is - Old Hell."

Chi Shen hung up the phone.

A door suddenly appeared next to the skull throne. The door was very ordinary, no different from the security doors that can be seen everywhere in residential buildings. There was a sign hanging on the door: Retirement House.

The door opened, and inside stood a person Wen Qin had never expected. It was Yuan Yiping, who was killed by his ghost in the parking lot!

After Yuan Yiping died, he didn't find his soul, but he didn't expect it to be here!

Yuan Yiping also looked a little surprised, but he quickly adjusted himself and said expressionlessly, "Hello, I am a staff member of the Life Retirement Office. We have detected that you have retired. Please come with me to the Life Retirement Office to handle the relevant procedures. You have the right to refuse, and we will eliminate you right where you are."

Wen Qin was ready for a big fight, but was confused by Yuan Yiping's series of words.

Chi Shen's tone was quite proud: "How about the welcome speech I gave them? It's pretty good, isn't it?"

Yuan Yiping looked over with dead fish eyes and said in a flat tone: "Yes, it's really good."

"You don't think I will obediently go with you, do you?" Wen Qin said with a smile.

"I'm sorry," Yuan Yiping raised his hand, and Wen Qin's hands were cuffed. "The dead are under our care. This is a new rule."

At this time, Wen Qin also calmed down. He looked under the skull and shouted loudly: "Wen Xingchen!"

The ghost energy that permeated the entire source of the blood river rose up.

Chi Shen smiled and said, "Take him away later. I want to tell him one last thing, why I didn't tell Ji Xingchen about the existence of the Retirement Center."

“My soul will bear all suffering, my blood will open the door to the world, my bones will pave the road to paradise, the sins of my life will be judged here, and the kind souls will rest here. This place is the home of all souls.” Chi Shen stood on the blood field and stretched out his hands towards the whole hell. An endless stream of ghost energy overflowed from his body and went towards the whole hell. His body began to change. Half of his flesh and blood peeled off, revealing the white bones.

This should have been an extremely painful thing, but Chi Shen turned his head leisurely and looked at Wen Qin.

"Witness the birth of the new king." He changed the address to "father-in-law."