Chapter 40

"Did I miscalculate the time?"

"Half an hour has passed by now, right?"

In the small dark room, Luo Yu looked at Luo Zhi and kept asking questions.

Luo Zhi frowned. Ever since Luo Yu said he would stay here for a day, he began to count the time silently in his mind. Even if there was an error, it would only be one or two minutes at most.

But now, it is definitely not what Luo Yu said. They can go out as soon as 24 hours are up.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Did Benben say that he also needed a method to speak it out?"

Luo Yu shook his head. "No, I just heard how to get in and out..."

Having said this, he suddenly froze and suddenly recalled the words he said before entering.

"...Whenever the detoxifier turns to a page, he and the poisoned person can enter the space in the book on that page, and then..."

Luo Zhi looked at him and said, "Did you remember anything?"

Luo Yu looked away. The "then" after Ben Ben was definitely about how to get out, but he was too anxious and came in before he finished listening. He slapped his head in regret and said, "Luo Zhi, I've caused trouble for you again."

Luo Zhi understood instantly. He patted his head and comforted him, "It's okay. Just rest for a while. I'll break it open by force later."

Seeing that he did not blame her for her carelessness, Luo Yu immediately clung to him again, her voice as soft as a baby who had just learned to speak, repeating over and over again: "Luo Zhi... Luo Zhi... Luo Zhi..."

Luo Zhi listened to these tempting calls, and every inch of his skin felt hot. He wanted to push Luo Yu away, but his hand kept raising and lowering, repeating this three times, and finally he was completely defeated.

Let’s leave it at that for now, we’ll talk about the future later.

Space outside the book.

Qingqing, carrying a small cross-body bag, smoothed her curly hair that was blocking her view due to the wind, and said to Gi, "Okay, I can't stay here any longer. The Rabbit Ghost competition has been going on for half a month now, and it will be my turn in another month and a half. I have to hurry to the southwest now."

Gi held her in his arms reluctantly and said, "My dear, you must win the championship."

Qingqing patted its back and said firmly, "Definitely."

Gi let go of her and said, "Then I'll wait for you in the ghost house to go digging for treasure with me."

Qingqing said "OK" and handed Luozhi's dora bag to it, then disappeared into the wasteland.

Gi clenched the Dora bag in his hand, his eyes suddenly turned cold, and he growled: "Three days have passed. If they don't come out tonight, I will burn the space book."

Benben became annoyed when he heard Gi's voice. He didn't expect something like this to happen on this trip. If he had known, he would definitely not have followed.

He said impatiently, "You're a first-grade spiritual weapon that the Ghost King spent 6,000 years to forge, and this is all your endurance?"

"Damn it, Luo Yu is alive now, and the young master's Duo La Dai is not with him. I don't want to see the young master's flesh being cut!"

After hearing this, Benben stopped bickering with it. He silently looked at the motionless space book on the ground. Finally, he closed his eyes and made a firm decision, "Wait one more day. After tomorrow, if they still haven't come out..."

He gritted his teeth and said, "Just burn the books."

Wang Sanpao said, "But Master Benben, you spent a hundred years researching this. Are you really going to burn it like this?"

Benben said, "Just treat it as bad luck. I will just stay away from you guys from now on."

Gi's mouth twitched a few times: "Haha."

In the small dark room.

Luo Zhi tried several times to cut off the flesh from his arm and feed it to Luo Yu, but Luo Yu refused to do so. Even though he kept telling him that he would recover soon, as soon as he moved, Luo Yu would explode like a frightened kitten.

Although Luo Zhi's Panhong poison had been cured, he had lost 60% of his spiritual power in allowing the starving ghosts to regain their sanity, and he had also lost a lot of spiritual power in opening the teleportation array. As a result, Luo Zhi was unable to break through this space for a while.

It doesn't matter how long he stays here, but Luo Yu can't. Luo Yu is a living person and he needs to eat.

In the past three days, the only thing Luo Yu was willing to eat was something related to him. Luo Zhi thought it was absurd, but Luo Yu just wanted to eat it.

At this moment, the person in his arms suddenly moved, and the words he spoke were so soft that they sounded like whispers.

“…So… being… hungry… feels… like this…”

"What?" Luo Zhi couldn't hear clearly.

Luo Zhi thought he was afraid, so he hugged him tighter, resting his chin on Luo Yu's head, and whispered to him like coaxing a child: "Luo Yu, wait for me for two more hours. My spiritual power is not enough to break through this space now. We can get out in two hours. Don't be afraid..."

The person in my arms suddenly laughed, his voice low and slow: "I'm not... scared, I... am not scared at all..."

Luo Zhi doesn't believe it, which clearly shows that he is afraid.

Luo Zhi stretched out one hand to support Luo Yu's back and wanted to say something to try to divert Luo Yu's attention, but Luo Yu suddenly called him in a low and hoarse voice.

"Falling into obedience."

"I am here."

"Why are you holding me so tight?"

Luo Zhi was stunned, thinking that Luo Yu was having difficulty breathing because of his hug, so he immediately let go of her hand, but suddenly he felt a pain in his heart.

Luo Yu's voice rang out again: "If I can't imagine any possibility with you, then why did you hold me so tightly? Don't tell me it was because you wanted to detoxify me. The poison has already been detoxified. That can't be an excuse."

"So, why are you so indulgent towards me? Why are you still willing to do this even after the poison has been resolved?"

Luo Yu raised his head, wanting to give him a definite answer, but his sight was attracted by Luo Zhi's stubble. His eyes suddenly lit up as if he had discovered a treasure.

"So your stubble is long." He put his hand on it and rubbed it for a few seconds. "It pricks my hand. Can you pull out some of it?"

Luo Zhi's throat moved a few times, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Okay."

Luo Yu stroked his prickly stubble and said, "So why? I want an answer."

After a long while, Luo Zhi spoke awkwardly: "Because..."

"Because you are a ghost?" Luo Yu guessed that he must want to say this, so he said it first.

"So what if it's a ghost? Aren't we getting along just fine like this now?"

Luo Zhi lowered his eyes and looked at him, his eyes dim and unclear, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

Luo Yu took a few steps forward on Luo Zhi, holding his handsome face, which looked particularly manly due to the stubble, in his hands, and said:

"Luozhi, I like you so much."

"Can I call you husband?"

Luo Zhi's breathing began to become difficult, and the two pairs of eyes looking at each other became brighter and brighter. Luo Zhi's eardrums were filled with the echoes of these two sentences, so loud that they seemed to deafen him.

It was obviously beautiful, but Luo Zhi couldn't help feeling sour in his heart.

The sour feeling became more and more violent, rushing into the nasal cavity, eye sockets, and finally paralyzing the brain.

Luo Zhi's lips trembled, his heart was beating fast, "I am not a human being. What if one day, we are separated... and it can't last forever..."

Luo Yu laughed. He succeeded. He succeeded in getting the secret out of the mouth. He had an identity and he was going to fall in love.

Luo Yu said: "Can we be together now?"

Luo Zhi's eyes were extremely complicated, showing hope but also unwillingness. In the end, he was defeated.

Luo Yu said, "We can be together now, why should we think about things that haven't happened yet?"

"Why put so much brain capacity? Now that I am here, I can just put it in me."

After Luo Yu finished speaking, he rubbed his lips against the prickly stubble, then slowly climbed up and kissed Luo Zhi's still trembling lips.

Luo Yu kissed her and said, "I will kiss my husband every day from now on."

Luo He put his hand on the back of Luo Yu's head, deepening the kiss and responding to the words.

Time kept moving, and Luo Zhi's spiritual power recovered a lot as he kept working.

"Luo Yu, we are going out." Luo Zhi said to the person in his arms.

Luo Yu raised his head, his tone filled with reluctance: "So soon, but I haven't hugged you enough."

Luo Zhi smiled and said, "I'll hug you again when I get out."

Luo Yu hummed.

Space outside the book.

The night wind howled, and the cold penetrated into the bones, but ghosts, even naked, did not feel the cold.

Gi Benben, Wang Sanpao were sitting around the space book as if they were sitting around a stove. An hour ago, the space book had some changes. Benben said that this was a sign that the people in the book were about to force their way out, so the three of them squatted around the space book for more than an hour.

Seeing that no one had come out yet, Gi couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure they're coming out soon?"

Benben was too lazy to talk nonsense with it now, so he just said "hmm" without even raising his eyelids.

At this moment, the space book emitted a dazzling light, and the three ghosts instinctively closed their eyes and raised their hands to block it.

Two hundred meters away.

Luo Zhiluo and Yi came out of the small dark room. The place where they were standing was pitch black, and they couldn't see their hands in front of them.

"It's so dark, are Gi and the others still here?" Luo Yu said.

As soon as the words fell, the surroundings lit up. Luo Yu looked in the direction of the light and found that it was Luo Zhi behind him who lit a flame in his hand.

Luo Zhi said, "They're just ahead, but we won't go over there yet." He held the flame in his palm in front of Luo Yu, dimming their faces. "Tell me what you want to say to the starving ghosts. This flame can help us convey our words to the minds of every starving ghost that has regained its senses."

Luo Yu's originally haggard face suddenly became energetic after hearing this. He nodded excitedly and began to think about how to say it.

Five minutes later, he said, "Luozhi, I'm a little nervous."

Luo Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Then I should stay away from you?"

Luo Yu shook his head: "No. It's not because you are nervous, I am a little afraid that they will not believe what I say."

Luo Zhi smiled and said, "No, if they don't listen, then I will kill them all. It's the same thing anyway, it just adds the pain of being killed and it takes more time."

When Luo Yu heard this, he had to force himself to believe it even if he didn't want to.

He stared at the flame for a few seconds, pursed his lips, took a deep breath, and said tremblingly:

"My fellow countrymen, I come from the human world. It is now the year 2025. Listen to me now. I know that when you were human, your country was ravaged by war and you lived in poverty. You struggled every day to make ends meet. The houses you lived in were even more vulnerable to the elements, and you lived in fear day and night."

"But things are different now. The world has undergone tremendous changes. Now the country is peaceful and the people are safe. There are no more wars. People no longer worry about food. Every child can read and write. There is no shortage of food. Houses are beautiful and people live happily."

"So, I ask you not to let the cruel memories of your human lives stop you from being reborn as humans. You've been fighting each other day and night here. Although you can't feel hunger or pain, it's time for you to embrace a new life."

"Please believe my words, let go of that memory, and leave here bravely."

"I promise you, there's really no need to chew on tree bark and grass roots anymore. The world is truly beautiful now."

After Luo Yu finished speaking, his lips were still trembling slightly, and his heart was so nervous that it was about to jump out. He was afraid. He was afraid that those starving ghosts would not believe him.

I don’t know how long it was quiet, but suddenly I heard a very light sound of footsteps, and Luo Yu turned around to look.

In the light of the flame, he could vaguely see a ragged figure with one arm missing limping towards him.

Seeing Luo Yu looking at him, he stopped and asked, "You said... you are from 2025?" There was disbelief in his hoarse voice.

Luo Yu was both excited and nervous: "Yes! It's the 1920s now. More than 140 years have passed. It's no longer the era you live in!"

The starving ghost was stunned after hearing this, as if he was recalling something, "More than 140 years... the 20th century... it's been... so long..."

He muttered to himself for a long time, but suddenly laughed. The laughter was both hearty, relieved and bitter. Then, his figure slowly dissipated in the laughter and turned into a dazzling little golden dot.

Stars began to appear in the darkness in the distance, like a large number of fireflies suddenly pouring in.

There are more and more fireflies, and they fly higher and higher, and finally disappear in the night sky, heading to their resting place, waiting for the night to come again, reviving again, and embarking on a new life journey.

Luo Yu looked at them and started to cry unconsciously. He said, "Those that look like fireflies, don't they..."

"Well, they believe you." Luo Zhi took Luo Yu's hand and walked towards where Gi and the others were.

The starving ghosts who had stayed in this desert for nearly two thousand years finally disappeared completely tonight.

At this point, the territory of starving ghosts was eliminated from the underworld.