Chapter 151 (Chapter 151) *Smack*...
*Smack*
Ajarn turned his head in the opposite direction.
Just before he turned his head, he saw Ping Yu frozen in time, slapping someone. The girl raised her hand, her face cold: "Sorry, people have two hands."
Taking advantage of Ajarn's momentary daze, she yanked her hand away. Pingyu kept rubbing the back of her hand against the clothes behind her, almost rubbing her skin red. As if to relieve her tension, her lips kept opening and closing as she spoke: "I already said I was helping you interpret the fortune, what do you mean by sexual harassment? I have a boyfriend, and I have no interest in tattooed, non-mainstream middle-aged men."
Ajarn slowly turned around, but his face did not show any anger at being slapped by a woman.
"You're really good at enduring it," Pingyu looked at his palm and wondered if he hadn't slapped himself hard enough.
She looked at him and, noticing that Ajarn was still smiling, became furious: "What exactly do you want?!"
Like a dog, Ajarn brought the hand he had just held to Pingyu's nose and sniffed it. Pingyu felt a chill run down his spine, his stomach churned, and he felt like vomiting. After a long while, Ajarn finally answered, "Will you marry me?"
Pingyu: ?
Did I hear that right?
That was so sudden.
Ping Yu had a "Are you out of your mind?" look on his face, while Hun Tian Ling stroked the edge of the Qiankun Ring like a hand, with both of their magical artifacts tilting their heads at the same time.
“Don’t look at me like that, fairy.” Ajarn pointed to his eyes and asked, “Do you know that after a person passes through the underworld, their eyes can see both the living and the dead?”
"Why are you telling me this?" Ping Yu was startled, not expecting the other person to know her identity. But thinking about it carefully, it made sense, since he had targeted her and Nezha as a volunteer back in Baishui Street.
But this person is really strange.
The dirty and shameful things Ajarn did were all under the watchful eyes of the gods; it was unclear whether it was a provocation or a conspiracy.
Karma is the puppet rope that Ajarn uses to control others. Ping Yu is afraid that Ajarn will manipulate them to commit suicide like in a horror movie and then blame it all on her.
This is truly a situation where one is utterly speechless.
Her random thoughts abruptly stopped. Pingyu's eyelids trembled, and her attention returned. In the instant her pupils contracted, she saw the change in Ajarn's eyes. His fingers, like needles, injected ink into his own eyeballs, starting from the meridians around his eyes.
In an instant, Ajarn's whites and pupils turned completely black.
As his eyes darted around, the statues on the wall also turned their gazes, making Ping Yu feel as if he were in the center of a honeycomb made up of countless deep caves.
Ajarn continued, “Ordinary spirit crossings simply require a guide to take a person’s soul to the underworld to find their relatives. But true spirit crossings are when a person is about to die, they personally go to the underworld and return. You know, I’ve killed ghost messengers.”
She made the traffic officer's gesture to stop the vehicle and took out her phone. Pingyu typed in the information on the search software word by word, her eyes scanning the science article at a glance, and said, "Thailand doesn't have ghost messengers, only eighteen judges. If you kill a judge, Yama won't let you off."
Yama is the deity in Thai Tantric Buddhism who governs death, and legend says his duty is to bind sinners. If we're talking about those with heinous sins, Ajarn, who creates amulets for people, would be the first. Pingyu didn't listen carefully to Ajarn's words and missed the key point. Tantric Buddhism also doesn't have a hell, only a place of judgment called "Naroka." Both the deities and the wording Ajarn used were far too Chinese for a Thai person.
As expected, Ajarn said something that Pingyu never expected: "I killed the ghost messengers here."
......
Pingyu's expression twisted.
Two people die every second in the human world, and 172,800 people pass away every day. How can the few officials like Ox-Head and Horse-Face, and Black and White Impermanence keep up with all these dead souls? Therefore, every year the underworld recruits some souls who have made minor mistakes to work as temporary workers, guiding them from the human world into the underworld to cleanse their sins. Once they have fulfilled their quota, they can be reincarnated.
The "ghost messengers" mentioned by Ajarn are definitely not the Black and White Impermanence.
Presumably, he killed those souls who had been recruited.
The adults below were all quite humane, extremely protective of their own, and vengeful. Ajarn killed the ghost messenger and had previously claimed to have been a ghost himself, so why wasn't he judged then?
"Then how did you...?"
Ping Yu made no attempt to hide the weariness on his face.
"Do you know that there are borders between countries?" Ajarn asked, overturning the cold tea on the table. He dipped his brush in the tea and drew two circles on the table, symbolizing two territories, then drew a horizontal line in the middle. He said, "I died of old age in this country. When I died, your ghost messengers came and wanted to take me away. But I didn't want to die like that, so I killed them with my magic weapon."
Ping Yu was well aware that ordinary ghosts didn't have many abilities.
“I killed the ghost messenger, which is a serious crime. However, because I am a foreigner and have considerable magical powers, the local underworld cannot punish me. But since I committed the crime abroad, Naroka will not accept me, fearing that I will be branded as ‘unjust and selfish.’”
They're exploiting a bug!
Ajarn says he died of old age, but he looks to be only in his early twenties. It seems that seeking the infinite within the finite is human nature; people of all nationalities pursue longevity.
Even if the underworld doesn't accept his soul, his body should have aged and decayed over time. But how did he manage to rejuvenate himself? Besides...
"You killed the ghost messenger, why are you asking me to marry you?"
This is the most baffling part.
“Because I saw you,” Ajarn winked, trying to look cute. His face was eerie, but when he acted cute, it could probably stop a child from crying at night. He said, “Although I don’t know why you came here, I noticed you the moment you entered White Water Street. You have both the spiritual energy of Taoism and are entangled with ghosts. You and I are a match made in heaven!”
oh.
That's terrifying! It turns out that "fairy" wasn't because Ajarn knew her name, but because he was just saying nice things.
Pingyu's face was no longer distorted.
“A man who owns territory is a king. If you become my wife, we can become the new crown prince in Naroka. I am Yama, and you can become my Yama.”
Who is Yan Mi?
Pingyu quickly took out his phone and searched again:
It turns out that Yanmi was Yama's wife.
Yama governs male ghosts, and Yama-mi governs female ghosts.
Legend has it that Yama was a king of the Kingdom of Bisha before entering the underworld. Defeated in battle, he entered hell with eighteen subordinates. Wherever there are people and beings in control, that is a "kingdom," and this is the kind of outlandish idea Ajarn was plotting—a classic case of switching the prince with a cat.
Upon hearing this, Pingyu finally understood why the Ghost Gate had sent her back to the modern world.
Her and Nezha's entry into Baishui Street was not Ajarn's plan, but a coincidence. Pingyu belatedly realized that perhaps this was the last of the twenty-four ghosts who were absent. Naroka allowed Ajarn's ambition to swell because the true Yama kings of Tibet needed him to commit enough crimes to inform the ghosts of the underworld. Even if a wicked soul escaped to a foreign land, it would be useless; Naroka would transfer the power of law enforcement to the foreign office for judgment.
Ping Yu, burdened by the Ghost Gate, is just one lifetime away from ascending to godhood. Unlike the wandering souls who are outsourced, she is an official appointed by Heaven. Her mission is to eliminate evil in the human world, and since Ajarn dared to attack Ping Yu, she can act first and report later.
oops.....
Pingyu was actually getting a little annoyed by the man's rambling.
If she could, she would have the Hun Tian Ling and Qian Kun Quan killed him right now. But Ping Yu still needed to figure out the origin of these ghost children, and ideally, dismantle the entire industry chain. Judging from A-Zan's appearance, he was the type who responded better to gentle persuasion than force. If she angered him, he might unleash a barrage of attacks on her with all the mortals on Bai Shui Street, which would be troublesome.
Pingyu had no choice but to go along with Ajarn.
Her expression remained hard and cold, but her tone softened somewhat.
She made two requests: "You need to give me time to think about it in my room."
Ping Yu emphasized the following sentence:
"Let my boyfriend come too."
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