Chapter 327: Ghost World Civil Service Examination
With the sound of drums beating, the ghost gate slowly opened.
Sikong Qing and Xiao Chujing stepped into the trial field without hesitation. They wanted to enter the ghost realm as quickly as possible. Ye Xiaoman was so honest and kind that she would definitely be bullied by evil ghosts and might be living in dire straits.
I dreamed of Ye Xiaoman crying every night and was almost going crazy.
The world behind the gate is not a city-state, but a huge execution ground.
There is an inaccessible snow-capped mountain in a bitterly cold place, crawling with tortured ghosts whose skin has changed color due to the cold; there is an oil pan with a diameter of several hundred meters, and ghosts are thrown into the boiling oil one by one by the ghosts like fried dough sticks; there are red-hot branding poles, and the tortured people are stuck on them and roasted until they are oozing oil.
Tongue pulling out, skinning, cart crashes...all kinds of torture are available. All you can see are ghosts with feet but no heads, broken tendons and arms, crying and wailing, looking miserable and miserable.
When the Qingzheng Sect monks and demonic cultivators saw hell appearing before their eyes, their faces turned pale and those with poor mental qualities began to retch.
After passing the execution ground, a sea appeared in front of us. What was rushing in the sea was not sea water, but dark water from the Yellow Spring.
A judgment hall stands on a sea reef, with the word "Fengdu" written on a stone plaque.
A King of Hell with a black face and a big beard sat in the court, looking down at the visitors who were as tiny as ants.
"Who is coming?"
Sikong Qing kicked the ghost judge who was blocking the way away, "Your Grandpa Sikong."
Xiao Chujing swung his sword and knocked down the Ox-Head and Horse-Face on both sides, "We are going to enter the ghost realm."
The King of Hell angrily shouted, "How dare you! You dare to enter the ghost world? You must endure the suffering of the eighteen levels of hell. I am the governor of the first level of hell, and I have come to meet you first."
He slammed the gavel, and a snow-capped mountain pressed down on the monks. Sikong Qing and others came to their senses and found that they were already at the foot of the snow-capped mountain. The snow-capped mountain was frozen for thousands of miles, and there was no end in sight on the snowy road. The cold wind was biting and the cold was unbearable.
My skin was swollen and cracked from the cold, and my feet felt like they were weighed down by a weight. Every step forward exhausted all my strength.
The King of Hell snorted coldly in the void: "There are a total of 128 levels of punishment in this level of hell. How many of them can you survive in my hands?"
Snowflakes fell, and Xiao Chujing and Sikong Qing looked at each other. After a long period of confrontation, they had developed a tacit understanding as enemies and could read the meaning in each other's eyes at a glance.
Sikong Qing raised his hand and said in a deep voice, "Form a formation."
The demon cultivators dispersed in a well-trained manner.
Xiao Chujing nodded to the senior sister and others, and the fellow disciples took their positions and set up a defensive formation to prevent an avalanche.
Xiao Chujing drew out his life sword and nailed it to the snow, then took out an attack talisman given by the Supreme Elder and stuck it on the hilt.
"Red flames burning the sky, open!"
The snow mountain suddenly turned into a sea of fire, the snow water melted into magma, pouring down from the top of the mountain, and the arduous battle began.
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While the men were bleeding and sweating, what was Ye Xiaoman doing so heartlessly?
She is taking the civil service exam.
That’s right, there are civil service exams in the ghost realm too.
The Ghost Lord is eager to recruit talents, so there is an examination site on the mine, which is open to all miners. As long as you have comprehensive development in morality, physical fitness, intelligence, aesthetics and labor, and have full confidence in your cultural and martial arts, you can apply for the exam.
Once you pass the exam, you can be promoted from a miner to a ghost soldier, and embark on the career development path of "ghost soldier - ghost messenger - ghost general - ghost commander - ghost king".
The ghost world pays salaries, as well as public service benefits similar to the five insurances and one fund, and gives out large gift packages of grain and oil during holidays, which is really enviable.
After Ye Xiaoman became the mining boss, she did not order others to work for her. After three days of hard work, she could not bear the hardship of mining and began to think about ways to stop working.
She found that the most leisurely people on the construction site were the ghost workers. All they had to do every day was to curse people and whip them to work. It was simply her dream job.
Ye Xiaoman inquired about the positions of the low-level ghost soldiers and learned that humans could also apply, so she immediately went to the foreman to sign up.
Two days later, she showed up at the examination hall.
The first one is a written test to examine the applicant's cultural level.
The candidates sat in their seats and the invigilator distributed the test papers and pens and ink.
Ye Xiaoman got the test paper and saw the first question, which tested the interpretation of classic poems and books. There were three questions in total.
——……A wise and virtuous person likes something in his heart, and it is expressed in his words as well, and he can truly tolerate it.
What the hell is this? Why are the beautiful Chinese characters so unfamiliar? Many of them don’t look like Chinese characters at all!
Skip questions you don’t know the answer to.
Ye Xiaoman thought about it, and finally grabbed the pen and wrote "Solution:" in the blank space. Her teacher in the previous life said that when you encounter a math problem you don't know how to solve, just write the word "Solution" followed by a colon. If you are lucky, you can get 0.5 points.
Turning to the second page, there was a history theory test. The first question was about Pingrong. Ye Xiaoman asked, "What is Pingrong?"
——In the past, a famous scholar had the theory of "five baits and three signs". People at that time ridiculed it as superficial, but the Ji family used it to dominate the four regions, and the theory was indeed effective...
Ye Xiaoman smiled sadly, turned to the last page, and finally understood a question.
She raised her hand, and when the examiner came over, she pointed to the words "intimately concealing each other, the truth is in it" and said indignantly:
"Teacher, I suspect the questioner is promoting some kind of orange color. Kissing and going straight into it, can it appear in such a serious occasion?"
The examiner took a deep breath and calmed down his desire to beat Ye Xiaoman. "Illiterate people can hand in their papers early."
"Okay."
The second round is the interview, which is the most important one. It mainly tests the comprehensive quality of the applicants and the score accounts for 60% of the total score.
Ye Xiaoman felt that as long as she performed well, she could turn the tables, so she participated with a very good attitude.
The examiners were in a small, closed room. Those whose numbers were called went in for the interview, while the others stood in the corridor waiting.
Ye Xiaoman was standing in the middle of the line, waiting excitedly. She saw that the interviewees were full of confidence before they went in, but all looked dejected when they came out.
"I did some statistics. The first 20 people entered, and all 20 of them received zero points. The elimination rate for this round is 100%."
"Alas, the questions asked by the examiner are too tricky. I can only apply for the exam again."
Ye Xiaoman's expression gradually became serious.
Finally her number was called, and she walked into the small room with four other candidates.
There was a row of tables in the middle of the room, with five ghost messengers sitting behind them, holding the examinees' score sheets in their hands.
"Everyone's here, right? Listen carefully. This question tests your basic understanding of the ghost world. If you answer incorrectly, you won't be interviewed again and will be eliminated."
The ghost sitting in the middle said so.
The level of the candidates this time was too low. In addition, the person who came in this time was a human with an honest face. The ghost did not hold any hope and read the questions quickly and impatiently.
"Suppose you were a ghost cultivator, sneaking into the human world and wiping out an entire family of cultivators. You conducted a carpet search of the murder scene and discovered a survivor, the five-year-old descendant of this cultivator."
"If a child kneels down and kowtows, saying he is willing to forget his hatred and take you as his adoptive mother/father, what should you do?"
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