Chapter 21
When they left the alley and reached the end of the continuous street, Wang Sanpao's ghost crying gradually subsided, and the ghosts watching the alley also comforted their dog master for a few words after they left and then dispersed.
Luo Zhi stopped under a dead tree inside the city gate, released their hands, looked at Wang Sanpao and said, "Get ready, we're going to a place next, where..."
"No need!" Wang Sanpao interrupted, wiping away his tears, and said arrogantly: "As long as you don't abandon me, Grandpa, it doesn't matter if I stay in the coffin for three days, I'm willing!"
“…” Luo Zhi hesitated whether to throw him back.
"Hahaha." Luo Yu came out to smooth things over and waved his hand at Wang Sanpao: "Going into the coffin is too exaggerated. We are just going to the territory of starving ghosts, no..."
"What!?" Wang Sanpao was shocked.
Luo Yu was stunned by his reaction: "...What, what happened?"
Wang Sanpao was shocked. "Go, to the territory of starving ghosts? I won't go! That's not a place for low-level ghosts like me." He looked at Luo Zhi and said, "Grandpa, lock me in the coffin."
Luo Zhi said, "This is not up to you. You have to go whether you want to or not." He paused, "Also, don't call me like that."
Wang Sanpao's eyes were misty and it looked like he was about to cry again.
Luo Zhi showed a look of disgust. Wang Sanpao's crying was really ugly and loud.
Then he said pitifully, "Why?"
Luo Zhi said, "Go and help. Don't worry, I won't let you die."
Having said that, Wang Sanpao was still unwilling to go. He had heard some rumors about the Starving Ghost Territory being a place full of scary ghosts, and it would be difficult to come back once he went there.
"Is it so scary there?" Luo Yu asked curiously.
Wang Sanpao seemed to have seen someone. After all, who in the underworld didn’t know about the territory of starving ghosts, but he didn’t know it?
What the hell is this?
He said, "It's more than just terrifying! They say the ghosts there are people who died of starvation on earth. They're just a bunch of crazy ghosts!"
"Starved to death?" Luo Yu inexplicably became anxious and panicked. He grabbed Luo Zhi's hand and asked, "He means that if you die of starvation as a human, that's where you'll go after death?!"
Luo Zhi was shocked by his reaction and didn't know how to answer for a moment. He could only stand there blankly, with a little blur in his eyes behind the lenses.
Seeing Luo Zhi remained silent, Wang Sanpao answered the question for him: "Yes, that's what Master Benben said. He said that above our underworld, there exists a human world, and that we all become ghosts in the underworld after death. If we died of starvation while still human, we will go to the realm of the starving ghosts."
Wang Sanpao said curiously: "Oh, what kind of place is the human world? How could so many people starve to death? It's so cruel. Fortunately, I'm a ghost."
Luo Yu's face became increasingly worse, almost pale. He had never imagined that people who died of starvation would go to such a cruel place in the underworld.
Wang Sanpao continued, "Oh, yes! I also heard from Master Benben that it's very difficult to return once you enter there. Do you know why?"
Luo Yu's voice was low and a little hoarse: "Why?"
Wang Sanpao shrank back, rubbing the goose bumps on his arms, and said, "Because the ghosts there are contagious!"
Fall and frown.
Wang Sanpao exaggerated his explanation, "If we normal ghosts were accidentally bitten by them, we would become the same kind as them and go completely crazy! We would then spend the whole day biting and hissing at each other!"
He was excited but afraid, and his face became more and more ferocious as he spoke: "It is said that some ghosts there have special fetishes, specifically biting the genitals of male ghosts and the breasts of female ghosts! Hehehe, are you scared? Do you still dare to go there? Is your scalp numb? Are you scared to pee your pants? Hahahahahahaha..."
With a snap!
Wang Sanpao's ferocious laughter came to an abrupt end. He covered his burning left cheek and looked at Luo Zhi, who had slapped him, with tears in his eyes.
Luo Zhi said, "Have you finished talking nonsense?"
Wang Sanpao wiped away the tears that still clung to his face and nodded, "I'm done."
Luo Zhi looked at the absent-minded Luo Yu and said, "The ghosts in that area are indeed the same as he described, but the ghosts in that area have lived for more than two thousand years. Due to their large number, the underworld cannot accommodate them, so they have no choice but to place them there."
"Two thousand years." Luo Yu asked, "How can they live in the underworld for so long?"
Luo Zhi shook his head: "Not completely alive, what's left now are half soul and half body, but many have been reincarnated as human beings."
Luo Yu asked: "Then why didn't you vote for the rest?"
Luo Zhi's eyes were complicated: "I dare not."
Falling with: "?"
Luo Zhi sighed and explained the specific reason to him: "Two thousand years ago, there was a huge catastrophe in the human world. The time of death was almost the same. Ten million ghosts suddenly flooded into the underworld. The posthumous bath was simply unable to accommodate them. Naturally, they did not eliminate the things they had when they were human. So the Ghost King sent them to the wild lands of the northwest to survive."
Luo Yu suddenly remembered something and asked, "Do all the ghosts, both men and women, have long hair?"
Luo Zhi shook his head: "I don't know about this."
Luo Yu felt that his guess was probably accurate, so he stopped asking. He continued with Luo Zhi's previous topic: "So what happened next?"
Luo Zhi said, "They soon began to fight and devour each other, eventually losing their minds and going completely crazy, but one thing remained unchanged."
Luo Yu: "That point?"
Luo Zhi: "The fear they felt when they were human, this fear forced them not to die, not to be reborn as human again."
"Lose your mind." Luo Yu kept repeating this sentence, pondering for a few seconds, "Then is there any way to make them listen?"
As soon as he said this, Luo Zhi guessed what he was going to do. He said, "You want them all to be reincarnated?"
Luo Yu didn't say anything, this was the default.
Luo Zhi lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said, "Yes."
The method was extremely simple: inject a spell into them to restore their sanity. However, there were still at least five or six million starving ghosts left. If there were tens of thousands, it wouldn't be a problem, but with five or six million, Luo Zhi would have to sacrifice at least 60% of his spiritual power.
He can't do it alone, he has to ask the snake ghost for help.
The snake ghost is named Qingqing, and is in charge of rain in the underworld.
As for why her help is needed, it is because she can make it rain. There are a huge number of five or six million ghosts. If the spell is injected into them through the dripping rain, it can be completed quickly.
Luo Zhi placed his hand on Luo Yu's shoulder and said, "When we get there, I will make them come to their senses. Then they will understand everything you say."
Luo Yu said, "But will this harm your body? Forget it. That was just a sudden thought. I didn't say it would definitely happen..."
"No." Luo Zhi said.
"Really?" Luo Yu didn't quite believe it. After all, it sounded like a big project.
Luo Zhi was determined not to let him worry: "Don't worry, it won't hurt me at all."
It's nothing more than a huge loss of spiritual power, but this time they are only entering the territory of starving ghosts to find the ghost under the tree to get the ghost money, that's all, and other troubles are unlikely to occur.
Seeing that he was so sure, Luo Yu didn't know what to say. He frowned and continued to ask, "There was another famine later. According to the calculation of the underworld, about 1,000 years ago, there were more than three million people. What about those ghosts? How were they resettled? Did they also go to the territory of starving ghosts? Also, if they died of starvation later, for example in the past hundred years, would they go there after starving to death?" He spoke the latter part in a very anxious tone.
Luo Zhi raised his hand to relax his frown, and answered them one by one: "The starving ghost territory only has the batch from two thousand years ago. The batch you mentioned a thousand years ago was just like ordinary ghosts. They took the normal bath and lived a new life in the underworld, but now most of them are probably reincarnated as humans. As for the past hundred years, if he hadn't done anything bad in the underworld, he wouldn't have ended up there."
And their luck was really bad, the ghost they were looking for happened to be in the most difficult place in the underworld.
Hearing this, Luo Yu heaved a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Then our luck is very bad."
Luo Zhi nodded, he felt the same way.
Wang Sanpao saw that they kept chattering and he couldn't understand a lot of what they said. He felt a little annoyed and wanted to interject something. But as soon as he opened his mouth, Luo Zhi gave him a look that swallowed the words back. He looked at Luo Zhi with a face that said, "I don't accept it, but I dare not do anything to you."
Luo Zhi simply ignored it and said to Luo Yu, "Let's go. That place is quite far from here. We should try to get back within a month."
Luo Yu nodded and said with a smile: "Well, Wang Sanpao, follow me."
When they were about to step out of the city gate, three ghost aunts suddenly blocked their way like a sudden tornado. Each of them was 155cm tall, looked very aggressive, held brooms in their hands, wore aprons, and smelled bad.
It was obvious that it had just run out of the vegetable market.
Luo Zhi recognized the woman standing in the middle. She was the owner of the vegetable market who asked Wangwang to pay for the cabbage he took from Gui's house last time.
The proprietress pointed a broom at Luo Zhi and shouted angrily, "You little bastard! I finally caught you! You look so spooky, how come you're a thief? If Master Rabbit hadn't been fighting with you, you would have been caught long ago!"
"Tell me, who are you from? This is outrageous! Do you really think we ordinary people are easy to bully? Come here, I want to make a fool of you! So that ordinary people will be on guard against you, a thief!"
“………………”
Luo Yu was dumbfounded.
Wang Sanpao thought the excitement wasn't enough. Before Aunt Ghost could even touch Luo Zhi's hand, he bravely stepped forward and said arrogantly, "We stole something. What can you do to us? Yeah? You're just a powerless little mother, little beauty, little cutie, little baby!"
"Puh!" the woman on the left cursed, "How come thieves nowadays even have such disgusting mouths? How much shit have they eaten?"
Luo Zhi closed his eyes. He had already figured out the cause and process of the incident.
This bastard Wangwang didn’t even pay!
He calmed down his bad mood, pushed the mean-spirited Wang Sanpao aside, and said, "He's mentally retarded, don't talk to him. I sent someone to pay for that cabbage, but he was so busy that he forgot. I'll pay for it now."
Luo Yu glanced at him and wondered how he could be rich now? Where did it come from?
The proprietress snorted disdainfully and said, "You don't need to pay it back. Now all you have to do is follow me to the center of Xiangxu Street and let the ghosts remember your ghostly appearance."
Luo Yuyi was displeased when he heard this. He stood up and said sternly, "That's too much. It wasn't intentional. We'll just compensate you a little more. Your behavior is too insulting."
The three aunts stared with wide eyes and asked in unison: "People? Who?"
Falling and choking.
Luo Zhi pulled Luo Yu behind him, opened his palm, and a gold ingot appeared.
He handed the gold ingot to the proprietress and said, "This is enough."
The three aunts looked at each other, all thinking: He is so generous, could it be that we really misunderstood him?
Ten seconds later, the proprietress coughed twice, took the gold ingot and put it in her pocket. Her attitude changed drastically, and she said in a caring and gentle voice:
"That's enough, but little kid, I still have to advise you not to act like a ghost like this in the future. Luckily, it was me you met. If it was another ghost, you..."
After giving the money, Luo Zhi turned around and walked towards the city gate without stopping for a moment. Luo Yuze pulled Wang Sanpao, who wanted to escape, to follow him.
After leaving the city gate, the three of them walked into the dark and quiet forest together.
This time they walked on a serpentine path that was full of potholes and twists and turns. The fallen leaves on the ground made a rustling sound under their feet, which was very harsh.
Luo Zhi walked in front of them, completely unaware that Luo Yu was still holding Wang Sanpao's hand behind him.
Wang Sanpao said, "Hey, Luoyu, you don't have to be so nice to me. I'm not afraid of walking this way. Logically, I should be the one holding your hand. You look like a greenhorn who has never experienced the world."
Luo Zhi suddenly stopped, turned around, and looked at the two people who were getting along with a gloomy look.
Wang Sanpao's heart pounded and he issued an ominous warning. He quickly pulled his hand out of Luo Yu's hand and hid behind Luo Yu, revealing one eye to stare at the stingy, weird and eccentric handsome ghost in front of him who made him tremble with fear.
Luo Yu just pulled Wang Sanpao just now, but he didn't expect Luo Zhi to be jealous. This is really too pampering. He didn't do anything.
Luo Yu walked up to him and explained to him in sweet words: "Just now he tried to escape, so I held him back. As a result, along the way, I mistook that hand for yours and forgot to let go."
Luo Zhi's mouth twitched twice, and he didn't know how to answer for a moment, so he turned around again, with his hands hanging straight down. He paused for ten seconds, and without waiting for anything, he continued to move forward.
Luo Yu turned his head and waved to Wang Sanpao, indicating him to follow quickly.
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