Chapter 57
"Hey, time to wake up."
As soon as the voice entered his ears, Luo Yu suddenly opened his eyes, and his pupils dilated when he saw the scene in front of him.
He entered the underworld and was now standing in the hall of the ghost palace, with the King of Ghosts sitting in front of him.
"Have you come to your senses?" asked the Ghost King.
Luo Yu had no words for him, but asked, "Where is Luo Zhi?"
The Ghost King snorted coldly, "You won't see him again. He was willing to break the rules of the underworld, even to the point of being nailed to death, to save your lives. And yet, you, the beneficiary, are still living in a half-dead state. Do you think you deserved him?"
"Where is he now?" Luo Yu stepped forward, approaching the Ghost King step by step, "Call him out, call him out!"
The Ghost King sat on the red-gold dragon chair, crossed his arms, and roared at him. Just when Luo Yu was half a meter away from him, he kicked him away.
Luo Yu was kicked to the ground, his arms began to bleed, and the pain began to spread to every nerve in his body.
Luo Yu gasped in pain, slowly got up from the ground, lowered his head and said sincerely: "Where is Luo Zhi now? I have a lot to ask him, please tell me."
"Dead."
The Ghost King said these two words in a very light tone, as if he was just humming casually.
Luo Yu was a little confused, "...what do you mean?"
The Ghost King stood up and walked towards him, circling around him as he spoke, "Chishan's soul was damaged, Northwest's spiritual power was greatly damaged, and Gnawing Hell tortured him to the point of utterly shattering his soul. What do you mean by this?"
With every word the Ghost King spoke, Luo Yu's body temperature dropped by one degree. He thought of the last few times he had seen Luo Zhi, who was ice-cold all over and looked extremely bad.
Luo Yu trembled and asked, "...Why was he tortured to death by the Gnawing Prison?"
The Ghost King stopped to his left and said, "There are rules in the underworld. If a ghost kills someone, he will be sent to the Gnawing Hell, where he will be tortured until his body turns into a pile of mud. Then his soul will be shattered and he will never be able to reincarnate."
"So, you'll never see him again."
Luo Yu stared at the Ghost King until his nose started to feel sore and his eyes began to tear up uncontrollably. Then he said, "You will save him, right?"
The Ghost King said, "He doesn't even have a chance to be reborn. How can we save him?"
Luo Yu shook his head, not knowing whether it was because the tears blocked his vision or if there was something wrong with his eyes, but everything he saw was blurry. But he didn't believe it. He didn't believe that Luo Zhi died like this. He didn't believe that Luo Zhi died like this!
"Luo Yu, remember to live a good life after you go back."
"Luo Yu, remember to live a good life after you go back."
"Luo Yu, remember to live a good life after you go back."
The last words Luo Zhi said to him that day instantly exploded in his mind, burning his head and his heart with pain...
"Luo Zhi!" Luo Yu suddenly shouted at the air, as if that would be enough to call him out, "Luo Zhi! Luo Zhi! Luo Zhi!"
The Ghost King stood beside him and listened to him yelling until his voice became quieter. Then he spoke, "Listen, I asked you to come here tonight to tell you the truth, not to drive you crazy."
"The truth? What truth?" Luo Yu was a little unsteady on his feet, his pale face soaked with tears, looking extremely decadent. He cried and said, "I don't want the truth, I don't want the truth, I want Luo Zhi back, I want Luo Zhi back..."
The Ghost King said, "Don't you want to know what happened to those three people who died recently in your world?"
Luo Yu could no longer stand and fell directly to the ground, looking up at the Ghost King. His sobs filled the hall.
The Ghost King continued to speak, ignoring his cries, "There is a forbidden technique in the underworld called 'life for life'. Luo Zhi used this forbidden technique to exchange the lives of your entire family, so those three people died."
Luo Yu also vaguely guessed the answer. After all, it was all too coincidental, but there had always been a lack of conclusive evidence.
Now, the evidence was laid out before him, and he was the culprit of everything.
After all, everything is still caused by him.
And Luo Zhi continued to lie to him until his death.
Perhaps from beginning to end, only the fact that he is Guanzi is true, and nothing else is true.
Thinking of this, Luo Yu suddenly laughed out loud, tears streaming down his face even more violently, "So that's how it is... So the fate you fear is to let me live on at the cost of someone else's life, but what's the point of that... what's the point of that!"
Luo Yu suddenly grabbed the Ghost King's robe like a madman and yelled at him: "Who told you to do this without permission?! Did you get my consent?! This is my fate! I don't need you to change it!"
The Ghost King did not show any impatience towards Luo Yu for mistaking him for Luo Zhi. He looked at Luo Yu's almost crazy state and felt relaxed all over.
Luo Zhi wanted to conceal the fact of exchanging lives, but as a father, he could not bear to watch his child silently give and sacrifice himself just to fulfill others.
Therefore, he wanted Luo and his entire family to know about the life-swapping incident, and he wanted their entire family to spend their entire lives in guilt.
The Ghost King said, "It's not easy to exchange lives. Luo Zhi has suffered too much for your family, so you must live well for him in the future."
Luo Yu was still clinging to the Ghost King's robe tightly, and his hideous, disheveled, and miserable appearance was fully displayed on him.
"Luozhi, we have deprived them of their right to live, so we are the ones who should die."
"Luo Zhi, none of the three of them deserved to die. It's us who deserved to die."
"I am what I should be, but you want me to live with five lives on my shoulders. How can I live like this?"
The Ghost King didn't say anything else and let him go crazy and struggle.
"Can you please continue to lie to me, Luo Zhi?" Luo Yu raised his head and cried bitterly, "Please continue to lie to me, please continue to lie to me, please continue to lie to me, I beg you..."
Luo Yu's voice was hoarse at this time, "You said that we would separate one day. I know, and I am willing to do so, but I don't want to separate like this! I don't want your soul to be scattered! I don't want you to exchange your life for ours. I don't want it, I don't want it, I don't want any of this!"
Luo Yu was still crying, but now that things had come to this, there was no turning back.
There was nothing he could do now but accept it.
He will have to walk the rest of the road alone, carrying this responsibility for the rest of his life.
Maybe he will let it go very early, or maybe he will never let it go in his entire life.
The Ghost King raised his head and sighed. This farce of "coming to the underworld to open a small store in the human world for a year" finally came to an end at this moment.
The Ghost King knocked Luo Yu unconscious and sent him back to the human world. The passage to the underworld was also completely closed tonight.
Inside the Ghost Mansion's hall, the cries and shouts faded, leaving only the Ghost King. He sat back on the dragon throne and shouted, "Wang Sanpao."
Wang Sanpao rushed in immediately after hearing the order. His face was still the same as before, a young face. The only change was that he had a pink pig tail on his lower back.
"I'm here! What are your orders, Ghost King?"
The Ghost King asked, "How's the search for Rumohua going?"
Wang Sanpao shouted, "Report to the Ghost King! The search isn't going very well! We're still searching, but I believe that with Ben'er and I searching tirelessly, we'll definitely find it!"
The Ghost King said, "One month. If you can't find it after one month, the flower will wither and will not appear again until five hundred years later."
When Wang Sanpao heard this, he felt the pressure was as great as a mountain. "If I send more ghost hands, I will definitely find it within a month!"
The Ghost King nodded and said, "Go down. If I don't see the Rumo flower within a month, you'll be prepared to go to the northwest and blow the northwest wind for the rest of your lives."
Luo Yu was awakened by the strong light of the sun. He lifted his heavy eyelids and quickly closed them again. After a few seconds, he finally opened his eyes.
The white ceiling came into view, and the sunlight stung his eyes, causing him to feel pain. He suddenly felt dazed, but soon, what happened last night emerged clearly in his mind again.
He pulled up the quilt to cover his head, trying hard not to let his parents hear his crying.
But crying was useless, struggling was useless, doing anything was useless. There was no time machine in this world, and he could not change anything.
"Luo Zhi, you died because of me, and others died because of me. Why do you torture me like this...Luo Zhi..."
Luo Yu deliberately lowered his voice and murmured in pain under the quilt, but he didn't realize that his voice was so hoarse that no one could hear every word he said.
There was a noise outside the living room. Xu Xiaoxia was about to knock on his door. Luo Yu lifted the quilt, opened the window, and took a few breaths to adjust himself.
He went into the bathroom before Xu Xiaoxia knocked on the door, maybe he could just take it easy.
Luo Yu turned on the faucet on the sink and looked at his swollen eyes and pale face without a trace of blood in the mirror. The more he looked, the more creepy he felt, as if there was a child inside his body silently crying for help.
And he was the devil, the devil who took his life.
Is he still himself now?
Does he really want to live well?
Why should he live well by taking other people's lives?
What are his qualifications?
The child's hideous face pleading for help appeared in the mirror, and the bloody hands were about to break out of the mirror and strangle him to death.
Luo Yu's breathing began to quicken. He didn't want to resist. He just wanted to do nothing and let him strangle him to death. This was what he deserved.
There was a razor on the sink, and Luo Yu tried hard to restrain his restless hands from touching it.
At this moment, □□ started a fight with his soul. The sweat oozing from Luo Yu's forehead slid down his brow bone and dripped into his eyes, stinging his eyes and causing them to burn with pain.
Water was flowing out of the faucet. Luo Yu wanted to touch some water to wash his eyes, but as soon as he moved his hand, he would be distracted and he would pick up the razor and smash the child in the mirror to death.
Can't move.
He warned himself in his heart.
More and more sweat dripped into his eyes. Luo Yu wanted to close his eyes, but if he did so, he would be escaping.
If he couldn't even endure this little bit of pain, what about the people who died because of him? Would the child in the mirror be particularly confused as to why such a weak person took his life?
Luo Yu's eyes were so sore that they hurt. As he sweated more and more, Luo Yu felt that it was not enough. He should sprinkle some chili powder on his eyes to completely ruin them.
If possible, he would rather not live and die now.
But when he thought about his parents seeing his cold body, he didn't dare to die.
However, his parents' lives were also paid for, but they didn't know it. Are they... guilty?
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