Xu Xiaoyu ran backwards very quickly, spitting as he ran, until his mouth was dry.
She planned to run to the main road as she had thought before. Although there were few people on the wide streets in the early morning, at least it would not be as deserted as here.
Maybe it would be safer to go to a place where there are more people.
The old man stared at Xu Xiaoyu with gloomy eyes. Without seeing any movement, he suddenly appeared in another location and easily avoided Xu Xiaoyu's saliva attack again.
Xu Xiaoyu was both scared and anxious. The wound on the tip of her tongue was almost swollen from the pain, and trickles of blood were flowing out because of the movement of her pursed lips.
In the dim light, the old man moved closer to the left and right, and the distance between the two people was rapidly shortened.
Xu Xiaoyu groped in her bag with her trembling hands and touched a small square, flat box. She paused for a moment and quickly took the box out.
It's a small matchbox.
This was a box of matches given to Chen Manyin by the store when she bought her birthday cake last week for her birthday. It was more of a nostalgic fun. Xu Xiaoyu thought it was fun, so she put it in her bag.
Are ghosts afraid of fire?
Xu Xiaoyu quickly took out a match and lightly struck the side of the matchbox. A faint yellow light emitting a warm feeling was held in the palm of his hand.
"snort."
The old man snorted coldly, as if sneering at her arrogance, and dodged the thrown matchstick, moving closer to Xu Xiaoyu.
Even if the ghost was really afraid of fire, his speed was so fast that Xu Xiaoyu couldn't accurately throw the match at him.
The first time I was sprayed with saliva was just a small accident.
“Ah! Help!”
Seeing the old man appear right in front of him in just a few breaths as if he had teleported, Xu Xiaoyu's saliva ran dry, and the match was shaken out of its socket. He gathered up his last bit of courage, closed his eyes, opened his mouth, and let out a deafening scream that reached the sky!
"I have money! I have money! I'll give it all to you, one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand!"
Xu Xiaoyu gave in completely and finally realized that his life was more important than money.
What? She doesn't have that much money and can't pay it?
This old man doesn’t know that she has no money!
Delay as long as you can. If you delay, you may find a chance to be rescued.
"Humph, it's too late! I don't want your money now, I just want your life!"
As the old man spoke, his face gradually distorted and resentment gradually appeared in his eyes.
Before, he looked more like a weird old man with a bad temper than a ghost, but now he really looked like a sinister and evil ghost.
Something has changed quietly without anyone noticing.
"ah--"
Xu Xiaoyu held her head with both hands, opened her eyes, and saw the resentful and distorted face so close to her. Age spots and deep wrinkles were twisted together, and the sharp eyes became cloudy. She was frightened out of her wits.
"Pooh!"
Then he spat out the last mouthful of saliva containing blood from the tip of his tongue towards that face.
"ah!"
This time it was the old man who screamed in pain and covered his face with his hands, which was covered with saliva and blood foam.
Xu Xiaoyu swallowed and ran away.
The old man caught up quickly. The skin on his face was loose and the flesh was turned inside out. His hands had turned into claws with long, sharp fingers. He no longer looked like a "human" and became even more insane and violent.
"Hey, who is it? It's so noisy late at night. Did something happen?" An elderly female voice sounded from behind the shadow of the tree.
Judging from the sound, the other party seemed to be walking slowly. There was an old residential building next to his location, and the side door was open a crack.
She came out of that residential building.
“Help! Help!”
Xu Xiaoyu screamed.
The old man who was chasing her from behind paused, and his cloudy eyes became a little clearer, like a person who had fallen into a deep sleep and was suddenly awakened.
He stared at Xu Xiaoyu's back, then his figure swayed slightly and disappeared quietly.
…………
Surrounded by colorful clouds, in a dreamlike world.
A woman with long straight black hair, a white shirt and a black skirt, whose long hair covered her face, led the way, with hundreds of people floating behind her, quickly shuttling through the sea of clouds.
It was a temporary worker who led a group of new ghosts to work.
Luo Zheyu and the young girl were also in the team.
"Is it cold?"
Luo Zheyu asked the girl lying on his back.
The other party pursed her pale lips and shook her head. Then she realized that Luo Zheyu couldn't see her actions, and quickly replied in a hoarse and dry voice: "It's not cold."
How can it not be cold?
Luo Zheyu is a soul and has no body temperature. Even when he touches a living person, he will make the other person feel cold. After carrying the girl on his back for more than ten minutes, the girl's body temperature dropped quickly.
But there was nothing that could be done about it. The temporary worker was now leading all the ghosts to where they had to work. The ghosts were all on their way, floating all the way. The girl was a living person and could only walk and run, not float. Naturally, she could not catch up.
With Luo Zheyu around, the temporary workers and other ghosts were intimidated by his powerful and condensed soul power and could barely ignore the living girl and not hurt her. But if the girl left Luo Zheyu's sight, the ghosts in the dark world would never do anything good to her.
I can only take her with me to where the ghosts work.
That’s right, work.
After the ghosts woke up from their coma, someone special was sent by the dark government to explain the rules of the dark world.
Reincarnation is the ultimate reward, and work standards and years of service are used to determine the sins and rewards during one’s lifetime.
The ghosts who voluntarily take the bus to the dark world all desire to be reincarnated, and there is no objection to this.
The more mistakes and evil deeds one commits in life, the longer one will need to work in the dark world, and one must also ensure the quality of the work. If all is completed, one can be reincarnated.
On the contrary, ghosts who did many good deeds during their lifetime will be rewarded with shorter working hours and will be reincarnated faster.
Compared with the punishments in the eighteen levels of hell in the underworld, this punishment for evildoers is simply not painful at all.
This system of rewards and punishments is actually quite new to the dark world.
Everything started to change five years ago.
At the intersection of the dark world and the human world, a large area of death appeared.
Dead air is different from yin energy. It cannot be absorbed by ghosts, and it is not the energy that ghosts possess. However, dead air can disrupt yin energy and the human world.
It spread and grew unbridled at the intersection, making it impossible to close the passage between the human world and the dark world. A large amount of negative energy passed through the dead energy and flowed into the human world, mixing with the human world.
These negative energies mixed with the air of death also become different. After being absorbed by the ghosts stranded in the human world, they will become more violent, lose their reason, and fall into madness. They will not recognize their relatives in their lifetime and only know how to kill, becoming thorough evil ghosts.
What's more serious is that after the Yin energy mixed with the dead air and the Yang energy of the human world for a long time, there is a tendency for it to return to chaos.
Although this transformation will take a very long time to achieve, it should not be underestimated.
The dark world tried many ways, but could not completely and quickly eliminate the death energy. They could only use the dumbest method, which was to let the ghosts use their own power to "grind" away the death energy bit by bit.
Compared with the area of dead air and the speed at which ghosts consume it, dead air is undoubtedly a huge thing. Although it is just a drop in the bucket and the road is as long as Yugong moving mountains, this is the only way.
The job of the ghosts in the dark world is to go to the place where the death energy is to mine... Oh no, to consume the death energy.
As for those ghosts stranded in the human world... the dark world does not have too much energy to control them for the time being. The dark world must first eliminate the root cause of everything. Otherwise, many years later, the world will return to chaos, and all living and dead souls will cease to exist and be conceived again.
Luo Zheyu vaguely understood why he was called to this world.
However, I haven’t seen what dead air looks like yet, so I don’t know if this problem can be solved.
He shook his right sleeve lightly, and something appeared out of thin air in his hand, which he handed to the girl on his back.
"Eat it."
The girl took it tremblingly. Although she felt that Luo Zheyu had no ill intentions after waking up, she was still afraid.
After all, there are ghosts everywhere.
Including the man who was carrying her on his back, who looked like a high school boy, was not a living person.
She didn't understand what the other party wanted to do.
The fruit that he received from the other person was round and smooth, with a bright red color, and was covered with a translucent layer like honey, which made the fruit look particularly tempting.
It also looks like a photo with bright colors adjusted, the colors are so beautiful that they seem unreal.
The girl had never seen such a fruit before. Of course, it might be because she was ignorant, but more importantly, she felt that this fruit might be exclusive to the ghost world and possessed some strange power. If you eat it, you will become a ghost and can never go back...
She looked at the back of Luo Zheyu's head, then at the fruit in her hand, and said anxiously:
“…I’m not hungry…”
"Eat, your stomach is growling."
Luo Zheyu did not take her feelings into consideration, but instead exposed the fact that her stomach was rumbling.
"By the way, don't drip on me."
The cold words slapped at his face, so mercilessly.
“…”
The girl plucked up her courage and took a bite.
The sweet smell spread out instantly, but the girl just swallowed the piece of fruit pulp and waited for a minute in fear. She didn't find that she was suddenly bleeding from all seven orifices or her soul was leaving her body. Then she slowly exhaled.
At this moment, a warm current flowed through the body, which was warm and comfortable, and rescued the girl's body which was almost cold and stiff.
…………
Xu Xiaoyu ran towards the place where the sound came from, crying with joy, as if she had met a long-lost relative.
However, when she was about to get close to the other person, she suddenly hesitated.
Why are these old men and women not sleeping in the middle of the night and like to hang out outside?
I'm afraid there will be another "hundred thousand"...
The dark figure who was walking towards this side tremblingly with a cane did not hear any response and began to mutter to himself: "Oh, I am getting old, I have to accept my old age."
"After burning the paper money, you even forgot about the basin for burning things. What else can an old woman like me do? Alas, I can only pity my grandson..."
!!!
Burning paper money again! And the basin again!
It really is another “one hundred thousand”!
Are you two, an old couple, a man and a woman, out to rob?
You two old men have become ghosts now, and worldly money is of no use to you, so why bother with it?
Life is already difficult enough, please don't make it harder on her!
Xu Xiaoyu turned his mad pace and ran faster in another direction.
He exerted all his strength, swung his legs in the air, and wished his feet could turn into Hot Wheels so that he could fly away from here in a flash.
“Beep, beep, beep…”
The sirens that made people feel more secure suddenly sounded.
Xu Xiaoyu held her heart with both hands, tears welled up in her eyes with excitement.
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