Cannibalism

The bull head in Fanchuan Ghost Domain was originally the envoy of the King of Hades.

Nowadays, the number of living beings and dead souls in the world is increasing day by day, and the two ghosts with a bull head and a horse face can no longer cope with such a situation full of ghosts, so the ghost world has formed a special mechanism for ghosts to seduce souls.And Niutou Mamian has also been promoted. In addition to managing ghosts and ghosts, they also have jurisdiction over one ghost domain.There is no need to go to Yan Luodian every day, just handle official business in their respective ghost domains.

The end of Fanchuan, the Styx River, is the hinterland of Huangquan.

Yuan Shiren and Xie Sheng got off the wooden boat and came to a deserted street.There are two rows of white candle lamps standing beside the street, with faint blue and green fireworks floating on the lamps, making this night more quiet.

Unlike the human world, there are no chattering cicadas in the summer of Huangquan.

A little more lifeless feeling.

"The weather here is hot and dry." Yuan Shiren shook his neckline and fanned a gust of wind, "It's hotter than Tianyan Mountain during the day."

Fanchuan Ghost Domain was being scorched by an inexplicably strong hellfire, and the ground was boiling hot at the moment, and the two of them felt like they were in a red-hot iron pot.

"In the past, there were lively ghost markets in the middle of the month." Xie Sheng stood on the dry shore and looked ahead, "It seems that the unshakable ghost market transactions have been forced to stop by this drought."

Right now, the ghostly wind is turbulent and hot, and each cyan stone floor tile is covered with a few cracked streaks.

They could only see a few wandering ghosts on the road sporadically.

After a while, they found Yong Chuan in front of a ghost domain store.

Yong Chuan was holding a wooden box in his hand, and was sitting under the steps of the store chewing some food. When he saw the two people approaching, he waved and said, "I have a box of manjusawagan here. It's delicious. You can try it." ?”

Manjusawa mostly grows on the banks of the Styx River, and has the meaning of blood and death.It is a flower that people avoid in the human world, but it is a much-loved specialty in the ghost world.

Now that the ground fire is raging, patches of manjusawa are withered and withered, so the ghost merchants put them on the ground and bake them dry to sell to the residents here.

"Buying and selling in the ghost world requires ghost coins." Xie Sheng didn't realize that there were many empty wooden boxes lying beside Yong Chuan until he stood beside Yong Chuan, "Have you eaten so many boxes?"

"The proprietress saw how pitiful I was alone in the ghost world, so she gave me a lot." Yong Chuan raised his hand, "Try it quickly."

Yuan Shijin didn't have a flower mouth, so the only one who could taste it was Xie Sheng.Xie Sheng knew for the first time that the flower of the underworld could be made into a dried fruit, so he put it in his mouth curiously.

"Well, I didn't expect this dried flower to be delicious, sweet and sour." Xie Sheng wanted to eat more, but when he reached out, he found that the whole box had been eaten by the iron-eating beast.

Tobishijin suddenly lowered his eyes and sighed: "The piranha and the manjusawa are close relatives, but we grew up in the human world, and they grew on the banks of the Styx River in the ghost world."

After hearing this, Xie Sheng quickly withdrew his hand: "Then I won't eat." Then he changed his mind and said happily, "Since you are a close relative, then your flower mouth must look similar to Manzhushahua, right? Let's find out It's convenient."

"I hope." Tobishiren gave up hope.

Yong Chuan got up from the ground: "The proprietress gave me some." He pointed to the open shop: "If you still want to eat, you can buy it."

There was a green fire in the store, and a ghost bride jumped out wearing a phoenix crown and a scarf.She shook the rattle, and the drum was hit by two small beads in turn, making a crisp sound.

The proprietress's face was covered with thick powder, her eyebrows were lined to her temples, and a tear mole was especially clear under her eyelids.As soon as she saw Yuanshiren and Xie Sheng, her red lips and bright teeth turned into blood-stained fangs in an instant, her brows and eyes were completely ferocious, Fendai cracked a few times under this exaggerated expression, and fell to the ground in a rustle.

"Damn man! You are not welcome in this store." The ghost bride roared, her voice was terrifyingly shrill, "Get out of here!!"

"Don't let me see you again! Get as far away as possible!"

The proprietress of this shop has a really weird temper. Before Xie Sheng could react, the door of the shop was already closed heavily with roaring noises.

Yong Chuan was so frightened that he couldn't speak, he quickly packed up the food boxes on the ground and placed them neatly at the door, only then did he see four large characters written on the door frame: "Men should not come near."

The surrounding heat was steaming, Xie Sheng wiped the sweat from his forehead: "It seems that this ghost bride met a heartless person before she was alive, and she blamed him until she became a ghost."

"Among the dead souls living in Huangquan, half of them are ghost messengers under the King of Hades, and the other half are temporarily unwilling to reincarnate." Yong Chuan guessed, "The proprietress should be the latter."

Xie Sheng asked: "By the way, why aren't Brother Ten and Little Fourteen with you?"

Yong Chuan's dark circles drooped even more obliquely, and he said with a dejected face: "Your tenth brother didn't agree to bring me to Huangquan, I followed secretly, and I lost it when I followed Fanchuan. I guess, thank you Nan and the others should have gone to Niutou's mansion. But after finding Niutou's mansion, the ghost at the gate wouldn't let me in."

"Later, I was wandering around Fanchuan Ghost Field, and this shop was the only one that was lit. At that time, the proprietress was collecting manjusawa hanging out the door. Seeing me wandering alone in the street, she gave me a few boxes. "

Kite Shiren squatted at the door, took a look at the food box, and found that it was carved with exquisite peony patterns.He sniffed the smell in the food box: "Did you find anything else in the ghost domain?"

"The streets of Huangquan are deserted and deserted, except that the intersection there is recruiting soul seductresses, there is nothing novel about it."

Xie Sheng looked up at the lifeless night sky: "Have you noticed where the ground is the hottest? This place is not like a ghost land, but more like a flaming mountain that is about to erupt."

"Everywhere is equally hot." The iron-eating beast kicked the white candle lamp on the side of the road, "If I hadn't had a little bit of shame, I would have turned into a humanoid shirtless."

The three came to Niutou Mansion, as soon as Xie Sheng revealed his identity, the ghost messenger at the door let the three of them in.

The gatekeeper's eyeballs were spinning rapidly in their sockets, leaving two drops of blood and tears every time they blinked.He looks handsome, but his eyes are really scary.

"Please follow me in."

Xie Sheng walked in front of the three of them, he asked curiously: "Brother servant, why do you always cry?"

The ghost guard replied: "I was poisoned and blinded during my lifetime. Master Niutou appreciated me and said that my miserable appearance is suitable for guarding the gate."

Yong Chuan nodded: "It's really scary. However, it's worse than that ghost bride who said 'men should stay away'. Just now, her angry appearance startled me."

"He's not a ghost bride. He's a man." The ghost guard said blankly, "He's the one who poisoned me blind."

As he spoke, he blinked again, leaving two lines of blood and tears behind.

Xie Sheng and Yong Chuan kept silent after hearing this, they didn't know what to answer.

Tobishijin, who didn't know much about men and women, said, "Since he is a man, why did he dress up as a woman?"

Fortunately, the ghost guard didn't feel offended: "He thought of himself as a woman since he was a child. Not only that, he also likes men."

Yuan Shiren suddenly saw a ocarina with peony pattern on the chest of the ghost messenger, which was exactly the same as the pattern on the food box in the ghost bride's shop.

"It's here." The ghost messenger pushed open the main hall door, his face still expressionless, the blood on his face had been quickly dried by the high temperature in the ghost domain,

"You can go in."

Walking into the main hall, the bull head sitting in the main seat immediately attracted the attention of the three of them.The head of the ox has a pair of horns. The head is no different from that of a yellow ox, but the body is in the shape of a human.

Xie Shishi, who was closest to the door, immediately called out, "Brother Twelve! You are here!"

Xie Nan quickly introduced: "This is my twelfth younger brother Xie Sheng and his friends. My twelfth younger brother has rich experience in traveling, so I called him here this time to help Master Niutou."

Lord Niutou wept with joy on his face: "With the help of you Tiger Clan and Dragon Palace, we, Fanchuan, are saved this time."

"Brother Ten, it's very hot here." Xie Shishi licked his lips with his tongue, opened his mouth and exhaled twice, his throat seemed to be smoking.He muttered, "I'm thirsty and want to drink water."

Niutou said embarrassedly: "I'm very sorry, there is no water in Fanchuan now, and I don't have enough tea for guests..."

"It doesn't matter." Xie Nan smiled, turned around and said sternly to Xie Shishi: "You are here to practice, not to enjoy the blessings. So many dead souls in Huangquan have endured, let alone our Xie Tiger Clan cry bitterly."

After being beaten up by his elder brother, Xie Shishi's shoulders slumped and he lowered his head and said, "Understood, Brother Ten."

"Report to Lord Niutou." A ghost messenger knocked on the door, "Today, the new envoy who has been recruited into the Fanchuan Ghost Palace has arrived. Please take a look at it, Lord Niutou."

Bull head shouted: "Please come in."

The door opened.

What came into view was a line of neatly lined up black cats.They walked into the main hall with graceful steps, and squatted down in front of the bull's head.The eyes of each cat are shining green, and the pupils are wide open in the dim room.

"What do you look like?" Niutou showed the aura of the master of the ghost domain, with two balls of heat coming out of his nose, and snapped, "When you go to the world to seduce souls, who will be afraid of you?!"

The ending sound echoed in the wide hall.

The black cats did not dare to speak, waiting for Master Niutou to lose his temper.

"Go back and practice your voice. You have to call out three points of misery, three points of sharpness, three points of ghostly spirit, and one point of breath of death." Niutou taught them, "Let the people be afraid of you! Don't be caught and taken home as a plaything." .Do you understand?!"

The black cats said: "Got it!"

After sending away the newly appointed envoy, Niutou took out a few white candles from the drawer and lit them.These white candles are thicker than usual.

"Let's go."

Xie Sheng asked, "Where are you going?"

Niutou: "The lowest level of the ghost domain."

Xie Nan explained: "Master Niutou just told me that Fanchuan's will-o'-the-wisps burn most vigorously in the lower level purgatory. We have to go and see now."

Niutou handed the lit white candles to each of the others.

"Close your eyes." Niutou held up the white candle with both hands, closed his eyes, and demonstrated for them.

Green smoke wafted from the white candle, giving off a strange fragrance.

The burning wax dripped on the back of the hand, and the bull's head didn't seem to feel any pain at all.

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