[Ghost Lamp] The dark humor of hell

A child stood in front of the ghost lamp.

He was extremely short and looked like he was only the size of a kindergarten. He stood firmly in front of him, standing on the messy land of lonely hell around him.Ghost Lantern and him looked at each other for a few times, surprised that the other party could still keep calm in the lonely hell, and at the same time turned around and asked the bone girl——

"Bone Girl Sang, do you know him?"

The child's gaze has been falling behind him, and it should be someone who has some intersection with the bone girl.

The bone girl hesitated for a while, then shook her head in denial.In her impression, she has never met such a little ghost who exudes the aura of "I am a Tucao slave". If she could, she would not want to know her, it would make her life look so sluggish - just like the snake in the child's hand Same.

"—Uncle, are you also the jailer here?"

The little boy took a step back in fear, holding a dying snake in his hand, and timidly asked the ghost lamp.The scene was extremely inconsistent, at least the bone girl felt that the little ghost's expressionless staring made her feel creepy.

Just like Zashiki Doji's expression, thinking about it this way, he is also somewhat similar to Lord Onigami, so is he another child of Lord Onigami?

The bone girl thought about it for the second time.

"The jailer here...well, what's the problem? What's wrong with the jailer here?"

The Lonely Hell should be the most difficult place for the dead in all hells. Even the ghost lamp himself has to be more careful than usual when passing by, but it is obvious that something unexpected happened in this place around, which makes this place look like a ghost. He was as embarrassed as if he had been dropped an atomic bomb, and the jailers who should have been everywhere were nowhere to be seen.

To be precise, there is also a dying poisonous snake in the child's hand.He moved his head, and at the same time raised the poisonous snake, "The jailer is here,..."

After thinking about it, he put it down again, touched his side, trotted to Ghost Lantern, and handed over a few small coins with the other hand: "This is six coins. When you cross the river, take your clothes." My mother-in-law is on the other side of the river to replace Xuan Yiweng's work, so I didn't have time to hand it over to her, uncle, if you are also a jailer, can you pass it on for me?"

Two months ago, Momo Maki had a fan event.The ghost lamp ignored the "uncle" in the child's mouth, and the hell brain was running at high speed, and it quickly sorted out what happened.Taking the Liuwen coin from the child, he weighed it for a while: "Is this... the currency of the Muromachi period?"

"Is uncle also a jailer in the Muromachi period?"

The child took out another six cents and handed it to the ghost lamp again: "I have a younger brother who is lost in the lonely hell, can uncle accompany me to find him?"

"It's hard to find it if you get lost in the lonely hell. The area here can be compared with any of the eight hells. As for the Muromachi era..." The ghost lamp turned around, and the appearance of the bone girl was probably around Muromachi, like the birth of the bone girl-san will be later.

"...Ah, Master Ghost Lantern, I remember being chased and killed by Onmyoji when I returned from Atago Mountain to the sea of ​​trees in Qingmuyuan, and then I fled into the forest and exchanged fifteen coins for temporary peace.... Are you a stone lantern? "

The bone girl subconsciously took a step back.

"Based on the normal level of reaction speed, the reflex arc of the bone girl sister is still five times higher than that of ordinary people. Hehe, because you are worried that your reaction is more than ten beats slower than ordinary people, we have come to hell, and you are still here. Thank you soon."

The little boy put his hands on his hips proudly, pretending to be complacent, but smiled expressionlessly a few times. The bone girl seemed to be able to see that his nose had grown long again. This kind of messy tone was only available in that stone lantern, although it was always You know they're just kids...

"Aren't you so weak that you came to hell after being destroyed by humans and having nowhere to go?"

The bone girl pointed out the most fundamental reason mercilessly.

"It was an accident. I didn't expect human beings to suddenly come to the sea of ​​trees in Aokigahara. Uncle, you can leave here after paying six coins, right?"

"...Ah, that's right. But you were originally land gods, so you can directly enter the reincarnation of the kingdom of heaven without being judged. You can avoid these procedures. Is it that old man Xuan Yiweng again?"

Ghost Lantern sighed and looked around. Except for the immovable poisonous weeds, I couldn’t see any jailers at work. The ground was scattered with grass clippings... This is obviously not caused by natural disasters. Will there be natural disasters in hell? ?

Except for a mindless beast flying and throwing garbage above Yan Mo Temple, Ghost Lantern has never seen any natural disasters in Hell.

"Is the stone lantern right? What's going on around here?"

In front of him was the only person who seemed to know the truth, and Ghost Lantern asked without thinking.

"It's nothing. My brother said that it's not safe to grow the plants around here. After many years, they may all wither due to reproduction reasons. In order to avoid this situation, I trimmed it a little. However, there are small animals nearby that like to jump around. Ah, just now I was stung by a bumblebee and ran away after it."

The insider raised the poisonous snake again, shook it in front of him, and immediately put it on the ground again, grabbed the end of the ghost lamp's clothes, and gently pulled it: "Uncle, you are very familiar with this area, right? Let me find my younger brother, he will cry when he sleeps outside alone at night."

"You are the only one who can cry." The bone girl turned her head and complained in a low voice.

Ghost Lamp touched the neatly pruned branches with a mace, and a few leaves floated down with the wind.In fact, at the beginning, he wanted to turn Gu Hell into a snapdragon farm to subsidize the expenses of Yan Modian. Snapdragon grass is easy to breed and beautiful, so there must be a market in Hell.

... As a result, this proposal was unanimously opposed at the meeting of ten kings.If it's just King Yan Mo, it's better to say something, the ten kings almost disagree, Gui Deng had to give up this idea, and after several revisions, Gu Hell was transformed into what it is now.

"Lonely Hell was originally a place where people felt lonely and put spiritual pressure on the dead, but recently many hells have implemented a policy of mutual destruction of spirit and body, such as feeling falling into the abyss while looping their own black history in the brain, or Gathering the dead for torture and at the same time reading a junior high school novel aloud in front of everyone, and recently a small hell came to my side to apply for mass production of Jingli mirrors for torture..."

"...Master Ghost Lantern agrees?"

The bone girl asked with a strange expression, why not just build a disgraceful hell, how troublesome it is to implement new policies one by one.

"No, if the joruri mirror is mass-produced, it will not have its uniqueness, and the power consumption of hell will increase linearly. Even if the joruri mirror is rarely used in the trial process, there is no reason to give it to those lazy little ones. Playing around in hell. But their ideas are very good, and they have come to the former lonely hell to seek scriptures, and the things here are becoming less and less distinctive. After discussion among the ten kings, my current plan was approved."

Ghost Lantern squatted down, put the mace by his side, and touched the head of the child who was only as tall as a kindergarten expressionlessly: "What's your name?"

"...a stone lantern."

"...Did Bone Girl-san have a name when she was still a human?"

"Yes, I forgot about it for a long time, and things like names are useless to monsters."

The ghost lamp stood up and walked towards the direction pointed by the stone lantern, and the bone girl hurriedly followed.

"That's not necessarily true. Exchanging names in Western Hells is a form of expression to reach a certain contract. Chinese Hells also have a work process of writing their names on the trial book to indicate that the person is officially dead. Recording names in the Eight Hells is more for To facilitate the management of the deceased, reincarnation or becoming a god, an accurate ID card of the deceased is required in the procedures."

The bone girl walked quietly behind Ghost Lantern, looking at the poisonous weeds that had been driven out of a path. Did Stone Lantern's younger brother really walk out from here unscathed?

Although she has always known that this brother is very powerful,...

"...For youkai, this is unrealistic, but as the god of the earth, the stone lantern should still have a name."

"Nope - I was sent to Aokigahara Sea of ​​Trees a long time ago, and I have been silent for hundreds of years. I have long forgotten that kind of thing. By the way, sister bone girl really won't let me give you a name? It will give you the illusion that I am family."

Shi Lantern walked in the front with his head in his arms, turning a blind eye to the poisonous weeds blocking his eyes, and walked all the way.

"I have no plans to treat the little kid as a parent for the time being."