The Midnight Owl

The person in charge of the underworld is called Ligui, who lives in the underworld pavilion, which is the closest to the human world in the whole underworld. After living for a long time, he is full of energy and ghostly.

"I heard that he was more than 100 years old when he died. When he first came here, his soul was very weak. Later, he became a steward and lived in the Di Pavilion. Now he is in better shape than us lonely ghosts." Go to the Di Pavilion On the way, the starved ghost dutifully explained, like a tour guide.

Xu Wang heard the envy in his words, and said: "Although you can't live in the underground pavilion, you can live next to the underground pavilion. It's good to be able to get a little bit of ghost spirit."

The starving ghost sighed and shook his head: "All the good places have been taken up, so it's my turn."

This starving ghost already had a bitter face, but if he lamented and drooped his head, it would make people feel more sympathetic.

Wu Sheng sized up the starving ghost all the way, and now he finally asked a question: "Just now you pushed the ghost to fall into the well, and I saw that it was quite neat a few times. Such skills will still be bullied in the underworld?"

The starving ghost stopped at his feet, turned his head and said in a daze, "I did it to save you..." After he finished speaking, he blinked his eyes, as if he understood what Wu Sheng asked, and hurriedly added, "I, I didn't talk to you. Other ghosts fought."

Wu Sheng: "..."

Xu Wang: "..."

Do you want to be so honest! ! !

While talking, the Dige arrived.

The two of them entered the door together, and there was a large vat filled with sand in the middle of the room. Behind the vat sat an old man with white hair, not tall, slightly hunchbacked, his eyelids were so loose that they almost covered them, and his face was full of wrinkles that reflected the vicissitudes of the world.

Without waiting for them to say what they came for, Li Gui patted the side of the tank with his hands, and said concisely: "Let the ghost energy come here."

In the assessment of the underworld entering the human world, there is no need to wield knives and guns, and the person in charge will only look at one thing-the level of ghost spirit.

And that big tank is used to measure ghost energy.

Xu Wang swallowed, suddenly became nervous, quickly turned around and asked Wu Sheng in a low voice: "What if the visa is rejected?"

Wu Sheng: "...then we won't go abroad, domestic travel is also very good."

Xu Wang was amused by his cooperation, and the tension in his heart was inexplicably relieved. He took a deep breath and was the first to go forward.

He didn't go to the tank, but stopped two steps away, closed his eyes, and concentrated.

For a moment, the back spirit stuck behind him, and suddenly sprang out, like a black snake, swooping down, and sank straight into the sand tank!

Silence for a few seconds.

The sand in the tank suddenly "sanded" and moved, not the kind stirred by the spirit behind it, but as if the sand had a life of its own, wriggling, one wave after another, faster and faster!

"It's fine." Li Gui raised his drooping eyelids, and under his long white eyebrows, his eyes swept over Xu Wang, "Are you a possessed ghost?"

The person in charge was different from the gatekeeper in the west courtyard. Xu Wang felt a little guilty just being scrutinized by him like this.

Everyone else is alone, but he bought one and got one free. Li Gui didn't doubt him, but gave him a guess of a "possessed ghost", which is already equivalent to "simple mode".

But the problem is that he and the starving ghost have spoken eloquently, saying that they are the spirit behind the scenes. There is no way to explain this if they have to change their words again.

"Cough," clearing his throat, Xu Wang tried to calm himself, "It's not an authentic possessed ghost, I'm the spirit behind it." He manipulated the black shadow in the tank to come out, raised his hand and pointed at the spirit behind, "This is me. .”

It's still an old routine, but Li Gui doesn't seem to buy it.

Xu Wang was so stared at by him that he didn't dare to vent his anger.

After a long time, I finally saw Li Gui waving his hand and sighing: "When you live to my age, you will understand that the body is just a skin, whether it is good-looking or not, is it healthy limbs and handsome features, or a black shadow with blurred outlines?" , it doesn't really matter."

"..." Li Gui seemed to have misunderstood that he disliked his own black shadow, so he found a body to block in front of him.

but--

"You just said that the limbs are sound, but what about the five senses?"

Li Gui thought he didn't hear clearly, so he specially emphasized his tone: "The facial features are handsome."

Xu Wang let out a long sigh of relief, it's pleasing to the ear.

Wu Sheng, who has already seen through everything: "..."

Li Gui's palm brushed over the vat, the sand leveled, and then looked at Wu Sheng: "It's your turn."

Wu Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly, but did not move.

In just a moment, he had already gone through all his stationery in his head, but none of them were supernatural.

He is wearing a man-catching vine, he is good at visual deception, and he can really test ghost power, so he must reveal his secrets.

"What are you dawdling about?" Li Gui frowned impatiently, "Come here if you want to go to the human world, and leave if you don't want to go."

Xu Wang turned around and walked back, looking at Wu Sheng while walking—leave it to me.

It's not that Wu Sheng didn't think about asking Xu Wang to help secretly with the spirit behind his back, but he always felt that he couldn't escape Li Gui's eyes.

However, things have come to this point, so we can only bite the bullet and go on.

Stepping forward, passing Xu Wang, Wu Sheng also stopped two steps away.

Holding your breath and concentrating, the trapping vine slowly crawled on your body. The next moment, the trapping vine suddenly stretched out a vine and plunged straight into the sand!

The roots of the vines were still wrapped around Wu Sheng's body, and only the end third was quietly placed in the sand.

Wu Sheng and the vines didn't move anymore.

The sand didn't move either.

Everything was eerily still.

Finally, the sand started to flow, and the speed was slightly slower than Xu Wang's previous test, but he could still feel the ghostly aura shrouded in the sand tank.

Wu Sheng let go of his hanging heart, and looked at Li Gui with a hint of questioning.

Li Gui waved his hand: "Okay, you just passed, if you are weaker, you will not pass."

Wu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, and finally felt relieved.

"You, let's talk about you," Li Gui said to the starved ghost, passing Wu Sheng's back, "Don't be stupid, come here quickly."

"Me?" The starving ghost was stunned, and quickly shook his head, "I'm not going to the human world."

Li Gui frowned: "If you don't go, what are you doing here?"

"I, I will accompany them." The starving ghost was a little dizzy after being scolded.

Li Gui looked him up and down a few times, and seemed to think that he was the same regardless of whether he was unpredictable, and he saw that he was the fate of the underworld, so he stopped talking nonsense.

Standing up tremblingly, turning back, Li Gui looked at the wall in front of him.

In an instant, the wall "crashed" and fell, revealing a deep dark passage.

"At the end of the road is the world." He stepped aside, looked at Wu Sheng and Xu Wang, "Let's go."

Xu Wang wanted to say goodbye to the starving ghost, but the moment he turned his head, he caught the envy in the other party's eyes that hadn't had time to put it away.

Xu Wang suddenly became angry: "Try it and you won't lose a piece of meat!"

The starving ghost was yelled at in a daze: "Huh?"

"I said, what can you do if you just try it in the sand tank?" Xu Wang was furious, "If you say no before you try it, then you will never be able to do it for the rest of your life."

"But……"

"There's nothing wrong with it! You just want to wander around the edge of the underworld for the rest of your life? Not even a bit of ghost energy? You starved to death when you were alive, and after you die, do you still want to starve until your wits disappear?"

"I know you mean well," the starving ghost muttered aggrievedly, "but why does it sound like a curse..."

Xu Wang was angry and funny, and asked the back spirit to push the starving ghost forward: "Try it quickly."

Li Gui stood by the tank, didn't stop him, but looked contemptuous, clearly not believing that this person could pass.

The starving ghost hesitated, and buried his hands in the sand.

Xu Wang unconsciously held his breath, and for no reason, he was even more nervous than when he was testing.

The sand near the starved ghost's wrist was the first to move, rolling back and forth one by one, as if being blown by a breeze.

Then, the sand moved slowly, but it was hard to see whether it was stronger or weaker than Xu Wang and Wu Sheng's, because the sand tank under his hands did not flow, but slowly created a not-so-violent vortex.

Li Gui raised his long white eyebrows, quite surprised: "I can't tell, there is still some ghost power."

After being affirmed, the starving ghost immediately relaxed, but his complexion became even worse.

Li Gui looked at him for a long while, as if he saw something, sighed, and his voice was rarely kind: "You have suffered so much in your lifetime. Go quickly and go to the world to breathe more ghost energy."

The starving ghost became lonely and didn't speak any more.

A group of people walked into the secret passage and walked silently for a while, then Xu Wangcai tentatively called, "Xiao Hungry?"

There is no light in the dark passage, you can't see each other, you can't see expressions, you can only hear voices.

"Huh?" Fortunately, the starving ghost responded.

"When you were alive... how did you die?" Xu Wang asked what he had been thinking about all along, but quickly added, "If you don't want to talk about it, just pretend I didn't ask."

"Actually, there's nothing you can't talk about." In the dark, the voice of the starving ghost, with a hint of wry smile, not complaining bitterness, but self-deprecating bitterness, "I was cheated by my friend, he took all my money , left me alone in the wilderness, and finally I was penniless and couldn’t find my way home, so I starved to death.”

"Then after you died, didn't you go to ask him for your life?" Xu Wang suddenly hoped that Xiao Hungry was a ghost.

"I wanted to look for it at first," the starved ghost's stomach growled twice, and he smiled embarrassedly. "Then I was too hungry and had no energy, so I didn't bother to go."

Xu Wang: "How can you be too lazy to take revenge?!"

Wu Sheng: "How can you be too lazy to take revenge?!"

The duet came suddenly, Xu Wang and Wu Sheng looked at each other subconsciously, but in the dark tunnel, they couldn't see each other, but the overlapping aura of "clear grievances and grievances" was still very strong.

Since high school, the two of them have been acting on the principle that you respect me one foot, and I respect you one foot. If you hit me, I will at least kick you, and it is possible to pay an elbow interest.

So I can't understand the "magnanimity" of the starving ghost at all.

"Oh, don't talk about me," the starving ghost obviously couldn't argue, so he simply changed the subject, "I'm going to see the world manager later, have you two figured out how to deal with it?"

Wu Sheng: "You said earlier that he was looking for talents for the heavens?"

The starving ghost: "Yes, both literary and martial arts are fine. I heard that the west courtyard has been restless recently, so the boss has also become nervous."

The word "West Courtyard" made Xu Wang and Wu Sheng feel a little nervous.

It is a human instinct to be guilty of a thief. Some people are strong and some are weak, but it is impossible to not have it at all.

"West courtyard?" Xu Wang pretended not to understand.

The starving ghost did not suspect him, so he told them all: "This house is divided into east and west courtyards. Ours is the east courtyard, with distinct levels and order. The west courtyard is more chaotic and has no rules. It all depends on who Whoever has the strongest ghost power will be king..."

"Originally, the two courtyards have always been well watered, but the current boss of the west courtyard always thinks that our east courtyard is a ghostly ghost, and has repeatedly picked faults and provoked them, and wants to take advantage of the chaos..."

"Actually," Xu Wang carefully chose his words, "It's not necessarily a bad thing to let the West Courtyard come here. You see, if you want to go to a place closer to the ghost spring, you have to go through multiple assessments. In fact, the ghost spring belongs to everyone. The truth can only be approached by a few people, right?"

The starving ghost fell silent again.

Xu Wang's ending sound scattered in the dark passage, and the air was suddenly awkward.

After an unknown amount of time, when the light at the end of the dark passage shone through, the starved ghost suddenly asked, "Have you ever been to the west courtyard?"

Xu Wang hesitated for a moment.

All the way to the present, they are half friends with the starving ghost, and the guilt of lying to their friends is growing little by little.

After being ruthless, he whispered, "No."

"If you've been there, you won't think it's better there," the starved ghost said quietly, "After a few days there, the boss will be replaced. Whoever is stronger will be the king, fighting every day and chaotic every day, and the weaker one will be the king." Lonely ghosts can't live a peaceful life at all, and if they are unlucky, they may wander around casually, and they will be drawn into chaos for no reason, and their souls will be scattered."

"You asked me to choose between war and peace, I will definitely choose Taiping, and—" the dark passage came to the end, the moonlight shone in from the exit, and the face of the starved ghost was a little refreshed, "If here It's as messy as the west courtyard, I might not meet you."

He bared his teeth and smiled, with a ghostly look, but sincere happiness.

Xu Wang suddenly didn't dare to look him in the eyes, and lowered his head to change the subject: "You just said what is the most important thing in the world?"

The starving ghost didn't notice anything strange, and said naturally: "I heard that I especially value talents, and I value talent the most. It's better to know the art of war."

……

15 minutes later, in the human world, the assessment department in charge.

Wu Sheng: ""36 Strategies", there are victory strategies, enemy strategies, attack strategies, melee strategies, merger strategies, and defeat strategies. There are six strategies in each set, and there are 36 strategies in total. Waiting for work at leisure..."

Wu Sheng: ""Sun Tzu's Art of War" has thirteen chapters in total, namely "The Beginning", "Battle", "Conspiracy", "Military Form"..."

Wu Sheng: "In "The Beginning of the Plan", Sun Tzu said: Soldiers, the great affairs of the country, the place of death and life, the way of survival, must be investigated..."

After half an hour.

The person in charge of the world: "If I give you a team of ghosts, do you have the confidence to assist the boss and defend the West Courtyard?"

Wu Sheng: "You don't need an army of ghosts, two ghosts are enough."

The supervisor: "Which two?"

Wu Sheng: "The flowery one on my left, and the sallow and emaciated one on my right."

……

At the same time, the East Courtyard, the underworld.

Old Qian and Xiao Kuang got lost.

The underworld is not only big, but also chaotic. The ghosts are fine and orderly, but the main reason is that the place is chaotic.The main roads and trails criss-cross each other, often after walking for a long time to find it, and then come back again.

Finally, when they were overwhelmed, they smelled a faint scent of powder, mixed with the smell of a corrupt ghost house, it was as refreshing as essential oils.

Following the scent, the two walked into a remote courtyard, and before reaching the window, they heard the laughter of men and women.

Sticky, ambiguous, with a taste that is not suitable for children.

There were no ghosts in the yard, and one of them sneaked under the window. The window was wide open, and the beautiful spring scenery came rushing in.

I saw a male ghost who was not fully clothed, lying on the bed, surrounded by four or five female ghosts wearing light veils, some nestled in his arms, and some were fanning him beside him. Some are feeding grapes into his mouth one by one.The male ghost looked comfortable, enjoying it, just like Ximen Qing in the ghost world!

Qian Ai was troubled by the sight, resisting the urge to slap him to death, his eyes tried to bypass various bodies, and searched on the bed.

A veil suddenly flew out from the bed, heading straight for the window!

Qian Ai instinctively dodged, and the light gauze brushed against his face, but bumped into Kuang Jinxin's shoulder. The moment they touched, the gauze wrapped around him immediately, wrapping Kuang Jinxin tightly!

Before Qian Ai could react, Qingsha shrank back and "flyed" Kuang Jinxin back into the house!

The mummy-like Kuang Jinxin fell to the ground in front of the bed with a "plop".

The Merry Ghost pushed away the female ghost beside him, and with a light hook of his fingers, the veil was untied.

Kuang Jinxin was stunned, and before he could see the Merry Ghost, the Merry Ghost had already possessed him and approached him.

Kuang Jinxin was shocked, but his body didn't move, so he asked the possessed ghost to look at him at a very close distance, and then secretly manipulated the severed hand to touch the "ghost bed" little by little-the badge's hint is "Love bed" Ghost", that is to say, the badge is either on the bed lover, or on the bed it loves, and now, this naked romantic ghost "sees everything", there must be no badge on him, so it can only be the bed .

The Merry Ghost and the female ghosts all focused on Kuang Jinxin, but no one noticed that there was a "broken hand" on the bed.

"Where did you come from? It's very thin and tender." The romantic ghost looked at Kuang Jinxin with great interest, and said with a frivolous tone, "I'm not against men and women, do you want to try it with me?"

Seeing that he was about to raise his hand to touch Kuang Jinxin's face, a loud voice suddenly came from the window: "You and I try!"

The Merry Ghost, the Female Ghost, and Kuang Jinxin turned their heads together, and saw a head flying in the air.

Qian Ai rushed to Kuang Jinxin's side in a "flying head" posture, pulled him aside suddenly, then took the position of Kuang Jinxin himself, and put his head and Merry Ghost's nose to nose, eye to eye.

"What do you think of me?" Fei Tou tossed his thick and short hair, full of flair, "I'm very energetic!"

"..." The Merry Ghost withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After half a minute.

"Hey, if you don't agree, you don't agree. Why are you running—" Qian Ai looked at the white back of the romantic ghost and fled, and was severely hit physically and mentally.

As soon as the Merry Ghost ran away, the female ghosts lost their spirits and drifted away with them.

Just in line with Jin Xin and Qian Ai's wishes.

The two friends quickly climbed onto the bed and groped for it.

In no time, the bed was being searched all over, but there was nothing, no flashes, and certainly no badges.

Four eyes facing each other.

Kuang Jinxin: "At Menggui's place?"

Qian Ai: "There is only one possibility left."

Just said these two words, a series of hoarse screams from far to near, it really broke the throat.

Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin were so shocked that they raised their heads and saw the romantic ghost who had just escaped, rushing back like a whirlwind, and rushed straight into the house!

The two quickly got off the bed and put their bodies on alert!

But the Merry Ghost didn't look at them at all, and ran directly to the bed, curled up into a ball and shivered, how could he still have the slightest bit of romantic energy just now!

Qian Ai swallowed hard: "Is the shadow I left so powerful..."

At the gate of the courtyard, at some point, a group of little ghosts gathered, looking in, looking in, whispering while watching.

Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin went out, pretending to be curious and asking, "What happened to him?"

The ghosts in the underworld drifted casually, seeing two strange faces coming out of the Merry Haunted House, they didn't think much of it, and they were very happy to share gossip: "He didn't know what happened to his mind, and he floated on the bed of Menggui."