Kikai

Things like quilts are bulky, and Yu Qi found them without much effort.

There were quite a few elderly ghosts picking and choosing, and Yu Qi soon joined them.

"Did the girl just come?" A gray-haired grandmother saw Yu Qi picking and choosing among the white quilts they had pulled aside, so she started a conversation with her.

"Yeah, I just came here today, and I'm not familiar with many places."

"No wonder." The old lady pressed Yu Qi's hand and talked to her enthusiastically, "Don't look at these, these are not good, come and see me." Saying this, she put the flowered quilt she had been protecting in front of her before to her. Yuqi handed it over.

"..." Looking at the gaudy quilts, Yu Qi was silent for a while before rejecting with a stiff smile: "It's pretty good-looking, grandma can keep it for herself, I can just pick a set."

The old grandma saw through her polite words at a glance, and explained to her patiently: "Grandma knows that you young people don't like these colorful things, but light-colored things are not good in the underworld."

"What's wrong with the light color?" Yu Qi's heart tightened. Could it be that he committed some taboo?

"At that time, people had to wear sackcloth and filial piety when they died. I don't know if there is still such a rule now." The grandmother first recalled her own era before continuing, "At that time, white represented people. In the underworld, white also means gone, and white ghosts mean that they are about to collapse and die."

Hearing this, Yu Qi's eyes froze, and he felt a little flustered looking at the kind old lady in front of him. This old lady was already very plain and white from her hair to her shoes.

The old lady smiled and patted her hand: "I have been in the underworld for almost 100 years, and I have seen through it long ago. If it collapses, it will collapse."

"...Isn't it possible to be reincarnated in the underworld?" It took Yu Qi a long time to utter such words that were not consoling.

"Yes, but I don't want to. Hey, people always have those things that you can't let go of. You may not understand it when you die early, but you will understand it in a few years or if you live longer in the next life." The old lady lowered her head and fiddled. Looking at a few sets of quilts that I picked out.

Yu Qi stopped talking, and the atmosphere was slightly sad.

"Come, come, this set of blooming and rich peony patterns is very good, please take a look again?" The old lady didn't care about her dying soul, and was still busy helping Yuqi choose the bedding, "I'll tell you Tell me, this thing is a dead thing without spiritual consciousness after all, it will disappear after a short time in the underworld, the lighter the color, the easier it will disappear, so you have to pick some bright colors to last for a long time."

Yu Qi nodded, accepted the peony-patterned quilt and thanked the grandmother.

"The old lady follows her husband's family name Liu, and lives at No. 17, Row 127. Girls usually come to talk to the old lady when they have nothing to do, and you can ask me if you don't understand anything." Grandma Liu said goodbye to Yuqi with a smile, holding My quilt and a few pieces of flowered cloth left.

Looking at the back of the old lady leaving, Yu Qi, who originally thought that the underworld and the human world were no different, suddenly felt that there was a slight difference between them at this moment, but she couldn't tell the specifics.

I don’t think about it clearly, so I don’t want to think about it for the time being. Yu Qi has a new understanding on the way to find clothes with the quilt that Grandma Liu helped to pick out. The ghost’s strength seems to be much stronger than that of a person. She didn't feel how tired she was.

There are a lot of clothes in the clothing area, with various styles, but most of them are not very good-looking, and Yu Qi is not very picky, so I picked a brightly colored floral dress according to the method I just learned, um, it is very bright .

There were bedding and clothes, but Yu Qi searched for the last one, the induction cooker, but couldn't find it for a long time. He guessed that the time was almost up, so he took a set of toiletries and hurried to the door to meet A Cai.

"Sorry, I was delayed for a while." Yu Qi, who was hugging the quilt, apologized to A Cai with some embarrassment.

"It's okay, I just waited for a while." A Cai was sitting on the stone bench at the door, shaking her short legs. She had already finished counting at the ghost messenger and put the things into the ghost mirror.Today's harvest is not small, and she has found many things she wanted, so she is in a very good mood now.

Since it was the first time to collect supplies, Yu Qi was not very familiar with the operation process, and only completed the first operation of putting large objects into the ghost mirror under the long-term guidance of the ghost guard who was a little impatient.

The ghost mirror with large objects is a lot heavier, and it is a bit uncomfortable to carry on the body, a bit like the feeling of being out of breath after running 800 meters.

It seems that the ghost mirror needs some "physical energy" from the ghost to install things?

Returning to the fork in the road just now, this time they walked straight towards the Snail House Stone, and Ah Cai's pace seemed to be much faster than before.

Stepping on the stone steps and the ghost plate between the dwelling stones, every step brings a very real touch. Although I was walking before, I always felt that my feet were soft and unable to exert force, but on the ghost plate, Yu Qi somehow felt that he was still alive. The illusion of being alive.

"Sister?" Seeing that Yu Qi didn't follow, A Cai urged.

"Here we come." Yu Qi temporarily put this wonderful feeling behind her, and quickly followed A Cai.

The ghost plate looked huge, but they didn't take long before they stepped onto the platform of the Snail House... The big black holes seemed to want to swallow the ghosts standing in front of them at any time, and A Cai counted the big black holes to herself: " 1, 2, 3... 17, well, this is here, sister."

Greeting Yu Qi to come over, A Cai continued: "Walk in while reading the house number silently, and close your eyes if you are afraid."

"Is there anything in it?"

A Cai blinked playfully: "It's hard for me to say, if my sister is curious, you can open your eyes and take a look."

Yu Qi shook his head quickly: "I'm not curious, let's go, negative number 174."

A Cai shrugged in disappointment and entered the No. 17 cave first. The moment she stepped in, the black shadow in the cave turned into substance and almost gushed out of the cave to wrap her up and pull her into the darkness.

Yu Qi hesitated for a moment, and after taking a deep breath, she also stepped into the dark cave. Of course, she quickly closed her eyes as soon as she stepped in, for fear of seeing anything strange.

There was no strange touch as imagined, just like taking a step in the open space, Yu Qi hesitated and took another step forward, but still didn't feel it, another step, another step...Suddenly, something tugged at her Clothes, the cold hair on his body stood up immediately, and his body froze.

"Sister, if you go any further, you'll hit the door." It was A Cai's voice with a hint of a smile.

Yu Qi heaved a sigh of relief and opened his eyes. The two of them were standing on a stone floating in the darkness. There was a simple door with a human face painted on it. Without a wall, they were so lonely where to stand.Looking back, there is endless darkness, there is no black hole, and there are no stone steps suspended in the air.

Seeming to see through her thoughts, A Cai took the initiative to explain: "If you want to go out, just turn your back to the door and walk forward with the exit in mind."

Nodding, Yu Qi took out the key and prepared to open the door.

Unexpectedly, the face on the door suddenly opened its eyes when she approached.

"Ah!" Yu Qi took a few steps back in fright, if A Cai hadn't held her back, she might have fallen to the exit.

"Hey! Who's here?" The face on the door not only blinked, but also spoke.

"Sister, don't be afraid, this is the door spirit, the punishment for the half-demon after death..." A Cai explained.

The door spirit raised her eyebrows, and interrupted her very dissatisfied: "What half-monster, half-mother! You little girl can't speak, so just shut up! What a piece of crap, my lord..."

A Cai snatched the key from Yuqi's hand and inserted it into the keyhole. The door spirit lost her voice instantly, closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep as quietly as at the beginning.

"Most door spirits are very crazy. If my sister doesn't want to listen to their nagging, just insert the key. This key is their seal." A Cai said triumphantly.

Yu Qi nodded in shock, but more attention has been shifted to the opened door, which is quite spacious at first glance.

After entering the room and briefly introducing the layout of the room, Ah Cai said goodbye to Yu Qi.

After sending A Cai away, Yu Qi was just about to sit down and have a rest, but unexpectedly the door started talking again.

"Damn girl, who let you in! Get out of this uncle! This house is not for filthy souls like you, you..."

When the door was closed just now, Yu Qi pulled out the key and brought it in. He didn't expect that the spirit of the door could also be displayed inside, listening to his unceremonious words.

The key was ruthlessly inserted back into the keyhole, and turned a few times to lock the door.

Disturbed by Men Ling, Yu Qi didn't take a rest anymore. He wasn't very tired anyway, so he rolled up his sleeves and went to clean up.

The sixth floor of the underworld, at the gate of the Hall of Yama.

Yama's right ghost emissary sent the little girl out with a smile on his face, very polite.

The errand ghost is a newcomer. He seems to be guarding the gate seriously at this time, but he has already thought about it in his heart: what is the origin of this little ghost?Actually let Lord You Guishi send it out in person.

"Master Shuanglang, go slowly." The right ghost stopped at the door, and said goodbye to Shuanglang with a smile.

According to the system, the ghost messenger is actually one level lower than the Rakshasa, but because it is the ghost messenger next to King Yama, it is faintly higher than the ordinary Rakshasa by half a level.

The You Ghost Messenger treated her politely, and Shuanglang naturally bowed slightly and nodded to bid farewell very politely.

Seeing Shuanglang coming out, a cat-eared girl at the door immediately stepped forward, first saluted the right ghost envoy and sent him in before talking to Shuanglang.

"My lord, how is the handover going?"

"Mission complete." Shuanglang answered her words simply and clearly, and raised her little hand that was hidden in her sleeve before. The little hand that was originally as white as jade was now covered with blood, and she still held a bone with some flesh and blood in it. .

The cat-eared girl was not surprised, she skillfully took the bone and wrapped it with a handkerchief: "This time, the ghost is a big monster. This spine looks pretty good, full of ghostly spirit."

"Replacement." Shuanglang said lightly and walked straight forward to leave Yan Luodian.

The cat-eared girl looked carefully at the bone in her hand again, feeling a little regretful in her heart: It looks like a pretty good spine, but it can only be used as a substitute for an adult's bone whip, which is really a bit of a waste, hey.

And in the Black Street, where ghosts usually avoid deliberately, a dispute has just ended at this moment.

The spectators gradually dispersed, and the beautiful girl in the pink skirt walked away cursing: "Throw all the garbage into the black street, and treat our black street as a garbage dump? It's so annoying, the dress that was just repaired broke again."

As he spoke, he turned his head and cursed at the ghost lying on the ground that had disintegrated into a mass of spiritual consciousness: "Don't let me see you again! Get out of here."

Lingzhi trembled in fear when he heard her voice.

Why... I obviously didn't do anything...It hurts...It hurts...Mom...Mom...

Black Street, a no-nonsense zone that exists to punish evil spirits, whether it is fighting or robbery... As long as there is no major event such as eating souls and falling demons, the ghost kings of the Ten Temples will turn a blind eye and close one eye. Evil, there must always be a way of repayment after death, right?