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"The Campanella of the Bishi Railway is about to depart. This train is going from "Lonely Hell" to "Lonely Hell", and stops at various stations along the way. Passengers with large luggage, please..."

You're on Hell's private Smiley Train, looking out the window at the burning mountains.

When you were Ashi, you once heard a verse on Mount Hiei - "The three worlds are restless, like a house on fire". Hell is really as cruel as this saying, and every dead person you see is as cruel as you can see In the flames, they were tortured, the screams and the coos of the marrow-eating birds mixed together to form a terrifying vocal music, the sky was like ink, and the hazy cars with human faces scattered through the lingering smoke, leaving trails Light dashed lines.

Lao Yang will definitely like this scene, you think, it's a pity that you can't take a screenshot in hell, otherwise you really want to send it to her for a look.

Sitting opposite you with a notebook in front of the ghost lamp, he is concentrating on writing something, occasionally breaking the cold atmosphere and opening his mouth to say a few words.

"Although I have no right to ask your decision, is this really good? As soon as the transaction is completed, I will leave Yi Ping's body and go to hell." He asked, "Your friends in this world will be shocked, right?"

"It's okay." You waved your hand indifferently, "Intermittent dementia is a characteristic of my account character, everyone must be used to it."

In fact, you are just afraid of trouble.

After the misery was turned into ashes, the gods immediately took back the authority lent to you. As a result, Kazushin Wei's character level dropped rapidly. Such a serious weakness cannot be concealed at all, and your complexion instantly becomes tired and ashamed. As a result, the members of the Ghost Slayer Squad approaching you excitedly panicked and asked about your physical condition in a panic.

You thought briefly amidst the joy and chaotic noise, then decisively logged off, turned around and ran to hell.

It's too troublesome, you think, you don't want to waste time explaining the ins and outs of your disappearance during the previous mission, and you don't want to make up reasons why you can kill ghosts in Wuyou's arms. Your game is over, you have completed this time The final mission comes, but you have no joy and no patience to finish the final celebration and farewell.

Expectation is the most worth looking forward to only before it is realized, just like the coffee you drank after four years when you went to a coffee shop in Tokyo, a tragic death did not bring you the slightest bit of happiness that you had imagined , and before you know it, you've left him behind.

You just want to see an old friend you haven't seen for a long time now, and everything else has to be queued.

"Is there any festival in hell these days?" You ask, there is a secret joy on this old iron train, no one talks, but you can feel the joy on the faces of the passengers around you, this atmosphere It's a bit like New Year's Eve, but it's not quite right.

"No, but the eight hot and eight cold hells seem to be preparing some kind of festival recently." Gui Deng said, he didn't seem to have slept well, and there was obvious fatigue in the corners of his eyes. The young assistant officer of hell looked around and found a This magazine, "If Master Hastur is curious, you can read this."

You took the magazine from Ghost Lantern, and found that the cover of this publication called "Santuchuan Weekly" was very popular, and Wu Mi's name was impressively written on the title of the subordinate.

"Happy news! The well-known reincarnation fugitive Kiwu Tsuji has been arrested recently! Thousands of Wutengu police officers are present to escort them! The momentum is huge!"

"The crime is unforgivable! All the work of Yama of the Ten Palaces has been suspended! The Ten Kings gathered for the first time to sentence Guiwu Tsuji to the innocent crime! The records have exceeded ten thousand volumes! Or break the records of the Three Realms!"

"Justice arrives late! Nearly [-] Onimai Tsuji victims who stayed in hell surrounded the Temple of Yama with banners! This magazine specially invited a representative to conduct a separate interview!"

"The Eighteen Hells plan to jointly hold a celebration to celebrate Oni Wu Tsuji's fall into the Abi Hell! Idol Momo Maki will participate in the performance! Ten commemorative delicacies you can't miss!"

you:"……"

You looked up, "Are you working overtime recently?"

You remember that the ghost in front of you is the assistant officer of hell. If the title of the magazine is not an exaggeration, the tragic death has brought a lot of work to hell's civil servants, then the ghost lamp must be the first to bear the brunt of overtime.

Ghost Lantern admitted without expression.

"Onimai Tsuji's crimes are far beyond that of ordinary people," he said. "Phantom species with his lifespan are not as immoral as him, and humans who are worse than him don't live as long as him. The workload of punishing him is indeed very heavy."

Grass, then you are so desperate to rush over to make trouble?

You were a little ashamed, touched the back of your head embarrassingly and said, "I'm sorry."

I didn't expect Ghost Lantern to be so busy, so I still found time to be your tour guide. As a social animal, you immediately felt sorry for him, but even if you did it again, you would still choose to come to Hell as soon as possible and ask him to fulfill his promise .

Because Yuanyi is here.

When you were summoned by the ghost lamp to the Santu River, you saw his figure through the turbulent river, even if it was only a distant one, you were sure that it was Yuanyi.

"Why is he here?" You ask in amazement. Hell is not a good place. You know who you are. He can't commit a crime. How come he hasn't become a Buddha and stayed here for more than 400 years?

"Probably waiting for someone." Ghost Lantern said indifferently, "It's not uncommon for dead people like him to wander in hell because of obsession. If they can't wait for the person they miss, they won't leave."

You don't want to be sentimental, but you count and count and find that there seems to be no one in this world that he can miss except you and Yansheng.

You can't judge, and you don't have to judge, because Yuanyi is facing an unsolvable situation. You are a god, you can't die, you can't go to hell, Yan Sheng is a ghost, you can't die, you can't go to hell, if you don't want to make a change, Then he will never be free.

So you agreed to the ghost lamp deal and returned to the human world without hesitation.

I don't know whether to be happy or sad, but after you killed Yan Sheng and Wu Mi, Yuan Yi still stayed in hell.

He's waiting for you, you can almost be sure of that.

You tug at your hair with so much pressure that your stomach feels like you don't exist.

Why does Yuanyi want to see you?You wonder uneasily, with many thoughts running through your mind, will he blame you?Blame you as a god for wantonly changing his life, and leaving irresponsibly?

Or does he want to apologize to you, that his brother killed you?

Will he cry?Will he laugh?How do you greet him, how do you persuade him to become a Buddha and say goodbye to him?

You struggle like a menopausal single woman.

"Lonely Hell Station, here we come, Lonely Hell Station, here we go—"

The announcement of the train sounded, Ghost Lantern closed the notes, got up and motioned for you to get off together.

You nervously followed behind him.

Different from the absurd and miserable scenery you saw all the way on the train, this area called Lonely Hell is very quiet, even like the world, there are no flames burning on the ground, no flesh and blood corpses lying on the ground, no screams, no sorrow Howling, there is no oil pan or hot iron, here is calm and picturesque landscape.

It looked like a place where Yuan would stay for a while.

"What kind of sinner is punished in Lonely Hell?" You asked, looking around, "It's so peaceful here."

"This is a little difficult to explain." Ghost Lantern said, leading you across the river, "Master Hastur, Japanese hells are divided into four categories-eight cold hells, eight hot hells, near hells and lonely hells, plus The total is eighteen, and the first three types of hells have their own jailers, but the lonely hell does not."

"Because the lonely hell does not appear because of the common karma of all beings, but only because of the evil karma of individual beings."

You were taken aback, "What do you mean?"

"Meaning, the location and form of the Hell of Solitude is indeterminate."

The ghost lamp thought for a while, "Let's use an analogy that you can understand better. The lonely hell is like the inherent enchantment that human onmyojis say, it is the embodiment of the sinner's image and scenery. It is not often that someone in this world accidentally breaks the barrier." Is there an anecdote about finding strange creatures in the boulder? This is a case of execution in the lonely hell. The creatures in the stone are the sinners exiled here. They are trapped in the boulder without being able to move or eat. Such an experience may It lasted for tens of thousands of years, and the suffering was unimaginable."

"Sinners sentenced here are hell inside themselves," he said, "so there is no need for jailers here, because loneliness cannot be escaped."

You understand, this ghost place is a super enhanced version of Yu|Zhang|Shu|Yuan.

Why is Yuanyi here?

You became confused, and suddenly heard the ghost lamp say, "Here we are."

Shocked, you hurriedly looked in the direction he indicated.

After crossing the river and the flat slope, the scenery in front of you suddenly changed. The luxuriant vegetation disappeared, and the endless red-hot flames burned the land. A man in ragged clothes was carrying many boulders on his back, and walked staggeringly in the flames.

He was climbing a slope, and the stones on his back that were tied only with silk threads were crumbling. When the man was about to reach the top of the mountain, the rope broke, and the stones rolled down one after another, like meteors falling to the ground.

The sinner is not surprised, turns his head numbly, and walks down the scorched earth to collect the stones again, and you recognize who he is, and you are too shocked to speak.

"Yansheng?!" You exclaimed, and looked at the ghost lamp suddenly: "What the hell—"

"Mr. Yuanyi is there." Ghost Lantern stopped your words and pointed in another direction. An old man stood not far from Yansheng, with a tall and straight figure and a worried look on his face.

"He stayed here on his own initiative." You heard Ghost Lantern say, "Because he didn't interfere with official duties, so I didn't send anyone to chase him away. If you have anything to say, just go and talk. I'm resting by the river, and you can come back to me at any time." .”

So you forgot to question and ran towards Yuanyi and Yansheng quickly.

"Yuanyi! Yansheng!" You shouted, and the two turned their heads to look at you at the same time. This is the weirdest meeting you have ever experienced with the two brothers Jiguo. Your soul has changed skin, and Yansheng You are in a mess, Yuan Yi is old, but hell, you all recognized each other in an instant, and the two completely different brothers called out in surprise: "Ah?"

You almost cried out, and all the drafts you had thought up before were left behind, and you ran forward: "What the hell is going on? Yansheng, why are you carrying these stones?"

The disheveled Yansheng was a little stunned, he looked at his old brother and said to you: "This is my sin."

He was obviously suffering, but Yan Sheng's expression was calm. He said calmly: "Murder, cannibalism, abetting evil——I have committed many crimes, and I must carry them on my back until I reach the top of the slope and return them to the sky."

You glanced at the stones on the ground and the rope that was automatically attached to the original state, and understood the content of the punishment Iwakatsu suffered.

"There's something wrong with this rope," you say. "You can't get to the top of the mountain. As soon as you get there, it will break and you'll never pay for your sin."

This is definitely a punishment that only gods can think of. There is nothing more painful than hopeless and endless efforts. This place is indeed hell.

"I know." Yan Sheng said, he paused and repeated silently: "I know."

He knows a butt!

"You idiot!" You scolded, stomping your feet in anger. You hated Yansheng for being self-confident, and even more hated him for being obsessed with ghosts and going astray. If you had known that he would be tortured like this after death, you would, you would—

"I'm sorry, Ah Xi." Yan Sheng said, he pushed his overly long sideburns behind his ears, and expertly tied up the stones, "I know what you're thinking, you did the right thing, I've strayed from humanity for too long, sooner or later I will suffer retribution, without you, there will be someone else who will end me, so I feel more at ease when I die by your hands."

"……I'm really sorry."

Yansheng picked up the stone, nodded to you as farewell, and then he walked towards the hillside again, letting the flames burn his body.