← On the road

Chapter 22 Underworld

After this battle, Chen Shi was sleepy and tired, so he took a nap while sitting in the cart. When he woke up, the wooden cart had arrived at Huangpo Village.

 Grandpa boiled medicine and was busy back and forth. It was late at night before the medicine was ready.

  Chen Shi drank a pot of medicine, soaked in the medicine vat, and gradually fell asleep in the medicine vat.

 Fortunately, the night was uneventful and his old illness did not relapse.

 "Has my illness been cured?"

 Chen Shi was very happy when he woke up in the morning, and felt that the breakfast made by his grandpa was not that bad.

 And this time Grandpa went to the county town and did not break his promise. He did bring him delicious food from the county town, including candied haws, glutinous rice cakes, stinky tofu, and candy figures, which made him smile from ear to ear.

"Grandpa's medicine is useful, and it is also useful for me to practice Sanguang Zhengqi every day. Maybe my disease can be cured!"

 Chen Shi looked forward to his future life, so he worked harder. After worshiping his godmother, he practiced the Three Guangzhengqi Jue and used the Big Dipper to temper his body.

 This day was very fulfilling. At night, Chen Shi drank medicine and took a medicinal bath. He practiced the Three Lights Righteousness Technique for a while before lying down to sleep.

  He slept for an unknown amount of time. When he was enjoying his sleep, he suddenly felt an intense pain in his heart, and his heart twitched violently!

  Chen Shi woke up and knew that his old heart problem had recurred. He struggled on the bed to get up and activate the Sanguang Zhengqi Jue to resist.

However, the pain was so severe that it drained him of all his strength. His heart seemed to be crushed into a ball, and the blood flow in his body stopped!

  He wanted to breathe, but couldn't.

  The air in the lungs seemed to have been emptied by the blue ghost hands!

  "Grandpa! Grandpa!"

  Chen Shi was surrounded by great panic. He opened his mouth to call out to his grandfather, but no sound came out of his throat.

  It is still night, and grandpa should not be at home, so he would not be aware that he is in danger.

  "Black Pot! Black Pot!"

  Chen Shi wanted to call Heiguo, but could not make a sound. The big black dog in the yard seemed to hear something, raised his head, listened carefully, shook his head and went back to sleep.

Chen Shi's eyes gradually turned black, so dark that he couldn't see the moonlight outside, and so dark that he couldn't even see the beams.

 His eyelids became heavier and heavier, his mind became more and more dizzy, and his body twitched uncontrollably, like a fish that was fished out to death.

 His body jumped violently on the bed twice, and finally calmed down. His limbs twitched from time to time, but the frequency of the twitches became slower and slower, and the amplitude became smaller and smaller.

 Finally, Chen Shi became quiet.

  There seemed to be a light in the darkness, illuminating the darkness in front of Chen Shi.

  He opened his eyes, surrounded by heavy mist, and pitiful howls could be heard in the distance from time to time, both like humans and injured beasts.

  Chen Shi's eyes widened and he looked around hard, but couldn't see anything.

 “Grandpa!” he shouted.

  "Grandpa!" "Grandpa!"

   There were many voices in the mist, from all directions and corners, calling for grandpa. I don’t know if it was an echo or something weird.

 Chen Shi was surrounded by fear. He knew that he should stay where he was and wait for his grandfather to find him, but he couldn't help but take steps forward.

  He only felt that his body had become lighter than ever before, as light as if it did not exist. The mist was like grains of snow-white, fine and weightless sand, passing through his body, feeling cold and cold.

  "I'm probably dead." Chen Shi thought sadly.

There were footsteps in the mist. He followed the sound and saw another figure, a young woman with a pale complexion walking towards her in a daze.

 Her neck was dripping with blood, and as she walked, blood poured out from a gap in her neck, staining her clothes red.

 She opened her mouth as if speaking, but Chen Shi couldn't hear anything.

 The woman lowered her head sadly, but her head fell down and fell to the ground.

 The woman squatted on the ground and groped around with her hands, but she never found her head.

 The helpless cry of a woman came from the mist.

 After a while, she found her head, picked it up and put it on her neck. She came silently behind Chen Shi and walked slowly.

Another person walked out of the mist. He was a man with a big belly. He looked like a powerful man. He was wearing gold and silver and had a commanding air. However, he looked quite down and out at the moment. He had been stabbed countless times and the wounds were still bleeding.

 Especially the abdomen, full of fat intestines flowed out and dragged on the ground.

  He struggled to hold up his intestines with both hands and follow Chen Shi.

  Chen Shi walked forward in a daze and met more people in the fog. They all had their own ways of dying. Some were missing arms and legs, some had a big hole in their heads, and some were heartbroken. Some were cracked, some were covered with pus, some were blown up until only half of their body was left, and some were burned to coke...

  Chen Shi was not afraid. He had seen many ghosts and gods, and was no longer afraid.

"I must be dead."

He felt a little sad, "I was in so much pain in bed that Grandpa didn't notice it, and neither did the black pot. They might be very sad when they found out I was dead the next day."

He didn't know what his face looked like. If he looked too hideous, Grandpa would cry.

  He didn't want grandpa to cry.

 There is a long queue in front of you, with no end as far as the eye can see. I don’t know how many people are walking mechanically in the mist, and I don’t know where they are going.

  Chen Shi walked forward with the weird people behind him to get along with the team.

  They continued to move forward, and more people joined the large army.

There were many more people in front and behind Chen Shi. They were the other two teams. The people were walking like zombies, and there was no end as far as the eye could see.

· Ahead, more teams appeared, and there was a crowd of people. The strange thing was that even though there were so many people, they didn't make any sound.

 Only in the mist, miserable howls could be heard from time to time.

 Suddenly, a huge claw protruded from the mist. It was skinny and covered with scales, not like a human hand. It grabbed a person and then retracted into the mist, and then there was the sound of chewing in the mist.

  「Hee hee hee!」

   Something laughed in the mist.

  Chen Shi was afraid, but the people around him turned a blind eye and continued to move forward numbly.

At this time, more claws poked out of the mist, grabbed a person and retracted into the mist, and the sound of chewing and laughter came from all directions.

  They seemed to have walked into a feast held by gluttons in the mist, except that they were the delicacies at the feast, and the monsters hidden in the mist were gourmets, tasting rare delicacies!

  Chen Shi did not dare to move forward, but his legs seemed to be disobeying him and were still moving forward mechanically.

  In the surrounding mist, more and more "gourmets" came to taste the delicacies, and there were more and more laughter. More claws stretched out, grabbing people who didn't know how to resist, and shrank back into the mist.

 Chen Shi's scalp was numb, and he saw a big, jagged hand grabbing at him. He wanted to avoid it, but his body still moved forward mechanically, and he couldn't avoid it at all!

Just when he was about to be caught by that big hand, suddenly a thumping sound came, like a drum or a broken gong. The sound was dull and rustling, but he retracted the paw in shock.

      

   There was a call from behind him, accompanied by the sound of drums.

 There was a subtle scent of incense coming into Chen Shi's nose, but it was also vaguely present.


 "Grandpa!" He burst into tears.

 Grandpa's voice came: "Xiao Shi, follow the voice!"

 Chen Shi tried his best to stop, turned around with difficulty, and walked following the sound. Every step was extremely difficult, like stepping on a mountain of knives, like walking through a sea of ​​fire, and there was a bone-piercing pain in his legs.

  He walked forward hard listening to the sound, but the sound was intermittent, and could only reach his ears if it was accompanied by the sound of drums and the smell of incense. If the smell of incense or the sound of drums stopped, he would lose his direction.

 There were people surging around, but Chen Shi was the only one who was walking in the wrong direction and was knocked around and stumbled.

  He has been gone for who knows how long, but he still has not left this gluttonous feast. There are big and ragged hands everywhere, and he may be captured at any time.

Seeing that he was about to bear it no longer, the mist suddenly parted, and in the mist there was a huge creature snorting fireworks, stepping on the ground, making the ground tremble, and rushed towards this side.

 When the behemoth came closer, Chen Shi realized that it was a black dog, which looked like a black pot, but was countless times bigger, like a hill.

"Black pot, is that you?"

The black dog is like a demon from the underworld, ferocious and ferocious, with fire in his eyes, burning the big craggy hands he grabs, and with a click, his sharp teeth bite off one of the big hands. Then his nose twitched, he sniffed the scent of incense, his two burning eyes rolled around, and his gaze fell on Chen Shi.

  「Hoo-ho!」

The black pot, which was as big as a hill, was so excited that it swiped its tail and stirred up gusts of wind. It crawled down and let Chen Shi climb on top of it, then turned around and ran away.


  He raised his hand to block the dazzling light, when a joyful voice came: "Wake up, Xiao Shi is finally awake!"

  Chen Shi opened his eyes, gradually adapted to the light, and looked around confusedly, only to see that he was in a strange and dark room, the air was filled with a strong smell of incense, and the walls were blackened.

An old woman with tangled white hair was sitting in the corner, holding something like a gong in her hand. When she tapped it lightly, it made a sound like a gong and a drum, and there was also a rustling sound.

 There is also a large brazier on the ground. There are paper symbols burning in the brazier. The flame is very high, as high as a person.

 There is a big black dog squatting behind the flames, its eyes are illuminated by the flames like firelight, and when it blows out from its nostrils, it is the smoke of fireworks, which is the black pot.

 Grandpa is sitting on the other side of the brazier, with a blend of water and fire floating above his head.

  "Where is this place?" Chen Shi wondered.

 ————Thanks to the leader of Aixinjueluo Shengjie for the reward, long live the boss!