I am a fairy

Chapter 53: The Netherworld and Ghost City

When Jia Gui woke up early this morning, he heard the good news that the criminal had been arrested.

At the same time, he heard something even stranger and more terrifying.

The sky is bright.

Liu Hu, who had not slept all night, was still standing at the door with full energy and spirit. However, when Jia Gui came in, he immediately bent over and became respectful.

"The criminal has been caught."

Jia Gui sat on the couch and took the tea handed to him by the waitress, feeling very happy.

"Okay, okay, tell me, where did you catch this thief?"

Liu Hu raised his head and said, "I didn't catch it."

Jia Gui didn't care too much and stroked his teacup: "Who caught it?"

Liu Hu went on to say: "He just suddenly appeared on his own."

Jia Gui was a little concerned at this point: "How did he appear?"

Liu Hu added: "I heard from the criminal that he escaped from the netherworld under the nine earths."

After these words were spoken, Jia Gui froze for a while while holding the teacup. After a long while, he looked at Liu Hu and uttered a word.

"What are you talking about?"
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Outside the Xihe County government office.

There were huge crowds of people, jostling each other.

Because the criminal who had committed fraud and caused death in the county a few days ago has been arrested, the county magistrate is about to interrogate the villain, and everyone in and outside the county can go and listen.

The people looked inside expectantly, asking all kinds of questions.

"Do you want to behead me?"

"He will definitely be beheaded."

"Can we see it?"

"I heard that the death row prisoners were beheaded, cutting the person in half at once, and their intestines and internal organs all flowed out."

"Who told me that the death row prisoners are hanged on the execution ground? Two executioners stand on each side, pulling the ropes and making a clicking sound. The prisoner's face is as red as a pig's liver, and his tongue is stretched out so long."

Before anything happened to the villain, everyone had already discussed how he should die, and even the look of his death had been arranged.

Jia Gui sat upright in the hall, flanked by his subordinates, officials, and runners.

Although he originally looked a little skinny, he looked more dignified after wearing the official hat and being surrounded by a group of people.

Jia Gui carefully examined the person in the audience, and after asking about his identity and background, he began to ask him why he committed the crime.

After escaping the disaster, the villain was very relaxed and spoke without hiding anything.

"I wanted to get some money to spend a few times before. After all, I had just arrived in Xihe County, and I had spent most of the money and property I had gotten from other places."

"The first time I stole the holy spring, I went up the mountain and stole it. But later it became difficult to go up the mountain, so I filled some water from the well. I didn't expect it to sell better."

As soon as these words were spoken, the people outside started to make a commotion.

"I was wondering why the sacred spring was useless. It made such a fuss for so long. It was this guy who poured the well water."

"I thought I had stolen the spring from the mountain, and was cursed by the gods!"

"This thief is not only extremely daring, but also extremely evil-minded."

"If this is really the holy spring, I'm afraid the disease will really be cured, and I won't end up dying."

"This guy is so despicable. He actually deceived people like this and killed people with fake springs. This time he must pay with his life."

"Pay your life. Kill him and pay his life."

People outside started shouting and some threw stones.

The villain didn't care, sneered, and then continued.

"The last time was because someone in Jingu County offered money and silk, saying that someone in his family was haunted by a plague ghost. He heard that the gods in this county are quite effective, and there is a magical spring that can cure all diseases and drive away evil spirits."

"So they paid a large sum of money to let me get the sacred spring."

"The other party was extremely generous, and I couldn't fool him anymore, so I thought about going up the mountain to make another attempt."

This guy was talking nonsense. It was obvious that he was afraid of that person's power, but when he spoke, it became as if he was a man of conscience and righteousness.

Then he continued.

"I just didn't expect that I, who had been so powerful all my life, would end up in the hands of the officials from your counties."

The evil man looked at the officers with contempt, as if he looked down on them. Liu Hu and the officers immediately glared at him, thinking that he was a shameless beast. He was so scared before that he cried and hugged them, but now he was pretending to be serious.

However, Jia Gui in the Mingtang said lightly.

"I heard you say that you ran back from the Netherworld?"

Just one sentence seemed to send the villain back to hell.

Hear this.

The villain suddenly shuddered, his face turned pale, and he looked down at the ground, as if he didn't even dare to recall the scene.

Jia Gui slammed the table and said, "Tell me the truth. What evil things did you do on the Divine Peak?"

The evil man trembled: "I haven't had time to do it yet?"

Jia Gui: "So what happened to you on the mountain?"

The villain mustered up his courage and then slowly told the story, describing everything that had happened to him.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he started shouting loudly.

His tone was full of complaints and lamentations, as if he was feeling extremely aggrieved.

"County Master, my life is really bad!"

"As soon as I entered the mountain, I didn't have time to do anything when I encountered a ferocious ghost as black as charcoal. The ghost was waiting for me in front of the cave. When he saw me approach, he jumped up and took me into the underworld."

"This sacred peak is truly a place where gods and ghosts meet at night. Mortals cannot enter!"

"If I had known this, I would have gone up the mountain during the day."

Hearing the county magistrate's question, the evil man trembled.

After hearing what the evil man said, everyone inside and outside the hall changed color and there was an uproar.

"Listen, listen. I told you that there are ghosts and gods haunting the sacred peak at night."

"That's where the Cloud Wall sacred object is located, a place that connects gods, ghosts, heaven and earth. It's said that every full moon night, the lords of the mountains and rivers in all directions and the dragons in the rivers go up the mountain to pay homage to the Lord of the Clouds."

"And that sacred spring must have flowed from a place that does not belong to the human world."

"So, after dark, no one can go there!"

There was a lot of noise outside, and everyone became even more excited. They all felt that today's excitement was worth watching.

Jia Gui frowned and looked cold: "If you dare to talk nonsense in the hall, I will definitely let you know the power of the torture instrument."

The villain: "How dare I speak nonsense? Everything I said is true."

When the villain heard Jia Gui questioning him, he became even more agitated and retorted loudly.

"Your Highness, you don't know how terrifying the netherworld is. The ghosts and gods are nearly ten feet tall and they held me with iron chains in their hands."

"When you get to the bottom of the nine lands, the road to the underworld is full of ghosts and gods, and thousands of lonely ghosts are walking from the human world to the ghost city."

"The ghost that caught me had a divine eye on his head, which could see through the two worlds of yin and yang. I was able to see countless lonely ghosts, all of whom were newly dead ghosts in the world."

"Along the way, screams were heard everywhere. Some people even didn't know they had become ghosts in the underworld, and were still calling for their relatives in the world of the living."

"I also heard a few names."

"An old man called out to his son Niu Achou, and another called out to his brother Chen Dalang. These two were right beside me and heard everything clearly."

This villain spoke so vividly that he could even describe all kinds of details about the underworld, even people's names. For a moment, everyone in and outside the hall believed it a little bit.

I thought to myself, could it be that what he said is true?

Suddenly, a young peddler who was passing by and watching the fun shouted.

The young peddler said: "My name is Chen Dalang. My brother died of illness the night before yesterday. Did you see my brother in the netherworld?"

Someone else said, "Niu Ah Chou, isn't that the clerk from the rice shop in the West Market? I heard he went back to attend the funeral."

Even the names matched, and even the deceased people matched. The degree of everyone's belief immediately increased from three points to five points.

Hearing this, the evil man immediately said.

"Of course I did. I personally walked the road to the underworld and escaped from the underworld. How can I lie?"

And at this point, the villain talked about the so-called punishment that Jia Gui had just threatened him with.

His words were full of disdain.

"And the punishment that the county lord mentioned is far inferior to the punishment in the underworld."

(End of this chapter)