Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system

Chapter 34: 4,000 words (Extra: Death before crossing)

I don’t know what happened to the weather in July. It was as if there was a hole in the sky. It started raining at the beginning of the month and has been raining intermittently for more than ten days.

Gu Tang likes rainy days, but no matter how much he likes them, he can't stand it raining like this.

Everywhere in the room felt damp, including Gu Tang himself, who felt like he was moldy!
After staying at home and waiting for two more days, the dark sky finally cleared up.

Gu Tang breathed a sigh of relief. The refrigerator was empty. If she didn't stop, she would have to go out in the rain to buy some.

After coming out of the corridor, Gu Tang did not go to the underground garage to drive. She took the re-examination three times before getting her driver's license, but her driving skills were still terrible. Whenever she drove, there would be an accident!

In the worst month, she had ten accidents!

This is no longer a matter of whether your driving skills are good or not!
Gu Tang, who never believed in feudal superstitions, had no choice but to ask someone and then went to a local Taoist temple for help.

I don't know if the Taoist priest was talking nonsense, but after all the calculations, he concluded that her "driving luck" was not good, and the chance of her having a driving accident was several times higher than that of others!
This was the first time Gu Tang heard about the concept of "car transportation" and she suspected that the Taoist priest was fooling her!

But what they said was indeed accurate. Her chances of getting into a driving accident were several times higher than others!
With the mentality of trying everything possible, Gu Tang asked the Taoist if he had a solution. The Taoist said it was simple, just stop driving.

After hearing this explanation, Gu Tang turned around and left.

This question is useless!
Although he didn't quite believe what the Taoist said, when he saw the car, Gu Tang subconsciously recalled those strange accidents.

Rear-end collisions, being rear-ended, being knocked down while driving straight on a road with minimal traffic, being knocked down while turning on a road with minimal traffic, having the glass pierced by a falling stone, being hit by a blind bird, and so on...

In short, there is nothing she can't encounter, only things you can't think of!

It would have been fine if he didn't know the term "truck transport". Now that he suddenly knew it, Gu Tang was still a little scared. In the end, he could only try to reduce the number of times he drove.

And her beloved car, which she had just bought, was also successfully put into the cold palace.

After exiting the gate of the community, walk ten meters east and you will see the bus sign. The buses that stop there cover any place in Linjiang City.

The bus number that Gu Tang wanted to take was "118", which ran every fifteen minutes.

As soon as I sat down at the bus stop, the phone in my bag rang.

Taking out his cell phone and glancing at it, Gu Tang frowned impatiently and hung up without thinking!

A few seconds after hanging up, the opponent attacked again.

Gu Tang is dead again!

Fight the opponent again!

……

Both sides seem to be competing with each other, and neither wants to admit defeat.

After going back and forth six or seven times, Gu Tang took a deep breath and pressed the answer button.

"You've grown so powerful, you little bitch! You didn't even answer your mom's call?!"

Gu Tang's face turned cold: "What's the matter?"

The person on the other end was obviously choked by this, "I'm your mother! Do I have to have something to do before I call you?! Where are you now?!"

"Shopping!" Gu Tang still said two words.

"Are you stupid? Today is the 14th day of the seventh lunar month! It's Ghost Festival! Who would go shopping on Ghost Festival?"

Gu Tang became increasingly impatient: "What's wrong with Ghost Festival? Isn't your sweetheart also at work on Ghost Festival? If you have the guts, call your son back! Tell him he can't go out on Ghost Festival!"

The voice on the other end immediately became shrill: "What nonsense! Your brother is on the rise lately! What nonsense are you coming up with?"

The familiar shrill voice made Gu Tang furious, and he replied in the same sharp tone: "Are you here to get scolded today?!"

The person on the other end paused for a moment, then stiffly stated the purpose of the call: "I'm at the Municipal People's Hospital. I have a benign cyst, and the doctor says I need surgery to remove it... Your brother is busy and doesn't have time to take care of me. Your sister is also at work and can't take leave. You're the only one who has work free, so hurry up and come take care of me for a few days..."

"I'm busy! I'm not going!" Gu Tang interrupted her directly.

The other person was now furious: "You have all the time to go shopping and no time to take care of me?! Fine! Then transfer the money! For the surgery plus the nursing fee, transfer 50,000 yuan to me!"

Gu Tang suddenly grinned. "I was wondering, your cyst has been diagnosed for half a year, why do you suddenly need surgery? It turns out you were waiting for me here. Are you going to pay the down payment for your son's car?"

The other party stopped talking, obviously agreeing with this.

Gu Tang immediately started to criticize him: "What a useless piece of shit! He's been out of school for five years and still makes 3,500 a month, and he's still talking about his rising period! Ugh! Do you really think he can get high just by having a few more pounds of meat down there?!"
The company will not look up to him because of the two pounds of flesh underneath, nor will they treat him as an ancestor because of the two pounds of flesh underneath!

"You want to buy a car? Why don't you tell your son to take off all his clothes and sell his ass! That thing will make him more money than his job!"

After the scolding, Gu Tang felt refreshed, hung up the phone immediately, and quickly blocked the number!

Just then, bus No. 118 also entered the station.

Gu Tang got up and got into the car without thinking.

The carriage was empty, with only four or five old men and women sitting in the love seats, each holding a large black bag that was bulging with stuff, and no one knew what was inside.

Gu Tang didn't think much about it and chose a seat by the window.

In front of her was the love seat. When the car stopped, an old lady's black bag loosened a little, revealing the paper gold ingots inside.

Gu Tang: ...

Her wicked mother seemed to have said that today was the fourteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival, also known as the Zhongyuan Festival.

People in Linjiang City like to burn paper money for their ancestors on this day.

So, the black bags in the hands of these old men and women are all filled with "gold ingots" for their ancestors?
Gu Tang swallowed his saliva and felt a chill inexplicably!

As the bus stopped at one station after another, all the people getting on the bus were old men and women!
Bus No. 118, which is usually crowded, was also very deserted today. There were only fourteen people on the bus, including the driver.

Gu Tang silently counted twice, and the more he counted, the more unlucky he felt this number was… July 14th… fourteen people…

Hey!
Gu Tang, who always had a keen sixth sense, quickly stood up and stood at the exit door, and shouted to the driver: "Master! Get off at the next stop!"

"okay!"

Gu Tang rubbed his face. There were still five or six minutes left to the next stop. It was almost there!

At this moment, the old man who had been sitting in the seat at the exit suddenly stood up.

Gu Tang turned his head and glanced, only to see an old man in his sixties or seventies, with a face full of flesh and a nasty look. He was now holding the handle and moving towards the driver.

For some reason, Gu Tang's originally steady heartbeat suddenly accelerated!

The old man had already moved to the driver's side and asked the driver in a very aggressive tone: "Is the next stop Liangxi Bridge?"

Facing the old man's rudeness, the driver replied with a very good temper: "Uncle, we just passed Liangxi Bridge. There was an announcement when we stopped. Didn't you hear it?"

The old man's face immediately darkened: "What? You deliberately opened the door to me because you despise me because I'm old and can't hear?"

The driver was confused, but soon realized that the old man had missed his stop. To avoid an argument, the driver continued to soothe him: "Uncle, I'm really sorry, how about this, when we get to the next stop, I'll give you two yuan and you can take a bus back?"

"No!" The old man suddenly became irritable and roared angrily, "Drive back! Who cares about your two dollars? If you delay my chance to burn paper money for my ancestors, no matter how much money you pay me, it won't work!"

The driver was startled by the old man's appearance. After looking at him carefully, he felt that the old man's mental state was not right.

To prevent the situation from getting worse, the driver had to take another step back: "Uncle, if you want me to drive back, you have to wait until I get back to the terminal. I'm afraid you can't wait any longer. How about I give you a little extra money and call a taxi for you at the next stop?"

"No! I don't have time to change buses! Drive back! You must drive back!" The old man had a ferocious look on his face and wouldn't listen to anything. He only knew that he couldn't miss the good time to burn paper money for his ancestors!

Seeing that the old man was unreasonable, the people in the car started to persuade him, hoping to convince him.

But who would have thought that instead of convincing the old man, the crowd's support had the opposite effect. The irritated old man became even more furious, and he actually directly snatched the steering wheel from the driver's hands!

"Drive back! You must drive back! You are all in cahoots! You all want to stop my chance to turn my luck around and make a fortune..."

The old man's eyes were red and he looked crazy. This sudden move caught the driver off guard and the steering wheel was immediately snatched away from him!

The car suddenly lost control, swerving left and right, and crashed into several cars. The people in the cars fell to the ground, screaming in chaos!
Gu Tang, who was waiting to get off the bus at the exit, watched the scene with tears in her eyes. She held on to the seat beside her and couldn't even stand up.

Looking at the driver and the old man fighting over the steering wheel, Gu Tang couldn't hold back any longer and started cursing: "You old fool, you lack virtue! If I survive, I will definitely throw paint on your house!!!"

The car was ramming around on the canal bridge. After a few seconds, it crashed into the bridge's guardrail and flipped over. With screams emanating from the car, it plummeted into the canal.

After rolling around in the carriage for several times, almost everyone was unconscious, with Gu Tang being the only one who was holding on and refusing to close his eyes.

The broken window glass cut her face, her eyes were bloodshot, and she watched the river water pouring in through the broken car window.

Several unconscious old ladies held her down. She had no strength to break free and allowed the river water to quickly fill the carriage and drown everyone.

Gu Tang, who was submerged in water, took several gulps of water and soon opened his mouth in a state of confusion.

In a trance, Gu Tang seemed to see several black iron chains emerging from thin air and quickly wrapping around the driver and the old men and women.

Strangely, when the black chain approached Gu Tang, it inexplicably paused for a moment, circled around Gu Tang, and seemed very confused.

But not long after, the black chain finally wrapped around him.

A black figure seemed to emerge from the murky river water, and it seemed to be roaring in a painful tone...

Immediately afterwards, the black figure began to split... Soon, the black figure became two, but one was big and one was small.

Before his consciousness completely dissipated, a vague conversation reached Gu Tang's ears——

"There is one person whose life span has not yet ended!"

"So what? The Soul Binding Chain has already entangled her. If I release her, I'll have to waste spiritual energy to cast a spell. Anyway, everyone in this car is dead, so why not let her come down with us?"

"This is against the rules of the underworld!"

"Why are you talking so much nonsense? I'll take over your body now! I'm the Soul Binder! I can bind anyone's soul I want! If you want to be your Soul Binder again, you must first take back the use of this body!"

After saying that, the black figure, which had grown larger, suddenly grew in size and swallowed up the smaller black figure in the blink of an eye.

The two figures merged into one again...

……

When Gu Tang was in high school, she was fond of supernatural novels for a while. She once wondered, do people really have souls?

Is there really an underworld somewhere invisible to humans?

After death, does the soul really go to the underworld?

Also, do people really become ghosts after they die?

These questions kept filling her mind back then, but she gradually came to terms with them, thinking they were all feudal superstitions and nonsense.

But now, Gu Tang was standing in a long queue where he couldn't see the beginning or the end, feeling that he was wrong.

That is neither feudal superstition nor nonsense.

It turns out that people really do have souls.

It turns out that there really is a place called "Underworld" that is invisible to humans.

It turns out that after death, the soul really returns to the underworld...

Looking at the dark and towering plaque in front of him, Gu Tang felt a stinging pain in his eyes after just one glance, and white smoke even came out of his soul.

Although he only took a quick glance, Gu Tang could still clearly see the words "Netherworld" on the plaque.

She stretched out her hand and looked at her transparent soul with an incredible look on her face. It turned out that all her fantasies in high school were true.

"Snap!" A whip sound suddenly broke through the air and hit Gu Tang accurately not far behind him.

Gu Tang looked back and stopped immediately!

"Why did you stop! Hurry up!" The soul behind Gu Tang urged impatiently.

Gu Tang ignored her and just stared at the figure being beaten behind him. His eyes were filled with dark energy and resentment!

That old man!!!

The old man who was fighting with the driver for the steering wheel!!!

The old man who killed a whole car of people!!!

Gu Tang's sudden transformation frightened the souls queuing in front and behind him, and soon caused a commotion.

Gu Tang didn't care at all. When the black energy overflowed into her soul, she soared into the sky and ran straight towards the old man!

The "Soul Catcher" who was whipping the old man saw the ghost in the form of a demon for the first time. He subconsciously took two steps back and his face turned pale!
But the next moment, the "Soul Catcher" remembered his current identity. He felt ashamed and angry, and raised his whip to whip Gu Tang.

At this time, the black energy on Gu Tang's body surged again. As if by instinct, he leaned over and rushed to the old man, and began to bite and devour the old man's soul. He looked extremely ferocious!

Looking at the ferocious Gu Tang, the "Soul Catcher" swallowed his saliva, retracted the whip very tactfully, and hid himself among the many souls.

Then he shouted in his sea of ​​consciousness, awakening the real Soul Catcher who had fallen into a deep sleep, and repeatedly questioned him why a new ghost would turn into a fierce ghost at the gate of the underworld!!!

When Chapter 127 was updated, 4,000 more words were added, turning the 4,000-word chapter into an 8,000-word chapter.

I didn't have many drafts saved, so I immediately revised it to 4,000 words with a heavy heart.

But later I found out that the charges were calculated based on the first release, that is, the charge was based on the first 8,000 words, and subsequent revisions were not counted.

Later, I thought of starting with 4,000 words, and then revising it to 5,000 words, with each chapter adding 1,000 words (the charging will still be based on 4,000 words), until the 4,000 words owed for Chapter 127 are made up.

But the editor came to communicate and said that some readers complained to the customer service, saying that Chapter 127 cost them an extra 20 coins. In this case, I can only publish another extra chapter and put it in the free chapter as compensation for the treasures~