hell in disguise

Ganda and several other slaves carried King Ashani, who was shaky on foot, back to the palace of the Infernal Palace, which was hidden deep in the mountains.The high dome is propped up by several thin optic pillars, and many bryophytes of the night are spreading on the walls made of stone or iron, casting a painting composed of faint halos on the rough ground. It seems to be a maya ghost galloping around in a chariot.In the middle of the dormitory is a huge bed covered with gauze, which seems to be an exquisite bed frame made of the bones of some giant beast. On the head of the bed is a huge goat-like head, except that there are four eyes on the skull. The horns are too huge and sharp.

The slaves put the tall and heavy body of King Ashani on the bed, and some servants hurriedly changed the fine clothes on the king.After some fuss, everyone withdrew, and Ganda stayed behind as bed attendant tonight.

Just now, Ganda took advantage of the opportunity to get close to King Ashani, and used the simplest and most imperceptible charm technique of red impermanence.This kind of spell will make the target feel good about Hongwuchang. It is somewhat similar to hypnosis. Through some skilled pronunciation and guidance, coupled with the usually very beautiful appearance of Hongwuchang, the target can often be put down in the shortest time. Be vigilant and involuntarily be drawn to emotions, and it is also convenient for Hongwuchang to further perform more complex spells such as dream entrustment or emotion observation.This kind of spell may not have such a good effect against some people who are on guard against them, but if the other party is unprepared, such as King Ashani, it is a powerful spell with twice the result with half the effort.

And the reason why he "drunk" King Ashani so quickly was actually after using the technique of charm and superimposing the technique of hypnosis on top of it, in order to take this opportunity to cast a dream on the king. to find clues in dreams.

After thinking about it, he decided to manifest his soul-inducing bell.

The soul-inducing bell and the crossing umbrella are made of Hongwuchang's fate soul, and they are the continuation of Hongwuchang's body, just like Qingwuchang's karma-slashing sword.If it is an ordinary red impermanence, when these things are not easy to be exposed all the time, you can swallow the soul-crossing bell for preservation, and the parasol can also be shrunk and put in your sleeve.

But Ganda is an alternate Hong Wuchang after all, and his soul-inducing Ling Du E Umbrella is not made of his own soul, so he can't change and manipulate it as he likes.But in recent years, probably because he used it too much, the soul-inducing bell gradually seemed to have some connection with him, and recently he also learned other ways for Hong Wuchang to hide the bell in his stomach.

It's just that when he vomited again, it was still not as smooth as the ordinary Hong Wuchang. After trying several times, he finally pinched his throat with his fingers, and finally vomited out a lot of other food that hadn't had time to digest.With a disgusted look on his face, Ganda pulled out the two bells with two fingers, and wiped off King Ashani's quilt.However, before he had time to use it, he suddenly saw the candlelight in the hall rushing wildly, and a gust of wind swept in, and he heard a low "Ganda" not long after.

It's Eunna!

Ganda frantically stuffed the soul-inducing bell into his belt, turned around and saw Qian Na turning over from a high slender window, and landed lightly on the ground.Ganda noticed that the skin of Qian Na had started to turn blue, and the horns had also started to bend, thinking that the effect of the Transformation Pill was about to expire, but he didn't take a new one.

"Why are you here too?"

Qian Na pointed to the big bed and said concisely, "The passage is under his bed."

Ganda looked surprised, "How do you know?"

"It was found out from the third prince." Qianna didn't intend to tell him about the contract.

When he thought about how Qian was "inquiring", Ganda became angry and his face darkened a little, "Hmph, I see you always have a serious face, I didn't expect you to do such a thing with ease."

Canna could hear the strong smell of jealousy in his tone, and he couldn't help laughing, "Didn't you hug and touch that king too, now tell me?"

"...I can protect myself. If I hadn't acted in time before, he would have kissed you!"

Jianna rolled her eyes as if she had a headache, "Okay! It's important!"

The two ghosts bent down and struggled to get under the not-so-sufficient bed.Although the bed was high, it was still a bit cramped for a tall ghost like Qian Na.The two ghosts fumbled under the bed for a long time, and finally realized that with the will-o'-the-wisp's fire in their palms, the color of a floor tile was different from that of other places. After knocking, it turned out to be hollow.They pressed it around again, and finally they pressed an inconspicuous small brick. There was a sound of beeping gears somewhere, and the floor tiles of different colors suddenly sank, and then moved away.

Qianna and Ganda looked at each other, then looked down at the entrance of the cave.It was so dark that nothing could be seen.

Zunna passed by first, stretched his feet in first, and probed, but did not penetrate to the end.He raised his head and said to Ganda, "I'll go down first."

Ganda nodded.

As soon as I let go, the whole person fell quickly.He opened his palm, and the blue will-o'-the-wisp reflected the stone walls that crowded around him.But after a brief fall, the space on all sides suddenly began to expand endlessly.

It was a vast and magnificent underground cave, and the huge stalagmites connected the tall dome and the rugged land spread under the feet like countless columns.The darkness was as thick as ink, approaching from all directions, and Jian Na's whole body was like a blue meteor falling slowly, breaking the boundless darkness and silence.

Suddenly, a ray of blue light burst out from the back of Jian Na, and instantly condensed into a sword that flew to his feet, slowing down his falling trend little by little.The light from the blade illuminated the square inch around him.

Unexpectedly, such a large area of ​​the ground of the Infernal Palace was hollowed out.

Before landing, he suddenly heard a panicked scream from somewhere in the sky.Knowing that it was Ganda who jumped down after him, Qianna quickly flew up with the Zhanye sword, and caught the fast-falling Ganda in the air. Stop, I felt like my arm was almost broken.However, when he saw Ganda in his arms hugging him in shock, he suddenly felt that he was very cute, so a smile appeared on his face.

Ganda thought that Qian Na was laughing at him, and his face became hot.He was actually seen by Qianna in such a shameful manner... So he pushed Qianna hard, but his body became unstable, and he almost fell off the Zhanye Sword again.Jian Na held back his smile and held him back, cursing, "What are you doing, there is still some distance down here, do you want to be smashed to pieces?"

"..."

The two fell to the ground, and Jianna raised his sword, and a raging blue will-o'-the-wisp ignited on the sword, illuminating the surrounding scene.There are huge and magnificent statues of hundreds of ghosts everywhere, which are tens of feet high, and they are arranged one after another like a maze.In the gloomy and trembling light and shadow, those ferocious grimaces became more and more grisly and cold, and the gestures of baring their teeth and claws were distorted and weird.Some ghosts don't even have faces, just a blank, slightly undulating plane above their heads.There are also quite a few statues that are not humanoid ghosts at all, or there are aji insects with countless tentacles spreading from head to tail, or chaotic ghosts with countless fragments of flesh and organs stacked up, and a bunch of poisonous bees that sometimes gather and sometimes disperse. People and ghosts.

Ganda sighed, "Who carved this? How could there be so much spare time to carve this?"

Kanna frowned, he felt that these statues should not be here by accident.

He vaguely remembered hearing that the goddess Meng Po, whose age was a mystery in Fengdu, talked about an ancient formation after she got drunk, and used the "substitutes" of all the ghosts in hell.The so-called double is a paper figurine or sculpture that imitates a real ghost.But looking at these statues, their bodies are covered with dust, and there are many cobwebs, as if they have been covered in dust for a long time.

"Let's go." Ganna just wanted to find Kuma Moro as soon as possible.

They flew up again, flew to the top of the highest Rakshasa ghost in the field of vision, and looked around.Similar sculptures spread like a forest, but there seemed to be no sculptures near the middle of this huge space.

Are these sculptures built around that open space?

Jian Na set up the Zhan Ye sword and flew straight to the open space.When he got close, he couldn't help but let out a low cry.

The open space was densely packed, layer by layer, full of corpses lying in disorder.

They were all human ghost corpses with no hands or feet, and their stomachs were so big that they looked like they were pregnant.It was exactly the same as the female corpse that fell out of the box they had accidentally seen before.

Ganda covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and the stench of the rotting corpse made acid regurgitate in his stomach.Qianna frowned into a pimple, hesitated for a moment, and then slowly lowered it.

Among the piles of corpses, it is even difficult to have a place to step down.There were many carrion maggots crawling on the blackened and rotten corpses. The wounds of broken limbs were especially serious, and many of them were so rotten that they could not see their faces clearly.There are males and females among these ghosts, but most of them have huge pregnant bellies.Moreover, what Qianna cares about is that although some ghosts have deflated stomachs, there are too many folds in the abdomen, and it is obvious that they have been stretched out.Moreover, their private parts seemed to be torn apart by something, and the black hole was wide open.

Could it be... something crawled out of my stomach...

Just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle.

What can be conceived after death?

Qian Na found a corpse of a male ghost whose stomach was piled up like fat, and endured the feeling of nausea, bent down to carefully observe the torn wound.The wound was so big that it could even be seen that there were no internal organs in the body cavity, as if it had been swallowed by something.

He suddenly thought of something called Cordyceps sinensis in the world.The insect eggs are sleeping in the soil, but countless hyphae have penetrated into its body.It screamed and twisted silently, but it couldn't stop the hyphae from devouring all the organs in its body.Until the summer came, the original worm could no longer break through the soil, and it was only left with a layer of empty shells.But on its head, those hyphae are thriving instead, nirvana into that weird herbal medicine.

Is this... Gu?Gu raised from ghost corpses?

Where did the things that crawled out of the stomach go?

Qian Na turned his head again, and from the gap between the corpses, he could vaguely see that there seemed to be engravings on the ground.He pushed aside the corpses of some ghosts, only to realize that this was really a formation.Those engraved characters are already blurred, and they are not any hell characters he knows, but they look a bit like the characters of Avici Hell.

Possibly some kind of archaic style?

Zun Na squatted down to examine the characters, the more he read them, the more he felt that those characters seemed to have some kind of hypnotic effect, after reading for a long time, he wriggled like a tadpole.He closed his eyes hard, and looked carefully again, and the words returned to their original broken and intermittent appearance.

But at this moment, he heard Ganda snort.

Qian Na looked up and found Gan Da standing outside the formation, staring at a sculpture.The sculpture looks like a Maya ghost, with six hands dancing in the air, and each hand is holding a magic weapon. At first glance, it looks like the posture of the Thousand-Handed Avalokitesvara depicted in the human world.

"what happened?"

"This statue... seems to be looking at me?"

Jianna frowned, "What do you mean?"

"When I walked here just now, when I looked up, I seemed to see his eyes slowly turning towards me."

Eunna stood up and stared at the statue.The eyeballs were indeed facing Ganda, but no matter how you looked at them, they were carved out of stone, and it was impossible to move them.

"Did you read it wrong?"

Ganda seemed skeptical too.But he showed some uneasiness on his face, turned his head and said to Qian Na, "Let's get out of here."

He knew that he must have felt something weird.In fact, he himself felt it too. When he landed just now, the scales all over his body stood up, tearing through the skin of the dwindling Rakshasa ghost.There's a very filthy, evil feel to it here...

That's right, even ghosts can still feel the most terrible evils and still be afraid.

"Let's go." Jian Na stood up, held up the Zhan Ye Sword, and pulled Ganda onto the sword.But not long after they had risen, all of a sudden, they heard Ganda yelling "Be careful!" and felt a gust of wind behind his ears. He was thrown down by Ganda, fell from the sword, and fell on several ground. on the corpse.He looked back, but saw a huge stone arrow stuck in the pile of corpses not far away. If he had been slow for a moment just now, his entire chest would have been pierced by the arrow as thick as an arm.

Qianna and Ganda were panting heavily, still in shock.At that moment, I remembered that when I came here just now, I saw a speeding ghost holding a bow and arrow, and immediately looked up in that direction.

I saw that the arrow in the hand of the speeding ghost was gone, and the pair of big sky lantern-like eyes carved in stone turned to their direction at this moment.

what happened?

Qian Na stood up and tentatively took a few steps outside the circle.Suddenly there was a loud noise from the left, and Ganda's exclaimed, "Over the head!"

As soon as Qian Na looked up, he saw a huge ax slashing down in the air.He didn't have time to think about it, and quickly rolled aside.But then another giant sword was given over.In an instant, the giant stone statues near Jianna seemed to come alive, and he was like a small ant, struggling left and right in the continuous falling attacks of giants, and was even almost trampled by a giant ghost's big foot flat.Ganda was horrified to see it, and was so frightened that his soul was about to go out of his body.He suddenly thought of something, and quickly shouted, "Come here quickly! Come to the magic circle!!!"

Hearing his cry, Qian Na quickly jumped up and threw himself into the middle of the pile of corpses.At this time, the ax that was falling from mid-air stopped still less than a foot away from his forehead.

Not just the axe, but all the statues that were moving were still.

Jian Na was gasping for breath, cold sweat dripping from his forehead.

It turned out that this magic circle turned out to be easy to get in, but impossible to get out.

Ganda rushed to his side and pulled him out from under the giant axe.The two fell to one place, in a panic.

Qian Na wanted to push Ganda away and sit up, but just as Ganda was about to stand up, he suddenly heard a tinkle, and something crisp fell to the ground.

Qianna lowered his head and saw a pair of bells.

A pair of familiar bells.

Ganda suddenly turned pale, and hurriedly bent down to pick it up, but was grabbed by Qian Na one step ahead.

The bell is about the size of the largest pill, with intricate and delicate patterns carved on it.Every red impermanent soul is unique, so the lines on the soul bell made by the soul are also unique.

And the lines on these two bells, he is already familiar with it very well.Even with his eyes closed, he can draw.He gave such a thing to a human being he trusted completely, and this human being should be at the top of the world at this time.

Jian Na's whole body seemed to have turned into a stone statue, the only thing trembling slightly was his hands.

Ganda's mind went blank for a moment.

Just now, he was patronizing Lagana, completely forgetting about the thing hidden in his waist...

"You..." Qian Na only said one word, his voice trembling a little.

Ganda suddenly felt very scared, even more scared than when he first entered hell.He felt that he should say something to save it.whatever.

"Yanna... I..."

Qian Na's body trembled, and his eyes, which had recovered to bright yellow, slowly lifted up.He looked at Ganda in disbelief, perplexed and...panic.

"Yan Fei?"