hell in disguise

The red lotus of the sacred fire quickly closed, as if the heat that burned the air gradually dissipated.Accompanied by the silence in the afterglow of Botan Mohua, a ghostly and misty bell rang rhythmically from far and near.

Usually the ghosts who fled to the human world heard the ringtone and knew that it was Qinghong Wuchang.

From the darkness between the two huge stone statues, a bright figure slowly emerged.It was a female Rakshasa ghost, her face was beautiful and beautiful, her red hair was flying behind her like a burning flame, and her horns, which were smaller than the male Rakshasa ghost, were decorated with delicate silver decorations.The red dress was elegant and light, much bolder than ordinary women's attire in the world. The neckline was wide open, revealing a large area of ​​skin on the shoulders and neck.The wide belt cinched a slender waist, and the bare feet under the red skirt were tied with small silver bells.

This is the ghost body of Kuma Moro.

It's hard to say whether they are friends or not. The two have discord and will ridicule each other when they meet. But because of the relationship between Dasa and Kumar, they have some friendship.

Although they quarreled, after all, they didn't have any intention of taking advantage of each other, and in the world of ghosts, the relationship was so innocent that it was unimaginable.Now knowing that she is the person who caused a series of tragedies in Xiangyang, Qian Na can't tell what it feels like.

Kumar leaned on his shoulder gently to support his umbrella, looked at the two of them from the corners of his slightly raised eyes, and sighed softly after a long while, "Gannamara, why are you doing this. I used to say that you are brainless, but now it seems that you are not brainless, but like to make trouble for yourself. This matter has nothing to do with you, why bother?"

Gnatting the slashing sword tightly, Qian Na said, "Why did you do that? How did Botan Mohua get into your hands?"

"If you can find it here, you should already know the answer in your heart."

"Fengdu asked you to do this, and they also gave you Botan Mohua." Zunna frowned tightly, "They asked you to kill people, but it can't be said that they instructed you. You are their knife and scapegoats."

Kumar looked at him quietly, without speaking.

There was a hint of anger in Jian Na's eyes, "Why did you agree to such a thing? Have you ever thought about Daza? You are impermanent, have you forgotten the oath we once made to protect the world!"

"Hahahaha! Swear?" Kumar's sharp laughter was full of sarcasm, "We are ghosts? Why should we protect the world? We can't even protect our own world. What is the difference between those people and us? Can occupy such a good world?"

"They didn't do the bad karma you and I did!"

"Bad karma? My father in the last life ignored me for more than 20 years. No matter how hard I tried to please him, I fought for him on the battlefield, but I always got ridicule and indifference, just because he hated my dead body. Mother. I am his own son, but he has never celebrated my birthday, touched my head, praised me, or even smiled at me. I almost died of illness when I was 12 years old. He didn’t even visit me once. He gave all his love to other children, but I was the only one who was transparent in his eyes, and he would only think of me when he was on a mission to an enemy country, which would kill him. People say that I am a noble prince, but they don't know that I am not as good as a child in an ordinary family, because I don't even have parents.

I was going to give up, he doesn't like me, and I can't change it.But at this time, he just started to treat me well.He began to praise me for being conscientious and prudent, would tell me to go hunting with him, and would discuss some state affairs with me.Do you know that feeling of ecstasy when you suddenly get something that you thought was hopeless in this life?What I want is just ordinary fatherly love, which is something that everyone else has, but it is as difficult as heaven for me.Just when I thought my dream had finally come true, I found out that his sudden show of affection was just coveting my wife, and he wanted to take the opportunity of getting close to me to occupy her... My wife committed suicide because she couldn't bear the humiliation, He even took away the only person who could give me comfort in that life.Shouldn't such a beast be killed?

Could it be that I can't hate him when he gave birth to me?Didn't I let him give birth to me? "

As Kumar spoke, her vision seemed to become empty and blank, and her expression also changed according to the narration. For a moment, her expression was not like the rakshasa girl who was as beautiful as a flower and sharp-tongued as usual, but more like a human being. The man is full of loneliness, desolation and hatred.

In this short period of time, she seemed to have changed back to the prince who was in a miserable situation in her previous life, and she was deeply trapped in it, unable to extricate herself.

This doesn't seem very normal.

No matter how tragic the events of the previous life are, there is a gap between life and death. Even if you know it, it is like a layer of indistinct mist, and it is impossible to have such a vivid feeling of being there.What's more, she has spent such a long time in hell, and she was not so excited when she became Hong Wuchang and saw her previous life in the evil mirror.But now, the intensity of her mood swings was as if she was recalling something that happened not long ago.

Could it be... She has the memory of that life?

Knowing about past lives is very different from actually having memories of past lives.Just knowing it is like reading a book that has nothing to do with you, without any emotional fluctuations.But if you have memory, you will re-experience what happened in your mind over and over again, arousing all kinds of real emotions you had at that time, and even confuse your identity and think that you are the continuation of the previous life, so it is better than just knowing or seeing. Much more intense and complex.But before they were reborn as ghosts in hell, they must have drank Mengpo soup like all other creatures, and forgot everything. How could they have memories of previous lives?

Kumar lowered his head slightly, and when he raised it again, it seemed that he had returned to this moment, and changed back to his usual light tone, "You said, if a pair of parents don't love their children, why would they give birth to them?" What about it? If you can’t force love, then you can always choose not to have it, right?”

"So you use the power of Botan Mohua to lure and confuse those humans and let them kill their own parents?! Do you know that you are causing them to be reborn in hell like you!"

"So what. Those dead people are not worthy of being parents at all! Now I only hate that I was soft-hearted back then and didn't really kill that beast."

Knowing that the current Kumar has confused her present life with her past life, and she also encountered many cases of being neglected, abused and abandoned by her family members in the process of possessing human baby corpses several times before, so she became more and more emotional up.She is now at a point on the verge of collapse that many Qingwuchang and Hongwuchang have experienced. Too many bad memories have accumulated in the depths of her spiritual consciousness, making her question and hate everything.

If she didn't handle it well, she might end up on the road to destroy everything just like many Qinghong Wuchang who had already vanished into ashes.

Let go of the Zhanye sword, let the sword float in the air with the blood connected to his body, and put his hands in front of his body to show that he has no malice.He tentatively approached Kuma Moro, trying to lower his voice, "Kuma, how did you get the memory of your previous life?"

Kuma Moro raised the corners of his lips that were covered in bright red lipstick, "Did you guess? Hehe, you probably never imagined how much it would affect you if you really recalled your past life."

"Kuma, your mind is messed up now, I understand. You just can't tell who you are now. Let me take you back to Daza Moluo and hand over Botan Mohua. Daza and I will report to Han Zitong. Forgive me."

"Hahaha, what then? Do you think they will let me go? They just wanted to use me to do dirty deals that their gods disdain to do. Now that my identity has been exposed by you, naturally I will be silenced , so that everything can be blamed on me. I can’t go back.” As she spoke, bursts of red light suddenly began to radiate from her back, and traces of pure and holy air turned into hot winds blowing on the The look on that face made him alert.He secretly urged Zhanyejian, stared at her and said, "Kuma! Dasa Moluo is outside this palace, and he has been looking for you!"

Kumar said with a blank face, "You leave here now, I can let you go. Otherwise, don't blame me for not being sympathetic."

"Kuma!"

As soon as the words fell, the Du'er umbrella in Kumar's hand had already spun, and the curved manjusawa petals on the umbrella spun and changed as if they were alive, and accompanied by the two soul-inducing bells on the handle of the umbrella swayed out a ghostly and seductive temperament.Qian Na also immediately recited the incantation with his hands in seals, a blue flame ignited on the Zhan Ye sword, and the mighty sword energy rushed towards the demonic energy emanating from the umbrella.

The two forces collided in one place, and circles of airflow quickly swept across the entire underground palace like ripples.

Nana felt a white light flash, and it was difficult to open his eyes for a while.He covered it with his arm for a moment, and the moment he put it down again, he was shocked to find that he was in a room that seemed to be human.

It seemed to be a son's study room, and the bookshelves on the walls were densely packed with books, all of which were big books like the Book of Rites of the Doctrine of the Mean in the University.The night outside the window was already very dark, and I heard the watchman knock on the clapper three times in the distance, but there was still a red candle lit on the wide table, and it had burned more than half, and the candle tears were piled on the candlestick like blood .Sitting in front of the desk was a small child, a boy about six or seven years old, who was getting thinner and smaller by the desk.In front of him was a thick collection of Yuefu poems, but his little head was dozing off bit by bit, with saliva dripping from the corner of his mouth, obviously he was extremely sleepy.

Looking at his appearance, Jianna thought of Yan Fei's appearance when he was a child, reciting the inner strength and heart formulas he taught him at night.Just now I felt a little softer in my heart, and I was wondering why I was here, but suddenly I heard the door of the room opened, and a middle-aged woman walked in with a bowl of candied pear water.She walked straight past Jianna, as if she hadn't seen him, and came to the table.Seeing that the boy was dozing off, the smile on the woman's face disappeared. She put the night on the table vigorously, walked over, grabbed the boy and slapped him on the head.The boy woke up hazily, and when he saw the woman, his eyes widened in fright, "Mother?"

"If I ask you to recite a poem, you will be lazy! Look at A Jian from the Li family! He can recite [-] Tang poems! Look at you again! Why are you so worthless! In a few months, you will be a boy Try it! If you don’t like it, I’ll take your skin off!” The woman slapped the boy’s ass furiously while cursing, causing the boy to cry loudly with tears and snot all over his face.

After the woman had had enough of scolding, she poked the candied pear water in front of the child, "Hurry up and drink it! Continue to memorize it after drinking it! Don't go to sleep if you can't memorize it!"

The boy cried too much just now and didn't want to drink, but then he was slapped again by the woman, "My mother has worked so hard for you, and you don't know how to be grateful and pick and choose, you are an unfilial son!" The boy had no choice but to stuff pears into his mouth while sobbing, and the way he ate while crying made people feel heartbroken, but the woman was indifferent.She actually found a rope, spread out the boy's hair, tied one end to the hair, and tied the other end to the shelf of the bookshelf behind her.In this way, as soon as the boy lowers his head to sleep, he will be woken up immediately by the pain of his scalp being pulled.

"Don't blame mother for being cruel, mother is doing it for your own good." The woman patted the boy's tear-stained face, picked up the bowl and went back to bed.

Looking at this scene, Jianna vaguely understands where it is.

This is the dream of those who killed their parents that Kuma Moro once entered.

Kumar is trying to trap him here!

What about Yan Fei?Will she be against him?

He hurriedly turned and went out.But when the door was opened, it was sunny outside.On a short courtyard wall, the seven-year-old boy who was reading at night with the lights on just now was lying on his stomach, watching the two boys next door playing with a top with envy.He looked at it for a while, sighed with an expression that didn't belong to a child, jumped off the ladder, sat back under the locust tree in the yard, and picked up the Analects of Confucius on the ground to read.However, if you get closer, you can see that there is another book inside the Analects, which turns out to be the biography of Cui Yingying.He held his cheek, bit his lip, and watched intently.But he didn't see a thin middle-aged man with a goatee approaching behind him.

"What are you looking at"

The boy was so frightened that he dropped the book on the floor and quickly got up, "Father! I'm reading the Analects!"

Seeing his flustered expression, the middle-aged man picked up the book and saw another book in the Analects.The face that was originally peaceful suddenly became frowning, an expression more terrifying than the most vicious Yaksha.He threw the biography of Cui Yingying to the ground, and put his foot on the boy's belly, "You bastard! The boy's exam is coming soon, and you still dare to read miscellaneous books! See if I don't beat you to death!" The punches and kicks were not as vicious as hitting his own flesh and blood, but rather like hitting his enemy.The child rolled on the ground with his head in his arms, crying and begging for mercy, "Father! I was wrong! I won't dare again!"

The middle-aged man was tired from the beating, so he lowered his head and picked up the so-called miscellaneous books, tore them into pieces, and cursed as he tore them, "Your father, I am worthless and fail the exams repeatedly. Our family is counting on you. I This is how you repay me by raising you so big, providing you with food and clothing, and asking you for a husband?! Let me tell you, if you fail this boy test, you don’t have to come back to see me. Find a stone and kill yourself! "

The pain and despair in the child's eyes, as well as the increasingly intense hatred, made people horrified.This was probably the youngest child prodigy among the kinslayers, who later poisoned his parents to death with rat poison.

Who would have imagined that a seven-year-old would hate his parents to such an extent.

Turning around, I found that the scene had changed again.He knew the person in front of him, that is, Su Liangdi who had met once in the Prison of the Criminal Division in Xiangyang.

She was rushing into a room with a face full of anger, and there were two men and women hugging each other on the kang, and they were all panicked when they saw her rushing in.Su Liangdi's face was full of tears, her lips trembled, and she pointed at the man and shouted, "Liu Xun! You bastard! You are not human!"

The man still had a look of panic and guilt at first, but after being scolded by her like this, he instead widened his eyes, threw off the quilt and got out of bed, as if he had no shame in his nakedness.He was tall and burly, but with an ugly face, he approached Su Liangdi step by step and asked fiercely, "Bitch, how dare you scold me?!"

Su Liangdi stared at him fiercely, "You're a bastard! What did you say when you married me?! You forgot everything?!"

Who would have thought that Liu Xun suddenly raised his hand and slapped Su Liangdi's face, she staggered and fell to the ground suddenly, her fair cheeks were also swollen.Then Liu Xun pointed at her and cursed, "Like a dead fish on the bed, I've fucking bored you already. How dare you scold me?!" Then he kicked Su Liangdi twice in the stomach .Su Liangdi was protecting her stomach tightly, screaming non-stop, staring at him with some disbelief on her face.After a while, bright red began to ooze from under her skirt.

It turned out that she was pregnant with a child.

This is the reason why Su Liangdi suddenly returned to her mother's house.Her husband cheated on her and beat her until she lost her child.

Suddenly, the pale Su Liangdi pushed open the door of her natal family in Xiangyang with her burden on her back.Just when she stepped in, she saw a hunched white-haired old woman with wrinkled face staring at her and asking suspiciously, "Why are you back?"

Su Liangdi lowered her eyes and called softly, "Mother."

The old woman looked behind her, "Where is my uncle?"

"I came back by myself. I want to stay at home for a while."

When the old woman heard this, she suddenly scolded her head and face, "You lose money! Did you do something to offend my uncle and get kicked out?! I finally asked someone to find such a good marriage for you! Why are you so Don't worry!"

Tears flashed in Su Liangdi's eyes, but she suddenly smiled, "A good relationship? Hahahaha... Back then I was clearly in love with Brother Shui, but you despised him as a businessman's child, and broke us up by crying, making trouble, and hanging himself." , insists that I marry that bastard Liu Xun! Do you know that he steals people outside behind my back!"

"Bastard! How can you scold your husband as a woman! Even if your husband has made a big mistake, just bear with it and get over it. Besides, what is so strange about a man having three wives and four concubines? Why are you messing around! You are not the one who suffers in the end." Myself! If this matter gets out, will your mother and I still have to see someone?! Hurry up and go back, I beg your husband to forgive you!"

Su Liangdi was stunned.She probably never expected that even at this time, her mother would still face outsiders.

Why didn't she ask herself, what happened?Does she know that she doesn't even have a child?

Su Liangdi asked her mother sadly, "Mother, don't you love me?"

Granny Ding sneered indifferently, lowered her head and continued to do the work she was doing, "You are so big, why are you acting coquettish? You can stay for two days if you want, but you have to go back the day after tomorrow. Don't even think about eating at home. Come and stretch out your hand, let's wait a little longer and do some work, you understand?"

Several similar scenes appeared again, from the dreams of different people, and everyone had a relationship with their parents as enemies.Those parents said "it's all for your own good" and "we only care about you if we love you", but they did everything for their own good, and they didn't see any distress and love at all.They can't see the little bit of pain and darkness accumulated in the child's heart, and they can't see the little bit of painful soul going to extremes.

Jianna suddenly remembered that Bai Wuchang and Xie Yucheng had said that the souls of these parents who were killed were all missing.

He remembered again, what the baby-raising voodoo needs is the life soul of a person and the corpse of a ghost...

Could it be that……

Qian Na shuddered.If this was ordered by Feng Du, why did he have to choose the souls of these parents who were killed by their parents?Why do you want to raise babies?Who wants to live forever?

Seeing Xie Yucheng's secretive appearance, could it be that... this matter is even related to the Heavenly Court?