The Taste of Ghosts in the World

Qi Mu went back home before dawn, and he was relieved that the father and daughter who killed the ghost were not there, so that he could avoid the farewell process that he was least good at.

Leaving a note behind, he took a last look at the once-familiar home. He gently closed the door, looked up and saw a few sparrows parked on the wires, thought for a while, and said to them: "Can you help me find a crow?" ?”

The sparrows looked at each other, and one of them spread its wings and flew away.

Soon, the sound of flapping wings was heard again, and the thrush fairy flew around Qi Mu, transformed into a proud man, and landed lightly.

"Little ghost, are you dead?" He asked lightly.

Qi Mu felt that talking about his own death in such a tone seemed inappropriate, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was nothing, so he nodded and replied with the same tone of ease: "Well, I'm dead."

Crow smacked his lips, "I'm still thinking about when you're going to die, it's almost time for you to die."

"..."

Qi Mu sighed, "Don't tell my dad about me just yet."

Crow tilted his head, "Aren't you going to tell Qi Zong?"

"I won't go. Even if I go... I don't know what to say, I don't want to provoke him again." Qi Mu curled his lips, "What if he asks you to take him to the underworld again?"

"Ahem..." Crow turned his face uncomfortably, "Who told you that I took him to the underworld?"

"You said it yourself."

"...Well, it's better if you don't go, lest Qi Zong know that I don't like you, he will pluck all my feathers."

"No." Qi Mu suppressed a smile, "My dad cherishes you very much, now that I'm gone, you can go and be with him."

Crow narrowed his eyes, "Are you going to reincarnate?"

Qi Mu nodded, "Do you know how to get there?"

"Walk west along the river outside the city, and you will see the ghost messenger at noon."

Qi Mu looked in the direction he pointed, then turned around and asked him, "Didn't you go there before? How about leading the way?"

"Absolutely not!" Crow waved his hand, "I forced my way into the palace last time, I'm afraid they still have a grudge against me."

As soon as he turned around, he turned back into a thrush again, and the voice from his petite body was twice as loud as before, "If you want to go, go, treat it as a sightseeing tour, if you don't want to be reincarnated, just run away."

Qi Mu laughed, "Can I escape?"

"Of course you can run away." It flapped its wings, and finally said: "Be careful not to be caught!" Then it flew a few times in the air, then turned and flew away.

Watching it go away, Feng Baisui asked in a low voice: "Do you really want to reincarnate?"

Qi Mu didn't answer right away, but thought for a while and said, "After all, it's a hell, and I want to see what it's like there."

After a pause, he continued, "However... I thought I would have this chance at least a few decades later. I didn't expect to die so early."

He laughed at himself, looked at Feng Baisui, and felt embarrassed to say the latter sentence.Feng Baisui said that he would watch him die. He was very satisfied with this deadline. He originally thought that the two of them would spend decades of their lives together.

Unexpectedly, death came so suddenly, without any preparation, they seemed to be separated.

The hand was suddenly held, Feng Baisui didn't say anything, and pulled Qi Mu forward.But as if he had seen through his thoughts, he took a few steps and said in a deep voice: "If you don't want to be reincarnated, I will take you away."

Qi Mu couldn't help smiling, and grabbed him with his backhand, "You and I are both ghosts, so it's hard to say who will lead the other."

……

They walked along the river bank for a long time without wearing watches, and they didn't know whether it was noon. As long as they didn't feel tired, they kept walking.

Until two strange people appeared in front of them.

One was dressed in black and the other was dressed in white, walking slowly side by side.

Qi Mu hurried a few steps, and patted the shoulder of the man in white. When the man turned around, he was a young man with a very friendly smile.

"Did you call me?"

The young man in black beside him also stopped, with a cold face, exuding the aura of "don't get close to strangers" all over his body.

Qi Mu was a little embarrassed to be stared at by him, thinking that he might have admitted the wrong person, so he had to vaguely try to take it over with one sentence.

"You two...is this a couple outfit? It's very pretty..."

As soon as the words came out, even Qi Mu himself was ashamed. Fortunately, the black-clothed man still had a dumb face and didn't respond, but the smile on the white-clothed young man's face froze for a moment, then recovered quickly, and explained to him: "This is Overalls."

"Work clothes?" Qi Mu was stunned for a moment. Could it be that these two are ghosts?A ghost who regards one black and one white as work clothes, isn't that...

"Black and white impermanence?"

The young man in white nodded kindly, "That's right, it's us."

"It's really...it's hard to tell..." Compared with the legendary black and white second master, the clothes of these two people seem too ordinary.

"Don't you wear top hats?"

"Oh, that," Bai Wuchang gestured on the top of his head, "It's too easy to fall off when catching ghosts, it's very inconvenient, so I don't need it. It turns out that the words on the hat were changed to write here..." He pulled out the hem of his coat and gave it to him. They looked at the black words written on the white clothes: "You are here too".

"Master Hei's is this." He grabbed Hei Wuchang's clothes again, on which was written in white letters: "Catching you".

"So that's the case." Qi Mu nodded, and then waited quietly.

Bai Wuchang was smiling, Hei Wuchang was expressionless, and Feng Baisui was expressionless as usual.

The four ghosts looked at each other for a while, but Bai Wuchang couldn't hold on any longer, and asked them with a smile, "Is there anything else?"

"We are gone, how about you?"

"Neither have we, the work is done for today."

"That……"

"There will be a period later."

After Bai Wuchang finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave, Qi Mu hurriedly called him to stop.

"Wait a moment!"

"Anything else?"

A puzzled expression appeared on Qi Mu's face, "Aren't you going to take us back?"

"Why are you arrested?"

"You are ghost messengers, shouldn't you be catching ghosts?"

"There are so many ghosts every day, how can we catch them all?" Bai Wuchang shrugged and took out a scroll, "We only catch wanted evil ghosts, you two are not under my control."

Hei Wuchang beside him suddenly moved, raised his finger to a position on the scroll, and said to him: "Look at this."

Bai Wuchang looked at what he was pointing at, and was stunned for a moment. He raised his head to look at Feng Baisui, then lowered his eyes to look at the scroll, and then muttered softly, "Is it really in our hands?"

After hesitating for a while, he asked Hei Wuchang: "What should I do? Is this really going to be caught?"

Hei Wuchang glanced at the scroll, "The level is too high, I can't beat it."

"If you can't beat it, put it up?!"

"The arrest warrant was not issued by us."

Listening to the two of them discussing in a low voice, Qi Mu felt slightly nervous, and exchanged a glance with Feng Baisui, reassured a little, and saw Bai Wuchang raised his head again, but the smile on his face faded a little.

"You two, are you interested in visiting the underworld with us?"

"Visit?" Feng Baisui raised his eyebrows, "Will there be a fee?"

"No, no." Bai Wuchang waved his hands again and again, "This is a free experience activity provided by the underworld."

"Including forced reincarnation?"

"Of course not. All projects are voluntary. You can vote if you like, and come back if you don't want to."

"Why?"

"...Let's send..." Bai Wuchang twitched the corner of his mouth, still maintaining his invulnerable smile, "Flying together, it's a good deal, right?"

"..."

Qi Mu nodded, "Okay, let's go." He glanced at Feng Baisui, who also nodded in agreement.

"Then let's jump." Bai Wuchang pointed to the river next to him.

"...Don't you have a boat?" Qi Mu didn't know what the two ghosts were planning.

"No." Hei Wuchang walked past him, pushed Feng Baisui into the river naturally, and then jumped himself.

Qi Mu ran to the river, but they could no longer be seen in the clear water.

Bai Wuchang also came over and said to him: "Let's go, don't fall behind."

Before jumping off, Qi Mu said seriously: "Has anyone ever said that you are very suitable to go to the shopping channel?"

……

In fact, after they jumped, they did not follow the current as Qi Mu imagined, but fell straight down, feeling that they had passed through a layer of cold water-like substance. When he turned around, he had stepped on On the ground, I touched the clothes on my body, and it was not wet at all.

In front of him was a wide dirt road, and at the intersection stood a stone, engraved with three platinum characters of "Ghost Gate".

Bai Wuchang introduced next to him: "This is the Huangquan Road in the world. You can only go to the underworld after walking this section of the road."

When they walked past the stone sign of "Gate of Ghosts" and stepped onto the real Huangquan Road, they saw a small wooden table on the side of the road with a teapot on it, and a middle-aged man in a tall hat sat crookedly behind the table, watching Heiheiwuchang quickly stood up to say hello.

"Hey, Second Master Wuchang, how come you two are free today?"

Bai Wuchang smiled and said: "I have something to do." Then he took out a piece of paper money and handed it to him.

The middle-aged man refused: "Yin Shuai crosses the road, there is no reason to give money!"

Bai Wuchang did not continue to insist, so he took the paper money back, said hello, and led Qi Mu and the others forward.

After walking for a while, Qi Mu asked him: "Is that person just now also a ghost messenger?"

"It's the kid who behaved better, and was sent to the intersection to collect tolls."

"Huangquan Road still collects tolls?" Qi Mu was surprised, "Why?"

"Maintain the road. There are so many ghosts walking around every day, and it has been going on for thousands of years. The road is dilapidated, and a certain maintenance fee has been charged a long time ago."

At this time, two little ghosts carried a sedan chair and walked past them, kicking up dust all over the ground.

"Is that an official from the underworld?" Qi Mu asked.

"No, it's just an ordinary ghost entering the underworld."

Feng Baisui was very dissatisfied when he heard that, "Why can he sit in a sedan chair?"

"...Because his family is more generous."

Feng Baisui frowned, "Are we going to keep walking?"

Bai Wuchang smiled awkwardly, glanced at Hei Wuchang next to him, the two ghosts looked at each other for a while, and actually built a sedan chair with their hands, then turned their heads and asked, "Which one of you two will come first? Let's take turns."

Feng Baisui didn't speak, so Qi Mu had no choice but to decline: "Let's walk."

……

So they could only continue to trek hard.

After walking for a while, Qi Mu suddenly thought of it and asked, "Are you taking paper money?"

"Yes, paper money is the common currency of the underworld."

"The underworld? Are there other worlds?"

"Don't you know?" Bai Wuchang said, "Usually we talk about the Three Realms, but there are three other realms besides the Three Realms..."

His words stopped suddenly, and he looked up to the front.

"arrive."