The Taste of Ghosts in the World

After walking for a long time, they came to a remote small courtyard, stopped at the courtyard gate and looked back, the lights of the dead city seemed far away, and they could still hear the gurgling sound of the Nai River in their ears. Associated with the disgusting river.

There were two lanterns hanging in the front hall, and the orange light melted a small piece of darkness. When passing by them, Qi Mu glanced casually, but found that the lanterns were not candles, but light bulbs.

He froze for a moment, pointed at the lantern, and smiled at Feng Baisui, who looked at it and snorted.

At this time, a snow-white animal suddenly emerged from under the table, stopped in front of Black and White Wuchang, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Where you come, stay!"

Bai Wuchang bowed his head respectfully and said: "I am the envoy of Wuchang, specially ordered by the King of Yama to bring them to meet Lord Jizo."

"The King of Hades asked you to come?" It walked over arrogantly, raised its tail and walked around Qi Mufeng Baisui twice before they saw clearly that it was a huge white dog.

The white dog sniffed, stopped in front of Qi Mu, and said slowly: "Twenty years are fleeting, so you have already returned."

Qi Mu was surprised, "You know us?!"

The white dog shook his head and glared at him, "There is nothing in the Three Realms that I don't know about."

Bai Wuchang immediately explained dog-leggedly: "Master Di Ting is a divine beast under the seat of Ksitigarbha. He can distinguish the voices of all things in the world, and is especially good at listening to people's hearts. There is a saying that 'listen to eight hundred while sitting on the ground, and three thousand when lying down' is to say The magic of listening."

While accepting the praise, the white dog raised his head in a smug manner, and glanced at Qi Mu occasionally to observe their reactions.

It's a pity that the other party didn't have any special reaction, just nodded.

Di Ting couldn't help asking him: "You don't feel anything after listening?"

"Have."

"what?"

"It turned out to be a dog with very good ears."

"That's it?" Di Ting was very dissatisfied with this answer, "I am not only good at hearing, but also good at listening to people's hearts. This is a very special ability."

"Okay, then listen to what I'm thinking?" Qi Mu smiled and opened his arms towards it.

"Hmm..." Di Ting knelt down, listened for a while, and then said, "You're wondering if I can really hear you."

"wrong."

"That's just thinking... how can you lie to me?"

"Still wrong."

"Impossible! I must be right, it is you who refuse to admit it!"

"If you can't even tell if I'm lying, it means you're not capable enough."

Di Ting lowered his head in frustration, "I won't play anymore... tell me, what were you thinking just now?"

"I'm wondering whether you are a male or a female."

"...Have you figured it out now?"

"No, I lost, you tell me."

The big white dog cheered up again, grinned and said, "Of course it's male, I can't even guess this, how stupid!"

Qi Mu just smiled and didn't speak.

Bai Wuchang approached and said, "Excuse me, is Lord Ksitigarbha here?"

"Yes." Di Ting flicked his tail, "But he is still sleeping, you can come back another day."

Bai Wuchang immediately made a bitter face, "How long did you sleep this time?"

"It's only been a month, it's still early."

Bai Wuchang pouted, and turned to look at his partner, "What should we do now?"

Heiwuchang calmly spit out a word: "Wait."

"How can this work! We are very busy!"

At this time, a voice suddenly floated from upstairs, clear and quiet, but also a little cold.

"Listen, let him come up."

"Yes!" The big white dog nodded respectfully, turned sideways to let Qi Mu pass by, and asked in a low voice when he passed by, "Do you want to know how much he loves you?"

Qi Mu was stunned, looked up at its doggy face, and looked at Feng Baisui from the corner of his eyes, unexpectedly able to show a wretched expression.

"I know everything about you~"

"Thank you, but..." Qi Mu smiled lightly, "I already know."

"……Humph!"

Feng Baisui followed closely behind Qi Mu and was about to go there, but was stopped by Di Ting who turned back.

He glanced up, then walked around.

Being blocked again, Feng Baisui became impatient, raised his eyebrows and looked at the white dog.

"What do you mean?"

The voice from upstairs replied for it: "You don't need to come up, I only see him alone."

Feng Baisui stared, and stretched out his hand to push. Qi Mu, who was halfway there, hurriedly stopped and shook his head at him. The latter hesitated for a moment, and finally withdrew his hand.

Truth Ting said to Black and White Wuchang: "You two are the messengers of Wuchang, right? Do you have the account book of the King of Hades?"

"Bring it."

Black and white impermanence each took out a booklet from their clothes.

Di Ting nodded to Hei Wuchang, "Show him your copy."

Hei Wuchang handed the booklet to Feng Baisui, and he opened it for a look.

"One Wangxiang Terrace, one Naihe Bridge, the basic facilities of the Palace of the King of Hell, and some buildings in the City of Death..."

Feng Baisui frowned, looked up at Black and White Impermanence, "What is this?"

Bai Wuchang smiled cautiously, "It's just some old debts."

"How old is it?"

"20 years ago..."

……

When Qi Mu walked up the stairs, it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything.

The voice just now sounded again.

"Please sit down."

Then there was the sound of something sliding on the floor.

He felt the chair touch his calf, so he sat down in the dark.

After waiting for a long time, the other party did not speak, so Qi Mu had no choice but to ask himself: "Why did you let me come to see you?"

There was silence for a while, "You have to ask Hades this question, he asked you to come here."

"But it must be useful for him to let us come to see you."

The other side became quiet again, and after a long time, Qi Mu asked suspiciously, "Are you still listening?"

The voice said slowly: "I'm sorry, I just woke up and I'm not quite used to it yet."

"...It doesn't matter." Qi Mu said quickly, paused, and added: "It is said that creatures that have been in the dark for a long time can see at night."

"Hmm... there is such a saying?"

"Yes. But apparently I haven't been in the dark that long."

"What do you want to say?"

Qi Mu took a deep breath, "Is there a lamp? If not, candles are fine."

"..."

The other party was silent for a while, and Qi Mu was wondering if it couldn't see the light?Didn't the words just now speak of the other party's Achilles' heel?Then he found that a faint fluorescent light gradually lit up in front of him, and the light group fainted the darkness around him.

After looking carefully, it turned out that a chessboard was glowing. Looking up to the opposite side through the light, half of the male face, except for the abnormally bright eyes, the other parts were more or less hidden in the darkness.

The quiet voice sounded again, and this time he was able to see the other person's face, which finally gave him a sense of reality.

"Play a game of chess with me."

Qi Mu looked down at the chessboard. It was a pattern he had never seen before, so he shook his head, "I don't know how to do it."

"Have you ever seen chess in the world? It's similar to that."

"Chess? I'm not good at playing chess either."

"It's ok."

Now Qi Mu has nothing to say.

A slender hand stretched out and brushed over the chessboard, and there were several rows of standing chess pieces on the board on that side.

Then that finger pointed to Qi Mu and said, "Please."

"Where are the chess pieces?"

"You take it yourself."

Qi Mu looked left and right, but he didn't see half of the chess pieces.

Probably seeing his doubts, the other party explained: "The chess pieces are created by illusion. There are three parties: heaven, earth, and man. I have already chosen the underworld. You can choose between heaven and man."

"That's good, I'm not very familiar with the sky."

"The chess pieces in the human world are the same as chess in the human world. You only need to imagine their appearance in your heart, and the chess pieces will appear."

Qi Mu closed his eyes, trying to recall the pawns in his mind one by one.

Then I opened my eyes and saw that it was already set up.

"Let's get started." Said the other side.

"it is good."

At the beginning, the two sides hadn't fought yet. When Qi Mu's first soldier crossed the boundary, the opponent's little ghost ran over, raised the steel fork in his hand, and killed it with a "chuck--". The war game immediately turned into a puff of smoke, and then disappeared, and the kid with the steel fork stood in the place of the dead.

Qi Mu was stunned, "Your chess piece...killed my chess piece just now..."

The other party stared straight at him, and said flatly: "Playing chess is a fight."

"The point is...why does it move by itself?"

"Because I let it move."

"..." Qi Mu looked at the chess pieces on his side, they were all flat and round, "Why are yours in human form?"

"Because they are like this when I imagined it, the chess pieces of the underworld are exactly the same as the real underworld."

Hearing what he said, Qi Mu subconsciously looked at the "handsome" sitting position of the other party, and it was indeed a miniature version of Hades in a black robe sitting there, with a kid standing on each side.

"Can I change it now?"

"No, unless the game is over."

"..."

Qi Mu carefully commanded the "horse" to jump forward, and saw a miniature version of Hei Wuchang jumping over, holding a long black stick in his hand, swinging the stick mercilessly, and hitting the oblate and oblate chess pieces. It's gone.

He didn't believe in evil, so he moved the "car" and went straight into the enemy's base camp. At this moment, Bai Wuchang came bouncing over from the other side, and at the moment when the stick in his hand was about to fall, Qi Mu felt anxious, and the side A pawn flew up and smashed hard on its head.

Bai Wuchang was smashed to the ground, and then slowly disappeared.

The chess pieces all stopped, and after a while, Niu Tau rushed over with his mace in his hands, and the flat and round chess pieces on this side were not far behind, jumping and swarming up, and the chessboard suddenly turned into a battlefield, and the chess pieces fought wildly, full of ears. The sound of ping-pong-pong weapons.

Qi Mu was so shocked that he spoke out, pointing to the chessboard and asking, "Why is this happening?"

The other party seemed to be used to it for a long time, nodded and said: "I said before, playing chess is a fight."

"...When will it stop?"

"All the chess pieces on one side disappeared." After a pause, he continued: "Generally, the side with higher spiritual power will win."

Qi Mu glanced at the chaotic chessboard, "What's the difference between this and fighting?"

The other party thought for a while and replied: "There is no difference, but it does not hurt peace."

"Wouldn't there be someone who refuses to admit defeat and goes to battle in person?"

"Of course I do, but I'm not."

"Me neither." Qi Mu pointed at the chessboard, "Anyway, you must have won, can you let them finish quickly?"

The opponent glanced at the situation on the chessboard, "Win or lose is undecided."

"I don't remember having such a thing as spiritual power in me."

"Everything has animism, the difference is only in purity and level. If it was you before, I would definitely not be able to win." The man covered his mouth with his hands, and looked at Qi Mu deeply, "Why did you come to the underworld?"

"Come to reincarnate."

"Reincarnation?" He seemed to smile, "Your names are not in the book of life and death."

"why?"

"Because it is not within the six reincarnations."

While thinking about what the opponent said, Qi Mu lowered his head and looked at the chessboard, and suddenly found that two of his chess pieces were stacked together, occupying the "handsome" position of the opponent. If you look carefully, you can still see the corner of the black robe exposed under the chess pieces.

"Your Hades is dead." Qi Mu reminded him.

"Really?" The other party didn't even look at it, allowing the shrunken Hades to disappear little by little, and then a black-robed Hades appeared next to him, who looked like a woman.

"Why do you have two handsome guys?!"

The man blinked, "There are two Kings of Hades. This is the benefit of Jifu Chess. It's the same when you choose Heaven. Their 'handsome' can die three times."

"How many times can a person from the human world die?"

"once."

"..."

"But the human world has three more soldiers than the other two."

"..."

There were fewer and fewer pieces left on the board until the last kid fell and disappeared, and the melee finally came to an end.

The man stared at the chessboard for a long time without making a sound, and Qi Mu asked in a low voice, "I won?"

The other side nodded.

Seeing his expression, Qi Mu asked with some uncertainty: "Are you angry?"

"No." He waved his hand, and the fluorescence of the chessboard gradually faded, "Go down."

"You haven't made it clear yet, what does it mean not to be within the six realms of reincarnation?"

"Go down, you'll find out."

Following his voice, the last bit of fluorescence disappeared.

Qi Mu went downstairs in the dark, Feng Baisui asked him, "What did you say?"

He shook his head, "Played a game of chess."

Di Ting wagged his tail beside him, "The master probably hasn't woken up yet!"

"Listen!" A warning voice came from upstairs.

The big white dog stuck out its tongue and dared not speak any more.

The voice from upstairs said again: "The memory is connected to the real body, your soul is not complete yet."

Feng Baisui took a step forward, raised his head and said, "What do you mean?"

"Beyond the Nine Heavens and the Abyss, I will give you a ride."

A gust of cool wind blew by, Black and White Wuchang narrowed their eyes, and when they opened their eyes again, they found that Qi Mu and Feng Baisui who were standing beside them had disappeared.