A guide to self-rescue for animals in hell
Chapter 82 Extra Story 1 Some things about going to hell after death
Waking up from his chaotic sanity, Gojo Satoru raised his hand to touch the crown on his head, feeling a little fresh.
He raised his eyes to observe the surrounding environment, and found that he was the only one who woke up in the team that should be all new dead.
The ringing bells lead the delirious new dead to go all the way, stepping on the moss-covered stone road, winding up until halfway up the mountain.
The entire team that was advancing in an orderly manner suddenly stopped, Gojo Satoru looked up at the leader of the team as if feeling something, and met his wife, whom he hadn't seen for a week.
Compared with the common modern attire, Haruko changed back to the kimono she was used to in hell. She just blinked at Gojo Satoru, then turned her head to talk to the terrified jailer.
Not long after, Haruko finished the conversation. She stepped on wooden clogs and walked towards Wujo Gojo leisurely: "Long time no see, Wujo."
In terms of time, it is a short seven days, but in another sense, this is the first meeting after experiencing life and death.
"Long time no see." Gojo Satoru looked at Haruko's outstretched hand, held hers behind his back, and walked along with Haruko's strength.
"After that, there will be trial and punishment. After all, hell's punishment regulations are so detailed that it is only natural that I can stay in hell."
Gojo Wu raised his smiling face, and when he finished speaking proudly, Xia Youjie, who was sitting across from him, taunted him unceremoniously: "You are probably the only dead person who is so happy to stay in hell successfully."
The two of them are now standing in front of the "Snapdragon Ocean" of Ghost Lamp. Gojo Satoru, who has a lifetime experience in cultivating snapdragons, volunteered to take Xia Youjie who was passing by innocently when the Ghost Lamp asked for two people to take care of them.
Counting from the time he came to Hell, the entire process of trial and punishment took only ten days, which is quite fast considering the workload of Hell.
On the whole, the judgment is still carried out in accordance with the most fair standards.However, in terms of the speed and order of the trial, there is no doubt that they have gone through the back door.
Of course, this is also because Wutiao Wu himself did not have any serious punishments, and the punishments he encountered were not difficult to bear.
He had just returned from the execution ground, and was planning to go to the Enma Hall where Qingzi was most likely to be found. Seeing that Qingzi was not there, Ghost Lantern proposed this errand again, so he decided to follow up.
In this world, Gojo Satoru kept the snapdragon grass in his home until he passed away.
Later, Haruko discovered that it seemed that the snapdragon was able to survive in a place full of mana as a hell-like environment.
Therefore, the growth of the snapdragon grass beside Gojo Wu has been more gratifying than the dozen or so plants in Gaozhuan, and it still maintains vigorous vitality for a long time after it grows to the limit.
"Oh, by the way, speaking of which, what are you doing now?" Gojo Satoru heard Haruko re-introduce Hell in detail when he arrived.
But he was quite curious about what kind of role Xia Youjie could play in it.
Xia Youjie: "It can be regarded as a "panacea oil" similar to Haruko. "Where the workload is heavy and there is a shortage of manpower, go there to help.
Because, like Haruko, she is able to handle all departments of hell with ease.So it gradually evolved into this kind of role, which is quite suitable for the situation of hell.
"However, if you want to tell me what I've been busy with in the past few years, you will definitely be interested." Xia Youjie paused here on purpose as a trick.
"What can I be interested in?" Gojo Wu asked back, he raised his chin, and motioned Xia Youjie to explain directly.
"Do you still remember those special grades in the Shibuya incident? All of them including the shogun." Xia Youjie started with such a sentence, which easily aroused the association of Gojo Satoru.
In the following decades, the entire conjuration world has never encountered an enemy of this level again.
If you want to talk about super magic spirits of the level of Leuhu and Huayu, they still have appeared.
But it was discovered and reported without causing any large-scale casualties, and was easily eliminated by Xie.
Special spell spirits will be sent to hell as the dead with confused rules. Gojo Satoru has heard about this from Haruko a long time ago. Even in the beginning, one of her original intentions for coming to this world was to solve these special spells. The huge workload brought by the spirit.
"Hell now has a hell dedicated to imprisoning curse spirits, and they are all there. But sometimes they will be used for some "other purposes". "
When Xia Youjie said the last four words, he deliberately emphasized his tone, so that Gojo Satoru could easily hear something was wrong.
Just when he was about to say that he would go and have a look when he found Haruko, Haruko, who was told that Gojo Satoru was coming back to Enma Hall, also found here.
"Good afternoon..." After she greeted Xia Youjie first, she saw Wujo Wu, who was studying the sprinkler device with his head down, squeezed directly in front of him, found the switch familiarly, and then pulled him away. one step back.
Qingzi, who was told by Xia Youjie about the ins and outs, turned her head and happened to meet Gojo Satoru with an innocent expression on her face. For some reason, when she looked at Xia Youjie again, she felt a sense of guilt for protecting the bear.
"I'll help out later, too. I've been helping and taking care of this place." Seeing that the watering was almost finished, Haruko turned off the button of the sprinkler again.
"By the way, I haven't congratulated you yet, and I'm finally released from the execution ground." After congratulating Haruko with a smile, she brought up the topic just now, "Are you just talking about the curse spirits imprisoned in the special hell? ?”
She returned to Hell after Gojo Satoru confirmed her death, and it wasn't long before she came back.
Although I have heard that the special hell has been built, but I have not been able to find any opportunity to visit "old acquaintances".
The three hit it off and decided to take the time to take a look when there was no new job in front of them.
The construction of the new hell did not dispatch too many original manpower. It is difficult for the curse spirit to survive in the environment of hell, and its strength itself has been greatly reduced.
This place is also similar to many hells, with a blood-red sky and a dark ground that can't be seen as far as the eye can see.
"Before the world merges in hell, there will be some monsters and other things mixed in to disturb the normal order of work. After the magic spirit, Lord Ghost Lantern simply throws the two parties here together." Xia Youjie spoke at a gentle speed. explained.
The monsters who sneak into hell to make troubles are generally without normal sanity and thinking ability, and those who have sanity and thinking ability dare not sneak into hell with ghost lights.
This not only prevents the possibility of the two parties colluding together, but also allows the curse spirits to find more "fun" in addition to their own punishment.
Standing on a high place and looking down, only a few sporadic figures can be seen.After all, there are not many curse spirits who can be regarded as human beings by confusing rules, and thus sent to hell after death.
But the few figures I saw just now were not curse spirits, but more like those from Taoyuan Township...
Haruko lightly jumped down from the high point where she was standing, and when she took a closer look, she found that it was indeed the case.
"Momotaro..." Haruko called his name softly, and the other party turned his head, their appearances remained unchanged: "It's Haruko-sama, I haven't seen you for decades."
"What are you doing now?" Haruko asked, her eyes resting on the backpack behind him, which obviously already contained a lot of things.
"Oh, these are intended to be taken back to Lord Bai Ze to study." Momotaro put down the pannier behind him, and opened the lid, revealing the dark green seeds accumulated inside.
Haruko recognized at a glance that it was the object hit by the magic spell of the plant face, she reached out curiously and took out one.Sure enough, he could feel the mana fluctuations in it.
"Is this the 'other use'? Wujo Wu raised his eyebrows, this was much more boring than he expected.
"Of course not." Xia Youjie glanced around and didn't seem to see what he was looking for, so he took out his phone and called up a certain photo in the album.
Haruko and Momotaro finished exchanging greetings, saying that she would find some time to visit Bai Ze in the future, and then saw Gojo Satoru who was holding back a smile.
"Haruko, come and take a look, it's an amazing sight. It's a pity that I can't bring this to the world, otherwise it should be printed and pasted on the wall outside the headquarters of the Magic Society, making it into a comic book or something. Wujo Wutiao clicked his tongue, holding Xia Youjie's cell phone, and hooked his hand at Qingzi.
As soon as she took a few steps closer, Gojo Satoru couldn't wait to wrap his arms around her shoulders, and handed the phone screen to Haruko.
This should be a barbecue activity of the Hell Development Division. The main business of this department in Hell is to develop various new styles of torture tools.Therefore, it is very common to go to various hell execution grounds to investigate.
Haruko has participated in the work of all departments, and naturally knows that when this department inspects, she directly eats the food she brought on the spot at the execution ground with "beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery".It is common to even directly engage in activities such as barbecues.
It was controversial at the beginning, but later became a tacitly sanctioned activity on the grounds that "it can bring double mental torture to the condemned sinner".
The food is as always high-quality, and there are even many members of the development department who Haruko still has an impression of. If there is anything special, it is probably the grill at the bottom.
The leader of the development department is a guy with a very high force value.Although it is not as good as Ghost Lantern and another assistant officer Xiaozhong, he is still a hidden master.But this expert is obsessed with the work of the development department, and he doesn't show his mountains and dews all year round.
Now that the construction of the new hell is complete, it is inevitable for people from the development department to come and investigate.
Well, even if the leader is wearing a white robe, holding a skewer in his left hand and roasting it on the head of the volcanic curse spirit, it is actually very reasonable to calculate it in this way.
"This was probably the second year of the Shibuya incident. The curse spirit took action first and overturned the original grill, so the person from the development department went berserk."
"Then after this photo was circulated by the people in the development department, the criminals who were imprisoned for special purposes in this hell were almost circulated."
Xia Youjie stood aside and explained slowly, "But it's not bad if it's only used as a warming tool."
The most exaggerated thing is that when the heat is too high or too low to achieve the desired effect, it will be genuinely disgusted.
In contrast, although Huayu, Tuogen, and Zhenzhen who came in at the same time were not persecuted as much as Lehu, they were also "maximized" to varying degrees.
Xia Youjie saw that Haruko and Gojo Satoru were still looking at him, and knew that they were waiting for the main event.
"What Yan Suo said." When he said this, he couldn't help but paused, his tone of wanting to laugh couldn't be concealed at all, "Well, it can be said that it is a great honor to participate in the work of hell."
"I didn't take any photos, so it kind of polluted the album. But I think I know where he is now." Xia Youjie waved his hand, motioning for them to follow.
Xia Youjie brought them to a familiar old place.
In the three large cauldrons with firewood under them, the fire is burning vigorously. According to the requirements of different torments, the firepower is also controlled to different degrees. Inside are sinners struggling in the boiling water of the iron pan. The first two are also familiar poisonous snakes. nail configuration.
It's just that the "seasoning" in the last pot seems a little different...
In the vaguely undulating boiling water, half of the brain is faintly visible. Compared with the poisonous snake and iron nails, it is actually less aggressive, but more sinners struggled more intensely during the "experience", and even said something that reminded me to come back. The words soaked in the two pots in front.
"There should be some of them who think that it will be more tormenting if it is used as the last "killer weapon". "The jailer who accompanied Haruko and the three of them introduced.
They were not too close, and the sinner in the pot did not have the extra energy to hear their conversation.
"It's just that some people would want to throw that brain out under stress, but the jailer controlled it very well and didn't let them succeed."
Adding this additional "condiment" to this punishment achieves the effect of additional mental torture, which can be said to be quite an unexpected surprise.
"I was inspired by Ghost Lamp's "Brain Miso Soup", so I proposed it. "Xia Youjie stretched slowly, his tone as flat as talking about the weather.
The crimes committed by Yisuo can basically "accompany them for a long time" in hell.And to be tortured with the will still alive, and then thrown into the pot to be tortured by high temperature and at the same time be rejected by others, this can be said to be the limit of every nerve in the brain for a proud person. Hold a sharp blade and sharpen it carefully.
It won't crush you immediately, but it will torture you bit by bit, slowly wear down your will, and let you see that no amount of struggle is futile.
High, really high.
It's a textbook demonstration of killing people.
They didn't have any unnecessary communication with Yan Suo, so they left directly.
After all, it is a completely different situation now, and there will be no more intersections except supervision and punishment.
It was already dinner time, Haruko considered that Gojo Satoru had just returned from the execution ground in hell, and planned to take him to have a good meal.
Just after they sat down and ordered, the TV hanging in the store suddenly sounded the host's sweet announcement.
"What follows for you is the critically acclaimed rerun of the year's highlight show in Hell—"
Xia Youjie's hand holding the chopsticks visibly stiffened slightly.
He raised his eyes to observe the surrounding environment, and found that he was the only one who woke up in the team that should be all new dead.
The ringing bells lead the delirious new dead to go all the way, stepping on the moss-covered stone road, winding up until halfway up the mountain.
The entire team that was advancing in an orderly manner suddenly stopped, Gojo Satoru looked up at the leader of the team as if feeling something, and met his wife, whom he hadn't seen for a week.
Compared with the common modern attire, Haruko changed back to the kimono she was used to in hell. She just blinked at Gojo Satoru, then turned her head to talk to the terrified jailer.
Not long after, Haruko finished the conversation. She stepped on wooden clogs and walked towards Wujo Gojo leisurely: "Long time no see, Wujo."
In terms of time, it is a short seven days, but in another sense, this is the first meeting after experiencing life and death.
"Long time no see." Gojo Satoru looked at Haruko's outstretched hand, held hers behind his back, and walked along with Haruko's strength.
"After that, there will be trial and punishment. After all, hell's punishment regulations are so detailed that it is only natural that I can stay in hell."
Gojo Wu raised his smiling face, and when he finished speaking proudly, Xia Youjie, who was sitting across from him, taunted him unceremoniously: "You are probably the only dead person who is so happy to stay in hell successfully."
The two of them are now standing in front of the "Snapdragon Ocean" of Ghost Lamp. Gojo Satoru, who has a lifetime experience in cultivating snapdragons, volunteered to take Xia Youjie who was passing by innocently when the Ghost Lamp asked for two people to take care of them.
Counting from the time he came to Hell, the entire process of trial and punishment took only ten days, which is quite fast considering the workload of Hell.
On the whole, the judgment is still carried out in accordance with the most fair standards.However, in terms of the speed and order of the trial, there is no doubt that they have gone through the back door.
Of course, this is also because Wutiao Wu himself did not have any serious punishments, and the punishments he encountered were not difficult to bear.
He had just returned from the execution ground, and was planning to go to the Enma Hall where Qingzi was most likely to be found. Seeing that Qingzi was not there, Ghost Lantern proposed this errand again, so he decided to follow up.
In this world, Gojo Satoru kept the snapdragon grass in his home until he passed away.
Later, Haruko discovered that it seemed that the snapdragon was able to survive in a place full of mana as a hell-like environment.
Therefore, the growth of the snapdragon grass beside Gojo Wu has been more gratifying than the dozen or so plants in Gaozhuan, and it still maintains vigorous vitality for a long time after it grows to the limit.
"Oh, by the way, speaking of which, what are you doing now?" Gojo Satoru heard Haruko re-introduce Hell in detail when he arrived.
But he was quite curious about what kind of role Xia Youjie could play in it.
Xia Youjie: "It can be regarded as a "panacea oil" similar to Haruko. "Where the workload is heavy and there is a shortage of manpower, go there to help.
Because, like Haruko, she is able to handle all departments of hell with ease.So it gradually evolved into this kind of role, which is quite suitable for the situation of hell.
"However, if you want to tell me what I've been busy with in the past few years, you will definitely be interested." Xia Youjie paused here on purpose as a trick.
"What can I be interested in?" Gojo Wu asked back, he raised his chin, and motioned Xia Youjie to explain directly.
"Do you still remember those special grades in the Shibuya incident? All of them including the shogun." Xia Youjie started with such a sentence, which easily aroused the association of Gojo Satoru.
In the following decades, the entire conjuration world has never encountered an enemy of this level again.
If you want to talk about super magic spirits of the level of Leuhu and Huayu, they still have appeared.
But it was discovered and reported without causing any large-scale casualties, and was easily eliminated by Xie.
Special spell spirits will be sent to hell as the dead with confused rules. Gojo Satoru has heard about this from Haruko a long time ago. Even in the beginning, one of her original intentions for coming to this world was to solve these special spells. The huge workload brought by the spirit.
"Hell now has a hell dedicated to imprisoning curse spirits, and they are all there. But sometimes they will be used for some "other purposes". "
When Xia Youjie said the last four words, he deliberately emphasized his tone, so that Gojo Satoru could easily hear something was wrong.
Just when he was about to say that he would go and have a look when he found Haruko, Haruko, who was told that Gojo Satoru was coming back to Enma Hall, also found here.
"Good afternoon..." After she greeted Xia Youjie first, she saw Wujo Wu, who was studying the sprinkler device with his head down, squeezed directly in front of him, found the switch familiarly, and then pulled him away. one step back.
Qingzi, who was told by Xia Youjie about the ins and outs, turned her head and happened to meet Gojo Satoru with an innocent expression on her face. For some reason, when she looked at Xia Youjie again, she felt a sense of guilt for protecting the bear.
"I'll help out later, too. I've been helping and taking care of this place." Seeing that the watering was almost finished, Haruko turned off the button of the sprinkler again.
"By the way, I haven't congratulated you yet, and I'm finally released from the execution ground." After congratulating Haruko with a smile, she brought up the topic just now, "Are you just talking about the curse spirits imprisoned in the special hell? ?”
She returned to Hell after Gojo Satoru confirmed her death, and it wasn't long before she came back.
Although I have heard that the special hell has been built, but I have not been able to find any opportunity to visit "old acquaintances".
The three hit it off and decided to take the time to take a look when there was no new job in front of them.
The construction of the new hell did not dispatch too many original manpower. It is difficult for the curse spirit to survive in the environment of hell, and its strength itself has been greatly reduced.
This place is also similar to many hells, with a blood-red sky and a dark ground that can't be seen as far as the eye can see.
"Before the world merges in hell, there will be some monsters and other things mixed in to disturb the normal order of work. After the magic spirit, Lord Ghost Lantern simply throws the two parties here together." Xia Youjie spoke at a gentle speed. explained.
The monsters who sneak into hell to make troubles are generally without normal sanity and thinking ability, and those who have sanity and thinking ability dare not sneak into hell with ghost lights.
This not only prevents the possibility of the two parties colluding together, but also allows the curse spirits to find more "fun" in addition to their own punishment.
Standing on a high place and looking down, only a few sporadic figures can be seen.After all, there are not many curse spirits who can be regarded as human beings by confusing rules, and thus sent to hell after death.
But the few figures I saw just now were not curse spirits, but more like those from Taoyuan Township...
Haruko lightly jumped down from the high point where she was standing, and when she took a closer look, she found that it was indeed the case.
"Momotaro..." Haruko called his name softly, and the other party turned his head, their appearances remained unchanged: "It's Haruko-sama, I haven't seen you for decades."
"What are you doing now?" Haruko asked, her eyes resting on the backpack behind him, which obviously already contained a lot of things.
"Oh, these are intended to be taken back to Lord Bai Ze to study." Momotaro put down the pannier behind him, and opened the lid, revealing the dark green seeds accumulated inside.
Haruko recognized at a glance that it was the object hit by the magic spell of the plant face, she reached out curiously and took out one.Sure enough, he could feel the mana fluctuations in it.
"Is this the 'other use'? Wujo Wu raised his eyebrows, this was much more boring than he expected.
"Of course not." Xia Youjie glanced around and didn't seem to see what he was looking for, so he took out his phone and called up a certain photo in the album.
Haruko and Momotaro finished exchanging greetings, saying that she would find some time to visit Bai Ze in the future, and then saw Gojo Satoru who was holding back a smile.
"Haruko, come and take a look, it's an amazing sight. It's a pity that I can't bring this to the world, otherwise it should be printed and pasted on the wall outside the headquarters of the Magic Society, making it into a comic book or something. Wujo Wutiao clicked his tongue, holding Xia Youjie's cell phone, and hooked his hand at Qingzi.
As soon as she took a few steps closer, Gojo Satoru couldn't wait to wrap his arms around her shoulders, and handed the phone screen to Haruko.
This should be a barbecue activity of the Hell Development Division. The main business of this department in Hell is to develop various new styles of torture tools.Therefore, it is very common to go to various hell execution grounds to investigate.
Haruko has participated in the work of all departments, and naturally knows that when this department inspects, she directly eats the food she brought on the spot at the execution ground with "beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery".It is common to even directly engage in activities such as barbecues.
It was controversial at the beginning, but later became a tacitly sanctioned activity on the grounds that "it can bring double mental torture to the condemned sinner".
The food is as always high-quality, and there are even many members of the development department who Haruko still has an impression of. If there is anything special, it is probably the grill at the bottom.
The leader of the development department is a guy with a very high force value.Although it is not as good as Ghost Lantern and another assistant officer Xiaozhong, he is still a hidden master.But this expert is obsessed with the work of the development department, and he doesn't show his mountains and dews all year round.
Now that the construction of the new hell is complete, it is inevitable for people from the development department to come and investigate.
Well, even if the leader is wearing a white robe, holding a skewer in his left hand and roasting it on the head of the volcanic curse spirit, it is actually very reasonable to calculate it in this way.
"This was probably the second year of the Shibuya incident. The curse spirit took action first and overturned the original grill, so the person from the development department went berserk."
"Then after this photo was circulated by the people in the development department, the criminals who were imprisoned for special purposes in this hell were almost circulated."
Xia Youjie stood aside and explained slowly, "But it's not bad if it's only used as a warming tool."
The most exaggerated thing is that when the heat is too high or too low to achieve the desired effect, it will be genuinely disgusted.
In contrast, although Huayu, Tuogen, and Zhenzhen who came in at the same time were not persecuted as much as Lehu, they were also "maximized" to varying degrees.
Xia Youjie saw that Haruko and Gojo Satoru were still looking at him, and knew that they were waiting for the main event.
"What Yan Suo said." When he said this, he couldn't help but paused, his tone of wanting to laugh couldn't be concealed at all, "Well, it can be said that it is a great honor to participate in the work of hell."
"I didn't take any photos, so it kind of polluted the album. But I think I know where he is now." Xia Youjie waved his hand, motioning for them to follow.
Xia Youjie brought them to a familiar old place.
In the three large cauldrons with firewood under them, the fire is burning vigorously. According to the requirements of different torments, the firepower is also controlled to different degrees. Inside are sinners struggling in the boiling water of the iron pan. The first two are also familiar poisonous snakes. nail configuration.
It's just that the "seasoning" in the last pot seems a little different...
In the vaguely undulating boiling water, half of the brain is faintly visible. Compared with the poisonous snake and iron nails, it is actually less aggressive, but more sinners struggled more intensely during the "experience", and even said something that reminded me to come back. The words soaked in the two pots in front.
"There should be some of them who think that it will be more tormenting if it is used as the last "killer weapon". "The jailer who accompanied Haruko and the three of them introduced.
They were not too close, and the sinner in the pot did not have the extra energy to hear their conversation.
"It's just that some people would want to throw that brain out under stress, but the jailer controlled it very well and didn't let them succeed."
Adding this additional "condiment" to this punishment achieves the effect of additional mental torture, which can be said to be quite an unexpected surprise.
"I was inspired by Ghost Lamp's "Brain Miso Soup", so I proposed it. "Xia Youjie stretched slowly, his tone as flat as talking about the weather.
The crimes committed by Yisuo can basically "accompany them for a long time" in hell.And to be tortured with the will still alive, and then thrown into the pot to be tortured by high temperature and at the same time be rejected by others, this can be said to be the limit of every nerve in the brain for a proud person. Hold a sharp blade and sharpen it carefully.
It won't crush you immediately, but it will torture you bit by bit, slowly wear down your will, and let you see that no amount of struggle is futile.
High, really high.
It's a textbook demonstration of killing people.
They didn't have any unnecessary communication with Yan Suo, so they left directly.
After all, it is a completely different situation now, and there will be no more intersections except supervision and punishment.
It was already dinner time, Haruko considered that Gojo Satoru had just returned from the execution ground in hell, and planned to take him to have a good meal.
Just after they sat down and ordered, the TV hanging in the store suddenly sounded the host's sweet announcement.
"What follows for you is the critically acclaimed rerun of the year's highlight show in Hell—"
Xia Youjie's hand holding the chopsticks visibly stiffened slightly.
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