[Comprehensive] A journey without water

Under the leadership of Wu Shui, everyone walked to the Abyss of Exile in the south, "This is the place where lonely souls and wild ghosts gather. After passing through the Abyss of Exile, it will be the Styx River. There are often green bamboo boats on the river that travel between Yin and Yang. Get on that boat, and we can go back to Yangshi." Wu Shui explained to everyone.

"Over there! There really is a boat!" Lingsha's eyes were sharp, and she saw an unremarkable boat at once.

Wu Shui stepped forward and bowed to the rower: "Can I trouble you to send us to the world?"

"How could it be possible to send back those of us whose origins are unknown." Lingsha murmured softly.

The rower is a tall and burly man (ghost), wearing a wide blue-gray cloak and a hat on his head, which is pressed down so low that it almost covers his entire face.He didn't speak, just nodded, motioning for them to get on board.

"Isn't it?!" Lingsha stared at Wushui with wide eyes, "...this rower is so strange, he didn't say a word, but he was willing to help us."

Along the way, Lingsha looked at the rower very strangely, and the more she looked, the more familiar she looked...

"Thank you for your help, I am very grateful, can you tell me your name?" Ziying thanked the rower.

The rower was silent.

"...So, I'm taking the liberty." I think this person doesn't want others to know...

Lingsha took a few steps forward and stared at the rower: "You... raise your head up and let me have a look, okay?"

"Lingsha?" Ziying was very surprised, how could Lingsha make such a request so presumptuously?

The rower remained silent, lowering his head even lower.

"You, don't you dare?! Who are you?" Lingsha's voice became louder, as if she had confirmed something.

"...Oh, girl, you're still so smart, there's really nothing I can do about you..." The rower finally spoke up, but what did he mean?Could it be that he met Lingsha?

"Uncle, is it really you?! How is it possible?!" Lingsha exclaimed, "Uncle, why are you here? Why do you pretend not to know me? If it wasn't, if it wasn't for me to recognize your outline ..." This strange rower turned out to be his uncle——Han Beikuang!

"Girl, just pretend you didn't see Uncle, okay?" Han Beikuang made such a strange request.

"Not good! I clearly saw it!" Lingsha refused without thinking, "You don't even know how much I miss you. When I was on the turning mirror stage, I thought you had been reincarnated, so I didn't show up... ..." As he spoke, he actually began to cry.

"Silly girl, if I were reincarnated, wouldn't I be unable to save you today?"

"...Uncle, what did you say that you can't save me? Why are you rowing here?"

"...It's not just me...Almost all the Han family will do hard labor in the ghost world after death...I'm in charge of ferrying this green bamboo boat, traveling between the human and ghost worlds when necessary..."

"Hard labor?" Lingsha asked in surprise, "What is that? How could they let you do such a thing?!"

"Girl, I didn't recognize you just now, but I was hesitating whether I should let you know about this. This is too heavy for you..." Although he was recognized by his niece, Han Beikuang was still hesitating.

"Uncle, what's going on?! I want to know!" Lingsha was determined, and she already knew from her uncle's words that this matter was extraordinary.

"Alas..." Han Beikuang sighed and explained the reason for the short life of the Han family.It turns out that the Han family has robbed tombs for generations and used the utensils in the tomb to rescue the living. But in the ghost world, ghosts are like living people, with their own feelings and thoughts. The Han family disturbed the dead. They all only live to be in their 30s and [-]s. Even after death, they still have to do hard labor to atone for their sins.

"It's, it's like this..." Lingsha finally knew the answer she had been looking for for a long time, "That is to say... the longevity method I have been looking for is useless at all? No matter how hard I try, I can't make my people live better. Longer..."

"Girl, I know you have worked very hard, but there are some things that are arranged in the dark, and you cannot fight alone..." Han Beikuang was also very helpless, and could only comfort his most beloved niece first.

"Then, where are father and mother? Where are they?"

"...Naturally, I will also make amends in other places in the ghost world." Han Beikuang looked at Lingsha: "Girl, tell me honestly, have you always been angry with your parents? Do you think they treat you badly?"

"I..." Thinking that her parents were so indifferent to her, and she was only a person since she was a child, she was indeed very dissatisfied with her parents, Lingsha could only nod her head to admit.

"Hey, they know that they probably won't last long, so they deliberately treat you coldly, because they are afraid that if you are used to being dependent, if your parents pass away, you will be too sad. How can there be parents in this world who don't like their children? "

"Uncle, is what you said true?!" Hearing that her parents were indifferent to her, and it was for her own good, Lingsha had some expectations, hoping that it would be true.

"Of course it's true!" Han Beikuang affirmed, "I remember when you were young, your father insisted on watching you fall asleep by the bedside every night before he would sleep. A few glances, calling your name a few more times, I won’t have a chance in the future..." Thinking of his brother’s hidden concern, seeing that he clearly regarded his little daughter as the apple of his eye, but had to deliberately distance himself, Han Beikuang felt sad for a while. .

Thinking of the good intentions of her parents, Lingsha finally couldn't help crying: "...What a stupid father, and mother, so stupid! Life is short enough, and they still have to care about it." That made me sad for many years..."

"...Girl...you have really grown up, and you have your own way of thinking about things..." Han Beikuang looked at his little niece with emotion. The little girl who used to hang around him has now become a big girl... "It seems , and also met very good friends...these three next to me are all of them, right?"

Tianhe, Ziying and Wushui all introduced themselves.

Hearing Ziying's name, Han Beikuang asked, "Murong? Is he a survivor of the Great Yan Kingdom?"

"How did the senior know?"

"A long time ago, there was a couple who went to Reincarnation Well to reincarnate...the eyebrows look a bit like you...and the surname Murong is rare. It used to be the surname of everyone in Yan...your father...is it Murong Cheng?"

"...it's my father." Ziying didn't expect to hear about her parents here, "...it turns out...it turns out that both father and mother have passed away...it's been so long..."

"You don't need to be too sad. Your father and mother looked peaceful, and they should have lived peacefully during their lifetime. It's just that they seem a little regretful that they didn't see their youngest son again before they died."

"...Father, Mother..." Ziying didn't say anything else, but just watched the faint light from the distant Yangjian from a distance.

Although Ziying looks very calm, she must be very sad in her heart. Although he said that in this life, he has "extremely weak relatives and has nothing to worry about", but after all, he is his biological parents, and he can never see him again... Wushui holds Ziying hand, silently comforting him.

No matter what the journey is, there will always be a moment of end. Seeing the light of the sun is close in front of her eyes, Lingsha knows that she should say goodbye to her uncle. , Lingsha and Tianhe went ashore.

"...It seems... that we have returned to the human world. This seems to be Fengdu, a ghost town in central Sichuan." Ziying looked at the surrounding scenery and came to a conclusion.

"...uncle... woo..." Lingsha still hasn't recovered from the sadness just now.

"Lingsha, you, don't cry... I'm so sad that you cry like this..." Tianhe also looked like he was about to cry.

Lingsha asked strangely: "You...why are you sad?"

"I went to the ghost world and heard those things, I don't seem to be me anymore..." Thinking of what his father said, Tianhe felt that many things were completely different from what he thought...

"...Let's go, we will be sent by Qionghua, and we don't know what's going on in Qionghua's school." Wushui interrupted the sadness of Tianhe and Lingsha.

"Well," Tianhe cheered up, "I got Yiyingzhi, I'm going to find Mengli!"

"...Wait a minute." Walking to the gate of the city, Lingsha stopped suddenly.

"what happened?"

"I want to...do something."

"What? Are you in a hurry?" After all, the top priority is to find Mengli.

"Hey, why ask so many questions, it's important anyway!" Lingsha didn't say much.

"What's the rush?" Wushui asked.

"Actually... when I was in the city just now, I thought about it for a long time. Thinking about what my uncle said, I decided to fulfill one of my wishes, and I will never rob graves again." Lingsha said a lot to express her future If you won't rob tombs again, but before that...

"It means...you want to steal again?"... Now even Tianhe understands...

"There's a reason for that~ Can I go?"

"No!" Tianhe flatly refused.

"Why?" Lingsha seldom saw Tianhe going against her own will.

"Although I don't understand it very well, I also know that tomb robbery is not a good thing, it's not good for you, and it will shorten your lifespan, so I can't go." Tianhe had a good reason.

"How can it be so serious... just go once! It's been like this for so many years before, do you still care about this time?" Lingsha was a little shameless.

"No! Even if your life is lost by a month or even a day!" Tianhe's attitude was firm.

"...What a big event, it must be done at this time? But you refuse to explain the cause and effect... Lingsha, your life and death are at stake. If you want to understand it, it's no joke." Ziying also persuaded Lingsha.

"Yeah, Lingsha, you usually love to play, but don't take your own life to play!"

"You think I'm just kidding? You all think I'm talking crazy?!" Lingsha was furious when she heard this, "Okay, the two big men, mother-in-law and mother, refuse to go, so I'll go to the head office by myself?!" After finishing speaking, Yu Jian was about to leave.

Ziying hastily stopped her.

"Ziying, why are you hindering me?! You don't want to accompany me, and you don't allow me to go by myself. Then just knock me unconscious and carry me back to the Qionghua faction!" Lingsha yelled at Ziying, then Something... is very important, I must do it now, once...

"...You must do that thing?" Wu Shui asked.

"Yes! If you don't go, I can do it by myself. At worst, I will die there, and I will die anyway." Lingsha nodded fiercely, as if this could prove her determination, "That is a A very important thing, a very important wish, if my lifespan is really short, then I must...do it before I die...and it will be very dangerous to go to the demon world...I just want...don't stay in this life Pity……"

"No, no, no, you can't say that, no matter what you say!" Tianhe denied it a series of times.

"Okay, I'll accompany you." Wu Shui said this sentence suddenly.

"...I'll go too." Ziying also agreed at the same time.

"Ah?!" Tianhe didn't expect the two of them to agree so much, it's about Lingsha's life!

"Instead of putting you in danger alone, it's better for us to follow..." Ziying explained the reason for agreeing.

"Really?!" Lingsha looked at Wushui and Ziying, seeing that they both nodded, Lingsha smiled happily: "Ha, then it's settled, it's still Wushui and Ziying's reason. "

"How can this work? I won't do it!"

"Hey, Wushui and Ziying have already agreed, are you still looking for trouble?" Lingsha pinched her waist and pointed at Tianhe.

Tianhe looked at Lingsha, and was silent for a while with a tangled face, then suddenly scratched his head frantically: "Why are girls so troublesome? If you don't like it, you will make trouble! It's annoying me~~~ It’s annoying me to death~~~It’s annoying me to death~~~!! One is missing, and the other is going to rob the tomb even though she knows she’ll meet her lifespan, I really don’t understand what girls are thinking!”

"Yun. Tian. He! What do you mean, you! I am also a girl, am I troublesome?! Am I troublesome?! You are too stupid to understand!" , also pinched his waist and roared at Tianhe.

"Hee, so you agree?" Lingsha doesn't care what Tianhe said, as long as he agrees.

"Sigh, it was the best time when I was hunting in the mountains before, I didn't have so many troubles..." Tian He obviously missed the former relaxed life, and his face stretched.

"Okay, don't make a bad face, you want to scare someone, anyway, I'll take it as your promise. Let's go! That place is called Fengshenling, it's in the north of Chenzhou, because it's suspended in the air, ordinary people can't get close at all, fortunately The few of us are fine, just pass by Yujian!" Lingsha ignored Tianhe's bad mood at all, and happily opened the way.

"I...I really...don't know what to say..." Tianhe was speechless.