Chapter 7: The Old Ghost of the Underworld
Scared, but I can not always stay here ah, look at those people are going to the west, I also had to follow that way, thinking that there may be some clues. About half an hour later, I saw a square. There are two buildings on the square, one looks like a train station, somewhat similar to the appearance of our county train station. The other one looked like a hotel, and those people in black clothes went to that hotel-like building one after another.
There were also many people dressed in black who came out of the hotel and walked into the train station. Of course, all of this was silent. Only the occasional sound of a train whistle could be heard under the gray sky.
I walked up to the guesthouse-like building and looked at the three-story building, which looked as if it had been there for years by the looks of it, as if it was made of red brick. The mahogany door was open and the men in black were coming in and out. There was a large plaque on the door, on which the three words "Half Step More" were written in a twisted manner, a very strange name, and I don't know what it means. But this plaque seems to have some kind of magic, let me have a very want to go in the feeling, anyway, do not have a clue, go in first and then say it. But then I noticed a small fortune-telling stall next to the door of this building, a middle-aged man was dozing in front of the stall, and I noticed that he was the only one here who wasn't not wearing black clothes. He was wearing a green lab coat, kind of like the clothes from the Republican era on TV.
But that had made me feel close, so instead of going in, I walked quickly over to the little fortune-telling stall. I gently knocked on his small table a few times, "Uncle, uncle wake up."
He slowly raised his head, saw me standing in front of him surprisingly seems to be very surprised, I also on the eyes to measure this middle-aged man. I saw this uncle's age is about forty-five to sixty years old, keep a head of small parting, national character face, thin lips have a handful of moustache, a pair of small eyes flashing a stream of light.
He looked me up and down and then pointed his hand at himself, "Young man, are you talking to me?" I thought to myself if this uncle had a problem, I'm standing right in front of you, of course I'm talking to you, I nodded my head.
The uncle looked at me in the eyes revealed like some excitement, as if he saw what valuable things, see my whole body straight goosebumps. He looked at me for about two or three minutes and then looked at his mouth, he asked me: "Young man, do you know where this place is?"
Faint, this old man will not be the same as me, if I know still need to come over to ask you? I shook my head, the uncle laughed: "Then do you want to know?"
Faint, this old man how so like to hang people's appetite, I swear to God, if this in our school encountered such a poor master, I would have two slaps on the face to let him pick the key to say. But although this uncle is quite shameless, but look at him this body shape know seems to be not what kind of good, and here is not familiar with the place, as the saying goes, people under the roof. Who dares not bow his head? I had to say to this uncle in a low voice: "Uncle, do you know where this is? How did I come here?"
I seem to use this "you" in the right way, the old man after listening to quite used, he looked at me, seemingly smiling but not smiling, said: "This is the city of Yin, and you should have died."
What? I thought to myself you this old man is not sick, I'm right in front of you alive and kicking, how can you say I'm already dead?
Ninth uncle seems to have read from my eyes "this old man crazy" six words, he said: "young man, you should be able to see what is different here. That's because this is a place where only the dead can come."
Indeed, to be magical, the scene here was indeed very weird, as if it was a movie with special effects, but to say that I was dead was also too outrageous.
The old man saw me pondering not say, then said: "young people if you still do not believe it, touch your heartbeat, see if it is three long jumps two short jumps."
I heard him say so busy hand over the chest, shit! There was no heartbeat!
Just when I was stunned, suddenly felt a heartbeat "fluttering ------- ---------- ----- ---- ---------- -Passing -------- ---------- --FlutterFlutter." Sure enough, it was three long and two short! This scared me again, three long and two short, this is too evil. Could it be that what this old man said was true? All of this, can not help but let me start to believe, and so on? This old man said that this is a place that only the dead can get to, so this old man is? Thinking of this, I felt the cold sweat on my back start to brush down.
The old man laughed after seeing my face turn blue, "Don't be afraid young man, it's true that this place is full of dead people, but not dead ghosts."
What does that mean? I didn't understand, it was all too complicated. But for some reason, this old man's words made me feel at peace. It was as if there was some kind of magic. I hurriedly asked, "Uncle, can you tell me what's going on here? How did I get here?"
The old man pointed to the stool in front of the table for me to sit down, and said to me, "Well, young man, I'll explain this place to you first, and also, I can't bear the big word uncle, so you can just call me Ninth Uncle."
Ninth uncle began to tell me the situation of this place, the original world of gods, ghosts and human beings have boundaries, but these three boundaries have a lot of connecting places, connecting the earth and the divine realm of the location is called 'three way village.' The place that connects the divine realm with the earth is called 'Yingzhou.' And the place that connects the earth and the hell is called 'Yin Market.' Usually the soul of a person after death is first brought to the Yin City by a ghost messenger, at this time the soul can still not belong to the ghost, and it can only be called a ghost after it has received a ghost heart in this 'half a step less' inn. Afterwards, they boarded the 'one step less' train and traveled to hell, where they were to await their fate. If the ghosts did not receive the ghost heart by mistake, or did not catch the train, they could only become lonely ghosts. They will be wandering for eternity.
I sat on the bench to listen to the mesmerized, this is too metaphysical, the whole with the metaphysical novels like, I asked the nine uncle: "Nine uncle, then I also die?" The thought of death, I can not help but be sad, remembering my father and mother at home, grandparents. It was only now that I realized how important they were to me, raising me so well, and I had never repaid them. I'm only seventeen years old, ah, just like this death, think of this, my heart is full of reluctance and unwillingness.
Ninth Uncle looked at me and said, "Although you are dead, you are not dead yet, because you still have a heartbeat."
Not dead through? What does that mean? This nine uncle said I do not understand most of the words, but listen to his meaning is that I still have to be saved? I asked Uncle Nine, "What does it mean that I'm not dead? Am I still saved?"
Ninth Uncle nodded and asked me to tell him about my last memories on earth, and then asked for my name and birthdate. Then he stretched out his thumb and rubbed it between the middle finger of his index finger, I thought he wanted money, so I told him, "I don't have any money." Ninth uncle glared at me, then did not say anything closed his eyes and continued to rub. I was anxious, told him, "I really have no money." Ninth uncle alas, said, "rotten wood can not be carved."
Nine uncle opened his eyes, said to me: "the cause of which I have understood a rough, you should be harmed by demons, good in the water time is not long, now your physical body should still be in the hospital rescue. So the three souls and seven spirits left one soul and five spirits to come here."
Demon evil is demon right, I suddenly remembered the story my grandmother told me, busy reaching into the clothes and pulled out the purse, opened him up and took out the yellow talisman, only to see that the writing on this yellow talisman has been soaked with water that you can't read the handwriting. Could the story my grandmother told be true? I saw the old lady standing on the bank is that what Huang Sanmaiden?
