Chapter 39 Person Who Lost Their Body
Seeing Bai Anting staring blankly, the person rowing the boat walked in front of her and waved his hand.
“Little brother? Little brother, can you hear me?”
“Ah…” Bai Anting finally came back to her senses.
“I’m not a brother!”
She didn’t understand, was it necessary?
It’s just that she was flat!
Why was she persecuted everywhere?!
“Hoo… gotta stay calm, stay calm.”
Bai Anting looked at the man in front of her wearing a black burial garment and couldn’t help but ask.
“Big brother, what is this place?”
“You don’t need to call me big brother,” the man smiled and said, “Just call me Ferryman.”
“As for this place… it’s the Nai River in the Underworld.”
Hearing this, Bai Anting went numb.
How did she end up in such a place after sleeping?
Could it be that she died suddenly?
But the problem was that she didn’t stay up late, so she shouldn’t be the one to die suddenly, right?
“People who come here are all dead people. Because the Nai River Bridge has broken, I, as the ferryman on the Nai River, am responsible for taking conscious wandering souls like you to the other side of the river.”
“How about it? Do you have any money on you? 100,000 spirit money to cross the river, now a big promotion activity, discounted prices, buy one get one free, absolutely honest business…”
Facing the ferryman’s sales-like pitch, Bai Anting couldn’t help but feel speechless.
This Underworld seemed a bit off.
Or is technology advancing, and even the Underworld has caught up with the times?
“I have no money on me.”
Of course, Bai Anting didn’t have any spirit money, let alone wanting to cross the river.
After all, dying without knowing why would leave a grudge in anyone’s heart.
So Bai Anting, ignoring the ferryman’s dissuasion, turned and left.
“Hey, hey, hey, if you miss this boat, you’ll have to wait for the next one. Staying here for too long is not a good thing.”
Bai Anting stopped.
“Why do you say that?”
“Because of your current soul state, this is the borderland between the Human World and the Underworld. If you stay here for too long, you will gradually lose your mind and turn into a fierce ghost.”
“This…”
Bai Anting’s steps halted, and her expression seemed hesitant.
But thinking that she died without knowing why, she still decided to turn around and leave.
The ferryman looked at Bai Anting’s stubbornness and couldn’t help but sigh.
“Alas, why bother, in the end, another one will probably go crazy.”
It’s just that Bai Anting had already walked far away, so she naturally couldn’t hear what was said behind her.
Bai Anting walked forward along the small path.
The surrounding environment was all covered by a faint green mist, making Bai Anting feel uncomfortable.
She felt her brain starting to stiffen, become numb, and gradually difficult to think.
Until finally, her steps began to falter, and she couldn’t even stand steadily.
“Ugh… my head hurts so much.”
But even so, Bai Anting continued to walk forward.
She didn’t know where she was going, but she felt that if she walked in this direction, she could return to the Human World.
However, she found that her steps were becoming heavier and heavier, as if she had fallen into a quagmire.
She looked down at her feet.
At some point, how many pairs of semi-transparent and extremely pale hands were tightly gripping her calves.
Seeing these grim and terrifying ghost hands, Bai Anting was greatly startled and tried to break free, but she couldn’t shake them off.
Until she felt herself being pulled over little by little, no matter how she struggled or resisted, it was useless.
“Soul… soul…”
In the darkness, Bai Anting saw countless withered and pale ghostly shadows tightly gripping her body.
Their eyes had long since disappeared, leaving only two dark eye sockets.
“Ding ling~ Ding ling~”
At this moment, two crisp bell sounds rang out.
Accompanied by a very low chanting sound.
“Sleep… sleep…”
The distant and hollow whispering sound, although it made the pale fierce ghosts release their grip on Bai Anting, the young girl’s eyelids became heavy, and she eventually fell into a deep sleep.
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When Bai Anting regained consciousness again, she suddenly woke up with a start.
Those small hands kept fumbling over her body.
As if worried that she might have been eaten by fierce ghosts.
“You’re awake, little girl.”
A deep voice sounded beside Bai Anting again.
This made Bai Anting quickly turn her head and saw a tall dark figure standing beside her.
She couldn’t tell how tall this dark figure was, but it was definitely over two meters!
The dark figure held a string of paper money and wore a tall pointed hat. It looked at Bai Anting and said.
“Don’t be afraid, I am an Underworld official. If you don’t understand, you can just know that I am Black Impermanence.”
“Black… Black Impermanence?”
Bai Anting shivered in fright and then moved aside repeatedly.
She didn’t know much about Chinese ghost myths, but she also knew that Black and White Impermanence were here to claim lives.
That is to say, she was really dead?
Thinking of this, Bai Anting’s face turned ashen. She seemed to have given up struggling and sighed, asking.
“May I be so bold as to ask? How did I die?”
At least let her die clearly, what kind of thing is it to wake up and be gone?
Hearing this, Black Impermanence rummaged through his robe and took out a book. After flipping through it, he suddenly uttered a sound of confusion.
“Bai Anting, right?”
“Yes.”
Although Black Impermanence’s face was completely covered, Bai Anting could still feel his utterly confused expression.
“Strange…” Black Impermanence’s deep voice sounded, “Your lifespan has not yet expired, why have you come to this place?”
“I wish I knew!”
Bai Anting looked up at the sky speechlessly.
“After waking up, I found myself in this godforsaken place, and I am also desperate.”
After complaining, Bai Anting asked Black Impermanence.
“Big brother, you said my lifespan has not expired yet, can you let me return to the Human World?”
“Let me check first.”
Black Impermanence was also very confused about Bai Anting’s situation.
The young girl in front of him, although her lifespan had not expired, her physical body had disappeared.
This was why she appeared in this borderland of life and death.
“Your physical body is missing. If you return to the Human World now, you will only become a ferocious ghost with a ferocious appearance, just like those pitiful wandering souls you saw earlier. They are all people who cannot let go of their grievances and are trapped in this borderland of life and death, unable to leave.”
“This…”
Bai Anting recalled the ferryman’s words.
“Is it that if you don’t pay to cross the river, you’ll be left in this place? This Underworld is too much of a scam!”
Black Impermanence shook his head and said, “There are many unspeakable reasons for this, and it’s hard to explain in a moment. Why don’t you come with me first?”
