Chapter 42 Underworld
“Mmm…”
After lifting the coffin lid, Liu Haoyu, dragging his near-disassembled body, walked out from inside the coffin.
“Tofu pudding~ Guiling jelly~ White jelly powder…”
Hearing the familiar hawking sounds, Liu Haoyu was slightly startled.
He rubbed his eyes and looked around.
The hawking sounds almost made him think he was still in the underworld, but upon closer inspection, he realized that was not the case.
The buildings here looked like shops from ancient times, and the overall environment was very gloomy, which did not feel like the human world.
Looking up, a pair of people carrying a coffin were walking towards him from the end of the road.
However, these “people” had strange smiles on their faces, and although they were carrying coffins, they were wearing wedding attire.
More importantly, Liu Haoyu felt that the coffin looked a bit familiar…
Damn! Isn’t this the coffin he had been lying in?!
Liu Haoyu tried to chase after them, but found that they were moving extremely fast and he couldn’t catch up.
In this strange environment, he could only stop his steps and observe the shops on both sides of the street.
He discovered that the shops on both sides of the street were all filled with lifeless paper figures.
These paper figures were not inanimate objects; their eyeballs kept moving and following Liu Haoyu’s movements.
Seeing this, Liu Haoyu could only take out the Black Book and ask.
“What’s going on in this place?”
“As you can see, it’s the underworld, and your next destination is the Hall of Yama.”
“Hall of Yama…”
Hearing this name, Liu Haoyu’s mouth twitched. It turns out that all his hard work was for applying for a job in the underworld?
“The Hall of Yama is behind you, that building full of patches, do you see it?”
After the Black Book gave these instructions, Liu Haoyu finally saw the place it was referring to.
Unlike his impression of the Hall of Yama, what Liu Haoyu saw was desolation.
The roof was covered in patches, the outside was full of broken walls and ruins, and a large group of withered and black little ghosts were… pretending to work.
Looking at the Hall of Yama, which had long lost its majesty and solemnity, Liu Haoyu’s mouth twitched again.
The Black Book continued to speak.
“Don’t doubt it, this is the Hall of Yama. Although it looks dilapidated, it’s actually okay. Only the roof has been dismantled, and all the streetlights outside have also been removed.”
“Then why has it been under repair for so long?”
“Why are you like a curious baby?” the Black Book replied speechlessly, “Of course, it’s to elicit sympathy from Qin Liu, otherwise, how can we make this girl willing to work?”
“…Damn.”
Originally, Liu Haoyu had only a vague impression of Qin Liu’s strength. Now, looking at the pathetic state of the Hall of Yama, he finally understood.
His wife is indeed quite powerful.
“Isn’t she really enlightened by some immortal cultivation secret?”
“Don’t ask me, go ask your wife.”
The Black Book couldn’t see through Qin Liu’s fate, so it couldn’t answer this question.
“You can go around from the square. Although you can see the Hall of Yama, it’s still a bit far from here.”
“Alright.”
Liu Haoyu naturally didn’t want to stay longer in this gloomy place. He walked across the street and came to the square.
The square was very lively, with ghosts everywhere.
“Hold your hands up and stand in a row, swing to the music~”
These ghosts were playing loud music, and to strange tunes, they were twisting their bodies in postures that defied human anatomy.
At this moment, the expression on Liu Haoyu’s face was no different from that of an old man looking at his phone on the subway.
Why is this underworld so full of song and dance?
“As the human world’s technology develops, the underworld naturally can’t fall behind,” the Black Book said leisurely.
“By the way, didn’t you say everyone here is a good brother? Help me buy some candied haws.”
The biggest difficulty of this trip was entering Youdu. Now that Liu Haoyu had safely arrived, it could also relax.
Perhaps Liu Haoyu didn’t know, but the Black Book knew very well that if this man had so much as blinked during the smuggling process, he would have been torn to shreds by the fierce ghosts in the Styx River.
Even without opening his eyes, the intense pain would have been unbearable for any human, so even though the Black Book wanted to point fingers at this man, it couldn’t help but admire Liu Haoyu now.
“Candied haws…”
Although Liu Haoyu really wanted to complain about this book still wanting to eat things, the Black Book had helped him out. Since it wanted to eat candied haws, returning the favor was not a problem.
Thus, Liu Haoyu walked to the front of a small shop on the side of the square.
A paper figure stood still inside the shop, and several batches of candied haws of different colors were inserted on the counter.
There was also a piece of paper on the shop.
“No ghost sales, please pay voluntarily for purchases. You can use WeChat or Alipay.”
This piece of paper also thoughtfully included QR codes, indicating payment by scanning.
Liu Haoyu took out his mobile phone and tried scanning it, but found that… there was no internet.
Of course, this was the underworld, the human world’s mobile phone would be strange if it had internet service here.
Since there was no price indicated, he didn’t know how much the candied haws cost.
Liu Haoyu subconsciously took out a fifty yuan banknote from his pocket and placed it on the counter.
Before he could react to the impropriety, the paper figure standing motionlessly in the shop took out a piece of paper, on which was written:
“RMB, please exchange for equivalent ghost currency at the Heaven and Earth Bank.”
Goodness, this place was indeed terrifyingly advanced.
Liu Haoyu had no choice. Fortunately, he had ghost currency in his backpack. He counted out a few notes, not knowing the exact amount, and handed them to the paper figure.
Then, a pale hand reached out from under the counter and grabbed the ghost currency.
After getting the candied haws, Liu Haoyu asked the Black Book.
“I’m a bit curious. Since this place accepts ghost currency, wouldn’t the denominations of tens of billions or hundreds of billions in the human world lead to rampant inflation?”
“You’re thinking too much. The amount of money you used to buy ghost currency in the human world is how much it’s worth here. The few notes you gave just now, which looked like tens of billions, are actually only worth… one yuan.”
“This underworld is quite rigorous.”
Liu Haoyu had originally planned to see if the ghost currency in his backpack could be used for big purchases here, but now it seemed he was indeed too naive.
Liu Haoyu handed over the candied haws. He wanted to see how this book ate things, but in the blink of an eye, the candied haws disappeared.
Just as Liu Haoyu was feeling regretful, a monster as tall as a mountain, with bulging muscles and a huge ox head, arrived at the square.
His eyes, as large as copper bells, flickered with faint green light.
The heavy footsteps seemed to make the ground tremble.
Liu Haoyu knew that this monster was not to be trifled with, so he decisively shifted his gaze elsewhere to avoid being discovered by it.
After all, he was a living person now, and this Ox-Head was a Ghost Messenger in charge of order in the underworld. Encountering him might lead to trouble.
Ox-Head strode past Liu Haoyu. Before the man could breathe a sigh of relief, he found that Ox-Head’s huge head was facing him, and a blast of hot breath was slowly exhaled from its nostrils.
“Why do you have the scent of a guide on you?”
