Midnight Bookstore

The road to the underworld, the destination of the dead, and the world of the living. Through the ages… how many scholars, poets, and folktales have fantasized and supplemented the “Road to the Underworld” countless times. Giving rise to a beautiful love story. In novels and movies, when a wife or husband dies… it’s not enough not to say, “You’re on the road to the underworld, wait for me”

If you go on the road to the underworld, no matter how much you have loved in life… if you go on this road, it will become who you are. According to folklore, there is a Meng Po on the Bridge of Helplessness. After drinking her soup, she can forget her previous life and go to a new life.

Before Boss Zhou died, he had suspected there was a Bridge of Helplessness. Meng Po would have died of exhaustion. Many people died every day, and they all had to drink soup. Meng Po probably couldn’t do anything else all year round, except making soup.

Now he understood that the Bridge of Helplessness was the name of a place, but it was also the name of power. Meng Po might not be an old beggar with a broken bowl and a walking stick, she might be a beautiful woman with a slim and flirtatious figure who smelled the scent of spring without revealing her rosy lips.

It was true, she had already reached the level of Meng Po. How could she give the ghost a free hand? On the road to the underworld, the traffic was always very high. This was the true status of a gold shop! Never had to worry that no customers would pass by or that they would go to other places.

Unfortunately, this road ended at the end of the Bridge of Helplessness. All the facilities in the middle were run by the Yin officials who may not have cared if other forces made small movements in small corners of other places. Except if they extend their tentacles to the road to the netherworld, the Yin officials would have certainly fought you to the death.

Fortunately, no one is headstrong enough to go head-to-head with the Yin officials. Just like the wuxia people in wuxia novels, who repeatedly say, “Being a lackey for the Imperial Court, I’m ashamed to be associated with them.”

However, not many wuxia characters immediately rushed into the Imperial Palace to kill the Emperor. On the road to the underworld, Lawyer An felt much more at ease. Zhou Ze was not in a hurry to go up. Instead, he looked at the pool by the road. Water had accumulated in the pool again. It was really like a wildfire that could not be burned out.

When the spring breeze blew, the pool would sometimes be dry and sometimes full. Sometimes there would be people and sometimes there would be no one. Zhou Ze walked over and stood by the pond. The water in the pond was clear. After all, there was no pollution here. It was impossible for there to be any pollution.

He bent down and waited for a while. Zhou Ze originally thought that he would not see anything, it was purely a trip to reminisce. Soon… layers of ripples appeared on the surface of the water below him. Zhou Ze’s gaze focused, and the nails on his hands had slowly grown out.

“Boss, what’s wrong?”

Lawyer An also came over, he wanted to leave Huanyang without stopping. Except the boss wanted to play a little bourgeois nostalgia. There was no other way, so he could only wait. Fortunately, the road to the underworld was very long. Unless one was lucky enough to die and some official from the underworld happened to pass by, there would not be any danger.

With that thought in mind, Lawyer An looked around. Fortunately, the Old Priest wasn’t here. If the Old Priest was here, Lawyer An didn’t dare to delay for even a moment. A woman’s face appeared in the pool. The face was completely featureless, it was a very pure face. Not because there was nothing on her face, it was because the feeling it gave people seemed to be different from before.

Zhou Ze had never known what kind of changes had happened to the faceless woman. Except for a few people involved in the incident that night in Chengdu, not many people knew. Her hair slowly spread out and floated on the surface of the water. It was laid out on one side and looked like it carried a strong artistic aura.

“Hey, this ghost by the road of the Netherworld knows how to be romantic.”

Lawyer An was not surprised by this as there were many strange things in Hell. It was just that there were many things born by the road of the Netherworld every year for special reasons. This was also unavoidable. After all, the road of the Netherworld was filled with death every day. It was the return of the dead, and many evil things were born through this.

As long as they did not cause trouble, the Yin Masters would turn a blind eye to it. Purely treating it as planting some potted plants on the roadside for free. In the early years, one of the ten kings of Hell liked to put on a show and be extravagant. Every time they came out to patrol, the people below had to carefully clear the road. At the same time, they had to clean up.

Yes, the world of the living and the world of the dead was the same. When the leaders came to inspect, they didn’t dare to say anything else. It was necessary to clean up. Lawyer An remembered that at that time, he wasn’t a patrol inspector. He was just a ghost who had followed his colleagues to clean up these things on both sides of the road of the Yellow Springs for a long time. There was no such thing as species protection in Hell.

Fortunately, something seemed to have gone wrong with that ostentatious big shot later on. He shut himself up and no one cleaned up the road of the Yellow Springs anymore. After a few decades, a lot of “strange” things grew on the roadside. The faceless woman was looking at Zhou Ze as he was also looking back at her, the two of them did not communicate much. Things had changed a long time ago.

Zhou Ze met the faceless woman when he died and went to Hell for the first time. It could be said that for a long time, she was almost a nightmare in Zhou Ze’s mind. Especially when she became Doctor Lin and they were in the car, it was really exciting! Except now… he was able to be calm. The faceless woman silently sank back into the water and the pond returned to its usual calm. Zhou Ze stood up, looked at Lawyer An, and said, “Go back… the sun has returned.”

When he went back, he took a bath and hugged Yingying to sleep. This was what life should have been like. At this moment, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from afar. Lawyer An immediately pressed Zhou Ze’s shoulder and the two of them squatted in the reed marsh beside the pond. The departed souls on the road to the Netherworld made way, and a group of ghost messengers dressed in soapy clothes rode past.

“Ghost Messengers also ride horses?” Zhou Ze asked in surprise.

“What’s wrong? Is something wrong?”

“Isn’t it supposed to be Biubiubiu?”

“…” Lawyer An.

After the group of people passed by, Lawyer An explained, “This Biubiubiu… Why am I imitating this?”

“Hell is very big. If Biubiu comes to ‘BIU’, no one will be able to withstand it. Moreover, this horse isn’t a horse from the world of the living. It doesn’t eat grass, and it can run continuously after absorbing the ghost energy.”

“Oh.” Zhou Ze nodded. “But I still feel that it’s a little low.”

“This is just an ordinary ghost’s mount from Hell. A big shot has a big shot’s mount.”

“It’s not too bad.”

“A while ago, I watched a TV series in the bookstore.”

“The emperors all came on horseback.”

He then shouted, “So-and-so emperor, do you dare to dismount and fight me?!”

“Is that exaggerated?”

After the coast was clear, the road to the Netherworld also returned to normal. Only then the two of them walked out of the reeds and onto the road. Looking at the numerous expressionless “walking corpses” nearby, Zhou Ze had a feeling that he was the only one awake. After entering this place, there was no need to go to the Bridge of Helplessness, he had already forgotten about himself here.

“Boss, you’ve been to Hell before, right?” Lawyer An asked.

“Yes.” Zhou Ze nodded.

“Then let’s go back.”

After saying that, Lawyer An closed his eyes. Zhou Ze saw that his figure was slowly rising and Zhou Ze followed suit. He was just imitating the feeling of floating from the depths of the sea in a dream. Slowly… his body began to float.

Not long after he rose… his body began to be enveloped in white light. It was as if he had touched a layer of the membrane. His body began to slowly fade as if he was about to dissipate. At this moment… Zhou Ze saw Lawyer An making a handprint.

“What is this?” Zhou Ze shouted.

Lawyer An was stunned for a moment. Having just made a handprint, he did not seem to know how to face this problem. He asked in shock, “Boss, you don’t know the handprint that guides the return of the soul?”

“I don’t know.”

“Then haven’t you been here before?” The expression on Lawyer An’s face suddenly became rich.

“Yes, I’ve been here before. The first time was when I was in Xu Le’s body, and the next few times were when I was dreaming.”

“What?!”

Lawyer An sucked in a breath of cold air and immediately said, “It’s not a dream. It’s just that my dream has some connection with Hell. It doesn’t count as my soul coming here. Thus when you wake up from the dream, your consciousness will also wake up.”

“No, no… now is not the time to talk about this… damn it… I thought Lin Ke taught you this before. It’s over, I was too careless.”

“Boss, if you don’t know how to guide the Hand Seal of the Resurrection, you won’t be able to accurately return to your physical body when you leave Hell. You’ll likely end up like the first time, drifting somewhere and becoming a wandering ghost!”

“…” Zhou Ze.

Not surprisingly that after evil spirits escaped, they would randomly choose a body to possess. There were even those who possessed mice because they didn’t have their original bodies waiting for them when they left Hell, nor did they have this hand seal. Therefore, they could only drift out. There would be very few choices as it was purely based on luck. If a ghost were to possess a person with high Yang Qi, they might even be hurt by the backlash.

“Boss, follow me as It’s very easy to learn. There’s also the chant. Just imbue a little murderous aura into the handprint and it will do.” Lawyer An immediately shouted.

“Huh…” Zhou Ze heaved a long sigh of relief.

He could still cram at the last minute, then he wouldn’t panic. Zhou Ze crossed his hands together, he was prepared to follow Lawyer An’s movements and learn.

“Watch carefully, boss.”

“Yes, hurry up.”

“Yes, watch my movements. First, like this… Biu!”

Time was up as Lawyer An’s already faint body disappeared, he had returned to life!

“…” Zhou Ze.