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Chapter 1009: Fire Repellent Bead

Although Jiu Ye said this, he still paced back and forth with a gloomy face, constantly thinking about how to help Song Jiang and Gu Hao successfully break into the Hell of Infernal Affairs... In fact, the biggest difficulty is not how to send them in, but to ensure that they do not die after entering, otherwise everything done before will be in vain.

After thinking it over, Master Jiu turned around and rummaged through the Huanghuali cabinet behind him, then took out a box with ancient patterns and handed it to Gu Hao, saying, "Here are two fire-proof beads, made from the inner elixirs of a pair of fire rats. Wearing them on your body can ward off fire..."

Gu Hao took the wooden box and opened it. He saw two shiny black stones, one large and one small, inside. So he asked curiously, "Why one large and one small?"

Jiu Ye seemed to have never opened this thing before, so he walked over to take a look, and then said unhappily, "It's a pair, of course, one male and one female! The big one is the male fire rat, and the small one is the female fire rat."

But it was clear that Gu Hao was not concerned about this. "The fire-repelling beads come in different sizes. Does that mean the duration of fire-repelling also comes in different lengths?!"

Jiu Ye shook his head and said, "You are so cunning and sly... You really have both! That's true, but I don't know how long or short it is. This thing is actually disposable, it will be useless after use, so I have been keeping it carefully, just to use it at a critical moment, but in the end you two got it for free."

Song Jiang realized how valuable this thing was, so he quickly thanked him and said, "Thank you so much, Master Jiu!"

Before he could finish his words, Jiu Ye sighed and said, "Don't thank me so early... I haven't used this thing before, so no one can tell its true effectiveness. What if it can only ward off fire for a short period of time? By then, you guys will have already gone in, and no matter how capable I am from outside, I will be powerless to stop you, do you understand?"

After hearing this, Song Jiang nodded and said, "Don't worry, Master Jiu, we are already very grateful that you can help us this far."

As a result, Jiu Ye glared at Gu Hao first, and then said to Song Jiang, "Just express your gratitude on your own behalf. He will definitely not be grateful. After all, he is here to collect a debt this time..."

Song Jiang saw that Gu Hao and this Jiu Ye must have a close relationship, but what exactly happened between the two was another story. Then the two of them put the fire-proof beads on their wrists respectively, and Song Jiang gave the big one to Gu Hao, not for anything else, but because he knew that Gu Hao would be the real force after entering, so the big one must be given to Gu Hao.

Gu Hao did not refuse, but at the same time he knew in his heart that once he and Song Jiang went in, he would definitely die, and he could die, but Song Jiang must live! Because Gu Hao was the only living person in the world besides Song Jiang who knew the whole truth... So he knew very well in his heart that Song Jiang must not die, and he must not even have a scratch on his skin, otherwise all his previous efforts would be in vain.

After preparing everything, Gu Hao also asked Jiu Ye for a lot of yellow paper money that had been blessed in the underworld and brought it with him. When Song Jiang saw it, he asked in confusion, "Can paper money work even for the most evil ghosts in hell?"

Gu Hao and Jiu Ye looked at each other after hearing this, then both smiled and shook their heads. Song Jiang knew that he must have asked a particularly stupid question, so he muttered awkwardly, "I have never died before... No, even if I have died before, I don't remember anything before I died. What's so funny about this?"

After listening to this, Jiu Ye nodded and said, "There is some truth in what he said..." Then he patiently told him that these yellow papers that had been blessed in the underworld might be useless in the hands of others, but in the hands of Gu Hao, they could become anything he had seen, such as weapons, means of transportation, etc.

When Song Jiang heard this, he immediately thought of the paper boat they had taken when they crossed the Wangchuan River before, and the tracking paper crane that always worked, so he suddenly realized, "You want to use these things as weapons to defend yourself?!" Gu Hao sighed and said, "Otherwise, are you and I going to break in with bare hands? Then we will die without knowing how we died."

Time was running out, so Jiu Ye led the two out of the village and came to a crack near the Infernal Hell, saying that they could enter the Infernal Hell by passing through it...

When Song Jiang heard this, he asked curiously, "The construction quality of this hell is not good. There was a crack in Queergou before, and there is another crack here?"

Jiu Ye also shook his head after hearing this and said, "This is indeed a big problem... No one knows the specific reason, especially since several small cracks like this have appeared in the past one or two hundred years. Logically speaking, the perimeter of the Infernal Hell should be impregnable, not to mention the monsters inside, not even a wisp of wind should leak out. But you should have heard before you came that our village is often harassed by monsters running out of it because it is close to the village, and no honest ghosts dare to come here."

After hearing this, Gu Hao said thoughtfully, "This situation may... be related to that huge rock."

His words made Song Jiang and Jiu Ye's faces change. Unexpectedly, at this moment, bursts of howling suddenly came from the cracks. It sounded extremely creepy, and Song Jiang instantly got goose bumps... That sound was no longer something that a mortal or an ordinary ghost could make.

"What...is this sound!?" Song Jiang asked nervously.

Jiu Ye pointed at the gap and said, "Do you know why ordinary ghosts dare not even approach this gap? It's because they can't stand the sound coming from here... In fact, no one knows what mouth this sound comes from, but it conveys a kind of fear from the deepest part of the heart. What do you think? It's not too late to back down now."

When Song Jiang heard this, he smiled bitterly and said, "I have no room for retreat... I have to go in no matter how scared I am."

Seeing Song Jiang's resolute attitude, Jiu Ye suddenly took out a smaller fire-proof bead and tied it to his hand, then said to the two of them, "Forget it... I'll go in with you."

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When Gu Hao saw it, he said in surprise, "Didn't you say that the Fire Repellent Beads are extremely precious and there are only a pair!?"

Jiu Ye stiffened his neck and said, "Can't a male and a female give birth to a cub?"

Gu Hao shook his head helplessly after hearing this and said, "What a sin... You killed the entire family of three?!"

"How could I have killed them? I took the inner elixirs of their family of three. They were all dead before I took them, okay? So what? Don't act so chaste with me. Without the inner elixirs of this family, can you enter the hell?" Master Jiu said unhappily.