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Chapter 307: A Different Kind of Ghost Messenger Enters the Underworld
Inside Fengdu City.

After a fierce battle between Lu Yue and the others, some died and some escaped. He also gained a lot, obtaining hundreds of strands of source energy. However, he was unable to catch up with those aliens who took advantage of the chaos to escape.

The Shang warriors were limited by the summoning range of the bronze axe and were unable to pursue.

Just as I was feeling regretful, a piece of yellow paper for commemorating the dead came floating in.

The signature is Lu Yueshou.

Who is burning paper for himself? ! ! !
Lu Yue picked up the yellow paper and found that it was burned by Doctor Zhang. The letter revealed doubts about the great changes in the underworld and asked Lu Yue whether it was related to him.

Lu Yue was a little puzzled why Dr. Zhang would be the first to suspect him.

However, Doctor Zhang is really good at judging people, and this matter is indeed related to him.

Then he wrote down the whole story on yellow paper and burned it for Doctor Zhang.

Because we are all in the underworld, burning paper can convey information quickly.

It's almost like making a phone call.

Soon he learned something. Those escaped aliens were being besieged by the authorities. All of this was actually a careful layout of the Demon Suppression Bureau, which intended to use this crisis to eliminate the aliens. Various forces were already on high alert and surrounded the land temples in various cities. After closing the gates, they would launch a carpet search and cleanup.

After chatting for a while, Lu Yue had to end the call because Doctor Zhang and the other doctor were busy. Finally, Taoist Fang asked about the incoming call.

Indicates that the phone call can monitor a person's whereabouts.

In response, Lu Yue replied that he had already discovered it and put it in a body bag in advance.

After finishing the trivial matters, Lu Yue continued to explore Fengdu City. There were many strange places like the Sansheng Stone. According to the square-faced ghost, when darkness came, some buildings in the city were polluted.

That’s all I wanted to say.

However, after walking around for most of the day, Lu Yue did not find the legendary underworld.

But Lu Yue did not give up and continued searching. Along the way, the ancient city was devastated by the previous war and there were wounded everywhere. While walking, he keenly noticed something strange - the patrolling ghosts were gone.

The ghost catcher of the underworld and the alien creatures are mortal enemies.

Lu Yue frowned slightly, then quickened his pace and returned to the city gate.

I also discovered that the ghost patrolling outside was gone.

When aliens invaded Fengdu City, why didn't the ghost officials react?
No, there is one more person.

Lu Yue saw a ghost standing at the city gate.

He learned some things from others.

……

Time passed by minute by minute.

As night fell, Fengdu City was shrouded in darkness again.

Lu Yue stood in front of the square-faced ghost messenger's door, his brows furrowed, deep in thought and silent.

It wasn't until a voice came from behind that pulled him out of his thoughts.

"Are you OK?"

He is a square-faced ghost.

Lu Yue shook his head indifferently, entered the house with the other party, and then asked the ghost if he knew what had happened in Fengdu City before. The square-faced ghost was silent for a moment, and asked Lu Yue to forgive him for not being able to help him in time due to the chaos.

"It's okay. I just caught some strange creatures and learned some things from them. The reason they appeared in Fengdu City was because they received orders from the underworld. The underworld will descend tonight..."

"So fast?"

A hint of hesitation flashed across the eyes of the square-faced ghost, but he quickly concealed it.

He turned around and prepared to close the door.

"Thank you for telling me this. I need to prepare..."

"You're welcome. By the way... I just found a way. There is a special smell on the aliens, which is deep in the bone marrow. Maybe it will be useful for you to identify them..."

The square-faced ghost who had just closed the door turned around and asked, "What's that smell?"

boom!
Lu Yue's expression was calm. He thrust his fist directly through the chest of the square-faced ghost and then slowly pulled it out. The square-faced ghost opened his mouth wide, seeming to be wondering why Lu Yue did this, but he eventually fell to the ground powerlessly.

"A smell of dead rats hiding in the sewers."

However, what surprised Lu Yue was that the ghost messenger died, but the reminder sound of the source energy arriving had not sounded yet. He knew very well that those with source energy were not necessarily aliens, and those without source energy were definitely not aliens. However, this rule was broken at this moment.

Just when Lu Yue was wondering what caused all this, footsteps were heard outside the door, and the square-faced ghost came out again.

With a cold expression, he asked Lu Yue why he killed the man.

These ghost messengers who have lived for thousands of years are indeed immortal.

Could it be that this is the reason why there is no source energy in the body?

Lu Yue seemed to understand something.

"I'm curious. As an alien, why do you lack something in your body compared to other aliens?"

Lu Yue went straight to the point and revealed the other party's identity.

The square-faced ghost frowned and pretended to be confused.

"I have been suspicious of you since the first night I entered Fengdu City. You are immortal... You have been here for thousands of years. I don't believe that you can't find a way to distinguish the aliens. As an official at the time, you did not tell other extraordinary people about the danger here."

"Your explanation was that you were worried about being taken advantage of by the aliens, but you chose me alone."

"Am I special compared to others?"

"I am indeed special. You approached me for a purpose from the beginning. Last night, your eyes were fixed on my medicine box. Although I don't know what means you used, I think your target should be the Fortune Leaf inside."

Lu Yue stared at the square-faced ghost with a sharp gaze.

Everything he said just now was just speculation. What really exposed these ghost officials was what happened today. All extraordinary people who entered Fengdu City must drink the love potion and undergo strict interrogation, but he just went outside the city and found no traces. If those aliens called by the underworld broke in by force, they should have left traces of battle, but there were none of these.

So there is only one possibility.

There is an insider!!!
Those aliens summoned by the underworld were allowed in by others.

It's obvious...the traitors can only be those immortal ghost messengers.

When Lu Yue revealed the other party's suspicious features, the square-faced ghost admitted frankly: "Yes, I am what you call an alien. Those people from the underworld were let in by my colleagues."

"Those people outside are following the orders of the underworld to enter the city and kill someone. Without the secret assistance of my colleagues, they would not be able to enter the city at all, let alone complete the task assigned by the underworld..."

Lu Yue suddenly interrupted and said, "Killing that person will earn you the qualification to be a demigod. Are you so willing to give up this opportunity?"

"What? Demigod qualifications? I don't know."

The square-faced ghost showed a look of astonishment.

Lu Yue narrowed his eyes and found that the other party was not acting, but really didn't know. Logically speaking, all aliens have his image in their minds.

But from just now until now, he has been observing the other party, and the confusion shown by the other party is as if he has no idea that he is the one on the wanted list.

"It seems that there is indeed something missing in your body..."

"how do you know?!!!"

The square-faced ghost was horrified.

It was not surprising that Lu Yue knew this, because any alien that had source energy in its body and had recognized itself would receive such a message, but this alien disguised as a ghost did not receive it.

This can be confirmed by the fact that he had no source of energy when he killed the opponent just now.

Immediately, the square-faced ghost in front of him spoke again.

His voice was hoarse and his thoughts went back to the past.

"All of this is thanks to the Suppression of the Underworld. They made us lose our identities in the Underworld and we can never return to the Underworld. Not only that, when the Book of Life and Death comes out that day, we will be immortal and trapped in the Book of Life and Death."

Book of Life and Death!!!
Lu Yue keenly captured this key information.

This is a very mysterious thing in the legend. It is said that it records the names of all people and animals in the world, including the lifespan of each person and other creatures, and is used to control life and death.

All the clues have been connected at this moment.

He understood why these ghost messengers were immortal.

The other party is just an alien, how can he become a ghost messenger?
"You suspect that I'm a fake ghost messenger. It's normal for you to have such suspicion, but I am indeed a ghost messenger appointed by the Underworld... Back then, we recognized ourselves and found our identities as underworld officials. We have been fighting against the Underworld to prepare for its arrival."

"During a war, I and a group of people unfortunately fell into the hands of the Yin-Zhensi. They built a hell and set up a station in the underworld and imprisoned us here, saying that they wanted us to return to the right path and change us."

"Just as Hades changes us."

"But they don't even know that we are from the underworld."

"We have been undercover since the beginning..." "You have no idea of ​​the suffering we have gone through..."

"Those people in the underworld built eighteen levels of hell and sent us there according to the things we did. They let us confess our mistakes and repent in the endless punishment. They said it was for our own good and they wanted to guide us to be good and become ourselves again."

"I still remember the torture I endured in the blood pool hell. The blood continued to corrode my soul and body. I endured it for several months..."

"I never gave up and kept enduring, hoping that the underworld would come one day and rescue us. But then I found that after spending several months in the blood pool hell, I could no longer hear the voice of the underworld."

"My mark of the underworld has been destroyed. I have become the same as you. I am no longer the alien you mentioned. After I die, I can no longer return to the underworld..."

"........."

"So you hold a grudge against me and are the traitor who opened the door?"

Lu Yue looked at the square-faced ghost in front of him who was unusually calm.

It's like the other person is telling a story that has nothing to do with him or her.

"You think we want to do this?!!!"

"After we lost the mark of the underworld, the people in the underworld would not recognize us. They would hunt us down as long as we dared to show up... Later, those of us who were the first group to be transformed had no choice but to become ghost messengers and could not leave Fengdu City for the rest of our lives."

"But the killings we have committed have also made other ghost officials look down on us."

"Once an alien, always an alien."

"Why?!!!"

"Why did you cure me?!"

"It's been thousands of years... It's been thousands of years. If you couldn't accept the reformed me, why didn't you kill me then?"

The square-faced ghost lowered his head and revealed a secret that had been buried for thousands of years.

An undercover agent who has always believed in the underworld, was lurking in the world of the living to carry out a mission, but suddenly found that all the information that could prove his identity had disappeared. At this time, can he still be considered an undercover agent? ! ! !
There is no evidence to identify him.

Therefore, the people of the underworld want to kill them.

Their past crimes also made other local extraordinary people despise them. Forgiveness is easy to say but difficult to do. If it were Lu Yue, if an alien killed his relatives, even if he was cured and reformed afterwards, he was not a saint and would not be able to let it go.

The prejudice in people's minds is like a huge mountain, difficult to shake.

Since they are aliens for life, they cannot be accepted by other extraordinary people. So they simply go back to their old ways and seek refuge in the underworld again in exchange for a new identity. Hence, the move of opening the door to welcome aliens in came into being.

"Why didn't you get involved?"

Lu Yue suddenly asked.

The square-faced ghost who was lowering his head and recalling the unbearable past froze.

"All the ghosts patrolling Fengdu City have disappeared. Only you are standing on the city wall. I heard from other people that when the aliens attacked Fengdu City, you were the only one guarding the gate to stop them from invading..."

"He was killed by those aliens, and resurrected again and again, always guarding the city gate..."

"It has been thousands of years. The Yinsi has disappeared. No one can restrain you anymore. You should know this. And you alone cannot stop the aliens from entering the city. Why don't you return to the Yinsi with other ghost officials..."

Just before, the ghost figure that Lu Yue discovered was exactly the other person.

When he broke out into a battle with those aliens and became the focus, almost no one knew that there was such an unknown ghost messenger who was guarding the gate alone.

He did not participate in the plan to open the city and surrender it.

At this moment, the square-faced ghost bit his lips, clenched his fists, and looked conflicted.

He didn't know whether he was a member of the underworld or a ghost messenger who suppressed the underworld.

His soul came from the underworld.

It can be said that he was a person from the underworld in his previous life.

But that was something that happened in his previous life after all. After his source energy was washed away, he seemed to be reborn, as if he had broken free from some kind of restraints.

The events of his previous life were more like a memory to him.

"Before darkness fell, the order I received was to patrol Fengdu City."

Finally, the square-faced ghost uttered these words in a deep voice.

Perhaps it started from the moment he went to hell and had the mark of the underworld, which is the source of energy, cleared, at that moment he also wanted to be his former self and protect this land.

Regardless of whether he is recognized or not, he does want to atone for what he has done.

Soon, Lu Yue also understood why the square-faced ghost treated him differently. The reason was the same as he guessed, which was because of the Fude Leaf in his hand.

The holder of the Fude Leaf can be exempted from judgment in the underworld.

It is the only key that can rewrite their destiny.

The reason why the other party did not take action on the first night was that he was hesitating whether he should steal Lu Yue's Fude Leaves. Unexpectedly, such a thing happened the next day.

"What kind of existence is the underworld?"

The square-faced ghost said: "If the world is hell, then that place is heaven. It is the destination of everything and a very beautiful place..."

Lu Yue frowned and asked, "How beautiful is it?"

The square-faced ghost frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Maybe I have experienced the bloody hell. I can't remember it anymore, but it was beautiful there..."

Can’t remember?
How could I not remember the soul’s hometown?

Just as Lu Yue was about to investigate further, there was another knock on the door.

"Hello...Excuse me, do you know...the way home?"

It was those strange creatures that the square-faced ghost had mentioned before who were pretending to knock on the door.

Lu Yue looked at the square-faced ghost, and after the latter expressed his feelings that had been pent up for thousands of years, he slowly shook his head in response to Lu Yue's gaze.

"Those outside the door are not aliens, they are also ghost messengers."

From the square-faced ghost messenger, Lu Yue learned about the situation outside the door.

Thousands of years ago, after the darkness came, the gods disappeared, leaving only some ghost officials stationed in Fengdu City. Among them were local ghost officials and some who had reformed, such as the square-faced ghost official.

At the beginning, many ghost officials insisted on patrolling and following the orders of the Underworld, but later the gods still did not return. As the first batch of test subjects of the Book of Life and Death, they could not leave Fengdu City. Day after day, some reformed ghost officials became shaken again after being freed from constraints.

Although they had lost their source energy, they were well aware of the horror of the underworld, and therefore knew that if the underworld came one day, they would not end up well, so they planned an action.

The city offering plan was implemented thousands of years ago.

Of course, those local ghost officials would naturally not agree. And because both sides were ghost officials and were the first batch of test subjects of the Book of Life and Death, they could not be killed either. So the alien ghost officials used a trick and spent a great deal of money to imprison those local ghost officials in the underworld and use them as hostages.

At the same time, let those local ghost messengers experience the pain of the eighteen levels of hell.

If the underworld really attacks, we can bring the hostages and surrender the city to show our loyalty.

This is the bargaining chip for those strange ghost officials to return to the embrace of the underworld.

The square-faced ghost tried his best to stop it, but he was outnumbered. If it weren't for the fact that they were a similar species in the past, he would probably have been imprisoned.

The suffering of the Eighteen Levels of Hell is beyond the endurance of ordinary people. It is specially set up for aliens to deprive them of their source energy. Even for aliens like them, the limit is only a few years.

But those local extraordinary people have endured it for thousands of years.

After such a long time, those local ghost messengers have long lost their minds, with only one obsession left in their minds... that is to go home.

At certain moments, the powerful obsession generated by these imprisoned local ghost messengers will break through the shackles of the eighteen levels of hell in the underworld and be transmitted to the doors of inhabited houses in Fengdu City, asking for the way home.

Just today, after those strange ghost messengers opened the city gates and surrendered the city, they sneaked into the underworld, intending to bring out those ghost messengers to report and gain acceptance into the underworld again.

Of course... those alien ghost officials had no idea that Lu Yue had already eliminated all the aliens that invaded Fengdu City, and all this was in vain.

"The underworld, the Book of Life and Death, and immortality..."

Lu Yue muttered to himself and looked towards the door again.

This time he opened the door.

There was no one outside the door, only the sound echoing.

"Hello...Excuse me, do you know...the way home?"

Those ghost messengers from the underworld are being imprisoned in the eighteen levels of hell in the underworld.

"I know the way home. Take me to the underworld and I will lead you home."

As soon as Lu Yue finished speaking, the scene of the street in front of him suddenly changed. Ripples appeared on the stone slabs under his feet, disappearing from time to time, and the surrounding buildings were reorganized and reshaped.

In a flash, a whole new path emerged.

That is the road leading to the core of Fengdu City, the legendary underworld.

(End of this chapter)