Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 509: The Underworld
Xia Shou nimbly hid behind the wall next to him and peeked at the situation on the street outside through the gap in the wall. At the same time, he unfolded the papers given to him by Huangfu Zuoren and read them again.

"I didn't lie to you. I collected all this information with great difficulty. Hundreds of people died in the funeral home before we deciphered the inscription on the Yama Hall. Oh, to be precise, we deciphered the readable part." Huangfu Zuoren's voice came from the mourning stick.

"Can the funeral home decipher dead characters?" Xia Shou frowned.

Before coming in, Li Luo showed him the comparison template of the Three-branch Dead Text No. 1 translated into Xixia language. According to Li Luo, even the Control Bureau would not dare to use psychics to decipher the mysterious document, because the content of the mysterious document might very likely drive the decipher crazy.

Those with special abilities who can decipher those words are extremely rare talents.

There is no reason why the funeral home can accomplish something that the control bureau can't.

As an evil faction without any basis and with a very low degree of organization, it is impossible for the Funeral Home to find such a large number of code-breaking talents.

"It's normal that you don't know. The secret method of the funeral home has been improved a long time ago. They have a mysterious method that can internalize the abnormality absorbed from the corpse and make it a part of themselves.

Although the corpse eater can only use the corpse's abilities for a short period of time, the advantage is that it can consume the abnormality of its own abilities to keep the abnormality of the corpse in itself. "Huangfu Zuoren explained.

Xia Shou frowned: "Can it be simpler?"

"To put it simply, it's like you eat a cake, and the shit you poop out is still the cake. It hasn't been digested at all, and even the shape hasn't changed much. It can still be eaten by the next person, and the next person will eat it and poop out the same thing. The supernatural power of a dead person can be used repeatedly many times.

They used this method, relying on hundreds of people using the same deciphering ability, to forcibly decipher the contents of the inscription at the cost of human lives."

"What does the inscription say?"

"It's a long, boring biography about how Yama created eighteen levels of hell to punish evildoers in the world, and how they live in the netherworld forever. It also includes the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Devil, the Black and White Impermanence, and various things that happened between the Judge and Yama.

Everyone in the funeral home knows the public content, which is actually of little help to the current extraordinary people, but the Control Bureau should be very interested in it. After all, it is first-hand historical material. It is very rare to confirm the authenticity of the secret history of the Tang Dynasty. "

"Go on." Xia Shou said softly, and the footsteps outside became clearer.

“The original text describes it in a mysterious way, but if we apply modern theories, it’s probably that Yan Luo ascended to heaven a long time ago, and he had some named people under his command. These named people had a dispute and several of them died.

The time of their death, calculated from the first fork, is the Tang Dynasty, the historical fork where our world is currently located, which is generally recognized by scholars.

Wei Zheng, Zhong Kui, and several others were successfully promoted to famous positions, but the process was not as ordinary as recorded in real historical records.

Have you heard of the legend of Zhong Kui?
According to the records in the literature, Zhong Kui was very talented when he was young. He went to Beijing to take the exam, but failed because of his ugly appearance. He was so angry that he hit his head and died on the steps of the palace. When the emperor heard about it, he gave him a red official robe for burial.

During the Tianbao period, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang suffered from spleen disease in Mount Li, Lintong. He could not be cured after a long period of treatment. One night, he dreamed of a man with a strange appearance. He caught a little devil, dug out its eyes and ate them. The man claimed that he was "Zhong Kui, who failed the palace examination". The emperor woke up from the dream and recovered immediately.

Therefore, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ordered Wu Daozi to paint the scene of Zhong Kui catching ghosts in the dream and hang it in the palace to ward off evil spirits.

However, what is recorded on the stele in the Yama Hall is not like this. The Zhong Kui described therein has many strange features in his appearance. The description in the stele is a compliment, but in human terms, he is actually the most deformed of deformities and does not look like a human being at all.

If we look at that biography from an objective standpoint, it seems that Zhong Kui used some strange ability to pull Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's consciousness into the extremely terrifying Root Sea in his dream, and threatened this mortal ruler in the Root Sea to arrange a promotion ceremony for himself.

All the subsequent titles and other things were necessary for the ceremony. Zhong Kui showed his abilities to Yama Luo and was named Judge of the Department of Punishment for Evil.

Except for Zhong Kui, the other judges, and the Black and White Impermanence, are all named, but the strange thing is that the number of names is a bit too much. This is indeed very strange, but the people in the funeral home don't have the energy to think about these details.

The most valuable information they obtained from the inscription was that they could pass through this hell that was no longer possessed and complete a certain ritual.

Yama Luo was promoted to acting as a substitute by relying on the Avici Hell, and the director of the funeral home should have the same plan now.

I don't know what he was thinking, but I guess he thought that if he could act as an agent, it should be easy to be a nominee." Huangfu Zuoren told everything he knew in great detail.

After listening to this long list, Xia Shou felt that Huangfu Zuoren's frankness was a little abnormal.

He had clearly sealed the other party with the Soul Binding Technique, but Huangfu Zuoren was very annoyed at the beginning, but afterwards he was very submissive and even his emotions were very calm.

Xia Shou sorted out the information Huangfu Zuoren had just told him in his mind again.

He guessed that the funeral home actually had obtained many more secrets from the stone tablet, but these were the only secrets disclosed to the lower-level members. Even what Huangfu Zuoren knew might not be true.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that there is indeed a stone tablet in the Yama Palace with ancient secret texts recorded on it.

Xia Shou took a deep breath to ease the tension in his heart.

[Self-Destruction] will take a long time to cool down, but this damn place is full of dangers. He has no choice whether to start a war or not. This is very different from the previous missions.

In addition, [Best Replica] and [Transformed into a Bone Forest] are only borrowed for 24 hours, which means that after the next cooldown of Seeking Death, these two abilities will be invalid.

These two borrowed abilities are the most cost-effective means of saving lives during the cooldown period.

If the body turns into a bone forest... it is completely rubbish if used alone, and it must be used in conjunction with an unmanned place to reach its peak.

But the risk of spreading leaks must be considered.

"Clap clap clap!"

While Xia Shou was still thinking about the cooling-off period tactics, the footsteps outside were already very clear. Xia Shou pressed his face against the cold wall, and through the gap, he saw a long strip of object coming quickly from the dark blue fog at the end of the street.

The ghost car that Huangfu Zuoren mentioned was approaching with the momentum of a mighty army, and at the front of the car was a person.

This figure resembles the centaur in the legend, but from the waist down it no longer has legs, but a flat torso.

Countless human torsos, connected one section after another, and on both sides of the torsos are not arms, but rows of thighs, one on each side of each torso.

Xia Shou just watched the rows of long legs running past him like centipedes. He also saw a long wooden box on the back of this ghost car, which seemed to contain something.

"Alice, get that person's vision." Xia Shou saw that in the ruins across the street, there was a timekeeper hiding at an angle that allowed him to perfectly see the things in the long box.

(End of this chapter)