Several consecutive mouthfuls of turbid river water poured into my mouth. I struggled in vain, and my hands and feet fluttered a few times, and then I felt my whole body tremble suddenly and hit the reef in the heart of the river.

There was no severe pain as I imagined, and I just knew nothing in a moment. However, at that moment, there seemed to be a miserable cry in my ears. Qian Chuanzi was shouting something at the top of my lungs, but I didn't hear anything clearly. "I don't know if this kick can help Qian Chuanzi escape from danger." This was the last thought in my heart.

When I woke up again, I found myself standing on an empty earth. The light in the sky was a little dim, very much like the time when the sky was not completely dark after the sun set. However, there was no afterglow of the setting sun, and there was not even a cloud. The whole sky was dim and foggy, and the scene was not visible.

‘Where is this place? Why am I here?’ I searched my memory hard, but my mind was empty and I couldn’t even remember who I was. I stood here for a moment, looking around stupidly. I didn’t even know how long I had been standing. It seemed that it was only a few minutes, and it seemed like it was a few days or years. At this time, I had completely lost the concept of time.

Gradually, the fog in front of me began to slowly gather together and became extremely thick, like a tall and large snow wall. Then a clear image appeared on the surface of the snow wall. First, a baby in a swaddled baby lying on a small crib, and there were also a young couple and an older middle-aged couple standing around.

"Look at how cute he is. As long as he eats, he won't cry or make a fuss." The young wife touched the baby's red face and said happily, "Dad, give him a name." The young husband turned his head and looked at the middle-aged man beside him, "I have already thought of the name. My grandson is called Zhou Zheng. I don't want him to be rich and powerful in the future. I just hope that he can be upright, upright in his heart, and upright in his actions. Of course, it would be better if he could be more upright in appearance." "Good son, have you heard grandpa's words? You have a name, Zhou Zheng, Zhou Zheng." The young wife called the baby several times.

‘Hey, the four people around the baby also have the decorations in the room. By the way, the name Zhou Zheng, why do you feel so familiar?’ I immediately widened my eyes and wanted to take a closer look, but the picture flashed quickly. The baby had already started to stagger and learn to walk. His two fat little hands were holding the wall and his short legs moved forward little by little, looking very careful, for fear of falling.

In a blink of an eye, the baby in the picture grew to five or six years old, completely without the care he was as a child. He went to the room, climbed trees, chased dogs, and chased chickens. There was no moment of quietness. From this time on, the baby was always surrounded by a short and fat little boy. At the beginning, the little boy was very brave and dared not do anything, but he couldn't resist the baby's inspiration, "You don't even dare to go up the roof, you are such a coward." "Money Shop, climbing trees is easy, I will teach you." Gradually, the little boy became bolder, and the two of them almost became the pollution of the entire alley. For this reason, they were beaten by many family members, but the more they beat them, they became more and more naughty, making the family members have no way to do anything.

The picture kept passing by my eyes. The first day of the baby went to school, the first time quit school, the first time to go online, the baby continued to grow up in this process, and then the day of the graduation ceremony appeared. At this time, I finally remembered who I was, and understood more clearly what the picture showed. It was the process of my growth since I was a child. Many things have been forgotten, but now they are clearly visible in front of me, making me feel very far away, but close to me. It seems that these things happened yesterday, and tears began to slide down my cheeks without realizing it.

The picture finally came to the graduation day. I immediately wiped away my tears, widened my eyes, and wanted to take a closer look at the situation at that time. However, from the moment the short stick appeared, the picture became blurred. The whole scene was like a thick layer of fog, almost nothing could be seen. I don’t know why this situation happened. Could it be because the things I saw during that time should not have appeared in my life, or was there some power controlling the picture and didn’t want me to see the truth of the matter? I don’t know.

After a while, the picture became clear again. At this time, Qian Chuanzi and I had walked out of the forest full of ghosts. As the picture flashed quickly, I finally saw the scene I wanted to know the most. After I kicked out that kick, my head hit the reef heavily, and then my whole body. The bright red blood instantly dyed a large area of ​​the river around the reef red, while Qian Chuanzi successfully avoided it with the wood in his arms and drifted forward along the river next to the reef, "Brother! Good luck! All my buddies can do," I said silently in my heart.

The screenplay stopped abruptly, and the thick fog began to dissipate. The scene in front of me quickly changed exactly the same as the surroundings. Although I recovered my memory at this time, I still don’t know where this place is, and how I came from. ‘I heard from the old man that I will see my life after death. Am I dead now? Is this the legendary underworld?” I looked around in confusion, but it didn’t feel like it no matter how I looked. The legendary underworld didn’t seem to be like this. Where is the promised black and white impermanence, cow head and horse noodles? Where is the Mengpo soup? What does it taste like? If you don’t have money, I can drink a few more bowls.

I didn't have any fear in my heart, but just looked at the empty scene around me carefully, and then walked forward involuntarily. Although I can't tell the difference between the east, west, south, and north, I felt like I should go in this direction.

After walking a few steps, the fog around began to gradually become thinner and eventually disappeared completely. Although it was still the dim sky, the vision became clear. You could vaguely see some figures appearing not far away. However, these figures were almost transparent, and they could only barely see the shape of a human, but they could not see clearly. Even men or women could not tell whether they were men or women.

I counted and found that there were about seven or eight. There seemed to be more people in the distance, but the distance was too far and could not be seen clearly. Everyone was moving in the same direction like me. Everyone was separated by a distance, and no one spoke. At most, they just looked around like me curiously, and then lowered their heads and walked their own way silently. Originally, I wanted to ask someone for a few questions, hoping to relieve the confusion in my heart, but seeing that everyone was like this, I had to give up the idea of ​​chatting and walked forward silently with everyone.

Not long after I walked, I suddenly saw many transparent figures standing in the distance, as if watching something, but they were still at a certain distance. I immediately accelerated my pace and walked over, then found a place with fewer figures and walked to the innermost part of the crowd. Only then did I see clearly that there was a large open space in front of me, and then I went over a little. There was a platform more than one meter high. There were also some big red characters on the left and right sides of the platform, and there was a couplet out of thin air. When I looked carefully, I found it a couplet. This made me feel a little magical. I couldn't help but recite it. The first couplet was: You will always be in the Yang world. The second couplet was: Who has been let go of the underworld since ancient times? Horizontal draft: You are here too.

After seeing this couplet, I finally confirmed that this place is indeed the underworld, and I am really dead.

It turned out that the world after death was like this. I was very surprised and looked at the table in front of me curiously. So I saw a set of ancient tables and chairs, with brushes and inkstones on the table, and a large and thick book. This book is almost as big as a newspaper, thicker than the Xinhua Dictionary, and almost occupied half of the table. On the chair was a man wearing ancient official uniform, looking at the direction of the crowd with majestic face. Except for his pale face, he looked no different from normal people, because he sat in a high place and looked down on all living beings.

There were eight people standing on the left and right sides of the platform. Each of them was wearing the costumes of ancient yamen runners, but they did not hold the stick to hit people. Instead, they each held an oversized dog. The dog was almost as big as a donkey, and its whole body was black, even its tongue and teeth were no exception. The black fangs and a black tongue made it feel terrible at a glance.

I couldn't help but take two steps back, but a figure not far from me walked out of the crowd and walked towards the platform ahead. As he continued to move forward, his transparent figure began to gradually become clear.

The man walked to the front of the platform and stopped. At this time, a magical scene happened. The big notebook placed on the table actually started to flip through it. After turning on a few pages, he stopped automatically. However, the figure was very nervous and did not notice this scene. After walking over, he knelt directly on the ground.

At this time, the figure looked very clear, and it felt no different from that of ordinary people. It was just a bit miserable. The clothes on his body were all dyed red by blood. The worst thing was his head, and the left half of his head was actually sunken, like a deflated table tennis ball.

After seeing this person's appearance, I subconsciously touched the back of my head, and then I found that there was a hole there, enough to stuff a walnut into it. The hole should be brain matter, but I didn't dare to put my hand in it.

(End of this chapter)
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