Chapter 38 Chapter 37 Another Time in Hell

Langma has been hiding in the secret room under the little spirit's bed.Xiao Ling provided him with quilts, blankets, and pillows. He found that Xiao Ling's room was quite safe, and no ghosts broke in. Now, he has lost the concept of time, and can only regard the three meals a day as the day in the human world, and the night when Xiaoling is sleeping. He didn't know where Xiao Ling went to eat, but she secretly brought back some food for Langma every time to fill him up.The food was weird, never soup, more snacks and fruits, all with red dots on them, more like offerings. During the "daytime", only Xiao Ling was alone, and Langma climbed out of the secret room to chat with her.In fact, it's not really a chat, it's basically Langma asking Xiaoling about the situation in this underground world.Although Xiao Ling has said a lot to Langma, he is still a blind man and an elephant, and he can't even determine the most basic question-is this a purgatory on earth or a hell in the underworld?

Xiao Ling grew up here and knew nothing about the world, just like a child in the world does not know about the underworld. Therefore, the information she provided was limited.In addition, Xiaoling's language is the language of this underground world, and on key issues, the two can hardly communicate.For example, Xiaoling doesn't know the sun, the moon, the stars, China, America, and Japan.In her concept, the world is this dark place, and the human world, like heaven, is a distant legend; for example, "Bao Qingtian" is obviously a woman, but Xiao Ling calls her "Daddy"; for example, she calls herself Ghost, Langma doesn't know if this underground world has secretly changed the concept of "human" and "ghost", or if she is really a ghost.

Our understanding of ghosts is limited to legends. We don’t know whether they are panting or not, whether they have a heartbeat, whether they eat or sleep, whether they change shape, whether they attach to a human body, whether they have green faces, fangs and big mouths. Not jumping upright like a sparrow... because no one has ever seen a ghost, and when he sees a ghost, he becomes a ghost. Langma is not sure whether Xiaoling is a human or a ghost, so he cannot be sure whether he is a human or a ghost.He guessed that he really turned into ashes in the human world, and now he has become what humans call ghosts.

Later, every time Langma sat with the pale little spirit, she no longer knew what to ask. At "evening", the woman called "Bao Qingtian" appeared, and she talked and wrote with Xiaoling.At this time Langma was most nervous, he was only a few steps away from this woman, and could even hear her breathing.He remained motionless in the secret room, not daring to cough, not scratching an itch, not sneezing, not panting loudly... The words and phrases that "Bao Qingtian" taught Xiao Ling sounded creepy: skinning, beheading, car splitting, five punishments, Ling Chi, hanging the head, cooking, castration, cutting, poisoning, sawing, breaking the spine, Filling with lead, grooming, killing with sticks, female torture, drunken bones...

Fortunately, when it was time to sleep, the woman would go back to her own room.Every time she left, Langma stopped suddenly like a car running at full speed, and her body fell apart into a pile of parts.He didn't want to move, he just wanted to sleep. On this "morning", Langma crawled out of the secret room and found Xiao Ling's expression was a little depressed, so she asked her: "Xiao Ling, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Ling took out the sunshine jar from under the pillow, and was so wronged that he was about to cry: "It's broken..." Langma took it over, flicked the switch, and it really didn't light up.This is the last thing Langma brought from the world, the last ray of sunshine, the energy has been exhausted.Langma's heart was suddenly overwhelmed by the boundless darkness, infinitely sad.

He said: "It's not broken, it's just that the sunlight is used up, put it away! When, if we can go to the world, we can fill it with sunshine." Hope lit up in Xiao Ling's eyes: "Really?" Langma said: "Really." He knelt down, took Xiaoling's hand, and asked: "You have been living here, have you ever heard of a ghost who has been to the world?" Xiao Ling said: "Yes, they go to catch the bad guys. Dad said, 99% of the people will come here." Langma was startled: "Where did they go to the world?" Xiao Ling thought for a while and said, "That place is called Huanyang Cave. I don't know where it is. Dad never lets me go."

Langma suddenly said, "Can I go out for a walk?" Xiao Ling said, "What are you going to do?" Langma said: "I want to find the Huanyang Cave. If I find it, I can bring the sunshine back to you." Xiao Ling said: "You can't go out, they will catch you, then I can't save you." Langma wanted to say something, but footsteps came from outside the door, and she knew who she was. Xiao Ling pushed him and whispered, "Get down!" Langma hurriedly climbed into the secret room under the bed, Xiaoling blocked the wooden planks, and the surroundings were completely dark.

That "Bao Qingtian" walked in and stopped in front of the bed, but didn't speak. Xiao Ling seemed to be scared, and asked, "Dad, what's the matter?" The woman said in a low voice: "Recently, a person who was just captured disappeared, do you know where he is?" Xiao Ling said tremblingly, "I don't know." The woman said: "Since he has gone to hell, it is impossible for him to escape back to the world, but why did he disappear? He will be punished!" Xiao Ling was about to cry: "Father, I really don't know..." The woman suddenly said: "Dad has always been unselfish, if you lie, I will throw you into hell, do you believe it?"

Xiao Ling cried out with a "wow". Langma was so nervous that he was about to explode. Only then did he realize that Xiaoling was a child after all. Whether it was the temptation of a piece of candy or the threat of a knife, she might give herself away, let alone facing such a vicious person. woman! The woman didn't ask any more questions, and started to walk slowly in Xiaoling's room. Langma clearly heard her two feet walking past the bed... Suddenly, the woman seemed to pick up something from the bed, and Langma suddenly thought that it must be the sun jar!The woman squatted in front of Xiao Ling, was silent for a while, and finally said: "Xiao Ling, tell me, who gave you this thing?"