Chapter 99 Gates of Hell (ETL)
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[Banana: It’s a short chapter today yo~]
Chapter 99 Too miserable
The ghosts coming out of the ghost gate are all strange-looking and varied. Some are walking, some are floating, some are missing arms and legs, some have no nose, no eyes, long tongues, and all kinds of deaths. Some are not wearing clothes of this era, and there are even ghosts with a bald head and long braids1.
The ghosts walked out in a mighty procession, some ghosts came to the human world to have fun, and some had families and wanted to take this opportunity to go back home to visit.
Seeing so many ghosts, Xie Cheng subconsciously grabbed the whip in his hand, “There are too many ghosts. As expected, the ghost gate of the cemetery is not an ordinary gate, will we be able to guard it?”
“If we can’t guard it, just call for help,” Gu Ye continued to shout out while cracking melon seeds, “We are short of one person for Fighting Landlord, is there anyone coming? We are short of one person!”
Xie Cheng kicked Gu Ye angrily, “Stop shouting! Aren’t you embarrassed?!”
“What’s embarrassing about this? It doesn’t matter who we play with anyway.”
Hearing Gu Ye’s shouts, many ghosts really looked over. The look in their eyes when they looked at Gu Ye and Xie Cheng was more like they had seen a ghost than they (GY + XC) did. There are some old ghosts who would return to the human world to stroll in previous years, and they had also met masters guarding the gates to prevent the evil spirits from causing trouble in the human world. They had seen all kinds of masters, even those who were scared to tears after seeing them, but they had never seen anyone calling them to play Fighting Landlord together.
An old ghost in a Qing dynasty official robe came over curiously. Seeing the things Gu Ye and Xie Cheng put out, the ghost was eager to try. Xie Cheng speechlessly asked, “Do you even know how to play?”
The old ghost grinned, “We have everything in the underworld. Everyone has a Lamborghini. Who doesn’t know how to play Fighting Landlord?”
Hearing that, Gu Ye muttered a rant, “How inflated is your currency?”
Xie Cheng curiously asked, “Is there really an underworld? What does it look like?”
But Gu Ye swiftly kicked Xie Cheng to interrupt him, “The living do not ask about the afterlife when alive, don’t ask too much.”
Xie Cheng gave up immediately, “Then I won’t ask. Let’s play cards but let me remind you in advance, the loser will be flicked on the forehead.”
“No,” the old ghost said disdainfully, “It’s boring to flick the forehead, just play for money.”
Gu Ye waved his hand, “We don’t play with gamblers.”
The old ghost looked at Gu Ye and Xie Cheng with contempt, “Poor bastards!” and walked away with a flick of his sleeves.
The audacity made Gu Ye’s mouth twitch, “Ghosts are too brave now, aren’t they afraid that I will catch them?”
Xie Cheng also sighed, “In this world now, even ghosts are not afraid of masters.”
Gu Ye continued to shout out helplessly, “Fighting Landlord is short of one, are there any ghosts coming?”
At this moment, both Gu Ye and Xie Cheng sensed a trace of evil qi coming from the ghost gate. The two raised their eyebrows, and Xie Cheng stood up immediately, holding a whip and looking at the door. A tall and strong evil ghost with a purplish face ran out of the ghost gate. He was still wearing chains. It was obvious that he escaped when the ghost gate was wide open and all the normal ghosts ran out. The evil ghost had just taken half a step out of the ghost gate when a shoe sole hit him in the face. Xie Cheng kicked him back with a kick, “Go back!”
Gu Ye clapped from behind, “Awesome!”
Then, two more evil ghosts came out together. Xie Cheng slashed with his whip, and a cracking sound could be heard, “Don’t just watch! Give me a hand!”
Gu Ye smiled, “No, I just want to play Fighting Landlord.”
Xie Cheng laughed out angrily, “Don’t you feel like you deserve a beating?!”
There are really ghosts who don’t want to go home and want to play cards with Gu Ye so they follow Gu Ye to the place where they spread the tablecloth. After Xie Cheng kicked the two evil ghosts back, he ran back to their spot quickly and saw that Gu Ye was already surrounded by a bunch of ghosts.
The two of them picked a good-looking ghost and started playing. As soon as the three of them finished drawing the cards, they felt another evil qi. Xie Cheng wanted to curse, “Can’t y’all let people have fun?”
Gu Ye played the cards with a smile, “Ye Li, you go and guard for a while, and let Qing Yi take over with you later.”
Hearing that, Ye Li floated out of Gu Ye’s bag and stood lightly in the air. His small body stood straight, and he pulled the bow and arrow in his hand, his eyes coldly aimed at the ghost gate. As soon as the evil ghost showed his face, a sound of breaking through the air flew out, almost shooting the evil ghost’s eyes. The evil ghost was so scared that he shrank his head back and never dared to show his head again.
Xie Cheng watched the scene with envy and jealousy, “I want to raise one too.”
Gu Ye persuaded Xie Cheng, “Forget it, it’ll be good if you could even take care of yourself.”
The longer the ghost gate was open, the evil qi from the spirits that came out became heavier. No matter what kind of evil ghost came out, Ye Li would ‘persuade’ them to retreat with one arrow. If they didn’t retreat, he would shoot them directly in the forehead with the next arrow. Either go back or die, that’s how domineering kids are.
At about 5.00 am, dawn was about to break, no ghosts dared to come out of the ghost gate anymore. The ghosts who played cards with Gu Ye and the others also found a place to hide. The two yawned finished their melon seeds and drinks, collected the garbage on the ground, and prepared to rest.
Xie Cheng asked Gu Ye, “Where are you going? I’ll take you back first, and we’ll meet here again in the evening.”
Gu Ye spread his hands, “Why go back? Let’s just find a shaded place to sleep. It’s not certain that the ghost gate will be fine during the day, so it’s better to watch it.”
Fellow masters were worried about their colleagues guarding the ghost gate in the cemetery, so they came to see them after dawn. Unexpectedly, they saw Gu Ye and Xie Cheng resting on 2 hammocks on a tree not far away, just like a picnic, and it was quite comfortable.
The masters looked at Gu Ye with complicated eyes. No matter what, Gu Ye was always there to help. Anyone who said anything bad about Gu Ye must be crazy. This pampered young master stood guard with them voluntarily, and he didn’t have a bad temper. Who tarnished his reputation?
Seeing that both Xie Cheng and Gu Ye were fine, the few young men left. Gu Ye lay on the hammock, enjoying the cool air emitted from Ling Ling. He took out his mobile phone and called a runner to buy him 2 KFC family buckets. No matter where you are, you have to enjoy life.
The two of them ate for a while, played for a while, and slept for a while. They felt that they were enjoying life, but the people who came to visit the graves thought Gu Ye and Xie Cheng were sick and looked at them as if they were little fools. Finally, when it was almost dark, the ghost gate became lively again. Some ghosts came out and returned to the spot where they played cards yesterday.
Gu Ye saw from a distance and asked in confusion, “What are they doing?”
“Frck! How shameless! They are holding playing cards and trying to steal our territory!” Xie Cheng has good body balance so he stood directly on the hammock. Because he was standing high, he could see further. Jumping down from the hammock, Xie Cheng ran over and shouted, “That spot is mine!”
Gu Ye palmed his forehead with his hand, so childish!
An old man said dissatisfiedly, “What do you mean by your spot? This is my home, my son bought it for me.”
Xie Cheng took a look at the photo on the tombstone and ran back to Gu Ye aggrieved, “That land is indeed that old man’s.”
Gu Ye said casually, “Then don’t fight with others, isn’t it better to sit here and eat snacks? I asked the errand boy to bring popcorn and jelly, which one do you want?”
Xie Cheng took a bucket of popcorn and stared at the ghost gate while eating. At this moment, he heard Gu Ye say, “Did I not guard the gates for you? Did I not help you solve a big problem? Don’t you have to thank me? Don’t you have to bless me well in the future?”
The muttering made Xie Cheng turn his head and he saw that Gu Ye had a picture of the King of Hell on his phone, and Gu Ye was trying to be willful. Xie Cheng frowned, “We all worship Taishang Laojun, why do you worship the King of Hell?”
Gu Ye chewed the jelly and said with a smile, “If you have gods (belief) in your heart, everything can become gods. Gods up high in Heavens, it’s too tiring to look up. Why not accompany the King of Hell to guard Hell and judge thousands of evil ghosts? Regardless of whether they are yin or yang, isn’t it the same?”
Xie Cheng thought about these words carefully and felt that they made sense so he immediately gave Gu Ye a thumbs up.
The later it got, the heavier the yin energy in the ghost gate, and the more evil ghosts wanted to escape back to the human world. Ye Li and Qing Yi stood on the left and right of the door, staring at each ghost that passed by. They will attack right away when they see the evil ghosts, without Gu Ye and Xie Cheng having to do anything.
It was not until the second half of the night when the ghost gate was closed that the Gu Ye and Xie Cheng were completely relieved. Gu Ye took a taxi and went directly to Yu Ze’s place. He was so sleepy that he took a shower and fell asleep on the sofa.
Yu Ze carried Gu Ye to the bed. Looking at Gu Ye’s sleeping face, he felt distressed, but could not stop it. He loves Gu Ye, but how could he bear to break his wings (ask GY not to continue)?
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After this, Gu Ye did not let Yu Ze worry too much about it. He rested well at home for a few days, took out the study materials, and studied by himself. During this period, Xie Cheng asked about the male ghost. Gu Ye told him, “I am still nurturing the soul. The soul is too weak now. If we call him out to ask questions, he may disperse by himself before 2 sentences are said.”
Xie Cheng reminded Gu Ye, “After you nurtured the soul, don’t act alone, call me.”
Gu Ye smiled evilly and teased Xie Cheng, “Don’t worry, we ran into him because you are poisonous. You can’t escape this task.”
Xie Cheng scolded Gu Ye as a ‘Poisonous Beast’ before hanging up the phone in disgust.
Gu Ye’s mouth twitched. What is a Poisonous Beast? What species was that, he had never heard of it.
It was not until a few days before school started that Gu Ye finally nurtured the soul of that man. He made an appointment with Xie Cheng and went to Xie Cheng’s house in the evening to release the soul.
Before this, the soul was unstable and Gu Ye couldn’t see clearly. But now the facial features are clear, Gu Ye felt sympathy for the other party. It was a face that read a typical miserable life, and the man never once had a great day in his living life.
Xie Cheng couldn’t read faces, but he too thought that this person looked unlucky. The man is the type who looks at everyone with a bitter face. Xie Cheng asked, “Tell me, what’s your name, how old are you, and how did you die?”
When Xie Cheng asked this question, the man was shocked. He thought Xie Cheng was the legendary judge of the underworld, and was so scared that he almost listed down everything to his ancestors. “My name is Li Shan, I’m 35 years old this year, and I live in Lizi Village, Dafu Town, City A. My parents divorced when I was a child, and I grew up with my grandmother, who passed away a few years ago. I didn’t get the necessary injections right when I was a child, so I had problems with my legs and feet. I don’t have a wife, and I’m a bachelor.”
Gu Ye’s mouth twitched, “Say something useful, you must have died unjustly.”
Hearing Gu Ye’s words, Li Shan’s eyes turned red, “Frck his grandma! Mr. Judge, they are not human! Beasts! They are all beasts!”
“Judge…” Gu Ye was speechless, “Never mind, continue first.”
“A year ago, I came here to work with a childhood friend from our village and 3 people from the next village. We did casual labor work, the kind that gets paid on the same day. High-altitude work is dangerous work. Normally, you have to wear a safety belt around your waist, and there should be a layer of nets between each floor below so that even if someone falls, they will be stopped by the net and will not die.”
Speaking of this, Li Shan’s face was a little angry, “After I climbed up, I accidentally took a wrong step and fell but the rope on my body didn’t stop my fall. The chain was only as thick as a little finger!” Li Shan gestured to Gu Ye and Xie Cheng before continuing angrily, “Can this pull an adult? What’s more frcked up is that the nets below didn’t stop me! They were all shoddily made items and bought cheaply somewhere! I fell from the 20th floor to the first floor!”
Xie Cheng got angry when he heard this, “Isn’t this playing with the lives of migrant workers? It would be fine if nothing happened, but if one really fell, they would die without a doubt.”
Li Shan sneered, “The most hateful thing is that the work was stopped that day because of insufficient materials. There were only 5 of us on the entire construction site, plus the person who led us here. If this matter was known to the outside world, the units would definitely not be easy to sell. Apart from that, the property delivery period is approaching. If it is late, the real estate developer will have to pay compensation to each homeowner, and the builder must be held responsible. In order not to affect the construction period, in order to prevent the news of the death, from affecting the construction and sales of the building, and in order to prevent the news of cutting corners from being spread, they threw me into the cement and crushed me, and used it as material!”
Xie Cheng asked with an unpleasant face, “Where are your coworkers and childhood friend?”
Li Shan’s face darkened, “Those coworkers and childhood friend each received hush money of 200,000 yuan and already went back hometown. But I am a person with no relatives or friends. My parents don’t want me, and I am also a lame bachelor. Who would look for me?”
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