The residents looked at each other and shook their heads: “This is the underworld. We are ghosts.”
Xu Ying and his son were startled, but the ghosts were not evil-minded. An old man said: “The two realms of Yin and Yang are connected, and the boundary between life and death is blurred. Most of you entered this place through the cracks between the Yin and Yang worlds. Just return the way you came.”
Xu Jin thanked him and turned back the way he came. At this time, a voice laughed and said, “You are Xu Ying!”
Xu Ying turned around and saw a ghost and god walking towards him. The ghost and god was tall, with a horse’s face and a human body. The smell of incense was wrapped around his body, and streaks of fire came out of his nostrils. He lowered his head and looked Xu Ying up and down, and suddenly laughed and said, “Sure enough, it’s you. ! Lingling’s snake catcher promises!”
When the ghosts just saw this, they were so frightened that they fell to their knees and shouted, “Master.”
Xu Ying raised his head and said, “I am Xu Ying, but I am not a snake catcher in Lingling. I am a fisherman in Wuling. Do you recognize me?”
The horse-faced ghost god grabbed a ghost, threw it into his mouth to taste, and said with a smile: “You violated the laws of heaven and killed the Yin Court official. The Yin Court ordered that there will be a heavy reward for catching you. Your portrait has long been spread throughout China. How can I not recognize you in the hands of ghosts and gods everywhere?”
Xu Jin hurriedly stepped forward and said with an apologetic smile: “Master God admitted the wrong person. I picked up Ah Ying while fishing seven years ago. I have never even left Wuling, so how could I go to Lingling?”
The horse-faced ghost-god had a stern look in his eyes and said, “He rebelled and killed many gods. Do you think that by hiding from Lingling to Wuling, it can be treated as if nothing happened?”
Just a trace of his breath leaked out, which made Xu Jin feel frightened, his heart was pounding, his lips were dry, and his mouth was dry. He protected Xu Ying and backed away, and said with an apologetic smile: “Master God really recognized the wrong person.”
The horse-faced ghost raised his hand and grabbed him, and sneered: “Noisy! The person I want to arrest is not you, but you have repeatedly stopped me. Do you think I don’t dare to eat people?”
Xu Jin struggled endlessly, but couldn’t break free. His face turned red when he was pinched, and the air in his chest was squeezed out. He hissed: “A Ying, please leave quickly.”
His eyes bulged and he was speechless.
The horse-faced god opened his big mouth and took Xu Jin into his mouth, saying: “I occasionally come out of the underworld and eat one or two meals of blood. You make me greedy. The soul of licking a calf is the sweetest thing.”
Suddenly, a loud elephant cry came, and the horse-faced god suddenly felt a
