Chapter 372: Huangquan Road

Glancing at the woman who fainted again on the ground, I said directly to the other Death Guard: "Carry her on your back and follow me."

The Death Guard directly grabbed the woman like a little chicken, then gently put it on his back and carried her. Another Death Guard followed with two children in his arms. As for me, Call the eldest lady and walk forward together.

After my explanation, the eldest lady had a certain understanding of the environment of the underworld. She finally understood what I was talking about about the situation in the underworld. But relatively, she was still a little scared. After all, this was the famous underworld. To the Chinese, this place was a haunted house.

The location where we landed is actually not far from the Palace of Hell. The landing point of the Yama's Order can be adjusted to a limited extent during the process of crossing the two interfaces. Although it cannot allow me to teleport directly to the Palace of Hell, at least it will not be too far off.

After walking less than fifty meters, we walked out of the unknown grove where we landed before. On the road ahead, we could see a large number of ghosts swarming like migrating ants. Without exception, these ghosts have dull eyes, and they move forward mechanically following the footsteps of the ghosts in front of them. On their sides, outside the outside world, there are ghost guards standing at regular intervals. The distance between these ghosts is very large, and two ghosts can barely see each other. The reason why the intervals are so large is mainly because they don’t need to be too dense.

The ghosts who can report to the underworld are all good people. They have already started the process of reincarnation, so there is basically no need to be vigilant. In fact, this kind of ghost has no clear thoughts before crossing Naihe Bridge, and is in a trance like a dream. In this state, those ghosts just follow the ghosts in front of them mechanically, without even thinking of leaving the team. The reason why there are ghost guards standing nearby is not to prevent ghosts from escaping, but to protect these ghosts.

right. That's right, protection.

There is a saying in the world that "there is no peace on the road to hell." This sentence may originally be just a folk ideological form, but when the game was made, it referred to various folk legends and the like, so this sentence seems to have been transplanted into the game, and it is based on actual existence. reflected in the way.

The road in front of us connects the entrance to the underworld and the Palace of Hell, and this road is the legendary Huangquan Road. There are many ghosts walking this road. But they are all beings without much consciousness. They will remain in this state of confusion until they are awakened by the judge's pen before arriving at the Palace of Hell for trial. Although they will not cause any trouble in this state, their own behavioral abilities will be reduced to the lowest point. To put it bluntly, it means losing the stress response to the external environment.

There are woods on both sides of Huangquan Road, and the woods are not empty. In addition to those trees, there are many evil beasts in the woods. Almost all of these evil beasts are creatures that feed on soul energy, and ghosts are just a ball of soul energy. So for these evil beasts, these ghosts on the road to hell are their best food.

If a normal person were to find these evil beasts attacking, they would of course run away, but the ghosts here are all in a state of confusion. Even if the ghost in front of him is knocked down by an evil beast, the ghost following him will not think of turning around and running away immediately. Instead, he will stay in a daze for a while, and then find a random direction like a sleepwalker who is not awake. Keep swaying. Anyway, he was just walking aimlessly, with no intention of running away.

It is precisely because these ghosts are in this state. Therefore, if there is no supervision, those evil beasts will cause heavy casualties to these ghosts. Just one evil beast can cause thousands of ghosts to completely disappear. Moreover, the ghosts who were eaten were secondary. The real trouble is that once the team breaks up, the ghosts that only know how to wander forward with the ghost in front will start to scatter aimlessly. After that, the entire team will disperse, and the ghosts behind will follow the ghosts in front that wander away. Walk to the nearby woods, and then either be eaten by other evil beasts, or slowly absorb the yin energy of the underworld and grow stronger. Once their souls are strong enough to a certain extent, their souls will return to that state of clarity, and once their thoughts are clear, these ghosts will often have other thoughts. Some may even want to dominate the underworld and establish some kind of organization so as to refuse reincarnation.

In fact, this situation has actually happened before. When I was communicating and working with the other ten kings of hell, they told me these things as a joke. It is said that there was a guy who was a reckless hero during his lifetime, who occupied the mountain and became the king. After his death, he happened to be attacked by a large group of evil beasts on Huangquan Road. As a result, the ghosts were too busy and many ghosts escaped. The guy survived in the woods, and after regaining his intelligence, he began to gather the wandering souls around him to form a team. Of course, there is nothing strange about this. What is really funny is that after the guy gathered the team, he actually took the initiative to lead the team to attack Huangquan Road, and then dragged a bunch of ghosts back and waited for them to slowly recover their intelligence before absorbing them into his team. Strengthen the team.

In the first few times, the King of Hell didn't take this guy seriously and treated him completely as a joke, but in the end, this guy actually pulled up a team of millions of people.

In the human world, an army of several million people is simply too much, but in the underworld, this order of magnitude is really nothing. Once the Yin Qi is everywhere in the underworld, ghosts will naturally slowly become stronger in this environment. They do not need to practice or eat. Basically, there is no logistical pressure at all. Moreover, ghosts are different from living people. There is no such thing as old, weak, sick or disabled. In reality, if there are one million people in a city, the elderly, children, women, patients, and disabled people will account for a large proportion. If only one-third of the remaining men who can fight are considered a high proportion, . But the underworld is different. All ghosts here can fight, and their combat effectiveness has nothing to do with their appearance, but only has a certain relationship with the time of death.

There is no logistical pressure, and all the people can be soldiers. In addition, the ghosts in the underworld are accumulated continuously in the upper world, so the number of ghosts in the underworld is far beyond the population of the human world, and the number is terrifying to death. Millions are nothing here. Look at those necromancers, they can easily pull up hundreds or even thousands of skeleton soldiers. Why is it so easy? It is because the population resources of the underworld are almost the same as the sea water, so numerous that they can be considered unlimited.

Let’s talk about that reckless hero. After pulling up millions of ghosts, I felt that I was quite powerful. Then when my head got hot, this guy led people to attack the underworld, intending to snatch the King of Hell himself.

The final ending is of course very sad. When that guy rushed to the Palace of Hell with millions of dead souls, he met the ghost general guarding the gate. The ghost general didn't understand what was going on at first. When he saw so many ghosts suddenly coming, his first reaction was I asked the ghost servant around me if there was a war in the world, or a natural disaster, and why so many people died in one breath. As a result, the ghost opened the book of life and death and took a photo there. It was discovered that these were all "lost" wandering souls from before.

As soon as he heard that they were lost ghosts, the ghost general ran over to ask them to line up again to enter the pass and then go to the Hall of Hell to be judged. After all, many ghosts who had been lost before had indeed returned on their own. After all, ghosts are human beings. After regaining their intelligence, some ghosts thought that wandering around in the forest of the underworld is not a problem. Although they have to drink Meng Po soup in the underworld, they still need to accept the judgment of the king of hell. But some people feel that they have never done anything harmful to nature in their lives, and even being reborn is better than wandering in the desolate forest. Therefore, many people still choose to return to the Palace of Hell to accept trial and then reincarnate.

Because this kind of thing happened so often, the ghost general thought it was a large group of ghosts who suddenly regained their intelligence collectively, and then came back together to prepare to join the team again.

Of course. As soon as he got there, he ran into the large army of that reckless hero. Then he asked a question and the other side yelled arrogantly, telling him to surrender immediately. They wanted to capture the Palace of Hell and establish themselves as kings.

The ghost general was immediately stunned. It feels like you suddenly met a group of African refugees in China, and then they pointed at you and shouted, "We are going to occupy China and restore the imperial system. Surrender quickly and become my slaves."

Seeing the other party in a daze, the reckless hero finally thought that the other party was suppressed by his own bastard spirit, and then started to shout and kill him. The ghost general on the opposite side did not react until he was surrounded, but the ghosts who attacked him were even more surprised than him. Because they found themselves surrounding this ghost general and beating them with homemade weapons for a long time, but there was no response. It felt like they were hitting a tank with an inflated plastic hammer.

After being stunned for a long time, the ghost general realized that these wandering ghosts were actually playing for real, and then he put away his shock and started to get down to business.

Although he was surrounded by a group of wandering spirits, the ghost general snorted as if nothing was wrong, and then his body suddenly burst into flames with purple will-o'-the-wisps. Then the opponent took out the saber from his waist with one hand, took a step forward, and slashed with the sword. Sweeping, a blue blade of light flashed away, and a fan-shaped area with a radius of more than a hundred meters and an angle of almost thirty degrees appeared in front of him. All the wandering souls in this area were affected by this blow. It turned into blue-white light spots flying all over the sky.

The wandering rebels on the opposite side were immediately frightened. They had always thought that the ghosts were ghosts like them. At most, they were just better equipped and trained. However, now they suddenly realized a problem. Ghost missions seem to be the official establishment of the underworld, and the underworld is a subordinate organization of heaven. In other words, the ghost missions are descendants of gods, and even if they are not powerful, they are still ghosts and immortals. They, a group of peasant rebels, actually want to go against the Immortal Group. This can no longer be said to be seeking death. It simply feels that death is not exciting enough and they want to be tortured.

This time the wandering spirits were stunned, but after the ghost general took action, they completely recovered from the initial surprise. He turned around and shouted to the back, and then a ghost waved his hand and threw a black tennis ball-sized bead. This thing looked like a black pearl in his hand. If you have good eyesight, you can even find the inside of this thing. It seems to be translucent, and you can see the stars, sun and moon rotating in it, and a small galaxy is inside.

After the ghost general caught the beads, he raised his head forward. The light and electricity that had just been scattered by the wandering souls seemed to have hit a vacuum cleaner. They all flew over with a huff, even the ghosts standing close to the ghost general. Feeling a huge pulling force, I tried my best to retreat, but the suction force became stronger and stronger. Then with a scream, the wandering souls who were approaching were directly disintegrated into light particles without being injured at all and were also sucked into the bead. Went inside.

After sucking up the nearby photoelectricity, the ghost will directly hold the bead with one hand, and then slash it with a knife. Every time he takes action, hundreds of wandering souls in a fan will be turned into light particles, and as long as the wandering spirits within three meters of him will naturally disintegrate into light particles, they will be sucked into the beads together with the wandering souls that were hacked to death.

It was only then that those wandering souls understood the gap between themselves and the ghost generals, but it was too late. Just when those wandering souls wanted to turn around and run away. The ghost officer behind had already obtained a big flag from behind, and then inserted it in front of the ghost gate. The wandering souls around him instantly froze as if they had been hit by a immobilization spell, and then began to be pulled uncontrollably towards the black flag. Soul-inducing flags. There is a ghost warrior standing under the soul-attracting flag holding a bead that is exactly the same as the ghost general. As long as it is sucked towards it, it will turn into light particles and fly into the bead.

In fact, one can become a ghost in the underworld. They are all genuine ghost immortals. They have at least five or six hundred years of cultivation. Coupled with the status of the righteous gods in the underworld and the blessing of various equipment, their combat effectiveness is basically equivalent to about a thousand years of cultivation. It only takes a few months for these wandering souls to regain their intelligence, and the longest ones among them only took less than two years to escape control. What kind of cultivation level do they have? To put it bluntly, this kind of existence is still a wandering soul. There is no level at all, it belongs to level zero existence. Isn't it boring to challenge the ghosts with such poor combat power? The ghost generals who guard the ghost gates are basically at level 500, and although the ghost generals who take action can only be regarded as middle and lower levels among ghost generals, they are actually at level 1,000. When faced with a zero-level wandering soul, this kind of being is naturally like chopping up melons and vegetables.

The end result speaks for itself. All the ghosts were easily killed without causing any damage at all. The reckless hero was also killed with one strike, leaving no room for him to fight back.

I've finished talking about the news on Huangquan Road. A group of us also walked to the gate of hell.

This Gate of Hell is the first checkpoint in front of the Palace of Hell. In fact, it is also one of the only two checkpoints. There is another road ahead which is the entrance to the underworld, which is Fengdu City. But that place is basically a transportation hub, so it doesn't play a big role as a checkpoint. Generally, you just want to sneak in. Usually it's not too difficult. But things are different at the gate of hell. Firstly, this place is tightly defended. Secondly, after being screened and diverted by Fengdu City, the wandering souls here are only one-eleventh of their weight. The number has been reduced a lot. Naturally, the inspection is even stricter. Besides, all the dead souls are here. They all need to be examined in the Yama Hall behind here, so this place has become a very important pass.

When we arrived at Guimen Pass, it was still the same as usual. A large group of ghost messengers and ghost generals were directing the wandering souls to get back into line, and then a special ghost messenger was responsible for taking them to the Judge's Hall in front of the Yama Hall. In fact, the Yama Hall itself is not responsible for judging the ghosts in the underworld. After all, there are only eleven Yama Halls in total. One of them was built recently by us. Before, there were only ten. So many people die every day in the entire China. It is not an exaggeration to say that tens of thousands of people die in one day due to natural or man-made disasters. Therefore, the kings of hell will definitely not be specifically responsible for interrogating these dead souls. Otherwise, they would not have to do anything. Just sitting there interrogating the dead souls every day would exhaust them to death. And according to the speed of the kings of hell, it is estimated that the waiting queue will only get longer and longer.

Don’t think that only human souls come to Yama Hall. According to the theory of six paths of reincarnation, there is actually no essential difference between human souls and animal souls. You have not accumulated much merit in this life, but you have not committed any bad deeds. In your next life, you may be reborn in the animal realm, that is, you will become a domestic animal and then be eaten by others. In this way, even if you have accumulated merit, you will be reborn in the animal realm in your next life. You can cast a good tire. Therefore, in fact, the dead souls that Yamas are responsible for are not just human souls. Strictly speaking, even mountain spirits, sea monsters and ordinary animals are under the jurisdiction of Yama Hall as long as they die.

Of course, even the King of Hell cannot handle such a huge task, so there are judges under the King of Hell. Heavenly Court has not actually made it clear how many judges there should be in the Hall of Hell, but according to what I learned from the other ten kings of hell, generally each king of hell has ten full-time judges under his command, and such judges are appointed by the heavenly court. The book, their names are also on the list of gods, and they belong to official positions. In addition, each judge will have a varying number of deputies under his command. These deputies are usually called judges instead of deputy judges, but they are actually helpers hired by the judges themselves and are not considered full-time officers. There is no limit to the number of such deputies. As long as you think you can afford it, you can hire as many people as you want. Anyway, the salary given by heaven is so much. If you recruit too many people and the salary is not enough, it will be entirely your own business.

Other judges in the Yama Palace generally have three to five deputies under each one, plus they form a working group. The team usually works in two shifts. Working on a rotating basis is almost like a real company.

However, the Yama Palace under our Frost Rose Alliance is slightly different.

Ghosts and immortals are also immortals. Money cannot be said to be completely meaningless to them, but heaven will definitely not use money as salary. In fact, the salary in heaven is the power of faith, and this thing is just what we call salary. According to Heaven's own internal allocation method, this should actually be called a quota.

The quota of the power of faith given by Heavenly Court to each position is fixed, so those judges dare not recruit too many subordinates to help share the tasks, otherwise his power of faith will be diluted a lot. Of course, it’s okay if you don’t want to split up, as long as you’re not afraid of getting tired and do more. Naturally, you can hire fewer deputies, and in this case, you can have more power of faith, but your own busyness will definitely rise sharply. There is nothing you can do about this. If you want to get more benefits, you have to work more.

but. The above are the situations of other Yama Halls. The Yama Hall of our Frost Rose Alliance is an outsourcing business. There were originally only ten Yama Halls in Heaven, and we were an organization that was added later. Because it is not a directly affiliated unit, the Yama Palace of our Frost Rose Alliance is basically a stepmother. In terms of work, we are not on the same level as other Yama Temples. It's about dividing up many tasks.

Before our Yama Hall existed, Fengdu City divided all dead souls into ten equal parts and then sent them to different Yama Halls. Ensure that the workload of each company is basically the same. However, after joining us, Fengdu City did not divide it equally into eleven parts, but sent one-tenth of the total amount of all dead souls to our side. The remaining ten Yama Halls only bear the remaining 90%, that is, each of them only takes care of 9%, but we have to take care of 10%, which is equal to 1% more ghosts to deal with every day.

In addition to doing more, we also earn less. The actual quota of the power of faith in our Yama Hall is only about 80% of the quotas of the other ten Yama Halls, and in most cases it is less than 80%. The more you work, the less you get. It’s completely zero-hour treatment.

However, although it seems very unfair, we in the Frost Rose Alliance have no complaints about this, and we have no complaints either on the surface or secretly.

Secretly, everyone must know the reason why we have no complaints. Following the identity of Yama Luodian, our guild has been secretly collecting the power of faith from the underworld. Compared with the power of faith we collect every day, the quota given by heaven is not even a fraction. Of course we don't care at all.

Of course, if there were only such benefits secretly, I would definitely not be able to run this Yama Palace safely, because if I still peacefully do the tasks of this Yama Palace despite suffering such losses, the Heavenly Court would definitely have to I wonder if there is something going on here. Because my usual behavior shows that I am unwilling to suffer losses. How can I work peacefully without making a fuss when I am obviously suffering a big loss?

Therefore, in addition to this benefit in secret, we actually also have benefits on the surface. At least the heaven knows about this benefit, and they think that it is because of this benefit that we are willing to take less money and do more.

This so-called obvious benefit is actually the Yama Hall itself.

Many people may not know that the benefits that Yama Luodian can bring to our Frost Rose Alliance are definitely not what they seem on the surface. First of all, Yama Temple itself is a super task publisher.

Many of the dead souls who came to be judged had some last wishes or other things before their death. These things are actually default tasks in the game. Compared with other players who need to look for tasks everywhere, the players in our guild can sit there and pick slowly, because the tasks that Guangyan Luodian completes every day are enough for the players in our entire guild to complete for a month. With so many tasks, of course we won’t take them all, but even if we only choose the most valuable ones, we will still be too busy.

In addition to the same benefits as this mission publisher, Yama Luodian also comes with many additional attributes. Although they are not attributes that directly affect combat effectiveness, they often play a supporting role in completing tasks and fighting. It's a bit exaggerated to say that these functions are critical, but with these auxiliary attributes, at least the difficulty of the task can be reduced a lot.

This is the second benefit. Then there is the third benefit, which is the super copy.

everybody knows. There are many dungeon missions in the game. These missions are not necessarily on the main map, and most of them are carried out in closed spaces. Compared with those tasks that are completed after being accepted, the advantages of copy tasks are obvious-short process and high benefits. Although it is relatively difficult, as long as you have enough combat power, completing the dungeon missions has a much higher return rate than taking on ordinary missions. And the most important thing is that copy tasks usually don't take too long and are much more efficient.

Although the underworld is not the main map, it also has dungeon missions, and there are many of them. Some of them are even mission points that can be refreshed repeatedly, just like high-yield mines.

The return rate for these dungeon missions in the underworld is more than 15% higher than the dungeon missions on the main map. This ratio is obviously quite high. And the most important point is that almost no one will compete with you for the dungeon missions in the underworld. Because there are not many people who can go to the underworld. Considering the vast area of ​​the underworld, there may be more dungeon missions here than the number of players who can come here. In other words, there may be one mission map for each person and there may be no mission maps. of.

One big difference between the game "Zero" and ordinary games is that its dungeon missions are open-ended, which means there are no restrictions on entry.

Most of the dungeon tasks in previous online games were divided into two types. One of them is to continuously copy parallel spaces. For example, a dungeon mission allows one hundred people to complete it together. Then the players started to go in, and after a hundred people, the space was sealed. Then when the 101th person entered, he would find that the mission was still there, but he was the only one inside. This is a copy mission that copies the map and then starts a new round. It's like treating the player as a passenger. The mission map is a car. There are one hundred people in each car. Those who exceed the number will sit in one. The destination and route are the same for every vehicle.

In addition to this continuously replicating copy task, there is also a unique and exclusive task. This type of dungeon mission can often involve many people at one time. Some of them start according to the number of people entering, and some start according to the time. Based on the number of people, as long as how many people enter, the task will be closed, and then the task process inside will start to operate. During this period, outsiders will no longer be able to enter the task. The other type of time-based start is the same. It will start at a specific point in time, no matter how many people come in, it will start directly, and then end suddenly at a certain point in time. No other personnel are allowed between processes.

The above are all closed tasks. The difference is that some can be entered continuously, and some only allow a group of people to enter, but in essence they are all the same for those who enter the task, because for every player, There are definitely only so many people in a mission and there will be no changes.

However, the dungeon missions in "Zero" are different. Although there are some closed missions here, most dungeons are actually open-ended, that is, there is no limit on how many people can enter, or there are no hard and fast rules, but rewards or punishments are used to limit the number of people who can enter.

For example, some tasks have a limit of 100 people. As the number of people entering increases, the difficulty of the task increases, and the increase in difficulty is greater than the increase in strength brought about by the increase in the number of people. That is to say, the more people you enter, the more serious it is. The task becomes more difficult to complete. In the end, you just have to obey the restrictions.

Of course, this means that everyone who enters is in a group. If people who don't know each other or are hostile enter a mission, the system will simply assign different mission objectives for you to fight in the dungeon. In this way, although the mission does not restrict people from entering, the people who come in later may be your enemies, and the original mission obstacles will not be reduced, so the difficulty of the mission will soar.

Because of this setting, players in "Zero" are very afraid that someone will cause trouble in the dungeon mission. Because the difficulty caused by the troublemakers is not calculated into the task difficulty, a very low-level player can easily destroy the tasks of several high-level players, and similarly, three or five people may be able to destroy the tasks of a guild. Group tasks screwed up. This is the huge trouble caused by the opening of the copy mission.

Of course, players are not stupid either. Normally, those large guilds will have people who specially guard the dungeon tasks, which means sending two groups of people, one group will go in to do the tasks, and the other group will guard outside to prevent others from going in to cause trouble. As for small guilds and the like, they can only rely on popularity. Therefore, it is difficult to survive in the game if you make too many enemies.

Because of the open nature of the dungeon missions, everyone is afraid that someone will come in and sabotage the dungeon missions they enter, so these dungeon missions in the underworld are very precious. The underworld is vast and sparsely populated, and there are not many players who can enter, so everyone can play separately. Unless they really have a grudge, no one will cause trouble in the dungeon on the underworld. Therefore, the third benefit that this Yama Palace brings to us is that it allows players in our guild to freely enter and exit the underworld and collect and utilize resources from the underworld. This is basically equivalent to opening an exclusive map for us.

Of course, the Yin Qi of the underworld will cause great damage to most players, so you must have a charm produced by the Yama Palace before you can enter. However, the production of this thing is limited, and each spell has a time limit, so it is somewhat limiting, but after all, this is a benefit, isn't it?

Precisely because there are so many benefits, I will not quarrel with the people in Heaven about the Yama Palace. Heaven also feels that we have received benefits, so it is normal not to make a fuss or make a fuss. In fact, what they don't know is that what we really care about is exactly what they don't care about. (To be continued ~^~)