noffsinger Chapter 176 Purgatory on Earth
Chapter 176 Purgatory on Earth
The headquarters of Mijiang has an overall gloomy and dark tone. Even though many candlesticks are always lit, it still looks particularly eerie.
The interior is not empty and has all the necessary facilities, but it strangely looks like a huge tomb, giving people a feeling of desolation and loneliness.
It was dark and damp here, and all you could see were poison pools and chains. The narrow windows let in no light, and the worn floorboards were corroded by the poison. A mottled spirit-calling bell hung above the door frame.
The sound of a bell rang out, and it was eerie and strange, as if countless ghost hands stretched out from the darkness, pulling people into this place of no return.
This is a place where outsiders will feel strong physical discomfort as soon as they enter. In Puran's eyes, it is like a rotten apple, which has been rotten to the point that almost all the flesh must be removed to preserve the last bit of the fruit core.
The footsteps made a slight creaking sound as they hit the floor, as if they were walking on thin ice, shaky and precarious.
In Mijiang, perhaps just like this step, you don’t know when you will fall into the abyss, and you can never guess whether tomorrow will come as usual.
In the dim light, many of the clan members who passed by sparsely nodded and saluted to Wei Jingzhou.
He has been lurking in Mijiang for many years, climbing up step by step from the lowest-level waiter to his current position, which is considered a rare high-level position.
But there are still restrictions, and there are some places in Mijiang that he does not have permission to enter.
After walking a few steps into the inner layer, Pu Ran frowned and suddenly asked, "Dead person?"
Wei Jingzhou followed her gaze, his eyes calm and still, or perhaps a kind of numbness from watching for too long.
It was a small square pool. The green juice inside was disgusting, like boiling water with bubbles coming out of it. Various venoms were gathered together. The amount was lethal to ordinary people, and living people certainly couldn't touch it.
So the people with dark skin sitting there and taking a bath obediently are all dead.
"Yeah, dead people."
Wei Jingzhou said it lightly and led her forward.
"There are countless poison pools like this in all parts of Mijiang. The one you saw is a small pool that can accommodate ten people. All those who enter this pool are poisoned people whose bodies have been embalmed."
"Poison people are truly sinister creatures. Anyone who touches them will die. After they are successfully refined, they will be handed over to the Tantric sect to be made into puppets. In this way, they can be controlled and used as the most terrifying weapons."
The air smells rotten and a sticky, damp feeling creeps up on the skin. How can a normal person be raised in such a place?
With Liu Yin's personality, he would be considered a bad guy among bad guys in Mijiang.
There were a lot of people coming and going, but no one was laughing.
The corners of their mouths were always flat, their eyelids drooped half-dead, and their sinister expressions were terrifying.
The two turned a corner and saw a square pool. No, it should be called a pit because it was three meters deep.
There is no venom here, only densely packed poisonous insects.
"Poisonous insect pool."
Wei Jingzhou explained: "This is a small pool, reserved for children with better qualifications."
"For a pond like Liu Yin's, we need to make a big pond, ten meters deep, with more and more poisonous insects."
Pu Ran just took a look from a distance, and a feeling of discomfort quickly rose in his stomach.
Snakes of different colors, centipedes, ticks, scorpions, moths, water turtles, desert spider wasps, poisonous spiders, Vita worms...
They twisted their bodies and climbed happily, but when they touched the fine, insurmountable net in the middle of the pool, they circled around unwillingly.
Liu Yin had been to a pool even deeper and more terrifying than this one.
"Children thrown into the poisonous insect pool are carefully trained many years ago and given various medicines to improve their resistance to toxins. Despite this, most people thrown into the pool cannot survive the first day."
"It won't be wasted if I die. Drag me to the venom pool and turn me into a poison man."
Wei Jingzhou glanced at the silent girl beside him and said calmly: "What do you think?"
The damp and cold air seemed like it couldn't be ignited no matter how many matches were used. Pu Ran's eyes were filled with ups and downs of emotions, perhaps reluctance, or sorrow, a bit of heaviness, and also coldness.
Ups and downs, finally turning into a bottomless tranquility.
"People often say that if you do bad things, you will go to the eighteen levels of hell after you die, and suffer the pain of soul whipping in hell."
"This is the lower hell, also known as the eighteenth level below."
"But many people forget that there is another eighteenth floor, which is Hell on Earth."
She raised her foot and tapped the ground lightly: "Now, we are on the eighteenth floor."
Purgatory is everywhere; it is human nature.
"Let's go, keep moving forward."
She didn't say anything more, but just asked Wei Jingzhou to continue moving forward.
Wei Jingzhou was a little stunned. He never thought that she could be so calm after seeing all this.
None of the expected negative emotions were visible on her face; she was as steady as an old monk in meditation.
My friend, are you emotionless?
Master, are you really so arrogant?
Seeing him standing there with an incredible look on his face, Pu Ran urged him: "My friend, hurry up, don't waste time."
I'm just checking the spot out here, can you please be quicker?
The layout inside Mijiang is quite different from the structural diagram given by Liuyin. It is estimated that those old monsters knew that Liuyin would rebel, so they started to transform it overtime.
Many unexpected mechanisms were added, and the position of the formation was also changed. Pu Ran had to go back and draw a new map, and then lead Liu Yin to kill them by surprise.
This is purgatory, and Liuin knows this better than Puran.
So he wanted to innovate.
In the past, relying on one's own strength was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, but now it is different.
He has people he can lean on, people he can trust, people he can draw strength from.
Puran taught him that there was no shame in asking for help, and she was willing to give him a push as long as he asked.
The purgatory in front of our eyes is terrifying, but some people wake up from their slumber and work hard to change.
Mijiang will get better.
Pu Ran knew this very well, which was why he disliked Wei Jingzhou's procrastination.
Don't be sad, buddy. It's more important to do business. After we finish exploring the map, we will come back and destroy the enemy's lair, and let Liuyin establish a new order. This is the most important thing right now.
Oh yes.
She slapped her head and asked in a low voice: "Do you know where Qin Jin is imprisoned? Let's go and check it out."
Wei Jingzhou was in a state of confusion, with a strange look on his face: "I need to make a few more turns, but I don't have the authority to go there."
Puran: "I just watch from a distance, as long as he is alive."
So Wei Jingzhou led her to turn the corner, but unexpectedly someone from the opposite direction also turned in a hurry and bumped into Pu Ran with a "bang".
The girl saw stars and was shocked. She hit her head against a rock!
She was in so much pain that her eyes sparkled with tears. When she realized what was happening, she immediately knelt down in fear: "Sir... Sir... I didn't mean to do it. I just wanted to pee..."
Wei Jingzhou narrowed his eyes and said in an unclear tone: "You want to escape?"
The girl shuddered, and felt cold from head to toe. She kowtowed like crazy, "My Lord, please check! I absolutely have no intention of running away! I didn't! I didn't..."