This grayish-shadowy figure was floating off the ground, had ragged clothes, and at first glance looked like a beggar, who had the ability to hang in the air. The 'beggar' was about 17 or 18 years old, with a neatly shaved head, a pale complexion, and three-dimensional facial features which made him seem very handsome. It was his pair of dark eyes that stole the show, they always showed awkwardness when facing other people. This being was exactly who Le Yao had been looking for: Ji Fengyu.
In January 2017, Ji Fengyu had died after being stabbed three times by his year-long drunkard of a father in a conflict. After his death, his father had managed to escape justice for more than half a year before he was finally arrested. There had been no one to give him a funeral, no one to see him off, no one to burn a pillar of incense for him and set up a memorial tablet. Ji Fengyu held too many grievances against the world, and since he couldn't enter reincarnation without letting them go, he became a ghost in a blink of an eye.
It was Le Yao who had accidentally seen him wandering outside the Buddhist shop, invited him to 'eat' sanzhuxiang, and talked with him. After learning that he had lived only one street away from him, Le Yao recited sutras for him every day, hoped to untie his heart knot as soon as possible.
Later, the knot still failed to be resolved, but the 'two' became good friends without any troubles. It was because Le Yao was the one that he could trust the most in the world.
"Who are you?" At the moment, Ji Fengyu was frowning, whizzing towards Le Yao until he was a centimeter away, and looked down at him. The green and gray wisps indicative of an evil spirit was overflowing from his shadow. It was a very gloomy atmosphere, and Le Yao felt like he would be strangled if he said the wrong words. "How did you know the way to summon me?"
"Fengyu, I'm Le Yao." Le Yao whispered, "Do you remember me? Le Yao from the Buddhist shop." Grandma! I feel a little nervous! It's been more than five hundred years, hasn't it?
"Le Yao?" Ji Fengyu looked up and down at him for a moment, and then he slowly took back his grumpiness. It seemed that he still couldn't fully believe it. "Are you really that Le Yao?"
"Yes, yes, it's me!" When Ji Fengyu heard him, he seemed to remember. He nodded his head and looked out of the bathroom. Le Yao's voice became even smaller. "Didn't I die in March 2019? I don't know how I reincarnated into this world, but now this is my new body. How have you been these years? Has there been anyone else who prayed for you after I died? "
Ji Fengyu didn't answer Le Yao's question, and instead he suddenly asked, "… Who is that man, who is sleeping outside, to you?"
"The man outside?" After some time, Le Yao realized who Ji Fengyu was referring to, "Oh, he is my husband, Xu Yao. I woke up on Planet Tarot at first. He brought me here." He had just finished his words only to see Ji Fengyu's expression had become strange, so Le Yao asked, "What's the matter?"
"He's going to wake up," Ji Fengyu said.
Le Yao: "!!!"
Le Yao listened carefully, and there was a slight sound of quilt friction from the bedroom. Soon after that, he seemed to hear some whispering voice from Xu Yao's mouth. He could not hear it clearly, he said, "He has such heavy undead grievances, how come he could wake up?"
Such heavy grievances, under normal circumstances, were strong enough to make someone sleep until dusk of the next day!
Ji Fengyu frowned and said, "He is not a normal person. Haven't you found out that he is able to drive out the grievances by himself? Although his hands are covered with blood, the man's bones are full of righteousness, meaning that kind of grievance can't haunt him for long."
So, when Uncle Ming said that it would be enough for Xu Yao to just sleep, it was true?
Le Yao asked Ji Fengyu, "Do you know Xu Yao?"
Ji Fengyu snorted coldly and said with a little admiration mixed with disdain, "Xu Yao, the King of Hell, how many people don't know about him in this place?" Then, he quickly passed through the wall and stood on Xu Yao's back.
Xu Yao was still lying on his stomach, and was just about to wake up. As a result, he couldn't wake up after Ji Fengyu stepped on his back. He frowned and went back to sleep again. His mind was full of nightmares, and his expression seemed rather distressed.
Le Yao: "…"
Le Yao quickly closed the smart shutter on the window, so that no one outside could see what was happening inside this bedroom. Then he indicated to Ji Fengyu with his eyes that it was not convenient for him to talk.
Ji Fengyu looked around, "He can't hear me. Keep your voice down."
Le Yao whispered with a little relief, "Fengyu, I'm calling to ask you what had happened in the past five hundred years, and if there's any way I can go back… Here… I'm an Omega, you know? Say, what kind of thing is that heat period? It almost makes me speechless!"
After hundreds of years, Ji Fengyu once again saw Le Yao suddenly fan himself with his hands. He slipped into a trance. This was what Le Yao often did when he was upset. He didn't expect that even his behavior was brought over. He looked at Le Yao and said, "It's impossible to go back. Don't say it's just you. I can't even go back. The natural disasters that happened more than 200 years ago were too devastating. Since then, we have had no home. When you came here, didn't you find that there were a lot of grievances in the air?"
Le Yao said, "Yeah, I realised. So I wanted to ask you what's going on. "
Ji Fengyu lowered his voice a little more and said, "There were too many people left here during the 15 year long migration. They… they were the same as me back then."
What was the same?
This question flashed through Le Yao's mind, and he thought of the information he had gotten before. On his way to Planet Huaxia, he had searched for information on the internet in order to learn more about the history regarding the past 500 years. He found that the great migration that year was just like the disaster movies he had seen, and not everyone was able to escape. In fact, in the face of a major extinction disaster, human beings, like other animals, would focus on protecting those excellent genes that were most able to survive, because this was the innate nature of animals.
That migration brought nearly 150,000 people to Planet Tarot, however far more people were left behind than were taken away. If these people could let go of their regret and grievance, it would be alright, but most people couldn't do it. Maybe some of them had no grievances or regrets, but there would be one or two people that they were concerned about, which would be the same as Ji Fengyu, and thus they would be unable to reincarnate even after a long time.
Le Yao couldn't imagine how many lonely souls and wild ghosts were out there. They were left all alone, with no one to give them a funeral or pray for them. They couldn't even be reincarnated because they knew that there was almost no new life here, since Planet Huaxia was mostly just a military district. He even doubted whether the Underworld laws were even in existence here.
"And where do you live now?" Le Yao still remembered that he had once burned a mansion, clothes and gold coins for Ji Fengyu, But the current Ji Fengyu was obviously not very well off.
"There is a graveyard about six or seven hundred kilometers away," Ji Fengyu said.
"Graveyard?" Something suddenly came to Le Yao's mind, "What day is it today in the lunar calendar? Do you remember?"
"Do you think I can remember such a thing?" Ji Fengyu's temper was a little bad, and he stared at Le Yao, "What do you want to do?"
"I want to give my brush a blessing on the thirtieth day. Don't go to the graveyard, just stay here. I'll get you another house later." Le Yao added, "I can't pray for other people for the time being, but I can still pray for my good friend. I'll buy some paper when it's daylight and burn a new set of clothes for you."
"Hmm, okay. Then, that's it for today. I'll go first."
"Go?" Le Yao asked, "Why are you going?"
"What will I do here, when you two, husband and wife, are asleep? Of course, it's better for me to go back to where I should be."
"Dream on! How could you leave?" Le Yao disagreed. "His grievances have been dispelled so much that he will definitely wake up when you leave. In case he does…" Le Yao pointed to Xu Yao and then pointed to himself, "Just look at our difference, I'm not his opponent, ah?!"
Ji Fengyu looked at Xu Yao and then Le Yao. He could hardly grasp what he meant, "Okay. Then you sleep and I'll keep standing on him."
There was a 'bang' sound. Ji Fengyu said, "Today I'll help prevent him from acting like a dog, but tomorrow you should handle him yourself."
Le Yao, "What did you say?"
Ji Fengyu gloated on his face, "I said, Omegas really have no moral principle. I've seen several pairs before. When they were in bed, it was really, tsk tsk…".
Le Yao suddenly felt goosebumps all over his body. There must be a reason why best friends were also called bad friends.
He really was bad! More than five hundred years have passed, and Ji Fengyu had not changed at all, moreover, his speech has become even more unrestrained. How come the manner in which he talked had become so immoral?!
For a moment, Le Yao couldn't sleep. So he thought about searching on the internet to see if there were any things that he could buy, such as incense, gold paper and so on. Because the signal of his communicator and light brain was really bad here, he used the communicator that Xu Yao gave him. It was a pity that such a large empire like Tarot didn't sell incense. There was gold foil, but most of the people in the Tarot empire used it mainly for design or decoration.
Ji Fengyu saw what Le Yao was looking for and said, "I don't have a place to spend it even if you burn gold coins for me now."
Le Yao asked, "Why?"
Ji Fengyu walked around on Xu Yao's body as if it were a bridge, "There is nothing to buy in the Underworld. At that time, there were too many grievances and a shortage of materials. Besides, you are not aware of things here, and we have become unused to offerings for a long time." If Le Yao was to suddenly burn things for him as usual like he did before, the Underworld would fall into commotion.
"I know," said Le Yao. Then he put the quilt on himself and looked at Xu Yao, "He won't become black and blue tomorrow, right?"
"No, he'll just feel like he's been run over by a truck," Ji Fengyu said.
Le Yao: "…"
It seemed that Xu Yao's expression was a little bit painful and miserable. But since he had a great body, it should be okay, right? Otherwise, when he wakes up tomorrow, Le Yao would feel a bit guilty.
After the quilt was settled, Le Yao decided to sleep first and think about the consequences tomorrow.
Maybe it was because Ji Fengyu had been summoned here that Le Yao felt a little relieved in his heart, so he slept very well. He didn't see Ji Fengyu when he woke up the next morning, but his mental state was still good.
On the other hand, Xu Yao was not feeling good at all. He watched Le Yao closely on the bed.
"What are you doing?" Like a frightened squirrel, Le Yao quickly pulled up the quilt. He felt that this kind of Xu Yao was even harder to understand than the Xu Yao of the night before.
"When did I fall asleep last night?" Xu Yao asked.
"You had already fallen asleep when I had come out of the bath. Then I went to sleep as well. What's the matter?" asked Le Yao.
"Nothing." Xu Yao squinted, pinched his shoulders and back, and got out of bed to go to the bathroom.
When Le Yao saw the donkey-like thing under his pants, he was speechless. He quickly got out of bed and went to get a suit to change into. He couldn't help but stretch out two index fingers to compare the length, and then sighed "Haa…"
Who knew that Xu Yao was so omniscient that he turned his head back towards the bedroom at this exact moment. Upon seeing what Le Yao did, he raised an eyebrow, "What did you measure?"
Le Yao abruptly took back his hand and said, "Err, fish! I mean, the fish we ate last night was so long!"
Xu Yao looked at his little wife whose ears had turned red again. He said with a smile, "Are you sure you only measured the 'fish'? Did you eat it last night?"
Le Yao: "…" This person was really hard to tear down!
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