Chapter 974: Chapter 972: Dead Man’s Cave
The Netherworld Officer Escorter ate an apple, his whole body continuously convulsing, the poison starting to take effect.
Finally, the Netherworld Officer Escorter fell to the ground, white smoke emitting from his body.
"Ding... Poisoned the Netherworld Officer Escorter, gained fifty million Experience Points."
"Ding... Netherworld Officer Escorter dropped the item ’Earth Treasury Blood’, which has been added to the item inventory."
"Ding... Congratulations to Host for leveling up to Ninth-level."
"Ding... System upgrade, title fusion function unlocked."
Chu Hao was ecstatic, unexpectedly gaining fifty million Experience Points, and immediately leveling up.
The dead around were walking numbly, completely unaware of the escorter’s collapse, so he hurried over.
Li Yin was shocked, looking incredulously.
Chu Hao approached, only to see that the smoke-emitting Netherworld Officer Escorter had already turned into a pile of white bones. His bones were similar to human bones, yet very different from human bones.
Beside the corpse, there was a curved blade, like a crescent moon, a full two meters long.
Chu Hao hurriedly picked up the Reincarnation Blade.
"Ding... Reincarnation Blade can be exchanged for five hundred thousand Pretentiousness Points."
"Ding... Reincarnation Blade can be exchanged for one lottery chance at the system shop."
Five hundred thousand Pretentiousness Points.
Plus a lottery chance?
The value of this thing was overly high.
At this moment, Li Yin ran over, his face full of shock, and said, "What... what happened to him?"
Chu Hao made a shushing gesture, saying, "Don’t speak; later I’ll take you to find your dad."
Li Yin: "..."
Li Yin: "Who... who exactly are you?"
"I’m your uncle."
Without messing around with Li Yin, Chu Hao directly knocked Li Yin unconscious and placed him into the Ghost Gourd.
Then, he put on the Skinning Mask again, transforming into the appearance of the Netherworld Officer Escorter.
Extremely realistic, even the aura was exactly the same—no wonder it had deceived Feng Mo.
"Hehe." Chu Hao chuckled.
Carrying the Reincarnation Blade, he proceeded forward.
The procession was too long.
No one knew how long he walked, finally approaching the Hell Gate.
This Hell Gate was so large that looking up, one couldn’t see the top. Mist swirled around, who would know it was the gateway to the real Hell.
The gate opened a crack, still quite large, enough to accommodate two football fields. Dead people were continually escorted to the Hell Gate.
Outside the gate, many Netherworld Officer Escorters were standing guard.
Chu Hao swaggered over, and no Netherworld Officers noticed anything amiss.
At this moment, suddenly a voice said, "Come over."
Chu Hao paused, who was speaking to him, was it an invisible guide?
Upon looking, he found it was the Netherworld Officer Escorter talking to him, once more feeling the advantages of the Skinning Mask—not only altering appearances but even enabling seamless communication.
Chu Hao walked over.
The Netherworld Officer Escorter who called him looked exactly like him.
"Any gains?" asked the Netherworld Officer Escorter.
What gains!
Chu Hao shook his head.
The Netherworld Officer Escorter appeared unsatisfied, saying, "How are you doing your job? If there’s no gain next time, just scram!"
Damn!
All are Netherworld Officer Escorters, yet you act so superior!
Is Brother Hao inferior or what?
Chu Hao walked away, pretending to look displeased, kicked a nearby dead person and yelled, "Follow along."
With that, he pretended to join the procession, walking into the Hell Gate together.
No obstruction, truly managed to get in.
As soon as he entered the Hell Gate, Chu Hao immediately felt a gray substance, energy, entwined around him.
It was very uncomfortable.
However, the Reincarnation Blade he carried dissolved this gray energy.
Chu Hao was amazed.
Unexpectedly, this blade protected him.
If not for the Reincarnation Blade, who knows what might happen.
Chu Hao looked at the other dead people, each face filled with fear, bodies entangled with gray matter, seemingly extremely painful, enduring endless suffering.
Someone screamed, unable to bear the gray matter wrapping around them, turned into a cloud of dust, and vanished.
Others could only endure the pain and continue walking.
As if carrying a thousand-pound rock.
Once you stop, you die.
Despair.
Helplessness.
Filling up the procession.
Where did they come from?
Where were they headed?
Nobody knew.
At this moment, Chu Hao saw something on these "people".
This is Hell.
So, then what is the Yin Cao Netherworld?
Passing through the entrance, the scene remained unchanged; snow still fell, yet no coldness was felt.
This world mirrored endless loneliness.
Even Chu Hao’s heart, unknowingly, became heavy.
The deeper he went, the more intense the gray matter, many couldn’t withstand it and disappeared outright, those escorting paid no mind.
In his heart, Chu Hao murmured, "Compared to Yin Cao Netherworld, this more resembles the real Hell."
At this moment, in the snowy area ahead, a straight path slowly appeared, a large crowd heading towards the depths.
This road divided the snow to both sides.
Chu Hao saw some cried, some reached out to grab the air on both sides, as if losing something.
"I am guilty, I am guilty."
A dead person, seeing some terrifying thing, constantly trembled.
"Oh heavens, I am willing to endure endless torment, please don’t hold my guilt against my family."
An old man with white hair, eyes blank, spoke in agony.
Chu Hao was puzzled; he clearly saw nothing, could it be due to him being alive?
Chu Hao genuinely wanted to ask what exactly they saw.
"First, find the body, the place the guide mentioned should be here."
Finding a body here shouldn’t be too hard, for those who die here vanish outright.
The further he walked, the more distance he covered, roughly feeling it was about ten kilometers.
Finally, he saw up front, a giant cave.
As he approached, he found countless people jumping down.
Not just one.
But in heaps.
Chu Hao looked, dumbfounded.
This cave was massive; a glance down revealed no end.
The dead pressed forward, jumping down, the scene bizarre and chilling.
Chu Hao circled the cave, discovering the guide’s mentioned corpse!
At the edge of the cave, there stood a stele inscribed with ancient characters.
The stele’s inscriptions likely named the cave; sitting by it was a corpse, dried up, like a nutrient-lacking withered tree, seated beside the stele.
Chu Hao walked up, thinking it must be him.
Picking it up, he found the guy astonishingly heavy.
"At least over a thousand pounds, does this corpse hold something?"
Chu Hao hoisted the corpse, feeling peculiar.
About to depart, Chu Hao paused, turned to glance at the stele’s writings.
"System, can you recognize the writing on it."
System: "Insufficient level, unable to purchase ancient language."
Chu Hao was a bit disdainful, realizing since entering the Rebirth Realm, whatever he did was never high enough level.
Just about to leave.
"Ding... Publish Special Mission: Collect five Dead Man’s Fruits and obtain a Dead Man’s Scripture."
"Ding... Complete mission and gain full Experience Points as Pretentious Little Prince Ninth-level."
Chu Hao was stunned.
