Chapter 162: Rebirth Hall, Wulangpo, Funeral Ceremony
"It's worthy of being you, Lord Hu." Looking at the advertising slogan behind the wooden sign, Lin Yan couldn't help but twitch the corners of his eyes.
It is indeed a bit too much for those who do their job to expect customers to buy one free of charge.
When they walked to the closed door of the rebirth hall, Lin Yan tapped it gently with his hands. Although they chose to close their doors during the day, there must be people inside, otherwise who should deal with the wooden signs stuffed into the cracks in the door?
After knocking on the door, Lin Yan waited for a while, but received no response. So he knocked again without giving up. Anyway, he had already come, so he couldn't just return without success.
So, after he tried it repeatedly many times, the closed door of the Rebirth Hall was finally opened in the interior.
In the gap, a woman showed half of her eyes. After carefully observing Lin Yan who was standing outside the door for a while, she said, "Sir, if you want to invite us to hold a funeral, you can take a wooden sign from the wooden board next to it, write the contents needed for the funeral on it, and then stuff it into the crack of the door of the door."
"It was someone from the General Affairs Department who asked me to come. I need to ask you some questions, so can I open the door?" Lin Yan said.
Hearing Lin Yan's words, the other party was silent for a while, and finally opened the door halfway and said, "Please, it is not advisable to see the light of our rebirth hall. If you have any questions, please go to the hall to discuss in detail."
Lin Yan walked into the hall, while the other party closed the door again and called Lin Yan to sit down at a wooden table in the lobby.
"Please wait a moment, I'll get the tea." After saying that, the other party turned around and walked into the depths of the rebirth hall, and soon after, he walked out with a pot of tea and tea cup.
After pouring a cup of tea for Lin Yan and himself, the two began to talk.
"I am a ritual servant from the Rebirth Hall and serve as a ferryman. The name is not worth mentioning. Sir, what did you say that the General Affairs Department asked you to come?"
The General Affairs Department manages Liyue’s big and small things. As long as it is in Liyue’s legal organization, they have the right to forcibly intervene within it, which can be regarded as the Administration Bureau.
Although the Rebirth Hall has a great reputation in Liyue, it still seems a bit insignificant compared to the General Affairs Department.
"Are your hall master here? If she is here, I hope to have an interview with her." Lin Yan said with a sip of tea.
"I'm sorry, sir, the master of the hall went out two days ago. I don't know where she went, but she brought a lot of rations when she left, so she probably won't come back in a short time." The ferryman told Lin Yan that the master of the hall was not in the hall now.
"Where is Zhongli? He is always there?" Lin Yan asked again.
"I'm very sorry, Mr. Zhongli seems to be busy preparing something recently, so he rarely stays in the hall during the day, and the same is true today. If you want to find him, you can wait until the evening."
The same result is not only that the Lord of the Rebirth Hall is not here, but also Zhongli is out.
After hearing the ferryman say that they were not in the hall, Lin Yan was silent for a while and said, "Since that's the case... I want to know about Wuwangpo, can you tell me something?"
Hearing the three words [Wuwangpo], the expression of the ferryman changed significantly: "I'm sorry, sir, the Wuwangpo thing is not something that a living like you can know. This is the rule of our rebirth hall, so I'm sorry I can't tell you."
Lin Yan, who was rejected, looked helpless and could only tell the other party what happened recently.
"So that's how it is..." After listening to Lin Yan's story, the ferryman said thoughtfully, "It seems that the master of the hall should have also been to investigate Wuwangpo's affairs. Since you are specially sent by the General Affairs Department to inquire about this matter, I will tell you something."
"Wuwangpo is the boundary between life and death, where there is a gate to the world where the deceased is. Generally speaking, the soul after death will go to the border. If there is no regret before death, the soul will directly lead to the underworld; and if there is a regret for death, the soul will stay on the border until the regret disappears, the soul will lead to the underworld."
"In addition, if some souls with very strong obsessions may become evil spirits and evil spirits, or leave the boundary, intending to complete things that they did not complete in their lifetime. But no matter which one is, it violates the law of life and death. The master of the hall will go to Wuwangpo to perform a funeral ceremony regularly to comfort the souls staying at the boundary."
"As a ritual servant, I only know so much. If you want to know more deeply, you have to ask the master, because only every generation of masters in the rebirth hall knows about Wuwangpo's true secrets."
The ferryman told Lin Yan everything she knew about Wuwangpo, and Lin Yan knew almost everything she said, after all, he said it when he was doing the Legend of Walnut in the game.
"I understand. Since that's the case, I won't bother you." Lin Yan stood up from the seat and couldn't get more information from the other party, so he planned to leave.
"Okay, please let me see you."
After sending Lin Yan outside the hall, the ferryman closed the door again.
"Oh, the three words "Dengshengtang, Wuwangpo, and Funeral Ceremony" are really natural to put together." I couldn't help but sigh. Lin Yan didn't have the intention to stay too much. Hu Tao had already gone to Wuwangpo, so he had to hurry up. After all, this was a good opportunity to face the seven stars of Liyue in front of him.
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After returning home, Lin Yan made all preparations and left a note for Youla. He left Liyue Port with food and rushed to Wuwangpo in a carriage.
Wuwangpo is located in the northwest of Liyue, close to Qingcezhuang, a holy place for retirement, and can be reached through the fork between Shimen and Dihuazhou.
Lin Yan arrived at Wuwangpo, but it took him a whole day and a night.
Since the terrain of Wuwangpo cannot be used as a carriage, he parked the carriage on the side of the road and took two days of food rations to walk.
Walking the Wuwangpo road gives Lin Yan a feeling of walking on a mountain road. It was fine at first, at least there was a road that could be taken, but it became more and more rugged later. Although it was not as difficult as it was, it was still very troublesome.
As he got closer to the depths of Wuwangpo, the surrounding weather began to become darker, and only the street lights that occasionally appeared on both sides of the road would emit a little light.
The entire Wuwangpo seemed to be covered by a layer of mist, with very low visibility in sight, and there were abandoned houses inside, and a gust of cold wind that would blow from time to time. Although Lin Yan has become very strong now, he still feels a little scared.
Deep in Wuwangpo, even the street lights on both sides of the road began to become scarce. A strange blue light floated in the woods, and the dead air made people feel extremely depressed.
Chapter completed!