¨ˉ?????"Do you admit your guilt!"
The situation had gone beyond my imagination. I opened my eyes. All around me was pitch-black. At a glance, I saw the wavering figures of dozens of ghost officers dressed in white robes.
My whole body was radiating cold air, yet I also felt feverish and overheated. Looking around me, I found that Xijun and Song Wanyi were both nowhere to be seen. How had I ended up here all alone?
I remembered falling asleep in bed. If ghost officers had come to claim my life, they should have crossed over from the mortal world. How had they entered my dream to take me?
"I am Ling Tong, the extradition officer of the Department of Punishing Evil. I have been ordered to escort you along the Yellow Springs Road. Do you admit your guilt?" The ghost officer in the lead looked fierce, like a military drill instructor, and pointed at me with blazing eyes.
The man kept questioning me, but I did not answer. When ordinary people walked at night, they had to ask questions without replying; otherwise, ghosts would possess them and claim their lives. This place did not look like nighttime, but the sky was so dark that not even the light of the sun or moon could be seen. Naturally, I was not about to answer him.
"Seize him!" Ling Tong said coldly. A dozen ghost officers immediately came forward to take me.
"Xijun! Song Wanyi!" I touched my pockets, but my heart instantly turned half-cold. I discovered that I was stark naked**—I was not wearing a thing!
"Gold by the tens of thousands cannot be brought along, but a lifetime of sins still clings to the body! Bestow the Yin Bureau's prison garb upon him!" Ling Tong shook his head with