"Confess your crimes!"
Things had gone beyond my imagination. I opened my eyes to find everything around me pitch-black. Dozens of flickering figures in white robes appeared before me—ghostly bailiffs.
Chill radiated from my body, and I felt feverish and light-headed. Looking around me, I saw that Xijun and Song Wanyi were nowhere to be found. How had I ended up here all alone?
I remembered falling asleep in bed. If ghostly bailiffs had come to claim my life, they should have crossed over from the mortal world. How had they come into my dream to take me?
"I am Ling Tong, the escort official of the Department of Punishing Evil. I have been ordered to take you onto the Yellow Springs Road. Do you confess your crimes?" The leading ghostly bailiff looked fierce, glaring at me like a military instructor.
He asked me again and again, but I did not answer. When ordinary people walked at night, they had to ask questions without answering them; otherwise, ghosts would possess them and claim their lives. This place did not look like nighttime, but the sky was so dark that neither sun nor moon could be seen. Of course, I was not going to answer him.
"Seize him!" Ling Tong said coldly. A dozen ghostly bailiffs immediately came over to take me.
"Xijun! Song Wanyi!" I reached into my pocket, but my heart instantly turned cold. I discovered that I was stark naked—there was not a stitch of clothing on me!
"Gold worth ten thousand taels cannot be brought along, but a lifetime of sins remains upon the body! Grant him a prison uniform of the underworld!" Ling Tong shook his head and sneered. With a wave of his hand, a ghostly bailiff handed me a robe that was neither robe