"Do you plead guilty?"
Things had gone beyond my imagination. I opened my eyes. Everything around me was pitch-black. At a glance, dozens of flickering ghost officers in white robes appeared before me.
Cold air radiated from my whole body. I also felt feverish and overheated. Looking around me, both Xijun and Song Wanyi were nowhere to be seen. How had I ended up here all alone?
I remembered falling asleep in bed. If the ghost officers had come to claim my life, they should have crossed over from the mortal realm. How had they come into my dream to take me?
"I am Ling Tong, the Chief Escort Officer of the Office of Punishing Evil. By order, I have come to take you onto the road to the Yellow Springs. Do you plead guilty?" The lead ghost officer looked fierce, glaring at me and pointing as sternly as a military drill instructor.
He asked me repeatedly, but I did not answer. When ordinary people traveled at night, they had to ask no questions and give no answers; otherwise, a ghost would possess them and claim their lives. This place did not look like nighttime, yet the sky was so dark that neither sunlight nor moonlight could be seen. Of course I was not going to answer him.
"Seize him!" Ling Tong said coldly. A dozen ghost officers immediately came over to arrest 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!
"Ten thousand taels of gold cannot be brought along, but the sins of a lifetime remain upon the body. Grant him the prison garb of the underworld!" Ling Tong shook his head and sneered. With a sweep