Jiang Lu scratched his head: “Isn’t this the underworld? Strictly speaking, there are ghosts everywhere. I’m not used to it. Could it be that some stinky outsiders came to the underworld to beg for food?”

“Don’t waste time, business is more important.” Lucifer urged.

At this moment, Jiang Lu suddenly noticed something. After a slight exclamation, he stared at the road sign next to him in a daze.

“What’s wrong?” Lucifer asked curiously.

“I was just looking for the tallest building and forgot to notice where this place is.” Jiang Lu said solemnly, “You may not believe it, but this place… seems to be my hometown.”

Chapter 463 Returning to the old place

“I know.” Lucifer didn’t seem surprised: “Where in the underworld is not your hometown?”

“That’s not what I’m talking about.”

Jiang Lu scratched his head, thinking about how to explain:

“After leaving the underworld, it is true that the entire underworld is my hometown, but that is the country, and there is a hometown below, m3?”

“Why is there a West Coast accent…” Lucifer seemed to understand: “So, this is where you were born, right?”

“Yeah.” Jiang Lu nodded, touched the road sign that read “I miss you in Huangquan”, and took a deep breath: “I was born and raised in Huangquan, but I haven’t been back for a long time…”

His tone became somewhat emotional: “There is a legend in Huangquan. Before the three realms were divided and the underworld was established, a lost woodcutter mistakenly entered this uncivilized and barren land and nearly died in the mouths of those evil monsters several times.

After escaping danger several times, his luck seemed to have finally run out, and he was about to suffer a disaster that could not be resolved no matter what. At this moment, a god appeared, saved him, and gave him a magic weapon that allowed him to walk freely in the underworld.

The woodcutter wanted to repay the immortal, but the immortal said that he had been trapped here for a very long time and had no desires or requests. If the immortal had to repay him, it was that he hoped to drink a sip of the Yellow Spring Water hidden deep underground here, so that he could escape and ascend to heaven.

However, the water of Yellow Spring was buried very deep, and it was impossible for the woodcutter to dig it out alone, so the immortal thought it was just a casual remark. Unexpectedly, the woodcutter took it seriously, and from then on he settled down here, no longer thinking about finding his way home, but just used the magic weapon given to him by the immortal to collect treasures and make tools, and then dug down day and night.

I don’t know how much time had passed, but at the moment before his death, he actually dug a hole through the ground, and the water of the Yellow Spring gushed out, not only resurrecting the woodcutter who was supposed to have died, but also gathering into a river, nourishing generations of people in the Yellow Spring. It’s a pity that the immortal did not appear at the end of the story, and no one knew whether he was really escaped.

So when I was a child, my mother always said that people born in the underworld are the most grateful. The woodcutter was able to dig out the water from the underworld because his spirit of repaying a drop of water with a spring of water moved God, which enabled him to succeed.

This story inspired me throughout my childhood. I once vowed that if I ever held a high position, I would definitely carry forward our Huangquan spirit.”

“Have you developed it?” Lucifer asked.

“Half of it has been developed.” Jiang Lu answered seriously, “The spring that repays a drop of kindness with a spring of water has no chance to be developed for the time being.”

Lucifer was speechless: “It’s only Huang, right? And I know a lot about the underworld, how come I have never heard of this legend?”

“Then I don’t know.”

Jiang Lu shrugged:

“Anyway, my mom told me this. Maybe it’s something the older generation used to coax children. You know, the older generation always likes to make up some positive energy chicken soup stories for children to listen to.

Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered that during that period my mother particularly liked to play Minecraft, the game that keeps digging, so I have reason to suspect that she was taking advantage of the situation. “

“Alright, alright, stop talking about this.” Lucifer waved his hands, looking somewhat helpless: “Let’s talk about the locations. You remember the locations, right? Now go find them one by one.”

“Oh, right.” Jiang Lu closed his eyes and recalled, then nodded confidently: “I remember all the locations, and this is my happy hometown, so there will be no problems. Leave it to me.”

five minutes later.

Jiang Lu walked into a 24-hour convenience store and said to the clerk with a smile: “Hello, may I ask for directions?”

……

Comparing with the reference objects around him, Jiang Lu finally confirmed that the past half hour was not in vain.

“Where is the bag you promised to take care of?”

Lucifer asked expressionlessly, “And are you sure Huang Quan’s spirit knows how to be grateful? Why would they deliberately point us in the wrong direction if we didn’t give them money? How on earth is this kind of customs and practices related to gratitude and noble character???”

“You can’t say that.” Jiang Lu smiled awkwardly: “You gave them money, so they knew how to be grateful and pointed it out right away, right?”

“…”

“Anyway.” Jiang Lu changed the subject: “This is the first point.”

He pointed to a closed shop in front of him and was wondering how to get in, but suddenly he remembered something.

“Ok?”

“What’s wrong?” Lucifer looked at him curiously.

“Here…” Jiang Lu stroked his chin, “I have a very deep impression. Although the appearance has changed, I am sure that there used to be an old lady selling candy here. She liked me very much and gave me candy for free every time she saw me, so I would come to visit her every day after school.”

“Are you here to visit her or to eat and drink for free?” Lucifer shook his head: “I can’t say.”

“What are you saying?” Jiang Lu was inexplicably angry: “Obviously the old lady is happy about it, right?”

“Okay, okay, so how do we get in?”

Faced with Lucifer’s urging, Jiang Lu didn’t say much. He just stepped forward and pushed open the door of the shop.

The heavy chain as thick as an arm hanging on the door broke lightly, like a fragile chopstick.

Walking into the narrow flat, they found that there was nothing here, only a faint sweet smell that seemed to have been forgotten for a long time.

There was thick dust everywhere, and a few rotten wooden chairs were piled haphazardly in the corner. Jiang Lu could no longer remember whether he had sat on any of them before.

“It’s been so many years.” Jiang Lu sighed: “Grandma must have died a long time ago.”

“Grandma said thank you to me.” Lucifer pursed his lips and said, “You don’t have to say anything if you can’t speak.”

After searching the surroundings, the two did not find any valuable clues, so they had to leave.

Fortunately, there are six points in total and this is only the first one, so they are not in a hurry.

After some more asking for directions and Lucifer paying a lot of underworld currency that he wanted to take back to hell as a souvenir, they arrived at the second place.

“Where is this…” Jiang Lu was stunned again.

“What?” Lucifer looked at the plaque in front of him: “Huangquan City No. 1 Primary School, is it your alma mater?”

“Hmm…” Jiang Lu’s expression became a little strange: “Although this is also a place I often hang out, to be precise, I can’t be considered a graduate here.”

“why?”

“Because when I was in the third grade, I was secretly in the bathroom… Anyway, the dean found me and then expelled me…”

“?” Lucifer gave a thumbs up: “Young and promising.”

Chapter 464 Jiang Lu’s Trajectory

While the two were talking, the security guard on duty walked over with a vigilant look at them.

“What are you doing? What are you trying to do sneaking around in the middle of the night?”

He waved the baton in his hand with great vigor, looking like a retired veteran who could easily throw six batons in one second.

Of course, this is not enough in front of Jiang Lu and Lucifer.

But Jiang Lu had no intention of conflicting with him.

“Don’t you remember me?” Jiang Lu asked enthusiastically, “I was always late when I was a kid. Don’t you have any impression of me at all?”

The security guard felt completely unfamiliar with Jiang Lu, but after hearing him speak so seriously, he seemed to have a vague impression of him: “Is it you, kid?”

“I’m back, specially to bring some friends back to visit my alma mater.” Jiang Lu handed over a cigarette.

After the security guard took it, he changed his attitude: “It’s hard for you to be so thoughtful, but it’s too late now. The school has been closed. Come back in a few hours and it will be open by then.”

“It’s okay, we won’t go in, we’ll just take a look.”

“Okay, come back often.” Then the security guard put away his baton and went back to the security room nearby.

At this time, Lucifer said in surprise: “He has been working as a security guard here for so many years? He really has not forgotten his original intention.”

But Jiang Lu shook his head: “How is it possible? After so many years, even if the lifespan of the underworld is longer, he should have explained it long ago. I actually don’t know him at all.”

“Then you just…”

Jiang Lu explained disapprovingly: “There are always a few students in every school who are always late.”

After dealing with the security guard, Jiang Lu took Lucifer away.

The latter was surprised: “Why don’t you go in and take a look?”

Jiang Lu waved his hand: “No need, there should be nothing inside.”

This made Lucifer a little confused: “Are you sure you didn’t remember those spots wrong? That thing specifically stayed in those places and passed by them repeatedly, how could there be nothing there?”

“I’m not mistaken, and I feel…” Jiang Lu hesitated, perhaps because he felt that his guess was a little unbelievable, and finally said: “Anyway, I’ll verify it again.”

Lucifer was confused: “Verify what?”

“Anyway, follow me first.”

After saying that, Jiang Lu took Lucifer and continued to move to the next point.

Soon, they arrived at an arcade.

“Isn’t this place a place you often visit?” Lucifer asked preemptively.

But Jiang Lu did not answer, but said thoughtfully: “It really is here…”

“What do you mean?”

“Didn’t you notice that I didn’t ask for directions this time?” Jiang Lu asked back, “Before, we always asked for directions based on the features of the surrounding reference points, but this time we came here directly.”

“so what?”

“Because I found it based on the places I remember going to when I was a kid.”

Jiang Lu paused, then continued with a strange expression:

“And then I realized this was one of those spots.”

“You mean…” Lucifer showed a surprised expression: “The movement trajectory of that thing coincides with the trajectory of your life when you were a child in the underworld?”

Although Jiang Lu was basically certain in his mind, in line with the scientific research principle of seeking truth from facts, eliminating accidents and striving for excellence, he still planned to visit the remaining three points again.

“It could be a coincidence. There are three left. Let’s see first.” He said solemnly.

Noticing that his mood was beginning to change, Lucifer didn’t say anything more, but just nodded: “Yeah.”

Soon, they arrived at a martial arts school.

Jiang Lu stood at the school gate, as if he was talking to Lucifer, or as if he was talking to himself: “After being expelled, I was sent to a martial arts school to be a sports student and lived a boarding life. Without my parents to supervise me, I became more and more unscrupulous, and soon I became impotent. That period was the darkest moment of my life. I had no interest in anything until I accidentally saw an ancient book that said that if you can prove your Taoism and become an immortal, you will have the opportunity to reshape your body. So from then on, I devoted my whole heart to cultivation, and unknowingly became the number one in the underworld.”