Chapter 318: 318 Death-Reporting Crows

"Caw! Caw!"

Hearing the shrill crowing from above, Li Ang instinctively looked toward the sound, but what met his eyes was not the familiar blue sky and white clouds, but a vast expanse of hollow, deep gray filled with the sense of deathly silence.

The pale sun, without a trace of warmth, hung in the sky filled with pitch-black clouds like the pupil of a dying old man, quietly watching the turbulent, muddy river below.

Above this murky and noisy great river, a road paved with countless old bones, shimmering with a faint yellow within the pure white, was carrying one wailing and grieving dead soul after another, winding toward the deep and quiet depths of the Dead Realm.

"This is the Dead Realm, the place where everyone comes after death."

After glancing at Li Ang, who walked out of the crocodile's mouth carrying Auntie Ai Ma and was observing the Dead Realm with shock, the red-haired Bureau Chief observed the situation of the three of them while instructing:

"After you come out of this crocodile's mouth, it's equivalent to your physical bodies entering the Dead Realm. There should be some crows flying over later. Remember not to attack those crows; just stand quietly in place."

"Ah, okay!"

After nodding in a slightly dazed manner, thinking of Senior Auntie Ai Ma who was still unconscious behind him, Li Ang hurriedly asked for help:

"Bureau Chief, Senior Auntie Ai Ma is seriously injured..."

"Rest assured, she's fine."

Looking at Auntie Ai Ma's soul, which was shimmering with traces of emerald, the red-haired Bureau Chief breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Although the Goddess of Wealth dealt a heavy blow, Auntie Ai Ma's soul is very resilient and will be fine after resting for a while. Only the part of her body that has become emerald is a bit troublesome... How about you? How do you feel?"

"I have no problems."

Hearing the red-haired Bureau Chief's words, Li Ang shook his head slightly, then subconsciously reached out to touch the two small bald spots on the top of his head.

Although he suffered quite a few injuries in this operation, he had already healed those with the 【Infected Blood Band】. Only these two small patches of hair that were squeezed off after horns grew on his head couldn't be restored by the 【Infected Blood Band】, so if he had to say, this should be his only injury this time.

"Bureau Chief, he has no problems, but I have problems, and big ones at that!"

Just as Li Ang was touching his hair, a head suddenly lifted from the depths of the crocodile's mouth behind him. The lazy young man lying on the Crocodile God's tongue said with a face full of misery:

"More than half of the bones in my body are gone, and now only my neck and butt can move. Can you..."

"This is also called an injury?"

After glancing at Tang Mu, the red-haired Bureau Chief waved her hand indifferently:

"You must have already set up the return ritual in advance, right? Isn't it enough to just resurrect once from this kind of injury?"

"It is enough... but it hurts a bit..."

"Oh my, it's just a matter of slitting your throat; don't be so delicate, you're a grown man!"

After dismissing the lazy young man in three sentences, the red-haired Bureau Chief took away the hair tied to the Crocodile God's neck, then walked behind Li Ang, took Auntie Ai Ma from his back, held her horizontally, and urged:

"Come, come, don't stay in this crocodile's mouth; let's walk outside!"

"Oh..."

Following the red-haired Bureau Chief's request, Li Ang walked out of the mouth of the Crocodile God that had brought him to the Dead Realm. Before Li Ang could ask why she wanted him to come to the Dead Realm, a large number of noisy and shrill crowing sounds rang out again.

Unlike the few sounds just now, the crowing this time was dense and chaotic. When Li Ang looked closely, he discovered that about six or seven hundred red-eyed crows were flying over from the distance, and unlike the other crows before, they didn't fly straight into the depths of the Dead Realm but circled above the three of them.

"This kind of bird is called a Death-Reporting Crow, and it's a pet kept by one of the masters of the Dead Realm. Whenever a newly dead soul appears, they will fly up from where they perch, open their eyes, and fly all the way to the deepest part of the Dead Realm, announcing the birth of the dead."

After briefly explaining the significance of these crows, the red-haired Bureau Chief continued with deep meaning:

"And if there is a living person who hasn't died yet and enters the Dead Realm with their physical body intact, their Death-Reporting Crow won't fly into the depths of the Dead Realm, but will directly find the person it is watching, circle above them, or even land directly on their shoulder."

"That's not right, is it?"

Looking up at the red-eyed crows circling in the sky, Li Ang said with some surprise:

"There are only three of us, or four if you count Senior Tang Mu who hasn't come out yet, but there are almost seven hundred crows above, right?"

"To be precise, it should be six hundred and sixty-six."

Glancing at Auntie Ai Ma in her arms and confirming that she hadn't woken up and wouldn't hear her words, the red-haired Bureau Chief explained softly:

"You should have already heard people talk about Auntie Ai Ma's background. Back then, her clansmen launched a coup, wanting to overthrow the current royal family. As a result, because someone tipped them off, the entire clan except for Auntie Ai Ma was executed. The execution ground was set up at the entrance of the Baohua Manor, staining that redwood tree red."

"Her immortal body was also born in that execution."

"Over six hundred clansmen were executed, leaving her with over six hundred lives that could be replenished. One must kill her six hundred and sixty-six times in a row within a day to completely kill her."

"And while she inherited the lives of those clansmen, she also inherited their Death-Reporting Crows. These Death-Reporting Crows above us are actually all here for her."

"..."

Is that so...

After hearing about Senior Auntie Ai Ma's past experiences, Li Ang couldn't help but fall into a brief silence. Although he had long had similar guesses about Senior Auntie Ai Ma's immortal body, he was still filled with shock upon suddenly hearing such a bloody fact.

And during the time Li Ang was silent, the red-haired Bureau Chief was seriously looking him up and down, over and over again, making Li Ang feel uncomfortable all over, and he couldn't help but ask actively:

"Why are you looking at me like this? Is there something on me?"

"It's not that. The reason I'm looking at you like this is precisely because there is nothing on you."

After giving Li Ang a meaningful look, the red-haired Bureau Chief asked:

"Li Ang, where is your Death-Reporting Crow?"

"???"

Being asked by the red-haired Bureau Chief, Li Ang was slightly startled and asked back in confusion:

"There are so many Death-Reporting Crows flying above us; isn't mine among them?"

"I just said, all the Death-Reporting Crows above our heads are here for Auntie Ai Ma. Neither yours nor mine are among them."

Staring closely at Li Ang's eyes, the red-haired Bureau Chief slowed her speech and said seriously:

"When my Li Ang value reached 60 points and my status was on par with a True God, my Death-Reporting Crow lost the ability to sense my death and flew directly into the depths of the Dead Realm with its eyes closed."

"But your Li Ang value is only about 6 points, and you haven't gotten rid of the Death-Reporting Crow's ability to sense death, so your Death-Reporting Crow should still be perching at the entrance of the Dead Realm."

"..."

"Li Ang, can you tell me, why is it that you clearly entered the Dead Realm with your physical body, but your Death-Reporting Crow has never come over?" ===== CHAPTER 319 =====