Chapter 337

"Hoo... hoo... hoo..."

Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who almost fell down, leaned most of her body on Li Ang, and a large piece of the back of her beige gauze skirt was soaked with cold sweat.

Even though she had already broken free from Li Ang's memories, once she remembered the cold and realistic suggestion made by the thin girl, and recalled the calm expression she had when she talked about how to dispose of her corpse after her death as if she were talking about what to eat for dinner.

Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's heart still felt like it was being gouged out like Li Ang's back then, and it was being crushed and smashed by someone's own hands, so painful that she almost lost the ability to breathe.

Is this what Li Ang has been bearing?

After panting for a while, looking at Li Ang who was supporting her helplessly beside her, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who seemed to have been fished out of the water, couldn't help but ask with trembling lips:

"Li Ang, you... don't you hurt?"

"..."

Li Ang, who understood what she was asking, shook his head slightly, then glanced at the system prompt.

【Through your own observation, induction, and repeated experience, you have obtained a large amount of information about the "Black and White Bridge," and the heterochromatic badge "Materialist Soul (Crimson)" has been activated.

Due to your deep understanding of the activation rules of the "Black and White Bridge," your resistance to this anomalous object has increased significantly, and you are already able to shield against extremely deep levels of influence.】

It's impossible not to hurt. He will definitely remember this for the rest of his life.

But one is that the influence has been shielded a lot by 【Materialism】, and the other is that he knows the final result is good. Thinking more about Anna, who cleans up after her younger brother and sister every day at home and gets along well with Melanie, those pains are not so unbearable.

"It hurts... still a little bit..."

Looking at Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, whose eyes were full of shock and guilt and who clearly misunderstood the strength of his heart, Li Ang smiled a little embarrassedly, then explained:

"But once I think that I finally joined the Cleanup Bureau and didn't let things really develop to that point, Anna and the others are still waiting for me at home, and they will still leave food for me when I go back late, it's not so uncomfortable."

Is that so...

After listening to Li Ang's explanation, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma tried to substitute herself into Li Ang's perspective.

But no matter how hard she tried, the thin girl who calmly proposed to secretly throw her corpse into the sewage river to defraud the pension to support her younger brother and sister was still tearing her heart again and again.

Liar, how could this not hurt?

I just looked at your memories, and only looked at them once, and my heart hurt like a knife. In order to help me step on the white bricks, you have to relive the powerlessness and pain back then again and again, how could you not be sad?

"Don't think about it."

Looking at Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who seemed to want to say something, Li Ang thought about her situation and couldn't help but secretly pour chicken soup:

"The pain of the past has passed. Compared to what we have encountered and lost, we should look more at what we still have. The most important thing is to cherish the people in front of us."

"..."

Cherish the people in front of us... huh?

Auntie Auntie Ai Ma had heard similar advice from the red-haired Director countless times, but after sharing Li Ang's memories on the Black and White Bridge and personally experiencing his past happiness and pain.

Facing Li Ang, who lost his parents early, worked hard to pull his younger brother and sister up, took the initiative to join the Cleanup Bureau for his sister, became a cleaner with a high mortality rate, and was indeed working hard to cherish everything he had, this comfort that she had heard countless times finally walked into her heart for the first time.

"Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma?"

After looking at Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who was staring at him blankly, Li Ang let go of her palm, squatted down slightly, and said:

"There are only a few dozen steps left to get off the bridge. For these last few steps, why don't I just carry you!"

"..."

Although she subconsciously wanted to refuse, looking at Li Ang's shoulders, which were not wide but looked so reliable, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma was silent for a while, then leaned forward slightly and lay on Li Ang's back.

After her body was suspended in the air, listening to Li Ang's steady and powerful breathing, feeling the heart beating like a flame under his slightly thin back, which was constantly warming her, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's tense body completely relaxed, leaned on it with peace of mind, and reached out to gently wrap around Li Ang's neck.

Cherish the people in front of us...

Finally off the bridge...

After stepping on more than twenty black bricks in a row and walking all the way to the bottom of the bridge, Li Ang couldn't help but let out a long breath.

Although there was the shielding of 【Materialism】, so that he would not "vividly" relive the painful memories again and again, even if it was a "scratching the itch" level of painful memories, it would still be uncomfortable if scratched too much.

Walking a few more steps forward and completely out of the range of the Black and White Bridge, seeing that Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma didn't make a sound, Li Ang, who had just shown off, was embarrassed to remind her to come down, so he looked up toward the front.

What came into view was a black cliff that was so high that the top could not be seen at all. The color of this cliff, named 【Death】, became lighter as it went up. The top, which seemed not to exist, seemed to be directly connected to the gray sky of the Dead Realm.

As for the lower end of 【Death】, it was like the pitch-black earth of the Dead Realm, extremely pure black, and even the reflection was very weak, as if it didn't exist at all, with a kind of emptiness as if one would fall into the abyss if one stepped on it.

And countless bright red death-reporting crow nests were like bright red berries growing on this black earth that bent all the way from the ground to the high sky, or like a large number of bright red blood spots constantly oozing out on this pitch-black sky curtain hanging straight down from the sky, exceptionally beautiful and extremely weird.

"Seems a bit wrong..."

Squinting and looking at the black wall and the red crow nests from a distance, at the end... or the beginning of the Road of No Return, after seeing a huge door like mist, Li Ang reached out and patted Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's thigh, signaling her to look up, and then frowned slightly:

"The Director said that we just need to follow the Road of No Return all the way forward, pass the 【Black and White Bridge】 and the 【Death-Reporting Crow's Nest】, and we will see the Dog God guarding the entrance to the Dead Realm.

But now that we have passed the bridge and reached the range of the Death-Reporting Crow's Nest, and even seen the entrance, why haven't we seen that Dog God?"

"It's okay, you just keep walking forward."

After hearing Li Ang's question, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who was using the warmth coming from in front of her to resist the increasingly crazy scolding behind her, said:

"People in the Dead Realm don't like the Director very much, so she must have broken in, and the Dog God's responsibility is to guard the gate of the Dead Realm and not let the living enter the Dead Realm. It was probably beaten up by her on the way.

So we can walk a little further. If there is a three-headed puppy tied up by hair and fainted by the side of the road, it should be the Dog God in charge of guarding the door.

If we don't meet it along the way, then check the death-reporting crow nests near the entrance. After the Director knocks down the Dog God, sometimes she is afraid that she will forget where she threw it, and when she comes back, there will be no one to help open the door, so she will stuff it into the crow nest next to it."

"..."

"Oh..."