Legendary Management Agency

Chapter 1: Dead?

Looking at the blood and twisted limbs of the bodies on the bus, Dudgeon knew that he might really be dead.

Now he stood lightly outside the bus, his illusory figure swaying in the wind, his helpless eyes constantly gazing around.

Surrounded by medical staff and curious passers-by.

”AM I dead?“

A moving truck suddenly lost control and skidded sideways at a 45-degree angle, crashing into the middle of the bus just in front of the left front of the truck, killing Dudgeon with a very precise hit. The truck did not even have a single injured person besides Dudgeon , the dead victim.

"How...!" Dudgeon didn't know what to say. Could there be such a bad way to die in this world?

What were I now? A ghost?

Dudgeon's body is stuck in the deformed bus, and the medical staff are trying to extract it after confirming that the injured person is dead.

Dudgeon couldn't bear to watch anymore. The scene was like killing a mosquito on the curtain, and even though it couldn't be cleaned up, you still had to scold it a few times.

Before Dudgeon could accept the fact of his death, a girl's voice came floating from the sky, which seemed unreal.

“Hello? Hello? Can you hear me, soul?”

Dudgeon was shocked. Was someone talking to him? After all, it was his first time dying, and he didn't have any experience. He didn't know what was happening, so he froze in place and didn't dare to answer.

"The sound seems to be poor. Can you use that one, Sister BaiMo?"

“I'll try. Just a minute.”

Two voices appeared in the sky and started to chat with each other.

After a few seconds, the girl called "BaiMo" also spoke up.

“That soul, the one outside the bus, can you hear me? Don't move, you'll be in trouble if you leave."

Dudgeon was now 100% sure that someone was talking to him, but where were they?

“Damn, it still doesn't seem to work. He can't hear me.”

"Let's drive faster then."

Who are these two people? What are they doing?

According to my countless movie experiences, people who make you stand still without any reason are not good people, so it's better to slip away.

Just as a gust of wind came, Dudgeon adjusted his body shape and floated with the wind.

Before he had flown for three seconds, a dilapidated minivan suddenly fell from the sky and landed in front of him.

“Oh, my God!”

Dudgeon almost got sent away for a second time by this sudden change. Does the van have a flying mode?

“Hooray, I caught up.”

Inside the van sat two girls, both wearing work clothes, one black and one white. The car stopped in front of Dudgeon and automatically opened the door.

“Hello, we have been waiting for a long time. Please get on the bus.”

The girl in black who was driving spoke up.

Dudgeon was really confused. What was going on? The black and white girl, the Black and White Devils ?

Is it true that people who die suffer the same fate as in the legend?

But this broken van, with its silly-looking Black and White Devils, is really the legendary messenger of the underworld?

Dudgeon was unable to roast. If the van could fly, he could not run away. Thinking of this, Dudgeon got on the bus silently.

After looking around , Dudgeon found that this van was even more broken than it looked. The most ridiculous thing was that there was a sticker on the top of the radio, which said "Please take care of your own belongings".

As soon as Dudgeon settled down, the girl in black who was driving asked：

“Hello, what are the last four digits of your ID card?”

After hearing this, Dudgeon felt something was wrong.

“WTF? Is it a ride-hailing car? And who would ride in a van with the last digits of their ID card?

The girl in white sitting in the front passenger seat quickly intervened and said, "Oh, we are also following the process. The Soul Administration Bureau has just issued new regulations. After all, there have been many cases of people losing their souls after taking the ferry bus recently, and the higher-ups are very concerned about this matter.

Dudgeon was speechless and pointed at the girl in white and said, "But aren't you the ferry? Isn't it you who caused the soul to fly away??"

The girl in black didn't like to hear this, and she directly said, "That's different. We are using a regular car from a regular company, with complete documents. There are also many illegal cars that steal jobs now."

Pulling ghosts and taking jobs from black cars?

Dudgeon was holding her forehead, never expecting to feel so tired after death.

"Okay, okay, the last number is 2203," Dudgeon muttered.

"Okay, Mr. Dudgeon , right? Would you like to follow the navigation or can you show me the way?"

”How can I possibly know the way!”

"Oh, just kidding, Mr. Dudgeon is quite quick-tempered.

“……”

Dudgeon stopped talking, because he couldn't make sense of these two girls for a while.

The van turned around in place and slowly left the ground. Dudgeon finally turned back to look at his dead body, which still hasn't been removed.

"Are you the Black and White Devils?"

Dudgeon asked, looking at the van that was taking off.

"Yes, and no," said the girl in white. "The Black and White Devils are not two individuals, but two families. People from both of our families work as Hell messenger, but we cannot represent the entire Black and White Devils."

"So it's like this..."

I never thought I could learn such new knowledge after death. Dudgeon silently shook his head, but what's the use of learning these things?

"Let me confirm your document information with you," the girl in white took out a folder and flipped out a piece of A4 paper. "Dudgeon, male, 26 years old, Han Chinese, a state-owned enterprise workshop employee, cause of death as follows--"

The girl in white obviously fell silent when she read this.

“What happened? What was the cause of death?” Dudgeon asked.

"Yo." The girl in white looked at the file and said, "Maybe your cause of death can apply for a spot for you to die in vain.”

“No, I don't understand. How can my death in a car accident be considered a wrongful death?”

"Because it's not you who will die today," the girl in black who was driving spoke up.

"Yes, the man destined to die today is Sharon, the old man you tried to give your seat to before you died.“

If the girl in white hadn't mentioned it, Dudgeon would have almost forgotten that he had intended to offer his seat to an old man a minute before he died, but the old man didn't accept it and walked straight to the back of the bus.

“Sharon, aged 36, 39, 42, and 55, has r***d and murdered women and escaped legal sanctions. His current soul-summoning value has reached 97%. In other words, even if he had not been killed by the truck, he would not have survived today.”

"Great," said the girl in black, "Such people should die early. I know someone in the hell of NiJing, and I will give him a good look."

"Is this the point?" Dudgeon couldn't sit still. "The point shouldn't be that the old man will definitely die today, but why I will die today?"

"Well, it's inevitable," the girl in white said as she flipped through the information.

"Sharon should accept your offer to give up his seat and then die on this bus. The reason he didn't accept your offer to give up his seat is because he saw a beautiful girl in the back of the bus, but theoretically that girl should not be in that position in this time and space. We will investigate this matter thoroughly."

”I don't understand.“ Dudgeon shook his head.

”I know, and I don't want you to understand. “The girl in white said, ”Say something you can understand. If you are judged to have died unjustly, you will be blessed. There are two welfare policies for unjustly dead people...“

”welfare policies……？“

“Yes, the first one is that if the dead have any attachment to the world, they can choose their own reincarnation family, including the rich and famous, but they have to queue up and get a lottery number, because the number of sought-after families is limited...”

“The second is that if the dead have no attachment to the world, they can apply to become a Hell messenger or heaven messenger. However, it is too difficult to enter the system now. Most of the people in the system are related to the government. You can first work as a contract worker and wait for opportunities. The welfare benefits are similar.”

Dudgeon was silent for a moment after listening to it, and said, "This familiar feeling, am I really dead..."

The car was speeding through the air, and the two girls in black and white were really calm and self-possessed all the way. The girl in black was yawning while driving, and the girl in white was taking selfies with her phone. If it weren't for the fact that she could still see her blurred body when she looked down, Dudgeon felt like she was hitchhiking with strangers.

"We're approaching Fengdu City, Sister BaiMo. Let him fill out the form."

“That is right.”

The girl in white took out a stack of papers from the folder and handed them to Dudgeon.

“Although the leaders have not yet made a final decision on whether you are a wrongful death case, based on our experience, it is likely that you are. Please sign the wrongful death welfare policy application form first.”

Dudgeon took the document and looked at it.

"Regarding alleviating the grievances of the unjustly deceased and creating a harmonious afterlife, the latest interim welfare policy for the unjustly deceased..." Dudgeon silently read the beginning of the document, "I never dreamed it would be so formal."

Turning a few pages back, Dudgeon indeed saw the two choices that the Black and White girl had previously mentioned. Now, what Dudgeon has to do is choose one of the two options.

"Of course, the second generation of the rich." Dudgeon barely hesitated and quickly wrote his name with a brush.

Dudgeon is not just nostalgic for the mortal world. He has never even touched a girl's hand. After graduation, he has been working in the workshop all day, not only getting tired to death, but also not saving much money. If he could go back again, he would definitely want to have a carefree life in the mortal world.

After signing his name, he looked up and saw that it was already dark outside. Dudgeon clearly remembered that it was afternoon, so why was it so dark? Before he could react, the van suddenly drove straight down and plunged into the ground, causing Dudgeon to scream in horror.

After a short period of darkness, a large space appeared in front of them.

A huge ancient city stood impressively underground.

From a distance, the city was suffused with ghost lights, and the lights of every household were all of that faint green light. The city was surrounded by a pale green river, in which countless souls were constantly stirring.

The van did not stop, but drove straight towards the city gate at a high speed.

In a moment, the car drove to the gate of the city, and a huge stone gate 300-400 meters high stood in front of them, with seven big characters written on it:

"The Hell of the Pyloric Gate!"

Dudgeon was stunned by the magnificent scene and didn't expect it to be real.

"We're here. Just a minute. We need to find a parking space first." The girl in black said as she drove the van around.

At this time, Dudgeon saw many vans like theirs coming and going in the sky, each of which was occupied by two people, one black and one white. Those people in black and white, male or female, old or young, came and went in an endless stream, making the entire ancient city like a huge trading hub.

Looking ahead, there are at least tens of thousands of people queuing to enter the "Ghost Gate".

“Um... no, I want to ask, since you are public officials, don't you have a parking space here?”

"You're too naively. Do you know how many people die naturally or unnaturally every day? Look at the shuttle cars coming and going in the sky, where can we park so many cars?"

Dudgeon nodded silently. It turned out that hell also has its difficulties.

After searching for more than ten minutes, they finally found a parking space. The three people got off the car and joined the long queue of people. "Dudgeon, now is a good opportunity to tell you about our tour route," the girl in black said as she took out a map from her shoulder bag and handed it to Dudgeon. She pointed to the lower part of the map with her delicate hand, "We are now at the Ghost Gate, which is the entrance to hell. The whole hell is surrounded by the River of Forgetfulness. To cross the River of Forgetfulness, you must go through the Bridge of No Return, and before passing the Bridge of No Return, you must walk through the Yellow Spring Road. At the entrance of the Yellow Spring Road, remember to go to the office of Mengpo and drink Mengpo's tea. There is a summer limited flavor of Mengpo's tea now. After that, it's the Wheel of Rebirth. You will also see the Ten Kings of Hell..."

Silence.

Long silence.

"What's wrong? Did I not explain well?" The girl in black felt that there was a problem with her explanation when she saw Dudgeon didn't say anything for a long time.

"I mean," Dudgeon said with gritted teeth, "are we playing or on a tour?"

"Huh?" The girl in black was puzzled.

"I'm dead! I just died!" After seeing the Ghost Gate, Dudgeon seemed to really accept it. No matter what he encountered in the Ghost Gate, his life was already over and he couldn't go back. "It's already good that I'm not feeling sad, how can you still introduce the hellish attractions like on a spring tour?"

"HeiMo, I think he's right. We don't need to introduce it to him anymore, and he's a wrongful death, so he may not have to go through the Yellow Spring Road." The girl in white walked forward and said to the girl in black, "We've been around too many dead people, but this is his first time."

Dudgeon looked at the two girls in front of him and didn't know what to say. His mood was very complex now, with many different feelings mixed together. He wanted to get angry, but the two girls in front of him hadn't done anything wrong.

"Are we not going to meet again?" Dudgeon asked.

"If you're going to be reincarnated, then you have to go through the Yellow Spring Road, and we won't meet again. The Yellow Spring Road is a one-way road that can't be turned back, but if you choose to be a hellish official, then not only do you not have to go through the Yellow Spring Road, but we may also become colleagues." The girl in white said.

"Then this should be our last meeting." Dudgeon said, "It may be redundant, but can I ask your names?"

"Of course," The girl in black bowed and said like a medieval knight, "Black Devils of Fan family Fan Xiaoguo."

"White Devils of Xie family Xie Jin."