Sanzu River Customs Post

 As I said in the introduction, in order for the Sanzu River crossings to work smoothly and smoothly, the Sanzu Riverfront had a large maintenance staff, even its own IT department.  There is a small theme park on the approaches to the Sanzu River embankment.  A person who came to such a park could see all nine circles of hell that a sinner goes through.  However, since the park was Asian, the circles of hell were made with an eye to the east.
 The IT department is located on the territory of the park, in the main administrative building.  The main function of the IT department was small announcements, which sounded with a certain frequency under the arches of the park.  These announcements were heard by all visitors.  Unlike those announcements that were disguised as the noise of nature and which were heard only by people tuned to this wave, the announcements that sounded under the arches of the park were heard by everyone.  The park staff, like the rest of the staff at the Sanzu Riverfront, had a clear purpose.  Their task was to convey to the guests who came to the park the main idea:
 "Do not sin, and your life now and after death will be beautiful"
 That is, in this park it was clearly shown what awaits a person after death, depending on what kind of life he led during his lifetime.  Of course, there were ordinary carousels in the park, various themed quests, you could even celebrate your birthday here, but I have already voiced the main theme and idea of ;;;;this park to you.  Terrifying figures stood throughout the park.  There was a special pavilion where one could see what happens to a person after death if he caused pain to others during his lifetime.  However, such parks were not new.  Many countries in Asia have such parks: in Thailand, China, Korea, Japan and so on.  However, the park near the riverfront of the Sanzu River was certainly special and I will return to this park in the pages of our history from time to time.
 Of course, ordinary people did not even suspect that the beautiful embankment, which could be accessed directly from the park, was the Sanzu River embankment. However, people saw an ordinary river in front of them.  However, ordinary human eyes could not see the afterlife bridge.  The bridge for people is located a little further.  I want to clarify, the human river was not wide and not very deep, except for the bridge, it was possible to cross this river on small river buses made in the shape of a dragon, or on a cable car in the cab of the trailer.  Now you know about as much about the Sanzu River Park as I do now.  My brain, the brain of the author of this book, will learn what I do not know now, in the process of writing the book with you.
 I wrote it rather confusingly, but I will not correct it.
 We pass to the customs post.
 The dead man, who found himself in front of the palace of the customs post, did not know what was ahead of him.  The man, of course, did not know how he would cross the Sanzu River, wade, swim, or cross the bridge.  There was also a fourth way to cross the Sanzu River.  For people who crossed the river in this way, a special boat with a carrier was prepared.  In European mythology, the carrier Charon transported dead people across the river Styx.  Here on the Sanzu River there was also such a service, but it was provided to special people.
 However, we will talk about these people later, now my task is to give you a complete picture and tell you about the customs post of the Sanzu River embankment, about the theme park, and also tell a little about the manager, who had a huge responsibility for the smooth operation of the Sanzu River customs post.
 The manager was a person, but he was, as you understand, a special person. Firstly, this person had to have good organizational skills, he had to get along well both with the world of the living and with the other world.  I have already said that he had a huge team under his command.  Apart from the manager, there was not a single living person here, but ghosts, villains, heroes - all who were people during their lifetime, being here all twenty-four hours a day side by side, sometimes quarreled with each other.  However, there is nothing special about this, because these creatures were once people, and even turning into undead, they still had some qualities of people, some microscopic particles of memories of their past.  That is, among themselves, they behaved simply like a team of people who were forced to meet every day and perform certain functions.  The manager had a huge responsibility, however, I have already said this.  Among other things, the manager had to deal with living people. Every day he signed some documents, very often he had to go to official offices and so on, he kept financial records for the theme park, paid taxes, etc.  The manager has already written reports to his superiors many times that he needs an assistant, and preferably even two, from among living people, but so far there has been no response to his reports.
 So, back to the customs post, or rather, to the customs palace.  The Palace of Customs was divided into sectors.  There was a bathhouse where the dead people, if desired, could wash themselves and be cleansed of minor sins, there was a hotel where the deceased person could rest before setting off on his last journey, but this was not necessary.  Some dead people went to the customs post immediately, and some needed time to think and rest.  Well, and, of course, the main hall here was a customs post.
 To make the transition easy, male customs officers appeared before the women, and, accordingly, beautiful girls appeared before the men - customs officers of the underworld.  As you understand, passports were not needed here, the deceased were asked to put their hands on the glass separating the customs officer from the one who was ready to cross over to the other side now.  People put their palms on, and the customs officer read the full information about his life from the palm of the person with a scanner. Immediately, information from the scanner entered the afterlife computer, and the person was given a coupon.  According to this coupon, he went to the transition that was indicated on the ticket.  Sometimes a deceased person had to wait in line and listen carefully to the announcements that sounded under the vaults of the customs palace.  If a person was absent-minded and for some reason did not hear that his turn had come up, then the manager of the hall would approach him.  This year, as the war raged on the earth, the dead people had to wait a long time for their turn.  Here, in the customs palace, time certainly did not have such power as in the outside world, but still, those who died still had a clear idea of ;;time.  The built-in clock, which was supposed to stop after death, in some people was still ticking and counting the time, and therefore, if you had to wait a long time, people began to get nervous and turn to the ash managers.  If a person began to get nervous, then he was sent to the rest room.  There, a person could watch a movie, listen to music, or even play computer games.  The computer of the afterlife already knew all his preferences in advance, since by attaching a scanner to a person’s hand, the customs officer gave the computer access to every piece of the deceased’s memories.  As a result of this, people now could listen to exactly the music that they loved during their lifetime, watch all the films that they wanted to watch for a long time and even, as I said, play their favorite computer games.  When the turn of a person approached, he, rested, appeared where the stewards were waiting for him to see him on his last journey.  The stewards treated all people equally, it did not matter to them who was in front of them - a sinner or a saint.  The administrators did not now have the task of dividing people into good and bad.  This will be handled by other officials who have been waiting for people at the end of each crossing.  The customs hall stewards, as I have already said, treated all people equally, even, I can clarify, they treated people with a certain tenderness, caution and compassion.  Because the person who found himself here, in the customs hall, was still full of memories, pain and anxieties.  And the task of the administrators of the customs hall was to ensure that people reached their crossing without losses and tears.
 So, the person safely passed from the customs hall to his transition.  Well, it's kind of like at the airport, when people go through the passages to the plane.  If we follow this analogy, then at certain transition points, employees in uniform were waiting for deceased people and supervised them all the way from point A to point B.
 In general, here, in the customs hall, order reigned.
 It could not have been otherwise.  The people who found themselves in this place were still full of rebellious thoughts, memories, pain, fear, and the task of the manager of the hall was to lead these people to where they were already expected.
 And so the man approached the goal for which he was prepared from the very moment he entered the customs palace.
 The man was met by an old man and an old woman.  These two, for many centuries, performed the same functions and were quite stubborn.
 The manager spoke to them many times and asked them to keep up with the times, but the old man and the old woman did not want to change, and they pestered the frightened man in their centuries-old appearance.
 The old woman took off the man's shirt, the old man hung this shirt on a scale tree to measure the man's sins and decide exactly how he would cross the Sanzu River, in accordance with his sins.