[Greek mythology] Siren

Although they promised to help, the two of them have just arrived here and are not familiar with everything here, and it doesn't mean that they can immediately deal with the river if they ask for help. Fortunately, the girl didn't give them a set time , otherwise Hades could turn around and leave immediately.

"However, although I'm not in a hurry at this time, I can faintly feel that the river has begun to become unstable." The girl squatted on the bank of the river in a very indecent posture and looked at the river. The muddy river did not reflect her I can only see some vague outlines, "When this river starts to sink, it is the beginning of the collapse of the underworld. Although I don't intend to rush you, I hope you will find a way as soon as possible, Kronos I will block you over there, you don’t need to worry.”

"Is this river aggressive?" Savis looked at the muddy river, thought for a while, and gently touched it with his hand.

"No," the girl shook her head. "It is the only 'living river' among the five rivers. It does not imprison souls. Even the water in this river can be drunk by mortals. I once gave it to some dead souls to try." However, they will not feel uncomfortable when they come into contact with these rivers. It is not like they are pulled to the bottom of the Styx River and trapped by the Styx River after touching it. It’s different.” She watched Savis’s hand touch the river and didn’t pull it back, so she knew that he was probably surprised by the touch of the river and said, “It’s the same as touching the water of other rivers. There is no difference, right?"

"No, there is still a certain difference." Savis withdrew his hand, looked at the river with a complicated expression, and told Hades, "You wait for me here." into the water.

Hades didn't have time to stop him, and saw him plunge into it, and before he fully submerged, his legs turned into fish tails, splashing a layer of waves on the water, and then disappeared.

"Savis..." Hades didn't have time to stop him, so he could only yell bitterly. He vowed to have a good chat with Savis after he came up. He had to change, every time he was frightened into a cold sweat by this guy's sudden actions.

The turbid river blocked their sight. No one knew what Xaviz did in the river after diving. Except for the splash when Xaviz plunged in at the beginning, the river is calm now. None of the girls in contact with the river knew what Savus had found inside.

Savis, who dived into the water, did not continue after swimming for a while.

He stopped in the river, and it seemed to be the same as being in the underworld. Looking around, the surroundings were all gray, but there were still rocks and plants in the underworld, but there was nothing at the bottom of the water.

But the water of the whole river is flowing.

As the girl said, this is the only "alive" river among the five rivers in the underworld, but it is precisely because this river is "alive" that it is out of place in the underworld, which symbolizes death.

This river has a strange power, which Savis realized after putting his hand into the water before. This strange power made him want to get close to him very much, and most importantly, the power bred by this river , To be able to listen to his mobilization, this feeling is exactly the same as that of the lake that resisted the harsh environment around him under his control when he was still in the space of Cronus' stomach.

The river obviously gave birth to the girl in order to disappear, but the power of the river can get close to him, so he plunged in to see what happened.

But there is nothing here. Looking around, the surrounding area is gray, and the river is bottomless. There is still a force in the dark that prevents him from going downstream. The feeling of being close but resisting is very contradictory. , he pursed his lips slightly, and swam in the river for a while, finally convinced that the river was very close to him, and its strength was enough for him to use, but there was some secret at the bottom of the river, when he wanted to swim down When you go, you will be blocked.

Xavius ​​was thinking in his heart as he went upstream.

When he emerged from the water and wanted to talk to Hades about it, he was frightened by the surrounding environment.

It was obvious that he was on the bank of the muddy river before he entered the water, but when he emerged, he unexpectedly emerged from the bottom of the Styx River.

The ferryman was not far in front of him, and it was difficult for him to deny it, after all, he had just been on his boat with Hades not long ago.

That river is actually connected to the Styx River, which is very close to the entrance of the Underworld. Could it be that the reason why the water in it flows is because it flows into this river?He swam here unconsciously from that river?

Just when he was trying to find a way to go back, he saw a person walking by the river bank.

The ferryman slowly rowed the boat in front of the man, and the man boarded the boat without a sound, his serious face fit the atmosphere of the underworld very well.Xavius ​​sneered in his heart, a master of the god world would actually fit in with the atmosphere of the underworld, so he had to do everything possible to resist the urge to go out and tell Kronos to just stay in the underworld.

But Cronus came earlier than expected. He didn't expect that they had just arrived in the underworld with Cronus' back foot.

But because of the girl's promise and they knew that Tartarus was resting, Xavius ​​was not in a hurry for a while.

Xavius ​​sank slowly, lying flat in the middle of the river and looking at the river bank. He hadn't noticed it before, but now after he sank slowly, he realized that he really swam into the Styx without knowing it, the Styx There is a river bottom, and there are many dead souls imprisoned at the bottom of the river. These were pulled down when trying to cross the river alone, and some were pulled down by unwilling souls in the water when they were unconsciously floating on the bank of the river. Right now, there are many dead souls struggling in pain on the river bed, the more they dive, the clearer their messy cries.

It was also because of this that he discovered that the Styx, which imprisoned countless dead souls, let him come and go freely. You must know that the four rivers in the underworld are poisonous. No matter whether it is a human or a god, it is difficult to resist its toxicity. Many gods After being corroded by the River Styx, I tried everything I could to find a way to save it. Even if the corroded flesh was dug out, the newly grown flesh would still be rotten, because what the river corroded was not the body—the body is important to the gods. It doesn't make much sense at all, after all, their bodies can change-it's their souls.

However, Xavis, who was belatedly aware of it, swam several times in the river inconceivably before he was sure that this river did not harm him, and even had a certain intimacy with him like the fifth river before.

It can't be because he is a sea monster, so even the "dead" river is very kind to him, right?Xavius ​​thought suspiciously, and then looked up again. The ferryman carried Cronus to the middle of the river, and then... stopped?

Savis swam to a place a little farther from the middle of the river, and then poked his head out of the river. From a distance, he could indeed see the boat parked in the river, and the ferryman on the boat had disappeared without a trace.

Kronos himself also noticed something was wrong, he was not in a hurry, but sat quietly on the boat, and asked in a deep voice: "Caron, what you have to do is to carry people across the river, you shouldn't do anything to leave people behind. The move on the river, it's very stupid."

A young but lifeless voice sounded on the river, without any waves in the tone: "The underworld is about to usher in a ruler, and the ferryman must prevent the living from entering the underworld. Although the ruler has not yet obtained a new godhead, I will not violate the underworld now. I will not help you enter the underworld, nor will I prevent you from entering the underworld, so you can do it yourself..." As he spoke, his voice gradually died down, and the entire river calmed down again.

Kronos, who was left alone on the river, did not get angry, but said in surprise: "The underworld has never had a ruler since it appeared, how can you say that a ruler is about to appear now... Could it be someone who has lived in the underworld for a long time?" The god has touched a certain key, and is about to get the godhead of Hades?"

The duty of the ferryman is to send the dead to the underworld and block the steps of the living. Before the underworld had no rulers, the ferrymen only needed to send everyone who came to the underworld, because there were very likely someone who could Get the godhead of Hades to become the ruler of the underworld, and once the underworld thinks that its master has appeared, the ferryman needs to intercept the footsteps of the living.

I just don’t know why Caron would carry the man into the middle of the river before leaving him behind. Although Cronus’s godhead is damaged, it should be no problem to go from the middle of the river to the opposite bank, unless the Styx prevents him from passing .

But how is this possible.

Xavius ​​shrugged and dived without Cronus noticing, and then swam in the same direction as he came and went. Although he didn't know why the Styx was associated with the "living" river, he Between these two rivers, I really felt the same feeling that these two rivers gave me—just like the feeling that the lake in the space gave me, closely connected, very comfortable, just like the one where they were originally one. Feel.

He swam forward for a long time, and when the cries and screams from the bottom of the river disappeared, the bottom of the river became bottomless again, and the river bed disappeared.

He poked his head out of the river, and before he could react, he was pulled ashore by Hades, and he went back before he even had time to tail. He was hugged by Hades, and it took him a long time to realize what was going on. .

"Is there any discomfort?" Hades sat on the ground, let Xavius ​​lean on his chest, "You have been diving for a long time, I am very worried." If Xaviz does not come back, he will go down to find someone up.

"I'm fine, this river gives me a very strange feeling." He explained in detail how he felt after diving and how he went to the Styx for no apparent reason, and met Cronus on the Styx , and then asked the girl who had been sitting on the bank, "The water in this river is alive, it flows into the River Styx, so where is the source?"

The girl looked at him with a complicated expression, and said after a long time: "No, I have lived here for so long, and I never knew the source and focus of this river. At least, I never knew that it was connected to the Styx."

As soon as the words came out, Savis and Hades looked at each other, and saw the doubts in each other's eyes.