[Greek mythology] The troubles of Adonis

After placing His Royal Highness Styx in a room adjacent to the main hall, the twin gods came together for business, and went directly to the meeting hall. Unfortunately, they had to go to the sleeping hall, but they were guarded at the door The attendants were blocked.

"The two majesties are busy, please come back."

The answer, which was originally somewhat ambiguous, became a hard stone after Bai Yang's avatar came out of it with a single glance.As if to guard against these two men's intrusion, they looked serious and stared at them with great vigilance, while their straight waists blocked the door tightly.

In the dormitory, together with the queen of the underworld, who rarely interferes in the affairs of the underworld... Apart from the usual intimacy with London during the newlyweds, what other things can there be to be busy with?

Even if the loyal guards are not so wary of them, unless they want to accept the torture of pushing the boulder in vain with Sisyphus, the cunning liar who deceived the god of death, they will never be favored by the rare spring of love His Majesty interrupted rashly when he was deeply involved.

Hypnos and Thanadus exchanged helpless glances, and returned in defeat.

Fortunately, it is not too urgent, just two arrangements that need to be ruled by His Majesty.First of all, as one of the many bloodlines left by Apollo, the god of light, Ion and his mother, who was lucky enough to spend a few nights with the god of heaven, were angrily hacked and killed by the fooled adoptive father. Dus introduced Hades.After the god of death listened to their confession, he vaguely had a bad feeling—just listening to the description, the mysterious god who directly led to their execution was most likely His Majesty.

What made the god of death hesitate was not how important their identities were. Even if his father Apollo came to the underworld, he would not be able to win half of the right to speak in the kingdom of the dead, let alone these two people who were not even granted eternal life. , There is only a little sporadic blood in the body, so it looks a little special.

I was only worried that His Majesty's involvement might be due to other arrangements, fearing that the original intention would be hindered. After discussing carefully with the God of Sleep, the God of Death decided to postpone the matter until His Majesty personally decides.

As for another matter, the beloved daughter of Demeter who is in charge of agriculture, the goddess of spring, Persephone, claimed to be ordered by the king of the gods, and came outside the gate of the underworld as a messenger.Considering that Hades is currently fighting against the Olympus family, they let the three-headed dog stop her outside, and they have to wait for His Majesty to judge.

The scene in the sleeping hall is not the overflowing spring love imagined by the twin gods, not only is it half charming, but if it is seen by any god of the underworld, it will be a very strange story——

The beautiful and weak Ming back stood with arms folded expressionlessly, while the usually majestic and cold Hades bowed his head silently, but his own coldness faded a bit, rather like a melancholy poet suffering from no pen in hand , and like a sad lover who has failed in courtship, sitting helplessly at the end of the bed, so that the Empress Dowager, who is much smaller than herself, can fully look down on her.

Adonis took a few steps absent-mindedly, and finally made a final decision: "Since Styx is the god of the underworld, it is more suitable to stay, and I will go to Sappho for a while according to my original plan, and I believe you can also take care of me." Good for him."

Although he has a strong reluctance to give up his newborn son, there is no reason to forgive the culprit who made this big mistake.The cruelty of the plant god once caused Aphrodite, who admired him, to suffer, and now it is Pluto's turn to reluctantly taste the feeling of being left out.

Adonis thought that Hades, who has always been very domineering and stubborn about his problems, would use some tricks to delay time, and even prepared for it. Unexpectedly, although Pluto looked at the dark clouds, he acted very reasonable. He accepted it: "Yeah."

"In this case," the progress was so smooth that it not only surprised Adonis, but also somewhat doubted it.In order to prevent Pluto from coming up with a countermeasure, he simply set off: "I'll leave first."

Hades stood up as a matter of course: "I'll see you off."

Adonis was guarding against him making a similar reaction, seeing that it really happened, he was not angry at all, but felt a sense of relief as expected, and quickly glared at him: "No need."

As the only consort of Pluto, the queen of Pluto who witnessed the conclusion of the marriage contract with the eyes of Styx River, he has more power in the kingdom of the dead than it is on the surface, second only to Hades, and he can justly enjoy everything offered to the god of Pluto The sacrifice is another ruler respected by the undead, but he never uses it; and in private, even the King of Hades listens to him... Compared with this great power, the opening to kill people The passage of the world is an extremely simple matter.

Hades made no secret of his disappointment this time: "Oh."

"Since you agree," Adonis said helplessly, "let go of my hand." I don't know when I pulled it.

Hades did as he was told, but sighed deeply at the same time.

Adonis trembled in his heart at first, and then became more vigilant, fearing that if he stayed for a while, he would be moved by Hades, who was getting shrewd, cunning, and difficult to deal with. He hurriedly walked out, and reprimanded: " Before you try to hold me back with an affectionate sigh and resent me for turning a blind eye, you might as well reflect on who created this situation. There is no mysterious reason why I feel angry and leave temporarily. It is all because of you. It’s because you lied to me with clever words. If a small punishment can make you behave a little bit better, it would be worthwhile for me.”

This kind of separation actually made Adonis feel uncomfortable, not wanting to really shake the determination he finally made, he opened the entrance to the human world without hesitation, and left without looking back.

Just because he resisted not looking back, he didn't realize that Pluto, who had been quietly following him before, disappeared at some point.

Distraught, Adonis returned to Sappho, where he and Hades had been here not long ago, and as soon as he entered the woods, he saw a deer with its head down and gnawing grass in a daze.Hearing the wailing of the tender grass, he instinctively drew out his bow and arrow to drive it away, or shoot it, but unexpectedly, it came to nothing.

Only then did he realize that he walked too hastily, and even forgot the most convenient longbow in the underground bedroom.

Adonis couldn't help smiling wryly, leaned over and picked up a few small stones at hand, aimed at the deer's eyes and was about to throw them there. It seemed to sense great danger just now when it was happily enjoying the delicious food in the grass. He raised his head suddenly, looked around blankly, clearly did not find the experienced hunter who was completely hidden in the forest, and still fled quickly.

It suddenly became alert, which was beyond Adonis' expectation, but he was not very interested in hunting at this time, so he didn't take this little failure to heart. After hesitating for a while, he went to the place where the myrrh tree was. Going deep, it is probably the most peaceful place in Sappho.

Now even more weird things happened—the flowers and plants that always rushed to him enthusiastically in the past, only bowed reservedly, and stopped trying to talk to him; The nymph that peeped at him under the cover of the bushes was nowhere to be seen; even when he whistled to call his former good friend Hoth, it came dashing forward with vigor, but stopped at a distance, as if he The location is like a terrible beast.

Adonis was perplexed at first, but then gradually came to his senses, and finally followed the unintentional guidance of the sunflower who had a chubby yellow face but thought his movements were stealthy enough to tilt his head to look at him, unbelievably He tentatively touched the waist belt covered by the black cloak.

——Pinched the shrunken version of Hades that smuggled over close to it in one fell swoop.