[Greek mythology] Queen of the Underworld

Hermes was temporarily left in the underworld, but even so, he didn't seem to be in any hurry.

He should have found a way to send all this information to Zeus. According to Melos' understanding of him, he should be loyal to Zeus, and he would find a way to help Zeus with all people and things that might threaten Zeus' rule. .

It's just that he didn't say anything, and didn't even show any anxiety.

Melos couldn't help sighing, he is indeed the protector of liars, no matter what Hermes wants to do, but at present, no matter what he thinks, he has not revealed it, at least Melos himself can't see through it.

Life in the underworld was as quiet as ever. Hermes walked in the underworld at will after seeking the consent of Melos. He did not show signs of escaping, nor did he do anything else. It seemed that he liked the quietness of the underworld. , and his favorite place to go is beside the River Styx.

There are no new dead souls coming, and Caron no longer needs to carry the dead souls across the river, but he paddles on the river as always. Sometimes some dead souls will quietly follow his stern. Anyway, they are wandering in this underworld and cannot be reincarnated. Therefore, how to follow Caron's stern to the opposite bank and then return, and not being pulled into the river by the dead souls becomes a kind of "adventure" that one enjoys.

Except that there are no new dead souls entering here, the underworld has not changed much. Even those gods have never appeared in front of Melos. I was ready, but I didn't expect that none of the gods would stand up in the end.

The early gods who lived here were definitely not low in abilities. They must have their own abilities to enter the chaotic underworld and live here for many years before the third generation of god kings ruled Olympus. Most people or gods have huge ambitions for power. They yearn for power and power.

He wants to challenge powerful enemies, just as Poseidon enjoys challenging Zeus's authority.

What is hard to believe is that during the period when Hades disappeared, some gods in the underworld did not appear to trouble Meros.

Melos' lies can deceive some people, but he knows that he cannot deceive everyone.

When he asked this question to Hades, Hades was silent for a moment, and then said: "Gaia should have done it." She made people believe that Hades is still in the underworld, so no one can find Hades Disappeared.

"What the hell is Gaia trying to do?"

"No one knows." Even Gaia's husband may not be able to fully guess Gaia's mind.

Melos frowned, and didn't think about it after he couldn't figure it out. He sat beside Hades in a daze.

He originally liked to soak in the small lake among the bushes, but since he helped Hades separate the underworld last time, the water in that lake disappeared completely because of him.

Strange to say, when Melos swam to the bottom of the lake, it was obviously bottomless, but when the water in that lake "dried up", the depth of the big pit left behind was not even up to his knees.

What surprised Melos the most was that even Hades himself couldn't tell its origin, only knowing that the lake already existed when Hades came to the underworld.

Hades also just vaguely told Melos that it will return to its original state at a certain time, but before that, Melos may not be able to see even a drop of water there again.

Also because the lake there disappeared completely, and the passage from the underworld to the sea was also blocked, Melos estimated the approximate time when Amphitrite "visited" the underworld, and found that the distance was not too long, but it was not too short either. up.

At that time, Amphitrite will have to go to the underworld again.

And the new space that replaces the underworld has also developed from rapid development to slow.

The new Styx has already taken shape, at least the current river is no longer a stream that can be crossed with one foot, and the ferryman in this space has not yet appeared. Fortunately, at this time, the river at the bottom of the river There are not too many dead souls, many of them chose to walk through the water.

Many people were pulled into the bottom of the river, but there were also people who crossed over.

Mountains and plains appeared one after another, and small plants sprouted and branched. Their nourishment was the resentment of the dead souls, and their water was the water of the River Styx.

Therefore, they are currently concentrated on the banks of the River Styx.

Therefore, they are doomed to have no similarities in appearance with the plants in the human world. The flowers they are about to bloom and the fruits they are about to bear have different functions.

Melos keenly discovered that the number of dead souls coming to this space from the human world has increased.

Could it be that people in the adult world are dying in tens of thousands?

The influx of a large number of dead souls accelerated the changes in this world, and the development of this new underworld was faster than Meros himself expected.

"Did something happen to the human world?" Melos looked at Hades in surprise and asked.

Hades was silent for a while, then answered him, "War."

Melos looked at Hades in surprise.

Hades said lightly: "The war caused by Olympus."

"What was the cause of the war?"

What did Olympus do to cause such a large-scale war in the world?

Hades looked at Melos: "Do you still remember what opportunity you used to open up a new space?"

"Ah? It was because of the trouble at Olympus... the Goddess of Discord..." Melos reacted abruptly, the golden apple dropped by the Goddess... the fuse of the Trojan War, the famous Golden apples of discord!

"Don't you have trouble with the goddess?" Melos swallowed. Could it really be the Trojan War?

"En." Hades nodded, "Aphrodite got the golden apple on the condition of a beautiful woman, but the most beautiful woman she said is already married, so the two countries are at war."

War is at the cost of human life.

Without Athena's favor, human beings can only rely on their own abilities. What's more, because of the previous judgment that made Athena extremely dissatisfied, maybe Athena will favor another kingdom.

But before Athena made a move, the outcome of this war was uncertain, and innocent people would always be sacrificed.

After they died, they became souls of the dead, pouring into this new world, and they died in the war with great pain for what happened to them during their lifetime.

They didn't even think of a way to cross the river, but squatted on the side and cried. In order to pull them into the bottom of the river, the dead souls in the Styx would try to expand the river surface so that they could pull in the dead souls at the door.

As a result, the new River Styx widened rapidly from the size of a small stream, and many souls of the dead were pulled into the bottom of the water. These souls who died in the war were full of unwillingness and resentment towards death, so they became even more resentful, Styx The river thus becomes deeper and even wider.

That's why the development of this space is faster than Melos expected.

However, the faster this space develops, the better it is for the newborn space. Melos doesn't care about the war in the human world, and this is not something he can stop.

He even faintly felt that the occurrence of this war should be driven by Athena or Hera.

Don't underestimate women's pursuit of beauty.

For Melos, the occurrence of the Trojan War was just a concept, even if he knew the course of this war, he didn't have any thoughts.

In this era, wars are common, but this time the war is slightly different with the intervention of gods.

But even if the gods caused this war, they didn't feel anything, and they didn't even blink their eyes about the number of human beings killed in battle.

They are kind, but also indifferent.

They are kind, but also cruel.

And for Meros, who lives in the underworld and never interferes with the human world, the outbreak of this war is just an opportunity for the rapid development of the new underworld.

After Melos learned the reason why a large number of undead entered the new space quickly, he didn't ask again. Hades was even more indifferent about it. He had more time to accompany Melos without messy things to deal with, but Ma Caria was very curious about everything in the human world. After obtaining the consent of Melos, she left the underworld alone for the human world, where she would have new encounters.

Hades naturally saw that Macaria's dependence on Meros was different from ordinary people. This attachment that should have appeared in humans unexpectedly appeared in their father and daughter.

But Hades knew the reason for all this, so he just gave Makaria a meaningful look.

"I remember that my sister is also very dependent on my mother." Speaking of it, Demeter also protected Persephone very well, compared to Makaria's attachment to him, until Persephone was pulled into the underworld. Faune's attachment to her mother Demeter is even deeper, "So don't worry about Makaria, she is a good child."

Hades looked at this man who didn't know what he was thinking, hugged him into his arms and kissed him hard.

Melos was dizzy from being kissed, and he didn't know why Hades had such big mood swings.

When he was about to speak, he found that the vines beside him brought a message from Demeter.

Persephone is gone!

"What!" Melos jumped up almost immediately, "What do you mean my sister is missing?"

Persephone became a star, and no one knew it except them.

When Melos just woke up, he had already calculated the escape route in the future.

At the beginning, he thought that he would be sealed for the rest of his life, and he might face many emergencies in the future, such as Hades bringing him to Zeus, or accidentally being discovered by Zeus. He has carefully considered the predicament before finally deciding to persuade his mother to turn his sister into a star.

Now that the vast sky is full of stars, if Zeus discovers her in the future, it will not be easy to find her sister, so Meros' choice at the beginning can be said to be the most appropriate choice.

And if Melos can stay in the underworld safely, until Persephone becomes stronger, even if Hera finds out that she has not become the queen of the underworld, she will not be able to do anything to her. At that time, as long as Hades makes up an identity for him casually, Then no one would know that Demeter was pregnant with twins.

It's just that I didn't expect that everything might have been thought of, but I didn't expect that Persephone would be missing now!

Meros understood Demeter's meaning, and immediately he went to the new space to look for the soul of the dead, to see if there was any sister in it. Persephone knew her situation, and it was definitely not her intention to disappear now. Either someone noticed Persephone's identity and forcibly took her away, or something really happened to Persephone.

Because of the loss of contact with her daughter, the sleeping Demeter woke up instantly, but she couldn't reveal it. Now she still doesn't know what happened to Persephone, whether it was Hera's hand or not. It may be due to other reasons, so even though she was extremely anxious, she couldn't look around like when Persephone disappeared.

Thinking that her daughter might be dead, she contacted Meros.

She wasn't worried about death. Anyway, her son was still in the underworld. If he really died for some unknown reason, Melos would not sit idly by. But what she was most afraid of was that Persephone didn't even have a trace of the dead.

Melos searched for his sister in the new space, and even dived to the bottom of the river to look for it. Even if the dead souls at the bottom of the river didn't look good, he didn't have any fear.

But even with all his efforts, he could not find Persephone.

Frowning, he led Cerberus to the entrance of the new space, leaving it there.

"Can you help me find her?" He stroked Cerberus's head, Cerberus closed his eyes and nodded, as if responding to him.

Cerberus has seen Persephone, and because he and Persephone are siblings, there will always be some similarities in the breath of his body, as long as Persephone appears, then Cerberus can Leave to find her.

"Don't worry too much." Hades looked at Melos busy in and out, and hadn't stopped to rest since receiving Demeter's message. After Melos arranged Cerberus, he sent people Stopped, "As long as it doesn't fall into the hands of Zeus, we can find her."

Melos nodded wearily, and suddenly thought of something, he grabbed Hades' clothes eagerly: "Hades, could it be... could it be Gaia!"

"kindness?"

"Gaia took you away without any reason before, is it possible that she is also taking her away without any reason now?" Hades himself said that Gaia would never tell others the reason for doing things, so this time Perse Could Fauni's disappearance be related to her?

"I can't promise you this." Hades told Melos after a moment of silence, "but what I can tell you is that if Gaia took her, then she is safer than anywhere else."

But now there is no evidence to prove that it was Gaia who made the move.

And even if Gaia took Hades away before, it was because Hades' situation was not right. It is really not a rational thing to place hope on Gaia.

"I still have to find someone before I can rest assured." Melos sighed, it is not appropriate to place hope in Gaia, and the whereabouts of the other party can always be found, whether alive or dead, as long as the soul is still there.

"Who." Melos regained consciousness and realized that there was someone beside him before, but when he spoke, the person had disappeared.

"Hades?" Melos looked at Hades in surprise.

Hades glanced lightly at the corner where the person was standing before, and said, "It's Hermes," he paused, and then said, "Don't worry."

However, not long after Hades finished speaking, Gakbel came to report, and Hermes disappeared.