[Comprehensive British and American] The richest man in the super British world

The God of Ferrying, Kalon, has been here for thousands of years. Since he was born, he has been punting on the Styx River, watching the dead people in the world with numb faces, groaning, crying, and lying on the ground, begging for his mercy. , in order to get out of pain and come to the other side of the river bank.But they don't deserve a little pity from the gods, because this is their destiny-mortals are mortal.

But in this group of weak creatures, Dushen seems to have found some sense of superiority. As long as he wants, he can control the future of this group of human beings. As long as he wants, he can make them stay alone at the end of the Styx forever. right to trial.

When a not-so-powerful god possesses the power to guide the future, it is a disaster, which gradually inflates his ambition, and he gradually begins to yearn for something more profound and not his Wandering on the River Styx, like any human soul who died in vain.The timing of Persephone's appearance is ingenious.Of course he loved this goddess, but what moved his heart even more was what she promised him, so that he had the driving force to push Hades down.There is no most solid surrender, only not enough bargaining chips.

But after he fulfilled his oath, the queen of the underworld did not have any follow-up instructions, which made him uneasy and suspicious: Did she lie to him?

Hades' vengeance was also something that terrified him.He doesn't have the strength to really expel him, because this is his territory, Caron just used the law, and he will come back sooner or later.This is the underworld, a fiery cloud of color overwhelms the top of the head, creating the illusion of an endless sky.In fact, it is just the hatred of the unjustly killed, they are woven above the head, covering this ominous place.He is rarely in a daze, because it is unnecessary, especially like a human being.But recently, he has been in a daze for longer and longer, and it is difficult to control his drifting thoughts.

His fare is very cheap, only one silver coin is needed.Caron has options, though.

His boat was docked on the shore, and the undead scrambled forward, like fish trapped under the ice and dust, stretching out their hands greedily to absorb oxygen.But they couldn't touch him at all, a layer of god's barrier surrounded the boat, and they couldn't board the boat in advance unless Karon was untied, and they wandered anxiously on the shore.The tide of the River of Pain surged toward him with the cry of the suffering man, calling back Karon's thoughts.He paused, admiring the longing eyes enough, and then untied the barrier.

Several undead boarded the boat, and he closed the permission to board the boat, and the rest could only wait desperately for the next round of Ferry God's boat.But it is not without chance, Calon will take the ferry fee one by one before sending them to the destination, as long as the ferry fee is not paid, he will immerse the other party in the River Styx.When he came in front of the man in black, he moved his nose.

"Survivor?" Caron doubted.

The opponent remained silent.

When he used his divine power to visit again, his divine power was blocked for a moment, and doubts swept over his heart. He searched intently and found that the other party was just a dead soul.

But Calon was still suspicious. There were many people who sneaked into the underworld. Odysseus, Aeneas and others went in and out of the underworld unscathed.But today's human beings are rarely successful. They seem to be degenerating. Human beings in ancient Greece are far better than they are today-Karon has also begun to miss the past days, the glory of the age of the gods.He was the one who took Pandora and the others away himself. If they succeeded, they should have news back to the underworld.Caron showed a satisfied smile. The Queen's plan will definitely be a success. All they need is to wait.

And this time, after his ferry, he will not come back here again.The queen's banquet will be his new beginning.

But the next moment, before his smile was fully revealed, he suddenly couldn't stand still. The boat didn't obey his command, and was suddenly pushed forward by the tide of the river of sorrow.It moved forward at an exhilarating, rapid pace, and at the same time, the river rolled and screamed in pain and gratitude, and almost in the blink of an eye, it brought them to the middle of the Styx.The first river was formed by tears of pain, they never dared to resist the crossing god, but why now——

"Caron, you are just a hound, a lowly boatman, but you can't even do this little thing well," a figure stood up from the sluggish undead, took off its hood, and revealed a Burning red hair, "I'm sorry, I take back what I said earlier, you are not competent at all."

"You are..." He couldn't recognize who he was for a while, and after he finished speaking, Caron's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it, "Master Hades?!"

He couldn't help taking a step back.

Wade advanced towards him, forcing him back to the stern, and Caron staggered and almost fell, his divine power screaming in pain under the crush of Hades-he couldn't resist Hades.

"Didn't you ask me for the ferry fee?" He smiled at the God of Ferry, "Thanks to you, I have been wandering on the edge of the River Styx for almost a year, so I don't have to pay you anymore?"

But no, he shouldn't be back at this time——

Caron panicked and feared: "How could it be?"

He didn't realize he blurted out the question.

"You are very smart, Caron..." Wade said, looking at the once loyal God of Ferry, "I admire your use of the rules. You let me wash away all the memories of Pluto in the river of oblivion However, the only thing you didn't expect is that because of your negligence on duty, many undead walked into the river of Styx alone and were gradually swallowed up. And I was lucky enough when I fell into the river of Styx, I couldn't forget the past of Hades, I also got my own future."

Watanabe knew he was speechless.Hades is not a tolerant monarch, so there is no possibility of his ending being rewritten in a few words.

"You've changed." Caron could only say.

"You too." Wade looked at him, "I never thought you would change so completely."

"Why did you betray Hades?"

A strange voice came from among the numb undead. Dick took off his hood and stepped forward to look at the God of Ferry.

"Do you love the Empress Dowager...?"

Dick shut up suddenly, realizing that the question must be stupid, because Wataru gave him a look of disbelief, which could even be called mocking.

"You overestimate the feelings of the Greek gods," he sneered. "Who would take this too seriously?"

The emotions of gods like Zeus and Poseidon are so chaotic that they cannot be written down, and the dewy love is even more unremarkable. Love is just a spice for a boring life, and it cannot control the thoughts of gods at all.So when Orpheus impressed Du Shen with his singing and piano skills, he just thought it was fun, and was moved to tears as insignificantly as watching the characters in the story.And the legend about not looking back is just a joke written by the gods of Hades to pass the time.Hades explicitly told Orpheus not to look back no matter what sounds he heard, so it became a bet of the gods.

As Hades, Hades never fit in well. When everyone used various interference methods with relish to urge this poor man who went down to Hades for his wife to turn back, he turned around and left before the ending came out.As the host of the party, he doesn't pay attention to other gods at all.Of course, he was taciturn, didn't say "boring" comments, and never showed disgust on his face, but his behavior of leaving the party itself was pity for human beings and disdain for their behavior.

He is nothing like the Greek gods.

Originally, they wanted to keep Orpheus in the underworld, let him send his wife back to die and suffer for a lifetime because of his mistakes, and only allowed him to wander in the Fangorn Forest, and could only pray for the mercy of the god of crossing, Karon, Become the laughing stock of the gods.But Hades let the three-headed dogs let him go, let him return to the world, and don't have to be a tool for these gods to play.All kinds of details doom Hades and them are not the same kind of gods.

"It's very important... Hades?" Caron had already given up respect for Pluto, and said to himself, "You are going to be a laughing stock, my lord. The children you gave birth to are not yours. Your love is fake from the beginning to the end. We all know that you were shot by Cupid’s arrow and used all means to take away your lover. In fact, only a goddess who coveted your godhood was left behind. a joke-"

A huge force made Dushen fly out of the boat suddenly. When he fell into the water, he still maintained a dazed expression, unable to react to what happened.

Wade withdrew his hand indifferently. He walked to the side of the boat, watching the god's gradual decline. The river of pain greedily licked the food they had been waiting for for thousands of years. What Cuaron would not understand was that he was on the boat day and night Wandering, missing the boat because of his randomness, the soul wading into the Styx melted in the river, followed the bottom of the boat with resentment, holding his breath and waiting for the fate of ferrying God to end here one day, the cycle of cause and effect, everyone has to worry about it. Pay for what you did.

He can control the future of mankind, but he cannot see his own.

"I'm not like you," Wade said. "That's your fault. It's always been. You're not irreplaceable, Caron."

"I don't understand—" Caron's voice struggled. Tens of thousands of undead grabbed him and led him to the abyss. The Styx submerged his jaw, "I don't understand!"

"Let me tell you, Caron, the truth is what you said," Wade looked down at him, "You told me that when the gods crossed the 'river of hate' Styx, they would lose their divinity, are you That's right. When you get through it, you become an ordinary person dominated by power and desire, and I also lose my divinity and become Wedblake."

Caron could no longer contradict him, he had been completely swallowed by the river.

——This is the price he has to pay, and it is also his destiny from birth.

"What should we do next?" Dick asked. He just watched everything silently from the sidelines. He knew that he couldn't interfere in this matter, because Caron was once Wade's most loyal subordinate, and he could only solve it by himself. Man is not fit to be involved, "We have no punters left."

Wade glanced at him helplessly, and before he had time to use his strength to control the boat, Dick had already picked up the oar that was put aside with great interest.

"I'll do it," Dick said cheerfully like a little boy, "I've never driven a Batmobile before, but I stole Bruce's Batboat, and he parked it there and never used it, and I used it and never noticed. Too bad I only played in the Batcave. This ship looks cooler than the Batship..."

Wade smiled, and sat down in his original position: "Tell me about you. For example, Batman will add a bat prefix to everything he has. How about you? Add Nightwing?"

"I won't," Dick paused, "I only became Bluehaven's Nightwing more than a year ago."

"...When?" Wade suddenly remembered something, and a flash of memory flashed before his eyes, making him look too eager to ask, "It's exactly a year since you changed into Nightwing's blue uniform?"

Dick hesitated for a moment: "That's right."

Wade's eyes widened in disbelief, and after a while, he smiled, and Dick still looked at him inexplicably.

——That is to say, from a certain macro time point of view, Wade’s memory as Hades is the deepest. The year when the blue flower bloomed in the palace happened to be the same year when Dick became Nightwing. Year.A great sense of fate almost penetrated Wade, and for a moment, he was shocked by this possibility, and an electric current passed through his whole body, making him almost speechless.

There is such a tiny coincidence in the vast universe, it seems that there is an omen in the dark, and the two people who have no intersection with each other in the world are gently and irresistibly pushed together, Wade's heart is like being swept by a feather However, he put his hand on his heart, as if this would stop his heart from beating too fast.

He lost his flowers, he regretted, but what he didn't expect was that there were other people waiting for him in the world.

It turned out that he, who was Hades, was destined to no longer be alone since then.

"I've been to the island of Lesbos, Wade," Dick said, holding the boat, "that's where Orpheus was killed by a Dionysian, and the head floated there, and later became the hometown of lyrical poetry. ——There is a temple there that has been around for thousands of years, and it was built for this poor man with a tragic love. I sat in the temple for an afternoon, and the sunlight in Greece was relatively abundant, it was a bit cold, and the setting sun was slanting, and then I left There, I don't know what happened to me, there was a scratch there, and I stared at it for a long time."

That was the most hurtful time for Dick, and he felt that this might be the end of his life.He had made a bet with his friends, they thought that Dick would soon fall into the next relationship, but he did it. He sat for an afternoon in this thousand-year-old temple, which symbolizes steadfast love, and vowed that he would not fall in love easily , I hope to meet someone who will be with me for a lifetime.

And Wade stared at that scratch and thought about it for a long time. He had been there before, but that was thousands of years ago, not long after the temple was completed, and he found that his love was all Based on a conspiracy.He and the Greek gods around him had different perceptions of everything, so he sat there and stayed silent all afternoon, pitying Orpheus, as if pitying himself, believing that he would be alone forever in the dark and gloomy underworld One person, he is an outlier among the gods.

But architecture is a kind of eternal quantity, which spans time and space, and connects the past and the future. The scenery will wither and life will grow old, but the architecture will not.They used to accompany each other through the most painful half-day when they didn't know each other, and perhaps completed the meeting of eyes through the notch, but this was unknown to them in their respective time and space at that time.

Maybe Wade was silent for too long, Dick cast him a puzzled look.

"The Titans will not be released easily. They are held in the prison of the underworld to ensure that they will not make trouble," Wade said. He chose to keep these two things as his own little secret and hide them in his heart. One day he'd tell Dick how wonderful it all was, "I'm not here, she needs the consent of the three kings of Hades."

"...Oh, you said that the forces in Hades are very complicated," Dick was curious, "Who are the remaining three Hades?"

"The Kingdom of Satan, the Kingdom of Yibuyusi, and the Gevara District." Wade turned the boat in the wrong direction, and they went to meet a king of hell first. "The devil Liu Zifei is the most important. He is harsh and cruel. , but at the same time the most cautious. If Persephone cannot pass his test, everything will be empty talk."

"God Titan hasn't been released yet?"

"Of course, they are not friendly to humans, and the underworld will be full by then," Wade shook his head, "Crossing the first river is the territory of Liuzifer."

"Which kingdom are we going to?"

Wade gave Dick a funny look, and the latter acted as if he was curious about everything: "No. He doesn't allow anyone to set foot on his territory. Once, my banner was brought to Satan's kingdom by accident. , I haven’t been able to get it back until now.”

Their ship stalled, and an unknown force suddenly stopped their progress.

"Have you changed your boatman?"

This voice is majestic and steady, but with an inescapable childishness.Dick immediately recognized that it was the voice of a child about ten years old, which almost made him laugh when he was ready for battle.

Wade helplessly: "Yes."

He kicked Dick and whispered, "Don't act like you're a superhero, he hates that."

"Who is beside you?" Liuzifer asked vigilantly.

"A mortal."

A meaningful "Oh" came from the darkness: "Persephone is holding a banquet and invited them to it. I don't like it, so I won't go. It's a conspiracy."

"You've done a good job," Wade said. "A very competent king."

"Then can I use your name to trouble the Justice League next time?" The other party asked naively, eager to try, "I miss Diana, oh, and Batman Superman, they beat me very hard last time." It hurts, I need to save face."

"..."

Dick remembered that the Justice League seemed to have dealt with Hades.And he has also participated in these plans to save the earth, although he is not the one who beat Hades...

But now it seems that they did not clean up Wade.He was slightly relieved - at least, he would not take on the Shura field that he shouldn't have to bear at his age.

"Okay, use whatever you want, my name doesn't matter." Wade smiled at the darkness, "By the way, thank you for helping me."

"Ah, I didn't help," the other party said in a disdainful tone, "I just don't like Persephone and the Titans."

"Not standing in line is a disguised form of help." Wade said with a smile.

"Hmph, I'm starting to hate you."

Their boat moved again and passed the first river of fire smoothly.Next, as Liu Zifeier said, every river of fire was not blocked. Obviously, the monarchs of the kingdom of the underworld were not there.There were still a few confused and numb souls on Dick's ship, but the three judges of the underworld, Aiagos, Minos and Radamantis, did not appear to take them away.

"This is really a grand banquet," Wade said sarcastically, "the great underworld makes the undead wait at the end of the river, but she summons all the gods to drink, it's hard for Persephone to wait so hard for me to come here -"

The banquet of the Greek gods does not end in a day or two, and it may even last for several months. The gods enjoy themselves, but there is no such precedent in Hades, because it is obviously not a place suitable for entertainment. Usually they will go to Zeus Laputa, of course, is different today.

Her move took away all uncertainty.What Wade wanted was for the gods to witness together, and their goals coincided with each other.

The ship landed, and they laid the dead on the judgment seat in the field of truth.

"Someone will judge them later." Wade said, pulling Dick away.

It was a gray plain, from which a road branched off into two branches.One leads to Elysee, the place of happiness, and the other leads to Tartarus, the place of pain. In the distant darkness, the magnificent palace in the middle is shining with lights, melodious music, and the smell of wine. momentum.It presents a unique Greek style, with sharp corners standing like two solemn guards, white marble columns propping up several corridors, daffodils blooming all over the land before the palace, becoming the original bright color in the gray plain.

Here they felt the breeze for the first time, just cold, dry, and with scrutiny, took the message away, ruffled Dick and Wade's hair, and headed for the palace.The distant corridor showed a mottled color, with death and vitality at the same time, silently waiting for their approach.

"Sleeping God Hypnos really listened to me." Wade smiled, "No matter what, they are waiting for me."

In the dimness, the lights spread all the way to the entrance of the palace, and several low lamp holders were lit with candles, waiting for their real masters to return.Countless times, Wade stood alone on the plain, silently looking into the distance, and finally walked here in the wind of hypocrisy, repeating the monotonous and eternal life day after day.Now that he has returned here, he is no longer alone, and his mentality is different from before.He has changed, but this change is the most willing one he has ever made.

"This is the last party I want to go to," Dick muttered, "like the many last-ditch parties Bruce and I have been to."

"You'll like it." Wade patted him on the shoulder, "...it's time to say goodbye to the old me."

"Don't you like your former self?" Dick turned his head to look at Wade.

"No," he said, never calmer, "just moving on."

"I like your words." Dick smiled.