I seriously doubt there is something wrong with my Chaldea

"Essentially? But ordinary people don't know how to die if they go in, right?"

Lixiang has heard the legend that once a mortal falls into the underworld, he will immediately be haunted by evil spirits and die in pain.

"Yeah, that's right. After all, although the Underworld itself won't kill mortals right away, it doesn't mean that the ghosts everywhere in the Underworld will let the living flesh and blood go?"

Hermes said something creepy with an indifferent face.

"Of course... Heroes naturally don't have to be afraid of those ghosts who bully the weak and fear the strong, so it is actually not difficult to enter the Hades, but it is the world of the dead after all, it is the domain of Hades, the king of the underworld. It is easy for the living to break into the world of the dead. It is the greatest disrespect to the dead, so even heroes can hardly survive from the underworld."

"..."

He probably understood what Hermes meant. In short, the underworld is not a place where everyone can sit down, have a meal and drink a cup of tea. Entering the world of the dead with a living body is the greatest challenge to the world ruled by the law of death. provocation.

The weak will be directly torn apart by the ghosts, and the heroes will often be reduced to ashes under the majesty of Hades and the gods of the underworld.

"Then you still take me to Hades?"

Li Xiang stared at Hermes and said, according to what he said, isn't he trying to die?

"Hey~ so you know? As the number one hero in Greece, you are an ally of the gods of Olympus, a partner, okay? Hades is the front line of the battle with Gaia, and you, as an ally, board together There is nothing to say on the front line, right?"

Hermes spoke appropriately, and his words were full of sincerity and respect.

...It's a pity that the faint smile on that handsome face makes people subconsciously not want to believe him, but to regard him as a fox who is secretly planning something.

...In other words, it is the so-called villain face.

Lixiang knew that they were now a community of destiny no matter what, and the pros and cons were undoubtedly the same, but even so, he couldn't help expressing doubts in the face of Hermes' speech.

"Oh... Forget it, then I will listen to you, and go to the Underworld..."

Li Xiang pondered for a while, and finally decided to go with Hermes.

After all, you can't ask Athena for everything, she also has a lot of things to do recently, and even her person Lixiang can't see her recently.

...and actually he was quite curious.

Legend has it that the cape of Aluxia is the entrance to the underworld, and it is also the place where the river Styx flows through the world.

The River Styx flows through the world... Does this mean that in ancient Greece, Hades and the world were directly connected geographically?

He has had such curiosity more or less before, and this time it can be regarded as temporarily satisfying his curiosity.

"Let's go."

Lixiang stood up, red lines like blood vessels and electronic circuits appeared on the moon-white tights, and amidst the clanging sound of metal and iron colliding, a pair of wings spread out from the back of the boy's waist, suspended in mid-air, like butterfly wings. moonwhite construct.

"Om..."

A low buzz sounded, and Li Xiang flew out of the small room in an instant.

He didn't look back at Hermes, and when he turned his head to look down at the ground, Hermes in feather shoes had already flown to his side.

"Come with me."

After Hermes finished speaking, he took the boy and flew to the northwest.

Li Xiang followed up silently, and the butterfly wing structure behind him released a faint blue light, leaving four galactic-like tracks in the sky.

It didn't take long for Lixiang to slowly discover that the forest and coast below slowly began to change.

The originally gentle blue sea turned into a quiet and calm river, and the surrounding trees gradually became shorter, from tall trees to dwarf shrubs, and then to low grass, until the river bank became more and more sparse, leaving only Shallow fine sand and more and more chaotic rocks.

"here is……?"

Li Xiang couldn't help slowing down a little bit, and at the same time flew to a height of less than two meters from the river surface. Seeing the abnormally calm, even dead, lifeless river in front of him, he couldn't help being a little curious .

"Oh, this is one of the tributaries of the River Styx, that is, the part of the River Styx that flows through the human world. In fact, we are now going to the Hades along the River Styx."

Hermes also descended, and explained to Lixiang.

"But please don't touch the Styx casually. In a sense, the Styx is a part of the planet's circulatory system, absorbing and recycling any 'unreasonable' things on this planet. , and start a new cycle.”

"The water of the Styx River has no buoyancy at all. Anything that falls will immediately sink to the bottom, and there will be no way to lift it up."

"What if people fall?"

"At this depth, it is almost impossible to survive."

"Even the soul cannot float from the Styx, and it is troublesome for the gods to deal with."

Lixiang suddenly recalled a certain friend of his.

"But I seem to have heard that as long as you bathe in the water of the Styx, you can become immortal."

"It is true that there are such rumors and cases, but the possibility of such a case being born is too low. Human beings who have been washed away from human blood do have immortality, but to the gods, it is just hinder."

"Well, in a little while we'll be in the real Hades,

, The underworld is the place of the earth, and everything that is far away from the earth is suppressed, so although you can fly in the underworld, you can't fly too high, please pay attention to this. "

After Hermes reminded Lixiang, he continued to accelerate and flew forward along the tributary of the River Styx.

About half an hour later, the Styx River fell into the waterfall, and the ground cracked. After plunged into the waterfall with a height difference of more than [-] meters, the surrounding light quickly dimmed, and the feet were full of fine sand and gravel. In the distance, the river Styx, which was calm to death, was meandering and flowing by.

And in the dimness that alternates between dusk and night, on the dead water, the sound of oars breaking the water surface is faintly visible from far to near.

Li Xiang saw a dilapidated small wooden boat slowly approaching under the drive of this figure in a shabby gray robe on the wide Styx River.

The person who drove the boat noticed the young man in mid-air, with a faint blue flame dancing in his skull-like face.

"Living...?"

"...Do you want a ferry?"

The skeleton-like ferryman looked at the young man with an extremely low voice.

"How much is the boat fare?"

"Everything you've ever done."

The faint blue flames in the empty eye sockets of the boatman swayed and danced.

He looked directly at the boy, as if he could see right through him.

This is the examination from the gods, and it is also the last review of what a dead ghost has done in his life.

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PS: Eat more apples this Christmas Eve.

Chapter 150 Seven: Before Hell

"Oh, there's no need to do that, huh?"

In front of the boy and the boatman, Hermes coughed twice, slightly relieving the inexplicably frozen atmosphere around him.

"Dear Charon, this is our ally, the hero who is going to the map of Tartarus, how about it? Give us a ride?"

The handsome man put away his feather boots and landed on the dilapidated wooden boat smoothly.

"Boat fare."

After a while, Charon glanced at Hermes.

"Oh... ok ok."

Hermes gave him a bag of gold coins.

The Styx boatman weighed the bag in his hand, which was almost bony, before gathering in his loose, threadbare robes.

"Come, living mortals, you are still alive, and you will now be offered as fare for all that you have done."

Seeing that Hermes seemed to have settled the matter, Li Xiang slowly landed on the small wooden boat.

Before he had time to say anything, the boatman had already started paddling the oars, and the dilapidated wooden boat sailed slowly on the calm River Styx.

"What did he mean by the fare?"

Li Xiang had heard the legend that if the boatman of the Styx River did not give him enough money, he would be thrown into the Styx River.

"In fact, to put it bluntly, it is a summary of the trajectory of a person's life after they die. After they die, the things they experienced will become the so-called 'boat fare', and they will rely on these 'boat fare' to spend the rest of their lives." river."

"What if the boat fare is not enough?"

"I will be thrown into the River Styx, and I will never be able to swim up."

Said the boatman rowing ahead to the two unusual passengers behind him.

"Then what if they were babies who died early? Then they were thrown into the river directly?"

"After a person's life, no matter whether it is short or long, whether it is boring or splendid, there will be something left behind. Just give me everything you have done. No matter how many there are, I will send them to the other side."

"But some greedy people chose to keep a part of the travel expenses, and I threw it into the Styx is also their own fault."

"yes……?"

Standing on the small wooden boat, Lixiang stared at the bank of the river that was no longer visible, while the far bank was faintly visible in the dim light.

He felt as if it didn't take long for the dilapidated wooden boat to land.

"Where are you going next?"

"To Hades, to Tartarus."

Hermes still led Lixiang forward.

Not far away, a huge, black behemoth was chained and stopped them at the gate of Hades.

The watchdog of hell, Cerberus.

"Roar----"

The huge black behemoth, the three-headed hellhound, has a huge body like steel, and it let out a ferocious growl from the side.

But it didn't attack Lixiang and the others, it just backed away after a deterrent growl.

Obviously, Lixiang and the others had fully informed and agreed to Hades, the king of the underworld, this time.

The Styx River has slowly disappeared from sight, the scorching magma is flowing in the jagged rocks, and Li Xiang can vaguely feel that they are going deeper and deeper.

At first, he just felt that the temperature seemed to have risen, and then the magma slowly appeared in his field of vision. At first, it was just a few trickles emerging from the ground, and then it was a magma lake that converged together, until the magma in front of his eyes Everything in the world has become a world of light and heat.

The waterfall of fire poured down, and pillars of magma flew down to the sea of ​​fire below. Pieces of magma turned into a sea of ​​fire, and only the hot and scorched rocks became isolated islands.

In the abyss, there was a figure standing there.

"That is……"

Li Xiang narrowed his eyes slightly, he could barely see that it was a figure, and if he guessed correctly.

Probably the Twelve Gods of Olympus.

Sure enough, at the bottom of the Hades, at the top of the bottom of the abyss, in front of the entrance to Hell Tartarus, twelve men and women in different costumes stood here.

"Here it is."

Wearing an exquisite white robe, the white-haired man with a sculpture-like figure full of strength and beauty had lightning in his eyes, and murmured as he looked at the two dots that had slowly approached from a distance.

"........."

Silence remained among the gods.

Regarding the fact that Lixiang, who was once one of the Titan gods, became an ally of Olympus to deal with the enemies from under the leylines, there are actually disagreements among the gods.

After all, who hadn't been beaten by Theia 2 years ago.

Who knows what troubles will happen once the former strongest man is re-attached to the chariot...

If you want to say who the Olympus gods are most afraid of in the tens of thousands of years since they came to this planet, except for the white giant who completely disabled them 1000 years ago, who contracted them for 2 years and more It was Theia who had been psychologically shadowed earlier.

They can roughly guess the purpose of Theia's actions.

Theia (Tachika) is now a traveler, a drifter who came here to save humanity.

Then she messed up the world, making it impossible for him as a human being to save the world by relying on his human body alone, and took the initiative to choose to become the strongest Titan God 2 years ago.

...Speaking of it this way, in fact, they are all innocent people, and some of the blame will fall on Lixiang's head.

Originally, they had already completely lost their mechanistic bodies in the great catastrophe 1000 years ago, and they could no longer complete the "that" mission they inherited, so they could only choose to fish for fish honestly. But in the end, they didn't expect that the former enemy who had been asleep for a long time would wake up and make such a mess for them.

Obviously, this kind of thing has nothing to do with them at all, but if you can't stand people sitting at home, the pot comes from the sky!