33. Chapter XXXIII
Although they promised to help, but now the two of them have just come here, and they are not familiar with the qiē here, and it is not that if they want to help, they can immediately dispose of the river, fortunately, the girl did not give them the prescribed time, otherwise Hades would have turned around and left immediately.
"However, although I am not in a hurry at this time, I can vaguely feel that the river has begun to be unstable. The girl squatted on the bank of the river in a very indecent posture and looked at the river, the muddy river could not reflect her figure, only faintly saw some vague outlines, "When this river begins to fall, it is the beginning of the collapse of the underworld, although I don't plan to urge you, but I hope you will also try your best to think of a way, Kronos side I will give you a stopper, you don't need to worry." ”
"Is this river aggressive?" Savis looked at the murky water, thought for a moment, and gently reached out and touched it.
"No," the girl shook her head, "it's the only 'living river' among the five rivers, it doesn't imprison souls, and even the water of this river is drinkable to mortals, I've tried it for some of the revenants, and they won't be uncomfortable when they touch the water, it's not like it's pulled to the bottom of the river Styx and trapped, although it looks muddy, but in fact, the lower part of it doesn't look the same as it looks." She watched as Savis's hand touched the river and never pulled it back, and knew that he was probably surprised by the touch of the river, "It's no different from touching the water of other rivers, right?"
"No, there's a difference. Savis withdrew his hand, glanced at the river with a complicated expression, and told Hades, "You wait for me here." After speaking, before the two of them could react, they plunged into the water.
Before Hades could stop him, he saw him plunge headlong, and before he could fully dive his legs turned into fishtails, splashing a layer of spray on the water, and then the man disappeared.
"Savis......" Hades didn't have time to stop it, he could only scream hatefully, he swore to wait for Savis to come up and have a good chat with him, this habit of testing at every turn is really unchangeable, every time he can be frightened by this guy's sudden actions into a cold sweat.
The muddy water blocked their view, and no one knew what Savis had done in the river after diving, except for the splash that Savis had when he plunged into it at the beginning, and now the river was calm, and even the girl who had a connection with the river did not know what Savis found in it.
And Savis, who dived underwater, did not continue after swimming for a while.
He stopped in the middle of the river, which seemed to be no different from the underworld, and as far as the eye could see, it was gray all around, except that there were rocks and plants in the underworld, and there was nothing underneath.
But the whole river is flowing.
As the girl said, this is the only "living" river among the five rivers in the underworld, but it is precisely because this river is "alive" that it looks out of place in the underworld, which symbolizes death.
There was a strange power in the river, which Savis had only noticed after he had put his hand into the water, and this strange power made him want to be close to him, and most importantly, the power that the river had nurtured was able to obey his movements, and this feeling was exactly the same as the feeling given to him by the lake that he was under his control and against the harsh environment around him when he was still in the space of Kronos's belly.
The river had clearly given birth to the girl in order to disappear, but the power of the river was able to get close to him, so he plunged in to see what was going on.
But there was nothing here, and as far as the eye could see, it was all gray, and the river was bottomless, and there was a force in the darkness that prevented him from going downstream, and the feeling of intimacy but resistance was very contradictory, and he pursed his lips slightly, and swam in the river for a while, and finally he could be sure that the river was very close to him, and the power was enough for him, but there was some secret at the bottom of the river, and when he wanted to swim down, he would be stopped.
Savis thought to himself as he went upstream.
When he emerged from the water to talk to Hades about it, he was frightened by his surroundings.
It was clear that he was on the murky bank of the river before he entered the water, but when he came out, he actually came out of the bottom of the River Styx.
The ferryman was not far in front of him, and it was hard for him to deny it, after all, he had just been on his boat with Hades not long ago.
That river actually connected to the river Styx, which was very close to the entrance to the underworld, could it be that the water in it flowed because it flowed into this river?
Just as he was trying to find a way to go back, he saw a man walking on the bank of the river.
The ferryman slowly rowed the boat in front of the man, and the man got on the boat without a sound, and Yan Sù's face fit the atmosphere of this underworld very well. Savis sneered in his heart, a master of the divine realm would actually fit in with the atmosphere of the underworld, which made him have to do everything possible to resist the urge to go out and sue Sù Kronos to simply stay in the underworld.
However, Kronos came earlier than expected, and he didn't think that they had just reached the underworld with their front feet, and Kronos had arrived with their back feet.
However, because of the girl's promise and their knowledge that Tartarus was resting, Savis was not in a hurry for a while.
Savis slowly sank, lying flat in the middle of the river and looking at the riverbank, he hadn't noticed it before, but now after slowly sinking, he noticed that he really unconsciously swam into the River Styx, the River Styx has a bottom, and there are many souls imprisoned at the bottom of the river, these are pulled down when they try to cross the river alone, and some are unconsciously floating on the bank of the river, pulled down by the unwilling souls in the water, and now there are many souls in pain and struggle on the riverbed, and the more you dive, the clearer the messy cry is.
It was also this that he discovered that the River Styx, which imprisoned countless souls, actually allowed himself to come and go freely, you must know that the four rivers of the underworld are poisonous, whether it is a human or a god, it is difficult to parry its toxicity, many gods have been corrupted by the River Styx, and they have not been able to find a way to save them, even if they dig up the corroded meat, the newly grown meat is also rotten, because this river does not corrode the body - the body has little meaning to the gods at all, after all, their bodies can be changed - It's the soul.
After swimming in the river several times, Savis, who realized it later, was really sure that this river did not harm him, and even the fifth river before him, he had a certain sense of intimacy with himself.
It can't be because he's a kraken, so even the "dead" river is very kind to him, right?" Savis thought suspiciously, and then looked up again, the ferryman had already reached the middle of the river with Kronos, and then ...... Just stopped?
Savis swam a little farther away from the middle of the river, and then looked out of the river, and from a distance, he could indeed see that the boat was parked in the middle of the river, and the ferryman on board had disappeared without knowing when.
Kronos himself noticed that something was wrong, but he was not in a hurry, but sat down in the boat and asked in a deep voice: "Caron, what you have to do is only to carry people across the river, and you should not make a move to leave people on the river, which is very stupid." ”
A young but lifeless voice sounded on the river, and there was no ripple in his tone: "The underworld is about to usher in a ruler, the ferryman must prevent the living from entering the underworld, although the ruler has not yet obtained a new godhead, but I will not go against the will of the underworld now, I will not help you enter the underworld, nor will I prevent you from entering the underworld, you are so self-......" The voice gradually became quieter, and the whole river calmed down again.
Kronos, who was left alone on the river, did not get angry, but said in surprise: "There has never been a ruler in the underworld since it appeared, how can it be said that the ruler is about to appear...... Could it be that some long-lived god in the underworld has touched a certain key and is about to obtain the godhead of Hades?"
The ferryman's duty is to send the dead into the underworld and block the footsteps of the living, when there was no ruler in the underworld before, the ferryman only needed to send everyone who came to the underworld, because it is very likely that someone in this world will be able to get the godhead of the underworld and 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.
It's just that I don't know why Caron carried people to the middle of the river before leaving them behind, although Kronos's godhead was damaged, it should have no problem to go from the middle of the river to the other side, unless the River Styx stopped him from passing.
But how is this possible.
Savis shrugged his shoulders and dived without attracting Kronos's attention, and swam in the direction he had traveled, and although he didn't know why the Styx was connected to the "living" river, he did feel the same feeling between the two rivers - like the feeling that the lake in the space gave him, tightly connected, very comfortable, like the feeling that they were one.
He swam on for a long time, and when the cries and screams from the bottom of the river had died down, the bottom of the river had become bottomless again, and the riverbed was gone.
He probed from the river, and before he could react, he was pulled ashore by Hades, and before he could even go back with his tail, he was stopped by Hades and hugged by his waist, and it took him a long time to realize what was going on.
"Is there anything uncomfortable?" Hades sat on the ground and let Savis lean against his chest, "You've been diving for a long time, and I'm worried." "If Savis doesn't come back, he's going to have to go down and find someone.
"I'm fine, the river feels weird to me. He went to the other side of the River Styx because of his feelings after diving and inexplicably, and told the details of his encounter with Kronus on the other side of the River Styx, and then asked the girl who had been sitting on the bank, "The water of this river is alive, it flows into the River Styx, so where is the source?"
The girl looked at him with a complicated expression before she said, "No, I have lived here for so long, and I have never known the source and point of this river, at least, I have never known that it is connected to the River Styx. ”
As soon as the words came out, Savis and Hades looked at each other and saw the confusion in each other's eyes.