51. Distress
Qi Wuce sat on the ground in the space vacated between the two giants, seemingly waiting for nothing, but in fact, Qi Wuce's divine consciousness had already spread out thousands of miles away in a fan shape.
Qi Wuce's divine consciousness continued to spread, until it spread to the underworld on the other side of the Fire River and lasted for tens of thousands of miles, but even though the divine consciousness covered such a wide area, Qi Wuce still couldn't find Nero's figure, and it was only at this time that Qi Wuce realized that something was wrong.
"How many gates are there to enter Tartarus?"
Qi Wuce's sudden question made the two giants stunned for a moment.
"How many doors?" One-eyed and hundred-armed looked at Qi Wuzhi with a strange expression. "Three layers of bronze gates, three layers of endless darkness, this is the only way to enter Tartarus." One-eyed said with a serious face.
The one-eyed answer made Qi Wuce pinch his chin and think. Although every inch of Olympus is nominally ruled by him, Qi Wuce, as a ruler, naturally remembers every inch of land he ruled.
But! Now he had traveled from the Celts, and Nero's era had been a thousand years between the era before him, and the vicissitudes of time had changed, and the devil knew what kind of ghostly changes had occurred in this time spanning a thousand years.
"By the way, you two haven't wandered around the walls of Tartarus?" Qi Wuce rubbed his head, Nero's ability to run around gave him a bit of a headache.
"Your Excellency, as you know, since you have assigned us the task of guarding the gate, it is absolutely impossible for us to leave our duties without permission in order to repay your kindness for freeing us from endless mining in the abyss."
One-Eyed and Hundred-Armed, facing each other sincerely, knelt down on one knee and performed a standard knightly salute to show their loyalty.
"I am pleased with your loyalty, but at the same time you must understand that I am not holding you back by entrusting you with the task of guarding the gates of Tartarus, and that I am not an ungrateful and shameless man like Zeus, and that you can leave Tartarus at any time to do what you want." Seeing that the situation was very good, Qi Wuce took this opportunity to buy a wave of people's hearts, and stepped on Zeus again.
Buying people's hearts, seeing that Nero had not arrived for a long time, Qi Wuce's originally calm heart began to be restless again, and his intuition told him that if he didn't find Nero again, then this matter would become even more troublesome.
"Feel free to do so, I still have important things to do, so I'll leave first." When the words fell, Qi Wuce had already risen to the sky and disappeared.
Nero stepped on land and put away the boat he had been riding in, as it was a gift from Hades, so Nero was able to shrink the boat to the size of his finger and carry it with him.
Before reaching the gate to Tartarus is a land with a wide view, surrounded by rivers of fire, this vast land has been presented to every visitor as a wasteland for eons of time.
The smell of scorched earth entered Nero's nostrils with the scorching air, and the smell of desolation made Nero frown at a rare sight.
Although it is true that they are already ghosts, in this wonderful place of the underworld, the senses of ghosts are actually no different from those of living people.
Nero walked cautiously across the wilderness, because there were almost zero records of Tartarus in mythology, so Nero knew almost nothing about Tartarus, and the words that came out of the mouth of Hades could only give Nero a vague idea of Tartarus.
It was a place of extreme evil, and to be able to be crowned as the most dangerous place in the underworld in such a dangerous place as the underworld, this is Nero's understanding of Tartarus.
However, there is no way, in order to see the glory of the Roman ancestors, and in order to find a way to return to the human world for rebirth, even if Tartarus is in danger of death, Nero has to break through.
Nero's eyes were full of determination, although there was Hades Hades who said that she would definitely be resurrected, but with her character, how could she sit still.
As the distance shortened, the towering bronze wall appeared in front of Nero, Nero's eyes were hot, she thought about what it would be like if Rome could have such a wall, but she knew very well in her heart that the magnificent bronze wall could never be made even if it was all the power of Rome.
This is the gap between man and God, man can perform miracles, but every miracle of God is a great miracle for man.
Throwing this unrealistic thought out of his mind, Nero walked over to the bronze gate, which was closed and hundreds of meters high cut off Nero's desire to push it open.
"Maybe there's a mechanism to open the door?" With this in mind, Nero walked towards the left side of the gate.
The sound of sizzling rubbing spread through the black clouds at the top of the walls, and hundreds of pairs of cold eyes stared at Nero groping his way into the city beneath the walls.
The owner of the eye is very hungry, it has not eaten properly for hundreds of years since it was born in mythology, and the souls that have come to Tartarus in the past have all been escorted all the way by the army of the underworld, and this lonely soul like today is really the first time to see it.
The clouds gradually lifted, and a giant serpent hovered over the city wall showed its hideous face to the world.
The huge body of the city wall for thousands of meters, the dark green and shiny scales on its body make it undoubtful of its solidity; The mere "hiss" of fifty huge snake heads as they swallowed the black snake letter was enough to make people collapse, and the venom that occasionally dripped from the cold and glittering fangs emitted green smoke the moment it touched the bronze wall.
It is a Hundred Hydras, a creation born in Roman mythology, blessed by the Roman myth that "the gatekeeper of Tartarus is a Hydra with fifty serpent heads".
Swallowing the serpent's letter, Hydra leaned against the wall and gradually approached Nero below the wall, and every inch it could smell from the soul below the wall a strong breath of faith, which only souls revered by all the people possessed.
It's delicious! Hydra still crept along the walls unhurriedly, even though the delicacy had whetted its appetite.
This is the nature of snakes, no matter how hungry the snake is when hunting, it will only stealthily get close to the prey, and will not send out that killing bite until the time is ripe.
There is no sun in the underworld, but there is still light in the sky from nowhere.
Nero searched the walls for the mechanism, and she studied some of the ancient characters engraved on the walls, which were ancient Greek texts, telling the myths and stories that took place in the Greek period, and the curiosity drove Nero to devote himself almost wholeheartedly to them.
The light dimmed slightly, which made Nero have to get close to the city wall and look at the words on the wall, but before Nero could look at it, as the light dimmed a little bit again, Nero, who realized that something was wrong, raised his head suspiciously......
And so, her eyes met with the hundred snake pupils of Hydra.