"I wonder if you've heard of Lake Natron?" Abra said abruptly as he changed the subject.

The name is somewhat familiar...... Qin Ye raised his eyebrows and motioned for the other party to continue.

"Styx...... Styx ...... in Tanzania Tourists all over the world call it that. On this red lake, there are dead birds floating - adults, unlike you think, these carcasses...... They were as if they were alive, and some even made gestures to comb their feathers, becoming a rotting empty shell floating on the surface of the lake. There are so many pictures of Lake Natron online that you can take a look at. ”

Qin Ye bowed slightly, he had lived in the yang world for too long, and he had learned a lot of fragmentary knowledge. The name of Lake Natron is unfamiliar, but you can recall it when you think about it.

On the crimson waters of the lake, the corpses of living birds float – at least from a distance. When you get closer, you can't see ...... Those are all corpses!

The flesh has rotted, perhaps still wrapped in a layer of skin, and the inside has become hollow, but the feathers on the body have not fallen off at all! It was only because death had become dim and blackened, like the canoe of the undead, wandering sporadically on the lake.

"What does it have to do with here?"

"There are some." Abra took a deep breath: "Legend...... Every day at five o'clock in the morning, the cowhide-wrapped corpse is dropped into any stream of the Ancestral Refuge. These corpses, like the birds on Lake Natron, will decay as quickly as they become mummies! Subsequently...... Drift into Hades! ”

He looked at the mountain in front of him, it was daytime, but he still felt chills: "No one can find out where these corpses have drifted." Historically, only three bodies have been found. But you know what......"

He shuddered: "These corpses ...... It's all stitched up! ”

"The cowhide has been completely sewn up! It's as if there's a mummy in the belly of a cow, and yet...... There's no way anyone could have sealed the cowhide! This is disrespectful to the ancestors! When any corpse is put into a stream, it must be simply wrapped! ”

"Can you imagine? The corpses flowed down, ...... on the way I don't know what sewed all the cowhides! ”

His voice bordered on screaming, and the driver gave them a surprised look. Abra recovered from a breath and said hoarsely: "Since then, there has been a legend...... Every stream of the mountain is the River Styx, and they eventually flow to Hades, where the tailors sent by the Holy Spirit sew together the hides to make the deceased dignified. ”

"So......" he breathed heavily through his nostrils, "there is only one way to enter the underworld of Madagascar. ”

Qin Ye rubbed his chin thoughtfully: "Wrap yourself in cowhide and go down the river?" ”

Isn't that too unfriendly to international tourists?

Could it be that this is the disadvantage of not applying for a visa without a passport?

"Yes......" Abra nodded emphatically, "The original words of the Ancestral Spirit Guardian who contacted me are: enter the shelter, wrap yourself in corpse clothes, come to the island of the undead, and say his name. There is no other way. ”

After being silent for a few seconds, Qin Ye threw out a hundred yuan: "Go, get me a cowhide." ”

I'm sorry, I don't have change, I'm so proud!

………………………………

At night, the mountain breeze is cold.

Qin Ye and Abra had already entered the Ancestral Spirit Refuge without any obstruction.

Qin Ye looked up at the moon in the sky, indeed, the moon is a full moon, and today is definitely not the time for a full moon. The moonlight was white, even to the point of paleness. Let the trees, streams, and stones in the mountains be covered with a veil of silver.

It's beautiful, it's unreal, it's false.

Because, there is no other sound in the whole mountain!

There are no birds, no beasts, not even insects!

It is like a cemetery where lonely ghosts wander. I always feel ...... In those shadows, something invisible was looking at him without blinking.

He looked at his phone, and it was 4:50.

Right in front of him, there was a stream, which was already downstream, and in the course of a few hours they passed several families upstream who were ready to release their bodies.

It is also inappropriate to say that it is a stream, but rather, it should be a small river, which has long exceeded the depth of the stream. And the riverbed is very oddly shaped.

It is about three meters above the ground and about fifty meters wide. There is soft wet mud on both sides, and there is only a three-meter-wide stream in the center. Seems...... It is often washed by the river. However, this kind of mountain flowing water is impossible to burst into flash floods. However, judging by the mud on both sides of the riverbed, this "stream" should have been tens of meters wide.

Qin Ye squatted down and gently pinched a bit of dirt with his index finger and thumb. I put it on the tip of my nose and sniffed it.

It's new......

New to ...... As if it had only risen to tens of meters wide yesterday, and ...... With a thick ...... The smell of corpses.

River of corpses? Or the taste of Styx itself?

"The world of Yin Si is really more exciting than this official imagined......" He clapped his hands with emotion and stood up: "The major underworld has its own means...... Wonderful, quite wonderful. ”

Abra followed him with two cowhides in his arms. His face turned pale in the moonlight, and he looked around nervously, his mind chaotic.

Hades...... The kingdom of the Grim Reaper, where the Holy Spirit is located, has been preached for so long...... Are you really going to embark on this magical journey?

He felt that after meeting this Huaguo Yin, everything was going in the wrong direction.

Boom...... At this moment, he slammed into Qin Ye's back, trembling all over, and almost collapsed to the ground. His chest rose and fell sharply, and after a few seconds, he trembled and asked, "Big, great?" ”

Qin Ye didn't speak, just squinted his eyes and looked ahead.

Right there, there was a pile of human skulls.

It was hazy, and it was clear that the moonlight was so bright, but I couldn't see what was behind it. Seems...... The pile of human bones is a line, a dividing line between yin and yang.

But hundreds of meters away, you can faintly see the rolling waves.

"Waterfall." Qin Ye said affirmatively.

Silent waterfalls.

Here, everything is dead and silent. Even if it's a waterfall, you can't hear anything. That sense of sacred ritual grasped the heart of every mortal like a giant hand.

The Holy Spirit does not allow anything to be disturbed.

"My lord......" Even a mortal like Abra felt something bad at the moment, it was an intuition that was close to death. He was breathing heavily, and he couldn't help but grab the hem of Qin Ye's suit.

"That's the end of the River Styx. We're at the bottom of the river, and we're going to 'put the corpses' on top, and we're bound to pass through here...... Get ready. ”

He didn't continue to go down, to use such a cumbersome method to enter the underworld, this is a procedure in itself, equivalent to an entry "passport", the key is not where to put the body at all, but this process.

"Your Excellency...... Really, really? Abra asked, trembling.

"You can also not go." Qin Ye turned his head and smiled slightly: "Or...... Go the other way? ”

Abra bit his lip and didn't dare to speak again.

"Jingle bell, ding bell, jingle bells......" There was silence, and suddenly, Qin Ye's alarm clock rang.

Five o'clock.

It's a demonic moment.

At the same time, the mountain suddenly resounded with a low, booming roar, as if ...... Flash floods!

Here we go...... Entry Procedures in African Prefectures...... Qin Ye stared around without blinking, he didn't want to miss the wonderful moment.

Thundered...... The sound became louder and louder, and when it came to the back, it was like the roar of the sea tide, and the rumbling sound in all directions was connected, and the waves crashed on the shore.

Closer and faster! After listening to it for three seconds, Qin Ye's gaze suddenly looked at the upstream position. Abra followed his gaze at the same time.

Silver.

A silvery white, rushing in the moonlight. It's still a long way from them, this sound ...... This formation...... Abra's mouth opened wide, and his legs limped to the ground: "This...... How can it be? ”

That's the wave.

The three-meter-wide stream is rushing out of waves dozens of meters wide at this moment, rushing through the mountains and forests like a tsunami! Rush towards the waterfall!

Boom ——!! If ten thousand horses galloped wildly, yin and yin led the way, in less than five minutes, the wave instantly rushed in front of them, and suddenly, the three-meter stream swelled into a river surface tens of meters wide. Qin Ye finally understood how those wet riverbeds came from.

However, this is not the most shocking at all, the real horror is ...... ...... in this river Covered with corpses!

It's neat, like falling asleep. With both hands on his chest, the cowhide under his body is spread out, like a lotus leaf holding a lotus flower, densely packed, surging down the river all the way!

All the corpses, eyes open.

It's like wanting to see the world again.

Thump...... Abra, who had just stood up a little, his legs were as weak as noodles at the moment, and he tried desperately to stand up, but he couldn't stand up straight at all, only muttering like crazy in his mouth.

"How is this possible......"

"In this mountain...... How is it possible to have such a large water source...... No! These corpses ...... What the hell is going on with these corpses?! ”

"How can there be so many corpses! And...... And these are people who just died! How can a person who has just died float on water! Shouldn't it sink? That's impossible! This is not true! ”

Qin Ye stared at the big river, there seemed to be a lot of corpses, but in fact there were only a few hundred, but the momentum of the river down was too grand, and he had even seen the tail end of the corpse tide.

"Ready." He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.

Abra trembled and spread out the cowhides, Qin Ye grabbed the two cowhides, and just as the last row of corpses rushed over, he suddenly shook the cowhides and threw Abra on them. I didn't have time to listen to his screams, so I jumped on it.

Disheveled...... At the moment when he lay down on the cowhide, he miraculously found that the surrounding sounds disappeared again. Even if the river was rushing beneath him, he couldn't hear a sound.

Just like the quiet lake, the canoe is quietly rowing, and you can't even feel the cowhide moving!

"Has the gate to Hades been opened?" He simply closed his eyes and quietly enjoyed this journey of the living dead.