Crimson Moon Chapter 10: The Gift of Dalamandis
Carlos walked behind Jiang Che and patted him on the shoulder, and said in a low voice: "It's better to mourn, we have to leave here, I promised your brother to take you out of here!"
Jiang Che buried his head in the river, looked at his tearful face reflected in the Styx, and said in a choked voice: "It's my fault, it's my fault that I brought him to such an abyss, it's my fault that I was greedy for money, and finally affected him, you guys go! I want to accompany him here!"
Carlos's heart was also unhappy, "I promised your brother!"
"But he's dead!" Jiang Cheng shouted back.
"There is no more of me here, no less of me, there is no need to take me with you, you can go! Let me fend for myself here alone!"
Jiang Che's voice gradually lowered again, and his lost soul could no longer describe his mental state.
"President, let's go! leave him alone, we can't let the sacrifice of so many people be delayed because of him alone!"
Pompeii walked towards the palace of Hades in front of him, there were things they wanted, and it was the royal way to get out of here alive, and now what kind of friendship and family affection was the least valuable.
Carlos patted Jiang Che's shoulder heavily, "Good luck!"
Jiang Che sat alone on the edge of the River Styx, which runs north and south from the palace of the Hades, and is the source of water for the entire palace of the Hades, and is the most famous river in all myths.
Legend has it that the mother of the Greek hero Achilles soaked Achilles in the second time and made his immortal body out of the waters of the River Styx. However, because of the rapidity of the River Styx, his mother pinched Achilles' heel, causing it to not be submerged.
Achilles is an immortal, a true demigod among humans, who killed the Trojan chief Hector, Penthesile, the daughter of Ares, and Memnon, the son of Eos, the goddess of dawn, who was on a par with him.
Achilles, who was already invincible in the world, had a bad relationship with the sun god Apollo, and Achilles was shot in the heel by Apollo's arrow and died.
The story has survived to the present day and has evolved into a slang term for the heel of Achilles, which means fatal heel.
But Jiang Cheng is not Achilles, he is an ordinary mortal who was killed, there was no bard to sing for him, he was not a hero in a war to the death, he was not killed by a god.
No one will remember his name, and he will sleep forever in this eternal night.
"Xiao Cheng, I'm sorry, I brought darkness and death to you, if there is a chance, I am willing to exchange my life for yours, if God can hear my prayers, then please give it a blessing!"
Jiang Che knew that this was not the mortal world, so he began to try to call for the appearance of the gods in the way of prayer.
Jiang Che whispered beside the river bank for a long time, but there was still no response, and there was no sound in the cold and tall Hades Palace in front of him, only the sound of the water passing by the Styx.
Jiang Che remembered the grove next door to the orphanage when they were young, and there was a small river across it, and they used to go there to play when they were young, and they would sneak over the fence and bypass the patrolling supervisors every day to get to the edge of the river.
Because the orphanage was built on a hill, the river flowed downward, and they ran along the river upstream, where there was a cliff that overlooked the city's luminous sky.
Jiang Cheng would sit on the stones, the oncoming land wind would blow their hair up, and in the evening breeze Jiang Cheng and Jiang Che would sit quietly on the stones, looking at the city that was so big that it made people panic.
At that time, Jiang Cheng would look at the city with bright neon lights below, and say to Jiang Che: "When I grow up, I want to live in that city, I will create my own wealth and a good life, and my brother will live with me at that time!"
"Okay! From now on, we will live together, buy a big house, and a yard that no one cares about, so that we can play every day!" Jiang Che held his chin, and his eyes reflected the lights of the city, as bright as a meteor.
They don't know that the brightly lit city that never sleeps is the CBD of the city, and they don't know that it is full of deceit all day long, and people are blinded by money.
They don't know how expensive the housing prices are there, what kind of rich people can live there, they just express their good wishes.
This wish seems very naïve, after all, when they grow up, who will want to play all day long.
"Maybe we should go to an ordinary university, find an ordinary job after graduation, find an ordinary girl, and live an ordinary life, it's my fault! I pursue too high, but in the end it hurts you!" Jiang Che said to himself.
For the Eden Academy, he was attracted by the beautiful fantasy of the Academy, and the Academy promised to give them a good life, but they didn't know that the premise was that they had to live first, and if they didn't get out of the school, they would die first, and everything would be over.
"Live the life of an ordinary person, if this is the case, you will come to this place?" a man with a strong voice stood behind Jiang Che, Jiang Che didn't know when this man came here.
He turned his head and looked into the man's eyes, the man's eyes were dark blue, with an indescribable melancholy temperament, his huge body was wearing black armor, and a pair of huge wings stood behind him, giving people a great visual shock.
"Who are you?" Jiang Che looked at the man who suddenly appeared and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
The man squatted on the ground, looked at Jiang Che's eyes, and said expressionlessly: "Heavenly Fierce Star Dalamandis, a subordinate of Lord Hades, the guardian of the palace of the Hades!"
Jiang Che listened to what Dalamandis said a lot, and suddenly realized that this was a great god-level figure.
He took Dalamandis's hand and said excitedly: "You must know the way to resurrect my brother, right, he was killed and thrown into the River Styx, you are a god, there must be a way to save him!"
Dalamandis arrogantly shook off Jiang Che's hand and smiled evilly, "I have a way, but why should I tell you?"
"Please, great god, my younger brother is my only relative, please save him! I can agree to any conditions, even if it is as a ghost, I will make you a cow and a horse, and I will have no regrets!" Jiang Che pleaded, but his eyes were full of determination.
Even if the soul turned into this place cannot be reincarnated, he has to pull Jiang Che back from death, this is his determination.
"Hehe! The last thing we need in the underworld is the ghosts of cows and horses, and you want to be a little better than those ghosts?" Dalamandis scoffed.
"Hmmm!!You seem to be quite handsome, and you are indeed a little more eye-catching than those guys!" laughed Dalamandis.
Jiang Che didn't know whether Dalamandis was laughing at himself or praising himself, but it was very likely to be the former, but anyway, he was so angry that he wanted to be a cow and a horse, and he didn't care about such a meager face.
"If it were someone else, I would definitely not agree, and even send him to death!"
Dalamandis's eyes suddenly became fierce, as soon as he came back from outside, he saw Jiang Che, and now he felt that an intruder had broken into the palace of the Hades.
"But you actually have a trace of my ability, I can lend you a little bit of my power, you go to the back garden of Hades' Palace, get the pear blossom of Persephone, the Queen of Hades, maybe things will turn around!" Dalamandis smiled on his face, and he smiled for unknown reasons.
Jiang Che was so happy about this, he nodded hurriedly, he could not have any dignity for his younger brother, even if it was licking the toes of Dalamandis, Jiang Che would not hesitate to do it.
Kowtowed to Dalamandis on the ground nine times, Dalamandis disagreed, "We don't have so many rituals in the underworld, this is a little power I gave you, you can use it!"
Dalamandis put the power purple power on Jiang Che's forehead, Jiang Che's body trembled slightly, and a pair of purple wings appeared on his forehead.
"These powers can help you fend off some pesky guys, whether you can impress the queen of the underworld and get the pear blossom, then it's up to you!" Dalamandis flapped his wings and left, his loud voice echoing through the sky.
Looking at Dalamandis flying away like a huge bird of prey, Jiang Che bit his lip and looked at the towering city of Hades, which was completely the most vivid and beautiful background of the city of Hades.
"Brother, even if it's the Yellow Spring Abyss, I'll find you, wait for me!" Jiang Che ran towards the Hades Palace, keeping up with Carlos and the others just now.
Carlos and the others walked in the huge city of Hades, the space here was completely much larger than it looked from the outside, there were huge palaces everywhere, and the inside was neatly arranged furniture, but the city was like a dead city, and there was no one in it.
The floor is clean, but there is a lot of ash elsewhere, but there is even residual warmth in the house, and it looks like it has been inhabited.
"It's weird, there's not even a single mouse in this city!" Carlos frowned, this place was eerie, and it felt like those haunted castles of the Dark Middle Ages, in the darkness, there were always countless eyes staring at him.
"There's no ghost here!" Pompeii smiled as he walked over to a table and wiped down the table, which had already accumulated a thick layer of dust.
According to their assumptions, the palace of the Hades is the largest place in the underworld, so how many soldiers have to be arranged, but there seems to be no one here, and I don't know if they can't see it, or if those guards don't exist at all.
"It seems that the Sword of Hades is not here, let's continue to walk towards it, everyone follow closely, this city is very big, it is easy to get lost!" Carlos walked out of the palace and looked at the palace of Hades, which was still a thousand feet high, and sighed with admiration.
He felt that he was now a riverman, and when he saw that river, he thought it was the most spectacular scene in the world.
The Sky City was the most spectacular city he had ever seen, but the Hades Palace in front of him was really a thousand feet high, almost as high as two Sky Cities, and they were all buildings, not like the Sky City with a big void and take-off site.
Perhaps only a king of gods like Hades, the king of Hades, is capable of building such a huge palace, but it is a pity that they do not have the tools to take pictures now, otherwise they must have recorded this majestic and huge castle.