PS: With half of the plot, but I deliberately waited until two o'clock to send it, because the limit is free, no money, and this is a chapter close to 5,000 words, and yesterday's was about the same.

Not everyone of the evil spirit clan believes in fate, among them is a wise and powerful elder, he does not know that he has lived for hundreds or even thousands of years, and all parts of his body, except for the soul or his own, all other organs and flesh have been replaced by other magical limbs.

He volunteered to stay and decided to follow Perseus and go to deal with Medusa.

And his actions finally restored some morale to the warriors of Argos.

After everyone descended the mountain, in this case, they did not set off immediately, but temporarily camped at the bottom of the mountain to rest for the night.

The next morning, while the others were still tidying up, Perseus wandered around, but as he walked, he suddenly noticed a mysterious man with a hood following him.

"Who are you?"

He lifted his spirits and drew his sword to stop the other party, his face full of vigilance.

The mystery man stopped, lifted his hood, and made eye contact with Perseus.

At the first glance of the other party, Perseus guessed the identity of the person in his heart, although he never admitted that he was the son of Zeus, but the resonance of the blood at this moment made him involuntarily have a trace of identification in his heart.

"You can call me...... Father. Zeus, dressed in coarse cloth at the moment, looked like an ordinary person, "if you will......"

"My father is dead." Perseus struggled to put aside the inexplicable sense of identity in his heart, and said coldly: "Killed by God!" ”

"Mankind has died in a war brought by itself."

Zeus avoided the important and trivialized, and in his opinion, if it were not for human disloyalty and overthrowing his idols, such a thing would not have happened.

But Perseus disagreed, gritted his teeth and said: "Humans did not kill my family, it was your brother who did a good thing." ”

"After listening to the witch's prophecy, you should know that you can't kill the Kraken, let alone deal with Hades." After all, it was his own son, Zeus persuaded: "If you insist on going your own way, you will die, and Argos will still be destroyed." ”

Perseus was silent for a few seconds and asked, "Since you are so sure, why are you still here?" ”

"Shelter for you." Zeus said in a deep voice: "You are my flesh and blood, so you are a god, you should go to Mount Olympus and live like a god." ”

Perseus shook his head and said, "I would rather return to dust with mankind than live forever like a god." ”

"Stupid!" Zeus was a little angry, "The entire existence of humanity is a gift from me. ”

Perseus smiled: "As the god who created mankind, you know too little about us. ”

He put away his smile, took a step forward, and said word for word: "We coexist, fight, and even die for each other, not for you. ”

"Tell Hades that I'll be coming to see him soon!"

He plunged his sword into its scabbard and said it in no uncertain terms.

"Then I won't give you any more shelter."

"Very well, because I am also not willing to refuse you twice."

Perseus turned and walked away.

"Wait." Zeus hesitated slightly, but still stopped Perseus, and when he saw him stop and turn back, he smiled slightly, took out a strange gold coin from his body, and threw it over, "The passage you have to go through is very expensive." ”

Perseus took the coin, and when he looked up again, he saw Zeus transform into a goshawk and fly into the sky.

He withdrew his gaze, and after thinking about it, he put the gold coin away.

But when he returned, he found that there seemed to be something wrong with everyone's mood.

After a night of reflection, the two hunters, who had volunteered to follow the party as they set out, offered to leave after handing him a shield made of giant scorpion bones.

The other party had made up his mind, and Perseus couldn't force him to stay, so he could only smile reluctantly and send his blessings.

After the hunters left, everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and their morale was extremely low.

Although he did not offer to leave again, no one still had any confidence in this operation.

"You've heard the witches, but we can prove them wrong." Perseus looked at the crowd and said sincerely, "I need your help. ”

Along the way, up to now, apart from him, there is only one recruit who has been taken care of because of his immaturity, and three old but experienced fighters, while the rest of the fighters have basically died on the road.

Coupled with the elders of the Evil Spirit Clan, and the female demigod Io, there are only six people left in total.

Fortunately, these people did not disappoint Perseus and expressed their willingness to continue to follow.

As a guide, Io knows where to go to the underworld and Medusa's lair.

The group set out again, and under the leadership of Io, they crossed the Styx Gardens and arrived at the entrance to the underworld before dark.

The underworld is underground, and the entrance is like a sinkhole in the wasteland, but this sinkhole is filled with a thick white mist, and even if you are close, you can't see what is going on below.

Io and the others found a hidden passage in the mist, which led diagonally down to the depths of the sinkhole.

They made their way to a rudimentary dock.

The pier is made of wood, with torches burning on both sides, and in front of it is a white fog that can faintly hear the sound of running water.

This is the entrance to the edge of the River Styx, the only way for mortals to reach the underworld after death.

"What now?"

When they arrived, everyone looked at Io.

Ai said lightly: "Wait for the god Karon." ”

"Caron only transports the dead." Zogula pulled out her cutlass and turned around and asked, "Are there any volunteers?" ”

All he could think of was that if someone died here in the team, Caron would naturally appear to extradite the soul.

Perseus held the gold coin given by Zeus in his hand, thinking about what the other man had said when he left, but he couldn't figure out how to use it.

He was also unwilling to let people take the initiative to sacrifice to lure out Caron, so in the end he could only throw the gold coin, and said helplessly: "Let's swim over." ”

Before the others could react, the Evil Spirit Clan Elder next to him took a step forward, caught the falling gold coin, and then threw the gold coin into the River Styx under the inexplicable gaze of the others.

Click~!

In the next moment, there was a slight clatter of wooden planks in the River Styx, and then a dilapidated wooden boat approached the docks, pulled by a group of humanoid monsters swimming underwater.

"It's a bribe for the inductee."

Now everyone understood, and there was a strange look in their eyes when they looked at Perseus.

The gold coins used by humans are obviously unable to summon Caron, so the origin of this gold coin is worth considering.

Although Perseus didn't say anything and didn't want to say anything, everyone present guessed something.

Perseus was helpless, and along the way, he refused the sword that fell from the sky, refused to pray to Zeus for strength when he was injured, and even refused the temptation to go to Mount Olympus to become one of the gods, but here, after all, he couldn't refuse the favor of the gold coin.

Cuarón was a tall, corpse-looking man with an oar in his hand, his empty eyes sweeping over the docks before motioning for them to board the boat.

He was so fond of money that even ordinary mortals had to bribe him with gold coins when they died, in order to be extradited across the River Styx.

As for the living, he would not have transported them, but the gold coins he got this time contained powerful divine powers, so he was willing to make an exception for this.

Perseus and the others got on the boat, and after saying their destination, Cuarón drove towards Medusa's lair without hesitation.

Once on the ship, Io told the story of Medusa and began to teach Perseus how to deal with Medusa.

As a woman, she was a cursed demigod herself, and she could not enter Medusa's prison, so she had to teach Perseus everything she knew.

Although there is little hope, and even the witch predicts that they will die, she believes that there must be a turning point for Perseus, who is the child of destiny.

The journey was short, and in the middle of teaching, the ferry boat reached the prison island where Medusa was.

It's a deserted island with scorching steam, dry trees, jagged rocks, and crumbling buildings.

The people went ashore and searched all the way to the only hole in the mountain wall.

At this point, they have determined that the legendary Medusa is in it nine times out of ten.

Perseus's bloodline is destined to be a natural warrior, before he came, he was a fisherman who could only fish, and along the way, he has learned how to fight, how to use the power of his bloodline.

And after meeting the witch, he became the leader of this team.

"I know we're all scared, but my dad used to say that someday somebody has to stand up, someday somebody has to say 'fed up,' and that's the day."

Perseus inspired the crowd and concluded: "Trust your feelings, and don't look into the eyes of that slut." ”

As he spoke, he turned around, drew his sword and shield, and walked first to the cave, followed by everyone but Io.

Xu Jing in the cave had already discovered these people when they arrived, and naturally heard Perseus's words.

"Slut?"

His brows furrowed tightly, the blood in his body suddenly boiled, and a wave of anger and unwillingness surged inexplicably in his heart.

This is obviously Medusa's resentment, even if it has been systematically processed, it is still deeply rooted in the bloodline, so that Xu Jing, who occupies the other party's body, deeply feels this hatred and pain.

He originally planned to help and join hands with Perseus, using the other party's identity as a child of destiny to complete his mission.

But after hearing the words of the other party, he suddenly changed his mind after causing a riot that caused Medusa's residual resentment.

At this time and then, before the change, Xu Jing may find a reason to persuade himself, or even ignore the past, after all, what happened to Medusa is not what he personally experienced, and he also has enough strength to suppress and get rid of the resentment in his body, there is no need to make his task more difficult for this unpleasantness.

But now that his cultivation, especially his divine soul, has reached the third order, he can't ignore this situation, and what he is pursuing now is more about thinking comprehension.

What did Medusa do wrong?

In fact, she did nothing wrong, but was a real victim.

She has a black hair that is smooth like water, and countless men want to take her for themselves.

But as a priest to Athena, the goddess of war, she could not get married, and she had made a vow to remain chaste and serve the goddess wholeheartedly.

However, when Medusa was at her most helpless, the goddess she served acted as a shrunken turtle, and even became angry with her afterwards, turning her into a monster and imprisoned in the underworld.

For countless years, all that has been circulated in the outside world is legends about how evil and terrifying she is, how she is, and who knows her grievances and anger.

Those warriors of the human race who don't know the truth come to crusade against Medusa, Xu Jing can still understand that those people may be famous, or they may be for profit, and of course there are also those who want to eliminate harm for the people.

However, Perseus and his party, Xu Jing, who had watched the movie, knew very well that these people had learned the truth from Iona.

If it was just a different position, in order to save Argos to deal with him, he could still understand, and even turn enemies into friends, but that sentence of "cheap" made his thoughts completely incomprehensible.

"What about the children of fate?"

A killing intent rose in Xu Jing's heart.

He sees Perseus as a child of destiny, but not simply because the other party is the protagonist of the movie.

After traveling to the world related to these Western gods several times, coupled with being a god himself, Xu Jing has become more and more aware of the development history of Western gods.

From Gaia at the beginning of Chaos, to the Titans of later generations, to the blood-complicated monsters and all kinds of gods who rely on faith to seal gods to obtain the authority of the law, they have basically been going downhill.

In Xu Jing's view, when the universe first opened, it was like a baby in swaddling clothes, although it did not give birth to self-consciousness, it would instinctively protect itself.

And the way for this heaven and earth to protect themselves is to first give birth to innate gods.

These innate gods themselves are the embodiment of some or more laws of heaven and earth, representing the existence of heaven and earth.

For example, Gaia, the Mother of the Earth, was conceived from chaos and is heaven and earth herself, and she gave birth to Ouranos by her fingers, taking away the power to control the sky, that is, the deification of the sky.

In addition, the same is true of the ocean Pontus and the mountain range Uria that she conceived, and the birth of each child will become the embodiment of some kind of cosmic law.

And in this process, Gaia itself will become weaker and weaker, but for heaven and earth, this process is the perfection of itself, because some laws did not exist originally, but when two gods with different laws combine and give birth to new life, it may represent some kind of new law.

The more laws there are, the more complete and complete the universe will be.

However, when the laws of the world are perfected to a certain point, heaven and earth will realize the harm that these innate gods have done to themselves, because these gods are too destructive to restrain them.

As a result, heaven and earth are like anti-virus, creating all kinds of disasters or accidents, so that the innate gods and spirits will fall one by one.

After death, the authority controlled by the innate gods will be returned to heaven and earth, further expanding the universe of heaven and earth.

Then the heavens, the earth and the universe will divide some weaker authorities, that is, the godheads that are weaker than the innate gods, and choose to replace the spokesmen to manage.

In Xu Jing's view, although there is no consciousness in this universe, the operation of instinct, whether it is to create innate gods or believe in gods, is like raising pigs and killing pigs, generation after generation, and so on, the purpose is to improve and strengthen itself.

When the laws of the universe of heaven and earth are perfected to the limit, that is, the era of the end of the law will come, and there will be no need for any gods in the world.

The reason why Xu Jing thinks Perseus is the child of destiny is not just because the other party is the protagonist of the movie.

Throughout the entire War of the Gods and even the subsequent Wrath of the Gods two movies, the existence of Perseus itself is the darling of heaven and earth at this stage, and he is lucky.

Perseus's mission is actually that heaven and earth borrow his hand to end the age of the gods.

In fact, it is true, the final outcome is that the gods have fallen, and the only remaining Hades has lost his power, while Perseus himself has no idea of becoming a god, and even disgusted, and returns to the ranks of mortals.

Since then, humans have multiplied on Earth and eventually become the new masters.

This is the best that this universe wants.

Xu Jing guessed that perhaps one day, when the heaven-earth universe realized the danger of human beings, it would activate the anti-virus system again and exterminate human beings.

After that, new intelligent life may be born, new races, and so on.

Perhaps, one day, in the endless years, the heavens, the earth and the universe will give birth to a true sense of self and become a truly eternal and powerful life.

"It's so far away."

Xu Jing didn't think about it anymore, what he wanted to do most now was to make his thoughts clear.

And the easiest and most effective way is to kill all the humans who enter the lair.

The two sides were originally innocent and had no enmity, but since the other party had come to the door, and they were still mercilessly insulting when they knew the truth, why should he make compromises.

The children of destiny also grew up step by step and were constantly watched by heaven and earth, and heaven and earth never put all the apples in one basket.

The death of Perseus, who has not received much attention, will not cause much backlash.

What's more, history originally had a picture of Perseus and his party dying at the hands of Medusa, and only when he succeeded was the beginning of becoming a child of destiny.

Xu Jing sneered, made a decision thoroughly, did not hide his meaning at all, and swam directly towards Perseus and the others.