Chapter 147: Crossing the River Styx

Going all the way down the dim deep cave, Ye Ye's body flashed into a line as fast as possible, although the closer he got to the ground, the stronger the dead cold qi in the yin wind that came out of the gap in the netherworld, but after wearing the invisible helmet, Ye Ye seemed to be completely virtual, allowing the yin wind to pass through his body, as if they were different pictures projected by two projectors, although they overlapped, they did not interfere with each other.

I don't know how long I walked, but the passage that was originally a cave had unconsciously changed into a road, and the surrounding area was barren, and the overhead was no longer a low rock, but a dim, dark and dark sky with dark clouds hanging low, and there was no daylight, only eternal darkness.

"Is it not just a physical distance, but a spatial transformation?"

Ye Ye speculated in his heart, but his feet did not stop, and at some point, there was a gloomy and dense fog around him, and chaotic and crowded phantoms appeared in the fog, also walking on the avenue. The more you move forward, the more realistic these phantoms become, at first they are curves like light and shadow, then they become half-virtual and half-real, and finally they are lifelike, with all kinds of different appearances and costumes, old men with gray hair, babbling children, men in the prime of life, young girls in their prime of life, all the same, the only thing that is the same is a bloodless white face, a dull gaze, and a way of moving forward as if floating.

"The ghost of the dead?"

Ye Ye couldn't help frowning, he had seen a lot of dead corpses, and there was nothing to be afraid of ghosts, but being crowded with so many ghosts still made him feel a little hairy in his heart and feel uncomfortable. Fortunately, there is only this inconvenience, wearing Hades's invisible helmet, under the magic of the artifact, the souls of these dead people can't find Ye Ye's traces at all, just slowly wandering forward a little bit.

Then what caught Ye Ye's eyes was a super gate towering from the sky.

In the thick fog in the distance, dozens of roads like the avenues that Ye Ye had walked before extended from the fog in all directions to the bottom of the gate, and countless souls swarmed in, among which there were not only humans, but also aliens like half-human, half-horse Kentaurus people, all of whom slowly gathered under this gate to the underworld.

The weather-beaten gate seems to have stood here since the birth of the world, wrapped in a breath of despair, and once you enter this door, you will never see the light of day again.

Under the gate of Hades, a monster like a hill is resting, three hideous dog heads, one is sleeping, green saliva is constantly dripping between the sharp teeth, falling to the ground and suddenly making a zizzle sound and emitting white smoke, corroding a large piece of the earth, if it is not for the underworld to repair and grow on its own, I am afraid that it will fall into a pit after sleeping; The head in the middle was a spiritual shimmer, and two blood-red and cruel eyes stared closely at the many souls entering and exiting under the gate, their mouths opened and closed, and from time to time a cloud of demonic fire and poisonous smoke rose from their throats; The last head, though not asleep, shrugged its eyelids and looked listless and lazy, and its nostrils hung on the ground froze the ground into a lump of ice as it breathed.

The fur of the three cerberus cerberus was black, and on both the top of his head and his back were circles of extremely venomous snakes, which merged with his body; Behind the massive body grows a dragon's tail with sharp bone spurs, which is the most faithful guard of the gates of the underworld.

"No way, I'm not dead, I won't just die!"

Suddenly, Ye Ye saw a commotion in his soul on the inside of the gate of Hades, and then a burly man who was a head taller than the others roared and rushed towards this side, his body was only wrapped in a beast skin, and he looked like a barbarian from the Thracian region. I saw him roaring like thunder, running like the wind, rampage all the way, and the ignorant souls on the road were broken by him, and it took a long time to reunite and take shape.

"Ares bless!"

The barbarian man roared, and was about to rush out of the gate of Hades, when a trace of cruelty flashed in the bloody eyes of the vigilant dog-headed dog in the middle of Cerberus, and he didn't see any movement of his huge mountain-like body, and in an instant the barbarian's soul disappeared on the spot, and the dog's head chewed heavily.

"What a speed!"

Ye Ye's pupils shrank slightly, and among the many souls present, he was probably the only one who saw the scene just now, Cerberus didn't move at all, but a poisonous snake on its head suddenly stretched out its body and ejected the barbarian's soul over, such a flick and roll were as fast as lightning and stone fire, Ye Ye made a rough estimate in his heart, and found that it was at least above three times the speed of sound.

At this time, the dog's head chewing in the middle opened its mouth and spat out the soul dregs, and a green light sprayed onto the gate of the underworld, and then a painful face appeared on the stone of the gate, still squirming and howling, and it was the barbarian before. And above the gate of the underworld, the faces of souls like him were dense, as immeasurable as the holes of a huge honeycomb.

"Tsk, how did Hercules resist this guy like a puppy in the first place?" Ye Ye cautiously passed in front of Cerberus and entered the gate of the Hades. Although this guy's main duty is to guard the gate and prevent the soul from entering from going out again, if he finds a living person, he will probably not mind changing the taste and tasting the taste of fresh flesh and blood.

Fortunately, the invisible helmet is worthy of being the exclusive artifact of Hades, the effect is extremely magical, far more than just the simple of hiding the body, it erases all the user's nameless metaphysical information, including sound, smell, breath, and even electromagnetic waves or sense of existence, even if it passes under the nose of Cerberus, the keen Cerberus does not find anything abnormal.

After passing through the gate of Hades, followed by a barren beach without any vegetation, a river of unknown origin rolled away, the wind swirled on the surface of the river, and the wind carried countless faint wails and weepings, the river was bottomless, as if leading to a bottomless abyss, luring the souls who had been staring at it for too long, and dissolving in this mighty and inexhaustible river Styx.

Seeing this big river, Ye Ye's eyes flashed with a hint of jealousy, one of the four great rivers of the underworld, the first river of resentment and distress that the deceased who entered this country of death encountered - Akeron. Although Ye Ye has the divinity of the ocean, let alone manipulating this river Styx, even the divine thoughts are swallowed up without a trace as soon as they get close. The waters of these four rivers of Styx dissolve everything and are extremely dangerous, and the most dangerous of them all, the Hateful River Styx, is not even daring to be touched by the gods.

On the beach, many souls wandered aimlessly, and from time to time there was a low sigh of the dead soul in the wind, which was the greed for the yang world, for relatives, for power and wealth, and for enjoyment, but they could never turn back.

"Crossing the river is a troublesome thing, strange, what about the guy who is holding the boat?"

Ye Ye searched up and down the Akeron River, only to see the vast Styx River surging and rushing, and a little far away it was shrouded in a haze and ghost fog on the side, and he couldn't see the scene on the other side clearly, but he could be sure that there was no trace of the legendary ferry boat in his line of sight.

But he didn't have to wait long, and in the distance he saw a dark shadow in the thick fog on the river rapidly enlarge, and the Styx boatman Charon slowly drove the wooden boat towards the shore, and shouted loudly as he approached the beach.

"Let's start getting on the boat, get your money ready, and take your time one by one."

Charon traveled back and forth on the River Styx for years, transporting the undead through the treacherous waters, but he didn't do it for free, he had to charge for the boat. However, his price was very reasonable, and a soul only needed a small silver coin of Opollus, so the ancient Greeks would bury the dead with a silver coin in their mouths as the fare for crossing the river. Of course, there are still many people who have died by accident or who have no one to bury them, so they can only stop in front of this river Styx, and wander on the beach for hundreds of years and thousands of years, until they are lost or Charon occasionally crosses the river for free.

If he could, Ye Ye was willing to take out a piece of Talrant gold to allow himself to cross the river safely, but now that he was smuggling, he naturally couldn't pay any boat fare, so he could only follow those souls quietly on board the boat at the right time.

Swinging the long pole to knock down some of the souls who had no money and wanted to crowd on the ship, Charon saw that the number was almost the same, and the long pole pushed the boat away from the shore, leaving only a group of wailing and frustrated souls who could not board the ship.

The wooden boat didn't look big, but after coming up, Ye Ye found that the space that could be accommodated on the boat was far larger than what it looked outside, he quietly avoided those dead souls and found a remote corner to sit down quietly, preparing to cross the River Styx quietly. But he forgot one thing, compared to the dead who only had their souls left, the weight of flesh and blood was magnified many times in this underworld, and Charon, who had crossed the river Styx tens of millions of times, soon felt a little strange, and today's boat seemed to be much heavier than before, making him feel a little tired.

"That's not right!"

Charon, the goddess of the Styx, who looked like a wizened old man, frowned, and his green eyes revealed a fierce light that swept across the ship, but he couldn't find any clues.

"It's strange, the souls on the ship today are similar to the past, how can they become so heavy?"

Hesitantly, Charon glanced at the boat again, but could not find out the reason, so he had to continue rowing. However, when the wooden boat crossed into the middle of the River Styx, the river suddenly rioted, violently setting off the waves and hitting the bottom of the boat, jolting the boat to the ground, staggering like a tumbler, and several of the dead spirits standing on the side of the boat were thrown off the boat unprepared, and disappeared without a trace by the waves of the River Styx below, without even a bubble coming out.

"Oops!"

Charon's face changed drastically, and he stomped his foot, and the wooden boat under his feet suddenly emitted a dark light, spreading into a halo that enveloped the boat, calming the surrounding waves of the Styx. After working on the Styx for so long, Charon naturally knows very well what this vision of the Styx represents, although rare, but it has not happened in the past few thousand years, and those guys are all heroes who belong to the blood of the gods.

"There's a living person on board!!"

A high-pitched cry, Charon's eyes were full of ferocity, and he glared viciously at every soul on the ship, which immediately made these powerless dead tremble, as if they were standing naked in the ice and snow. Ye Ye was also slightly nervous in his heart, he was not afraid of this Death Country Crossing God, but if the battlefield was on the River Styx, then it would be insensitive.

"Do you think I won't be able to find you if you hide?"

Charon's gaze searched to no avail, and he roared angrily into the sky, and a piercing sound wave like a banshee singing in Hades swept across the ship.