Chapter 12: The Ferryman of Hell

Hell is not for man......

Stepping into it, Zhang Shen couldn't help but be taken aback. Originally, in his imagination, this should be a dark place similar to the underground world, but it turned out to be the same as the legend of the mortal world, full of red magma, one by one more like stone pillars of the peaks rose from the magma, there were many forests, below was bright red magma, countless souls wailed in the magma, they were all bound by black chains, unable to move, and could only endure the pain of magma burning.

Everything in sight seemed to be a combination of a stone forest and a magma lake, plus the dark clouds formed in the air due to the thick dead breath, and countless silent wails and struggling souls, forming the scene of hell that Zhang Shen saw.

Zhang Shen walked out of the stone cave where Minos was, and was standing at the entrance of the cave at the moment, the stone cave where he was located was impressively located on a cliff, with no heaven or earth, dense dark clouds above, and red magma below, but there was no road.

He didn't expect to fly straight over. That's self-defeating.

In hell, flying is a "privilege" that is in the hands of a few, such as Hades, his wife, Persephone, and a few others.

What about the rest?

The answer was soon revealed.

Zhang Shen waited for a long time, only to see a canoe-shaped boat emerge from behind a few thick stone pillars, and the black-robed man who operated the boat rowed slowly and came over this way.

The distance was closer, and the whole picture of the boat operator also entered Zhang Shen's line of sight. It was a very ugly fellow, with bulging eyes, a fat nose, and pointed ears, which at first glance looked like a magnified version of a goblin, but the hands stretched out from under his robe looked like dry branches and covered with black patches, which were even more disgusting than goblins.

This is the ferryman of hell, an existence between the demon and the necromancy, a species produced under the unique geographical environment and laws of hell, and the only purpose and value of its existence is to ferry, to act as a boatman or "bus" driver.

The wooden boat with a lifelike tormented face carved on the surface docked, and Zhang Shen raised his feet to board the boat, but was stopped by the ferryman.

He stretched out his hand shaped like a chicken claw in front of Zhang Shen, with his palm facing upward, and the meaning was very clear.

"Money?"

The ferryman nodded, a greedy look in his heavily bulging eyes, God knows what they were going to do with the money.

Zhang Shen is not a stingy person, without saying a word, he took out a large handful of gold and silver coins (the currency of this world), which was also mixed with a few precious gems, shining enough to brighten the eyes of a blind dog.

Unbeknownst to him, the ferryman showed an angry expression, slapped Zhang Shen's hand away, and the gold, silver and gems were scattered all over the ground, and then rolled down into the sea of magma below, vaporizing instantly.

Zhang Shen still doesn't understand that he has made a fuss, and he doesn't accept the currency of the world in the emotional hell, and has his own monetary system. "Minos, that bastard, didn't even tell me......"

The embarrassment and entanglement of the person in front of him The ferryman could naturally sense it, and he was angry.

There is an unwritten rule among the ferrymen that if they can't pay the fare, they will pay for their own souls!

This rule has been circulated in Hell for thousands of years, and it has existed since the appearance of the Ferryman in Hell Formation, but Zhang Shen, as an outsider, has not been informed, and it is very "rare" to violate this taboo.

The ferryman turned his face instantly, his fingernails extended, and one claw grabbed at Zhang Shen.

It was his own fault, Zhang Shen took a few steps back to avoid it, and his brain teaser thought about how to settle this misunderstanding, but he found that the ferryman exuded a strong desire for "himself", almost a greedy thirst.

In a flash of inspiration, he probably understood why.

Ferrymen crave their souls! In this way, the fare he had asked for before was also something like a soul or something condensed by the power of the soul.

"If that's the case, then it's no wonder to me." A cold glint flashed in Zhang Shen's eyes, and the petrified snake pupils reappeared, and dozens of yellow-brown rays shot out, lightning and lightning flashed, and the point fell on the vital parts of the ferryman's body joints.

More than sixty percent of the ferryman's body was petrified in an instant, and he couldn't move anymore, so he could only shoot a fierce gaze at Zhang Shen in vain.

"It's my mistake, let you go." Zhang Shen dragged the petrified ferryman with most of his body and put it in the stone cave where he was, and the dove occupied the magpie's nest and snatched his wooden boat.

Zhang Shen didn't know that the ferryman was a race that was bound to repay but was extremely united. If they get into trouble together, even Hades will have a headache.

"Watching" Zhang Shen, the guy who broke the rules and forced his wooden boat to leave, the ferryman's rigid muscles twisted into a face of viciousness and hatred. He used the unique communication method of the ferryman race to inform the other tribesmen of his tragic experience, and also "uploaded" Zhang Shen's appearance, so that everyone could recognize this person at the first time and avenge himself.

In this way, without knowing it, Zhang Shen had already offended the power second only to the Hades in hell to death.

Just when the ferrymen were looking for him all over the world, Zhang Shen was wandering around.

That's right, it's just blinding. Without a map, you'll have to try your luck.

The hell was not as deserted as he first felt, and in the process of wandering around, he saw several ancient castles of different styles from a distance, built on the top of huge stone pillars that could be called mountain peaks, and judging from the aura they emanated, they all had the same divinity as the power of the god of war, and it was obvious that the gods who lived in them, the gods of hell.

With the idea that more things are better than less, Zhang Shen just looked at them from afar and did not get closer.

Hell is extremely vast, but there are also a lot of ferrymen, and if you walk too much at night, you will always meet ghosts, and Zhang was finally met by another ferryman.

"You're you again? Wrong! Although they look similar, there are slight differences. After taking a look at the ferryman, Zhang Shen couldn't help but be surprised.

Before he could make a move, the ferryman sped up and rushed towards him, menacingly. The glint in the latter's eyes was very familiar, and it was the same greed for the soul.

A powerful and delicious soul that is enough to drive any ferryman crazy.

Zhang Shen couldn't help but show a cruel sneer: "I have too much appetite, but I will die of it." As he spoke, several petrified rays shot out and landed on the ferryman's arms.

The gray spread, and in the blink of an eye, his arms, which had given birth to a pair of chicken feet, were completely petrified, turning into solid rock, and he could no longer hold the long penny.

Losing power, the wooden boat spun in place, making it difficult to move an inch.

What made Zhang Shen speechless was that the ferryman couldn't get close to him, let alone capture his soul, but the greed in his eyes did not decrease, but increased and intensified.

Zhang Shen came back to his senses and suddenly realized: "Feelings are not creatures, but something like a puppet." No wonder it's so dull and mechanical. ”

Understood, all anger and unhappiness disappeared in an instant—what kind of anger with the mechanical puppet.

Laughing at himself, Zhang Shen continued to move forward, in a certain general direction. In his senses, there was some kind of extremely powerful and deep force in this direction, although it was not sure that it was Tartarus, and it would be okay to look at it without any clue.

Soon, he couldn't laugh anymore.

In just one day, he was attacked by seven ferrymen one after another!

And the interval is decreasing, and the frequency of attacks is increasing.

Obviously, he has been exposed, this inexplicable enemy has a complete search and arrest network, contact, with the advantage of being familiar with the terrain, weaving a big net, gradually approaching him.

With a swing of his fist, he smashed a completely petrified ferryman into pieces and plunged into the eternal sea of magma below, watching him disappear, the evil aura in Zhang Shen's eyes gradually dissipated.

chased and killed again and again, so that Zhang Shen's patience was exhausted, and turned into a cold killing intent, no longer leaving his hands, and killing one by one.

The ferryman has not yet shown the means of long-range attack, and Zhang Shen's petrification ray is a near-to-medium-range attack, and often they are almost petrified before they get close, and they can't cause the slightest damage to Zhang Shen, and it is useless except to send people to the head.

Whatever to say, Zhang Shen soon saw the true power of the ferryman.

When they arrived at a relatively "dense" stone forest, five ferrymen suddenly rushed out from behind the stone pillar where they were hiding, and the long penny rowed rapidly, and the wooden boat seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, and rushed towards Zhang Shen at a speed of seventy yards.

In a flash, the wooden boat was approaching, and the murderous gaze of five hideous faces was clearly visible.

Zhang Shen was reluctant to use the power of the god of war or the Gate of Truth, which might attract the attention of Hades and other hellish gods, and still used the power of petrification to fight the enemy.

The snake's pupils appeared, and between the opening and closing of the pupils, more than a dozen yellow-brown rays scattered towards the five ferrymen.

Who knew that the ferryman had learned to be obedient.

The wooden boat under their feet suddenly moved up or down a little, and the rays that were originally pointing at the joints and heads of their arms were instantly deflected and landed on their strange black robes, only causing their movements to stagnate slightly, and then nothing more.

Zhang Shen was stunned for a moment, and in an instant, another wave of petrification rays was emitted, faster and more urgent, and the three ferrymen avoided it, were completely petrified, planted into the magma ocean below, and disappeared.

Two other ferrymen, who had been subjected to a non-lethal attack, approached Zhang's side.

They stretched out their claws and grabbed hard.

Click!

Zhang Shen's arms were covered with a layer of gray rock, as if he had grown the arms of a pair of rock giants. This is an alternative use of Medusa's petrification abilities. Compared to Medusa's petrification ability obtained because of the curse, Zhang Shen, who completely analyzed the truth law of "petrification", is undoubtedly more flexible in the way it is used.

With a flick of his fists, Zhang Shen blasted towards the attacking claws.

Who knows—

The ferryman's claws were like flowers in the moon in a well, and his fist penetrated through it, without touching the entity at all!

The ferryman is a special race derived from the laws of the world combined with the special geography of hell, and its strength does not lie in the battle, otherwise Hades and other hell gods would not be afraid of headaches.

Zhang Jian recognized the ferryman's soul ability.

When he sensed something was wrong and wanted to retract his strength, invisible ripples rippled out from the heavily bulging eyes of the two ferrymen, enveloping Zhang Shen.

Burst!

His soul was impacted by a strange force, and Zhang Shen suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood.

[PS: The old book that was sealed has been restored, wow Ka Ka, it's so cool]

[PS: I recommend a movie "This Man is from Earth", a low-budget sci-fi film, a good movie that makes people applaud; Also recommend a book I'm reading, Michael Sandel's "Justice", which is worth reading]