Crimson Moon Chapter 4: The Ferryman on the Shenyu River (Part I)

A large black river flowed quietly in front of me, the amount of water was very large, but the speed of the flow was not fast, the water surface was constantly surging, the river was undulating, and the black water was constantly washing the reef on the ground.

On the banks of the river, there were many gray shadows, and their faces were painful, and they looked at the river at a loss, and soon their figures disappeared into the river, and there were similar existences continuously.

Jiang Cheng and the others are like being in a crowded flow of people, watching each other, but those shadows, Jiang Cheng can see and can't touch, very strange, just like human souls.

If you look far away, you can see a towering castle at the far end, as majestic and huge as Constantinople in the Middle Ages, and the sharp church is like a thin needle, reaching into the sky in the distance, lonely and silent, like the last king covered in frost and snow, isolated on a lonely city surrounded by enemy troops.

Gargoyles are handled in the high places of those buildings, with ghostly faces and hideous faces, spreading their wings and wanting to raise their arms and fly high, but in the gloomy environment, they give people an eerie fear.

At the end of the day, under the cover of countless black dark clouds, a bright light is out of place, like the dawn of the night, in the dawn, the yellow spring falls from above, like the Milky Way falling into the nine heavens, the roaring water can be heard clearly even at this end of the riverbank.

The blood moon hangs in the sky, exuding a suffocating sense of oppression, and everything is warning those who do not know whether to live or die on the riverbank, this is the land of the dead, the world of the dead, this is the underworld, and coming here is a dead end.

"It's so shocking, is this the underworld?" Jiang Cheng muttered.

"According to the information, we are mainly here to obtain a weapon and equipment, and that weapon, if I guess correctly, should be at the end of the river bank in the distance, in the ancient castle!" Pompeii said.

Carlos nodded, according to the wild history, whoever can pull out that weapon will be able to obtain the inheritance of Hades, immortality, and even if he is defeated, he can start over.

There were more people behind him, and when they first came here, everyone felt the same as Jiang Cheng, shocked, and then feared with a little sense of awe.

"Let's start crossing the river, let's see who swims to the other side first!" In the middle of the team, one of the agents of the blue team began to warm up, and there were also people behind him, although the river was wide, but for these agents of the College of Eden, it was still no problem.

The college holds a swimming competition every year, and swimming is also within the scope of the college's physical test, if you do not qualify, you will face the risk of being dissuaded.

"Wait, there seems to be something wrong with this river!" Carlos stopped them, and in an unfamiliar situation, it would be a dead and dead thing to cross the river, because you don't know what's in the river, and it's full of weirdness.

"The president is right, according to the records in Homer's epic poems, in the underworld, there is a river called 'Acheron' River of Grievances, the River of Distress, and he has another nickname!" Pompeii sold a pass, and everyone looked at him with amazement.

His lips opened, and he spat out three suffocating words heavily, "Shen Yuhe!"

"Shen Yu River!" said the crowd in horror, according to the literal meaning of the word, the water here can't even float a feather, as long as it falls into the river, it will be drowned by the river.

Just now, a few stunned young people who were about to swim over were dumbfounded, but fortunately, someone here gave them the same science popularization, if they entered the water only to find that the water couldn't float, it would be over.

"The river of resentment, the river of distress, those who want to enter the underworld must first pass through this river, and the dead who want to cross the river must pay the ferry fee, otherwise they will be ruthlessly thrown into the river by Caron, the ferryman of the river Styx.

It is said that the water here is much lighter than the water in the Yang world, and it has the title of "Feather Sinking River", unless through the ships of the underworld, it is almost impossible for human bodies to cross, and as for the ignorant undead in the Styx, they will be slowly corroded, and there will not even be a soul left!" Pompeii's eyes also showed a hint of fear.

The shadows that kept disappearing in the River Styx seemed to be a precedent, constantly warning the detectives.

Everyone took a deep breath, everyone's hairs stood on end, and at this time Carlos clapped his hands, "Now our mission is to find Caron, the ferryman on the Shenyu River!"

"Caron..."Jiang Cheng read silently, he also likes to read some extracurricular magazines, especially in high school, Jiang Cheng will pick up some magazines and read them after finishing his homework in school, and he is involved in some mysterious things.

Caron is said to be the ferryman of the River Styx, he is greedy, loves money, and only crosses the rich, and will not hesitate to abandon those worthless ghosts if he encounters them.

"Then we will now divide into two teams, the red and blue teams, and grope on both sides of the riverbank, and if we find any trace of a suspected ferryman, then please contact each other in the communication!" Carlos commanded the men below.

"Yes!"

The red and blue teams then headed for the east and west, with Jiang Cheng and Jiang Che following their captain Pompei and heading towards the river bank to the west.

The banks of the river were very wide, surrounded by dead branches and leaves, and some dead trees with crooked necks were covered with all kinds of dry corpses, and their faces were miserable, and only a dead skin remained.

Some were hanged directly, some were pierced through the body by branches, and the death statues were especially ugly.

The further they went, they gradually began to slow down, because there were more and more corpses on the side of the road, and even many of them were fresh, looking at them, it seemed that they had come here from the outside, but they were definitely not from the Academy of Eden, they were wearing armor made of metal, and they looked like knights of the West.

Because the academy wore helmets and closed clothes, they couldn't smell the smell of blood in their breath, but that didn't mean it was a good place, on the contrary, it was a place outside the law.

"There seems to be someone in front!" Jiang Cheng said, the people in front of him turned their backs to the agents of the Eden Academy, they were wearing metallic silver armor, holding swords and shields in their hands, and heavy armored soldiers with large axes, their bodies were huge, and their armor was covered with barbs, and they looked invulnerable.

"Stop, Alert!" Pompeii walked at the front of the group, raised his hand, and made a stop gesture to all the team members.

Jiang Cheng's Adam's apple squirmed, and he took out his pistol, these are the weapons after the academy demon reform, which has great damage to flesh and blood, but I don't know if it will be so effective in the face of people wearing armor.

The people behind him also pulled out their ray guns and rifles, and everyone was ready to attack, as long as the other party had any wind and grass, aggressive behavior, then they would be hit by heavy fire.

"The first few of you, I don't know if you can get out of the way!" Pompeii shouted at the group of armored soldiers.

The armored soldiers turned their heads, purple flames burning in their dark eyes, their faces as if they were nothing, like warriors who had come out of the shadows, and when they turned around, Pompeii saw some people lying on the ground in the gap.

"Those people—" Pompeii clenched his hands.

"24th, that's Lucia!" a BLU team leader behind him suddenly shouted.

At this time, behind the armored soldiers were scattered agents of the Academy of Eden, their bodies were cut into several pieces by sharp weapons, and the flesh and blood were blurred like meat sauce, and the only thing that could distinguish them was those red and blue agent combat uniforms.

A huge armor squeezed out from behind, dragging the man by the palm wrapped in the hard armor, and the man's helmet had been shattered, revealing his original face.

"Edgar Allan Poe—" Pompeii muttered.

"Captain... Save..."

Burst......

Before Poe could finish his sentence, his head was crushed by the armor without warning, leaving only a body lying to the ground, blood flowing from the broken cervical vertebrae.

Even the experienced Pompey was stunned at this time, he had never seen such an arrogant and murderous thing, are these guys devils?

"Bastard!

The team members behind him had already been unable to suppress the anger in their hearts, and poured all their firepower on the bodies of those armors, and the ray guns were first shot at the armor that was extremely arrogant and killed the agent in front of the blue team.

The armor was pierced by the ray gun, and they took a few steps backwards, revealing their hollow bodies, and they didn't even have anything in them, as if they were floating ghosts.

"Pretending to be a ghost!" Pompeii's body began to burn.

"Chain of Gods-Aeoros-Wind Split!"

The piercing wind whistle blew in his ears, making a sonic boom, which made people dazzle the ears, and the air was disturbed by the powerful wind, like a sharp blade cutting through the bodies of those armors, and the armor soon revealed cracks, and some of its own armor was torn and shattered on the spot, revealing a blue ghostly spirit floating in the air.

"This..."Jiang Cheng wiped his eyes, after the strange armor shattered, the people inside did not die, but floated like ghosts, their eyes burned with purple flames, and their bullets did not react to the spirits after passing through them.

"What the hell is this!" Jiang Che couldn't help but ask, there really was such a thing as a soul.

The armor was shot by the powerful fire, and they all scattered, but all the ghosts rushed towards them like crazy, and the bullets were actually of little difference to them.

"What the hell are these guys!" shouted someone in the crowd.

"Retreat!" Pompeii glanced at it, and then shouted loudly, this time it was indeed they who were not well prepared, they did not expect to encounter such an invincible enemy for the first time, and they really had no way to do anything about such a strange thing.

Jiang Che pulled Jiang Chengfei and ran behind him, in the crowd, some people had an unstable center of gravity and fell to the ground, and a team leader went up to help him, but he was caught up by these ghosts.

They surrounded the two of them, laughing and screaming eerily, grabbing them at their bodies, and white light kept coming out of them and into the mouths of the ghosts.

They were sucking the souls of the two of them, and soon the two of them fell to the ground with empty eyes, their bodies as thin as wood.

When the soul form of those ghosts increases, they will start to find a new armor to put on, and continue to stand there, while the ghosts who have not obtained enough souls will continue to chase forward, letting out a strange smile like a baby.

Jiang Cheng and Jiang Che were lucky, because they were standing at the back, so they were now running in front, and those unlucky agents were killed, and even their souls were devoured by those ghosts, and all the way around, there were only seven or eight people left in the team of less than twenty people.

Pompeii glanced back, and the last two ghosts, after sucking the soul of an agent, floated back contentedly, not coveting the extra soul.

While the men were far away, Pompeii walked over, looked at the agent who had been sucked souls, took off his helmet, and found that his body was as shriveled as a dried corpse, with no vitality at all, and that those who were already dead could no longer die.

"Report to the President, the BLU team has suffered heavy losses against an invincible enemy!" Pompey reported as he sat on the ground, taking off his helmet in embarrassment, revealing his decadent face.

In just one round, he had seen the horrors of the Necronomicon Realm, a loss that was absolutely rare in the history of the Academy.

There was silence on the other end of the communication for a moment, and Carlos replied in a hoarse voice, "The RED team too!"