Chapter 37: The Underworld (2)

"Senior, why do you take on this task, we are going to the underworld, it can be regarded as nine deaths, are you also because of a lack of contribution points?" Chen Xi asked.

"As a godborn, no one would be too much to contribute. In fact, the main thing is that you saved the girl I like, and now you are going to a dangerous place to save the girl you like, and I will accompany you. Gaston replied.

Chen Xi was a little moved, Senior Big Dog is the kind of person who admits death, obviously Senior Sister Lin Di was in danger because she saved herself, but Senior Big Dog decided that Chen Xi saved his girlfriend, so knowing the danger, he would also come to help Chen Xi.

A person like a senior of the big dog, if he was born in ancient times, with his strong body and righteousness, it is estimated that he can become a loyal and righteous general, Chen Xi remembered the red-faced and beautiful sideburns in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

There is such a passage in the Three Kingdoms: one day Cao Cao sent a red rabbit horse to Guan Yu, and Guan Yu thanked him.

Cao Cao said: "I gave you money and beauty, but you didn't kneel." But when he saw the horses bowing twice, is he not as good as a beast?"

Guan Yu said: "I know that this horse can run a thousand miles a day, and if I know the whereabouts of my eldest brother, I can meet him quickly." ”

Luo Guanzhong wrote in the seventy-seventh episode of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" "Yuquan Mountain Guan Gong Xiansheng Luoyang City Cao Cao Touches the Gods": Guan Gong died at the age of fifty-eight. Later generations have poems that sigh: "The late Han Dynasty was invincible, and Yun Chang stood out alone: God is mighty and can fight hard, and elegance is more knowledgeable." The heart of the sun is like a mirror, and the righteousness of "Spring and Autumn" is thin and cloudy. It is clear that it is more than three points. There is also a poem that says: "The outstanding people only pursue the ancient and solve the good, and the people compete to worship Han Yunchang." Taoyuan one-day brother and brother, the emperor and the king of Qianqiu. The wind and thunder are incomparable, and the sun and the moon are shining. So far, the temple looks like the world, and the ancient wood jackdaw has a few sunsets.

On the shady side of Mitikas Peak at dusk, Chen Xi watched the black mist churning below, and he jumped down with the pomegranate seeds of the underworld in his mouth. The sound of the wind, the feeling of weightlessness, the fog in front of his eyes, the pomegranate seeds of the underworld melted in his mouth, and the bitter juice flowed into his throat. Then he found himself on a black sandy ground with Gaston and Jonathan standing next to him.

Gaston was fine, and Jonathan's clothes were all torn, as if he had strips of rags hanging from him, and he had vomited a mouthful of blood.

"Senior, are you alright?" asked Chen Xi

"It's okay, I took advantage of a small loophole in the rules and received a little punishment. It just looks a little embarrassed, and it's not much of a problem. Jonathan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, then ripped off the tattered clothes on his body, and after the silver light flashed on his left hand, a new garment appeared, and he ripped off the torn garment and put the new clothes back on.

"The left hand of the dimension, this is my ability, it can be combined with a separate dimensional space, and it can store items"

Only then did Chen Xi realize that the three of them came to the underworld empty-handed.

"Senior, do you know a cat named Doraemon?"

"I don't know," Jonathan shook his head.

"I used to long have a cat like this. ”

Chen Xi felt that the senior in front of him was a living robot cat, the almighty blue fat man.

In the past, when Chen Xi was young, when his head was pumped, he would suddenly rush to his room and open the drawer, wanting to see if there would be a blue fat man sitting in a time machine and suddenly jumping out. The blue fat man said to him, "When we first met, my name was Doraemon. Then his great-great-grandson, that is, his grandson's grandson, Ye Bishixiu, jumped out of it and said, "Grandpa Gao (grandpa's grandfather) you will be too miserable in the future, and I will be a poor N generation, so we will come back on a time machine and equip you with future robots and various props." If you mix well and make a lot of money, I can be regarded as a rich N generation. ”

In those years, every decrepit boy like Nobita fantasized about having an almighty blue fat man, if he was to follow the way Chinese online novels were written, he should use those future black technologies to kick the rich second generation, punch the second generation of officials, blast all kinds of black bosses, and establish a harem containing various types of beauties, which is admired by everyone.

But Nobita, who has a robot cat, is still not very mixed, but he finally married Shizuka, who has been thinking about his entire adolescence. In reality, how many decrepit boys like Nobita did not live as they longed for, and they also watched themselves think about it, tossing and turning, and the girl who couldn't marry someone else, maybe married to a middle-aged and elderly Mediterranean with a shy belly. But then again, the blue fat man's props always drop the chain at critical moments, and I hope this senior is more reliable.

Chen Xi and the three of them continued to walk forward, a raging black river blocked their way, and to reach the forest covered with black poplars, they had to cross the Styx River in front of them.

A filthy old man with a full beard and fire-breathing eyes stood beside a boat with a long rod in his hand.

Charon, the ferryman of the River Styx, who is responsible for crossing the souls of the dead to the other side of the River Styx. However, the undead must pay a silver coin (Opollus) to cross the river by boat, otherwise they will wander in the river of pain and find no home. If those awaiting trial run out of money, they will have to wait a year, at which point Charon will extradite the undead across the river for free. Therefore, the Greeks put a silver coin (Opollus) in the mouth of the deceased. The three of them couldn't stay in the underworld for a year.

Jonathan took out three silver coins and handed them to Charon.

Charon took the silver and said, "My ship does not carry the living." ”

Jonathan took three more bags from his dimensional left hand and tossed them to Charon.

"Each bag contained a hundred silver Opollus coins. ”

Charon took the three bags in his hand and weighed them, the fire in his eyes jumped, his mouth cracked, and he said with a mouthful of rotten teeth: "For the sake of Opollus, get on board, my dear guest." ”

Charon stood at the stern of the boat, humming a strange ballad, and propped up the pole to keep the boat moving.

"Senior, fortunately you prepared so many Greek silver coins before, otherwise we would have to snatch this old man's ship," Chen Xi looked at Jonathan next to him and said.

"It's best not to clash with him, Charon is the god of the river Styx, the god of darkness Erebos and the goddess of the night Nexus were combined to give birth to the god of space, Etheel, the god of day, Hermerah, and the god of the river Styx, Charon. I don't think we have a good chance of beating him, I should say that there is no chance at all. ”

"This old man is also a god?" Chen Xi looked at the obscene old man, if it weren't for the fire in his eyes, it would be no different from those lustful old men who sneaked into the thighs of young girls on the subway bus.

"It's not about preparing in advance, I used to like to collect some ancient coins, all of which are placed in my dimensional space, I bought the Opollus silver coin from a declining European nobleman, one cost 2,100 euros, and I just gave the old man 303 pieces, that is, more than 600,000 euros. But I don't have much left, and it's a bit of a hassle to go back and collect it later. ”

Chen Xi thought that this was the most expensive boat he had ever sat on in his life, and with a ticket of more than one million yuan per person, he could buy a yacht with average configuration, but he spent it on this small broken boat. Fortunately, there is a big tyrant next to the bill. The boatmen of the underworld are so dark, they are as black as the water in this river of the Styx, if this is a tourist attraction in China, Chen Xi will have to complain to the Ministry of Tourism or the Ministry of Industry and Commerce about this ghost place.

The hull of the ship shook violently suddenly.

"Stand firm, don't fall, the River Styx we are passing through now is called the River of Pain, and if you fall, the consequences will be terrible. Gaston grabbed Chen Xi, who was almost shaken down.

"Thank you, senior," Chen Xi said with palpitations as he looked at the churning black river.

A pale figure pounced, and Jonathan swung his scimitar and cut the guy in half, black blood spurting out.

Jonathan fired several flares into the darkness around him, and the white light lit up with pale and swollen heads like floating corpses, and the guys swam towards them in a steady stream.

"Damn, it's the living dead. These people who are reluctant to cross the River Styx into Hades with a desire to live, they are attracted by the breath of the living in us. Jonathan took out three assault rifles and handed them to Chen Xi and Gaston each. The rifle developed by the academy itself uses large-caliber bullets to achieve the ultimate lethality, and at the same time has sufficient accuracy, at the cost of the huge recoil of the gun, which can cause a shoulder dislocation if an ordinary person shoots it.

However, Chen Xi and the three were not ordinary people, they held their guns and shot steadily at the river, beating the living dead into a pile of stumps and flesh. From time to time, Jonathan took out the magazine from dimensional space and threw it on the deck of the ship, and Chen Xi and Gaston picked up the magazine and replaced it.

With the support of Jonathan's mobile arsenal, they had a safe journey, the living dead were torn to shreds by bullet lines, and they could not pose a threat at all, and their eyes could already see the gray earth on the opposite side of the river.

An angry roar floated a fat man covered in rotting flesh under a pile of scraps of flesh from the living dead, and the living dead saw this guy with a look of fear in their eyes and kept them away from it as far as they could. In this beastly world, the roar of the mighty hunters drives out the weaker hunters and swears ownership of their prey.

The waterline reached the chest of the fat man, covered in carrion, and he ran towards the boat with his butcher's knife in hand.

The bullet struck him in the head, but was blocked by the thick flesh. Although it splattered black blood, it did not pose a threat to this guy's huge body, but only affected its forward speed. The fat man yelled in exasperation, and then dived into the water. The dark river was tumbling, and it was impossible to see where the guy was hiding.

"Does this guy still play tricks?" Chen Xi said in surprise. The living dead before had no intelligence at all, and were simply attracted by the breath of the living on their bodies, and only knew how to rush forward blindly regardless of casualties.

"It's the Plague Butcher, this guy is a monster that combines the living dead and resentment. If he capsizes the boat and we fall into the River Styx, the living people immersed in the waters of the River Styx will be instantly deprived of their lives and turned into the living dead or other monsters. Jonathan said as he looked at the water with a serious face.

The boatman Charon still held his boat unhurriedly, as if he didn't care that his boat would capsize, humming a strange ballad that echoed the wails of the living dead in the distance, and their chorus made the dark space all the more terrifying.