Chapter 144: The Passage
On earth, countless lives are lost every day. If these deceased are not lucky enough, there is a high chance that they will end up in hell.
After falling into hell, that is the beginning of their suffering.
First, the soul has to pass through the gates of hell through the gates of hell through the scrutiny of the three-headed dogs of hell. Then after passing through a short passage, you can reach the first level of hell.
The three-headed dog is not difficult to pass, but the passage behind it is not easy to walk. The passage was pitch black and twisted like a labyrinth of swarms of gadfly and wasps.
If you can survive the bites of these little insects and not get lost in the dark labyrinth, your soul will successfully reach the first level of hell, which is commonly known as the "Nether Judgment".
According to the rules of hell, the soul can only wander in the Netherworld until it is convicted.
It's not a very busy place. In this layer, the soul still has the hunger and thirst of the living, but it can never be satisfied. You still feel cold, but no matter how heavy your clothes are, you won't be able to keep out the cold.
If they can't stand this level of torment and want to be reincarnated, they must take Caron's ship to the underworld court in Minos to be tried.
Cuarón's ship only travels once a year, and if they can't get on board, they have to wait an extra year. In order to be able to board this ship, all souls wander the banks of the River Styx for a long time.
In the blink of an eye, it's the annual ferry day in hell again. The banks of the River Styx, the first layer of hell, are crowded with souls waiting to get on the boat.
In response to an old saying, death is not high or low. Now, waiting on the shore are old people with long beards and fluttering hair, as well as young children who are no taller than their waists. There are bright and beautiful girls, and there are pregnant women who are pregnant.
They saw the ferries coming from afar, pushing and arguing with each other and squeezing forward. Occasionally, a few unlucky ones were pushed into the River Styx after one could not stand steadily. Then, it can't come out again.
During their lifetimes, there was a disparity in wealth and status. Here, hell treats them equally.
When Dylan saw this scene, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. "Survival is a cruel competition, and death is not as easy as people think. ”
Flutter!
When the ferry arrived, the water splashed.
After Calon stopped the boat, he paddled his oar on the bone-paved deck, and then said quietly, "Dylan, I can only send you here, and then you will have to rely on yourself." Cerberus is waiting for you at the gate, go quickly!"
The corners of Dylan's mouth turned up, and he smiled softly and said, "If you are willing to give me the Styx elves you got earlier, it will help me a lot." ”
Hearing Dylan ask him for something, Cuarón's face suddenly darkened, and then immediately turned his head to the other side, as if he hadn't heard anything.
Dylan said this just to test it, and he was not surprised to see Cuarón's stingy performance.
Dylan shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently, "Okay! Then I'll go." With that, he spread his wings and flew off the boat.
After Dylan left, it wasn't long before Caron lowered the trestle.
The ghosts on the shore boarded the ferries with gold and silver money, while those who did not have the fare were thrown back to shore without mercy.
For countless years, the banks of the River Styx have played out the same image, and it has never changed.
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Although the demonic form is sealed, Dylan still has the advantage of flying as a Bloodline. After he left the ship, he flew for most of the day before he came to the entrance of the passage to the gates of hell.
In front of you, there is a towering mountain peak, and on this black mountain wall, there is a circular cave hundreds of meters high.
There was silence at the entrance of the cave, and it didn't look like a soul was passing through it every day.
"It's a problem for the soul of the common man. But for me, huh!"
Dylan felt that his strength was far greater than that of ordinary souls, and he stepped into the cave without thinking too much. However, as soon as he stepped into the cave, he knew he was wrong.
After he took this step, he didn't dare to move easily.
Because, he found that he seemed to have entered another world. Behind him is no longer a hole, but a deep passage. In front of him, there are more than a dozen winding and rugged paths.
Here, Dylan's good night vision and superior vision are useless.
At this time, he was not much different from other ordinary souls. At the very least, the difference in sight is about the same.
"Who is so boring to build a labyrinth and use the law. ”
Dylan looked at the dim, barely visible walls on either side, and the look on his face became a little strange.
If it's just an ordinary cave, the big deal is that there's a Hell Dragon, or a bunch of Hell Giants. Even if you can't beat it, you can run away. But when it comes to the law, anything can happen.
Dylan stood at the fork in the road, thought for a few seconds, and then strode toward one of the intersections.
Just now, after suddenly coming to a new environment, I subconsciously became defensive. After a brief thought, he immediately put his worries behind him.
If there was any danger in the passage, Cerberus couldn't have said hello. After all, Dylan still has irreplaceable value for them.
"Since there will be no danger, let's just go boldly with confidence!"
Upon entering the trail, Dylan felt his vision darken even more. It's like when we were exploring in the previous life, when the lighting equipment failed due to the magnetic field.
He groped his way forward, with a clear step, and soon crossed a trail into a granite-like passage.
On the walls of the passage,
Poets: Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, etc.
Heroes: Erriketra (Mother of the Creation of Troy), Hector, Aeneas (founder of Rome), Caesar, Saladin, etc.
Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Thales (one of the Seven Greek Sages), Heraclitus (etc.)
: Euclid (mathematician), Galen (biologist), Hippocrates (father of medicine), Avicenna (*** medical scientist), etc.
Minos had a solemn look of iron on his face.
"This is the nature of human beings, to be burdened with innate sins that cannot be washed away, but to blindly run away, to refuse to repent, or to pretend to repent, and to refuse to change. ”
It is precisely because of this that