Chapter 19: "The Land of Hades"
When Xiui digs a small hole and comes to the land of Hades, a strange scene that he will never forget for the rest of his life appears in front of his and Kami's eyes.
On the land of Hades, there is an endless gray and white, all the way to the horizon, these gray and white are countless unidentified remains of the dead, many of which have open mouths, as if they want to tell their own misery and stories to the passing ghosts.
The bone rats with the dark blue soul fire, crawling around among the remains and bones in groups, taking these remains and bones as their comfort nest, it seems that these remains are even more desolate, even if they die, their bodies will be mutilated by bone rats.
In the gray sky, there was not a single star, only a blood-red moon that was always a crescent moon, above the sky, slowly rotating, and the blood-red moonlight shone from the sky on the earth, illuminating the gray-white bones with a strange red.
A great river with no source and no end, with raging waves, galloping in the middle of the land of Hades, its water is muddy and gray, exuding a suffocating stench, and countless souls are in this great river, crying and begging, let others save them, but the undead who know the rules of the underworld know that these crying souls for help are only deceiving, deceiving those sympathetic fools, and when the fools go to save them, they will devour the souls and souls of the fools.
Someone once said that if you put the rushing River Styx in the underworld, the demon world, the god world, etc., and one of the other worlds, then... Any world will be submerged by the waves of the River Styx, and there is no world other than the underworld that can carry the incomparably terrible waves of the River Styx.
Huey and Kami looked at the skeletal earth, the blood moon in the sky, and the never-ending river Styx, and they both had an indescribable strange feeling in their hearts, shock, excitement, excitement, fear, and loneliness, these different feelings, emotions, mixed in the hearts of the two of them.
After a long time, Kami looked at the bones on the earth of Hades, a little worried, and wondered if it was the right choice for them to leave the cave.
Because the look outside the cave is too terrifying, too terrifying, and there are far more bones on the ground than in the cave, even if she is like her, this undead who has lived in the cave for a hundred years, will feel a little frightened, and these countless bones make her heart have an inexplicable thought, most of these bones are undead who came out of the cave, but died here!
She looked at the bones on the ground and said to Xiu Yi with some fear, "That's... That one... Xiuy, shall we go back??It's safer in the cave than here...."
Her voice trembled a little, and it was obvious that she was really scared.
Of course, she was not afraid of the endless bones on the ground, but of her own and Huey's demise.
Although, at first, she only pestered Xiu Yi because Xiu Yi injured her and out of the idea of revenge, but in the past two years, she and Xiu Yi have become, they will involuntarily think about each other, will worry about each other's thoughts, in the underworld, such things are very uncommon.
Xiu Yi felt that Kami was afraid, she was afraid, and she seemed to feel the concerns in her heart, in fact, he also had such concerns, but he didn't want to go back to the cave that was much safer than the outside world, not that he was not afraid, but he was unwilling, unwilling, so he lived forever in the underworld, unwilling, partial to the cave, he wanted to go back to the spirit world, he wanted to go home, he wanted to go back to the home with his family.
He has been dead for two years, and if he continues like this, when will he be able to advance to the tenth order? forty years later? No! He can't wait any longer, so he can't stay in that cave anymore, because the death energy in that underground cave is no longer enough for him to advance, only under the moonlight of the blood moon, he can continue to advance, and he can go home.
Therefore, he could not listen to Kami, but could only comfort: "... Rest assured... We will not perish... I'm confident... Both of us can leave the underworld... This horrible place..."
When Kami heard Xiu Yi say this, she knew that he was not frightened by the sight in front of him, and he did not lose the heart to go home, she was a little helpless, although she was overwhelmed by the bones on the earth of Hades, but she would still stay by Xiuyi's side, but there were some questions in her heart that she wanted to get answers, so she said to Xiu Yi, "Your heart to go home is really strong enough." But have you thought about it in the past two years, if you don't have forty or fifty years, or even hundreds of years, can you go back? I've been living in the underworld for more than a hundred years, and I'm still a beginner spirit.
Kami's question, Huey replied, "... I... Ever wondered... I've ever wondered... After returning to the spirit realm by himself... Will the family be dead? I've ever wondered... After returning to the Soul Realm... It's just me... What will happen..."
Xiu Yi is a skeleton, and when the skeleton speaks, there is no emotion, but she can still hear the sadness in Xiu Yi's words.
"Don't worry, even if all your family members are dead, and I am with you, I have been pestering you for two years anyway, and it doesn't matter if you have a few hundred or thousands more years. ”
Although Xiu Yi knew that Kami was saying comforting words, he felt awkward to hear them, and he said, "... Say something nice... Okay... And don't curse my family..."
After saying that, he tapped his finger on the cross pendant and tapped it vigorously as a warning.
Kami, who was hatefully knocked by Xiuyi's fingers, screamed in pain, "It hurts!!Xiuyi, you bastard!!I'm comforting you!!Why are you hitting me!?"
“... Who told you to say something unlucky... If you don't hit whom..."
Kami, who heard Xiu Yi, shout aggrievedly, "I'm a fierce spirit!!!, have you ever seen a fierce spirit say good things!!!
Kami's yelling, Xiu Yi didn't pay attention, he knew that what Kami said was true, no fierce spirit would say anything good, and it was already a good thing not to curse others.
Ignoring Kami's yelling, Huey began to walk towards the group of bone rats closest to us, and now the food in the Stygian Pocket, under the consumption of Reg Undead, was running out and had to be replenished.
These small things not far away, which also have a dark blue soul fire, were not scared away by Kami's screams, strictly speaking, bone rats will not be scared away by any sound at all, they will only be scared away by what they see, this is the habit of bone rats that Xiu Yi has discovered in the past two years.
Taking advantage of this characteristic of the bone rats, Xiu Yi lowered his body and gradually approached the bone rat group, and when he was close enough, he suddenly rushed out, and the big sword in his hand slashed towards the bone rat group.
With this sword, seven or eight bone rats were chopped off, some of their limbs were cut off, some of their entire bodies were chopped up, and some were directly chopped off their skulls, and the soul fire dissipated.
Pick up the bone rat skulls that have not dissipated one by one, and put them in a pocket made of dark gold, there are probably only four or five, two of them have been shattered, and the soul fire has dissipated, and the other bone rats have long since lost their way to where they have fled.
ps;Ask for tickets, ask for collections, and pray for Ya'an by the way.