Chapter 3

As I fell asleep, I felt my coffin float up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info When I opened the lid of the coffin, the first thing I saw was not the ceiling, but a silver-gray sky, and I felt a hint of winter chill. I stepped out of the coffin, surrounded by an endless wasteland. "Oh my God, what is this place?" I muttered to myself.

"This is above hell. Lucifer's voice suddenly appeared behind me.

I jerked around, "Lucifer, where is this?"

"This was once the battlefield of Europa, and countless famous generals in the history of Europa wars have passed here, Caesar, Attila, Napoleon, and many people have died here. ”

"Why did you bring me to this place? Maybe I'm dreaming. ”

"You are dreaming, but you can't get rid of it, because your soul is out of your body. ”

"What? I'm dead?"

"Don't be afraid, you're alive and well. ”

"Why did you bring me here?"

"Don't worry, you should probably see what you will experience in the future. ”

"Can you still see the future?"

"Do you want to know?"

"How can I trust you?"

"Go and see my palace. "The barren land was instantly transformed into a vast temple. In the center of the temple is a rectangular pool with crystal clear water. Lucifer and I stood face to face on both sides of the pool.

"What is this place?" I asked.

"This is Pandimaninan, or 'No Return City', and this is my residence, and we are both right next to the Prophetic Pool. ”

"Pool of prophecy?"

"Yes, the Fountain of Prophecy allows every living creature who inhabits the earth to see its past and future. Your past was basically smooth, until the end of the 20th century, you began to go to the wind and waves, your path was paved for you by your father, so the ups and downs you have experienced are often not enough, since your father left you, you have gradually felt that you have no backing, you overestimate yourself, you have to find the dark elemental fragments, but do you know how difficult this is?"

"Did you bring me here to tell me these things?" At the same time, my past faded into the mirror-like pool, and I saw my father drinking the Holy Blood from the Cross, the Dark Realm fighting to the death against the two armies of the Evil Spirits, my first meeting with Isabel, the technology center of the Isle of Night, and Isabel's death and rebirth......

"Maybe there's something you don't want it to happen, but it's bound to happen. ”

"I can see what is going to happen in the future?"

He pointed to the pool, which ensued us in a life-and-death struggle with the Angel Legion, and I saw my father leading his mighty army to declare war on the world, taking over all the major cities and towns along the coast of the United States, taking control of the U.S. Capitol and killing all the members of Congress......

I was amazed by the scenes in the pool. "Oh my God, is this really going to happen?" I exclaimed.

"You go on. ”

I gritted my teeth and continued to look down, and I saw that my father had brought disaster to the world after obtaining the dark element, that the Evil Soul Party had spread the Sixth Desire to major cities around the world, and that the streets were full of vampires loyal to the Evil Spirit Party, and that people who had not been infected by the virus had gathered and formed their own teams to hunt vampires......

I just didn't want to go on, "How so?"

"Do you want to know how you died?" Lucifer asked with a hint of amusement.

"How did I die? Can you see that?"

"Don't worry, you can move on. ”

I then looked down at the pool of what was to come, and I saw that Isabel had betrayed Grimm and was bent on stopping my father's ambition to rule the world, only to have my father brutally pulled out his heart. "Nope. I shouted and threw myself forward, plunging headlong into the pool, where I was pushed out of the prophecy pool by a strong current, and planted on the ground at once. I stood up, looking a little hysterical.

"These are just some of the things. "But that's enough to make you sad." ”

I hated him like that, and I didn't want to see how I died, and I was so annoyed, "Why are you showing me this?"

"You don't want to know how you died, yes, but I'm doing it for your own good. ”

"Good for me?"

"If I don't let you see this, will you know what happened to you and Isabel next?"

I thought about it, felt that what he said was reasonable, and quickly calmed down, "In that case, I want to thank you?"

"No, let's prepare for what to do. ”

"I ...... I see. ”

The surrounding environment began to distort, forming a huge vortex in an instant, and then a blank slate. In an instant, I came to a cliff with an endless sea of magma below, and the raging lava waves crashed against the black reef, and meteorite fire rained down from the sky and fell into the sea of fire. Behind me is a metropolis of darkness, fear, and death. Lucifer took me into the dark city, where the streets were filled with the occasional skeletal soldier in armor or a longhorned ghost soldier patrolling with Hellhouls, a sorcerer of death in robes looking down on the earth from a tall building, and a few newcomers to Hell wandering through the filthy streets and alleys.

In the middle of the city stood a Gothic castle with no top in sight, and Lucifer led me through a small door. As soon as you enter the door, you can hear the desperate screams and cries of the people, which makes people shudder. Obviously this is a prison.

On both sides of the corridor were cells where prisoners who had committed serious crimes while they were alive were kept, and one of the prisoners put his hands out of his cage and roared at me: "Alex Auguste, did he tell you that your father killed my whole family with Roman soldiers? ”

Another prisoner cursed at me, "Alex, you will regret being alive, and I will always be here waiting for you until the day you go to hell, and we will settle the old and new accounts together." ”

Another vampire prisoner shouted at me in a loud voice: "Your brother is just like you, he is a ruffian, a scumbag, he killed my six-year-old daughter on the first day after 'The Last War on Poppy Island', and I curse you two brothers for being eaten by vultures to the bone." ”

I still pretended I didn't see anything and kept walking.

"Ignore them. Lucifer whispered to me, "These are men who committed serious sins while they were alive, and are preparing to be tortured in every way." ”

As I walked, I saw a blind man, and he was mute. "Who is this?" I asked.

Lucifer glanced at the blind man and replied, "That's Prince Hector of Troy, who had gouged out his eyes and cut out his tongue after being killed by Achilles." How sad it was to think of Prince Hector when he was alive back then!

In another cell, Paris and Helen, who started the Trojan War, are being hung upside down from iron hooks and are being whipped by the ghost soldiers. Occasionally, some ghost soldiers will bring in ghouls to bite the couple wildly.

We walked through a few cells and saw one of the prisoners asking the people in the other cells with a loud voice, "Man, do you know that after I escaped, did my army win?"

The others only shook their heads.

Lucifer told me, "He was Darius who was defeated by Alexander at the Battle of Gaugamela, and he still doesn't know why he failed." After Darius was defeated at the Battle of Gaugamela, his men killed him. Now, his men have been used by me as food for the ghouls, because they once swore allegiance to Darius and later betrayed their masters in order to save their lives, and I hate treacherous villains above all. ”

As a heart-rending scream came from the torture room, I followed the screams and saw a man tied to a cross and being tortured by two ghost soldiers, the prisoner had been beaten beyond recognition.

"Who is this?" I asked.

Lucifer immediately put his index finger in front of his mouth and motioned for me to be quieter, and he whispered to me, "He is Judas who betrayed Jesus." ”

I saw that Judas had been beaten to the point of inhuman form, and that much of his flesh had been whipped to the ground with thorny whips, and that the rats had sniffed the flesh on the ground and ran away. Because Judah was so sinful that even a mouse would not like to eat his flesh.

Lucifer continued: "Hell is the place where those who have committed serious sins while they are alive, and the next torture chamber is Brutus, who betrayed Gaius Julius Caesar. The next is the place where Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned, although he was a great king, he once forced his father Henry II to die, so he became king, and he did anything to get the throne. When he comes to hell, he will naturally get the punishment he deserves. You must remember that no matter who he is, when he shines, he also reveals his former darkness and unscrupulous means. Behind everyone who becomes a king is an unspeakable dark process. ”

"I'll remember. I said.

"That's good. ”

We passed through a large iron gate, inside which was a huge meat grinder, and we could smell a rush of blood, and around the meat grinder there were many people's blood, fur and minced bones, which looked very bloody and shocking. Above the meat grinder hangs a huge iron cage filled with people ready to be thrown into the meat grinder, screaming and begging for forgiveness. The meat grinder started to start, and there was a terrifying "rumbling" sound, and the baffle under the iron cage was opened, and those people were immediately thrown into the meat grinder, and the meat grinder was suddenly splashed with flesh and blood.

"You saw it all?" Lucifer asked me, gesturing to the prisoners, "they used to have a lot of money and land, and they used to have a lot of bribes, and they were all from France. During the Hundred Years' War between England and France, they betrayed their hero, Joan of Arc, who would not have been burned by the invaders if it weren't for their greed and selfishness, and some of them were still Christians, and they were so sinful that hell would not accept them, and they could only be made into meat sauce to feed the ghouls. ”

"Why are you taking me to see this?"

"To get to heaven, you have to visit hell once. You should think about what kind of person you are? When you die, will you be like them, will your companions be like them? I prove to you once again that hell is real, even if the archangels committed serious sins while they were alive. Many people don't care about what happens after death, everything they do while they are alive is a long journey towards greed and depravity, so when they come to this dark world, they realize that they will be the protagonists of these tragedies in turn. ”

I was stunned for a long time, "I see." ”

"That's good. ”

Lucifer took me to the "Land of Gluttonies," a land of bloated gluttons who frantically devoured a table full of hearty dishes. When a huge iron gate was raised not far away, a large group of hideous beasts were released, and they roared after the glutton, who fled in confusion, and they were all eaten by the brutal beasts.

"Let's get out of here. I said, "I don't like this disgusting place." ”

Lucifer smiled, "Don't you want to see those ancient blood spirits that were killed by your father back then?"

"What?" I was stunned, "they're there too? no, it can't be. ”

"Want to see them?"

"No, I don't want to see it, I don't want to see it. ”

Suddenly, two prisoners escaped from their cages, dressed in rags, running desperately, and one of them shouted: "I want to go out, save me." ”

Seeing this, two longhorned demon soldiers chased after them, one armed with a scythe and the other with a thorny whip. The ghost soldier with the long whip threw the long whip out, strangled it tightly around the neck of a prisoner, and then pulled it hard, strangling the prisoner's head, blood gushing out from the severed head, and the corpse twitched on the ground for a while before moving. When the other prisoner saw this, he panicked, but was caught up by the ghost soldier with a scythe, who cut his waist in two with a scythe, and his intestines flowed to the ground. Eventually, the bodies of both prisoners were eaten by the corpse hounds of hell.

"Forget it, Lucifer. I said, "I'm just dreaming." ”

He raised his brow, "But you can't wake up from a dream." ”

"It's all about you controlling my soul. ”

"No, I never do that kind of thing. ”

"Where are you going to take me next?"

"I really want you to see the Ancient Blood Spirits who were once killed by your father, and see what your father did to them. ”

"I wish they didn't know me. ”

"Do you think they won't know you?"

I mustered up my courage, "Okay, then I'll go and see, lest you say I'm cowardly." ”

Lucifer led me to the next cell, where I saw the ancient blood spirit Thomas Markwill, who had been killed by my father, blind in one eye, holding one of his eyeballs in his hand, pressing his head against the iron railing, and roaring at me, "Your father is despicable, he has nailed through my heart. "Did you see that when I died, he gouged out one of my eyeballs, and I want you to pay for it." He let out a piercing scream.

I glanced at Thomas, ignored him, and tried to keep myself calm. I walked on, and I saw a man in a cell who was whipping himself on the back, and he glanced at me, then dropped the whip and said, "Alex, is it really you? ”

"Who is he?" I asked Lucifer.

Lucifer was puzzled, "You don't even know him, he's your father's man, and he used to be a member of the Underworld Society. ”

"What did he do wrong?"

"He has participated in almost all of the crusades, hoping to find his fellow Bloodborns in the army and bring them to your father in order to strengthen the ranks of the Dark Realm. During the First Crusade, he secretly murdered thousands of civilians and prisoners of war in Jerusalem, attempted to burn Jerusalem to the ground, and planned several Jerusalem arsons, but failed. After the failure of the Crusades, he returned empty-handed and returned to your father, but your father secretly killed him on the same day, because he not only wasted the assets given to him by the Order, but also failed to bring back a lot of wealth and useful people for the Order, and was suspected of being a vampire during the massacre of civilians in Jerusalem, and nearly revealed his identity. ”

"You don't know me, but I know you, Alex. The prisoner said.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"My name is Grave Holmes, and your father must have told you about it. ”

"But he never mentioned your name in front of me. ”

"Oh God, how can this be? What did I do? Why did you punish me like this?"

"No one can help you, you kill innocents indiscriminately, and your sin cannot be atoned. ”

"No, don't leave me. ”

Lucifer and I turned and walked down the stone staircase. After walking a long way, Grave's pleading was faintly audible and disappeared for a long time.

Lucifer said to me, "You've seen it all, you've seen the tip of the iceberg, and if you really want to visit Hell, you won't have enough time." I hope that in the future, you will not fall because of some wrong intentions and behaviors in the past, and do not get by, otherwise, when you enter the world of death, whenever you think of the opportunities in life, you will beat your chest and regret it. ”

"I never regret it. ”

"You never regret it, do you? Do you want me to list all the sins you've committed since you were a child?"

"I want to hear what the sins I have committed, so that I can be mentally prepared before I die. ”

"Well, then I'll tell you, it's not what I'm forcing you to hear, it's what you're going to hear. ”

"Listen up. ”

"During the Poppy War, you killed your childhood teacher, Ikaya Herder. ”

I looked unconvinced, "That's because Ikaya is from the Evil Spirits. ”

"But he didn't intervene in any war between the Underworld Society and the Evil Spirits, he was innocent, and you killed him. ”

I calmed down and nodded, "Yes, you're right, I admit it." ”

"When you were twelve, playing in a cave by the sea with your childhood friend, Ayers Huskeley, you found a chest of gold that had been hidden for a long time. As a result, the two of you get into a fight, and you finally pick up a sharp rock and smash it into his chest, which pierces him in the heart. When Ayres died, you dismembered him and threw him into the sea to feed the fish. ”

Hearing this, I began to feel a little weak, "Lucifer, how do you know this?"

"Also, shortly after the construction of Elias Castle was completed, you and your brother Frank called on your men to kill all the laborers who built the castle. ”

At this point, I had to admit it, so I had to bow my head to Lucifer: "Yes, you are right. ”

"With these three felonies of yours, do you think about what will happen to you in hell when you die?"

"I'm really helpless. ”

"This has nothing to do with what you call 'helplessness', you are already guilty. ”

"Is there no chance of salvation?"

"It's up to you. ”

"I can stop the spread of the Sixth Desire and save countless living beings. ”

"It's a good idea, but it's not enough. ”

"And what do you think I'm going to do?"

"It's mainly about how you think of your life, there are so many people in the world, I can't tell them all of them, it's because you believe in me, or I believe in you, that's why I'm telling you this. ”

"Even if I am guilty, I will definitely find a way to make amends. ”

"Actually, I shouldn't tell you this, if you talk too much, you'll be scared. Okay, without further ado, I think you should go back too. ”

"How are you going to let me go back? It's hell. ”

Lucifer led me out of prison to a foggy dock by the River Styx, where the occasional cry of a ghost could be heard. I thought: Is this waiting for the ship......? Lucifer suddenly pushed me into the River Styx, and the cold, biting water quickly filled my nose, ears, and mouth. At that moment, I couldn't see anything, my whole body began to become weak and numb, and I soon passed out.