Chapter 164: The House of Hades
Li Xiu saw the wine bottle that the woman said, it was a black wine bottle, and there was a label on the outside of the bottle, and the label was painted in black on a white background, and a black skull was painted on it.
As for those words, Li Xiu didn't know any of them, but looking at the black skull icon, he knew that this thing was probably not a good thing.
"What if I don't drink it?" Li Xiu asked.
"It's okay not to drink, then stay here and be a bartender until the next person comes along who is willing to take over as a bartender." The woman said slowly.
Li Xiu knew that of course he couldn't stay and be a bartender, the ghost knew when this place would come again, it was possible for ten or eight years, he couldn't wait for ten or eight years.
Summoning the strongest Jedi Knight who has appeared, and making the Jedi Knight slash at the door with a bloody light.
The blood-colored crescent moon knife light slammed into the door, only to hear the sound, the knife light shattered, but there was not even a trace on the door.
I summoned a few other companion pets, and tried my best, but I still couldn't open the door.
The woman let Li Xiu torture her, that is, she did not come down from the second floor, nor did she make a sound to stop it.
Li Xiu was very suspicious that the woman might be trapped on the second floor and couldn't get out at all.
But even if the woman can't get out, he can't get out either, and sooner or later he will be trapped here and die.
Li Xiu gave up the idea of continuing to open the door, came to the wine cabinet, and took the bottle of wine that the woman said from the wine cabinet.
"What's the name of this wine?" Li Xiu asked.
"Black Death." The woman replied calmly.
"Black Death, listen to the name, after drinking this wine, I'm afraid that my life will be taken away by death, right?" Li Xiu said.
"You broke in by yourself and drank my Blood Rose, and you want to leave without paying a price, you shouldn't be able to say it, right?" The woman said.
"It makes sense, it's really my fault." Li Xiu nodded and said.
"You're quite sensible, so drink it." The woman said with a smile.
Li Xiu put the wine bottle back in the wine cabinet again, then picked up another bottle of wine and said, "So much wine, if it is all broken, will it be a pity?" ”
The woman laughed, a slightly hoarse laugh, but with an indescribable style: "Do you want to threaten me with this wine?" That's right, if you can smash them all, then I'm going to thank you. ”
Syllable!
Li Xiu directly smashed the wine in his hand directly on the opposite wall, and the bottle was smashed by him, and the liquid inside spurted out.
But in the next second, the smashed bottle and wine automatically condensed together, returned to their original appearance, and returned to the top of the wine cabinet.
Li Xiu was a little surprised, took a few more bottles of wine and threw it out, the result was the same, no matter how he fell, in a blink of an eye, the wine would return to its original position on the wine shelf.
"This stone house is really evil!" Li Xiu had no choice but to stop.
"Why don't you smash it?" The woman asked, mockingly.
"Can we discuss if there is any other way to express my apologies for taking the liberty of breaking into your house than drinking?" Li Xiu asked.
"You don't need to apologize, it's not my home either." The woman said.
"Not your house?" Li Xiu was stunned.
"You don't have to be too happy, this is not my home, and I naturally have no right to let you go. Once inside, you have to drink a bottle of wine before you can leave, and it's the same for whoever comes. The woman said in a surging voice.
"So, I have to drink this bottle of wine?" Li Xiu sighed.
"You can also stay here as a bartender, and it would be great to have multiple companions and someone to talk to me." The woman laughed.
"Then I'm still drinking a bar, can I not drink the Black Reaper and choose a bottle myself?" Li Xiu remembered that the demon spirit just now had chosen a bottle by himself.
"Yes." The woman's answer was very simple.
Li Xiu looked at the wine on the wine cabinet, the wine cabinet occupied the entire wall, there were six floors, and there were hundreds of bottles of wine on each floor, and it was estimated that there were thousands of bottles in total.
Of the thousands of bottles of wine, it seems that none of them are the same, and Li Xiu doesn't know the words on them, so it is naturally impossible to tell which bottle will not die if you drink it.
Li Xiu remembered that the Blood Rose that the demon spirit was holding just now was taken out from the fourth layer of the cabinet, his eyes looked at the fourth layer, next to the original position of the Blood Rose, the bottles of those wine were completely different from the Blood Rose before.
Theoretically, taking wine from the side of the Blood Rose may reduce some of the risks.
However, Li Xiu didn't make a choice, he thought about it, starting from the first bottle of wine on the first layer, and took down each bottle of wine to observe carefully.
He wanted to try to see if he could find some kind of pattern in it, and maybe he wouldn't have to try his luck.
Although Li Xiu couldn't read those words, it wasn't completely unrecognizable.
He took note of the text symbols and icons on each bottle while looking at it, and if the same text symbols and icons appeared on the label of the bottle, he could compare and filter.
The woman told him that the bottle before was called Black Death, and the corresponding words on the black skull were probably Black Death.
However, this kind of writing is very weird, the four words of the Black Death, but there are only two text symbols.
One symbol directly represents black, and one symbol represents the Grim Reaper.
Li Xiu also saw these two symbols several times on other wine bottles, and compared them with those icons on the labels, he could deduce a lot of things.
For example, the icon on the bottle is a red flower, and the name of this bottle of wine is likely to be related to the flower.
After Li Xiu's research, the two symbols representing the black Grim Reaper are not the normal reading and writing mode from left to right, the symbol on the left represents the Grim Reaper, and the symbol on the right represents black.
Li Xiu continued to compare and deduce, and the names of some wines can be roughly deduced, although it is impossible to get all of them right, but it is not too much different, which is not too different from reading pictures and literacy, and it is not a complicated matter.
It's a pity that there are only names on the bottle of wine, and the text base is limited, and Li Xiu still can't understand the names of most of the wines, but only some symbols that appear more frequently can Li Xiu be able to interpret the name of the wine.
"Gentle lover, this name sounds mild, it shouldn't be too poisonous." Li Xiu finished reading all the wine, a total of one thousand and thirty-four bottles, and he took one out from the fourth floor.
It's a clear crystal bottle with a pink liquid in it, which looks less like wine and more like sparkling water.
"If I were you, I wouldn't choose a bottle of Tender Lover." The woman's voice came again.
"Why?" Li Xiu asked.
"Gentle as a knife, lover like a sword, after drinking such wine, can you still walk out?" The woman said with a smile.
"That's right." Li Xiu was very persuasive and put the gentle lover back.
"You're very obedient, aren't you afraid that I'll lie to you?" The woman was a little surprised, she didn't expect Li Xiu to listen to her suggestion so simply.
"There is an old saying in my hometown, listen to people's advice to eat enough." Li Xiu continued to select wine on the wine cabinet, took another bottle of wine with the icon of the black-clothed priest, and continued: "What do you think of this bottle of wine?" ”
"Black Bishop, if you want to go to God sooner, there must be nothing wrong with choosing him." The woman enjoyed it and enjoyed the feeling of hitting Li Xiu.
"Forget it, I don't think his old man wants to see me." Li Xiu put the wine bottle back again.
Li Xiu chose many bottles of wine, but they were all denied by the woman, but from the names said by the woman, Li Xiu obtained a lot of textual information, allowing him to deduce the names of more wines.
The reason why Li Xiu listened to persuasion so much was actually to get more information, but he didn't really listen to the woman's advice.
The wines he chose were also purposeful, and he got a lot of keywords.
The woman thought she was attacking Li Xiu, but Li Xiu already had a general framework for these words.
"Illiteracy is really uncomfortable." Li Xiu sighed in his heart, he had already got the information he wanted.
Li Xiu basically already knew what the words on the bottle of wine meant.
Then he put down the bottle, went to the bookshelf, and began to read the names of the books.
Using the current text foundation, Li Xiu found some books from which he could understand the name, reached out and took one of them, and looked through it and studied it carefully.
Although there are many characters that you don't know, you can get more information by starting with some words you know, and then making guesses before and after.
"What are you pretending to be looking at there? Can you still read the magic script? The woman mocked, "If you could really read the script, you wouldn't have walked here." ”
"Why?" Li Xiu asked puzzled.
"You don't even know the people who are written outside the door, and you're still pretending to read some book there, and you're still honestly going to the bar." The woman teased.
Li Xiu recalled that there were indeed two symbols engraved next to the door, which turned out to be the meaning, and the amount of knowledge increased.
"How do you know I don't know, I just didn't pay attention when I came in just now." Li Xiu closed the book in his hand and said, "Isn't this book called Black Rose, I can still understand it." ”
The woman giggled: "Cute little illiterate, do you think there is a black rose painted on the cover, and this book is called a black rose?" It's not picture literacy, you're too innocent and cute, the name of that book is "The Withering Interpretation of the Flower". ”
"Oh, sorry, I didn't see it clearly." Li Xiu put the book back on the shelf, took another one casually, and this time he sat directly on the sofa and flipped through the pages one by one.
Li Xiu looked through it slowly, but didn't speak, and after a while, the woman couldn't help it, and said again: "Since you like to drink and like to read, why don't you stay here as a bartender, and drink and watch slowly?" ”
"I'm alone, I stayed here without food or drink, and I'm afraid I'm going to starve to death in a few days." Li Xiu said casually, still looking at the book in his hand.
"When you're a bartender, you won't need those things." The woman said.
"You mean that when I become a bartender, I'm no longer human, right?" Li Xiu said without raising his head.
"Pretty much." The woman continued: "What's so good about being a man, weak and fragile, life is still so short, when you become a bartender, you will have an immortal body, I don't know how many times better than being a man." ”
"It sounds great, but that's not what the book says." Li Xiu said with a serious face.
"Cutie, are you going to laugh at me? It's called "Dying Sunday," and it's a sad love story, and if you can read about the bartender, you're a genius. The woman laughed as if she was dying.
"I misread that." Li Xiu got up and put the book back on the shelf, took another one, sat back on the sofa and continued to flip through it.
He flipped through the book very quickly, basically ten lines at a glance, but those words and symbols were completely memorized.
"Little cutie, stop pretending, that book is "Innocent Song", which is a children's fairy tale book." The woman teased.
"Then you can recommend me a few books for adults." Li Xiu said while flipping through the book.
"In the bottom row of the bookshelf, in the rightmost compartment, there is a children's book, which is suitable for your kind of innocent cutie." The woman was smiling happily.
Li Xiu was not angry, he actually walked to the bookshelf and pulled out the book that the woman said.
When I opened it, it was full of pictures, with only a few text symbols.
Li Xiu sat back on the sofa and watched it with relish, this woman did him a great favor, although there are few words in this book, but with pictures, it makes Li Xiu's magic text framework more and more complete.
Li Xiu already has a general understanding of the books on the shelves, these books are some story books, that is, some.
I don't know if the content is fictional, but Li Xiu doesn't care about it, and is still very involved in watching it.
The woman could never imagine that a human being could continue to analyze and deduce and learn a word without knowing a word, just by relying on the little information and pictures she revealed, which was not within the scope of her understanding.
Although Li Xiu didn't know the pronunciation of these magic texts, he was already gradually able to read some simple sentences, half guessing and half ignorance, and he was able to understand some content.
Li Xiu chatted with the woman without saying a word while reading the book, and the amount of knowledge was also increasing rapidly.
The woman obviously didn't realize the seriousness of the problem until Li Xiu pulled out a book from the bottom of the shelf.
"That book isn't for you, so let's read something you can understand." The woman said.
"I think this book is pretty good." Li Xiu opened the cover with black inlaid gold edges, and only a few characters were written on the cover, and there was no picture.
The name of this book, Li Xiu can read it now, it is called "Ben Ming Chronicles", Li Xiu had noticed this book before, because it was the only thing that didn't look like a story book, but he never picked it up.
He had been in this place for more than ten hours, and after reading a large number of books, he already had basic reading skills, so he took out the "Chronicles of the Underworld".
After opening the "Chronicles of the Underworld", Li Xiu carefully watched the contents inside, and his heart was suddenly overjoyed.
This book is really not an ordinary storybook, and the content in it is actually related to this stone building.
Li Xiu finally knew that the name of this stone building was "Hades House", and some of the things written about the Hades House in the book made people feel incredible.
"Isn't there the famous saying that knowledge is power in the demon kingdom? These demons don't even know the importance of knowledge. The more Li Xiu looked at it, the more pleasantly surprised.
After being trapped for so long, he finally saw the light of day to be able to get out alive.
These demonic spirits are not for people to drink, but for demons to drink, and what the consequences of drinking are not recorded in the book.
The underworld is indeed the same as the woman said, all the creatures who come in must drink a bottle of wine, otherwise they will not be able to leave the underworld.
The only way to get out without drinking is through the two rules that the king said.
When you come in, you can't talk or touch anything, and only then can you open the door of the underworld when you leave.
These two Li Xiu have broken the vows, so naturally they can't get out.
But the book doesn't say that he wants to go out and scold the door of the underworld three times slut, and I don't know why the second goods of the king of the world added this article, but it must have another purpose.
Li Xiu guessed that the king of the world had something to do with the woman in this underworld, but he just wanted to borrow his mouth and scold two sentences to get angry, and he didn't plan to kill Li Xiu, otherwise he wouldn't let him go out and scold again.
"What's so good about those books, why don't you come to the second floor, and I'll show you something interesting." The woman said.
Li Xiu smiled slightly, and ignored her, she knew that the woman was afraid that he would understand the book, but unfortunately it was too late.
According to the records in this book, Li Xiu already knew what was going on with this woman.
The woman really didn't lie before, and the underworld was not her home, because she was also trapped in this underworld.
But unlike Li Xiu's situation, Li Xiu is still just a passerby to the Hades now, and that woman can be regarded as the soul of the Hades House.
She was trapped here, immortal with the Hades Chamber, and she would not be able to free herself until all the demonic wine in the wine cabinet had been drunk.
As for how the woman was trapped and how she became the soul of the underworld, there is no record in the book.
When the person who wrote this book came to the Hades House, the woman was already trapped in the Hades House, and she didn't even know whether she was a human or a demon.
As for the bartender mentioned by the woman, it is also recorded in the book, basically similar to the situation of the woman, once you become a bartender, you will be trapped here and immortal together with the underworld, until all the demon spirit wine is drunk, you can be liberated.
In this netherworld chronicle, Li Xiu also learned an important information, the wine of the demon spirit here, each creature can only drink one, if you drink two, it is certain death, even the demon spirit is no exception.
The bottle of Blood Rose before was opened by that demon spirit, and he originally had to drink it, but he deliberately let Li Xiu drink some, and he didn't have any good intentions.
He must know that the Demon Spirit Wine can't be drunk two kinds, and letting Li Xiu drink it is to kill Li Xiu, since he has murderous intentions, even if Li Xiu himself doesn't drink it at that time, it is estimated that he will not let Li Xiu go.
Li Xiu carefully read the book and wanted to find a way to crack it, the woman still cared so much about this book even though she knew that Li Xiu couldn't understand it, maybe there would be a way in the book.
Li Xiu read patiently, and when he turned to the last few pages, his eyes suddenly lit up.