Chapter 57: Into the Underworld (Revised)

After saying these words, the mysterious and ethereal voice didn't wait for Chen Sheng's promise or not, as if leaving silently.

The clay figurine that seemed to be incarnated eventually dissipated and turned back into an ordinary pile of dirt.

It was as if an inconspicuous little bag had arched over the ground.

And it was as if it had never appeared.

Athena saw that Chen Sheng was silent and asked.

"What are you thinking?"

"I was thinking that the clown was me."

Chen Sheng glanced at Athena in front of him and said slowly.

"It turns out that you have been playing me since the beginning. You came here to snatch the mother box, is it a temptation for me? ”

The secret magic sword in his hand dissipated, and it was obvious that Chen Sheng had no intention of making a move with the other party again.

Gaia's appearance made him a little confused, he didn't expect that he would be targeted by such a great god, but in the face of this kind of targeting, no matter whether the other party was good or malicious, he couldn't do anything.

With his current strength, he can't do anything yet.

You can understand it this way. But what I want to say is that in my opinion, this is a test for you by the Mother Goddess. ”

Although Athena didn't understand Chen Sheng's hometown trendy words too much, she probably understood what he meant.

"Every inch of this world, every living being, every breath of air, can be said to be a part of the Mother Goddess. He is everywhere, and nothing in this world can hide His gaze. Mother Goddess's willingness to appear at this time undoubtedly means that she has recognized you. ”

Her purple eyes flashed with an inexplicable luster, and she slowly said something that surprised Chen Sheng.

"But I'm also a little surprised that He wants to give you all the mother boxes?"

Athena glanced Chen Sheng up and down, there was no doubt that the secret of Chen Sheng's body, in addition to what she learned from the oracle, she could only guess, but presumably the mother goddess knew more things.

That's why I show up here and make such a deal.

Athena knew better than anyone else that the Mother Goddess would take the initiative to appear, and it would inevitably have its meaning.

“... So what would I do if I didn't recognize it? ”

Chen Sheng naturally didn't know about Athena's brain supplements and guesses, so he took a deep breath and asked rhetorically.

"Rest assured, even if the Mother Mother doesn't agree with you, She won't do anything to you."

Athena's purple eyes glanced deeply at Chen Sheng.

"Believe me, you don't know how great He is or what it means. For the eternal Him, the Mother Goddess has gone through too many epochs and witnessed too many new births and destructions. ”

"We're just a small part of that process."

"Even if it occasionally attracts His gaze, it is only a trivial episode in His eternal years."

"Do you think a being like Him would think anything of you?"

“... Then why didn't He take it upon himself and still need me to deal with your enemies? ”

Chen Sheng looked puzzled.

"No, you're wrong. In fact, if the Mother Goddess was really willing to take matters into her own hands, even if the Lord of the Heavenly Dome returned, there would be no chance of resistance. The reason why that one was only sealed in the first place was because as the first child of the Mother Goddess, she was unwilling to actually kill her. So choose to seal the other party forever in the endless void. And as for those followers of the Heavenly Dome, these fools are not qualified to let the Great Mother Goddess deal with them personally. ”

"That's an exaggeration."

Chen Sheng's expression was strange, and he felt that Athena seemed to be a little too boastful.

"Exaggerated, in fact I've been very conservative."

Athena shook her head.

"You don't understand. Even the gods have long forgotten the fear that the Titans once ruled this world. They don't understand the power of the Mother Goddess, who created all this. They thought that they had won the world and 'defeated' the Titans, and that they were the most powerful gods of all time. But in reality, the gods of Olympus are actually a bunch of arrogant and ignorant guys. ”

"Even that idiot of Ares, who still wants to rely on the power of the mother box to become the new god king, he thinks about how to surpass Zeus all day long, hehe... He thought that as long as he became the head of Olympus, he would have the qualifications to communicate with the mother goddess on an equal footing, but he didn't know that in fact, the so-called mother box was just a high-end toy for him. ”

Athena's expression showed a hint of disdain.

And she didn't seem to care about the strange look on Chen Sheng's face.

"I know you don't believe me, but it doesn't matter, if you are lucky enough to see the great power of Mother Goddess one day, you will understand."

Chen Sheng didn't reply, in fact, he understood that he had just tried to use his spiritual power to spy on the clay figure, but his spiritual power had lost its effect, as if the other party did not exist, just like air.

Is Gaia really as powerful as Athena claims?

It's like she's the only one in the world who knows Gaia best.

Or is this what makes the goddess of wisdom different?

Chen Sheng thought in his heart.

Forget it, there is no point in thinking about this at the moment, whether Athena is pretending to be profound or real, anyway, for Chen Sheng at present, Gaia is not something he can fight.

With such an ancient god, Chen Sheng couldn't understand what kind of mentality the other party was.

He also had no intention of comparing the power of the Infinity Stones to the other party.

Maybe this kind of super god is really transcendent in the world, the so-called heavenly way is not benevolent, and all things are used as dogs. (The interpretation of this sentence is that heaven and earth view all things as equal)

However, for the mother box, he found a solution to the hidden danger, which is a real benefit for himself.

I just hope that this ancient existence will not fool itself.

If you really help him solve the troubles of these so-called Heavenly Dome Lords, and you can give him all three mother boxes, then this is definitely a very lucrative deal.

Chen Sheng has no reason not to accept it.

And most importantly, Gaia's consciousness seemed to know his needs, and even said that he wanted to erase the will hidden in those three mother boxes.

This is undoubtedly very important to Chen Sheng.

Therefore, even if he understood that what he was seeking with this kind of being was equivalent to seeking the skin of a mortal with a tiger, he still had to do it.

'If I can sacrifice all three mother boxes to the Infinity Stones, maybe I can find a way back to the original world'

Chen Sheng faintly had such a strong intuition in his heart.

"However, I'm also going to have to do a lot of things, and it seems that I need to find a way to collect more exchange items so that I can have the confidence to face those terrible existences."

Another thought flashed through my mind.

Chen Sheng didn't even dare to think too much about it now, who knew what would happen if Gaia peeked into his inner activities.

He can only try to be honest now, this state of suspicion is really uncomfortable.

"Let's go, let's go solve this problem at hand."

Taking a deep breath, Chen Sheng didn't continue to talk about Gaia's topic and spoke.

"Looks like you've figured it out."

Athena smiled.

........

After this little episode, the two moved on.

Walking through the desolate and dead land, Chen Sheng was also observing the shattered world created by the gap between the two worlds.

The land here seems to be some kind of projection from reality, some like a replica of the land of the Paradise Island Plains, but the withered and dilapidated atmosphere is not at all like the real world, and desolation and dead silence are the only portrayal of this world.

After a while, the two of them seemed to be in front of an anomalous space.

The distant landscape was still visible, but a faintly distorted barrier of space blocked the two of them.

"It seems that this is the boundary of this gap world."

As a mystical mage who was proficient in the power of space, Chen Sheng naturally saw the abnormality in front of him at a glance.

"I could feel a very dark aura coming from the other side."

Chen Sheng looked up and down, behind the boundary of this space, he seemed to feel a sense of withering and dilapidation that was far beyond this place, that kind of gloomy feeling that was like nothing, so that as a living biomaterial being, he felt a trace of chill and discomfort from the bottom of his heart.

"No one has been in the underworld for thousands of years, and we will be the first guests in these thousand years."

Athena seemed to be talking to herself, and it was like saying to Chen Shengdao.

"Let's go."

Chen Sheng took a deep breath, no matter what, his trip to the underworld was inevitable.

Who would have thought that he would one day be able to go to the so-called underworld.

Taking the first step, Chen Sheng's figure stepped into the boundary of space, and then his vision suddenly turned, and a more vast world, full of endless darkness and gloomy winds, came into his eyes.

However, the other army of Ember Evil that he had imagined did not appear.

There are no 'creatures' living on the empty earth.

Could it be that the evil embers outside have been exterminated, and the black hand behind this curtain has been completely hollowed out?

Athena's figure then appeared beside him.

"It's more dilapidated than I remember."

Athena looked around at the incredibly quiet surroundings.

In this gray world, you can't see the sun, no starlight, not even the sky, countless flowing matter like gray mist slowly fluttering in the low sky, and the whole world is dead and silent only the gusts of wind that sweep over the earth from time to time, and the voices of the two people standing here.

This is the underworld dimension.

"Where are we going to find this behind-the-scenes?"

Chen Sheng asked.

The aura here made his physical life feel very uncomfortable, this feeling was far stronger than staying in the small world just now, and if it weren't for the strength gem that increased his physical strength and made his life level break through the mortal boundary, I'm afraid that just staying here would make people gradually weaken.

In this world, there is a strange force that seems to resist the existence of flesh and blood life.

"The initiator won't be too far from the entrance here, so let's follow the river."

Athena looked at the surrounding terrain and environment for a while, and suddenly raised her hand and pointed to a faintly visible surface river about a few hundred meters away.

Chen Sheng shrugged his shoulders, he didn't have the slightest familiarity with this place, so naturally he could only listen to the opinion of this goddess of wisdom.

He then left a secret coordinate in this space and moved towards the river with Athena.

The two of them walked one after the other, stepping on the gray-black dry earth.