Chapter 137: The Fourth Gate
Don't forget that I've seen the map, the only map of the Tunnel of Isis in the Sabbatical Palace, and the only one in the world today. Seeing that he was silent, Luo Luo added another sentence.
"What if this map isn't accurate, or is it fake?" said Sether slowly, "It's not that I don't believe you, I just want to remind you that if you make a mistake, death is probably the best we can encounter." "Of course I don't trust you, I trust my instincts. Why did I promise you to let you follow me down the tunnel? Regret doesn't work, I shouldn't have jumped over that big hole with her in my arms before, I should have just thrown her in. Nor should she have removed the carrion, when did I become so kind?" Sether sighed inwardly.
"That map is true, I vouch for it with my soul, Yesher. "Trust me, take the fourth gate, and I'll guarantee you'll find the Tyre dungeon, the only exit at the end of the tunnel." ”
Sether raised an eyebrow.
"Why, aren't you going to the water prison in Tyre?" Lolo panicked.
"I'm going there, you guessed that. ”
"The water dungeon of Tyre holds the treasures of the Ancient Mountains, the treasures of the Eternal Mountains. Aren't the adventurers who want to enter the tunnels of Isis just to get their hands on this treasure, but how to get past the terrible devil who sleeps in the water prison and get the treasure is really a difficult thing......
Sether watched as Lolo's lips opened and closed, not listening carefully to what she was saying. What treasures, treasures, are of no importance to him at all. He, Sether, the Emperor of Wissing, possessed more treasures than anyone else in the world. He had never heard of Isis Tunnel before he came here, but it was no wonder that none of the Twelve Nations looked down on the myths and legends of the Free State, and even if he had heard them before, he must have tried to forget them in three seconds. Now he just wants to hurry to the water dungeon, poke the female demon's eyes, and reunite with the hidden eyebrows as soon as possible after completing the task.
As for Luo Luo, let her go back to where she came from. Sether was taken aback at the thought, when had he become so chaste? He almost laughed out loud in his heart, yes, yes, that was the word—chastity. It was clear that the fifteen-year-old girl had been smitten by him, and if it had been before, he would not have refused to sleep with her. But now, he has become too lazy to touch any woman except his hidden eyebrows. I don't know when it began, all the women in this world have broken off relations with him, and he only needs to have hidden eyebrows.
“...... What are you laughing at, Yesher?" Lolo's voice came over like the chirping of birds in the distance.
"Are you sure it's the Fourth Gate?" said Sether.
"Sure. ”
"Alright, then we'll go through the fourth gate. When he said this, Sether himself was taken aback. Could he trust her more than himself? But he did it anyway, and it was incredible.
Could it be that Lolo was a witch? She had cast some kind of black sorcery on him? Sether immediately denied this possibility in her heart, she was unspeakably strange, but it wasn't the feeling caused by black sorcery, he didn't know the evil effects that black sorcery could bring, and his father Seres and Bloody Rose were not the most typical examples?
Sether's mind had now flown out of the tunnel, drifting in the winds of the warm and cold seasons of Velogosa. The void of the void, the void of the void, everything is vanity. The wind blows south, turns north, spins incessantly, and then returns to the original path. What is done will be done again, and what has been done will be done again. Under the sun, there is nothing new.
How can anyone say that it is new? In the vanity years of your life, the vain years that God has given you to be under the sun, live happily with the woman you love, for that is your share of the work that thou hast labored under the sun in your life.
I, Sesher II of the Pacification of Wilphcap, have undertaken great works for myself, building gardens, planting all kinds of fruit trees in them, and digging pools of water for watering the young trees. I have bought servants and maidservants, and I have servants and maidservants who are at home, and there are many strange beasts, and gold and jewels, and diamonds and jade, far more than all the people who used to have in Vilogosa. My land is as vast as it has ever been, and all the states and nations have come to pay tribute. And when I looked at all the work of my hands, and the work of my labor, it was also vanity.
Sometimes I wish my empire wasn't real, my army and my wealth weren't real, and the whole of Velogosa wasn't real. I just need to stay in that oriental garden with Yin Xinmei, and enjoy the glory of complete harmony between heaven and earth, the eternity of that moment, the complete rest, how good it would be......
Sether and Lolo walked down the wide hallway without saying a word, and the ghostly light grew intense, coming in through the huge arch in front of them. This gate is so tall that you can't see the top, probably built for the giants of giants, Sether thought to himself. The large, untouched stone door was ajar, hinged from the deadbolt next to it. Behind the door was a room large enough to see the walls, and the light was dim, but it had become a little harsh because they had been in the dark for so long, and it took a lot of trouble for the two of them to get used to the environment inside.
In the shadows, thick pillars can be seen supporting the sky-high dome. In the depths of the south, there are several tall windows under the inner eaves, and bright light shines in, but it is not sunlight, as if there is a sea of deep blue glass outside, and there are dappled points of light on the ground. The floor was covered with smooth and crystalline lapis plates, carved with strange patterns and ancient hieroglyphs in gold and black. The intricately carved pillars are all made of different materials of ore, and each pillar resembles an upright coffin, which seems to flow with a transparent and viscous substance, and among them are the bodies of monsters that are half human and half beasts.
Surrounded by brocade drapery, the drapery is full of vivid myths and legends, all of whom are the descendants of giants who do not belong to Vilogosa.
Unlike the air-dried monster bodies they had encountered before, the half-humans, half-beasts in the pillars here were all well preserved (perhaps because of the transparent and viscous substance?), as if they were not dead but hibernating. They walked through the pillars in amazement, with hermaphroditic sheep-headed men, blue-skinned long-tailed women, six-fingered giants, ape-faced men with human faces, two-faced people with wings and beaks, tall humanoids like insects, children with leopard heads, and so on.
"Where did they all come from......" Lolo hissed.
"It's amazing that their fathers are not from the earth. ”
"What? do you mean—"
"Shhhh
Sether covered Lolo's mouth and dragged her behind a pillar containing a sheep's head, gesturing for her to listen carefully.
After a moment of dead silence, there was a faint wheezing sound from somewhere in the hall, mixed with a soft thud.