Aphrodite came out of Hera's back garden, and Hera didn't follow, but he didn't look back, and went straight back to the God King Palace.
Reflected on the ice wall outside, Narcissus asked Aphrodite, "Your Highness, do you want to take Cupid to the underworld?"
Aphrodite whispered, and said: "Well, and I am going to keep you, and then tell the outside world that you are my clone, and if anything happens on the mountain, you will tell me from your mouth, I can also rely on you to issue orders."
Narcissus was slightly startled, and then quickly responded, "I will follow your arrangements."
Aphrodite paused, looked at Narcissus in the ice, raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Is it because I became the master? I think you and Hephaestus are obedient A lot."
He seemed to be joking, but there was not so much smile in his eyes.
Instinctively, Narcissus was faster than thinking, and replied directly: "I have always respected you, Your Highness, and I regard you as my only Lord and only God... I definitely do not respect you because of your strength, and I dare not neglect you because of your strength. "
As he spoke, he gradually calmed down, raised his eyes and took a sneak peek at Aphrodite. His dark purple eyes were like purple grapes that had just been washed with water, with drops of water shining through them. Be careful. Flattering, but sincere: "I have always respected you..."
Narcissus was dejected, and said depressedly: "Only Ares, I behaved a little too much. But Your Highness, I didn't lose my composure at that time because I wanted to monopolize you, I just wanted to touch you too much. My god can Being touched by everyone, only me, always staring at you from the other side of the world, that feeling is too tortured."
Aphrodite's expression softened, and he said, "I understand."
Narcissus added: "But Hephaestus is definitely not. He has a lot of bad records, unlike me, who only missed once. Your Highness, don't be fooled by his performance, treat him too well, otherwise he will definitely Do more things that don't please you."
Aphrodite chuckled, and didn't express much opinion on Hephaestus.
He doesn't have the habit of talking to others, nor does he have such a low EQ that he talks about another admirer in front of his own admirer.
Aphrodite continued to move towards the palace of the king of gods, and Narcissus followed in the mirror world step by step, until the ice disappeared, and he was forced to stay outside the palace.
When Aphrodite returned to the palace of the king of gods, Cupid was deliberately holding a golden bow dangling in front of the gods. He also pretended to be pulling the bowstring, making it look like he was going to shoot them.
Seeing him come back, Hades quickly said: "Master, come and see Thanatos and Hypnos. After they were shot by Cupid's golden bow, they are now fighting."
Aphrodite looked at the twin brothers in surprise, rather than fighting, it would be more accurate to describe it as Hypnos beating Thanatos unilaterally.
Hypnos pushed Thanatos roughly, but Thanatos looked at him with eyes full of obsession and admiration, like a young daughter-in-law who dared not resist when she was angry.
Aphrodite smiled slightly and asked, "What happened?"
Hephaestus has been following Cupid, and upon hearing this, he told about the friction between Cupid and Thanatos.
Cupid was a little guilty, and flew obediently beside him with his golden bow in his arms, his head lowered, his chubby little face showing a double chin, and he looked guilty as if he had caused trouble.
Aphrodite raised his hand and scratched his chin. Cupid felt itchy and couldn't help giggling. He swayed from side to side and dodged, then fell into Aphrodite's arms, sobbing softly. Jiao: "Father God, tickle..."
Aphrodite hugged him and sighed softly: "It's too naughty, Cupid, you can't mess around like this in the future, you know?"
Cupid hugged his neck and said aggrievedly: "He despised me first, so I taught him a little lesson."
Aphrodite didn't speak, and Hades asked in embarrassment: "Master, can you help them both return to normal?"
Aphrodite was silent for a few seconds, then said subtly: "Love is uncontrollable... The golden bow of love is an exception, but after the arrow is shot, the rest cannot be controlled by the gods. So I also There is no way, we can only see how long it takes for the golden and lead arrows to dissipate in their bodies."
He saw Hades frowning, looking at Brother Death with worry and embarrassment in his eyes. After thinking about it, Aphrodite said apologetically, "I'm sorry."
Hades froze for a moment, shook his hand quickly and said, "You don't need to say sorry to me, but what Cupid said makes sense. I just..."
He sighed heavily, and his emerald eyes were full of melancholy: "It's the time when Netherland is in a hurry, Thanatos and Hypnos have such problems, I can't keep busy... "
It turned out that I was worried about this.
The corners of Aphrodite's lips curled up slightly, and she said gently with a slight smile: "Don't worry, since I said I would accompany you to the Underworld, I will definitely help you solve everything."
Hades cheered up when he heard the words, and the worry on his brow dissipated. He looked at Aphrodite expectantly and said, "Then I'll leave it to you, Master."
The smile on the corners of Aphrodite's lips faded away, and she returned to her cold appearance, her eyes swept across the gods in the temple, and she said coldly: "I will set off for Hades with Hades later, but in case I am not around , you're going to cause trouble, so—"
Aphrodite's scepter was raised, and ice-blue rays of light rushed out from the godhood. Frost and Snow pushed open the silver gate of the temple full of patterns, and rushed in arrogantly.
Frost and snow were spread on the ground and attached to the wall. Phillimore tapped his toes and turned around in a gorgeous gesture. The temperature in the Temple of the King of God rose and dropped suddenly, and the frost and snow turned into water and instantly condensed into ice. , except for Apollo and Hephaestus, Zeus was affected by the sudden change of temperature and shuddered.
The temple is covered with ice, and the gods standing on the ice can clearly see their own reflections from the ice.
And under Aphrodite's feet, Narcissus, who has the same appearance as him, appears in the ice like a real reflection. He has an appearance very similar to Aphrodite, and he is also the most beautiful beauty, white His smooth hair and crystal clear skin gave him a very translucent and illusory aura. The darkest color in his body was his pair of dark purple eyes, so those beautiful eyes were even more stunning.
Aphrodite raised his hand, and Narcissus became active in the mirror world, walked from Aphrodite's feet to the ice surface of the wall, and looked at the gods with a slightly dull gaze.
Aphrodite introduced to the gods: "He is my clone, without wisdom, but my eyes and my words. But when I am not in Olympus, he will observe you for me, And tell me what happened on the mountain.”
Zeus said dissatisfied: "Is it necessary? Aphrodite, you are gone, and I am still in the mountain, so I don't need this clone."
Aphrodite heard the words and responded with a sneer.
Zeus: "...Speaking of which, what about Hera, she left with you, why didn't she come back together?"
Aphrodite said: "The Queen of God is looking at the golden apple tree, maybe she was delayed by something."
Aphrodite looked at Narcissus in the ice. Narcissus was seriously pretending to be a wooden figure, but when Aphrodite looked over, his eyes blinked quickly.
Aphrodite smiled slightly, Cupid also bit his finger excitedly and looked at him, Aphrodite said to Hades: "Pluto, let's go."
The gods got up, stepped down from the throne, and saw Aphrodite off.
As for Brother Reaper, Hypnos had given up struggling, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep as if escaping, while Thanatos hugged him carefully, and wrapped Hypnos's body in his arms. Pressing his face against his chest, he showed a satisfied expression.
Aphrodite smiled, and said to Hades: "It seems that the two of them have reached a consensus."
Hades glanced at them casually, shook his head and looked back, whistled, and called the black horse that he was pulling the cart.
Hades put on the hood for himself, and after covering himself tightly, asked Aphrodite to sit in the carriage with him.
Aphrodite: "Philimore, Kae, come with me to the Underworld."
Hades' heart moved, Aphrodite didn't say much, and turned Cupid in her arms to face herself.
Cupid was a little restless, and said coquettishly, "Father God, I want to see the sky!"
Hearing what he said, Aphrodite really didn't care about him.
Cupid raised his head, admiring the sky in amazement, dazzled by the gorgeous and bright aurora in the sky, his little mouth opened wide, and when Hades drove the carriage, he was given a breath of cold wind. He coughed and closed his mouth.
Aphrodite patted his back lightly and asked, "Are you still watching?"
Cupid grabbed Aphrodite's fingers, stood up and pressed against his body, he didn't dare to open his lips when he spoke, and he whispered, "Keep your mouth shut."
Aphrodite chuckled, and then chatted with Hades.
Aphrodite asked: "Hades, tell me about the process of reincarnation of the dead from the underworld."
Hades briefly introduced Aphrodite: "First of all, the dead souls will be taken from the world to the underworld by Thanatos. After the dead souls enter the underworld, they will never be able to return to the earth. All they have to do is to cross the river Styx and come to the entrance of the underworld."
"However, apart from the Lord God, only Charon's ferry can take the dead souls across the River Styx. And Charon will collect a gold coin from those dead souls, and the dead souls who gave the gold coins will cross the Styx River, and then they will pass through the Cerberus River. The gate of the underworld guarded by Ross... ”
Aphrodite raised her hand and asked, "What if the dead soul doesn't have gold coins?"
Hades was stunned, and then replied: "Then they can only linger at the junction of the Styx and the earth, and wait for the day when the Styx rises, they will be sucked into the Styx and perish."
Aphrodite frowned, and Hades explained: "Master, we don't want to do this either, but the Styx River is very dangerous. Except for the special priesthood of the crossing god Charon, other tools cannot drive on the river. It will sink automatically, and Charon's power is limited, so he can only do this."
After a few seconds of silence, Aphrodite asked: "In this case, have you ever thought about building a bridge over the Styx? The bridge is arched and does not stick to the river, so it will not be affected." right?"
Hades was stunned, and Aphrodite saw that he was silent, and continued to perfect the plan for this idea: "Maybe because of the special nature of the Styx, the construction of this bridge is more difficult. But the difficulty is the difficulty, and the gathering of several main gods If there is power, it can still be manufactured, can't it?"
Hades lowered his head and said sullenly: "I didn't think of this before..."
Thinking is too limited.
Aphrodite: "Okay, we have a solution for crossing the Styx. As for how to build the bridge at that time, I will summon the Lord God to find a way. This is not urgent, and we will do it at the end. If the bridge is built early Well, other arrangements have not been made well, and if the dead souls swarm in, it will be chaotic."
Hades kept nodding, looking at Aphrodite with eyes full of conviction. Although he was wearing a hood, there was a sense of joy rushing over his face.
Aphrodite lifted his hood, and Hades's quiet face was slightly startled, and the black hair was blown up by the cold wind, which contrasted sharply with the snow-white skin.
Aphrodite sized him up a few times, frowned, nodded solemnly, and said, "This makes me feel much more normal. When you hid your face before, it gave me a different feeling from your appearance." , I always feel that the person in front of me is not like Hades."
Hades stared at him blankly, with confusion in his eyes, and he said after a while: "Master, then I will continue..."
"Um."
Hades pressed his fist to his lips, coughed lightly, and continued: "After the dead come from the river of Styx, they will go through the gate of the underworld to officially enter the underworld. There is Cerberus guarding the gate of the underworld, mainly to prevent the living The soul of a living person enters. If the soul of a living person must enter, then it is not allowed to leave.”
"Behind the gate of the underworld is the Narcissus Plain, where the souls of the dead will forget all the past. When the past disappears from their bodies, if there is no resentment on the souls of the dead, it means that they have not done evil before them, and they will pass through the Narcissus Pingyuan enters Elysee, starts a new life in Elysee, and no longer suffers from it. If there is resentment, it will enter the abyss and never be free... "
After Hades finished speaking, Aphrodite waited for a while, and seeing that he stopped talking, a look of astonishment appeared on his face, and asked, "Is there any more?"
Hades asked Ai Ai: "Is there anything else?"
Aphrodite had to ask questions by herself: "For example, after entering the Elysee, will the dead soul stay there forever?"
Hades nodded, and Aphrodite asked unceremoniously: "No matter how big Elysee is, it is limited, and it will be filled sooner or later. And the soul that has lost the past and forgotten everything is blank from now on, and it is still a thing to stay. A blank and empty sheet of paper that serves no purpose other than to make the Élysée more crowded."
"Since that's the case, why don't you disperse those souls and let them reincarnate?"
After a few seconds of silence, Hades smiled wryly and said, "The priesthood of souls sank into the abyss with Iapetus, and we can't help the dead souls reincarnate. And they didn't do anything wrong, and they gave Charon gold coins to cross the river." , we can’t destroy them again, if that’s the case, it’s better to leave them outside the River Styx from the beginning and not extradite them.”
Aphrodite's eyes flickered slightly, he has the priesthood of the soul.
He thought that he was the Frost Master now and had absolute control over God's Domain, and he didn't know if Tartarus would let him communicate with those Titan gods if he went to the abyss again.
Aphrodite thought about it, and decided to try it when the time came. It doesn't matter if Tartarus doesn't let him in, he can pretend to go in, and then take out the priesthood of the soul, anyway, Hades doesn't know.
Thinking of this, Aphrodite said: "The abyss is just under the underworld. After I get there, I will go to the abyss to visit His Royal Highness Tartarus, and discuss with him to see if Iapetus' godhead can be restored." Get it. If Iapetus cooperates, we can arrange for the reincarnation of the dead, and they don't need to stay in Elysee."
Hades thought for a while and asked, "Elysee's soul reincarnated, what about those souls who did evil and finally stepped into the abyss?"
Aphrodite said coldly: "According to their sins in life, set a standard, give them different punishments, and let them reincarnate. In short, don't stay in the underworld."
Aphrodite murmured: "But in this way, there is one more thing, there must be a special judge to record the deeds of the dead souls during their lifetime."
"By the way, if the bridge is built, there is no need for Charon to ferry. If he is fine, let him stand in front of the bridge and feed those dead souls. Dilute the spring water of Lete to erase their memories. Although Narcissus Plain is good, But it’s not specifically for erasing memories, I’m worried that after reincarnation is established, some cunning guys will use special methods to preserve memories and reincarnate with them. In this way, the order of the world will be disrupted.”
Hades carefully wrote down: "Build the bridge of the Styx, arrange for Charon to feed the souls of the dead with memory-eliminating springs... establish a trial and punishment system, and reincarnate the dead."
Aphrodite repeated mutteringly: "Reincarnation... is the transformation from death to new life, right? What kind of godhead can I condense with this?"
"When the time comes, what form should the reincarnation be established in to be the most reasonable?"
Aphrodite frowned thinking, Hades hesitated, and asked: "Master, should we put the amnesia after the punishment and before the reincarnation?"
Aphrodite snorted suspiciously, "Huh?"
Hades explained his thoughts to him: "Because I think it is a bit too arbitrary to erase the memory from the beginning. During the trial and when the punishment is determined, we should give those dead souls a chance to defend themselves, and then set the punishment .After all, things are not one-sided. We also need to consider more factors and influences... "
Aphrodite looked at him in surprise, and smiled: "Arbitrariness? You think too much..."
Hades laughed and said: "At the same time, when those evil spirits are being punished, they can clearly realize that they are paying the price for their past sins. The warning is more meaningful, what do you think?"
Aphrodite nodded: "You are Hades, you have the final say."
He lowered his head carelessly, and suddenly a golden apple appeared in his hand. Cupid poked it with his finger and took it tentatively. gone.
He lifted the golden apple, squinted his eyes under the gorgeous sky, and saw a word, 'life', suddenly appeared on the green leaf dotted with the golden apple.
Cupid read it out. After hearing the word, the golden apple was suddenly taken over by Aphrodite. He looked carefully, and there was actually this word on the leaf. Aphrodite wondered: "Life? Is it?" Is that what I think?"
As he muttered to himself, the earth had cracked apart, and the ice on the ground was shattered, exposing His Highness's dark ground.
The carriage drove into it, and Aphrodite came to the underworld again.
Different from the silence and monotony when he came last time, this time there are dead souls standing outside the Styx River, and there are dead souls of various shapes, including humans, animals, livestock, monsters, etc...
They were crowded by the River Styx, their souls were covered with scars, and their grievances were still tormenting them. There was constant wailing, and some dead souls attacked each other from time to time, which made the already bleak scene even more terrifying, and it was like a hell on earth.
Hades frowned and looked down, the speed of the carriage subconsciously slowed down a lot, a look of worry appeared on his face, Cupid automatically hid in the arms of the Father God without Aphrodite reminding him , the white wings retracted, and the feathers exploded slightly.
Aphrodite opened her lips slightly, and a large piece of light golden light spit out from his mouth, falling thinly and glisteningly from the air, sprinkled on the dead souls, purifying their souls and healing their wounds at the same time.
Aphrodite suddenly snorted, and a strange color appeared in her eyes, Hades asked nervously: "Master, what's wrong?"
Aphrodite shook her head, did not answer, just said: "Nothing."
But he felt it was funny in his heart, the priesthood Apollo gave him was not purification at all, but the priesthood of light itself.
Is he relying on Zeus not to check, and going through the dark with him openly and aboveboard
Because the priesthood does not have divine power like a godhead, and Aphrodite didn't look carefully, she didn't realize the ingenuity until now.
Aphrodite was quite happy, thinking, not bad, the Sun Godhead was not in vain for him.
The carriage was flying very high, and at the highest point in Hades, Hades was worried that if it flew too low, it would be splashed by the water of the Styx and then sink.
Underneath, Charon, who had been ferrying back and forth for many days without a break, raised his head and looked up at the sky. Hades could feel Charon's resentful eyes across the carriage.
Hades was a little guilty, and suggested to Aphrodite: "Master, why don't we build the bridge first, so that Charon can have a rest. Then we close the gate of the underworld, so that the souls of the dead will also If we can’t get in, it won’t affect our subsequent transformation in Hades.”
Aphrodite shook her head and refused, "No, I'm in a hurry to see His Highness Tartarus."
Hades was slightly stunned, and Aphrodite added: "I need to make sure His Royal Highness Tartarus will not let me enter the abyss, and see if I can get the soul godhead. If we can't get the soul godhead, we There are still changes to the plan for the transformation of Hades.”
Hades nodded and said slowly, "Oh..."