Wu Yujie: "Where did the rune gold coins come from now?"
Cen Jin took out four ancient gold coins from his pocket: "Is it?"
Ding Baiqing nodded.
When Wu Yujie saw it, he recognized that it was the ancient gold coins that Cen Jin had cheated from Loki and the others. His expression changed slightly, and his tone became solemn: "The dead country in the Norwegian sea, ghost ships, magic paintings, gold coins... There are not so many coincidences in the world, So you are counted."
Cen Jin tossed the gold coin in his hand, pretending to be relaxed: "Now you are also an accomplice."
Wu Yujie: "I think it's too late for me to turn around now."
Ding Yiqing: "You really have time."
Wu Yujie froze for a moment, frowned and said, "I'm just joking."
Ding Baiqing stared at her, "I'm not joking." Although his tone was cold, his expression was serious.
Wu Yujie hurriedly made a zipper action to show that she was not joking, and did not persuade her to leave with messy excuses.
Cen Jin: "The road ahead is uncertain and difficult to predict, but the target is obviously only me and Ding Yiqing. If you leave now, you should be spared."
Wu Yujie raised her hands and joked: "You two don't think about the two-person world, so you deliberately send me away." Seeing that the two of them didn't look relaxed, she had no choice but to sigh: "The exciting adventure promised, can't really be faced. Let me give up on the abyss-like unpredictable crisis? Unless you all give up together, and everyone goes home safely."
Cen Jin touched his chin and stared at the gold coin thoughtfully: "I think even if Lao Ding and I give up now, the other party won't let us go. What's more, everyone has come, so we must go in and have a look."
Wu Yujie: "Well, it's all here." It's impossible for her to give up her partner and escape alone, absolutely impossible. "Although the comers are not good, we will not necessarily die."
Besides, what if you die
She chose this line of work and accepted her death at a young age.
It is lucky to live to retire, it is fate not to live, any result can be accepted.
She said these words, and then asked: "Don't you think so too?"
Ding Yiqing pursed his lips and smiled, Cen Jin grinned, shrugged, and winked to show that he had nothing to do with Wu Yujie, so the boat continued to sail forward, facing the gathered ugly mermaid, Cen Jin suddenly turned around: "You just said that the world of two people... Is it obvious?"
Wu Yujie was even more surprised: "Isn't it obvious? I also think your speed is too slow."
Cen Jin looked up at Ding Baiqing with guilt on his face: "My fault, I'm too slow."
"?" What do you mean? The old man that Huang Mao chased first? Who are they going on
Wu Yujie was confused.
Ding Baiqing pressed the back of Cen Jin's head: "Stop it."
Cen Jin laughed, and seemed to find it very happy to play like this.
The tacit understanding between the two is full of the sour smell between lovers, which makes Wu Yujie miss her ex-boyfriend a little bit. By the way, what is her ex-boyfriend's name
The ship was approaching the cliff arch, and just as it was about to return to its original point, Cen Jin suddenly threw a gold rune into the sea, and the space was blurred and distorted. scream.
But for a moment, the ship entered another world.
Five or six meters behind them is boundless thick fog. In the thick fog, there are tall black monsters walking around, roaring from time to time, and when they try to approach or stay away from the thick fog, they will find that the thick fog follows and moves away. Always keep a distance of five or six meters.
A hundred meters ahead is the coast, the boat docked, the three people disembarked with the magic painting, the mermaid was left on the boat, the thick fog could not dock, only enveloped the boat, and soon came the crisp sound of chewing and the shrill scream of the mermaid.
There is a lighthouse on the right side of the port. The main road is covered with stones and winds to the towns in the distance. The towns are built on the mountains.
Except for the main road paved with stones, all other roads are muddy dirt roads.
It probably rained just yesterday, the road was muddy, and there were many puddles. There were one or two small silver fish the size of a thumb. If you squat down and look closely, you can find that the fish has a human face, but there is a mouth of a beast. teeth.
It took about half an hour to finally reach the town entrance. The muddy dirt road has dropped sharply, and the stone road is four vertical and eight horizontal. It can be seen that the transportation is quite convenient, but the air is always filled with the faint smell of fish.
But here is some distance away from the sea. There is no drying fish at the door of every household, and there is no fish tank for feeding fish at the door. I don't know where the heavy fish smell comes from.
The sky was overcast, as if it could rain at any moment.
Wu Yujie: "If this is the country of death, the silence of the four wilds is in line with the characteristics."
Cen Jin stopped at the door of a stone house, looked at the black wall and said, "It's moss."
Wu Yujie: "So?"
Ding Baiqing understood it in seconds: "Green plants have life, and this is a country of death, and there should be no life."
Cen Jin stepped forward and was about to knock on the door, but was grabbed by Ding Yiqing: "I'm coming."
He knocked on the door lightly, and found that the door was unlocked and screamed. It seemed that it had been covered in dust for many years. As soon as he opened it, a lot of dust filled his face, and the rotten smell penetrated into his nose along with the fishy smell.
Even though he was covering his nose with his hands, there was still a strong retching sensation in his chest.
Although the stone house is small, it has everything in it. The scale is like a medieval Norwegian stone house. There is a three-story stone tower next to the house, which should be used to store grains such as grains and wheat. The house is slightly narrow, with low windows. Surprisingly, there are toilets behind the house. There are both modern toilets and squatting toilets, indicating that the town's sewer system is very well developed.
Everything is normal in the room, the bedding and other daily necessities are all there, the cabinets have blackened vegetables and fruits, covered with spider silk and dust, the stove has prepared meals, and the half-knitted spindle cart is placed by the windowsill. An open book was placed on the carpet, as if it fell to the ground in a hurry while reading, and didn't have time to pick it up.
Wu Yujie, who came back from the inspection of other stone houses, said: "The situation of other stone houses is similar to this one, ignoring dust, insect nets and moss, the various furnishings of the house indicate that it has experienced such a moment: it should be eating time, people go home to prepare meals, Women are cooking, men are reading books, or fiddling with fishing nets, or doing other things, children are playing at the door, and there are adult girls at home, they will spin twine on the windowsill.
The daily life is ordinary and ordinary, it should be the same as before, but at a certain time one day, something happened, making everyone disappear, they didn't even respond, and they were still doing what they were doing seriously. "
Ding Baiqing came out from behind the desk, took the paper and said, "The old witch guessed a lot right."
Cen Jin: "What clues did you find?"
Ding Yiqing spread out the paper, which was full of scribbled characters, which could be vaguely recognized as rune characters, only Ding Yiqing knew some rune characters: "The general idea is that the owner of this room has a self-reported life, she is a blind prophet, and she is also a member of the Hall of Valhalla. Maid, I was able to get a glimpse of the future by following Odin. Later, I left the Hall of Valor with blindness and voluntarily came to live in the land of death. Because of my blindness, I strengthened my ability to predict, and predicted that a huge disaster would come to my head."
Cen Jin: "Is there any disaster written on the paper?"
Ding Baiqing: "Some words I don't know, probably means 'the end of the gods', poisonous dragons gnawed down the world tree, the king of the dead country pointed the spear of hatred at the gods at the top of the world tree, and vulnerable humans became the first victims. "
Norse mythology is in their compulsory course, so these words are not difficult for them to understand.
The world tree has nine kingdoms, which are distributed at the top, trunk and base of the tree. The top is the gods and elves. The atrium is where humans live. The east and west are the kingdom of giants and another kingdom of gods, the kingdom of death, the kingdom of fog, and the kingdom of fire. The kingdom of the world and the gnomes live in the lowest level of the world tree, and the poisonous dragon is next to the kingdom of mist.
There are five main races of creatures in the world tree, protoss, giants, gnomes, elves and humans.
The Protoss has two branches, the Asa Protoss headed by the main god Odin and the Vaner Protoss headed by the God of the Sea, each occupying a country.
The Atrium is inhabited by humans, and there is a three-color rainbow that leads to the realm of the Aesir.
The kingdom of fire and the kingdom of giants are kingdoms inhabited by giants, and gnomes and elves each occupy a kingdom.
The country of death is very similar to the country of fog. The former is the resting place of the dead, while the latter is cold and dark, with little life. A small amount of literature records that the country of death is surrounded by the country of fog, while the outside of the country is covered with thick fog and poisonous dragons. Stuck in the country of fog and devoured the roots of the World Tree.
Recalling the huge stone statues they saw at the entrance of the cliff, there were both Yemengard and Fenrir, as well as the poisonous dragon Nidhogg. Before entering, they were surrounded by thick fog and mermaids. Entering the thick fog encirclement is the land they are stepping on now. It is exactly in line with the country of fog and the country of death in the description of the literature.
"We were in the land of fog just now, and now we are in the land of death... But isn't the land of fog a lifeless land?" Wu Yujie asked softly.
Cen Jin: "Mermaids are considered alien species, and they can only stay in the country of fog, a barren land."
Then they talked about the 'Doomsday of the Gods' in Prophecy, also known as Ragnarok. The main reason was the endless hatred between the giants and the Protoss, which led to the outbreak of the final war, and the giants and the Protoss perished together.
In this Ragnarok war, the main god Odin predicted many tragedies, and finally came true, and Nordic mythology is also the only mythological system in the world's six myths that predicts its own demise.
The remains of the World Tree could not be found in northern Europe, but the excavated documents proved that the nine kingdoms of the World Tree exist, and they are separate from all living beings on the earth and form a world of their own.
The World Tree is similar to the Kunlun Mountains and Seas. There is an entrance on the earth, and inside it is another different space, where other creatures that are different from the earth creatures live.
Surprisingly, the ancient Chinese literature mentioned a huge divine tree named Jianmu, located close to the coordinates of the entrance of the World Tree, which is suspected to be proof of the existence of the World Tree.
"Elves and gnomes are the worm changes on the corpse of the ancestor of giants. They belong to demigods and follow the gods. They should participate in the battle of the gods and die in the twilight of the gods. Humans in the atrium will inevitably be involved in the war, and the fire will burn the entire atrium. , there are two humans left."
Ding Baiqing put away the piece of paper and walked towards the bookcase against the wall. While looking for more useful clues, he also popularized the Norse mythology he was familiar with: "Gods, giants, elves and gnomes have other places after death, except for humans." >
r /> "Human undead cannot continue to stay in the atrium, only Heim Underworld and Valhalla can accommodate them."
Heim, the kingdom of the underworld, is also known as hell, and its master is Hela.
- Hela, the god of death.
"Ordinary human undead were taken in by Hela in the country of death, and the undead room was provided to live in. The undead who died in battle were led to the Hall of Valor by Odin's maid."
The Hall of Valor is at the top of the world tree in the kingdom of the gods, while the kingdom of death is at the bottom of the world tree.
"We are now in the land of death. These stone houses should be the residences of the undead. The main reason for their sudden disappearance is the war of the gods, and the secondary reason is undoubtedly related to the god of death Hela."
Hela is the sister of the giant snake Yemengade and the giant wolf Fenri, one of Loki's sons and daughters. In the desperate battle between the giants and the gods, they chose the giant camp and fought against the gods.
Cen Jin suddenly thought: "The human undead came from the atrium, and in turn, can they go to the atrium from here?"
Ding Baiqing: "Maybe."
If you reach the atrium, you can go to the kingdom of the gods and elves through the rainbow bridge, and explore whether there are still creatures.
The three did not delay too much time in the stone house town, and determined that no creatures existed, they set off towards the residence of the Queen of the Dead Kingdom recorded in the literature. Hella's palace is surrounded by mountains, and each mountain has a stone town built on the mountain. The highest mountain has only a gorgeous palace, as if the stars are arching the moon, and the ministers are surrendered to the king of the dead. , Hela stands at the top of the kingdom, overlooking her subjects.
The huge palace is extremely luxurious, but it is also full of dust, cobwebs and moss everywhere, and there is a fishy smell that seems to be absent.
The doors and windows of the palace were closed, and the heavy curtains blocked the sky. It was drowsy and dark. The five-meter-high palace gate was pushed open, and dust poured out. The three stepped into the palace hall before and after. , illuminates the structure of the temple.
The exquisite walls and iron pillars are carved with iron statues of human beings, with their heads sticking out, or their upper bodies falling down diagonally, or half of their bodies are integrated into the walls, and the other half are outside, and there is an iron dimple in their palms or on top of their heads. An oil lamp that does not fall off dust, flickering with a faint blue flame.
The expressions of the portraits are lifelike, so detailed that joy, anger, sorrow, and joy are clearly discernible. They all face the same direction, surrendering to the ground like one after another, and that direction is facing the Iron Throne on the 99th step at the end of the palace.
Even the steps were made of black iron, and the two iron thorns were overgrown with thorns, like stair railings. Behind the railings was a hollowed out abyss. Both were iron human ladders, like evil spirits who had suffered from hell and climbed back to the ground.
Walking up the iron stairs, you can hear the crisp footsteps, and the palace is full of their echoes.
As she climbed the stairs, it became more difficult as she went up. Her legs were heavy like falling lead, so heavy that it was difficult to move. Wu Yujie was already sweating halfway up, and she shook her head and said she couldn't hold it anymore.
"The top is resisting my approach, not only the legs and feet are heavy, but the heart seems to be hit with a hammer, and there is an illusion of being broken." Wu Yujie wiped off the sweat, and said with a heavy face: "You go, I can only Stop here."
Cen Jin and Ding Yiqing looked at each other and left a bottle of fresh water for Wu Yujie to move forward together.
When they reached the 80th floor of the iron steps, they finally felt the pain of being beaten in the heart, and the pain of the brain being drilled by an iron hammer also occurred at the same time. Cen Jin used gravity to wrap himself, barely reducing the pain.
"How are you?"
Ding Yiqing supported Cen Jin, her lips were pale: "I can only swallow a tiny bit. I can feel the force attacking us like an ocean. I can only swallow a drop or two of sea water with all my strength."
"Can you hold it up?"
"I can, how about you?"
"good."
Both of them knew that each other was not exaggerating, and when faced with serious matters, they knew the principle of doing what they could, so they supported each other to the ninety-fifth iron stairs, their backs were already bent to the ground, and they were almost crawling on the ground with one hand. Get on the iron platform.
It was not until they got on the iron platform that they realized how far they were from the Iron Throne. The platform covers an area of nearly 100 acres and is covered with iron thorns. Behind the Iron Throne, in the jungle of thorns, there is a winding path leading to unknown names. It's dark, but you can hear the gurgling water.
"The undead come from the courtyard, need to cross a river, walk a bridge, pass through the iron forest, reach the gate of Hela, leading to endless darkness and cold, you can see nine rivers in the underworld, one of which is full of sharp knives, and then Going forward, it is Hela's palace."
Ding Baiqing stated in a deep voice.
Cen Jin was surprised: "The road to the human world is hidden behind the Iron Throne?" He tore off two iron branches, handed one to Ding Baiqing, used it as a crutch and tried to prop up his waist to the Iron Throne, which was about ten square meters in size.
Touching it, I started to get cold and soaked in the bones.
Cen Jin shivered, and withdrew his hand. When he turned around, he saw Ding Taiqing looking at the Iron Throne. After a while, he tried to sit down and looked into the distance, with a strange expression on his face.
Cen Jin followed his line of sight and could only see the panorama of the huge palace, and waved to Wu Yujie below.
Wu Yujie sat on the steps to rest and greeted lazily.
"What did you see?" Cen Jin was curious.
Ding Baiqing pulled Cen Jin to sit down and motioned to him: "Look."
Cen Jin followed, and was stunned to find that the field of vision had suddenly become wider. Originally, he could only see the panoramic view of the palace, but now he can see thousands of small towns located in the mountains, and every stone house can be seen in his eyes.
"Monitor the high-level VIP throne on the big screen." Cen Jin sighed.
What I can see now is the lifeless stone house. It is not difficult to imagine how lively the stone house where the undead live and how many interesting sights can be seen sitting here.
Ding Baiqing's voice was low: "The gods fought, the world tree collapsed, the monstrous waves drowned the land, and the darkness of eternal calamity enveloped the world, but one world survived and regained its vitality. The surviving gods and humans took root here."
"Is there any record of the surviving characters?"
"The god of the forest, the god of gardening and vengeance, the two sons of Thor, the poisonous dragon Nidhogg, and Hela, the only god of death with no recorded whereabouts."
All the gods died, and even the three goddesses of fate, who escaped the hatred of the gods and giants, inevitably grew old. They died in the war. Only four gods, the poisonous dragon, and the god of death Hela, who had no life and death records, remained.
"So the messenger behind the ghost ship's chaos and lure us to the country of death... is Hela?" Cen Jin looked around, his eyes crossed thousands of small towns, and fell into the sea and the depths of the thick fog, and then looked down at Tie Tie again. In the abyss below the stairs, Hela was not found.
Then he turned back to the winding path in the thorny jungle behind him.
"If it's her, she has already achieved her wish, why is she still hiding her head and showing her tail?"
Ding Baiqing thought for a moment, and took out the paper that was hidden in the stone house just now. On the paper was the prophecy of the blind girl in the Hall of Valor: "I need time to decipher the prophecy on this paper and guess Hela's whereabouts."
Cen Jin: "What do you need me to do?"
Ding Yiqing: "Looking for books written in Rune script, the more the better, I have to learn to read."
Cen Jin raised one eyebrow and had no objection to this. The two got up and left the Iron Throne, returned to the palace below the stairs, and searched for books with Wu Yujie.
As soon as he landed on the ground of the palace, the pressure on his body disappeared instantly, and a feeling of relaxation came spontaneously. Wu Yujie beat her back and cried out for comfort.
They found a seven-to-eight-meter-high bookshelf at the back of the palace. The shelves were full of books, and they took them all out and placed them in front of Ding Taiqing for him to read. Cen Jin was lying on the high stack of books and asked Ding Taiqing how to read.
Ding Yiqing: "rote memorize, guess the content of the overall record from some familiar rune words, and then decipher the meaning of a certain word." He flipped through the pages without raising his head, and touched Cen Jin's soft hair: "Time Urgent, limited resources, can only use this stupid method."
Cen Jin: "Speak the words you have deliberated, and I will record them for you."
Ding Yiqing smiled: "I'll trouble you then."
Cen Jin scratched his cheeks and muttered, "There's no need to be so polite." Although he was polite, he was actually gentle and doting, like a perfect older lover, which was too provocative.
Wu Yujie stared intently at an iron statue with half of her body embedded in the wall, motionless, Cen Jin patted her on the shoulder: "What are you looking at?"
"The face of this proportional iron man seems to have changed." Wu Yujie hesitated.
Cen Jin was stunned: "No way?"
Wu Yujie: "I remember her eyebrows were slightly curved before, which was more natural, but now the position of the eyebrows is pushed forward a little."
"..." Cen Jin stared at it carefully for a long time, his eyes were sore: "I didn't see the difference, did you see it wrong? Hallucinations?"
Wu Yujie shook her head: "I'm more focused on people's facial features, her eyebrows are beautifully trimmed, they are very stretched at first, and her face is happy, her brows are clear, her brows are squeezed forward, she looks like a frown, and she frowns suddenly, like asking for help ."
Listening to her chatter, Cen Jin also stared at the iron figure, looking at its eyes and eyebrows intently, the stench of a large number of dead sea fish rushed into his nose, his brain poured into thick fog, and his eyes were covered with a layer of layers. Covered by the mist, iron thorns seemed to pierce the pupils, blood dripped down, and he saw a beautiful girl smiling at him.
The beautiful girl opened her red lips lightly, exhaled like a blue orchid, her eyes were full of emotion, and she chanted like a siren, tempting a passing sailor to accompany her on a journey, and she smiled.
The next moment, the beautiful girl's face turned into two pieces, and the sharp knife cut off the head of the iron figure neatly. Cen Jin frowned and stirred the inside of the iron figure, trying to find evidence of living beings from the split head.
Wu Yujie: "Fuck, what are you doing?"
Cen Jin: "It seduces me."
Wu Yujie was even more surprised: "Why? I watched it for so long, and it didn't seduce me. Is it because I don't deserve it?"
Cen Jin: "It doesn't like women right?"
Wu Yujie folded her arms: "... So it seized the opportunity to seduce a gay guy and laughed to death."
Cen Jin: "But you're right, there is something wrong with these iron figures. Maybe they are living creatures, but the movement mechanism is different from ours."
Wu Yujie looked around the bookstore. There were iron figures all over the walls and pillars. There were at least a hundred people, not to mention the people ladders in the palace and below the stairs. It was estimated that there were thousands of people. The expression found that they were alive, would they be attacked suddenly, and I still can't figure out what happened