Contrary to Hao Ren's expectations, the entrance to Hades is not only in the suburbs not far from the city of Rome, but it is not even concealed or disguised in any form—it is simply an upright landmark, openly displayed in every In front of people, even the farmers living nearby know its existence, but ordinary people know that it is a terrible entrance, but they don't know that it leads to the kingdom of the dead in the myths and legends.
It is a cave in the outskirts, and there are countless terrifying local legends related to it.
If the herdsman's livestock is lost near there, they will immediately sacrifice another livestock at the entrance of the cave in fear, because they firmly believe that the lost livestock has disturbed the gods. would enter the village at night and spread the plague to every household; some farmers claimed that they had seen more than once the dead coming out of the caves, the dead wearing all kinds of clothes, festering and swollen as if soaked in river water It usually lasted for three days and three nights, and once these dead people came into contact with the sunlight, they would disappear in smoke; some travelers who traveled at night saw smoke emanating from the cave, and there were wailing sounds that came all night, every night when there was no moonlight , the wailing will be even more terrifying...
Hao Ren and his party didn't need to inquire much at all, and they didn't need Hasselblad to search their own memories. They just asked a few passers-by and found this cave that the locals avoided. It is located on the sheltered side of a small hill, and its width and height are enough to accommodate three or five strong men walking in at the same time. There is not a single grass growing on the land outside the entrance of the cave, and even a small river nearby has an unpleasant stench, and The inside of the cave is pitch black.
Shadow power that is almost visible to the naked eye surges in the cave.
"This thing is placed so openly..." Hao Ren looked at the cave in front of him in amazement. Even if he just looked at this thing with his eyes, he could see the supernatural power lingering, and it was different from the carefully camouflaged supernatural fields in the past. It's not a painting style at all, "Why are you demon hunters investigating here... You can tell something is wrong with just a quick glance, right?"
Facing Hao Ren's amazement, Hasu just said indifferently: "So this is the difference between the age of mythology and the era after that."
"Back then, these things were indeed placed outside," Hessiana also said, "Traces of supernatural power can be seen everywhere in the hills, in the wilderness, and even in human settlements. There are no 'gods' of different kinds at all. They have considered the issue of hiding their whereabouts, and they can do whatever they want, open a space gap next to the human city, no one dares to raise objections, and no one can threaten their rule over the human world. Just like the cave in front of you, what is it in essence? In essence, it is just a sewage pipe and connecting beams of a runaway laboratory, will you disguise these things because you are worried about affecting the life of a nest of ants?"
Hao Ren was speechless and could only smack his lips in the end.
"The destruction of Olympus is a landmark event. Before that, the Sumerian God War was delayed for too long, and the Egyptian God War was not completed in one go. Only Olympus, it was in the continuous onslaught of the demon hunters. Completely destroyed, under our deliberate publicity, this war shocked the whole world, so the first year of AD is also regarded as the dividing line when the age of mythology officially enters the twilight period—of course, this is what we demon hunters say, but many The same is true for alien races," Hasselblad said in a calm tone, "You are standing on this dividing line now. Before that, all the 'gods' were high and proud, and after that, all the gods were waiting for the gods. dusk."
Heather Anna glanced at Hasu, turned her head and walked into the cave: "Okay, okay, stop bragging, it's not the glory days."
Hasselblad: "..."
The power of shadow is entrenched in the passage, which causes the light to attenuate extremely seriously. Even if it is only ten meters away from the entrance of the cave, it is already so dark that you can hardly see your fingers. Hasselblad frowned after seeing this situation: "Huh Diss' death has already begun to show consequences, the control system of Hades is gradually shutting down, and the polluting energy in Hades has lost its filtration and has become at least twice as dense as before."
Although he knew that this place was just a "false time and space" created by Vivian, Hao Ren couldn't help but worry about the ancients: "Then the leaked energy will cause big trouble?"
"Something went wrong in history, but not here," Hasselblad nodded. "At another entrance to Hades, a town was polluted and almost no one survived. If it wasn't for the big explosion in Olympus, As a result, Hades is annihilated by the turbulence of time and space, and the incident may be a hundred times more serious."
Lily snorted, quite disdainful: "Gods fight and mortals suffer. The age of mythology is really not a fun thing."
In this regard, Hasselblad could only smile helplessly, his position was too embarrassing in front of this topic.
The deep and long cave seemed to have no end. After going deep into it for hundreds of meters, it began to slope downward. Its length almost made Hao Ren think that he was going to go straight into the heart of the earth, but this feeling was just an illusion, and he continued to move forward. After walking a distance, he noticed that the surrounding environment began to change.
The air became icy cold, not the damp and cold natural environment in the cave, but a cold feeling that would make people feel chills came from all directions, the moss on the rock wall gradually thinned and disappeared, and the soil under the feet It also turned into cold and slippery gravel, which seemed to be soaked in blood and venom, and bursts of unpleasant stench penetrated into everyone's nostrils.
"Ouch..." Lily was about to cry, "Why is my nose so sensitive..."
Hao Ren took out a life-support collar from the portable space, one for each of them, including little Heatherana: "Put it on, the concentration of toxins and negative energy around is already high enough to be harmful, wearing this can save your energy .”
In fact, as early as more than ten meters into the entrance of the cave, the surrounding toxins and negative energy were already strong enough to be fatal, but that kind of fatality was for ordinary people. As Hasselblad said, Hades itself is a dangerous space full of harmful substances due to failed experiments. Now the only administrator here, Hades, is also dead. I really don’t know if this place is still alive. If it continues to deteriorate, in order to save everyone's mana and stamina, it's good to be able to resist it with equipment.
After taking the collar, little Hesianna fiddled with it curiously. It was only with the help of Hesianna that she finally figured out how to use it. It could be seen that the little girl was quite satisfied with this magical device—even if she was a "vampire", They also don't like the environment of Hades.
Suddenly, the road in front of me suddenly became clear.
The cave came to an end, and an extremely vast space appeared in front of Hao Ren. He saw the pitch-black, cracked earth stretching infinitely under his feet. There were poisonous rivers and hot magma flowing on the earth, and flames and steam were constantly gushing from the cracks in the earth. When it came out, every gushing seemed to carry the miserable wailing of countless dead souls. The sky was covered with a layer of rock-like deep chaotic matter. The lava-like dark red thing was flowing on the dome, as if it would pour down at any time, it was daunting.
There is a crack above the sky, that crack traverses the entire dome, and there is a disturbing red light shining in the crack, through the red light, Hao Ren vaguely sees that there seems to be another world on the opposite side - it is being engulfed by the flames of war, Scenes of grand explosions and giant collapses were staged one after another.
That may be Olympus in the midst of war. The last attack of the demon hunter destroyed the spatial structure of Hades. It seems that a crack in the horizon was created, allowing the scene of Olympus to be projected into this space. .
Of course, such a vast place cannot be underground in the city of Rome. There is only one explanation for such a scene: everyone has passed through the cave and unknowingly crossed the boundary of time and space, and entered the different space created by the "gods" of Olympus. .
"What's that?" Lily looked up and observed this dark and terrifying place curiously, and suddenly found many floating, translucent things in the sky and the earth, those things hovered hundreds of meters above the ground like mist , sometimes gathering and sometimes dispersing, has no fixed shape, but in the "fog", there are some phantoms that are interesting to emerge.
Hao Ren also noticed those things. He looked closely, and suddenly saw several faces full of pain and various strange death scenes emerge from one of the clouds of mist.
"Fuck?!"
"This is Hades," Hasselblad said lightly, "There must always be some 'decoration' in line with fame. Those are the souls of human beings who lived under the rule of Hades after death. The twelve main gods of Olympus seem to be separated. Cake ruled the human world like a cake, and made the rules of human beings from birth to death according to their own preferences. According to the rules of Hades, all human beings who died in his territory could not be freed at will unless they paid enough money before they were alive. Consecrate or have relatives present gifts to Hades on their behalf after death, otherwise the lonely ghosts must serve him in the form of souls in Hades, and the way of serving is as fuel to drive the three soul furnaces at the core of Tartarus —Now that Hades is dead, the furnace of souls is out of control, and all the souls that were fueled but not burned out are released."
Looking at those souls floating in the sky, who could never escape forever, even though he knew that these were just historical phantoms, Hao Ren's face was still gloomy.
Heather Anna sighed leisurely: "The age of mythology..."