Volume 19 Chapter 212 Under the Nine Springs

"Actually, this kind of material is..." Hades suddenly stopped mid-sentence, so I could only look at him stupidly and wait for him to continue. Probably feeling that his appetite was almost whetted, Hades finally said at this time: "Actually, this material is the soul."

"Soul?"

"Yes, it is the soul left behind after the death of the gods. It doesn't matter whether it is conscious or unconscious, as long as it is a divine soul."

I frowned and said: "It is indeed easy for me to find the material of Divine Soul, but it takes a little trouble to get it. But this is not a problem. As long as it can provide us with the power of faith, a few There’s still nothing wrong with the soul.”

When Hades heard what I said, he quickly explained: "It's not a matter of a few."

"Not a few? Do you need a lot?"

"It depends on the quality of the soul you provide." Hades explained: "There are also levels of souls. For example, the soul of Radamantis and my soul are different in terms of the amount of power they carry. There will definitely be a difference. The more powerful the gods leave behind their souls after their death, the more they can carry more power of faith. If all you get are ordinary souls, then you must have more. If it is For a high-level existence like me, only a few are enough."

"Can the amount you mentioned be quantified? Otherwise, I don't know how much is needed?"

"If it can be quantified, I will tell you directly. And even if it can be quantified, I can't tell you the specific amount, because we are not yet sure how much power of faith the underworld in China can produce. In addition, your scheduling Arrangement will also affect the demand. If you are not afraid of trouble, just prepare two souls, one to transport and the other to store. Just bring the transported one back and replace it before the other soul is full, so that only two It can guarantee transportation. Of course, this will become very troublesome, and if something happens, the absorption of the power of faith will be interrupted. Moreover, if the transportation is too frequent, it will be easily discovered by outsiders, and secondly, it will also increase the transportation of the power of faith. Unexpected risks in the process.”

"Then how often do you think it is more reasonable to transport?"

"If you can get a lot of souls, then the longer the interval, the better. It is best to do it once a year or half a year, but the number of souls required is a bit scary. So I think the more economical way is once a week. Or once every three days. Of course, it’s best to do it once a week.”

I thought for a while and said: "Okay, let's plan the transportation volume once a week first. If we can get enough souls, we will do it this way. If we can't get enough, we will shorten the cycle and change it to five days depending on the situation. Once or every three days or something, it depends on how many souls I can get in the end."

"That's all we can do now."

After Hades finished speaking, Pandora next to him suddenly said: "Didn't you say that your underworld doesn't collect the power of faith? Does that mean we can go to the other ten Yama Halls to collect the power of faith? ?”

When I heard Pandora's question, I wanted to reject it immediately, but after thinking about it, it might actually work, so I asked: "How do you collect the power of faith? If the method is more subtle, I can find an excuse to send you away." Try it in the past, but if a larger battle is needed, it won’t be easy.”

Hades replied: "The method of collecting the power of faith is not troublesome. You only need to build a faith aggregator."

“What is a Faith Gatherer?”

"It is a device with many special magic circles carved inside, which can concentrate the power of faith."

"Is it complicated?"

Hades nodded and said, "It's very complicated."

I thought about it and said, "How long will it take you to make it? I want to see the real thing."

"There are several of them in my Kingdom of God, but here...!"

After hearing what Hades said, I remembered that I had been asking questions, but I was still standing at the intersection without moving. He quickly apologized to Hades and the others, and then led them to the Hall of Hell.

I introduced Hades and the others to the Yama Palace while I was taking them. "The road we are taking now is the road to hell. These souls on the road are the dead who are assigned to our Yama Palace to deal with every day. They walk on the right and middle of the road, and the road on the left is specially reserved for the ghosts of the underworld. The souls who are poor and need to return to the sun are gone."

Pandora looked at the forests on both sides and asked, "Then where is the forest next to this place?"

"It's the forest."

"All of them?" Pandora asked in surprise.

I nodded and said: "The introduction given by Heavenly Court said that the surrounding area is surrounded by endless forest sea. Later, I also sent people to explore it. The furthest I traveled was more than 20,000 kilometers. The result was still an endless forest sea and not even an open space. .”

"So big? Have you never discovered where its edge is?"

I shrugged helplessly and said: "I also want to know where its edge is, but unfortunately it is too big, and the forest is not absolutely safe. There are many monsters that have never been discovered in it. I sent people before While exploring, we discovered tens of thousands of monsters we had never seen before. Some of these creatures appeared in groups, some acted alone, and their levels varied. The most powerful creature discovered so far only took five seconds. Just killed all my exploration team."

"Then what is the strength of your exploration team?" Rhadamantis asked.

I glanced at him and said: "It only takes three people to kill you, and you won't even have a chance to run. There are twelve people in an exploration team. You can calculate their strength yourself."

Radamantis, who originally wanted to say that my team's combat effectiveness is not good enough, was speechless by me and didn't know what to say. Finally, Pandora changed the subject and asked: "Is the Temple of Hell at the end of this road? ?”

"That's right." I explained: "Not far ahead, this road turns a corner and ends in the forest. The position we came out of before is actually the edge of the forest, and behind us is the core of the forest. Again Beyond the forest area is a river. The river is connected to the Sea of ​​Silence, so the forest cannot extend across it. There is a bridge on the river called Naihe Bridge, and there is one for each of the eleven Yama Halls. The style and other aspects are exactly the same. On the other side of the river is a large sea of ​​flowers. In this regard, it is very similar to the underworld in Europe."

Persephone frowned and asked, "Are they all Hibiscus flowers?"

I nodded and said helplessly: "It seems that only this kind of flower grows in the underworld all over the world, and this thing seems to be particularly adapted to the environment of the underworld. If you place a flower anywhere, it will soon grow into a large area. If no one takes care of it, my Yama Palace will be covered with these things in three months. But strangely enough, not a single one can be seen in the forest here, and even if one is deliberately transplanted, it will die quickly."

After hearing what I said, Hades suddenly walked to the roadside and pressed one hand on the tree next to him. Then in less than five seconds, he saw a sudden light under the tree, a green color. The halo of light instantly gathered from the root of the tree to the trunk and quickly focused on the place where Hades' hand was pressing. Just hearing the sound of electric shock, Hades actually waved his hands and took two steps back, and his face became extremely ugly.

"What's going on? Are you okay?" I supported Hades and asked, "I've never heard of this tree attacking people before? What did you just do?"

Hades first looked at his palm, and found that it was burnt. Then he replied with lingering fear: "I suggest you not to touch these trees in the future, especially not to cut down these trees."

I nodded and said, "I won't chop it down if you don't tell me this. I've sent people to check it earlier. These trees are all made of negative energy. Even if they are cut down, they cannot be used as wood. They will quickly fall into disgrace as soon as they arrive in the human world." Decay, and any positive energy substances will corrode each other when they come into contact with them. I will not transport such dangerous things to the human world. As for the underworld, the houses have been repaired long ago, and there is no need for me to cut down trees myself. Build a house. But why did you ask me not to touch these trees?"

Hades thought for a while and suddenly pulled me to his side, then whispered into my ear and told me the reason.

"What? Are you serious?" I almost jumped out of my skin after hearing what Hades said.

Hades nodded and said: "As long as you know, don't spread it randomly to avoid causing panic. Just issue a ban and prohibit cutting down trees. Anyway, these are your people, no one will violate the rules."

I nodded to express my understanding, and then started walking towards Yama Hall with everyone again.

The reason Hades just said is quite scary. He actually told me that these things that looked like trees were actually not trees, but -'hair'. That's right, it's 'Mao'. Just like the hair on cats and dogs, these things that we have always regarded as trees are actually the tips of the hair on the back of a certain super creature. Yes. Only the tip. Just now Hades used his spiritual mind to explore all the way down the tree trunks, and found that none of these trees had roots. After following the tree trunk into the ground, there is a tree trunk that is exactly the same as the tree trunk on the ground, and it extends underground for several kilometers. According to Hades, the things that look like trees above are actually things that have changed to adapt to the environment here. Their form is similar to the transformation technique, except that the transformation technique changes the entire body, but this guy only changed his body. The tip of the hair turned into a tree. Moreover, the leaves and crowns of these trees are not real crowns. From a functional perspective, they should actually be regarded as tree roots, because these leaves and trunks are constantly absorbing the surrounding positive energy and transmitting it deep underground. The body is there.

While the team was still moving forward, I followed Hades and asked quietly: "You said these trees are absorbing positive energy?"

Hades looked around and made sure that his men were far enough away not to hear our conversation before whispering: "Just now, my spiritual thoughts followed the trees and seemed to have touched the body of the creature. The other party is obviously in a deep sleep state now, and it can be seen from the breath that the creature should be very weak. But..."

"But what? Can't you always half-speak what you say? Are you trying to make me anxious?"

"But that creature is full of positive energy."

"Positive energy? You mean a creature based on positive energy is buried under the ground of the underworld, which is entirely composed of negative energy?"

Hades shook his head and said: "I suspect that it is not that the thing was buried under the underworld, but that the underworld was originally built on him."

"Holy shit, you mean our Chinese underworld is built entirely on a giant beast, instead of being built on a big island in the Sea of ​​Silence like yours?"

"I'm afraid so."

After listening to Hades's speculation, I was silent for a while to let my heart rate return to normal, and then said: "This guy is full of positive energy, but he was soaked in the Sea of ​​Silence, and he still has... Pressing down a continent. Even if he doesn't die, it shows that his strength has definitely reached a heaven-defying level. At least in my opinion, his strength may be only one step away from the upper gods."

Hades also nodded and said: "I think this guy can at least use one or several laws, otherwise he would not be able to survive in such an extreme environment. According to this inference, his strength should be a quasi-superior god, better than those The real upper gods are weaker, but they are much stronger than lower gods like us."

I followed: "But he is obviously injured or sealed. He turned his 'hair' into a tree in order to absorb positive energy to restore himself, but this is the underworld, and even if there is positive energy, it is very little, plus he has to constantly To fight against the erosion of the negative energy of the Sea of ​​Silence, the positive energy absorbed may not only fail to accumulate, but may also continue to decrease.”

Hades immediately took it and said: "That's why he couldn't wake up for such a long time and acted so weak."

"Then you're still trying to scare me from cutting down the tree? If you cut off his energy supply, won't he die faster?"

Hades immediately shook his head and said, "Do you know what boiling a frog in warm water means?"

I understood immediately when I heard it. "What you mean is that the person who sealed this guy wanted him to die slowly in this state. If we cut off his energy supply, he will wake up due to the loss of energy balance. Even if he still dies in the end, But his struggle before death will definitely turn into a world-class disaster, right?"

"I'm afraid it's more than that." Hades said: "This guy's body is full of positive energy, and you also know what the consequences will be if positive energy and negative energy come into contact. If he maintains his current state and slowly consumes his positive energy, then he He will eventually die quietly. But once the supply of positive energy disappears and he dies suddenly, the remaining positive energy in his body will come into contact with the negative energy of the Sea of ​​Silence. Then there will be a bang, and then the whole world will be pure. "

"Eh... It seems that this is indeed possible, so we'd better not provoke him and keep the status quo!"

While we were discussing this issue, the team walked out of the forest unknowingly. In front of the woodland, a small bridge with Chinese characteristics appeared over a small river that was not very wide. There are several ghost servants standing at both ends of the bridge, and there are several tables placed at the other end of the bridge. The ghosts who line up to cross the bridge will be taken to the tables respectively, and then the ghosts who sit on them will be taken to the tables. The ghost behind the desk stamped their foreheads. The stamped ghosts will be taken to the back to drink the legendary Meng Po soup, but after drinking, a small ball of flame will immediately appear on their heads. When the ghost standing on the side saw the flame, he would use a special tool to pick off the fire and throw it into a giant cauldron next to him. At this time, the cauldron was burning with raging fire. Apparently, he had collected a lot of it. The fire of the soul.

Seeing this scene in front of them, Hades's men were constantly discussing this strange way of working. After all, they do not extract soul fire from the dead, so they have never seen such a strange process. Of course, if the Chinese King of Hell visited Hades and the others, he would definitely be as curious as Hades and the others now, because Hades and the others do not extract the soul fire but collect the power of faith.

Seeing me coming, the ghost guards by the river immediately put down their work and saluted me. I quickly introduced Hades and the others and asked them to go back to work. After all, this place is not like other places. The ghost servants are very busy. Delaying their time will not only affect my own interests but also cause a backlog of ghosts.

After passing the checkpoint-like place on the Naihe Bridge, there is a large sea of ​​flowers in front of you. The delicate flowers on the other side are in full bloom and are extremely beautiful. The red silk-like petals are so bright that they seem to be dripping with blood. You can even see crystal flashes on some flowers, which is simply beautiful. Of course, the more beautiful things in places like the underworld are, the more dangerous they are, so except for those of us who are professional underworld workers, it is best for most people not to get close to them. Based on the beauty of these other shore flowers, if it were not too dangerous, I would have planted Essinger full of them. But having said that, it seems that the Magic Palace Rose that is most commonly planted in the flower beds of Essinger is not a safe plant. If it senses danger, it will emit a poisonous hypnotic gas around it, which can make people fall into beautiful dreams. sleep forever in it. However, growing such dangerous plants in the city is not completely without benefits. At least I never have to do anything to promote the care of flowers, plants and trees in Isengard, because anyone who dares to stick to flowers and grass in Isengard will report to the Resurrection Temple. .

Pandora looked at the sea of ​​flowers around her and took a deep breath, then held her breath for a long time as if to taste it carefully before exhaling and saying: "Ah, the smell of death! The fragrance of giant poison, this is the underworld. How it should feel!"

While Pandora was feeling the life-threatening fragrance of flowers, Hades gently hugged the shivering Persephone and said, "If you don't like it, we can live in Isengard's temple, here. It’s not that far away anyway, how about I come here for a few hours every day to handle official duties and then go back?”

Persephone looked at Hades and finally nodded. Unlike Hades and the others, Persephone is the goddess of spring, and she is very uncomfortable with the environment of the underworld. The underworld on the Olympus side is closer to the human world because of the long-term collapse of her magic power and the deliberate suppression of Hades. The underworld here is a complete ghost land. If Persephone can live there, It's like going down to see a ghost. Eh... No, I should say it's weird. This is the underworld, you can see ghosts every day, and there is a huge area as soon as you open your eyes.