spartan ancestor

Hyacinthus's delicate calculation was interrupted politely by Sleeping God: "I am very sorry, Your Highness Hyacinthus. Your Majesty's decision was influenced by Cupid's arrow, and it is difficult for us to convince His Majesty at this time, so ...I feel wronged that you have to go to the underworld with us. Please wait a moment, let me sweep the tail."

"It's wrong that you have to go to the underworld with us"?

Yacintos raised his eyebrows, and stopped the sleeping god who turned around: "So, after the effect of the arrow in Hades is released, will you let me go back to the world?"

Sleeping God stopped in his tracks, turned his head and showed an apologetic expression: "You can only enter the underworld."

——"The underworld can only be entered and cannot be exited."

"..." Yacintos was in a trance for a moment.

In front of him, it was clearly the God of Sleep who was speaking, but the moment he heard it, he seemed to hear another feminine, soft but somewhat cruel voice, saying the same words.

Immediately afterwards, more auditory hallucinations——

"The underworld can only be entered and not exited!"

"The underworld, you can only get in and out!"

"Under... the underworld, you can only enter and exit."

Men's, women's, old people's, children's... some voices seem to have experienced vicissitudes of life, and some people's voices are rough.

It wasn't until A-Ka put his hand on his shoulder that Yacintos suddenly came back to his senses: "Did you hear that?"

"What?" A-Ka's expression tensed, as if he was a little vigilant, and he said slowly after a while, "I only saw you in a daze."

Even the sleeping god who wanted to go away turned back and tilted his head: "Are you all right? Your Highness."

"Don't call me Your Highness." Yacintos said casually, and his eyes fell on Sleeping God again, this time with a careful look.

It's strange, but also that kind of vague familiarity.

The other party's dark wings, silver hair, and black robe wrapped around his body like a sheet made him feel familiar... and it was not a pleasant acquaintance.

Staring and staring, Jacintos suddenly noticed two shy blushes slowly appearing on the sleepy pale cheeks: "..."

The sense of familiarity that had just brewed instantly rolled away.

Yacintos was speechless: "Why are you blushing?"

Hypnos rubbed his hands on his body for a while, and after a while, he suddenly tore off his robe boldly, and shyly handed over the torn rag: "Can you write a sentence for me on this? Just write 'Since it is a treasure, how can it be hidden by the sun', the inscription is 'Love Your Highness'. "

Hyacinthus: "..."

friend, what are you doing?

Even Aka, who was standing next to him, looked at him, and his thin lips moved slightly. Although he didn't say anything in the end, his eyes were filled with "Are you going to find your brain with Apollo?"

Hypnos looked at all kinds of subtle eyes, without any shame: "Please?"

Hyacinthus: "..."

You people in the underworld are more or less seriously ill.

He began to wonder what happened to the troubadours who made up his stories. Hyacinthus took the rag and pen with a smirk, and wrote with a few swipes:

Do more practical things and listen less to stories.

Yacintos paused for a moment at the signature, and then wrote more arrogantly: Your Majesty.

"..." Hypnos caught the cloth strip that Jacintos stuffed back, and his expression was very subtle for a moment.

This thing doesn't look like His Majesty's signature, it looks like His Majesty Hades's approval.

But it was indeed signed by His Royal Highness Baobao... My fanboy Hypnos, full of entanglements, turned around with heavy steps to practice the idol's signature.

Hypnos, on the other hand, looked at Hypnos's back several times, stretched out his hand and lifted Apollo, who was looking around, not knowing what to do next, and lowered his voice: "Are you sure it's impossible for a living person to leave the underworld? For example I have been to the underworld, but left, the condition is to lose the memory of being in the underworld?"

Apollo smacked his lips: "To be honest, there are indeed human beings who can leave the underworld alive. There is only one. But he is not a pure human being—he is the Hercules you are looking for."

Apollo curled his lips: "The other Odysseus, Aeneas... These are just human misinformation. We gods know it best, and some of them are even scandals deliberately released by Zeus and Poseidon. A malicious mockery of Hades for letting Hercules go."

Apollo shook his head straight: "How could Hades be so merciful? Hercules was able to leave the underworld at that time because his golden arrow hurt Hades. What a storm this incident caused on Mount Olympus— —Oh, do you know that Hercules was expelled from Mount Olympus? It was because Zeus and Hera wanted to take the remaining two golden arrows from Hercules, but Heracles did not agree."

Apollo paused for a while, and then showed some doubts: "Actually, I have never been able to understand this. Hercules is only a demigod. He is also the son of Zeus. Al and I can't resist it together." Diss, how could Hercules' golden arrows hurt Hades so much that Hades was willing to let him go? Those golden arrows were only given to Hercules by the centaur Chiron, and they are nothing serious Where to come from."

Hyacinthus also thought it was unreasonable, but he didn't pay much attention to why, as long as he was sure that Hercules' golden arrow could really threaten the gods: "Who knows, Cupid's arrow can also manipulate Hades?"

He didn't dwell too much on the questions raised by Apollo, he just pondered what Apollo said "There is one and only Hercules who escaped successfully".

If this is the case, then why does he have a sense of déjà vu familiarity with Sleeping God and Hades?What happened to the string of auditory hallucinations of "only going in and out" just now?

Hyacinthus looked toward the open gate to the underworld.

Originally, he went into the underworld just to find Hercules, but now, he couldn't help but wonder, after he entered the underworld, would there be other people and other places that made him feel "deja vu"?

Hyacinthus stared at the crack, and patted Apollo on the shoulder: "Send me a letter to my brother, saying that I have left the Temple of Beauty, and if the Covenant of Corinth has been negotiated, the soldiers will be withdrawn directly to Sparta. Don't wait for me anymore. I have something to do here temporarily, and I will go back within three days at the latest."

Apollo shrank his head and muttered softly: "I don't want to step into Sparta again...but I can find a way to send a letter to your brother. But, are you sure you can go back within three days?"

Yacintos felt it. The divine power in his body frowned slightly: "If there is no accident, it will only be one day, and the extra two days is to prevent accidents."

Apollo didn't know where Jacinthos' confidence came from. He was just about to speak when he remembered the miraculous tears of Jacinthos. sentence.

"Stay away from me, Hypnos! You despicable sleeper..." Hephaestus' thunderous scolding stopped abruptly, and the soldiers quickly dispersed under the order of Sleeping God, revealing the fire in the center. god.

Hephaestus swayed in place for a moment, then fell down, and the next second, he snorted loudly and cheerfully on the ground.

Hypnos withdrew his casting hand, with a disgusted expression on his face, and raised his chin to signal the four soldiers to lift Vulcan up: "Send him back to Mount Olympus."

Hypnos turned around, and as soon as he faced Hyacinthus, the expression on his face suddenly became warm—but at this moment all the soldiers of the underworld were liberated from the battle, and the expression of the sleeping god was Among the many soldiers who were blushing with excitement, they seemed extraordinarily calm.

He quickly walked back to Jacintos: "According to the temple...you asked, we will not hurt Vulcan. Now, please come back to the underworld with me."

Hypnos tried his best to appear calm, but the underworld soldiers behind him didn't give him any face at all. They were so excited that they let out all kinds of strange howls, some like chickens and others like wolves, And soldiers beat their chests.

All kinds of thoughts in Yacintos' heart were suddenly interrupted into speechless: "..."

Am I going to the underworld, or some wild jungle?

·

The underworld has portals everywhere in the human world, but in fact, once you step into the underworld from the portal, there is one and only one way.

Hyacinths had already sat back in the carriage at the insistence of Hypnos, and at this time he was leaning against the window and chatting with Sleeping God: "...I still want to know, that Persephone Doesn't it exist? Just made up by bards?"

He also couldn't say that this was his own memory, so he simply took advantage of the situation and blamed the troubadour.

Sleeping God closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then said to Jacintos: "It exists. Your Majesty may not care about it, because there is no intersection with her. But I send Sleepy every night, and I still see this Goddess of Grain Yes, she dwells in a hidden place."

Hyacinthus was silent for a while.

It exists, but it is no longer the queen of the underworld.

This was another thing that didn't match his memory.

Sleeping God looked forward: "Ah, we have reached the gate of hell—er, or the place where the gate of hell used to be."

Sleeping God's tone became a little embarrassed and a little confused.

Jacintos poked his head out of the car window, and was startled by the chaos in front of him—literally, the chaos.

The ghosts of dead animals are running around on the ground, not to mention the flying birds. Occasionally, land animals will make a cameo, jump over the wall, jump on top of the human ghosts who are also fleeing with their heads in their arms, and then scream at each other in fright.

The gate of hell was destroyed by something, and the fragments on the ground could hardly be put together. The soldiers heard the horn in the distance and tried to move towards the source of the sound, but they were repeatedly hindered by the ghosts who happened to be traveling in the opposite direction, and they crashed from time to time.

Before the "terrible" comment popped up in Yacintos' mind, another picture first appeared——

In front of the gate of hell, there are more dead souls coming and going than what I saw just now, almost rubbing shoulders.

However, a high and wide bridge was built on the ground, and the souls of human beings walking inwards rushed to the Styx under the bridge continuously, and the soldiers who needed to leave to pick up the souls marched methodically above the bridge.

Obviously he couldn't think of any other memories about this scene, but Yacintos felt a little familiar from the bottom of his heart, as if he had stood at the bridge for a long time, watching the people coming and going.

Hypnos saw that Hyacinthus was motionless, and thought that the other party was frightened by some tragic dead souls: "If you are afraid, put down the car curtain."

"...No." The picture in front of him really challenged Yacintos's nerves as a ruler. He couldn't help pointing, "Since there will be congestion, why don't you consider building a bridge? Go out on the bridge, and go out under the bridge." Enter the door. It is also convenient to restrict and manage those dead souls who want to escape from the underworld."

Hypnos: "It's okay, you can slowly get used to... what?"

Sleepy God froze for a moment, before he could ask a few more questions, his twin brother Thanatos flew from afar: "Oh, shit!"

Tanatus stopped next to Hypnos in disgrace, stretched his right wing, took a look, and then showed a disgusted expression.

Obviously, the sentence he scolded just now has double meanings.

Hypnos immediately took a step back, his brother's embarrassment made him temporarily forget his doubts, and gloated instead: "Is Cerberus so difficult to deal with?"

The god of death shook his wings frantically: "Don't mention it, Cerberus didn't know what kind of panacea he took, and he actually beat him all the way from the gate of hell to the palace of Hades. From the gate to the bed in the palace, everything was bitten by him." It's rotten. He also gnawed away most of the official documents that His Majesty put on the table, and now His Majesty can only stay in the Hades Palace to make up for those missing official documents."

"Hiss..." Sleepy God couldn't gloat anymore, and took a deep breath with a toothache, "But didn't you and Your Majesty come back as soon as you received the news? Why didn't you stop it?"

The god of death rolled his eyes wildly: "That's why I said it was because I ate something bad, Your Majesty almost missed that stupid dog who had a good time."

After he finished complaining, he raised his head and met Jacintos' eyes: "..."

Although the other party was smiling, he always felt that the eyes of the Empress of the Underworld in the future seemed to be watching a play.

Hyacinthus was indeed at the theatre, too.

He kept a calm smile on his face, but he patted Aka's knee vigorously in the car, and quickly beckoned for the other party to come and listen, but unfortunately the other party just made a wrong body and moved his thigh away, Yacintos patted Aka a few times and then fell null.

Why can't you just pat your knees now?Hyacinth raised an eyebrow.

"...cough." The god of death thought that Jacintos's eyebrows were raised at him, so he quickly restrained his demeanor, and sighed in a calm way, "Recently, more and more dead souls have entered the underworld. It's also getting busier. The busier it is, the more troubles are likely to happen, but after a while, there will be a huge wave of new dead souls pouring in."

"After a while, there will be a huge influx of new dead souls"?

Hyacinthus couldn't help thinking of the Persian army outside the Macedonian border.

Immediately afterwards, he recalled the picture of Hades that flashed before his eyes just now.

Could it be that that was the scene in Hades after Persia went to war with Greece?

But, no, in his original memory, there was no such country as Persia, and in the current situation, Persia has not yet started war with Greece, and the word used by the god of death is "in a while".

So, how did he see this picture of the future Hades, and still feel that the picture is very familiar?

The god of death was still chattering nearby: "... You were supposed to be taken into the Hades Palace to live in, but now the Hades Palace is like this... You can't live there anymore. Your Majesty asked me to send you to Elysee Paradise, where there is a palace. Your Majesty will occasionally rest there when he visits Blessed Land. You stay here first, Cerberus has ruined so many official affairs, His Majesty will definitely not be able to leave."

Hyacinthus glanced at the god of death, thinking that among the many troubles, there is one thing that is considered satisfactory.

Thanks for the timely collapse of the gates of hell and the timely spilling of Cerberus, good dog.

Tanatus and Hypnos flew into the carriage together. The two brothers raised the reins, and the steed neighed, pulling the carriage and leaping up. When it landed, it had already stepped on the lawn in front of the Elysee Palace.

Thanatus rolled up the car curtain, and the light that was very similar to the sunlight in the world poured into the car.

Hyacinthus first lost his mind and recalled what Artemis said, "The underworld is not as dark as humans think", and then helped the carriage to get out of the carriage, and just took a step forward: "? Aka?"

He raised his eyebrows and looked back into the carriage, and teasingly said to Aka who was still sitting motionless: "Reluctance to get out of the car? Or dare not get out of the car?"

"..." Aka seemed to wake up from something, his body moved slightly, and then he looked up, his dark eyes were heavy, "...thought of something else."

Yacintos wanted to continue teasing, "I just slapped your knee," but he almost stopped talking: measure, measure.

He secretly blamed himself: You are used to being funny, aren't you?Almost forgot again.

He retracted his eyes intimately, looked at the Elysee Palace casually, swept his eyes casually, and suddenly froze: "..."

It would be weird if he didn't ask suddenly, he almost wanted to ask: Are there twelve halls and fifty rooms in the palace.

Thanatus also thought that Yacintos was overwhelmed by the magnificence of the palace, and said with a smile: "This palace was built by craftsmen living in Elysee Paradise, and it has been expanded like this for a long time. If you like, I can come here often in the future.”

"Hmph." Yacintos gave a perfunctory hum, and approached this splendid palace.

The guards at the gate all stood up with their chests upright: "Drink!"

The spear in his hand hit the ground, making a neat and majestic sound, symbolizing the highest salute.

Hyacinthus twitched his ears slightly, turned around suddenly, and walked over to a soldier standing on the right side of the main entrance.

He looked up and down, but couldn't hold back: "Can you say 'you can only enter the underworld'?"

"??" The guard was extremely confused, and tentatively said, "The underworld... only enters and exits?"

Hyacinthus: "Be colder."

guard:"……"

This... I haven't heard that His Highness Baobao has such a strange habit. Didn't I attract His Highness's attention? !

What kind of surprise was this, the guard quickly took a deep breath, trying to reprimand with the coldest voice in his life: "You can only enter the underworld!"

——"The underworld can only be entered and not exited!"

The voice in the ear completely overlapped with the rough voice in memory, and Hyacinthus' hand hanging by his side trembled undetectably.

A strange yet familiar emotion was briefly awakened in the depths of memory, anger, shame, hatred, sadness... Before Jacintos could distinguish them one by one, they disappeared in a flash, leaving only the last trace of unwillingness lingering in his heart, and I couldn't tell the reason melancholy, and after wandering aimlessly for a while, it passed away like fine sand.

The god of death and the god of sleep looked puzzled, and they couldn't figure out why Jacintos came so suddenly. Seeing that Jacintos looked at the guard motionless, two shy blushes appeared on the rough man's face. , the two brothers hurriedly separated Jacintos and the guard one after the other: "Don't look, don't look!"

The Grim Reaper held the guard's collar and warned: "If you are so courageous, you dare to look directly at the Queen of the Underworld like this! Whoever arranged for you to come here, I will go to the Hades Hall to report and do hard work tomorrow!"

Hypnos also shook his head at Jacintos: "No need, really no need, our Majesty is indeed a bit annoying, but anyway, he still has a face, and he will not grow old, and he is rich, and so The big palace, look carefully, don’t be too hard on yourself, lure the guards to escape.”

Hyacinthus was still recalling the emotions that had just flooded into his heart: "..."

All unwillingness and anger are gone, only speechlessness remains in my heart.

Seeing that Hypnos was going to say more words that left him speechless, Hyacinths didn't even bother to defend himself, he waved his hand in greeting to Aka, then turned and walked into the palace.

What a fart to explain, looking at Brother Death's determined eyes of "I see through you", the explanation is useless.

He walked around the winding corridor almost familiarly, walked into a courtyard after a few turns, and lay down on a deck chair under an olive tree.

This movement seemed to have been done countless times, and it was so smooth that it was unbelievably smooth. Even the Reaper brothers who followed all the way through the door were dumbfounded.

Thanatos rubbed his hands: "In short, you can live in this palace as you like, and you can pick whatever you want, and I'll bring you some food later, so I'll leave some space here for you to stroll around as you like. "

Yacintos raised his chin and pointed to the lawn facing the courtyard: "Does anyone come here usually?"

As soon as he lay down on the recliner, his eyes subconsciously fell on the lawn, as if he chose this courtyard and this recliner just for the good view of someone on the lawn.

Hypnos looked around in confusion: "There are very few people around the palace."

Then why is he lying here so skillfully, looking at the grass——

Jacintos suddenly realized a problem, that is, since the underworld in his memory seems to be the underworld after Persia provoked the war, it means that it is very likely that the person he wants to see while lying here has not yet cultivated Habit of coming here.

Seeing that Hyacinthus was silent again, Brother Death shook his head and turned around to go out. He deliberately amplified his voice and told the guards to "take care of the safety of the Empress" before driving away in the carriage.

It was rare for Aka to take the initiative to touch Jacintos' forehead: "Would you like something to eat?"

"No." Hyacinthus turned over and held Aka's unretracted hand face up, "I have a very bold guess. I think I must have been to the underworld, to this place, I— —maybe actually died once.”

He died under the discus manipulated by the God of West Wind, that's why he felt that the dream was so real and immersive, even the sound of the skull breaking could be heard clearly.

The author has something to say: This chapter is two in one~