Drawing cards can't save the weird world

"A living person! A living person!" Among the ghosts guarding the gate, one who seemed to be the leader suddenly shouted.

Some dead souls around suddenly became commotion.

The dead souls who seemed to be passers-by fled away in a panic, but the dozen or so gatekeepers surrounded them.

These dead souls also had strange expressions, as if they were at a loss and excited, but they still surrounded Zhao Hao and Dante.

It's as if the giant panda and the golden monkey ran to the intersection in the city center hand in hand! It's a bit afraid to take the initiative to attack, but you must never let it go.

The five of Zhao Hao immediately became vigilant, and even Black Lincoln planned to act first.

These dozens of soul guards are all at the black iron 3-star and 4-star psionic level, and only the leader is at the black iron 5-star level.

However, what they have to face is a city, not a small city.

Just now Zhao Hao used the flying paper shikigami to look down from above. The city area is very large. Although there are many places that look dilapidated and even ruined, there are hundreds of thousands of dead souls living there.

If this really broke out in a conflict, how many enemies would there be?

Besides, it is impossible for a city of this size to gain a foothold in Netherland without high-end combat power.

At this time, Dante said: "It's been a while since I came to Juleri, this is a lot more enthusiastic~"

Those Revenant guards froze for a moment, a special emotion dominated them and they couldn't ignore this old revenant they hadn't cared about before.

Having existed in the Underworld for five or six hundred years, Dante, who is regarded as one of the brilliance of human spirituality, naturally has something unique.

To put it bluntly, in today's absence of gods, the existence of these wisdoms that have been sung through the ages can be called "holy"!

The other soul guards stared blankly at Dante, not knowing what to think, but the captain of the guard seemed to have remembered something, his face changed drastically, and he asked cautiously: "But Lord Dante?"

Dante nodded.

"Hey! His Excellency Dante is here. This, this is really rude. Please come inside, I will send someone to inform the council..."

There is actually a Nobel Prize winner standing next to the giant panda and the golden monkey, and the bear and the monkey are suddenly unsatisfactory.

The city of Juleri was built in the 13th and 14th centuries. At first, there was a city lord, and after a few changes, it became a parliamentary system.

Although Netherland can be called a different world, after all, it is related to the external and internal worlds, so many things are also affected. For example, the birth of this parliament.

Of course, the rules are different in Netherland, and most of the dead souls here have blurred memories of the world, and the longer they exist, the more serious this situation is.

Except for those beings who were extraordinary or have extremely high spiritual potential in life, people will become strange after death.

Therefore, this underworld did not directly become a brightly lit modern city like the watch world, but a very slow evolution. After all these years, it is still the appearance of the late middle world.

Zhao Hao and others were introduced into the city, but they attracted a lot of attention along the way. Many dead souls followed the five people quietly in the streets and alleys, which was strange to see.

After all, it is rare to see a living person in this underworld for hundreds of years, let alone five of them! Ordinary people don't know or care about Nobel Prize winners, they care more about bears and monkeys~

Zhao Hao and the others also discovered that the dead souls who can live in the city are not as miserable as those outside. Both the appearance and the spiritual level are much higher.

The dead souls outside rely on the city to survive and may be harassed and attacked by evil spirits at any time. Both men and women are emaciated, numb and cowardly, and their clothes are also in tatters.

But the dead souls in the city are at least decently dressed, and they look more like normal people, expressing rich emotions, curiosity, and even seeing some fat people.

The five of them and Dante were ushered into a spacious hall to rest. The hall looked quite luxurious and modern. The floor was covered with carpets of unknown materials, the tables were decorated with gold, silver and precious stones, and there were still hangings on the walls. Some oil paintings!

Zhao Hao and others walked all the way outside the city, first it was like a wilderness, and later it was like a concentration camp or a slum. Entering the city is like walking into a relatively advanced and prosperous medieval stone city. There are only a few well-dressed and follower...

But when they got here, everyone seemed to have walked into a modern luxury manor as guests. The furniture and utensils all carried spiritual energy fluctuations, obviously made of extraordinary materials, and the decoration was luxurious and elegant, which made people dizzying.

Sam looked around enthusiastically, and exclaimed: "This, this looks no worse than those luxurious halls in TV movies!"

Xi Luo leaned on the chair and raised his legs, "Look at those paintings on the wall, they are all authentic works that show that the world has been clearly destroyed!"

Zhao Hao's heart moved: Is it possible that the world burns paper, and the underworld can really get the money? So the finances are not broken yet? Besides, there are still people who burn paper, so what should I count?

Before he could open his mouth to ask, Ciro asked Dante: "Sir, you seem to have an old relationship with the council in this city?"

Dante nodded: "It should be more than a hundred years ago. I have been in this city for a while. The captain of the guard at the gate should have been around for a long time, so he has seen me."

While talking here, a burst of hearty laughter came from outside the door, and then a middle-aged man walked in quickly from outside the door.

He wears a wig, has two moustaches, a small vest with gold buttons on his upper body, and tight pants on his lower body, an ancient attire that can only be seen in oil paintings. Although it is a dead soul, it is no different from a real person. It can even be said to be more real!

On the other hand, Zhao Hao sensed a very powerful wave of psionic energy in him - the existence of bronze level!

At this time, both Prada and Ciro looked at Zhao Hao, obviously they both also noticed the level of this man's psychic power.

Prada has the inspiration of the gods, while Ciro has an intuition that belongs to a "poet". It is a wonderful ability that can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.

In any career or any path, there must be some wonderful abilities to get to bronze.

That man was a member of the Council of Five in Juleri City, and he was an old ghost of more than 400 years.

Listening to his brief self-introduction, he should be from Europa, and he has some ancient blood and surname handed down, at least the name is very long.

When he was alive, he was also a rare transcendent in the quiet period of psionic power, but unfortunately died young.

Now it is a bronze-level dead soul, and serves as a member of the five-member council in the city.

He received Dante very warmly, and Zhao Hao and the other five were by the way.

Of course, when Dante introduced five people, that person didn't happen by the way.

Because all five of them are bronze-level transcendents!

There are really not many living beings who can enter the underworld, only when the gods appeared in the early ancient times.

Those Western heroes, demigods, etc., break into the underworld to make troubles at every turn.

There are also those in the East. For example, in those classical stories, there are often scenes of entering the underworld to save people. That famous monkey tore up the book of life and death.

But after the psychic silence period, there are fewer strangers who can enter the underworld. It's all a coincidence and a small probability event, and basically they will disappear if they come in.

But now, it turned out to be five bronze-level transcendents. This is really... once in a thousand years!

Zhao Hao and others expressed their request, that is, they want to return to the watch world.

That member of parliament did not refuse, saying that there is a way, but if he wants to persuade the five-member council to open the "Resurrection/Returning Yang" channel, the price will not be small.

The two sides simply reached a consensus: it can be negotiated. Then I didn't say much. It depends on the situation.

In private, Zhao Hao and Ciro approached Dante to inquire about the situation.

Dante doesn't know what demands the five-member council or this congressman will make.

But when it comes to the resurrection channel, he knows a lot. The resurrection channels in the hands of different forces are different, but all of them are expensive.

Because the western underworld has not established an effective reincarnation system, it is very difficult and costly to reincarnate.

It's like you don't even have a forest path in a wilderness, so it must be difficult to travel.

The gods don't care because they can fly, but mortals can't help it at all.

As for the East, it belongs to the repair of high-speed rail, as long as you buy a ticket.

Of course, the Western side didn't think about reincarnating these mortals at the beginning. Except for a very few who were able to win the favor of the gods and were willing to pay a price to help reincarnate, most of the remaining mortals were treated as one-time consumables.

Treating the soul as a one-time consumable does not pay attention to sustainable development at all. No wonder the population of the West is decreasing! Say yes~

According to Greek mythology, it was mortals who wanted fire at the beginning, and it was Prometheus among the gods who stole it to mortals. For this reason, the gods also sent disasters.

Western gods are never merciful.

Now that the gods are gone, the cost of reincarnation is still huge and expensive. And it is controlled and monopolized by revenant bosses like Mr. Congressman.

Therefore, those dead souls can only work day and night in exchange for weak spiritual energy to maintain their existence, until they can't hold on and turn into ghosts. It is even more difficult to reincarnate.

Reincarnation is already so difficult, let alone reincarnation.

It really consumes a lot and cannot be used easily.

I heard from Dante before that the souls of the dead need to work hard to survive in Hades.

It wasn't until Zhao Hao wandered around the city to get to know it that he really realized how hard it is to work hard.

The main pillar industries of Juleri City are gem carving and mineral mining.

The former requires dead souls to salvage in the Styx, which is a high-risk job. It is said that there are many kinds of dangers in the Styx River, and the casualties of the dead souls are great.

The latter is a hard job, requiring hard mining underground in the mountains, and it often takes more than ten days or even several months to return to the ground once.

And it’s not something you can maintain forever if you are willing to take risks or endure hardships, because the consumption of psionic energy will increase, but the meager psionic energy obtained from work will not increase.

There may even be a reduction in income due to some changes, such as the interference of powerful evil spirits, or the invasion of other forces.

The most serious two are the two wars. In a short period of time, the dead souls in the underworld are full. At that time, various forces and cities will even directly drive some dead souls out of the city to let them fend for themselves.

Labor income has basically been reduced to a minimum!

If you don’t do it, others do it, if you love it, don’t do it!

Even under normal circumstances, the souls of the dead have a "useful life", so basically the souls of the dead will gradually lose their ability to work within a few decades.

Most of those dead souls who are waiting to die outside the city have worked in the city a long time ago, but now they can no longer work and maintain their existence, waiting for "death"!

Zhao Hao really didn't know what to say at this time.

He suddenly remembered his mission on Wall Street, the dumpling-like jumper upstairs.

If they know that the world after death is also the same, and even more directly terrifying, they probably don't want to die, or even fear death.

Zhao Hao didn't expect Netherland to be so ruthless, it's fine if there is no reward for good and evil, this is directly using people to extract oil.

Where is Mr. Ma? What about Mr. Lie? What about the teachers? Your great cause is far from complete!

However, Dante told Zhao Hao: That kind of existence that has become a great man will turn into a bright star in the sea of ​​psychic energy, and will not come to Netherland to wait for reincarnation. Of course, the "underworld family" here will do everything possible to prevent them from appearing in the underworld.

Zhao Hao: Are there no great celebrities here?

Dante: Yes, like me~~~ Well, just kidding. Most of those engaged in philosophy, finance, and poets are here. Few of the scientists survived, and most of them chose to reincarnate.

Oh, there are basically all those who write novels, code words day and night~

Zhao Hao also has no intention of carrying out "big changes" in the underworld, so it's okay to feel resentful.

But he quickly brought the topic back to the ghast.

Zhao Hao has always been curious. Before he calmed down, he said that he could not kill more ghouls. Why?

Is it just because the soul is a non-renewable resource? But all of them have been regarded as disposable consumables, and the rest is disposable garbage.

Didn't cherish it when it was a resource, but now it's rubbish and you don't want to dispose of it? What is there to cherish?

However, Dante told Zhao Hao a big secret!

"What do you think of the role of Netherland?" Dante asked.

"Function? Could it be to take in the souls of the dead?"

Dante nodded and shook his head again, "Right or wrong. Just like the spiritual energy sea, Netherland didn't exist at the beginning, or at least it wasn't like this..."

If you ask others about this secret, you may not be able to know it. Because this secret is indeed ancient, even in the watch world, only the core figures of the ancient inheritance know it.

That is Dante, although he was not a core member of any big organization during his lifetime, he has been dead for hundreds of years.

But he is a poet who has explored heaven, hell, and purgatory. After being promoted to bronze, he has the ability to explore true knowledge.

After staying in Netherland for five or six hundred years, he knew this secret.

Netherland was not like this at first, nor did it take in the souls of the dead, but absorbed the souls of the dead.

Dante stomped his feet, "He is alive in the world under our feet."

He let go of his cane, and out of nowhere he took out a large book that was much thicker than the anthology of Sirona's poems, and began to sing in that kind of opera-like aria. And Zhao Hao came to a void in a trance.

A long time ago, in a corner of the infinite universe, a star with infinite light and heat appeared...

I don't know how long it took, around this star, one by one stars began to appear and rotate.

One day, a huge egg floated slowly from the depths of the universe. It was attracted by this star, stopped at an appropriate distance, and began to wait for hatching...

This gigantic egg is the continuation of an indescribably great existence, and its incubation requires light and heat, as well as spirit and soul.

He will create a suitable environment by himself, and after years of changes, life begins to appear on him, and then he has a spirit and soul as nourishment.

When life is born and dies, the spirit and soul penetrate into the egg and become nourishment. Until life becomes higher and higher, and nutrients become more and more abundant.

But the existence of this giant egg also attracted the attention of other existences in the universe. Many beings want to steal their powers, just like parasitic wasps lay their eggs on other insect eggs. Those parasitic eggs were later called "deceitful gods"!

Later, human beings appeared and evolved to a very high level in a short period of time, and even realized the existence of psychic power.

It's hard to tell if those parasitic gods have intervened, but some wise men among humans are keenly aware of the truth of the world.

Unwilling to sit still, they began to try to delay the hatching of the giant eggs.

The Netherland appeared, and the sea of ​​spiritual energy gradually formed. The East even established a six-way reincarnation system, trying to form a closed cycle of spirit and soul, and completely cut off the nutrients of the giant egg.

Human beings want to survive, and the gods don't want giant eggs to hatch, so it can be said that they hit it off.

However, after a long time, the giant egg also responded, so the psychic silence period came. All the gods born in the native land suffered disaster, and fled to death, and most of the ghostly gods also fell silent...

Dante did not continue to tell the following story, and it is not important.

Zhao Hao already knew why the ghast couldn't kill more, because all those killed would become nutrients for the giant eggs.

Zhao Hao suddenly realized: So the end of the world is actually talking about this!

...

The next day, the Mr. Member of Parliament came to the door again and stated his request directly.

As long as Zhao Hao and the others can retrieve one thing from an old god relic, he promises to help the five of them open the resurrection channel and return to the watch world.

Writing novels is a dead end!