Lost Narrative Poetry

Tartarus.

The synonym for "Hell" in Greek mythology is surrounded by three dark curtains and three copper walls. The dark curtain is pure original darkness, representing the color of chaos outside the orderly universe. It can block all prying eyes and isolate all things outside regular time and space. Laws and truth.

The copper walls are the walls of the universe built by Hades with great divine power. Like a silent giant stretching its arms, it spans the boundless time and space. The walls completely surpass the limits of the universe, as if connecting the universes together. A huge physical wall.

The gravity, electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields, etc. released by such a cosmic wall naturally reach an incredible expansion value.

Such a terrifying mass even makes any place on the wall countless times more terrifying than a supermassive black hole.

The result is that whether you want to sneak into hell or escape from it, this is a headache-inducing blockade——

Maybe it can't stop the True God from striking out, nor can it stop the Titans inside from striking out, but it can at least delay time and give Olympus some room to notice and react.

And it just can't stop the real superior ones. As for the existence under the true god...

Sorry, if anything is so overestimated, it will only be sucked in and stuck firmly to the wall when it is close to the boundary of hell, and eventually become part of the wall itself.

Regardless of whether it is a living individual, a star galaxy, a fleet in a civilized world, or the territory of an entire interstellar empire, whether it is an intentional collision or an unintentional approach to study, the consequences are actually the same.

In fact, over the long time scale in the history of the Greek world, this kind of thing happened countless times.

Especially in those remote frontier universes, in the countless worlds where the gods don't want to take a second look and have no time to pay attention, in the mysterious eternity that is so long that even death itself will disappear, anything is always possible. Yes, no matter how slim the probability is.

Naturally, there are countless powerful life entities, or intelligent civilizations have emerged one by one. They are either powerful enough to physically travel the universe and observe black holes at close range; or they can condense the light of collective wisdom, ignite the fire of civilization, and establish a huge world. The interstellar empire rules the boundless galaxy.

As they continue to explore and expand outward, if no one stops them, anything may happen.

The final result is that a large part of the powerful beings that can traverse the star sea, or the all-powerful interstellar empires in the galaxy, do not come to an end, or come to an end normally, but directly become a surrounding hell in a certain catastrophe, blockade Part of the cosmic wall of the Abyss.

When Xia Ran passed through the three copper walls, she did see too many strange things inlaid on the walls.

There are limbs that are as huge as a ferocious monster from a plane...

There are also ruins formed by countless fleets that look like asteroids...

They are like the composition of the wall itself, the relief art on the wall itself. Every inch is filled with copper juice, and they are forever solidified at the last moment of life, achieving eternity in the most painful way.

This made him feel extremely sad, full of compassion, and then... he took out a camera and took multiple photos from different angles. He used this camera quite smoothly, and it had become countless photos on a timeline. A thorn in one's side.

People like Aleister, Laura, and others even dreamed of destroying it...

It's a pity that they can't do it, just like they try their best to delete the ghost videos circulating on the Internet.

After looking at the photos taken, Xia Ran nodded, put away her things, and moved on.

Three layers of darkness and three copper walls separate the hell world from the mortal world. The distance is infinite, but for him who has the handwriting of Hades, the king of Hades, this is not a problem at all and he can easily travel through it.

Dark curtain, copper wall...

To him, it was as if it didn't exist. Relying on the divine power of Hades to disguise confusion, he easily passed through the many levels and truly entered the abyss of hell as if he were in an uninhabited land.

Whether it's Hydra with fifty heads, each of which is bigger than a star, or a hundred-armed giant with such ferocious power that even the third-generation gods on Mount Olympus have to retreat, guarding At the border of hell, there was no trace of him.

In this way, Xia Ran went straight into the interior of Tartarus.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, hell should be a world filled with the smell of sulfur and burning with everlasting flames.

In fact, this is not the case. The hell in Greek mythology is just a lower world used to banish sinners and suppress disobedient gods. It is not a single world. It also has a complex multi-dimensional structure of time and space, like thousands of darkness. collections of universes superimposed together.

A dead world...

A world without temperature...

Countless wreckage and ruins piled together...

There are only holes and echoes in the darkness. This is the underworld of the Greek world. It is boundless and vast, and it is also infinite darkness and coldness. The Titans who were defeated in the battle between the gods and the Titans were imprisoned here, as was Cronus, the father of Zeus.

After a long period of evolution, this place is no longer a place specifically for the detention of Titans. Sinful people and evildoers will be thrown here and imprisoned. Zeus has threatened to throw the gods who violate his will into Tartarus, so that He would never see the divine light of the Holy Mountain again.

The uninvited guest looked at the completely dark world in front of him with great interest. After a while, he withdrew his eyes. He opened his arms and spoke proudly to the dark universe in front of him:

"Speak to me, Tartarus."

The sound was not loud, but once it spread, it resounded everywhere in the dark deep space. Even the distance of billions of light-years could not stop this sound that naturally subverted the rules of physics. It was almost within the entire dimension of the universe. sounded at the same time.

The grammar of this god is naturally the spirit of speech with great power!

The void seemed to be trembling slightly under the grand oracle, as if there was a rumbling sound of thunder.

"..."

"..."

Dead silence.

There was still dead silence, and there was no response to the god's words.

However, Xia Ran was not discouraged, nor did he feel any embarrassment. He just said lightly: "Tartarus, are you prepared to continue like this? It's okay if you don't want to talk to me, but the time to take everything back is now. , think about it carefully!”

He doesn't really care, so just say it if you don't want to, and let's see who is the most anxious one.

So the immortal with wide robes and wide sleeves no longer stayed, but continued to move forward, walking step by step towards the deepest part of hell where the Titans were imprisoned.

What he just did was not meaningless. Tartarus not only symbolizes hell, represents the space-time dimension of the underworld, but is also the magnificent body of Tartarus, the god of hell in the Greek world.

This god was born after Gaia, and can be said to be the creator of the underworld and the essence of the abyss. His existence form itself is an invisible abyss, located at the bottom of the world... This dark dimension that gathers endless dead worlds is the body of Tartarus.

But now, in the power system of Olympus, this primitive god cannot escape his awkward position and has gradually retreated behind the scenes.

Just like Uranus, the first god-king and god of the sky, he was fixed into the concept of cosmic void that symbolized the "sky" of the Greek world;

The earth goddess and primitive god Gaia is the same as the collection of countless material worlds, crystal wall systems, planes, and planets that represent the "earth"——

Tartarus, the former god of hell, now only serves as the hell dimension and the abyss of the Greek world. He exists peacefully as a part of the world, with few signs of activities based on his own subjective will. .

The reason is the same, that is, the current Greek world cannot tolerate them, especially these ancient gods who are the remnants of the previous dynasty and often have various serious criminal records.

Let’s just talk about Tartarus, the God of Hell. The biggest mistake he made was that he once combined with Gaia and jointly gave birth to an extremely vicious Titan.

It was Typhon who was powerful enough to confront Zeus and almost single-handedly overthrow the rule of the god Olympus.

It was a Titan with the head of a hundred dragons, a black tongue, and fire-breathing eyes. His body was as tall as the universe, his shoulders could reach the sky and the Milky Way, and his two arms could embrace the entire world. He was covered with feathers and had a pair of wings. , the celestial planet is just an insignificant dust to it.

This Titan is the sworn enemy of Zeus.

When Typhon was at his most ferocious, he spread out his snake hair in the Greek world, raised his giant arms and swung down the infinitely powerful divine thunder, shattering most of the heavens and causing chaos. Those symbols of divine power, divinity and The constellations of fixed time legends were thus displaced and fell into the sea.

Apollo's chariots were shot down by his divine thunder. Artemis fought against them, but almost died in the hands of the vicious giant. He also rushed into the sea and pulled Poseidon's palace out of the sea...

According to the biblical records, Leviathan was created on the sixth day of creation. When it swam into the deep sea of ​​the Greek world, it could only retreat and flee in a hurry...

When he was showing off his power, he even threatened to marry Hera, demote the gods as slaves, liberate the giants of the underworld, reintegrate the heaven and the earth, and completely return to chaos...

It can be said that the terrible turmoil at that time was no less than any great divine war in the history of the Greek world. It directly shook the rule of the Olympus Protoss. At that time, except for Zeus and Athena who were facing each other head-on, , the other gods were forced to go to the Egyptian world.

After seeing all the secrets and unknowable things in the Greek world, Xia Ran naturally knew very well what that period of history was about.

The most direct victim did not believe that everything was a coincidence, and naturally made an angry reckoning afterwards. He completely lost patience with those hateful first- and second-generation gods. This is also the complete and comprehensive attack of the Olympus God. The beginning of replacing the authority of the original gods, the Titans.

Therefore, since they have already come to call on the Titans to prepare for trouble again, there is no reason to let go of Tartarus's powerful help.

Anyway, the story has been brought, whether to participate or not, and how to divide the cake if you participate, these are Tartarus's own questions.

After Xia Ran left, the dark dimension seemed to be as calm as ever, and there seemed to be some invisible changes.

There is an ancient will slowly resurrecting in the slight vibration, huge, deep... and immortal.

…………

The yin and yang intertwined under the feet of the white-clothed immortal, and the golden bridge on the other side penetrated time and space. In the blink of an eye, he had traveled through countless cold dead worlds. He saw countless ruins and wreckage along the way. They were the silent tombs of species and civilizations. Cold tombstone.

They were born in this dark dimension, and their fate is undoubtedly desperate. The divinity of the God of Hell determines that his body only has eternal darkness and silence. In silence, even the world itself will quickly usher in decay. Life is There is no way out.

But there are exceptions to everything. For example, Xia Ran is going to the deepest part of hell now.

It is obviously the deepest part of the abyss, but it is not a darker and colder silence. Instead, it is uncharacteristically prosperous. Just like this, what appears in the eyes of the Taoist is a vast "big world" that is as numerous as stars. !

The vast and endless universe is like a biological community, clustered together to form a complete system.

They seem not to be affected by the erosion of the dark dimension in which they live, and are still developing vigorously. Each universe is in its prime, with bright stars, magnificent nebulae, and the boundless Milky Way cantilevering around in billions of years. , burning quietly.

Each one is a universe full of enthusiasm and power, with infinite brilliance. It seems that all the stars are doing their best to release light and heat, illuminating time and space. They are not even dim, let alone completely plunged into darkness and coldness. .

Moreover, life forms that are supposed to be rare miracles in the universe have blossomed and grown in many areas, developing vigorously and evolving into various different civilized societies.

"The Giant's Garden? Is this some new fairy tale?"

The white-clothed Taoist raised his eyebrows and then laughed. It seemed that those Titans had also been tortured in long years of imprisonment.

The immortal second-generation gods can only face the cold death of the dark dimension forever. Perhaps at the beginning, they can wait patiently. But as countless eras passed by, their wisdom was able to accurately measure time. This was the most unbearable suffering.

Under such circumstances, it is natural to find something to do.

As a result, in the deepest part of the abyss, a thriving scene emerged. The extremely bored Titans cultivated one universe after another, allowing them to rejuvenate and flourish, and protect them from the erosion of the dark dimensions outside.

The giants' greenhouse garden, or sandbox game...

That's probably what happened.

He gathered his thoughts and looked at one of the worlds. Each world was the same, but their status was also different. A relatively large war was taking place in one of the universes. Compared to other peaceful worlds, Xia Ran felt that those Titans should be paying attention there.

The simple truth is that they are indeed the creators and protectors of these universes and life civilizations, but not out of any noble virtues or obligations, purely because creation can bring them fun and be able to enjoy them in their long lives. A pastime, a product to kill boring time.

Of course, there is nothing to blame for this. Regardless of whether it is a god or any other creature, the first starting point for creating anything is to better serve oneself.

This is understandable, and Xia Ran has no intention of commenting. He just takes it for granted that the Titans must be paying attention to the universe where the war is happening, and it will be more convenient to spread the word there.

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Countless spaceships roared silently in the vacuum, laser arrays, space torpedoes, ion cannons, nanostorms...

All kinds of killing methods emerge in endlessly. Large areas of the asteroid belt are lost and completely smashed every moment. Almost every second, expensive space battleships are turned into scrap metal, blooming brilliantly in the void. fireworks.

Silent annihilation.

In this star field, the two warring parties on the tragic battlefield are obviously the same species. They have carapace and jointed limbs, and their lower bodies are as ferocious as scorpions. They seem to have evolved a highly intelligent, strange and civilized race.

I just don’t know why the civil war broke out. At this moment, they are risking their lives to fight and fight against each other.

"Crazy! Everyone is crazy!"

"Tear them apart!"

"A new era is coming!"

In the silence, there was only the exchange of pheromones and no sound.

It's just that the killing and destruction are in silence, spreading and expanding silently, swallowing up one ship after another, taking away more lives of the Zerg offspring.

In the outer space, one after another looked at the battlefield calmly, using such trivial pastimes as always to relieve the boredom caused by empty lives, until they suddenly felt a strange and tyrannical aura appear.