After staying in the Sunless Sea for two days, Harley said goodbye to Little Black Bean, took Zha Kang and the Dream Demon Nurse through the gap in the "Devil King's Seal", first dived into the bottom of the Styx, and then swam directly to the first place in Hell.
layer.
Little Heidou really wanted to keep her in the Sunless Sea for a few more days, and Harry was also willing to chat with her, since she didn't have much to do recently anyway.
But Zha Kang and the Nightmare Nurse couldn't stay in the Sunless Sea for long.
Even if Little Black Bean doesn't want to infiltrate their bodies and souls with magic power, the power aura exuded by the Sea of Light itself would be as harmful to them as if a mortal were directly exposed to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
If Harley insists on taking them to live in the Sunless Sea for three to five months, after three to five months, she will not even be able to find them - they will all merge into the Sunless Sea and become part of Little Black Bean.
The reason why we walked to the bottom of the River Styx was because after the Little Black Bean Incident, the "Well of Hell" connecting the ninth level of hell and the Atheless Sea was jointly sealed by the demon kings.
With Lucifer's power as the main force, the other two Satans, and even hundreds of thousands of First Fallen and ancient demons as supplements, Harley couldn't break it at all.
However, this trip to the bottom of the Styx proved a guess she had made in her early years - the bottom of the Styx is indeed connected to the Aphotic Sea, just like the Yangtze River on Earth, which inevitably leads to "all rivers returning to the sea".
Don't think that the River Styx is safer than the deep well in the ninth level of hell.
If it weren't for Harley's protection, Zha Kang and the Incubus Nurse would sink forever and become dead souls in the water as long as they touched the river water.
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Quinn Manor, just returned to the present of the material universe.
Zha Kang shouted with a pale face: "Fake, it's so exciting!"
"Why are you so calm?" Seeing Harley browsing the news on her mobile phone with a relaxed expression, he asked puzzledly: "The water of the Styx is definitely the filthiest 'water' in the multiverse.
Walking through it was like diving into a cesspit in a public toilet, and it almost made me sick.
There are also thousands of corpses inside, all white and swollen from soaking, their eyes flashing the most depraved red light, densely packed like sardines, chasing behind us, around us, in front of us - Fuck, I even bumped into them.
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"Do you think this is my first time entering the River Styx?" Harry asked calmly.
She could also understand Zha Kang's reaction. When she entered the River Styx for the first time, she had goosebumps all over her body and almost vomited.
The River Styx is almost the "dirtiest" place in Hell.
"Oh, you're used to it." Zha Kang looked at Harley with a somewhat strange and sympathetic look.
"Almost a week has passed? How come time flies by so fast? It's only a few hours..." Dream Demon Nurse Asa was anxious and confused.
Harley continued to stare at the screen of her mobile phone, while flipping through the news of the past few days, she said slowly: "Whether it's the bottom of the starlight, the illusory realm, or the lightless sea - well, the lightless sea is also the illusory realm.
a part of.
In short, wherever we went before, we had no concept of time.
There is no time and space, so matter cannot exist and will dissolve when it falls there."
The watchdog is said to "connect all realms", but starting from the bottom of the starlight, it is no longer within the "ten thousand realms" and cannot receive information.
Recently, she has been paying attention to Blue Beetle and the Omac Project, so she needs to have a general understanding of the news of the past few days.
She had already seen a piece of breaking news: the blue beetle disappeared and was suspected to be dead.
"I have to find Alice Winter immediately!" Asa looked at her and said eagerly.
Harry raised his head and frowned: "Do you have to be possessed by a mortal to survive in the material world?"
Asa nodded hesitantly, "I am different from other demons. If there is no host, I will be pulled into the bottom of the starlight, or even fall into the illusory realm."
"What's so special about you?" Harley asked curiously.
The dream nurse said with some uncertainty: "Probably because I was born from the group consciousness at the bottom of the starlight... Only negative, corrupted, and dark soul remnants will fall into the bottom of the starlight.
Like rotting life falling to the bottom of the sea.
The illusion is negative emotions and consciousness itself.
Therefore, it can be said that the bottom layer of Starlight is a ‘garbage dump for phantom beings’. I was born in a garbage dump and am essentially a ‘phantom human’. A pure phantom human cannot exist independently.”
"Incubus Nurse - the pan-consciousness at the bottom of the starlight - pan-consciousness is composed of the residue of the soul that has not been completely dissolved, and the residual consciousness that can be left behind is often extreme emotions." Harley tapped the armrest of the wooden chair lightly with her fingers, as if she had something to say.
Thoughts: "Then, the dream demon turns into a demon - a demonic person - the incarnation of negative emotions... No wonder you call it 'Dream Nurse'. Sure enough, it's just the wrong name, not the wrong nickname."
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"You can't look for Alice again." Her tone was unquestionable and her expression was serious, "You long for the prosperity of the world. I don't object to it, and I don't think you did anything wrong.
But Alice has her own will and asked me to exorcise the devil. I haven’t killed you yet—"
"Harry, Harley, are you back? Something happened!" Before she could finish her words, Jim Gordon rushed in from the door, "Great, you are finally back. You can go there these days."
Where is it?
Alice is dying, she's going to die, and Barbara's treatments are useless."
He rushed through the door and saw another "Alice" - a three-headed dragon that transformed into Alice. He was stunned for a while, then his tone slowed down and his eyes became indescribably complicated.
"The doctor said that she had multiple congenital diseases and should have died immediately after birth. She could only live for a few days... It is a miracle that she lived to be one year old. It is almost impossible to live to be 10. She died at the age of 22.
It’s time to be extremely grateful to God for His blessing.”
"I can save her, use parasitism..." Glancing at the expressionless Harley, the Dream Demon nurse immediately changed her words to, "I save her through symbiosis, and she helps me stay away from the illusion."
environment, we are mutually beneficial and win-win, and everyone gets what he deserves."
"Is she able to live for so long because of the manipulations you did?" Harley asked.
The Dream Demon nurse nodded slightly, "I became her housekeeper. From the moment Madam was pregnant with her, I carefully used herbal medicine and the 'Bian Que Curse' to condition her body."
Bian Que Curse?
Harry was embarrassed, "You have been lurking in the Winter family for decades, and you are also waiting for Alice, waiting for a perfect host? Her body is particularly suitable for you?"
The Dream Demon nurse hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly again, "Actually, her and I are in a similar state to 'Thunder Shazam', except that my influence on 'Scroller' is slightly greater."
"Huh, it's just a little bigger? Other gods can only influence the character of the scroller through their divinity. You completely wear Alice's body as clothes. The two are completely different." Harley sneered.
"Actually, Alice can also influence me. Our souls are intertwined, and the influence is mutual." The nightmare nurse argued.
"She is a mortal. She was raised by you since she was a child. How does it affect you?" Harley shook her head disapprovingly and ended the topic.
No matter how Asa tried to quibble, she would never believe it.
"What's going on with the Bian Que Curse?"
Asa didn't expect her to ask this suddenly, and was startled before saying: "Bian Que is an ancient man from the Celestial Dynasty. Although he is a mortal, his healing skills are no less than that of the God of Medicine.
I have incarnated as a mortal and studied under many famous doctors throughout the ages, just like an ordinary mage would seek advice from many magic masters.
I was a student of Bian Que for 75 years until his death.
I completely inherited his medical skills and created a universal and exclusive magic spell that is effective for any difficult and complicated diseases - Bian Que Curse."
"Are you sure it's 75 years? How many years did Bian Que live?" Harley asked doubtfully.
"A full 115 years old, died in the sword."
Asa could see that Witch Harley seemed to be particularly interested in heavenly things.
At least more interested than her quibbles.
She kept up her efforts and said with emotion: "The world was too chaotic in that era, and the kings and lords were too bastards. No matter how brilliant Teacher Bian Que's medical skills were, he could not cure the fallen human nature."
"Why didn't you save him?" Harley asked.
A look of embarrassment appeared on Asa's face, and he groaned: "Although I am the teacher's student, we don't stay together all the time...I came to the human world, and improving my medical skills is only a secondary purpose.
I also have my own life."
——A corrupt private life?
Alas, Bian Que from the DC Universe died a bit unjustly.
Whatever Harry is thinking in his mind reflects the expression on his face.
When Bian Que's successor saw it, he quickly added: "Although the teacher died, Bian Que's name has not disappeared.
For the next thousand years, I have been active in the realm of heaven and earth, and I have been using the "name of Bian Que" to hang the pot to help the world.
I am not lying. When Master Bian Que was alive, he would often ask me to pretend to be him to receive people seeking medical treatment.
I was also an old man at that time, and no one suspected me at all when they saw that I was a Wind Immortal."
——You’re an old man with an immortal spirit, and you’re singing every night?
Harry thought again of the old housekeeper of Winter Manor, who was also an elderly woman, but Nurse Incubus was still doing mischief every day, and even had sex with Kang...
——Fake, this group of rotten people, regardless of race, gender, and suitable for all ages, have their genitals evolved?
Well, the Incubus Nurse was born from the bottom of the stars. She is a natural phantom, and she really evolved from the genitals (desires) of the soul.
Harley felt disgusted and her attitude became hesitant.
Alice may be able to extend her life due to "pseudo symbiosis and positive parasitism" and be able to perceive everything Asa perceives, but is she really willing to live like that?
Seeing that she had not spoken for a long time, Gordon reminded her: "Alice is on her deathbed and may die at any time."
After hearing this, the Dream Demon nurse immediately became anxious, "How about we ask Alice in person to see what she chooses? If she still refuses to live with me, I will never force her."
Harry remained calm and continued to ask: "When you fell into the illusory realm before, you shouted "Apollo is upon you". Do you believe in the Olympus gods?"
Asa said quickly: "I only believe in Apollo and her grandson Asclepius. They are the gods of medicine and the 'gods' of all medical mages.
I swore to them that I would never turn away anyone who needed help.
Asclepius answered my prayer and gave me his 'rod of medicine'.
Although my oath is the same as the Hippocratic Oath of modern doctors, and they can break it, my oath is magical and bound by the power of rules."
"Okay, I'll give you a chance to talk to Alice face to face." Harley turned to her spokesperson and said, "Gordon, go and bring Alice over."
"She is about to die. She is in the hospital for emergency treatment. How should we take care of her?" Gordon hesitated.
"Bring her soul here."
"I'll go!" Asa volunteered. "I can bring her here completely. It only takes one breath."
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True to her word, the incubus nurse left the manor with a "swish", got into Alice's body, opened the portal, and jumped in front of Harley.
"I am willing to coexist with Asa." Alice couldn't wait to say after hearing the "symbiosis" option.
"You have been 'symbiotic' with her for a while, and you should understand the meaning of 'symbiotic' very well. From now on, although you are alive, your life will be completely dominated by her. Are you really willing?" Harley frowned.
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"I don't want to die!" Alice Winter howled desperately, then looked at her expectantly and begged: "Admiral of the Galaxy, can you save me?"
Harry shook his head, "Someone has already used holy healing to treat you, but it didn't work. However, I can keep you in hell -"
"What, I'm going to hell?" Alice exclaimed in horror: "I didn't do anything bad, why do I have to go to hell?"
"Your soul has been stained with the aura of fallen demons and has become no longer pure." Harley said.
In fact, without Asa, Alice would have gone to hell, the first level of hell, where children who died in infancy stayed.
Alice shook her head repeatedly, "No, I won't go to hell, Admiral Galaxy, I would like to live with Asa."
"Okay, you two can live together."
Harley no longer wastes time. Blue Beetle has lost contact. The Justice League has sent her dozens of messages, and the old priest Carlisle of Silver City has also sent seven or eight text messages, wanting to see her immediately...