A sharp and piercing cry sounded in his ears. Mark suddenly sat up from the hospital bed. He took a big breath and looked at the surrounding scene with some confusion. Where is this?
He looked at the machine that issued the instrument, which was a heart rate monitor. Mark subconsciously reached out and touched his chest. His heart was still beating, and it was beating very steadily.
Looking around on the bed, Mark lifted the quilt and stepped out of the hospital bed. He saw some papers taped to the wall at the door, with some writing on medication schedules and the like.
Just when Mark was trying to decipher some information from those words, his door was suddenly knocked. He stood up vigilantly, turned his head, and saw a man who looked exactly like him standing outside the door.
.
The man had a cold expression and said impatiently: "Why are you still here? Come with me!"
Mark didn't understand what was going on, but the man rushed in, grabbed Mark's arm, and pulled him out. After being chased out of the door, Mark reacted and pushed the man away.
, then put on a defensive posture and asked: "Who are you?"
The man turned around, looked Mark up and down, and said indifferently: "I am Jack, your other personality. When you are fainted and unconscious, I am the one controlling your body."
His answer was so clear that Mark was stunned. He looked at himself, then at Jack, and then said: "So I really have multiple personality disorder?"
"But where is this? How did we get here? What happened before?"
"Follow me." Jack walked to the other side of the corridor without looking back, explaining as he walked: "Just now, I died."
His first words shocked Mark. Mark caught up with him and asked as he walked: "Dead? You mean this is hell?"
"Almost, they call this place the underworld."
"How is this possible? Are you kidding me?!"
But at this moment, they came to the end of the corridor. Jack pushed open the door at the end, and a huge monster with the head of a hippopotamus and the body appeared outside the door.
Just as the hippopotamus was about to speak, Jack jumped in front of her and said: "I know, I am dead now. This is Duat, the underworld, and you are Tavorit, the patron saint of women and children. Please let me go."
The hippo's greeting hand froze in mid-air, but at this moment, she suddenly exclaimed. In an instant, the scene shattered, and Mark discovered that they were on a boat at this time, and there was another person on the boat.
It's Schiller.
Schiller was lying on the side of the boat, trying to fish something out from under the boat. The hippopotamus ran over quickly, grabbed his collar and pulled him up. The hippopotamus said angrily: "What are you doing! I told you not to hold hands."
Reach out!”
Mark, standing behind Jack, asked doubtfully: "Schiller?...Wait, are you Schiller? Why are you so young?"
The Schiller who appeared in front of Mark was still too young. He looked like he might not be 20 years old. He was very different from the Schiller he had seen in reality, and his temperament was also very different.
At least for now, Schiller, who was grabbed by the hippo by the collar, looks like a naughty kid who doesn't abide by boating safety regulations...
Soon, Mark discovered that his view was right, because he heard the big hippo say in a sharp tone:
"For thousands of years, I have received countless souls who want to go to the other side. I have never seen anyone like you!"
"You refused to stay in the spiritual world to have your last sweet dream, so you had to come to the ship early, and then you used your broken umbrella to knock down the lamppost here, causing the place to almost catch fire!"
, I was busy picking up the other two people, and you actually wanted to jump into the river to fish for something! Are you crazy? How many times have I told you, this is the underworld! This boat is the boat that takes you to the other side. Under the boat
Don’t touch anything, put your umbrella away!”
Schiller stared at the hippo, and the hippopotamus stared at Schiller. The two stared at each other for a long time. Schiller tilted his head, let out a "chi", and then put away his umbrella.
The hippopotamus sighed heavily, then turned to look at Jack and Mark. She walked over and said, "You two are twins, right? It's really strange. So many believers died at the same time today..."
"boom!"
The hippopotamus quickly turned her head and saw Schiller using the umbrella like a bowling ball to fly away the skulls that appeared under the boat. She snorted with her nose and walked to Schiller angrily and carried him back.
She sighed deeply, put her hands on her hips, stared at Schiller, then stretched out a finger, pointed hard at her feet, and said: "Stand here and don't move! I'm going to tell the newcomers the rules!"
After saying that, she slowly turned around and turned her head back with a "swish". When she saw that Schiller hadn't moved, she turned her body back again, then turned back, pointed at her eyes with two fingers, and then pointed at
Referring to Schiller, it means "I will keep an eye on you".
Seeing Schiller standing there honestly, Hippo breathed a sigh of relief. She walked towards Mark and Jack again and said: "It seems that the gods you believe in have explained to you what will happen after your death..."
"As you know, this is the underworld. All believers in the Egyptian gods have the opportunity to be resurrected. You can understand this as a benefit..."
"When our believers die, they will not die directly. Their souls will board this ship and pass the trial here. If you pass the trial, you can be resurrected, but if you fail..."
The big hippo shrugged humanely and pouted towards the sea of sand filled with skeletons outside the boat. Mark's eyes widened and he looked at the hippo and asked: "Don't you want to say that if you don't pass the trial, you will be sentenced to death?"
Shall we throw it down??”
Hippo nodded. At this time, she found that Mark's expression became a little panicked. She comforted: "Don't worry, the probability of passing is still very high. I believe you haven't done any bad things..."
wucuoxs/89741/"Initial Evolution"
But suddenly, Hippo noticed that Mark's expression became more and more panicked, and his eyes were staring straight at her back. Hippo suddenly had a bad premonition.
She slowly turned her head, and then saw countless Schillers appearing next to Schiller who was standing there.
The hippopotamus held her face in her hands and screamed, "No! No! Oh my God, what's going on? Where did you come from? Get out of here..."...
Mark watched helplessly as the Schillers who appeared on the ship walked to various parts of the ship in an orderly manner. Two rows of Schillers came to the side of the ship to control the oars. One Schiller walked to the rudder, and two rows of Schillers walked to the rudder.
While he was pulling up the mast, another person stood on the bow of the ship and started to look out...
The hippopotamus-headed god scurried among these figures, trying to stop them, but she was really unable to do anything on her own. She stopped Schiller on this side, and Schiller on the other side rushed over again. After a while, on the ship
It's full of Schiller.
Mark was so shocked by this extremely strange sight that he was speechless. In the end, he could only look at Jack and ask: "What on earth is going on?"
"Before, this man named Schiller knocked you unconscious and then called me out. While we were fighting side by side, he told me a plan. I thought it was quite interesting, so I participated."
"Plan? What plan?"
"It's a bit complicated, let him explain it to you." Jack took a step away, and what appeared behind him was Schiller in a white coat.
"Hello, Mark, long time no see. I know you have a lot of questions now, but we can talk slowly, because it may take a while for this ship to sail to the destination I want to go to."
As Schiller finished speaking, Mark saw that under the control of many Schillers, the ship began to deviate from its original route, and even turned 180 degrees on the spot and began to drive back.
The hippopotamus collapsed and sat on the ground crying. A Schiller fed her grass with grass in his hand. The hippopotamus cried and ate at the same time, and the side of its big mouth was filled with a mixture of grass clippings and tears.
"As the pope of the respected Moon God Kongsu, I have listened carefully to his teachings. He once said that as a believer in the Egyptian pantheon, you can have the opportunity to be resurrected."
"Believers in the Egyptian pantheon will take a boat after death. On the boat, a receptionist will take out the believer's heart and place it on a balance. This is it..."
Schiller took a scale from another Schiller's hand. There was a feather on one end of the scale. Schiller pointed to the feather and said: "If you put the heart of a believer on the other end of the scale, and the heart is
If it is heavier than a feather, it means that the believer is a sinner, and he will be thrown under the boat and be eaten by endless skeletons."
"And if the heart is lighter than a feather, the opposite is true. They can go to the reed field and get a chance to be reborn."
"Through some means, I know that death in this world is not as simple as it seems. There is a higher-level rule that restrains all creatures in the universe, allowing them to go to an end after death. Therefore, I am very interested in Egypt.
I am curious about this rule of the pantheon, what is it that allows the Egyptian pantheon to break this rule and resurrect the dead?"
"I think you should also notice that there are many interesting points in this process."
"I'm making a hypothesis, if the Egyptian pantheon can really break the rules of death and directly resurrect the dead, then why do they have to set up processes such as getting on the ship, sailing the ship, and judging? Can't it just be resurrected directly?
Yet?"
"So, I think the process of rowing and trial should be the key."
"So you occupied this ship???" Mark asked loudly in disbelief: "Are you crazy?! You...how could you..."
Mark simply couldn't comment on this behavior, but Schiller didn't care about his attitude, but went on to say:
"And another point that interests me even more is that, just like what you just experienced, before boarding the ship, you will first enter a spiritual world, that is to say, you will have a dream."
"So..." Schiller looked around at the environment here, at the mysterious and constantly changing sky scene, and then said: "Is this really the underworld that exists in reality? Or..."
Mark was horrified to see that when Schiller said these words, all the Schillers turned their heads and looked here.
"This place is still a dream, and this ship can carry our souls from dreams... into reality?"