Chapter 474: Step into the underground secret room
"In fact, there are many stories of people entering and leaving the underworld in Western mythology."
For a while, Chujiu was crazy about Western mythology, and he would throw the books he read to me.
In this way, I also followed a lot of reading, and coupled with the explanations of Chujiu, I really learned a lot of knowledge.
I stared at the bamboo buildings in the distance, but still didn't see Chujiu, so I started telling Xiaoyu the story about the three-headed dog from hell.
Cerberus lived on the banks of the River Styx and guarded the gates of the underworld for Hades.
In Greek mythology, when a person dies and enters the underworld, he must first cross the River Styx in a boat rowed by Charon.
Cerberus's duty was to allow the souls of every dead person to enter the underworld, but not to allow anyone to leave, and at the same time, the living were not allowed to enter or leave.
This is why in Greek mythology and Roman mythology only a few people survived from the underworld.
Nothing is absolute, and there are some exceptions.
Orpheus in the Argonauts. In order to bring his dead wife Eurydice back from the underworld, he entered the underworld and played the beautiful harp sound that he was good at to make Cerberus fall asleep.
Get out of the underworld.
In Virgil's "Aeneid", when the Trojan hero Aeneas decided to go to the underworld to understand his destiny, the Cumae prophetess Sibylla induced Cerberus to eat cakes containing hypnotic herbs.
Make it fall asleep.
But the most famous one is Hercules, who captured Cerberus from the underworld on the orders of Eurystheus and later released him on the orders of Eurystheus.
Capturing Cerberus alive is one of the twelve most famous feats of Heracles' life.
In addition, Hermes, one of the twelve main gods of Olympus, used water from the River Styx to put Cerberus to sleep.
Apuleius's "The Golden Ass" records that in a story about Eros, the god of love, Eros's lover Psyche also used cakes containing sleeping pills to make Cerberus fall asleep.
"The biggest flaw of Cerberus, the three-headed dog of hell, is his gluttony."
The three-headed dog often fights for a piece of food. In order to meet her husband Cupid, Psyche completed the last task assigned by the goddess Aphrodite, which was to use a piece of bread to transfer Cerberus.
Ross's attention.
When Xiaoyu heard this, the worried expression on her face lessened a little, and she also stared at the bamboo building in the distance. She felt that this three-headed hell dog looked a bit like Chujiu, a real foodie.
"Does that mean that the flaming sideburns are the ferocious beasts that guard the entrance to hell in our legends?"
I shook my head at Xiaoyu. As far as I know, the Fiery Sideburns does not always guard the entrance to the underworld. It often wanders around the underworld, hunting criminals who want to escape from the underworld. Although the Fiery Sideburns are also greedy.
, it alone never delays business.
Xiaoyu nodded slightly and smiled with a hint of understanding. Compared with the greedy three-headed dog, this flaming sideburns dog is more like Chujiu. It is not only greedy but also super powerful.
"Then who is more powerful between the two of them?"
The cutest time for Xiaoyu is when she is full of curiosity. If we keep talking, she will probably forget her situation at this time.
The key is that if we continue to talk, it will soon exceed the scope of my knowledge, and the pride that just rose will soon be shattered.
"Didn't I say before that these two guys are equally famous?"
Just when Xiaoyu was excited that the continent in which her knowledge was blind was shrinking again, her eyes were flashing with light and she was about to ask questions again. I pointed at the black shadow rushing past in the distance, Chujiu was back.
Chujiu rushed in front of us and collapsed directly on the ground, her tongue completely hanging out, and she was gasping for air.
I remembered Xiaoyu just now saying that Chujiu and the Fiery Temple Dog were very similar. At this time, looking at Chujiu's two hands on the ground and lying on all fours, he couldn't be possessed by the Fiery Temple Dog.
"This stupid dog ran so fast that he almost broke my legs."
Chapter 9 showed a lot of heartache. It turned out that in just a short time, he lured the flaming sideburns to the bamboo house where we lived.
"Holy crap! Didn't you find a food place just for it?"
Thinking that the flaming sideburns eat ghosts, I started to worry that the Hundred Ghost Formation wouldn't be able to trap this guy.
"It's okay, this is a stupid dog, and it's not as powerful as Guo Guo thinks."
Chu Jiu finally recovered a little. This was just a fake flaming temple dog created by a few old immortals using special means. It was actually called the flaming temple dog.
Although the name sounds like it is more powerful than the flaming sideburns, it is actually a Taoist gadget in ancient times, but this latter Taoist method has been lost.
It is recorded in many Taoist books that the flaming sideburns are the most commonly used means of guarding Taoist mountain gates.
Chujiu spat towards the stone door of the rockery. She didn't expect that these old immortals would have such a thing in their hands.
Xiaoyu asked what would have happened if this thing had not been discovered before?
I also stared at Chujiu. This is indeed a big problem. If we had opened the stone door rashly before, without opening our eyes, Xiaoyu and I would have no ability to dodge at all.
"At most one of us will be bitten."
Chujiu curled his lips. He would definitely notice it after being bitten and take corresponding measures. However, the person who was bitten was in some trouble.
"What trouble?"
Xiaoyu transformed into a curious baby again, stopped and stared at Chujiu, looking forward to the answer.
Chu Jiu glanced at me with some fear. The bite wound will probably never heal for the rest of his life and will remain in a state of decay. The prescription for how to treat this injury has long been lost.
"Maybe Ivan Qiao has a way."
Seeing Xiaoyu covering her face, if she was bitten on the face, it would be completely over, Chujiu added speechlessly.
Unexpectedly, we almost suffered a lot at this first level. Chujiu once again greeted the four of Jiehai with profanity.
"You really have no problem introducing that thing into the formation?"
I'm worried that this so-called flaming sideburns will swallow up the ghosts in the formation, which will have an impact on the effects estimated before the ninth day of the lunar month.
Chujiu grinned. It would be troublesome if it refused to go in. As long as it entered the big formation, exchanging some old, weak, sick and disabled for such a powerful guy would be a complete advantage, and it would become a part of the big formation.
"When the time comes, the old immortals in Jiehai won't be able to cry even if they want to."
Talking about the ninth day of the lunar month here and the entrance to the rockery, Xiaoyu and I followed closely behind the ninth day of the lunar month.
Dozens of stone steps extend downwards at an angle, and the depth of the basement is much deeper than I imagined.
"It is estimated that only when those few people enter and exit, the scientific researchers can follow them in and out together."
Xiaoyu said softly, this may be the reason why the person who broke into the laboratory before disappeared inexplicably.