Ling Chen took out the map of the Forgotten Continent and turned it over, but couldn't find any signs about the underworld. He had to give up and looked around again, then walked towards the dilapidated houses in the distance.
Here, it seems like a village that has just been looted at night. There are dozens of houses, and none of them are in shabby condition. The walls are dark and peeling off in large areas, and the piled up messy grass forms the roof, windows and doors.
Most of them were rotten. The entire small village was quiet. From a distance, only the extremely dim dusk light spilled out from the cracks in the doors or windows of three or four huts.
Tread...tap...tread...
Because it was too quiet, the footsteps were particularly clear. After Ling Chen walked slowly for a few steps, he suddenly stopped because he suddenly discovered that it was not just his footsteps that were ringing in his ears.
Tread...tap...tread...
Ahead, a black shadow finally entered his line of sight. It was the shadow of a person. The light was too dark to see his appearance and clothing. He could only vaguely see his hunched waist, tilted head, and straight face.
He walked towards this side slowly, each step felt heavy as if it carried the weight of his whole body. Ling Chen frowned, and the short and agile [Han Xing] was quietly caught in his hands, and then he continued to move forward facing this figure.
Go.
After getting closer to within ten meters, Ling Chen finally saw the shadow clearly... This was undoubtedly a person. His stature was not short, but his waist was stooped to a huge extent, as if he was seriously ill and could not straighten his waist.
, the steps were heavy and slow, each step seemed to use all the strength of the whole body, and the posture was like an old man who could hardly walk. The clothes on his body were so tattered that they were worse than a beggar, and there was almost no complete and clean place...
They can no longer be called clothes, they are just some scraps of cloth that are barely stuck together. His face is frighteningly blue, and his whole face is as wrinkled as the bark of a century-old tree. His eyes are wide open, but there is no expression.
He stared straight ahead, not even looking at Ling Chen who walked in front of him.
Until he passed by, this person didn't even glance sideways at Ling Chen. Ling Chen stopped and turned around to look at this person, as if he was thoughtful.
Are these the people from the underworld? Or should we say...the undead? They are not much different from the zombies in the dark place.
Moreover, the undead should be very sensitive and repulsive to the breath of life, but this person has no reaction to him... Could it be that the death breath released by Leng'er's appearance has completely covered up the breath of life on his body?
This is the only explanation.
In front of Ling Chen, there was a small house filled with dim light. In front of the house stood a rotten wooden sign that had been broken in half, with two large characters that could only be barely legible written on it: "Underworld Goods".
Huh? A ghost? Could this be...
After thinking about it for a while, Ling Chen was heartbroken, walked to the door, opened the door carefully and walked in.
Entering the hut from the outside, instead of feeling warm, there was a cold air that made the whole body feel cold. The hut was less than ten square meters in size, and the inside was as dirty as the outside.
There was a wooden platform with a candlestick on it, and a flame as big as a soybean swayed on the candlestick. The undead were also unable to see in absolute darkness, but they also rejected and feared light, so they only needed that light.
Just a little light enough for them to see clearly.
Behind the stage, there sat an old man with a black face and as thin as a skeleton.
"what to buy……"
Seeing Ling Chen's entry, the old man's eyeballs moved slightly like dead fish, and his mouth made an extremely hard-to-hear sound like sandpaper being rubbed.
After speaking, the old man's lowered head suddenly raised up, and a face as terrifying as a zombie appeared in Ling Chen's sight: "It's such a strong death aura, such a death aura, it will take at least a thousand years...
...Even thousands of years of precipitation. You should be a high-level undead. As a high-level undead, why don't you come to the royal city and come to this low-level place."
This undead old man looked scary and had an extremely ugly voice, but his words were clear and coherent, showing a human-like consciousness. His heart was racing, he walked to the stage and said: "Hello old man, I just came here."
I’m here, I don’t understand what you are saying, may I ask where this place is?”
"Did you just come? That's it." The hoarse voice of the undead old man sounded: "No wonder you are dressed so strangely. This is the underworld, where dead creatures gather. Your location is a low-level village in the underworld.
A place without a name."
"Gathering the dead creatures? So, people will come here after death?" Ling Chen asked.
"No!" The undead old man's body remained motionless, with only his dry lips moving slightly: "After a living being dies, a corpse will be left behind. If the corpse has condensed a large amount of death energy for some reason, it may be under the influence of death energy.
Those who regain the ability to move after moving are undead. The lowest level of undead are zombies produced in dark and cold environments that easily accumulate death energy. They only have the ability to move and the lowest consciousness and are not qualified to enter the underworld.
.The gates of Hades will not be opened for them.”
"And if the death aura is extremely heavy, or the time under the death aura is long enough, or the dead body retains huge power, then after becoming an undead under the death aura, it is possible to develop a higher consciousness, such as
Living creatures also have a certain degree of wisdom. And the consciousness of the most advanced undead may be as complete as it was in life. And if the power is extremely powerful, it is even possible to awaken some of the consciousness that remained in the body before death, and thus have the ability to become
The memory before the undead. Just like you...the death energy in your body can only be possessed by advanced undead. Therefore, after you enter the underworld, you will also have advanced consciousness. The way you walk and the way you speak prove it.
at this point."
The words of the undead old man made Ling Chen feel shocked. Zombies, of course, he knew, were the representative creatures of the undead system known to players. The gloomy place in front of the gate of the underworld was full of zombies, because the aura of death there was extremely heavy and undead creatures were easily produced.
Some of the old man's words made him unable to move. He thought about it and asked: "According to what you said, advanced undead can have the wisdom and consciousness of living beings. Isn't that the same as not being dead? Some are still alive.
Being able to revive memories from one's lifetime... wouldn't that be equivalent to resurrection? It would be equivalent to having a second life?"
The undead old man rolled his eyes, glanced at him blankly, and made an obscure voice: "You are too naive. The generation of consciousness I am talking about is only limited to the underworld. Because the underworld is the place with the most abundant death energy in the world,
It is a paradise for the undead. Here, the death energy in the body of the undead can reach its highest level of activity, and the undead can also have the clearest and most complete consciousness... However, once they leave the underworld, except for a few top undead, even the most advanced ones
Once the undead leave the underworld, their self-consciousness will collapse without the support of death, and they will become zombies that can only obey orders and destroy. As for those who can awaken their memories of life after becoming undead, for thousands of years, the entire underworld can
It is impossible for more than ten undead to achieve this...it is rare to do so only once in a thousand years."
"...That's it." Ling Chen nodded, thinking that this made sense. If he became an undead after death and could still remember what happened during his lifetime, it would really be the same as being resurrected. It's really a bit unbelievable.
"You are a high-level undead, but you were not sent to the royal capital, but you appeared here. It seems that your body was attracted by the death energy of the gate of the underworld, and moved to the gate of the underworld, and came through the gate of the underworld.
Here. And after entering here, I slowly gained a complete consciousness." The undead old man said with a stiff face.
"Yes, I vaguely remember that I unknowingly passed through a place called the Gate of the Underworld. When I regained consciousness, I was nearby." Ling Chen said in a serious tone.
"Half of the new undead in the underworld are attracted by the nine hundred gates of the underworld distributed in the Forgotten Continent. If they are high enough, they will be transported to the underworld by the gates of the underworld. The other half are attracted by the nine hundred messengers of Hades in the Forgotten Continent.
Search in various cold places and bone burial places. If you find a low-level undead body or above, you can bring it back to the underworld. If you find a high-level undead body, you can directly bring it back to the royal capital."
"Where is the capital?" Ling Chen asked at the right moment.
"Pluto City. A place where high-level undead gather, and where the great Lord Pluto is. With your death energy, you are fully qualified to enter Pluto City. If you want to go to Pluto City, then this map can help you.
.”
The undead old man stretched out his skinny arm, took out a burnt black paper, and threw it to Ling Chen.
[Map of the Underworld]: A map depicting the general layout and regions of the underworld, for reference only.
Although it is a "map", the drawing is really rough. Some crooked lines are tangled together in a mess, like a main road. Small crooked characters are scattered in various places on the map, marking the names of some major places.
But this can be regarded as a map after all. When he first arrived in the underworld and his eyesight went dark, Ling Chen was overjoyed to be able to get a map "for reference only". What surprised him even more was that this map
It actually has a positioning function. Through positioning, Ling Chen found that his position was in the northeastern corner of the underworld, and Hades City was in the middle, about 500 kilometers away.
The size of the underworld is naturally not comparable to the Forgotten Continent, but it is also larger than Ling Chen expected.
Pluto City is the center of the underworld, a gathering place for high-level undead souls. Ling Chen's eyes paused around Pluto City for a moment, and suddenly he moved violently...
On the map, directly above Pluto City, almost touching the place, there were four small and almost illegible characters. He pulled the map closer and confirmed the four characters one by one...
Blood……
deep……
sky……
Pool…
"Xueming Tianchi!" Ling Chen shouted subconsciously... Xueming Tianchi was his final destination in the underworld!
"That is an extremely scary place for us undead." The old man of the undead said expressionlessly: "It is also one of the three forbidden places in the underworld. For thousands of years, the bodies of countless high-level undead have melted into it, and
He completely left his power there, so it is also the place where the death energy in the underworld is the most active and the power is the most terrifying. You can only enter there with the permission of Lord Pluto. Anyone who enters without permission will only be destroyed and then melted into the Blood Ming Tianchi.
. Because at least three of the eight generals of Pluto are personally guarding the entrance all year round. Even if you pass through the entrance, you have to go through the Hell of Fire and the Hell of Ice to reach the Blood Hell Heavenly Lake, where legends still live.
The powerful undead beast brought by Lord Pluto countless years ago... In short, forget this place and never get close to it."
