In the ancient age of gods, twelve high gods lived on the holy mountain Olympus.
They are: Zeus, the king of the gods, Hera, the queen of heaven, Poseidon, the sea god, Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, Apollo, the god of light, Artemis, the goddess of hunting, and Ari, the god of war.
Aphrodite, the goddess of love, Hephaestus, the god of fire, Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, and Hermes, the messenger of gods.
However, due to some special reasons, Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, gave up her position as main god to another god-the god of wine!
Dionysus, the god of wine, was the popular god of wine in ancient times. He not only controlled the intoxicating power of wine, but also distributed joy and love. He became a very inspiring god at that time, and among his authority was also
A part of agriculture and culture, he is a powerful god, and among the twelve main gods, he is the only one whose mother is a mortal.
According to rumors, Dionysus, the god of wine, is the son of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Semele, the princess of Thebes.
Zeus's wife, Queen Hera, was jealous and instigated Semele to ask Zeus to appear in the form of a god. After being bewitched, Semele made this request to Zeus to verify Zeus's love for her.
Zeus couldn't resist Semele's request and had to reveal his true form as a god.
But it is not just a matter of words that mortals should not look directly at God.
After Semele saw the true form of the god of thunder and weather, he triggered the thunder and fire in the god of thunder and was burned alive.
Zeus only had time to rescue Semele's seriously injured son.
In order to save the child, Zeus had to sew it on his thigh, replace the mother's body with the essence of his own flesh and blood of the God King, and support the child. He did not take it out until it was full term.
Because when he was in Zeus' thigh, Zeus walked like a lame man, so he was named Dionysus, which means "lame man".
Dionysus was appointed by King Zeus as the god of carnival when he was a boy. Silenus, the half-man and half-goat god of the forest, was his tutor, educating and accompanying him on his travels.
He traveled around in his chariot pulled by the wild panther. He mastered all the secrets of nature and the history of wine. Wherever he went, he taught people how to grow grapes and make sweet wine.
Wherever He went, music, singing, and drinking followed.
His attendants, known as the Dionysians, were also famous for their rowdy and disorderly nature. They laughed unbridled, drank carelessly, danced and sang.
Among His female followers, the most informal were the Dionysus priests. They were intoxicated and danced in the carnival atmosphere, always accompanying him from one kingdom to another. When they were crazy
Or when they are extremely excited, they will use cruel violence and are called the madwomen of Maynard.
For those who refused to believe in Dionysus, crazy women often punished them during Dionysian sacrifices. Legend has it that Pentheus, the king of Thebes, did not respect his comrade Dionysus and even tied up Dionysus, the god of Dionysus, and imprisoned him in prison.
They also persecute believers.
So during the Dionysian festival, Pentheus's mother Agaea personally took the lead and tore Pentheus to pieces together with the crazy girls.
Also the daughters of Lycurgus, king of Thracia, and Mineas, son of Poseidon, all suffered misfortune in this way.
Legend has it that the famous singer Orpheus was torn to pieces by crazy women because he did not toast the God of Bacchus!
——"Dionysus and His Mad Girl"
In the carnival hotel of the non-returners.
The lights were brightly lit, and the bright yellow light illuminated the entire room.
Men with dark skin, women with rough hands, and skinny children with no clothes on, gathered around the tables with short legs, reveling, drinking heavily, and eating meat.
No worries, no sorrows.
A group of people were drunk and dreaming, as if they were in heaven!
Garba, the eldest son of the gardener Han Lane, has the blood of an unknown wind god. After being attracted by the lively atmosphere of the hotel, he couldn't help but walk in. Under the welcome of everyone in the tavern, he quickly integrated in
in.
He also drank heavily, ate the bloody beef that had been torn into strips on the table, and sang loudly with everyone in the tavern. The atmosphere of joy spread far and wide.
William frowned slightly, standing outside the tavern, looking at the lively scene inside, and there was an impulse in his heart to take the initiative to join in.
As soon as this impulse arose, William noticed something was wrong.
He stepped back, his body disappeared on the spot, and he teleported above the tavern, looking at the night tavern from a distance.
"Something's wrong, even me, a third-level wizard, has been affected."
"Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror, check carefully to see what is going on in this hotel?" William ordered the Magic Mirror.
"Yes, Master!"
After a while, the voice of the magic mirror sounded in William's mind.
It said to William, "Master, no extraordinary people or extraordinary tools were found in the entire tavern. All participants are ordinary people, but the entire tavern seems to be shrouded in something special..."
"What?" William asked.
"It is currently impossible to detect it." The magic mirror answered truthfully.
William was a little disappointed and became wary. The magic mirror couldn't detect the reason, and it almost affected him. Why not let William stay wary?
No wonder in fairy tales, the gardener’s eldest son and second son were both led into this tavern and even forgot about their own tasks! William thought to himself.
After thinking about it, he still felt that there was no need to risk going into the tavern. He should first investigate the details of this tavern from other places.
Anyway, he is not in a hurry to find the country with the golden horse now, he just goes step by step.
Thinking like this, William's figure disappeared in mid-air.
The wind whimpered and blew.
Early the next morning, William, dressed as a traveling merchant, walked into this somewhat strange village.
He did not go directly to the "unreturnable carnival hotel" because under the detection of the magic mirror, the carnival in the hotel continued.
They eat when they are hungry, drink when they are thirsty, sleep when they are sleepy, and continue to join in the indulgence and enjoyment when they wake up, without any worries.
William didn't think he could get any useful information from these drunken people, and he might get himself involved instead.
What William did was to go to the fields in the village.
Along the way, many fields were not taken care of. The fields were overgrown with weeds, and the weeds might even have escaped the ears of wheat.
There are only a few scattered fields with people working on them.
If you look closely, you will see that the people in these fields are all old people, doing farm work with difficulty.
William was startled at first, but soon realized that most of the young men, women and children in the village were partying in that hotel, and now these old people were the only ones in the village.
William looked around, found an old man who seemed to have a more honest face, and walked towards him.
After arriving in front of him, the old man also noticed William, and looked at William warily with his cloudy eyes.
In this era, a very closed small village, outsiders were not so welcome.
William smiled faintly, and the suggestion technique was activated silently. He said to the old man in a gentle tone, "Hello, old man, I am a small businessman from other places. I lost my way in the forest and ended up with my goods."
They were all lost, and then I saw your village. I wanted to hire some hunters from the village who are familiar with the forest to go with me to the forest to retrieve my goods. I just walked around, but why didn’t I see the young people? Did they?
Have you all gone into the forest to hunt?"
"Ah, what a poor businessman! The Holy Light will bless you!" Under William's suggestion, the old man eliminated his feeling of rejection towards William, a stranger, and said to William sympathetically.
"The Holy Light will also protect you, old man! By the way, why don't you see any young people in the village?" William asked directly.
"How come you haven't seen it? That's because you haven't been to the tavern in our village." The old man's eyes were full of bitterness.
"Oh, to tell you the truth, I have lost all my goods, I don't have a copper coin on me, and I don't have the courage to enter the tavern!" William "explained", paused, and then said in a surprised tone, "
What's going on? Are there any festivals held in the village recently?"
The bitterness on the old man's face became even stronger, "Even if it's a festival, it should be over after such a long time, but... alas!"
"Sir, you are so lucky that you did not enter the tavern, otherwise, you would not have been able to get out!"
"I'm getting more and more confused. Old man, can you tell me what's going on?" William's eyes were like a bottomless pool. The old man looked at William and lost everything.
Be wary.
He said, "Ah, of course I can tell you!"
"This matter started some time ago. One day, several strangers and some strange women came to the village."
"The location of our village is quite special. It is the only way to enter and leave the royal city, so from time to time some strangers come to stay overnight, so when these women came over, although we felt a little strange that there were no men, we didn't
So surprised.”
"After these women lived here for a few days, they quickly established relationships with some of the men in the village because they traveled around the village, were generous with their dealings, and were women."
"Then, the men in this part of the village heard this group of strange women saying that they were about to leave. In order to thank them for the happy feeling they had brought to them these past few days, these strange women wanted to invite them to eat and drink in the tavern.
, they will be responsible for all expenses during the period.”
"These idiots all like to take advantage. Holy light, how can there be such a good thing in the world!"
"But these fools believe it."
"On a certain day, they went to the hotel together and drank, ate meat, sang and danced together with the strange women until..."
"Until what?" William asked.
"Until now! They have been staying in that hotel. Their wives and children who went to find them would be persuaded to stay. Once they stay, they will join their team and cannot go back."
"The same goes for their friends."
"So, slowly, it became the situation you see now!" The old man looked desperate.
"Young man, listen to me and never go into that carnival hotel called the Unreturner. If you can't find a place to stay, you can go to the hotel opposite."
"The owner of that hotel and the owner of the carnival hotel were enemies, so he never went into the other party's hotel. Instead, he escaped and saw the whole incident and passed it on.
Come out and let those of us who are lucky know about it." The old man fell into William's suggestion, and now he regarded William as a relative in his heart, so he was naturally very concerned.
"Oh, that's it." William was originally wondering how an old man could know so much about this matter. It turned out that there was someone else who was the "informant".
"I understand, old man, thank you!" William replied first, and then asked, "Old man, I am also a curious person. I want to know now, are those strange women still in that hotel?"
Needless to say, those strange women must have been the instigators of this incident.
If you find them, you may be able to find out the reason and why they do what they do.
"Hey! They left! That's what the owner of the hotel opposite the Reunion Hotel said. He watched them pass by with the most drunken laughter."
"Why didn't you stop it?" William asked. Only after he finished speaking did he realize that he had said the wrong thing. How could an ordinary person dare to do this?
So William changed his mind and said, "Why not report it to the Holy See of the Holy Light?"
"Hey!" The old man sighed again and said in a bitter tone, "Of course we want to, but there are not many young people in the village. Who will report it to the servants of the Lord of Holy Light?"
"Even if the report is submitted, will the gentlemen from the Lord's Court of Holy Light really come here if they are so busy on weekdays?"
The old man really dug his heart out and told William everything he should and shouldn't say.
"Of course, this is not a problem. In fact, what we are most worried about is that after the gentlemen from the Holy Light's Holy Court arrive, will they directly say that the villagers in the tavern are devils and directly injure them and burn them to death?
What?" the old man said anxiously.
This is the dark violence promoted by the Inquisition of the Holy Light, which easily injures people on the stake and brings about the sequelae.
"Hey, anyway, the people in the tavern haven't done anything drastic right now, so... just wait and see. Maybe things will get better soon!"
The old man sighed again and said.
"Young man, I have told you all the secrets of the village. You must not tell them casually." At this time, the old man felt a little regretful. Why did he accidentally tell the secrets of the village to someone?
I just met a foreigner and a stranger!
"Don't worry, I won't tell you. Thank you, old man." William said with assurance.