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The double doors floating above the clouds, as magnificent as the entrance to the Giant King's Court, and the gigantic skeleton leaning over the door and overlooking the earth, are undoubtedly the Gate of Hell that only appeared a few times in the Death Note plot.
But, why!
Why does the Gate of Hell appear here?
According to the early settings of the God of Death, if a person committed a serious crime during his lifetime and his soul dies again after death, the gates of hell will appear and drag the person into hell to suffer eternal punishment.
And according to the movie version of Hell, the souls that are pulled into hell will be constantly tortured by a monster called "The Meaning of Hell", and then resurrected at the bottom of hell, and then tortured again, until their consciousness is completely wiped out in repeated painful deaths, and they become walking corpses and turn into yellow sand, and this eternal punishment will never end.
Later in the plot, a new setting is introduced, depicting hell as a landfill.
In the new setting, powerful Shinigami and Hollows cannot self-degrade and return to the human cycle of spirits even if they are killed because of the high density of their spirits. They must be thrown into hell to be suppressed, otherwise terrible monsters will be generated.
You know, the "Three Realms" created by the ancestors of the five nobles refer to the Soul Society, the real world, and the Hueco Mundo. Hell is not one of the Three Realms. In other words, the history of this broken place is even longer than that of the Soul Society. Maybe even the Soul King is younger than it.
If the setting that all the strong men are suppressed in hell is true, then God knows how many outrageous guys are hiding in hell now. It is not impossible that a few super strong men who were stuffed in by the Spirit King himself will pop out.
But no matter which setting is followed, the Gate of Hell should not appear now.
Gu Shi looked at the gate of hell in the sky, his heart full of doubts. It couldn't be that because the Chain of Guilt and the Chain of Karma were both chains, the Chain of Guilt noticed that its brother (the Chain of Karma) was captured and ran out to help with revenge, right?
Gu Shishi secretly made a joke in his heart, but before he could make himself laugh, his pupils suddenly contracted and he was frightened by his own joke.
If you think about it carefully, although the chains of the sinners in hell are in different locations, they are on the neck, ankles, wrists and other places.
but!
Whether it was Ichigo Kurosaki's sister Yuko, or Rukia Kuchiki, when they were eroded by the miasma of hell and just grew the chains of guilt, the chains appeared in the middle of the chest, which is where the chain of cause and effect should be.
Moreover, the functions of these two chains are surprisingly similar.
The chain of cause and effect connects the soul and the body, so that even if the soul of a living person leaves the body for a short time, it can rely on the chain to return to its body and come back to life.
The Chain of the Sinner connects the sinner's soul at one end and hell at the other end. Even if the sinner escapes from hell for a short time, as long as the Chain of the Sinner is still there, he will be pulled back to hell. If one wants to escape from hell, he must completely cut the chain.
Could it be that these two broken chains are really connected?
For example, the so-called Chain of Sin is a chain of cause and effect that changes the target from the body to hell?
After a normal person dies, whether they become a Hollow or go to Soul Society, the Chains of Karma will automatically disappear.
But is there a possibility that this broken chain has not completely disappeared, and its "roots" are just hidden deep in the soul. Once the God of Death and the Void who committed serious sins in their lifetime are killed again, it will pop up again to connect to Hell and send the souls who deserve eternal punishment to hell.
[So, after I forcibly took out the causal lock that had turned into dark red spiritual power and was about to be hidden in the mask and released it into the air, the automatic screening program on the hell side determined that a new sinner's lock had been generated, and opened the gate of hell, intending to take the sinner in? ]
Gu Shi looked at the ray of dark red spiritual power, his eyes full of fear. He stepped back a few steps as slowly as possible, while quietly reminding the people around him.
"Don't come into contact with this spiritual energy. Be careful not to blow it away. Bai, go grab a few animals."
Under the pressure of the aura of the Gate of Hell, Tianpeng's fanaticism had faded. He nodded calmly and slowly retreated. Bai also slowly retreated for a distance before turning around and rushing into the nearby forest. He soon ran back with two rabbits.
"Kill him and throw his soul into that spiritual power."
Gu Shi was worried that the dark red spiritual power would be blown away by the breath of his voice, so he kept his instructions as brief as possible. Bai was always decisive in executing orders and crushed the rabbit's head with one hand, throwing the little guy, who didn't even have time to feel the pain, directly onto the dark red spiritual power.
However, after the two came into contact, no reaction occurred. The rabbit's soul, in fear, quickly dived into the grass, leaving only that wisp of dark red spiritual power behind.
Gu Shi glanced at the short section of causal lock on the rabbit soul’s chest and immediately issued another command.
"Take off the causal lock and try again."
Bai crushed the head of another rabbit, tore the chain on its chest, and threw it onto the spiritual power again.
This time, there was a change.
The moment the two came into contact, the dark red spiritual power could not wait to drill into the rabbit's soul. Then, from the chest of the rabbit's soul, a pitch-black chain emerged like a poisonous snake out of a hole, with the front end raised high, pointing to the gate of hell in the air.
At the same time, the gate of hell, which had been silent in the sky, finally opened slowly. The rabbit soul with chains hanging on its chest, like a cow captured by a UFO, flew towards the terrifying gate with a crack opened by an inexplicable traction force.
Then, a sturdy arm slowly stretched out from the crack in the door, holding a huge machete in its hand that was half the size of Gu Shi's body. It stabbed the poor little rabbit accurately, immediately crushing its spirit to pieces.
The target of execution and reception disappeared, the arm holding the big knife slowly retracted behind the door, and the gate of hell slowly closed, like a phantom dissipating, disappearing among the white clouds, and the strong sense of oppression also disappeared.
Chapter 162 Hell Consciousness
As the gate of hell disappeared, Gu Shi breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was a bit embarrassing to say this, he was really afraid of hell. Who knows how many old monsters were hiding in that broken place. If there was a real conflict with hell, the danger would probably be higher than fighting the entire Jingling Court alone.
The most disgusting thing is that even if an innocent person is corroded by the miasma of hell for a period of time, he will develop the chains of sin and be completely bound to hell.
Once the Chains of Sin grow on his body, if Gu Shi wants to continue his dream of exploring the starry sky, he can only wait for Kurosaki Ichigo to be born, and then find a way to let Kurosaki Ichigo stab him a few times, just like the black sword in the movie.
"Gu Shi! What happened?"
Gu Shi and the others were slowly calming down when suddenly Erlang's voice came from far away at the foot of the mountain and quickly approached the top of the mountain.
Obviously, even Erlang, who was guarding the large cave underground, felt the pressure when the gate of hell descended, and ran up as fast as he could.
"We're fine."
After loudly announcing that he was safe so that Erlang wouldn't continue to worry, Gu Shi gently closed his eyes and began to transform his body materials, turning himself back into a normal Daxu.
After such a big incident, he had no interest in continuing his research in the short term. Moreover, previous attempts had also proved that the body was transparent and it was impossible to completely dig out the secrets of the Void Hole. He could only see the Causal Lock being digested and absorbed by the Void Hole, but could not see why this process happened.
It’s better to return to normal first and eat something to repair the wound.
Before Gu Shi's body transformation was completed, Erlang had already rushed to the top of the mountain. Seeing that Gu Shi could not be distracted for a while, he asked Tianpeng in a low voice what had just happened.
Tianpeng had just been frightened to death, and obviously he needed to find someone to vent and share his feelings with to help him calm down. So he spoke at a very fast speed and told everything about the Lock of Karma and the Gate of Hell in one breath.
Erlang was "stunned and amazed" after hearing this. After fully satisfying Tianpeng's psychological needs, he scratched his head and summarized Tianpeng's words.
"That is to say, you have found a special space that is not in the Three Realms, and found a way to open the door there. Do we still need to continue with the plan of Chonglingdi? Can we find a way to directly occupy this hell?"
Gu Shi, who had his eyes closed, couldn't help but twitch his eyes a few times. If he wasn't unhappy about the conversion of body materials, he would definitely teach Erlang a lesson.
He is obviously a big dog who is very studious, but why has his mind become more and more straightforward recently? Is hell something that can be touched?
Occupy Hell, how dare you...think...
...It seems that it is not impossible.
Unlike the artificially created Soul Society, Hell clearly has self-awareness. Its thinking may not be as active as that of humans, but there is no doubt that it knows how to adapt.
In the movie, Ichigo Kurosaki breaks into hell as a living person in order to save his sister. At the beginning, according to the operating logic of hell, he is a real invader. On his way to the depths of hell, those hell guardians named "Hell's Will" attacked him more than once. In the process, Ichigo Kurosaki also slashed and killed several Hell's Will.
But when Kuroda was about to cut off all the chains of the guilty and escape the shackles of Hell, many of the Hell's intentions who were previously hostile to Kurosaki Ichigo reached a consensus in an instant, and took the initiative to contribute their strength to Kurosaki Ichigo, who was the enemy of Kuroda. In an instant, his combat effectiveness was raised by several levels, and he broke Kuroda's conspiracy with his hands.
Thousands of ideas of hell can reach a consensus in just a moment without any communication process. It is hard to believe that there is no unified consciousness controlling them.
Since consciousness exists, does hell also have some kind of desire?
Theoretically, as long as there is desire, there is the possibility of communication.
Maybe, in the future, they could really talk to Hell's consciousness and discuss setting up a base in Hell? If Hell had the ability to move, maybe they could ask Hell to act as a spaceship and take them to space?
Gu Shi quietly added a note to his mental memo, planning to go and have a chat with the hell consciousness once he had the ability to go to hell and escape unscathed in the future.
"Erlang, don't talk nonsense. The dangers of hell are far beyond your imagination. Don't try to contact hell actively."
After warning Erlang, Gu Shi moved his body which had basically recovered, grabbed a few blue Tianpeng pills and swallowed them, then patted the ground around him.
"Come on, since you are all here today, I will just treat it as telling you a story. I will give you a general introduction to the situation in hell."
Upon hearing this, Erlang, Tianpeng and Bai immediately ran to Gu Shi and waited for him to start speaking. Only Asido still looked dazed.
Unlike other people who don't know about hell, Asido, as the god of death, had already learned about hell when he was a student. In his two hundred years of professional career, he has experienced several times that the gates of hell opened before his eyes and the hollows he had just killed were dragged into hell.
"The gates of hell will only accept the most evil people." In Asido's understanding, this is like "things will fall down." It is a basic rule of the world, but what did he just see?
Not only was Gu Shi tricked out of the Gate of Hell, but he also caught a rabbit and brought it back in a menacing manner.
This was even more shocking to his cognitive world than the fact that the nobles were planning to abandon him, and its horror level was comparable to the level of a Shinigami and a Quincy getting married and giving birth to a Hollow.
"Ashido, come over here and listen. I think I have a lot of information that you don't know."
Seeing that Asido looked unacceptable, Gu Shi greeted him with some evil humor. After he sat down beside him in a daze, he cleared his throat and opened his mouth to throw out the biggest trump card.
"There should be quite a few Death Captains in Hell."
With just one sentence, he dealt a heavy blow to Asido's cognitive world, which was already on the verge of shattering. Without waiting for Asido to question excitedly, Gu Shi threw out the argument that the density of the captain-level death god's spirit was too high to be degraded and must be thrown into hell to be suppressed.
I have to say that this statement is indeed logical. After all, the spiritual power of the captain-level Death God and the Great Hollows above Yachukas is probably more than ten thousand times that of ordinary people, but their body size is not that exaggerated, and the density of lepton in their bodies is extremely high, which seems completely reasonable.
Asido opened and closed his mouth repeatedly. He wanted to refute and question, but in their past encounters, Gu Shi had already proved him right more than once. Coupled with his logical explanation, Asido unconsciously believed what Gu Shi said.
But...those are the captains!
Even though he has abandoned Soul Society, Asido only hates those nobles. He still respects the captains who have resolved major crises more than once.
But now, Gu Shi told him that those captains who had made great contributions to safeguarding peace and protecting everyone, and even sacrificed their lives on the battlefield, could not get the peace they deserved after their death, but instead had to suffer the same fate as the most evil people and be thrown into hell to suffer eternal punishment?
Asido really couldn't accept this cruel reality.
Chapter 163: Aizen's Change
"We're back?"
"Yes, I am back indeed."
Two young men wearing the uniforms of the Shinō Spiritual Academy stood on top of the high waves, looking at the familiar land in the distance with complicated expressions.
"I didn't expect that our world is actually a sphere."
There was more joy and excitement in Urahara Kisuke's eyes. This slightly long journey verified the reliability of Gu Shi's words, and made him start to wonder whether Gu Shi's other unorthodox remarks were also just unverified truths.
Aizen's heart was filled with more thoughts. He couldn't help but feel a little amused. Before starting this journey, he always thought that the world he came into contact with was the whole picture of the world, and he regarded those tiny places as everything in the world.
But look at it, the place he once thought was the whole world is so small compared to this world, no, this "planet". And according to Urahara Kisuke's friends, such a planet is even smaller than a speck of dust in the vast starry sky.
Was he full of pride in the past, moving around in such a small piece of land and engaging in intrigues with others?
For the next hundreds or thousands of years, will he have to stay in such a tiny place and play house games with those boring people?
"It's like a joke."
"Hmm? Aizen-senpai, did you say anything?"
Urahara Kisuke, who was standing next to Aizen, blinked. The noisy and chaotic sound of the waves around him made it impossible for him to hear what Aizen said.
"It's nothing, just a little emotional."
Aizen's smile remained gentle. He stretched his back and waist hard, then waved his hand with a smile.
"Okay, we should go back. Even if we asked for leave, the teachers would probably be worried if we suddenly disappeared for so many days."