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Because of the earthquake, the construction site has been temporarily suspended.
"It seems that the damage here is not serious."
"Kotaro, look here, there's a huge hole in the woods. It looks like this is where the disaster happened. But it's really strange that the earthquake only happened in such a small area. It was a magnitude 12 earthquake, something I've never heard of before."
Kotaro didn't say anything. He had a strange feeling since he first set foot on this land. The instrument in his hand was sampling and analyzing the environment, and soon the analysis had results.
"how so!"
"What's wrong, Kotaro? Why are you so startled?" Nanyuan said.
"The life response here is shockingly low. Not only are there no animals, but even the microorganisms in the soil are pitifully few."
"What? Did they spray insecticide?"
There is no insecticide sprayed here, and even if it was, it shouldn't have such a big effect. It has almost reached the standards of a hospital's sterile room.
Everything is dead, animals, plants, microorganisms, so what about humans?
"It's the King of Hell."
Kotaro suddenly heard someone talking, he looked towards the person who was speaking, and saw a seated worker.
He grew up in the village.
"What is Hades?"
"A long, long time ago, when this place was still called Satsuma, the master of the Yellow Springs came here."
"Wherever He is, that place will become the land of Hades, where no grass will grow. Everyone will die and become a citizen of Hades without knowing it. All living things will die."
The villagers didn't know much, there were only a few words left in the ancient legends, but it was already creepy.
"That's fake, right? Isn't it the same as a monster? No, it's scarier than a monster." Ueno laughed, but when he saw that no one was laughing, he stopped awkwardly.
"Hey, you don't think it's really a monster, do you? There was no Ultraman at that time. If there really was a monster, how would humans win?"
Even now that technology is so advanced, they still have to rely on the power of Ultraman to defeat monsters.
In ancient times, before the Giant of Light visited the Earth, how did they defeat the monsters?
"Hey, it's raining."
Raindrops are drizzling from the sky, and the continuous spring rain nourishes the earth.
It dripped on the construction site, dripped in the forest, and also fell into the deep pit formed by the cracks in the ground. The broken Buddhist instruments and thousand-year-old bones were all soaked by the spring rain.
The vibrant spring rain is Gaia’s authority.
After the rain fell, something was different.
The dried trees began to sprout new buds and life began to revive.
Lingye once again stood beside the deep pit.
Ueno was right. There was no Giant of Light in that era, and humans were still in ignorance. So who defeated the terrible Hades in that era?
Of course only humans themselves.
That was more than 1,200 years ago. Darkness enveloped Kagoshima, a demon more terrifying than the gods.
The priestess prayed to Takamagahara, but it remained silent. The monks prayed to the gods and Buddhas in the sky, but they were silent.
Not to mention those hairy gods in the wilderness, who once demanded humans to worship them and promised to protect them, but all lost their voices when humans really needed them.
From beginning to end, humans can only rely on themselves.
With the help of the Tang envoys, eminent monks from the Tang Dynasty came here with their believers in a grand procession.
There were also the monks, wizards, and shrine maidens in Nara City. Their gods did not respond to them, but as human beings they still did not give up.
There were hundreds or thousands of people, some with magical powers and some without.
No one knows how many people went there at that time.
They knew they would probably never come back. So what?
"Let's go to Huangquan!"
Some people said so. They had long known that it was the land of the dead. But as long as their worthless lives could play a tiny role, it would be enough.
Whether they are Buddhist believers or Shinto priests and shrine maidens.
In the end, the King of Hell was sealed. It was never the gods or Buddhas they believed in who sealed the King of Hell, but themselves.
Hope, blessings, the ambitions embodied by those positive emotions, and the courage to remain calm in the face of death.
The light of humanity is not an abstract thing, it is these objective and beautiful emotions. Ace once gained the power to kill King Qiangbo because of the emotions of the children.
When countless great aspirations intertwined with each other, they tore apart the darkness and brought light back to the earth.
The King of Hell is not a monster, it is the embodiment of the concept of death. Ling is not too unfamiliar with it. It turns out that more than a thousand years ago, Zoda had stretched out his claws and fangs to test the earth.
But even if there was no Giant of Light at that time and Gaia was asleep, it still lost.
Lost to humans who are as tiny as ants but still fight bravely and fearlessly.
Like a pile of bones in a burial pit, it is a monument to mankind. This monument has sealed the King of Hell, who is more terrifying than the monster, for a full 1,200 years!
Until the engineering team's artillery fire and machinery tore open the seal.
But today it wants to wake up again, and this planet is no longer a place where it can act recklessly.
Gaia's light bloomed, and Ling also gently held it.
Chapter 395: Yellow Spring Road
The raindrops were falling from the sky, and the ZAT team didn't understand what was happening. Perhaps only Higashi Kotaro could feel it.
The air became much fresher after the light rain, so much so that the originally depressing atmosphere faded away.
It was raining, but the sun was shining brightly in the sky. The spring rain under the sun brought the breath of life.
"It's a sun shower, the fox's bride." Nanyuan sighed.
The wind blew through the valley, and the cold wind blew towards the reclaimed plain, making a whining sound.
"What's that sound?" Kotaro asked a little unsure.
"Is that the sound of the wind?" Nan Yuan said, and he himself was a little unsure because the sound was drawn out and a little scary.
The wind tried to blow away the drizzle, and the wind gradually grew stronger, but the seemingly gentle sun shower was not affected at all. The withered trees gradually sprouted new buds, which were visible to the naked eye, just like a fairy tale.
The rain was very fine and light, so I didn't need an umbrella and didn't worry about getting my clothes wet. But it was very strong and even a strong wind couldn't blow it away.
Black smoke began to emerge from the ground at some point.
Seeing the black smoke coming out of the forest in the distance, the ZAT team members and the workers on site were shocked, thinking that the Kagoshima volcano was about to erupt. It was exactly the same as the volcanic ash during a volcanic eruption.
But it wasn't the smoke from a volcanic eruption.
"No sulfide or calcium components were detected in the black smoke, which is completely different from volcanic ash." Kotaro was in charge of on-site sampling and said as he looked at the analytical data in the instrument.
"What on earth is that black smoke?"
"The instrument cannot analyze it. There are undetectable elements in the black smoke. It is highly corrosive. Those scorched and withered plants must have been corroded by it."
"It's Huangquan, the poison of Huangquan." The speaker was the worker who mentioned the 'King of Hell' before.
"Yellow Spring?"
"The poison of the underworld will corrode all living things, even the gods cannot escape it."
According to the legend, Izanami came to the Land of the Underworld and ate the food of the Underworld, and was also infected by the poison. Even though he was a god of creation, he was corrupted to the point where he could no longer leave the Underworld. From then on, he became the master of the Underworld.
From the ancestor god of creation, he became the evil god in charge of death.
The poison of Huangquan is the most terrifying thing even in myths and legends.
The black smoke did corrode everything wherever it passed, but that was the end of it.
The rain falling from the sky seemed to be a living thing, continuously trapping the black smoke.
To humans, it seemed like a wonder of nature, but Kotaro already knew that it was a battle between light and darkness.
The sound of the wind became more and more fierce. Kotaro heard it clearly this time. It was not the sound of the wind, but the roar of a monster. The spring rain that nourishes all things is an unbearable poison to it.
Lingye stood on a high branch, at the highest point of the tree canopy, with the blue sky above her head and a sea of forest below her.
The monsters from beneath the earth were no longer disguised, and were being fried in a frying pan under the light rain of the planet's blessing.
Just like a trapped animal, trapped in a prison, roaring in fear but unable to do anything.
Suddenly, Ling also jumped down from the treetops and jumped straight into the crack in the ground. Standing at the edge of the crack and looking down, it was about ten or twenty meters deep. But the girl couldn't see the bottom of it and her whole body kept falling.
10 seconds, 20 seconds, half a minute, one minute, Ling was not surprised. Because the moment she jumped into the crack in the ground, she entered another world. Shintoism calls it a "barrier", and science calls it an alternate dimension.
The King of Hell has been sealed for twelve hundred years because there are always people fighting against him.
Not humans, no one can live that long. Not souls, either, the moment they die, their souls return to the sea of souls.
It was their determination before death, their belief in continuing the future for the living, and the extreme emotions of thousands of people that gave birth to a miracle and created this barrier.
If I had to describe it, it would be the light of humanity fighting.
Here, the boundary between life and death has become blurred, and death cannot stop human persistence and courage.
When Ling fell to the ground again, she found herself in purgatory.
This is not a figure of speech, this is indeed purgatory. The mental state is the legendary land of Hades.
The desolate land is covered with jagged rocks as far as the eye can see. Some are as sharp as blades, while others are worn into mottled pebbles.
Flowing sticky, foul-smelling fluid was everywhere.
The air was filled with the stench of decayed corpses. It was so bad that Ling couldn't help but twist her nose.
Her feet were not firmly on the ground, but stayed in the air more than ten centimeters above the ground.
Because the poisonous Yomi is so disgusting, no wonder Izanami can't stand it.
In a barrier similar to a secret realm, this place is neither real nor fake. Even though Ling knew that the water from the underworld could not hurt her, she still felt a little uncomfortable psychologically.
Then at the end of the sight, a huge monster sat there like a mountain.
Yama!
There are no other words needed to describe it. As soon as you see it, you will immediately know that it is the legendary King of Hell.