The room was not covered by curtains, so the two of them could still see the passers-by outside through the window. The whole house did not feel dark or gloomy, and it seemed to be an ordinary residential house.
In front of the two of them was an old door. It should be a bedroom or a storage room. The only difference from an ordinary room was that there was a piece of paper hanging on the wall next to the door. The wooden hangtag is like the signboard hanging outside some artistic cafes.
However, the words on it did not have any artistic flavor. There was a line of text engraved in a crooked way, and a big arrow was drawn below the text, pointing to the dilapidated door.
"Entrance to the underworld."
Liang Sicheng had learned this ancient Greek text in the preparation hall, and was naturally familiar with its meaning, but the sense of absurdity in his heart was getting stronger and stronger.
If you think about it carefully, this kind of thing is indeed ridiculous.
One really dares to say it, and the other really dares to believe it.
Liang Sicheng said to Lin Biao: "Have you seen the Jade Emperor?"
Lin Biao was stunned, not knowing why he mentioned this, and shook his head.
Liang Sicheng pointed at his nose and said angrily: "That's me."
Lin Biao understood what Liang Sicheng meant and walked into the room without laughing.
The old man looked at the two of them with a smile in the hall.
Liang Sicheng followed him, and what he saw was a shabby big bed, and then the most ordinary bedroom furnishings. However, there was a wooden sign on the wall directly opposite that was much larger than the door. It was still crooked. is engraved with a line of ancient Greek text.
Welcome to the underworld.
"You, you, you really won't give up until you reach the Yellow River." Liang Sicheng had already expected this in his heart, and his words were a little helpless.
"So this is the underworld." Lin Biao suddenly realized.
"Okay, okay, you really take it seriously. Can you tell me what you are going to do next?" Liang Sicheng asked.
"Do you think that ordinary people in this town will be complacent about their superb deception skills? The higher their deception skills, the more respected they will be by others?" Lin Biao stared at the sign on the wall, as if To see a flower.
"How could I know about that kind of thing?" Liang Sicheng said.
Lin Biao seemed to be interested and continued: "For example, if a lie told by a person is reasonable, and the greater the benefit he gets from it, the higher his reputation will be in the liar industry? Think about it, there are What ordinary person would make up a lie about the entrance to the underworld to deceive? What a clever liar he must be to come up with such an idea."
"Hey, hey, hey, we are too stupid, right?" Liang Sicheng reminded, "You said all this is useless, what should we do next?"
"What if ordinary people are cheated?" Lin Biao asked.
"It's nothing more than asking the police to seek justice, or admitting your bad luck, or just fucking to vent your anger," Liang Sicheng said.
"Then what do you think we should do?" Lin Biao asked.
"If you go to the police in this city, you won't get justice and will be laughed at. You definitely can't choose. If you accept your bad luck, the price is too high, but the one who can fall down when the wind blows Old man, are we really going to do this? If you want me to see it, just get the money back and just treat it as an innocuous joke." Liang Sicheng said.
Lin Biao pondered for a moment and nodded: "That's okay, you go
Bar. "
"Damn it, why don't you cheat your teammates with me?" Liang Sicheng quit, "You are very generous when it comes to paying. Let me do the work that requires money. Can you be a human being?"
"How about accepting your bad luck?" Lin Biao said.
"Just go!" Liang Sicheng thought about the heavy bag of silver coins, gritted his teeth and turned around to seek justice from the old man.
Lin Biao had a smile on his face, and if he looked closely, he saw that he had exactly the same expression as the old man just now.
"I didn't lie to you. You asked me to take you to find the entrance to the underworld. It's clearly written here, so I won't refund the money to you."
After Lin Biao turned around and came out, he heard the old man arguing with Liang Sicheng.
"This is obviously an ordinary bedroom! How could the underworld look like this!?" Liang Sicheng was furious.
The other party's sophistry was the result that he could predict when he wanted to reason with the other party, but he still had some difficulty controlling his emotions.
"Oh? Have you been to the underworld?" The old man still said calmly.
"This..." Liang Sicheng was speechless.
"Then how do you know that the underworld doesn't look like this?" the old man continued.
Liang Sicheng angrily turned to Lin Biao and said, "I knew it was like this, why don't I give you a slap and grab the money?"
Lin Biao had already walked closer, and the three of them were standing very close to each other.
"OK."
Lin Biao nodded and his body disappeared.
boom!
The old man's body was pushed against the wall by Lin Biao. His right hand held the other man's neck tightly, the expression on his face remained unchanged, and he gently pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose with his left hand.
The old man's feet were dangling in the air, and his body seemed to be light and weightless. His neck was held tightly by Lin Biao, and his face instantly swelled into a purple color.
Liang Sicheng was startled by Lin Biao's actions. He did not expect that Lin Biao would take action so simply.
"Shuai Lin, you will kill him if you do this." Liang Sicheng said.
The old man's originally confident smile had already turned into a pitiful look, and he made a whooshing sound in his throat, as if he wanted to speak.
"Do you still remember the story I told you?" Lin Biao asked.
Liang Sicheng recalled the legend of Hermes stealing cattle in his mind, and quickly understood what Lin Biao wanted to express.
"You mean he..." He couldn't believe it.
"A clever liar always hopes to deceive the other party while watching from the sidelines. This is probably the most wonderful thing in human nature. It's like a murderer always wants to go back to the scene of the murder to take another look. A thief It would be a bad idea to steal something but not go far away, just to watch the owner stand there and be miserable." He paused, "Think about it, in Maia's cave, Hermes could have pretended to be asleep all the time. Why do you look at Apollo with that look? Even the tracks of the cattle can be covered up, why can't he cover up his own tracks? Can passers-by see the process of driving the cattle? This all shows that he wants to prove his The deception is superb, guiding Apollo step by step to find him, but he always fails to find substantive evidence to prove himself. It's really a bad taste."
Lin Biao raised his head, looked at the old man who had more air coming out and less air coming in, and said with a smile: "Unfortunately, cleverness will always lead to cleverness. Your personality is destined to make it impossible for you to escape death forever, especially for people like us." The original intention was to kill you."
Liang Sicheng completely understood.
The pitiful appearance of the old man had disappeared at this time. His body suddenly changed, and in the blink of an eye he became a well-proportioned young man, wearing a winged hat and flying shoes. Who else could he be if he wasn't Hermes?
"But you were still deceived by me out of 100 talents. No matter how smart you are, you were still deceived by me." Hermes said.
"That's not necessarily the case." Lin Zhu shook his head, took out the bag of silver coins from Hermes's arms with his left hand, and shook out the contents.
A bag of rocks.
"It's just a common deception on the street. Maybe you don't know that in the next few thousand years, there will be many professionals called magicians who will worship your statue," Lin Biao said.
"That's at most no loss, no gain. Even if I don't win, you don't either." Hermes still argued.
"I told you, that's not necessarily the case."
Lin Biao still said, "I didn't expect that you would arrange the entrance to the underworld in such an inconspicuous place. As I just said, with your personality, you like to dance on the tightrope. Generally speaking, you can really lead the way. We came to the entrance to the underworld, but you didn't let us find it, just to satisfy your bad taste as the god of fraud."
Hermes' expression changed greatly: "Who are you?"
"We, we are the Jade Emperor and Tathagata Buddha." Lin Biao spoke calmly, gradually clenching his right hand.
Hermes had a begging look on his face, his neck was still tightly tied to the wall behind him by Lin Biao, and he said, "Don't kill me!"
"The reason is not sufficient." Lin Biao's hand was still tightening.
"My sister is Persephone, and she can lead you to the underworld!" He said with all his strength.
"It's still not enough." Lin Biao had no intention of holding back, and Hermes' neck seemed to turn into a piece of plasticine.
"Damn mortal!" Hermes' purple face finally turned ferocious.
A scepter surrounded by two snakes appeared on his right hand, with a cyan halo emitting from it.
Hermes stretched out his scepter and pointed it at Lin Bian, who was very close at hand. The top of the scepter touched Lin Bian's forehead, and the light shone brightly!
The double snake scepter was supposed to have the ability to put people into sleep.
It's a pity that Lin Biao still looked at him with the same indifferent eyes as before, and there was even a faint smile in it.
"I finally took it out. Thank you for the scepter. You can die now."
Lin Biao suddenly exerted force, and Hermes' neck bent to the side with a crisp sound.
Bang.
This sound sounded very terrifying in the room, which made Liang Sicheng's heart skip a beat.
Hermes' body slipped from the wall and lay on the ground like a puddle of mud.
With a clang, the double snake scepter fell to the ground.
Lin Biao put on his earphones and said softly: "You ask them to come over."
All this happened too fast, completely beyond Liang Sicheng's expectation. He had not yet reacted from the moment when Lin Bian burst out into trouble, but in the blink of an eye, Hermes was already dead in front of him.
"Ah? Oh, okay." Liang Sicheng came to his senses and quickly put on his earphones to inform Qi Zhen that they were here to meet.
His tone was calm and smooth, but the shock in his heart was beyond words.
Lin Biao is really terrible.
