"Who told you that the correct way up the mountain must be a 'road'?" Athena said a little playfully.
"If you follow this main road, you will never be able to get out of this Möbius strip, but if you move forward along this center line, you can successfully embark on the right path." She continued. explain.
"But if there is no road, how are we going to move forward?" Zaka looked at the palaces in front of him and frowned.
"Speaking of which, this Möbius strip you call actually has its own name on Mount Olympus." Athena did not directly answer Zaka's words, but said to herself: "Speaking of this This matter also has something to do with you."
“My father Zeus was a man of many romantic affairs, one of whom was a Phoenician princess called Europa, who bore my father a son named Minos, and the one you see before you on Mount Olympus The palace complex was designed and built by him.”
"That's why in our language it's also called the Minoan Labyrinth."
"What does this Minos have to do with us?" Qi Zhen asked.
"Minos was famous for his fairness during his lifetime, so after his death, he was sent by my father to be a judge in the underworld. He was one of the three judges. You should have an impression." Athena said.
"Oh." Qi Zhen nodded.
"Not only that." Athena continued: "He offended Poseidon, and Poseidon made his wife Pasifa fall in love with a bull obsessively, and she also gave birth to a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a bull. It was at your hands that he died. The Minotaur."
Although Qi Zhen thought that he had done a lot of homework before entering this game, at this time, he still felt that his understanding of Greece as a whole was too little.
"If you want to get out of Minos' labyrinth, you must keep one creed in mind." Athena said, "What you see is what you get."
The so-called "what you see is what you get", explained by Athena, is somewhat like an idealist theory. Of course, in a game world full of gods and dead souls, this setting is not surprising.
In the theory of idealism, the world only exists as long as people are alive. When you close your eyes, what you see does not exist in your world.
Only what can be perceived is real, and only when people live in this world does it have meaning.
The objective world is nothing but an outline of countless subjective conjectures.
To explain the problem Qi Zhen and the others are facing now in more straightforward terms, as long as they close their eyes and keep walking along this road, those palaces will be illusory.
What Qi Zhen is very curious about is, if you really follow what Athena said, what will happen if you open your eyes halfway?
However, he still didn't ask.
On the one hand, he wanted to leave this maze for the purpose of breaking through the levels, and did not want to explore the operating principle of this maze. On the other hand, he did not want to cause any complications.
At this time, Qi Zhen remembered a scene in the game of Fairy Sword where she walked out of the barrier. At that time, only Qi Zhen was walking in front of the team, and the teammates behind were holding on to each other's shoulders, like a group of blind people crossing the road.
The corners of his mouth quirked up, as if he was thinking about recreating the scene with Xhaka as it was, and then his smile faded. Now his teammates are still in the human race bag, healing the wounds and delaying the injuries.
To delay the injury, it is time to seize some time at this time.
Nuolan was still walking in the front, followed closely by Qi Zhen and Zhaka, holding hands. Behind Nuolan's clothes, a disgusting-looking but extremely tough flesh thorn hung between them and Nuolan, pulling pointing in the direction of the two of them.
All three people closed their eyes.
After closing his eyes, other senses become more acute, especially for someone like Qi Zhen who is accustomed to using mental power to explore the surrounding situation.
There's something strange about this feeling.
After the three of them embarked on the right journey, this space became completely different in Qi Zhen's spiritual world.
The buildings that were originally densely clustered on both sides of the road all disappeared, as if they evaporated at that moment, the surroundings became empty, and it seemed that only the three of them were left in the world.
The sound of wind, snow, and footsteps were all mixed together, as if they were playing a slightly confusing musical score.
I don't know how long passed like this, it seemed like two hours, and it seemed like half an hour, a winding mountain road appeared again in Qi Zhen's spiritual world.
Both sides of the mountain road are still covered with heavy snow, and some plateau coniferous plants stand in the mountains.
"Open your eyes." Nuolan said.
The two opened their eyes when they heard this, and as expected, they had appeared on another road that they had never set foot on before.
Qi Zhen looked back and was secretly amazed when she saw that those palaces were still staying peacefully on the road they came from.
"Go up further and you will reach the last palace complex, which is the highest peak of Mount Olympus. Only the Lord of the Gods and his wife can live there."
Athena pointed upward, and some buildings appeared vaguely in their sight.
Qi Zhen and Zhaka looked at each other.
"Let's go."
Climbing up the stairs, the three of them walked for about half an hour before arriving at the last palace.
Now that Athena had revealed her identity, Qi Zhen naturally did not need to slow down her pace while pretending to accommodate her, so the three of them moved extremely fast.
It's just that there is no concept of time here, so Qi Zhen can only roughly judge the three people's walking distance.
It would be a lie to say that I am not nervous. After all, I have been running all the way from the beginning of the game to now, and I am finally coming to the final destination, and I am about to fight the last boss of the game, and there are only two people left in the team. No matter No matter how you look at it, Qi Zhen and Xhaka have very little chance of victory.
However, this was something they couldn't escape. Just like what Lin Zhuo said to Qi Zhen before entering the human race bag, they had no choice if the soldiers came to cover up the water or the soil.
The palaces in front of them are not as grand and magnificent as the palaces below, but they are gorgeous and exquisite enough. It seems that Hera, the queen of heaven, has a very high aesthetic taste and has reached the level of returning to nature.
Nolan or Athena stopped talking when she arrived here and became that innocent and harmless young woman again.
There is a square in the center of several palaces, and there is a fountain in the middle of the square.
The water in the fountain never freezes all year round. I don't know if it is affected by Hera's divine power, but it seems to spray water jets endlessly outward.
The temperature here is actually warmer than at the bottom of the mountain. As far as the two of them can see, there are nurseries and flowers everywhere, and it feels a bit springy.
The taste of heaven.
It seems that the plants here will not be affected by Demeter's death.
Qi Zhen thought to herself and looked at the woman standing by the fountain.
The woman did not look at Qi Zhen and the two, but left them with a plump back.
She wore a silver crown on her head, and her whole person exuded a holy aura.
At this time, she was looking at the highest point of Mount Olympus in some trance, where was her husband's sacred square and the throne of the Lord of the Gods.
"I didn't think you would end up here."
Her voice was not gentle, it even sounded harsh, making Qi Zhen unconsciously think of those female villains with distinctive personalities in Disney animations.
"I didn't expect it either." Qi Zhen shrugged.
"You can't go any higher." Her words were unquestionable and full of majesty.
"You can try it."
The black armor instantly wrapped around his body, the Sharingan opened again, and Qi Zhen was ready to fight.
"Just you?"
She turned around and looked at Qi Zhen and the other three with disdain on her face.
Let’s be honest, if she puts on this outfit, she will definitely look like the black-hearted queen in Snow White.
Qi Zhen was actually wondering, how could Zeus love such a woman so wholeheartedly?
On second thought, it seemed that she was the only one who could control that romantic old guy.
Queen Hera.
As the third queen of heaven and the seventh wife of Zeus, she has many deeds and is extremely powerful. It is not easy for them to defeat each other.
She was the sister of Zeus. When Zeus became the king of gods, Hera was still living in seclusion in the Cuckoo Mountain. Although Zeus, who was in great power, was romantic, he still missed her and finally used a little trick to bring Hera into his house.
At this time, Hera was not yet the wife recognized by Zeus. According to the ancient Chinese feudal etiquette, she could at most be regarded as a maidservant with the same wife.
It was under this circumstance that Hera gave birth to Zeus, Ares, the god of war, Hebe, the goddess of childbirth, Eretia, the goddess of youth, and Hephaestus, the god of fire, and they lived without a name or identity for three hundred years.
It was not until the end that Hera was recognized by Zeus as his legal wife and made her Queen of Heaven. A very grand wedding was held on Mount Olympus.
However, Hera may never realize that her infatuation with Zeus and even her three hundred years of waiting did not result in a faithful marriage, but endless betrayals.
After becoming Queen of Heaven, Hera was respected by the gods. Even Zeus respected her very much. He even gave her his power and asked her to help manage the gods on Mount Olympus. Therefore, she would often communicate with Zeus. There was a quarrel, but in the end she chose to give in because of her deep love for Zeus.
Maybe the old guy Zeus thought he had given Hera enough compensation, or maybe he couldn't control what was in his crotch at all, but the true nature of the God King was quickly exposed.
Hera was originally a gentle and docile girl, but later she became suspicious, jealous, and even cruel and sinister, all thanks to Zeus.
So much so that, in the end, she, who was in charge of protecting women during marriage and childbirth, had few other positive deeds spread throughout the world except for her firm defense of monogamy and her loyalty to love.
