The bar owner remained silent. He just sighed inaudibly in the darkness and pushed the wine glass forward.
"hehe."
Hades took off his heavy coat and threw it on the table aside. Without showing any fear or worry at all, he walked to the bar owner so casually, sat down, and picked up the wine glass.
"Hades..."
In the darkness, the bar owner's eyes flashed: "Why did you come to me?"
Hades smiled, but did not answer him. He just tasted the wine that he had not had in many years, and deeply recalled his past glory.
"Ah...those above the clouds...under those underworld...ah, the clouds have dispersed."
Gently placing the wine glass on the bar, Hades raised his eyes and looked at the slightly nervous bar owner: "You didn't run away, which surprised me. When did you discover me? My old friend , Vulcan.”
"Stop calling me that name."
The bar owner shook his head slightly and filled Hades's glass with wine: "I stopped using that name hundreds of years ago.
As for you, I discovered you when you first arrived in this town, Hades. You didn't hide the murderous intention in you at all.
Are you here to kill me? Hades. "
"Oh, so what is your identity now and what human name do you use?"
Hades still did not answer his question, but continued to pick up the wine glass, tasting the wine in front of him expressionlessly.
"that's not important."
The bar owner drank all the wine in the glass and poured it for himself: "What happened back then, I was very..."
Bang!
He directly crushed the wine glass in his hand. Hades remained expressionless and raised his hand to gently brush away the broken glass on his body: "Vulkan, do you think that what happened back then has just passed?
As long as you leave Olympus, as long as you abandon your identity as a god, as long as you change your appearance and take a bullshit human name, you will really be a human.
Vulcan! The blood of gods flows in your body! "
Hades suddenly looked ferocious, his eyes were completely filled with black "ink stains", and black tears of blood flowed faintly from the corners of his eyes, and many flowing black runes appeared on his face, constantly forming under the skin. The earth dissipates and is reborn.
Black mist floated out from his body, and a huge shadow gradually emerged. It was Hades himself, who once wore the armor of the gods, was high-spirited, and had a spontaneous murderous intention.
"I don't!"
The owner of the bar, Vulkan, slapped the table, and his body also changed. Many sparks scattered and slowly gathered together, turning into flowing flames, resisting the erosion of darkness.
His hand pressed against the wooden bar, but it did not harm the fragile wood at all.
"Heh, that's good."
Suddenly losing his terrifying side, Hades returned to his expressionless state, sitting in front of the bar like an ordinary tall middle-aged man.
"Vulkan, I don't blame you. No matter whether you betrayed me or not, I don't blame you.
Let him let go of what happened back then. "
As if he didn't expect Hades to say such sensible words, the flames on Vulcan's body started to stir, and green smoke immediately rose from the wooden bar, even though Vulcan quickly took out his hand and dispersed. Despite the majestic divine power on his body, five burnt black fingerprints were still clearly visible on the bar, and the fingerprints were faintly visible.
Lowering his head and glancing there, Hades showed a smile: "My old friend, you are in good condition. I thought...ah, they still enshrine your statue now."
"No...of course not."
Vulgan shook his head lonely and raised his head, as if he was remembering something.
"Sigh... Humanity's progress is too fast. Since... that incident, you were imprisoned, Poseidon escaped to the sea, and I didn't feel comfortable in Olympus.
Zeus...he insisted on taking all the gods with him to live in seclusion and withdraw from the stage of history.
I can’t say whether what he did was right or not, but there are not a few gods who think like me, but we don’t have a channel to speak out. "
"snort."
Hades snorted coldly: "The person who can speak out for you is me, who lost everything after being betrayed by you."
Vulkan still shook his head: "In short, two hundred years ago, I left that place and came to the human world.
I have no intention of doing anything to restore the past glory, because I see human beings... Alas, human beings no longer need gods.
Hades, you know, I saw them blow up a mountain with my own eyes, I saw them block a river forcefully and build a huge dam. I saw with my own eyes that their factory could produce hundreds or even thousands of metal tools in a day.
They don’t need gods anymore, at least, they don’t need gods like me. "
After saying that, Vulgan looked out the window at the hazy moonlight with a slightly shaken look, and drank another glass of wine.
After that, as if he remembered something, he focused on Hades again: "Those are no longer important, Hades, why did you come here to find me, what do you want...Hades. You fight But Zeus’s.”
"Nonsense! I can't beat him?!"
Hades' pretended calmness and grace were instantly revealed, revealing his true colors.
"If you guys, who had agreed to be neutral, hadn't suddenly turned to his side, would I have lost?
Phew... It's useless to say this, Vulcan, let me ask you, you just said that Poseidon has disappeared, what about Ares? "
After hearing what Hades said, the shocked expression on Vulkan's face flashed away. He raised his head and looked at Hades, with inexplicable depth and doubt in his eyes, and said tentatively: "Could it be that you Did you just escape from that place recently..."
Hades looked at Vulkan indifferently: "Just answer my question."
"Ah……"
Vulkan laughed: "He died. He died in the hands of...Diana."
"Who is Diana?"
"Oh...hehe, it seems that you did escape recently..."
The figure passed through the bar, drifting like a gust of evil wind, and came to Vulkan. Hades looked at Vulcan condescendingly, stretched out his hand to pinch his neck, and raised him to eye level with himself. Position: "You seem to be hiding something that I don't know, my friend."
Bang!
Reaching out to place Vulcan on the wine cabinet, Hades's voice became colder and colder: "Although I'm not here to kill you, you have to know that I never have the patience to listen to other people's mysteries. You know, tell me."
Letting go of his hand, Vulkan's feet finally stepped on solid ground again.
"Diana is a female warrior of the Amazons and the daughter of... Zeus."
Rubbing his neck, Vulkan lowered his head, hiding his eyes and expression: "Before she died, she was once your daughter."
"What!"
His hands were on Vulkan's neck again. He lifted him high again.
Black runes began to appear on Hades's face again, and black liquid emerged from his eyes: "You'd better make things clear, or... I will kill you."
Turning around, he slammed Vulkan on the bar counter. Hades put his fingers on Vulcan's forehead, his voice cold and cold as if it could freeze the flowing blood. He said calmly: "Speak."
……………………
In the quiet tavern, Vulkan rubbed his neck gently, turning his head from time to time to look at Hades in front of him.
His state was very strange, with a kind of calmness that he shouldn't have at all, as if... as calm as if he was dead.
"Hades..."
After thinking for a while, Vulkan finally said: "I don't know what happened to you, but, you know...Diana, I really have nothing to do with you now."
Sitting there, with his arms spread out on the bar, and his arms faintly pulled inward, Hades seemed to be making a "press down" action.
In the end, he made no move and just sat there quietly. No one could guess what he was thinking at this time.
After a long silence, Hades was the first to break the silence.
"Zeus...he is so cruel with this move. Hahaha, you are worthy of being mine, good brother~
Vulcan. "
Turning his head to look at the frowning Vulkan, Hades said: "I don't care about those things back then.
Poseidon is now missing and Ares is dead. You have to think clearly, in this world, the only person who can resist Zeus, the person who can seek justice for you, and the person who can bring you back to the lofty status of a god, is me. "
Vulkan lowered his eyebrows and said, "What do you want me to do? Just tell me."
"Oh, I need you to build me a suit of armor and weapons. With these things, I can return to my peak state, and even be stronger.
At that time, we can have the past again..."
"I'm sorry to interrupt you. Hades. Did I not speak clearly just now?
Humanity no longer needs us, why? Because they themselves are powerful!
Far more powerful than we imagined! "
Hades was imprisoned for a thousand years, but Vulkan was not. During the years he has lived in the human world, he has seen with his own eyes that humans have developed their own technology to an... incredible level!
To a certain extent, human beings today are replicating miracles to a certain extent at any time.
Fly into the sky, go to the sea, change the course of rivers, level mountains...
There are even many things that gods have never done.
Did the gods abandon humans? of course not! The words are very clear, it is the gods who have been abandoned by humans!
not to mention……
In this world, gods are not the only ones with great power. Among those human beings, there are also those who use force on themselves and are so powerful that they are scary.
Vulkan really feels that Hades is a bit stupid now. After being imprisoned for a thousand years, his mind is still stuck in the old age, foolishly imagining that he can still make humans kowtow and sacrifice everything with a few so-called "miracles" like magic tricks.
Why did Vulkan himself live in seclusion in such a small town?
Because he is afraid! Afraid that his identity will be discovered, afraid that he will be captured by humans and cut into pieces for study! !
Living long enough has such benefits.
In his long life, Vulkan has seen many, many terrible aspects of human beings.
The tortures used by Hades to punish sinful souls in the underworld are like children's play compared with human beings' own operations.
A miracle is just a magic trick that cannot be broken. That's all.
Vulkan didn't want to accompany Hades to die. In his opinion, Hades' current thoughts were simply to die.
If he could go by himself, Vulkan would definitely meet all his requirements, but Vulkan knew that Hades would not do that.
He would force himself to be on his side, just like Zeus did all those years ago.
Sure enough, after hearing what Vulkan said, Hades didn't seem to listen at all, and just laughed contemptuously: "Oh, Vulkan, I only want to ask you one thing.
You agree or you don't. "
With a helpless smile, Vulkan sighed: "Do I have any other choice?"
"Yes, I have."
Hades nodded: "Death."
What else is there to say? Vulkan could only nod: "Okay. However, I still want to say that even if Zeus and the others don't care about worldly affairs, they will not stop us at all. It is still a wishful thinking to realize your idea.
Hades, we will lose. "
Maybe...I will lose at the hands of your daughter...
"No. Of course not."
Hades looked full of confidence and asked with a chuckle: "There must be many gods who hide like you and linger on pretending to be human beings."
"you mean……"
"Oh, gods like me who resisted and were imprisoned after losing must still be alive.
So, what I want to say is, Vulcan, my friend, we are not alone. "
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"What's going on? This is all sand. Was this place hit by some kind of sandstorm?
Hey, you two talk! Are you secretly making money again? Hey! "
In the narrow and long corridor, Lin En's level of noise alone was enough to bear the burden of three bargaining ladies.
Deep in the corridor, Constantine and Diana said nothing, just searched around, and then after exchanging glances, they both shook their heads.
"Lynn, that's not sand."
Constantine walked out of a certain room, leaned against the wall and looked at Linn: "Those are people. At least they used to be people. However, their souls and lives were drained of them, and they were shocked by divine power and turned into..."
"Ashes?!!"
Lin En's voice rose an octave: "He did such a great job, good guy, I wonder why there is no one here. Now, can you find where they are?"
Spreading his hands, Linn pouted: "I'm not too anxious, but..."
Pushing his lips towards the frowning Diana, Lin lowered his voice: "She is still very anxious!"
"Constantine."
Diana also came over: "Can you find him? Because... I am really anxious."
What Lynn said could be treated as bullshit, but Diana still had to respect it.
Constantine nodded and took out a compass made of crow skulls from his arms?
He grabbed a handful of sand from the ground and lightly sprinkled it on the crow's head.
Lifting up the compass, the crow's beak had changed its direction and was pointing steadily in a certain direction.
"Well, thank you very much."
Diana thanked her and prepared to open the door and leave the place, to find Hades as soon as possible to prevent something like this from happening.
However, as soon as she took two steps away, Linn's voice came from behind her: "Wait a minute."
Diana turned around and saw a strange expression on Linn's face: "You two, we seem to have guests.
Just now, the clone I placed outside was killed. "
"An enemy?"
"Constantine, I really don't want to complain about your IQ."
Lin En mocked ruthlessly: "If you were a friend, you wouldn't have strangled my clone's neck directly with your arms. Otherwise, as your friend, I would greet you like this."
"Then let's..."
"What about us? Of course we will fight back!"
