Chapter 171 There is a dark shop in the River Styx
. When it was dark, a small truck also delivered several large boxes.
I don’t know what’s inside the box, but it’s heavy to carry.
We moved our stuff to the hotel room and basically didn’t go out the rest of the time.
But not going out doesn’t mean we are idle.
Zhang Sanfen told me a lot about the advancement and rules of the Land of the Dead.
What four ghost kings and two evil corpses.
What a black shop in Styx, what a village of sin.
There is also the only way to enter the land of the dead, the town of the dead controlled by Yu Bushun.
According to the information we have received, Academician Han’s research location has been at the Styx Black Shop.
Because this place is extremely hostile to people from the Secret Bureau, few people know the identity of Academician Han.
He rented a small courtyard in Styx Black Shop and had two doctoral students as his assistants.
There are also two secret bureau masters responsible for security.
These people have disappeared with Academician Han.
Similarly, the second search and rescue team sent a message before they disappeared, saying that the team arrived at the cabin rented by Academician Han, but it suffered devastating damage inside.
There were scattered documents and information everywhere, as well as some unimportant broken instruments.
There were blood stains on the ground, and it was initially determined that they were left by two doctoral students and two experts from the Mobei branch.
However, no blood left by Academician Han was found, and it is speculated that Academician Han may not have been injured.
After this team sent out the news, they originally said they would continue to report once they had detailed information.
As a result, after hanging up the communication, the other party lost contact and has not responded until now.
Counting the time, it has been eight days since the second rescue team lost contact.
Among the supplies sent by the old cripple, there was a very important thing, which was a detailed map of the Land of the Dead.
This place has an irregular oval shape, a bit like a bottle shape, running from east to west, with a length of about two hundred kilometers.
As for the width, the east end, where the bottle mouth is, is about 80 kilometers. The west end, which is the bottom of the bottle, is almost 150 kilometers away.
A blue dotted line runs from the bottom of the bottle to the mouth of the bottle. This is the River Styx in the Land of the Dead.
In fact, the Secret Bureau's definition of Styx is very harsh.
It must be an underground river that does not see sunlight all year round, and it must have an independent origin and flow continuously all year round. The nature of the river water is extremely cloudy, and the water is cold but not freezing.
Such a river would be called the Styx.
There are three Styx rivers discovered so far.
One is deep in the Uncursed Road, also known as the main stream of the River Styx.
It was a river that truly formed in the dark underground world.
The river is wide and has a huge amount of water. There are springs without rotting corpses in it, and there are also all kinds of water ghosts swimming in it.
Living people would not dare to enter such a river. They would be washed away by the yin energy, directly taking away the yang energy from the body, and then die.
The second River Styx is the river that runs through the entire Fengdu.
The famous Fengdu City was built along the river.
In terms of water quality and quantity, this river is slightly smaller than the Styx River without Curse Road, and because it is under the jurisdiction of Fengdu, it actually has its own rules of life. Currently, Middle-earth has been studying whether the Styx of the Uncursed Road and the Styx of Fengdu have been figured out.
But no relevant evidence has ever been found.
The third River Styx is the River Styx in the Land of the Dead. This is also the only River Styx flowing on the surface of the earth.
In fact, compared with the first two Styx rivers, the Styx River in the Land of the Dead seems a bit unworthy of its name.
The source of this river is also an underground river. The water is bone-chillingly cold, but it never freezes all year round.
There are water ghosts and countless floating corpses in the river, and there are even rumors of ghost ships wandering in it.
Because it originates from an underground river, there is no so-called dry season and wet season for this river. Anyway, the river flows all year round. After spreading for more than 200 kilometers in the Land of the Dead, it quietly slipped into a canyon and disappeared without a trace.
If this river were compared to a dragon, the head and tail of the dragon would be underground, with only a section of the backbone exposed in the land of the dead.
Because of this river, the Land of the Dead became prosperous.
However, due to the special geology of the Land of the Dead, the river changes its course all year round.
Every three to five years, it spreads, and then we don’t know where to redirect it.
This has also resulted in the Land of the Dead being filled with dry rivers for hundreds of years, like a maze.
Also because the river changes its course from time to time, the principle of living by the water does not apply here.
If you want to follow the river to find the Black Shop of Styx or the Town of the Undead, it will basically be in vain.
In this case, the map provided by the old cripple is very important.
Apart from eating and sleeping, Zhang Sanfen and I were studying the map, trying to find a suitable road.
Occasionally, I have to organize equipment and analyze the situation.
Unknowingly, three days passed quickly, and news came from Lao Lu that the vehicle had been completely modified according to Zhang Sanfen's requirements.
After Zhang Sanfen hung up the phone, he ordered me to clean up the house and collect everything.
Then he drove the second-hand car he borrowed from Lao Lu, loaded up the boxes, and went straight to the auto repair shop.
In the auto repair shop, the modified car was already parked in the yard.
Zhang Sanfen spent more than an hour checking the performance of the vehicle, and only transferred the payment after all aspects were satisfied.
I heard the transfer prompt, 230,000, which should be the voice after the change was exempted.
This price made me smack my lips secretly.
Two hundred and thirty thousand is probably enough to buy another car.
And that's just the modification fee.
Zhang Sanfen saw me sticking out my tongue and said, "What? Do you think it's expensive?"
"In order to modify this car, Lao Lu and his apprentices didn't sleep for three days and three nights. Some necessary things are still specially made by people. It was urgently transported from Hohhot."
"Lao He, this car is our leg in the Land of the Dead. When our legs are strong, we can do things more efficiently. It's worth spending some money!"
After we thanked Lao Lu, we put our things away It was all sorted and packed into the back compartment.
Just as he was about to drive away, suddenly a dusty Grand Cherokee crashed through the fence and rushed in.
My heart skipped a beat when I saw the Grand Cherokee, mainly because I had seen Bai Ju drive this kind of car before in Graveyard Hill.
The White Curse left a heavy psychological shadow on me, so much so that I felt a little scared when I saw the Grand Cherokee.
(End of chapter)