Chapter 109 Life is so fragile
When he said this, Thanatos lowered his head slightly, without any of the arrogance and arrogance he had when talking to everyone before.
Hypnos clutched her skirt tightly, as if the thought of what happened in the past would make her furious.
"He killed all my friends while I was asleep... and turned them all into immortal ghosts... This is Lord Thanatos' attitude towards life. People like him will never be respected or loved."
Li Muhan understood.
If what Hypnos said is true, Thanatos is indeed extremely disrespectful to life, but we cannot just listen to one side of the story now.
He looked at Thanatos.
"Do you have anything to say?"
Thanatos still kept his head down, and sighed as he looked at the ground beneath his feet that was almost shattered by him and Li Muhan.
"No."
"Of course not. This is your nature. You despise life and trample on souls. You are the almighty God of Death, the right-hand man of Hades..."
"etc."
Cen Lin, who had been silent all this time, suddenly pinched his goatee, as if he had thought of something.
The top hat on his head was now tattered and covered in dust, but he still dug it out from the ruins and put it on his head.
Cen Lin looked at Hypnos and asked tentatively.
"Lord Hypnos, may I ask, have you ever... understood your own divinity?"
Hypnos seemed quite offended by the question.
She stood up directly.
"What do you mean, human? I am the God of Dreams. Is there anyone in this world who understands his own divinity better than I do?"
"Then are you aware of the nature of your century-long dream?"
A century-long dream?
Li Muhan was also confused. He had learned about Greek mythology through literature or film and television works, but had never heard of this statement.
"I don't understand what you're talking about, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with what we just talked about, right?"
Hypnos said in an unhappy tone.
"When our director captured you... and asked you to return to the Special Management Bureau, we conducted some examinations on you and also received some information about your characteristics from the Eastern European Special Management Bureau."
As for why the Eastern European Special Management Bureau cooperated so well and provided almost all the information about Hypnos and Thanatos, it was naturally because these two people were hot potatoes. The special management bureaus abroad were different from those in China. They did not have inhuman existences like Lin Ze or Chang Yue.
The fewer powerful outliers there are, the better they can be managed.
Especially the true gods in these myths, whose existence can almost shake the power of a country.
"What do you want to say?"
Hypnos asked.
Cen Lin hesitated for a moment, then spoke.
"Based on our testing of your divinity, combined with relevant information from the Eastern European Special Administration Bureau, we can confirm that every fifty years you will fall into a fairly long dream, which may last for one hundred to two hundred years..."
Hypnos was stunned.
Judging from her reaction, she had no idea that she had this divinity.
"Nonsense! Are you saying I slept for two hundred years?!"
An angry expression appeared on the girl's face, which made Li Muhan start to be alert. The God of Dreams had not suffered any harm just now, and if he suddenly attacked at this moment, he might still have to fight.
"No...it's four hundred years."
Thanatos, who had been silent the entire time, finally spoke.
He still had his head down and his voice was a little hoarse, but everyone could hear every word he said clearly.
"What did you say?"
Hypnos turned around and stared at Thanatos blankly.
"Lord Thanatos... this joke is not funny..."
"And this isn't a characteristic of the divine nature, but a flaw in Hypnos's divinity, a flaw destined from birth."
"No, it's impossible. How could I not know about this? Father and Mother never told me anything!"
Hypnos roared at the man.
The Grim Reaper sighed deeply. Now that things had come to this, it seemed pointless for him to remain silent any longer.
"When you were born, your soul was broken. It was for this reason that your mother entrusted you to the dream realm. You must rely on the power of dreams to replenish your soul, so you spend most of your time in dreams. Every fifty years, you fall into a deeper dream. As this human said, you will sleep for one to two hundred years."
Thanatos slowly clasped his hands together. It was obvious that what he was about to say next would completely shatter his sister's worldview.
"But this time, you slept for four hundred years, so..."
“That’s enough!”
The girl interrupted her brother.
She looked at Thanatos angrily.
"So what? It's only been four hundred years! Is that why you killed my friends?! Just because I'm not here, you can trample on their lives and torture their souls?!"
Li Muhan and Cen Lin looked at each other.
Cen Lin nodded, and then whispered to Li Muhan.
"The Goddess of Dreams is extremely lacking in common sense. She has spent almost her entire life in dreams, so..."
Li Muhan also fell silent.
He even began to hesitate whether to tell Hypnos about this.
Finally, Jinwu saw that everyone was silent and suddenly stood up and spoke.
"Four hundred years!? Twenty years is considered a very long lifespan for a kitten or puppy. Four hundred years would mean they'd be dead long ago, wouldn't they?!"
Now even Hypnos was silent.
She slowly turned her head and looked at Jinwu.
"What did you say?"
The little Golden Crow was so scared that he hid behind Li Muhan.
"I, I'm not wrong..."
Li Muhan touched Jinwu's head, then looked at Hypnos and said.
"As you just heard, Hypnos, your... friends couldn't possibly live to see you awaken from your hundred-year dream. This means they weren't killed by Thanatos, but... died of old age."
"Died of old age? ...How is that possible? Only four hundred years, that's impossible..."
"In fact, the same is true for us humans. Our lifespan is only a hundred years. Those who can live to be a hundred years old are considered to be very old."
Cen Lin said.
“…”
Hypnos was stunned. She looked at everyone present, as if trying to judge whether they were deceiving her.
"Life is so fragile, Hypnos."
Li Muhan looked at her seriously and said.
"No... that's not right. Wait, then why, then why did he turn them into... ghosts? Why!?"
Li Muhan looked at Thanatos.
"Then you'll have to ask him."
"...On the third day after I put you into a hundred-year slumber, I went to your temple and saw those animals dying of starvation. From that day on, I went to take care of them every day for you. But I didn't want to see you sad when you woke up, so... after they died one by one, I turned them into undead creatures."
There was a certain apology and guilt in Thanatos' voice.
"I thought as long as they were still there and could move, you would be happy and smile, but I was wrong..."
He raised his head and looked at Hypnos with a bitter and helpless smile.
"Because what you need is a warm life, not a cold corpse..."
thump--
The girl collapsed on the ground.
Those lives that once surrounded her, those lives that once dispelled loneliness for her.
Those glimmers of light that would guard her every night, waiting for her to wake up.
Friends she had once believed were powerful enough to heal a god.
So... fragile?
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