Apocalypse: I became rich by selling zombie live broadcasts

Chapter 85 Sister Zhen is also doing useless work

World of death.

A vast wilderness with no boundaries.

There were no animals, no plants, no dead objects, and even no wind on the pale Gobi Desert.

Empty and silent.

"Mom, life is really a wilderness~"

Shi Nianzhen looked into the distance and saw that the mountains in the distance were still far away and didn't seem to be getting closer at all.

I don't know how long ago,
Shi Nianzhen stood in front of the deep pit he had created, looking left and right, up and down, "Which way should we go?"

Qin Kong glanced around and asked her, "What do you think?"

"Hey~ Is this your first time in hell, or my first time here?" Shi Nianzhen was really unhappy that he threw the question back.

Qin Kong crossed his arms, looked down at her, and explained seriously: "The entire hell is a place unknown to the living. Even if the omniscient and omnipotent God came, he would not know where to go."

"Huh?" Shi Nianzhen was stunned for a moment. "Then the dead living in hell don't even know where they live?"

"Of course the deceased knows." Qin Kong said with a blink of his eyes.

"What about the demons?" Shi Nianzhen asked, "They're always fighting the Death World, so they always know the direction, right?"

"You're right." Qin Kong nodded.

"What about you?" Shi Nianzhen looked at him puzzledly.

"Miss, let me remind you that I am a bionic man. My soul is a living soul, not an undead soul, let alone a demon." Qin Kong said.

"Oh." Shi Nianzhen had an expression that said, "You still say you are useful."

Qin Kong narrowed his eyes and said, "Between the two of us, if anyone can guide the way, it still depends on you."

"What do you mean?"

"That is to say, if you take off the Black Dragon Brooch, you can die on the spot—" Qin Kong paused here.

Becoming a deceased person, you can naturally see the true appearance of the world of death.

Shi Nianzhen immediately shouted: "Absolutely impossible!"

"I will never let the Lord of the Underworld get his wish!" she said firmly.

Qin Kong smiled and said meaningfully: "Or you can become a demon and open the gate to Purgatory, and we can go directly to Purgatory."

Dead silence surrounded the two.

Shi Nianzhen stared at him expressionlessly for a moment, "Oh, it seems we need a guide from the dead."

Shi Nianzhen flew into the sky.

No longer affected by the Nether Lord's spell, she was finally able to use the force field to fly.

However, no matter how high she flew or how far she looked, she still could not see the edge of the world, nor could she see any scenery other than the Gobi Desert.

Don’t even think about looking for a village of the dead, a city of the dead, or skeletons, dead people, etc.

The comments in front of me all suggested:
[The meaning of "the living cannot know" is that no matter how high Sister Zhen flies, she will never see the full picture of the world of death.]

[Yes, this has nothing to do with the height of one's position; it is the power of the law.]

[In short, apart from what the assistant suggested, there seems to be no other way.]

Shi Nianzhen had no choice but to give up, looked around, and flew towards the distant hills.

That was the only highest point in sight.

Qin Kong automatically followed her footsteps. "It doesn't matter which direction we go. As long as we can find a city, we can leave via intercity transportation."

"...Hell is not what I imagined." Shi Nianzhen felt inexplicably anxious.

"What do you imagine hell to be like?"

"There are mountains of swords, seas of fire, and cauldrons of oil, and the King of Hell sits high in the Hall of Hell, judging people's lifetime sins." Shi Nianzhen said simply.

"The fact is, the law of death maintains hell, and its representative, the god of death, reaps all living beings." Qin Kong slowly explained to her.

"Whether in the realm of the living or the dead, in the universe, law reigns supreme. The gods have long since lost their authority and cannot judge any soul."

"Then isn't the God of Death a God?" Shi Nianzhen asked back.

"You can think of him as the embodiment of the Law of Death, and he is only responsible for harvesting lives."

Qin Kong pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled with an inexplicable meaning.

"Miss, let me remind you that the living cannot gain power from the world of the dead. You'd better not abuse your superpowers. Otherwise, when you need force at a critical moment but have no superpowers to use, it will be a big trouble."

"Don't you still exist?" Shi Nianzhen asked back, and then descended back to the ground.

"It is my honor to have the young lady's trust," Qin Kong said, "I will die for her!"

"Bah, who wants you to die?" Shi Nianzhen pursed her lips and walked forward.

She shouldn't have paid any attention to him!
Dead silence, dead silence, total silence.

Under the black dome, only the dim light emitted by the pale Gobi Desert allows people to see their surroundings clearly.

Footsteps, like thunder
Suddenly, Shi Nianzhen stopped.

The footsteps disappeared, and there was no other sound in my ears except the beating of my heart.

"Fuck!" Shi Nianzhen suddenly cursed.

"What's wrong?" Qin Kong stopped beside her.

Shi Nianzhen snorted, his brows furrowed so tightly that they could kill a fly. "This place is disturbing. I feel uncomfortable all over. My intuition tells me that I shouldn't be here."

Qin Kong raised his eyebrows, "Then I'll sing for you to change things up?"

"Ah, you can sing?" Shi Nianzhen looked skeptical.

"Have I ever told you that I'm also a singer?" Qin Kong said casually.

She really didn't expect this.

Shi Nianzhen looked him up and down suspiciously, then raised an eyebrow at his calm gaze, "Then sing for me."

"Ahem," Qin Kong cleared his throat, "Then I'll start."

"Dead silence~"

Qin Kong's singing was as low as his voice.

"You and I will go to hell together~"

But the tune was weird, Shi Nian really didn't know if the song was in that tune or if he was just singing it out of tune.

If Bei Mian's singing voice lingers in the ears for three days, then this is the devilish sound that penetrates the ears!
"We have never lived together, but we can die together. This is the greatest fortune for me..."

Shi Nianzhen's face twisted and he shouted, "Stop!"

"Hmm?" Qin Kong raised his eyebrows and looked at her, as if he would not let this matter go unless she explained the reason for stopping.

"I think it's more important for us to hurry on our way. Let's sing the song another day." Shi Nianzhen said, then turned and left.

In the barrage, the audience was thanking Shi Nianzhen:
Thank goodness, Sister Zhen called a halt.

My ears are dirty!

[This is what I said before, the kind of singers whose singing is not good. Listening to them sing is mental torture, but you have to listen to them when they are trying to deduce.]

[The devil's sound penetrates my ears, it really is the devil's sound penetrates my ears! ]

[I admit that the assistant is handsome, but his singing betrays his good looks! ]

...The comments were full of complaints about the assistant's singing being unpleasant.

A red and black comment suddenly appeared: [What's so bad about it? It's really tasteless.]

A barrage.

Suddenly, everything in front of Shi Nianzhen's eyes became empty and clear.

Shi Nianzhen blinked in confusion.

The Lord of the Abyss likes his assistant's singing so much?
Could it be that, as written in a certain book, the singing of mermaids is only beautiful when heard in water, and the singing of bionic people also has a specific environment for appreciation?
When the barrage reappeared, the topic had shifted and no one mentioned the assistant's singing again.

And Shi Nianzhen also fell into deep thought.

After walking for a while, Qin Kong saw that Shi Nianzhen's expression became more serious as she walked, so he asked her, "What are you thinking about?"

"Oh, I was wondering if it's because my hearing is not good and I can't hear all the parts of your singing, so I think it doesn't sound good."

Qin Kong pursed his lips.

"You see, the human ear's hearing frequency range is 20 Hz to 20000 Hz, and it is most sensitive to sounds between 1000 Hz and 3000 Hz."

"My physical condition has improved, but I'm not sure if I can hear infrasound and ultrasound, so~"

Maybe it’s not that you sang badly, but that I didn’t hear the whole thing.

Shi Nianzhen gave him a look that said "you know what I mean."

Qin Kong calmly turned his gaze away from her.

"I think you can use the car in your portable storage as a means of transportation." Qin Kong abruptly changed the subject.

"Eh?" Shi Nianzhen quickly checked the portable warehouse, "Can it be opened now?" It really can be opened.

Portable home can also be used.

Shi Nianzhen took out a brand new off-road vehicle and sat in the driver's seat.

"But you have to pay attention, the things you use in the world of death will change when you leave." Qin Kong said as he sat in the co-pilot seat.

Shi Nianzhen paused after closing the door and started the car. She could still afford to lose an off-road vehicle.

Having a car is much faster than walking alone.

Even if they ran to the mountain with all their might, they finally reached the foot of the mountain.

The hillside looks gentle from a distance, but it is very steep up close, especially as it gets closer to the top of the mountain, where it becomes almost vertical.

Shi Nianzhen grabbed Qin Kong and flew close to the ground, quickly approaching the top of the mountain, and lightly jumped onto the top of the mountain -

then,

Hit a boulder!
After a loud bang, Shi Nianzhen pulled Qin Kong back two steps.

The boulder rolled slowly backwards, paused for a moment, and then, as if it had crushed something, rolled down the mountain with irresistible force.

The roar continued.

"Look! Look! What! You! Did!"

A roar came from the ground.

Looking down, they saw a man trapped inside the mountain by a huge rock, glaring at the two of them.

Shi Nianzhen immediately realized that the huge rock she and Qin Kong had just hit was pushed up by this man.

"Oh, I'm so sorry." Shi Nianzhen said.

"Sorry?" the man roared, like a bull mooing.

"Did you know I was just one step away from pushing the boulder to the top of the mountain?"

The man stretched out his hand and gestured, with his thumb and index finger almost touching.

"Pfft~"

A laugh was heard, and Shi Nianzhen turned to look at Qin Kong. She didn't expect that he would laugh when he was so serious.

"You——" Shi Nianzhen opened her mouth but was interrupted.

"Pay me compensation!" the man roared, his long hair pricked up like a sea urchin in anger.

Shi Nianzhen looked at the huge rock at the foot of the mountain. Even though he was looking at it from the top of the mountain from nearly a thousand meters away, the size of the rock was not a bit smaller than before.

As huge as a hill.

The weight must be quite heavy.

However, for Shi Nianzhen, strength has never been a problem.

It wouldn't be difficult to help him carry it up if they could exchange it for the man being their guide.

Shi Nianzhen looked him up and down.

This was the first dead person she met in hell. He had deep dark circles under his eyes, messy long hair, a big body, and bulging muscles. He looked like a cow.

He just looked tired, like an old ox that had toiled for tens of thousands of years.

"Okay, Sisyphus," Qin Kong said nonchalantly, "You've been pushing for tens of thousands of years, but you still haven't been able to push the boulder to the top of the mountain."

"It will never succeed this time."

"We are all the same whether we meet or not."

Shi Nianzhen's eyes widened.

Sisyphus!

Isn’t this a person from mythology?
A tragic character who hates death and longs for the afterlife.

In mythology, he even kidnapped the god of death, eliminating death from the world. Finally, after escaping from hell and wandering around in the human world, he offended the gods and was punished by being forced to push a huge rock up a mountain in hell.

Because the boulder was so big, it always rolled down the mountain before reaching the top. So he kept repeating this process endlessly.

God told him that as long as he pushed the boulder to the top of the mountain, he would send him out of hell and resurrect him on earth.

But if the gods lost their power, would this punishment and reward still count? Shi Nian was really confused.

"Just because you didn't succeed before doesn't mean you won't succeed this time!"

"You must pay the price for your recklessness!"

Sisyphus roared and jumped up from the ground, charging towards the two men like a bull.

No one knows how much power a dead person who pushes a huge rock every day has.

Shi Nian really didn't want to take it head-on, so he dodged.

"Don't run!"

When Sisyphus saw her flying into the sky, he angrily picked up a small stone on the ground and threw it at her.

The pebbles thrown with great force acted like cannonballs.

Shi Nianzhen tried to construct a force field, but found that unless she used all her strength to construct the most powerful force field, she would not be able to resist!
And Sisyphus is purely physical strength!

Shi Nianzhen looked at the huge rock at the foot of the mountain. Pushing it every day is also a good exercise, right?
A strange light flashed in her eyes, and she said to Sisyphus, "Hey, don't be so angry."

"I'll try to push that stone," she said.

Sisyphus stopped throwing and squinted his eyes as he looked up and down at Shi Nianzhen. "You, a woman with thin arms and legs, you want to push a boulder?"

"Maybe you can't judge a person by his appearance." Shi Nianzhen said.

Sisyphus said nothing more and led them down.

Qin Kong leaned close to Shi Nianzhen's ear and whispered, "Do you really want to try?"

"I want to see how strong I am now." Shi Nianzhen whispered to him.

"Do you remember what I said before that the living cannot gain power from the world of death?" Qin Kong said.

"I can go back to my portable home to recover my strength." Shi Nianzhen said.

Qin Kong raised his eyebrows and smiled at her.

There was a flash of admiration in his eyes.

He was obviously very pleased with her quick response.

"Actually, I have a question," Shi Nianzhen said, "Why can't we return to the world of the living through our portable home? Isn't our portable home also a world of the living?"

Qin Kong said: "The home world is not open. The difference from other worlds is that there is only one entrance and exit, and the entrance and exit is in your hands."

"Wherever you are, that's where you came from that world. There's no way you can go anywhere else."

Shi Nianzhen seemed to understand, "Like a pocket?"

Qin Kong smiled and repeated: "Like a pocket."

The fact is, if Shi Nian really uses all his strength, he can indeed push the boulder.

She was doing what Sisyphus had done a million times—rolling the boulder up the hill.

Originally, she thought that the beginning was the most difficult part. As long as the stone started moving, the potential energy + kinetic energy would make pushing the stone easier.

But the mountain slapped her in the face.

Not only is the first step difficult, but each subsequent step becomes increasingly difficult.

Shi Nianzhen had only pushed the stone one-third of the way up the mountain, and even with all his strength and supernatural powers, he couldn't move the stone forward an inch.

"That's all?" Sisyphus snorted. "So you understand how much damage you've done to me, right?"

“…” Shi Nianzhen gritted his teeth and said nothing.

It wasn't that she didn't want to speak, but she simply couldn't muster the energy to do so. She felt like if she opened her mouth, all her energy would simply vanish.

In the barrage:
【Come on, sister Zhen! 】

[How heavy is this stone? Is there anyone with a good eye who can tell me?]

【It is beyond human power.】

[This is not a question of whether it is serious or not, but the power of the law, do you understand? ]

[The law of death is pressing down on it, and Sisyphus will never be able to push it to the top of the mountain in his eternity.]

[It is said that after death, the soul can only be reborn as a human being after passing through the Red Sea.]

Unfortunately, Sisyphus refused to forget the past and insisted on going against the laws of death and rebirth, attempting to return directly from hell to the living world, which is why he was punished.

【The law will not allow him to succeed.】

[Sister Zhen is also doing useless work. ]

"Sister Zhen, it's enough for us to experience it. Don't be stubborn. There are still many projects in hell waiting for you to develop!"

Shi Nianzhen looked at these comments and became more and more confused.

What is the difference between her desire to leave hell and return to the world of the living and Sisyphus' pursuit of resurrection from the dead?