Greek Mythology: Evolution from monitor lizards

Chapter 20 The Caged Bird, The Caged Daughter

She is half human and half eagle, with blue-black flames burning all over her body.

The lower body is the torso of an eagle, with broad wings, feathers as black as night, and eagle claws as sharp as steel knives.

The upper body is a woman with eyes like burning hellfire.The lips were bright red, showing sharp teeth.Her hair was disheveled and her lips and hair were covered in blood.

"Yeah—yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!"

The Harpy did not respond to Yang Qi's arrival at all. She screamed again, staring at the floor outside the cage, her eyes full of longing.

Yang Qi didn't move forward, he watched silently from the side, trying to figure out what was going on.

After passing through the three god realms in this way, the outside world reached midnight.

As soon as noon arrived, billowing golden thunder came out of the hall, crackling and exploding.

Those thunders twisted in the air, and suddenly, several fresh fish were born out of thin air and fell to the ground.

The belly of the fish was ripped open, exuding a umami and fishy smell, and the harpy stared at the fish, her eyes full of longing.

She swallowed hard, and then cautiously pressed against the cage, stretching out her claws, trying to catch the fish.

It's sizzling!

An astonishing flash of light erupted from the cage of thunder, and suddenly, the gap in the cage narrowed, clamping her arm tightly.

"Yeah! Yay!"

A strong burning smell came, and electric current ran through her whole body.The harpy screamed, trembling all over, and almost passed out.

"I see, this is a cruel punishment." Yang Qi understood.

The Thunder Cage seems to have wide gaps, and you can enter and exit at will, but once the prisoner inside wants to come out, or even just stretches out his arms, the cage will shrink immediately, allowing the prisoner to suffer from the thunder and lightning.

Yang Qi seemed to be able to see the life of a prisoner that the Harpy had lived.

"A huge sense of hunger, like a mountain, overwhelmed like a tsunami, every bone in the body, every drop of blood is screaming, hungry, hungry. I want to eat."

"At midnight, there will be thunder in front of you, and it will turn into fresh fish. The fresh fishy and meaty smell stimulates the taste buds, and thunder rolls in your stomach. I really want to eat, and swallow those fresh fish."

"I seem to have forgotten everything in my mind. But in fact, I know it deep in my heart. It has been like this for thousands of years."

"As long as you stretch out your hand, the cage of thunder will shrink, and then violent lightning will run through your body."

"The huge pain seemed to shake the soul, tear it into pieces, and fly into the distance."

"It has been like this for thousands of years, so I dare not reach out."

"But what if? What if it's different this time? What if the cage doesn't shrink this time?"

"My heart is burning like fire, do you want to try again? I have tried billions of times, but do you want to try again?"

"Anxiety, panic, anxiety, great fear, all of these are overcome by something called [hope], trembling, reaching out to touch the food, and then..."

"The cage of thunder shrinks without hesitation, and it's the same this time. The painful one seems to be about to die."

……

Yang Qi sighed softly, "This harpy's life in the past tens of thousands of years is like this."

After a while, the harpies came to her senses. She climbed to the side of the cage, stared at the fish in front of her, her stomach growled.

Then, she raised her head and looked at Yang Qi.

Her voice was hoarse and ugly, "You, you, why, come, it has been, ten thousand, ten thousand, ten thousand years, no, life, come here. Here."

"I came here to avoid being chased and killed." Yang Qi replied, "You are burning with blue-black flames. Are you a follower of Cronus?"

"!!" Hearing the name of Kronos, the Harpy trembled all over. She screamed and retreated into the corner of the cage.

"I, I, know, know, wrong, wrong, God, God, please, please forgive me, forgive me, I'm so hungry, so hungry."

"Who is the god you are talking about? Who locked you here?" Yang Qi asked.

"Yes, yes, the eternal king, yes the eternal, eternal god, the king of gods, Zeus, Zeus."

After chatting for a while, Yang Qi knew about her past.

Her name is Storm, and she is one of the three Harpy sisters, her other two sisters being Dark and Storm.

They are all demigods born with heaven and earth.

Bloodthirsty, evil, terror, and cruelty, these are the descriptions of the Harpy by the beings of the Olympus God Realm for thousands of years.

They like to fly at night, looking for innocent prey, especially the young children of the creatures.

They tear the flesh of their prey with their sharp claws and teeth, and deter the soul of their prey with their roars.

During the Second Titan War, they joined the camp of Cronus and fought with Zeus and other Olympian gods.They got the supernatural power of Cronus, which is the origin of the blue and black flames all over their bodies.

Cronus was finally defeated.The whereabouts of her two sisters are unknown, and she was imprisoned here by Zeus, receiving eternal hunger and lightning punishment.

Tens of thousands of years of long-term torture have made Harpy forget her pride, her agility, her bloodthirsty and brutality, and she has almost forgotten her past.Now, all she could think about was the few fish in front of her eyes, and the endless torment of lightning strikes.

"Do you still remember how you flew and hunted?" Yang Qi asked.

"Fly, fly. Hunt, hunt, hunt, hunt. Don't remember. I can't, fly, and I can't, hunt. I'm so hungry, so hungry."

The harpy stared at the fish in front of her, and stretched out her arms again.

The Thunder Cage lit up again, and then, the screams of the Harpy echoed in the dark hall.

……

Yang Qi shook his head. The harpies were cruel by nature and killed innocent people indiscriminately. Yang Qi felt that they were not innocent.

But after such a long torment, even the greatest sins are canceled out.

Yang Qi picked up a fish and wanted to hand it into the cage.

The cage of thunder roared again, and the golden lightning seemed to be spiritual, eager to try.

As long as Yang Qi's claws move a little further, lightning will burst out.

"The cage of thunder forbids the prisoners inside to come out, and also forbids outside things to enter."

This is the first time Yang Qi saw the creation of Zeus, and the first time he was able to feel the divine power of Zeus.

Yang Qi's feeling is that he has strong divine power, majestic momentum, and superb skills at the same time.

"The divine power contained in this cage is definitely beyond my reach now. If I touch it, I will be smashed to pieces." Yang Qi thought to himself.

"Sorry, I can't help you."

"You, don't, don't go. I'm so lonely. Many, many years, no soul, talk to me."

The harpy wanted to pounce, but she didn't dare to touch the cage. She carefully looked at Yang Qi through the cage. Her eyes were like burning hellfire, and she looked horrified, but Yang Qi could see a trace of sadness in it.

"You go, go, I, lonely, lonely."

Yang Qi said: "I have to leave here."

The harpy's eyes were full of sadness. She opened her mouth, but she didn't speak.

"When I am strong enough, I will come back to save you. But it may take millions of years, tens of millions of years, and it may never be enough." After Yang Qi finished speaking, he turned and prepared to leave.

"Wait, wait! Wait!!" The harpy screamed, her voice like blood and weeping.

"Then you, you kill me, me."

"I, I, I don't want to live anymore, I, well, suffer."

"I have committed suicide countless times, but I can't, get through, get through the Styx." The Harpy seemed to be caught in some painful memory, "The Styx, the river, is really, well, so cold."

Yang Qi listened patiently, and finally understood what she meant.

The harpy committed suicide countless times, and her soul drifted to the underworld, reaching the banks of the River Styx.

The ferryman of the river Styx, Charon, was supposed to ferry her soul across the river.

But the god king Zeus is everywhere, and his will is carried out in the underworld.He had already ordered Hades not to accept the soul of the Harpy.

The soul of the harpies had to linger on the bank of the River Styx for a long time. There was nothing on the bank, only the desolate land and endless, blooming white flowers.

Her soul wandered on the banks of the River Styx for 330 years, enduring the cold wind on the banks of the river all day long.Without the protection of the body, the cold wind would blow directly into the soul, and she never dared to recall that kind of pain.

After 330 years, her restless soul will return to the Olympus God Realm, and her body will not decay in the golden thunder cage.

Enduring hunger countless times, suffering from the pain of thunder, and then committing suicide and resurrecting, it has been like this for tens of thousands of years.

"You, kill me, please, please." There was no pleading in the Harpy's voice, only numbness.

"Then, I beg you to go to the underworld, take my soul, cross the Styx River, and come to the land of judgment, so that my soul can be judged and rest in peace."

"I'll give, the only remaining divine power I have left, to, to you."

"Okay?"

(End of this chapter)