Chapter 338

The Bureau Chief's level of monstrosity is as consistent as ever.

After wordlessly smacking his lips, Li Ang tried to shake this unfriendly thought from his mind, then immediately began searching along the path for the Cerberus that the Bureau Chief had knocked down, following the method Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma had taught him.

A fainted, three-headed, red-haired-tied puppy...

A fainted, three-headed, red-haired-tied puppy...

Heaven rewards the diligent; after silently reciting it over a dozen times in his heart, Li Ang truly found a dog that basically met the criteria appearing not far ahead. As for why it was "basically"...

"Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma..."

Looking at the three dog heads, each two sizes larger than a round dining table, soaking in the black-yellow swamp beside the Road of No Return, Li Ang couldn't help but say wordlessly:

"Just the heads of this dog are this big; once pulled out entirely, it must be at least five or six meters long. This can't possibly count as a puppy, can it?"

"It's very large for us, but among the gods of the Death Realm, it is already the smallest in size."

Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, on Li Ang's back, explained softly:

"In our world, souls exist attached to physical bodies, so the physical body takes very high priority. If the size is too huge, one's own flesh and blood easily cannot bear it.

Therefore, unless encountering a fallen evil god or similar existence capable of briefly eroding the world's rules with alien rules, it is very difficult to see things of excessively huge size on land."

"But the rules of the Death Realm differ from ours; here, the existence of physical bodies is not acknowledged. So as long as the soul can support it, the size of Death Realm creatures can increase almost infinitely, even growing as large as a mountain range.

As for the Cerberus responsible for guarding the Death Realm's gate, it spends most of its time outside the Death Realm and is one of the few Death Realm gods with a true physical body. Therefore, among all the True Gods of the Death Realm, its original form is the smallest in size."

I see.

Thinking of that Death Realm Ruler who ground his own bones into bone bricks and paved a path from the Death Realm's entrance all the way to the deepest part, Li Ang nodded with sudden realization on his face.

Indeed, if that "First Dead One" didn't have a sufficiently huge size, he really might not have had enough bones to grind into powder. However...

"How should we wake it up?"

After looking at the Cerberus's fangs, which were longer than his own feet, Li Ang asked hesitantly:

"Should we shout loudly directly at it? Or reach out and pat it? Also, since it was already knocked unconscious by the Bureau Chief, will it still be willing to open the door for us?"

"It will help."

After looking at the three-headed Cerberus soaking in the roadside swamp, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma said with a somewhat complex expression:

"Olivia's reputation in the Death Realm is relatively... relatively loud. Moreover, back then for my sake, she came to the Death Realm many times and also communicated with the Cerberus many times. So after seeing me, it will send us out.

As for how to wake it, it's very simple. The Cerberus distinguishes the living from the dead by its nose and is very sensitive to the aura of the living. So you just need to blow a breath of air onto its nose."

"Oh..."

Instantly understanding Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's high-EQ answer, Li Ang, while sighing at his own Bureau Chief's notorious reputation, carefully walked down the Road of No Return to the edge of the swamp and blew a sharp breath directly onto the nose of the unconscious Cerberus.

"Woof?!"

Even though the position where Li Ang stood was seventeen or eighteen meters away from where the three-headed hound had sunk, after that breath containing the aura of the living was blown over, the twelve eyelids of the six eyes on the three dog heads all moved simultaneously.

"Alive!"

Accompanied by a still somewhat mumbled mutter, the pink dog nose, large as a basketball and closest to Li Ang, twitched violently. The ears that had originally drooped on its forehead suddenly stood up and twisted slightly left and right, searching for nearby sounds. Its already somewhat protruding teeth were bared even more unfriendly outside its mouth.

"Daring to intrude into the Death Realm, I will..."

"Gexi!"

Noticing this, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma on Li Ang's back

raised her body slightly, actively facing the six huge dog eyes glaring over, and asked loudly:

"Look, who am I?"

"..."

The six eyes, as large as handheld lanterns and flickering with ghostly green phosphorescent fire, stared at Auntie Auntie Ai Ma and examined her carefully for a while. Then, the muscles on the face of the awakened Cerberus twitched slightly, and it said with an unfriendly expression:

"So it's you... You want to go to the City of Regret to see your family again? Didn't they say they refuse to see you? How can you not know what it means to give up hope?"

City of Regret?

After hearing the Cerberus's opening line, Li Ang's eyes narrowed slightly.

If he remembered correctly, that was the place where the dead, whose regrets or remorse were too intense to continue moving forward, resided. It was inhabited by a large number of dead who were unwilling to let go.

Only until they were forgotten by all the living, until no one remembered them anymore, or until the people or things they regretted, remorseful about, or hated in their lives had also vanished with time or death, would these dead depart the City of Regret and continue their journey onto the Road of No Return leading to the Cliff of Finality.

So... Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's clan, at least a part of her clan, had not "completely" left and still resided in the City of Regret, and still held a grudge against her?

"This has nothing to do with you..."

Seemingly stirred up by the Cerberus's question, the pain in her heart surfaced. Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's face turned slightly pale, then she bit her lip and said:

"Open the door for us. We are leaving the Death Realm now!"

"Fine, I'll open it for you! You damn Cleaners always like to rely on the Abnormalities in your hands to break the rules and do things that shatter the boundary between life and death!"

On the huge dog head, a rather human-like expression of disgust appeared. The three-headed Cerberus stared at the two of Li Ang and said with a face full of malice:

"I've remembered your scents! When you two come in again as the dead, I will definitely take a big bite out of each of you! Especially you!"

"..."???

Looking at the three-headed Cerberus glaring at him with a ferocious face, Li Ang asked in some bewilderment:

"Me? I'm only here in the Death Realm for the first time?"

"Heh, before you lie, do you want to ask this woman who I am first?"

Snorting loudly and blowing out the black-yellow swamp mud from its nose, the three-headed Cerberus said with a face full of contempt:

"In terms of power, I am the weakest among the True Gods of the Death Realm, but in terms of the nose, no one can be stronger than me.

I can smell it at once. You must have come to the Death Realm about three years ago, and recently you have almost entered the Death Realm at least a hundred times, only to run back again using Abnormalities. Am I right?"

"..."

Recently... That is indeed true. The number of times he had avoided death relying on the Goat Horn and Goat Heart added up to well over a hundred.

But three years ago... That wasn't when I first "came"

when?

"Heh heh, got nothing to say now?"

While Hearing Li Ang was frowning and pondering the reason, the three-headed divine hound, believing it had rendered him "speechless," grinned smugly, then suddenly flung its jaws wide and let out an earsplitting roar.

"Woof!"

Accompanied by a deep, resonant bark, the massive door in the distance creaked slightly open, and Hearing Li Ang and his companion vanished without warning, as if they had plunged into a black hole.

"Get lost, now!"

After spitting three times toward the direction the two had left, the three-headed divine hound said with a face full of displeasure:

"Damned Cleanup Bureau! Damned Cleanup agents! And that damned red-haired woman! Once she's dead, I'll definitely… huh? Anpu?"

After catching a familiar scent, the three-headed divine hound twisted its head in surprise and said to the crocodile god that had burrowed out of the swamp behind it:

"Why are you here? Don't you always… uh…"