Chapter 67: On the Road
"This is the most luxurious enjoyment, much more luxurious than those delicacies from the mountains and seas, brocade clothes and jade food. But many people don't understand, desperately pursuing those things that seem good and luxurious on the surface, but forgetting that the best things in the world are given by nature. The old man said slowly.
This old man not only knows how to enjoy it, but also knows how to enjoy it.
"I used to pursue those things blindly, and by the time I woke up, I didn't have much time left to enjoy them. So now, whenever I have time, I try to come out and bask in the sun as much as possible. ”
Huangpu Yishou said: "On this peak, why haven't I seen you before?" ”
The old man said, "You are pursuing what you want, a bad old man like me is inconspicuous." ”
The old man's explanation was very reasonable, but Huangpu Yishou didn't believe it at all, he had carefully observed every place on the peak, and he had never ignored it.
Huangpu Yishou said: "What is the old man doing at the top of the peak? ”
The old man said: "What I do is closely related to everyone at the peak, without me, everyone can't live!" ”
The old man's words surprised Huangpu Yishou and asked, "There is such a thing at the peak!" ”
The old man said, "Of course." ”
Huangpu Yi Shou said: "What is the matter?" ”
The old man said, "What is everyone in the world going to do?" ”
Huangpu Yishou said: "Eat and sleep." ”
The old man said, "You are very smart, you are right." A person can not wear clothes, he can not do things, he can not do martial arts, but he cannot go without eating and sleeping. ”
Huangpu Yishou said: "You are cooking for everyone on the mountain?" ”
The old man said: "Without me, wouldn't everyone be able to live?" ”
We wouldn't have made our own food without you?
The old man said, "Without you, we really can't live." ”
The old man said: "Don't think that you can still find food by yourself without me, there is no food on this peak, and there is no way down the mountain, if you want to find food by yourself, it is impossible." ”
"If you want to go down from the peak, no one can go down without the back of the ape-man."
Huangpu Yi Shou said: "Ape man? ”
The old man said: "It is a person like an ape, only they can go up and down the cliff without a rope." ”
Huangpu Yi Shou said: "What kind of people are they? ”
The old man said: "I told you that you don't know, you will see it the day after tomorrow, and you will know when the time comes." ”
Whampoa Yishou wanted to know who the seventeen people were who participated in the competition, and those who could come and go freely on the cliffs.
Two days passed quickly, and with a sharp whistle, many people suddenly appeared on the peak, which had not been seen until now.
The men, all wearing a veil on their heads, slowly walked into the room, where no one was allowed to approach.
From the outside, this room is no different except that it is a little larger than the others.
When I walked into this room, I found that the inside of this house, which looked like an ordinary peasant house from the outside, was actually comparable to the decoration of the imperial palace.
The floor is made of the most precious Persian carpets, all the furniture is made of the finest sandalwood, the bowls on the tables are made of jade, the wine bottles are made of the purest gold, and the chopsticks are made of ivory......
Whampoa Yishou took a look, and the things in this room were not exaggerated to describe it as priceless.
There were six people in the room, Tian Mi and Lan Xiaolan were among them, and the other four people were all wearing black hoods, so they couldn't see their faces at all.
Six men sat on the throne, three on one side, and one empty seat in between, and it seemed that there was someone more important than them that had not yet arrived.
Tian Mi said to everyone: "Find a random place to sit down." ”
After everyone sat down, Tian Mi said again: "Please hall master!" ”
A man dressed in an ornate brocade robe walked in.
This brocade-robed man was about fifty years old, and his face was stiff and expressionless, which did not match his gorgeous brocade robe.
In stark contrast to his facial expression is the temperament on his body, a distinctive royal temperament, which can only be found when a crane stands among the chickens.
"I have called you here today for your deeds." This voice is also powerful and powerful, and it is impossible to produce such a voice without a deep internal force.
"In this survival trial, you must show all your strength, because this is a survival trial! What is a survival trial? It is either a test of life or death, and as long as there is a trace of carelessness, it is possible to fall halfway. Do you want to fall halfway? The brocade-robed man asked.
"I don't want to!"
"Okay, then show your strength and make your competitors tremble!" The brocade-robed man began to stir up everyone's emotions.
"Anyone you meet on this path will kill him, whoever he is. Eighteen of you will participate in this competition, but you will never meet only seventeen people along the way, and I will also have others join in this competition, some of them are similar to your martial arts, and some are much higher than you. He looked at his side and said, "These four masked men beside me are four of the six stewards." The four of them are the smiling fox, the one-eyed, the old Chen, and the fourth. Don't be merciful when you meet them, they are here to kill you in this contest. Of course, whoever kills them, you will take their place and become stewards here! Of course, only if you are able to show up at the end of the path of trials. ”
Seeing that everyone was silent, he asked loudly, "Do you have faith?" ”
"Yes!" Few people answered, and the tone that should have been ambitious seemed a little weak.
There are eighteen people who participated in the survival trial this time, and everyone's strength is about the same, and it can be said that it is difficult to win.
That's not all, in order to increase the difficulty of this survival trial, other people have to be added, including the smiling fox, one-eyed, Chen Lao, and the four stewards.
According to the brocade robe, the martial arts of these four stewards are much higher than those of themselves.
No one knows what the martial arts of the three people are, such as One-Eyed, Old Chen, and Old Four.
What everyone knows is how high the smiling fox's martial arts are.
It was when he was in Cai Yuan, and the smiling fox didn't know what means he used to lure Liang Shaowu, the Western Desert wolf in the room, out.
Liang Shaowu, the wolf of the Western Desert, has been famous outside the customs many years ago, has been dominant in the desert for many years, and has reached a first-class master in martial arts, not only offended anyone, but he couldn't stay in the Western Regions, so he came to Cai Yuan.
However, even a master like Liang Shaoxiong did not hurt a single hair of the smiling fox with all his might. And the smiling fox shot once from time to time between giggling and laughing, leaving a shallow wound on Liang Shaowu's body every time.
Half an hour later, the fierce energy on Liang Shaowu, who was covered with injuries, was gone, but he begged the smiling fox to spare his life. Liang Shaowu didn't open his mouth to beg, but when he opened his mouth, the smiling fox's shot was heavier, and the wound left was deeper and more painful.
An hour later, Liang Shaowu's body was already full of wounds of different sizes. At this time, his internal strength had been exhausted, his blood had dried up, and he couldn't even make a voice of pleading, so he could only open his eyes unwillingly and look at the smiling fox smiling and crushing his throat.
The people who saw that scene that day had killed people before, and some people had killed quite a few people, but they were still terrified when they watched the smiling fox kill people.
The smiling fox has never heard of such a cruel killing method before, let alone seen it, how can people not be afraid.
Now, the brocade-robed man actually said that people like the smiling fox would also participate in the survival trial to test everyone, and with him were three other stewards who had never met. Even if everyone usually does not admit defeat, but they are about to face four such people, who still has so much confidence! Therefore, there are a few people who can barely answer "yes", and their voices also reveal a lack of confidence.
Looking at everyone, the brocade robe said, "You don't have much confidence anymore, do you?" Without waiting for everyone to answer, he continued: "Do you think that we called the smiling fox and they also participated in the survival trial, that is, to kill everyone?" ”
The crowd still didn't speak, some of them really thought so, but some of them didn't understand what the brocade robe man meant by saying these words.
"You're wrong, you're completely wrong! Spending so much energy to train you certainly won't do it to kill you all, as long as it's a normal person. ”
"Bringing the Smiling Fox into this survival trial is to put more pressure on you and thus stimulate your potential."
Some people say that human potential is unlimited, and many people don't know how much potential a person has. If you want to stimulate a person's potential, you must put pressure on him, and the greater the pressure, the more it can stimulate a person's potential, especially when facing the test of life and death, it can stimulate all of a person's potential.
"People who have no potential are useless people to me, and useless people are the people I want to eliminate in this survival trial."
Only then did everyone suddenly realize.
The brocade-robed man said: "Although this competition is extremely cruel, as long as you can pass this competition, you will find that everything you have paid today is worth it." ”
A young man who looked a little obscene asked, "Can the hall master reveal what it is in advance?" ”
Looking at the expectant crowd, the brocade robe said: "You will have endless gold and silver treasures, all kinds of beauties of arbitrary selection, endless mellow wine, endless brocade clothes and jade food, and a reputation and status that people look up to." ”
Many people didn't have these things before, because most people don't value these things very much.