Chapter 32: The Door of Trials
The steel gate, the endless steel city wall, the unique texture of metal and the cold temperature, the height of more than ten meters, like a moat, cut across the mountains, cut off everything, people are desperate, and they can't imagine how to enter the inside of the gate through the gate.
When you approach the giant steel gate, you will find that the door is not one, but nine gates together, which looks like a huge iron door from a distance, and each door has a text mark to distinguish it.
Many teenagers gathered in front of the gate, according to most of them, their faces were like ashes, paralyzed on the ground, their expressions were extremely desperate, as if the sky was falling, and some people were leaning their hands against the giant gate, pushing hard, and even making footprint pits in the ground, because the bruises on the face of the force were bursting up, suffocating red, but the gate did not move at all.
"Let me, let me in!!"
The tragic cry of a young man, like an animal about to die, resounded for dozens of miles, startling many birds perched on the trees.
"Let me in, let me... Get in. ”
The young man's face was pressed against the extremely cold metal door, his eyes were full of tears, his mouth was slightly open, there was no previous tragedy, only a small voice like a mosquito, a slight cry, and there was no trace of brilliance in his eyes, as if he was engulfed in darkness, leaving only a look of despair.
In the security hall next to the giant gate, the two security guards looked at a group of teenagers and yawned boredly, every year the new students selected from all over the world, there are always a few people who can't enter the door, the scene once a year, at the beginning, there may be sympathy, thinking to comfort them.
But after seeing more, they will get used to it, and they will even feel a little bored, because the desperate shouts and cries of these teenagers disturb their originally good mood.
"It's so noisy at this time of year, and it's annoying." The young security guard said with a little annoyance.
"Bear with me, it's only once a year." The old security guard smiled.
At this time, a bus was coming, the roaring engine and the dust rising after the vehicle passed through the dirt were particularly eye-catching, and the shadow of the bus was not yet seen, but the sound and the dust were already heard.
"Are there any vehicles?" The younger security guard was slightly confused.
"No, it's supposed to be a tour group." The older security guard just looked at the dust and knew what kind of car was coming.
"However, it is not excluded that some guys like to be mavericks, or the area is too remote, and they did not catch up with the first assessment, or they failed the assessment, and they were unwilling to rush over alone with the admission letter." The old security guard, who felt that the words were too full and easy to overturn, added more.
While the two security guards were chatting, a bus full of people crossed the last uphill and stopped in front of the steel gate, after which a group of people walked down from the bus with cameras and snapped at it.
The old security guard in the security booth next to the gate had long been accustomed to the tourists who appeared every day, ignored it, lazily picked up the teacup, took a sip of the hot tea inside, let the warm water and tea fragrance slowly flow into the abdomen, and then spit out a mouthful of turbidity.
A woman dressed in a striking red dress stepped off the bus, with the words 'tour guide' written on the back of her clothes, holding a microphone in her hand and a megaphone hanging from her waist, explaining in detail the origin of the gate.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this shocking steel gate in front of you is the [Nine-Fold Gate], also known as the [Trial Gate], which is located in the outermost part of the Food Forest, and is the only way for new students of the Hunter Department to enter the Far Moon Academy.
I heard that the origin of the name is because this giant gate is nine doors overlapped, so it is called the nine-fold door, the smallest door weighs a single door, and each additional door, the weight of the door doubles, and the weight of the ninth door is a full 265 tons, which is still the weight of a single door.
This gate is the 'Door of Trial' for the new students of the Far Moon Hunter Department, and only when this door is opened and the hunter students who enter it are the real Far Moon students, and they are recognized by the Far Moon ....... ”
Just as the tour guide was telling the tourists about the origin of the gate in front of them, the bushes next to the security booth 'rattled', as if some animal was approaching.
The tour guide at the scene was startled by the sound, and the others also turned their eyes to the direction of the sound.
The security guard in the security booth changed his lazy look and stood up, his eyes full of vigilance. Even on the outskirts of the food forest, there are many fierce beasts, and there have been incidents of hungry beasts attacking tourists during the day in the past, so that security guards have to be vigilant.
There was another 'bang', and a figure looked at the map in his hand, and came out of the bushes, and there were traces of branches in many places on his clothes, and even some branches and leaves were stained on his hair, and it looked like he had been walking in the jungle for a long time.
When the tour guide saw that it was a white and tender teenager, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and his originally hanging heart suddenly relaxed.
"Looks like this is it, and then enter through the gate."
Ivan pulled the leaves off his head, and at this moment he noticed the huge steel gate towering in front of him.
"This door?" Ivan frowned, the huge steel gate in front of him, vaguely felt that something was not right, but he couldn't say what was wrong, after all, the road shown on the map was to pass through this door.
"A new student in the far moon?" The old security guard glanced at Ivan a few times and asked uncertainly.
"Hmm." Ivan nodded.
The young security guard glanced at Ivan up and down, the clothes on his body looked like rough fabric, a poor man from a poor family, or came alone, either missed the first assessment, or failed and was unwilling to give up this opportunity to jump the dragon gate.
"Do you want to go in? Stop dreaming, see the reality, this is not where you should be, go back to the slums. The young security guard, who had been taken aback before, sneered at the thought of having another voice that made him irritable.
"Addo." The old security guard shouted at the young security guard, his eyes full of anger.
"Cut."
"Push open the door and you can get in, the door is heavy, you have to push a little harder." The old security guard turned his head at this time and smiled at Ivan.
"Well, thank you, uncle." Ivan rolled up the map in his hand, put it in his backpack, and walked to the steel gate.
Everyone focused their eyes on Ivan, even if the group of half-lying teenagers looked over,
There was silence, and only the sound of cicadas and Ivan's footsteps could be heard.
His hands touched the cold giant door, and the gate in front of him reminded Ivan of the gate of the enemy family, took a deep breath, and then pushed hard.