On the red and white stage, the man began to mobilize the emotions of everyone in the audience in a high-pitched tone: "Seven questions have not appeared in "Bloody Questions and Answers" for a long time, what kind of questions are waiting for the No. 1 contestant in front?" Eerie music also sounded out of thin air on the stage, and the atmosphere of the whole show began to tense.

He took a few steps forward, looked straight, and said quickly, "Player One!" Excuse me, should people have dreams? 10......”

"Should!" Wu Sheng replied in seconds.

Answer...... Mistake! The man shook his head: "No dreams are normal human beings, dreams are something that only madmen and fools have." ”

As soon as the words fell, a black light poured into Wu Sheng's brain, and countless complicated whispers and powerless whispers sounded in his mind, making him have a headache: "As long as you have money, it doesn't matter if you have a dream or not, right?" "As long as you're happy! What is a dream? "Having a dream will only lead to endless pain...... "I don't want dreams, dreams will only make people lose their way." "Dreams are the biggest lie in the history of human education!" "I don't want to dream ......"

At the same time as the black light poured into Wu Sheng's brain, a rich female voice echoed in the entire space: "Punishment for one question: [Whisper]!" ”

The man waited for the response to disappear, snapped his fingers, and continued to ask, "Second question, where does the evil of human beings come from?" 10，9，8...”

What is the problem? Luffy and the three of them were shocked, which made it impossible for anyone to answer.

Wu Sheng was also silent, he resisted the frustrated and complicated groaning in his mind, his mind turned sharply, searching his memory in his mind, and finally replied at the penultimate second:

"Desire."

"Hmm...... The expected answer. The man muttered for a few seconds, sighing as if nothing more than that?

Just when Luffy thought Takekatsu had answered correctly, he said, "Wrong! All evil stems from man's ignorance and insensitivity to the world. ”

Another black light hit Wu Sheng's mind, Wu Sheng only felt that his eyes were black, he lost his eyesight, and the grand female voice sounded again: "The punishment of the second question: [no awareness]!" ”

Then He then followed up with the third question: "Is freedom important to humanity?" 10，9，8......”

"Important."

This kind of yes or no question, Wu Sheng was able to get a point according to the previous logic because it was very simple, but I don't know why, maybe the mysterious induction in the dark, he still insisted on the choice in his heart.

"Wrong." The man raised his hands and said, "All men are flocks, weak, greedy and ignorant, and without the restraint of the shepherds, the free flock will be devoured by hungry wolves in the jungle." ”

"Punishment for three questions: [Out of Order]!"

Wu Sheng's limbs had lost control, and the whole person was slumped on the seat, and he could only feel his head and body.

"The fourth question is, which are the seven deadly sins of mankind? 10，9，8......”

The man seemed to be afraid that he would not be able to go on if he gave Wu Sheng a negative state, and finally it was not the kind of open trap question.

"Arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony, lust." In the darkness and powerlessness, Wu Sheng quickly replied, this kind of common-sense question, kill one by one.

"Hehe, that's right." The corners of the man's mouth flirt: "It seems that you are well aware of the sins that humans have......"

Luffy and the three of them cheered, and the sky was pitiful, and Wu Sheng finally answered a question correctly.

Just now he got three questions wrong in a row, and the three of them were almost suffocated.

Amid the tense and eerie music and drumbeats, the man's words continued to sound in Wu Sheng's mind: "No. 1 gets one point." ”

Before Luffy and the three of them continued to cheer, he continued, "Fifth question, where will humanity go from?" 10，9，8......”

“...... I can't answer such a big question, even if I have the existing knowledge base of all mankind in my head. In the darkness, Wu Sheng sighed speechlessly.

“... 3,2..."The countdown continues.

"Seek the truth of the universe!" Wu Sheng was helpless, so he could only pick up the biggest proposition to answer.

"Wrong." The man bowed his head and chanted in an aria pitched voice:

"All the way is the beginning of no end,

All the way is a fleeting pursuit,

The future of mankind is both destiny and smoke.

With notes in hope, with groans in faith,

There is no smile in all joy, no tear in all suffering......"

From the first sentence, the audience was chanted by youkai in twos and threes, until the two sentences of "all joy without smiles, all suffering without tears" were recited, and all the monsters followed the man and chanted loudly: "Everything will return to a long and short death." ”

Under the silence of the will of many human heroes in the audience, the man snapped his fingers and tapped: "The punishment of five questions: [silence]." ”

In the next second, a black light flashed, followed by the vision that had been lost, Wu Sheng lost his hearing again, and only the noises in his mind that persuaded him to give up his struggle and give up his dreams were still chattering.

"Sixth question." Even though Wu Sheng had lost his hearing, the man's voice still sounded in his head: "Is there a God?" 10，9，8......”

The atheist Wu Sheng was completely drunk, what the hell is this question.

Because he lost his hearing and couldn't hear his own voice, he could only speak slowly according to his previous habits, for fear that he would say something wrong: "It doesn't exist!" ”

"Wrong." The man said "answer" slowly, his voice low and without further explanation.

Luffy and the three of them were slightly surprised, could there really be a god?

But Wu Sheng still didn't believe it, in the eyes of time-travelers and atheists, no matter what kind of powerful existence, it was just a superdimensional existence in a multi-structure universe.

"The punishment of the six questions: [Heavenly Wrath]."

A black thunderbolt slammed into Wu Sheng's body, and Wu Sheng's body, which had lost its strength, trembled wildly in the black thunder, and the intense pain was transmitted to his cranial nerves through his body. Inch by inch pain kept gnawing at every cell in his body, drowning his only remaining sea of consciousness little by little, in the boundless darkness, pain, enchantment, groaning, silence, hunger, all kinds of negative states devoured his spirit and consciousness little by little.

Just when he was about to plunge into eternal nothingness and darkness.

"Seventh question."

The last question turned out to be to scoop him up from the black sea, Wu Sheng hugged the only trace of clarity left in his mind, focused on his consciousness, and listened to the question.

The man asked slowly, "Who are we?" ”

The audience was silent for a moment, as if they were all looking forward to Wu Sheng's answer.

"You are hope and fear." Wu Sheng clearly remembered that Elig had told him that the will to resist was the image and power that selected the most suitable for them from the aggregate of human consciousness in the criminal realm, and in this case, all the wills in the audience could become their partners. Then they are the beings that human beings admire, and they are also the source of human fear.

"Poof......

"Hahahaha!"

The audience burst into laughter.

The man couldn't help laughing: "The No. 1 player is very good at talking." ”

However, after the laughter, the man's expression changed, his eyebrows and eyes were cold, and his voice was cold: "Wrong! We are God's forsaken people, bearing the curse and punishment that you humans deserve. The endless negative emotions generated by the human unconscious roar within us, and the dark abyss of depravity in the world of sin is constantly calling in front of us, you listen with your heart... Who in the realm of sin does not suffer? Who doesn't despair? Who doesn't hate human beings who are full of selfishness, strife, arrogance, and sin? Who does not desire to attain transcendence, and who is willing to perish? ”

"Roar!! The youkai in the audience let out an earth-shattering roar, and as for the human consciousness, they remained silent.

But the unwillingness on the face is clearly visible. They were born out of the mass consciousness of the sinful realm, born from the cognition of mankind, but they were tormented by the negative emotions of mankind.

"That's it! The seven questions have been completed, if you can survive the final punishment, choose the treasure to enter the martial arts arena! ”

After the man finished saying that, he was completely disinterested, took out a black pistol from the void, and pointed it at Wu Sheng: "Punishment of Seven Questions: [Human Sin]." ”

A dark and deep light shot silently towards Wu Sheng, and Luffy and the three of them saw that the situation was not good, and wanted to jump over to rescue, but they were pressed into the boat by an invisible hand and couldn't move.

In the next second, black light covered Wu Sheng.

Wu Sheng only felt as if he was stranded in the gap between time and space.

Beside him, countless roars, countless wails, countless admiration and regret, countless sighs, countless screams, like a torrential rain falling on the surface of a lake, stirred up countless ripples and turmoil in his mind.

Time was only a moment, but he felt like he had spent a long time in the negativity of countless human beings.

In the next moment, a dark wave swept silently from the distant sky, flapping in vain against this long and short time and space.

In the next moment, he was standing on the beach full of glass shards, the glass was transparent, and he looked down to see an endless dark abyss beneath the glass shards, as if he were standing above the endless sky. Yet countless shards of glass and the pitch-black sea reminded him that he was on a shoal.

The corpse of a giant white horse was abruptly lying across the pitch-black sea, floating in the sand by the red spray.

He felt his own nothingness, the unconscious of the space, and carefully collected the limited information that came to his eyes, until the white horse slowly floated and ran aground on the glass sand.

I don't know how long it took for him to finally get his out-of-control thoughts back.

"Wu Sheng." A familiar voice sounded, and he turned his head to look, but it was the majestic figure in red iron armor, the Grand Duke of the Demon God under King Solomon.

"Elig." He nodded calmly naturally, and in the seemingly endless time just now, he had lost all his emotions and asked, "So this is my subconscious space?" ”

"It's not quite accurate to say that, it should be said that here is your sea of knowledge."

"How am I going to get out?"

"Get my approval."

“？” Wu Sheng tilted his head, what do you mean, you are not......

As if knowing what he was thinking, Erige said, "As I said in my contract, this is a game with almost zero chance of winning, and even if I gain some power, if you hesitate, then death is a sure end." ”

"Everything that happens in the world of sin is related to the will, the weak will will be swallowed up here, and the strong will, whether good or evil, will step on the ladder from the sky to victory......"

"How can I prove my will?"

"The will cannot be proven."

"How do I express my determination?"

"Determination cannot be expressed."

"And how do I get your approval?"

"You answer me a few questions first."

"It's another problem, I'm really afraid of your sinful will."

"Heh, he's the one who likes to ask human questions the most, but you shouldn't have entered this game, he's breaking the rules."

"So what, I'm already here."

"Yes, maybe [they] all wanted to see your potential, so they didn't call it a halt."

"Who are they?" Because he spoke in Chinese, Wu Sheng did not distinguish the difference in the character [he].

"Now I'm asking the question."

"Okay, ask."

"What did you want when you came into this world?"

"Straighten your back and live well."

"Then why did you just have a few moments when you wanted to choose those so-called correct answers?"

"Because I want to win, I discovered the rules, and I used the rules to obtain benefits, isn't it a normal operation?"

"Bending over is only the first time and countless times, you know it in your heart."

"I want to live."

"That's not a reason to bend over."

“...... You're right. Wu Sheng was speechless: "But I still didn't choose in the end, did I?" ”

"So my second question: Why didn't you just pick the so-called correct answers?"

"Because I figured it out, I wanted to keep those things."

"These things are so fragile that a mere verbal answer can shatter them?"

"It's not ...... either"

"You say you want to live with dignity? I don't see it very clearly. You don't need any righteous reason to live, since there is something in your heart that needs to be protected, just throw your fists. Luffy did a good job, and you, obviously, were arrogant and lucky. ”

“...... Luffy is different, right? ”

"You want to say the protagonist aura? You've crossed over, why are you still bothered about this. ”

"You want to say I'm the chosen one?"

"No, no one is the center of the universe, I just want you to be more confident."

"What do you mean......

"Alright, I'm done." Elig interrupted Wu Sheng's words.

"So?" Wu Sheng's stiff face finally returned to expression.

"Unqualified."

"Ah...... So I'm going to die here? Wu Sheng calmly sat on the sand stacked with glass shards, looking out at the black waves in the distance.

"I can send you out." Elig walked over to the white horse's corpse.

"But?" Wu Sheng could hear the turn in his tone.

"But, I'm not going out with you."

"Didn't we sign a soul contract?"

"Your heart is hesitant and has not found the balance between victory and dignity."

"But you are me, I am you, without you, my heart is missing?"

"I'm still here, but I won't answer your call until you truly understand what 'will' is."

"So I didn't hesitate to ask the seven questions just now! I've made my mind clear, right? Wu Sheng was a little unconvinced and questioned loudly.

"If you hesitate at all of these seven questions, I won't be here at all."

"What do you mean, just now it seems that I want to win by all means, and now I say that I will not show up if I hesitate in the seven questions?" Wu Sheng was completely confused.

"You still don't understand? The will to resist of the awakened is difficult to seal, and oppression will only invite more fierce confrontation from those who rebel against fate. To put it simply, Luffy's will to resist is almost impossible to seal. Why are you sealed? ”

“...... So I'm still too weak? ”

"No, you're too smart."

"......" Wusheng is still not convinced.

"Ready? Let's get out. Elig didn't say much, many questions could not be explained too clearly, and people needed to figure it out for themselves.

"What about fighting."

"If you die here, that's our bad luck, who made me a spearman?" There was a hint of a smile in Elig's golden eyes, playing with a meme that only the two of them knew about in this world.

"I've made a bet, I still want to play this game, I hope you don't let me down. If you don't already understand, think about the vows we made when we first made a contract. With that, a golden flame ignited from the soles of his feet and rolled up on the white horse, and in the golden flames, the dead white horse slowly stood up, more than 3 meters tall.

The white horse stepped forward and grabbed Wu Sheng with his mouth, and stepped on the black waves and rushed straight towards the sky.

Wu Sheng only felt warm all over his body, opened his eyes, and all the senses returned to his body, and he had returned to the scene of "Bloody Q&A".

The soul power returned to him, and those negative states had all disappeared with the flash of golden flames.

Wu Sheng understood what Eliger meant by not responding, that is, he couldn't use the soul technique and soul merge for the time being, but he could still use ordinary attacks with soul power.

"It's better than nothing." He shook his head helplessly, obviously he had come to his senses and persevered, why did Elig say that he still had hesitation in his heart.

As for the oath, he seems to have fulfilled it, huh?