(This part of the plot is paved for the end of the book.,For the reading experience of the next chapter.,It is recommended that you don't go through this chapter~ Then,The protagonist of the next chapter will appear.,The volume is also a very interesting chapter.,But I really can't finish it today.,I can only send it tomorrow)

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It's dark, damp, and cold.

Even with sporadic torches, it is difficult to see the bottom of the sinkhole.

How deep the sinkhole is, even the old people who live here, and the old people who have been mining for 30 years do not know.

All they know is that in the past thirty years, there have been countless batches of people who have led them to climb out of here.

Some drowned, others were eaten for their rebellious speech.

Now they are led by a sixteen-year-old girl named Suzuki.

Even if you are not from the country, you know that this surname does not exist.

But no one asked.

A lot of people here, most of them are people who don't have surnames.

Because they are all outcasts in the family.

There is no day or night in the sinkhole.

Unlike the fortress in my memory, at the bottom of the sinkhole, known as the Land of the Abyss, it does not have the difference between day and night light like a fortress.

It's a place of absolute darkness that the sun can't reach.

People can only know the time through the messenger crows that bring food.

According to the earliest visitors, it was reported that the crows would bring food at noon every day. It is also the messenger crow that is responsible for transporting the minerals.

Every once in a while, dragon-like creatures hovered in the air, scrutinizing the prisoners like the warden of a prison.

That's their fate, and they have to dig in the mines.

This is deep underground, with the best quality mineral sources, and there are also a group of people who dig pits day and night, except for sleeping and eating.

At the bottom of the pit is a huge pool.

The water in the waterhole could not be drained, and the people who lived on the deep pit were throwing all the filth into the waterhole.

As a result, the water in the pool is extremely dirty.

The entire bottom of the pit was also filled with a foul smell.

Life is fragile, and in a filthy environment, many people start to get sick. All sorts of strange diseases, some even contagious.

The people here have been afflicted by disease on a large scale several times.

But life is tenacious, and the people at the top of the sinkhole don't want all these miners to die, so they will also send some medicine regularly with messenger crows. As time went on, the surviving group of people became more and more accustomed to this squalid environment.

But the threat of waterholes doesn't stop there.

It always seems to be raining in the holy place, and there is no way of knowing why so much rain is falling.

The water level in the waterhole is constantly rising.

Most of the people who came here 30 years ago have drowned, starved to death or died of disease.

Drowned because the water level in the waterhole rose faster than they could mine.

Since there was a waterhole at the bottom, people had to start moving their living place from the huge flat land at the bottom of the pit to the cliffs.

The first group of people to arrive probably knew their fate, and they also knew that maybe in the next decades, even centuries, those people of the same clan who had no talent would be exiled to this place.

So they carved a stone path along the spiral of the cliff.

The stone path is not wide, and it is more than four feet wide. Both of them stood side by side and looked a little cramped.

Standing on the stone path, the range of movement that people can move around is extremely small.

But in the past 30 years, for nearly 10,000 days, these people have been clothed, fed, sheltered, and traveled, all on this narrow stone road.

They had to keep digging stone paths and digging up the cliffs.

Because the deep pool, which is full of foul odors, is constantly rising.

The previous stone path was gradually submerged, and when the heavy rain came, people had to crowd the stone path in the early four feet.

But even so, the people in the lowest stone path will still be swallowed by the water level.

Over time, the people who live here have a default cruel but reasonable rule.

People will start arranging according to the amount of mining.

Most of the people who dig the most, that is, those who are strong, are in the top stone paths, responsible for pioneering.

And the least mined, that is, the old, weak, sick and disabled, are mostly at the bottom of the stone path. Responsible for trimming.

No one objects to this cruel rule of survival.

Even though every time the rain fell and the water level soared, everyone had tears on their faces when they heard the cries of the people at the bottom of the stone path as they were drowned in foul-smelling water.

But in order to live like reptiles in such a ghost place, they have to keep mining the stone tunnels.

Those who are strong and strong also have the consciousness of pioneers.

They knew that only by mining continuously and digging faster could the people at the bottom of the stone path have more distance to rise.

……

……

A few years ago, when Suzuki first came here, he was one of the old, weak, sick and disabled.

Coming from the fortress to such a ghost place, she soon fell seriously ill.

It was just a fifty-year-old grandmother who saved her.

Grandma was originally the doctor of the original Holy Land fortress.

Grandma relied on her ruthlessness again and again to survive when the water level soared.

When there was a large-scale outbreak of disease, she also treated many people.

People knew how valuable doctors were in this place, and this was why they later gave Grandma special powers. She doesn't need to mine, and she can stay on the upper stone paths when the heavy rain falls.

Her body could no longer swing the hoe.

Grandma also thought that she should find someone to inherit her medical skills.

That day, she watched Suzui get her neck covered by the filthy and smelly water in the pool.

The water has soaked many decomposing corpses, and the waterhole itself is also a container for all kinds of garbage, so it is not surprising that after being soaked in such water for a long time, it is not surprising that you will get sick.

Just in the faint light of the fire, Grandma looked at the girl's stubborn face, and suddenly her heart softened, as if she thought of herself many years ago.

People rarely save people, because the water level is constantly rising, and it is better to dig more stone roads to save people.

Otherwise, the rescuer and the rescued may all die in this filthy and smelly water.

Suzuki survived after all.

The serious illness was cured by Grandma, and Grandma also began to teach Suzui medical skills.

She had already thought of finding the youngest girl to be the heir.

Because men can survive with strong physical strength, but girls like Suzui will face the fate of being assigned to the lowest stone path for a long time in the future.

Suzuki learns quickly, and after overcoming her illness, she doesn't stop mining because she's the only doctor here in the future.

Occasionally, she had resentment on her face, and she began to wield her hoe incessantly, as if she were a boy.

Some children who are her age call Suzuki the eldest sister.

These people between the ages of fourteen and twenty are the most powerful people in the stone road.

In just four years, Suzuki has become the leader of these people.

Grandma's health is getting worse and worse, and finally one day, in an unprecedented rainstorm, Suzuki is on the upper floor of Grandma's stone road, watching Grandma be flooded by the water level.

Grandma's expression didn't show much pain, just regret and unwillingness.

She'd had lived enough, and the stench was eating away at her aging body before the water level was about to submerge her.

Grandma raised her head, looked at Suzui above the stone road and said:

"It's been 30 years, why can't I see the sun every time I look up?"

This is Grandma's last words.

With such regrets, there is another unwilling soul at the bottom of the deep pool.

That day, Suzuki cried to death, even at the moment when she was given up by her father, she never cried like that.

It was also on that day that she finally became a person in the abyss and began to adapt to the rhythm here.

The strong live, and the weak die.

This does not come from the opposition between the strong and the weak, but from outside the sky. From the damn rain.

Life and death are hard to let go.

But if you are used to seeing too much life and death, you will eventually become numb.

Every once in a while, whether it is a crow or a dragon, a new person will be brought and placed at the bottom of the stone path.

The survival rate of newcomers is the lowest, because from a certain year, newcomers are almost always twelve-year-olds, just like Suzuki.

When Suzuki is not mining, she will take the place of Grandma and check on some sick people.

There were about 3,000 people on the stone path.

Originally, there were hundreds of thousands. But most of them are buried in deep pools.

Suzuki couldn't go and check everyone along the stone path on the cliff in a day, and it often took nearly three months for 3,000 people to complete it.

Adults and elders alike marveled at the girl's energy. Because throughout the year, Suzuki never stopped diagnosing.

It's also because no matter how heavy the doctor's responsibilities are, Suzuki digs a lot of mines every day.

She seemed to be the hardest working person here, and she often said to the other children:

"We are crawlers above the filth, but as long as we keep climbing up, one day, we will be able to climb to the place where the sun shines, right?"

This is an unrealistic wish.

Some of the people who have survived here for decades no longer believe that they will ever go out one day.

But there are also some people who look at the bottomless deep pool, thinking that everyone has worked hard for decades, maybe it has ...... The stone tunnel was dug to a very high place.

As long as everyone works hard, they may be able to build a path to the top in this deep pit.

People believe that maybe in five years, ten years, or twenty years, they will leave here one day.

……

……

Suzuki was so fond of singing when she was swinging her hoe that she couldn't remember the lyrics.

It's just humming a tune. Some children of the same age hummed along.

These songs are like horns, allowing their already sour arms to continue waving their hoes.

"Big sister, it seems that someone was thrown down today, I see that he is still in a coma, and he is no longer a twelve-year-old child like usual."

"Really? This is quite unusual. Don't be lazy, I'll take a look. ”

Suzuki listened to the words of a child at the bottom of the stone path, and put down the mine hoe in his hand.

She had just checked the health of everyone in the entire stone path a few days ago, and had recently been able to spare some time to dig the stone path.

Although the survival rate of newcomers is extremely low, Suzuki still cares.

Many people will be very uncomfortable when they are exiled to the Abyss Country.

It's visually uncomfortable, because it's too dark and it's hard to see sunlight all year round.

There is also a sense of smell discomfort, because under people's feet is a waterhole where hundreds of thousands of decaying lives are buried.

The more people, the faster the excavation, in line with this idea, Suzuki will also give some explanations to the newcomers, which can be regarded as survival education.

Since many years ago, the newcomers to the bottom of the abyss have been twelve-year-olds.

Suzuki looked at it, this unconscious man should be about the same as the person at the top of the stone path, in his early twenties.

"I'm not sick, I've never seen anyone with such a healthy pulse." Suzuki took her pulse and looked at this person with some curiosity.

This man has a very handsome face.

Although the details could not be seen in the dimness, the outline was enough to discern the general appearance of the man.

Although the memories of the fortress stopped before the age of twelve, Suzuki still had some knowledge, and she was sure that this person should be someone of high status.

You can be sure of your clothing.

Suzuki frowned, because at this time, it suddenly rained.

The people on the stone path immediately began to exclaim, and everyone began to cling to the cliff to prepare for shelter from the rain.

Suzuki was about to support the newcomer and walk up the stone path, but when she did so, she felt that this person was so heavy.

"Wake up! New Arrival! The rain here is so heavy that it only takes a few small hours to submerge a stone walkway! ”

Slapping the man's face, Suzuki's tone was a little anxious.

Fortunately, at this time, the man woke up.

This man is naturally Song Que.

When his consciousness returned, Song Que first felt an unimaginable stench.

The dim environment doesn't matter, as the eyes of the team, Song Que's eyesight is surprisingly good.

"Awake? Come with me, it's going to be flooded in a minute. ”

Suzuki said loudly.

The rain in the pit was eerie. But in just a few seconds, it began to violate.

Song Que finally came to his senses.

"Where is this?"

"Holy land. You've been exiled, and if you want to live, come with me! ”

Lingyi pulled Song Que, who was still a little dazed, and began to walk towards the stone path on the upper floor.

Every time a heavy rain falls, people will crowd at the top of the stone path, and the entire upper layer of the stone road will be densely packed with people.

There is only one thing that people at the bottom can do.

It is to pray that the rain will stop soon, before the water in the pool fills his nose.

This is also the reason why people do not recommend going to save people.

Because whoever is saved will vacate the position above the stone path, and the people below will occupy this position in order to survive.

This is also understandable.

Fortunately, this time it was relatively lucky for everyone.

The rain was rapid, but it had been a long time since the last rain, and people had dug up a two-story stone path.

The security line is higher than ever. If the rain stops in a few hours, it will be soon

Lingyi took Song Que and hid in the lowest stone road.

Song Que saw the water in the huge pool, which was rising at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He was an extremely intelligent man, and he quickly understood what was going on.

People keep digging stone paths when the rain stops.

When heavy rain falls, if the rain is light, the stone path will not be flooded, and the people below the stone path will be able to survive.

He frowned, looked at the pouring rain, and said:

"It's not going to rain."

"This is the mining area." Suzuki said.

"Even in the mining area, there is no such heavy rain." Song Que said.

Suzuki was stunned and asked:

"Have you been outside?"

"Outside?"

"It's just outside the sinkhole. We're in a huge pit right now, you know? ”

Song Que watched the rain pour down like a heavenly river, but when he looked up, he could still see the top of the sinkhole from the gap in the rain curtain.

His eye of the scales couldn't see the details in the extreme distance like Ye Feng's extreme vision.

But his eyesight is far better than ordinary people.

"I understand that I can't see the end with my vision...... The depth of this pit is unimaginable. ”

Suzuki said curiously, "As a first-time person here, you have a strong ability to adapt to the dark. ”

"I'm a gift, and my ability itself is related to vision."

When she heard the words of the gifted person, Ling Yi's whole body shook, and her gaze at Song Que became complicated.

Her tone suddenly became cold:

"It's strange that the high-ranking species has been exiled here?"

Feeling the hostility in Suzuyi's words, Song Que said:

"I'm not on top, judging by your age, I should have been here for a few years, right?"

"Do you know what's going on here?"

"I'm not from where you've been, but I just think there's something wrong with that fortress, and after I came to investigate, I discovered the secrets of that fortress, and I can understand your hatred of the gifted."

Suzuki didn't speak for a long time, and after a long silence, she said:

"Let's wait for the rain to stop, you only have seven days to live anyway."

Song nodded.

After seeing the abyss, where there was no top or bottom, he knew that he could not escape from it.

There are suddenly only seven days left in his life, and in this darkest pit in the world, Song Que is certainly regretful.

But people are born with a destiny, and he didn't be negative for too long.

The rain soon stopped, and the water level rose to three meters below Song Que's feet.

When the heavy rain stopped, Song Que could hear that in the deep pit that was as empty as a canyon, many people breathed a sigh of relief, and some people were even cheering and grateful.

Such a picture made Song Que feel the difficulty of this group of people.

Maybe every heavy rain in the past will make some people stay here forever.

In the dark pit, there was suddenly a light like a silk thread.

Suzuki said in surprise:

"It's sunset!"

Her voice was very loud, and when the people around her heard it, their eyes fell on the light that gradually became more and more silky.

"It's sunset!"

"Evening rain!"

More and more such voices resounded in the deep pits of the wild sky.

Song Que looked at the darkness above, there was constantly light breaking through the darkness, but it was all very subtle, like silk threads, and like rain.

"What is the sunset?" Song Que asked.

Suzuki happily leaned out, at the edge of the stone path, the action seemed dangerous, she seemed to have forgotten all about it, just wanted to get closer to the light.

"It's the darkest place in the whole world, but even here, the sun hasn't abandoned us, and when the sun is facing the sinkhole, for about a quarter of an hour, the sun will penetrate the layers of darkness and come to us, even though when we get here, it's so small, like the thinnest rain line. We call this scene the sunset. ”

Suzuyi's explanation shocked Song Que, how deep can the sunlight weaken like a trace of rain in a deep hole?

But even so, as far as the eye could see, everyone on the stone path did not care about the rain on the ground, and they all leaned out as much as possible, wanting to touch the sun.

This scene deeply shocked Song Que, and he only realized at this time that there were even people in this group who had not seen the sun for thirty years.

These rays of light as thin as rain are like the last glimmer of hope in the hearts of these people, small, but existing.

It was such a dim scene, and it was only a faint remnant of sunlight, but these people were desperate to get close to it.

A ray of light fell on Suzui's forehead.

Song Que looked at Ling Yi's happy and satisfied smile, and was a little sad for a while.

They...... What kind of dark and twisted life are you experiencing?

But it is obvious that he is a person who lives in the darkest and dirtiest corner, but his soul seems to have been washed by the sunset rain.

Suzui, who was still hating the talent, actually showed a show-off smile when she looked at Song Que, just like a little girl who had bought the latest doll and wanted to show it to her good friends.

Suzuki in this scene, a ray of sunlight fell on her pale face. Song Que has seen many girls, but he can't describe this kind of beauty that goes straight to the soul for a while.

It's just that the sunset rain is short-lived.

The sun slowly changed its direction, and Song Que watched as the ray of sunlight slowly moved to the tip of Suzuyi's nose, and then slowly became thinner and thinner, until it was invisible, and there were tears in Suzui's eyes.

She looked at the sky in a daze and said:

"One day, I'll get them out of here."

Song Que did not speak.

This possibility is too low, and even the gifted cannot climb out of such a deep sinkhole and climb up the cliff.

If an ungifted person wants to do these things, it is even more of an illusory goal.

"I'll help you, even though I only have seven days to live."

Suzuki was stunned, and the look on her face softened:

"Here, you have to show the skills of the gifted, otherwise they will ...... I probably won't like you much. By the way, my name is Suzuki. ”

Song Que was stunned.

If you can meet in the deep pit, and your age and gender are also in line with each other, the only one who can be called Ling Yi may be Mrs. Wu's daughter.

"What's wrong? Look at you like you know me? ”

"No, this name is very nice, my name is Song Que."

Song Que didn't tell Suzui about his experience, and after seeing the scene here, he suddenly didn't have the heart to help reunite a broken family.

Whether Mrs. Wu was in pain or not, she made her choice.

And Lu Chaoan didn't feel guilty at all.

They had no idea what kind of life their daughter was going through in this dark place.

"Song Que? I seem to have heard it somewhere, like a very famous person. ”

"I don't have much time, I will try my best to help you cultivate more stone paths."

"You're smart."

Suzuki was surprised that Song Que was able to find out what they were doing so quickly.

宋排 says:

"If so, can you tell me about some of the things that happened here?"

"What do you want to hear? Most of what happened here was unfortunate. ”

"It's okay, you just think of it as a dying man's request. In return, I will spare no effort to help you survive the next heavy rain. ”

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……

Song Que's arrival was indeed just as Ling Yi thought, after his identity as a gifted person was revealed, everyone was full of hostility towards Song Que.

On the first day, Song Que originally wanted to go to the top of the stone path and build the stone path as high as possible, but unfortunately the crowd did not cooperate with him.

But on the first night, when people found that there were many caves on the cliffs of the stone road that were enough to hide from the rain, they began to marvel at Song Que's ability.

His physical strength and strength seemed to be endless, and the hoe in his hands was like a large machine breaking through rock formations. Song Que actually single-handedly smashed a lot of holes on the cliff that were enough to accommodate people to rest.

Under Suzuyi's orders, the people finally accepted that Song Que was in charge of leading the strongest young people to dig the stone road.

On the evening of the second day, it usually took a week to excavate, but with the help of Song Que, it was completed in one day.

On the third day, most of these people who hated Song Que became friendly to Song Que.

Because they had already carved ten trees up the stone path.

In two days, several layers of stone tunnels were excavated, which was unimaginable in the past. Among the 3,000 people, in fact, there are only a few hundred people who can really play a role in digging.

Song Que's ability is still above these hundreds of people.

On this day, Song Que also heard a story told by Ling Yi, except for the messenger crows who brought food, in fact, in the sinkhole, every few days, a dragon-like creature could be seen to patrol.

On the fourth day, Suzuki and a bunch of children began to work with Song Que.

Song Que would ask them about some things in the sinkhole.

Some of the wishes of these children are also asked.

Wishes are extravagant in this place, even if everyone's desire is to leave here.

Some people want to see the blue sky, even if they are devoured by the beasts of the mining area in the next second.

There are people who want to see the sun, who want to see the real blazing sun.

There are also people who want to wear clean clothes and eat good food.

When Song Que asked Lingyi, Lingyi thought for a long time before he smiled:

"I just want to fill this place one day if I go out."

Song Que was stunned.

He was a ten-gifted person, the best qualified of the gifted ones, but in this dark hole, he found that all he could do was to delay the death of this group of people.

He couldn't fulfill Suzui's wish, and he couldn't even take Suzui out of here.

On the fifth day, it rained heavily. The heavy rain raised the water level of the deep pool by more than ten meters, and in normal times, many people would have been submerged.

But this time, no one has suffered in this way

Suzui and the other children finally didn't have to rest and sleep on the stone path to hide from the rain, they all hid in the stone cave carved out by Song Que.

It was cloudy for a few days in a row, and Song Que regretted that he didn't see the sunset.

On the sixth day, the weather was still gloomy, and Song Que knew that his time was running out.

Looking at the still topless sky, he felt a sense of powerlessness.

Maybe for a while in the future, these people don't have to worry about being drowned in the deep pool of skyrocketing, but it's only for a while.

Suzuki quietly saved her own food on this day.

The seventh day has finally arrived.

Song Que had never been in the mine for so long.

With his help, in seven days, the stone path was raised by nearly 100 meters.

Song Que, a member of the Ten Talents, is the real Chosen One, although his ability is an auxiliary ability like the Eye of the Balance, but in terms of physical fitness, he is also one of the best masters among the talents.

Powerful enough to face a perfection-class creature alone.

The non-talented people are here, even if they are all added together, they can't compare to Song Que's efficiency.

People rejoiced as they were one step closer to the top of the sinkhole.

Only Song Que was worried.

Time is too little, but even if you can survive in the mine for a long time, like them, you will never be able to leave with them.

These more than 3,000 people will eventually die of old age here, passing on this fantasy that seems to be able to dig out the light to the next group of people.

Song Que really wanted to tell them that in fact, it was impossible for them to leave here.

But if you are already dying, why bother to extinguish the hope of others?

On this day, Song Quean sat quietly at the top of the stone road, waiting for death to come.

It's also waiting for something to appear.

Suzu Yi sat beside him and said his final goodbye to Song Que.

"I heard the old man say that after death, all suffering lasts forever." Suzuki gave the food to Song Que.

Song Que smiled: "So I'm going to be a full ghost?" At least after death, there will be no hunger pain? ”

"Yes."

"Thank you." Song Que did not refuse Suzui's kindness.

"Do you have any other wishes? One day, when I take them out, I'll help you make it happen. Suzuki's tone was gentle.

Her demeanor is also very serious, as if there will really be a day when she will be able to leave with everyone.

But before she could hear Song Que's answer, a violent dragon groan came.

The dragon's roar echoed in the empty cliffs, like the bell of death.

"It's Jiaolong, go! Hide! ”

After Suzui's words fell, many people on the stone path trembled and prostrate.

The children and the old people hid in the stone cave dug by Song Que.

Suzui wanted to pull Song Que away, but Song Que didn't leave.

"Let's go! That dragon eats people! Ling Yi looked at Song Que puzzled.

Song Que heard Ling Yi talk about this dragon.

The messenger crow is responsible for delivering food and medicine, and this dragon is more like the guardian here, patrolling the bottom of the sinkhole every once in a while. At the same time, it will also tease weak humans.

Song Que stood up and looked fixedly at the dragon that was two laps smaller than the dragon that Tang Xian was riding before.

After staying in the sinkhole for seven days, Song Que had already believed one thing through seven days of observation.

The terrible rain was not a natural phenomenon at all.

It's like the first time he saw that rain, he felt something was wrong.

Because he smelled the elements inside.

As the owner of the Eye of Balances, Song Que was sure that the heavy rain that had caused countless people to die came from this evil Jiao.

He had been waiting for it.

Jiaolong watched the crowd crawl with satisfaction, like a king meeting a slave.

It's just that soon its gaze fell on Song Que at the top of the stone road.

Jiaolong looked at Song Que with contempt.

Song Que also stared at the dragon, and at the same time broke free of Ling Yi's hand and gently pushed Ling Yi into the stone cave behind him.

He took a step forward and whispered:

"Time is running out, but I still have unfinished business."

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