In the evening, when people rushed back to their homes after the last shadow of the sun, everyone was unexpected.

Familiar and unfamiliar executioners and students huddled in the courtyard, surrounded by several villagers wearing gas masks.

They walked in with an adult-tall box and placed it in the middle of the courtyard, and one of the gas masks said, "The wedding dress is ready, and I will bring it to you." ”

“……”

The sudden arrival of the box lured everyone out of the house, and people crowded into the courtyard because it was the key Indigenous figure from the first Proving Ground who brought them something.

A few gas masks put down their boxes and turned to leave, they had arrived on modified motorcycles, and they looked like they didn't want to stay for a second. At the fence at the entrance of the village, a figure blocked the way.

"Did the tailor shop owner ask you to send it?" Qiu Xuan propped up one hand on the old door panel and said in a flat tone. Next to her, Ji An cast a disapproving glance at her, after all, no one knew if blocking the villagers like this now would trigger any death conditions.

"We're just the ones who deliver things." The gas mask of the leader said this, and pulled out the machete pinned to his waist straight at it. "Get out of the way."

It's getting dark.

Today is the fifth day of coming to the Proving Ground, and on the fifth day, if you count the time calculations that are well known in theory, the daylight lasted only eight hours.

After eight hours of daylight, it's almost night.

Qiu Xuan had no doubt that if this situation continued, the night would completely engulf the day, and the sun would no longer rise over the village, ushering in a day without light.

I just don't know how the wedding will go on at that time.

"Then do yourself a favor and go open the box." Qiu Xuan didn't squint, so he didn't see the blade that was about to reach the tip of his nose, "Since it's a delivery, it shouldn't be too much to take care of the customer by the way." ”

"That's it, brother, it's nothing to help open a box, we're just afraid that we are not familiar with your craftsmanship, and it will not be good if we break it clumsily." In front of him, the executioner reacted, and he also stepped forward and stood in a row with Qiu Xuan at the entrance of the villagers.

In this proving ground, this is the first time they have encountered a situation where the aborigines who are theoretically hostile to the forces send them something, and they will not act rashly to be the one who opened the magic box when no one knows what it is. At this time, it would be better for the aborigines themselves to unpack the boxes.

Anyway, in the current situation, they have an absolute advantage in backing the bungalows, and if they really want to consume it, those villagers will have to walk home at night.

“……”

A young man in a gas mask cursed, drew a knife and was about to break in, but was stopped by the gas mask at the head, and the head ordered him to "go and open the box". The boy gritted his teeth and was indignant for a moment, and finally walked back to unpack after glaring at them hatefully.

His movements were so fast that even the careless could not see his momentary gesture of touching the lock.

With a bang, the door of the box, which had taken a little effort to carve, opened, and the people around him didn't have time to mind his attitude, so they stretched their necks to look inside.

"Let's go."

The executioner next to him who blocked people together glanced at Qiu Xuan, who raised his hand propped up on the door panel and symbolically turned sideways.

Soon the roar of the motorbike engine disappeared into the village.

Behind the lid of the box flipped, Shen Jingxue withdrew her gaze, raised her head, and glanced at her with an indescribable look.

"What's wrong?"

"See for yourself."

Qiu Xuan walked over and saw the contents of the box in a position given up by Shen Jingxue, and was a little speechless for a while.

"Alas, life and death are fate." Mixed in with a group of students, Misha seemed to sigh softly, and then sniffed under the inquiring gaze of others, making a look of forbearance holding back tears of fear.

In fact, Qiu Xuan thought that there would be a lot of deaths in this trial ground, maybe it was other executioners today, or it might be his turn tomorrow. It's just about this person, she really didn't expect her to die.

As mentioned before, there are many moments in this person, Qiu Xuan saw through her the gentle and powerful leader, and recalled the life binding with Gu Qingyue when she became a "lover" in the villa. It's just that people are different after all, whether they can do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, or they have undisguised ambitions, which are visible, ferocious and passionate, but also real and vibrant.

For Chen Ming, after confirming in his heart that the rebel was someone else, Qiu Xuan's attitude became the same as at the beginning.

She is a decisive and assertive leader with a lot of ambition. In a way, it is quite similar to Qiu Xuan herself, just because she dared to go out in the middle of the night to the temple to worship the evil god and pray for shelter because of a hint that was difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Qiu Xuan originally thought that at least there would be Chen Ming's shadow in the finale of this trial ground, but now she really responded to Misha's sentence, "Life and death are fate".

Chen Ming, lying in a well-made storage box, was sent over as a "wedding dress".

Many students with almost psychological tolerance ran to vomit at the beginning, and the leading teacher, Lu Sheng, waved his hand again and again and said that he would take his students back to the room first. The rest of the executioners skillfully flipped over a part of Chen Ming, who could no longer be called a "corpse", and their expressions were all debating the cause of death in amazement.

After looking at it for a long time, almost with a calm to cruel judgment, he swept the box up and down to make sure that there were no clues, Qiu Xuan turned around and retracted his gaze, and walked to the bench in the corner again and sat down.

“…… Are you upset? ”

In the shadows, Qin Jiuyuan squatted beside her, and the light was too dim to see the expression on his face. Qiu Xuan shook her head and said, "I can't say it's sad, it's probably a kind of sad feeling of a rabbit dying and a fox." ”

If she guessed correctly, the cause of Chen Ming's death was because of the red cloth that was sent to the tailor's shop.

That night, Qiu Xuan squatted on the shrine, saw the golden Buddha statue full of compassion, and gave Chen Ming a red cloth that looked exactly the same.

It should have been wrong since then. When she came back with Qin Jiuyuan today, she ran into Ye Qing and Shen Jingxue in the temple, Ye Qing said that what she saw was still a male Buddha, but she knelt in place and prayed for a long time without getting a red cloth.

Shen Jingxue too, when he prayed to the female evil god he saw, Tou Tie raised his eyes and glanced at it, and saw that the smile on the corner of the mouth of the woman lying on the shrine like a giant spider was more curvain than the previous few times, almost tearing the lower half of the face apart.

Then, the woman smiled weirdly and raised the red cloth in her hand at him, no matter how big Shen Jingxue's heart was, she knew that it couldn't be a woman who was merciful and wanted to give him a cloth—the last brother who was ecstatic because of the woman's gesture of raising her hand had now been sent to a mass grave to stay with a part of Jiang Li's corpse—he was so frightened that he left the temple, and then was cast a disgusted look by Ye Qing, who came out of the male Buddhist temple unscathed.

Everything is right, Qiu Xuan's previous speculation about male and female executioners seeing Buddha statues is also accurate, so it can only be explained that at least in the matter of praying to obtain red cloth, what the female executioner got from the female evil god turned out to be correct.

The executioner can only get the correct red cloth in the hands of the idol of the same gender, but everyone only sees the idol of the same gender after falling asleep at night, so it is quite difficult to actually obtain the red cloth.

Chen Ming will die because she didn't sleep at all that night, so she couldn't see a woman, so she could only get a red cloth from the male Buddha.

It's not that the male Buddha deliberately created a killing machine to kill someone or something, it can only be said that Chen Ming didn't think of this - also, it is not easy to be able to listen to the words of the villagers and pray to the strange Buddha statue devoutly, who would have thought that there would be death triggered by gender conditions?

What Qiu Xuan really sighed about was that although she kept saying that she was lucky E and didn't have the ability to be lucky like some executioners, at least in this matter, she was lucky enough.

In the case that all the laws were not figured out, he insisted on accepting the red cloth from the hands of the female evil god, avoided the death conditions by mistake, and found the correct answer.

Otherwise, it is not only Chen Ming who is lying in the box as a "wedding dress" today, but also Qiu Xuan.

If it weren't for the box containing Chen Ming sent today, Qiu Xuan probably wouldn't have had a chance to experience the chill of a cold sweat on his back. After a brief commotion, the executioners temporarily re-covered the box and piled it up in the yard, and either the villagers or "those things" would come and collect the body tomorrow morning. Then several people came towards Qiu Xuan, meaning that they had gone to the temple to pray according to her words today, but no one could get the red cloth, and one of them was even skinned alive by the female evil god.

"Not during the day, it's only useful to go after falling asleep."

Qiu Xuan raised her eyes expressionlessly and looked at the executioners who screamed the most, "I chose to tell you that I did it out of good intentions, not so that you could use the reason of 'no effect' to come back and accuse me." ”

The executioner who rushed to the front was stunned for a moment, then muttered something after reacting, and turned around and entered the room without saying any more.

The crowd around her quickly emptied, leaving only a panicked-looking girl.

Qiu Xuan remembered that this morning people figured out that the bark was peeled to avoid the skinning ghosts in the blood pool, and this girl, when she fell asleep last night, did not choose to peel the bark because she was too frightened and went straight on the road. Now that it was completely dark, the next stop of the convoy in the dream should be the cemetery in the back mountain, where the girl would soon die under the knife of the skinner, without the protection of the bark.

"Why don't you sleep tonight?"

was stared at with desperate eyes, Qiu Xuan was also a little helpless, so she had to say: "Anyway, it's just one day, and I'll talk about it tomorrow." There are only two nights left until seven days, which means that you only need to live one more night of sleeping. ”

"How do I live? What am I going to do? ”

Because of her emotional breakdown, the girl couldn't control her volume a little, and ushered in the sideways glances of the other executioners. "I don't have bark, and now you say you can't go to the temple during the day, what can I do! If I can hide from tonight, I will definitely die tomorrow night, just one day, does it make a difference to me?! ”

Qiu Xuan: "I know a female executioner, and now the progress of the dream is just to enter the temple. ”

“…… What do you mean? ”

"That means she can dream tonight and see the woman in the temple get the red cloth."

The girl's originally desperate eyes lit up, "It means she can save me, right?" She has a chance to get the red cloth, she can save me! ”

Qiu Xuan: "But you have to tell her yourself." ”

“……”

"I am not in a position to persuade others to give you their own vitality, so why should she do so? So that's all I can tell you, whether you're rejected or you can live is your own business. Qiu Xuan looked at the girl, "her name is Misha. ”

"Yes...... That newcomer. ”

Qiu Xuan stood in place, silently watching the girl react after the initial stunned, with a little inevitable smile on her face. That's right, even if her own strength is not enough in the group of executioners, it is more than enough to deal with a "newcomer" who has just entered the proving ground. Qiu Xuan didn't know what kind of means she would use to get Misha, a "newcomer", to get the red cloth for herself, but as I said just now, everything else is her own business.

As for whether the "sincerity" she took out was enough to impress Misha, it was really none of her business.

Speaking of which, there are only two nights left.

Qiu Xuan walked back into the room and found that it was not only the girl who had no choice, but also many executioners who did not plan to sleep tonight. Everyone has their own little abacus in their hearts, anyway, the rules default to the fact that every night of falling asleep can be every other day, and if you don't sleep for a day, you can get an extra day to live, so that those who dream can figure out the level ahead for themselves, why not?

"Do you sleep tonight?" Ye Qing slapped the floor beside her and asked in a low voice.

"Sleep."

"I think it's okay to do it every other day." Ye Qing frowned, "Anyway, there are only two days left, so there's no need to take any more risks." ”

"I have something I want to figure out, and besides, I don't think it's going to be that easy." Qiu Xuan was the first to get into the quilt, revealing her head to talk to Ye Qing. "I don't know about the situation on the men's side, but the progress of the female executioners should be similar now, all of them are going to cut down trees."

"Did you notice? Whether it's the original fast speed that can give others spoilers all the time, or the slow progress has been chasing the progress, today, the progress is almost the same. Explain that the progress is consciously leveled, try to make everyone the same as possible, and avoid 'cheating'. ”

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