The sea of flowers withered and turned into dust, and the dust was golden again.

As far as the eye can see, it looks like a desert made of gold.

"Look, brother, what is this, it looks like ......" Bai Wuji said and squatted down, ready to touch the gold dust on the ground.

"Don't move." Forty-two grabbed Bai Wuji's wrist and stopped him, "You'd better not do this." ”

"What, poisonous?" Bai Wuji looked a little curious.

Forty-two looked up at the endless sea of golden sand in front of him, "No, it's not poisonous. It's just that this is the first layer of the Sand Sea Secret Realm. ”

"The first floor?" Bai Wuji began to look around, "I thought there would be some clear sign that I had come in, but I didn't expect to be in the middle of it for some reason." ”

"Well, that's it. However, it will be easier to recognize later, because if you pass this test, there will be rewards in front of you. If you choose to leave, you can take the reward with you. But to be honest, I've been here, but I don't know much more about this place than you do. Forty-two stood up and pointed in front of him, "Go ahead, the first layer is actually not difficult, as long as you don't touch the gold, everything will be fine." ”

Forty-two is very clear, but people are like that, the more things they are not allowed to approach, the more curious they are.

I wondered what he meant, so I asked, "What happens if you touch the sand?" What they are, they look, like golden sand. ”

Forty-two nodded, "That's right, it's gold." A few bags are enough for ordinary people to have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime. ”

"So, what's the danger?" Bai Wuji also seemed to be curious.

"You have a lot of questions, aren't you here to get rich?" Forty-two smiled helplessly and responded: "Actually, if you take these gold sands, nothing too terrible will happen." It's just that it's a test, so as long as you touch a grain of sand, it's considered a failure. Failure, on the other hand, is when others can see the next layer, but you can't see it. ”

"That's hard, too." Bai Wuji's expression was embarrassed.

It can be seen that he seems to have just had a mind to go back with some gold sand.

"Is it difficult?" Forty-two looked at the gold everywhere in front of him, "The people who come here are basically for the unfulfilled desires and hopes in their hearts. Some people may say that obsessing over money is desire and desire, but in fact, money is only a tool to achieve desire and desire. The desire and desire to be able to use money to realize it does not seem to make people venture here. ”

Forty-two turned his gaze to me, "That's right, man?" ”

"I don't know. But compared to this, I have another question that I have wanted to ask for a long time. ”

"Oh?"

But before asking the question, I asked Silly Seven to keep a certain distance from us, and then whispered to Forty-two, "You said that you have gone far, you should be farther than Silly Seven, right?" So what happens on the second layer? ”

"Didn't you snoop into his memory? So, you can't see the content here? ”

Forty-two reacted quickly.

I'm really curious about why my ability to spy on memories can't see Silly Lao Qi's specific experience in the secret realm of the Sand Sea. I don't know if I'll be able to see it at forty-two, and of course, he won't let me see it. Therefore, it can only be compared with the answers of the two to determine whether the person who has entered here or not, and the memory will be locked by a layer, a lock that no one can snoop on by any means except himself.

"In fact, in addition to this gold, there are several other layers of secret realms, and what everyone sees may not be the same. This is true even if you enter and exit at the same time. However, it can also be summarized to some extent, the first layer is not to mention, the desire for money, wealth, and similar things, and from the second level, it is fear, obsession, life and death, betrayal, and strength...... The seventh floor, I don't know, and I haven't been there. I stopped at the power level, and only went to the betrayal layer at the top. As for the power layer, that layer is different from the previous five layers, it was just a choice before, in fact, it is very simple, to put it bluntly, as long as you don't do what you really think in your heart, you can win. But this sixth layer is really going to die. Oh yes, the previous Yuan Dynasty general, the place where I once met him, is there. ”

After listening to Forty-Two's introduction, I went to ask Silly Lao Qi again, according to him, he saw gold, childhood memories of being bullied, and uncontrollable killing thoughts.

So he actually walked three floors, and what he said could also correspond to what he said forty-two.

So what went wrong that prevented me from seeing that memory before?

“…… Therefore, according to the forty-two, as long as you want to do what you want to do and don't do it, you can pass the test. It doesn't sound very difficult, but maybe the implementation will be biased. If anyone has an accident, they will wait for us in the sea of flowers, and the food will be divided evenly to ensure that no one will starve to death. ”

So, we moved on.

It's still the previous formation, Bai Wuji, Forty-two at the front, Silly Lao Qi in the middle, and Du Youlan and I are at the end of the team.

This golden road seems to be very long, I think I have been walking for hours, but it has never seen the border. Du Youlan has been thinking about something, and I am worried that because of time, she will switch to Yao Qianwen, and then things will become extremely troublesome. So every once in a while, I also confirm her identity.

"Zora." But this time, she spoke suddenly.

"How?" I asked.

"I'm thinking about this secret place. Remember, I said that this place is very dangerous, and you will die for a lifetime? Now it seems that except for the unknown seventh layer, the rest of the choices seem to be completely difficult. And according to Forty-Two, I speculate that the sixth layer is probably just to defeat the Guardians there and pass through. ”

"That's true. Even if it's the sixth layer, there won't be no way at all. The escape just now just didn't want unnecessary casualties. ”

"You said the seventh layer, does he not know, or doesn't he say it?" Du Youlan looked at the back of Forty-two in the distance and continued: "If you have only seen the sixth layer, how can you see the meaning of that layer from the body of that Yuan General? In short, I can't think of the word power. So, maybe he knows more than he says. It's like he always uses various excuses to kidnap people to come to this desert and revisit the secret realm of the sand sea with him. The reason for not killing the stupid old seven may also be one of the excuses. ”

"Yes, I didn't believe him."

"But it looks like you're worried."

"I do worry about two things, but neither of them has anything to do with him."

"Oh? Let's hear it. ”

"One is that if Yao Qianwen suddenly appears, you may encounter danger in this line."

Du Youlan rubbed her fingers, "Don't worry about this, no matter how dangerous it is, she and I can't die, have you forgotten?" ”

"That's right. But apart from that, the second thing is more important to me. ”

"What do you care about?"

I took a long breath inexplicably, "I don't know what I'm going to see." ”

"Huh...... I really didn't expect to see such an expression on your face in this life. "She's laughing at me again.

"Aren't you afraid?"

"I'm afraid? Why should I be afraid, I am unique in this world, and unlike you, I will always be just a false replicant, I will be abandoned by this world at any time, and what does not even have a soul, how can I compare to me? ”

Du Youlan's voice suddenly became distorted.

Ignore men and women.

I looked at her in amazement, but her face became as if it were in a cloud, and I couldn't see it, or even touch it.

Only then did I notice that the golden sand around me had disappeared at some point.

Missing with them were the forty-two and others who walked in front.

I stopped.

"Has it begun? It was sudden. ”

Smoke surrounds me all around.

A figure, accompanied by the voice just now, gradually approached me, and at that moment I had some anticipation, forty-two called this layer fear, so the person I saw was the source of my fear.

Eventually, the white mist cleared, and my own face appeared in front of me.

At the same time, my expectations were completely gone, and I was a little disappointed.

Actually, I knew that I knew what I was most afraid of, so I always hoped that what I imagined was wrong, and that when the smoke cleared, there would be another face. It doesn't matter who that face is, it's Zuo Yuan, Du Youlan, or Cedric.

But why is it really me?

"Are you thinking too much? Repeatedly, what you are most afraid of is yourself, so you don't even want to admit your inner monologue? You still think of me as your own? I'm Wei Heng, what are you? You're not afraid of yourself, it's me you're afraid of. ”

He quickly dried up.

It became the black corpse I first saw.

He grabbed my neck, his dry skin seemed to absorb the purification of my life, he gradually plumped and full, and I became more and more tired, my vision blurred, it felt like it was going to disappear, very real disappear.

Forty-two said...... Won't die...... You let it go, don't torture yourself, you're ......"

Speaking of which, I stopped abruptly.

Forty-two said that if you give up your inner thoughts, you can win.

What's in my heart?

What am I afraid of?

All the time, I was afraid that my body would be taken over, that I was not myself, that everything was meaningless.

So what am I going to do?

What is the opposite thing, accept?

If so......

"I am you."

I gave up the struggle and watched as he sucked everything out of my body so hard, watching him plump up while I withered. I became him, and he became me.

Later, I was the only one left in the world.

It's as if that guy never appeared, and it was just me all the time.

The white fog dissipated, and everyone was there, Du Youlan, Forty-two, Bai Wuji, and Silly Lao Qi.

In front of each of us were boxes, large and small.

"This is the reward, and you can only get it if you pass the test of the first layer." Forty-two interpretations.

Bai Wuji couldn't wait to open the box directly, but what I saw in my eyes was that the box was empty.

Forty-two stopped Bai Wuji's hand reaching for the box again, "If you choose to take this thing, you will be cursed, and you will not be able to enter the next level of secret realm. ”

So Bai Wuji's hand was taken back, but there was a little hesitation in his eyes.

I wondered and looked at someone else.

Forty-two and Du Youlan did not open the box, and Silly Lao Qi opened it, but it was also empty.

"Are you wondering why there is nothing in the open alley?" Forty-two then walked up to me and looked at my chest, or rather the cabinet, and the thing in front of me was far bigger than theirs, "We can only see it for ourselves until it is taken out." But I'm also curious, what the hell are you, why is it so big? ”

I reached for the box, and then unlocked it, and it gradually opened, and there was a man lying inside.

I feel like he is like me, but completely different from me.

The new me, or rather, the more suitable me in my eyes.

So, I closed the box again, "Let's go." ”

"Heh......" Forty-Two smiled, "I'm not going to ask, why didn't I open the box?" ”

I looked at him, and then at Du Youlan, "If you open it and can't take it away, why do you need to open it." Next level. ”

……