Chapter Twenty-Six: Why Did He Die?
At the moment when Hou Mingbo made his voice, it was doomed...... There's no way he's going to survive.
Gao Ying looked at this scene, although he couldn't bear it in his heart, but compared to when Xu Yudan just died, he was able to gradually accept that the people around him died in front of him.
He silently said "I'm sorry" and began to slowly retreat. Even Ji Yixuan, who has an old-fashioned and warm-hearted personality, chose to retreat when he knew that he couldn't save Hou Mingbo. In the end, Hou Mingbo's face became more and more pale, and his neck was constantly tightly wrapped around the rope loop, and then the rope circle began to be continuously lifted upward. Hou Mingbo was already short, but as the rope loop continued to tighten and pull high, his pants were suddenly wet.
He doesn't want to die, he really doesn't want to die! But it is a pity that in this world, tragedy and death never stop because of people's will. This is even more true in this bloody and brutal exam. Human life is nothing more than a simple consumable here.
At this time, Hou Mingbo's neck was red, and the pain caused by suffocation made him involuntarily begin to foam at the mouth, and at this time, he suddenly heard some strange sounds in his ears.
The voice...... It's weird......
At this time, Hou Mingbo's legs were still waving wildly in the sky, and his consciousness was gradually dissipating, and in front of his blurred vision, he vaguely saw it...... Some weird shadows.
(Daddy...... The son is not filial...... I can't be filial to you...... )
After a long time......
Inside the hut, calm was restored.
In front of the gate, there is still a rope loop, and the chair is still placed on the ground.
All...... It's all the same as just now, no different.
At this time, Gao Ying, Ji Yixuan, and Shen Junhao were already more than three hundred meters away from the hut.
Gao Ying stopped at this point and looked back at the hut.
(Hou Mingbo...... Is he dead? )
At this time, whether it was Ji Yixuan or Shen Junhao, their faces were quite ugly. Human life is so fragile, but even if you understand this, it is not comparable to the huge impact of seeing life pass in front of you.
(Why?) Why? )
Whether it is Gao Ying or Hou Mingbo, they didn't make a sound! No, or should I say, not make a lot of noise! Why...... Why did that rope ring hang Hou Mingbo?
"One...... Yixuan ......"
Gao Ying looked at Ji Yixuan, who was pale and his body was still trembling, and asked, "What did you want to tell me before?" ”
Ji Yixuan's eyes were fixed on the hut, and after a long time, he spit out a sentence with difficulty: "I wasn't sure if it was a rope loop before, but it seems that the rope circle has become longer and ...... a little bit."
Droop...... Got longer?
"It's my fault......" Ji Yixuan blamed himself at this time: "I asked Hou Mingbo to pay attention to the back, if he looked ahead, maybe he would have time to react......"
Seeing Ji Yixuan, who was full of self-blame, Gao Ying remembered himself who caused Xu Yudan's death because of his misjudgment.
"It's not your fault." Gao Ying shook his head, grabbed Ji Yixuan's shoulders, stared at him, and said, "Here, death is everywhere, you are not a savior, you can't save everyone." ”
Although Gao Ying regretted it for a while, it was the first time he took this kind of terrifying exam after all, and now, after experiencing so many lives and deaths, he has become accustomed to accepting the passing of life by his side. This also made him realize more strongly how difficult it is to live. When life is harvesting like mustard, he has become numb to death, and he has gradually lost the seemingly natural truth that "all life is precious".
Ji Yixuan's biggest weakness is that he is too compassionate. Otherwise, he wouldn't have helped Lan Hsinchu, who had never known his life. However, this is also Ji Yixuan's biggest weakness. If he doesn't get rid of this problem, he will die sooner or later in this kind of exam. It is said that life is equal, but Gao Ying knows very well that life is by no means equal, at least in Gao Ying's eyes, except for himself, the lives of all candidates are not as important as Ji Yixuan. Even now, he knew that Hou Mingbo should be dead by now, and he had been with him for a month, but now in Gao Ying's heart, he was more glad that he had survived, but there was not much mourning for Hou Mingbo's death.
"I ...... I know ......" Ji Yixuan is also a smart person, he knows this very well, but the psychological shadow of being an illegitimate child makes him feel very different from others. He is always subconscious, hoping to realize his self-worth by helping and helping others.
"Here you have to accept the fact that death is a very common thing. All we can do is survive as much as possible. ”
Gao Ying emphasized the word "survival", but this word did not dispel the shadow in Ji Yixuan's heart too much.
(Why am I the one who survived?) Since I was a child, countless people have said that I am a wild seed and will be punished. If there is retribution, then why are people like me who survive? Yixin, it would be nice if you were there, I want to get the answer from you. )
However, when he saw that he had saved Gao Ying again, it also gave Ji Yixuan a strong sense of comfort in his heart.
Gao Ying then took a deep breath, and then he turned his back and took out the exam paper. And at this time, he happened to find that the skeleton on the exam paper actually closed his eyes!
He stared at the skeleton with his eyes closed, and immediately said in the fastest voice: "Choose AB for the hanging question!" The skeleton now has its eyes closed, so it can cheat! ”
Ji Yixuan was frightened when he heard this, thinking that Gao Ying was crazy, but when he heard the statement that the skeleton closed his eyes, he was taken aback, and hurriedly opened the exam paper, and sure enough, he saw the skeleton's eyes closed. And then a few seconds passed, and the position of the skeleton's eyes opened again!
Of course, Gao Ying knew that there was a risk in doing so, but ...... Ji Yixuan saved him twice, and with this person's huge potential, Gao Ying gambled to tell the answers to the exam questions, which also cheapened Shen Junhao!
The reason is simple, this is a multiple-choice question. Multiple-choice questions, although they increase the difficulty by making them more options than single-choice questions, also have a clue that "there will be at least two options", unlike open-ended multiple-choice questions, where options range from one to four. Hou Mingbo's death proves that the hanged ghost is obviously still in the house, plus the previous prediction of height, Gao Ying is already very sure that the hanged villager is a woman, so one plus and one minus, in the case of CD exclusion, AB is naturally the answer.
Ji Yixuan never thought that there would be such an operation as cheating? However, when he realized that the skeleton had closed its eyes for a short time, he realized that this was a deliberate way to lure the candidate to cheat, make the candidate foul and then kill him. And the terrible thing is that if the skeleton completes the cheating in front of its eyes, then the cheating can also be successful. This kind of extremely risky but tempting gambling is indeed impossible for candidates not to be impressed.
Ji Yixuan suddenly felt shuddering, what kind of terrible curse is this terrifying exam? How did this curse come about, and why did it give mankind the temptation to live forever? How many people in this world can resist the desire for eternal immortality? However, the so-called eternal life is still a disparity in the odds in this exam, and it can be said that the probability of winning the lottery is not much higher.
He filled in the 2 letters and breathed a sigh of relief. This ...... I finally survived. However, Hou Mingbo has lost his life!
When you fill in the answers, at the end, there is only one question.
Why did Hou Mingbo die?
Why kill them when they don't make a sound?
Was it because they were talking at the time? But the volume is not loud, and it was like this before! What's more, it was Hou Mingbo who died, he didn't speak at the time, and there had never been such a situation that affected the pond fish before. What's more, Ji Yixuan remembered that Yuan Ping wrote that when a friend named Heizai died, he was by his side, and he was not affected by this. He himself is the same, Lan Xinzhu is dead, but he has nothing to do.
Why?
Why did Hou Mingbo die?
Could it be that in this exam, in addition to sound, there are other taboos that trigger the curse?