Chapter 20: The Unexpected
"Brother Wen hasn't slept all night?" Jiang Hai asked when he saw Wen Hui like this.
"Alas, these two people are really as you say, and they follow everything. Last night I was tired every time, but when I thought that there were always two pairs of eyes staring at me outside, I was terrified, and the night passed like this. ”
"They are protecting your safety and not trying to harm you, what are you afraid of? ”
"Having said that, I'm still not used to it, I just want to be summoned as soon as possible, I don't want these two gods to follow, and I'm uncomfortable. ”
This is on the point, and Jiang Hai also feels the same way. I was forced to stay in the inn for a whole day, and now that today is the third day, it should be the result.
The two of them were eating breakfast when another red-blooded sergeant walked into the inn. Stopped by four people from the other table.
"Why are you here, little one? Do you want us to go back?" Jiang Hai Wenhui didn't want anyone to follow, but he didn't know that people didn't want to follow you at all.
"Almost, I'm here to inform them. It's time to go to the Grand Hyatt. ”
"So we're about to be liberated?" several people were excited.
I won't tell you yet, I'm going to inform them. As he spoke, he took out a form.
"You don't have to look, there are only two in this inn, and they are all at that table," he said, pointing to Wen Hui's table.
The man walked to the table, "You two are Jiang Hai and Wen Hui?"
"Yes," the sergeant replied, not knowing when they were approached
"It's time for the students of the Grand Hyatt Inn to take the exam. A simple and straightforward conversation, then he walked out of the inn and headed to his next destination.
Finally, when it arrived, if it continued like this, Jiang Hai felt that he would rust.
Finally can say goodbye to surveillance, not protection, it can be seen that Wen Hui is also very happy.
After eating early, the two of them walked slowly to the LaCrosse Inn, and the four people behind were unhurried and always within five steps.
Before coming to the inn, how could there be so many people, at least five hundred people at a glance. The two of them understood the meaning in each other's eyes, and it seemed that there were a series of levels waiting for them, and they could only smile bitterly. Seeing that the time had come, the chief examiner Li Feng did not announce the start of the announcement, and the people could only wait, because everyone could see that Li Feng was in a bad mood at the moment, and his black face was like a god. After a while, several teenagers hurried in.
I couldn't breathe, and waited until the breath in my chest eased before I spoke, "I'm sorry Mentor, we're late." ”
Li Feng stared at the man who spoke, "Do you live far away?" or did you not receive the notice?"
"I didn't ...... I ......" squeaked between the words
"I can't hear it louder," Li Feng almost roared, and his voice shook the sky, and passers-by were frightened.
"I live very close and I was informed by him that it was just ......"
"No, I remember all of you. Your name is Yang Fu and lives in the Chengdong Inn, which is only a mile away, such a short distance, and you received a notice very early that you were so late. "The volume hasn't slowed down at all
"And you, Mo Ruo, if you live in the guest inn, it's only two miles away. ”
"And you Meng Hao...... And ......"
Li Feng said the detailed addresses of several people one after another, which shows that he really knows everyone's information well.
"Mentor, I live in the Chengxi Inn, a student Nono said. ”
Do you know that Jiang Yang lives in the woods outside the west of the city, why can he arrive on time and you can't? He pointed to one of the young men
"I don't want to hear any explanation, you may think very highly of yourself and be different, but you forget that this is the Zhulu Academy recruiting, and you don't take it to heart, then you don't deserve to enter the academy. ”
"Mentor Li, everyone who is late today is eliminated from the roster, and there is no mercy to talk about. Boom them away. ”
"No...... The mentor gave me another chance. Several people begged bitterly, but Li Feng was unmoved and was dragged away from the field by the sergeant.
Seeing the late students being taken away, Li Feng took a breath and glanced at everyone.
"What I teach you today is called respect, maybe some people think that what I do is ruthless, ruthless or indifferent, a person who can't even meet the appointed time and has no special reason, what can he do?" "Time is life. What you waste now is the tomorrow that those who died yesterday look forward to. If you don't understand this sentence now, you will understand it later. There are so many people waiting for a few of them, do they respect us? No! So this is the price of disrespect for others and disrespect for the academy. Respect for others is also respect for yourself. ”
"Okay, all of you come in with me" Li Feng walked into the LaCrosse Inn, and the group followed behind.
Thinking that there was such a large martial arts arena behind this Grand Hyatt Inn, which could accommodate thousands of people, I thought it would be congested, but I didn't expect it to be empty. Everyone stood and waited for Mentor Li Feng to speak.
"Do you see those windswept eagles on the edge of the field?"
Only then did the crowd see a few giant birds. Its jade-colored feathers are supple and shiny, with smooth lines, standing two meters tall and spreading its wings like covering the sky, a pair of eagle eyes like brass bells, and a pair of giant claws that can tear apart a war horse. Just look at the size and know that it is an adult Hurricane Eagle, and an adult Tempest Eagle, which can travel thousands of miles a day, is another synonym for it.
"Only a few of you will be able to ride it to the Academy's holy grounds, and there are now four hundred and eighty-three people here, in addition to the ones that were eliminated earlier. So I'm going to pick one out of every hundred. So we're going to have to keep testing until we're the last five. ”
"Now the fourth level test begins, line up one by one. ”
One by one, there were makeshift wooden huts, and everyone entered one of them one by one. After a while, I saw the people who went in come out dejectedly and were taken to the martial arts field, which was eliminated, and as for the successful ones, they were taken to the next wooden house. Obviously, this level is better than the previous levels, because there are very few people who are eliminated, and most of them are taken to the next wooden house, and they are counted carefully, and the success rate of ten and five out is half.
It's just that there are seven such huts, and only three or four can be left in the end. It turns out that this level has such a mystery, if the previous levels are all about quality, then this level is about quantity, to win more. I just don't know what this test is, and I can only know when I go in.
Time is passing, the rivers and seas are waiting, and the wait is long. When his heart beat more than 5,600 times, it was finally Jiang Hai's turn. Jiang Hai walked into the first wooden house.
There were only two instructors in the room, and the guards were at the exit, with a table in front of them, on which were three glasses of white unidentified liquid.
"It's a test of eyesight, and the three cups contain different things, the first is water, the second is wine, and the third is poison, and what you have to do is pick one and drink it. I'm going to scramble them very quickly, and if you have amazing eyesight, you can still tell the difference. If you really can't pick out the right side of the door, someone will take you out. Friendly reminders are all smellless, have you decided to continue?" The instructor explained the rules of the level
"I choose to start" Jiang Hai stared at the cup of poisonous wine with wide eyes, as long as he could remember this cup, if he didn't drink it, he would pass the test.
I saw that the instructor was very fast, and at the same time, he picked up the poison and water and exchanged places with each other, and then mixed the wine and the water, and the wine and the poison were reversed, and there were no rules at all. Although the speed is very fast, it can barely be caught in Jianghai. Staring at the cup of poisoned wine, his eyes rolling. There was nothing in his eyes, only the cup of poisoned wine.
The tutor found that Jiang Hai's eyes had been staring at the cup of poison, and he also increased his speed, and his technique was like a butterfly walking through flowers, but it seemed to be a leisurely stroll, but the speed was extremely fast, and Jiang Hai couldn't see it at all. It's hard to tell which cup is which. At this point, the instructor stopped moving.
"Okay, you can pick a glass and drink it, if it's bland and full of wine, then congratulations, if it's neither, then you'll die! Just walk to the door to the right. ”
Jiang Hai kept replaying every movement of the mentor in his mind, and he could still remember that the poison was in the third cup, but the last three movements were really not clear. Three actions, three possibilities. A third chose to die, but it was also very terrifying, between life and death.
"Do you want to have a drink or give up. ”
"Mentor, why are you urging me?" Jiang Hai asked
"Because you're not alone, you're not alone, there's someone behind you who is losing time. The tutor replied.
"You know, I have a few questions so far, first, why do you keep reminding me to give up, maybe you are for my good. "The ten people who came in the second eliminated five, and you only have one cup of poison for the three quilts here, and no one should be able to see it clearly at your speed, then they are all blind." Then the elimination should only be one of the three games, not half of it!" "Third, I found that the eliminated people were not supported, and there was no pain, so they didn't drink and gave up on their own initiative. Jiang Hai continued
"Then I came to a conclusion that none of the three cups were poison, and all those eliminated were induced by you to give up, and Meng passed all the tests, so this level is not a test of eyesight but courage. ”
After speaking, Jiang Hai casually picked up one of the cups and drank it, and then picked up the second cup and drank it, until the third cup was down, and it was all bland and tasteless.
"Good boy, you are careful to hear the strangeness from my words, and you dare to do so when you combine what you see. Okay, you're done."
"Thank you, Mentor. "Leave the first hut and go into the second hut with the escort.
There was only one table and two chairs in the wooden room, one for the instructor to sit on, and one for the student to sit empty, but there was nothing else, and there were still two guards standing at the door. Seeing Jiang Hai's arrival, he motioned to sit down.
Jiang Hai sat down, and the tutor said, "The listening of this test." Take out a dice and a cup from under the table. "I'll shake the dice later, and you'll have to say the number of the dice after I'm done. If you answer correctly, you will pass, and if you answer wrong, you will be eliminated. ”
"Are you ready?"
"Let's get started," the mentor shook the dice, the sound of the dice hitting the cup. Jiang Hai closed his eyes and focused all his attention in his ears, trying to listen to the frequency of the dice hitting, only one point hit was four, then five, then two, then three.......
I saw Jiang Hai's ears moving non-stop, and he completely recorded all the movements of the dice. It's six o'clock now, huh, how can I hear a faint sound of the wind, it's very light, it's not extremely careful and meticulous, and I can't find it at all, I can't tolerate Jiang Hai's distraction, or it's important to listen to the movements of the dice.
The dice stopped turning, Jiang Hai opened his eyes, and the dice cup was already standing on the table.
"Say what you heard from one to six" The mentor looked at Jiang Hai with a smile,
Jiang Hai heard five o'clock, but he felt a little strange, this exam shouldn't be really simple, and why should this tutor laugh?
I can't hear it
"You can hear it, but I'm not sure, Xiao Jianghai. ”
Only then did I see that this tutor was the tutor surnamed Li in the second level. "Director Li has hints in the previous level, do you want to give some hints. Jiang Hai tried his best to make a cute appearance and blinked at Director Li
"You boy, well, it's all in the details. The tutor surnamed Li reluctantly gave some hints.
Jiang Hai recalled everything from the beginning to the present. The instructor took out the dice from under the table and shook the cup, and there was a slight sound of wind in between, which was normal. I don't see anything out of the ordinary. What about the teacher's smile? Oh!
"It seems that you have the answer," Director Li saw Jiang Hai's expression, "Come on, what time is it?"
"Director Li, you are much kinder than that mentor. It's the same inducement, the one in front is to induce people to go out, and you are inducing people to succeed. ”
"What do you mean by that?" still smiled
"You didn't put the dice on the table but under the table, and you made a point to show me the dice. When I closed my eyes, I heard a little wind noise, although it was subtle, but I still heard it, which should have been done by you. I wondered what the sound was until I saw your smile, or the details you mentioned. I just understood."
"There are no dice in this dice cup, the sound is your ventriloquist language, the wind is your hint, and your smile is a reminder. That's why I say you're full of kindness. ”
"Oh, what do you think it's your business, tell me the pip count. "The smile is undiminished.
"I guess not. ”
Director Li opened the dice cup, and there was nothing inside. "Congratulations little one. Details determine success or failure, care about any wind and grass can harvest unexpected things, good luck, I hope to see your interesting little guy in the students. ”
"Xie Li teaches you, see you at the academy. ”
The instructor of the wooden house who walked into the third level also sat on the table, and there were five cups on the table, which were gold cups, silver cups, copper cups, iron cups, and aluminum cups.
The guru said, "There are five cups of gold, silver, copper, iron, and aluminum, and one of them is the Holy Grail, and what you have to do is to pick out that Holy Grail by all means. ”
"There are no hints. ”
"There is such a saying, 'Falsehood, truth, truth, falsehood, truth, truth, falsehood'"
Ahh
Jiang Hai looked at everything in the room and thought about it, recalling if there was anything special about the tutor's words, and the room was so simple that it was not good. Except for the five cups, which is an ordinary table, it is exactly the same as the first two levels, and there is nothing unusual. This time it really stumped Jiang Hai.
Forget it first look at the cup, pick up the golden quilt, start with a very heavy metallic feeling, the two dragons on the goblet body are opposite to the middle of a gem inlaid with double dragon play beads, plus the gold itself is a luxury. The whole device is noble and elegant, and the royal road is full of energy, it is precisely like this, Jiang Hai shook his head, how could the so-called Holy Grail be such a vulgar thing.
Put down the gold cup and pick up the silver cup, it is also very heavy, but it is not as good as the former. The silver light is dazzling like the moon, and the heaven and earth are engraved on the body of the cup, and the sky is above and the earth is below. This pattern is very puzzling, generally the things engraved with heaven and earth are either sacrificial utensils or offerings, and eating human incense should not be a holy grail.
The third is a bronze horn cup, with three legs and two horns, which exudes the vicissitudes of life, and should be an object of a long time. Bronzes are prone to patina, but this cup is extremely smooth and often used, and the chalice has been used for a long time?
Only the last iron and aluminum cups remained
Iron was also the most used metal of this era. First, it is easy to get, and it is much cheaper than the top three, so the flow is very wide, and the shape and decoration of this cup are very ordinary, and the color of the goods that belongs to the street can not be seen as special.
As for aluminum, it's even less valuable. The reason is simple, it is not as hard as other metals, and it is very light and easy to deform. Generally mobile in the homes of the common people, cheap and very much to silver. The use is not very large, but mostly for decorations.
There are only two choices, the success rate of iron and aluminum is half, but Jiang Hai doesn't want to be eliminated by half.
Well, it seems that the meaning of this sentence has to be analyzed. The instructor doesn't seem to say what this level is, and there will be hints in the first two levels, although they are all fake. Wait for the first level to be virtual, the second level is also virtual, a total of seven levels correspond to just those seven words. The third level should be real, it should be a real level, and there will be no deception and inducement.
Falsehood, truth, truth, falsehood, oh, I understand that the fifth is the Holy Grail, because the fifth word is true.
After finding the answer, Jiang Hai picked up the aluminum cup, the smooth touch was very light and light, but there was no sense of fragility. It's really weird, so Jiang Hai is even more sure, "I choose this cup." ”
"Are you sure?" the tutor asked
"I'm sure" Jiang Hai was unusually determined
"Congratulations on passing the level, let's go to the fourth level. ”
This is another real level, and the repeated use of his brain makes Jiang Hai feel a little uncomfortable. After all, he was still young and his brain capacity was limited, so Jiang Hai paused before entering the fourth wooden house, closed his eyes and rested a little. Anyway, I don't see the latecomers.
After resting for a while, Jiang Hai walked into the fourth wooden house. There was a table, two chairs, nothing else in the room
Seeing Jiang Hai coming in, the mentor was also straight to the point. "I believe that through the first few levels, you also know that they are all tests of reaction and thinking, and we choose people not only to look at talent, perseverance, but also to look at the temporary reaction of middle school students and the accumulation of life. I'll give you a question in this level, and then let you solve it, there is no standard answer, it depends on whether your answer can satisfy me"
"If you're satisfied, let you go, if you're not satisfied, please go out, and I'll ask if you're ready." ”
"Say that someone has lost something outside, and two of the guards can be sure that one of them did it. Know that one of them tells the truth and the other tells a lie. You can find one of them and say something, and then tell who stole it."
For such a problem, the focus of the analysis should be to distinguish who is telling the truth and who is telling a lie, and can only say one sentence, and also score to distinguish who stole something. Then that's the art of speaking
Suppose you would ask one of them, 'Did you steal it?' If he tells the truth, he will say that he did not steal it, and if he tells a lie, he will also say that he did not steal it, so it is impossible to tell the difference. He who tells the truth will say yes, and he who tells lies will answer yes.
Both assumptions were overturned by himself, and Jiang Hai was really stumped. People at two extremes can't tell who is who. We have to find out the real culprit. For a while, Jiang Hai's whole mind was like a mush, and it was not right to ask.
The path of two people leads in two different directions. One positive and one negative get very different answers. It's hard to tell if they can get the same answer as the absolute notation. Jiang Hai remembered something in his previous life, but the question was how could there be such a thing in the Tianxuan Continent.
I don't know what to do for a while.