What do people see when they are under high mental stress?

Some people only see a dark light in front of them, some people will see a ray of light behind the darkness, and others may even see their past lives in this light.

Chi Shangxuan is the last one.

When he drank the liquid from the cup and closed his eyes and waited for the verdict to be announced, his once-tense mood seemed to relax with this behavior. At this moment, the picture that accidentally broke into his mind was the small mountain village where he grew up as a child.

It was a closed place, a poor ravine, with few resources, and basically depended on the sky for food. The men there drove the women to work, while they lay at home, smoking rudimentary cigarettes and drinking home-made liquor, living a miserable but drunken life. Before Chi Shangxuan was seven years old, he at least lived in a complete family. There was a drunken father who often beat people, a mother who was swarthy and swarthy, and who always radiated love, who was the elder brother, and under him there were two younger sisters, one four and a half years old, innocent and lively, and two years old, who were just able to stagger around and play games with staccato words.

It was only in the following year that they were hit by bad weather that occurred once in decades. The mountain village suffered its worst autumn ever. The grain harvest failed, the houses were blown away by the strong winds, and even the small fruit tree seedlings that the villagers had just planted all died in the disaster. In the winter, the grain reserves are in a hurry, and everyone is very worried.

He remembered that his father had gone to the village chief's house for a meeting that night, and when he came back, he sat at the head of the bed smoking a cigarette without saying a word. The eldest sister had already fallen asleep at that time, her mother was holding the younger sister in the corner of the house and whispering coaxing, while Chi Shangxuan was looking at a few comic books hidden by the old man at the entrance of the village in the faint moonlight outside.

Just as he was engrossed, a scream interrupted his thoughts. He turned his head and saw that his mother was holding on to his little sister and didn't let go, but on the other side, his father grabbed one of his little sister's feet, blushed and pulled out.

"You're her father!" The mother screamed, "How can you do this! ”

"Let it go!" The father roared, "The village has already calculated, there is no winter like this, and every family has to reduce their food rations!" ”

"She's your own daughter!" The mother cried and hugged her little sister back. The two-year-old child was sandwiched between them, being pulled from side to side, crying in pain, and tearing his heart out.

Hearing this piercing cry, the murderous intent in my father's eyes became even stronger.

"A girl like this, it's a big deal to have another one!"

The father was so angry that he kicked the mother in the heart and kicked her into the corner. The back of the mother's head slammed against the wall, and the whole person collapsed there motionless, as if she had passed out.

The father snorted from his nose and turned around and picked up the eldest sister at the end of the bed. The latter had just sat up, rubbing his eyes as if he didn't know what was going on, and was picked up by his father and held around his waist. One in each hand, he walked briskly towards the door, when suddenly his steps stopped suddenly.

"Damn it, little bunny!"

As if he had eyes in the back of his head, he suddenly turned sideways and raised his foot and kicked back. Chi Shangxuan, who was raising the bench to catch up with and was about to smash, couldn't close his feet, and the whole person was equivalent to catching up with this kick. only heard a "bang", Chi Shangxuan took off the bench, his small body flew backwards upside down, and his father also stumbled forward, almost hitting the frost that had just condensed on the side of the door frame.

"I advise you to settle down and wait at home." The father threw down the sentence viciously and walked out without looking back. Chi Shangxuan remembered that this was the first snow in their village that year, and the snow fell very heavily, and it buried his father's footprints in a short time. He pinched people, carried water, and finally rescued his unconscious mother. The mother and son leaned against the door and waited, but in the end, only one person came back.

Since then, Chi Shangxuan has never seen his two younger sisters again. He would rather believe that his father had just taken them away than that he would be willing to take in two girls in a winter season when there was little food and clothing. My mother seemed to have hit her head at the time, and she went crazy ever since, and for three or four hours a day she was delirious, talking nonsense, and smashing things. Chi Shangxuan remembered that this year's winter was particularly long, as if it was hidden in endless cold, hunger, and quarrels, and there was never an end to the day. The mother's illness is getting longer and longer, and the father's patience with her is getting less and less day by day.

Finally, one day, the man retrieved a large cold, hard stone from outside the house and aimed it at the head of his sleeping wife.

"You forced me, I don't have a choice." As if to excuse himself, he was about to throw the stone down. At this moment, a cold sensation suddenly pierced his waist from behind, and then a burning heat, surging from his waist and spraying into the cold outside. The strength of his whole body seemed to be gushing out with this warm current, flowing out of his body, and he could only barely turn his head.

He saw his eight-year-old son's expressionless face, holding the hilt of his knife. He recognized the knife, which the family used to cut meat, a congratulatory gift he had received when he got married ten years ago, but he didn't necessarily use it once in the next few years.

"I don't have a choice." Chi Shangxuan said, and then stabbed the knife fiercely and a few points deeper.

That winter was too long, and my mother still couldn't finish it. After the beginning of spring, the road was opened, and Chi Shangxuan carried the few things left at home, and resolutely left the small mountain village where he was born and raised. In order to make a living, he had no choice but to steal and rob.

Finally slowly mixed up, and finally, someone began to add a brother to the end of his name. Chi Shangxuan's upward pace could not stop. After so much, he knows that those who are in a low place will never have a choice, all choices are just a temporary illusion, and only those who have climbed to the highest place are qualified to choose their own future.

He walked all the way, broke away from the ranks of the gangsters, surpassed the ordinary club bosses and the like, and even got acquainted with the "host" who was both black and white, and became a valuable talent recognized by the latter.

"Yes, if it's you, maybe you can really simulate that 'iron block' ability." The man said so.

Chi Shangxuan never asked what the "iron" meant, but after he stabbed that knife, he really never showed his feelings in front of people, even if he was directly called an iron, it would never be an exaggeration.

He is willing to be anything in order to get to the top.

At all costs.

A marquee-like review is just a breath in my head. When he exhaled this breath and took a large breath of fresh air again, Chi Shangxuan opened his eyes and looked at Liang Jingmo opposite without flinching. At this moment, he has absolute confidence, no matter what kind of poison is on the other side, he can rely on his own willpower to carry it down, and he will never show his timidity.

And he was completely sure of the poison he had configured. In his opinion, although Liang Jingmo seemed calm at this time, he was just forcing a happy face. The pain of tearing through his guts would soon distort the smile on his face, and he would roll on the floor, only trying to relieve the pain by covering his stomach.

But even this could not be done, because at the same time, the pain of a drill piercing his nerves would make him lose all ability to think, and his stiff limbs would make him unable to make any movements.

It's going to win. I'm sure I'll win. Chi Shangxuan kept emphasizing to himself in his heart. This cup of poison was in his stomach, and his body had not felt any discomfort so far, which strengthened his suspicion.

Liang Jingmo's early return in this round is just a bluff in the final analysis.

"Being smart is being mistaken by being smart." Chi Shangxuan had confidence, and even spoke a little louder. His eyes were fixed on Liang Jingmo's face, unwilling to let go of any moment when he lost control.

"Being able to see through the arrangement shows that your eyesight, or luck, is really good, but then the decision is completely stupid." Chi Shangxuan said, "You deliberately said those words to me, wanting to make me shake and suspect that the decision I made just now was wrong." But have you ever thought about it, even if there is such a 1 in 10,000 chance, I am really shaken, what can you gain in the end? ”

"The rules of the game are absolute, even if I have extra thoughts in my heart, I can only follow the rules and continue to play the game. We ended up having to go to a situation where we had to decide the winner with poison, and then we played by the rules and didn't die. If you think about it, if a person is dying, and not participating is also death, why would he choose to give up halfway? I definitely have to fight, and if I compete, I might have a chance to win. Now it seems that the fight has paid off. ”

Chi Shangxuan sneered: "It's also funny, why do you think it's possible for me to give up?" ”

Liang Jingmo listened to him silently throughout the whole process, with an indescribable expression on his face. After Chi Shangxuan finished speaking, he exhaled a long breath and looked relieved.

"That's the kind of person you're in, that's the best." His tone was peculiar, making it difficult to understand the emotion in his words. And in the next sentence, the wind of his words suddenly changed.

"Hey, you should know that those who enter early have a small advantage over those who enter later." Liang Jingmo said, "According to the rules, those who enter in advance can put the materials into the instrument to make the finished product and drink it if there are no other players in the venue. This right is available only once per round. ”

Chi Shangxuan replied with a cold face: "Of course I know. This right is for people who are well-versed in pharmacology. That kind of player can take more potions when gathering materials, and configure them into potions to restore their health a little. You've taken advantage of this rule in the previous two rounds, and this one is no exception. ”

"I did." Liang Jingmo nodded, "However, this time my health has not been restored." ”

Chi Shangxuan frowned: "What do you want to say?" Do you want to deliberately procrastinate for time? I think it's time for a second drink......"

"No, if you're still in a hurry to drink when I'm done, please."

Liang Jingmo waved his hand: "What I want to say is very simple, I can finish it in two sentences." First, these agents use nanotechnology, which allows for intensity comparisons and induced changes. Within a few minutes of its active life, the strong poison taken one step later will be transformed into the antidote to the previous weak poison. ”

"I know." Chi Shangxuan said impatiently, "So, now should be the second cup ......"

"Then, before you entered the door, I just exercised the rules and drank a cup of ......," Liang Jingmo said word by word, "a very weak, poison." ”

As soon as the words fell, the instrument rumbled at the right time. The poison for the second cup of this round of duel has been made at this moment.

However, Chi Shangxuan suddenly stood in place, like a stone carving.

Suddenly found that after walking this circle, there was still no choice.

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