And so the second trial ended.

The four people who were good at the beginning went in, but in the end, only Xia Lan came back alone.

Zhang Hao died, Ah Xin also died, and Su Shu was left in the other world forever, and in the blink of an eye, the past between them and them was completely shattered like a broken mirror.

Suffocate.

The incomparably strong feeling of suffocation made Xia Lan unable to breathe at all.

"You're the only one? Look at your expression, Su Shu, are they all dead? ”

Accompanied by a deep and deep male voice, I don't know when, a tall figure appeared at the door of the screening hall - Zhao Shengcai.

Xia Lan hung his head and was silent, his body was deeply shrouded in coldness, obviously revealing the breath of not approaching the living.

Zhao Shengcai didn't seem to notice Xia Lan's indifference, strode in, stared at the words on the screen and fell into thought.

[Wish failed to fulfill, no reward can be given to the Mist]

Xia Lan came back alive.

It stands to reason that you should have completed the second trial, but the screen says that you can't give a reward, didn't you complete the trial goal? So how did Xia Lan come back?

Zhao Shengcai didn't understand the meaning, but for him, there were too many things that could not be explained in the trial, and he had to let the only survivor, Xia Lan, explain it himself.

Zhao Shengcai turned his head to look at Xia Lan, and asked while analyzing: "It's a little different from what I expected, although this trial is full of contradictions, but there is no 'ghost' constraints, and the time is unlimited, then everything is easy to say, shouldn't the four of you think about the essence behind the contradictions first, and then find out the way of life, why are you the only one who comes back alive in the end?" Or is there something hopeless about this trial? ”

"You're not in the trial, how can you ask such a question so easily?" Xia Lan's voice was so hoarse that he couldn't even hear that it was his own voice, and he raised his head indifferently to look at Zhao Shengcai, and his pretty face was even more haggard.

"I'm sorry, I was abrupt." Although Zhao Shengcai was apologizing, there was no sincerity on his face, or rather, he had long learned to hide his emotions so well that no one could tell whether he was sincere or fake, and only in this way could he feel at ease with himself.

Xia Lan unconsciously clasped his hands tightly, as if ignoring Zhao Shengcai's existence, and just muttered to himself: "The others are dead, but Su Shu is not dead...... He really didn't die, I didn't hurt him, but—he didn't want to come back...... Probably, I don't want to be tortured by reality anymore, and he doesn't want to torture me anymore, so ...... He gave up everything about reality......"

Hearing Xia Lan's incoherent words, Zhao Shengcai frowned and said, "Xia Lan, I don't think your mental condition is very good now, so let's sit down and rest for a while and speak slowly." ”

Xia Lan turned a deaf ear, still talking to himself into the air, and his voice gradually became quieter, so that Zhao Shengcai couldn't understand what nonsense Xia Lan was talking about.

The reality that Zhao Shengcai saw in his eyes was that only Xia Lan came back alive, that's all, as for the others, failing to come back is equivalent to saying goodbye to the real world forever, this is the reality.

"It seems that you really like Su Shu."

Suddenly hearing Zhao Shengcai's exclamation, Xia Lan's eyes stared directly at Zhao Shengcai for a moment, even if Zhao Shengcai was stared at in such a gloomy way, he couldn't help but feel a little creepy.

"Did I say something wrong?" Zhao Shengcai spread his hands seemingly innocently, "If you want to deny it, then why bother about Su Shu to this extent?" I see you're almost obsessed, if you don't stimulate you, you'll still treat me like air, but I'm not air, it's better for you to calm down. ”

I thought that Xia Lan would be angry, of course anyone would think that Xia Lan would be angry about it, after all, Xia Lan is a pseudo-mother, Su Shu is a man, such a combination is against heavenly reason.

But Xia Lan was unexpectedly not angry, and he smiled in front of Zhao Shengcai, and his smile was quite bright, I have to say that even if she is a pseudo-mother, Xia Lan's excessive beauty is enough to make countless women feel ashamed.

Zhao Shengcai couldn't understand the meaning of Xia Lan's sad smile, and was puzzled: "What do you want to laugh at?" ”

"You're right, not even a word." Xia Lan suddenly retracted his smile, and soon immersed himself in his thoughts and fell deeper and deeper, "I just like to be tortured by him to go crazy, but I know that I actually don't like a dark person like him, and even very, very disgusted!" However - he was not like this, from the beginning, it was all because of my fault that he fell into despair step by step, if it were not for me, he would not have become like this, and in the end he would not have been abandoned by reality, it was my fault, if I had been a little less selfish, he would not have been hurt and would not have been desperate, this is my selfishness - you don't understand at all! ”

Zhao Shengcai really didn't understand what Xia Lan was talking nonsense, blaming himself? This self-blame was a bit excessive, so he snorted coldly: "From the moment everyone falls into this dark trial, no one is innocent, if he wants to live, even the pain and despair can't be accepted, he is destined to not survive, so he can't come back, this is the truth." ”

A person who is so emotional that he is about to go crazy and a person who is almost cold-blooded that he is rational are also destined to fail to agree with each other's ideas, which is tantamount to talking about chickens and ducks, and it will not help.

Zhao Shengcai's words were like shirking responsibility in Xia Lan's ears, but Xia Lan was powerless to accuse the other party of being wrong, after all, this is precisely the most cruel reality, no wonder Su Shu is willing to abandon everything and is unwilling to face such a cruel reality again, even at this moment Xia Lan can't help but regret it, what's the point of coming back here to be tormented by trials and the reality in front of him again and again?

Xia Lan has no confidence that he can survive to the end of the trial, and even if he can survive to the end, how heavy will the price he has paid be?

If I could have realized these things earlier, if I had realized them earlier, I am afraid that I would have abandoned everything like Su Shu and isolated myself from the world in another indisputable land.

Perhaps, Su Shu never wanted to torture himself, made unreasonable demands on himself in every way, and wanted to make himself a so-called slave, just because Su Shu had long realized the incomparably cruel trials and reality, and wanted to save himself from the sea of suffering, but he gave up Su Shu's salvation because of selfishness, and in the end, no one could save himself, and only Su Shu was left to be redeemed......

An unprovoked hatred grew like a weed from his heart, and what Xia Lan hated was neither this dark trial, nor the cruelty brought by reality, but that he hated Su Shu very much, why should he abandon himself alone outside the world.

This pseudo-mother......

Zhao Shengcai looked at Xia Lan, who was becoming more and more mentally disordered, and felt a chill in his heart, Xia Lan was crazy, and he drove himself crazy.