Looking at the starry sky, some people occasionally ask, is there another world in this world, is it the world after death, or is it just another world?

People who haven't been there, can't give an answer.

People who have died, unable to provide answers.

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Yu Shu stood at the top of a building, and when he looked out from here, he could see a hazy complex of buildings.

The complex is divided into five sections with five layers of ramparts, which look like the Colosseum of ancient Rome from a distance.

In the center of the complex, a towering red tower soared into the air like a sword.

Farther away, Yu Shu could see the mountains and rivers in the distance, hidden under the faint red mist, and looked harmonious and quiet from afar, but somehow, it gave Yu Shu a feeling of a sea of blood rolling in.

This is a city located between mountains and rivers, and it is also a city full of weirdness, which is chillingly quiet.

There is no noise in the world, there is no chaos and silence in the last days, and there is not even a trace of human breath.

He woke up a minute earlier and found himself on the roof of a building with no exit down.

Behind him lay more than two dozen sleeping men and women, including Tian Yong, Jiang Qianqian and Gu Xin'er, as well as some familiar faces from the time they entered the game together.

This made Yu Shu wonder: Could it be that this is the so-called testing ground?

Then he checked himself.

Everything before the teleportation, including the Bone Blade, was gone.

At the same time, the wound on his chest that had been aching after being injured by the toad also disappeared.

It's like a dream, but I don't know if I'm in a dream or if I've just woken up......

"What is this place?" A beautiful female voice came from behind him.

Yu Shu felt familiar, not only because this question was exactly the same as when Jiang Qianqian asked him, but also because this voice was also familiar.

He turned around, and sure enough, it was Jiang Qianqian who asked questions.

"Eh, Yu Shu, it's you." Jiang Qianqian obviously recalled the initial picture and stuck out her tongue, "I didn't expect me to ask this question again, but here is ......"

"The Proving Ground." A deep voice suddenly sounded, "I think you should have been warned before you teleported. ”

Yu Shu and Jiang Qianqian looked at the source of the sound at the same time, and a middle-aged man about the same size as Tian Yong was standing in the open space not far away.

He was fierce and ferocious, with a fleshy face, and a slanted scar on each side of his forehead that stretched almost the entire length of his face, as if someone had cut his head in half and re-stitched it back together.

"Who are you? Why should we believe your word? Jiang Qianqian asked loudly.

The scar-faced man snorted coldly: "After a while, you will know that my words are not credible, as for now, wait for the others to wake up first, I don't want to repeat meaninglessly." ”

Jiang Qianqian did not back down: "You'd better make it clear to me and tell you that my aunt and grandmother are not easy to mess with......"

"Jiang Qianqian, shut up!" Yu Shu interrupted suddenly.

Jiang Qianqian turned her head suspiciously, Yu Shu shook her head at her, and then looked at the scarfaced man with a wary expression: "Because he wasn't in that place three seconds ago." As for the people behind him, sorry, I haven't met him. ”

Jiang Qianqian was stunned, looking at the scar-faced man in astonishment, and at this time, the sleeping people woke up one after another.

"Yu Shu, Jiang Qianqian, you woke up so early." Tian Yong rubbed his temples, "Xiao Xin'er is also there, where is this?" ”

"Hahaha! I survived! Before Yu Shu could speak, a voice with some epilepsy came out of the crowd, it was a gangster-looking young man, his body was tattooed, "Zhou Zhihao, you didn't expect it, I can still survive!" ”

"Hmph." Another voice sounded, and it was a man wearing sunglasses who couldn't see his face clearly, "Zhao Xinheng, count your fate, you won't be so lucky next time." ”

"Bah, what the are you ......"

"Quiet!" The scar-faced man let out an angry roar, interrupting the conversation between the two.

"Who do you think you are?" The gangster named Zhao Xinheng shouted disdainfully at the scar-faced man, "Grandma, Lao Tzu is angry, you will come to die, in this case, don't blame me for being too heavy." ”

"Ghost Roar!"

Zhao Xinheng waved his hands violently, as if he wanted to use his life force, but there was nothing.

"How is that possible! How can I ...... my life? Yes! ”

Yu Shu saw very clearly, the scar-faced man's body only moved slightly, and appeared at Zhao Xinheng's location in the next second, while Zhao Xinheng flew out upside down as if he was hit by something, fell to the ground and fainted.

So fast! The word came to everyone's minds.

The scar-faced man grinned and let out a hehehe-hehe chuckle: "Cut, why do people like you exist in every thing that comes from the Proving Ground?" In my opinion, the meaning of the existence of people like you is......"

Before he could finish his sentence, a pistol suddenly appeared in his hand.

Raising his hand was a shot, which hit Zhao Xinheng's left leg knee, only to hear Zhao Xinheng let out a miserable cry of "whoop", holding his left leg trembling in pain, and blood flowed down his trouser legs.

The scar-faced man put away the gun and said coldly: "The only meaning is to use it to make an example and establish prestige!" ”

Everyone's hearts sank, and suddenly all the noise and angry scolding disappeared at the same time.

In the face of real death threats, all pride and dignity are vain, not to mention that they have just been freed from the bitter sea of the "Ruined City".

However, Yu Shu narrowed his eyes and looked at the scar-faced man, he dared to swear that the other party had absolutely no gun in his hand before.

His gun, like a man, appeared out of nowhere.

After glancing at the people around him, the scar-faced man sneered and said, "I know you have a lot of questions, but unfortunately, I don't want to waste my precious time answering them for you." You might as well think about what this place is, who I am, and how you got out of that damn end of the world, because a lot of information has been stored in your minds at the time of transmission. ”

Yu Shu closed his eyes and thought about it, and found that he really had an extra memory in his mind.

This place is called the Death Proving Ground, or Proving Ground for short.

It does not belong to any known corner of the earth, but it has powers beyond ordinary people's imagination, including life force.

It's got everything you want, and you can get it here, but you need trial points to redeem it.

Trials Points are the currency they use inside the Proving Grounds, it is the key to people's survival, food, drink, housing, and even weapons, everything you want can and can only be purchased with Trials Points.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Trials Point can be strengthened, allowing you to become stronger and then face more dangerous missions.

As for quests, there are two types in the Proving Ground, namely Trials Quests and Quest Quests.

The quest is the quest that Yu Shu and them "survived to the tenth day" when they were in the "City of Ruins", but because the "City of Ruins" is a novice dungeon, they will not provide quest clues, and when Yu Shu and they officially enter the trial dungeon in the future, they will get the full content of the quest.

Trials Quests, as the name suggests, are quests in the Proving Ground, which do not get quest content like quest quests, but will get a hint when they are in the Proving Ground, and there are three prompts. When the prompting opportunity comes, there will be many wrong interference clues, and the person who gets the prompt needs to grasp it himself. In addition, after entering the trial dungeon and completing the dungeon task, you will also get a clue accordingly, and the clues and hints have a chance to be repeated. Of course, there are no errors and distractions from clues compared to prompts.

The trialists, namely Yu Shu, must guess the content of the trial quest and complete it in order to lead to the next trial ground.

Within the Proving Ground, there are a total of five areas, from high to low from the Fifth Proving Ground to the First Proving Ground, and the higher the Proving Ground, the more you can enter the core area.

The life power and life energy do not need to be explained, and the secret keys are divided into six categories, from low to high, they are the heart of black iron, the heart of bronze, the heart of silver, the heart of gold, the heart of the stars, and the heart of the sun.

Yu Shu and the others who can stay on this rooftop now are all trialists who have completed the novice task and have been recognized by the trial ground, that is to say, all of them are people who have successfully lived to the tenth day in the last days, and all else have died! And in reality, the number of people who died was pulled into a group by the Proving Ground was ...... Ninety people!

It is a place made entirely of people walking on the brink of death, with the functions of a city and an adventurous nature.

There weren't many memories left in my head, vague and sketchy about what the Proving Ground was and how long it had existed. But just this memory, Yu Shu seems to have seen the wails of countless dead.

He saw many people screaming in the face of the tasks issued by the Proving Ground, walking in different dungeon worlds for a glimmer of life, desperately struggling, struggling, and fighting.

He saw many people die, and each time, only a part of them survived, in a different world.

He also saw more people unable to enter the next trial ground because they couldn't guess the trial task, and there was no trial point, and they were starved to death, thirsty to death, and even committed suicide in despair in the current trial ground.

Then, the Proving Ground will send a new batch of people here to make up for the dead.

Usually as much as it dies, it replenishes as much as it dies, and there are not many people, and there are no more people.

The size of the Proving Ground is always around 100,000 people, which is equivalent to the population of a small city. And the dead have been hundredfold and thousandfold......