Time is extinguished, and unconsciously, the life and death of tens of millions of people, the rise and fall of hundreds of countries, and the change of dozens of dynasties...... It is precisely these that constitute the history of China, the history of the world, and the history of the people of the earth. Human life is only 100 years, and a person, a 100-year life, is as small as dust and sand compared to human history, and it is not even an ant.

So, what's the point of what everyone is striving for today?

From entering the sarcophagus to walking out of the sarcophagus, Lin Xuan's life was like going through a round of blood and fire, and it had matured a lot.

"How long have I been in?" He asked Samantha.

"It's very short, it should only be about fifteen minutes, I just stood and took a nap." Samantha smiled tiredly.

Lin Xuan subconsciously retorted: "How can this be? I feel like it's at least half a day or even longer. ”

He looked at his watch, and sure enough, Samantha was completely right, the time difference between his entry and exit was really only ten minutes. However, in those ten minutes, he witnessed the reincarnation of Gu Luo and ** Gong.

"The watch is stopped." He smiled wryly.

"Now that it's stopped, don't worry about it." Samantha's answer was as inscrutable as it smacked.

"Why?" Lin Xuan's mind was not yet fully awake, and between his gestures, he seemed to still be standing in the boundless sea of fire.

"After we entered the cave under Mount Everest, the space-time dimension in which we are located has changed, and the flat time world no longer works for us. Here, we're in a different way of working in time than you've ever seen before. So, even if you throw away your watch at this point, there is no real loss. Samantha replied.

Lin Xuan took off the Omega gold watch that had stopped working and put it in his pocket, then turned his head to look at Samantha: "You know so much, why did you always hide it before and refuse to share it with everyone?" ”

In this way, it is undoubtedly condemning Samantha for deceiving everyone.

Samantha shook her head: "Lin Xuan, I can only say these words to you, because they are all high-level secrets of the Russian military and the State Secrets Bureau. Of course, I can also say nothing to you until we leave here and forget about each other. Now, I say this to make you understand my heart. ”

Lin Xuan smiled bitterly, Samantha was sharp-toothed, putting the responsibility on others, and choosing herself completely, just like an innocent person. It's a pity that Lin Xuan is not the kind of person who loses all his concentration after listening to the girl's words, and these words have no effect on him.

"So, I should thank you?" Lin Xuan asked.

Samantha shook her head again: "The man who is a confidant dies, and the woman is the one who pleases herself." Although this is a cliché of the ancient Chinese, it is extremely true, and many people in our Russia believe in this sentence. What am I doing for you, not for a 'thank you', you know in your heart, why do you keep forcing me to say it? ”

Lin Xuan lost his mind for a moment, because Samantha's eyes were so soft and affectionate, as if every word he had just said came from a very sincere inner world.

"I ...... Alas! Lin Xuan sighed, leaned down gently, and stared intently at Gu Luo in the sarcophagus.

In the hallucination, Gu Luo destroyed the Old Summer Palace together, and died impassionedly and righteously, becoming an unknown loyal minister in the history of the Qing Dynasty.

In the real world, Lin Xuan looked at Gu Luo and looked at the Frankenstein who had just been released from the ice: "Will he be resurrected?" His soul has died out in the world of earth and fire, and he is empty**, what is the use? Even if he comes back to life, he is just the walking dead? ”

The Tibetan mastiff is a low-level animal that can be resurrected from a dead body, but as a high-level animal in charge of the earth, human beings have organs thousands of times more complex than the Tibetan mastiff, so they cannot be simply resurrected. If a small link is wrong, the whole thing fails.

In fact, Gulo is really dead, his body is gradually stiffening, and all the good things that humans have have slipped away from him.

"Let's go back." Samantha whispered.

"Okay." Lin Xuan replied.

Before leaving, he looked at the ** male lying in another sarcophagus.

Gong's expression is calm and calm, and there is even a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Is he dead?" Samantha asked.

"He's dead." Lin Xuan replied, and subconsciously added later, "It should be dead, I saw him with my own eyes...... His soul. ”

What you see in the sea of fire should be the soul of ** Gong, and on the other side, it is the soul of Gu Luo. So, is it Lin Xuan himself, or Lin Xuan's soul? If it was a soul, then Lin Xuan also had the ability to go out of the body? In the ten minutes of the out-of-body experience, is he dead or alive?

Lin Xuan thought of that, and was stunned for a moment, unable to take his eyes off the ** male face.

"What is the world of souls like?" Samantha asked unconsciously.

Lin Xuan suddenly thought of the term "Infernal Purgatory", which was used in Buddhist scriptures and Zen scrolls to describe the tortures experienced by people after death. Doesn't "refining" mean smelting and smelting? "Infernal" does not mean the immensity of the sea of fire? Perhaps, what he saw was the legendary "Infernal Purgatory" in the underworld.

The word purgatory comes from the Latin verb and has the meaning of refinement. In the tradition of the Christian church, purgatory refers to the process of refining a person after death, the purification of sin from a person, and the experience of refining a person in the process of reaching the state of perfection (heaven) through death. Non-Christian religions, such as Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and other religions, also use many anthropomorphic expressions to express the idea of purgatory, such as reincarnation or the condition of the soul in hell.

Lin Xuan had read Dante's "Divine Comedy", which described a nine-layer purgatory, where souls who had sinned but could be forgiven during their lifetime confessed their sins and cleansed their souls according to the seven deadly sins of mankind.

Of course, in his memory, the deepest and most terrible description of "purgatory" should be the teachings of Islam. In this doctrine, "purgatory" is designated as a place of punishment for faith in the afterlife, also known as "hell", which is a paraphrase of the Arabic word "al-Jehannan". In China, Chinese Muslims mostly use the Persian word duozakh, which is called "Duozihai" or "Sea of Sins". In Arabic, the words used to refer to Hell and found in the Qur'an are al-jahim, al-hutamah, ar, al-sa-ir, saqar, etc., and are considered to be a place of severe punishment and horror, a permanent destination for those who reject Islam and commit many evils.

"My soul, once in purgatory and didn't feel it, it was really ...... to escape without knowing it" Lin Xuan smiled bitterly, and a layer of cold sweat immediately broke out on his back.

In other words, if he witnessed the death of Gu Luo and ** Gong in the sea of fire and he did not jump out of the illusion and return to reality safely, he would have become a dead person, just like Gu Luo and ** Gong lying in the sarcophagus in front of him.

That kind of death is simply a great sorrow for his life.

Now he understands that these sarcophagi arranged in swastika are the entrances for living people to purgatory, and he and Samantha unintentionally sent Gu Luo and ** Gong into the most terrible "purgatory" described in religious texts.

"We were wrong!"

"We shouldn't use the logical thinking of the past to define the world in front of us!"

"We know so little about the world!" Lin Xuan couldn't help but sigh three times in a row.