Chapter 5: The Light of Trial
"Sister Luo Ling. What do you think of this trial?" Zhou He asked.
"I don't think the tin cans outside are necessarily the content of the trial, maybe they are just the guards of this dungeon. This passage seems to speak of the beginning of the trial...... Right here. Luo Ling held her cheeks and looked up at the statue. The hall gave her the feeling that there was a power in it, like an undiscovered treasure. Luo Ling didn't know where this feeling came from, maybe it was just an intuition. Hey, people like to associate women with intuition, maybe they just can't see women showing logic, she thought.
"You're saying there's danger here, too?" she looked east and west, for fear that another monster would suddenly jump out.
"Trials, not necessarily fighting, killing, killing. Have you ever heard of the ultimate trial?" Xiao Chen interjected, he looked at Zhou He with interest and was startled, that kind of naΓ―ve timidity can arouse a man's desire to protect.
"What's that? Sounds scary. Zhou He looked at Xiao Chen, who had a stern expression, and took a step back in horror.
Xiao Chen nodded heavily, "It's really scary, more than ten years of hard training, just for the three-day test, only a few people can step on the heads of others to get a real victory, and the loser will regret most of his life." It has an even more terrifying name......"
"Huh?!" Zhou He covered his mouth.
"College Entrance Examination!"
"Xiao Chen!" Zhou He said angrily, "Can you be serious!"
"Okay, okay, just kidding......" Xiao Chen made a gesture of surrendering with both hands, "I'll give you an example, give everyone some confidence, the college entrance examination is so difficult, we still have some trials that we can't solve." β
Zhou He's expression suddenly fell a little, his hand played with the corner of his clothes, bowed his head and said, "I don't have that kind of blessing." After graduating from junior high school, I came out to work, and I went through the college entrance examination. After a year in the school's printing shop, I didn't dare to enter a classroom. β
"You ......," Xiao Chen choked, "Don't be so sensitive, you know I don't mean that." β
"I know you're all good, you're all up to you, you're here to make decisions, you can bandage wounds and you know Spanish. And I, I'm just a girl who is very timid and understands very little. I'm nothing compared to you, I'm useless, I, I know you look down on me. If I'm still in the printing shop, you won't look at me except for 'print this' and 'copy that'. But, but I'm really trying to find a way to get there. You...... You can't joke like that!"
As she spoke, Zhou He's tears flowed out, she lowered her head and wiped it with her sleeve, but she couldn't block it after wiping it here, and finally the snot came out, so she simply cried loudly.
Luo Ling knew that this was a kind of catharsis that Zhou He burst out under a long period of fear and tension. So she didn't say anything, just hugged her and stroked her back.
Zhou He cried for a while, sobbing and crying while thinking about going home.
Xiao Chen touched his nose in a daze, leaned in front of Zhou He's eyes, and whispered, "Little Zhou He, let me tell you a secret, no one among the boys looks at you squarely." β
"You ......" Zhou He looked at Xiao Chen with big red eyes in surprise when he heard this. didn't seem to understand why Xiao Chen was 'bullying' her like this. After being stunned for a while, her mouth deflated, she took a deep breath, and turned on the faucet again.
"That's because they are shy in front of you who are pure and lovely. Those cowards secretly looked at you hundreds of times, and called you 'Wenyin Xishi'. β
"You, you're kidding me again, villain!" Zhou He still couldn't help but laugh out of his snot bubbles, and slapped Xiao Chen on the shoulder hatefully.
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The three of them sat on the ground and ate something to replenish their strength. Xiao Chen didn't want to upset Zhou He anymore, so he analyzed it carefully, "We carefully inspected the entire hall and didn't find any secret doors and mechanisms. This may just be an ancestral hall, where ancient people worshipped their ancestors and then went out to perform some kind of trial. If this is the case, then there is still only one way out of us. Xiao Chen pointed to the crack at the entrance.
"What can we do, we can't fight and we can't beat us, can we only wait for someone to save us?" Zhou He's eyes were swollen, and she asked while rubbing her eye sockets with her hands.
"We don't know where we are, so let's not talk about rescue. Luo Ling was next to Zhou He's side, "I saw that the armored warrior was stuck there and smashed the wall for half an hour, and there were no other companions to help it, which at least shows that these iron cans have a low IQ." Maybe we can use this rift to break through each one. β
"You mean, get stuck one and kill the other?" Xiao Chen recalled the fight with the armor warrior just now, and hesitated a little in his heart, he was not a combat expert, a combat master, he escaped from those armor warriors twice, luck accounted for a large proportion, let him take the initiative to meet and fight these guys, he was still a little stunned.
Luo Ling saw his stiff expression and said with a smile: "You are stupid, I don't want you to fight hard." They're all stuck and won't move, can't we figure out a way yet?"
Yes, Xiao Chen patted his head, as long as the weapons were longer, just toss them slowly.
"So, the first thing is to get that. Luo Ling stretched out her hand and pointed at it, Zhou He followed her hand and saw that it was the sharp axe in the hand of the warrior statue, "With it, it will be much easier to deal with tin cans." β
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"Grab its arm, lift its foot up a little more, yes, step on its thigh. Zhou He really had a child's temper, and quickly regained his vitality, and commanded Xiao Chen to climb the statue, plus the three-meter-high statue with a base was not easy to climb, Xiao Chen took a lot of effort to reach the axe.
He touched the handle of the axe and found that the material of the axe was not like steel, and it felt very warm to the touch. Pulling the axe from the stone statue's hand, he felt that the weight of the axe was heavier than that of the iron axe. It feels very powerful to hold in your hand.
"Be careful, it's heavy. Xiao Chen cautiously handed the axe to Luo Ling, who was waiting below. Unexpectedly, Zhou Hexing rushed over and took the axe, "It's nothing special, it's heavier than the axe for chopping wood in my hometown." β
"You don't have a lot of strength. You can handle this axe. Xiao Chen climbed down from the statue two or three times.
"Please, I'm going to do farm work in my hometown, and I'm like you city girls who are delicate and breathing after a few steps. Zhou He saw Luo Ling laughing, and said embarrassedly: "Sister Luo Ling, I didn't mean you." You are so calm, so smart, and not afraid of anything, and in my eyes you are much better than many men. β
Xiao Chen saw that the corners of Luo Ling's mouth twitched obviously, and he couldn't help laughing.
Zhou He realized that he had said the wrong thing again, so he took the axe and turned it in his hand, walked to the open space in front of the stone statue, and made a chopping motion, "However, this axe really feels very good, it is a good axe." β
Some people say that labor is beautiful, and Xiao Chen now agrees with this sentence, the axe drew an arc, and in the hands of the petite but well-proportioned Zhou He, there was a strange sense of harmony. This feeling even made him feel that although the size was not commensurate, this axe belonged to Zhou He.
Driving this strange thought out of his mind, Xiao Chen stretched out his hand and said, "Okay, let's find a stick to tie to the handle, and it will become a halberd, and we can deal with those iron cans." β
But Zhou He didn't respond, but looked at the stone statue behind him with wide eyes, his expression as if he had seen a ghost. Xiao Chen hurriedly looked back......
He saw the stone statue's eyes glow white. The white light seemed to flow in the eye sockets, as if the stone statue was scanning the people in front of them.
"There is danger, everyone hide. Xiao Chen shouted.
But as soon as he finished speaking, the white light turned into a beam of light that burst out, and the beam did not shine on Xiao and Luo who were standing at the feet of the statue, but it happened to shoot on Zhou He, who was holding an axe.
"Ah~" Zhou He let out a panicked cry, and the axe also fell to the ground. She ran like crazy, trying to avoid the light, but the light, like a substantial chain, twisted and wrapped tightly around her. Zhou He didn't run a few steps before he was pulled back by the white light, and gradually floated into the air.
The white light became more and more abundant on Zhou He's body, and finally turned into a light cocoon. On the ground below the light cocoon, white runes slowly emerged. Hundreds of densely packed runes, intermittently intersecting each other to form a circular array full of patterns.
Suddenly, a violent air stream burst out of the light cocoon, stirring up a strong wind in the room, and for a moment sand and rocks flew everywhere. Xiao Chen suddenly came to his senses and stretched out his hand to save Zhou He, but he was blown away by the wind and couldn't get close at all. And Zhou He seemed to be in great pain, struggling and screaming miserably.
Xiao Chen had never encountered such a wind in his life, and he was almost crushed to the ground by the strong wind. Luo Ling grabbed him and jumped to the side, hiding behind a pillar.
The two squatted on the ground, both seeing the horror and horror in each other's eyes.
Xiao Chen leaned against the wind, poked his head out, and saw the white light swaying like a flame, while Zhou He shouted hoarsely, as if he was in the stake.
"Gotta go save her!" Xiao Chen shouted in Luo Ling's ear amid the howling wind. Luo Ling shook her head, not knowing whether she couldn't hear the sound or didn't agree with him doing so. "Go, go, save!" Xiao Chen repeated in the loudest voice, and rushed out with gritted teeth.
The wind beat him, he first walked, then squatted, and finally could only crawl from the ground to Zhou He. Luo Ling also rushed out, grabbed his feet, and said something anxiously and loudly. But Xiao Chen couldn't hear it, he broke away from Luo Ling's hand and continued to move forward, forward. With each step he went forward, he felt the wind rise a little stronger, and every time he got closer, he felt the white light burn a little hotter, and he felt as if he were about to burrow into a white wall of fire.
However, even if it was burned, what if it was roasted? Zhou He must have been a hundred times more painful than him in the center of the white light. Xiao Chen didn't know why he suddenly burst out with an urge to move forward, he must lean over and never retreat.
Finally, when he was about to run out of energy and was about to be swept away by the qi wave, he grabbed Zhou He's ankle.