Chapter 8: The Test of the Eternal Flame
Lynch looked up at the huge flames that were burning like flowers on a high platform in the middle of the palace square. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The exclamations and admiration of the children around them came and went. Of course, Lynch was silent, he had seen many big scenes in his previous life.
"This is the Eternal Flame located in the Central Imperial City," the night watchman who led them over took off his hood and explained to them with a smile, he looked about the same age as Luo Yu, with blonde hair: "See the small platform around, I'll take you over later, there is a flame we took from the Eternal Flame on it, you just need to get the recognition of the flame, and use this to gain the ability to communicate with the stars, you will be considered successful, and you will succeed in becoming a flame bearer like me, haha." ”
He laughed heartily, causing the children around him to laugh with him.
"How do you get the Flames' approval?" Lynch asked, raising his hand.
"You'll find out when you go up. The young man smiled heartily.
"And what if we fail?" Lynch asked again.
This question caused all four children except Lily to glare at him. Lily was shivering inexplicably frightened from the sidelines, and she didn't have time to stare at him.
"There is no one who thinks about failure before he even starts to act. The hearty teenager was still smiling, and did not answer Lynch's question directly.
Lynch was a little speechless, and he didn't say anything.
"Let's go, follow me to that platform!" the boy saw that the other children had already begun to move, and pointed to one of the small platforms, motioning for Lynch and them to follow.
A group of people walked under the stage.
"You go up one by one. Who's coming first?"
The children stared at each other with big eyes, and no one made a sound. The teenager next to him looked at them and didn't urge.
"Kenwo, aren't you the boss, you go first. One of them, a little boy with a soy sauce face, said first.
Kenwo's face flushed.
"I'll go, I'll go!"
He walked to the high platform. All the children stared at him nervously, only to see him go to the high platform, reach out and touch the flames, his hand reaching into the flames without being burned.
"He was recognized by the flames. The boy next to him explained to them. The children held their breath nervously and stared at Kenwo without blinking.
Then he began to slowly raise his head, staring at the sky.
"Actually, Kenwo doesn't need to look up, you are borrowing the power of fire to make the stars get in touch with you, and you should have left your own mark in the first stage. It's okay to see it or not to see it. ”
As soon as the boy finished speaking, Kenwo, who was still on the stage, ran down with cheers, and Lynch seemed to faintly see his eyes emitting a faint blue light.
The eyes of this world can really glow, I don't know what color the terrifying light and essence light come from? Lynch vomited a small groove in his heart.
"I made it! I made it! Wow!!" Kenwo screamed and ran down the table.
"So fast!"
The children below were also boiling, and they greeted Kenwo, who ran off the stage, and surrounded him to ask questions.
The young man who was standing on the side of the flame bearer crossed his arms and watched all this with a smile, without urging or blocking him. Lynch also stood there and watched coldly, and Lily next to him didn't move.
"Kenwort!" the blonde boy waved at Kenvard, and Kenvo pushed aside the children who were still surrounding him, and walked towards the Night's Watch with his toes high.
"Congratulations Kenwall, worthy of the Fred family, you should be the eldest son of Lord Dahl, right? Your father will be proud of you. The boy patted Kenwo on the shoulder and approvingly.
Kenwo nodded, smiling.
"I'm going to be the second one!" cried the other boy, rushing to the stage first.
He put his hand into the flames and closed his eyes, silent for a long time. Then he looked up at the sky again.
He spends much longer than Kenwo. The children, who had been waiting for a long time, looked uneasy again.
After waiting for a while, the blonde boy in the audience shouted at him, "Come down Rawls, don't waste time!"
Rawls on the stage only felt that the flames were starting to get hot, and he had to stretch his hand out of the originally warm flames, before he could clearly see the stars, even two very bright stars, but this time he couldn't sense anything.
He withdrew his arm, looked blankly at the audience, and began to cry.
"Troublesome little brat. The boy muttered, and shouted at Rawls on the stage, "Come down!"
Rawls cried loudly and walked slowly off the stage.
Lynch glanced at the other tables, most of which were similar to them, and there were a few children crying.
Kenwo walked over and patted Rawls on the shoulder, and comforted him loudly: "It's okay Rawls, I'm your boss, I'll cover you!"
Rawls pushed the hand that was clapping him on the shoulder away.
Does anyone dare to take the initiative to go up now?
The soy sauce man from before began to order people again: "Lynch, go ahead!"
The little girl with the little fan was a little angry: "You asked others to go up, why didn't you go up yourself?"
The little boy with the soy sauce face was just about to say a few words of argument when he saw a cold-faced Lynch walking towards the stage.
It's only a matter of time before it's up and then up. Lynch certainly didn't care about that, and he did have plans to go up.
"You see he went up on his own, right?" the little boy with a soy sauce face grimaced at the little girl.
"Hmph!" the little girl covered her face with a fan and turned her head to ignore him.
At this time, Lynch was already standing on the stage. He looked closely at the burning flames and frowned.
The flame burned in a uniform geometric form, without the slightest change, and the whole flame was a vivid red.
Lynch slowly leaned his hand in.
"It's so hot!" Before he could touch the flames, Lynch was so hot that he withdrew his hand. He looked at his reddened fingers and switched hands.
I was also scalded back.
He looked down the stage. The blonde boy beckoned to him and motioned for him to come back.
"Why can't I even touch the flames?"
"Hmm...... I guess I didn't get the recognition of the flames. This situation is relatively rare, even less common than becoming an arsonist, count you unlucky, go back and wait. The boy motioned for Lynch to stop talking to him.
Lynch stood back where he had stood. Lily, who had been silent next to her, touched him and asked, "Aren't you crying?"
Helplessly, Lynch replied, "Why should I cry? He turned back to Lily's eyes, which were already filled with tears.
"You're going to die. Lily began to sob again.
"What?" Lynch couldn't maintain his poker face now, he thought he had misheard: "What did you say? What will you die? You can make it clear!"
"My sister just took the test and died. Woowoowoo...... You're going to die, too...... I'm going to die......" Lily burst into tears, taking the doll in her arms and beginning to wipe her tears. Lynch looked at Lily's big red and tearful eyes, and her throat was a little dry.
No wonder so many children are so afraid that they are not the successors of the fire, it turns out that the later tests will kill people.
Lynch was a little dazed, and didn't bother to shut up Lori, who had been cursing herself to death.
Although he died once, although he was a traverser, it was still unrealistic to say that he was not afraid of death. As a modern person, I have been bored in another world for eight years, and my only expectation is to master supernatural abilities, and I am no longer ordinary. What if I give up on the next test? Lynch asked himself.
I would go back to that boring downtown town, eat and sleep every day, occasionally go out to work in fear, and have almost no entertainment, and then when I grew up, I would marry a woman and have children.
It's not at all what I'm looking forward to in life. Lynch told himself that I wanted to see what was beyond the black fog, I wanted to know why the starry sky above me was what I saw when I was on Earth, I wanted to understand the world, I wanted to live more than I had lived in my previous life.
I'm a time-traveler, what's the point of my time-traveling if I die in the test? I don't believe I don't even have some aura perks or anything like that.
Lynch came to his senses and took a deep breath.
He touched the head of the little Lori who was still crying and cursing him, and comforted her: "Don't cry, I won't die." ”
Little Lori, who was touched by someone younger than herself and younger than herself, barely stopped crying, and looked at Lynch with her big red eyes: "Why don't you cry yet? You're going to die." ”
the groove. Lynch was choked by this logic for a long time and didn't know how to reply. At this age, it looks like you should be in the third or fourth grade, why does your IQ feel like you're still in kindergarten?
"It's coming to you soon. Lynch pointed to the table, interrupting the silly conversation.
After Lynch came down, the previous roll call brother wanted the little girl who had just choked with him to go up, but the night watchman boy caught up directly, and he came back crying after grinding on the stage for a while. When he came down, the little girl went up with her little fan, and when she came down, she also cried tears.
The blonde boy crouched down to comfort her, looking like her older brother.
In the end, Lily was left.
Little Lori looked resigned to her fate and walked onto the test bench.
Soon she came down with a look of disbelief.
Lynch felt that he could feel that Lori was different from before, but he couldn't tell.
The blonde boy, who was comforting his sister, was also a little surprised to see her come down so quickly, and he asked, "You succeeded?"
Little Lori nodded nervously.
"You wait. The boy closed his eyes, and soon opened them again, a red light flashing in his sockets.
"Well, you actually succeeded. His tone was a little surprised: "There are actually two people out of six." ”
He glanced around at the other teams.
"There are fewer of us, so let's finish the test first, then let's go back first." ”
The boy said hello, and the six children followed him back home.
But this time it was accompanied by a cry.