Chapter 81: The Mine
"Where?" Li Xiu looked around, but he didn't see the shadow of the Gate of Trials.
Sha Chu walked to a small pit, looked down twice, turned around and said to Li Xiu: "This is it, go down from here, you will naturally be able to see the gate of trials, you go down first." ”
"With such a small hole, why don't you make it bigger?" Li Xiu walked to the side and looked down.
I saw that the black hole below could not see the bottom, and I didn't know how deep it was, and the size of the hole was only for one person to pass through.
"Do you think I don't want to? The geology here, which is prone to collapse, is not suitable for digging too large mines, and there is no time for that. Have a snack when you go down, don't collapse the mine. Sha Chu urged Li Xiu to hurry up.
Li Xiu had no choice but to tie the rope on the scaffolding to his body, and originally wanted to jump down like this, but Sha Chu let him enter the mine upside down with his head and feet.
Sha Chu slowly put the rope on it, and couldn't help frowning, Li Xiu's body was too heavy, and it was unusually heavy, if he was an ordinary trialist, I am afraid that he would not be able to pull Li Xiu at all.
Li Xiu fell little by little, his eyes became darker and darker, and soon he couldn't see anything, so he could only grope with his hands.
The entrance to the cave did not widen, still allowing only one person's body to pass through, and his body continued to descend, I don't know how many meters he fell, and finally touched the bottom of the mine.
Looking up, I saw that the mouth of the well had become smaller than a teacup, and I groped with my hands to the side, and soon found a horizontal hole next to it, which only allowed one person to pass through.
He untied the rope from his body, and then pulled hard three times, and then he felt the rope go up.
After a while, Li Xiu saw that the sky above his head, which was smaller than the mouth of a teacup, was completely blocked, and it should be Sha Chu coming down.
Li Xiu explored the passage that crawled to the sideways, and climbed into it a little to leave room for the sand that came down.
Suddenly, Li Xiu only felt a softness under his palm, and suddenly the sweat pores all over his body stood up, and he quickly retracted his hand, and then quickly retreated, retreating to the position of the shaft just now.
He didn't know what he had just touched, the soft touch was definitely not dirt or rock, but more like some kind of soft creature.
It felt like a snake or a frog or something, and the soft and smooth touch gave him goosebumps.
Peng!
Li Xiu only felt that his body was hit by a heavy object, and he snorted in pain, and then he felt that his body was squeezed by a soft and fragrant thing.
"Why are you still here, didn't you tell you before you came down, let you climb in first?" Sha Chu's voice sounded in Li Xiu's ears.
She jumped straight down and didn't use the rope at all.
Fortunately, Li Xiu was sitting against the wall of the well just now, if his head stretched forward a little further, the sand Chu who jumped down would hit his head, I was afraid that his neck would be broken directly.
Moreover, Sha Chu used the wall of the well as a buffer, and his feet and hands supported the wall of the well from time to time to slow down the speed of descent, so he didn't step on Li Xiu when he came down, and the impact force was not too big, even if he was not stoned to death, these legs would definitely be wasted.
Now the two of them are huddled in the cramped mine, their bodies pressed tightly together.
This mine can only crawl through one person, two people are crowded together, Li Xiu is in a sitting position, Sha Chu sits on Li Xiu's legs apart, and his upper body is close together.
"I seemed to have touched something alive just now, so I had to choose to quit. I knew that if I was going to come to this kind of place, I should have prepared a headlamp, so why did I get dark? Li Xiu said.
"How can I have time to prepare those things, what living things can be in them? Don't scare yourself, I'll get out of the way, I'll go over and have a look. Sha Chu said, and twisted his body and moved towards the side of the horizontal passage.
In such a small space, the bodies of the two were close together, and with Li Xiu's cooperation, Sha Chu moved away from him and got into the horizontal passage.
Soon, Li Xiu knew why Sha Chu didn't take the lead, and the halo that Li Xiu had seen before appeared on her body again.
Although the slight halo is not bright, it also illuminates the nearby area a little, and I can see some things clearly.
"What's there?" Sha Chu slowly climbed a distance in front of him, and said with some dissatisfaction.
"It's strange, I obviously touched a soft thing just now." Li Xiu took advantage of the aura emanating from Sha Chu's body to look at the approximate location he had climbed to before, and there was indeed nothing.
There are no holes in the wall of the well, so it can't disappear out of thin air, right?
"You're so timid, what kind of trialist are you doing, isn't it good to go back and be an honest magician?" Sha Chu continued to climb forward, and asked Li Xiu to hurry up and follow.
Li Xiu followed behind Sha Chu, and when he saw the glowing big ass in front of him twisting and twisting, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "I know why you let me come down first." ”
"Less nonsense." Sha Chu coldly told Li Xiu to shut up.
Li Xiu didn't mind taking time out to enjoy the beautiful scenery, but the time, place, and people were not right now.
He slowly crawled inside behind Sha Chu, thinking as he crawled, "Why is Sha Chu in such a hurry to come here?" What's so special about this Gate of Trials? She said there wasn't enough time, what time was running out? The Gate of Trials won't run long legs again, what time is it talking about? ”
"Ahh Li Xiu thought about it, and suddenly there was a softness under the palm of his hand, and the slippery and soft feeling was exactly the same as before, which made Li Xiu's hairs suddenly stand up again, and he took his hand back as if he was electrocuted.
"What's wrong with you?" Sha Chu heard Li Xiu's cry and asked in front.
Because the passage was too narrow, Sha Chu had no way to turn back and check, so he could only stop and ask about Li Xiu's situation.
"I didn't ...... It's nothing ......" Li Xiu looked at the place where his palm was pressed just now, and there was nothing there, making him wonder if the previous feeling was an illusion.
But he knew in his heart that it was not an illusion, although he usually didn't like mollusks very much, and even stayed away, but it was definitely not an illusion caused by fear, it was a real sense of touch.
But Li Xiu looked at the light on Sha Chu's body for a while, but still didn't find anything, which made him very puzzled.
"It's okay, don't scream." Sha Chu snorted coldly and continued to climb forward.
This time, Li Xiu was no longer distracted, and paid careful attention to the passage in front of him, for fear that he would not even see anything he pressed like just now.
After crawling for a while, Li Xiu never touched that kind of touch again, which made him a little suspicious if he really had an illusion just now.
Just as Li Xiu relaxed slightly, his body stiffened, as if something had penetrated along his trouser legs, and the skin that was sticking to his calves was crawling up.
The thing was cool and soft, making Li Xiu feel like a very large caterpillar moving on his calf.
Li Xiu felt that he was about to explode, he was afraid of this kind of thing, those huge steel monsters and even demon spirits, no matter how ugly they were, he was not afraid, but this kind of soft thing, he was really a little worried psychologically.
This may be related to his experience when he was a child, when Li Xiu was really not afraid of heaven and earth, and he was a bear child who was very capable of death.
Once Li Xiu was playing in the grove and suddenly found a colorful caterpillar with a translucent body, which looked very beautiful.
At that time, Li Xiu didn't understand anything, so he pinched the caterpillar with his hand and put it on his palm to play.
The caterpillar crawled on his little hand and on his arm.
Li Xiu was so happy that he even wanted to take the caterpillar back as a pet, but before he could go home, he fell to the ground.
That time, Li Xiu lay half-dead in the hospital for more than half a month, which was considered to have picked up a small life, at that time, his whole arm and hand were swollen thicker than his thighs, especially where the caterpillar crawled, there were black spots one after another, and those black spots were rotten later, and pus continued to flow.
That time, Li Xiu died and came back to life, and since then, he has fallen a little psychological shadow, and he is respectful of that kind of mollusk, and once he feels that he is threatened, he will be killed directly.
The sensation coming from his leg now resembles that of a larger caterpillar wriggling in his calf.
Li Xiu exploded all of a sudden, because his body was restricted, his hands couldn't reach his calves, so he could only shake his legs desperately, as if he had installed an electric motor.
After shaking it several times, he felt that the things on his legs had finally been thrown off, and Li Xiu immediately crawled forward desperately.
I don't know where the power burst out, the weight of the Fire Lotus Sword seems to be a lot lighter, and Li Xiu climbs quickly.
"There are bugs...... There are bugs in the back......" Li Xiu shouted as he pushed the sand chu in front of him.
"What bugs?" Sha Chu felt that Li Xiu actually pushed his ass, and he was immediately furious, but when he heard Li Xiu say that there were insects behind him, his face also changed, and he accelerated his speed and crawled forward.
The two of them crawled desperately, and after a while, Li Xiu only felt that his hands were empty, and he fell out of the passage.
It turned out that the passage had come to an end, and a hole had appeared in front of it.
"Where are the bugs?" Sha Chu stood at the entrance of the passage, observing in the passage when he came and went, and after a while, he turned around and stared at Li Xiu coldly and said.
Li Xiu ignored her, rolled up his trouser leg, and carefully looked at the place where the soft thing had crawled over.
It looks like the legs are all in good condition, and there is not even a trace of them.
Putting down his trouser legs, he looked up at Sha Chu, and saw that she was looking at him with a frosty face, so he could only cough lightly and said, "Maybe the worm didn't catch up." ”
"Li Xiu, I warn you, don't say that you are not an official member of Immortal Heaven now, even if you are an official member, then I introduced you to the guild, you are your direct boss, and your life and death are still in my hands." Sha Chu said with a cold face.
"I know, there were bugs just now." Li Xiu knew that he was at a loss, so he said helplessly.
Sha Chu glanced at the passage, but still didn't see anything, and looked at Li Xiu again, but couldn't see anything.
"Let's go, don't waste time." Sha Chu didn't say anything more and walked forward.
With the light on Sha Chu's body, Li Xiu saw clearly that this cave was not too big, at most two meters high, the size of a house, and a pink door was inlaid on the mud wall mixed with stones.
Different from the Trial Gate that Li Xiu had seen before, this gate was very small, only less than a meter high, and the whole body was pink, looking like jade and stone, and he didn't know what it was made of.
Sha Chu came to the pink door, took out a plastic bag, took out a few pink spinels from it, and embedded them in the grooves of the pink door one by one.
When all the grooves were inlaid with spinels, the small pink door slowly opened, and the obscene pink light revealed through the cracks, and the atmosphere looked like some impure place no matter how it looked.
"After you go in, you listen to my arrangement, and you are not allowed to act privately." Sha Chu warned Li Xiu again, and bent down into the pink door.
Li Xiu shook his head and followed in.
The scene in front of him gradually became clearer, and Li Xiu found that this trial ground was not the sports arena he was familiar with, but a strange building.
It is a platform built on water, the width of the platform is only one meter, the length is about ten meters, and all sides are covered with water.
At the end of the platform, there is a large turntable taller than a person, which is divided into several areas, each with a number.
Sha Chu looked at Li Xiu, her eyes were a little strange, she saw the Fire Lotus Sword like a belt around Li Xiu's waist.
As far as Sha Chu knows, apart from the demon spirit, the only things that can be brought into the proving ground are "deeds", just like the knife on her back and the red skirt and red leather boots on her body, these are all "deeds".
As for the demon spirit ring on Li Xiu's finger, Li Xiu had deliberately avoided Sha Chu's gaze, and she hadn't seen it yet.
Li Xiu also noticed the knife behind Sha Chu and the hip-wrapping dress and leather boots on his body, which did not disappear, unlike Li Xiu, who was wearing a white tights and looked like a trial ground white.
"Welcome to the Trials of Fever, where the A-Rank Trials begin, and the rules of the trials are as follows...... The countdown to the trial begins......" Above the wheel, a familiar screen of light and cold electronic sounds appeared.
After Li Xiu read the rules, his expression became a little subtle.
The S-level trials in the Fever Proving Ground are the same as the ends of the earth trials that Li Xiu participated in before, and they all require two people to be able to open.
Of the two people participating in the trial, one of them must choose to be the target on the roulette wheel.
That's right, it's the target.
The trialist who chooses to be the target will be fixed to the turntable and cannot move, and the turntable will start to spin when the trial begins.
The other trialist had to stand at the end of the platform, ten meters away from the turntable, and shoot the knife blindfolded.
There are a total of ten throwing knives, and each throwing knife will be in order, piercing the ten areas marked with numbers on the wheel, and after completion, two people will be considered to have passed the trial.
The key point is that even if the trialist on the roulette wheel is stabbed to death, as long as ten throwing knives can pierce the corresponding area, the person who throws the throwing knife will still be rewarded for passing the trial.
This kind of rule is obviously very unfair to the trialists on the roulette wheel, but the rules are the rules, and no one can change the rules in the proving ground.
If no one chooses to be the one on the wheel, both are considered to have failed the trial when the trial countdown ends.
The person on the roulette wheel can remind the person who threw the knife in words to make the stab of the throwing knife hit the correct area.
"You'll choose to play the roulette wheel later." Sha Chu said to Li Xiu.
"Why didn't you choose to play roulette?" Li Xiu asked rhetorically.
"Listen to me, I promise you'll be okay, or I'll kill you right now." Sha Chu stared at Li Xiu coldly and said.
"Kill casually, you won't survive if you kill me, I've never trusted others, it's impossible for me to get on the roulette." Li Xiu didn't blink his eyes and said calmly.
"You have to understand one thing, even if I get on the roulette, you can't kill me, but if you shoot wrong, we're all going to die." Shachu continued: "If you play roulette, I can guarantee that you won't get any harm, it's a test for you. My real goal is not this A-Rank Trial, but the next S-Class Trial. It's just a practice, you cooperate well, next time I will take you into the S-level trial. ”
"Don't talk about those useless ones, I'm not interested in S-level trials, and I will never go to roulette anyway. If you want to go up, you will go up, otherwise everyone will wait here to die together. Li Xiu sat down, and no matter what Sha Chu said, he was also moved.
Li Xiu would not give the initiative to control his life and death to anyone, even if he felt that Sha Chu should not want his life.
If you really wanted his life, you could have done it a long time ago, there was no need to make so many troubles, and there was no need to give him the knight of the chrysanthemum.
Even if this is the case, Li Xiu will not give up the initiative to Sha Chu.
"If you think about it again, I've been practicing this trial project for a long time, and I'm absolutely sure. Do you think you would be able to shoot blindfolded? Can you hit those areas of the spin without being blindfolded? Sha Chu said again.
"Yes." Li Xiu replied without hesitation.
"If you don't play roulette, even if we get out alive, you won't survive." Sha Chu stared at Li Xiu coldly and said.
"I'm not afraid of death now, what do I want to do in the future?" Li Xiu said with a smile.
Sha Chu was angry and anxious, but he couldn't help Li Xiu, he gritted his teeth and glared at him, watching the countdown pass by second by second, and it was about to end.
"I hope you won't regret your choice when you die."
The countdown had reached the last three seconds, Li Xiu was still sitting there with his eyes closed and motionless, and Sha Chu finally had to take that step and leave the area where the throwing knives were thrown.
"Deceived Kangxi"
She didn't expect that Li Xiu, who had been very cooperative and seemed to be a little afraid of death, would be so stubborn.
If she had known that this was the case, she would never have brought Li Xiu here to participate in the trial, even if she caught someone casually, it was better than taking Li Xiu.
With a flash of white light, Chu Sha appeared on the roulette wheel, and the whole person was fixed on the roulette wheel in a large shape, and nothing could move except for his eyes and mouth.
A knife bag appeared around Li Xiu's waist, and there were ten flying knives in the bag.
The roulette wheel slowly turned, and a ten-second countdown appeared on the light screen, and after the ten-second countdown was over, Li Xiu's eyes would be covered, and then Li Xiu could start shooting the knife.