"Father, are we doing the right thing!"

Bob asked, with some trepidation.

He feels that he may be going to leave a name in history, and he has created a show with such a high mortality rate, and he doesn't know how it will be evaluated by future generations, most likely infamy.

Executioner, madman, or end-time worshipper?

"Bob, according to the world's population clock, about 4.2 people are born and 1.8 people die every second on this planet, you should know these statistics!"

"Even if we do it ten times more, we can't make the death toll increase to 1.9 after the decimal point."

"But what we did was to prevent the 4.2 newborns per second from becoming 0, and you will save hundreds of millions of people!"

"Bob, do you think you're doing the right thing?"

Wu Heng's eyes changed a little, he didn't like to be comforted and explained again and again, what he needed was execution.

"Father, I see."

"It's not that kind of aggressive war, it's a worthwhile necessary sacrifice."

Bob's eyes became firm again, and when he watched the broadcast, it was as if he were flipping through a book of the Bible, which he had written.

'Lord, Amen! ’

Fortunately, Bob is a person who listens to persuasion, although it takes a little bit of Wu Heng's words.

"Yes, Bob. There is no need to dwell on which is more important, the Lord knows how to judge! "Of course, the Lord is likely to kill you, if the Lord really exists, Wu Heng added in his heart.

He no longer looked at Bob, but instead looked at the broadcast in the city of Omaha.

The camera's line of sight is packed with crowds, all of whom are contestants.

"Get out of here, get out of here, quick!"

“GO，GO，GO！”

Amid the noise and cursing, a group of contestants who were screened out were driven out of the competition by armed police, and the helicopter hovering overhead made them not dare to be too presumptuous.

As for the idea of whether the police dare to shoot, someone has already tested it just now.

It's just the one who tested it, and this will no longer squeak.

"Ah, I gave up, I gave up!"

Someone had already broken down and left the scene as if fleeing for their lives.

Because of the large number of people in Omaha City, the punishment for screening is not heavy, at least there is no danger to life, this kind of screening is not even the first round, and after the screening is completed, it will be carried out similar to the 'firewood man' in Carney City, but there are still people who are scared.

Just because of the pain!

Just looking at this screening project already makes people feel like their bodies are sweating coldly.

"Now, a new round of screening!"

"Cower, please raise your hand immediately and leave the scene."

"Once you take the stage to participate in the competition, you are deemed to have waived the right to withdraw and according to the contract, the competition must be carried out to the end."

"Countdown to five, four, three."

On the stage of the competition, the blonde hot host in black professional clothes was counting down, and as the countdown ended, more than 300 people raised their hands, and they all chose to give up.

"Falk squid, which pervert came up with this.!"

In the midst of the cursing, a group of people voluntarily abstained and were screened out.

Without any dissuasion, without any retention, they were let go so easily.

This is the rule set by Wu Heng, killing is not an end, just a relatively quick means, there is never a shortage of people in this world, what he needs is a ruthless person who can overcome all kinds of fears, and even not afraid of death, not a survivor who is forced to stay.

Because death itself is the greatest fear.

Those who are forced to stay have a flaw in their hearts, and they will only become food for the enhanced clown.

"Since you're so insistent, then ask the new contestants to come on the field and enter their respective positions according to their numbers."

The hostess's sweet voice sounded, and a whole hundred people walked onto the stage at once, all holding their respective numbers in their hands.

In order to meet Wu Heng's requirements, the selection competition could only speed up, directly screening a hundred players at a time, and at the same time dissuading those cowards in the crowd.

100 people on the field, every group of four.

The rules are simple: after drawing four cards to determine the order, they play a game similar to Minesweeper.

All were ordered to take off their shoes.

Then a hundred staff members came on, wearing masks and gloves, and took out the toothpick boxes they had brought with them.

"Oh, your feet stink!"

A staff member picked up a rough man's dirty feet covered with dry dead skin, severe athlete's foot, and long nails full of black dirt, and complained.

"Hehe, I'm a standard 43-yard male god foot, and most people don't have eyes." The rough man grinned, and then turned into a bared tooth, "Hiss, slow down, don't insert it so deeply!" ”

I saw that the rough man's ten toes were all pierced with toothpicks between the nails, and the toothpick heads were only slightly pierced, so it didn't hurt.

There are 25 groups of four in each field, similar to the props of the "walking machine" exercise equipment used for walking exercises in the park, which form a square from four directions.

In the middle of the square, in the clearing, is a steel cube.

The rough man was urged to stand on one of the machines, his feet tied to the pedals, which were pulled back 60 degrees by the thick springs behind him.

The rough man's body also tilted 60 degrees, and his arms held the iron rod in front of him to maintain his balance, as if he was half-lying in the air.

"Of all kinds, only one out of every four of you will be able to win, three will be injured, and it will be too late to quit now. Now that everyone has drawn the cards, the order is arranged. ”

"So. It's officially started! ”

After the host's words fell, a countdown appeared on the screen of the arena: 4 minutes and 59 seconds.

If the time is up, and the contestants have not decided the winner of the minesweeper game, then they will be judged to have lost all of them and will be punished.

"Ah——!h

A rough scream rang out, representing the first loser to appear.

The screen played back, only to see the middle-aged man with ten toenails inserted with toothpicks after being eliminated, the spring that grabbed his pedal was released, and his feet were quickly bounced back, and the toes of the toothpick were pierced and kicked hard against the iron wall of the cube.

"Poof!" There was a flesh sound.

Ten toothpicks penetrated the toenails, and even through the cortex of the first joint, penetrating the skin and piercing out.

"Ahh

"Groove, stop playing, surrender."

Only those who are immersed in the scene can feel the fear inside, and the first scream is like clicking on the player, and then a song called 'Scream of Pain' is being sung by everyone.

This scene made the current contestants all feel a sense of phantom pain.

They all felt a dull pain in their toes!

On top of that, the success rate of only a quarter means that 75% of people are bound to suffer from this pain.

On the field, many people were once again persuaded to retire.

This is just in line with Wu Heng's screening expectations.

It is foreseeable that the people left in the end of the game are definitely the top ruthless people, the kind that are ruthless to themselves, this is the person Wu Heng needs.

Wu Heng, who was on the TV station, silently paid attention to the selection situation.

At the moment everything is quite in line with his requirements and is proceeding according to the expected developments.

The people chosen in this way should be easier to face the clown Pennywise than the protagonist group, right?

Wu Heng took out the turtle shell and gently coiled it in his hand,

The turtle shell was gently flicked by him, and it quickly spun around on his index finger.

He originally wanted to support the protagonist group,

To strengthen their minds, to help them look directly at their fears, and to mold them into truly strong people.

In order to enhance the winning side when facing Pennywise the Clown.

But Ben's performance after experiencing two illusions can only be said to be a little unsatisfactory.

After all, they are just ordinary normal people.

Although they have been the most successful in both timing and probability in the millions of years of this world.

But this probability,

If the average timeline is millions of years, it can actually be said to be very low.

It is even lower than the probability of winning the jackpot by buying a lottery ticket.

Especially after the wings of Wu Heng's butterfly were instigated, it has been learned at the source of the lottery that someone knows the winning number, and the probability of still winning the lottery is really uncertain.

In his previous life, Wu Heng, but there was a funny joke that the protagonist was reborn to buy a lottery ticket, but he didn't win the lottery.

In the face of this kind of existence that is the source of the universe, we must not gamble.

initially

When Wu Heng came to this world, he didn't have the idea of starting to do things, he was a little worried.

Because this world is conscious, it is the Ma Spirits.

It wasn't until he got the turtle shell and figured out the role of the turtle shell because of the clown, and determined that it came from Ma Zhuling and from an investment similar to the Heavenly Dao consciousness, that Wu Heng was relieved.

Since Ma Zhuling also chose to invest in him when he changed his book, it proves that he acquiesced in his behavior.

Destiny is mine!

It's all like this, so what's the reason for it, just do it according to your own ideas.

Wu Heng believed that Ma Zhuling would not care about some sacrifices, it had already seen the birth and destruction of trillions of lives, and for human beings who might completely change their stubble with a nap, they would not be reluctant to sacrifice even a little.

All it cares about is the clown, only "it", the natural enemy of the same weight as it.

Wu Heng looked at the selection of the broadcast station, according to his requirements, everything must be finished within a week, and a specific candidate must be selected.

Because the plot had already begun on the day he came to this world, there wasn't much time left for him.

"Ding Ling!"

Wu Heng's mobile phone rang.

In this world, mobile calling was born in 1975, and two years ago it has gotten rid of brick phones and started to be lightweight.

Wu Heng's life box, there are mobile phones produced in different eras, and he plugged in a mobile phone that is close to old-fashioned with a calling card, although it is still backward, but it is enough to beat the mobile phone manufacturers in this world.

If Wu Heng was just an ordinary traverser, he could become a wealthy businessman with this alone.

He answers the phone and finds out that it's Ben. Hanscomb called, and sensed Ben's location, and found that he was still in Inner Laska, but had left the city of Bloomington.

Ben's current position was supposed to be on the highway, but he stopped moving.

Before Wu Heng separated from Ben, he asked Ben to sign a red paper asking for his name, which has become a must-do behavior when he faces the protagonist of the plot, and then gave Ben an old-fashioned mobile phone for easy contact.

In a sense, Wu Heng gave Ben a mountain of gold, as long as he opened his mobile phone to study.

But he didn't care about that.

"Hey, Father, can you hear me?"

As soon as Wu Heng answered the phone, Ben's slightly hurried voice came, as if he had experienced something.

"I can hear it, speak slowly, kid, I can feel your panic."

Wu Heng's voice is like a Zen sound that can soothe people's minds, if you ignore his true identity.

"I've reached out to everyone, and they've all experienced hallucinations, hallucinations related to Pennywise, and most importantly, we felt a call in front of us, as if something was urging us to hurry back to Derry Town."

"I was going to persuade them to come to Bloomington with me, and then choose the right time to return to Derry Town after getting ready with me, but when I dialed the phone, I didn't know it, and it turned out to be a decision to return to Derry Town quickly, and even after I hung up the phone, I immediately packed up my salute and drove off."

"It wasn't until the call suddenly waned that I suddenly woke up, why did I do such a strange thing, everything was different from what I wanted to say, I even made an appointment with them to meet, and when I contacted them again, I found that everyone had this situation."

"Father, this is not me!"

Ben finished what he had experienced in one breath, then sat down on the slope outside the highway fence and shook his head, trying to adjust his emotions, he wanted to stay calm and throw his fear out.

"Did you suddenly wake up just now?"

"Yes, Father, I'm going to go back to Hemmington now."

Ben suddenly had an urge to find someone to fight and then go to prison for ten days, so that he might be able to control himself and not run away.

But think of Beverly. After Marsh, he stopped thinking that maybe he should go to her.

"Since it's okay now, you go back first, if there is a change, call me at any time, I can feel your trajectory."

After Wu Heng and Ben finished communicating, they hung up the phone.

He was thinking about what Ben said, about that kind of strong calling, Wu Heng even suspected that it was not from the clown Pennywise, but related to the turtle and hemp spirits.

Especially what Ben said, just now, he suddenly woke up on the highway.

Just now, it happened to be the time of the "Dreadnought" competition, and the first round of screening was roughly over.

This made Wu Heng have some associations.

Earlier, Pennywise the Clown had said that it was the last survivor of an extinct species, the only survivor on a dying planet.

This last survivor, I don't know if it refers to the only one left of the six demon elements, or the alien planet where the clone is located.

And the turtle and hemp spirits also have many legends about it, and even say that it is dead.

If the turtle dies, then the consciousness of the Ma Spirits in this world is likely to be just a subconscious, or a residual consciousness, and it is not so intelligent.

Root. Hanscomb and the other protagonists will be affected, and seem to be summoned back, most likely by the subconscious of the Ma Spirits, urging the protagonists to return to Derry Town and eliminate the Jokers.

And the sudden regain of consciousness in instinct can get rid of the call, or it may be that Ma Zhuling saw hope in "The Fearless" and diverted his attention.

If so, it's a good thing, but it's also a bad thing.

The good thing is that if he finally selects the people he needs, and faces Pennywise the Clown, these people are likely to get a bonus similar to the protagonist.

However, Ma Zhuling's ability to summon influence revealed this time also made Wu Heng vigilant.

He wasn't sure if he was immune to the psychological effects.

If, in the face of the Joker, he is suddenly influenced, not under his control, and goes to fight to the death with Pennywise, wouldn't he become a puppet who can't help himself.

For being involuntary and being a puppet manipulated by others, Wu Heng has always rejected this kind of thing, whether it is in the lighthouse or in the plot world.

It's a dangerous thing to do, and he has to be prepared.

(End of chapter)