"The remaining 4,932 people in the first round of assessment immediately entered the picture scroll for the second round of assessment, and those who did not pass the first round of assessment entered without authorization, and the consequences were borne by themselves. ”

The cold voice of the black-robed man in mid-air sounded again.

....

An invisible vortex appeared on the scroll, like a junction from the real world to the world of the picture.

Standing at the front was a handsome man wearing a dark python robe and a purple crown, like a member of the royal family. After a slight hesitation, he stepped into the invisible whirlpool, causing a ripple on the scroll and then disappeared.

Seeing this, the others also followed the footsteps of the python-robed man and rushed in.

Something strange suddenly happened.

As soon as a yellow-robed fat man in front of Yan Fang Mo Sisi stepped into the invisible whirlpool, he was bounced out by a powerful impact, as if he was shocked back by the roar of the wild beast in the picture scroll.

"If you want to fish in troubled waters, you will bear the consequences. ”

The cold voice in mid-air sounded again.

...

After witnessing the tragic situation of the yellow-robed man, several speculators who had been mixed in the crowd who had failed the first assessment and wanted to fish in troubled waters all left in a huff.

In the time of a stick of incense, nearly 5,000 examiners have entered the world of picture scrolls one after another.

...

When the assessors were looking at this picture scroll world where the mountains and rivers were like a paradise, an old voice suddenly sounded.

"The name of this picture scroll world is three mountains, and the content of the assessment is to climb over these three mountains and get out of this picture scroll world, no time limit, no method limit. ”

There was an uproar at the bottom, and it became a pot of porridge.

It was the man in the python robe and the purple crown on his head that took the lead and walked towards the first green mountain that was close at hand when everyone else was still talking to each other and guessing the direction of this round of assessment.

Seeing this, the others followed the footsteps of the python-robed man again. Yan Fang and Mo Sisi also mixed in the crowd.

There is only one road to the top of the mountain, but the road is flat and open, and the mountain road is not too steep.

At first, everyone thought that this second round of assessment was easier than the first round of assessment. But it was immediately apparent that the problem was not simple.

"You can't invoke the Heaven and Earth Yuan Force in this world..."A fat man in a gorgeous costume in the crowd exclaimed, and then his face was depressed. His physical strength is poor, and he can't bear it for a long time after climbing, and his legs can't move anymore like lead, so he wants to call the Heaven and Earth Yuan Force to cheat, but he didn't expect that this world can't call the Heaven and Earth Yuan Force.

Many of the assessors were also very surprised when they heard this, and hurriedly tried to invoke the Heaven and Earth Yuan Force, and found that it was really as the fat man in the gorgeous clothes said, and they couldn't help but show frustration.

But there are also many assessors who seem to have anticipated this situation for a long time, ignoring these noises, and just trying to climb up.

Soon there are assessors who can no longer walk in place, I don't know if it is an illusion or a fact, it seems that it is particularly easy to get tired in this world of picture scrolls, and once you stop, it is extremely difficult to move forward again, as if it is fixed by the bluestone slab under your feet, and it is difficult to take another step.

...

"I give up. The first fat man in a gorgeous costume who discovered that this world could not mobilize the power of heaven and earth opened his mouth in a gloomy manner. Soon a burst of white light flashed, and his fat body disappeared in this picture scroll world, and the first eliminator in the second round of assessment was produced.

The generation of the first person is always difficult, even if it is the first loser.

Before this, dozens of people whose physical strength has reached the limit are competing with each other, and no one wants to be the first to be eliminated, but when this person is really produced, the psychological defense of the remaining people seems to have begun to relax, and soon the second, the third... Like a plague, spreading in a world as small as three mountains.

"I give up"

"I give up"

"I give up"

...

More and more people are eliminated, and there are fewer and fewer people left.

Yan Fang and Mo Sisi are still insisting, they are in the middle of the position, not a few in the lead, and they are not far behind.

"Yan Fang, I can't climb anymore, you go first. The girl in the blue dress looked at the white boots under the hem of the skirt, her pretty face flushed, and she gasped for breath.

"Hold on a little longer, you're almost at the top of the mountain. After speaking, he took the girl's hand and continued to walk forward.

...

It's hard to feel the passage of time in this picture scroll world, the position of the sun above your head doesn't seem to have changed from just coming in to now, and even the clouds will always be those few pieces, floating in the air without saltiness or lightness, condescendingly laughing at the assessors who crawl like ants in the mountain streams.

"Yi?"

The assessors who climbed to the top of the mountain were surprised to find that there was nothing on the top of the mountain except a broken stone monument. The stone tablet is engraved with a character that has been blurred by the rain.

Looking around from the top of the first mountain, there is no thrill of "being able to see the top of the mountain, seeing all the small mountains", except for the second mountain, which is almost exactly the same as the first mountain, and all you can see is a small sky where you can see the boundary like a cage.

This is undoubtedly another blow to the mentality of the assessors, with amazing perseverance to climb the top of the mountain with one companion after another giving up, but there is no scenery worth seeing on the top of the mountain that thought that the "scenery is infinitely good", and what awaits them is the long road down the mountain with no end in sight.

...

"It's easy to go up the hill but hard to get down"

The reason why it is more difficult to go down the mountain than to go up is because of physical strength and mentality.

If you say that when you go up the mountain, at least in the first half of the journey, you are full of physical strength, and you have the expectation of the scenery at the top of the mountain.

From the very beginning, the descent was a process of an overdrawn person playing with himself after a complete disappointment.

Yan Fang held a wooden staff in his left hand, and held Mo Sisi, who was about to reach the limit of his physical strength, in his right hand, and walked the way down the mountain. The wooden staff is actually a thicker branch, which was folded on a jujube tree on the side of the road when I just came down the mountain, and I picked some white dates in addition to breaking the branch.

When you can't hold it anymore, stuff a jujube into your chapped mouth, and the sweetness and moisture when you bite it down can make your body that has reached its limit temporarily return to light.

More and more examiners are giving up.

Although it is not over yet, the number of people who give up in the second half of the journey is more than half of the first half.

"Yan Fang, I'm so thirsty..."The girl in the blue dress staggered down the mountain with a wooden cane, her long black hair was already soaked, and there were beads of sweat hanging on the tip of her nose. Until now, only the expectations of her family and the support of the teenager next to her have supported the girl.

Yan Fang stuffed the last jujube in the cloth pocket into the girl's mouth, and the green and red, which served as the "spiritual opium" of the two of them in the process of going down the mountain, was also consumed.

....

Fortunately, there seems to be no end to this bluestone road, and there is still an end to it.

A spacious flat land caught the eyes of the boys and girls who were still persevering. The moment I touched the flat ground, all the tiredness seemed to be gone. What awaited them was the second mountain that followed.

....

There is a large hall shrouded in mist in the inner mountain of Fuhu Mountain, the decoration of the hall is simple, and there is a bronze ancient mirror in the middle of the main hall.

Around him, more than a dozen Uchiyama elders were watching the movements of the assessors in the world of the picture scroll through the ancient mirror.

"This first mountain is Yizi Mountain, and the test is perseverance. Of these 4,932 people, 1,740 passed, and the proportion was quite normal. An old Taoist in a black and white robe said with a smile.

"I don't know how many little dolls will be out of the next Yongzi Mountain. An old man wrapped in shredded sheepskin sheepherds muttered.

"At least half. "It was a beautiful woman in palace clothes who spoke.

"Zhao Ying, that little doll of your royal family is good, she was the first to go down the mountain. ”

The shepherd replied.

"Zhao Jun, speaking of which, he is my cousin, this kid is really good. The woman in palace clothes named Zhao Ying replied with a smile.

....

Of course, the remaining examiners in the Picture Scroll World couldn't hear the conversation between the elders of the Inner Mountain a few miles away.

All that awaits them is the second mountain in front of them.

Strange to say, the second mountain is not at all strenuous to climb and seems to be easier than walking on flat ground. But the more this is the case, the more worried the hearts of the boys and girls become, after experiencing the first mountain, they have already learned the strangeness of this world, and they can't deal with it with common sense.

Soon a fork in the road appeared, and the mountain road on both sides was as wide as ever, and even the scenery on both sides of the mountain road seemed to be the same.

The original flow of people was divided into two almost equal streams, and Yan Fang and Mo Sisi chose the mountain road on the left...