Confinement is the most painful punishment in the world. Many prisons and armies use this method to punish those who violate the precepts.
Only those who have experienced confinement can understand the pain of confinement.
Because the place of confinement is an absolutely dark, absolutely small place, it is cold and damp, and you cannot see your hands or fingers. Most people who are locked up here for seven days will eventually fall into madness due to mental breakdown.
Because here there is no time, no light, no one cares, there is only boundless darkness, and the screams, cries, and my own increasingly rapid breathing coming from all around from time to time.
All this will be like an incoming tide, squeezing in bit by bit, eventually crushing the nerves of a tough guy.
But what is even more terrifying than the tight confinement is Zhao Xiaobao's current state, which is called in the spiritual world: Soul Imprisonment!
After Zhao Xiaobao's soul was extracted from his body, he fell into such a terrifying situation. He could feel his own existence and even see the scene in front of him, but he couldn't feel his body and there was no trace of anything. In his world, there is not only boundless darkness, but also no concepts of time and space.
He seemed to be sinking into a dark ocean, not knowing where he was going or where he was going.
I don't know how long it took, but suddenly a blond figure walked in front of Zhao Xiaobao. This figure Zhao Xiaobao had seen before, it was the woman who threw herself into the arms of Master Puppet.
But at this moment, Zhao Xiaobao discovered that this woman's skin was frighteningly white, as if she had the unhealthy whiteness of someone who has never seen the sun all day long. She was wearing a pure white mask, and her eyes were huge, but there was no sparkle in them, only panic and panic.
The woman came to Zhao Xiaobao and kept looking behind her. She was trembling slightly and whispered nervously and fearfully: "He will be here in a moment. Listen to me! If you can hear me, you can Turn your eyes to the right! Do you hear me?"
This woman's accent is a little strange. It's not the authentic Daqi Shenjing accent. It sounds more like the accent of a barbarian country.
Zhao Xiaobao was shocked and confused, but he still moved his eyes to the right. This was the only thing he could do at the moment.
Sure enough, the woman spoke very quickly: "My name is Vivian, I am the princess of the Puppet Kingdom. I have been captured here by this madman, no, by this devil for a long, long time. I, I, I, I have remembered I don’t know how long it’s been, maybe ten years, maybe twenty years? I don’t know. I can’t see the sun in the sky here, nor can I see the moon in the starry sky. I miss home, I miss the milk in my hometown, and I miss my big bed. , I miss my father's thick beard, I miss the smell of milk on my sister, I miss my mother's warm embrace..."
As she spoke, she sobbed softly.
Zhao Xiaobao was very anxious. He tried to remind the woman to talk about the important points and not to talk about random things, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't do anything except rolling his eyes desperately.
Fortunately, after a while, Vivian said quickly: "I have a way to escape from here, but I can't do it alone. Do you hear me? Can you help me?"
Zhao Xiaobao quickly moved his eyes to the right. Vivian stared at him and was stunned for a moment, but she quickly reacted: "Sorry, if you agree, just move your eyes up and down, okay?"
Zhao Xiaobao quickly moved his eyes up and down. Vivian was overjoyed. She quickly glanced back and said anxiously: "Listen, the devil is sleeping now. He sleeps for an hour at this time every day. It has passed now." It’s been half an hour, and we will wake up in another half an hour. We don’t have much time, and we must not make any mistakes. Otherwise, once he finds out, we will be tortured to death by him, and we will never see the sun outside again. !”
Zhao Xiaobao was stunned for a moment, but soon understood that the hour he was talking about was the universal unit of time measurement in the Puppet Kingdom. Two hours constituted one hour. When the clocks from the Puppet Kingdom were first introduced to the Central Plains, they were adjusted by the craftsmen of the Central Plains. However, the dial still retains the time scale of the Puppet Kingdom. One hour is divided into two large grids, which means two hours, and each large grid is divided into four small grids, which means four quarters of an hour.
Zhao Xiaobao was both nervous and surprised at the same time. The nervousness was that there was only one chance. Once they missed it, they would be doomed. The surprise was that there was a turnaround in this desperate situation!
Zhao Xiaobao quickly moved his eyes up and down, and Vivian quickly said: "Then what are you waiting for? Come on, come with me!"
Vivian turned around and rushed out for a few steps, but suddenly found that there was nothing behind her, and Zhao Xiaobao had not followed. She suddenly became anxious and lowered her voice and complained: "What are you still waiting for? You..."
Then Vivian reacted, and she said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I forgot that you have no limbs now. Just wait, I will help you put them on. However, this requires you to open your soul and let your The soul fills these limbs, do you understand?"
Vivian quickly returned to the long table. She quietly pulled out two arms and two thighs from the piled arms and legs beside her. Zhao Xiaobao tried his best to move his eyes and took a look, but saw that these wooden arms and thighs were covered with carvings. There are magic array patterns, and the exposed steel joint parts can be faintly seen at the joints.
Vivian said: "Be patient, I will install it for you right now."
Zhao Xiaobao was so anxious that he swung his eyes from side to side, and then looked at his own body with his eyes. Vivian saw his appearance and quickly understood. She said guiltily: "I'm sorry, I don't know how to deal with you." Human spells cannot help you send your soul back, I can only help you attach arms and legs so that you can run quickly, and help me open the mechanism to escape from here."
What Vivian said was reasonable and reasonable. Zhao Xiaobao had no choice but to move his eyes up and down. Vivian immediately put the arms and thighs on Zhao Xiaobao skillfully. Then she quickly looked back and said anxiously and quickly: " Come on, we don’t have much time. Come on, can you feel them now? Open your mind and try to feel the existence of your hands and feet... "
As she was speaking, she raised her head and saw Zhao Xiaobao staring at her with strong suspicion in his eyes. Vivian was stunned for a moment and said, "What's wrong with you? You don't believe me? I Everything you say is true. If you don't do this, you can't move at all, and we can't escape. I...ah, I understand, are you doubting why I can be so skillful in installing hands and feet for you?"
Zhao Xiaobao's eyes moved up and down in agreement.
Vivian said with a cry in her voice: "Because I installed a total of 1,183 puppet bodies for that devil! I can assemble them with my eyes closed! As long as I make a little mistake, He will take my soul out and put it in that terrible furnace to burn! It’s so terrible. You definitely don’t want to experience this one day. This is the most terrible punishment in the world! You will I regret being born into this world!”
Zhao Xiaobao hesitated for a moment, and the doubts in his eyes gradually disappeared. He lowered his eyes slightly and expanded his mind. This time he really felt the presence of his hands and feet, and the range of movement of his soul seemed to have become larger.
Vivian said nervously: "Can you move your fingers?"
As Zhao Xiaobao's soul sensed his prosthetic limbs, the magic array patterns on his arms and legs lit up one after another, emitting a light red light. As his mind moved, his fingers gently Moved a bit.
Vivian was overjoyed and said: "Yes, yes, that's it. Move your arms and legs again."
Zhao Xiaobao tried to move his arms and legs again. This time he raised his hands and saw his own hands and legs. Although they were not his own body, Zhao Xiaobao still felt ecstatic: he could move again!
In this world, only when you lose something can you know what is most precious!
Vivian grabbed Zhao Xiaobao and said quickly: "Hurry up, we don't have much time, that devil..."
Before she could finish her words, suddenly there was a sound of bones coming from the darkness in the distance, which was the sound of the wheelchair's wooden wheels rolling on the ground.
Vivian and Zhao Xiaobao immediately showed desperate looks in their eyes!
That devil...he's awake!