Gao Ying's uneasiness grew stronger.
Because of this, he didn't even dare to look back. He knew that he couldn't see anything when he looked back, but... His strong intuition made him feel this way even more strongly.
It's not neurotic... definitely not!
Gao Ying clenched the examination paper in his hand, and then he felt a strange chill on the back of his neck. At this moment, he began to... speed up the speed and width of his steps!
Then, when he stretched out his hand to rub his neck to dispel the chill, Gao Ying was shocked to find that... at some point, there was a rope around his neck! Then the rope loop was pulled upwards! He was hung from a tree!
(I... Am I going to die? Die the same way as Myung Bok? No! Don't!)
…
""Cambridge History of the Ming Dynasty in Country Z"...it's amazing, Dad, it's all in English!"
Zhu Sunling was suddenly a little puzzled. She was sitting in her former home in YL County, and she was looking at her father, who was supposed to be dead, sitting in the living room, holding a full English book as thick as a brick in his hand. look.
"That's right... the original English version is better than the translated version, Sun Ling."
At that time, Zhu Sunling didn't know why his father liked the Ming Dynasty so much. What she thought at that time was, maybe it was because her surname was... Zhu
At that time, she didn't think too much about it.
"Sun Ling...you have to remember that our roots are in a continent separated by a sea. No matter what, you must not forget that we are descendants of Yan and Huang!"
"Well, I remember, Dad!"
Speaking of this, my father would look thoughtfully... Looking out of the window, the direction separated by the sea belonged to their real family location. At that time, Sun Ling could not understand the sadness contained in her father's gaze, let alone the unwillingness and pain that they lost their roots and had to drift to TW Island more than three hundred years ago.
"Sun Ling... During the Ming Dynasty, there was General Yuqian... He said a word, he is not afraid of being smashed to pieces, and he should leave his innocence to others. People live their lives, doing things and not doing things. The Ming Dynasty has a corrupt side, but Emperor Yongle The son guarded the gate of the country, the Emperor Chongzhen died in the country, and he never paid tribute to his relatives in the face of foreign enemies. In this world, there are too many things that transcend life and death... "
…
Zhu Sunling's vision began to be filled with light again.
She took a nap just now, but unexpectedly dreamed of her father.
After her parents died, her pain during those days was unimaginable.
As a descendant of the Ming Dynasty, she didn't consider whether her father's evaluation of the Ming Dynasty was remote. It's just that after her parents died, she couldn't understand what her father said about "things above life and death". What can make a person "not afraid of being smashed to pieces"? She admired these heroes in history, but she couldn't be like them, seeing death as home.
"Dad... Mom... Eldest Sister, Second Sister..."
Although her parents, sister and brother had died for so many years, she never forgot them. However, the more this happened, the more painful it was for her. Why is life so fragile? No matter how mourned, they will not return. Especially for my younger brother, who has barely learned to walk, what is the meaning of such a short life? If life is so precious, if gods in religions exist, why do they have to die
She has never let go of their deaths, no matter in the past or now, maybe she will never be able to let go. This test can only give her eternal life, but it has no ability to bring the dead back to life. However, if a person dies, they will all become lonely ghosts who cannot rest in peace. This kind of death is more terrifying than she originally expected. Has her family members also become unrepentant demons, wandering around this world
"Are you okay? Why suddenly... your eyes become so blank?"
Mi Ruiyi waited beside Zhu Sunling. She had never seen such an expression on Zhu Sunling's face before.
"I... dreamed of my father."
For some reason, Zhu Sunling never mentioned her family to Mi Ruiyi, but now, she did. In the dream, the kind but strict father still lingers. After so many years, the image of my father in my memory is still so clear and strong. His voice and smile seemed to be from yesterday.
Mi Ruiyi has never heard Zhu Sunling mention her family, she only thinks that she has the idea of missing her family because she entered this terrifying devil classroom and constantly went through this perverted and bloody exam. And why doesn't she miss her relatives
"I... I miss my family too... Sun Ling, if you feel bad, you can tell me about your family, I... maybe I can't help you..."
"Ruiyi..." Zhu Sunling suddenly looked at Mi Ruiyi solemnly, and said, "Can you understand things in this world that surpass human needs for survival?"
"ah?"
Mi Ruiyi couldn't understand this sentence at all. After thinking about it for a while, she said, "Of course living is the most important thing..."
"Do you think that the price for us to obtain eternal life is just to pass this kind of exam?"
"Is not it?"
"No matter how many of us die, or who survives to the end, it is of no interest to the curse power behind it. The exams we have gone through are just a kind of selection. Immortality is nothing but the bestowed by this selection. It’s nothing more than a reward. After obtaining eternal life, we must pay something more…”
"Give... pay what? Haven't we given enough? In a place like this..."
"Some kind of obligation that can only be fulfilled by exhausting the immortal life of eternal life... Eternal life cannot be given to us for nothing."
Zhu Sunling saw this very clearly from the very beginning.
Behind this devil classroom, there is a terrifying power comparable to that of a demon god, space transformation, time control, and playing with humans and devils at every turn. Such a terrifying source of curse power is absolutely impossible to be boring enough to kill them for fun. Eternal life means becoming a slave to this cursed power forever, and one must do something... something that requires eternal life to complete. Whatever it was, it was hard to imagine a good thing in view of the heinous crimes of this damning force's reckless disregard of human life.
But... Zhu Sunling doesn't care. As long as she can get eternal life, she doesn't mind selling her soul for it. Of course, she would not tell Mi Ruiyi that. But in the dream, recalling her father's words in the past, she somehow felt a little uncomfortable in her heart. After all, she might be walking on a different path from her father's past teachings.
"Sunling..." However, Mi Ruiyi's limited experience obviously couldn't give Zhu Sunling much good advice, "I... I don't quite understand... As long as I get eternal life, it doesn't matter what I do? As long as I don't need to die It’s good to live this kind of life! Anyway, I can’t bear this kind of life anymore, I just hope to complete all the exams and get eternal life... "
"Really?" Zhu Sunling raised her head slightly. She didn't believe in the so-called high gods in the sky, and she didn't think her parents were there, but she was still looking in that direction, as if she could look at her parents in this way. .
Dad... I want to live... Get rid of death completely and live forever... Isn't it the instinct imprinted in the genes that living things will do anything to survive? I don't regret filling out that exam paper, even if one day I will die in this exam room. I have lived at least a lot longer than my sisters and brothers, if their short life is meaningless, then my life will be meaningless even if it falls here... The length is meaningful to a life that is always passing away ? She doesn't know, maybe never will know...
"Rae..."
"Um?"
"Just now I fell asleep and said something meaningless. Just forget it..."
Before narrowly escaping from that hut, Zhu Sunling already had some ideas about this deserted village.
"The clues to the argumentation questions may be hidden in...the previous questions..."
At this moment... Gao Ying, who was hoisted high by the rope ring, fell to the ground again. Because the ground was covered with extremely soft soil, and Gao Ying was tall, he quickly stopped when he fell without making much sound.
The weird thing is... He was hanged for a while, but he didn't feel like coughing at all.
(So it turns out... being hung up by the rope ring, as long as you don't make any noise, you won't really hang the candidate to death at all! This is a deliberate trap to lure the candidate to make a sound!)
(end of this chapter)