With the back door opened by Mu Jinchu, the flow of time in the two of them has slowed down several times compared to normal, so they can relax and rest without worrying about missing the next assessment.
After walking for two days, Su Shi's body was already very tired. After seeing off Mu Jinchu, he threw himself into the comfortable and warm big bed regardless.
Startled by his lover's movement, Lu Zhuo hurried over, seeing Su Shi was just exhausted, so he was finally relieved. He hugged him in his arms and took off his clothes so that he could sleep more comfortably.
Su Shi was so sleepy that he leaned on his shoulder and coordinated his movements in a daze. Lu Zhuo held him firmly, helped him take off his shirt, stretched his arms around his lover's shoulders, and kissed Qin Liang's neck: "Don't worry, he will be fine."
"I can rest assured that he can protect himself well."
Thinking of the young man who had been forged strong enough, Su Shi pursed his lips, replied in a low voice, and placed his body in the embrace behind him.
The thoughts in his heart were still lingering, and he was about to say more, but a light kiss had already landed on his lips.
Su Shi subconsciously opened his eyes, but only met the soft light in his lover's pupils: "He still wants to believe in something—looking at this room, does it look familiar?"
I was already so sleepy that I didn't notice that the room didn't look familiar.
Su Shi was startled, and subconsciously propped himself up to look around, but Lu Zhuo had already smiled and put him down gently, covered him with the quilt, and covered him tightly.
"I have archives of every house you have lived in. This is your bedroom in that world. When I slept with you, it was all here."
"It's obvious that you always come to rub against my bed, and you can't sleep if you don't rub against my bed..."
Su Shi couldn't help but retort, but his heart suddenly moved slightly, and he raised his head to look into the other person's eyes: "You must be by my side at that time, are you afraid that something will happen to me?"
Without directly responding to his lover's inquiry, Lu Zhuo just smiled slightly, rubbed the end of his hair, leaned over and kissed his forehead lightly: "Sleep, I will accompany you."
The familiar power slowly leaked out along the palm, causing the body to completely relax, and the consciousness gradually blurred unconsciously.
Su Shi couldn't open his eyes a little, leaned into the warmth instinctively, found a comfortable position, fumbled for the other's hand to hold, and finally fell into a deep sleep.
The hand in the palm was not exerting any force, Lu Zhuo looked down at that hand, his fingertips felt the surging pulse, the power of life was vivid and distinct.
In the first world, Su Shi once asked him if he was busy.
At that time, he nodded his head, but when he came back, he saw the man who had carefully protected him all the way down in a pool of blood.
Even though it was fine one moment, it suddenly collapsed the next moment. Life was passing by quickly visible to the naked eye, but those eyes still looked at him tenderly and apologetically, and whispered sorry to him, saying that it was just greed.
Obviously not greedy at all.
The lover was sleeping peacefully in his arms, Lu Zhuo was reluctant to disturb him, so he slowed down and lay down with him, asking him to rest on his shoulders and arms, and gently kissing the faintly tired eyes of peace.
Since then, he has never had anything to keep busy.
Su Shi slept soundly, and when he woke up, his tiredness was gone.
As soon as he moved, Lu Zhuo woke up. Looking at his lover's confusion when he first woke up, he couldn't help showing a smile in his eyes, and rubbed his hair: "Did you sleep well?"
"Excellent, I think I should adjust the time a few more times, and I should be jet lagged."
Su Shi yawned, raised his head and gave his lover a good morning kiss without knowing the time, and sat up with his arms propped up: "What time is it now?"
"According to natural time, we still have eight hours, and it's still a little early now. It's just right to get up, wash up, have breakfast, and change clothes to go."
Feeling relieved by the good morning kiss, Lu Zhuo held him to sit firmly, lowered his head and rubbed his lover's forehead hair, kissed him, and neatly helped him prepare his clothes.
Seeing his lover seemed to be in a particularly good mood, Su Shi couldn't help but twitched the corners of his lips, and after a brief wash, he took the hot cocoa from Lu Zhuo, took two sips of it, and walked to the window to look at the scenery outside.
Tired and dizzy, I didn't have time to notice it, and now I realize that this villa is reproduced from the original version of that world. Mu Jinchu had come back from a morning run, and was squatting in the yard feeding a few cats. She seemed to have noticed his gaze, looked up, waved to him, and her eyebrows and eyes curved gently.
Su Shi couldn't help but twitched the corners of his lips, and also greeted him. When he noticed his lover hugging him from behind, he leaned back: "If you stop at this level, what will be the consequences? You will enter the Hundred Refinements space?"
"There will be a trial package, but it won't be too long, and it will almost let them out."
Lu Zhuo hugged him and rubbed against him, led him back to the table, and placed the freshly delivered breakfast on the table one by one: "Actually, the Bailian Space was created not for punishment, but for It can quickly improve the mind of the host. It's a pity that only a few people can find the trick to use it... "
"Those who have found the trick, most of them still hate you to some extent."
Compared with the few people I met before, Mu Jinchu is really a rare outlier. Su Shi laughed helplessly, took two bowls of clear yellow and crystal clear millet porridge, and sprinkled pickles evenly in them: "Now I finally understand why you were so hateful when I first met you."
"At that time, I myself didn't want to take over the Hundred Refining Space, so I submitted the application to participate in the assessment, but I didn't expect that the outside would be so cruel."
Mentioning the original situation, Lu Zhuo shook his head with a smile, and replied slowly, skillfully sandwiched baked bacon and fried eggs into the sandwich: "There are still binding rules on top of the main system, if it weren't for you Time saved me, I must have been formatted and then recoded."
"If you hadn't come back to find me, I would probably be in ups and downs in Bailian Dimension now."
Su Shi responded smoothly, pushed the porridge bowl over, took a bite of the sandwich, and suddenly became curious: "I want to know more and more now, who exactly did you entrust with such an errand of attracting hatred?"
"Since it's an errand to attract hatred, it is natural to give it to someone who is not afraid of attracting hatred. When we pass the third level, we will naturally see him-I was a little worried at first, but he himself is very happy about it. Last time Contact him, I heard that he is still working on a revised version of the Hundred Refining Space."
Meeting his lover's curious eyes, Lu Zhuo raised his eyebrows, but deliberately didn't tell him, just smiled and shook his head, and took the opportunity to lean over and kiss Su Shi on the cheek.
"The first level we went through was actually used to arrest those strong people who were trapped in the Bailian space and were unwilling to try to escape. This time it was set as an assessment level. I heard it was his suggestion. He also helped to come up with a name called 'A Journey of a Thousand Miles, Begins with a single step', which is said to be to test the subject's will... "
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Su Shi already had a premonition in his heart, took a bite of the sandwich with mixed feelings, and suddenly lost any sympathy for this old friend who had let him go for two days and two nights by himself.
After the two of them had breakfast, Mu Jinchu personally drove them to the first floor. With the lord's ability bonus, Su Shi finally saw what was hidden under the white mist.
It was a separate space that was almost used as a virtual control cabin. Many people were suspended in the independent space, crying or laughing, some struggling desperately, and some looking in a trance.
To outsiders, these people seem to be close to madness, but they themselves are immersed in the infinite illusion created by the Hundred Refining Space, and are forced to repeatedly experience the memories they least want to face, until one day they can really face themselves, and then they can never go back. Successfully escaped from the illusion.
Lu Zhuo was already used to seeing these situations, and Mu Jinchu even walked around the illusion by himself when he had nothing to do. Seeing these things now, his expression was very calm. Su Shi looked out of the window thoughtfully, the hand beside him was suddenly held lightly, and when he turned around, Lu Zhuo had already grabbed his shoulders: "What are you thinking?"
"I wondered what it would be like if I was in there."
Seeing all this, it is really hard not to have this thought. Su Shi twitched the corners of his mouth and replied softly.
The strength on the shoulders tightened faintly. Lu Zhuo looked down at him before opening his mouth, but Mu Jinchu had already interjected softly: "If it was you, even if no one helped to open the back door, it would probably be all right."
Su Shi was slightly surprised, and raised his head subconsciously, but Mu Jinchu had already pulled over the car and turned around with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, you'll know later."
Hearing his words, Lu Zhuo's expression suddenly became serious, and he hugged his lover tightly and said in a deep voice: "The next level is the Bailian space?"
"It's almost the same after all—the next level is 'the sound of wind and rain, the sound of reading, and the sound of reading,' if you are really scared, just plug your ears."
Mu Jinchu nodded, stopped talking after adding an extra sentence, obviously told the two of them everything he could remind.
The time is coming soon, and going forward is the category of the second layer. The three of them got out of the driveway to say goodbye, and Mu Jinchu suddenly took the initiative to step forward and opened his arms towards Su Shi, with a little anticipation in his eyes.
Su Shi smiled, stretched his arms to hug him, and patted him on the back: "We will be back."
"If you come back, tell me anytime, and I will come wherever I am."
Mu Jinchu tightened his arms slightly, then let go of them in a moment and stepped back, smiled and blinked at him, stuffed something in his hand, and then got into the car and left quickly.
The dense fog gathered again, and the car quickly disappeared from sight.
Su Shi was a little curious, picked up the thing in his hand and looked at it, couldn't help laughing, and handed it to his lover who was still worried.
"What is it?"
Lu Zhuo was still worried about the next test, so he picked it up subconsciously and saw that there were two pairs of sound-proof Bluetooth headsets, and the red light was still flashing in his hand waiting for the communication to be connected.
As the time drew closer, more and more figures gathered outside the second pass.
"After passing the test, I must have a good chat with that friend..."
The second level is still to pass through the light gates one by one, and send the examinees to different paths alone. It's just that this time, the flat road turned into black and white steps, with thousands of steps rising gradually, which made Su Shi, who was used to solving problems with his brain, finally feel vaguely hopeless.
What Mu Jinchu said was right, let him climb up so many steps, it is estimated that he really has no mood to pay attention to the matter of Bailian Space.
Seriously reflecting on whether the final assessment was to remind himself to exercise, Su Shi climbed up the one-meter-high steps layer by layer. After a short breath, he became unstable and had to stop with his knees propped up.
With the headset Mu Jinchu generously supported, the communication between the two was smooth. Hearing the change of his lover's breathing, Lu Zhuo's voice immediately sounded worried: "What's the matter, is it uncomfortable? I'll try to find a way—"
"Not really. I just suddenly remembered that the last time I walked so much was when I climbed Mount Tai with you..."
Su Shi helped the earphones, took a breath, and continued to climb up diligently: "If you enter the Bailian space, you don't have to climb this. Now I suddenly feel that I really want to go in."
It was still in the world where he replaced Lu Li as the right minister, and his lover was wandering around with him in the name of Song Rong, and suddenly became interested, saying that he wanted to go to Mount Tai to see the sunrise, maybe it would also make him happy. The mind is comfortable and open, giving birth to some poetry.
Su Shi didn't experience many ancient worlds, and none of them had the leisure to climb Mount Tai. His memory was still on the plank road dug out in the ordinary modern world, so he naturally agreed. When you find that there is no road at all after climbing halfway, it will be too late to regret it.
I don't want to recall how I almost caused the aftermath of the accident due to climbing in the end. Su Shi climbed up a slightly shorter pure black step, and pressed the new white key to prop up his body, but suddenly there was a voice in his ear that was obviously in a low voice. range of piano sounds.
Su Shi was slightly startled, and subconsciously stopped his movements.
Lu Zhuo has also heard the voice here, and raised his hand to put on the earphone: "I heard it, you should be in the low-frequency area - the steps over there are too high, you stop there and don't move, I will go to you right away."
Faintly aware of what was going on, Su Shi tried to let go of his hands, and sat down leaning on the white keys, when a slightly lower sound of the piano came to his ears.
The two piano sounds seemed to turn on a certain switch, and the soft and deep piano music suddenly sounded next to his ears, and the sound of the piano fell to his chest, as if it involved some chaotic consciousness, spreading out a somewhat strange picture.
Su Shi raised his eyebrows, put his hands on his bent knees, and curiously studied the illusion of memories he had created by the music.
In fact, he didn't expect which memory he was most afraid of, so he was completely unprepared. After the environment around him suddenly changed, from the monotonous black and white steps to an empty villa, Su Shi's heart froze slightly, and he suddenly realized which memory it was.
This memory is really too long, so long that he himself has almost completely forgotten it, but when the picture unfolded in front of his eyes, those memories that he thought had faded away suddenly jumped into his mind vividly.
It was his villa, where he grew up, and it was his home.
The steps he was leaning on turned into a spacious big bed, and he was sitting under the bed, lightning and thunder were thundering outside the window, and the hurricane roared wildly under the dark sky, as if it was enough to tear everything to pieces.
The strong wind broke the branches and slammed on the exquisite retro windows. The ear-piercing sound of shattering glass echoed the dazzling lightning, and all the power in the villa was turned off, and everything became pitch black.
Brain's news broadcasts are more urgent than the next. The hurricane disaster that occurs once in hundreds of years is coming, reminding residents to quickly enter the safe zone. Minors must move under the supervision of their parents to avoid more loss of life and property.
The distant relative who took care of him took away his parents' inheritance, and he has long since disappeared. If this villa is not too old, it has no value except for the land, and maybe even this residence will not be left for him.
The entire villa was pitch black, only the whistling wind and rain could be heard, and there would be frightening crackling sounds from time to time.
Su Shi still remembered that he hid in the bathroom for two days, and finally passed out due to high fever and extreme fear. When he woke up, the hurricane had passed, and nothing seemed to have happened except for the messy villa.
This was when he was thirteen.
It had been three years since his parents died in the interstellar voyage, five years had passed since he voluntarily accepted the exploration mission into the system, and twelve years had passed since he met Lu Zhuo for the first time.
Intellectually, he knew that he should avoid it, but it took too much energy to climb the steps just now, Su Shi didn't want to move at all, and still sat on the ground. With the occasional flashes of lightning, you can still see shards of glass scattered all over the ground beside you.
The strong wind rolled in the soybean-sized raindrops, and it was so cold that it was bone-chilling.
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But it's really tiring.
The white keys are a full meter high, and the black keys are as high as half a person. After climbing dozens of steps in a row, Su Shi felt that he had to rest for at least half an hour before continuing with any other activities.
The more he stayed still, the more intense the storm in the hallucination became. There were already realistic raindrops hitting his body painfully, and the biting chill spread all over his body in an instant.
Su Shi sighed softly, propped himself up on the ground, looked around, and planned to find a familiar path to escape. Just when he was about to take a step, the touch under his feet made his heart tremble slightly, and his heart skipped a beat. Lu Zhuo's lowered anxious voice came from the earphones.
"No matter what you see, don't move. We are still in reality, and if we walk around, we will fall."
It seemed that his lover's judgment was the same as his own. Su Shi responded with a cry and took back his steps, wanting to escape from the illusion, but he was still controlled by the sound of the piano, and he couldn't switch back to reality no matter what.
The panting sound in the earphones also became more and more heavy. Lu Zhuo's physical fitness was much better than his own, and he was driven down from the top again. It was just physical exertion, and he shouldn't be so tired so quickly.
Su Shi was silent for a moment, then raised his hand to put on the earphone, tapped twice, and said in a slow voice, "Did you see it again?"
What Lu Zhuo will see, both of them know very well in their hearts.
As soon as his words fell, the voice in the earphones quickly fell silent. After a while, Lu Zhuo's deep voice finally came: "It doesn't matter, I know those are not you... how are you?"
"Fortunately, it's easy on my side."
Su Shi pursed his lips, wiped off the realistic cold rain on his face, closed his eyes and turned his back, and suddenly smiled softly after a while: "I've figured out what the villa I want to live in will look like, do you want to hear it? "
The person on the other side of the headset seemed to be startled, and then responded very softly. Su Shi estimated the distance and took a step, sat back down again, and slowly recalled the appearance of the villa in his memory, describing the original decoration to him one by one.
He spoke in a leisurely manner, and Lu Zhuo's breath gradually calmed down. He listened to his words quietly, and occasionally added a sentence or two of his own opinions. Obviously, he had gradually got rid of the influence of the illusion.
Su Shi breathed a sigh of relief, slowly moved his frozen body, leaned on the edge of the bed and turned around, turned his gaze to the already shattered window, helplessly pulled the corners of Tanbai's lips, and made up for it again. said a word.
"Also, it's better to use explosion-proof materials for the windows in the bedroom, or if we don't want windows, we can just draw a few. I think it's actually quite beautiful..."
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[Hundred Refining Space Clearance Cheats]
Su Shi: I'm too lazy to move. _(┐「ε:)_
#too tired#
#Afraid to be afraid#