In a room equipped with a one-way mirror, Chu Jun and Li Xiu were looking at a person in the room through the one-way mirror.
In that prison-like room, the walls, tables, chairs, beds, even the sheets and cups were all black.
The people inside were sitting on chairs, staring at the tea cups on the table, mumbling something in their mouths without knowing what they were talking about. The voices were too low to be heard clearly.
Li Xiu and Chu Jun watched for more than half an hour. The man just stared at the cup and muttered for more than half an hour. Except for his body shaking weirdly like Parkinson's disease, he didn't even stand up.
Pass.
"Mr. Chu, he has always been like this, except when eating, drinking and sleeping." The Hongsha City official who accompanied Chu Jun said with a smile.
"Can we go in and talk to him?" Chu Jun asked.
"Of course, but he is crazy and can't understand human speech. I'm afraid it will be difficult to communicate." The official said and took Li Xiu and Chu Jun to the door of the room and asked someone to open the locked room.
Door: "Please."
Li Xiu and Chu Jun walked over, but the man ignored them and continued to sit in front of the table and muttered.
"Apa, someone is here to see you." The official shouted to the man, but the man still didn't respond.
"Mr. Chu, I'm really sorry. He's just like this. You can ask whatever you want. If you're lucky, he might say a few random words. If you're not lucky, he won't even answer you." The official said.
Li Xiu and Chu Jun looked at each other. Li Xiu walked to the side of the man and looked at his appearance.
He was a handsome young man in his twenties, but in his eyes, Li Xiu could not see a trace of vitality that a young man should have. He only saw emptiness, death and deep fear.
Li Xiu didn't ask him anything, he just knelt down and got closer to listen to what he was talking about.
"One hundred and eighty-nine thousand six hundred and forty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-four...one hundred and eighty-nine hundred and sixty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty-three..."
After Li Xiu heard clearly, he found that he had been counting, counting one number at a time. According to his speed, it would take more than ten seconds to count such a number, and the intervals were irregular.
Obviously, the numbers he counted should not be used for timing.
But apart from keeping time, what else could it be used for? What on earth was he counting?
Li Xiu followed his gaze and looked at the cup. It was a pure black cup with no patterns on it and nothing for him to count.
"One...two...three...four...six..." Li Xiu didn't ask him anything, but tried to count beside him.
After counting a few, the man suddenly turned to look at him, smiled and said: "You counted wrong..."
"Where did I count wrong?" Li Xiu asked.
The man did not answer him, but turned to look at the cup and continued to count. His memory was surprisingly good, and he continued to count the numbers just now.
Li Xiu also continued to count down his numbers and increased his voice. His voice had already drowned out that person's voice.
But that person was completely unaffected by him and continued to count by himself. Li Xiu listened for a while and found that his interference was of no use at all. The number of people was not bad at all.
"One hundred and seven... one hundred and nine..." Li Xiu deliberately missed a number.
"Wrong... you are wrong..." The man turned his head again and smiled at him with a grin, which was a bit scary.
"What will happen if I make a mistake?" Li Xiu asked.
The man ignored him and started counting again.
"Sir, you can try to ask something else. Maybe he can answer you." The official said with a smile.
"No, let's go." Li Xiu stared at the man for a while, then got up and walked out of the room.
"Sir, are you really asking no more questions?" the official looked at Li Xiu with some confusion and asked.
"No need, he's gone crazy like this, and I can't find anything out if I ask." Li Xiu looked at the official and asked, "Did he say anything before?"
"The information has been handed over to Mr. Chu, and everything he said has been recorded in the eucalyptus. You can check it," the official said.
"Okay, let's go." Li Xiu and Chu Jun left this prison-like place together.
"Why don't you ask more?" Returning to the place where they stayed, Chu Jun asked with some confusion when he saw no one around.
"If I could ask something, the experts in Hongsha City would have asked it long ago. No matter how much I ask, I will never be more professional than those experts." Li Xiu said.
"Then what do you think? Do you still want to go to the Gate of Purgatory? I think it's better not to go. When I saw this person, I was a little scared and felt very bad." Chu Jun said.
"No, I want to go to the Gate of Purgatory." After meeting this man, Li Xiu had already decided that he wanted to go to the Gate of Purgatory.
It is certain that the test at the Gate of Purgatory has nothing to do with physical fitness, but is related to the brain. Such a test is very beneficial to Li Xiu.
And he vaguely felt that the trial at the Gate of Purgatory might be related to the number of people.
"In that case, according to the original plan, we will arrange for you to go to the Gate of Purgatory tomorrow. In three days, our family will go to Red Sand City to complete the transaction. If nothing happens, you should be able to come out before then.
"After Chu Jun finished speaking, he still felt a little uneasy and said: "I always feel that that person is weird and has an uneasy feeling."
"Don't worry, since someone can come out alive, I will definitely be able to come out alive." Li Xiu comforted Chu Jun with a smile.
"That's right, it should be okay if it's you." Seeing that Li Xiu had made up his mind, Mr. Chu said nothing more.
After a night's rest, early the next morning, the officials who received Li Xiu and Chu Jun yesterday took them into a bus and took them out of Hongsha City along a road toward the mountains.
And go.
The bus went round and round along the winding mountain road. The road was not well built, narrow and dilapidated, with potholes and puddles in some places.
Several times, Li Xiu thought the bus was going to drive out of the mountain road, but in the end it just turned a corner.
Fortunately, Li Xiu's mental quality and physical condition were both good, otherwise even if he was not knocked unconscious, he would probably have a heart attack again.
The bus went down one mountain and then up another. When the sun reached the top of our heads, the bus finally stopped at a mountain col.
The official got out of the car with two men dressed as soldiers, and said to Li Xiu and Chu Jun in the car: "We can only walk the next road, the road has not been built yet."
Li Xiu picked up his backpack and got out of the car with Chu Jun. They left the road and walked towards the mountain path next to it.
Although the road was difficult to walk, for the trialists, such a road was nothing. An hour later, several people arrived at a simple base built near the mountain.
There was an electric fence blocking the outside of the base, and there were soldiers in full armor guarding the inside. The official took out the pass, and the soldiers inside let them in.
Led by officials and an officer from the base, Li Xiu and the others walked through the base and took them to a cave behind the base.
In the deepest part of the cave, there is a black stone door embedded in the rock. The door is black, without any patterns or carvings on it. If it were not for the seventy-two grooves, it would be difficult to find that it is a trial door.
If you look at the door, you will just think it is a smooth rock wall.
"Mr. Chu, this is the Gate of Purgatory." The official said panting and wiping his sweat. After such a journey, his fat body was a little overwhelmed, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead.
Chu Jun nodded, glanced at Li Xiu, then walked to the stone wall and took out a small bag from his arms. After opening it, there were about three carats of rubies and sapphires inside. It seemed that the gems that opened the door to purgatory were.
It was produced by Chu Jun himself.
According to the information provided by the Lord of Red Sand City, the Gate of Purgatory cannot be opened using trial badges, only gems.
Li Xiu didn't say anything. Even if these gems came from Hongsha City, they were obtained through the Chu family's transaction. He still owed Chu Jun's favor, so there was no difference.
"Bring people here." The officer greeted, and some soldiers led a group of dozens of people with guns over to the gate of Purgatory.
Seeing Mr. Chu stop what he was doing and look at those people, the official said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Chu, there is no limit on the number of people in the trial at the Gate of Purgatory, and each person's trial is separate.
There is no influence on each other. It is a bit of a waste if you only enter one person here. Do you think I can also enter a few people here?"
What he said seemed to be a plea, but in fact, there was no room for Chu Jun not to agree. Everyone was ready. Even if Chu Jun didn't agree, once the door opened and they ran inside, Chu Jun could still stop them.
Chu Jun looked at Li Xiu, who nodded slightly. Chu Jun said nothing and continued to put the gem into the groove.
Thirty-six rubies and thirty-six sapphires are inlaid on both sides. The quality of those gems is quite good, and they all exceed three carats. The price of opening the door to purgatory is quite high.
When all the seventy-two red and sapphires were inlaid, all the gems lit up by themselves, and the two doors were dyed blue and red respectively by the brilliance of the gems.
With a bang, the two doors slowly opened, revealing a gap.
There was no light coming out of the gap, which was a bit different from the trial door Li Xiu had entered before. It was pitch black inside and nothing could be seen.
Even though Li Xiu wore the Mirror of Darkness on his face, he could still only see a depth of black.
"Sir, please." The official made an inviting gesture to Li Xiu, urging him to hurry in.
If Li Xiu doesn't go in, it's natural that those in Hongsha City won't be able to go in either.
Li Xiu looked at Chu Jun, who said, "I'll wait here for you to come out, and we'll go back together."
"Okay." Li Xiu nodded slightly and walked towards the dark door.
After Li Xiu entered the door, the officer asked the soldiers to drive all the dozens of people in. After a while, the door slowly closed, with a loud bang, completely cutting off the world inside from the outside.
In a white room, Li Xiu was looking at everything in the room.
This room is about the same size as the dark maze room. They are also white rooms. The difference is that there is no door in this room.
The whole room was like a big sealed box, with nothing but Li Xiu.
Suddenly, a light screen appeared on the wall, and the familiar cold voice also sounded at the same time.
"Welcome to the Purgatory Gate Trial Field. The S-level trial is about to begin. The rules are as follows: Survive until the end of the trial."
There is only one rule: survive until the trial is over, and there is nothing else.
There is no time limit, no rule limit, and no project, just survive.
As the countdown to the trial ends, the trial has officially begun.
Li Xiu stood in the room and waited for a long time, but nothing happened. The white room was eerily quiet.
"Is it really all you need to survive until the trial is over?" Li Xiu muttered to himself, but found that he couldn't hear his own voice.
Li Xiu frowned slightly and tried to kick the white wall. Originally he just wanted to know if he could make any noise, but after kicking, he found that he could not feel any pain in his feet.
He kicked a few more times and still couldn't feel any pain. However, after taking off his white shoes, he found that his feet were already a little red and swollen.
"This trial deprives you of hearing and touch." Li Xiu smelled his arm again and found that he could no longer smell the smell.
I licked my arm, but my sense of taste was gone.
"Only the vision is still there." Li Xiu thought to himself.
I tried to summon the demon spirit, but it couldn't be summoned. I tried to pull out the contract, but it couldn't be pulled out either. Just like the ordinary trial field, the contract and the demon spirit cannot be used here.
I tried to use the skill again. The skill can be used and is no different from the ordinary trial field.
Li Xiu sat in the center of the room and quietly observed the room with his eyes. The room was all white, with no patterns or gaps, and no changes could be seen.
In such an environment, it is easy to feel mentally exhausted and make people want to sleep.
Li Xiu didn't sleep. He kept thinking about counting silently in his mind. From the moment the trial started, he had been counting. From the beginning, he had counted more than a thousand times until now.
There was nothing, nothing could be done, and he didn't know when the trial would end. Li Xiu just sat there and kept counting.
As time passed by, Li Xiu's counting was a little different from that of the madman. Each of his numbers corresponded to one second.
Later, because the numbers were too long, each number corresponded to a few seconds, which was equivalent to timing.
According to Li Xiu's timing, it had been six hours since he arrived here, but he found strangely that he didn't feel hungry at all.
"It's been six hours, and I still don't feel hungry. Is it because my brain's time is running faster, or my body has lost all feeling?" Li Xiu stood up, walked to a white wall, and used the blood boiling function.
Punch on the wall.
The wall didn't react at all, and Li Xiu didn't feel anything, but his fingers were covered in blood and the phalanges seemed to have been broken.
Li Xiu stopped bleeding, and then walked slowly around the room, knocking on the walls of the room as he walked.
But without touch or hearing, even if there was nothing behind the wall, he wouldn't be able to tell it using this method.
"Is there a possibility that there is an exit in this room, but it can't be discovered because only vision is left?" Li Xiu lowered his head and glanced at the wound on his hand. The wound healed at the same speed as outside.
Because of the demon spirit larvae in his body, his wounds will heal quickly.
But Li Xiu is probably aware of the speed of healing. The speed of healing here is similar to that outside, which proves that the speed of time inside has not changed. It is not the legendary time and space misalignment of one day in the sky and one year on earth.
After Li Xiu marked the location, he punched the wall again. He wanted to try to see if there was a way out of this room.
Every time he hit him, he was injured. Although his body could heal quickly and no longer felt pain, Li Xiu knew very well that healing these wounds required energy.
Either consume his energy or consume the energy of the demon larvae. In short, it needs to consume energy.
And he doesn't feel anything now. Even if the blood in his body dries up, he won't feel anything before he dies.
Now Li Xiu is very suspicious that among the trialists who have entered here, some of them must have tried to hit the wall with their bodies like him, hoping to find a possible exit.
But he didn't feel anything. Maybe he didn't even know he was dead after being hit.
Li Xiu didn't dare to let himself bleed too much, which would make his body unable to hold on. He marked some points and only needed to test those points. It was impossible to try all the positions in the entire room.
A long time passed, and Li Xiu finally tried all the marked points. As a result, no wall could be penetrated by him, not even a trace was left.
"It seems you can't get out of this room." Li Xiu sat down again.
He didn't have much hope in the beginning. The rules of the trial only said that he should survive until the end of the trial, but did not say that he should find a way out. The possibility of getting out was not high in the first place.
But if you can pass the trial just by waiting like this, how did those people die?
Could it be that they all went crazy after staying here for a long time and committed suicide?
Although this possibility is indeed possible, if a person is locked up in such a place for hundreds of years and does not come out, he does not know when the trial will end, and it is possible to commit suicide in despair.
"Do we really have to wait for hundreds of years?" According to Li Xiu's timing, twenty-four hours have passed. If the trial is not over after three days, there may be a real problem.
Regardless of whether the body has lived for hundreds of years, or whether it is just the feeling of the brain that has lived for hundreds of years, it is not an easy thing to endure.
Li Xiu found that although he felt nothing, he felt sleepy and wanted to sleep.
Li Xiuqiang kept himself from falling asleep and continued to keep time in his mind.
One day...two days...three days...four days...
By the fourth day, he already knew that Chu Jun's description was correct. There might be a problem with his brain's cognitive time. It was very likely that he would really have to stay here for decades or even hundreds of years.
Time is required to complete the trial and go out.
After fifteen days, Li Xiu was still not dead, which made him certain that the time experienced by the body and the time experienced by the brain were definitely different.
Even if the human body has no feeling, it is impossible to sustain for fifteen days without water. There must be something wrong with the brain's judgment of time.