Chapter 139 Heaven and Earth are unkind (2)
Finally I saw someone. A barefoot man in Taoist robes stepped forward excitedly and shouted: "Hey——"
A sound echoed in the red, gray and green On top of the Gobi cliffs worn by the soil and wind, there is only an endless Gobi sea. The decaying palaces are alone in the strange mountains and rocks. The sky is blue, the clouds are dark, and the wind and sand are moving.
The stunned people finally came to their senses.
"What place is this? Aren't we...in Heqi City?"
"Hiss, it's so hot, so hot... Where are my shoes? Why am I barefoot?"
Someone looked down and saw that their shoes and socks were gone, and they were stepping on the yellow sand with their bare feet. In the middle, the yellow sand has been burned for a long time and is extremely hot.
Just now, my mind was frightened by the strange scene. Now I came back to my senses, and my whole body was jumping like a shrimp in boiling water.
But the ground is full of yellow sand, rock and gravel, and the pain is the same wherever you avoid it.
"Hey, who took off my shoes..."
I thought I was the only one who encountered such a predicament, but when the man looked around, he saw that everyone was holding their feet and shouting "Ouch" like fleas, asking for help, running around, cursing...
...It turns out that the shoes on everyone's feet were missing.
Weird, so weird.
Seeing this situation, they reacted quickly and tore off their clothes and wrapped them around their feet, which temporarily relieved the pain of being burned to pieces by the gravel.
But now the snow is falling again, not the normal white, but a bright blue.
Piece by piece, piece by piece, it falls on people's bodies. It is not cold and melts at the touch, but a long-lasting and bone-deep cold.
Some people couldn't help but shuddered: "What the hell is this place? Why is it snowing?"
"It would be great to have snow. When the snow melts, Huang The sand will no longer burn your feet," someone said happily.
But someone noticed something strange. Looking at these strangely colored "snowflakes", he always had a hunch that things were not that simple.
"Huanghuaguan Taoist? Why are you here too?"
"Master Cheng? I...I don't know, but I came here all of a sudden..."
After asking, it turned out that no one knew why they came here, but what they experienced was different from The purpose is exactly the same, they are all here for "Xu Shan Mountain".
“It’s Xu Shanshan, she must be the one behind it!”
But some people questioned: “Is it possible? No matter how powerful she is, she can’t unknowingly kill so many of us. Move to such a ghost place at once?”
“I suspect that everything in front of us is an illusion and not real. Maybe we are under her spell.”
An illusion master shook his head: "I have tested it and everything is real, but if it is really an illusion, it only means that Xu Shanshan has been able to create a world of his own to confuse the fake with the real. Even if it is fake, it is still real. ”
When the people present heard this, their expressions suddenly changed, they lost their composure, and they didn’t know what to do for a while.
“It’s been snowing for so long, why is the sand on the ground still so hot?”
“I feel so cold, the sand under my feet is so hot, and my body is so cold, If all this is true, I will cut off my head and play it as a cuju.”
“We can’t stay still any longer. Let’s look around first to see if there is a place to avoid the snow. Illusion must have a door to life, and you can only escape if you find the door to life.”
They endured the burning pain under their feet while walking. Some people wanted to use spells or magic weapons to avoid the pain on their skin, but they found that they had nothing but thin clothes on them. The magic can be used to save lives at critical moments, but if it is used up early, they are worried that something will happen again.
The surrounding fields are quiet, except for the various wind sculptures in the stone walls. The wind blows the fine sand across the gaps in the stone walls, sometimes as thin as a weeping woman, sad and desolate, it is very sad and sad. I got goosebumps all over my body.
Although their feet were wrapped with cloth, as they walked, the high temperature would burn through the clothes over time. If they continued to leave them alone, they might burn.
With no other option, they could only tear up the cloth and bind their feet again and again, but soon the clothes and cloth on their bodies were not enough, and because of the snow, their limbs were stiff and they were not even cold. Dare to open your mouth and breathe.
It can be said that there are two worlds of ice and fire. This kind of torture is almost reaching the limit of their physical endurance.
Every step they took was like a knife stabbing their feet. The warmth in their bodies slowly collapsed in the torment. They almost no longer had the energy to curse and resent.
"Hey, look, what's in front of you?"
"It looks like a row of stone pillars? Come on, come up and see where that is."
Their eyes lit up and they couldn't wait to take a look. They saw a tall stone tablet with the words "Rewarding Scroll for Good Nature" written on it. Beyond the stone tablet was a staircase, and on the staircase was a round platform paved with large stones.
The moment they stepped onto the stone platform from the yellow sand, they shivered and realized that the stone was not as hot on their feet as the yellow sand. Although their feet were almost miserable, with their skin torn and bloody, but at this moment, they still felt that they were It's like being liberated.
So one after another rushed forward.
At this time, a voice sounded in the sky.
"A flower blooms with two sides, Buddha and demon appear in one thought... This is the mirror platform. Only by distinguishing between good and evil can you leave this place. Next, you have two choices, choose to save people or kill people. "
"What do you mean?" They looked around, but there was no one speaking.
"Only evil people and good people can leave this place. Hundreds of innocent people will appear in front of you. Like you, they can only leave here through the mirror door, but they cannot step into this square mirror platform from the yellow sand."
"So you can enter the Mirror Gate if you save people, and you can enter the Mirror Gate if you kill people. But if you don't save or kill those who don't, you will be left in this yellow sand desert forever, suffering from the scorching yellow sand and the freezing blue snow. The suffering is worse than death."
A hundred people?
They immediately looked up and saw a group of confused ordinary people appearing in the yellow sand. The expressions on their faces were the same as before. They suddenly appeared in a strange place, and they were shocked and confused. Panic.
"Where is this? How did we suddenly appear here?"
"This is not Heqi City, where is this?"
The warlocks and Taoist priests on the high platform didn't know how to make a decision.
"The door to leave is right behind you. Only those who have made a choice are eligible to leave, and you only have time for one stick of incense..."
When they looked back, they saw a A black hole similar to a "door" appeared. Some people rushed over to find out what was going on, but were knocked away three feet away and could not be touched.
“Everyone, please don’t be fooled. This Xu Shanshan is an evil person. She has a sinister and vicious heart, and there must be something wrong with the choices she makes...”
"But we have tried our best to leave here. If we don't believe her, are we really going to freeze to death here?"
"Look, the door is closing!"
Leaving The "door" is indeed shrinking, albeit slowly, but it is closing.
The snow in the sky was getting heavier and heavier, and they were almost numb from the cold. Unable to bear the anxiety caused by the passage of time, one person rushed directly: "I want to know whether it is true or false, give it a try." That’s it, let me do it first.”