mechanical court

Just as he was feeling sick, there was an old voice behind him, which sounded like a dry accordion.

"Look at your mother!"

After hearing what it said, Ivan naturally refused to look back. He resisted the heavy mental strength, kept his balance, and struggled forward on this road that was constantly bumping up and down.

"Look back at me!"

The tone of the voice was more severe this time, and it was faintly closer, like the cold wind in the severe winter.

"dont see!"

Ivan slammed back without hesitation, his heart was trembling for a while, a layer of goose bumps appeared on his whole back and even his neck, and it seemed that something was licking him in the wind—it was this feeling that made him He couldn't help but want to look back, but the fear of the unknown effectively curbed his curiosity.

"Are you a so-called nightmare? Are you trying to trick me into turning around and scare me with your ugly face? Don't dream, I'm exhausted on the track today and broke my legs, and I will never look back! "

He roared to embolden himself, despised the things chasing him behind him, and his legs picked up speed again.In addition to exhaustion, the feeling brought about by running hard is also a headache, like a water pump connected to one's own brain, which is unbearable.

……

The end of the road is still the road, Flying Mouse Town is still quietly located in the distance, the right side of the road is now sunny, and the left side is as dark as night.The air blowing behind him became colder and colder, and he shivered from the cold, and his spirit became weaker and weaker.

"Huh...huh...huh..."

On the constantly bumpy Mercedes-Benz road, Ivan felt like a hamster that fell into the running wheel and kept rushing forward, but there was no end to the road ahead.

"Am I plotted against?"

As the symptoms of the headache became more and more severe, he began to question everything he saw, his movements gradually became sluggish, and the cold air gradually eroded into the inside of his body - the more this happened, the less confidence he had to look back.

"That's not right... That voice said that you can get rewards for killing the nightmare. But I'm running forward desperately, and I don't even have the conditions to make a detour... How can I kill it?"

Ivan tried his best to keep calm, maintaining a trace of clarity from the severe pain, and glanced at Flying Mouse Town, which was always facing him far away: "Besides, the road is long and endless... If this continues, I will almost be drained." ...Even if you are not killed by the nightmare, you will die from exhaustion."

"Turn back and look at me!"

At this time, the lingering voice of the nightmare struck again, like a cold and viscous reptile, adhering to Ivan's tailbone, and gliding lightly all the way to his chest, making him feel cold all over his body, and his running speed dropped again .

Just watch!The fear beast that I killed can circle the space city, and still be afraid of you?

Yiwen knew that going on like this would be a dead end, so he immediately made up his mind and decided to turn around and fight it.

"call!"

He exhaled violently, stepped on the ground with his right foot, and instantly spun his whole body with his right leg as a support point. While twisting his body shape, he sent out the mental shock and fist together.

However, the strong man's strenuous effort to break his wrist... was in vain.

There was a dark night ahead, and the whole world was engulfed in darkness, as if it was the darkest time before dawn, without any starlight, and there was a vague feeling of gloom.The space is very quiet, so quiet that only my own rapid breathing can be heard, and the so-called nightmare has disappeared.

"..."

In Ivan's surprised sight, beams of sky light descended quietly, penetrating the dark night, as if the sun was breaking through the dawn, driving away the dark clouds and mists, and coating the bumpy road with a layer of gold.At this moment, the heaviness that had been suppressing him suddenly disappeared, and the symptoms of headache disappeared at the same time, and the whole person was indescribably relaxed.

"When you learn to face fear, fear may not be as powerful as you imagined. Congratulations to your qualified candidate No. 54413. You passed the first stage of the trial with an excellent rating. Please rush to Flying Mouse Town as soon as possible to file."

The gender-indistinguishable voice from before reappeared like a narrator, and expressed his blessing to him coldly.

"You mean... if I turn my head back at the beginning, I can pass the level directly!?" Ivan was dumbfounded.

"Suspicion breeds dark ghosts. Intangible fear is more terrifying than tangible demons. The weaker you are, the thinner your courage to face fear is. This is an objective fact. Half of the qualified candidates are eliminated in the first round——In the Devouring of Fear Under the circumstances, more people chose to run for no reason, and finally died of exhaustion."

After saying this, the voice disappeared, and the bumpy road also calmed down.Bathed in the pale golden light, he turned around and was about to run again, but found that Flying Mouse Town, which was originally out of reach, was already within reach.

……

After entering the range of Flying Mouse Town, Ivan found that his code name "54413" had turned into a halo, hovering over his head, still shining golden, and the distance from the 'angel' was only a pair of bird wings stuck in the back.

"Am I going to heaven..."

With a self-deprecating sentence, he walked forward along the broad stone road.

Looking forward, it is a tall and thin large post station, which is located alone in the soft sky. The soft waves of the river cover the reflection of the building, and along with the sound of the gurgling water, it extends to the depths of the town.There is a gray-white rock path paved at the entrance of the post station. The road looks old and has been polished to a fine and smooth stone surface by the years.

On the left side of the road is an open space with no end in sight, on which there are densely erected tombstones, glowing ghostly in the bright sunlight.

Ivan walked over curiously and approached the first row of steles, only to find a fact that made his hair stand on end—these steles were all rooted in the backs of humans.

These people who did not know whether they were alive or dead were lying on the ground, half of their bodies without signs of decay sank into the ground, and the tombstones grew on their backs like the shells of tortoises.

"These are all losers. They can neither leave nor die. They will stay here forever." The old woman's hoarse voice came from the gate of the inn.

Looking suspiciously at the sound, he found a hunched figure from the shadow of the station—it was an old woman who was too old to tell her age, her face was covered with dimples, like a piece of dry old bark .

For some reason, Ivan had a strange feeling, as if she was just a corpse, not a living person.

"Is this guy a neutral npc?"

With this in mind, he walked over quickly and took a closer look, only to find that she also had a halo on her head, but the color was so pale that it was almost invisible.Just like her energy, it has long been a candle in the wind and may be extinguished at any time.

"This inn is the only safe place in Flying Mouse Town. I have been here for 30 years." Seeing Ivan following up, she murmured with a trace of vitality on her old face.

"Can you stay so long? Doesn't it mean that if you can't complete the task, you will die mentally?" Ivan asked in surprise.

"Because I didn't accept the mission... For so many years, countless people have tried to pass this trial, but they ended up lying in the cemetery you just saw." The old man replied in a seemingly calm tone.

Ivan couldn't see any hope in her eyes, like the lifeless late autumn, looking gray and lifeless.

"So... I have to keep clearing the level before I can leave?" He felt a sense of powerlessness.

"Every time you pass a stage, you can wake up once. After the countdown expires, you will enter the second stage of the trial. At that time, you can choose to continue the game, or stay here forever like me."

She raised her lifeless eyes, glanced at him lightly, and stepped into the station with difficulty: "Come in, this is the save point, once you step into the range of the station, you can wake up from reality .”

Chapter 41 Refresh Dafa

The moment one entered the station, the surrounding temperature rose, and the images of the tables and chairs in front of him were slightly distorted, as if they were reflected in a rippled lake, or shrouded in invisible flames, everything turned into pitch black The ashes mottled and fell off.

"..."

Ivan blinked, and opened his eyelids suddenly - the first thing he saw was the white wall of the room.

Soon he realized that he was still running the Sun Golden Sutra, and quickly dissipated the light energy, checked his body carefully, and gradually relaxed after making sure that he was not injured.

"If it's a dream, it's too real, right?"

After taking several deep breaths in a row, Ivan relieved the psychedelic feeling of waking up from the big dream, and looked at the time vigilantly, and found that the second hand had only moved five seconds since he entered the invisible space.

Ding--!