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Le Jing took a few steps forward, then stopped as if remembering something, "That's right." He turned his head and looked at Yu Qishi and the others with a smile, "There is something I forgot to tell you."

"Please be a good boy." The devil lowered his tone with crooked eyebrows: "Please."

Zhu Xia swallowed her saliva, and asked cautiously, "How can you say he is a good boy?"

Sharp sobriety flashed across the devil's eyes, his smile remained unchanged, and he replied earnestly: "A child is a good child who has all the advantages and disadvantages of a child and never crosses the bottom line."

Just as Zhu Xia opened her mouth to ask some more questions, she heard a "squeak" sound, and the door of the candy house was pushed open, and a kind-hearted old woman came out from inside.She wore a big hat covered with flowers on her head, and she wore a long silk dress studded with jewels. She didn't look like a cannibal witch in a fairy tale, but like an old lady from a noble family.

"Hello, children." She showed a friendly smile to everyone: "You must be freezing right now, come in and warm up."

The devil raised his head and said childishly, "Good evening, grandma, we are so hungry, can you give us a piece of cake?"

The old lady leaned down slightly, smiling warmly and cordially: "Of course, my child, there is a cake I just made in the room, come in and have a full meal."

Le Jing smiled and turned his head to look at the four guarded people behind him who kept a certain distance from him, and asked, "So, do you want to go in?"

Marlena glanced at Thelma's basket on her arm, a flash of realization flashed in her eyes, and the smile on the corner of her mouth widened, but this smile was no longer as warm and kind as before, and looked chilly, "It's Little Red Riding Hood Let you come to me." She lifted it up arrogantly, and snorted coldly: "Want a cake? Of course." She said with a half-smile: "It's just that you want to play a game with me, If you win, of course I will give you the cake."

"what game?"

"It's very simple." The old witch said with a strange smile, "I named it 'Don't Touch My Candy'."

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Le Jing sat on the branch, tossing the candy back and forth boredly, Zhu Xia under the tree looked at him enviously, and sighed silently in his heart, he was destined not to be as calm and calm as the devil is now.

Probably because I don't care, so I can't be afraid.

It was a very beautiful candy, wrapped in pink-gold glass candy wrappers, which glistened in the sunlight. If you got close, you could smell the rich sweet aroma of chocolate, which made your index finger wide open.

The reason why Zhu Xia knew so clearly was because he also had such a candy in his pocket.Everyone has one of these candies, which is a key prop in the game "Don't Touch My Candy".

The group of them is now in a different-dimensional space constructed by the witch Marlena. According to Marlena, the forest in the space is about ten square kilometers in size, and the game will be played in this closed space. conduct.

In the "Don't touch my candy" game, the old witch plays the ghost, and they have three ten minutes to hide in various corners of the forest.When the time is up, the old witch will run into the forest to catch people, and those caught by her will hand in their own candy and be eliminated.This alternative hide-and-seek game will continue until there is only the last person left. The last person to keep the candy is the winner, and the prize is the witch's cake.

Thinking of the witch licking her lips, Zhu Xia knew what the punishment would be without even thinking about it.

This is undoubtedly a cruel game. Only one person can survive to the end, and the rest will be eaten by the witch as food.

The only good news is that, I don't know whether Marlena is pursuing fairness or pure arrogance, she announced that in this dungeon, she will limit her strength to the same level as theirs, which will undoubtedly greatly enhance their competition power, increasing the success rate of their side.

But even so, only one of the four of them survived. This fact made the atmosphere between the four of them suddenly tense. Out of place.

There are only 10 minutes left before the witch's capture, so within these 10 minutes they have to formulate a preliminary plan.

Yu Qishi took a deep breath, resolutely ignored the devil above his head, and a hint of sternness flashed in his eyes: "For the present plan, we have only one way - to kill the witch."

Selma and he looked at each other, nodded in agreement: "This is the only way."

Zhu Xia asked hesitantly: "Is this really feasible... The witch can also think of the problems we can think of, and she won't be so stupid as to dig a hole for herself to jump in."

Eden sighed, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to deepen: "I've thought about this too, but this is our only chance—if we don't kill the witch while she's limiting her strength, I'll wait until the game is over We have no chance of winning. Then the three of us will really only be stuffed into the belly of a witch."

He was very self-aware and didn't include Le Jing, and the rest didn't raise any objections.In their view, the devil, as an aborigine in the forest, is with the witch. Even if he loses his candy in the end, the witch will not do anything to him.After all, the reason why this devil came here was just to join in the fun.

Zhu Xia also understood the truth in what Eden said, but there was always a sense of unreliability in his heart, and he smelled a dangerous signal from it.

It's just that his super intuition is only 30% accurate. What if his intuition is wrong this time and this rare opportunity is wasted?After a brief hesitation, Zhu Xia looked up at the devil sitting on the branch doing nothing, with anticipation in his eyes that he didn't realize: "Can you protect us?" Afraid that Le Jing would refuse, he quickly added: "We are now after all. You are a member of a small team, if we all die, you will lose your guide to the Lord God's Dimension."

Le Jing yawned, and told this lovely child honestly: "But I can't beat Grandma Malena." He sat cross-legged on the tree, propped his chin and said silently in a volume that they couldn't hear: "Although... ...Even if I could beat her, I wouldn't hit her."

Zhu Xia cast her eyes on the little fairy on Le Jing's shoulder. Before he could speak, Le Jing replied in advance: "Although the little bell is very powerful, she will not help you. She will not take the initiative to harm you. But it won't help you either."

The little bell echoed loudly: "Good boys have to complete the exam questions by themselves, and they are not allowed to cheat! Those who cheat are all bad boys!"

Zhu Xia was even more frightened.

Can they really defeat an opponent that even the devil can't defeat?

'But if you don't kill her, you will be the one who dies. 'It was as if another self was speaking to him in his mind.

'...she is too strong for us to fight. ' he retorted in horror.

'No matter how strong she is, there is only one person, and she has specially suppressed her strength, plus the skills you exchanged in the main god's space, you may not be able to kill her back. '

'But...' Zhu Xia faintly felt that something was wrong, but she just couldn't tell.

'Nothing but, don't you want to die?Don't you want to go home?Don't you miss your parents?You are only 8 years old, you have not had time to grow up, are you really willing to die? '

'No... no, I don't want to die! '

'Kill her and you'll live. '

"Kill her, and I will survive..." Zhu Xia lowered her head, her eyes were dim, and she just chewed these words over and over again in her heart.

Thelma's murderous voice floated in her ears: "Kill her! We have no way out!"

Le Jing looked at the four murderous people below, his eyes were calm and sober, which was completely opposite to theirs.The voices in his head were noisy, but his mind was as calm as water.

He picked up the candy and held it up to his eyes, looked at it with a sneer, and stuffed it into his pocket casually.

'...It is not so easy to grow up successfully. '

The young man opened his eyes and got up from the ground.

wake up.

The old witch looked at him with a smile, stretched out her hands and opened her arms to him: "Welcome to grow up, child."

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Zhu Xia didn't expect things to go so smoothly.

Thelma easily angered the witch and drew her into their circle, and they shot the witch at the same time, knocking her to the ground.

This witch, who was so powerful in the devil's mouth, was lying on the ground with her eyes closed, her chest rising and falling to prove that she was still alive.Her flowered hat fell to one side, her fluffy white hair was spread on the floor, and her shriveled body looked extraordinarily petite under the wrapping of a gorgeous big skirt.

She didn't look like a witch, just like a frail ordinary old man.

Are you going to kill her?

Zhu Xia hesitated.

'Kill her! ' The voice in my head roared: 'Only by killing her can you survive!This world is so cruel, you are no longer young, it is time to learn to abandon useless weakness and become a qualified adult! '

There are no children in samsara space.

He'd been hiding behind Thelma for so long that it was time to try and learn how to kill.

There was an extra knife in his hand, and he held up the knife and walked slowly towards the witch lying on the ground.

"This is a world where people eat people." He told himself, "If you don't kill others, they will kill you."

He stopped, raised the knife to the old man's heaving chest on the ground, and slowly moved the tip of the knife down.

"Really?" A clear voice suddenly came from the sky above his head, "Are you really going to kill someone for a candy?"

"No, it's not about candy." Zhu Xia retorted instinctively: "If she doesn't kill her, she will kill me!"

"Is that really the case?" Qinglie's voice continued to question: "Did she say that?"

"You don't need to tell her!" Zhu Xia said loudly with a pale face: "Anyone with eyes can tell that she wants to eat us! She is an old witch who likes to eat people!"

"Sometimes, people's thoughts and actions are out of sync." Le Jing looked down at the boy who was unconscious and trembling on the ground: "Just because you want someone else's nice clothes, it doesn't mean you will snatch them; you are jealous The wealth of the rich does not mean that you will be a robber; just because you curse your enemy to death does not mean that you will kill him with your own hands."

"We are all mortal, with all mortal weaknesses. But even though it is easier to be evil than good, most of us are neither good nor bad adults, all because we have human qualities. Bottom line."

The young man's eyes flicked across the other three people who were in a coma one by one, and his eyes were as firm as a morning star in the dark night: "There are only two things in the world that we are in awe of, one is the brilliant starry sky above our heads, and the other is the starry sky in our hearts. Eternal moral law.①”

"If you are controlled by fear here, lose yourself, and kill Marlena, then you will never be able to become a qualified adult."

You'll be a bad boy with no rules, wandering the fairy forest forever, forever.

Only good children with rules can grow up and leave the fairy tale forest.

To use a very popular sentence pattern in modern society: "I have tattoos, smoke, drink, and tell lies and dirty words, but I know I am a good boy. The real bad boy ignores life, commits crimes, has no principles and Bottom line."

And this is the evaluation standard of Fairy Tale Forest for good children and bad children.

So twisted and absurdly dark.The purpose of the cruel test in the fairy tale forest is to select good children who can grow into qualified adults.What a great irony.

Perhaps this is the original intention of all fairy tales.

Tell the children what can be done and what cannot be done, what is good and what is evil, what is good and what is bad, so that the children can one day become an upright adult with their chests upright.

The author has something to say:

① Kant's famous saying.

I myself was not a traditionally good kid as a child.I also lie, don't like to study, pass notes in class, talk, and even bully the boys in the class.But this does not prevent me from being a good and not bad adult now.

Everyone has a childish period, but the child will grow up one day and become an ordinary adult who will never do anything wrong.Because we have a bottom line, a conscience, and awe, they prevent us from becoming bad people, so many people can only work hard to learn to be a good person.

But being a good person in this world is very tiring, and no one can always do good things without doing one bad thing (and the helplessness of the world is that the impact of one bad thing is enough to erase the credit of a hundred good things .)

So my dream in this life is to be an adult who is neither good nor bad.

Admitting that I am a mortal, admitting my despicableness, weakness, ignorance, selfishness, kitsch and all the unique weaknesses of human nature, this is what I am only now slowly trying to do.

A person's life is a process of reconciliation with himself.I wish I could have become a broad-minded adult sooner.