Dream Maker [Rebirth]

Lu Ci nodded calmly - anyway, he really "doesn't remember", otherwise he would pretend to lose his memory once and for all.

Unexpectedly, when the young man saw him nodding, he suddenly curled up his mouth and smiled triumphantly: "What did I say, how could it be possible to be so alive and kicking after the second trial? It didn't get any better after a long time, and I lost my memory, huh?"

Lu Ci didn't care about his cynicism, and asked under the excuse of amnesia: "So do you know who I am?"

The boy frowned: "You even forgot this?"

Lu Ci acquiesced, the young man laughed and shook his head and said: "Tsk tsk tsk, what a tragedy. What is your name, I have only heard the jailer call it twice, and it sounds like Song Zhong?"

"To the end?" Lu Ci almost thought that there was something wrong with his ears.

"Isn't that so?" the boy raised his eyebrows mockingly, "Your parents are really ingenious with such an unlucky name."

Lu Ci gave a dry "hehe" laugh twice, and asked again: "Then do you know what crime I committed?"

"That's interesting," the young man looked at him like an idiot. "You can't get something out of your mouth even in the second trial. You ask me? I still want to ask you!"

Lu Ci was a little disappointed, but hearing the boy repeatedly mention the word "Second Trial", he couldn't help being curious: "What do you mean by 'Second Trial'? Also, what is this place?"

The young man Piaopiao glanced at him, although he still looked superior, he didn't hide his secrets, and reluctantly told him what he knew.

To the south of the human continent, there is a sinister sea area called "Boundless Sea of ​​Suffering", on which there is a black rock island called "Xuanjingtai", and the prison they are in now was excavated from the black rock mountain on this island Cheng, known as "hanging mirror bitter prison" - that's why Luci always felt that he was in a cave when he woke up and looked around, because these cells were indeed caves.

Since the completion of Xuanjing Terrace, many serious criminals in the world have been imprisoned. Anyone suspected of murder will be escorted here, and most of their final endings are either dead or crazy.

As for why death or madness is the reason, there are three "death trials" in prison, and the "second trial" mentioned repeatedly by the young man just now is one of them.

The first part of the sentencing trial is "interrogation", which is mainly based on cross-examination. It can be regarded as an appetizer. However, most of the prisoners here are bad-tempered, arrogant and unruly, and interrogation is like a child's play for them, so they usually can't ask questions. Why come.

However, as the saying goes, "the courteous first, then the military", this interrogation is just "ritual", and the "soldier" that follows is the second trial of life - criminal trial.

As the name suggests, the criminal trial is to replace verbal interrogation with instruments of torture.

According to the former prisoners who were interrogated, those instruments of torture are so terrible that you can’t imagine without them, so most of the prisoners confessed during the second trial, and there are very few who can survive the entire set of instruments of torture and refuse to admit to death—the original owner of this body, Song Clock is one of them.

According to the young man, when Song Zhong was dragged back, he was covered in blood and lost his vitality. No one believed that he could still live—of course, he was indeed dead.

As for the final third trial, no one knows what it is so far, because none of the people who were taken to the third trial came back alive consciously—for example, poisonous spiders, although they survived, they have died. It's crazy, demented, and hard to communicate.

Those who failed to return were all dead, and those who came back alive were all mad. This made it impossible for those who had not yet experienced the third trial to find out what kind of trial the final trial was.

Lu Ci was originally listening to the young man's narration while gnawing on the steamed buns, but after listening to it now, he swallowed the last bite of the steamed buns, quickly sorting out what the young man said in his mind, and couldn't help being a little confused.

Although he had been living in the teacher's school in his previous life and had never really set foot on the human continent, the news network established by the brothers and sisters of his teacher's school covered all parts of the world, and from the countless messages they sent back in the past, there was no one There have been any words related to "Xuanjing Terrace" or "Xuanjing Torture Prison".

Why is this?

Is it because the prison is not famous enough?Or is it because it has just been born?

Thinking of this, Lu Ci hurriedly asked when the Hanging Mirror Prison was built and how long it had been in use, and he was stunned when he asked—this prison was built in the year of his death, but it has been in use until now. It's been ten years!

This means...he has been dead for ten years? !

Lu Ci was horrified, but he also knew that this was not the time to delve into this, so he calmed down and said: "You said you once persuaded me, what did you persuade me?"

The boy raised his eyebrows: "I advise you to confess to save your life."

Lu Ci was a little dazed, unable to understand the meaning of this exhortation for a while.

If the crime is not serious, it is feasible to confess to death in order to avoid punishment, but according to what he said, all the people involved in the murder case are imprisoned in the Xuanjingtai. The so-called murder pays for life, how can confession save life?Is it just to delay time?

Thinking about it, he looked at the boy's unscathed appearance: "Did you recruit?"

The young man leaned against the prison door and put his hands on the pillow, and said triumphantly: "I recruited on the first day I came here, and the first trial was useless."

Lu Ci asked, "What crime did you commit?"

The boy said disapprovingly, "Killed a scum."

Lu Ci didn't delve into whether the "scum" he was talking about was good or bad, he just asked suspiciously: "It is stipulated by the law to kill people and pay for their lives. Isn't it the same as death if they are recruited?"

"That's not necessarily the case," the young man said with a sly smile, "If you were in an ordinary prison, once the charge was confirmed, there would be no way out, but in this hanging mirror stand, as long as you don't lose your life in the three trials, you will still have a chance. Vitality. Or—more than just vitality."

Xuanjingtai is different from ordinary private prisons. Prisoners will not be executed separately after conviction, but will be executed collectively every three years.

Although it is an execution, its form is more like a trial. The process is extremely dangerous, but as long as you survive until the end, you can get a chance to "be a new man".

For the prisoners, this is equivalent to competing for a pardon through competition, so this execution is also called the "pardon expelling ceremony".

The young man said these things clearly and logically, which made Lu Ci a little puzzled: "Why do you know so clearly? Have you experienced it yourself?"

"That's not true," the young man said lazily, "but I know a person who won the amnesty ceremony, and now the situation is more than just 're-becoming a man'? That's simply glorious——"

As he said that, the boy's eyes showed a bit of envy, as if he was full of yearning for the life of the person he was talking about.

Just as Lu Ci was about to continue speaking, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from the end of the corridor, the young man immediately turned his head alertly, Lu Ci also stuck the prison door and looked in that direction.

The corridor was long and dark, and the sound of footsteps echoed in it, approaching step by step, and within a short while, two jailers in armor and holding the handle of a knife appeared in their field of vision.

The young man looked at it and said with a smile: "Tsk, your third trial is here."

Sure enough, the two guards walked to Luci Prison in the blink of an eye, stopped and unlocked and pulled off the chains, they didn't come in to grab anyone, they just stood outside the door and called coldly: "Come out."

Although Lu Ci still doesn't know what crime the original owner of this body has committed, but now he can only take one step at a time, so without any delay, he stands up and walks out of the prison door, walking back and forth with the jailer.

When passing by the next door, he turned his head and glanced at the young man, only to see that the young man was also looking at him with a smile that was not a smile, and lazily reminded: "Remember what I said, if you keep the green hills, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood."

Lu Ci withdrew his gaze, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart: I really want to recruit, but until now I don't even know what the original owner has done, so what should I use to recruit?

After following the jailer for a while, Lu Ci gradually realized that this corridor was not straight, but shaped like an arc, and it seemed to be extremely long. After walking for a long time, there was still no end, which made people even doubt that if they continued walking like this, they would return to the original point sooner or later.

The dull rubbing sound of the chains on his feet was gradually replaced by the frantic sound of the wind, and the cold wind blowing into his face made Lu Ci shiver uncontrollably, knowing that the exit had finally arrived.

The exit of the corridor was arched, and it really looked like the entrance of a cave. It was late at night, and it was pitch black in the distance outside, only the flames flickered on both sides nearby.

Lu Ci followed the jailer and took a moment to adjust to the darkness around him. Then, when he looked around, he was shocked.

——The place they are standing at the moment is halfway up a huge black rock mountain. This rock mountain is in the shape of a platform, divided into dozens of layers from bottom to top, like terraced fields, and like an extremely huge black snail.

A wide black stone step leads straight from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. On both sides of the stone step, there are two arched openings every ten or so steps. They are symmetrical about the axis of the stone step. The exit behind Lu Ci is one of them.

Lu Ci looked at the entrance of the opposite cave, and after a little sketching in his mind, he understood why the corridor he had just walked was an arc instead of a straight line-this corridor was dug from the side of the stone steps around the rock mountain, as if a The root of the reed stem bent into a ring is embedded in the rock, and there are entrances and exits at both ends.

At this moment, the two jailers had already climbed a few steps of the stairs. When they turned around and saw that Lu Ci was still standing at the entrance of the cave, they immediately scolded and urged him twice.

Lu Ci came back to his senses and stepped forward to keep up, taking a closer look at the openings of each floor as he passed by.

There is almost no difference between these caves. There is a tall brazier on the left and right. Next to the brazier are guards standing with swords.

Lu Ci couldn't remember how many prison cells he passed in the corridor just now, but he can estimate that there are dozens if not hundreds. According to this calculation, if every floor of this rocky mountain is the same as the one he is on, then the prison cell The total should be in the thousands.

Walking all the way to the top of the rocky mountain, what appeared in front of me was a large platform. There were also guards on the platform, standing in a circle around the top of the platform, facing all directions.

This place is already the highest point of the entire isolated island, and as far as the eye can see, there are dark clouds overwhelming the top, and the surrounding is the vast and boundless deep sea.

The boundless sea of ​​suffering is well-deserved.

This place seems to be a forgotten sea in the gap between heaven and earth, dark and dangerous, isolated and helpless.

The two jailers had reached the middle of the platform at this time, and when they turned their heads and saw Lu Ci was in a daze again, they couldn't help but looked at each other, with some confusion in their eyes.

As the saying goes, once you are born, you are familiar again. From their point of view, the prisoner in front of him has already been interrogated twice, but now he stops and waits frequently, acting like a newcomer, as if he is delaying time.

Thinking of this, one of them urged impatiently: "Song Zhong!"

After hearing the sound, Lu Ci came back to his senses, only to find that there was a square building like a gazebo in the middle of the platform. The only difference from the gazebo was that it had a flat roof instead of an umbrella roof.

The two jailers were already standing in the pavilion at this moment, giving up the middle position to signal him to go over.

Lu Ci couldn't help wondering: Is this place the interrogation place?What about the presiding judge?Could it be these two jailers?

Even though he was thinking this way, he didn't delay any longer, dragging his ankle chain and walking quickly between the two people in the pavilion.

As soon as he stood still, the jailer on the left immediately raised his hand and tapped lightly three times on the side pillar.

Lu Ci didn't understand what the intention was, when he suddenly felt a vibration under his feet, and then the whole pavilion trembled a few times, and suddenly sank down!