On the Seven Towers

"Sister Luo Ling. What do you think of this trial?" Zhou He asked.

"I think those tin cans outside may not be part of the trial. Maybe they are just the guards of this underground palace. This passage seems to say that the starting point of the trial... is here." Luo Ling held her chin and looked up at the statue. This hall gave her a feeling that there seemed to be a kind of power contained in it, like an undiscovered treasure. Luo Ling didn't know where this feeling came from. Maybe it was just her intuition. Hey, people like to associate women with intuition. Maybe they just can't stand women showing off their logic, she thought.

"Are you saying there will be danger here too?" She looked around, fearing that some monster would suddenly jump out.

"Trials, after all, may not be about fighting and killing. Have you heard of the ultimate trial?" Xiao Chen interrupted. He watched Zhou He startled with interest. That kind of timidity mixed with innocence can arouse a man's desire to protect.

"What is that? It sounds scary." Zhou He looked at Xiao Chen, who looked stern, and took a step back in panic.

Xiao Chen nodded heavily, "It's really scary. After more than ten years of hard training, only for three days of trials, only a few people can step on others to gain real victory, and the losers will regret it for most of their lives. It has a more terrifying name..."

"Huh?!" Zhou He covered his mouth.

"College Entrance Examination!"

"Xiao Chen!" Zhou He said angrily, "Can you be more serious!"

"Okay, okay, just a joke..." Xiao Chen made a gesture of surrender with both hands, "I'll give you an example to give you some confidence. We have passed such a difficult thing as the college entrance examination. What kind of test can we not handle?"

Zhou He's expression suddenly became a little depressed, fiddling with the corner of his clothes, and lowered his head and said, "I don't have such a blessing. I came out to work after graduating from junior high school, and I didn't pass the college entrance examination. I worked in the school printing shop for a year and didn't dare to enter a classroom."

"You..." Xiao Chen choked, "Don't be so sensitive, you know I don't mean that."

"I know you all Awesome, you guys are the ones who come up with ideas, make decisions, can bandage wounds and know Spanish. And I am just a girl who is timid and knows very little. Compared to you guys, I am nothing and useless. I know you look down on me. If I were still in the printing shop, you wouldn't even look at me except for 'printing this' and 'copying that'. But, but I am really trying to find a way out now. You... you can't joke like this! "

As she spoke, Zhou He's tears flowed. She lowered her head and wiped them with her sleeves, but she couldn't stop them. In the end, her nose was full of snot, so she just burst into tears.

Luo Ling knew that this was a kind of catharsis that Zhou He burst into after a long period of fear and tension. So she didn't say anything, just hugged her and stroked her back.

Zhou He cried for a while, sobbing and mumbling about going home.

Xiao Chen touched his nose awkwardly, leaned close to Zhou He's eyes, and whispered: "Xiao Zhou He, I'll tell you a secret, no boys really look at you straight in the eye."

"You..." Zhou He looked at Xiao Chen with her big red eyes in surprise when she heard this. She didn't seem to understand why Xiao Chen was "bullying" her like this. After a long pause, she pursed her lips, took a deep breath, and looked like she was about to turn on the faucet again.

"That's because they are all shy in front of you who are pure and lovely. Those cowards secretly looked at you hundreds of times and called you "Wenyin Xishi"."

"You, you are making fun of me again, bad guy!" Zhou He couldn't help laughing and slapped Xiao Chen on the shoulder with hatred.

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The three of them sat on the ground and ate something to replenish their energy. Xiao Chen didn't want to upset Zhou He anymore, so he analyzed it carefully. "We checked the whole hall carefully and didn't find any secret doors or mechanisms. This might just be a place like an ancestral hall. After the ancients worshipped their ancestors here, they went out to do some trials. If that's the case, then there's only one way out for us." Xiao Chen pointed to the crack at the entrance.

"What can we do? We can't beat them! Can we just wait for someone to save us?" Zhou He's eyes were swollen. She rubbed her eyes with her hands while asking.

"We don't even know where we are, so let's not talk about rescue." Luo Ling leaned next to Zhou He, "I saw that the armored warrior was stuck there hitting the wall for half an hour, and no other companions came to help it. This at least shows that these tin cans are not very smart. Maybe we can use this crack to defeat them one by one."

"You mean, get stuck and kill one?" Xiao Chen recalled the fight with the armored warrior just now, and he was a little hesitant. He was not a combat expert or a fighting master. He escaped from those armored warriors twice by luck. Luck played a big role. He was still a little scared when he took the initiative to fight these guys.

Luo Ling saw his stiff expression and smiled: "You are stupid, I don't want you to fight desperately. They are all stuck and can't move. Can't we think of a way?"

Yes, Xiao Chen slapped his head, as long as the weapon is longer, he can slowly toss them.

"So, the first thing is to get that." Luo Ling pointed, and Zhou He looked in the direction of her hand. It was the axe in the hand of the warrior statue. "With it, it will be much easier to deal with the tin can."

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"Grab its arm, raise your feet a little higher, yes, step on its thigh." As expected, Zhou He regained his energy quickly and directed Xiao Chen to climb up the statue. The base is three meters high. The statue was not easy to climb, so Xiao Chen spent a lot of effort to reach the axe.

He touched the ax handle and found that the material of the ax was not like steel, and it felt very warm to the hand. Pulling out the ax from the stone statue's hand, I felt that the ax was heavier than the iron ax. It feels very powerful in the hand.

"Be careful, it's quite heavy." Xiao Chen carefully handed the ax to Luo Ling who was waiting below. Unexpectedly, Zhou He ran over excitedly and took the ax in one hand. "It's nothing special. It's just heavier than the ax used to chop firewood back home."

"You are quite strong. You can hold this axe." Xiao Chen climbed down from the statue in two or three times.

"Please! I have to do farm work in my hometown. I'm not like you city girls who are so delicate and out of breath after walking a few steps." Zhou He saw Luo Ling smiling and said embarrassedly: "Sister Luo Ling, I didn't say You. You are so calm, so smart, and not afraid of anything. In my eyes, you are much stronger than many men."

Xiao Chen couldn't help laughing when he saw the corners of Luo Ling's mouth twitching obviously.

Zhou He realized that he had said the wrong thing again. He bumped the ax in his hand nonchalantly, walked to the open space in front of the stone statue, and made a motion of chopping firewood. "But, this ax really works well. It's A good axe.”

Some people say that labor is beautiful, and Xiao Chen now agrees with this statement. The ax drew an arc, and in the hands of the petite but well-proportioned Zhou He, there was a strange sense of harmony. This feeling even made him feel that although the body shape was not proportional, the ax belonged to Zhou He.

Putting this strange thought out of his mind, Xiao Chen stretched out his hand and said, "Okay, let's find a stick and tie it to the handle, and it will become a halberd, which can be used to deal with those iron cans."

But Zhou He did not respond. Instead, he stared at the stone statue behind him with wide eyes, as if he had seen a ghost. Xiao Chen quickly looked back...

He saw the stone statue's eyes glowing white. The white light seemed to flow in the eye sockets, as if the stone statue was scanning the people in front of it.

"There is danger, everyone hide quickly." Xiao Chen shouted.

But as soon as he finished speaking, the white light turned into a burst of beam. The beam did not hit Xiao and Luo who were standing at the feet of the statue, but it hit Zhou He who was holding the axe.

"Ah~" Zhou He shouted in panic, and the ax fell to the ground. She ran like crazy, trying to avoid the light, but the light was like a physical chain, twisting and wrapping tightly around her body. Zhou He didn't run a few steps before he was pulled back by the white light and gradually floated into the air.

The white light became more and more abundant on Zhou He's body, and finally turned into a cocoon of light. On the ground below the light cocoon, white runes slowly emerged one after another. Hundreds of densely packed runes interspersed with each other to form a circular formation full of patterns.

Suddenly, a violent air current burst out from the light cocoon, stirring up strong winds in the room, causing sand and rocks to fly everywhere for a while. Xiao Chen suddenly woke up and reached out to save Zhou He, but was blown away by the wind and couldn't get close at all. Zhou He seemed to be in great pain, struggling and screaming fiercely.

Xiao Chen had never encountered such wind in his life, and he was almost pushed to the ground by the strong wind. Luo Ling grabbed him and jumped to the side, hiding behind the pillars.

The two squatted on the ground, both seeing the fear and horror in each other's eyes.

Xiao Chen stuck his head out against the wind and saw white light swaying like flames, while Zhou He shouted at the top of his lungs, as if he was being burned.

"Go and save her!" Xiao Chen shouted in Luo Ling's ear amidst the howling wind. Luo Ling shook her head, not knowing whether she couldn't hear the sound or didn't agree with what he did. "Go! Go! Save! Her!" Xiao Chen repeated it in the loudest voice, gritted his teeth and rushed out.

The strong wind beat him, and he first walked, then squatted, and finally could only crawl from the ground towards Zhou He. Luo Ling also rushed out, held his feet, and said something anxiously and loudly. But Xiao Chen couldn't hear it. He broke away from Luo Ling's hand and continued to move forward. Every time he moved forward, he felt the strong wind getting stronger; every time he got closer, he felt the white light becoming hotter, and he felt like he was about to dive into a wall of white fire.

However, what if it is burned or roasted? It must be a hundred times more painful for Zhou He to be in the center of the white light. Xiao Chen didn't know why he suddenly had the urge to move forward. He must move forward and never retreat.

Finally, when he was about to run out of strength and was about to be blown away by the air wave, he grabbed Zhou He's ankle.