159. Last Punishment(1/2)
It was obviously just a suburban sentry tower, but the moment it collapsed, the entire examination room trembled.
The scene on the top of the mountain split in an instant, as if you could see the once familiar metal mesh and warehouse-shaped buildings through the dust. The top of the building was mottled white paint, painted with the words na7232.
That is the hidden control center.
Others didn't know it, and You Huo and Qin Jue could recognize it at a glance.
The splashing dust has a scorching temperature, and it can burn the skin when it passes through.
You Huo raised his hand to block it, and could feel the stinging pain through the tactical gloves, but his feet moved forward without hesitation.
Just as I was about to get closer, the scene in the main control center flashed a few times in the tremor, just like a video of the bad signal.
Immediately afterwards, the system's voice resounded throughout the examination room:
[Candidates deliberately damaged the core building of the examination room, which has caused serious violations. Given that there is no invigilance department for this examination, they should be punished on the spot according to the examination room rules.]
[Punishment time: three hours.]
【Time officially begins.】
As soon as the words were finished, the sound of "hissing" gasps kept ringing in the crowd.
You Huo felt a stinging pain in his left arm. He looked down and saw that there was a wound there, which was stacked on the old wound. The red blood flowed out and soon wet the cuffs that were rolled onto the elbow.
The injury was like before, as if it was cut out by splashed shrapnel.
He raised his eyes and saw that there was a hole in Qin Jue's arm. After looking around, everyone present had blood on their left arms.
Yu Wen grabbed his arm and jumped his feet beside him, and he screamed fiercely. Di Li wanted to be ashamed, grinned and said nothing.
Zhao Jiatong reacted the fastest and got into the car to get bandages for everyone. Gao Qi's face was similar to You Huo Qin Jue, and it was not very good...
It’s not because of the pain. They have seen all kinds of scenes, but few of them are afraid of the pain.
The reason why their faces look bad is because they can't find the source of the injury.
"Has something flew over just now?" Gao Qi tore off his sleeves and rubbed blood randomly.
021 was highly vigilant, and her beautiful dark eyes were extremely bright under the night. She glanced around and said, "No."
"I didn't see it either." 922 turned around and asked, "Boss, have you seen it?"
Qin Jue shook off his blood and shook his head: "There is nothing."
You Huo's eyebrows were frowning, and his face gradually became colder.
Without attacks, no stray bullets flying in, and without any signs, more than 700 people were injured at the same time. This is much more terrible than the visible or touching danger.
You Huo took the bandage handed by Zhao Jiatong and was about to wrap it up, but he saw that the wound slowly closed and the blood coagulated. In the blink of an eye, it became scarred and fell off again.
If the blood on the sleeve was still there and the pain had not subsided, he would have suspected that the wound just now was an hallucination.
There were another burst of exclamations in the crowd. Obviously, he was not the only one who healed the wound.
"What kind of punishment is this?" someone asked in a breath of breath.
This question was not answered because before everyone could think about it, new injuries appeared on their bodies.
This time it was on the neck side.
The neck is the most fragile and critical place. The timid candidates' face turned pale when they covered their necks.
Someone tried hard to hold the wound down, his face frightened, afraid that they would lie directly on the artery next time, and then they would really be buried here.
Fortunately, the injury did not last long, and disappeared again in a few seconds, leaving only the pain.
The arms hurt and the neck hurts too. Many candidates can’t care about their heads and tails, and they just don’t know where to cover them first.
In a short few minutes, small wounds continued to appear on their bodies, and they continued to heal. There were more and more uncomfortable places, and everyone's faces became worse and worse.
Soon after, a girl burst into screams.
At that moment, everyone felt a pain in their left chest, piercing their wrist bones. The sudden severe pain caught people off guard. They held their collars and bent down. Some even knelt down directly, their foreheads against the ground, and gasped in big breaths.
How to describe that pain...
It's like someone holding an invisible knife, the sharp blade breaks through the skin and nails it into the heart inch by inch.
Even You Huo took a step back, put his back on the trunk, lowered his head and closed his eyes.
He slowly opened his eyes for a while, and his vision became blurred due to the pain and it was difficult to focus. He could only see blood gushing out of his heart, melting on his shirt, covering half of his body in the blink of an eye.
This feeling is not unfamiliar to him. When he was trying to kill the duke in the castle, he did this - holding Qin Jue's hand and pressing the short knife into his chest.
He could even recall the feeling of his heart beating with a blade wrapped around it, exactly the same as it is now.
Those few minutes were like a century, and it was difficult to tell whether the blood was flowing because there was no blank space in the shirt.
It should have stopped, Youhuo thought.
Because new injuries are coming again.
Large wounds appeared on his arms, shoulders, and waist. They spread at a speed visible to the naked eye, deepening until the bones were exposed. They slowly closed back and all healed.
Then the eyes...
When the world fell into darkness in the sharp sting, the feeling of that moment still seemed familiar.
Then, long and short cuts appeared on his shoulder bone, spine, and arms. The most dangerous one passed through his thin jaw and fell along his neck to his collarbone.
Each opening was filled with a layer of frost, as if it was in an extremely cold environment.
This is the most painful injury and the cleanest. Because the blood has already solidified before it has flowed out.
...
You Huo suddenly understood what this punishment was.
Someone started crying, and he vaguely heard the crying. The wound appeared and disappeared, but the pain was always there, layer by layer, and finally someone couldn't hold on.
The moans and sobs spread like high tides.
Suddenly, it seemed that everyone was collapsing.
Cold sweat slid down from the temples. You Huo blinked his temporarily blind eyes and his pale lips pursed into a straight line.
He suddenly felt a little sorry...
At that moment, someone's finger touched his face, very light.
Then there are arms, shoulders...
Someone was groping in the dark, lowered his head in a hug manner, and asked him hoarsely: "Are you going back, the examiner?"
"Is this punishment a retrospective of the injuries you have suffered?"
You Huo's lips moved.
Qin Jue's fingers fell on his closed eyes, as light as if he didn't dare to touch them. His voice was hoarse, low and dry: "Have your eyes hurt so much..."
After a while, You Huo said hoarsely: "It's okay."
"And these frostbites." Qin Jue's fingers touched his chin, "When is this, why are there so many...and I don't know at all?"
The sense of blindness slowly faded, and Youhuo was adapting to the reappearing world.
He vaguely saw the light, a little bit small, like a star far away. When everything finally became clear, he realized that it was from Qin Jue's eyes.
After the pain, You Huo suddenly leaned over and kissed Qin Ju.
He made a little move and said, "I was injured a long time ago. Before you entered the system, I forgot the reason. I was not careful in training."
Qin Jue had the same injuries on his body, and Qin Jue also experienced the things he experienced.
When the wound appears on himself, he can turn a blind eye. But when it appears on the other person, it makes people feel extremely uncomfortable.
He wanted to end it all quickly.
You Huo rested on Qin Jue's shoulder for a while, then stood up again: "The punishment will last for three hours, but it's only half now."
He turned his head and looked around. Most people could no longer bear it. They knelt or curled up, and were almost in shock. Only the invigilators could still keep a little sober.
"If this continues, we have to go in." His eyes turned to the collapsed hood, and the images in the main control center were sometimes dissipated, and they became increasingly unstable.
Qin Jue pinched the bridge of his nose heavily, and the repeated injuries made both of them look tired.
He looked up at the top of the mountain and said, "Do you remember the scene of the mirror? 154 tried to transfer us to the additional examination room. This was the scene in the street. That time it was because of program interference and was not stable enough. This time it happened to be the opposite..."
He frowned, and another new injury appeared, and the pain became worse. He exhaled gently and continued: "The system is trying to stabilize this exam room and hide the main control center again."
The two tried to get closer to that place while talking.
The main control center is like bad contact, always flashing and appearing for only one second.
Qin Jue took out his cell phone and realized that 154 had been trying to contact them during that time.
Boss, 922 has not heard back yet. I tried to contact your phone. Can I receive it?
Boss, how are you doing?
Entering the main control center?
I'm trying to find a way to invade the exam room and give me some time.
To be continued...