13 Mink Street

"Hoo... ph... ph..."

The sound of heavy breathing is heard, like the huge nose of the phantom beast Compasini is in front of you, behind you, on top of your head, in the darkness, it exists invisible, but it is very careful looking at you carefully.

It brings a kind of strong anxiety that makes people tremble, as if there is a cliff half a step away, and if you fall, you will directly fall into the bloody mouth of the phantom beast.

Karen folded her arms and waited quietly.

Richard sat on the ground, his body began to tremble slightly, but looking at Karen, he immediately settled down.

In fact, if Richard was allowed to participate in this selection alone, he would be much calmer than now, because at that time he knew that he could only rely on himself. Now, with Karen as his support, he is prone to mood swings, because he With this part of the surplus.

"Roar!"

At this time,

A long howl suddenly came out, and the human soul was like a small boat that could capsize at any time amidst the sound waves.

A black light appeared around Karen, including Richard, isolating the influence of this sound.

The sound gradually disappeared.

Richard raised his head and touched the tip of his nose.

It's raining?

No,

It seems to be snowing.

Karen also noticed that the surrounding temperature seemed to have changed.

In the illusion, do you change the temperature?

This can be done, but the effect is not great, because everyone who participated in the selection has a basic and excellent quality. They know that everything in the illusion is fake, and they understand that it is impossible for them to freeze to death , and will not be heated to death.

If it's just pure cold and hot torture, most people with a strong will can bear it.

Will it be that simple?

...

On the top of the Eudemons Compasini sculpture, the Bishop of Bern glanced down at the 198 candidates who stood in the circle of light.

The gaze of the sculpture under his feet shot into the air, and then turned into a light curtain, shining on the audience.

The stone box next to it has been fully opened, and several spiritual artifacts inside have begun to circle the examination room, blessing the formation.

On the periphery, a group of priests of the formation department transferred from other regions were maintaining the formation, and there were even 80 invigilators scanning the audience non-stop, staring at all the movements here.

The Bishop of Burne sat down,

Opened the mouth and said:

"Selection..."

...

Black, constantly fading away.

Everyone in the examination room can be "seen", and everyone appears in their own position according to the original position arrangement.

This scene made Richard extremely embarrassed, because he sat in front of Karen, a bit like himself ready to do bad things after the light went out, and suddenly the light was turned on again.

But soon, Richard didn't have to worry. With a gust of wind and snow blowing by, many people screamed, then fell, rolled, and moved. The formation of the examination room was instantly broken up.

Richard relaxed.

Then, he was rolled backwards by the wind and snow, but Karen reached out and grabbed him.

With this force, Richard stabilized his figure again. He wanted to stand up like Karen, but found that he couldn't do it at all. The higher the height, the stronger the wind, and he could only land on all fours. lie down.

However, looking around, Richard found that there are less than 30 people who can maintain a standing posture, which means that most of them can only lie on their stomachs like himself. With enough back support, Richard can feel at ease. up.

In front of them, a towering snow-capped mountain appeared, and everyone present was actually on the way up the mountain.

The scene here gave Karen an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if he had seen and experienced it somewhere.

At this moment, Bishop Berne's voice sounded: "The selection rules, within the specified time, the top five people who climbed the highest on the mountain road will be recommended by this region."

Then, there is no more.

A very brief description of the rules, because of the selection method, it is extremely simple.

I don’t know how much time is required, because you just need to go up or climb at all costs to keep yourself in the fifth place, or if you don’t choose to give up and continue to climb when others can’t persist, It is also possible to surpass them and enter the fifth place.

Karen immediately analyzed the profound meaning behind the simple rules, because he also discovered that there are only nearly thirty people who can maintain a standing posture now, including himself.

This means that the soul power of these thirty people is relatively strong, and they can resist the pressure of the wind and snow on their souls.

However, some people's soul power is unable or temporarily unable to reach this strength due to various reasons of innate and acquired, and it is not that they have no chance of winning.

As long as you can persevere, keep climbing, keep climbing, even if it is a little slower, when the person in front can no longer persist and you climb past his highest coordinate, you can replace him.

Within the specified time, this time can be freely defined.

Everyone started to march.

Someone is walking, someone is crawling.

Someone was walking, but slowly began to crawl.

Because crawling is much less resistant than walking, it saves more effort.

Karen was still walking, Richard followed Karen, Karen helped him out of the wind, and then crawled.

The girl on the left, Ashley, was walking while frowning, and then she began to bend over.

The young man on the right, who was born in the knight order, straightened his back and moved forward firmly. But this time, he paid more attention to Karen beside him. It seemed that until now, Karen was worthy of his attention. .

Some people's pride is engraved in their bones, while others' pride is painted on their faces. This one obviously belongs to the latter.

Behind him, the boy playing with stones keeps throwing stones forward, then walks over to pick them up, throws them forward again, walks over to pick them up again, his movements are very coherent, as if the stones he keeps throwing out are not stones at all. It's the ropes one by one, and he is borrowing strength.

On the right, the dozing girl is already lying down, she is probably crawling...

Because she closed her eyes, she seemed to be still sleeping, but her neck and buttocks kept moving up and down, like a maggot that insisted on marching in sleep.

"Rock paper scissors!"

"Haha, you lost, you do this part, and I will do the next part."

"Okay, okay, I'm willing to bet and admit defeat."

The one directly behind is also walking forward.

In front, Leon and Laurel are also continuing to walk forward. They have a burden of image, and the people in that circle quickly gather together, and the two sides are divided into two rows, one in front and one behind , and then shifts.

This "teamwork" approach can indeed save effort, but Karen believes that this test will not be so simple that people can take advantage of it.

After all, the purpose of the selection is to select 5 places, not to select a 5-member team.

Sure enough, when everyone marched to the snowy place, the temperature dropped suddenly.

This is no longer low temperature in the traditional sense, but an attack aimed at the soul. Compared with this biting cold, this bit of wind seems to be nothing.

Leon, Laurey and others no longer continue to work as a team, because everyone's speed has become different. What everyone exists and can see each other is the soul body. The responses given were different.

"ah……"

With the sound of screams, dozens of people disappeared directly. They didn't die, they just quit the test. Of course, they might be injured.

Ashley on the left side of Karen curled up, trembling constantly, she was still bending forward, turned her head and glanced at Karen, and most importantly, Richard, who had been crawling behind Karen, licked his tongue , some just around the corner.

The youth of the Knights on the right still had a stern face, walking steadily with every step.

"Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo..."

Behind him, the sleepy girl who was walking forward like a maggot began to show pain on her face. Even though she was still sleeping, she should already be having a nightmare.

The stone-throwing boy was still continuing the previous frequency, and his stones began to emit weak heat gradually.

This stone should not be a sacred object, but like some kind of accompanying creature. Upon closer inspection, Karen found that every time the boy picked up and threw stones, the stones he picked up would melt into his palm, and the stones he threw would regenerate. .

What kind of way is this?

Karen really couldn't figure it out.

As for the one behind him, he had already started to fall behind, because he and himself started to quarrel, and as the temperature dropped, his soul began to suffer, and he began to deny the outcome of rock-paper-scissors.

Karen paid attention to Richard, and found that although the little cousin was shaking, the frequency of crawling had been stable, and he could still persist.

At this time, among the people in front, people began to disappear continuously, as if they continued to move forward and backward, and entered a new stage.

As they walked, Leon and Laurel wailed. The originally scattered team collapsed completely at this time. Two people disappeared and chose to quit the test.

Leon covered his hands, and Laurel covered his face, moaning in pain as they moved on.

"ah!"

On the left, Ashley looked at the back of her hand, which had been frostbitten, not because of frostbite, but her body... no, it was her soul that was "brittle" from the cold.

This feeling is like turning your soul from its initial state into an ice cube. This is a kind of torture, which is unbearable.

Karen reached out and touched his neck, and found that ice cubes appeared on his neck, but he didn't feel a lot of pain, just a little feeling.

When the nails at the fingertips turned into ice crystals, Karen smiled instead.

No wonder it's so familiar,

No wonder it seems familiar,

here,

he was sure,

Isn't this another divine revelation that I experienced after denying the revelation given to me by the God of Order during my divine revelation!

Ice and snow, mountains and rivers, walking alone, it was a desperate expedition, but in the end, I gritted my teeth and persisted until the end, fulfilling my divine revelation to myself.

This scene turned out to be one of the formations? Is it still used as an examination question for test selection?

So, what should this scene be called in the Cult of Order?

It's like some ferocious beasts were suppressed and gradually integrated into a spell or summoning object within the Cult of Kosmos. Karen didn't think it was very strange that this situation appeared here.

But its actual meaning could not be revelation, lying and rebellion, it was probably as a kind of internal church punishment.

Perhaps, after being passed down for a long time, the specific formation of this formation is untestable, but it is indeed terrifying.

Karen continued to walk forward, but in order to wait for Leon and Laurey in front of him, he had to slow down a bit.

The pain is really painful, but for those who have experienced it once, the sense of effect has been reduced too much.

Because the greatest pain comes from the boundless despair ahead, it is relatively better here, because there is a snow mountain in front of you, although it is so high that you feel that you cannot climb it, it is better than what Karen experienced last There is no hope at all, it is too much to be kind.

Therefore, the freezing at this time is nothing to Karen.

On the right, ice crystals appeared on the face of the knight youth, but he was still advancing steadily.

There was nothing wrong with the face of the boy who threw the stone, but the stone he threw turned into ice.

The sleepy girl was crying and screaming with her eyes closed. It seemed that she would wake up soon, but if she could fall asleep at this time, it seemed to be an excellent way to "deceive herself and others".

That "captain's relative" was already far behind, and because of the wind and snow, he couldn't see clearly.

Also because of the wind and snow, what Karen can observe now is limited to his surroundings.

One last glance at Richard, who was panting and crawling, seemingly looking at nothing but his boots.

Karen stopped, bent down, reached out to support Richard, and gave him his right arm so that he could hold his arm and move forward. Richard did not resist, and put his face completely on Karen's arm, as if Only in this way can he gain the sense of security he needs now.

Although the wind will be strong when standing up, compared with the freezing of the soul, the initial wind can be called gentle.

The reason why Karen helped Richard up now was not because he didn't want to give him a chance to sharpen himself independently, but because he was very worried that after the freezing degree further deepened, Richard would lose his strength, relax his soul, and be directly blown by the wind. Let's go, at that time, I may not even have the chance to react and catch him, so I might as well grab him now.

When Ashley saw this scene, the envy in her eyes almost dripped out, and she didn't hide her envy at all. If her eyes could be real, she would now be treating "envy" as a bed sheet, and asking Kara over and over again. Lun flicked his face.

But Karen chose to turn a blind eye.

I should drag my own cousin, who are you?

The youth of the Knights next to him saw that Karen was still dragging a person, and his eyes showed anger!

Of course, he wasn't accusing Karen of helping to "cheat", but was angry that he was walking alone, and Karen was dragging a burden. He was compared in difficulty, and he was uncomfortable!

Karen sensed the angry gaze from the right side. As a psychiatrist, he could of course guess what the proud young man on the right was thinking. Ashley on the left went to the right to hug the young knight.

Freeze, start to intensify further!

It is no longer ice crystals in some corners of the body, but a large area of ​​the torso is frozen. More and more people choose to quit. This kind of pain is not something ordinary people can bear.

Leon glanced back, then moved on, his pride not allowing him to back out now.

Laurey staggered and kept going.

Gradually,

The degree is further deepened.

When frozen to the extreme, the ice...like a flame, begins to "burn" your body.

Many people's bodies have begun to dissipate, some have dissipated from the elbows, some have dissipated from the forehead of the face, and some have dissipated from the calves.

But in fact, as long as you are willing to keep going up, even if you lose your legs, you can still keep moving forward, because what is here is the soul, and there is no substantial body.

Finally, Ashley couldn't take it anymore, she approached Karen as she walked, and said:

"I also want……"

Karen pretended not to hear.

Ashley yelled again: "I want to..."

Karen continued to ignore.

This girl is indeed innocent and cheerful, but she is also a little too familiar.

Richard was already crying, if Karen hadn't pulled him, he felt like he would have given up a long time ago, he was in so much pain, and he was so desperate.

Crying is not considered a shame, because more than half of the rest of the people on the field are crying.

At this time, a new stage of freezing appeared, and after crossing that line, one after another figure disappeared, and finally couldn't hold on and wanted to give up.

After crossing this line, Karen still persisted. Karen took a rough look, and he could see only a dozen people, and counting the periphery, there should be more than ten people. Therefore, they are still persisting on the field. It is estimated that there are less than thirty people.

These thirty people have entered the real knockout stage.

"Ahhh!"

Finally, Laurel couldn't hold on anymore, and knelt down on the ground, crying while dissipating.

Leon glanced at the place where Laurel disappeared, and continued walking like a walking dead.

Yes, everyone present, including Karen, everyone is now a walking dead.

Karen's mental outlook is fine, but his body is no less "frozen" and "burned" than others. The situation is the same, but what is really different is the inner and mentality.

At this time, a small stream appeared next to it, with flowing water, and small boats, with hot coffee and broth placed on the small boats.

No one cared whether it was logical for this scene to appear here. When it appeared, there were seven or eight figures who couldn't resist the temptation one after another, walked into the stream and disappeared.

There were less than twenty people left on the field.

And at this time, whether it is wind, frost or freezing, it doubles instantly!

In an instant, many people chose to quit again, and their psychological defense was overwhelmed by this sudden doubling.

On the field, there should be only ten people left, because the decline in wind, frost and frost has been temporarily balanced.

Karen already has experience. Every exaggerated drop is to reduce the number of people on the field. He is the referee and controls the game.

Ten to five, the final!

When the knight youth on the right looked at Karen again, the anger and pride in his eyes had disappeared, revealing a kind of pure admiration, because soldiers admire the strong!

"Kar...Karen...put...put me down...you...you come on..."

Richard knew that at the final stage, he was eager to be included in the list, but he was more afraid that Karen would not be able to enter because of himself.

The temptation to enter the list and the guilt of causing Karen to fail in the final stage made him choose the latter.

Because the facts proved that Karen really dragged him to this point. Karen would definitely be included in the list, if there is no such burden as himself!

Karen knew that Richard was not acting in a bitter scene, because in this extreme state where everyone is neither human nor ghost, if Richard still has the energy to act, then he can stand up and walk in. .

In fact, most of the people present were numb at this moment, so what Richard said was his purest heartfelt voice.

People, that’s how it is, whether it’s a relative or a friend, if the other party deliberately wants to take advantage of you, it’s hard for you to let him take advantage of 1 real. Even if you spend 1,000 reals for him, you are willing to do so.

Karen's arm has dissipated, but he still "drags" Richard, so that his soul can continue to maintain a forward posture.

"Go on, we're almost there."

"I can't... drag...you..."

"Hold on a little longer, soon."

"Let go... of me... After all... I... am... cheating..."

"we are brothers."

If you're cheating, then am I stealing the question?

At this time, the person in front of Leon couldn't hold on any longer, he turned around suddenly, and rushed towards Leon with his broken body, knocking him down.

Leon, who was hanging on with his last breath, was directly discouraged by the impact, and his figure disappeared directly.

This is for the sake of the number of people. Of course, the rules do not say that this cannot be done, but the price of doing so may be a bit high. Not only is it easy for others to take precautions, but more importantly, it is easy to offend others.

10-9!

The man who eliminated Leon looked up and stared at Karen.

After seeing this scene,

Ashley, who had lost most of her face on the left, turned her head to look at Karen.

The knight youth on the right also turned to look at Karen.

The stone-playing boy behind him also set his eyes on Karen.

The sleepy girl who had woken up with tears on her face also stared at Karen.

Because Karen still has one person with him, as long as Karen falls, there will be two fewer competitors in an instant, 9-7!

But then,

Including the person who knocked Leon over and other people around Karen, all looked away from Karen.

They knew how hard and difficult it was to get here, and Karen was even able to carry a bottle of oil.

so,

this person,

Can't afford it!