If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

She had no choice but to join them.

Under everyone's forced and resentful eyes, she slowly stood up, walked to the man and sat down. She loaded a bullet into the revolver, pressed it into the cylinder and then rotated it. Finally, she put it on the ground and was picked up by the Indian man. From the beginning, the Indian man was behind her, and the gun in her hand was handed over by the man after loading the bullets - she would point the gun at this man.

"After the hammer is pulled down uniformly, the countdown is three seconds and the gun will be fired. If no one dies but does not fire a gun, it will be counted as a referendum. If someone dies but no shot is fired, the next time there is no need for a game, the person will be voted out directly. Everyone must pull the trigger. , someone must die. It doesn’t matter if there are more than one death, but it is better. Every time we throw out a person, we will have one more month." The man took the pistol handed over by the trembling Indian man, and at the same time He explained the rules to Su Xiaoqiang in a low voice. The rules were not complicated but filled with the aura of death.

"Is this how you beat your girlfriend to death?" Su Xiaoqiang suddenly said softly as he raised his pistol.

"."

There was no answer, but the deathly silence and the trembling back like a lightning strike had proved that his heart collapsed and was shaken after the past was revealed. He never mentioned this incident and the current situation, but Su Xiaoqiang was sitting here. For a moment, I guessed what had happened.

"Why don't you take her away?" Su Xiaoqiang asked.

".Didn't you expect that there were bullets in the gun at that time?"

"How could I possibly know that there are bullets in the gun? If I had known, I wouldn't have fired! I would rather that the shot killed me." The man's voice was so hoarse that it was almost impossible to utter it, she said. I couldn't see his eyes, but I could imagine that they were all bloodshot - hysterical memories came flooding back.

"There may be hope for escaping, instead of participating in this kind of game, even if you have a narrow escape." Su Xiaoqiang whispered, "I have no qualifications and no moral high ground to condemn you. I am just expressing my opinion. She asked you to sit down Being behind her means trusting you, right? I believe you can take her out of here, believing without reason, after all, girls in love are like fools, thinking that he is everything to them, and he can protect themselves until the last second. "

"Stop talking," the man said.

"This world is terrible, why should we let it continue to be terrible?" She sighed quietly.

"." The man breathed violently, and the ups and downs of his chest made people worry that his ribs would pierce the skin. His emotions reached their peak in an instant, and what came out of the bottle was unbearable pain.

"Actually, I have a feeling that I know you." Su Xiaoqiang said, and the man behind him suddenly became quiet.

"I don't know why I always feel that I've seen you somewhere. Maybe it's my imagination." She chuckled, "At least the guy I know had the guts to escape with his girlfriend. Despite a narrow escape from death.”

The countdown time is up.

The Indian man overpowered the hammer, so Su Xiaoqiang and the man also overturned the hammer and started the last three seconds of countdown. In the dim light outside the mansion, it was as if they could hear those devil-like whispers describing their hunger and thirst for flesh and blood. desire.

Three seconds began to count, and the Indian man began to chant incomprehensible words, probably prayers and atonements. He was the one with the greatest chance of death. The two bullets he filled into the gun behind his head were as heavy as It was pressed into him for the rest of his life.

In the last three seconds, the man calmed down and his body stopped shaking.

"After seeing you, I realized that I had always wanted to die that time, with her." He said for no reason.

"After all, it was you who said that the chance of surviving a narrow escape is only one sixth of surviving." Su Xiaoqiang said, as if she had finally made a decision in her eyes, "If it were him, he would definitely gamble on a narrow escape." She Looking at the trembling and thin back of the man in front of him, he said, "So I am the same."

The three-second countdown ended, and the moment the trigger was pulled, the man suddenly leaned forward and grabbed the revolver in the Indian man's hand!

But at this moment, a deafening gunshot erupted in the room. Everyone leaned back in fear, but their faces revealed joy in the firelight. No matter who dies or lives, the game is over after the gunshots are fired, because someone will always go out and become a lamb sacrificed to the devil, and the remaining people will pray quietly and wait for redemption in the next month.

—

The Indian man stared blankly at the unfired pistol in his hand. He had indeed pulled the trigger, but was stopped by the man behind him. A finger jammed the hammer, and the hammer's downward movement was interrupted. The bullet did not fire. But the deafening gunshot made his whole body go limp, and the gun in his hand fell to the ground.

The bullet cylinder of the pistol aimed at Su Xiaoqiang popped out. The only bullet in it was just above the cylinder. The hammer was just a short distance away from it and it would fire the bullet and blow the head of the person in front.

In front of the Indian man, Su Xiaoqiang, who was supposed to be dead, raised the firearm in his hand and placed his fingers on the handle. Although his body was trembling with fear, he still grabbed the revolver and did not put it down, keeping his eyes fixed on it. The man in front of him.

At the critical moment of life and death, she did not choose to shoot.

She refused this game, and the price was that she became a sacrifice this time - that was under normal circumstances.

White smoke slowly floated out from the barrel. Next to Su Xiaoqiang, the man's revolver, which was also raised high, collapsed and fell to the ground. A crater appeared on the ceiling of the house and dust fell.

"I should have beaten him to death. I am willing to pay the price. I chose to leave on my own." The man put down the gun and lowered his head so that no one could see his face. He just whispered these words and got up and left, but his back seemed Somewhat lost.

Everyone in the room stood up and followed him. They were supposed to be carrying a body out, but now they were just accompanying and watching.

Su Xiaoqiang did not stand up from the ground. There was not much fear on her face, but her hands could not stop trembling due to physiological reaction and she opened the bullet chamber in her hand.

The bullet was under the bullet chamber. Even if she pulled the trigger, she would not kill the opponent. There should be two people who died in this game, Su Xiaoqiang and the Indian man, but they both survived, but instead of the man Became a victim.

She suddenly stood up, ran out of the living room and chased the people in front of her. She happened to see the moment when the front door of the mansion was pushed open. Outside the door was a sea of ​​bronze trees as dark as a forest, and the bright moon hung in the sky. Above, across the top of the giant bronze city deep in the sea of ​​trees, a black shadow stood at the highest point of the world, with wings covered with human heads and skulls covering the sky and the sun, and golden pupils like lava fell across thousands of meters. On this mansion in the Bronze Maze.

Even across a distance of thousands of meters, one can still feel the suffocating pressure, and the scorching golden eyes look down on all living beings as if they are going to burn everything.

The four great monarchs, the Lord of Bronze and Fire, His Majesty Norton.

He watched this desperate game in the doomsday day after day. In his kingdom of Nibelung, this kind of pain and despair breeds forever. It will be the same this time, there will always be victims walking out of that place. In this mansion, life or death will lead to a destined ending.

The man stood at the door. In the distance were groups of shadows covered by black cloaks. The golden eyes fell on him coldly and bloodthirstyly, making him tremble uncontrollably and raising fear. But he still didn't Instead of retreating or wailing and running away, they stepped out like a zombie.

The moment he stepped on the hard black bronze earth outside, Su Xiaoqiang's shout came from behind him, asking him to wait. But what are you waiting for?

If he had been waiting for this day, he had been waiting for too long, a full five years.

"Su Xiaoqiang, if you can still see Chen Wenwen, please say sorry to her and thank you." He looked at Su Xiaoqiang running and said softly.

Su Xiaoqiang was shocked while running, because at this moment he finally remembered why he felt a sense of familiarity when he saw this man. It also completely confirmed what she said in anger before, and she shouted out the impossible but. But it is a name for reality.

"Zhao Menghua? Are you Zhao Menghua? Why are you?" She started to shout but did not finish what she needed to say.

The skinny crowd in the mansion pushed the door shut, because the dead waiters in the distance were approaching, carrying the decaying aura of death. The man who walked outside the mansion turned his head and gave her one last look, and then was swallowed up by darkness. .

Above the Bronze City, the big wings vibrated, and the bronze sea of ​​trees bent over. The huge valley after the entire terrain changed rumbled, the sky opened and the clouds dispersed. The terrifying monarch roared at the black moonlit night, as if he was mourning the death of someone. The existence of this memorial seems to be venting the remembrance and rage that spans years and centuries!

—

".Did you hear that?"

"What? Did you hear something?"

In the cabin of the Zhi-8 helicopter, Lin Nian, who was sitting in his seat, suddenly opened his eyes and turned to look at the dark night outside the cabin. What he could see was the towering and complex Wushan Mountains. The hills and valleys were like the dragon's spine dormant in the abyss. On the vast land, the long winding river was covered with silvery brilliance by the full moon that had broken out of the dark clouds, roaring in the endless night.

"Sound." Amidst the huge propeller noise of the helicopter, he whispered on the radio channel wearing noise-cancelling headphones, "I heard a sound. Some kind of strange sound, a bit trance-like. I'm not sure if I heard it wrong. , it still confuses the environmental sounds.”

"Is the sound of the wind or the sound of water flowing? After all, we have reached the Yangtze River Basin, and the roar is normal." The pilot of the helicopter glanced sideways at the magnificent scene below, and then looked up at the black mountains that looked like the earth. The oppressive dark clouds said in a deep voice, "The Astronomical Observatory warned that there will be heavy rain tonight, and the Meteorological Bureau issued a red warning to the Yangtze River coast. Once the rain starts, the water may rise. Commissioner Lin needs to report to the headquarters to apply for an extension." Take action?”

"No, no need." Lin Nian unbuckled the seat belt of his seat and stood at the rear of the airport holding a long sheathed knife. "Heavy rain may affect the situation on the river, but Monyach led by Professor Mans The ship is strong enough to withstand the storm on the river, and its mission is to operate underwater. No matter how bumpy the river is, it will only be affected by the water for tens of meters. There is no need to contact the headquarters, and we will continue to act as planned."

"Open the rear hatch," he said.

The cabin slowly lowered, and a huge amount of air poured into the cabin along with the rain. He raised the collar of the executive department's windbreaker to block the rain. The rain had already begun to fall. After he exposed himself to the strong wind and noise, the entire Three Gorges A desperate situation suddenly appeared in front of him. The winding terrain like a dragon's back seemed like some kind of huge enemy sleeping on the earth.

After overlooking the majestic terrain, he looked up at the sky. In the sky, there was a faint white light flashing through the inky dark clouds that were as huge as mountains. Then there was a rumbling sound like a war drum on the horizon, dense, dull, and like The drumbeat that warms up before getting ready to go, it is a thunderstorm that is gathering. The black Z-8 helicopter is driving under the thunderous clouds, like a boat drifting on the black sea, which may capsize at any time in the dark waves. inside.

The helicopter pulled up, and he stretched out his hand to hold down the fuselage to stabilize his body. He watched as he climbed over another high mountain. The terrain overlooking the front suddenly opened up. Only the green mountains and green waters that were no longer in the daylight came into view. Everywhere is filled with raging waves and rushing rivers whipped up by strong winds.

They arrived at Qutang Gorge, the first gorge of the Yangtze River.

"Speed ​​up." Lin Nian looked down at the black dragon-like river and whispered, "I have a bad feeling."

"Yes." the pilot said, pushing the control stick, and the black Z-8 helicopter pressed forward, splitting through the heavy wind and rain that had fallen, and headed towards the huge and helpless tugboat in the distance, the only firefly on the wind and rain of the Yangtze River. , the Monyach.

Storm is coming? No, the storm has arrived.

ps: Two chapters, 8K, withered