Chapter 79

The golden tiger was squatting beside the stove with a serious face, and Lao Shan...

Lin Qingyang followed Xiaoling casually to the village chief's residence.

The golden tiger was squatting by the stove with a serious look on his face, discussing something with the old goat.

Seeing Lin Qingyang coming, the tiger village chief nodded at him, motioned him to sit down first, and then continued discussing with the old goat.

Lin Qingyang listened for a while and found that they seemed to be discussing precautions regarding migration.

What was wrong with the village that made them move away?

This thought flashed through Lin Qingyang's mind, but quickly disappeared.

Even if they want to migrate, what does it have to do with him?

On the other hand, it's been three days, why hasn't he woken up yet? Should I think of a way to wake him up?

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What is Cheng Hui doing at this time?

He is playing the game.

Yes, you read that right, it’s a liver game.

It’s just that the simulation of this game is a bit too high, the punishment is a bit painful, and... there is no option to quit at all.

huff… huff…

Cheng Hui lay on the ground, gasping for breath, sweat dripping down like rain.

There were many young people around him, both men and women, who were too tired to get up and even spoke a word.

"I can't go on like this..." Cheng Hui thought to himself. It has been a year since he entered this virtual world. If it weren't for the changing scenes reminding him all the time that this is not the real world, he might have mistakenly thought that he had traveled through time again.

Here, he is just an ordinary person. All his cultivation and spiritual consciousness have disappeared, and he can't even contact Xiaotong.

Occasionally, there was a moment when he even wondered if he had traveled to a virtual game and become an NPC or cannon fodder, and that everything he had done before about the world of cultivation was just a dream. However, every time he had such a thought, he would resist it from the bottom of his heart.

It was as if there was a voice in his heart telling him that someone was waiting for him to go back, and if he didn't go back, something terrible would happen.

Cheng Hui: ...

Are you going back with me to be the savior?

Forget it, forget it, let’s not think too much about it.

Cheng Hui tried hard to empty his mind and give it some rest.

His brain was already tired enough, so it was better not to delve into those things.

Buzz——

Suddenly, a series of flashing doors appeared in the square where they were resting, and an alarming buzzing sound came from the largest one.

"Here it comes again!" A young man wailed, then jumped up from the ground with incredible agility and speed, and suddenly rushed into one of the light doors.

The other men and women, including Cheng Hui, jumped up from the ground and randomly picked a door to go in.

Cheng Hui didn't know these people and had never spoken to them so far.

Every time he met these people, he was in a state of extreme exhaustion, sleeping soundly most of the time, and had no energy to chat with them.

All in all, this kind of life has been going on for nearly half a year.

When he woke up from this world, the first thing he had to do was to study. From morning to night, except for the necessary time for eating and resting, he spent all the rest of his time learning about formations.

At first, he was quite happy to learn. After all, it is always good to have many skills. One more skill may provide one more way to escape when encountering danger in the future.

However, to his surprise, the examinations here were very strict. There were examinations every week, every month, and every quarter. If the examination results were not satisfactory, the students would be whipped.

Cheng Hui didn't know what the whip was made of. It was obviously only a very thin strip, but it hurt so much when it hit his body.

He felt that this was the worst thing a woman could do when giving birth...

After being beaten once, he no longer dared to relax. He showed the same fighting spirit as he did in his senior year of high school and mastered all the complicated knowledge of formations.

It took him about half a year to successfully complete the cramming education. He was not sure whether he could apply it or how well he could apply it, but he was sure that he had remembered it all.

He originally thought that the matter was over, and after he left, he could slowly digest the knowledge of formations.

However... he underestimated this place. The moment he finally got the certificate of completion from his teacher, he was thrown into this huge square.

There were already quite a few people in the square at that time, all lying on the ground, sweat pouring down their faces.

When they saw new people appear, these people didn't even raise their eyelids.

None of the kindness, sarcasm, etc. that Cheng Hui had imagined appeared. These people treated him as if he didn't exist.

But he soon understood why these people acted like this, because when countless light gates appeared in the square again, these old students jumped up from the ground one by one and went into those light gates.

At that time, he did not understand the purpose of this square and was a step slow. When he wanted to escape, dozens of tigers suddenly jumped out of the huge light gate. Each of these tigers was as tall as a two-story building and moved incredibly fast. Cheng Hui didn't even have time to react before he was bitten by the first one that came out.

Although he was used to such torture, Cheng Hui couldn't help but shudder every time he thought of the pain of being slowly rejected by the tiger.

It hurts so much, it really hurts so much.

Especially the scene where he was still breathing but had to watch the tiger bite his lower body into pieces and eat it. If he had not been mentally strong, he would probably have been scared to death.

After the tiger swallowed him whole, he woke up again at a certain moment. It was the same square, the same tired young people, but this time, they looked at him with a bit of sympathy.

At that time, Cheng Hui felt pain in his right hand in a trance. He looked down and saw an invisible sharp blade carving the number one on his arm.

Bright red blood flowed down his arm. He stared at his wound in a daze, and suddenly he understood the meaning of this number.

Every student has 'three lives'. If these three lives are used up, they will truly die in the mouths of those beasts.

Cheng Hui didn't know whether the place he was in was an illusion or a special secret realm, nor did he know whether he would really die after the so-called three lives were exhausted or be thrown out of the secret realm.

He only knew that he didn't dare to gamble, so he could only honestly complete this so-called trial.

It is precisely because of the existence of those three lives that he jokingly calls his behavior "playing the game". In fact, he is using this method to try to relieve the mental pressure as much as possible, so as to avoid going crazy before his body collapses.

This time, the buzzing sound coming from the giant light gate was the honey bees that these students hated the most. As the name suggests, the honey produced by this bee is extremely sweet and is considered the best in the world of cultivation.

However, in order to protect their honey from being stolen by honey collectors, honey bees have naturally evolved corresponding abilities. Their strength is not strong, but there is a toxin in their stings that can make the nerves of the stung area extremely sensitive.

To put it bluntly, once you are stabbed, you can immediately experience the pleasure of giving birth.

Not fatal, just painful.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that the honey bee has been successfully promoted to the most hated monster in Cheng Hui's heart - no doubt about it!

Don’t ask Cheng Hui why he knew this, the answer is that he was young and ignorant.

In short, as soon as they heard the buzzing sound coming from the large light gate, the people in the square rushed into the light gate one by one, fearing that they would be spotted if they were a step late.

Yes, these beasts, or monsters, don’t only appear in the square.

The purpose of their presence is not only to drive away these candidates, but also to make things more difficult for them.

When Cheng Hui and his companions disappeared at the entrance of the light gate, a large group of honey bees flew out of the large light gate. They circled the square for a few times, but when they did not find their target, they dispersed and formed about a dozen bee groups. Then they randomly selected some light gates and flew in, including the one selected by Cheng Hui.

As soon as he entered the light gate, Cheng Hui became extremely alert.

He first used the materials at hand to set up a simple warning magic circle, and then quickly came to a small wooden house not far ahead. He set up another defensive magic circle at the door of the cabin, and then pushed open the door of the cabin and walked in.

The cabin looks very ordinary, just like the most common forest cabin.

There was a stove, a wooden bed, and even a small bag of grain and salt hanging from the beams, as if a hunter from a mountain village might come here to rest at any time.

Cheng Hui was not fooled by appearances. In fact, after six months of hard work, he had fully learned how to mobilize everything he had learned.

He took out a compass-shaped object and turned it around the room, and soon found a special place.

There was the stove. The clay pot inside was a little damaged and one could even see the ash underneath the stove from the edge where a small piece was missing.

Cheng Hui let out a long sigh. If nothing unexpected happened, the formation should be hidden here. Since entering the square, the first thing he learned was that as a formation master, you must first find the location of the formation.

If you can’t even find the hidden formation, how can you break it?

Therefore, the formations in every trial space here are hidden, and there are various ways to hide them. The most bizarre one Cheng Hui encountered was that the formation was hidden on the villagers of a small village. As long as there were ten villagers in the village, the formation could be opened. At that time, Cheng Hui spent more than half a month to find the formation. If he hadn't been lucky enough that no monsters chased him into that world, he might have wasted his life again.

bite--

An alarm sounded from the warning array, and Cheng Hui's heart skipped a beat.

What bad luck! Those honey bees are chasing us.

He moved quickly, closing the open windows of the cabin and blocking other larger gaps he could see with rags, so that he could at least hold on for a short while.

Buzz——

The honey bee had already chased outside the cabin, but was blocked by the protective magic circle he set up.

Cheng Hui knew very well that the material of his protective magic circle was ordinary and it was impossible to keep the honey bees away forever. So if he wanted to avoid pain, the only way was to break the magic circle in the cabin as soon as possible.

His hands were steady, and the sound of the honey bees attacking the protective array did not affect his movements at all.

On the contrary, their presence intensified his inner sense of urgency, making his movements three times faster.

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