Chapter 50: Hundred-story Stairs: My legs were bent and frozen on the steps...
Qin Yuqing looked at the infected person on the screen. She guessed that Shen Yanqing was likely to have the same screen.
She was actually a person who was very afraid of suffering and pain. The moment she stepped onto the second floor, not only were heavy sandbags tied to her thighs, but an especially heavy sandbag was also tied to her back, and she couldn't help but lean back.
Qin Yuqing's tongue was pressed against her cheek. She knew that Yu Bingyan must be watching everything in a corner. He was waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity for her to be unable to bear it and ask Yu Bingyan for help. Once she opened her mouth, the initiative would completely fall into Yu Bingyan's hands.
She couldn't remain passive any longer.
"System, I need help."
Since Yu Bingyan uses power that is not from this world, can she also use similar power?
Qin Yuqing could feel that the existence of the system was special to this world, and she wanted to know how the system determined whether she was in danger.
But what Qin Yuqing didn't expect was that no matter how she called out to the system in her heart, she didn't get any response. Sometimes the system would disdain to answer her questions, but it would never fail to respond when it came to her life safety.
"My little A'ruan, are you calling the system?" Yu Bingyan's voice suddenly appeared in Qin Yuqing's ears, but Qin Yuqing looked around and did not see any trace of him.
"Haven't you guessed it already? I'm definitely watching you somewhere you don't know, so there's no need to look for me." Yu Bingyan's voice was filled with absolute confidence. "From this step, you can't call upon the system, nor can you borrow any external force."
"Just go to the top honestly, Qin Yuqing, the good princess who is dedicated to serving the people." Yu Bingyan's voice disappeared again.
It seems that there is no other way.
Qin Yuqing hadn't expected Yu Bingyan's abilities to surpass the system's. Why would a time-traveler like him want to harvest the world? Was it the same as the system's mission, or was there another purpose?
Her head was full of random thoughts, but her feet never stopped moving. As the saying goes, "the first push is the best, the second push is weaker." Fortunately, she did not neglect her physical exercise in the past few months.
She climbed to the eighteenth floor in one breath. Her whole body was tied up by invisible jacks, which made it difficult for her to breathe. The higher she went, the colder it became. The sweat she had just sweated was frozen on her face and accumulated with her breathing.
The moment Qin Yuqing stepped onto the twentieth floor, all the fatigue in her body was swept away. The abnormality in her body did not make her relax, but made her alert, which was not a good thing.
She looked around warily. It was still a world of ice and snow. The lotus on the top kept getting bigger as she got closer, and there was indeed a person sleeping in it.
Qin Yuqing tentatively raised her leg, lightly touched the step, and looked at the parasitic person on the screen.
The next moment, the parasitized people moved back a little again, their steps following Qin Yuqing. When Qin Yuqing stepped on the next step, they took a step back.
Just as Qin Yuqing decided to take another step forward, she keenly noticed something wrong on the screen.
There will be red marks where the infected person walks, and some insects will fall to the ground, eroding the grass into dark red.
But at this moment, there were no new insects added to those places, and some insects were even half on the grass and half under the feet.
Qin Yuqing took another tentative step up a flight of stairs. This time, she used the insects on the ground as a static reference. Perhaps Qin Yuqing saw through the trick, but this time the parasitic person took two steps forward.
Qin Yuqing stood there in a daze. A chill from the bottom of her heart ran through her whole body. She stared at the snow lotus in the distance. Only then did she realize that this snow lotus was more dazzling than the one she had seen at first. There were traces of blood running on the pure white petals.
This isn't snow lotus! This is fake!
Qin Yuqing realized this and turned around immediately. Sure enough, behind her was an equally long staircase and a holy snow lotus.
There were two duplicate footprints on the two steps in front of her. Without her noticing, the hundred steps had reversed up and down, making her mistakenly believe that she was climbing up.
Since the stairs themselves appear strange, the strange things that happen when people climb to the 20th floor will only make people subconsciously think that a new test has begun, and no one will really pay attention to whether the stairs are turned upside down.
Qin Yuqing didn't dare to think that if she didn't realize something was wrong, the moment she touched the fake snow lotus, she would know that everyone in Yanyun City died because of her.
"As expected of my little A'ruan, he is so smart." Yu Bingyan's voice appeared again, but this time there was regret in his words.
"What a pity. I wasn't alert enough and didn't notice something was wrong at the first time. But..." Yu Bingyan said crazily, as if he had discovered a new continent.
"Our Sixth Princess Qin Yuqing, who is devoted to the people, would also try and gamble with human lives. She is truly a good princess with a double heart! On behalf of the people of Great Yin, I would like to thank the Sixth Princess for her kindness."
Qin Yuqing ignored Yu Bingyan's outburst. She finally understood that this man was talking nonsense and everything he said was based on his subjective judgment without caring about other people's thoughts at all.
After seeing through the trick of the steps, the suffocating weight swept over him again. Qin Yuqing didn't know if it was because of his masochistic constitution, but he felt relieved and felt that this was right.
The cold air filled into the lungs again, this time even more strongly. Every breath was so painful that it was unbearable, as if the frozen lungs were being forcibly broken open.
Her limbs were covered in a thin layer of ice, and with every movement, the ice broke off, fell on the steps, and froze again under the influence of the extreme low temperature.
When we climbed to the 50th floor, the temperature around us dropped sharply again. The temperature at this moment was already abnormal. Even the temperature at the North and South Poles was considered very warm here.
If Yu Bingyan hadn't wanted Qin Yuqing to die so easily, someone else would have frozen to death shortly after climbing the stairs.
Qin Yuqing was already numb. She could no longer feel her legs. When she climbed to the 60th floor, her legs made a crisp sound, and then her body went empty and she was about to fall.
Qin Yuqing grabbed the step beside her and saw her legs were bent and frozen on the step. In this extremely extreme temperature, her legs were frozen off.
But she didn't feel any pain at all. It seemed that her pain nerves had been frozen by the cold beyond her cognition.
"This is so ugly. My little A'ruan should be beautiful." Although he said so, Yu Bingyan's voice was full of joy. He pretended to be sad.
"Don't climb anymore, don't climb anymore. Your brother Yu Bingyan will be sad."
Qin Yuqing ignored Yu Bingyan's words. Her eyes were fixed on the screen. No matter what, nothing could happen to the people of Yanyun City! She gritted her teeth and climbed up little by little with her hands.
Shen Yanqing, Chuntao and Pu Qinghe stared blankly at everything on the screen. The moment Qin Yuqing's legs were separated from her body, they also felt a piercing pain in their legs.
At this moment, Shen Yanqing regretted why she sent troops to invite Qin Yuqing. It was because she knew that Qin Yuqing was a good princess and she would not ignore the safety of the people. But she forgot that she was the sixth princess who had just survived in the turbulent capital, and she was not that old.
Although everything that happened in Yanyun City was beyond Shen Yanqing's cognition, she understood one thing: although the person behind the scenes did not want to kill Qin Yuqing, he had been trying every means to stop Qin Yuqing from moving forward.
No, it wasn't an obstruction. Shen Yanqing recalled everything that had happened. She always felt that it was not a simple obstruction, but more like a master with a very different personality, who tested Qin Yuqing in various ways, stubbornly wanting a certain answer.
Shen Yanqing looked at Qin Yuqing who refused to give up. She wanted to persuade Qin Yuqing to give up, but she couldn't.
Behind her are not only the uninfected people of Yanyun City, but also the infected people. She believes that the Sixth Princess Qin Yuqing also thought so when she made the decision.
When she comes back, no matter what, the Shen family army and Yanyun City will stand behind her for no reason.
Qin Yuqing had climbed to the 80th floor using her bare hands. Her lower body was completely frozen by the ice and snow, and her body was even frozen to the stairs as she climbed.
The flesh on her hands disappeared at some point, perhaps buried in the ice on the steps below.
Finally, when she reached the last step, Qin Yuqing used up all her strength. She bit the step with her teeth and pushed her torso up with her last bit of strength.
Just when Qin Yuqing was about to touch the snow lotus, Yu Bingyan appeared again and blocked Qin Yuqing's hand. This time he put away his crazy look and looked at Qin Yuqing carefully.
"Why did you go to such lengths?" Yu Bingyan's tone was filled with confusion. "You could have given up, you could have asked me for help, why did you choose to be like her? What good is this rotten world?"
Qin Yuqing didn't know who Yu Bingyan was talking about, but Qin Yuqing knew that Xuelian was right in front of her.
"Oh, how come we're here already? It's so boring." Yu Bingyan held his chin with one hand. He looked at the dilapidated Qin Yuqing, and a bad idea came to his mind.
"My little A'ruan, do you know what the most desperate thing in this world is?"
Qin Yuqing ignored Yu Bingyan's words and moved towards the snow lotus cricket pupa little by little.
"Okay, you don't want to know. Although I want to be a good person, I am a bad person by nature." Yu Bingyan came to Qin Yuqing and said. He looked at Qin Yuqing's body and grinned crazily.
"I haven't seen enough of the Sixth Princess of Dayin's embarrassed state, so I'd like to trouble you, Princess, to climb one more level for me to see."
Qin Yuqing had a bad premonition in her heart. Looking at Yu Bingyan's approaching hand, she wanted to dodge away, but because she had no strength, she could only suppress her nausea and not look at Yu Bingyan.
Yu Bingyan squatted down, lifted Qin Yuqing's chin, which was covered with ice, with his fingers and said, "My little Ruan, be good, don't show such pain. I still like your aloof and proud expression."
After saying that, Yu Bingyan gave a light push, and Qin Yuqing's body fell backwards uncontrollably. She watched the parasitized person on the screen lift his foot and walk forward again.
"How dare you touch this princess's person!"
A familiar voice appeared on the steps and gently hugged Qin Yuqing.
"Fortunately, it's not too late."
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