Chapter 391: Remains of the Zhou General (3)
Outside the city gate, Tao Zi talked about how she lost her father at a young age and how she became a widow in middle age. It was so sad that she could bring tears to her eyes.
But the people on the tower were also indifferent. The young general even spoke up to persuade them: "This matter is too serious for me to decide alone. Madam, please go back."
Tears began to well up in Tao Zi's indifferent eyes: "General, I really have nowhere else to go, otherwise I wouldn't have taken such a big risk to come here."
The young general sighed and instructed the deputy general beside him: "You try to persuade him."
For some reason, she could hear it clearly from such a long distance.
Seeing the young general about to leave, Tao Zi knelt down, dragged a big step forward, and cried loudly: "General Zhou, my husband is one of your deputy generals. He sacrificed himself to save you in Hecheng half a year ago. Yi'er is his only blood. Please save Yi'er's life!"
As she spoke, she began to kowtow again, each time harder than the last.
The young general looked over again.
The deputy general on the side asked in surprise: "Are you Huang Xu?"
Tao Zi agreed.
The deputy general said again: "Don't kowtow, your forehead is covered in blood."
Li Xiu glanced at Tao Zi's forehead. There was indeed blood, but wasn't that blood on the ground?
Tao Zi didn't listen. She continued to kowtow and cry, and even pulled Li Xiu to cry with her.
The two of them just cried with blank expressions.
As they cried to the end, they heard the general's voice coming from the city wall: "Forget it, let's find an uninhabited area in the city and observe for half a month before making any decisions."
The city gate was still open.
Tao Zire couldn't help but look up at the city wall. For some reason, she always felt that the speaking speed of that voice was not like that of the young general.
No matter what doubts she had in her heart, she still pulled Li Xiu towards the city gate.
Just as they stepped into the city wall, their vision went dark and they were back to where they were. The familiar voice rang out again: "You two, mother and son, please leave this place immediately. We have a rule that we cannot open the city gate."
Tao Zi looked up and saw the wailing all over again. The only difference was that this time the general's last words were: "It's not that I'm cruel, but I really can't open the city gate."
As soon as these words came out, everything went dark before his eyes, and everything started all over again: "You two, mother and son, please leave here immediately. We have a rule that we cannot open the city gates."
This time, the general made the decision: "To prevent foreign invasion, kill!"
They were killed by arrows, and the moment they fell, everything started all over again.
This time, Tao Zi looked at the general on the city wall calmly. If he guessed correctly, the last general was no longer a general, but a monk in training. He just didn't know how to end this cycle.
After another seven or eight cycles, he was burned by fire, killed by mechas, killed by bows and arrows, and walked towards the city wall. All the endings were repeated several times. He died several times, but the cycle was still not broken.
Tao Zi gradually realized that it was not them who were being trained in this cycle, but the monk on the city wall. Only if the monk on the city wall made the right decision could they escape from this cycle.
This really is putting your fate in the hands of others.
Finally, when Li Xiu was about to collapse completely, a fire set by the general on the city wall burned them out of the cycle.
The pain from the burning flames gradually dissipated, and when Li Xiu came to his senses, he cursed angrily, "Again!"
Wait, something's wrong?
He had experienced death so many times that his mind was confused for a while. Fortunately, Tao Zi woke him up in time: "It's out of it."
Li Xiu then looked around slowly and found herself in a small room, with her body under her control.
Tao Zi stood up and walked to the window. She pushed it open and saw a few soldiers guarding not far away. When they heard the noise, they turned their heads and looked at her. She closed the window again.
Li Xiu sat there, eyes full of confusion: "Are we free?"
"Well, you're free now." Tao Zi patted his shoulder. "Take your time. Those repeated death experiences are not pleasant."
He pressed his forehead and nodded, feeling more exhausted than ever before.
Li Xiu didn't allow himself to rest for too long, and soon regained his spirits and asked, "What on earth is going on?"
Tao Zi was quite surprised that he could recover so quickly. After all, Li Xiu was only in his twenties or thirties. It was a good thing that he didn't go crazy after dying twenty or thirty times suddenly.
Seeing her eyes, Li Xiu sighed, his eyebrows still tired, but much better than before: "Why are you so surprised? If I'm going to collapse, I'll collapse after leaving the ruins."
She smiled and patted his shoulder, saying, "I feel relieved when you do this."
Li Xiu asked, "I could think well at the beginning, but not anymore. You should be better than me. Have you found anything?"
Tao Zi expressed her guess, and he was stunned and asked, "Are you saying that everything just now was the experience of other cultivators?"
She nodded and said, "Probably. I just don't know if it's the training of one cultivator or if they keep changing cultivators."
Li Xiu couldn't help but complain, "Isn't this a problem? We are dragged into other people's experience."
Tao Zi looked at the window and asked quietly, "Do you think others will accompany us to experience this together?"
He felt a chill on his back, and blurted out, "Isn't this driving people crazy?"
She took out the teleportation symbol, which had been dim, and it now lit up. "If I'm not mistaken, in other people's trials, our lives are not in danger, and we can't escape the ruins. But in our own trials, we can choose to give up. What do you think?"
Li Xiu touched the teleportation talisman and made a decision immediately: "All the hardships we suffered before can't be in vain. Now that we have arrived at our training illusion, we should choose to go on."
There was a hint of smile in Tao Zimei's eyes, but before she could say anything, the door was pushed open. The two became alert, only to find that it was a cute little puppy.
The dog had the food box in its mouth. It put the box down as soon as it opened its mouth, turned around and left, closing the door behind it.
Tao Zi opened the lunch box and found only vegetarian dishes inside, which looked extremely miserable.
Li Xiu never compromised herself when it came to food, and she said directly in disdain, "This thing looks too disgusting."
She reminded him, "Don't forget, this is wartime. It's good enough to have something to eat."
He finally realized what was happening. Looking at the food box that didn't taste good but was enough to fill him up, he sighed and said, "General Zhou is really good this time."
Tao Zi couldn't deny it. Referring to the training, she said, "It seems that the cultivators on the tower only gained control of their bodies when they made decisions. Judging from this, we may still be controlled for a while, and only have freedom at the critical moment."
Li Xiu became a little anxious when she heard that she was being controlled. She comforted her, "This is our training illusion. We have the right to choose to leave. It won't be like before."
He closed his eyes, rubbed his forehead and said, "Then I'll take a nap."
Tao Zi agreed and said, "My storage ring is useless, and you should be the same. You should eat something first."
Li Xiu looked at the lunch box, turned her head away silently, and said, "My demand for food is not as great as Ti Xiu's. You can eat it yourself."
She smiled, picked up the food box and stuffed it into her mouth one bite at a time.
I have to say, it’s really unpalatable.
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