Chapter 35: Divine Judgment (1)

Clinking glasses, red wine and fruit tea cast colorful fragments of light under the light. Several people sat down one after another on the round table covered with a tablecloth.

The curtains were drawn but the windows were not closed. The cool breeze of the evening blew the curtains, hugging Zhou Ye who was covered here. The people around him would occasionally open the curtains. It was the existence that made the chief priest feel trembling.

"You..." He hesitated to speak many times.

Luisa carried a small cloth bag on her back, and inside it was a compass that was fluctuating violently. However, she did not have too many thoughts. She followed Aesina to take a seat and focused her attention on the food.

"Hello, I'm Zhou Ye, Aisina should..."

"Don't say anything, you are here for the holy judgment, so let's start directly." The priest's dry face showed a little alienation. "We'll talk about it when you can get out alive."

"The trial is divided into three sacraments, each with a judge, and you need to get the judge's approval. The first two are the Holy Spirit, and the last one is me."

Zhou Ye's face was a little stunned. This was something Aisina did not mention, and then he put on a smile: "Okay."

The priest reached out to the small bag on Luisa's back and took out the violently fluctuating compass, then used a knife to separate his fingers, blood slowly flowed from his fingertips, the compass made a violent melting sound as if it was poured out, and suddenly emitted a flash of light.

As the chief priest pointed at Zhou Ye, a strong suction force came from it. Zhou Ye looked at Fu Yue, who was sitting next to him and had already begun to accumulate moon energy, and Siming, who was pretending to be indifferent, and relaxed his mind, and was instantly absorbed. The

powerful moon energy surrounded the chief priest in an instant, as if he would be killed instantly if he moved a little. Feeling this energy, the chief priest snorted coldly, but still pointed his bleeding hand towards the center under the increasingly concerned eyes of his own god.

A picture like a sandbox city suddenly appeared. Siming and Fu Yue, who saw this scene, looked at each other obscurely. The plastic flower was indeed related to the cult.

Unfortunately, the picture did not enlarge any more, and Siming and others could only watch Zhou Ye, who was the size of an ant, moving slowly.

Zhou Ye, who was in the sandbox, had just opened his eyes when he was attracted by the vast and endless forest in front of him. It seemed that the trial had not officially begun yet. He still had his sight. After identification, Zhou Ye confirmed that there were many extinct species here.

Is it a simulated past, because the period when the trial was first formed was the past?

Zhou Ye was puzzled and did not rush to draw a conclusion.

Zhou Ye pushed the wheelchair far away with difficulty. He had to find a place to live before dark and collect some sharp stones and edible fruits along the way.

Feeling the shadowy spying, Zhou Ye knew that there were high priests and they were observing his every move, so he did not rush to use the stunning value to exchange energy.

As the sunset glowed, Zhou Ye finally found several habitable caves in the densely packed forest.

Out of concern for flooding, Zhou Ye chose the only cave in the middle of the terrain with a wide view.

He reached out to touch the wall of the cave, sniffed, and confirmed that there was no smell of alien beasts. Only then did he relax a little and went deeper into the cave. It was like a long tunnel. The deeper he went, the more damp he could smell.

Zhou Ye planned to use the straps on the back of the wheelchair to carry more large stones to plug the small leaks in the back to prevent rain from leaking in. After all, the word "judgment" itself meant that life in the compass space would definitely not be easy.

In order to avoid the so-called low score from the Holy Spirit, he decided not to settle for it and to explore more.

The wheelchair's wheels rolled around with branches hanging on them, and Zhou Ye moved forward while making traps with the materials he had collected in the forest.

Finally, he saw the faint light coming from the other end of the cave. He stretched out his hand and grabbed one end of the corridor that could only accommodate half of his body. With a force, he supported himself and saw the scene behind the cave.

It was like the blood-red sea water that he had dreamed of his mother that day.

At this moment, it was like a rising tide, and wave after wave was washing the outer wall of the cave.

Zhou Ye's eyes went dark in a moment of shock. He knew that the judgment had officially begun.

For a moment, the sound of hooves rang out everywhere, and in the darkness, everything seemed to be activated and rushed towards the cave where Zhou Ye was.

After letting go of his hand, Zhou Ye fell back into the wheelchair, quickly leaned against the wall to listen to the sound, carefully identified the call was still a little distance away, and felt a little relieved. Just as he was about to take out the food, a voice rang out.

"Great! There are other people here."

Without vision, Zhou Ye could only rely on hearing to judge that it was a young man, with a friendly tone and even subconsciously restrained voice, as if he was very scared.

But this is a trial, so Zhou Ye just sat in the wheelchair and said in a gentle tone: "Who are you?"

Then he listened to the footsteps getting closer step by step after he spoke, and finally there was a bang, accompanied by the falling of sand and dust. Zhou Ye lowered his head, as if he could see the person who fell into the trap.

"How can there be a pit here? I'm really impressed!" The young man who fell into the pit seemed to be completely unaware of the fact that he had fallen into a trap, and asked Zhou Ye for help, "Can you see me? Can you give me a hand? I can't get out."

"Do you know where this is?" Zhou Ye pushed the wheelchair back a few steps and asked softly.

"Ah? How should I know? It's a messy place, and I only meet you now! The moon is red, and even the sea water is red. Don't mention it, I'm so hungry."

"Oh, by the way, do you have any food?"

"Yes." Hearing the sound of the alien beast approaching, Zhou Ye untied the branch dragging beside the wheelchair. He leaned against the wall, pushed the branch forward a little bit, and placed it above the pit of the mysterious man.

Three branches just formed a small bridge. Zhou Ye pushed the wheelchair to the top of the branches, tied the straps on the side of the wheelchair to the branches, and threw it down: "Climb up quickly."

"Have you heard the sound of the aliens? If you don't hurry up, you will be contaminated." Zhou Ye himself was not afraid. He had the shock value to purify. He was just worried that the trial would be difficult, such as the aliens actively locking and attacking.

In that case, he would first use the moon energy stored in the ring, then the shock value, and finally... In the darkness, Zhou Ye turned his head slightly and covered his left eye that began to emit a faint light.

It seemed that the sound of the aliens aroused his desire for control.

The man in the hole began to climb up with all his strength. It seemed that he had very little strength, so even with the roaring threat of death all around him, it took him 5 minutes.

"Are you tired?" Zhou Ye handed him a small bottle of water.

"Of course, ha..." The man took the water while panting exaggeratedly, "Just try to climb."

It really seems that there is no threat.

Zhou Ye then pushed the wheelchair a few more times so that the man who was exhausted and paralyzed on the ground could see his whole body clearly.

"Damn it! You, you are a disabled person, no, a disabled person." The young man immediately apologized in a low voice, "I didn't mean to, thank you for the water."

"It doesn't matter," Zhou Ye shook his head and pointed to his eyes, "I can't see here either."

"Ah," the man's voice sounded even more guilty, "Then what should we do, this place is full of those monsters you mentioned, you are a disabled person, and I am a waste."

"Waste?" Zhou Ye didn't quite understand what he said.

"Ah, it means waste."

Zhou Ye had no choice but to give him some stones and let him temporarily block the gap in the cave. The two were about to make a fire when the young man suddenly said happily, "It's dawn."

The sound of the alien beast also disappeared without a trace, as if it was just some kind of threatening background sound. Then the man took the initiative to push the wheelchair. The two went outside and felt the warmth of the sun falling on their bodies. Zhou Ye clenched his hands that were originally on the side of the wheelchair.

Something was wrong. There was a problem with the flow of time here. If calculated from the moment he became blind, it would only be four hours until dawn.

"If you can see, let's go find a water source. The water I brought won't last long." Zhou Ye said in the direction of the man.

"Okay, I'll be your eyes."

The two searched all the way and soon found a water source. Zhou Ye heard many small creatures drinking water. The man lit a fire nearby and heated the raw water. Then the two drank it and made sure there was nothing wrong.

The sky soon darkened. Just like the first day, the aliens roared but did not approach the cave.

On the third day, under Zhou Ye's teaching, the man began to learn how to set traps and successfully harvested some alien rabbit meat. Zhou also liked to eat this. That day, the two slept closely in the cave.

For more than ten days, no crisis occurred. Even the alien calls that he originally thought were terrifying almost became the prelude to Zhou Ye's sleep. Once they started to call, Zhou Ye knew it was dark.

"There are really no other humans here except you and me."

Before going to bed, the man who was leaning on Zhou Ye's wheelchair began to talk again.

"So what if there are no other humans?" Zhou Ye leaned his head back, and had already adjusted the wheelchair to sleep mode. He was drowsy and uninterested in answering him.

"You are not afraid because you can't see." The implicit content in the man's words made Zhou Ye open his eyes instantly.

He asked casually: "What did you see?"

"Uh... footprints, except for the first day, there are strange footprints everywhere near the cave, some are curled like snakes, some are like canines, and there are only three footprints, one after another, overlapping on the road."

"And the rain has been getting heavier these two days, but the footprints are getting more and more. Isn't this very abnormal?"

"Why didn't you tell me?" Zhou Ye frowned, and his hand quietly touched the plain ring on his ring finger.

"You are blind and lame. Telling you will only make one more person afraid. Alas, are we not going to live long?"

"No." Zhou also sighed. This man helped him a lot in the past few days, and he had no intention of abandoning him just because he was a burden. He even recognized him as the Holy Spirit who was on test. After all, if he hadn't helped him find the water source, he would have wasted a lot of time.

"If the monster comes in, I will save you. After all, as you said, there are only two of us here."

"Should I be the one to say this? Haha, you are so funny," the young man laughed, but a little sadly. "By the way, what's your name? I just remembered to ask you now."

"Zhou Ye, what's your name?"

"Your last name is Zhou? My mother's last name is also Zhou. My name is Chen Hao, and I'm a historian."

"Chen Hao, I thought you were just..." The false existence in the compass.

Zhou Ye had a hard time breathing when he heard the word historian. It turned out that there was one in front of him that he couldn't find.

"So what are you studying? Do you remember why you came here?"

"I'm studying history, but I'm just a jerk. Didn't I tell you at the beginning that I'm a mess here? I was staying at home well, but suddenly an association invited me to go out on a mission."

"Yes, I'm here. It's really weird. Even the water is red. It can't be heavily polluted."

"I miss home a little. I want to go home." He muttered again.

"Association..." Zhou also thought of his parents. Whether they were missing or sick, the association was involved. Now he saw that the person in front of him appeared in the compass of the cult because of the association. He was more certain that whether it was the cult or the top leaders of the association, they must have colluded with each other.

What good would it be for them to tamper with history?

He started to have tinnitus again from thinking so he hammered his temple with his hand. Chen Hao beside him held him down and he began to massage Zhou Ye.

"I know we can survive thanks to you," he said helplessly, "Before you became paralyzed, you were not some super special..."

But Zhou Ye lowered his head and his vision began to recover. In the black and white, he only noticed that he was standing behind the wheelchair, with deformed toes exposed from his worn shoes. That was the primary sign of contamination - the abnormal increase in limbs.

Yes, he was an ordinary person without talent. It was already very good that he could persist for so many days in close contact with the contamination of aliens.

Zhou Ye interrupted him and said, "Chen Hao, do you have any wish?"

"Wish? Going home counts. If you can send me home, you can even call me dad. I really don't want to live in a cave anymore."

"Okay." Zhou Ye laughed and gave him a slap on the hand, causing him to scream in pain. When he

looked up again, the sky was bright. The colors in front of Zhou Ye's eyes were restored, no longer just black and white. He raised his head and wanted to remember Chen Hao's appearance.

However, he saw in the cave where the light was shining, the monsters holding extinguished torches, with distorted faces, and who knew how many noses, eyes, mouths, and ears they had, were all staring at their every move.

And Chen's face, which seemed to be neither crying nor laughing, had collapsed, and was completely supported by the last bit of spirit.

"It's daybreak. Shall we go find food for today?"

He was just about to answer, but in the blink of an eye, Tu Yue and Siming were beside him, along with the chief priest, Aesina, and the youngest, Louisa, who was also holding his hand with a worried look on her face.

"I'm fine." Zhou Yang hid the scene in his heart, touched Louisa's head, and looked at the officiating priest: "My approval?"

"Of course, it's already very good to be able to come out alive." The officiating priest grinned in the expectant eyes of everyone and sneered, "Let's start the second trial."