Chapter 647 Dead
It was not until the torture chambers along the entire long street were closed that Zhou Wen was forcibly teleported out and returned to the stone slab where he was before.
Zhou Wen, Liuyun and Chuhe all looked at the stone slab under Zhou Wen's feet, only to see that the number on the stone slab had changed to 1369. In other words, during the time when the torture chamber was open, Zhou Wen had gained more than a thousand steps in total, which was the same number Zhou Wen had secretly memorized.
"It turns out that this really can increase the number of steps." Zhou Wen felt a lot more relieved. With the power of the Prison King, the problem of the number of steps was solved.
However, we cannot completely relax. Although the power of the Prison King can intimidate the torture chamber, it cannot compete with the rules of Huangquan City.
Zhou Wen took a step while maintaining the state of the Prison King's soul, and the number of steps he took would still decrease, indicating that the rules of Huangquan City were still valid for him.
Now we have only solved the problem of the number of steps, and the deadlock of the three iron laws of Huangquan City has not been untied. We must find a way to leave as soon as possible.
"You...how did you do it?" Chu He looked at Zhou Wen in surprise. He had never seen anyone tortured like Zhou Wen.
Liuyun also wanted to know how Zhou Wen did it. This guy kept surprising him.
He originally thought that he was doing pretty well. Although he was not a member of the six major families, he possessed resources and skills that the young geniuses of the six major families did not have.
But unexpectedly, Zhou Wen was even more exaggerated than him. He had all kinds of good things and abilities, as if he could solve any problem.
"Maybe my Qi Jue has a restraining effect on the white ghost in the torture chamber." Zhou Wen said half-truthfully.
"Junior brother, you won't abandon your lovely and kind senior brother, right?" Liuyun was a little worried that Zhou Wen would just leave after he had the number of steps.
"How can that be? I'm counting on you, senior brother, to take me to the endless sea of stars." Zhou Wen said.
"Little Junior Brother is right. After we get out, I will definitely take you to the Endless Star Sea and help you obtain the Star-Stealing Hand." Liu Yun paused, then added, "But you can move freely, but I don't have enough steps. What should I do?"
"When the torture chamber opens next time, you and I will choose the same torture chamber to be tortured. Then I will let the white ghost take care of you, and the steps will naturally be counted." Zhou Wen said.
"Teacher really has good vision. Junior brother, you are truly a genius. I think apart from you, even if the six heroes were resurrected and came in person, they would not be as glorious as you, junior brother..." Liuyun said flatteringly.
Zhou Wen didn't believe a single word he said. People like him always say one thing and think another, and no one could tell which of his words were true and which were false.
If Zhou Wen didn't want to go and take a look at the endless sea of stars, he really didn't want to stay with Liuyun.
Although they are all Fang Mingyuan's students, perhaps because Liuyun entered society a few years earlier than them, it feels that he is not as trustworthy as Jiang Yan, Zhong Ziya and Hui Haifeng.
Of course, it could also be because Zhou Wen had never gotten along with Liuyun.
The three of them waited for another hour. After the bell rang again, the door of the torture room opened again. Zhou Wen chose to enter the flogging room. Liuyun and Chu He also chose flogging.
Three people were hung side by side in the whip room, and immediately three white ghosts appeared, each holding a rattan whip, and were about to whip them.
As soon as Zhou Wen's Prison King Soul appeared, the three white ghosts immediately knelt on the ground, trembling as if Zhou Wen would eat them at any time.
So, the three of them sat side by side in the whipping room to be tortured. Liuyun experienced for the first time the feeling of being lifted high and then gently dropped. He hummed comfortably, "Junior brother, if I had known you were capable of this, why would I have endured the pain of being cut and shattered?"
"I only discovered it after entering the torture room." Zhou Wen said casually.
After the torture chamber was closed, Zhou Wen's number of steps had reached nearly three thousand, and Chu He and Liu Yun had also taken more than a thousand steps.
"If we do it one more time, our steps should be enough to reach the Yellow Springs Throne." Liuyun said happily.
Zhou Wen was about to say something when he saw someone's body explode on the long street. Blood splattered all over the ground and was quickly absorbed by the ground.
"That person ran out of steps and couldn't bear the punishment, so he ended his own life." Chu He said with a sigh.
Zhou Wen discovered that there were fewer people on the long street, and now there were only twenty-four people left. The missing ones were probably killed in the torture chamber.
The three continued to wait, while Zhou Wen used the forbidden power of Huangquan City to continuously train the Jade Infant.
The original Jade Baby looked cold, like a jade carving, and later it turned into the appearance of crystal. However, with the baptism of the forbidden power, the Jade Baby gradually became softer, like transparent jelly, and it seemed that its body became softer.
"Is it about to break through?" Zhou Wen had a vague feeling that Yuying was really about to break through, and it was only the last half step away.
Another hour passed, and the three of them were tortured together again. When they came out, Zhou Wen's step count had exceeded 4,000, and the two of them were almost 3,000.
"That should be enough now, let's go." Liuyun was in high spirits and took the lead forward.
Chu He naturally followed them. Zhou Wen wanted to take Chu He out and then investigate whether this was the real Chu He.
Soon, Zhou Wen discovered some problems. Chu He's combat level was very poor. He had not even been promoted to the epic level, but only the legendary level.
Whenever he encountered dimensional creatures on the road, Zhou Wen and Liuyun helped him block them.
"Professor Chu, you don't seem to be good at fighting. How did you walk so far before we came?" Zhou Wen asked Chu He puzzledly.
Chu He thought for a moment and said, "Before you came, I didn't seem to have stepped on any stone slabs with a cause of death."
"Then Professor Chu, you are really lucky." Although Zhou Wen had some doubts in his heart, he could not think of any other possibility except this explanation.
Soon, Zhou Wen and his companions caught up with the people in front. However, each of them seemed numb. Zhou Wen and Liuyun wanted to communicate with them, but they only hummed and ahed. They looked as if they had collapsed in despair.
"Forget it, there's no way to communicate like this, let's go." Liuyun said.
Zhou Wen nodded and continued to move forward. Every time he met someone, he tried to communicate with them, but the further he went, the more numb those people became. The few people behind him simply ignored them, like wooden men.
"These people seem to have some problems. When I first met Professor Chu He, he also had similar tendencies. However, he was closest to the city gate and his symptoms were the mildest. No wonder I felt that Chu He was a little weird at the beginning. I thought it was because he hadn't talked to anyone for too long. Now it seems that's not the case." Zhou Wen thought secretly in his heart, but because Chu He was next to him, he didn't say it out loud.
Soon, the three of them reached the end of the long street and stepped onto the stone steps. With every step they took, the number of steps consumed doubled. One step was equivalent to three steps on the stone slabs.
Just these 365 stone steps will take more than a thousand steps.
Only Zhou Wen had enough steps, Chu He and Liu Yun did not. Zhou Wen had no choice but to wait until the bell rang again and let them find a torture room nearby to be tortured. Only after they had taken enough steps could they climb the stone steps.
when!
When Zhou Wen rang the bell, he saw the golden throne slowly open. Behind it was the gateway to Huangquan City, and the desert outside could be seen.
However, the Lord of Huangquan City stood in the center of the Huangquan Throne, blocking their way. The Lord of Huangquan City glanced at the three of them, and finally fixed his gaze on Zhou Wen.
Zhou Wen has already prepared for the battle. He doesn't think it will be so easy to leave Huangquan City.
"You can go, but he must stay." The Lord of Huangquan City did not take any action, but just stretched out his index finger and pointed at Chu He.
"He can also ring the Yellow Spring Bell, so why can't he leave?" Zhou Wen asked with a frown.
"Because he is already dead." The Lord of Huangquan City said lightly.
"What do you mean? He is obviously a living person, how could he be dead?" Liuyun said.
Zhou Wen suddenly seemed to have thought of something. He turned to look at Chu He and asked, "Professor Chu, what was the exact date of the year and month when you entered Huangquan City?"
"It should be March 8th, 28 years. What happened?" Chu He asked in surprise.
Zhou Wen's face suddenly changed, because 28 years was the year when the old professor and his team went to Zhuolu. In other words, Chu He had entered Huangquan City in that year, but he always believed that he entered Huangquan City today. So there was only one possibility.
With Chu He's ability, it was impossible for him to survive in Huangquan City, so he would have died long ago.
But Chu He was now standing in front of him alive, making it hard to believe that he was a dead man.
(End of this chapter)
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