Chapter 71 They Should Have Had a Bright Future
Li Ping'an stood on a high stand, overlooking the front.
Not long ago, she was taken away from the prison by a pastor and came to such a strange place after many twists and turns.
Looking forward from her point of view, there was a huge deep pit in front of her, which seemed to be formed by repeated impacts of underground water.
It is hard to imagine that such a masterpiece could be formed underground.
The pastor who was leading the way suddenly stopped. Li Ping'an bumped into his back in the dark. He cried out in pain and immediately covered his nose and took a few steps back, looking ahead vigilantly.
"We're here," the pastor said.
arrive? Where are you?
Just as she was wondering, the pastor took out an infrared telescope from somewhere, handed it to her, and motioned her to look down, "Your partner is right below."
What's the meaning?
Did he say Zhang Dongyang and Qi Yu were down there?
But aren’t Zhang Dongyang and Qi Yu locked up in a cell?
Li Ping'an took the infrared telescope in confusion and looked into the deep pit below.
When she saw this, all the hair on her body stood up.
At the bottom of the deep pit, there was indeed a group of children huddled together. They were Zhang Dongyang and his group who were supposed to be in the cell.
How come they were down there?
When were they imprisoned in this deep pit down there?
Li Pingan was full of questions. He put down his binoculars and blurted out, "What did you do to them? Why are they down there?"
The pastor smiled grimly and did not answer her. Instead, he reminded her: "Look again carefully."
Look carefully? What are you looking at?
Li Ping'an raised the telescope in his hand again with doubt, held it next to his eyes, adjusted the magnification of the infrared telescope and looked downwards.
This time, I found the problem.
Zhang Dongyang and his group seem to be avoiding something?
Li Ping'an adjusted his posture and looked around with the telescope. When he saw the shadow that looked neither human nor ghost following closely behind them, his eyes widened instantly.
——That’s the White Walker!
"Qi Yu, Zhang Dongyang, it's dangerous, run!" Seeing the White Walkers appear, Li Pingan could no longer hold back and shouted.
Unfortunately, due to the long distance, her voice could not be transmitted.
Without thinking, she jumped down and flew to the bottom of the pit to rescue the people below.
Unfortunately, before he could summon the magic sword, the priest grabbed his arm from behind.
Li Pingan struggled violently and shouted, "Let me go! Those are White Walkers! There are White Walkers down there! Hurry up and rescue them! They will be in danger!"
The priest who caught her used his extraordinary power to restrain her, and at the same time calmly gestured "hush", "From now on, let's play a game."
Li Pingan said in disbelief: "It's already this time, why are you still playing games!?"
The pastor went on to say: "Have you heard of the Colosseum?"
"That was a game that the ancient nobles liked to play. They would throw wild beasts and slaves into the Colosseum and then bet on which side would win."
"This deep pit under the ground is a natural arena. We can watch the fight between extraordinary people and white walkers from it. Isn't it interesting?"
Listening to his words, Li Pingan felt cold all over.
She widened her eyes in disbelief and asked, "You threw them into the Colosseum just to watch them fight the White Walkers?"
This is outrageous!
"Why on earth would you do this?"
"Why? For the future of us extraordinary people." The priest suddenly became excited, "So that we will no longer be enslaved like pigs and dogs. This world should belong to us extraordinary people. Why should we have our wings cut off, be shackled, and be controlled by a group of low-level creatures?"
"Look at the White Walkers at the bottom of the pit. They used to be our companions." The priest pulled Li Ping'an to the edge of the stands and yelled madly, "How do you think they became White Walkers? They were harmed by the humans outside!"
"What do you think will happen to you if you don't join us? You will be just like the White Walkers below. You will be used up by the hypocritical Supernatural Administration outside and then thrown into this deep pit without seeing the sun. Your life will be worse than death."
Li Pingan struggled and said, "Let me go! I won't believe you!"
The pastor said, "I think I'm brainwashing you, right? In fact, you are the one who has been brainwashed by the Supernatural Administration. They have woven a huge lie for you, making you work for those ordinary humans all your life."
Li Pingan: "I want to save people, let me go!"
"You want to save them, right?" The pastor suddenly pressed Li Ping'an's shoulders and forced her to face him. "Kill me, and you can go down and save them."
"What did you say?" Li Pingan was stunned. For a moment, he thought he had misheard. "You want me to kill you? You threw them into the Colosseum and brought me here just to let me kill you?"
The pastor's sudden words made Li Ping'an feel that he was out of his mind.
The pastor nodded seriously and said, "I did such a cruel thing to your friend. Don't you hate me? Don't you want to kill me?"
Li Pingan thought the whole thing was ridiculous. "I hate you, but why do I have to kill someone just because I hate him? You committed a crime, and your crime should be judged by the law, not my personal preference."
The priest said gloomily, "You are a transcendent being, why should you be bound by the laws made by humans?"
Li Pingan: "But if I abuse my power to kill you, what difference will that make me any different from you?" She shook her head and said, "I don't want to kill anyone."
What bound her was never the law, but her heart.
Being rejected by Li Pingan, the pastor could no longer hide the anger on his face: "If you don't want to kill anyone, then you can only watch your companions die in front of you."
"Your companions are trapped in this huge Colosseum. This is an underground cave. The cave floods every winter. If you don't get out in time, you will drown in the cave."
"The underground branches of the cave are intertwined, the terrain is complex, and there are White Walkers inside. Do you think they can get out alive?"
Li Pingan took a step back and turned his head to look at the bottomless pit underground. Zhang Dongyang and the others were still fighting a desperate battle with the White Walkers down there.
The pastor's sinister voice sounded: "Watching them die, is it okay? They die or I die, this choice should not be difficult to make."
As he was speaking, his tone suddenly rose: "Oh, someone has been injured."
Li Ping'an's heart tightened and she stared at the deep pit below with wide eyes. Unfortunately, it was pitch black as far as she could see and she could not see anything. She had to turn around and look at the pastor.
Seeing her looking over, the priest put down the telescope in front of him, with a sly smile on his face, "Being injured is not a good sign for extraordinary people. Bleeding and weakness will greatly accelerate the rate at which their SAN value drops. First, they will have hallucinations, then go on a killing spree, and finally turn into White Walkers."
"That's how the White Walkers in this Colosseum came into being."
"If you don't kill me now, it might be too late."
Li Ping'an didn't know why the other party forced him to kill him?
She had a hunch that something was wrong, but time was running out and she didn't have time to think about it.
She bit her lower lip and asked, "Don't you want us to join you? If you do this and kill them, aren't you afraid of being blamed by your companions?"
The pastor spread his hands and said, "This is the only way to join the organization."
"Don't you know? When human life is in danger or the spirit encounters a major stimulus, the human body often bursts out with huge potential. This potential is the key to stimulating superpowers."
"Through the awakening ceremony, some of you may be able to unleash powerful superpowers, and only then will you be qualified to join the organization and become a member of the conquest of the entire world."
It turns out this is what they call the awakening ceremony.
Li Pingan trembled all over and said, "So you put them in the Colosseum just to awaken their superpowers? This is too cruel."
"Is it cruel?" The pastor said as a matter of course: "This is a method you invented."
"What did you say?" Li Pingan was stunned.
The pastor said, "Li Ping'an, have you forgotten? You are the one who awakened your superpowers through a series of car accidents. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have discovered such a way to create extraordinary people. Speaking of which, we have to thank you."
Li Pingan felt cold all over, "Who are you?"
"We are an organization." The pastor smiled and said, "When you were in the welfare home, didn't you see our people every day?"
Li Ping'an recalled that in the nightmare hidden deep in her soul, there was a pitch-black eye painted on the endless white wall.
Under the gaze of that eye, she spent three years that were too painful to recall.
Now they appear in front of him again and hurt his friends.
Li Pingan clenched her fists, her lips bleeding from the trembling teeth. She asked, "What do you want to do?"
The pastor said: "We just want you to wake up. If you don't kill people, someone will be killed. In this situation, what will you choose?"
A small knife appeared in his hand. He handed the knife to Li Ping'an and held her hand against his heart. "Come on, stab here and you will be free. From now on, you will no longer be in so much pain."
Li Pingan tried desperately to retract his hand and shook his head, "I don't want it... I don't want it..."
However, the big hand that was holding her was as hard as a branding iron and she couldn't get rid of it no matter what she did.
Just as the knife in her hand was about to pierce the other person's chest, a small figure suddenly jumped out from the side and pushed the pastor aside.
Then more figures appeared and fought with the priest.
"Junior sister, are you okay?" Zhang Dongyang appeared out of nowhere and helped Li Pingan up, panting.
Li Ping'an raised her head with tears in her eyes, looking through Zhang Dongyang in front of her, at Qi Yu and other children who were fighting with the pastor behind her.
"Zhang Dongyang, Qi Yu, and everyone... woo, are you all okay?"
Seeing everyone appear in front of him, Li Pingan finally couldn't hold back his tears.
Zhang Dongyang shook his head and said to Li Pingan: "Junior sister, we are fine, are you okay?"
Li Pingan wiped away his tears and shook his head.
Zhang Dongyang took Li Ping'an's hand and said, "Then let's run."
The two of them ran quickly in the dark underground.
After running a few steps, Li Pingan suddenly grabbed Zhang Dongyang's hand and said, "Wait, Qi Yu and the others are still over there."
Zhang Dongyang said anxiously: "Junior Sister, we can't care so much, as long as we can run away, it's one."
Li Pingan insisted: "No, we can't give up on anyone, let's go back and find them."
Zhang Dongyang hesitated for a while, but finally couldn't get over Li Pingan, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's go back."
The two of them returned along the same route they had come and returned to the stands where they started.
In just a short while, the place was already in a mess.
Several small figures were lying on the ground, seemingly unconscious.
Li Ping'an exclaimed and hurried forward to check.
When she turned over the body of the person closest to her, Qi Yu's pale face was revealed.
She stretched out her trembling hand and put it close to Qi Yu's nose, then her legs went limp and she fell to the ground.
Qi Yu, he has stopped breathing!
Li Ping'an looked up blankly at the other children lying around him, and for a moment he didn't have the courage to continue checking.
At this moment, a scream suddenly came from behind: "What are you doing? Let me go!"
She turned her head sharply and looked behind her.
There, Zhang Dongyang was held hostage by the pastor at some point and a knife was put to his neck.
He saw Li Pingan looking over and yelled at him with all his strength: "Junior sister, run! Run forward and don't look back!"
Li Ping'an struggled to get up from the ground, but his legs were too weak to stand.
She could only stay there helplessly, as if she was back to the day of the car accident three years ago, watching all the disasters happen but being unable to do anything.
Zhang Dongyang roared in front of her: "Let me go, my master is——"
Before he could finish his words, his voice suddenly stopped.
Blood gushed out from his neck, quickly soaking his entire clothes.
He opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
The priest waved the knife in his hand, drawing a perfect arc in the air, and his white robe was covered with blooming flowers.
Through Li Ping'an's slightly dilated pupils, Zhang Dongyang's small body collapsed.
“No——” Li Pingan let out a heart-wrenching scream, covered his mouth, and trembled all over.
She couldn't understand why things suddenly turned out like this?
The priest licked the blood stains on the knife and opened his red lips to her: "Are you angry? Are you in pain? Do you want to kill me?"
Li Pingan looked at him with lifeless eyes.
The pastor didn't find what he wanted to see in her eyes, and couldn't help but say with some disappointment: "How can a future member of the organization be someone as weak as you?"
"I am so disappointed in you. You failed the organization's test."
"None of this would have happened if you had killed me in the first place."
"Because of your cowardice, all your friends died in front of you."
"It was you who killed them."
As the cruel words rang out, Li Pingan's vision began to spin.
She couldn't help but bend over and vomit violently.
Everywhere I looked, I saw corpses with their eyes open.
Zhang Dongyang, Qi Yu, and many other children I don’t know, they should have had a bright future.
But now, everything is over.
As the pastor laughed wildly, she finally fell to the ground and closed her eyes.
Her world has darkened.
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