In a room with a one-way mirror, Chu Jun and Li Xiu were looking at a person in the room through the one-way mirror.

In that prison-like room, the walls, tables, chairs, beds, even sheets and cups were all black.

The person inside was sitting on a chair, staring at the teacup on the table, mumbling something. I couldn't hear what he was saying, but his voice was too soft to make it clear.

Li Xiu and Chu Jun watched for more than half an hour. The man stared at the cup and muttered for more than half an hour. Apart from his body shaking strangely like he had Parkinson's disease, he didn't even stand up.

"Mr. Chu, he has always been like this, except when he eats, drinks and sleeps, he has always been like this." The official from Hongsha City who accompanied Mr. Chu said with a smile.

"Can we go in and talk to him?" Chu Jun asked.

"Of course, but he is crazy and can't understand human language, so it may be difficult to communicate with him." The official said as he led Li Xiu and Chu Jun to the door of the room and asked someone to open the locked door: "Please come in, both of you."

Li Xiu and Chu Jun walked over, but the man ignored them and continued to sit in front of the table muttering to himself.

"Apa, someone is here to see you." The official shouted at the man, but there was still no response.

"Mr. Chu, I'm really sorry, he is just like this. Just ask whatever you want to ask. If you are lucky, he may say a few nonsense words. If you are unlucky, he will not even pay attention to you." said the official.

Li Xiu and Chu Jun looked at each other, and Li Xiu walked to the side of the man and looked at his appearance.

He looked to be in his twenties, a handsome young man. However, in his eyes, Li Xiu could not see any vitality that a young man should have. He only saw emptiness, despair and deep fear.

Li Xiu didn't ask him anything, but just squatted down and moved closer to listen to what he was muttering.

"One hundred and eighty-nine million, six hundred and forty-seven thousand, seven hundred and sixty-four... One hundred and eighty-nine million, six hundred and forty-seven thousand, seven hundred and sixty-three..."

After Li Xiu heard it clearly, he found that he was just counting, one number at a time, slowly. According to his speed, it would take him more than ten seconds to count one number, and there was no regularity in the intervals.

Obviously, the numbers he counted were not used for timing.

But what use is it, other than telling time? What is he counting?

Li Xiu followed his gaze and looked at the cup. It was a pure black cup without any patterns on it, and there was nothing for him to count.

"One... two... three... four... six..." Li Xiu didn't ask him anything, but tried to count beside him.

After counting for only a few seconds, the man suddenly turned to look at him, opened his mouth and said with a smile: "You counted wrong..."

"Where did I count wrong?" Li Xiu asked.

The man did not answer him. He turned to look at the cup and continued counting. His memory was surprisingly good, and he continued counting the numbers from before.

Li Xiu also continued counting down and raised his voice. His voice had already drowned out the man's voice.

But that person was not affected by him at all and continued counting on his own. Li Xiu listened for a while and found that his interference was useless and the number of people was not wrong at all.

"One hundred and seven...one hundred and nine..." Li Xiu deliberately omitted a number.

"You are wrong...you are wrong..." The man turned around again and grinned at him, his smile was a bit creepy.

"What will happen if I'm wrong?" Li Xiu asked.

But the man ignored him and started counting again.

"Sir, you can try asking something else, maybe he can answer you." The official said with a smile.

"No need, let's go." Li Xiu stared at the man for a while, then stood up and walked out of the room.

"Sir, you really don't have any more questions?" The official looked at Li Xiu with some confusion.

"No need. He's already so crazy, and we won't get anything out of him." Li Xiu looked at the official and asked, "Did he say anything before?"

"The information has been given to Mr. Chu. Everything he said is recorded. You can check it." said the official.

"Okay, let's go." Li Xiu and Chu Jun left this prison-like place together.

"Why don't you ask a few more questions?" When Chu Jun returned to their accommodation and saw that there was no one around, he asked with some confusion.

"If there is anything that can be found out, the experts in Hongsha City would have asked it long ago. No matter how many questions I ask, I will never be more professional than those experts." Li Xiu said.

"So what do you think? Do you still want to go to the Gate of Purgatory? I think it's better not to go. Seeing this man, I feel a little scared and not very good." Chu Jun said.

"No, I want to go to the Gate of Purgatory." After meeting this person, Li Xiu had already made up his mind. He wanted to go to the Gate of Purgatory.

It can be confirmed that the trial of the Gate of Purgatory has nothing to do with physical fitness, but is related to the brain. Such a trial is very beneficial to Li Xiu.

And he vaguely felt that the trial of the Gate of Purgatory might be related to the number of people.

"In that case, we will follow the original plan. You will go to the Purgatory Gate tomorrow. Three days later, our family will go to Red Sand City to complete the transaction. If nothing goes wrong, you should be able to get out before then." Chu Jun finished speaking, still a little worried, "I always feel that person is weird, and I feel uneasy."

"Don't worry, since some people can come out alive, I can definitely come out alive." Li Xiu comforted Chu Jun with a smile.

"That's right. If it's you, there should be no problem." Seeing that Li Xiu had made up his mind, Chu Jun didn't say anything else.

After a night's rest, early the next morning, the officials who had received Li Xiu and Chu Jun yesterday took them on a bus, and took them out of Hongsha City and along a road into the mountains.

The bus went around and around along the winding mountain road. The road was very poorly maintained, narrow and broken, with many potholes and some puddles of water.

Several times, Li Xiu thought that the bus was going to drive out of the mountain road, but it turned out to be just turning a corner.

Fortunately, Li Xiu's mental and physical condition were in good condition, otherwise, even if he hadn't been knocked unconscious, he would have suffered a relapse of heart disease.

The car went down a mountain and up another mountain. When the sun was overhead, the bus finally stopped at a valley.

The official got out of the car with two soldiers and said to Li Xiu and Chu Jun in the car, "We can only walk the rest of the way. The road has not been built to that side yet."

Li Xiu picked up his backpack and got out of the car with Chu Jun. They left the road and walked towards the mountain path next to it.

Although the road was difficult to walk on, it was nothing for the trial-takers. An hour later, several people arrived at a simple base built on the mountain.

There was an electric fence outside the base and soldiers in full armor guarding it inside. The official took out a pass and the soldiers inside let them in.

Led by officials and an officer in the base, Li Xiu and his team passed through the base and were brought to a cave behind the base.

At the deepest part of the cave, there is a black stone door embedded in the rock. The door is black without any patterns or carvings on it. If it were not for the seventy-two grooves, it would be difficult to find that it is a trial door. One would just think it is a smooth rock wall.

"Mr. Chu, this is the gate to Purgatory." The official said breathlessly, wiping his sweat. After such a long journey, his fat body could not bear it anymore and beads of sweat covered his forehead.

Chu Jun nodded, glanced at Li Xiu, then walked to the stone wall and took out a small bag from his arms. After opening it, he found that it was filled with rubies and sapphires weighing about three carats. It seemed that the gem to open the door to Purgatory was given by Chu Jun himself.

According to the information provided by the Lord of Red Sand City, the Gate of Purgatory cannot be opened using the Trial Badge, but only with gems.

Li Xiu didn't say anything. Even if these gems came from Hongsha City, they were obtained in exchange for a transaction with the Chu family. He still owed Chu Jun a favor, so there was no difference.

"Bring the people over here." The officer called out, and some soldiers with guns escorted a group of dozens of people over to the gate of Purgatory.

Seeing Chu Jun stop what he was doing and look at those people, the official said with a big smile on his face: "Mr. Chu, there is no limit on the number of people who can take the trial at the Gate of Purgatory, and each person's trial is separate and has no impact on each other. It's a bit of a waste for you to only have one person go in, can you let a few people in as well?"

This sounded like a plea, but in fact, Chu Jun had no choice but to agree. Everyone was ready. Even if Chu Jun didn't agree, once the door opened, they would run inside. Could Chu Jun stop them?

Chu Jun looked at Li Xiu, and Li Xiu nodded slightly. Chu Jun didn't say anything and continued to put the gem into the groove.

Thirty-six rubies and thirty-six sapphires are inlaid on both sides. The quality of those gems is quite good, and they are all over three carats. The cost of opening the Gate of Purgatory is quite high.

When all seventy-two rubies and blue sapphires were inlaid, all the gems lit up by themselves, and the two doors were dyed blue and red respectively by the light of the gems.

With a loud bang, the two doors slowly opened, revealing a gap.

No light came out of the gap. It was a little different from the trial gate that Li Xiu had entered before. It was pitch black inside and nothing could be seen.

Even though Li Xiu was wearing the Dark Mirror on his face, he could still only see a deep black.

"Sir, please come in." The official made a gesture of invitation to Li Xiu, urging him to go in quickly.

Since Li Xiu didn't go in, it would be difficult for the people from Hongsha City to go in either.

Li Xiu looked at Chu Jun, and Chu Jun said, "I'll wait for you here, and we'll go back together."

"Okay." Li Xiu nodded slightly and walked into the darkness inside the door.

After Li Xiu entered the door, the officer ordered the soldiers to drive those dozens of people in. Soon the door slowly closed, and with a loud bang, the world inside was completely isolated from the outside.

In a white room, Li Zheng was looking at everything in the room.

The room here is about the same size as the one in the dark maze, and is also a white room. The difference is that there is no door in this room.

The whole room was like a big sealed box, with nothing in it except Li Xiu.

Suddenly, a light screen appeared on the wall, and that familiar cold voice sounded at the same time.

"Welcome to the Purgatory Gate Trial Field. The S-level trial is about to begin. The rules are as follows: survive until the end of the trial."

There is only one rule: survive until the end of the trial, nothing else.

There is no time limit, no rules, and no project. The only thing you need to do is survive.

As the countdown to the trial ended, the trial officially began.

Li Xiu stood in the house and waited for a long time, but nothing happened. The white house was eerily quiet.

"Is it really true that all I have to do is survive until the end of the trial?" Li Xiu muttered to himself, but found that he could not hear his own voice.

Li Xiu frowned slightly and tried to kick the white wall. He originally just wanted to see if he could make any sound, but after kicking it, he found that he didn't feel any pain in his foot at all.

He kicked his feet a few more times and still didn't feel any pain. However, after taking off his white shoes, he found that his feet were a little red and swollen.

"This trial deprives me of my hearing and sense of touch." Li Xiu smelled his arm again and found that he could no longer smell anything.

I licked my arm, but the taste was gone.

"Only the vision is still there." Li Xiu thought to himself.

I tried to summon the magic spirit, but it didn't work. I tried to pull out the contract, but it didn't work either. Just like the ordinary trial field, contracts and magic spirits cannot be used here.

I tried to use the skills again, and they worked, and it was no different from a normal trial field.

Li Xiu sat in the middle of the room, quietly observing the room with his eyes. The room was all white, with no patterns or gaps, and no changes could be seen.

In such an environment, it is easy to feel mentally exhausted and want to sleep.

Li Xiu did not sleep. He kept counting silently in his heart. He had been counting since the moment the trial began. From the beginning to now, he has counted more than a thousand numbers.

There was nothing, nothing to do, and no idea when the trial would end, so Li Xiu just sat there and counted.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Li Xiu's counting was a little different from that madman's. Each of his numbers corresponded to one second.

Later, because the numbers were so long, he used several seconds to correspond to each number, which was like timing.

According to Li Xiu's timing, he had been here for six hours, but he was surprised to find that he did not feel hungry at all.

"It's been six hours, and I'm still not feeling hungry. Is it because time is running fast in my brain, or is it because my body has lost its feeling?" Li Xiu stood up, walked to a white wall, used the Blood Boiling Technique, and punched the wall.

The wall didn't react at all, and Li Xiu didn't feel anything, but his fingers were covered in blood and his finger bones seemed to be broken.

Li Xiu also tried to stop the bleeding, and then walked slowly around the room, knocking on the walls as he walked.

But he had no sense of touch or hearing, so even if there was nothing behind the wall, he couldn't tell it using this method.

"Is it possible that this room has an exit, but we can't find it because we only have visual access?" Li Xiu looked down at the wound on his hand. The wound seemed to be healing at the same speed as outside.

Because of the young demon in his body, his wounds will heal quickly.

However, Li Xiu was probably still clear about the healing speed. The healing speed here was almost the same as when he was outside, proving that the speed of time flow here had not changed. It was not the kind of time and space dislocation as described in the legend that one day in heaven was equal to one year on earth.

After Li Xiu marked the location, he punched the wall again. He wanted to try and see if there was a way out of the room.

Every time he hit something, he would get injured. Although his body could heal quickly and he no longer felt pain, Li Xiu knew very well that healing these wounds required energy.

Either he consumes his energy or consumes the energy of the young demon spirit. In any case, energy needs to be consumed.

Moreover, he doesn't feel anything now. Even if all the blood in his body is drained, he won't feel anything before he dies.

Now Li Xiu is very suspicious that some of the trial-takers who have entered here must have tried to bang their bodies against the wall like he did, hoping to find a possible exit.

But he didn't feel anything. Maybe he didn't even know he was dead even if he was hit to death.

Li Xiu didn't dare to let himself bleed too much, as that would make his body unable to hold on. He marked some points and only needed to test those points. It was impossible to try all the positions in the room.

After a long time, Li Xiu finally tried all the marked points, but no wall could be penetrated by him, and not even a trace was left.

"It seems that we can't get out of this room." Li Xiu sat down again.

He didn't have much hope in the first place. The rules of the trial only said that he had to survive until the end of the trial, but didn't say that he had to find a way out. The possibility of being able to get out was not high.

But if one can pass the trial just by waiting like this, how did those people die?

Could it be that they have been here for too long and have gone crazy and committed suicide?

Although there is indeed such a possibility, if a person is locked up in such a place for hundreds of years and does not get out, and does not know when the trial will end, it is possible that he will commit suicide in despair.

"Do we really have to wait for hundreds of years?" According to Li Xiu's timing, twenty-four hours had passed. If the trial was not over after three days, there would be a real problem.

Whether it is the body that has passed hundreds of years, or just the brain that feels like it has passed hundreds of years, it is not an easy thing to endure.

Li Xiu found that although he didn't feel anything, he felt sleepy and wanted to sleep.

Li Xiu Qiang held himself back from falling asleep and continued counting the time in his mind.

One day... two days... three days... four days...

By the fourth day, he already knew that Chu Jun's description was correct. There might really be a problem with his brain's cognitive time. It was very likely that he would have to stay here for decades or even hundreds of years before he could complete the trial and get out.

Fifteen days had passed and Li Xiu was still alive, which made him certain that the time experienced by the body and the time experienced by the brain were definitely different.

Even if the human body has no feelings, it is impossible to survive for fifteen days without water. There must be something wrong with the brain's judgment of time.

"What went wrong?" Li Xiu frowned and thought.