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"As you can see, this scar is one of the results of my many days and nights of torture."
Zhou Dong's voice became low, and he took out a small knife from the pocket of his coarse linen clothes. Under Yang Yu's gaze, he stabbed the knife into the wound on himself.
The knife stirred violently in the wound, and Zhou Dong's face looked much better.
"Only by not dreaming can we avoid the endless torture in dreams."
"But this is not the end. As time went by, some of us went crazy during the day... Even during the day, we fell into painful torment, causing our souls to collapse."
"It wasn't until we discovered that we had to work from sunrise to sunset like the villagers in this world that we were able to calm down mentally and finally found a way to survive."
Zhou Dong smiled unhappily.
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"Didn't find a solution?"
Yang Yu seemed to be asking the question even though he knew the answer.
"No, it's hard enough to survive. I'm lucky enough to escape that endless torture."
Zhou Dong slumped in the chair, his whole body relaxed. Just recalling the events of the past 1000 years made him feel exhausted.
This is not only physical torture, but also mental pain.
People with weak wills would have been tortured to death long ago. Now that they are alive, although their wills are not as strong as iron, at least they have the idea in their heads that it is better to live a miserable life than to die.
Yang Yu narrowed his eyes and said nothing.
According to Zhou Dong, they came to this world 1000 years ago, collected all the treasures in the world on the first day, and began to look for a way to enter the immortal ruins. On the same night, they encountered rules that absolutely could not be violated in this world. They left the house at night, and countless people were killed and injured. Only a very small number of them survived.
And all those who escaped from the white fog seemed to be cursed. Once night fell, sleepiness would come over them, and they would fall into dreams, and be tormented by endless nightmares.
Later on, they would even fall into nightmares during the day, and many people would suffer mental breakdowns and spiritual disorders during this period, until they discovered that as long as they farmed at sunrise like the villagers in this world, they could avoid daytime sleepiness. How much time would it take to do both?
How many people will be left in the end?
20:1?
Or 100:1?
There are quite a few people in the village now, unless Zhou Dong brought tens of thousands of people with him when he came to this world last time, but this is even more unrealistic than what Zhou Dong said was all true.
Especially regarding the description of the white fog, Fairy Haoyue repeatedly told him that he could not leave the house at night, but Zhou Dong said that some of their people entered the white fog and were still able to survive. This was too vague...
Yang Yu was quite skeptical about this statement.
You can believe what Zhou Dong says, but whether you can trust it completely... depends on how sincere Zhou Dong is in the future.
"Have you not found any way out in all these years?"
Yang Yu did not ask too many questions about Zhou Dong and the others' past, nor did he ask them how many treasures from the immortal ruins they had obtained in this world. Instead, he asked them what they wanted to know most.
"…It's hard to say. We seemed to have found many ways to leave here, but in the end, none of them worked."
Zhou Dong shook his head in distress and couldn't help sighing.
"For hundreds of years, in addition to farming at sunrise, we have also thought about many ways to escape from this world. In the end, we came to three conclusions, three ways to escape from this world."
"First, once your strength reaches the upper third realm, you can integrate into the movement of space, and then you can find an opportunity to leave this world."
"Second, find the entrance to the immortal ruins. You can pass through there and leave this world in the same way."
"Third, if you find the secret of this world and crack the rules of the white mist, and thoroughly understand this world, you can also leave this world."
Having said that, Zhou Dong took out a storage ring from his arms and placed it on the table.
"You can take a look at this ring. It contains many things we have found in this world. Whether it is treasures or useful deeds, they are all in this ring."
Yang Yu did not take the ring, but sat on the chair, staring at Zhou Dong with an inexplicable smile on his lips.
"…What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
Zhou Dong felt a little frightened by Yang Yu's gaze.
"It's okay, just thinking about a question."
Yang Yu laughed a few times.
The three ways of leaving this world mentioned by Zhou Dong seem to be very useful, but in fact they are completely useless.
You can think of these three methods with a little thought. There is no need for any exploration. It is certain that the upper three realms can leave this world. Teleportation is originally about integrating into space, and using the rules of heaven and earth to quickly cross space. This world can come in with one step, so for the upper three realms, they can take one step out.
Leaving this world at the entrance of the immortal ruins, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than leaving this world and entering the immortal ruins. If you want to leave this world through that entrance and return to the eternal world, you must be in the upper three realms.
Not to mention the third method of finding the real secret of this world. Once you know the room, would it be difficult to open and close the door with the key?
Zhou Dong and his group of people may have been trapped in this world for thousands of years and suffered a lot. Those who have survived to this day should not have any problems with their brains.
Not only did he not say a word about why they came here, but he was also very vague about the things that happened to Bai Wu, and only mentioned it in one sentence.
Up to now, Zhou Dong still chose to test and said these three seemingly useful but actually idiotic methods, wanting to see if Yang Yu really knew a way to leave this world.
Taking out the ring containing the things they looted in this world is just a stopgap measure, pretending to show their sincerity. Who knows what is inside, maybe it's just junk picked up from the ground.
Ha ha.
The smile on Yang Yu's face was quite bright.
Since you guys play like this, don't blame me for being ruthless.
"Mr. Zhou Dong, that's a good point. But if you say so, then I think our deal ends here. You continue to stay in this remote mountain villa for vacation, and I will leave here after completing my mission. But don't worry, I will tell you Zhoutian Chamber of Commerce that the people trapped here are still alive."
The words fell,
Yang Yu lay on the chair, raised his feet and leaned them on the table, closing his eyes and resting.
Zhou Dong's eyelids twitched and his face looked a little stiff.
The air in the wooden house suddenly became strangely suffocating.
Zhou Dong wanted to test Yang Yu, but Yang Yu didn't want to play anymore and simply overturned the table.
If you want to test it, just stay here. If you don’t tell the truth, give up as soon as possible and don’t think about leaving here.
Yang Yu did not have the kindness of saving a life as if it were better than building a seven-story pagoda for these people trapped here. He was just curious and wanted to know some of the secrets that these people knew. Perhaps he could better understand the secrets of this world, including the black seeds, which would also be helpful for him to break through the fourteen seals and leave here.
To put it bluntly, this is a deal.
Yang Yu took the initiative to go to the table and invite the other party, but the other party was just testing him and had no sincerity at all, so that was the end of it.
Zhou Dong's face changed from blue to white. He really didn't expect Yang Yu to just drop the conversation.
"Fellow Daoist, we can talk it out. Let's discuss it together."
Zhou Dong held it in for a long time before finally uttering these words.
Yang Yu still closed his eyes and rested.
When the sun rises, he will leave here.
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"Fellow Daoist, I know that my actions just now were somewhat probing, but you haven't shown any real ability to take us away from here, which makes it really difficult for us to trust you directly."
"And it was you who first asked to trade with us and stayed in the village. Otherwise, we wouldn't be talking in the wooden house right now, right? In a way, it was you who first asked us to trade."
Zhou Dong thought it over again and again, his face grim, but he still lowered his head first. However, his words and actions hinted at belittling Yang Yu.
He wanted to steer the conversation in his direction.
"Who's asking who?"
Yang Yu opened his eyes and laughed.
He is not a good-tempered person, nor is he a righteous man. To put it bluntly, the cultivation level of these people on the other side is only the late stage of foundation building at most, and he can kill them all with just a thought.
If people like Zhou Dong can survive until now, it is impossible for them to want to die. With a knife on Zhou Dong's neck, Yang Yu didn't believe that he would not tell the truth.
But he wouldn't do such a thing.
What's more, this is a deal. He invited the other party to the table, and the other party agreed to come to the table to negotiate the deal. Both parties are not satisfied with the negotiated conditions. Will they continue to be deadlocked at the negotiation table?
Having said that, since Zhou Dong doesn't want to reveal anything and doesn't trust him, he won't continue the transaction.
Zhou Dong was choked for a moment.
It was indeed Yang Yu who arrived at the village first, but now it was they who wanted to trade more.
"That's it. I'll leave here tomorrow."
Yang Yu closed his eyes and stopped talking to Zhou Dong.
Zhou Dong opened the window of the wooden house and looked at the white mist outside the window. A complex look flashed across his deep eyes.
Silent all night.
Dawn.
Yang Yu left the village after dawn and went to the remaining dozens of villages.
Other members of the Zhoutian Chamber of Commerce in the village walked out of their houses, saw Yang Yu leaving, and went to Zhou Dong's side.
"President, how was your discussion with this person last night? Did you find a way to leave here?"
A young man asked impatiently.
"Yes, we have been trapped here for a thousand years, and we suffer all kinds of torture every day. If we stay here for a while longer, I'm afraid I'll go crazy."
An older man echoed.
"No, he and I didn't come to any conclusion. He didn't want to reveal his method of leaving me, and we couldn't tell him what we knew."
Zhou Dong said calmly.
The people from the Zhoutian Chamber of Commerce all froze in place, their joyful hopes dashed, and their faces turned quite ugly.
"No way, President, he came here on his own initiative, how could he be so injured that there would be no results? Could it be that he didn't want to tell us halfway and was trying to trick us?"
The young man became angry when his expectations were dashed. He stomped his feet heavily and looked at the place where Yang Yu left with a face full of resentment.
"That's not the case. There was no discussion between him and me. He was unwilling to reveal any way to leave here, but it was not so easy to reveal our things to him, so this deal ended before it even started."
Zhou Dong told the truth.