Chapter 706: Rise (2)
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"Hu! Hu! Hu!"
The doctor looked at Yue Ji who was doing push-ups continuously and said with difficulty.
"Why exercise? Although this place can bring you back to your senses, what's the point of doing it?"
After staying in this space and time for half a year, Yue Ji had probably gotten used to the pain. He continued to do push-ups, occasionally looking at the screen outside the cage.
A holographic projection, from which news from one's own world would be transmitted from time to time.
What he was sure of was that time flowed at a different speed.
Half a year here is only one day in the real world.
The six months here did not trigger the limit of his lifespan. After a long time, he could move around as a human being.
As for the principle, Yue Ji was not clear either.
"Exercise so I can go back... so I can go back and continue fighting."
Yue Ji's voice was mixed with panting, and the base of his palm left a light red mark on the cracked metal floor.
"Didn't you want to die here at first?"
"yes……"
Yue Ji said helplessly, "But didn't you also make sure that I survived? If I want to live, I will go back and live instead of dying here."
The doctor leaned against the rusty iron fence, tapping the bars rhythmically with his fingers.
"What's the difference between dying here and dying there?"
Yue Ji did not respond and continued to do push-ups with gritted teeth. After doing the hundredth time, he lay on the cold floor exhausted.
"Even if I go back... it's meaningless."
The doctor said sarcastically, but Yue Ji raised a question.
"How am I going to get back?"
"After being here for half a year, your brain has finally recovered? I thought the severe pain would make you unable to think."
Yue Ji cast a sharp gaze at the doctor, and the latter smacked his lips and then looked down into the huge pit, at the red bottom of the pit shrouded in bloody moonlight.
"Climb up, just like many Yueji who come here, climb up."
"Is it that simple?"
Yue Ji was a little dazed, but when he looked at the huge circular pit that was more than fifty meters high, he couldn't help but start to make trouble.
"Yes, climb up in human form."
After the doctor finished speaking, he found a place to sit down. Yue Ji kept looking at the huge pit and finally asked.
"This is a circular structure. It's very difficult to climb out. How many people have climbed up there?" Yue Ji stared at the scratches on the rock wall. One of them was very deep, with a winding line of blood at the end.
"Many Yue Ji came in, but only a few left. I suggest you don't think too much and just stay here honestly.
Once your physical pain is gone, you can witness many things here in eternity, at least much more than you would have if you had gone back."
"No, I've made up my mind."
"Then go ahead."
Hearing this, the doctor smiled.
Yue Ji glanced at the picture on the screen beside him, looked at Yishilin's chaotic and dull expression, and looked at the disaster caused by his aftermath. He gritted his teeth and came to the bottom of the pit.
Looking up, he saw the red moonlight. After catching a glimpse of the moon's eyes flowing with bloody tears, Yue Ji couldn't help but shiver.
Someone at the side brought a rope, and Yue Ji tied it around his waist, while the person at the bottom of the cage also came out, whispering continuously, which then turned into shouting.
“Facing your own pain.”
"Face your own pain!"
"Face your own pain!! Face your own pain!!!"
The whispers gradually turned into murmurs, which turned into shouts, and finally into a deafening wave of sound. Hundreds of wounded people walked out of the shadows, slapping their cages and repeating the same words at the top of their lungs until their voices were stained with blood.
Yue Ji pulled the rope, and after making sure there was no problem, he also climbed up gradually.
Every moment was torture. Yue Ji was well aware that his body still had many problems, and the healing here was nothing more than using pain to maintain life.
Grasping those cracks that could not be any smaller, Yue Ji climbed up desperately. Blood flowed out from the gaps between his nails. The severe pain made Yue Ji only feel excruciating pain in his hands.
When they reached a height of 40 meters, the shouts of the people at the bottom became louder and louder.
"Rise! Rise!"
"Rise up! Rise up!!"
The sound has changed. Yue Ji climbed up to a high platform to rest, and the composition of the rock wall turned into the corpses of other Yue Jis.
Different from what Yue Ji thought, the dead Yue Ji here did not show a weird smile, nor did he show any pain.
All they have is silence, compromise, and unspeakable sadness.
Yue Ji panted and checked the rope. Ahead was the final sprint - a 50-meter-high vertical rock wall, and the rope could only protect half the height. Going up further, he would really have to rely on his own hands.
He looked towards the highest point and saw only ten meters left.
Just jump to the next platform and everything will be easy.
Pulling the rope again, Yue Ji suddenly jumped towards the platform in front of him.
call!
The final sprint began with the instinct of muscle memory. When his right leg kicked against the rock wall, Yue Ji heard the steel nails in his old lumbar spine groaning under the heavy load. He rushed towards the edge of the platform like a deflected crossbow arrow.
The feeling of weightlessness came earlier than expected.
The moment the rope was stretched straight, the shriek of friction between the steel core and the hemp line pierced his eardrums. Yue Ji's back hit the rock wall heavily.
The knot that carried his entire body's weight was cutting his muscles, and five meters below in a pool of blood, a doctor was waiting to catch the falling body.
"I've told you before that it's unlikely that you can leave now. Wouldn't it be better for you to just stay here?"
"You told me that many Yue Ji succeeded."
“The suffering they endured was far beyond your imagination. They were tempered by the pain, just to return to their original world and suffer the familiar pain. They became strong because of the pain, but picked themselves up in the collapse.
When they went out, there was no Yueji to tie the ropes, and they took a desperate gamble. "
Back in the cell, Yue Ji looked at the screen. The number of alien beasts was marked accurately. As the number increased, Yue Ji became more and more angry.
"You don't want to watch your world being destroyed? Do you?"
The doctor asked, but Yue Ji answered rudely.
"No, I want to protect more than just this world."
"Then why are you hesitating? You don't think about yourself at all, you are just being pushed by fate, right?"
Yue Ji was stunned. He looked at the doctor, but the other party continued speaking.
“Yue Ji was overwhelmed by pain, but they never stopped in their pursuit of what they wanted.
Isn't it the same for you? Try to find what you want in your heart, and then go back and do it well. "