Chapter 455: Suddenly Met Again

The Wangchuan River at night is eerie, mysterious and terrifying.

He was not afraid of the cold, but human energy could not stop the cold air. Whether it was the air flowing through human skin and being heated, or the hot air exhaled from human mouth, it was not enough to fight against the cold air here.

忘川是建在城市下方的超大排水系统，它包括总长103km、内径36m的地下管道，5处直径120m、深300m的储水立坑，以及一处人造地下水库，水库长506m、宽189m、深度约124m。

225 large pillars, each 52 meters high and weighing 23300 tons, support the huge and wide underground space, which is dimly lit and rarely visited.

Such a grand building does not look like the work of human beings.

It seems that many years ago, 225 stone pillars fell from the sky and smashed into the ground. Later, people built a city on the stone pillars. Later, people dug out this underground space and made it into a drainage system...

And tomorrow, this place will be used as a battlefield.

225 stone pillars are arranged in a regular pattern, covering an area of ​​approximately 4 square kilometers.

The temperature in Wangchuan is very low. The current outdoor temperature is 12℃, but in Wangchuan it is only about -12℃.

Sewage flows out of the pipes and flows into the vertical pit. The loud noise is deafening, but it feels like the whole world is silent. They are like liquid nitrogen flowing in people's hearts. If a drop of such sewage enters the blood, people will feel cold all over.

Sewage flows through shopping malls, residences, schools, hospitals, streets, forests... bringing coldness and darkness to the entire city.

A dark thought came to the Supreme's mind: this was a wide enough battlefield, and the warriors who entered the battlefield were strong enough, so strong that he had to build a cage with huge stones to allow them to fight without any worries.

This thought lasted only a moment and was fleeting.

What followed was a chilling wind that made people's backs shiver. The cold wind touched people's nerves, and the ghosts hidden in the stone pillars whispered in people's ears...

Oh, it turns out to be a mental hospital.

After walking around the examination room early, he was almost ready to give up the exam.

The next day, he came to the examination room and saw many people coming and going, probably because they had given up the exam.

Theoretically speaking, there are 552 cities, and each city has 20 places, which means 11040 candidates.

But when the exam time really came, everyone gathered by the reservoir, and it seemed impossible that there could be 10,000 people.

This exam is particularly important and the examiner is of extremely honorable status.

Xiti, the Lord of Hanyu, and Yuanmu, the Dean of the Institute of History, were present. All the princes, the Lords of the 22 cities in Hanyu, and all the Vice Deans were present.

The consul Sirong arrived, representing the voting faction.

Candidates from the Mustard Seed series, Kumquat series, White Leaf series, and Source Fish series were present.

The cost of this exam is very high. If anyone launches a surprise attack here and eliminates all the examiners, the entire Erdu Dynasty will probably suffer heavy losses.

However, in the Erdun Dynasty, there was only one person capable of organizing such a large-scale raid, and that was the king.

Therefore, this assessment should be safe.

It was so safe that half of the candidates ran away.

Who said this?

That’s what Yuanmu said.

There were many examiners, but the one who was in charge of the examination was Yuan Mu. He had the strength to rival that of a domain master, and he was as well-known as a governor, so it was just right for him to be the chief examiner.

Yuan Mu said, "Wangchuan has been in disrepair for a long time. It is a poor hospitality to hold the examination here. It is also human nature for the guests to leave early. However, there are still 5500 guests willing to give face. I wish you can enjoy the feast." Half of the candidates were automatically eliminated before the examination began. This is really a rare thing in the history. Zhishang checked the spring and autumn examinations in the past two years, and no such absurd things happened.

But that's a good thing.

He was happy not because there were fewer competitors, but because the humidity in this place was bad, and the wind blew over, making people feel creepy. He was not the only one who had this illusion. Since there were more than one person, it was the norm, and since it was the norm, he would just ignore it for now.

"Count how many lights there are within the coverage of the stone pillars. Our party will be behind the lights, I'll be waiting for you."

As soon as Yuan Mu finished speaking, flames shot up into the sky from the Wangchuan River.

There were lights here originally, but as the fire turned into bright lamps, all the original lights disappeared.

Zhishang was puzzled: Just counting the lights is enough to pass the test? Isn't this too casual? What if someone just makes a random guess and happens to hit the right answer? Wouldn't that be unfair?

The newly updated evil bones are not used! It's a pity that no one uses Hei Yi's heinous crimes for the "righteous path".

With regret in his heart, he walked back and forth in the River Oblivion.

The lights were motionless, but they were arranged in no particular order, and there were so many of them that at first glance they were dazzling.

As far as the eye can see, there seem to be 1000 lights, or 2000 lights. This is just one side and one corner of the examination room. As for how many lights there are in the entire examination room, it is really an inestimable number.

As he walked, he saw a very horrifying scene!
Someone is turning off the lights!
The candidate walked from one stone pillar to another, waved his hand, and all the lights between the two pillars returned to zero.

This is appalling!
The random distribution of these lights is troublesome enough, and someone is also changing the number of lights. In this way, it is impossible for latecomers to get the correct answer no matter what.

This blocks the road!

Zhishang had no time to care about other people's whims. He just wanted to finish the examination room as quickly as possible and leave this cold and shabby place.

But due to the peculiarities of the lights and the limitations of the human eye, even if he wanted to hurry, his speed was very slow.

The scattered lights were too difficult to count.

If a casual glance would yield the answer, then the candidate who cleared the lights would not have walked from pillar to pillar before waving.

If the answer was obvious, the man's speed of scanning the lights would have increased significantly. He was slow because he himself didn't know how many lights there were.

Wan Qiu counted and swept the lamps, becoming increasingly exhausted. Suddenly, he realized something and felt something was wrong. He felt bad, and it was right, because the lights that were extinguished one after another weighed down his head, making it difficult for him to move.

Zhishang did not perform the feat of sweeping the lanterns. His steps were easy and free. Although also slow, his progress was slightly faster than Wanqiu's on the Stairway to Immortality.

The examination room can be roughly regarded as a square with a side length of 1km. If you want to go faster, you can go straight horizontally or vertically. 225 stone pillars are piled up to form 14 horizontal channels and 14 vertical channels. Each channel from the beginning to the end is of course 1km long.

If you want to go faster, you can just watch the whole scene from the horizontal or vertical lines, so you only need to walk 15km.

In fact, walking the horizontal line and then the vertical line will not help unless people can mark the lights. But then again, if the lights can be marked, there is no need to take such a detour.

However, in such an important assessment, who would dare to take only the horizontal line and abandon the vertical perspective?

The Supreme dares to do this.

He saw with his own eyes that someone was sweeping the lights, and hundreds of lights disappeared in the blink of an eye. People walked back and forth between different perspectives, but after walking through one perspective, they could notice more than 99% of the lights. Because of the existence of the light sweeping situation, the error that could be compensated by walking one more time was almost insignificant. Since the effect was minimal, there was no need for him to walk one more time.

This assessment was a double test of patience and carefulness. Even for someone like him who was fast and only walked halfway, it took him more than an hour to leave the examination room.

(End of this chapter)