Chapter 495: Familiar but not old friend

The first meal Shen Luo had after arriving in the Suichen Realm was fish he picked up from the ground.

The first night Shen Luo arrived in the Suichen Realm, he spent time in a small hut with nightmares.

Dream world.

In the endless magma pool stood seven green stone pillars over a hundred meters high. On the stone pillars stood many people in white clothes and armor. Shen Luo was too far away to see clearly.

Shen Luo noticed that there were many black weapons on the stone pillars. The bluestone pillar closest to him had black scissors on it, and the one a little further away seemed to have black fire tongs? Then there were spoons, chopsticks, cups, kitchen knives, and spatulas.

Both the spoon and the knife are much larger than those used in normal kitchens.

The kitchen knife is almost as tall as a person, and its blade is long enough to be used as a guillotine.

Shen Luo wanted to know what would happen next, so he watched more carefully.

He saw a man pick up a black kitchen knife, and someone took the knife away, took the man to the edge of the stone pillar, and kicked him out.

The thrilling free fall began, starting from the edge of the stone pillar and ending at the surface of the magma.

The human body fell into the magma, with only a few bubbles and a few wisps of smoke. There was no struggle or screaming, and the life was ended the moment it touched the high-temperature magma, turning into a meaningless pile of ash.

It was unknown how long it had been, and how many people had fallen into the lava, but Shen Luo finally saw a person who was different from the others: the black kitchen knife emitted a dazzling golden light as soon as it fell into that person's hand. After that person got the kitchen knife, he immediately killed the guard.

In just a moment, blood spurted out from the wound, like a torrential rain, staining the blue stone pillars, black weapons, white clothes, and armor red.

Just when Shen Luo thought that the "hero" could escape, the hero fell into the lava without any signs.

The golden kitchen knife also fell into the magma, emitting an even hotter light, as dazzling as a burning magnesium bar. This is probably what it means to be as bright as daylight and blinding.

Shen Luo heard whispering.

"Although it is a replica of the Holy Relic, it is still very difficult to activate. It took so long for someone who is adapted to the Holy Relic to appear."

"These people are the fittest ones picked from thousands of miles away. Logically, there should have been people who are fully adapted to the holy weapon. Maybe our selection criteria are wrong."

"A holy weapon is just a piece of wood in the hands of an ordinary person. It will break if bent. But with the right master, they will burst out with unparalleled power. The man just used the Seven Sins of Greed, right?"

"Yes. According to the plan, we only need to invest ten sets of replicas of the holy artifacts and offer sacrifices to awaken that adult and obtain the ultimate holy artifact comparable to that of a 20th-level ability user."

"With the Ultimate Sacred Artifact, the Lord of Yaodi will be able to completely control Suichenzhou and show his prowess in the twenty-six states."

Shen Luo had always known that a person with the 20th level ability could be the ruler of a state and govern a billion people. But today he was sure that the news was true and not just a rumor.

The flowing light falls on the snow, coloring everything. There is only snow here, but at a glance, one can feel the poetic and picturesque atmosphere of wind, flowers, snow and the moon.

"I thought the paper world was from ancient times, but looking at these tall buildings, it's no different from modern times."

The lifestyle and material conditions in Canglan City are indeed very similar to those in ancient times.

The city is not big, and the best-selling items on the streets are paper flowers collected from islands and various strange-shaped fish.

These fish are also tasteless when bought and eaten, but if they are kept in "water" and watched jumping and swimming, it will be much more interesting. "Strange, why am I nostalgic? This is not what a traveler should do."

Shen Huan dismissed the thoughts of looking back on the past and concentrated on thinking about how to leave the paper world through the City of Promise.

There was no one in the city. If anyone had been here, he either left or lost his human form.

Shen Huan noticed that there was a building that was nearly cylindrical and about a kilometer high. It could barely be considered a pillar. He decided to go to the top of the pillar to take a look.

The joints of the paper man will not wear out, and after climbing thousands of steps in succession, Shen Huan is still almost maintaining his full strength.

Thousands of steps again.

At this time, Shen Huan was already hesitant: running wildly on the spiral staircase, I could neither see the end nor the beginning. Fortunately, I was a paper man. If I were a human, I would probably starve to death in the tower. Even if I didn't starve to death, my mentality would collapse.

Shen Huan looked up and could only see a glowing dot. The dot was always that big and always that bright. It was like this before the 10,000 steps, and it is still like this now. So, what about after the 10,000 steps?
Level 10,000, level 20,000... During the hazy and endless journey, Shen Huan felt a long-lost fatigue, which made him have the idea of ​​retreating.

For humans, fatigue is not fatal. But for paper people, "fatigue" means all kinds of dangers.

Paper figures have no organs that can sense fatigue. If they walk here, they can feel tired. If they walk further down, will they feel hungry? Or even starve to death? Are the ashes of paper figures buried on every step here?
Shen Huan didn't dare to think about it anymore. As long as the result hasn't happened yet, then try your best to do it. If you quit halfway, what's the big deal?

Just as he was trying to regain his courage, the spiral staircase did not welcome him forward. On the contrary, these paper steps seemed to become thicker than gold.

Although Shen Huan had thought about how the stairs looked so much like gold when he first saw them, he did not believe that real metal existed in this world.

However, when he walked further up, he clearly felt the reaction force of the metal on him.

This force not only acts on the soles of his feet, Shen Huan has an even more confused illusion: this tower is upside down, and every time he takes a step up, all the steps he steps on will exert a certain amount of pressure on him, making him feel like he is carrying a mountain on his back.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Shen Huan finally discovered that the dot on the top of the tower was slowly getting bigger. This was a good thing, but along with the good things came many bad things: hunger, pain, sleepiness, fatigue...

Shen Huan was anxious: If I go any further, maybe I will become a real human being, and then a real human corpse, hanging on the steps. No wonder this city is only for entry but not exit. But why do all the tourists choose to enter the tower instead of staying in the city?

What is at the top of the tower? Does this tower have a top? After walking for so long, it should be much higher than the tower itself, right?

Huan moved forward in a daze. With every step he took, he could feel a gravity that did not belong to him being placed on him.

The paper man is as light as a swallow, and this is not just bragging, but a fact. It is also true that the human body is very heavy, so heavy that it almost sinks in water.

With every step he took, not only the weight of the steps but also his own weight increased.

At this point, Shen Huan thought he had no way out, so he walked up again without hesitation.

But his speed was much slower.

When he slowed down, the light spot grew rapidly, and when he sped up, the light spot grew less rapidly. All these abnormal factors told him one fact: there was an extraordinary and great truth hidden at the top of the tower.

Shen Huan held onto the wall and walked for a while, but for the last part, he climbed up instead of walking.

While climbing the stairs, he heard many questions from the bottom of people's hearts: People in the outside world mostly enjoy calling their friends, but paper people don't need friends, don't have friends, and won't be hurt by friends. Do you really want to leave the paper world and go outside?

(End of this chapter)