Chapter 139: Heaven and Earth Are Unkind (Part )

Finally, I saw someone. A barefoot man in a Taoist robe stepped forward excitedly and shouted, "Hey——"

A sound echoed in the red, gray and green soil, and the Gobi cliffs eroded by wind. On the endless Gobi sea, there was a decaying palace standing alone among the strange mountains and rocks, with blue sky, black clouds, and blowing sand and rocks.

The stunned people finally came to their senses.

"What is this place? Aren't we... in Heqi City?"

"Hiss, it's so hot, so hot... Where are my shoes? Why am I barefoot?"

Someone looked down and found that his shoes and socks were gone, and he was standing barefoot on the yellow sand, which was very hot from being baked in the sun for a long time.

His mind had just been frightened by the strange scene and sudden change, but now that he had come to his senses, he was jumping like a shrimp in boiling water.

But the ground was covered with yellow sand, rocks and gravel, and it was painful no matter where you went.

"Hiss, who took off my shoes..."

He thought he was the only one in this predicament, but when he looked around, he saw that everyone was holding their feet like fleas, crying out "ouch", asking for help, running around, cursing...

…It turns out that everyone’s shoes are gone.

It's weird, so weird.

Seeing this situation, they reacted quickly by tearing off their clothes and wrapping them around their feet, temporarily relieving the pain of their skin being burned by the sand and gravel.

But at this moment, snow started falling again, not the normal white color, but bright blue.

Piece by piece, piece by piece, it falls on people's bodies. It is not icy and melting at the touch of a finger, but a lasting and bone-chilling cold.

Someone couldn't help but shudder: "What the hell is this place? Why is it snowing?"

"It would be great to have snow. Once the snow melts, the yellow sand won't burn our feet anymore." Someone said happily.

But someone noticed something strange. Looking at these "snowflakes" of strange colors, he always had a premonition that things were not that simple.

"Huanghuaguan Taoist? Why are you here too?"

"Master Cheng? I... I don't know either. I just suddenly got here..."

Upon asking, it turned out that no one knew why they came here, but their experiences and purposes were exactly the same, they all came for "Xu Shanshan".

"It was Xu Shanshan. She must have done this!"

But some people questioned: "Is it possible? No matter how powerful she is, she can't move so many of us to such a haunted place without anyone noticing, right?"

"I suspect that everything in front of us is an illusion, not real. Perhaps we have been caught in her enchantment."

An expert in illusion shook his head and said, "I have tested it, and everything is real. But if it is really an illusion, it only means that Xu Shanshan has created a world that is so real that it can be mistaken for the real thing. Even if it is fake, it is real."

When the people present heard this, their expressions suddenly changed. They lost their composure and didn't know what to do for a moment.

"It's been snowing for so long, why is the sand on the ground still so hot?"

"I feel so cold, the sand under my feet is so hot, and my body is so cold. If all this is true, I will cut off my head and kick it like a football."

"We can't stay here any longer. Let's look around to see if there's a place where we can hide from the snow. If this is an illusion, there must be a way out. Only by finding that way out can we escape."

They walked with the burning pain under their feet. Some wanted to use magic or magic tools to avoid the pain, but they found that they had nothing but thin clothes on their bodies. Magic can be used to save lives at critical moments, but if it is used up early, they are worried about other accidents.

The surroundings were peaceful and quiet, with only the various shapes of wind shaped within the stone walls. The wind blew up fine sand and scraped through the cracks in the stone walls, sometimes as thin as a weeping woman, so sad and desolate that it gave people goose bumps.

Although their feet were wrapped with cloth, the high temperature would burn through the cloth as they walked for a long time. If they continued to do nothing, they might get burned.

With no other options, they could only tear cloth to wrap their feet again and again, but soon the clothes on their bodies were not enough. Also, because of the snow, their limbs were stiff and they were too cold to open their mouths to breathe.

It was like a world of ice and fire. This kind of torture was almost pushing their bodies to their limit.

Every step they took felt like a knife stabbing their feet. The warmth of their bodies slowly collapsed in the torment, and they almost didn't even have the strength to curse or resent.

"Hey, look, what's in front of you?"

"It looks like a row of stone pillars? Come on, go over and see what that is."

Their eyes lit up and they could not wait to go forward to take a look. They saw a tall stone tablet with the words "Reward for Good Nature" written on it. Beyond the stone tablet was a staircase, and on the staircase was a round platform paved with large stones.

The moment they stepped onto the stone platform from the yellow sand, they shuddered all over and found that the stone was not as hot as the yellow sand. Although their feet were almost horrible, with skin torn and bloody, at that moment, they still felt like they were liberated.

So they rushed forward one after another.

At this time, a voice sounded in the sky.

"A flower blooms with two sides, Buddha and devil are separated by a single thought... This is the mirror of fate. Only by distinguishing between good and evil can you leave this place. Next, you have two choices: choose to save people or kill people."

"What do you mean?" They looked around but couldn't see the person who spoke.

"Only the wicked and the good can escape from this place. There will be a hundred innocent people in front of you. Like you, they can only leave this place through the Mirror Gate, but they cannot step into this Edge Mirror Platform from the yellow sand."

"So if you save people, you can enter the Mirror Gate. If you kill people, you can enter the Mirror Gate. But if you don't save or kill people, you will be left in this yellow sand desert forever, suffering from the burning yellow sand and the freezing blue snow. It will be worse than death."

Hundred people?

They looked up immediately and saw a group of confused ordinary people appearing in the yellow sand. The expressions on their faces were the same as before. They were shocked and panicked because they suddenly appeared in an unfamiliar place.

"Where is this? How did we suddenly end up here?"

"This isn't Heqi City, where is this?"

The sorcerers and Taoists on the high platform didn't know what to choose for a moment.

"The door to leave is behind you. Only those who have made a choice are qualified to leave, and you only have one stick of incense to leave..."

When they looked back, they saw a black hole similar to a "door" appear. Some people didn't believe it and rushed over to find out what was going on, but they were knocked away three feet away and could not touch it.

"Everyone, don't be fooled. This Xu Shanshan is an evil person. She is sinister and vicious at heart. The choice she made must be problematic..."

"But we have tried everything and still cannot leave this place. If we don't believe her, are we really going to freeze to death here?"

"Look, the door is closing!"

The "door" to leave is indeed shrinking, although it is very slow, but it is indeed closing.

The snow in the sky was getting heavier and heavier. They were almost paralyzed by the cold. One person couldn't stand the anxiety brought by the passage of time and rushed down directly: "If you want to know whether it is true or not, why don't you give it a try? Let me go first."