Chapter 40: Seven Questions(1/2)
On the red and white stage, the man began to arouse the emotions of everyone present with a high-pitched tone: "Seven questions have not appeared in "Bloody Quiz" for a long time. What kind of questions are waiting for the No. 1 contestant ahead?
?" Weird music also sounded out of thin air on the stage, and the atmosphere of the entire show began to become tense.
He took a few steps forward, looked straight, and said quickly: "Contestant No. 1! Excuse me, should people have dreams? 10..."
"Should!" Wu Sheng replied instantly.
"Answer...wrong!" The man shook his head: "Normal humans are without dreams. Dreams are something only madmen and fools have."
As soon as he finished speaking, a black light poured into Wu Sheng's brain, and countless complicated whispers and feeble whispers sounded in his mind, giving him a splitting headache: "As long as you have money, it doesn't matter whether you have dreams, right?" "As long as you are happy!
What is a dream?” “Having dreams will only bring endless pain...” “I don’t want dreams, dreams will only make people lose their way.” “Dreams are the biggest lie in the history of human education!”
"I don't want dreams..."
As black light poured into Wu Sheng's brain, a rich female voice echoed throughout the space: "The penalty for asking: [Lie]!"
The man waited for the response to disappear, then snapped his fingers and continued to ask: "Second question, where does human evil come from? 10, 9, 8..."
What is this question? Luffy and the other three were shocked, and no one could answer it.
Wu Sheng also fell silent. He resisted the frustrated and complicated whispers in his mind, his thoughts raced, searching for his own memories in his mind, and finally answered at the last second:
"desire."
"Hmm...that's an expected answer." The man pondered for a few seconds, and then sighed as if his words were nothing more than that?
Just when Luffy and the others thought Wu Sheng got the answer right, he said: "Wrong! All evil comes from human beings' ignorance and insensitivity to the world."
Another black light penetrated Wu Sheng's mind. Wu Sheng's eyes went dark and he lost his vision. The strong female voice sounded again: "The punishment for the second question: [no awareness]!"
Then He asked the third question: "Is freedom important to human beings? 10, 9, 8..."
"important."
For this kind of yes or no question, Wu Shengben could easily get a point by following the previous logic, but for some reason, maybe due to some mysterious induction, he still insisted on his inner choice.
"Wrong." The man raised his hands and said, "We are all sheep, weak, greedy and ignorant. Without the restraint of the shepherd, the free sheep will be devoured by hungry wolves in the jungle."
"Three Questions Punishment: [Out of Order]!"
Wu Sheng's limbs had lost control, and he was slumped on the seat. He could only feel his head and body.
"The fourth question is, what are the seven deadly sins of mankind? 10, 9, 8..."
The man seemed to be afraid that Wu Sheng would be unable to continue the game if he added more negative statuses. Finally, it was not an open trap question.
"Arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony, lust." Wu Sheng answered quickly in the darkness and powerlessness. If you come to such common sense questions, kill them one by one.
"Haha, the answer is correct." The man said frivolously: "It seems that you are very aware of the sins that humans have..."
Luffy and the other two cheered for a while, for God's sake, Wu Sheng finally answered a question correctly.
He just got three questions wrong in a row, and the three of them almost choked.
Amidst the tense and eerie music and drumbeats, the man's words continued to ring in Wu Sheng's mind: "No. 1 gets one point."
Before Luffy and the other three could continue cheering, he continued: "The fifth question, where will humanity go from here? 10, 9, 8..."
"...I can't answer such a grand question even if I have all the existing knowledge base of mankind in my mind." In the darkness, Wu Sheng sighed speechlessly.
"...3,2..." The countdown continues.
"Explore the truth of the universe!" Wu Sheng had no choice but to pick the biggest proposition to answer.
"Wrong." The man lowered his head and sang loudly in an aria:
"Everything is a beginning without an ending.
All journeys are fleeting pursuits,
The future of mankind is both destiny and smoke,
With comments in hope, with groans in faith,
All joys are without smiles, all sufferings are without tears..."
Starting from the first sentence, there were monsters singing in groups of twos and threes in the audience, until after reading the two sentences "All joys have no smiles, all sufferings have no tears", all the monsters followed the man and loudly chanted: "Everything will be long.
And a brief death.”
Under the silence of the will of many human heroes on the audience stage, the man snapped his fingers and tapped: "The punishment of the five questions: [Silence]."
The next second, a black light flashed, followed by the lost vision, Wu Sheng lost his hearing again, and only the noises in his mind that persuaded him to give up his struggle and give up his dream were still chattering.
"The sixth question." Even though Wu Sheng had lost his hearing, the man's voice still sounded in his mind: "Is there a God? 10, 9, 8..."
The atheist Wu Sheng was completely drunk. What the hell was this problem?
Because he had lost his hearing and could not hear his own voice, he could only speak slowly according to his past habits, for fear that he would say the wrong thing: "It doesn't exist!"
"Wrong." The man slowly said the "answer" in a low voice without further explanation.
Luffy and the other three were slightly surprised. Is there really a God?
But Wu Sheng still doesn't believe it. In the eyes of time-travelers and atheists, no matter what kind of powerful existence they are, they are just extra-dimensional existences in a multi-structured universe.
"Six Questions of Punishment: [Wrath of Heaven]."
A black thunder struck Wu Sheng. Wu Sheng's powerless body trembled crazily in the black thunder and lightning. Severe pain was transmitted through the body to his brain nerves. Every inch of pain kept eating every cell in his body.
Submerging his remaining sea of consciousness bit by bit, in the boundless darkness, pain, obsession, low humming, silence, hunger, and all kinds of negative states engulfed his spirit and consciousness bit by bit.
Just when he was about to fall into eternal nothingness and darkness.
"The seventh question."
The last question turned out to be about pulling him out of the Black Sea. Wu Sheng hugged the remaining clarity in his mind, focused his mind, and listened to the question.
The man asked slowly: "Who are we?"
For a moment, the whole place was silent, as if everyone was looking forward to Wu Sheng's answer.
"You are hope and fear." Wu Sheng clearly remembered that Eligar once said to him that the will to resist is the image and power that is most suitable for them from the collective consciousness of the human beings in the criminal world. In this case, the audience on the stage
All wills of them may become their partners. Then they are the existences that humans admire, and they are also the source of fear for humans.
"Pfft..."
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
There was a lot of laughter.
The man couldn't help but laugh: "Contestant No. 1 is really good at talking."
However, after the laughter, the man's expression changed, his brows were cold, and his voice was cold: "Wrong! We are all people abandoned by [God], and bear the curse and punishment that you humans should bear. The endless consequences of human unconsciousness
Negative emotions roar in our bodies, and the dark abyss of depravity in the world of sin keeps calling in front of us. Listen carefully... In the world of sin, who is not in pain? Who is not desperate? Who is not filled with hatred, selfishness, and struggle?
Arrogant, sinful human beings? Who doesn’t desire transcendence, and who is willing to perish?”
"Roar!!!" The monsters in the audience let out a shocking roar, but as for the human consciousness, they remained silent.
But the reluctance is clearly visible on their faces. They were born from the public consciousness of the sinful world and from human cognition, but they were tortured by human negative emotions.
"Okay! The seven questions have been completed. If you can survive the final punishment, choose your Noble Phantasm and enter the martial arts arena!"
After the man said that, he lost all interest. He pulled out a black pistol from the void and pointed it at Wu Sheng: "Seven Questions of Punishment: [Human Sin]."
A dark and deep light silently shot towards Wu Sheng. Luffy and the other three saw that the situation was not good and wanted to jump over to rescue them, but they were pinned to the boat by invisible hands and could not move.
The next second, black light covered Wu Sheng.
Wu Sheng felt as if he was stranded in a gap in time and space.
Beside him, countless roars, countless wails, countless admirations and regrets, countless sighs, and countless screams, like heavy rain falling on the lake, aroused countless ripples and turbulence in his mind.
Time only lasted a moment, but he felt like he had spent a long time surrounded by countless human negative emotions.
The next moment, a dark wave rolled in silently from the distant sky, beating the long and short time and space in vain.
The next moment, he was standing on the beach full of glass fragments. The glass was transparent. He looked down and saw an endless dark abyss under the glass fragments, as if he was standing on an endless sky. However, there were countless glass fragments.
and the dark sea reminded him that he was on a shoal.
The body of a giant white horse was suddenly lying on the dark sea, floating and being rolled towards the beach by the red waves.
He felt his own emptiness, felt the unconsciousness of this space, and carefully collected the limited information that appeared in front of him, until the white horse slowly floated and stranded on the glass beach.
He didn't know how long it took, but he finally caught his out-of-control thoughts.
"Wu Sheng." A familiar voice sounded, and he turned around to look, but it was the majestic figure wearing red armor, the Demon God's Grand Duke under King Solomon.
"Elig." He nodded naturally and calmly. In the seemingly endless time just now, he had lost all emotions and asked: "So this is my subconscious space?"
"That's not quite accurate. It should be said that this is your sea of consciousness."
"How do I get out?"
"Get my approval."
"?" Wu Sheng tilted his head, what do you mean, you are not...
As if he knew what he was thinking, Eligo said: "I said during the contract that this is a game with almost zero winning rate. Even if I gain some power, if you hesitate, death is the inevitable outcome.
To be continued...