Voting
The three Dragon-Strangling Warriors looked at the Qiankun Twins who were surrounded like the moon by the stars, smiles that appeared slightly stiff emerging on their faces as they nodded in response.
The time they joined the Dragon-Strangling Warriors was much earlier than these two, yet they watched helplessly as these two were deeply favored by the higher-ups, their statuses skyrocketing... An emotion named "jealousy" rose in their hearts, but was suppressed by rationality.
That Spirit Serpent roaming above everyone's heads seemed to have found its target. Opening its large mouth, it swallowed the emotions of the three people.
The three instantly calmed down, and their originally stiff smiles also became natural and amiable... At the same time, that Spirit Serpent continued to roam among the crowd, devouring certain things in their hearts.
After Chen Ling broke through to the Fourth Order, the original [Spirit Serpent] finally also made some progress. From the original single-target devouring, it had become capable of simultaneously devouring the emotions of multiple people... This Sixth Stage skill was gradually becoming complete along with Chen Ling's growth.
When it roamed a circle above the crowd's heads, it basically took a bite from everyone. But when it came to the shoulder of a young girl, it suddenly became somewhat bewildered.
"This Lord, the injuries on your body, I have simply treated them for you... But flesh and blood repair takes time. You must be careful not to pull the wounds again." A Path of the Physician young girl followed beside Tu Tian. Her eyes as bright and clean as the bright moon glanced at the side of Tu Tian's face, then quickly lowered her head, a blush emerging on her cheeks.
Just now when the crowd encountered the first level, this young girl was walking at the very front. If Tu Tian hadn't broken the wall at the first moment and brought her to escape, I'm afraid she would already be a corpse right now.
"Lord Tu Tian! Please respect yourself!" The young girl spoke seriously.
"Alright, alright... I won't touch you, is that okay?"
Tu Tian shrugged his shoulders somewhat regretfully. Looking at Fudi beside him hugging a beautiful woman, he felt somewhat itchy in his heart.
Ultimately, the Spirit Serpent also didn't take away any emotions from this young girl. It just quietly left, trailing far behind the crowd, as if waiting for something.
Right at this time, a sound of mechanical operation came from ahead. The crowd immediately slowed their pace, moving forward vigilantly...
The narrow corridor gradually widened as the crowd advanced, ultimately turning into an elliptical space. When the crowd stood still in it, a mailbox marked with numbers rose from under everyone's feet, corresponding to them one by one...
In the center of this space, a signboard hung in the air.
[Level Two:]
[Participants who choose this path need to complete an internal vote. The three people with the highest votes will immediately fall into the 'Red Flame Purgatory', and the rest can continue to the next level. This vote is timed for sixty seconds. If the vote is not completed within the time limit, then everyone falls into the 'Red Flame Purgatory']
[Note: Currently, the progress of the participants on this path is the fastest in the Six Palaces of Qiaohuang]
The instant this signboard appeared, a massive red timer began to jump above the crowd's heads. The red light on the surrounding walls flickered brightly and dimly along with the seconds, reflecting everyone's faces as scarlet as blood.
59, 58, 57...
At this moment, everyone's brains were running at high speed!
"The level is voting??"
"Thank goodness, at least we don't need to face those perilous mechanisms, and as long as three people need to be sacrificed, we can continue moving forward!"
"It says above that our speed is the fastest in the Six Palaces. Does it mean that after passing this level, as long as we pass one more level, we can get the [Privilege] the fastest?!"
"But, which three people should we vote for??"
When this sentence was asked, the air fell into a Dead Silence, leaving only the scarlet light flickering silently.
42, 41, 40...
As the seconds continuously jumped, the crowd was incomparably nervous. It was also at this time that Tu Tian and Fudi exchanged a glance and nodded heavily.
"Everyone, listen to my command." Tu Tian immediately spoke, his voice ringing like a great bell in the enclosed space. "Everyone write Number 03, 08, and 13. Vote them out, and we can continue moving forward!"
The expressions of the three people whose mailboxes were marked with these three numbers instantly changed, becoming incomparably terrified.
The three of them were relatively weaker in strength among the crowd, and just now they had always been trailing at the back of the team without having any interaction with the Qiankun Twins, like invisible people... Tu Tian almost chose them as targets without hesitation.
25, 24, 23...
Almost everyone looked at these three people, glimmers flickering in their eyes, as if pondering something.
Tu Tian and Fudi directly wrote these three numbers on the paper pages of the mailboxes and threw them into their own mailboxes, incredibly calm in their hearts... There were only a dozen or so people here in total, and five of them were their own people from the Dragon-Strangling Warriors. Coupled with those few folk people attached to them, it was very easy to scrape together more than half the votes.
In this level, the two of them had a considerable advantage.
An invisible serpent roamed past above everyone's heads.
12, 11, 10...
After a brief hesitation, everyone gritted their teeth, began to write three numbers on the paper pages, and then dropped them into the mailboxes.
The last one to write was that Path of the Physician young girl. She seemed somewhat flustered. After struggling for a long time, she still gritted her teeth and stuffed the paper page in her hand into the mailbox... Almost simultaneously, the countdown returned to zero.
The red light froze in the deathly silence, making the entire space a field of red.
Smack—!!
Just as Tu Tian was about to speak, only a loud mechanical turning noise was heard. The floor beneath his feet suddenly opened, and his whole person instantly plummeted down!
And plummeting at the same time were Fudi beside him, as well as a folk expert who had never had much presence.
All this happened too suddenly. The three of them didn't even have time to react before they were swallowed by the blazing flames... As the floor closed amidst a noise, this space recovered its calmness again, and the originally chilling scarlet lights also returned to normal at this moment.
The crowd standing in place looked at each other in dismay, their backs already soaked in cold sweat...
Like escaping from a calamity, they let out a long sigh of relief.
"... The three people have already been voted out, why haven't the doors opened yet?" A member of the Dragon-Strangling Warriors looked around, frowning and speaking.
In the Control Room,
Chen Ling saw this scene through the mirror, a faint smile curling up on his mouth...
The rest of the people were also stunned. Before they could ponder this question, the floor beneath their feet was smashed through with a bang. Two figures entwined in flames leapt out from inside, bringing along lethal Oppressive Aura and monstrous anger, returning to the passage once again!
At this moment everyone was stunned. They looked down in astonishment, only to see that the so-called "Red Flame Purgatory" was nothing but five crude flame blowpipes. It was fundamentally impossible for this level of flame to burn the Qiankun Twins to death!
Everyone's faces instantly turned pale, cursing the level designer eight hundred times in their hearts. Who the fuck gave such a child's play mechanism such a perilous name like "Red Flame Purgatory"?!
They originally thought voting them out meant certain death. Who would have thought it just gave them a bath and let them back out again!