Who hid My Corpse!-Chapter 568: Thirty-four This is the game between Him and me
"The Temple of Trust?" Bai Wei stroked his chin, saying with great interest, "First is courage, then trust. Does this mean the God of Senluo values these two qualities the most?"
"Yes." Ivana nodded, "The God of Senluo believes that courage and trust are the most important qualities for a Hunter."
"That’s quite positive." Bai Wei laughed, "Just hearing these two, who would think they were proposed by the Evil God known to the public?"
Hearing Bai Wei say this, Ivana appeared somewhat displeased.
"Evil God is just a term used by outsiders." As the last Holy Daughter of Senluo, Ivana subconsciously defended her deity, "When the God of Senluo was alive, this land was no different from the outside world. The current chaos was all caused by the later followers of Wildfire Sect."
Bai Wei smiled and didn’t argue with this fallen little Holy Daughter.
In fact, this land was identified as the domain of a cult not after the God of Senluo passed away, but while He was still alive.
"So what’s this trial about?"
Vic asked Ivana impatiently, evidently gaining a lot of confidence from the previous trial.
"Well..." Ivana frowned slightly, "I don’t know how to explain it; you’ll understand once you go inside."
So, Vic set Ivana down and stepped forward to push the door.
With a massive rumble, the door opened, and the statue of the God of Senluo appeared before the crowd once more.
However, this time He wasn’t in the battle stance as in the Temple of Courage, but with arms spread like a scale, two chains hanging down from either side of His hands, resting before the dark doors on either side of the statue.
"What’s this?"
Vic picked up one of the chains but couldn’t figure it out and scratched his head.
Without waiting for Ivana to explain, Bai Wei walked to the other chain, picked it up, and said with a smile, "I guess the chains are to be fastened around us, then we enter the corresponding rooms to complete certain tasks... Is that right, Holy Lady?"
Ivana nodded and then stepped forward to open one of the doors.
The room was dim, with only a straight, less than a meter wide path like a beam extending from the end.
As for the sides of the path, they were bottomless abysses. Ivana casually picked up a small stone and tossed it forward.
The stone fell into the darkness but didn’t echo back.
"Falling will mean death." Ivana said succinctly.
Originally excited, Vic couldn’t help but shrink his head upon seeing this, feeling discouraged, but he quickly noticed the chain in his hand and immediately asked, "So this chain is to prevent us from falling?"
Ivana nodded, "Yes."
But before Vic could breathe a sigh of relief, Ivana continued to speak slowly.
"If one side of the chain becomes a protective chain, then the other side becomes a killing chain."
Vic froze, "What do you mean?"
"Just what it sounds like." Ivana found some sticks and tied them to the center of the chain, "This chain is meant to be fastened around the waist. When someone on one side falls, it immediately becomes a lifeline for the fallen. But at the same time, it triggers some mechanism that makes the other side’s chain... like this."
She abruptly pulled one of the chains, and then the other chain seemed to sense something, suddenly tightening.
With a "crack," several sticks snapped into two pieces.
"One falls, the other dies." Ivana said softly, "Only when neither side encounters any accident, can one safely pass through the entire passage; this is the test of the Temple of Trust."
Vic was already stunned.
He hadn’t expected the trial to be like this.
The chain in his hand held not his own life, but the life of another.
At that moment, Vic felt the chain in his hand extremely heavy, so heavy that he barely found it liftable.
"This is the meaning of trust." Bai Wei said with a smile, "Apparently, to the God of Senluo, mere talk of trust is useless; it must be measured with life and death to have any value."
After speaking, Bai Wei looked toward Ivana again.
"By the way, during the trial in the Temple of Courage, you said you passed it with your grandmother’s help, so what about this trial? Did you attempt it too?"
Ivana hesitated for a moment but then honestly said, "My grandmother and I tried it but didn’t succeed."
Vic immediately looked at Ivana in surprise, "What? Then how come you aren’t dead?"
Before Ivana could answer, Vic shook his head and muttered to himself.
"No, no, if you fell, your grandmother should have been the one to die... Ah, no wonder your grandmother died."
Vic’s words made Ivana so angry that she was grinding her teeth; she was about to lose her temper when Bai Wei laughed, "Don’t mind, he’s not doing it on purpose, just nervous to the point where he starts babbling."
Ivana noticed that Vic’s behavior was indeed a bit strange and pursed her lips without digging deeper, only explaining, "At the time, my grandmother and I didn’t go deep or close the door, just stopped about ten meters in."
As Ivana recounted, Bai Wei was also gazing at her.
He saw Ivana’s childhood, curled up alone on the passageway crying, too frightened to move forward. Clearly, this was an experience she would never forget in her lifetime.