Chapter 33: Prove it to me

On the other side, Qin Jue was trapped on the eleventh mountain.
Because Xie Linlang was walking fast, no one was seen at this time, and in front of Qin Jue, there was a vertical staircase as high as two people.
It’s a stairway, but it’s actually quite vivid. This mountain is different from other mountains. It doesn’t have many trees from bottom to top. Especially near the top of the mountain, it’s completely bare, and the walls of the mountain are straight up and down. Just like the steps cut by the gods with a giant axe, some are short, some are tall, high and low, and they spread to the sky.
Climbing to this position, Qin Jue had already climbed many steps, but he was the first one at this height.
He looked around, trying to find other roads and mountains nearby, but he couldn't. There was a steeper mountain wall on the edge of the stone steps. In other words, if he wanted to go to the top of the mountain, the "stone steps and ladders" in front of him were the only way.
He looked up, moving his wrists while thinking about ways to climb up.
He has become accustomed to the weight on his hands and feet. Although he is tired all the way up, he is not incapable of persisting. He can also accurately capture the breath in his body, but because there is too little true energy, it is not enough for him to turn the front of him." Steps".
Qin Jue wanted to insert the dagger into the mountain, so as to take advantage of his strength, but he tried it. The stone wall in front of him was very regular, and his dagger could not be inserted.
The range of activities around is also very small, so that he can't run up. The key is that there are no rocks or trees, and he can't build a ladder.
How do I get up?
The sky darkened a little bit, the setting sun set to the west, and the mountain breeze became cooler. After Qin Jue tried various methods to no avail, it took two hours to grind the stone wall with a dagger. Insert it!
With the dagger as a base point, Qin Jue wiped the sweat from his forehead, stepped back two steps, and stepped on it!
But after he went up, he hadn't walked far. There was another "step" in front of him, and it was higher and smoother than the previous one!
This is really...obviously he is not far from the top of the mountain, but with the obstacles of these "steps", it is almost impossible to reach the top.
Right now, even if he wants to go down the mountain and change his way, it is too late, and with his current physical strength, he may not be able to walk down the steps that he had finally climbed up to before. The key is that he does not want to look back.
... The moon gradually climbed to the west, and the mountain became colder and quieter.
But in this silence, the sounds of running, jumping, falling, and repeated from time to time.
The big beads of sweat rolled off Qin Jue’s cheeks. He tried to jump up the steps again and again, but every time he was a little bit worse... But he couldn’t stop because the temperature at the top of the mountain had dropped to more than ten degrees below zero. There are no trees, and there is no way to keep warm. He only has to keep trying, ten times if one fails, and one hundred if not ten times, he can always go up!
But countless failures consumed not only physical strength, but also patience. When Qin Jue tried to rush up for the countless run-ups, the moment he jumped up, his knees fell softly and he felt it. There was a stabbing pain in both knees. It seemed that he was really stuck here.
"Look, my little majesty is in trouble!"
Xie Linlang's voice sounded abruptly from the top of her head, and she saw her poking out her head from the top of the stone wall, supporting her chin with both hands, looking down at him.
"Seeing that you haven't followed, I thought you were taken away by the beast. I didn't expect to be trapped here. Why don't you call for help? If you call me, I will definitely show up."
Perhaps because it is too close to the sky, Qin Jue raised his head when he heard the sound, only to see the sky full of stars sinking in her direction, and her eyes were also bright, as if there were stars hiding in...
"I..." He said, but didn't know how to start.
Said he didn't want to ask for help? Or, he didn't trust anyone for a long time, so he only wanted to rely on himself from beginning to end, even if he couldn't do it on his own, he was stubborn and made senseless attempts here.
Seeing him not talking, Xie Linlang squinted and said.
"Speaking of, I have been with you for more than ten days. In these ten days, to be honest, you have given me a lot of surprises...
Several times, I thought that you were no longer able to reach the limit, but you can always get past, in a way that was beyond my expectations, but do you know? Watching you become stronger quickly, I am not very happy. "
why?
Qin Jue frowned and looked at her.
At this moment, he is bathed in starlight, he can't see how embarrassed he is, nor can he see that his wound is bleeding, all of his mind is used to become stronger, so his eyes are firm. , Pure, like this mountain, tough and sharp.
Xie Linlang slowly said, "You are breaking through the limit, but what makes you break through is your hatred for your enemies.
I didn't think there was anything at all, after all, this is a way to become stronger.
But on the road afterwards, you obviously have many opportunities to treat yourself better, at least suffer less injury, but your hatred is too heavy, you hate others, and you hate yourself, so you don’t care about your body at all. Pushed myself to despair..."
She paused at this point, and then her voice gently melted into the wind.
"...Perhaps... From the moment you came back holding the corpse of the Empress Empress, you didn't intend to live. The Qin Jue I saw right now was just a corpse controlled by hatred.
You come from hell, no matter how hard you work, it's just to draw more people into hell. So, should I be happy? "
Qin Jue lowered his head and remained silent for a long time, then slowly stood up, showing her a pale smile.
"You are right, I am just a corpse, a puppet, but what does that matter?"
He looked up at Xie Linlang, the sky full of stars illuminates his Momo eyes, and also illuminates his loneliness.
"...As long as I can get revenge, hate or resentment, I don't care.
And I discovered that hate is the most powerful thing in the world. It is it that has made me survive the betrayal and separation of relatives, and it is also that it has made me through the near-death state again and again.
Without it, I can't even live in front of you...
It is the strongest power I have, shouldn't I hurry up? "
Xie Linlang was stunned by his question. This scene reminded her of before, Qin Jue asked him why an enemy can be a bad person, but he can't.
These were things that couldn't be answered, so she slowly stood up, stood on the edge of the vertical stone wall, and looked at him condescendingly.
"If hate is really that strong, can you climb this rock wall with the support of hate?"
With that, she stepped back and said solemnly.
"If hate can really make a person omnipotent, then you come up and prove it to me. I allow you to take off the shackles on your body and convince me with action."