You are my wife, don't doubt it!

"Okay, there's no point in talking any more." The guide sister made a "please" gesture: "If you have any doubts about the philosophy and disciplinary measures of our academy, then come with me and see for yourself - then I will take you to see Dean Song."

"Should we believe her?" Xiao Yao asked Yu Bo quietly.

"Can you handle the law enforcement nun just now?"

"Emmmmmm..." Xiao Yao didn't dare to be arrogant and fell into deep thought. After all, this is not an online game, and you can't see the level and health value, but judging from their charging speed just now...

"Then let's go with her first. She has never shown any hostility." Yu Bo understood.

But Xiao Yao also read from his eyes: If you want to take action, you have to choose a place with an advantage.

Chapter 144 Hot Graduation Season

2023-03-28

Everyone followed the guide nun's footsteps and continued walking.

In fact, even without her guidance, we would not be lost.

Because, all you need to do is follow the bloodstains left on the ground when the law enforcement nun dragged the person away.

Soon, the bloodstains passed through a metal door, and then the corridor became narrow and depressing. The light source was replaced by torches hanging on the wall. The "ranking, ranking, ranking" and "effort, effort, effort" that had lingered in the ears like brainwashing disappeared at some point, and were replaced by sobbing and disturbing metal collision sounds.

"This is the 'Punishment Room'." The guide sister stopped in front of a metal fence door, where the trail of blood disappeared.

As if to illustrate the meaning of the "punishment room" she mentioned, a sharp whip sound suddenly came from inside the door, followed by a scream.

This punishment room has a "U"-shaped structure. Outside the outer "mouth" is the torture chamber outside the iron bars. You can continue walking down along the stairs on each floor, while inside the inner "mouth" is a bottomless well. It is hard to imagine what is at the bottom.

Xiao Yao walked silently behind the guide nun. Behind Xiao Yao were Shen Jie, who was looking around and exclaiming from time to time, Yu Luying, who was staring at her toes and silently reciting scriptures, and Yu Bo, who had a frown on his face.

On both sides of them, besides the law enforcement nun guarding not far from the iron bars, there was also a picture of hell outside the iron bars.

The "punished" prisoners on the first floor were simply stripped of their shirts, hung up by their arms and whipped. Judging from the blood, the boy who had just been dragged in also joined them.

After that, they were burned with irons, had their limbs pulled by mechanical winches, had their heads clamped with iron hoops and then tightened, had bamboo sticks driven into their fingernails, and the well-known tiger bench. Just when Xiao Yao thought that this stuff was only in ancient times, the electric shock and acupuncture torture made his scalp tingle again.

The guide nun walked in front, chattering on and on about the origins and effects of these punishments, introducing the prisoners' crimes and confessions, and Abbess Song's generosity and tolerance.

The prisoners were all boys without exception, but they were all wearing black pointed hats that only showed their eyes, so their faces could not be seen. This made every prisoner Xiao Yao saw look like himself.

"Scores, scores, scores. No one in the class is allowed to be late! Grades, grades, grades. Don't let me know about your premature love affair! Grades, scores, scores..."

Xiao Yao heard that damn singing again, but it was tone-deaf and seemed to be coming from beside him.

He turned to look at Shen Jie, stretched out his right hand, and drew a question mark in the air.

Shen Jie stuck out her tongue playfully and covered her mouth: "I was brainwashed by this song."

"It seems that your Dean Song is a staunch feminist. Severe punishments are reserved for men." Xiao Yao looked at the tour guide nun and said.

The guide nun didn't even turn her head and answered: "In this world, girls are angels. Girls are always victims, and men are born potential perpetrators. Even if a girl makes a mistake, it must be because she was bewitched by a boy. Dean Song's instructions are not wrong."

"Stop repeating things you don't even believe in." It was Yu Bo who spoke: "You are not the one sent by Song Haijian to greet us, are you? Stop pretending. Who are you? What is your purpose?"

When the three boys and girls heard this, they all looked at Yu Bo in confusion.

The guide nun stopped and looked back, and a smile seemed to appear on her faceless face again. However, it was no longer the business-like smile just now, but a creepy and miserable smile.

Then, the nonexistent smile disappeared, and the guide sister gave her answer word by word: "Yes, I lied.

“However, the last show of this tour is not to be missed.”

After saying that, she held onto the handrail on the side of the corridor patio with one hand, raised her leg and jumped, and the whole person fell into the patio.

Everyone hurriedly leaned over to the railing to look. It turned out that in the process of going down the stairs around the "U"-shaped corridor, their position had already dropped to a height where they could see the bottom of the patio.

In the patio that was once pitch black, one can now see a burning brazier placed in each corner. In the center of the patio, one can vaguely see a tall iron pillar as thick as a man's arms stand in the middle. The lower half of the iron pillar is buried in a pile of firewood. There seems to be a human figure tied to the iron pillar on top of the pile of firewood. Above the patio, a black moon is particularly eye-catching.

"Is this... a stake?" Yu Bo's voice was a little dry.

"What?"

"During witch trials, they would burn witches in public this way."

Upon hearing this, Shen Jie stuck out her tongue again.

"Most of the time, holy orders are more tolerant towards women and allow them to repent of their mistakes." The voice of the tour guide nun echoed in the corridors and patios, but no one could see where she was living.

"However, there are always some women who will be seduced by evil or will give in to their own corruption and refuse to repent. These impure thoughts must be prevented from desecrating the pure souls of others."

A torch was lit next to a brazier. It turned out that the Guide Sister was in the dark of the courtyard. She continued to sing: "For such evil, punishment is meaningless. It can only be punished by the fire of order! The fire of order will illuminate, burn, and purify everything!"

First he tolerated it, then suddenly skipped all the procedures and executed him directly? I thought Song Haijian was a white knight who protected the flowers, but it turns out that he is a death knight who doesn't recognize his relatives! Xiao Yao cursed in his heart.

At some point, the corridors surrounding the patio were shrouded in shadows.

In that shadow, there seemed to be countless voices shouting:

"Illuminate, burn, purify everything."

In that shadow, there seemed to be countless voices cheering:

"Illuminate, burn, purify everything."

They seemed to care nothing about who was tied to the stake, nor did they mind that after the burning flames illuminated everything, the only things that were purified were the shadows themselves.

"According to the regulations, you can be given one last chance!" The nun's loud voice calmed the noise around them.

"Even if you have foolishly offended the light and sacred order, as long as you are willing to sincerely repent, cleanse your soul, redeem your sins through asceticism, and never repeat the same mistakes, we can mercifully change your sentence to life imprisonment, where you will eat the bread of regret and drink the water of pain until the end of your life."

"Light your fire, executioner!" The man tied to the fire finally answered, in a hoarse but passionate female voice: "Do you think I am so afraid of death that I would rather hide in a rat hole to live my life? I have done nothing wrong! I am ready to die!"

"Witness the grace and mercy of the Fire of Order."

The guide nun threw the torch in her hand into the pile of wood at the foot of the stake, as if the previous questioning was just a routine procedure with a known result. Then, the pile of wood also exploded as if it had been oiled in advance.

"This is a special pyre made for you. Let you slowly enjoy the taste of turning into ashes. Sooner or later, you will beg for mercy from me with all kinds of voices, just like your kind."

The entire courtyard suddenly became bright, dispelling the shadow in the center of the courtyard. The guide nun who was shouting raised her head, as if looking at the prisoner, but also at Xiao Yao who was on the same side.

But Xiao Yao's attention was attracted by the prisoner on the fire.

In the light of the fire, he was able to see clearly that it was a young girl, neither tall nor short, wearing a hip-hugging miniskirt and flesh-colored pantyhose, and a pair of open-toed high-heeled sandals on her feet.

At this moment, she also raised her head stubbornly, and her eyes met Xiao Yao's.

“Xiaomei——!”

"Xiao Yao, calm down!" "Xiao Yao, what are you doing?" "No! Xiao Yao, it's too high here!" "Xiao Yao——"

Xiao Yao seemed to hear the people around him shouting something to him, but he also seemed to hear nothing. He could only hear a voice from his heart. The voice was very brief, with only two words: "Help."

So, before hearing the shouts from those around him, he had already grabbed the railing on the side of the corridor patio with one hand, raised his leg, and jumped into the patio that was already on fire.

The process of falling was shorter than expected, as if he had only climbed over the school's flowerbed. After landing, Xiao Yao found that Zhao Xiaomei, the stake, the executioner, and the excitement of the spectators in the shadows around him had all disappeared, and he was now in a thick darkness. He turned around and saw Shen Jie, Yu Luying, and Yu Bo running down with him.

Several people regrouped, and before they had time to discuss their next strategy, suddenly a light came from above, dispelling the darkness that blocked their vision.

Everyone then realized that they were in the school auditorium. On the red curtain behind the podium on one side of the auditorium, there were four bright and exciting characters: Graduation Ceremony.

The banner hanging above the curtain reads: "The bags are filled with abundant achievements, and the teacher's kindness is engraved in my heart."

When everyone saw this scene and recalled what they had seen and heard on this trip, they all laughed out loud at the same time.

"It seems that you are not satisfied with your graduation ceremony." At some point, the guide nun appeared under a beam of light on the podium in front.

"Stop playing tricks. Where is Zhao Xiaomei? Where is Song Haijian? Who are you?" Xiao Yao drew his sword and rushed to the podium, followed by the other three.

Then, an iron bar as high as the top was lowered on each of the four sides of the auditorium at the same time, locking Xiao Yao and the other three into a cage.

Shen Jie immediately threw a fireball at the podium where the nun was, but after the fireworks dissipated, the iron fence between the two sides remained motionless.

"You're trying to use fire to disperse fire. You're nothing but a fool..." The nun continued to give her speech on the podium, as if she wanted to play a trick on Xiao Yao and the others.

"If fire doesn't work, try ice!" Yu Luying pulled out her hand axe and threw it at the nun. Unfortunately, the flying axe with the cold wind was blocked by the iron bars during the rotation, and only embedded in it, leaving a piece of frost.

Xiao Yao also tried with his sword, but it still didn't work.

"You must think of a solution as soon as possible. Now that you have graduated, the academy can't protect you for much longer." The nun reminded everyone with an "I'm thinking about you" look.

At the same time, the outer wall of the auditorium outside the cage formed by the iron bars began to crack and disintegrate, breaking and peeling off like weathered adobe, allowing everyone to see the world outside the auditorium.

It turned out that the auditorium was suspended in the center of a huge furnace. Under everyone's feet was burning molten iron, and the water level of the molten iron continued to rise due to the continuous injection of molten iron from high above. On the top were sets of gear capstans and criss-crossing iron chains, all the way to a metal turntable on the ground at the end of the auditorium away from the rostrum. As the entire cage swayed, a rattling sound was made.

"It's the same old thing!" Xiao Yao and Shen Jie shouted in unison, angrily.

"This is the way out." The guide nun used her business tone as a tour guide again and tore off the red curtain behind the podium, revealing a narrow steel bridge that meandered upward and led to the outside of the furnace.

At the head of the steel bridge stands a metal monument with the words "College Entrance Examination" inscribed on it.

After observing the direction of the gear hinges and the chain, Yu Luying believed that this metal turntable should be the key to opening the cage, but now there was no push rod on the turntable, so no force could be exerted.

The guide nun continued to chatter away, "Dean Song said that only those who are capable of walking out of here are qualified to leave this furnace and find a new life. Of course, those who stay are also pillars of society. They will merge with their peers, be beaten repeatedly, and be constantly tempered. Eventually, they will be forged into steel and iron bones, and then buried in concrete, never to see the light of day until the building collapses."

"So are you planning to keep talking here and then accompany us to become a pillar of society?" Yu Bo actually had the leisure to mock her.

"Of course not. I stayed here just to know - my disguise was obviously flawless, how did you discover my flaw?" The nun walked fearlessly until she was two steps outside the iron fence before stopping.

"Why should I tell you?" Yu Bo asked.

The nun pulled out a long iron metal pole from somewhere and said, "Because I will use this in exchange. You are a smart person and you should know that this is a good deal."

"Why should I believe you?"

"Because you have no other choice."

"To be honest, you played the role of the nun flawlessly."

"So you were trying to trick me? How boring."

"I'm not trying to trick you. I'm absolutely sure of that because this fake monastery is filled with undisguised deviations and flaws, whether in terms of architectural style, personnel, or rituals."

"so what?"

"Don't you realize that in such a flawed monastery, an impeccable nun is itself a huge flaw?"

"I see." The guide nun seemed to laugh again.

"Gentleman's agreement, bring me the putter." Yu Bo stretched out his left hand.

The nun hid the metal rod behind her and said, "If I don't give it to you, what can you do to me?"

"I know you won't be honest." Yu Bo was confident. He swiftly put down the violin case from behind his back with his right hand, held the violin head with his left hand, and pointed it at the nun outside the iron bars.

The nun had been outside the iron gate and had never been threatened. She didn't take Yu Bo's actions seriously at first, but suddenly seemed to remember something and dodged to the side.

However, it is already a little late.

After a loud bang, the head of the guitar case in Yu Bo's hand turned into a piece of broken wood, revealing the muzzle of a gun with smoke still inside.

At the moment the gun went off, Xiao Yao saw a dark figure rushing out from the nun's robe. The robe remained in place and was shot through. The metal push rod in her hand also fell to the ground.

The figure wanted to turn around to grab it, but was forced back by Yu Bo's continuous accurate shooting, and the metal push rod was snatched away by Shen Jie with quick eyes and hands.

Finally, seeing that he could not gain any advantage, the figure quickly climbed up to the top of the iron fence in a strange spider-like posture, left behind a cruel remark "Don't think you can get away just by getting the key", swung a long whip upwards, and continued to disappear upwards.

"Uncle, how did you get a gun?" Yu Luying reacted and asked Xiang Yubo hurriedly.

"Children should not ask about adult matters."

Seeing that the molten iron level under the furnace had risen a lot, Xiao Yao quickly asked Shen Jie for a push rod, inserted it into the metal turntable, and pushed hard. Sure enough, the iron grille rose a little. However, one person's strength was not enough. Fortunately, the push rod was long enough. The four of them worked together and turned it more than ten times before finally pulling up the iron grille.

But this thing cannot be locked. Once people let go, the iron bars will start to fall.

They tried several times but were unable to escape before the iron bars closed again, especially Xiao Yao, who was the strongest but the slowest runner.

Xiao Yao proposed a plan: everyone should push the iron bars up together, and then Xiao Yao, who has the most strength, should stay on the turntable and try to slow down the falling of the iron bars. At this time, the other three people should try their best to escape, and then hold the iron bars from the outside to buy time for Xiao Yao to escape. However, this method can only be tried once, because if Xiao Yao fails to escape, neither Xiao Yao inside nor the three people outside can open the iron bars again.

A few people did not dare to take the risk for the time being and would rather try to speed up a few more times, but unfortunately they never saw any hope.

As the molten iron level rose, the surroundings became hotter and hotter, and time became more and more urgent. Under Xiao Yao's strong request, Yu Bo had to agree to his plan on behalf of the two girls.

The reason why she is called a “representative” is because Shen Jie still strongly opposes this plan, but cannot come up with any better constructive suggestions.

The plan went smoothly at first. When Xiao Yao held the turntable and let the other three run to the iron fence, the iron fence only fell halfway. Yu Bo and the other two jumped onto the rostrum, just enough to hold up the bottom of the iron fence.

However, when Xiao Yao let go of the turntable and prepared to sprint, the iron fence suddenly sank a lot, pressing Yu Bo and the other two to grimaced. It seemed that without the force arm amplification effect of the winch, the weight of the iron fence could not be supported by the hard support alone.

Seeing this, Xiao Yao had to push the turntable again to barely keep the iron gate at its current height.

He turned around and shouted to Yu Bo and the others, "You guys go ahead, I'll find a way out myself, no problem."

The three people over there frowned and shook their heads when they heard him say that. Shen Jie was so anxious that tears were about to flow out: "Xiao, what are you trying to do?!"

At this time, a man suddenly withdrew from the team holding up the iron bars, resolutely jumped off the rostrum, and entered the iron cage again.