Chapter 20

Ren paid the fare and walked into Violet House.

The Violet House occupies an extremely large area, the welcoming hall alone is over a hundred square meters, but the interior decoration is very simple, appearing low-key and connotative.

As soon as Ren entered the door, the eyes of several female waitresses at the front desk lit up, and one of them rushed up first, and said with a smile on his face:

"Sir, welcome to Violet House, what's your name?"

She was wearing simple and neat overalls, she looked a bit like a white-collar worker in her previous life, her hair was coiled up, and she had a good figure. When she spoke, her eyes fell on Ren's face, and her eyes were full of smiles.

One of the characteristics of the Violet House is that the employees in the store are mainly women, and their appearance is above the standard. Anyone who is placed outside is a beautiful woman.

It is said that the supervisor in charge of the store is an elf, but he rarely appears in front of ordinary customers.

Ren has been here before, so he was not too surprised, and said directly: "My name is Ren, and I want to do a soul test."

"Okay, Mr. Ryan, please follow me."

The waitress gracefully made a gesture of please, and then led the way.

Ren followed her through the hall and into an elegant room at the back. The whole room is divided into two parts, separated by a glass window in the middle. You can see that there is a recliner like a dental bed in the half compartment inside, and there is an instrument next to the chair.

The half-person-high instrument looks like a metal cabinet, with an irregular odd-shaped stone on the top. The lower part of the stone is embedded in the metal cabinet, and the structure inside cannot be seen.

Sitting next to the instrument was a middle-aged woman in a lake blue dress. She was holding a metal wire connected to the instrument, as if she was injecting energy.

At this moment, there was a man in his twenties lying on the chair, reaching out to touch the stone on the instrument. He closed his eyes, but his face was distorted and pale, and his head was covered with sweat, as if he was enduring great pain.

Outside the glass window, another waitress was watching the movement inside, and was timing the tester.

"How long has it been since?" the waitress who brought Ryan in asked softly.

"The pain has reached the middle level."

The waitress glanced at the wall clock on the wall, then turned around and said, "Mr. Ren, please wait a moment, this guest should be finishing the test soon."

"OK."

Ren nodded. He hadn't done the soul test, but he knew the process of the test.

That instrument is the Soul Grinding Stone, which has a soul power transmission device inside. An extraordinary person is invited to inject soul power into the soul grinding stone on the top. Touching it with hands will cause severe pain, simulating the soul transformation ceremony.

But not from the beginning of the test, the pain reached the level of the soul transformation ceremony, but with the injection of soul power, the pain gradually increased.

The first five minutes are primary pain, after these five minutes, it will be promoted to intermediate pain, and after another five minutes to high-level pain, this is the most painful stage in the real soul transformation ceremony.

As long as you persist for five minutes under the high-level pain, you are eligible to hold the soul transformation ceremony, and the success rate is close to half!

Of course, the longer you persist, the better, and the higher the success rate.

Just about two minutes later, the young man in the test uttered a loud cry, let go of his hands on the grinding stone, and sat up abruptly from the reclining chair.

He looked at the wall clock, he couldn't help being disappointed, and then regretted why he couldn't hold on.

It takes less than two minutes under the intermediate pain. If the soul transformation ceremony is performed, the possibility of success is close to zero.

The middle-aged woman who was in charge of activating the grinding stone gave a few words of relief, and a green light flew out from between her fingers and sank into his forehead. Then he stood up, staggered out of the cubicle, sat on the chair outside to rest, and was in charge of his work. The waiter brought him a cup of tea for him to drink, and his face finally looked better.

"Mr. Wren, you can go in for the test."

Ren took off his coat and handed it to the waitress, and walked into the cubicle.

"Please lie down and relax." The middle-aged woman said gently, her voice sounded very mellow, and seemed to have a bit of vocal skills.

Ren could already tell from the outside that this woman is a second-level transcendent, and her occupation is "shepherd and planter"!

Maybe her professional level is not high, but as a shepherd who can cast spells, no one dares to underestimate her.

The core element of the shepherd is plant affinity, good at manipulating all kinds of plants, and casting spells through plants. The types of spells are all-encompassing. They can not only heal but also destroy. Summoning and control are also good at it. It's killing people invisible.

It is a luxury to invite a shepherd to give guests a free soul test. The strength of the Violet House makes Ren feel even more mysterious.

He lay down on the chair, took a deep breath, and put his hand on the grinding stone.

"I'm going to start."

As soon as the middle-aged woman's voice fell, Ren felt a piercing pain from his hand to his mind, as if his fingers had been cut off, and he almost jumped out of the chair.

He froze all over, clenched his teeth, and took a few deep breaths before he could bear it.

Wave after wave of pain invaded the brain, as if a knife was repeatedly cutting fingers, and it was a blunt saw knife, which kept pulling on my pain nerves.

"Damn, this hurts too much."

Ren yelled in his heart. Although he could bear it for the time being, he was not sure whether he would be able to withstand it when the pain reached an intermediate level five minutes later.

"Attention must be diverted!"

He began counting sheep silently, but not once was he interrupted by pain when he reached ten.

Then try to recite the text again.

"The old county of Yuzhang, the new mansion of Hongdu. The stars are divided into Yizhen, and the ground is connected to Henglu. The three rivers are connected to the five lakes. Control, control... Control your size, it hurts me to death!"

"The sun is at the end of the mountain, and the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky... No, the moonlight is shining on the bed, hanging from the southeast branch, and a branch of red apricot comes out of the wall..."

Ren was tossing things in his head, and he couldn't recite a sentence smoothly.

He was thinking wildly with difficulty, and even began to recall the teachers who had been treasured on the hard drive for many years: Mr. Ohashi, Mr. Takaki, Mr. Hatano, Mr. Matsushima, Mr. Mikami, Mr. Ishihara, Mr. Utsunomiya... But none of them worked, it was terrible. The pain affects all thinking and easily cuts off the wonderful performances of the teachers.

Before I knew it, five minutes passed.

Then, a more intense medium-level pain came into his brain, this time it was like putting his hands on a fire!

"Who can stand this!"

Ren bit his mouth tightly so as not to utter a cry, his face was blue veined, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead soon.

A thought flashed through his mind, that the person in front had persisted for two minutes, which was too bearable.

Immediately, he remembered a martyr hero in his previous life, he was really an admirable great man!

Time passed by, and Ren was still holding on. His right hand placed on the soul grinding stone was almost stiff, and the blood vessels on the back of his hand protruded from root to root, but he firmly held the stone and refused to let go.

He looked at the wall clock on the wall. The pendulum swayed from side to side regularly, and every time it swayed, a second passed.

But every second is a terrible torment. Ren wonders if the wall clock is broken, or why the pendulum moves so slowly?

Two minutes later, Ren was overjoyed, I surpassed the person in front!

Then I thought painfully that there were still three minutes left in this stage.

Then, another three minutes passed.

It was the longest three minutes Ryan had ever experienced in two lifetimes. Before he could rejoice in his heart, the pain suddenly increased to a high level, which is the most difficult late stage in the soul transformation test.

This time, it was as if someone had nailed a finger-thick steel nail into the brain from the cap, and then stirred it round and round.

Ren couldn't help letting out a muffled groan, and his whole body began to tremble.

"If you can't hold on, just tell me." The voice of the middle-aged woman rang in her ears. She was afraid that Ren's body would become stiff due to too much pain, and she would not even be able to let go.

"No, use..." Ren slowly squeezed out two words.

A minute passed, and it felt like a century in Rennes.

Then another century passed, his consciousness was almost blurred, and he was already on the verge of collapse.

In the third minute of the advanced pain, Ren's mind went blank, and he couldn't even think. The trick of diverting attention was no longer effective, and he insisted purely on his own will.

In the last two minutes, Ren didn't know how he survived.

When the wall clock skipped five minutes, his will almost relaxed and he wanted to take his hand back.

"No! I can still hold on, try to see where my limit is." After exceeding the five-minute scale, Ren seemed to have broken through a realm, and even lasted for another three minutes.

Several people present watched nervously, not daring to make a sound.

Ren closed his eyes, and his attention was wandering around. Just when he was about to lose his hold, he scanned the little red flower in the corner of his vision and opened the phone interface.

At this time, he couldn't think at all, and randomly clicked on the interface.

Inadvertently, the music player was turned on.

A melodious melody sounded in my mind: the setting sun in the sky once again reflected my face and my uneasy heart again, what is this place is still so desolate, and the endless journey is so long...

Ren was immediately attracted by the singing, wondering what song is this?

Immediately, he noticed that the pain had subsided!

Ren was overjoyed, and quickly listened to the song intently, humming the lyrics silently in his heart, and sure enough, the pain eased little by little. Although it hasn't weakened to the point where there is no pain at all, it has probably eased from a high-level pain to a low-level pain, but this is completely within the range he can bear.

And, as he sang earnestly, the pain continued to subside further.

After two songs, the pain has been relieved to the extent that it is like being caught in the head by a door. It is not even comparable to the primary pain, and it is easy to persevere.

"I didn't expect that one day, I would feel so happy to be caught in the head by the door..."

Ryan thought dumbfounded.

Even after listening to a few songs, there was no point in testing it, so he took his hand back.

The pain disappeared immediately, Ren exhaled a breath, came back to his senses, and found that the middle-aged woman sitting next to him was looking at him in a daze, as if he had seen a ghost.

It wasn't just her, the booth outside the glass window was already full of people, including the waitresses of Violet House and several customers in the store.

When they saw Ren stop his hand, Qiqi let out an exclamation, and their eyes were full of disbelief.