Beginning
My father fell into the scarlet, I ran over in fear, prostrate on him and crying; The carpet was gradually soaked into a swamp-like, my father coughed a few times, choked something, then his head hung down.
Lori poked Loyd, “Loyd, what are you thinking about?” Lori asked, full of joy, who retracted his thoughts and looked out of the window.
The square, which used to be bustling with activity, now is silent.
To the north of the building is the downtown park, and on the opposite, it is the tallest skyscraper in the world, standing tall and straight into the sky. This is the world’s largest badge workshop, due to mandatory wearing, the government needs a centralized badge making place open to the public, in the preparation process, many celebrity bosses made a contribution; this is the place where Loyd and Lori often played together from childhood to adulthood.
When the car stopped in front of the skyscraper, the guard respectfully opened the door for the two boys. A man without any word, entered the building in stride; Loyd and Lori followed without hesitation and entered the elevator together.
Just now, Loyd and Lori won the BNA in the Celeus International Film Festival with their graduation work, which was the ultimate honor. At the end of the festival, a strange guy showed them a grotesque and pompous badge, its pattern was outlined with purple emerald, sapphire and superb emerald, its cold onyx-like material had some luster refracting multiple cold white lights through the middle, in its strong contrast, it did not look like a badge, but more like a pair of treacherous eyes.
And the subject that Loyd and Lori were filming was exactly this badge world. The duo spent countless energy and time for this movie, examining countless badges, and the badge this man brought out was of a type they had never seen before.
Inside the elevator, the man took out another badge that had just been shown to them and wore it on his chest.
“ Wear your new badge in the center of your left chest and remember not to make it skew.”
After the man finished, brothers immediately began to wear it, before they wear it down, the elevator doors slowly opened, the two were a bit frazzled, Lori in the panic process was not quite pinched by the brooch; Loyd rushed to hand his brother a handkerchief, slightly helpless.
The guard stepped forward and checked three men’s badges, then respectfully led the way for them, and there was a door-opening attendant at the end of the corridor. As the door slowly opened, darkness gradually seeped out of the room.
Colosseum
The first thing that shocked their eyes was a giant glass cage reflecting cold light, in which a brown bear was facing off with a huge lion.
“The show is beginning!” The man said and then disappeared into the darkness.
After a short pause, the two young boys also walked in with the man.
Loyd and Lori entered and looked around, surrounding the glass cage is a circle after a circle of terraced seats, the audience in the theater are all up and extremely excited to look at the cage, some people noticed these uninvited guests, but soon attention back to the good show in the cage.
Loyd and Lori found a glowing yellow box embedded in the middle of each seating area, with some badges placed inside the box, in rows as if they were fireflies, adding a bit of pulsation to the darkness.
The man led the two to seats closer to the ring and sat down together. Brothers immediately plopped toward the middle of the badge frame to get a look, but were then tapped heavily on the shoulder by a fat man.
“Sit here and watch out! Don’t touch my trophy and get it dirty!”
Loyd and Lori just ready to theorize, then “Bang”, the lion was brown bear slapped hard into the wall, the battle inside the cage has begun. Instantly, shouts and howls filled every corner.
Brown bear and lions constantly attack each other and tearing, huge body again and again collision in the glass wall, issued a huge impact sound and vibration, the atmosphere of the scene again and again; at this time, Loyd and Lori are frozen, they have never felt so close to such a fight, and even some people are intimidated.
With a gush of blood from the brown bear, the curtain-like crimson condensed on the glass, and even the steaming afterglow could be seen. The atmosphere reached a climax, everyone cheered vociferously, it was an unprecedented blood orgy!
It was as if Loyd himself was immersed in a pool of blood, and he saw again the face of his father who was about to die. Whispers wrapped around him, and the blood consumed him.
With the brown bear fallen, the battle only finally stopped.
Loyd and Lori were still in shock.
The man explained, “This is a playground for celebrities, where everyone picks for themselves who they will fight and challenges everyone else. Of course, this is also a kind of trial.” The man pauses for a moment.
“There will be a penalty for the loser, and the winner can make a reasonable request to the other person that cannot be refused, and make a commemorative badge for this victory, which is displayed in the collection box.”
Loyd and Lori were amazed speechless: what an experience to make a request to these celebrities, and to win status and admiration that no one would resist.
Another trial was over. Brothers also grew into the atmosphere, they understood that in the world of the weak and the strong, this is not surprising at all.
Choices
“Loyd, I’d like to give it a try! How about just play once!” A sly gleam in Lori’s eyes.
“Forget it Lori… Although… But I don’t really want to get involved…”
“What a buzzkill, I will give you a nice try.”
Looking at the exuberant Lori in front of him, Loyd was speechless.
Two boys then followed the man to the second level, which was an extremely empty place, except for the tall gold and green mosaic on the wall and the surrounding sculpture group there was nothing else. Without waiting for the two to ask questions, the man waved his hand, and the ground was lit up like a river of stars, grid by grid.
“Ooh…” Loyd and Lori sighed at the same time.
The uncountable glowing hexagons under the ground began to reassemble, as if a giant hive, and beneath each grid was a fierce beast or a herd of them, leering at the tiger above. But it was obvious that the hive was missing a lot.
“Go ahead and to choose, it’s helping to redeem them!” Loyd and Lori took the golden scepter handed to them by the guards and began to provoke the beasts under the glass. A gradually frenzied Lori looked around with wide eyes and mumbled the words.
Since most of the beasts had already been chosen, just when Lori was confused, the man came up to him and said, “There are better ones upstairs, want to see them?” Lori looked at the man thoughtfully, tilted his head and gestured for the man to take him there, and Lloyd followed him up.
This floor is also an empty, and the wall mosaic has been replaced with a gold-blue, sculpture also seems to be different, under the feet or just like a grid is lit up, the number of grids and the previous floor is similar.
“Loyd!” Lori suddenly shouted, Loyd took a closer look down and sucked in his breath; the grid under his feet was no longer the beast… But… Humans…! Everyone under the glass stared straight down at the trio, causing a cold sweat to break out.
“Is this our warrior too? We’re going to let humans fight those beasts?”
“That’s right, you have to know that at your feet are all the most sinful people, the lowest tumor of society, they need more redemption, do not have any burden, and if their sub-humans defeat the beasts, then the reward is doubled!”
Just as the brothers were confused, the man under a piece of glass in the distance began to roar at them and jumped up and hit the glass hard, causing it to buzz.
“He… What’s he talking about?” Loyd asked to the man.
The man snorted at the guards, and then his voice carried throughout the room.
“Damn it! Let me out, you hypocritical bastards!”
Suddenly, all of the imprisoned men began to smash the glass as if in a chain reaction upon hearing the hissing, their expressions grim, shouting, and some even throwing indescribable objects in the direction of the two brothers, as Lori and Loyd gritted their teeth.
“Damn, let all these scums go to atone for their sins as soon as possible,” then Lori singled out the man who was the first to knock on the glass, “Hey, it’s no pity to die.” And at this point, Loyd some contempt, “Lori, choose people I think not quite right.” “They are the worst crime murderer’s ah brother, is inexcusable, so do it for God.” Loyd no longer say anything.
Back to the arena, at this time the arena is the beast and human confrontation, both sides have been exhausted, the game ended when the man’s big knife fell …
Immediately after the battle between Lori and the others began.
This is a battle between humans, the other side of the chosen fighter is actually a blood-smeared indigenous female, the woman took the lead to the man’s attack with a sharp blade in his hand, the man dodged the woman in the air, and fell heavily, the two sides immediately fought together, the sharp blade in the woman’s hand constantly stabbed to the man, not long after the man’s body was poked with several holes. With a spill of blood, the man used a shovel to give the woman a fatal blow, the whole scene boiled up again!
Lori was at the peak of his exuberance and was cheering with the masses, while Loyd had a mute expression, and he was back to the time of his father’s death. He was hugging his father and crying, his mother dropped the blood-stained knife in her hand, threw a downright bitch at his father and left, while Loyd still looked at his father and cried, trying desperately to hear his father’s last choked sobs.
“Loyd, see! I’ve won!”
“Lori, listen to me, don’t go on.”
And at this time, Lori could not listen to others, no matter what Loyd said could not stop him, he had tasted the thrill of victory and once again entered the alternative room to challenge a different person.
When the second and third floors were gradually selected empty, the whole venue finally quiet.
Redemption
Man finds these two boys.
“Come on, look at your trophies!”
Followed the man up to the fourth floor, the elevator doors slowly opened, unknown classical music seeped through the doorway, soft light bathed the crowd, elegant and decent gold porch and crimson decoration will be the character of the corridor to enhance a lot of tone, the surrounding oil paintings with religious flavor intriguing; through the corridor, reflected in the eyes is an oval-like luxury hall, from the ceiling to the floor is completely dark gold Decorated, surrounded by a whole block of huge floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking almost the city’s appearance, the middle is a sunken circular area, while the area is a huge cross, in the periphery of the circular area is a table and a table.
The temple was already filled with people, and it was not difficult to recognize them all as part of the cheering that had just taken place. They are now holding red wine glasses in their hands and are chatting and laughing audibly and as if nothing is wrong.
Suddenly, a man wearing a crown on his head and a purple robe stood on the podium directly below the cross, and in a moment, everyone was silent, staring at the purple robed pope.
The pope began to murmur some unheard prayers. The eerie sound of an old pipe organ was played in the hall.
After the chant, a bell rang, and everyone began to pray.
Another bell rang and the room was silent; the attendants handcuffed the winners to the table in turn, while they were all still alive.
Then the various knives and instruments were brought up by the servants, and the powerful men were about to begin their creation.
Loyd and Lori were assigned to two leaning tables, and the warriors who had fought for each became the lambs to be slaughtered on the table.The two boys baulked at this point.
With a deafening lion’s roar, a lion’s teeth were pulled off raw and placed into a nearby machine, which then spat out a badge base.
The two finally understand how to collect the badge in the box came from.
Before Lori was a majestic man, blindfolded in an effort to roar, various hissing sounds in the entire solemn venue deafening. Instead of being intimidated, Lori picked away at the knife, and Loyd, seeing his brother preparing to cut, yelled at him loudly: “Stop it! He’s a human being, what are you doing Lori”
“He tortured his wife to death, who can serve this pain back to him?”
Lori continued silently, “But a lowly thing.”
Loyd was speechless, when the waiter came with a book folder, depicting to Loyd and Lori the atrocities the man had committed; after listening to it, Lori’s veins flared up and pretended to be calm as he picked up the knife in his hand, while Loyd stood dumbfounded.
The smell of blood is getting stronger, the sound of music hissing, and laughter intertwined to fill the hall.
Lori and Loyd were doing the inventory, the hall of “redemption” activities have come to an end, the celebrities began to pick up the red wine glass again excitedly to each other to mention the appeal. Suddenly Lori looked at Loyd thoughtfully, “Brother, go to the top floor…” Loyd suddenly realized that the floor they were on could already be called the end of the world, and no one was going any higher; but Loyd wasn’t curious, he just wanted to go back and chill out. But the empty-eyed Lori walked straight to the elevator room “What are you doing?”
“Hmph, you know.”
The Trial
A few seconds later, the elevator doors opened again, and this time it was very different from the usual. A path struck by a cold white light led to a booth, while all around was out of reach. The two boys followed the path to the booth, and inside the booth was a badge that was so different that it stunned the two completely, with a row of small letters below the badge.
“Possess this object and command the world. Purify the dearest, then it is a great love, can have it!” The duo silently recited in their hearts.
“The most relatives…” Lori suddenly swung several punches to Loyd, instantly, Loyd blood flowing, can only resist. The two sides fought together, Loyd strangled Lori’s neck, yelling “What are you doing! Lori! Are you crazy?!”
Loyd’s eyes filled with blood, seemingly back in that room again; Loyd stood watching, his father beside his sobbing self, tears and blood mixing together. The father grunted and coughed a few times, “Loyd… For the sake of status… Loyd finally heard his father’s choked sobs.
The pain was so intense that Lloyd snapped back to his senses.
“… I won’t… Make the same mistake, you asked for it!”
Lori slowly collapsed in Loyd’s arm.
Suddenly, the entire space was lit up with cheers coming from all directions, and the blinding light made Loyd unable to open his eyes for a while. Loyd stood up shakily, struggling to open his eyes, the scene in front of him made him speechless — he was in the center of a huge golden theater, surrounded by and the second floor of the church corridor are full of people standing, full of applause, laughter, and crocodile tears. Looking back, the eerily smiling bishop and the huge statue of the god behind him stood in front of him.
“Congratulations, you are willing to resolve to let your brother be saved, I am really proud of you, but you are just as burdened with sin, just as in need of salvation; come, my son, we will help you get rid of it!”
A tabletop used on the upper level rose up in front of Loyd, and in Loyd’s dull, desperate eyes, he became his ideal treasure and sank into the collection box that the Pope wanted to fill.
