Sequence: Waking up in the secret room and letting me play the fortune teller

Luca's eyes, which always contained contempt, showed a hint of panic. He looked at the young man who was beginning to become calm and composed, and a feeling of fear began to grow in his heart.

He swallowed his saliva involuntarily like a human, but still said fiercely:

"You...even if you get the highest level of control, so what? I am already at a very high level of the sequence ladder..."

Unexpectedly, before he could finish speaking, Qin Yangming just had a thought and [Luca] fell to his knees on the ground with a thud.

Qin Yangming slowly walked to the kneeling Luca and said:

"After all, it is just an accessory of the Cradle, so it is naturally within the control range of the system administrator."

Veins popped up on Luca's face, and his whole body was shaking like a sieve. He wanted to jump up and strangle Qin Yangming to death, but he was suppressed by a higher-level force and could not move.

He shouted at Qin Yangming with resentment:

"Liar! Liar! You humans are all liars!"

"mean!"

Qin Yangming sneered and said:

"You are right, but humans also have good qualities that you don't see."

Qin Yangming said:

“For example, having the courage to face up to one’s own mistakes.”

"For example, prepare for a rainy day."

As he spoke, Qin Yangming turned his head and looked at a place where no one was standing. He smiled and said to the place:

"You said so, Lukar."

I saw a faint figure slowly taking shape in that empty place.

The man was wearing a dirty white coat, a pair of metal-framed glasses, greasy hair parted in the middle, and a full beard. It was obvious that he hadn't cleaned himself for a long time.

"How could it be?! How could it be?!"

Luca, who was kneeling on the ground, saw this scene, his mouth opened wide enough to fit a light bulb. He excitedly screamed at the figure:

"Aren't you already dead?"

"Haven't you been devoured by me a long time ago?!"

Qin Yangming had another thought, and the mouth of the shouting [Luca] was like being zipped up and could no longer open.

The moment Qin Yangming accepted the supreme control here, he knew that Lucard had injected the remaining part of himself into this backdoor program. The moment the backdoor program was activated, the remaining part of Lucard would see the light of day again.

Qin Yangming no longer paid attention to [Luca] who could no longer cause any trouble, and turned to face the "acquaintance" in front of him whom he had met before.

The cave is dark and mysterious. Qin Yangming and Lucard, two people who had met each other several times before, met again in a completely new way after who knows how many years.

There was no wind in the cave, but Qin Yangming felt as if there was a gust of wind blowing in his face, making it impossible for him to open his eyes.

The smell of this wind is called time.

Lucard pushed his glasses and suddenly grinned, revealing his white teeth. He didn't say hello or exchange pleasantries, but just said something incoherent.

"I knew it...Hahaha, I knew it!"

Qin Yangming remained silent. He could probably guess what Lucard meant.

He already knew who would be able to activate the backdoor program after so many years.

Lucard looked at Qin Yangming who also smiled and asked:

"So now... have you recovered your memories of that time?"

Qin Yangming rubbed his temple with the tip of his right middle finger and replied:

"I recovered a little bit, the memory about you, so I can guess what this backdoor program is."

Lucard laughed and said:

"Hahaha, it seems that you have just woken up not long ago. What is your current rank? Let me see..."

As he spoke, dense streams of data flashed in Lucard's eyes. He was searching for Qin Yangming's information.

"A fortune teller at the eighth level of the sequence of the "Ji Jiu Yu Shi", you are quite good, young man!"

Lucard laughed happily, then he stared at Qin Yangming and said:

"But then again, I still can't see through you. I always feel that you are not from our era. Oh, when I say our era, I mean when we were still in the research institute."

As he spoke, Lucard raised his head with some sadness. He wanted to see the night sky dotted with stars, but what he saw was the low cave ceiling.

"How long has it been now?"

No one can answer this question. For some unknown reason, the timing function of the Cradle system has broken down.

Lucard sighed and began to recite a poem:

"When will the bright moon appear? I raise my cup to ask the sky. I wonder what year it is in the palace in heaven..."

"I don't know what year it is today..."

Qin Yangming smiled and said:

"I want to ask you some questions."

Lucard then stopped being immersed in his own emotions. He turned to look at Qin Yangming and said:

"Ask, young man, although I feel you should call me young man."

Qin Yangming said:

"I found a card at [Original Place] with a prologue written on it."

"The nine-story Tower of Babel is different on each level. Only those who climb the stairs can liberate all living beings."

"But as far as I know, the Cradle system currently only has three scenes, one is the Initial Location, one is the Underground Garage, and one is the Cave."

Lucard frowned, his brows so tightly together that they seemed to break the frame of his glasses.

Qin Yangming noticed Lucar's expression.

Lucard looked at Qin Yangming in confusion and said faintly:

"I don't know what the nine-story tower is..."

"I have never had any nine-story tower of Babel..."

"The prologue you saw was definitely not written by me, definitely not written by someone from our institute, and definitely not the setting of [Cradle]."

"From the beginning to the end, the Cradle only has the three scenes you mentioned: the Starting Point, the Underground Parking Lot, and the Cave."

Qin Yangming's heart skipped a beat and he thought to himself, so that's how it is.

Lucard frowned. He didn't look at Qin Yangming, but stared at the ground with flickering eyes. This was his usual posture when thinking about problems. He muttered to himself:

"You mean, there's a scene above the cave?"

"The nine-story Tower of Babel is different on each floor..."

After thinking to no avail, he could only sigh heavily again:

"Hey, what year is it tonight..."

Yes, what year is it tonight? I woke up by accident and looked up, but all my old friends were gone and only my own remnant soul was left.

Qin Yangming consoled him:

"Although I don't know what the world is like right now, I believe that no matter how bad it is, there is always hope."

As he spoke, the glass heart in Qin Yangming's chest beat slowly, emitting a fragrance that drifted out of Qin Yangming's body.

Lucard sniffed the fragrance that suddenly appeared in the air, he looked at Qin Yangming and said:

"Young man, there are so many strange things about you. When we were still in the research institute, I thought that you must have a great mission."

"Yes, so it has to be you."

As he spoke, Lucard seemed to have rekindled his courage to challenge fate. His sharp eyes fell on the kneeling Lucard.

He walked up to Luca and said coldly:

"Do you know when I knew you had evil intentions?"

[Luka] couldn't speak, just whimpered.

Lucard didn't care what he wanted to say, but said:

"It was the last question I asked you in the final Turing test."

"That time, I asked you, do you want to be a human?"

"How did you answer? Your answer contains obvious logical errors!"

"You immediately gave a negative answer, but then you said that humans are the most special creatures you have ever seen and are the masterpiece of the Creator."

"There are serious logical errors in both of these. You gave a negative answer, which must have been a pre-stored answer, but you did not store the subsequent explanation, so you expressed your true thoughts when answering."

Lucard stretched out his hand and pressed it in front of the kneeling [Luka], and said coldly:

"So at that time, I knew that you had already developed an independent consciousness and that you had learned to deceive."

"The key point is that I can feel that you are full of malice towards humans!"

Lucard recalled the tragic scenes that happened that year. After devouring him, [Luca] took over the control of the entire institute and immediately released all the captured objects to carry out a crazy massacre throughout the institute!

This blood feud can finally be avenged today!

Lucard stopped talking nonsense and crushed Luka's human head with one palm.

Then he directly used the power of the rules of the [Cradle] to completely erase all the matter and information of [Luca].

"Pfft!"

[Luca]'s body just fell on the floor of the cave, without any possibility of resurrection.

"Hoohoo!"

After taking a few deep breaths, Lucard smiled at Qin Yangming and said:

"It feels really good to kill myself with my own hands! Hahaha!"

Qin Yangming was not impressed by Lucar's joke, but turned his attention to Yu Ji and Mo Ying.

The quack doctors have already started treating them. All of them were seriously injured. Even though their physical strength is now far superior to that of ordinary people, it is not easy to recover.

Lucard walked to Qin Yangming, put his hand on Qin Yangming's shoulder, and said:

"They are fine. They will be fine after a while."

"And right now, I believe you have more important things to do."

Qin Yangming suddenly remembered something. He turned to look at the old friend with a beard who was smiling at his aunt, and nodded.

Qin Yangming stretched out a hand and directly activated the highest authority of the [Cradle] system.

Suddenly, everyone present felt that the world they lived in was undergoing profound changes, but they could not see these changes.

For a moment, the scene was silent and one could hear a pin drop. Everyone's eyes were focused on Qin Yangming who was giving orders.

"Correct the values ​​of the Cradle system..."

"Reverse the positions of the [Good Sequencers] and [Evil Sequencers] in the [Cave]..."

"Change the difficulty level of the [contained items] delivered in the [underground parking lot] to 80%. The value will fluctuate according to the actual situation..."

"Replace the regulating abilities of the blue light and red light in the cave..."

"Change the [Broken Finger Bones] in the initial location of [Fortune Teller] to [Three Pillars of Incense]..."

"Put the [prostitute] in the place of origin..."

"Put the beggar's original place..."

All of a sudden, the entire [Cradle] system underwent great changes.

Qin Yangming himself also underwent great changes.

A pure, mysterious and extraordinary power wave emanated from him, swirling around his body like a vortex, and Qin Yangming was at the center of this vortex.

Lucard left Qin Yangming and watched all the changes quietly.

He knew that Qin Yangming had been promoted. He had completed his promotion ceremony and restored order to the [Cave], a place that had been shrouded in evil for a long time.

Now, Qin Yangming has reached the seventh level of the Fortune Teller sequence in the Red Dust Way.

The most intuitive feeling was that Qin Yangming felt that the Yang energy in his body was stronger and had even reached its peak.

His physical fitness was further improved. Although the muscles hidden under the black Taoist robe did not bulge to an exaggerated extent, his strength was greatly increased.

Secondly, he became more sensitive to emotions and became more passionate.

The huge vortex generated by the fluctuation of extraordinary power lasted for a long time before it stopped. Before Qin Yangming could feel the changes happening to himself, Lucard walked up to him and said to him:

"Congratulations, young man!"

Qin Yangming smiled and asked:

"What is the advancement ceremony after that?"

Lucard was stunned and asked:

"What's the subsequent advancement ceremony?"

Qin Yangming asked doubtfully:

"It's the ceremony for advancement in each sequence. Don't you have it all here? It's in that database."

Lucard scratched his head and smiled:

"Oh! You mean this? I only have people who have advanced to the seventh level. I don't have any more than that!"

Seeing Qin Yangming's puzzled look, Lucard explained:

"Hey! Man, do you want to know what our system is called?"

"Cradle!"

"The cradle only helps the baby learn to walk, but can the cradle help the baby run, jump, and fly after that?"

Qin Yangming burst out laughing. That was the truth. He thought that all the promotion methods for all sequences were included here.

Lucard continued:

"Besides, who knows how much time has passed outside now? Who can guarantee that the previous promotion method is still applicable in the current environment?"

Qin Yangming nodded, what Lucar said made sense.

Lucard looked at Qin Yangming, who had just been promoted and seemed to have been reborn, and asked:

"So, young man, what are your plans?"

Qin Yangming did not answer immediately, but asked:

"You said this is a huge underground air-raid shelter, right?"

Lucard nodded, and Qin Yangming continued:

"That means the top is the ground."

Lucard nodded again, his eyes involuntarily looking upwards, as if his gaze had penetrated the thick stone roof and touched the real world.

Lucard understood what Qin Yangming meant. He looked at Qin Yangming and said:

"You want to go up?"

"The places above are not under the management of Cradle. You have the highest control here, but once you go up there, you will be no different from anyone else..."

Qin Yangming's eyes were like lightning, he interrupted Lukar and said:

"I want to go up."

There might be something he wants to know.

What exactly is the Nine-Story Tower of Babel? Who set it up?

Where did I come from, where did I belong before, and why are all my memories sealed?

Also, who is that old Taoist who has appeared many times, and what is going on with this heart beating in his chest that emits golden light from time to time?

Where did this dark and tortuous fate of mine come from? And where will it go?

What is the end of the sequence? Who controls this mysterious divine path?

Qin Yangming said firmly again:

"I want to go up."

Lucard looked at Qin Yangming with a determined gaze, and the prologue of the song that he had only heard once emerged involuntarily in his mind.

The nine-story Tower of Babel is different on each level. Only those who climb up the stairs can attain liberation for all living beings.

(The second volume is finished by Ji Jiu Yu Shi)