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

Qin Yangming finally adapted to the current light intensity and could finally see everything in front of him clearly.

This is a meeting room of neither too big nor too small. There is a round table in the middle, and five round chairs are evenly placed around the table.

Qin Yangming saw that there were people sitting on the four chairs, and those four people were looking at him who had just crawled out of the cave.

He stood up straight with his feet touching the ground, brushed the dust off his black gown, and then wiped the dust off his face with his sleeve - he was covered in dust from crawling in the passage just now.

"Come and sit down, [Fortune Teller]!"

A man in police uniform said.

Qin Yangming was wearing a black robe and holding a divination banner with four big characters "神机妙算" (Divine Calculations) on it. With this attire, he would look like a fortune teller wherever he went.

Qin Yangming didn't feel strange about this. He nodded as a greeting and sat down on the empty round chair.

"Aren't you curious about our identities?"

A sturdy man in police uniform stared at Qin Yangming and asked curiously. One could see his biceps bulging the sleeves of his blue shirt.

Qin Yangming replied: "I am curious, but I know, and I will know it soon."

He saw four holes in the wall, which were very similar to the one he had just crawled out of.

These four people should be waiting for me.

For some reason, although it was the first time he saw this man in police uniform, Qin Yangming felt that he was righteous and convincing.

The feeling in my heart came up naturally, but it was strange logically.

The man couldn't help but smile when he heard Qin Yangming's awkward words. He said to everyone:

"Okay, now that everyone is here, let's press the red button in front of us at the same time!"

Qin Yangming saw that there was a red button on the armrest to the right of his seat.

So that's it. This seat is fixed and cannot be moved. In addition, the five round chairs are evenly distributed around the round table. The distance between them is large. One person cannot press the buttons on two chairs at the same time.

So they have been waiting for themselves.

In other words, they might have just escaped from somewhere like himself... Qin Yangming thought secretly in his heart, and as the policeman shouted, he pressed the button.

A circular lift slowly rose up in the center of the round table, and the five people saw a card on it.

The man in police uniform stood up, took the card in his hand, and read it out in front of everyone:

“Congratulations on being here.”

"The roles you play are [police officer], [prisoner], [prostitute], [actor], [fortune teller]."

“This is an open clue.”

"Now, please introduce yourselves first!"

Sure enough, these four people are the same as himself.

After the man in police uniform finished reading, he smiled bitterly, sat back in his chair, and said, "It seems there are still no useful clues."

"Then I'll go first. My name is Mo Ying, and my role is [Police Officer]."

"My real identity is also a police officer."

After Mo Ying finished his introduction, everyone turned their eyes to the woman with heavy makeup and revealing clothes.

Her makeup was exaggerated, with a thick layer of foundation on her face, which created a big color difference with her neck under the light of the incandescent lamp on the roof.

Her green eyeshadow has bright fluorescent spots on it, which makes her look very tacky.

She whispered, "My name is Xu Xiaobao, and my role is [Prostitute]."

“My real identity is a bar marketer.”

She spoke vaguely and no one investigated in detail. In this situation, no one would care about these things. All they were thinking about was how to survive.

Then came a bearded man with wet bangs covering his eyes. He was wearing a tattered shirt, and the most eye-catching thing was that he had a pair of steel handcuffs on his hands, reflecting bright white light.

His voice was hoarse, as if he was deeply tired:

"My name is Nan Guan, and I'm a [prisoner]"

He didn't say what his real identity was. I guess even if he wasn't a prisoner, he was probably some disgraceful character.

The police officer named Mo Ying made a joke: "I didn't put the handcuffs on him."

Nan Guan snorted coldly and ignored the proud police officer.

Then there was a young woman with delicate and elegant makeup and long smooth hair. She sat there dignifiedly and whispered softly: "My name is Su Mengyuan, and my role is [Actor]."

She didn't mention her original identity either, probably because it wasn't important anymore.

Finally, everyone looked at Qin Yangming. He placed the Sanqing Bell in his long gown on the round table in front of him and said, "My name is Qin Yangming, and I am a fortune teller."

When he said this, he seemed to suddenly see the red lines above the heads of the four people sitting in front of him.

He saw that the four red lines were tangled together with the one on his head. It looked a mess and he couldn't sort it out no matter how hard he tried.

Does that represent their entangled and complicated fate? Qin Yangming couldn't help but think, and in the blink of an eye, the scene just now disappeared.

What is this? He remembered what was on the card.

Could it be that I have gained some ability to get a glimpse into fate?

Things are becoming more and more out of control.

"So? Everyone's introduced, and then we're waiting to die?"

Nan Guan suddenly said in a low voice.

"Hey, don't be so aggressive when you speak. Aren't we all trying to find a solution?"

Mo Ying frowned and said that he was very dissatisfied with Nan Guan's style.

"Huh! Find a way? I don't see it!"

Nan Guan did not show any weakness and retorted in a cold and hard tone.

Mo Ying stared at the prisoner intently, his facial muscles trembling constantly. It was obvious that he was very dissatisfied with Nan Guan's attitude, even angry.

Xu Xiaobao said, "Why don't we talk about what happened before everyone came here."

Mo Ying's chest, which had been heaving violently, finally calmed down slowly.

He was the first to speak loudly: "I woke up in a very small room. The light was dim and I reached out to feel around."

"Then I touched something, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be a corpse!"

"I was scared. At that moment, I found that the only thing that was on in the room was a computer. I quickly took a look and it said my role was [police officer] and asked me to put on the uniform of the police officer next to me."

"The computer also told me to find the cause of death as soon as possible. This is the key to my escape from that room."

"But something strange happened. The corpse started to move on its own..."

Speaking of this, Mo Ying's face showed a look of fear.

"Then what, what did you do?" Su Mengyuan asked curiously.

"I shot the corpse a few more times, and he became quiet!"

As he spoke, Mo Ying took out a silver revolver from his waist and slammed it loudly on the table.

The three of them couldn't help but gasp. Mo Ying, who had a pistol, undoubtedly had a lot of say in the current situation.

Only Nan Guan, who was handcuffed, snorted coldly and didn't care.

"Then I found a hole hidden under the body, and I slid down through the hole."

"I was the first one here."

When he arrived, the conference room was empty.

After Mo Ying finished speaking, Xu Xiaobao said:

"My situation is similar to Officer Mo's. I also got a card that asked me to play the role of a prostitute."

"In my room there is a bed, a dressing table, and on the dressing table there is a large bronze mirror."

"It's the kind of bronze mirror from ancient times. The reflection of a person is very blurry."

"The card said that I should put on the makeup of a prostitute in front of the mirror. If the makeup satisfied the cat, it would let me go."

Nan Guan noticed a word and asked, "Who are you talking about?"

Xu Xiaobao showed a look of fear on her face, as if she didn't want to recall. She said, "It was that bronze mirror."

"When I was putting on makeup in front of the bronze mirror, I found that I was doing different movements in the mirror..."

"The person in the mirror is not me. When I picked up the lipstick, the me in the mirror didn't move. I just smiled at me..."

"I was terrified by the scene, but I continued to put on my makeup in order to survive."

"After I put on my full makeup, the me in the mirror didn't seem very satisfied. It roared at me angrily, and then grabbed the makeup remover on the table and smeared it on its face..."

"My body was completely out of control, and I actually picked up the makeup remover on the table and rubbed it on my face, just like that person did."

"But no matter how I put on the makeup, it seems dissatisfied."

"Then what? How did you run away?" Nan Guan asked in a hoarse voice.

"Finally, the person in the mirror took off all his clothes and did all kinds of... actions. I took off all my clothes too, exposing my whole naked body in front of it, and followed suit..."

I saw her biting her lips so hard that she couldn't say any more.

The rest of the people could probably guess that the only way to get by was to act like a truly shameless whore.

Xu Xiaobao was the second person to arrive at the meeting room.

Next was Nan Guan. He said in a hoarse voice, "My room is more like a prison cell than a room. I am locked inside by extremely solid iron bars, and there is a wall on the other side."

"I'll be wearing these handcuffs when I wake up."

"The card gave me the guidance to play the role of the prisoner well and escape successfully."

"Unlike the zombies and bronze mirrors I encountered before, the one I encountered was a human being, a person wearing a blue police officer uniform!"

When Nan Guan said this, his eyes were fixed on Mo Ying, as if filled with endless anger.

"How many times have I told you that I have never been to your place!"

Mo Ying roared angrily. This Nan Guan had an inexplicable hatred towards him ever since he first met him.

"Hmph!" Nan Guan snorted heavily and continued:

"The officer's hat was pulled down very low, and the lighting was too dim. I couldn't see his face, rank, or police number. I couldn't even tell if he was a human or a ghost."

"He came every ten minutes, either pouring ice water on me from outside the cage, or stabbing me hard with a long bamboo pole from outside the cage!"

"There were also all kinds of pepper spray and smoke bombs! I was almost suffocated and blinded!"

When had he ever experienced such humiliation?

"So how did you succeed in escaping from prison?" Qin Yangming asked.

"Dig a tunnel."

"I found the ground was soft, so I started digging, like a real [prisoner]."

As he spoke, he raised his heavily shackled hands. His hands were filthy, with dirt and red blood stains between his fingernails.

"If I knew who had locked me up here, I would send him in myself and let him have a taste of what it's like to be a prisoner!"

Nan Guan finished his story. He was the third person to arrive here.

Then there was Su Mengyuan. Her room was a dressing room with all kinds of clothes and wigs.

Her task was relatively simple. It was said that she just followed the instructions on the card and played the role like a real actor.

Finally, it was Qin Yangming's turn. He told everyone about his experience, including the kerosene lamp that would eat up people's shadows.

"So you were a real fortune teller before?"

Someone asked curiously.

"It's not that I don't want to talk about it, it's just that I have no memory of it at all."

Qin Yangming said that he had actually always been thinking that maybe he really was a fortune teller before, or at least someone who knew a little about this aspect.

Otherwise, he would not be able to form the Yin-Yang Seal naturally through muscle memory.

Some believers who have just arrived at a Taoist temple will only put their hands together and bow to the immortal according to the actions they have seen in TV dramas, but this is a wrong etiquette in Taoism.

"And then? What are we going to do now?"

After Qin Yangming finished his story, Nan Guan still asked impatiently.

"Just now I seemed to see words on the back of that card."

Su Mengyuan reminded.

Mo Ying turned the card over and saw words on it. He read:

"I think you all already know each other."

"If you are ready, please press the red button again at the same time."

"Then prepare yourself for the [Feast]!"

"Friendly reminder: [Police Officers] and [Prisoners] have the highest combat power among you, and can deal with some monsters that can only perform physical attacks."

"But if you encounter a monster with the ability to pollute the mind, you will have to rely more on the Fortune Teller."

"As for the [actors] and [prostitutes], please use your imagination. These two [roles] may work wonders in unexpected places!"