Instance game: I signed a pact with the gods, and the gods accused me of cheating

Qin Shang, he seemed to have mentioned something about the umbrella...

At this moment, I was stunned and couldn't help but lower my head to start searching in my bag.

Two cards, he said two cards would appear in my bag.

I didn’t believe it at first…

But now it seems that I can no longer disbelieve it.

That comic book is real!

It's amazing! Not only did the comic book know my whereabouts and mental activities last night, but it even recorded some details that I had forgotten. It's outrageous, really too outrageous.

I even had a bold idea: if I found two cards in my bag...

pat-

As I rummaged through the bag, something stiff collided with each other, making a sound and movement. I immediately looked down, and with the help of the sunlight above my head, I saw something even more horrifying. It was a sunny day today, but I had the illusion of falling into an ice cellar. Two exquisitely shaped and very high-end silver-white painted cards were lying quietly in my bag. The silver-white glossy metallic paint had the texture of luxury car paint, noble and evil.

"Why is this thing in my bag?!"

If this was also Qin Shang's way of scaring me, then when I entered the nursing room last night, we had no other physical contact except the moment when he grabbed my wrist. We even always maintained a very polite social distance. How did he touch my bag?

"And that's not right. The bag I'm carrying today is not the same bag I was carrying yesterday!"

My bag usually contains some cosmetics, lipstick, loose powder and the like, so that when I go out, if I don’t look good today, I can find a bathroom to touch up my makeup. So usually, since the things in each bag are similar, I carry whatever I want depending on my mood and outfit. When I’m in a good mood, I carry this, and when I’m in a bad mood, I carry that. When I go out to play, I carry a cowhide bag, and when I go to work, I carry a canvas bag. I don’t put important items like ID cards in it, just some business cards at most. Moreover, I only printed a few business cards when I first started interning with Director Qin, and I never printed business cards again after that, so only some bags contain business cards, such as the one I carried yesterday, but I changed my bag today!

Today, I'm clearly not carrying the same bag as yesterday!

Character cards!?

Those three words suddenly lingered in my mind. For a fleeting moment, I felt as if this were a fake world. I felt a wave of dizziness, and my worldview was violently impacted. How could it be possible that two so-called character cards actually appeared in my bag?!

Just then, another call came in on my cell phone.

I said sorry to the man who was calling me over there and kept asking me if I wanted to go get the umbrella. I was sorry for the call at this time, then I immediately hung up the phone and answered another call. I had an illusion that this call might be from Qin Shang.

Because, when I left yesterday, he mentioned...

"You must answer my call tomorrow at noon."

"Miss Jiang!"

The call was connected, and the next moment a gentle voice came from the other end.

Still calm, still exuding a strong sense of rationality.

"Can you explain it?"

"Explain what?"

I could hear the sound of wind coming into the earphone from the other end of the phone. It was obvious that Qin Shang was in a car. It was most likely that Director Qin, whom he mentioned last night, was going to hand him over and send him back to the police station.

"Why are there two silver-white cards in my bag? You must have done this, right? Otherwise, I don't understand why you knew in advance that there would be two extra silver-white cards in my bag. Did you also see this from that comic book?"

"Did you bribe one of my roommates?"

Hearing this, the voice on the other end of the phone became a little unstable, with rustling sounds from time to time. I gritted my teeth and, for the first time in my life, was so impatient, and urged.

"Speak, Qin Shang!"

"Hello, hello!? Can you hear me over there?"

"Speak up, big brother, don't mess with my mentality!"

The next moment, Qin Shang's voice slowly sounded from the other end of the phone.

"You should know it wasn't me. I'm not capable of doing that. It's not like I ran away last night and went to your dorm, found your bag, and threw it into your bag on purpose, right? And how would I know which bag you were carrying today? Don't you girls usually have a lot of bags?"

"Then how did you know?"

"How did you know I had..."

Qin Shang's chuckle immediately came from the other end of the phone.

"Didn't you read the character introduction in that comic book?"

"Jiang Qiqi, you got your character cards on September 9.28th. You were an ordinary girl who thought you could live an ordinary life, but you found two mysterious silver-white cards in your bag. Out of fear, you believed Qin Shang's rumors and went to find him. From that day on, the story of the Shenlu game unfolded. The character profile actually mentioned that the two character cards in your pocket, if I'm not mistaken, should have one saying "Swindler" and the other "Hypnotist." Of course, my guess about these professions isn't from the comic book, but my personal speculation based on the comic's content."

"I'm on Caotan West Road right now. There's a traffic jam here. My destination is Caochangpo. If you're curious about what this comic book is all about, I suggest you bring your character card and come see me. If you don't want to, I won't force you. This is probably the last time we'll talk on the phone in this life..."

"Oh, and just a reminder: don't take out your character card. If you touch it directly with your palm, the attribute panel will be activated, and you'll be dragged directly into the Divine Road."

When he said these words, I had already thought about hanging up the phone three or four times. After the last sentence came out, I couldn't help it and hung up the phone.

However, staring at the two character cards in my bag, I felt like I was looking at a time bomb. I didn't even dare to touch them. I wanted to reach out and take them out several times, but a sense of fear arose in my heart, as if this thing really had special magical powers, and touching it would be a road of no return. In the end, I still couldn't muster up the courage to use myself as the experimental subject, but I didn't intend to give up just like that...

It's true that I'm a coward, and I will instinctively want to retreat when I encounter something that scares me. But at this moment, I am more curious about these two character cards that suddenly and inexplicably appeared in my bag. What is going on? I patted my chest, and my heart was beating very fast at this moment. I don't know if it is because of fear of the unknown or excitement.

"taxi!"

The next moment, I gritted my teeth. If I couldn't figure this out, Qin Shang would be locked up in the police station, and we would never have the chance to meet again in this life. Then my dialectical materialism and materialist thinking would be completely destroyed, and I would be consumed to death. If I couldn't figure out why these two silver-white cards appeared in my bag, if I couldn't figure out why that comic book knew so much, I would suffer from insomnia all night long and never have a good sleep again. Whenever it was late at night and my mind was empty, perhaps such a thing would pop up in my mind. Compared with questions that you can't do, what is more torturous is questions without answers. If I had the opportunity to touch that answer, But because of my avoidance and retreat, I have lost the opportunity to know the truth in this life. I can't guarantee anything else, but this incident will definitely become a psychological shadow for me. It's like there is a problem that you rack your brains for a whole night and can't solve. You may not be able to sleep well tonight, but the next day, after asking the teacher and solving the mystery in your heart, you may be able to let go of this problem completely. But if there is a problem that you have spent a whole night trying to solve and still can't solve, and then you choose to avoid and give up, and tear up the paper, it seems that you are avoiding the problem in an evasive way, but you will never have the chance to know the final answer to this problem in this life...

That feeling of having a knot in your heart will stay with you for most of your life.

In the future, whenever you encounter difficult questions in this subject, you will subconsciously give up. This is how learning is, just like rowing against the current, if you don't move forward, you will retreat. If you retreat once, you will retreat again and again. If you choose to give up the enthusiasm to study a question in a certain subject, you will slowly lose interest in this subject and eventually become perfunctory.

I don't want to have such a knot in my heart, and I don't want to leave any regrets in my "life" course...

"I want to get to the bottom of these paranormal phenomena!"

With this thought in mind, I raised my hand and stopped a taxi on the side of the road.

"Master, Caotan Police Station!"

I understood the hint Qin Shang gave.

He could clearly hear tire noise and wind noise on the other end of the phone, but he said there was a traffic jam at the moment and claimed that his destination was Caochangpo. Haha, the police officer from the Public Security Bureau had already taken him away, so how could they tell him in advance which police station we were going to?

He was taken away as a criminal suspect, and if he was so straightforward as to reveal his location to a third party, the other officers in the car would have grabbed his phone...

"He's playing dumb while he tells me where he's going."

"If he had just said he was at Caotan Police Station, the sheriffs would have snatched his phone. But if he claimed he was in Caotan, and his police car was clearly moving and there was no obstruction ahead, but he said his car was stuck in traffic, the other officers would have thought he was talking nonsense and ignored him. But the word 'traffic jam' actually hinted at his destination."

"Caochangpo is a completely made-up destination. If I had really gone to Caochangpo, there would have been no way I would have seen him."

I seem to have begun to understand Qin Shang's nonsense, behavior and logic at certain moments, but my attention is still focused on the two silver-white cards in the bag, so I didn't think about this, including but not limited to the fact that I actually began to really resonate and understand the thinking logic of a mentally ill patient.

Caotan is not far from our school. If the wind goes smoothly, it will take about ten minutes at most to get from our school to Caotan at a normal speed. I leaned my head back on the seat of the taxi, took several deep breaths back and forth, trying to calm the messy thoughts in my mind.

Fortunately, the school was just outside the Third Ring Road. The driver drove at full speed all the way, and I actually arrived at the Public Security Bureau a little earlier than the police car escorting Qin Shang.

Then, after waiting for about ten minutes, I met Mr. Qin Shang at the door of the police station. When he saw me, there was a hint of relief in his eyes, as if expressing his approval of my ability to read the hints in his phone call. Then his eyes fell on the bag in my hand.