“[Repeat: Password error count has reached the limit. Please contact the administrator to reset the password.]”
Ska’s movements immediately froze.
He glanced back and forth between his memo and the keypad a few times, then turned to look at the others.
“Uh… do we have an admin around here…?”
Xin scanned the group and then said to Ska,
“Do we look like administrators to you?”
Ska tucked the memo back into his chest and sighed softly.
“That’s a problem… I don’t have the admin password either.”
“Oh? You mean if we had the admin password, it would work?”
Xin’s eyes lit up.
She turned to Noah and said,
“Beautiful, this guy’s tech isn’t working. Why don’t you try some occult?”
“Occult?”
Ska looked up at Xin.
“What occult?”
Noah nodded.
While preparing her tarot deck, she explained to Ska,
“It’s divination—the power of the Star Spirit. I’ll try to divine the admin password. If it works, I’ll leave the rest to you.”
“That’s amazing?”
Though he was from a tech organization, Ska didn’t hate magic.
He watched Noah’s movements seriously, ready to observe the legendary divination.
Noah placed the tarot deck on the operating table, preparing to use a high-level divination authority to probe the admin password.
She divided the deck into four piles and flipped one card from the top of each.
Noah looked closely and found the four cards were [The Fool], [The Magician], [Wheel of Fortune], and [The World].
She nodded, placed the four cards on the table, closed her eyes, and prepared to chant the spell to begin divination.
“As above, so below.”
“As within, so without.”
“Fate, transformation, opportunity, progress, fortune.”
“Prophecy of fate, disperse the fog, let the Followers of the Star see the future!”
The Star Divine Power immediately enveloped Noah.
She closed her eyes tightly and let her consciousness sink into the gorgeous starry sky.
Countless blurry images flashed through her mind, but none of them were clear.
As her consciousness sank deeper, fragmented images began to appear before her eyes.
Noah tried to identify these images and found they had nothing to do with the password.
A sickly green slime, pitch-black tentacles, a blurry Magic Array, an extremely huge eye…
Noah couldn’t connect any of these things to the password.
She continued sinking her consciousness, only to see even more terrifying things.
Everything was cracking and dissolving.
A chaotic symphony played endlessly in an empty temple.
The dormant desire gradually infected her consciousness, making Noah feel drowsy…
Noah felt her mind growing heavier.
In the last moment before her consciousness dissipated, she saw a person—a man wearing a gentleman’s hat, his face obscured.
His short black hair fluttered without wind, gradually turning into tentacles that bound her body.
The next moment, the gorgeous starry sky dispelled the illusion.
A pair of eyes radiating starlight appeared before Noah—golden-violet heterochromatic eyes.
They gazed at her for a moment, then vanished without a trace.
“Ha——!”
Noah suddenly opened her eyes.
She was panting heavily, completely unable to understand what had just happened.
This had never happened in her past divinations.
Noah felt cold sweat running down her back.
Subconsciously, she felt she had seen something extraordinary.
“Darling, are you okay?”
Naya walked over from the side.
He pulled out a handkerchief to wipe the cold sweat from Noah’s forehead and asked with concern,
“What’s wrong? Did the divination get results?”
Noah looked up at Naya and realized she was inexplicably afraid of him.
She quickly turned her head away, not daring to look at him.
Noah supported herself on the table with both hands, panting and gently shaking her head.
“I’m fine… but I’ve disappointed everyone. I couldn’t divine anything…”
The others began whispering among themselves, discussing the next move.
Ska walked over, somewhat disappointed, and addressed the group again,
“It’s okay, everyone. I still have some backup plans. Even if this beautiful lady’s divination went wrong, we still have a chance.”
The group immediately surrounded Ska.
He pulled out a smartphone from his pocket and began explaining the power of technology to them.
“Come, look, everyone. This is the tech of our End Organization. It can make long-distance calls to designated people. As long as I can contact my boss, they can send specialists to pick us up.”
Ska rambled on for a while, then pulled out a recruitment leaflet.
“Join the End Organization now, and you’ll be assigned a position immediately. Full benefits package, meals and accommodation all covered… Actions speak louder than words. If anyone wants to join, come to me to fill out a form.”
“Bro… we’re not interested in this right now.”
Xin interrupted him, her face dark.
“Can you do something useful?”
“Ahem… alright, we can discuss it after we get out.”
Ska coughed awkwardly.
He picked up his phone, dialed a number, and waited for the other end to pick up.
“[Beep… The number you dialed is out of service…]”
“Huh…?”
Ska listened to the busy tone in disbelief.
“Out of service? How is that possible?! I just talked to my boss yesterday! Did they run off into the desert?!”
Ska didn’t believe it.
He sat on the table and pulled out a bunch of accessories from his pocket: a signal transmitter, a signal receiver, a signal booster.
No matter how he fiddled, the phone only said,
“[The number you dialed is out of service].”
Ska was sweating in anxiety, trying every trick but failing to make the call.
“Tech power, terrifying indeed,”
Xin quipped from the side.
“Hey, stop messing around!”
When people are frustrated, they can’t stand sarcasm.
Ska angrily threw the phone onto the table, jumped up, and ran to the door lock.
He pulled out screwdrivers, wrenches, and various tools from his trench coat, completely dismantled the password lock.
But no matter what he did, the door wouldn’t open.
Ska finally broke down, pounding on the door and shouting,
“Let me out! Let me out! My paid leave isn’t over yet! I can’t die here!”
Xin watched Ska scratching at the door and asked Naya with a puzzled tone,
“Uh… are the people from the End Organization… all like this?”
“Possible…”
Naya wiped away his own cold sweat, then turned to face the group.
“Everyone, since this End Organization agent can’t open the door, let’s go with the original plan. Now that Yoge is rescued, we can start preparing the Teleportation Array.”
The others immediately nodded.
Noah stepped forward, patted Ska on the shoulder, and said helplessly,
“Alright, Mr. Ska, scratching the door won’t open it. We’re going back to activate the Teleportation Array. Will you come with us?”