22. Chapter 22

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

The topics that emerged from the second level evaluation are countless.

First, the E-level trainee was surprisingly awarded the S-level evaluation, and then the long-lost No.1 finally appeared. No matter which one is picked out, it can easily become the focus of discussion among the trainees tonight.

Before the end of the gathering in the studio, the main system announced that a luxurious dinner will be held in the panoramic restaurant on the second floor of the dormitory for three consecutive days. Trainees of all levels can enter.

Although everyone has eliminated physiological needs after becoming a horror trainee, who doesn't want to eat? What's more, they are still in such a desperate environment where they don't know how long they can live. It is precisely because of this that everyone is more willing to indulge themselves in alcohol to relieve stress.

After the gathering, almost all the trainees crowded to the restaurant downstairs.

The white-haired young man raised his eyes and glanced at the bustling crowd going downstairs, and silently chose the way upstairs.

He also got the ticket to the upper three levels. Although he didn't soar to the top as others had guessed before, Zong Jiu was one of the few rookie trainees who made it to the upper three levels, and he was the most popular one among all the rookies.

The dormitory for C-level trainees is located on the fourth floor of the dormitory.

Looking around, rows of clean and tidy rooms are separated at both ends of the wall, with thick reddish-brown carpets on the floor, lush green plants placed every few steps in the corridor, and the light yellow lights above add a warm tone.

If you ignore what kind of place this is, you might think you have entered the guest room floor of a high-end hotel at a glance.

The treatment of the upper three levels is completely different from that of the lower three levels. E-level sleeps in an eight-person room, D-level sleeps in a four-person room, and when you reach C-level, you can directly enjoy a single room, which is the treatment of a single room in a standard star hotel.

Zong Jiu walked to the door of the corresponding room according to the serial number on his badge. Just when he was about to open the door, he heard a burst of hurried footsteps behind him.

He dodged to the side without saying anything, and the man who rushed from behind didn't brake and hit the wall heavily.

"Damn it——"

The C-level old man missed the attack and was about to turn around, but he was suddenly elbowed by someone and staggered a few steps, falling to the ground.

"You..."

The white-haired young man stood there, looking down at him.

The light pink pupils were extremely sharp under the shadow of the bangs, as if floating with shallow broken ice.

Just one glance, and the trainee on the ground froze.

"If you don't want to die, don't mess with me."

His eyes swept the C-level standing at both ends of the corridor with a warning, and walked into his room without looking back.

"Bang——"

The loud sound of the door closing rang in the empty corridor.

After a few seconds, an old man came to his senses.

"Damn, this new guy is so fucking arrogant."

"He just got an S-rank? He really thinks he's become a phoenix, what a bullshit."

"That's right, he should be taught a lesson."

That being said, none of the C-ranks were the first to take the lead.

The old man who was pushed to the ground by Zong Jiu's elbow was angry that he had made a fool of himself in public, and his face turned red and white.

But for some reason, when he thought of the look in the eyes of the white-haired young man just now, his legs became weak again. In the end, he just supported himself to stand up, kicked the door twice, and left cursing.

......

After closing the door, Zong Jiu threw himself on the bed with his backhand.

The room was similar to the corridor outside, and the interior was not big, just like a standard room in an ordinary hotel.

Fortunately, this was a single room, which could well protect the privacy of the trainees and also had some room to be alone.

He did not take the provocation of the C-rank trainees outside seriously.

All the old people who came from the infinite loop are above C level, and those who are slightly more capable are more than C. It can be said that this level is very awesome in the eyes of newcomers, but it is the bottom among the old people.

Not only do they have a serious group mentality, their strength is not that high, and they are also calculating internally. Originally, they probably just wanted to establish their power. As long as they are tougher than them and let these people know that they are not a soft persimmon that is easy to squeeze, these people will not dare to come out and be the first bird. Zong Jiu has no time to deal with them.

Now the more important thing is——

The white-haired young man raised his hand and took out the deck of cards from the system space.

The overall color of the card is dark gold, and the pattern on the back is outlined with the pattern of the Eye of God in black and gold. It is surrounded by various complicated and obscure mystical symbols, and the inside is mixed with shiny fine gold powder. Even in a dim place, it can emit a faint light, which is quite eye-catching.

Zong Jiu spread it out on the bed in a straight line.

A total of twenty-two cards.

Although this is also a deck of cards, it is not the poker that Zong Jiu is best at as a card magic master.

There are fifty-four playing cards and eighty-one character cards. None of the other niche card games in the world match this number.

The name of the item on the system clearly reveals the true nature of the twenty-two cards in Zong Jiu's hand.

[S-level item: Waite Tarot Major Arcana deck]

Zong Jiu: "..."

He was so happy when he touched the back of the card in the iron box, but he didn't expect that this was not a deck of playing cards, but a deck of tarot cards.

But he is a magician, not a fortune teller! ! !

"How to use this thing... Main system, does it have any special use?"

[Use of item: Divination]

Do you need to say this?

Zong Jiu was speechless, "Other S-level items have special abilities, but my S-level items can only be used for divination?"

Obviously, this sentence was not within the scope of the main system's authority to answer Zong Jiu, and the room fell into silence again.

After a while, the cold voice of the main system sounded in the air.

[This S-level item comes with a copy of the Tarot Guide, which has been distributed to the trainee system backpack. Please check it.]

Oh, that's right.

Zong Jiu took out the Tarot Guide with a pure black cover, sat on the bed, and honestly opened the first page.

The main system was very considerate to him as a tarot novice. The accompanying booklet was quite easy to understand, and it was a color picture and text version, which was conscientious.

After Zong Jiu read the Tarot Guide from beginning to end and touched each card, he had to admit that -

These twenty-two major arcana cards do not have any combat capabilities, and their only use is divination.

But as an S-level item, it would be too useless if it only had the divination ability that all tarot cards have. In this regard, the main system explained that divination with this deck of cards has the ability to peek into the future.

"Peek into the future?!"

This made Zong Jiu excited.

A peek into the future means one more clue when there is no clue. In a sense, although the Great Arcana has no combat ability, it is definitely worthy of the title of S-level prop.

"Can I set the range of this divination at will?"

The main system did not answer, but pulled out a cooling bar for him.

It shows that Zong Jiu can now divine three times. After three times, he has to wait for the cooling time to recover before he can draw cards again.

Zong Jiu: "It seems that there is nothing I want to know for the time being. Forget it, let's not test it for now."

"By the way, main system, if I want to heal my hands, how many survival points do I need to spend?"

[Two thousand five hundred points]

"Then if I want to strengthen my hands and restore them to a very flexible level, how many survival points do I need?"

[Five thousand survival points are required for strengthening once]

The system even gave a friendly reminder [Current trainee account balance: two thousand points]

"Don't set the limit so strictly. If I don't need to be cured directly, but only need How to restore your hands to their peak level in a short time? "

[Yes, but the survival points required are extremely expensive. It is not recommended for trainees to choose this method]

"It doesn't matter."

Zong Jiu shrugged and moved his inflexible fingers, "It only takes three days."

[2000 points can be exchanged for ordinary recovery within seven days, or enhanced recovery within three days]

The white-haired young man pondered for a moment, "Then three days."

In fact, Zong Jiu can also choose to gamble first, earn 500 points, and then restore his hands first.

Three days is exactly the time limit for the opening of Las Vegas Casino.

If you choose to use 2,500 points to treat your hands directly, you can only restore to the level of a normal person.

And all magicians' hand skills have no tricks, all from childhood, day and night practice. For example, when Zong Jiu was just practicing magic, he also trained his eyes without blinking every day, and slept with cards every day to train flexible muscle memory.

What can such training bring?

For example, when Zong Jiu was performing, he threw a stack of cards directly into the air. When the 54 cards were scattered, he could directly pick out any card face that the audience said.

The audience could not tell whether it was his quick hands or the level of magic.

In these three days, as long as Zong Jiu's hands could be restored to the level of his great magician, he could let everyone see what the consequences would be if a magician who played card magic was put into a casino.

Even if the card master was sitting in front of you, with ten cameras facing him and slowing down several times, most of the time you couldn't catch any traces of him cheating.

You know, in Zong Jiu's world, the gambling city Las Vegas almost had a sign at the entrance saying "Magician Zong Jiu and dogs are not allowed to enter."

It's rare that Zong Jiu's reputation hasn't fallen to that level after he traveled through the book. He would gamble as much as he could and run away after making money. A gambling dog would never admit defeat.

He didn't want to play it safe, he wanted to play big.

Zong Jiu watched the points in his system balance being cleared.

The next moment, a boiling hot current suddenly surged from his fingertips, miraculously flowing through the veins that had been necrotic for who knows how many years, along the blue blood vessels, and seeping into the capillaries, making him sigh with comfort.

The heat lasted for more than half a minute before gradually calming down.

[2000 points paid, countdown three days, start counting]

The young man's hands were shaking unconsciously.

He picked up the pile of tarot cards on the bed.

The dark golden cards flipped and jumped at his fingertips, one by one standing lightly on his fingertips, and the next moment they flew into the air, spinning and falling, and were easily held in Zong Jiu's palm.

Any card, as long as Zong Jiu wanted, he could just lightly cover it with his fingers and flip it for a moment, and then he could pull it out directly from the top with his eyes closed.

His hands were shaking. His hands were getting faster and faster. The corners of his mouth curled up higher and higher.

It seemed that the cards were also trembling, trembling to welcome the emperor's brief return.

This is an indescribable and incomparable superb shuffling skill.

When the cards passed through his palm, Zong Jiu's mind naturally projected the deck of cards into his mind in 3D. In the following time, no matter how the cards were shuffled, as long as they passed through his hands, he could accurately tell the position of any card.

Zong Jiu threw the cards into the air, suddenly closed his eyes, and grabbed a card from it at random.

The young man smiled and slowly turned the cards over.

The man in a robe was standing in front of the altar. Countless sacrificial items were placed on the altar.

There was an infinity symbol above the man's head, symbolizing boundless magic power, and he held a magic wand in his hand, pointing to the sky and the earth.

He has unlimited magic power and he can do everything.

Major Arcana No. 1, Magician.

He is back.