Chapter 148
Chapter 148: The Altar Behind the Gate
“Brother Qiyan, to think you actually have friends in a place like this. Wow, that’s so amazing.”
“You’re overthinking it. I lied to him.”
“Ah?”
Zhao Lin’s face was filled with question marks. It was completely impossible to tell that what he had said just now was a lie. She had truly believed that Ye Qiyan really had a friend here who could take them back.
“Silly, we are just the newest batch of Train Captains who arrived in this world less than a month ago. Where on earth would we go to know the people from the highest level of the City of a Thousand Stars? Just thinking about it is impossible.”
“Uh… Hehe… That’s true… We don’t know them at all…”
Ye Qiyan’s matter-of-fact words only made Zhao Lin give an awkward chuckle.
Not knowing the upper-level people of the City of a Thousand Stars, yet knowing the Chief Judge of Solomon City, plus that female Charlatan who looked super powerful, not to mention that older sister named Monroe Gina, right?
Those few figures, no matter how one looked at it, felt even more powerful and of higher status than the upper-level people here.
“Then how are we going back?”
Her Train was still down below. Too many things had happened in less than half a day. That golden man could blow up the streets with a casual attack, and if he used his full strength, I’m afraid he could destroy this entire City of a Thousand Stars.
Had she not known that this was her lucky Platform, she would have long since found a place to hide and chosen to run away when the time was right.
“No rush.”
Ye Qiyan gazed at the towering skyscraper before him.
“I’m going in to take a look.”
The central gate of the Tower of Babel—since he had obtained that card and had come here by a twist of fate, wouldn’t it be a bit of a pity not to go in and take a look?
However, before that, he had to send Zhao Lin down first.
There was no need to look for anyone or contact anything; the teleportation device leading to the lower levels could be found by simply asking around using the power of the Bewitchment card.
Ye Qiyan did not explain why he wanted Zhao Lin to leave, and Zhao Lin didn’t ask either.
She knew very well that, apart from her luck, she was completely a burden.
And now, what Brother Qiyan was going to do didn’t seem to require luck—or rather, it couldn’t be accomplished with luck alone—so she truly would become a burden.
Spending a Train Coin, Zhao Lin stepped into the teleportation device.
Before it activated, she said to Ye Qiyan one last time:
“Brother Qiyan, no matter what you are going to do, I wish you success.”
This was her second blessing.
Still the same as last time, there were no buffs on his personal information, but it just made one feel exceptionally smooth and pleasant.
There weren’t many guards on the exterior of the Tower of Babel.
Inspectors went back and forth, and under the power of Pride, he easily blended in among them.
As for figuring out the location of the central gate, logically speaking, it wouldn’t be too difficult either; through Bewitchment, he could easily obtain the information he wanted.
However, after asking several Inspectors, Ye Qiyan didn’t get any information whatsoever about the central gate from them. Not even a few people knew that this tower itself was called the Tower of Babel.
Fortunately, he learned about the central gate from a cleaning lady.
“The central gate? Oh, that place seems to be on the third underground level, but very few people have been there. I went once and got cursed out and chased back. Young man, what are you going there for? Are you married? You look so good, I have a daughter…”
Shaking off the auntie’s matchmaking offensive, Ye Qiyan followed the direction she pointed and found an elevator that looked like it hadn’t been used in a long time.
Pressing the button, the harsh sound of gears interlocking echoed endlessly.
The interior of the elevator clearly showed that no one had entered it for a very long time.
Here, there was only one option.
Third underground level.
The level where the central gate was located.
Ye Qiyan pressed it down.
The elevator descended rapidly, and the scenery before his eyes changed.
Beyond the translucent glass walls,
a huge, empty space came into view.
Within that space
stood a towering gate.
Its appearance was somewhat similar to the gate used to store Trains after entering the city.
There was no presence of anyone else in this space.
Ye Qiyan stepped out of the elevator and summoned the Raven Demon to scout the path ahead.
Perhaps there truly was no danger here.
Unimpeded all the way, he arrived in front of the gate and reached out to touch it.
[City of a Thousand Stars · Tower of Babel · Central Gate]
[A dedicated permission core card for opening doors is required to open this gate]
It really was here.
From obtaining the permission card to being able to enter it,
all told, it had been less than an hour.
Was the reason behind this luck at play?
He aligned the permission card with the crack of the gate and swiped it gently.
The next moment,
the gate, which hadn’t been opened for who knows how long, trembled slightly.
[Tower of Babel · Central (Opened)]
The gate opened, and the Raven Demon went in first to scout the way.
The so-called center was a place similar to an Altar.
“An Altar? Is a card sequence stored here?”
What kind of card sequence could it be? Was it worth using so many methods to preserve it?
Without hesitation, he stepped onto the Altar and saw a golden card at the very top. Reaching out to touch it, the card’s information appeared before his eyes.
[Order Card: Sloth]
[Sloth: Relax, why make yourself so exhausted?]
[order: Sloth down, why make yourself keep moving forward?]
An Order Card?
The card sequence collected by that golden man?
It turned out to be this?
Hiss?!
Ye Qiyan’s mind instantly conjured up the miserable appearance of that Charlatan, Zhu Xingtu.
“Should he take it?”
To be safe, giving up wouldn’t be a big deal, right?
But the card sequence was right in front of him… give up?
He actually felt that he could give it a try.
At worst, he could run away using the anchor’s coordinates.
Anyway, his Train had never been taken out. Once the anchor was activated to teleport back to the Ancient Battlefield ruins of the previous Platform, that golden man wouldn’t be able to catch up.
With that thought in mind,
Ye Qiyan grasped that golden “Sloth” and held it in his hand.
In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains swayed.
Without lingering for even a second, he turned and ran toward the outside, returning to the first-floor location via that elevator.
Under the power of Pride, absolutely no one could perceive his existence.
Unimpeded all the way, he arrived outside the teleportation device that had sent Zhao Lin away.
Spending a Train Coin, he stepped into it, took one last glance at the panicked Inspectors, and then looked at the sky where the golden figure had not appeared.
The teleportation activated.
His figure vanished from this level.
And the exact instant after Ye Qiyan left,
the golden man appeared above the Tower of Babel with fury.
It perceived that the aura of its Order Card had completely vanished.
Unlike when it was in Solomon City and directly caught the thief,
this time, it completely couldn’t find the person who took the Order Card!
It was as if a voice was saying
that it wasn’t worthy of finding them?
“Damn it! Who is it?! I must catch you!”
