Qin Shuli's Adventure

Time travel.

This is something that has been imagined countless times in many works of art and literature.

Some people want to travel back to the primordial era and prove their Dao through their own lives.

Some people want to travel back twenty years to find out the secrets to wealth during that era.

The word "time travel" actually represents the beginning of a new life. People are tired of their current lives or have suffered repeated setbacks, so they want to change their destiny through this.

Time travel is now a reality, but some people are better off after time travel, while others are worse off.

For example, the rich kids who went to Prison No. 10 to look for Liu Dezhu had very mixed feelings.

Qin Shuli's situation is even more complicated.

He sat in his room, looking at his original arm, which had been replaced by a mechanical limb.

"My arm's gone," Qin Shuli murmured, looking around at his surroundings. The bedroom, over forty square meters, was incredibly high-tech. "It doesn't seem like I've transmigrated into the body of a poor person?"

According to the housing standards of the Outer World, a bedroom of over 40 square meters is definitely considered very large...

Moreover, this is the Inner World.

Qin Shuli had crammed on knowledge about the Inner World online. He knew that land was incredibly valuable there, and many families of three generations lived in a single room of 15 square meters, with six or seven people sleeping in a shared dormitory at night.

It seems like I've got off to a pretty good start.

Should we call Luo Wanyai again?

Just before they were about to travel through time, the group returned to Los Angeles. Luo Wanyai had someone deliver a note to him with the phone number of a Golden Family from the Parent's Association.

The daytime security personnel who delivered the note instructed him to make a phone call immediately upon entering the Inner World to ensure his safety.

Qin Shuli was somewhat flattered at that time, after all, he was about to give up, but he did not expect that Luo Wanyai would still remember him.

You see, he didn't have that much money to pay Daylight.

However, at this moment Qin Shuli suddenly hesitated. If he was living a relatively comfortable life in the Inner World, would he still need to get involved with Luo Wanyai and take orders from him?

Moreover, what if Luo Wanyai asks him for money?

Qin Shuli sat in his room in deep thought for a long time before finally making the call.

He has to get back alive, otherwise his wife and children will be left destitute.

To be on the safe side.

"Hello, this is Qin Shuli," he said politely.

"I know, the Black Family gave instructions," the person on the other end of the phone said. "I'll share my location with your phone now, and then send someone to pick you up and show you around City No. 18."

The Black Family? Is it Luo Wanyai?

What kind of nonsense is this...

On Qin Shuli's phone, a request to access location sharing popped up. After thinking about it, he finally clicked "agree".

He regretted it a little the moment he clicked the button, but he couldn't care less now.

After seeing his location sharing, the person on the other end of the phone let out a soft "hmm": "You're really close."

Just then, there was a knock at the door. "Deacon Qin, the bishop wants to see you."

On the phone, someone let out another soft "hmm".

Qin Shuli was stunned for a moment. He looked down at the phone and found that the location sharing was still on, but the call had already ended.

An ominous premonition rose in his heart; he realized that he was not in his own home, but inside an organization.

Not good.

He hadn't even had time to get used to the environment at the very beginning when he had to face a stranger, who was also his superior.

Wait, deacon, bishop...

Am I a member of the Mechanical God Cult? I've heard that this organization is very tyrannical.

If I give myself away, I might die.

Qin Shuli was a little nervous. He was Qing Xing he had just made that call... but he wasn't sure if the other party would come to pick him up.

He dialed the number again, but the line was busy.

A voice outside the door urged, "Deacon Qin? Are you already asleep? Please get up quickly, or the Lord will be angry."

"Okay, here it comes," Qin Shuli said, forcing himself to get up.

A young man was waiting respectfully outside the door. After Qin Shuli opened the door, he turned around and led him out.

The two walked around a long corridor, the walls of which were decorated with various mechanical parts. At the end of the corridor, there was a complete mechanical limb hanging on the wall, like Jesus nailed to the cross.

Qin Shuli dared not look too long, for fear that someone would notice his curious gaze.

After turning three or four corners, they arrived at a huge door. The young man knocked on the door. "Bishop, Deacon Qin has arrived."

"Come in."

Qin Shuli's pupils contracted slightly, because the voice didn't sound like a human's at all; it was deep and resonant with a metallic quality, like a Transformer from a movie.

The door opened, and he was shocked to see a 'human' whose entire body had been modified into machinery, sitting in a high chair.

The cardinal's face was half human and half mechanical.

The bishop wore a heavy red cloak, and inside his open chest was a bright blue triangle, like a legendary energy core.

Around the energy core, there was no longer human skin, but mechanical parts that rotated and meshed around the blue energy core.

A red carpet stretched from the entrance to the seats, like a bloody road leading to the throne.

Several women were prostrate on the ground beneath the throne, with cables inserted into their cervical spines, each cable leading to the cardinal's abdomen.

Qin Shuli had no idea what was going on.

He glanced at the bishop, walked up to him, and said in a low voice, "Bishop, what brings you here?"

The bishop did not speak, but the women beneath the throne suddenly began to tremble.

"Step back," the bishop said to the women.

The women whispered, "Flesh and blood are weak, while machinery soars."

After saying that, he backed away from the palace-like room.

Qin Shuli was terrified at this moment. All these bizarre scenes created a great fear in his heart.

My body also began to tremble slightly.

The cardinal looked down at Qin Shuli and said, "Haven't you found that so-called Black Family yet?"

Qin Shuli was stunned. What the hell was going on? Luo Wanyai was a Black Family, and you were looking for the Black Family...

He forced a smile and said, "Bishop, we haven't found it yet."

The cardinal's mechanical voice sneered, "I think you don't want to get the complete mechanical body anymore. You've been in City No. 18 for so many days and you've gained nothing."

Qin Shuli said in a low voice, "Please give me a little more time."

He had only one thought in his mind: would the people of Daylight come to pick him up?! If he were discovered to have become Time Walker, he would probably die at any moment!

The cardinal said, "Go and contact the followers of PCE and have them check if Luo Wanyai is still in City No. 18. I now suspect that he may have already left."

Qin Shuli thought to himself, "It's really too difficult for Time Walker to impersonate someone after traveling through time. No wonder so many people have been exposed."

Now the cardinal has asked him to find members of the PCE, but he doesn't know who to contact.

However, he could only agree for now, "Yes, Bishop, I'll make the contact right now."

"Go."

Qin Shuli imitated him and whispered, "Flesh and blood are weak, while machinery ascends."

When the women left, they all uttered these eight words in unison. Qin Shuli guessed that this was a rule within the Mechanical God Cult.

However, as the cardinal watched him slowly retreat, he suddenly said, "Stop."

As he spoke, the cardinal's mechanical arm stretched out like a monster, forcefully grabbing Qin Shuli by the neck and lifting him up. "Have you been replaced by the Time Walker?"

Qin Shuli was terrified. How did the other party know? It must have been something they said that gave them away!

He struggled to say, "Bishop, you've misunderstood."

Qin Shuli's face turned bright red.

The cardinal sneered, "As a cardinal, you should be saying the word 'glory,' not those eight words like the congregation."

With that, the cardinal shoved him aside, slamming him against the wall beside him.

Qin Shuli coughed violently, feeling as if his whole body was falling apart.

Why haven't the people from daytime arrived yet?

No, in this situation, even during the day it would be difficult to save myself.

After all, they were just Time Walker for a few months. What could they possibly do against a cardinal like him?

Qin Shuli's heart gradually turned to despair.

He hadn't expected that the Inner World was far more dangerous than he had imagined.

The cardinal paced back and forth on the red carpet, smiling as he said, "You're in luck. I'm going to report this to the Pope and completely transform you, then use neural linking technology to inject the mind of another being from the Inner World into your brain. At that time, you will become the pioneer of the Mechanical God Cult in the Outer World. Of course, by then you won't be yourself anymore."

Qin Shuli felt fear.

How terrifying it would be if someone took away your consciousness without your wife and children knowing.

He was shouting inside, "Where are you, daytime!"

Qin Shuli had no other choice; only Bai Zhou could save him now, but Bai Zhou had not yet appeared.

But at that moment, sounds of fighting and shouting came from outside the door.

Someone called Qin Shuli; it was the same phone number from earlier.

He gritted his teeth and took the plunge, answering the phone in front of the cardinal.

The cardinal paused, then said, "You're still in the mood to answer the phone?"

But then I heard someone on the phone ask, "Where are you?"

Qin Shuli: "I'm in the cardinal's room..."

The person on the other end of the phone asked again, "Is that grandson there too?"

Qin Shuli: "... Here too."

Cardinal: "???"

Who is this?!

Who is Qin Shuli calling?

For a moment, many questions arose in the cardinal's mind.

Before he could even react, the door to the room, which had been closed, was suddenly blasted open from the outside.

Two oddly shaped discs were thrown from outside the door. Blue light was flashing on the black discs, faster and faster.

With a loud bang, followed by a crackling sound of electricity.

There was no explosion as expected, only electric current.

This is an EMP grenade specifically designed to deal with mechanical warriors!

A grenade releases a massive electromagnetic pulse upon detonation, destroying all electronic components within a radius of tens of meters!

However, the cardinal watched all of this with a cold smile.

More than a dozen people rushed into the house, only to find the cardinal unharmed. Someone shouted, "Something terrible has happened, folks! This bastard's prosthetic limbs have a nano-coating that protects against electrical pulses! Go to the back and call for help!"

Qin Shuli was shocked by this scene; he couldn't even figure out what had happened!

The next moment, the cardinal's arms folded inwards, instantly transforming into two polymer longswords radiating a blue glow.

But the family members who had broken in were seen moving around the huge room like monkeys, desperately trying to escape the cardinal's pursuit.

In the Mechanical God Cult, the cardinal is already a very high-ranking figure; above him are only a few elders and the pope.

Therefore, the cardinal's mechanical limbs are extremely terrifying, comparable to a C-Class expert.

It would have been even more terrifying if the corporation hadn't prohibited the Mechanical God Cult from mounting heavy weapons on themselves.

Of course, this was an era for conglomerates. They could tolerate the Mechanical God Cult profiting from them, but they could not tolerate it becoming a greater threat.

It's normal to impose restrictions.

Therefore, a cardinal's rank is still insignificant to the true masters of the conglomerate, and is even inferior to the war machine of the Federation Group Army.

But in the eyes of the common people, it has already become extremely terrifying.

However, the family members seemed to have already devised a plan. The dozen or so people who had just entered were jumping around, trying to dodge the cardinal's attacks in a sorry state.

Behind them, more and more family members rushed into the house.

Then, like an ant colony, five or six people grabbed the cardinal's left arm, and another five or six people grabbed his right arm.

Those who came in later grabbed her legs.

In just a few breaths, the room was packed with people, effectively trapping the cardinal in mid-air, unable to move.

This is clearly a rabble that has not experienced much combat.

However, they are numerous and fierce.

With sheer courage and loyalty to the Parent's Association, the family members rushed into the room one after another.

He subdued the C-Class cardinal with brute force...

At this moment, someone even took the time to shout, "Quickly remove this bastard's mechanical heart, or he might self-destruct."

Before the cardinal could react, a member of the Golden Family jumped onto his outstretched body and skillfully pried off the mechanical heart from his chest...

Skilled, as if they had rehearsed it hundreds of times.

The mechanical heart is the source of the mechanical warrior's combat power.

After being deducted, the wireless charging of the Cloud Flow Tower in the city was no longer sufficient to support the Cardinal's battle, leaving him only able to "stay awake".

After all, the Cloud Flow Tower's electricity is used to supply domestic power, and the energy required for combat is too high.

The cardinal was furious. He sensed that every "family member" in the room was at least E-Class. There were at least fifty or sixty "family members" gathered in the room, and possibly more outside, at least a hundred or so.

He just couldn't understand why the Parent's Association was developing so quickly.

How could so many cultivators be acquired in just one or two months?

Although E-Class isn't high, there are just too many of them!

The family members almost instantly dismantled the defenses of this temporary headquarters.

Moreover, how did the other party find out about my temporary headquarters?

At this point, the family wrapped the cardinal up with black tape, making him look like a rice dumpling.

After all this was done, a family member looked at Qin Shuli, who was huddled to the side, and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to find this bastard's lair for us. We took advantage of his weakened defenses and wiped him out in one fell swoop. Let's leave here first. The people from the Mechanical God Cult should be back soon. If we don't leave now, it will be too late."

The family members were beaming with joy, as if it were New Year's Day, and one by one they said to Qin Shuli, "Thank you, family!"

Qin Shuli remained completely bewildered.

He still doesn't understand what happened.

In his memory, he first heard shouts of killing, and then his "family" rushed in like ants, tying the seemingly fierce cardinal up like a dumpling.

During this time, the family members were exceptionally brave, each one seemingly fearless of death, and not one of them tried to run away!

Moreover, these people moved too fast; they seem... to be the cultivators that netizens have been talking about?!

What exactly is daylight...?

At this time, the members of the Mechanical God Cult were scattered throughout the city searching for Luo Wanyai, the "Black Family," but they never expected that their Parent's Association taken over by the Parents' Association.

When the Golden Family shared the address with Qin Shuli, they were unaware that this was the Cardinal's temporary headquarters in City No. 18.

But when someone on the phone suddenly said, "Deacon Qin, the bishop wants to see you," this brave and resourceful Golden Family keenly noticed the details.

He made a quick judgment: this would be a good opportunity to retaliate against the Mechanical God Cult. After all, the Mechanical God Cult was scattered outside, and as long as their battle was swift enough, they could capture the cardinal!

The Golden Family called Luo Wanyai to report the matter, Luo Wanyai immediately decided. "Let's do it!"

It must be said that the Parent's Association's execution was remarkably strong.

As soon as Luo Wanyai made his decision, his family members, who had been hiding in bed, all braved the cold wind and came out to assemble.

All those at or above E-Class participated in the battle, while those below E-Class stayed outside to keep watch. Among them were several D-Class Golden Family with extremely fast cultivation speeds who led the teams.

Organized, disciplined, planned, courageous, and faithful...

Qin Shuli followed his family in a daze as they evacuated, during which his family members kept thanking him, which was very heartwarming.

As everyone thanked him, he gradually became shy. "You're welcome, it's what I should do..."

If he didn't say it that way, he wouldn't know what else to say...

Just before the members of the Cult of the Mechanical God Cult returned to provide support, the family members retreated like a receding tide, each returning to their own home and to their own mother.

Those who should sleep should go to sleep, and those who should play games should go back to playing games.

They all acted as if nothing had happened.

Only a few Purple Family remained, Golden Family, took the helpless cardinal hostage and boarded a prepared vehicle to head to the Parent's Association's secret hideout in City No. 18...

On the way, a Golden Family looked at the cardinal and said, "Um... would you be interested in joining our Parent's Association? We won't look down on you. You can start as a member of the white-clad family and slowly redeem yourself."

Cardinal: "..."

God the hell is redeeming myself!

I'm already a cardinal in the Mechanical God Cult, and I still have to start as a white-clad family member at your Parent's Association?!

Qin Shuli swallowed hard. "Um, if I may ask, are you Luo Wanyai's people?"

One of the Purple Family, who was in charge of driving, laughed and said, "That's right, don't worry. Now that we've picked you up, there won't be any more danger. Your identity is sensitive, so we'll train you a bit, and maybe you can even go back to the Mechanical God Cult as an undercover agent. By the way, the Black Family just said that you've done a great job this time, so you've been promoted to the Blue Family, which is a leap over white and green. You're the highest-ranking family member on our side."

"Oh, this!" Qin Shuli was somewhat surprised; he didn't even know whether he should express his gratitude.

At this moment, a member of the Golden Family said, "By the way, the Black Family also sent some materials, saying that we should study them, and if we study them well, we can receive initiation."

The family members in the car's eyes lit up. "What are we going to learn?"

The cardinal quieted down and stopped his angry shouting.

This was probably his best chance to find out the secrets of the Parent's Association, although he didn't know what he could do after listening...

The Golden Family opened the information sent by Luo Wanyai on their phones and read it silently for a while.

But when he looked at the information, he went from being puzzled at first to being inexplicably excited later.

The Golden Family couldn't help but recite aloud. "Knowledge changes destiny..."

"The noblest profession in the world is that of a worker..."

"May the youth of the Federation cast off their apathy and strive upwards, paying no heed to the words of those who give up on themselves. Those who can act should act, and those who can speak should speak. Let each contribute their share of warmth and light, like fireflies, to illuminate the darkness, without waiting for a torch."

If there is no torch thereafter: I will be the only light. But if there is a torch, if the sun rises, we will naturally and willingly disappear. Not only will we feel no resentment, but we will also rejoice and praise this torch or sun; for it shines upon mankind, including myself."

After a moment of silence in the car, the Purple Family driving asked, "Is this something the Black Family wants us to learn?"

"No," the Golden Family said, "the Black Family said that this is something our parents made us learn."

"Parents?"

"Parents?!"

Qin Shuli suddenly noticed that the family members in the car had become solemn and devout.

"Who are the parents?" He was filled with doubt.

The cardinal shared his confusion.

There will be another chapter at 11 PM.