"Identity verification in progress... Warning, identity verification failed... Identity verification successful, please pass."

The cold electronic voice stopped halfway through, and then the voice that came out was Jiang Er's. The metal door in front of An Qingyu slowly rose up, and the lights in the dark corridor lit up one by one.

An Qingyu walked in calmly.

At the end of the corridor, there was a huge room that occupied nearly one-third of the experimental area. Huge one-way glass surrounded the room. Standing outside the glass, An Qingyu could clearly see the scene inside the room.

White floor tiles, white bed, white walls, white ceiling...Inside the spotless white room, a figure in a dark blue surgical gown was huddled in a single sofa, holding a handle in his hand connected to the TV on the opposite wall.

On the TV screen, a sewer worker wearing red overalls was throwing his red hat like a boomerang, while skillfully picking up gold coins on the ground and running towards the green chimney in front of him.

He was a very tall and thin boy, with delicate and three-dimensional facial features and a handsome look. His appearance was even more stunning than Uncle Kyosuke when he was young. He looked like a beautiful boy who walked out of a fairy tale. His long snow-white hair was almost taller than his entire body, scattered on the sofa like silk, and fell to the ground from the edge of the sofa like a waterfall.

His skin was unhealthily pale, but his eyes were bright as he stared at the screen. If you looked closely, you could see that his pupils were different from those of normal people. His pupils were like a pair of crossed stars, flickering slightly in his black eyes.

"Is this a thirteen-year-old child?" Jiang Er's surprised voice sounded beside An Qingyu, "With this height and appearance, he must be eighteen or nineteen years old, right?"

"The Oracle injected him with a large amount of artificial hormones during the experiment, which stimulated his body's growth process, so his physical age is already more than thirteen years old. As for his white hair... it should be the result of the long-term accumulation of drugs in the body." An Qingyu explained.

"It's really crazy..."

An Qingyu stood outside the one-way glass and observed him for a moment. "Open the door. I'll go in and talk to him."

"But we can't be sure whether he is safe." Jiang Er said with some concern, "In the past, it was the Oracle who contacted him. If it's you who suddenly changes to him, he might do something unpredictable. No one knows what the Oracle has trained him to be over the years. If he is really trained as an artificial god, he will be an extremely terrifying existence..."

"It's okay." An Qingyu smiled gently, "Open the door."

As soon as he finished speaking, the metal door beside him slowly lifted up. An Qingyu straightened his clothes and walked in.

In the room.

Yuuri Takishiro stared at the screen, his fingers pressing the handle quickly. Even though An Qingyu had walked to his side, he did not look up at him.

An Qingyu looked at him for a moment, sat down beside him, smiled and said in standard Japanese: "Hello."

"Hello." The white-haired boy replied politely, still not looking at An Qingyu, but just said calmly, "I thought you would continue to stand outside and dare not come in to see me."

An Qingyu's eyes narrowed slightly.

He turned his head and saw that there was indeed a one-way glass in the room. From the inside, it was just a mirror and he could not see what was happening outside at all.

How did he know that I was standing outside in such a strict laboratory?

"There's no need to look. You can't see outside from here with the naked eye." Yuri Takishiro said lightly.

"Then how did you see it?" An Qingyu asked curiously.

"From the mini-map."

"Mini map?"

"Well." Yuri Takishiro spoke slowly, "What you can't see is in my spiritual world. I can see that on this map right now, there is only your red dot, and there is a translucent red dot that has covered every corner here...

This is the first time I've seen this. Is that sister a ghost? Or is she an artificial intelligence like Yujin? "

Hearing these words, An Qingyu's eyes flashed with shock. After hesitating for a moment, he continued to ask:

"You can see the mini-map? Besides these, what else is there?"

"There are many more, such as...levels."

On the TV screen, Mario successfully passed through level after level and entered the green sewer. The words "Level +1" appeared on the screen as Mario cheered.

Yuri Takishiro slowly put down the controller in his hand and turned to look at An Qingyu. His cross-shaped eyes seemed to see directly into the depths of his heart, which were extremely deep...

"grade?"

"Your level is lv68, and that sister's level is lv63." Yuri Takishiro looked up at the surveillance camera in the corner, "With your strength, you should not be able to kill a lv84 Oracle, right? What method did you use to trick them away?"

An Qingyu stood there in a daze.

Minimap, levels... Is this kid talking about a game?

Is this world just a game in his eyes?

No...that's not right. He can clearly know his position and Jiang Er's existence, and can even visualize his realm into levels. This is not just a cognitive bias... His ability itself is a "game"?

An Qingyu pondered for a moment and asked:

"What about you? What's your level?"

"As for me..." Yuuri Taki raised a faint smile on his pale lips, "My level is lv97."

97……

An Qingyu frowned and thought.

If the child's classification of realms is correct, his level 68 represents the "sea" realm, and the Oracle's level 84 represents the "Klein" realm. Then the level 97 he mentioned corresponds to...

Human ceiling.

The look in An Qingyu's eyes when he looked at Yuuri Takishiro had completely changed.

This group of oracles actually relied on artificial experiments to secretly create a strong man at the ceiling level of mankind?

How exactly did they do it?

An Qingyu's eyes flickered with excitement and curiosity for knowledge for the first time in a long time!

"Qingyu! I think something is wrong with this child. It's not safe for you in there. Come out quickly!" Jiang Er's voice was transmitted to An Qingyu's ears through the Bluetooth headset, full of anxiety.

Before An Qingyu could answer, Yuuri Takishiro, who was sitting opposite him, looked up at the surveillance camera in the corner with an expressionless face, as if he had heard these words.

"Sister, you don't have to be so nervous." He narrowed his eyes and smiled, "I'm... very safe."

In his eyes, the cross-shaped pupils flashed a faint light.

Sizzle——!!

The power supply system of the entire [Pure Land] was cut off in an instant, and the surroundings fell into darkness.

The only thing left of the entire silver disk was the TV hanging on the wall in this small room. It was still flickering, with pixelated words pieced together, flowing between the black and red lights:

——You Dead!