Wizard: I can predict the future

Then, silence fell.

Just when Nord thought it was all over.

He felt a sudden dizziness, as if he had been stuffed into a constantly churning wooden barrel.

The speed is getting faster and faster.

Even with his physical condition, he felt dizzy and nauseous.

But this is not the end, it is only the beginning.

The next moment, a dull, mechanical voice rang out in the sky.

"Sector 2-13, anomaly detected."

"Number migration, anomaly cleanup".

The moment the words fell.

Nord felt as if the whole world was drifting away from him.

In that instant, he seemed to see the outside space being cut into pieces and then interlocking with each other.

Like a deck of cards, it is constantly being reinserted and then overlapped.

Immediately following this were screams of agony from the outside world.

These sounds were extremely sharp, like the rubbing of wood or stone.

They flew slowly high in the sky, and then came to an abrupt stop.

I don't know how much time passed.

Nord felt as if he had lost the concept of time.

"Bang!"

The cabinet door was forcibly opened.

A paper figure stood outside the door, watching him silently.

"Alright, we're safe for now."

Nord then managed to climb out with some difficulty.

It took me a while to recover from the dizziness.

"What's the next step?"

The paper figure looked outside.

"You don't have an identity card yet, so your priority now is to obtain one."

"Otherwise, you won't be able to hide here during the second round of reshuffling."

"Where do we go now?"

"It's not us, it's you."

"Before you came in, you must have seen cards sometimes falling from the sky, right?"

The paper figure looked at Nord, who had nodded, and continued:

"Those are the blank cards that were washed away on this shuffle day."

Your goal is to get at least one of those cards.

"However, these blank cards are highly sought after by the city's residents. Given your current situation, you'll likely be attacked by them all."

"Let's hurry up and go while the shuffling has just finished and everyone is still here."

Nord looked at the paper figure with a serious expression and nodded.

"I will be careful."

"After you get your ID card, go to house number seven in the J district of the inner city. I'll be waiting for you there."

After the paper figure finished speaking, the door to the house opened silently.

Nord didn't ask any further questions, merely glancing at the paper figure before turning and leaving.

However, just as he stepped out the door...

The sharp scraping sound rang out again from behind.

"etc."

"Here, take this."

A faint whooshing sound came through the air.

It felt like something had been thrown at us.

Nord then turned around, raised his right hand, and precisely grabbed the item.

It's very light, almost weightless.

He looked down and saw it was a small card.

The edges are jagged, like fragments torn from a whole card.

There was nothing on it.

There are no colors or numbers.

It was just a clean blank space.

It's unclear which card this was torn from, but it's obviously not a face card.

"This is?"

"Remaining cards."

"Part of the torn-off card."

"Some people tear off their cards before shuffling them."

The paper figure paused for a moment, then continued.

"Doing this allows you to bypass some of the rules."

"It's possible that nothing can be fooled."

Nord gently twirled the broken card with his fingertip and put it away.

He didn't ask anything, but he vaguely understood that this must have been a card that the other party had torn off from him during one of the shuffles.

The paper figure's voice rang out again.

"Outsiders".

"If you really want to survive Shuffle Day, remember one thing."

Nord looked up at her.

Although the other party had no face, one could still sense their seriousness.

"Don't easily accept other people's cards."

"And don't reveal which card you are."

Nord nodded, lifted his foot, and walked out onto the street.

We went outside again.

Everything here is different from when he first came in.

What lies before me is no longer a street.

Instead, there was an empty square.

He looked up at the sky and saw that the constantly flipping pile of cards had disappeared, replaced by huge decks of playing cards laid out.

All of these playing cards were face down, making it impossible to see their suits or ranks.

Suddenly.

Nord saw a crack suddenly appear between the two playing cards.

A white shadow fell from the sky.

Blank card!

It has no colors, no numbers, and it slowly rotates in mid-air.

Nord mentally estimated the distance to the point of impact.

"About a thousand meters."

Without any hesitation.

He instantly sprang into action and headed straight for the spot where the card had fallen.

Even while running at full speed, he remained completely focused.

He tightly covered his eyes and ears with his breath, carefully observing the surrounding movements.

He dared not fully believe what the Two of Spades said, nor did he dare not believe it at all.

Considering that even the weakest Spade 2 possessed such formidable strength, he dared not rashly engage the other paper figures, let alone risk being surrounded.

Perhaps the reshuffling has just ended.

The entire city was eerily quiet; apart from the sound of shuffling cards, there was no other noise.

Furthermore, no other living beings can be seen.

In just a breath or two.

Nord then saw the card that had fallen in.

The originally enormous card had shrunk to the size of a person and was now floating quietly in the air, one meter above the ground.

The moment I saw the card.

Nord then stopped being stingy with his energy consumption, and his speed instantly increased several notches.

However, just as he was about to get close to the card.

Several figures suddenly appeared from not far away.

Some are complete human figures, while others resemble folded dolls.

The flowers on their chests are all different colors: spades, clubs, and a heart.

Their target was clearly also a blank deck of cards.

Nord looked at the blank card so close to him, and the three "people" about to pounce on him in the distance.

The speed improved again.

At this point, they were still about 100 meters away from the nearest point.

If you miss this card, you might not have such a good opportunity again.

Moreover, once you give up...

Without an identification tag, they will face an attack from all the residents.

next moment.

The path of cards beneath Nord's feet suddenly flipped.

The entire ground seemed to have been lifted up.

His center of gravity shifted instantly.

Almost instinctively, he used the momentum to leap high into the air and jump forward.

I just settled down.

The card at my feet was suddenly pulled backward, as if someone had snatched it away from behind.

Looking to the side and slightly ahead, at the paper figure that was approaching and whispering.

Nord did not stop.

He knew in his heart that the other party was probably controlling these cards.

He no longer moved in a straight line, but constantly changed his footing, using the explosive force of his landing to quickly traverse the card-shaped ground.

Blank cards are readily available.

At this moment, the red heart-shaped paper figure in the distance suddenly stopped.

He looked at Nord, gently raised his hands, and said something.

moment.

Nord felt a strange warmth rising in his heart.

At the same time, I heard distant yet comforting words.

"Stop, stop."

"You're already very tired, you should stop now."

At the same time, a series of reprimands kept echoing in his mind.

"Get out of my way, you outsider!"

"This is not the place I should be."

"Get out of here! This isn't your place!"