In the afternoon, Queen's Road is full of traffic.

Yellow taxis, double-decker red buses, and Ford pickup trucks lined up in front of the traffic lights at the intersection, and shuttles flew past the sky.

Compared to night, Queen's Boulevard during the day lacks a sense of atmosphere. The beauties on the giant vertical screen lose their neon light, just like stage actors who lose their lighting and become eclipsed.

The poster of the Grand Theater depicts a card and a pair of white eye-patch masks. It is the world-famous opera "The Phantom of the Cards". The handsome young man standing under the poster looked away, wearing a windbreaker and holding a black umbrella, and walked into a narrow street.

After walking around the alley, I came to the front of a coffee shop.

"Pastoral Coffee Shop".

There were many customers in the store during the day, but Lin Xiao knew that they were all agents of the investigation team. Those with lower rankings than Lin Xiao stood up and saluted, while those with higher rankings nodded.

"After completing this commission, it will be enough to be promoted to a senior operator." Lin Xiao said in her heart.

As a global organization, the "Investigation Team" has many seventh-level national warriors and sixth-level grandmasters, and has a complete ranking system.

No matter how powerful an operator is, he must complete the commission step by step before he can be promoted to a position, otherwise it will easily lead to hidden dangers.

This is like recruiting a powerful general in the "Three Kingdoms" series. He must first accumulate meritorious service before he can be promoted to an official or nobility.

After saying hello to the lady with a sweet smile, Lin Xiao went to the back hall, walked through a secret door, walked through the underground stairs, and arrived at the base of the investigation team.

In the general affairs area, two of his teammates, Sigrid and Chu Yun, were waiting in front of the double mahogany doors, and there was a beautiful figure in red next to them.

Lin Xiao was a little surprised: "Qiao Linna?"

The girl with blond hair and high ponytail looked back with a cold expression and nodded slightly as a greeting.

"She acted with us." Chu Yun held a cigarette in his mouth. "The team leader saw that our team and the temporary workers coordinated well during the previous two operations, so we continued to arrange tasks in the form of '3+1'."

Lin Xiao: "I can understand."

This is the excellent matching mechanism of the Free Federation and the basic principle of ‘if it works, use it to death’!

Sigrid was holding the document board, her chestnut high ponytail tied with a red bow, and she reminded in a low voice: "Raven, it's time for us to meet the team leader."

Chu Yun nodded, a white flame ignited in his palm, and the cigarette end was broken down into light particles and floated up.

Lin Xiao complained: "Is this how you use the 'power of decomposition' given by Nidhogg?"

Chu Yun said calmly: "You take care of me."

Sigrid: "No, don't quarrel! (((?Д?)))"

Jolina said nothing and walked calmly to the front. She grasped the metal door handles on both sides with her red leather gloves and pushed them open.

"I didn't say hello before I entered." The voice was cold.

The woman with fishtail braid in a white suit and black tie sat behind the rosewood table, raised her gaze and smiled: "But it's your words, it doesn't matter."

"I opened the door." Jolina raised her chin proudly, looking directly into her red eyes, "I don't understand the rules of the investigation team."

"Let's just talk about the entrusted task, team leader." Chu Yun naturally changed the subject.

"It's related to the Demon God Altar. The entrustment reward should be higher." Lin Xiao responded.

At the same time, the eyes of everyone present fell on the face of Lin Xiao, the ‘Jiaqian layman’. There was a sense of justice on his face, and he said solemnly: “I am thinking about the team.”

"There will naturally be no shortage of source dust and star coins, but the information this time is more sufficient than last time, and it is not considered an emergency."

Margaret crossed her hands, held her chin, looked at Lin Xiao and said with a smile: "So there will be relatively less source dust, and of course, the team's safety factor will be higher."

Although Raven is the nominal captain of this team, Margaret can see that the three of them are vaguely headed by Lin Xiao, and the strong are respected, which is understandable.

And Qiao Linna is the type who refuses to be disciplined. I have a headache... so I leave it to Lin Xiao and let him train her.

"What is the specific commission?" Jolina asked.

Margaret handed over four entrustment documents to everyone for review. She put her hands on the bridge of her nose and said slowly with deep eyes:

"The target is an absconding fifth-level card-dropping master. The risk rating is: A-level commission. He has mastered the taboo card-making skills. His original identity is a card-making professor at the Red Lion Institute of Technology, named Ole Ness.

"

"Professor of the Red Lion?" Qiao Linna's red eyes flashed in disbelief.

It was one of the three top card master academies in the Federation, Lonicera's rival for many years, and their card-making professor turned out to be a follower of the Demon God, which really surprised Jolina.

Margaret nodded and said: "He lives in a house in the federal capital of 'Sington City' and has a regular schedule. He goes out to purchase goods every Saturday, and goes out for dinner with his wife and daughter every Sunday. He has a Samoyed and a university student.

Professor, the neighbors think highly of him."

"It's been such a peaceful day," Lin Xiao said.

Usually the more this kind of background, the higher the chance of a murderer and a card-destroying master!

"There's nothing wrong with living a peaceful life." Margaret said, "It's just a pity that a circus toured Singapore last week, and there was a rare fire-breathing lion creature, and then... the fire-breathing lion

The lion, without warning, disappeared out of thin air."

"Do you suspect that this is what the university professor did?" Chu Yun frowned and said.

"It's not a doubt, it's a certainty, because the card maker can make cards that 'encapsulate' spiritual objects, and those spiritual objects are different from the spiritual object cards. They are still alive. If they are killed, they will leave corpses. However, the card maker,

It is precisely using corpses to make cards."

Margaret said calmly: "Singdon City's investigation team was ordered to investigate and unexpectedly obtained clues from a salesman. I forgot to mention that the salesman was interested in Professor Ole's wife."

"According to him, Professor Ole's house can hear his wife crying every night, but because of the good sound insulation, the sound is very weak."

"The salesman suspected that Professor Ole was prone to domestic violence, and he took advantage of the opportunity. Then, he visited Professor Ole's house during the working day, intending to flirt with the wife, and found the Samoyed digging a hole in the backyard...

He happily dug out a bone and ran away with it in his mouth."

"The salesman swallowed his saliva, approached the pothole, and vaguely saw that the lady with blond hair was also blond, so he lay on the ground and dug up the pothole with trembling hands..." Margaret said.

"At this time, he heard a call from behind. It was a little girl, Professor Ole's daughter, asking him what he had found?"

Margaret shrugged: "The salesman ran away and narrated this to the police. When the investigation team came to the door the next day, Professor Ole had already moved away with his family. According to DNA analysis, the hair tissue remaining in the soil was not human.

, but the missing lion from the circus, and the remaining aura of the devil was detected in the professor’s home.”

"Singdon City suspects that Professor Ole is trying to use taboo means to synthesize the mythical monster 'Chimera', a synthetic beast with a lion's head, a sheep's body, and a python tail, which can breathe fire, to protect the Demon God's Altar. And that Demon God

The altar is most likely located in the basement of Professor Ole's other villa in Star Map City."

"So Xington City handed over this case?" Chu Yun asked.

Margaret said: "Unfortunately, this is the Federation... Colleagues cannot be trusted. The only people I can rely on are you."

This team with Lin Xiao is one of the few teams I have that can handle the demon incident.

"The four of you are invited to go to Star Map City and Professor Ole's villa tomorrow to investigate the synthetic beast 'Chimera' and the Demon God Altar."

Margaret said sternly: "The internal environment of the villa is still unclear. You must be vigilant!"

A fifth-level master and two fourth-level card masters, this is the cutting-edge power I can use.

Margaret can understand why Professor Ole is bewitched by the 'Arrogance Demon'.

University professors always have their sights set higher than their goals. When they find that conventional means cannot achieve a breakthrough in card-making skills, it is common for them to go astray.

It's just a pain to his wife and daughter...

Margaret lowered her gaze and sighed imperceptibly.

Get out of the office.

"Using corpses to synthesize monsters... is disgusting." Sigrid whispered.

"Relying on the Samoyed to discover the clues, the Paw Paw Team has made a great contribution!" Lin Xiao said with arms crossed.

Jolina frowned: "I'm worried that the Samoyed has..."

"That's not what we should consider." Chu Yun said coldly, "The deal is done, all we have to do is complete the commission, and then"

Chu Yun glanced at Lin Xiao: "Get your reward."

Lin Xiao knew that Brother Chu Yun said this because he wanted everyone to put aside their personal relationships and handle the commission more efficiently.

Hesitation, sympathy, sentimentality, fear... these emotions will all become the card master's weaknesses, and will then reveal flaws when facing the card master.

Putting yourself out of the case and focusing only on your own remuneration is the best way to resolve the commission.

Lin Xiao nodded: "I agree, and the remuneration can be discussed again!"

Qiao Linna always felt that Lin Xiao was similar to the epee man. Her red eyes flashed and she said: "Tomorrow I will take your vehicle and go to the location near the mission together."

Chu Yun nodded and said: "Tomorrow morning, you wait for us at the door of the Card Master Association. I will come over after picking up Lin."

Lin Xiao pondered slightly.

Speaking of vehicles, should I also buy a vehicle card for the convenience of traveling?

But a C-class motorcycle costs 50,000 star coins, which is so expensive...

*

Thursday, June 9th.

The quarterfinals of the Starry Sky Cup will only start tomorrow, and he will face off against the Ghost Bride who is good at 'charm'.

If I were lucky enough to get another pride fragment today, it might be enough to resist the sixth-level 'charm' effect.
To be continued...