Card Master Guide

The style of Queen's Road is different from that of King's Road. The latter stands with dignitaries and majestic pillared buildings, while the former gathers world-famous musical theaters, luxurious restaurants and high-end coffee shops, full of luxurious and dilapidated atmosphere.

It is said that the ticket price of a world-renowned musical "Phantom of Cards" on Queen's Road is equivalent to half a year's income of a downtown family. The entrance of the theater is decorated with black silk curtains and red carpets. Men and women in gowns walk out from the upward-opening door of the A-class shuttle car together. They raise their hands and press the key. The shuttle car dissipates into blue light particles and flies into the man's hand to form a card.

This trick is much better than throwing the car keys to the doorman. Although the two processes of "realization" and "dissipation" will consume a lot of source power, people without fire need to insert expensive "source force" into the shuttle car. It can only be done with a "card", but this amount of money is not worth mentioning to families who can afford to drive an A-class shuttle.

The flow of people on the corner of the intersection is endless, the huge billboard projects a three-dimensional virtual image, the neon lights illuminate the puddles of water on the ground, people are in a hurry, and the night is rumbling—it’s about to rain.

The man in a suit and leather shoes, with a straight tie, braided hair, and two black umbrellas like sabers, stood at the corner of the street looking left and right.

His eyes fixed on a certain place, Chu Yun did not speak hastily, and silently observed the young man in front of him.

The young man has black broken hair, a brown stand-up collar windbreaker with a suit vest, trousers and leather shoes on his lower body, and he is obviously familiar with the dress code for the "interview". He leaned slightly next to the fire hydrant at the corner of the street, raised his face to look up at the advertisement, turned his head boredly, his eyes fell to this side, and recognized the slight flicker.

"Chu..."

"Don't call me that nickname." Chu Yun threw an umbrella to Lin Xiao forward, "The investigation team is not here, follow me."

Lin Xiao wore the standard brown leather gloves distributed by the Card Masters Association, and took the black umbrella thrown by him with a hint of appreciation in his eyes.

Hmm... This kind of black umbrella like a sword fits Lin Xiao's aesthetics very well.

Led by Chu Yun, the two turned around on the complex avenue and walked into an old alley.

Lin Xiao glanced at the wires in mid-air in the old alley, then at the huge neon billboard, and said:

"Is this because the demolition price has not been negotiated?"

"The price has reached a critical value, so the project will naturally be delayed, and there will be no further reconstruction plans in the future." Chu Yun said lightly, "Party A, Party B, and ordinary citizens, three losers, you will often lose in Star Map City. see."

"So, the investigation team is set up in this kind of place?" Lin Xiao asked.

"Before Queen's Road was developed, this area was under the jurisdiction of the investigation team." Chu Yun glanced at the gray alley wall, "Now, it's just that it hasn't kept up with the times... let's go."

Through this narrow alley, the field of vision suddenly becomes wider, and there is actually an office building hidden in this area similar to an urban village, and there is a coffee shop downstairs.

"There is more than one alley leading here, you will get familiar with it gradually..."

Standing behind Lin Xiao, Chu Yun took a big puff of cigarette roughly, crushed most of the remaining cigarette with his leather shoes, and said in a deep voice:

"I have to confirm again, have you really thought it through?"

Before Lin Xiao could answer, he raised his eyes, looked at the coffee shop in front of him, and read:

""Pastoral Coffee Shop", the name comes from Beethoven's Sixth Symphony... Everyone longs for a pastoral life, but it is that damned "fate" that blocks your way. "

"You really think about joining here." Chu Yun said each word, "Do you want to become a "hero" who challenges fate and saves the world? "

"Brother Chu Yun." Lin Xiao said seriously, "I haven't had dinner yet."

The man in the suit twitched his eyes.

"I don't want to be a "hero", nor do I want to challenge "destiny", I just want to earn star coins and origin dust. "

Lin Xiao's tone became more and more low: "Besides, you just said on the light curtain that you are treating guests to dinner—right?"

"This kind of profit-driven investigator is actually smarter and lives longer..."

Chu Yun stopped Lin Xiao, who was trying to turn on the light curtain record, and covered his face with his hands: "Let's go, I'll treat you, let's eat ramen."

"I won't eat anything that's not a happy meal." Lin Xiao said.

"You're right, the stall owner is a Naruto fan, so he specially changed the name to 'Yi Le'." Chu Yun put on a paralyzed face.

"Real or fake?" Lin Xiao asked in surprise.

"I lied to you...are you a child?" Chu Yun cast a sideways glance.

"I think your idea of ​​wanting to 'save the world' is more naive—that's not really your Tinder idea, is it? Hey, go slow."

Rumble!

The heavy rain came suddenly, and the rain streaked across the night and the huge billboard, drenching the pedestrians on Queen's Road. Even with the development of cross-age technology such as the "virtual cabin", human beings are still helpless in the face of nature. They still use umbrellas from centuries ago. The current flew over people's heads, and the air waves splashed a lot of water.

"I've been waiting for a long time, the tonkotsu char siu ramen from you two!"

The enthusiastic store manager tied a headband and brought two bowls of hot soup ramen with his tattooed arms, and placed them in front of Chu Yun and Lin Xiao softly with a 'boom'.

There was the sound of "cracking" rain in the background, the heavy rain splashed into the wooden floor, the office workers at the next table were cleaning their glasses, and the red lanterns and blue cloths were shaking.

‘There’s only one bowl of ramen, so I can only add another meal for you when I get home. ’ Lin Xiao looked at the palm.

'Ou Woo...' Dafu's pathetic Yuanli sense came from the tinder.

"The boss is from Fuying, and his craftsmanship is very authentic." Chu Yun took a sip of the noodles, looked at the salt shaker on the table, and said, "My previous team, after completing the commission, will come here to hold a celebration banquet."

Lin Xiao: "Suck, suck, suck..."

Chu Yun: "Hey, are you listening!"

Lin Xiao glanced at Chu Yun with gloomy eyes: "Be careful when eating, because this is one of the few times when office workers can stop talking about work and let their minds go."

Chu Yun was stunned, reluctantly nodded, "huh" to blow off the hot air of the noodles, sucked it up and scooped up the spoon again, the strong ramen and delicious broth burst into his taste buds, but the sound of the rainstorm and the screams of his teammates echoed in his ears.

"This kind of heavy rain, there will be deep divers landing in the port city again..."

Chu Yun looked at Lin Xiao who was concentrating beside him, sighed softly in his heart, and thought: 'How far can you go after you join the investigation team. '

Finish off with a delicious bowl of tonkotsu char siu ramen.

"Welcome to come next time!" The store owner waved the towel.

Holding black umbrellas in their hands, Lin Xiao and Chu Yun walked into the coffee shop named 'Tianyuan' together in the night.

It was already off-duty time, and the store was empty, but the lights were still on, the chairs were turned upside down on the table, and the floor looked as if it had just been mopped.

"Who should we find first?" Lin Xiao asked, putting away the wet umbrella.

"Meet with the team leader first, then conduct a simple test of your strength, and assign teams based on your card suitability." Chu Yun replied.

"Team leader?"

"Well, the investigation team in charge of coordinating Star Map City is a Caucasian woman named 'Margaret'. You can directly call her 'team leader'."

Lin Xiao looked up at the coffee shop's menu and inspected the wine cabinet behind the bartending counter. He always felt a strong sense of déjà vu, as if he had seen it in some drama, and said in a deep voice:

"The team leader you're talking about...does she have a waist?"

Chu Yun:?

With a soft 'click', a secret door next to the bar counter was pushed open, revealing a beautiful fair-skinned beauty with chestnut hair and red eyes, wearing thin-rimmed glasses, a high ponytail tied with a thin-rimmed bow, holding documents in her hand plate.

"Is this a newcomer?" Sigrid's voice was a little reserved.

Sneaking a peek at the young man beside Chu Yun, Sigrid was slightly amazed that the real person was even more handsome than he looked from the surveillance screen.

She had no doubts that, on the condition of this young man, if he dressed up carefully and applied for a job at the music theater on Queen Street, some ladies and ladies would be screaming and fascinated.

Lin Xiao smiled politely, but Sigrid hugged the file board tightly, and the guard in her beautiful red eyes became more and more intense.

"This is a newcomer I recruited with my authority, just call him 'Lin'."

Chu Yun nodded slightly: "Sigrid, you came just in time, come with us to meet the team leader."