Please ask the dream.

Chapter 105 Illusion (Second Update)

Back in his private residence, Feng Xue pulled out his card and looked at the eagle on it, frowning slightly:

"Eagle? I actually prefer a snake..."

The organization that Feng Xue joined this time was called [Illusion], an international "magician organization". Although it sounds a bit strange to say this, they do train "magicians" by obtaining dexterous orphans from all over the world through overt or covert channels and providing excellent teachers for training. However, human talents are different after all, and the vast majority of these children can only become "defective products".

Of course, these so-called "defective products" will not be "cleaned up" like the failed products in the killer training camp. Instead, they will be sent through various channels to organizations that have business dealings with the organization, or simply to casinos, theaters, gangs and other forces opened by the organization, to become technical personnel. To a certain extent, they are indeed given a job to make a living.

Those who can pass the layers of selection and become true magicians will enter the real core of the organization. They will be able to leave those dim and narrow warehouses and arrive at the real base, where they will receive more systematic training.

Become a Phantom Thief.

Yes, although it sounds a bit strange, the person who was cultivated with so much effort is indeed a thief, and the purpose is also very clear. They are some "cultural relics" with religious and historical elements, and judging from the style, these cultural relics should belong to a common ancient civilization.

It is worth mentioning that the structure of this organization is also rather strange. In theory, the top level is the Elders Council which never shows up. Apart from deciding what to steal, they are only responsible for providing money and resources.

The instructors who can directly contact the Elders Council are not the second level of the organization, but the third level, because above them, there are 19 seats, with animals as symbols, representing the most basic inheritance of the organization. It is said that only by obtaining a seat can one be considered a true member of the organization and can directly join the Elders Council after retirement.

By the way, the instructor who was previously responsible for teaching Feng Xue and others was one of these nineteen seats, and his symbol was the [Wolf].

Although there are nineteen seats, they are not always full. For example, when Feng Xue joined the organization, there were only seven in office, which was just over one-third.

To obtain a seat, one must complete a series of complex and symbolic tasks. The final step is to steal items designated by the organization from the world's top museums, bank vaults, and other places. Only after completing a task of this level once will one be eligible to challenge for a seat.

The nineteen seats correspond to nineteen magic effects respectively, but at the same time, Feng Xue is no stranger to the nineteen symbolic animals, because they often appear on the cultural relics that serve as targets.

This situation also made Feng Xue wonder whether this organization was actually the remnants of an ancient country that had perished or weakened, and was collecting treasures that had been lost from its own country.

Taking out the card with an eagle on it, Feng Xue frowned again. The eagle symbolizes "displacement" in magic. In comparison, Feng Xue actually prefers the snake that symbolizes "mind reading" or the cat that symbolizes "perception".

"Is it the code name given to the owner of this identity? Or is it because I am responsible for covering the rear every time we cooperate on a mission?" Feng Xue rolled his eyes, but his fingers gently stroked the card.

Magicians have many different tricks, just like the con man's sweat, where tiny scratches in specific locations are enough to convey complex information.

"It's impossible that such a basic trick can be done this far? Why do we still need to engage in such formalism?"

Feng Xue read the address on the card, sighed, looked at the sky outside the window, turned around and lay down on the bed. The next moment, he appeared in front of rows of combination lockers.

Of course, this was not some teleportation effect that came with the card, but a time jump unique to dreams. As long as he left the task state, the dream would automatically skip those processes that did not require technical content and let him get straight to the point, which was quite like pressing skip when playing a game. According to the information on the card, Feng Xue found the corresponding locker, entered the password, and took out the file bag inside.

Instead of opening it immediately, Feng Xue found a cafe and went into the bathroom marked for "cat lovers" before opening the document.

There was nothing much to say about the mission objective, an eagle ring inlaid with red gems. But when his gaze moved down, Feng Xue's eyes suddenly paused, because he saw his own face in that group of related photos!
It was not the face that was Qingyun Baihong, but the face that he was using in this dream!

"What's going on? The target is me?"

Feng Xue looked up at the sink and saw her true self in the mirror.

"So, this dream only lasts fourteen years?"

As the thought came to his mind, Feng Xue felt a white mist suddenly appear in front of his eyes, just like the feeling of being about to wake up in a dream, which surged and disappeared. Feng Xue calmed his mind again, but found himself on a busy street.

No, to be exact, this is not a street, but a square in front of a large museum.

"The Hall of Oath of the Star Ring..."

Looking at this familiar building, Feng Xue's eyebrows slightly raised. In his 14-year career as a thief, he has been to this museum seven times in total, which is the most visits among similar targets.

But this cannot be blamed on him, mainly because many exhibits are very easy to be damaged during the process of transportation and exhibition, which leads to the exhibits on display in museums are often not authentic.

Therefore, even an international group of phantom thieves like "Illusion" can only take action directly after finding the target's location each time, rather than catching all the targets in one go.

But this time, Feng Xue's target was obviously not the museum, but...

The young man standing outside the museum.

In fact, this man looked very inconspicuous. He was wearing casual clothes similar to the pedestrians around him. He was sitting casually on a bench by the roadside with his legs crossed. He wore a pair of brown glasses on his face and wireless headphones in his ears. His fingers and toes twitched from time to time to the rhythm of the music. He looked like an ordinary young man waiting for a date.

The reason why Feng Xue was able to lock onto this person was not because he always looked like this when he stepped on the spot, but because on the other person's left index finger was his target this time -

The eagle ring inlaid with rubies.

(End of this chapter)