The Mysterious Card Maker: Starting with Zhang Jiao's Deification

Lin Fan stood in front of the card-making table, his gaze falling on the cards scattered on the table. He frowned slightly, not knowing where to start for a moment.

at this time

"Bang!"

The downstairs door was flung open with a loud bang, and Da Niu's booming voice rang out instantly, tinged with urgency, "Mr. Lin! Mr. Lin!"

Lin Fan strode out of the room and looked down.

At that moment, Da Niu was pushing a food cart in the center of the hall, his chest heaving violently, as if he had run all the way back.

"What's wrong?" Lin Fan looked at him. "Why are you in such a hurry? What serious incident happened?"

"Outside the manor..." Big Bull, leaning against the food cart, gasped for breath, "it's surrounded by eerie forces!"

Lin Fan was slightly taken aback, but didn't take it too seriously. As he walked downstairs, he said, "Weren't there strange things happening outside before? What's the big deal?"

"No...it's different!"

Da Niu quickly waved his hand, grabbed the ice water from the food cart, unscrewed the cap, and gulped down several mouthfuls before he felt a little better.

"This time we're really surrounded; we can't get out at all!"

Lin Fan went to the hall, sat on the sofa, and waited for Da Niu to continue.

Da Niu gulped down several more mouthfuls of ice water before putting it down and sitting opposite Lin Fan to continue speaking:

"When I went to the kitchen just now, I heard the people there say that the person in charge of going out to purchase supplies had just left the manor when he was forced back by something strange outside. They said that he couldn't get out at all."

Later, I specifically went to the security office to check the surveillance footage outside the manor.

"What's wrong?" Lin Fan asked.

He swallowed hard, lowering his voice slightly, "And guess what I saw? Everything around me... was eerie."

If it weren't for the absence of the eerie mist characteristic of eerie tides, I would have thought this was a new wave of eerie tides!

Lin Fan's expression gradually softened, and his brows furrowed involuntarily.

A bizarre encirclement, with no one able to escape? No way!

Even if some of the supernatural beings possess a certain level of intelligence, they cannot proactively engage in such a lockdown, since they also cannot control other supernatural beings.

It's impossible for the supernatural entities to have surrounded this place in such an organized way, unless... something higher is directing them.

Two words instantly flashed through Lin Fan's mind.

The Demon King!

"Have you contacted the card association yet?" Lin Fan asked.

Da Niu nodded, but quickly shook his head again. "My first reaction was to contact the Card Association, but the security guards said they couldn't get in touch with them at all."

Lin Fan's expression changed slightly. He took out his phone, and the signal bar was completely empty, with no signal at all.

"Where are Mr. Zhao and Miss Su?"

Lin Fan immediately thought of the true controllers of the manor. With such a big incident, they couldn't possibly remain completely inactive.

Da Niu said, "When I came back, I saw Miss Su rushing over to Mr. Zhao's place. I guess she was going to discuss this matter as well."

Lin Fan nodded, but his expression remained serious as he muttered to himself, "I wonder how long the defenses outside can hold out."

Although Da Niu's brows were furrowed, he still spoke up:

"Mr. Lin, you can rest assured. I just confirmed with the security team that those defense cards can even withstand the ghost tide, let alone those strange things outside."

Lin Fan did not reply. Even if this defense card was really as Da Niu said, capable of withstanding even the strange tides, the people in this huge manor still needed to make necessities.

From the moment he appeared in the New World, strange things began to gather there, even before the Card Association appeared.

If the Card Association still doesn't realize this now, then the people in the manor will truly be isolated and helpless.

He got up and went to the window. He looked out at the constantly fluctuating light screen above the manor, where there seemed to be a faint mist rising.

He rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things before speaking, "Da Niu, look outside, isn't there fog?"

When Da Niu heard Lin Fan call him, he also came to the window, looked at the faint gray mist, and looked at Lin Fan with a puzzled expression:

"Yeah, it's foggy outside, what's so interesting about that!"

"You're saying it might be some kind of eerie mist!" Lin Fan looked at the mist outside the light screen and felt an unusual unease. Even the Zhang Jiao card in his pocket felt slightly hot.

"Strange fog! That means a strange tide is coming! No, I have to tell Miss Su this right away!"

Da Niu immediately took out his phone, wanting to make a call, but he suddenly realized that he couldn't contact Su Wanqing at all.

"Mr. Lin, I'm going to find Miss Su and tell her about this. You stay here, I'll be right back." Da Niu ran out before Lin Fan could even speak.

Lin Fan was left speechless, wondering, "You can see this big ox, but can't Su Wanqing see it too?!"

At this moment, Su Wanqing and Zhao Zhong could not see it, because the two of them were on the east side, in the dense forest that the servants privately called a forbidden area.

Meanwhile, in a huge underground conference room dozens of meters below the dense forest, the atmosphere was so oppressive it was almost frightening.

Several figures sat around the conference table, none of them looking particularly pleasant.

Zhao Zhong sat in the main seat, his gaze slowly sweeping over the crowd. "Those strange creatures only started gathering outside after Wang Bo returned. What are your thoughts?"

A moment later, a middle-aged man wearing glasses pushed up his glasses and said in a deep voice, "Could it be that Wang Bo touched something he shouldn't have outside? Otherwise, there's no reason for it to be such a coincidence that something happened outside right after he came back."

Another person nodded in agreement, "I think it's possible. Those strange creatures are gathering in such an abnormal way, and they just keep lingering around. It doesn't look normal at all."

Sitting next to Zhao Zhong, Su Wanqing also frowned. Wang Bo was attacked strangely last night. Although she knew it was Lin Fan who did it, she did not suspect Lin Fan at all.

After all, the fact that the prison will attract some strange beings will only create some chaos, and will not cause the current situation where the outside is surrounded by strange beings.

Thinking of this, even she couldn't help but have the same thought as everyone else: Could it be that Wang Bo really did something outside?

But she couldn't understand what Wang Bo had done to cause such strange occurrences.

"If you ask me, why make things so complicated? Just throw Wang Bo out! We're bound to fall out with the Wanling Society sooner or later anyway, so why bother saving face for them?"

At that moment, a middle-aged, burly man suddenly slammed his hand on the table and shouted, "If those monsters are really after him, wouldn't it solve the problem if we just threw him out?"

Before he could finish speaking, the person sitting next to him sneered, "Easy for you to say. What will you do after you throw him out? Do you think you can deal with the Ten Attendants?"

The man continued, "Don't forget, Wang Bo is the vice president of the All Souls Society headquarters. If he really dies here, things won't be as simple as just the manor being surrounded."