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

When the two came out again, Xu Xiaotang was seen rubbing her bottom with one hand and holding a document in the other, following behind Su Wanqing with a pitiful expression.

"Sister Su, you went too far. Does this count as a work injury?"

"Shut up."

Upon hearing Su Wanqing speak, Xu Xiaotang immediately became obedient.

"You can rest here. I need to take Xiaotang to take care of some things," Su Wanqing said to Lin Fan as she passed by.

"Mm." Lin Fan nodded.

After the two left, Lin Fan lay down on a nearby chair and drifted off to sleep. His priority now was to recover his mental strength as soon as possible so that he could make the He Jin card.

Lin Fan didn't know how much time had passed before he opened his eyes. He looked at the dark room and subconsciously took out his phone to check the time.

After pressing the buttons for a while, the screen didn't respond at all. "Is it out of power?"

He then remembered that he hadn't had time to recharge when the strange tide started yesterday.

His gaze shifted, and he noticed that the computer on Xu Xiaotang's desk still had its standby light on. "Check the time, everything should be fine, right?"

Lin Fan got up and walked over quickly. He casually pressed a few keys on the keyboard, and the screen slowly lit up. The next second, a clear and shameful sound suddenly rang out in the quiet archives room.

"Yamete!" Lin Fan froze instantly. He saw an anime scene playing in full screen, with the characters' clothes disheveled and the image shaking violently.

But it just so happened at this very moment.

With a "click," the door to the archives was pushed open from the outside, and Su Wanqing and Xu Xiaotang walked in.

The computer screen was facing the door, and the first thing the two of them saw when they entered was the image playing on the screen. Su Wanqing stopped abruptly, and her face flushed almost instantly.

Lin Fan frantically tried to turn off the video, but in his haste, he clicked on the wrong screen, making the sound even louder.

"Hmm~"

The entire archive room fell silent.

Xu Xiaotang was taken aback at first, then she covered her mouth and looked at Lin Fan with a shocked expression.

"Hey~ Brother Fan, how could you use someone else's computer to watch this kind of thing!" Her words were full of dissatisfaction, but Lin Fan could hear the schadenfreude in her tone.

"Anyone who didn't know better would think I was reading this in my office!"

"It started playing by itself as soon as I turned on my computer; I definitely didn't click it!"

"Caught red-handed and you're still trying to deny it!" Xu Xiaotang pointed at Lin Fan. "Do you think the computer can watch videos by itself? You're not trying to pin this on me, are you?!"

Xu Xiaotang's voice grew louder and louder, clearly trying to absolve herself of any responsibility.

"Brother Fan, with someone as beautiful as Sister Su around, even if you can't get your hands on her, you can't be looking at this kind of stuff in my office!"

For a moment, Lin Fan didn't know how to explain.

Just then, Su Wanqing, who had been blushing and silent, looked at Xu Xiaotang with a serious expression, and then at Lin Fan, who was hurriedly explaining.

"Xu Xiaotang".

"Huh?" Xu Xiaotang feigned an innocent look.

"Did you forget to turn it off while you were watching it?!"

Xu Xiaotang's eyes widened immediately. "Sister Su, you don't believe me? I'm so disappointed in you!"

The blush on Su Wanqing's face faded. "Because when you used my computer before, you watched this type of content."

The air went silent instantly. Xu Xiaotang jumped up, a hint of embarrassment on her face. She hurriedly rushed over and covered Su Wanqing's mouth:

"Sister Su, how could you say something like this in front of others!"

Lin Fan looked at Xu Xiaotang, "So she's a repeat offender! Let me check her history, maybe I can find something?"

Before Lin Fan could finish speaking, Xu Xiaotang blushed and rushed towards him, shutting down the computer.

"You're feeling guilty!"

Xu Xiaotang glared fiercely at Lin Fan. "No, I'm learning from these!"

"study?"

"Yes!" Xu Xiaotang forced an explanation, "I'm researching human emotional relationships, which is also part of the archival analysis."

"So what have you learned?" Lin Fan asked.

Xu Xiaotang opened her mouth, "I...I'm still in the research stage."

Lin Fan looked at Xu Xiaotang in front of him and couldn't help but laugh.

Seeing this, Su Wanqing helplessly rubbed her forehead. Her gaze fell on the documents in Xu Xiaotang's hand, and she took the opportunity to change the subject.

"By the way, Xiaotang, didn't you claim to have a photographic memory? You used to be so lazy that you couldn't even take notes in meetings, but now you're carrying around documents everywhere?"

She pointed to the stack of documents in Xu Xiaotang's arms. She had wanted to ask about it when she was in Vice Chairman Liu's office, but there were other people around, so she couldn't say much.

"What, did changing your work environment change your brain too?"

"Sister Su, please don't mention it!" Xu Xiaotang looked utterly dejected. He paused, then continued, "It's true I have a photographic memory, but I can't stand their constant questioning!"

"The same question is asked today, asked again tomorrow, and asked again during the meeting." A hint of annoyance appeared on her chubby face.

"I'm too lazy to explain anymore, so I'll just bring the documents with me and hand them to anyone who asks."

"Take the recent 'coffin carrier incident' for example. It was clearly a case of someone using Kaling to commit a crime, but they still insist on attributing it to a bizarre event. I've said it so many times, I'm tired of hearing it."

Su Wanqing looked puzzled: "Strange crimes can be considered natural disasters, but the Kaling crime is a man-made disaster, which is not within our scope of assistance. Who would attribute these events to strange occurrences?"

Hearing Su Wanqing say this, Xu Xiaotang felt like she had found a place to complain, "Who else could it be but that old Liu?"

"Old Liu, Vice Chairman Liu?"

"Who else could it be but him?" Xu Xiaotang rolled her eyes. "The Card Association has confirmed that the same Card Master's aura appeared in the 'Coffin Bearer Incident.' What else could it be but the work of a Card Spirit?"

Su Wanqing continued, "Everything's been confirmed. Why is Vice Chairman Liu still talking to you? Isn't the assessment from the Card Association enough?"

"Yes, that's what I was saying too. Every time I see that old Liu talks to me, he says something about how the victim's family is sure it was something supernatural and they are asking for help."

As Xu Xiaotang spoke, she became more and more excited, and she slammed the documents in her hand onto the table with a "thud".

"I told him that I don't care who is in charge of the rescue, that's another department's business, but filing is my job. A man-made incident is a man-made incident, and a strange incident is a strange incident."

Xu Xiaotang stood tall and proud, displaying an attitude of defiance against authority. "To save trouble by mixing the two together, what will people who need to check the files do later?"

Lin Fan was just listening casually at first, but when he heard the words "coffin carrier", the smile on his face instantly disappeared.

"The coffin carrier?" Zhou Chen's image involuntarily flashed into his mind.

Seeing Lin Fan's expression suddenly turn serious, Xu Xiaotang couldn't help but ask, "Brother Fan, what's wrong?"