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

"Bang!"

The glass curtain wall of the coffee shop suddenly shattered, shards flying everywhere, and several people near the window had bloodstains on their faces.

A dark figure rushed in through the window and lunged straight at the nearest waiter.

The eerie creature, entirely black, resembled an elongated lizard. With a gaping maw, it bit the waiter's head and swallowed him whole.

A human-like smile seemed to appear on its face, and red blood dripped from its interlocking fangs.

The coffee shop instantly erupted in chaos as several card merchants who were trading simultaneously revealed their cards, and the card spirits behind them gradually solidified.

The strange creature ignored them and headed straight for Lin Fan.

Lin Fan instantly poured his spiritual power into Bai Wuchang. Before Bai Wuchang could appear, Su Wanqing, who was standing to the side, made a move.

That warm, delicate face turned cold in that instant.

The hem of her black miniskirt fluttered, revealing her long, slender legs encased in black stockings. Without the slightest hesitation, she took a card out of her pocket.

A burst of light appeared, revealing a black katana in her hand. She gripped the katana with one hand, her black high heels clicking crisply on the broken glass.

The strange creature bared its sharp teeth and stared intently at the woman in front of it as Su Wanqing stood in its way.

Su Wanqing did not back down, but instead quickly went to meet her.

Just as the two were about to make contact, Su Wanqing dodged to the side, and then a flash of light appeared in her hand. The katana pierced through the monster's entire head from the side, pinning it firmly to the wall.

A knife!

There were no fancy moves, no charging poses, just a simple slash.

It struggled for a moment, its limbs leaving deep claw marks on the wall, then stopped moving. A flash of blue light, and it transformed into a card, which floated lightly to the ground.

From the moment Su Wanqing drew her sword to the moment it mysteriously transformed into a card, the whole thing was resolved in just three seconds!

The coffee shop was eerily quiet.

Several waiters slumped to the ground, their faces deathly pale, unable to utter a single word as they stared at the headless corpse.

The card merchants were stunned when they saw the card spirits they had just summoned.

Su Wanqing turned the knife into a card and put it away. She looked down at her legs and saw a few drops of dark red bloodstains on her black stockings, which were particularly noticeable on the outside of her thighs.

She frowned, bent down, tore the stockings, and threw them aside. Then she took out a pack of wet wipes from her pocket and slowly wiped the bloodstains off her legs.

After doing all this, she turned around and looked at Lin Fan and Qin Muyao. Her expression returned to that of the gentle project manager, with a faint smile on her lips.

"I'm sorry this strange thing interrupted our conversation," she said, gesturing for Lin Fan and the other person to sit down.

Lin Fan opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment. Who was this person? After killing the monster, he was covered in blood and still had the mind to continue talking about work!

Qin Muyao, however, asked directly, "Who exactly are you?"

Su Wanqing tilted her head and gave a kind smile. "Miss Xiaobai, didn't I say before that I am the person in charge of this project at the foundation?"

"Are all the people in charge of your foundation that capable?" Qin Muyao asked.

"I am extremely honored to receive Miss Bai's praise!" Su Wanqing said casually.

She bent down to pick up the overturned documents and shook off the broken glass.

"As a vulnerable woman, if I don't learn some self-defense skills, I'll be better able to protect myself if I encounter someone with impure intentions, Miss Xiaobai... don't you agree?"

"..." Qin Muyao looked at her, not knowing what to say, and could only nod.

Lin Fan also stared at it for two seconds.

Self-defense techniques? One strike instantly kills the Blue Domain Monster, and you call that self-defense?

Su Wanqing turned around, looked at Lin Fan and Qin Muyao, and extended her hand: "So, is the cooperation settled then?"

Lin Fan looked at her outstretched hand, then at the knife mark on the ground, and finally took her hand.

"It's settled."

At the end, Su Wanqing seemed to remember something. She rummaged through her bag and finally took out two gold-embossed admission tickets, which she pushed in front of Lin Fan and the other person.

"These are the tickets for the auction. You can go and take a look when you have time," she added with a smile.

"The rewards and long-term access to [Misty Ruins] will be sent to your accounts after the auction ends. We hope you understand."

After saying all this, Su Wanqing went to the front desk and left a business card from the New World Foundation.

"I'm sorry, the loss just now will be charged to our foundation's account. As for that waiter... please contact this number later, and someone will handle the relevant matters."

Lin Fan and Qin Muyao watched her departing figure and said almost simultaneously, "This woman is no simpleton!"

After leaving the card trading center, Lin Fan and Qin Muyao remained silent the whole way. It wasn't until they returned to Qin Muyao's room that she finally asked the question.

"What do you think their relationship is with All Souls?"

Lin Fan sat on the sofa, looking at Qin Muyao who had a puzzled expression.

"At least I didn't detect any strange symbiotic aura in Su Wanqing."

If a symbiotic anomaly exists within Su Wanqing's body, it will be exposed when she uses cards or her mental power.

But there was no strange aura about her.

"Then who is she?" Qin Muyao muttered, "The New World Foundation, even a staff member is this powerful, how strong must their foundation be?"

Lin Fan didn't reply, his mind replaying the scene of Su Wanqing drawing her knife.

From the moment Su Wanqing stood up, drew her sword, and struck, there were no unnecessary movements. The fluidity of her movements was unlike that of someone who only knew "a little self-defense."

It's more like an instinct developed through years of combat!

Seeing that Lin Fan wasn't going to pay attention to her, Qin Muyao asked him, "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm wondering how Su Wanqing could kill so many strange creatures so smoothly, as if it were something she'd been doing for years..."

Qin Muyao suddenly narrowed her eyes, "You're not actually obsessed with Su Wanqing's legs, are you? Still thinking about them now!"

Lin Fan was speechless for a moment: "Am I that kind of person?"

"Who knows?" Qin Muyao pouted. "I saw someone staring at her stockings for several seconds just now."

"I was watching her sword! Watching her swordsmanship!" Lin Fan's voice rose several octaves. "Her sword strikes were so fast; I was observing her fighting style!"

"Alright, alright, take a look at the knife." Qin Muyao waved her hand with a smile.

"If this foundation really belongs to the All Souls Society, wouldn't it be better for them to just send their staff? Su Wanqing is much better than that symbiotic person from that night," Qin Muyao continued.

"You mean, they're not from the Symbiosis Society?" Lin Fan asked.

Indeed, if they wanted to deal with me, wouldn't it be easier to solve the problem by sending someone like Su Wanqing?

Or do they have their own considerations?