Dusk fell, and the afterglow filled the 255th Street Block.
The crow stood on the telephone pole, and its dark red eyes reflected Mrs. Smith who was knitting a sweater.
The old lady lowered her head and hummed a tune. She caught a glimpse of the figure wearing a windbreaker. She raised her head and adjusted her reading glasses:
"Lin Xiao, where are you going?"
Lin Xiao held a piece of bread in her mouth, leaving a handsome back, stretched out her hand to the side and gave a thumbs up:
"Go and save the world... Please leave me a bowl of midnight snack, preferably tomato and egg noodles, and two slices of blanched green cabbage leaves, thank you."
The old lady muttered, lowered her head and continued to knit the sweater, then raised it up to look at it, and said to herself:
"A daifuku should be about this size, but a seal shouldn't need a sweater?"
It's harmless.
If Dafu doesn't wear it, he can make it bigger and leave it to Lin Xiao.
Boom.
Lin Xiao closed the car door, sat in the back seat of the old-fashioned black car, looked in the rearview mirror, and shouted:
"Have you eaten?"
"Eat, egg fried rice." Chu Yun replied calmly.
The little secretary sat next to Lin Xiao, holding a folder and pushing up her thin-rimmed glasses:
"I ate the free lunch from the logistics area. Today there are braised prawns, vegetable salad, and beef stew in Burgundy red wine..."
"I didn't ask you." Lin Xiao's eyes were dark and a little "jealous".
Damn it, my home is too far away from the investigation team, so I can't go there every day to get food.
Sigrid lowered her head: "Oh..."
"A brief explanation of the mission." Chu Yun looked into the sight glass and turned the steering wheel. "The place we are going to is the Brooklands area. Witnesses said that a group of deep divers poured into the underground reservoir there."
"We need to enter the sewers, determine their specific locations, and then report them to the organization. At the same time, we do not rule out the possibility of combat."
"Sigrid—it's up to you to explain."
The little secretary nodded slightly, leaned closer to Lin Xiao, and showed the tablet in his hand:
"I am good at [Information Technology] and [Healing]. The main cards are "Ghost Drone" and "Healing Touch"."
"Then..." Sigrid pulled her hair around her ears and looked at the screen, "This is the sewer surveillance screen I connected. You can see that there are deep divers in many areas, but they are all sporadic.
There are several, and their main areas of activity cannot be confirmed."
"Clean out the deep divers in the surrounding area and obtain the main location of the 'deep diver group'. If you achieve these, this commission will be considered a success."
Lin Xiao looked at the tablet and saw several slimy fish-man monsters in the unclear picture.
After confirming with his eyes, he was definitely a miscellaneous fish.
Hurry up and finish the fight and go home for a midnight snack.
"If we just clear out the 'deep divers' group, will we gain more merit?" Lin Xiao asked.
Chu Yun's face changed: "I advise you not to act recklessly... Although your combat skill is a range attack, there may be B-level monsters hidden in the 'Deep Diver Group', which are ferocious beasts that only fourth-level card masters can deal with!"
"
That's not called a combat skill, it's called a normal attack.
Lin Xiao added in his mind.
Although B-level monsters are also miscellaneous fish...but they have to be handled with care when fighting.
The car was parked by the river in Brooklands, with a foul smell wafting from the air. Several homeless people stood by the sewer entrance with evil eyes.
"They are homeless and live in the sewers of Star Map City." Sigrid explained softly.
Lin Xiao nodded slightly, he heard a little bit.
In order to cope with flooding after heavy rains, Star Map City's sewers have thousands of miles of pipelines. They are spacious and complex, like a giant maze underground in a metropolis.
The poor, drug addicts and homeless people live here. They move the household items and daily necessities they picked up directly into the sewers, living side by side with rats and plague.
The mutated turtles in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" live in the federal sewers.
"I will stay in the car and use the drone and microphone to provide you with information assistance."
The little secretary's red eyes flashed slightly and she said seriously: "I hope you and Raven will be safe and sound. When you come back, I'll treat you to some sweets from the logistics area."
"That's free, right?" Lin Xiao complained.
"It's my intention too!"
Boom.
Lin Xiao got out of the car and saw the secretary waving to him through the glass window. Chu Yun was holding a cigarette and negotiating with the homeless man in front.
Seeing the black ID that Chu Yun took out, the leading man's eyes were frightened, and he winked left and right to get out of the way.
"Do they know about the monster?" Lin Xiao asked.
"I know." Chu Yun said calmly, "But they have no other place to go."
Lin Xiao was silent for a moment.
He has no lofty ambition to benefit the whole world... At present, his desire to return to Middle-earth is even stronger.
Walking into the sewer, the end of the circular pipe extends into darkness, with a row of stagnant drains in the middle, where sewage flows and emits an unpleasant stench.
Colorful furniture and wooden beds were piled on both sides of the drainage canal. People stood up, with complicated eyes, watching the two men in suits disappear at the end of the pipe.
"Did you see it?" Chu Yun whispered, "That child's face was scratched by the deep diver."
"But there is no way to go... When the deep divers dive into the depths of the pipe, they come back here." Chu Yun said.
Lin Xiao did not respond. He condensed a card between his fingers and shouted: "The card is coming."
The light particles were now white as snow, and it looked around with some disgust.
But there was a firm look in his little eyes, "Oh!" He yelled, leading the way.
Lin Xiao held Dafu's back and said helplessly: "I didn't let you take the lead, I just asked you to come out and lighten the atmosphere."
"Ooo...(???)" Dafu was quite dissatisfied.
If I had told you earlier, I was prepared to be defeated...
Chu Yun looked at the little seal and said in confusion, "Is this your spiritual creature?"
"how."
"It's nothing..." Chu Yun stared at the little seal for a long time and said, "It's very cute."
"Oh!" Dafu's little eyes shone slightly.
You are very discerning!
"The team members all call you 'Raven'. Your trump card is the spiritual card," Lin Xiao said.
Chu Yun nodded, took off his gloves, ignited a cluster of pale flames, condensed the card, and manifested a dark red-eyed crow, fluttering and landing on his shoulder.
"My trump card is the third-level blue card "Raven", whose talent is 'vision sharing'."
Chu Yun turned his head, gently touched the red-eyed crow on his shoulder, and said, "Thanks to it, I have avoided many accidents."
"Of course, with its combat skills, it is enough to wipe out the wandering deep divers." Chu Yun's voice turned cold, "Let's move on."
The two people and the two spiritual creatures moved forward and soon encountered the first lone fish-man monster.
The fish-man's eyes were protruding, and he was holding a wooden thorn in his hand in a daze. He turned his head to look at the two people, came back to his senses, and spat out a string of fish-man language angrily:
"Mrgllll glrrm g!!"
"I'm going to kill you." Lin Xiao translated.
Chu Yun sounded horrified: "You know all this!?"
"My uncle and I learned the fish-man language in Hawaii... I'm just kidding, you can tell from the tone of voice."
Lin Xiao said loudly: "Dafu, I leave it to you!"
"Ooooo!" Dafu said fiercely.
An almost substantial threat was released from the little seal, and the momentum spread to the surroundings, ice crystals fell, and the sewage flowing in the canals was frozen.
Chu Yun's eyes moved slightly.
It is clearly a first-level spiritual creature, so why can it release such a powerful sense of oppression?
Could it be that it is its unique talent?
Later, Chu Yun saw a scene that surprised him even more.
The fishman was stunned for a moment, then suddenly fell to his knees, put down his wooden thorns, kowtowed with both hands and knelt down to worship the great blessing, as if he was worshiping a totem, and shouted fanatically:
"Mglrmglmglmgl!!"
"What do you mean?" Chu Yun subconsciously asked for help.
"I don't know." Lin Xiao said truthfully, "Looking at the tone, it might be something like 'may the god of fishmen protect us'..."
Presumably, it was the low-IQ fishmen who mistook the pressure of the ice dragon exuded by Dafu as the aura of a superior person.
Chu Yun looked at Lin Xiao with an even weirder look.
Could this kid be a fish-man who became a spirit?
Suspicious, very suspicious!
"I have an idea." Lin Xiao said, "Aren't we looking for the specific location of the 'deep diver group'?"
Chu Yun was stunned, looked at Lin Xiao's deep black eyes, and said dullly:
"You don't mean to..."
"How will you know if you don't try."
Lin Xiao clenched his fists and coughed lightly. He approached the fish-man on alert, and while instructing the little seal to increase the pressure, he communicated: