Chapter 97

Chapter 97: Big Brother Luo Sheng!

As Luo Sheng was about to leave the black market, he contacted Zhao Haifeng using his phone.

“Leaving so soon? What a pity,” Zhao Haifeng expressed his regret upon hearing that Luo Sheng had to leave the black market due to some business. He then added, “But it’s indeed time to leave. I heard that a strange Enhancer has arrived at the black market. Many people are now searching for him and speculating about his identity. He might be another special envoy from the Card Alliance. The black market is quite chaotic now.”

Wasn’t he talking about me?

Luo Sheng awkwardly rubbed his nose, thankful that he hadn’t revealed too much.

Zhao Haifeng still had matters to attend to and needed to stay in the black market. After bidding farewell via phone, Luo Sheng left.

Stepping through the wormhole-like entrance and exit of the black market, his eyes flashed.

He appeared in a dim, secluded alley in the city, different from where he had entered the black market.

The black market entrance had also disappeared, not just becoming invisible, but truly vanishing from the alley.

After 20 seconds, the black market entrance reappeared, indicating that there was a 20-second cooldown period for each use.

This effectively protected everyone’s privacy and prevented identities from being exposed.

After all, 20 seconds was enough time for a Card Master to do many things, such as sprinting 100 meters and disappearing into the vast sea of people, undetectable by anyone.

Luo Sheng observed for a moment, then removed his black mask, transforming into an ordinary Card Master.

He then contacted Wang Keai, “Hey, your card is ready.”

“I’m already at your apartment door,” Wang Keai’s sweet loli voice came from the other end of the phone.

When Luo Sheng returned to his apartment, he found her sitting on the large sofa, bored and watching TV.

“As expected, this girl has the key to my apartment,” he thought. Of course, he only said this to himself without complaining, because Wang Keai was not only his classmate but also his landlady.

“You’re so slow!” Wang Keai complained.

Luo Sheng replied, quite speechless, “I rushed back as fast as I could. It’s only been 3 minutes since I hung up your call.”

This girl, her demands were too high.

“Here you go.”

Luo Sheng returned the 【Pure Water Spirit】 card to her.

Wang Keai’s amber eyes widened, revealing a slightly surprised expression. After a moment, she recovered and said, “You really succeeded. Here, your payment.”

She directly took out a card coin.

Carrying 1 million in cash was too troublesome, so apart from some loose change, she mostly used card coins.

Indeed, she was quite wealthy.

She had originally thought that Luo Sheng’s ability to repair contaminated cards was extremely risky, but she didn’t expect him to restore it so easily. Moreover, the card’s level hadn’t decreased. This ability was something no Card Master in Pingcheng possessed.

Even professors at the Card University might not be able to accomplish this.

“You really are a true genius Card Master,” Wang Keai’s eyes grew even brighter.

“You’re acting strange,” Luo Sheng casually remarked.

“Hehe.”

Wang Keai crossed her fair, childish hands over her flat chest, her cherry-like small mouth revealing two small, glazed white canine teeth. With a precocious and serious tone, she said, “I’m here to invite you to join my family and become our family’s Card Master.”

She then continued to explain, “If you join our Wang family, my family will provide you with a large amount of resources and various forms of assistance. Of course, you’ll only need to help my family with some small favors each month.”

Wouldn’t this make him a lackey for a prominent family?

This was something he would never do.

Although the conditions offered were very tempting, it would also mean losing his freedom.

Moreover, his goal was to enter the Card Alliance and become a civil servant. The end of the universe was to take the civil service exam.

So he said, “Besides these, what other benefits are there if I join you?”

“You can marry into the Wang family,” Wang Keai said enticingly, her light pink lips and tender little canine teeth looking delectable.

The Wang family was Pingcheng’s number one family, not only rich in resources but also possessing a large number of Wang family Card Masters and guest Card Masters. In terms of human resources, they were almost unrivaled in Pingcheng, and they had even produced Diamond-level Card Masters before.

Being able to become a son-in-law of the Wang family was almost every Card Master’s dream in Pingcheng, because for ordinary Card Masters, it meant saving a hundred years of hard work.

If one wanted to get rich overnight, marrying a Wang family daughter could easily achieve that.

But for Luo Sheng, this wasn’t tempting. Becoming a son-in-law was impossible in this lifetime, after all, he wasn’t the Dragon King.

Luo Sheng coughed dryly and said seriously, “If you can show your natural beauty without clothes, I’ll consider it.”

Upon hearing this, Wang Keai was stunned for a moment, then stood up and started kicking Luo Sheng’s feet with her loli shoes.

“Pervert, bad guy!”

She kicked Luo Sheng twice more and left behind a statement of questionable sincerity, “Hmph! I’ll never talk to you again, you bad guy!”

Then she angrily left.

Of course, Luo Sheng had tactfully refused her under the guise of teasing.

Even if she really did streak, Luo Sheng wouldn’t marry into the Wang family, nor would he become a guest Card Master.

“Never mind her.”

Luo Sheng muttered, then sent a text message to Xu Wenbo. The Xu family’s payment hadn’t been fully delivered yet, so he was urging them.

The other party only replied with one sentence: “Soon, soon, please wait for two more days. We’ll send someone to deliver it to you as soon as it arrives here.”

After that, Luo Sheng didn’t bother with him anymore.

At this time, Qin Jianjia was meditating in her room. She must have been eager to break through to the Silver level after obtaining that 【Spiritual Surge】 card.

She was racing against time and fate.

Luo Sheng limped back to his room, “Tsk… that girl kicks quite hard.”

However, Luo Sheng didn’t mind too much. With his current physique, he would heal completely soon.

Then he took out 【Alice】, which was currently the weakest girl card among his main battle cards.

Card enhancement options immediately flooded into his mental space.

This card can be enhanced, choose from the following:

①The town where Alice lives is under siege by the NASDAQ Group’s mercenaries and the Sky City Alliance Army. In this crisis, it’s difficult for her to turn the tide alone. She needs help.

②Alice is missing a large amount of her memories. She needs to fully understand her past.

③Merge with 【Era Battle Suit】 to gain new powers.

④If you have enough cards, perhaps a miracle will occur.

He had always promised to help her find her memories, so he shouldn’t delay too long.

Besides, she was the second girl card he had acquired.

Luo Sheng immediately sensed the card, and the dream of the card world filled his mental space. With a thought, everything before him became illusory. As light flowed and the world transformed, when he opened his eyes, he found himself in a small alley of a metal-clad town.

The 【Alice】 card in his hand had also disappeared, merging with this world.

…

Dust and yellow sand filled the sky, and the ground beneath his feet was soil polluted by machine oil.

The stimulating smell of metal assaulted his nostrils, extremely unpleasant.

“Such a familiar post-apocalyptic world.”

Luo Sheng sensed the aura around him.

He confirmed his location was within a small town of the resistance organization.

Luo Sheng was about to release his spiritual power to sense the surrounding situation when he heard a commotion not far away.

“Don’t kill my mom!”

A young voice reached Luo Sheng’s ears, it was the voice of a little girl on the verge of tears.

When he came out of the small alley, he saw a man wearing an external metal skeleton and a NASDAQ Group uniform. The man was holding a dark energy gun, pointing it at a little girl’s forehead.

The little girl had her arms spread wide, behind her was a middle-aged woman. The woman’s leg had been hit by glass shards, blood continuously flowing, as she sat on the ground unable to run.

The middle-aged woman pulled the little girl, “Xiao Ke, run quickly!”

The mercenary remained expressionless and said, “Everyone must die!”

The next moment, he pulled the trigger. The energy gun emitted a blue light, and a metal bullet, under the action of electromagnetic force, instantly shot towards the little girl’s head, making a “zi” electromagnetic sound.

“Wuu wuu…”

The little girl sobbed, closing her eyes to await the arrival of her fatal destiny.

But three seconds later, the little girl was still unharmed.

The metal bullet was suspended 3 centimeters from her forehead, blocked by a faint water screen and shattered ice, unable to advance a step further. After a moment, it fell to the ground with a “ding” sound.

The little girl opened her eyes, saw this scene, and was stunned for a moment before being overcome with joy at her narrow escape from death.

Hearing footsteps beside her, she turned her head and saw Luo Sheng walking out from the depths of the small alley, his whole body clad in a metal mecha suit, gleaming golden in the sunlight.

A smile immediately appeared on the little girl’s face as she shouted, “Big Brother Luo Sheng!”