Chapter 481: Industrial Illusions Targeted

At the same time, Domino City.

In a corner of the city, a forgotten corner, this place used to be a steel mill, standing silently in the dust of time like an old man.

The moonlight shone silently on the ruins, plating the cold steel structure with a silver edge. The rusty blast furnaces and chimneys had now become a symbol of a past era, like giants eroded by the years.

This place had already been abandoned by the city, and the original owner of the steel mill had gone bankrupt. Next month, this place would be demolished; there were rumors that KaibaCorp was about to buy this piece of land, and a new Kaiba Land would be built here.

But that was a matter for later. Now, this place, like various docks and abandoned factories, was a place favored by underground workers and criminals who couldn't see the light of day.

Take today, for example.

"Currently observing more than thirty people from the Hammer Gang at the scene."

In a truck in a corner outside the gate, a liaison officer wearing a headset sat in front of several screens. All around were monitoring images transmitted back from hidden cameras in various parts of the steel mill.

"The transaction is expected to take place on the second floor."

"Very good. The assault team will take their positions on the second floor first, and the backup team will guard the exit, not letting anyone in, or anyone out."

At this time, the person commanding the operation with his head held high in the middle of the truck was none other than Kark Dickson, a Card Professor under Nightshroud, that is, the Mech guy in the original work.

The man with the title of "having fought against two generations of Kings of Games" on his head, Kark Dickson, had been doing quite well recently. He had been promoted continuously in the company, and his status now was clearly in the first tier among Card Professors, belonging to one of the few leadership cadres.

This was also why he could lead today's operation.

Today was an illegal transaction between a group of card thieves and a local gang called the Hammer Gang. Normally, smuggling transactions and such illegal activities naturally wouldn't need them, the elites of Industrial Illusions, to manage, but if the matter involved cards illegally leaked from Industrial Illusions, then that was another matter.

Now it was just such a situation. Someone had stolen a batch of experimental cards that had not been approved to enter the market from within Industrial Illusions and was trying to flow them into underground illegal dueling activities.

Such problems are sometimes handled by law enforcement departments, but there are also times when the company sends special personnel to handle them when it is determined that the circumstances are serious or there is a high risk.

The Mech guy Kark Dickson was now one of the top high-level officials among the Card Professors, and ordinary experts in the dueling world were no match for him. This was not the first time he had led a team, and it should be an easy operation.

It should have been.

At nine o'clock sharp, a car stopped outside the gate of the steel mill. Three men got out of the car side by side.

"Card thieves discovered."

Someone in the communication channel of the Industrial Illusions action team said immediately.

"Can take them down at any time."

"No rush," Kark Dickson said. "Wait until both parties of the transaction are in position, confirm that the cards we want are all there before taking action."

He was confident that everything was under control.

Until now.

The next moment, all the screens in the car went dark simultaneously. A full screen of snow with no signal replaced the original monitoring images.

"What's the situation?" Kark frowned. "Where is the image?"

He pressed the headset, but there was no echo.

The communication seemed to have been cut off as well.

Only then did Kark start to realize something was wrong. He immediately got out of the car himself, put on his Duel Disk, and walked toward the steel mill. Going around to the back door, he saw that the backup team that should have been arranged to take their positions here had also disappeared, and there was not a single person in sight all around.

He became increasingly anxious in his heart, knowing that the operation must have been exposed, and the enemy might have known their arrangements in advance. He tried to push the door, but found that the back door had also been locked from the inside. So he stepped back two steps and directly unfolded his Duel Disk.

"Mecha Soldier!"

As his voice fell, the card in his hand was slapped onto the Duel Disk. The Duel Disk activated, and a projection was released onto the field in front of him. In the golden light, it transformed into the posture of a steel warrior, and the silver blade in its hand flashed with a cold chill under the moonlight.

Kark Dickson was not a duelist who possessed dark power; in fact, there were originally very few individuals among the Card Professors who possessed dark power. Most of them relied on technology.

Industrial Illusions and KaibaCorp had many collaborations, and although the Duel Disks they used were independently developed by Industrial Illusions, they also borrowed the technology of KaibaCorp's latest military models, possessing the ability to materialize holographic projections, and with the help of technology, they could also release the true power of Duel Monsters to a certain extent.

This was also why the Card Professors were the action elites under Nightshroud.

The Mecha Warrior slashed down, and the blade that could cut through iron like mud directly slashed open the door lock. Kark broke in and walked quickly into the steel mill.

But there was still not a single person in sight.

The communication channel was still dead silent, no matter how he adjusted it, no echo was transmitted back. The sentry posts where the original teammates were supposed to be positioned were now empty, and there was no trace of any living person all around.

Kark swallowed his saliva.

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A certain instinct in the bottom of his heart was telling him that he should not continue to move forward. This was a terrible idea, and perhaps the operation had already failed. He should retreat immediately now and go back to find support.

But he didn't.

Part of the reason was that he couldn't just abandon the subordinates who had already been sent in. Another part also stemmed from his confidence in his own strength.

He was a top duelist today, and had fought against the pinnacle of the dueling world—twice.

And now he was equipped with the strongest weapon that could draw out the power of cards in reality, so there was nothing to be afraid of.

However, even after warning himself like this, when he arrived on the second floor and saw the scene before him, he still couldn't help but feel as if his heart and lungs had stopped.

He saw the teammates who had been sent in before and had mysteriously disappeared. The thieves they were originally going to catch, and the traders.

Everyone was here at this time, in a peaceful yet eerie light.

They just stood there like that, belonging to three different forces, but at this time they stood there neatly like a family, their eyes empty, all looking straight at him, which just made people's hearts creep.

"You... how?"

Just as he was about to say something more, Kark suddenly seemed to have discovered something from their eyes and shouted without hesitation: "Mecha Soldier!"

The Mecha Soldier that had already been summoned had flashed behind him with his thought, and the blade in his hand slashed out fiercely.

But heard a "clang" sound, a black cane steadily blocked the blade from the steel warrior. The man in the white suit turned his cane slightly against the blade and tapped casually on the Mecha Soldier's wrist.

Seemingly without using much force, the iron armor on the Mecha Soldier's hand shattered with a bang.

The man in the white suit flipped his cane and tapped the warrior's steel chest again with the tip, and the invisible force directly pierced through the Mecha Soldier's chest, exploding with a boom.

Kark Dickson's eyes widened, almost unable to believe his eyes.

What did he see?

A person, bare-handed... took out the Mecha monster he summoned?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 482 =====