Looking for someone, unexpected encounter
Spark Guild.
A special organization formed by the two strongest professionals in the world.
Guild members are nominal and are not forced to take on tasks.
Lin Xuan learned that the guild's philosophy was to protect the seeds of civilization.
He just didn't understand what it specifically meant at the time.
Now that he knew about the underground palace, he realized that Blue Star was indeed very dangerous.
Establishing this guild probably meant they had already made the worst preparations.
"I hope everything goes smoothly."
Lin Xuan followed the leading middle-aged man to a small tent behind the main camp.
"Are you Lin Xuan?" The middle-aged man's attitude had improved significantly, and a faint smile played on his face.
Lin Xuan nodded.
"Not bad, truly very young. My name is Li Yunfei, and I am also from Spark Guild."
Saying this, the middle-aged man also took out a Spark Guild badge.
Seeing the badge in Li Yunfei's hand, Lin Xuan was somewhat surprised.
He hadn't expected Li Yunfei to also be a Spark Guild member.
If that was the case, things would be much easier.
He immediately recounted everything he had seen regarding Liu Da Erduo.
After listening to Lin Xuan's narration,
Li Yunfei's brows furrowed slightly, and his voice was a bit heavy, "Is everything you said true?"
Lin Xuan nodded, "Absolutely true."
"For two or three months after I graduated, I always traded with him at Divine Grace Cemetery."
"Although he's a bit of a rogue, he's a decent person."
Hearing Lin Xuan's reply, Li Yunfei nodded, his expression somewhat grim, "This matter is of great importance. I need to question him in person again."
Lin Xuan also nodded.
That was indeed the case.
After all, he was merely relaying information.
Soon.
The two returned to the central camp.
At this moment,
everyone in the central camp looked towards them.
They had naturally seen the Spark Guild badge that Lin Xuan had taken out earlier with their own eyes.
They had not yet recovered from the shock.
Those who could sit here naturally had extensive connections.
Spark Guild members, they were the true foundation of Xia Kingdom.
What did it mean to possess a Spark Guild badge?
It meant being hailed as someone who must be protected even if Xia Kingdom were to fall.
In the entire Xia Kingdom, and even globally, there were probably not many such individuals.
They hadn't expected Lin Xuan to also be a Spark Guild member.
And so young at that.
Li Yunfei returned to the camp but did not explain directly.
Instead, he called Zhang Fan over, whispered a few words in his ear, and Zhang Fan nodded, coming over to Lin Xuan's side.
Lin Xuan understood what this meant.
He left the central camp with Zhang Fan and Chen Wanqiu, who was standing nearby.
Outside the military tent,
Zhang Fan's face was full of smiles, and he lightly punched Lin Xuan's chest, laughing.
"You're something, kid."
"Haha, you actually joined the Spark Guild."
"Could it really be the legendary SSS-rank talent?"
SSS-rank talent, that was a legendary talent.
The only two people on Blue Star with it were the world's number one and number two.
Lin Xuan laughed, without directly replying, "Just luck, just luck."
Zhang Fan rolled his eyes, "You kid, you're still as humble as ever."
"Do you know, the Spark Guild is a global organization, but it is said that there are only a little over a hundred official members."
"Moreover, they are not ordinary second-tier, but top-tier second-tier, and even..."
At this point, Zhang Fan did not continue speaking.
But the implication was very clear.
For Lin Xuan to join Spark Guild at such a young age, he must have something special about him.
As for what was special, combined with the Penguin Organization's speculation about Lin Xuan's talent back then,
there was clearly only one possibility.
Thinking of this, Lin Xuan understood his friend's meaning.
If Zhang Fan could deduce it,
then perhaps some knowledgeable people, upon seeing his Spark Guild badge, could also deduce it.
"It seems I can't be too ostentatious with this Spark Guild badge in the future."
"With external enemies, there's no strong cooperation between the nations of Blue Star, which proves that the situation here is probably not simple."
Lin Xuan gave his friend a look of gratitude.
Chen Wanqiu, who was beside him, was quite calm.
She had always been very composed.
In fact, she had already learned about Lin Xuan's talent and the Spark Guild from her father a long time ago.
She had been very shocked at the time.
Now, she had long since adjusted her mindset.
After a brief exchange of pleasantries,
the three began to attend to serious matters.
"This matter is of great importance; we need to find Liu Da Erduo."
"We need him to tell the chief specific details in person," Zhang Fan said with a grave expression and a deep voice.
Lin Xuan nodded in agreement.
After all, he was merely relaying information.
Some matters needed to be explained in person by the individual involved to be more convincing.
Due to the anomaly at Divine Grace Cemetery, the electromagnetic waves in the air were significantly affected.
In this place, phones had no signal at all.
So the three decided to use the old-fashioned method and go look for him in person.
And to find Liu Da Erduo, the stall trading area was naturally the best place to look.
After all, he had been a merchant at Divine Grace Cemetery for many years.
After separating from Lin Xuan, he would most likely go back to his old profession.
However, this temporary camp was established thirty kilometers from the edge of the black fog spreading from Divine Grace Cemetery.
Although it was temporarily built, it couldn't stop the fact that the most numerous professional class globally was the lifestyle type.
They built this temporary camp very large.
However, it was not uniformly planned and was very messy.
Various areas had no clear divisions.
The three left the camp.
They simply asked around.
There were now four trading areas here: East, South, West, and North.
Currently, with the underground palace involved,
the fewer people who knew, the better.
The three agreed to each search in one direction and then meet at the South Market in ten minutes.
If someone didn't arrive at the South Market in ten minutes,
it would mean Liu Da Erduo was in the area of the person who hadn't arrived.
After dividing their respective areas, the three split up.
Lin Xuan headed east.
By this time, it was already dark.
Various magical lights illuminated the surroundings, which increased the difficulty of searching.
Fortunately, this eastern trading market was not large.
Moreover, it was a place he had visited before with Chen Wanqiu.
Lin Xuan kept his eyes peeled and quickly surveyed the market.
He did not find Liu Da Erduo.
At this point, three minutes had passed since the agreed time.
Lin Xuan thought for a moment and then headed to the South Market.
The East and South markets were a bit far apart.
Lin Xuan summoned his purple golden gourd, just about to rush over.
Suddenly.
There was a commotion in the darkness not far away.
It seemed to be the sound of fighting.
Lin Xuan frowned.
When faced with such a situation, he originally didn't want to get involved.
After all, it had nothing to do with him.
But then he remembered Liu Da Erduo being troubled by the Song Family in the market earlier.
To be safe, Lin Xuan decisively rushed over.
However.
As he approached.
He only heard a scream.
Then the commotion in the darkness ceased.
Lin Xuan realized something was wrong and instantly activated Bullet Time.
Arriving at the dark spot,
Lin Xuan found a masked black-robed figure about to turn and leave.
Behind the black-robed figure,
lay a burly man with a bowl-sized bloody hole in his chest.
He was clearly dead.
Seeing this, Lin Xuan breathed a sigh of relief.
However, although the deceased was not Liu Da Erduo, he was somewhat connected to him.
The burly man on the ground was the one who had claimed the reinforced gems were fake at Liu Da Erduo's stall.
He was the one Liu Da Erduo had reluctantly thrown a bag of gold coins to, to avoid affecting his business.
"Could it be that Liu Da Erduo is a ruthless person?"
Lin Xuan looked at the black-robed figure who had his back to him.
From the back, this person indeed bore some resemblance to Liu Da Erduo.
"Forget it, whether it's him or not."
Professionals killing people currently had no legal constraints.
However, there were red name and punishment mechanisms.
Lin Xuan no longer dwelled on whether this person was him, but instead directly approached him.
In Bullet Time, everything slowed down countless times.
He could completely open the mask to check.
If it was, he would subdue Liu Da Erduo; if not, he would leave.
The black-clad person's mask was very simple.
It was just a black scarf covering most of his face.
Lin Xuan reached out and directly pulled it down.
The next moment,
after seeing the black-clad person's face,
Lin Xuan's pupils suddenly contracted.
This person was not Liu Da Erduo.
But he was a semi-acquaintance!
Someone he had dealt with before, and had a somewhat antagonistic relationship with!
Tick-tock—
Just as Lin Xuan was in shock,
he suddenly heard two ticking sounds, like a clock.
Immediately after,
Lin Xuan watched with wide eyes.
The black-clad figure in front of him emitted flame patterns all over his body.
Slowly, he exploded.
The explosion was very powerful.
Lin Xuan even felt Bullet Time become a bit unstable.
"It really is you, Puppet Man!"
Lin Xuan was horrified, but fortunately, he still had Bullet Time.
He quickly used the equipment he had received earlier to store the burly man's corpse into the corpse storage space.
Then, using the remaining time in Bullet Time, he sliced away and left the area.
Boom—
The flames of the explosion almost destroyed the temporarily built stalls around.
Fortunately, this place was relatively remote.
When Lin Xuan withdrew, he briefly checked and found no other people.
However, such a large commotion
quickly attracted the attention of many professionals in the camp.
Seeing this, Lin Xuan no longer paid attention.
Instead, he continued to rush to the South Market.
As a member of the dark forces, Lin Xuan had specifically looked up information about the Puppet Man after unexpectedly encountering him in Jiang City.
The other party was a madman.
Wherever he went, he caused explosions.
Would such a madman go and kill an ordinary person?
Lin Xuan felt something was wrong.
But now was not the time to ponder.
He had more important things to do.
The trait of watching a spectacle and gossiping would never disappear, no matter the time.
On the way to the South Market, many professionals were rushing towards the explosion site in the East Market.
Lin Xuan observed them all the way.
He did not find Liu Da Erduo.
When he arrived at the South Market, there were still five minutes until the meeting time.
Lin Xuan noticed that there weren't many people here.
Presumably, they had all gone to watch the excitement.
Since there were few people, Lin Xuan decided to search this market.
Fewer people meant a larger field of vision.
Lin Xuan was very fast, and in just over a minute, he discovered that Liu Da Erduo was not in the South Market.
"It seems he should be in the market that Chen Wanqiu or Zhang Fan are searching."
Lin Xuan nodded, just about to rush to the meeting point and wait to see who didn't arrive after ten minutes.
Who knew he faintly heard another burst of fighting and screams.
The south was directly facing Divine Grace Cemetery.
Lin Xuan initially thought that someone had gotten into a conflict over something from Divine Grace Cemetery, so he planned to ignore it again.
Who knew, immediately followed by a curse,
Lin Xuan's steps suddenly halted.
"Song Ming, you bastard..."
This voice was precisely Liu Da Erduo's!
And listening to the content of the curse just now,
it was indeed the situation he had just guessed: the Song Family had sent people to cause trouble.
After all, on the way here, Lin Xuan had heard Chen Wanqiu say that
the Song Family Chamber of Commerce had also invited a former professional player to assist them this time!
Thinking of this, Lin Xuan no longer hesitated and quickly rushed towards the source of the sound.