Chapter 341 The undercurrent is surging
It has been several days since the [Demon’s Nest] riot, but nothing major has happened in Shanghai.

During this period, they did descend upon several low-level secret realms, but such trivial matters did not require Russell’s intervention at all. The card-making troops affiliated with the Shanghai Card Master Association could handle them on their own.

Anyway, life has to go on, and the situation can’t get any worse.

At least that’s what most ordinary people think.

However, Russell knew that this was not just the calm before the storm, and the master card makers in the City within the City would definitely not give up.

“Get rid of the Spirit Begging Society.”

“There are good and bad things.”

Russell supported his chin and continued to express his thoughts.

Needless to say, the benefits are that he will no longer be constrained by Jinping.

However, the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the young man can no longer get first-hand information.

But in general, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. After all, if the Qi Ling Society is not dealt with, the situation will become too serious to be resolved.

Fortunately, even if the Skinner and Marcus wanted to send people to sneak into Shanghai, it would be difficult.

The skinners are easy to deal with. The race of her subordinates is almost the same as that of the Ming people. If you don’t carefully distinguish them, they may not reveal any flaws for a while.

As for Marcus.
It’s better to just use farm tools and pick cotton.

Sighing silently, Russell put his complicated thoughts aside for the time being and looked at the documents on the desk.

The content of the document was about the joint entrance examination of four districts. Logically speaking, this matter had little to do with him. After all, his current position was equivalent to that of a firefighter.

But who made the young man come from Shanghai No. 1 Middle School?

Plus, he had promised Principal Xie that he would go watch the game when he was free.
“I never thought that this day would come.”

Russell couldn’t help but mutter something, and then he signed his name on the document.

Ning’an District Card Master Duel Arena.

Xingu took a deep breath to calm himself.

It would be a lie to say he wasn’t nervous. After all, it was his first time fighting against a human being who also possessed extraordinary powers.

There was no such treatment before.

“Don’t worry, Brother Xin, we will help you share some of the pressure.”

At this time, a young man next to Xingu patted him on the shoulder and comforted him.

Just as Xingu was about to respond, he heard the name of Shanghai No. 1 Middle School coming from the duel arena.

He immediately swallowed the words that were about to come out of his throat, and then walked firmly into the duel arena with his two classmates.

Passing through the slightly dark passage, Xingu squinted his eyes slightly to adapt to the duel arena that suddenly seemed a little dazzling under the sunlight.

After taking a quick glance at the audience on the sidelines, his eyes were instantly attracted by a tall young man on the podium.

“President Russell?”

While muttering the other person’s name, the boy couldn’t help but recall the legendary experience of his senior.

In the stands, Russell, as the highest-level card maker present, naturally sat in the main seat.

He listened to the compliments from the people around him and focused his attention on his junior in the field.

“.What a weird feeling.”

The young man touched his chin and thought silently in his heart.

But just as Bai Yueming and the others did not pry into his secrets, as long as Xingu did not pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty, Russell would not take the initiative to explore the strangeness of the other party.

It must be said that since the emergence of this genius, the quality of students in Shanghai No. 1 Middle School has greatly improved in the following classes.

Perhaps it may be a bit arrogant to say that it is the number one in Shanghai, but it is definitely undisputed that it is the number one in Ning’an District.

To some extent, it can be considered an alternative form of prosperity.

Just as Russell was thinking about it, the battle off the field had basically been decided.

He collected his thoughts, raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, “So strong?”

No wonder Principal Xie allowed the other party to show up in front of him.

“only”

“Why does his self-made card look so familiar to me?”

Seeing Xingu’s card, Russell couldn’t help but murmur in his heart.

Although he had never seen the boy’s card before today, he felt as if he had come into contact with the prototype of the card somewhere before.

That’s right, I have come into contact with the card characters themselves.

It’s a pity that Xingu has already taken the cards back, otherwise Russell could have asked Spider-Man to identify them.

Since each school only played one match a day, he never saw Xingu again until the end.

What’s more important is that the subsequent battles were a bit boring, which made the young man yawn.

Fortunately, although it was a joint exam for four districts, the one-day schedule was not long, and Russell managed to make it to the end.

After saying goodbye to the principals present, he returned home alone.

It’s not that he’s putting on airs, but he has other important things to do.

Moyu and Miaoxuan contacted him.

They have already assigned places to all the members of the Begging Spirit Society controlled by Russell.

In the study, looking at the respectful man and woman in front of him, the young man smiled slightly: “Well done.”

“People should have been deployed around Shanghai, right?”

Compared to the association’s card makers, these members of the Spirit Beggars Association may not be as powerful as them, but they can still be useful.

After all, their predecessors were all rogues, so they must be more familiar with their peers.

This can also effectively prevent Jinping from pulling out a new Begging Spirit Society.

Hearing Russell’s question, Miao Xuan bowed slightly, and then replied respectfully: “My Lord, they have been arranged according to your instructions.”

“So what do we do next?”

She was asking where she and the cuttlefish would go next.

Hearing this, Russell tapped the table lightly with his right index finger.

After a while, the young man said, “Let Moyu stay in Shanghai for now.”

“As for you”

“Go back to Nandu first to deal with your own business, and then come back to Shanghai to find me.”

The reason why Russell kept Moyu was that he needed someone to help him summarize the information reported by the members of the Qiling Society.

Otherwise, if we rely on him alone, he would be very busy.

Thinking of this, he casually asked, “By the way, has anyone reported any suspicious persons recently?”

Hearing this, Miao Xuan and Mo Yu looked at each other, then she organized her words and said, “I was just about to tell you about this, sir.”

“My men said they saw the barbarians these two days.”

Russell straightened up instantly.

The young man knew that Jinping and his men would not give up.

He thought for a moment, then asked in a serious tone: “Location, number of people, level.”

“Are you clear about everything?”

Since Miao Xuan reported this information, she naturally knew all the specific contents.

She thought about it for a moment, then said confidently, “The location is on the southeast coast. There are about a dozen people, and their levels are basically bronze or silver.”

Having said this, the woman paused, and then added: “But the people under my command don’t dare to pry too much, so I don’t know if there are any card makers hiding in the dark.”

Russell nodded slightly when he heard this. He knew, of course, that Miao Xuan was saying this to persuade him not to be too harsh on his subordinates.

Besides, the young man had not intended to do this in the first place, he was not Jinping.

“I understand. If there is no other news, you can go down first.”

“Yes.”

Russell couldn’t help but frown as he watched a man and a woman disappear into the study. His intuition told the young man that something was wrong.

After all, if Jinping’s several master card makers wanted to cause trouble again, they would not send such a low-level card maker.

Not to mention diamond grade, it has to be at least emerald grade.

“Or do they think that since it’s on the south coast, no one will notice?”

Russell muttered to himself.

Since the [Demon’s Nest] is close to the northern coastline, the Shanghai Card Master Association has focused most of its energy there in recent days.

This also leads to the possibility that monitoring may not be adequate in other places.

Fortunately, we now have the people in the Qiling Society to fill in the gaps.

After thinking for a moment, Russell finally decided to go and take a look in person.

Of course, before that, he needed to inform his teacher and Yan Wenlai and the others.

In an abandoned factory.

A dozen black people were singing and dancing around a bonfire in the middle of the venue.

At this time, a black man asked another black man with a bamboo stick stuck in his nostril: “Guga, when are we going to start?”

“I can’t bear it any longer. I’m so hungry.”

“The two-legged sheep here all look delicious.”

The black man called “Guga” stopped dancing and slapped the black man who was speaking hard: “Marcus, sir.”

“Instructions, hold it in.”

“Don’t worry, two days.”

When the black man heard what Guga said, he covered his face, which had lost its color even after being slapped, and remained speechless.

At this moment, a voice came from the factory door: “Although I don’t understand what you are saying, I think it’s not a good thing.”

“so.”

“Can you please die?”

The group of black people looked in the direction of the voice and saw a young man standing at the factory door looking at them with a smile on his face.

“Ahhh, ahhh!”

Seeing that his hiding place had been exposed, Guga made a decision immediately.

He just shouted loudly, and then called out his own card.

However, the imagined scene of companions rushing forward did not occur.

He turned around with some confusion, and saw that his fellow tribesmen who had been singing and dancing not long ago were now lying on the ground.

The culprit was a giant half-human, half-spider monster.

Seeing Spider-Girl shaking off the blood on the scythe in her hand expressionlessly, Guga couldn’t help but show a hint of nervousness on his face.

Before he could resist, the black man’s eyes rolled back and he fainted.

Not that I’m afraid.

It’s because of Spider-Girl’s evil eye skill.

However, when facing this kind of silver-level minion, Spider-Girl had to be careful when using her evil eye, for fear of accidentally glaring the opponent to death.

At this time, Russell walked to Guga with some doubts on his face.

He first glanced at the black man lying on the ground, and then looked around the abandoned factory.

“Strange, are these really the only people?”

From everything that has happened so far, it seems that Jinping and his men just sent a group of vanguards, but they are a little too weak.

He originally thought there would be an ambush, so he specially notified several high-level card makers in Shanghai.

The young man shook his head, then picked up Guga and prepared to take him back to the association for interrogation.

This group of black people should be speaking the language of their tribe. At least Russell couldn’t understand what they were saying.

Fortunately, even though he couldn’t understand, there were others who could.

The young man did not forget that Luffy understood Goryeo by using [Listen to the Voices of All Things].

This time, the boy can act as an interpreter again.

In addition to this, there is another way, which is to make a rule-based item [Translation Konjac] of a certain blue mecha god.

But compared to the [Translation Konjac], what Russell wanted more was the [What If Telephone Booth].

Or you can use the [Precognition Notebook] as well.

With these two props, not to mention Jinping, even if Edley came, it wouldn’t work.

Unfortunately, some of the Blue Mecha God’s items are too powerful. Russell even feels that he cannot make them even if he is at the top level.

“Speaking of which, isn’t 0-08 derived from the [Precognitive Notebook]?”

He grumbled in his heart, then disappeared into the abandoned factory with Guru.

The distant sea.

Two figures, one large and one small, were silently staring in the direction of the abandoned factory.

Suddenly, the larger figure leaned forward slightly and said, “Master Chris, the person has been taken away.”

“Aren’t we going to take action?”

Hearing this, Chris waved his hand slightly: “No need to rush for a while.”

“Besides, Bai Yueming must be watching Russell right now. Even if I take action, I may not be able to stop him.”

“Let’s wait until Jin Laogou and the others make some noise before we talk about it.”

After saying this, he fell silent and just stared coldly in the direction of Shanghai.

If possible, the little boy really didn’t want to fight against the Ming people.

Unfortunately, some things are destined to remain unrevealed.

At this time, the figure next to him also remembered how powerful the murderer who killed his brothers and sisters was.

It can be said that if it weren’t for Lord Chris, he even doubted whether he could last ten rounds against his opponent.

However, although Russell is very strong, the man does not think that he can survive at the hands of Lord Chris with his current strength.

My lord
But he is not a gutter rat like Jinping.

“Let’s go. It’s windy out at sea and I’m freezing.”

“Yes.”

As the words fell, two figures, one big and one small, suddenly disappeared from the spot, leaving only the calm sea surface with occasional waves.

At the association headquarters, Russell looked at the straw hat boy beside him and asked, “Luffy, what did he say?”

When asked, Luffy scratched his face and replied, “He only said that Lord Marcus asked them to come, and he didn’t know anything else.”

Hearing this, Russell couldn’t help but frowned deeply.

Judging from the current interrogation, it seems that Jinping and his men really have no other backup plan, and there are no high-level card makers present to ambush.

Everything seemed to be Marcus’s own decision.

But young people don’t think so.

“Build the plank road openly, but secretly visit Chencang?”

After a brief thought, he came up with an idea in his mind.

Russell let out a breath, then took Luffy back and walked out of the interrogation room.

“Send someone to interrogate the man inside. If there are no other clues, just get rid of him.”

“Yes.”

After giving instructions for the follow-up matters, Russell disappeared from the sight of the card makers present.

(End of this chapter)