Card Master: My Special Feature - Choose One of Three

In the north of Yujiang City, at Blackwater Ward, lies the most chaotic place in the entire city.

The dilapidated streets are lined with gray, crumbling tenement buildings, their walls peeling away in patches to reveal the steel bars inside, which look like withered bones.

Everywhere was a sickly dark blue-green, with thick moss covering the corners, brick seams, and drains, emitting a musty smell that lingered for years.

Overhead, a dense network of power lines wove together a vast net, dividing the sky into countless fragments. Sunlight dappled through the gaps, melting into the darkness before it could even touch the ground.

The people walking in the shadows were dressed in dusty gray clothes, and their footsteps were very light and rustling, making it hard to tell whether they were real people or wandering ghosts.

In Yujiang City, Blackwater Workshop is a place that can stop a child from crying.

The most common tactic parents use to scare their children is: "If you keep making noise, I'll throw you into Heishuifang."

Bai Miao was unwilling to go to even the places his parents encouraged him to go, let alone the Blackwater Workshop, which his parents had explicitly ordered him to stay far away from.

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The hard leather shoes pounded loudly on the ground, completely out of place in the Blackwater Workshop.

Yin Changfeng walked ahead with practiced ease, followed by the sixth field operations team led by Bai Miao.

Pinky covered its mouth and nose with its tail, giggling and clinging to the edge of Whitey's pocket, its eyes darting around curiously.

Bai Miao stepped on the lighter-colored parts of the road surface with each step, avoiding the small puddles in the depressions.

He Changlin, Xia Yuebai, and Lü Dantong looked embarrassed, clearly it was their first time in such a dirty place.

Yan Li adapted very quickly. He used to live in the streets and alleys, where the environment was only slightly better than that of Heishuifang.

Blackwater Ward is the most chaotic place in the entire Yujiang City, and it is also the location of the city's black market.

Yin Changfeng would occasionally stop at the roadside stalls and look at the goods that the vendors had laid out on the ground.

The black market is filled with a wide variety of goods, including psionic crystals, monster flesh and blood, fragments of calamity weapons, and martial arts techniques.

Compared to the well-handled and beautifully packaged goods in the shops under the Hejia Changfu Chamber of Commerce, the items here are more primitive and untamed.

The psionic crystals were oddly shaped, with good and bad quality mixed together.

The monster's flesh was dripping with blood, and the blood that flowed down mixed with the water on the road, creating a foul stench.

The so-called fragments of the calamity artifacts are mostly small objects of various shapes, dusty, dirty, and whose original appearance is unclear.

"Young masters and ladies, you've never seen this before, have you? This is Blackwater Ward, a place for the poor."

Yin Changfeng's words carried a hint of mockery, but no one argued with him at that moment.

Bai Miao had never been there before. He Changlin, Xia Yuebai, and Lü Dantong held their breath and refused to speak, afraid that they might accidentally vomit.

After hunting the moth last night, Bai Miao discovered from fragments of her fate that the moth had brought a box of bones to Yujiang City.

Bai Miao didn't know what was inside the box, but Yun Chuxiu ordered the field operations department to find the White Bone Box as soon as possible and seal it in the Special Operations Bureau.

The intelligence department's card specialists were at a loss.

Yin Changfeng led the Sixth Team of the Field Operations Department to Heishuifang to seek help from Granny Liumu.

Granny Six Eyes is a Tier 3 Card Master, and her card ability is extremely strong at finding items.

After becoming a special operations agent, Yan Li saved most of his salary and spent most of his money on food and drink.

Seeing these stalls in the black market at this time, I couldn't help but be tempted to browse and find treasures.

He kept in mind the principle of not touching anything unless he was going to buy it, and carefully observed the small brass leopard in front of him.

"Kid, you have a sharp eye. You spotted the best stuff on my stall right away."

The stall owner lowered his voice, looked around, and whispered to Yan Li, "This is a fragment of a B-grade calamity artifact. Once activated, it can grant you a portion of the power of a B-grade calamity artifact, allowing you to be possessed by a leopard and enhance your physical abilities."

"Really? Boss, you can't be lying to me, right?" Yan Liqiang pretended to be calm, but his hands behind his back were actually trembling slightly with excitement.

"How could I possibly lie to you?" The stall owner grabbed his slippers and slammed them on the bluestone beside him, his tone urgent and angry. "Who in the black market doesn't know me, Jia Huodan? I'm the most principled!"

"Kid, are you buying or not? Just say the word. If not, I'm packing up. We'll meet again someday."

The stall owner got up and pretended to pack up and leave. In his haste, Yan Li grabbed the bronze piece with a pattern that could barely be described as a leopard's stripe in his palm.

A sly glint of triumph flashed in the stall owner's lecherous eyes, and he immediately called out, "Eighteen thousand, take it or leave it."

"18,000? I don't want it!"

Yan Li earns 20,000 yuan a month, and a single piece of iron costs him a month's salary. He has never made such a large purchase in his life.

He tried to return the bronze piece to the stall owner as if he'd been electrocuted, but the stall owner refused, declaring, "You've already taken it! You have to buy it!"

The surrounding stall owners watched indifferently, seemingly unsurprised by such occurrences.

"Your teammate is in trouble, aren't you going to help him?"

Yin Changfeng watched the spectacle from the sidelines, and, not afraid of stirring things up, he urged Bai Miao on.

"Let's buy it, we'll buy it." Bai Miao patted Yan Li on the shoulder, took out a spirit energy crystal, and handed it to the stall owner. "This spirit energy crystal should be enough."

Yan Li felt the bronze piece in his hand getting hotter and hotter, so he quickly reached into his pocket to pay.

"Captain, I have money, I'll pay."

The stall owner didn't care whether Yan Li or Bai Miao paid. He took the spirit energy crystal, rolled up his stall, scooped up all the small items into his pocket, and disappeared like a rat into the intricate intersection of the black market.

"A fool just happens to run into a simpleton," Yin Changfeng laughed. He thought Bai Miao would stop Yan Li, but unexpectedly, Bai Miao paid for it for Yan Li.

"Don't you know that most of the stuff on the black market is fake? Buying anything from here is just paying a tax on your intelligence?"

Yin Changfeng knew the background of the people in Team Six. These people were so...naive. How did Team Six manage to complete the mission?

"I know, but the bronze piece in Yan Li's hand is worth the price."

Bai Miao didn't know why Yin Changfeng was so resistant to the black market stalls.

He suspected that Yin Changfeng had probably been ripped off by black market vendors in the past.

Yin Changfeng dismissed Bai Miao's stubbornness as mere bravado.

"Brother Bai! Brother Bai! Something's happened! That bronze shard... it's melted into my hand!"

Yan Li opened his palm, revealing a leopard-shaped marking on his palm. He frantically picked at the marking with his fingers, clearly startled by the sudden turn of events.

No way, this kid actually got lucky.

Yin Changfeng rushed to Yan Li's side, his spiritual energy seeping into Yan Li's palm.

The lines on Yan Li's palm did indeed exude an aura of calamity.

"Damn, we actually stumbled upon a lucky find."

The surrounding stall owners, watching the spectacle, clicked their tongues in amazement. If you live long enough, you really can see all sorts of things.

Surprisingly, someone actually managed to find a treacherous weapon on the black market.

Several stall owners who were acquainted with Jia Huodan gloated, saying, "If Jia Huodan knew that someone had really gotten a bargain from him, he would probably regret it to the core."

Jiao Beiyao, who had been watching the show from the sidelines, now looked at Bai Miao with a more probing gaze.

Yan Li just picked the bronze piece randomly; how could Bai Miao know that this bronze piece wasn't trash?

Even Jiao Beiyao couldn't sense any spiritual energy fluctuations on that bronze piece.