Card Master: My Special Feature - Choose One of Three

The magician's hat is upside down, with the cat ears facing down, and he stands on the brim of the hat, making a "please come in" gesture.

Seeing that no one responded immediately, Bai Miao looked thoughtfully at the magic hat that the pink ball had turned into.

He jumped into the magic hat first, his huge body disappearing into the tiny hat. At the same time, a hole opened in the corner of the house, and Bai Miao leaped out of it.

"My magician's hat can open holes in places I've been, and through the channels inside the hat, we can be transported to the other side of the hole."

This was the first time Bai Miao had used the [Fate Deception - Magic Hat] in front of everyone; not many people in the Special Operations Bureau knew about Pink Ball's abilities.

When You Siming asked Bai Miao to give directions, Bai Miao already knew that You Siming had learned about his card abilities from within the Special Operations Bureau.

Bai Miao's tracking ability, which he had already demonstrated, was already surprising enough, but now he added group spatial movement to his skills.

It's important to understand the elements of space and time. If either card is even remotely connected to either of these, it's a potential starting point for becoming a Tier 5 card master.

He thought his psychic abilities were superior to Bai Miao's, but in terms of talent and potential within the Secret Service, he had long been utterly outmatched.

"The Magic Hat's passage can only allow Tier 3 Card Masters to pass through at most. I suggest that I take the others back to the room we were in before, and we can meet up again after you've dealt with the Insect Armor."

The "you guys" in Bai Miao's words naturally refer to You Siming and Jiao Beiyao.

You Siming quickly wrote the character "算" (suàn, meaning "calculate") in his mind, rapidly integrating his and Jiao Beiyao's strength information and comparing it with the methods displayed by the insect armor, thus giving Bai Miao a timeframe.

"Based on my estimate, it will take us thirty minutes to ensure that the insect beetle is completely killed."

Thirty minutes later, You Siming set the watch, which he had brought in, to the 30-minute mark and tossed it to Bai Miao.

"The time of the constant clock will not be affected by psionic energy. You hold the constant clock, and when the time comes, bring everyone back immediately."

The two strongest members of the team and Bai Miao, the most resourceful, made the decision, and the others understood that this was the best option at the moment.

"Yin Changfeng and I will go in first to scout ahead."

Li Xun was the first to jump into the magic hat. He and Yin Changfeng were of similar strength, so he entered the passage first in case any monsters broke in from the other side.

"You'd better make sure you're in the right place. If I lose an arm or a leg, I'll definitely not let you off the hook."

Li Xun warned Bai Miao before entering the cave, and Yin Changfeng followed closely behind, leaping into the cave.

Next up are Wu Sisi and Gong Wanning, with Bai Miao last.

After he jumped into the magic hat, the magic hat disappeared from its original spot. You Siming and Jiao Beiyao exchanged a glance and simultaneously removed the blockade.

A swarm of black insects surged into the room, and You Siming wrote the words "Fire Dragon," from which a fire dragon roared forth.

The cabin was crowded, and with Bai Miao and the others present, they had to control the intensity of their attacks to avoid accidentally injuring friendly forces.

With Bai Miao and the others temporarily away, You Siming and Jiao Beiyao have a good chance to put their skills to use.

The firelight illuminated the dozen or so adjacent rooms, the layers of membranes resembling the diaphragms of a mother nest, casting hazy shadows within.

Jiao Beiyao held a mithril vacuum cleaner, and countless black insects were sucked in and strangled inside.

"Target lost, target lost, relocating target."

The beetle's voice was broken and intermittent by the rustling of the swarm's wings.

The swarm of insects was showing signs of dispersing, but Jiao Beiyao and You Siming were determined not to let him leave.

Inside the initial room, Li Xun lay by the door, peering through the peephole into the cabin, constantly watching for any movement outside.

"How much longer do we have to stay here?"

In response to Li Xun, Bai Miao tossed out a time-honored watch from the past, saying, "Look for yourself."

At this moment, the tapioca pearl transforms into a storybook, with threads of fate hooked from the insect carapace wrapped around its tail.

If the insect was acting on Xiao Mingzhe's orders to block everyone in the cabin, then tracing the insect's fate threads would likely lead directly to Xiao Mingzhe's location.

Tapioca pearls cast threads of fate into the book, and a line of text appeared in the storybook.

Xiao Mingzhe had a habit of leaving spare larvae in the places he passed by, in case he needed to use his incarnation and reincarnation technique.

Without looking at any other information, Pink Ball transformed back into the Magic Hat. The Magic Hat circled around the room once, and everyone disappeared from the room, teleported elsewhere.

Hidden in a corner of the house, a black insect with bright red eyes was biting its own torn abdomen shut.

A human face resembling Xiao Mingzhe grew from the wound on the black worm. As the black worm was sewn up to its abdomen, the human face disappeared into the abdomen.

"What happened? What's going on?"

In the ship's passageway, Li Xun and Yin Changfeng deftly positioned themselves one in front of the other, protecting Bai Miao, Wu Sisi, and Gong Wanning in the middle.

"We know Xiao Mingzhe's whereabouts, and he is constantly monitoring us. Black insect tracks are left wherever he goes, and no place we've been is safe."

"You are very alert, but being alert alone is not enough."

A strange voice, no less powerful than anyone else's in the group, rang out in the darkness. Only Xiao Mingzhe, whose upper body had been squeezed out of the black worm's body and whose lower body was still slowly wriggling, appeared in everyone's sight.

Bai Miao took out the Zhenmen coin and the Xunfeng coin and formed the Leifeng Heng.

The magic hat fell over their heads, and the group was teleported again. Not long after they landed, Xiao Mingzhe crawled out of the body of a black insect once more.

Bai Miao's face was ashen. The spiritual energy consumed by teleporting four people was considerable, and he had reached his limit after teleporting multiple times in a short period of time.

"No matter how powerful a card is or how high its potential is, it is meaningless before it grows up."

Li Xun activated the [Falling Star Sword], unleashing a sword net to strangle Xiao Mingzhe. However, the fourth-tier card master was incredibly powerful, far beyond the reach of a third-tier card master, and the Starry Sky Killing Array made no progress.

Gong Wanning activated [Moonlight Draw] to share her spiritual energy with Bai Miao in the form of moonlight.

Her face was as pale as Bai Miao's. Every time Bai Miao activated the magic hat, it would consume a large amount of spiritual energy from both of them.

"Li Xun, how much time is left?" Bai Miao downed a bottle of psionic potion, generously sponsored by Xia Yuebai.

"There's still—"

Bai Miao activated the magic hat again, and the group reunited with Jiao Beiyao and You Siming.

Jiao Beiyao and You Siming joined forces, and after the insectoid beast could no longer catch a glimpse of Bai Miao, it stopped fighting them.

Li Xun teleported them back to their previous room and told Jiao Beiyao and You Siming about their encounter with Xiao Mingzhe.

Just as she was relieved that Xiao Mingzhe hadn't chased after her, Wu Sisi quickly helped the exhausted Bai Miao.

Purple patches spread from the back of Bai Miao's neck to most of his face within minutes. Jiao Beiyao quickly pinched the small insect that had climbed onto the back of Bai Miao's neck to death.

"It's Xiao Mingzhe's Soul-Chasing Insect. Anyone below the fourth rank who gets bitten by the Soul-Chasing Insect will die if they don't take the antidote within three hours."

Yu Siming flicked his wrist and wrote the word "Seal," the black characters transforming into a restriction that suppressed the spread of the purple patches.

He knew Bai Miao's significance to the Special Operations Bureau. If something happened to Bai Miao, the loss to the Special Operations Bureau would be no less than the loss of Jiang Deng Ling Jing.