Card Master: My Special Feature - Choose One of Three

Zhang Changde has run a roast meat shop on the student street of Yujiang University for more than ten years.

The shop is small; business is done downstairs, and people live upstairs.

The command center issued a notice of martial law for the entire city. The old man's wife was staying at his daughter's house, and the old man was hiding upstairs.

The room was dimly lit, with only the screen emitting a faint glow.

His yellowish vest was soaked with sweat, and a male-female duet was playing in his headphones. Zhang Changde was shivering as he worked out his arm strength.

"Sir, take it easy in broad daylight, or you won't have any grain to pay tonight."

The words that suddenly came from behind were like a bucket of cold water poured over Zhang Changde's head, chilling him to the bone.

With difficulty, Zhang Changde turned his head to look behind him, only to find that there was no one there.

The duet in the headphones grew increasingly louder, but Zhang Changde had lost all interest in training.

Bai Miao was unaware of the immense harm his words had caused to an elderly man, whose image kept flashing through Yujiang City.

This is a special use of [Fate Deception: Magic Hat]. Bai Miao discovered that he didn't need to wait for the target on the other side of the Magic Hat to pull him over.

You can teleport to the target location by voluntarily jumping into the magic hat.

After leaving Yujiang University, the cell phone signal was restored. Bai Miao dialed the numbers of Jiang Nianqing, Yan Jin, Bai Xianjun, and Bai Congming, but no one answered.

Bai Miao wouldn't be foolish enough to go to the Lü family alone to rescue Lü Dantong. He was just a first-tier card master, so of course he would report the incident first.

So Bai Miao followed the thread of fate connecting Jiang Nianqing and teleported along the way.

After discovering a new use for the magic hat, he consciously established connections with merchants scattered throughout Yujiang City.

Now, it has finally come in handy.

"The next teleport will take you to Jiang Nianqing's side."

Bai Miao's face was pale. Using [Fate Deception: Magic Hat] continuously put a heavy strain on his psychic energy. He could only cast it eight times in a row, no matter how hard he tried.

He jumped into the magician's hat again, but his feet felt like they were sinking into a quagmire. His previously smooth teleportation became sluggish, as if he were stuck in a quagmire.

"The spiritual pressure ahead is too high. Teleporting through the Magic Hat portal would be too risky due to the pressure being too great."

Bai Miao cancels [Fate Deception: Magic Hat], with pink balls on her head, and runs along the guiding threads of fate.

He took a step forward, passing through an invisible barrier, and the spiritual pressure in the environment suddenly increased.

The environment suddenly changed, with layers of translucent silk veils spreading through the city, enveloping buildings, animals, and even humans.

Supported by tall buildings, spider silk, as thick as cables and as tough as steel bars, weaves a spherical spider silk nest in mid-air.

Corrosive viscous liquid seeped from the dense pores, dripping down from high above and hitting the ground, rising in wisps of blue smoke.

"Captain Bai, be careful, it's dangerous ahead!" Shi Ming emerged from a building covered in cobwebs.

The team members following behind him had distorted expressions and protruding bellies.

"Those insane lunatics from the Summoning Society actually summoned the Spider Broodmother this time," Shi Ming said with lingering fear.

Spider Broodmother is no ordinary monster; stories about her circulate among the people of Yujiang City.

Not all monsters are hostile to humans. In the folk tradition of Yujiang City, the Spider Mother was once revered as the Goddess of Fertility.

Believers wrapped red ropes around their wrists and called themselves the Silk Clothes Cult. Later, the Spider Mother was also known as the Silk Clothes Goddess.

Monsters like these, which once had followers, are called evil spirits, and their power far surpasses that of wild monsters like the belly-holding witch.

In the millennia-long struggle for survival between humans and monsters, humans did not differentiate between expelling monsters based on whether or not the monsters posed a threat to humans.

Non-my family, its heart must be different.

Countless monsters were driven by humans into a spiritual realm that existed outside the real world. For the monsters in the spiritual realm to descend into the real world, they had to pay a huge price to project the spiritual realm into the real world.

Similarly, if the Summoning Society wants to summon monsters from the spirit realm to the mortal world, it also needs to pay a corresponding price and provide enough spiritual energy to open the passage.

The spider broodmother's psionic level is conservatively estimated to be level 45, equivalent to a fourth-tier card master among humans.

Given the intensity of the spiritual pressure here, it is clear that what has descended is not the Spider Broodmother's true form.

However, even the spider broodmother's clones possess at least level 30 psychic power.

Given the scale of the Summoning Society, it's impossible for the Three Departments to be completely unaware of their attempt to mobilize so many psychic crystals in Yujiang City.

A dangerous thought flashed through Bai Miao's mind: "The card master families, led by the Su, He, and Lü families, have reached a cooperation agreement with the Summoning Society."

"Director Jiang instructed us to guard the edge of the Spirit Realm to prevent the baby spiders born by the spider broodmother from escaping the Spirit Realm and flowing into Yujiang City."

Shi Ming smiled wryly and stretched out his arm in front of Bai Miao.

The skin on the inside of my arm is taut, with a dozen or so irregular, fingernail-sized lumps protruding from it.

Bai Miao stared intently and saw that Shi Ming's arm was covered with a dozen or so grotesque, spider-like creatures.

"I never imagined that these little spiders feed on psionic energy and could easily burrow into a human body if you're not careful."

Before he could finish speaking, a teammate behind him groaned as he tore open his uniform, revealing a bulging belly that heaved like waves, and beneath the almost transparent skin, countless tiny spiders swarmed.

"He Shuang! Suppress the spiritual energy, use your physical strength to suppress it!"

Shi Ming's words did not help He Shuang. The little spider's sharp legs pierced He Shuang's belly, and the little spider was poured out like beans.

He Shuang's body deflated like a tattered sack.

Several members of the fourth squad, their bellies bulging, forced themselves to suppress their fear and despair.

When they chose to become teammates in the field operations department, they had already disregarded life and death.

Shi Ming prepared to activate his cards, first dealing with the scattered spiders.

Lightning crackled from Bai Miao's fingertips, and a bolt of lightning struck down, turning the tiny spiders on the ground into ashes.

"Captain Shi, I'll handle this. You focus on suppressing the little spider inside your body."

"Okay, then I'll leave it to you."

Using psionic energy means that the spiderlings inside the body will multiply, since not everyone can control their psionic energy as precisely as Bai Miao.

Most card masters use psionic energy, so that a single move can have far-reaching consequences.

With Bai Miao's arrival, the situation stabilized slightly, and the remaining members of the four teams silently suppressed the small spider inside their bodies.

Tighten the skin and flesh to restrict the spiderlings' movement, and suppress their psychic energy to inhibit their reproduction.

Inside my belly, tiny spiders crawled, their toes scraping against my flesh with a constant rustling sound.

"Hold on, everyone! The baby spiders and the mother spider are linked by life. If Director Jiang kills the mother spider, the baby spiders inside us will die along with the mother spider."

Thump, thump—

The heavy pounding of a heart, like the beating of a drum, echoed in the spiritual realm with a strange rhythm.

In the very center of the spiritual realm, a spiderweb nest between tall buildings beats like a heart.

The snapping sounds of spider silk breaking interrupted my heartbeat as a hole appeared in the spiderweb nest.

Seven-colored light spread outward from the breach, and a figure flew out from the breach.

Her black hair danced wildly, and seven-colored light filled the sky. Jiang Nianqing's jade-like face exuded an imposing aura without anger.

Centered on Jiang Nianqing's toes, a massive Bagua formation took shape in the air.

Jiang Nianqing's voice echoed in Bai Miao's mind, "Eight Trigrams - Demon-Slaying Sword."

Immediately, the Bagua formation slowly rotated, and the tip of an ancient, gilded giant sword emerged from within the formation.