Standing outside the school gate, Bai Lu and Zhou Miao stood together, and behind them were Nangong Piao and Cang Yan, who were acting with the two of them. Looking at Zhang Longqian, who was alone, Bai Lu blinked and spoke softly.

"So, now it's time to really split up!"

"Well, be careful."

Seeing that Bai Lu waved his hand and strode forward in the direction Zhou Miao said, Zhang Longqian said softly to the two boys who followed them: "Cangyan, Nangong." ”

She bowed deeply to the two who had stopped and turned their heads.

"They'll leave it to you."

Cang Yan didn't speak, and Nangong Piao smiled gently.

"Don't worry."

Zhang Longqian stood still and watched the four of them leave, until their figures disappeared from view, and then she turned around and went in the other direction.

Even if I'm not a mage, even if I'm the weakest of all of us, there are things I can do.

Something that only I can do.

With a seriousness and sharpness that Zhou Miao and Bai Lu had never seen before, Zhang Longqian resolutely moved forward, and then stopped an early morning taxi.

"Go to the old town."

On a cold street filled with old buildings, a sign that looks old hangs next to the door of a bar, and as the morning breeze blows, the sign gently swayes, and the word "Shangwu" can be seen in ornate font on the clean but mottled surface in the sun.

The yawning young bartender opened the door and walked out slowly, flipped the "open" sign hanging on the door to "temporarily closed", and then he turned around to walk back to the shop, but when he heard movement behind him, he turned his head sleepily.

A man with a ponytail and a pure white fox mask looked at him quietly, the dust on his body seemed to have experienced a fight, the wide coat was obviously ill-fitting, looking like a petite child, but the bartender didn't think that the person in front of him could really be seen as a child, but he was a spirit, and he flew away without a trace after a moment of sleep.

"Ahh Brother Yu is early! ”

The bartender immediately bowed, and Zhang Longqian, who was wearing a fox face, nodded, and went straight from the bartender into the bar, through the ordinary bar, and then into a dark room.

Seeing Zhang Long sneak in, the young man sitting on the only sofa immediately got up and saluted respectfully: "Brother Yu is good!" ”

nodded, and a cold young man's voice came from under the fox face, which was still completely different from Zhang Longqian.

"Open the door."

The young man hurriedly turned around and walked to a door behind the sofa that seemed to be very solid, and quickly opened the lock and pushed the door open, and he respectfully stepped aside, revealing a somewhat dimly lit corridor inside.

Zhang Longqian walked in without hesitation, and the young man behind him immediately closed the door gently, and suddenly the corridor without windows and lighting became even darker, but Zhang Longqian was accustomed to it and walked forward calmly.

After walking a short distance, there was a faint noise in front of him, and a faint light came in, as if there was also a door there, Zhang Longqian stepped forward and pulled the ordinary wooden door open.

As soon as the door was opened, the light and noise came to the face, and it was a large and bright hall, with many tables and chairs, and a large bar, in which all kinds of strangely dressed young people sat around the table, some playing cards, some drinking, and some quarrelling, in short, not one idle.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, a few young people who were closer to the door turned their heads to take a look, and then stood up in a hurry, and some of them knocked down the tables and chairs, this obvious sound immediately made everyone else look over, and then without exception they all got up, all the things in their hands were thrown aside, and the sound of tables and chairs falling to the ground was even more endless, and then, they bowed to Zhang Longqian at the door almost uniformly, and shouted loudly.

"Brother Yu is good!"

Hundreds of people greeted loudly in a neat manner, which was not spectacular, and the chandeliers in the hall seemed to tremble a little.

Nodding calmly, Zhang Longqian lightly dropped two words: "Feel free." ”

"Yes!"

After answering immediately, the young people all sat down, but the voice of the chat was quieter, and their eyes followed Zhang Longqian, who walked in, faintly excited.

Seeing Zhang Long sneaking over, the strong man behind the bar smiled lightly: "It's been a few days, Brother Yu, it's still such a big show!" How is it? Do you want something to drink today? ”

"I'm not in the mood early in the morning."

The voice that came out from under the mask was still a cold teenager, but it seemed to be softer, and I didn't know if Zhang Longqian was smiling, she looked at the strong and calm middle-aged man, and said softly: "Brother Wu, help me inform me, I want to see all the branch presidents." Ten minutes, I only give them ten minutes, and if anyone dares to be a second late, they will consciously give up their position to me. ”

Without asking a reason, Brother Wu just replied seriously and softly: "Understood." ”

Nodding his head, Zhang Longqian turned around and walked past the young people who were sitting in a precarious position with small voices, and walked to the stairs in the corner of the hall.

The staircase, which looks a little old, is a wide swirl, not only sturdy as ever, but also vaguely visible from the polished and still well-maintained hollow metal guardrail, which used to be a very beautiful mansion, but for some reason it has become like a secret base for the gang.

Walking up the stairs, Zhang Longqian soon walked into a dimly lit corridor.

Completely different from the hall downstairs, which is always noisy, it is as if it were two worlds, the floor is covered with a thick dark red carpet, and there is no footsteps on it, and the complete silence makes people only hear their own breathing, and a strange aura gradually diffuses. The long corridor is lined with many rooms, each with a different pattern on each door, and the depiction is simple and concise, conveying a variety of different meanings.

Walking calmly in the corridor, Zhang Longqian seemed to have long been accustomed to this strange quiet, and had no interest in the rooms on both sides, and walked straight to the end of the corridor, where she stopped in front of the opposite door.

Except that the door was taller than the other rooms, this door looked like the other doors, and even had a simple pattern carved on it, and the outline of a huge feather that almost covered the entire door clearly emerged, lifelike, long and soft, but the nick was very hard, and a sense of inviolable solemnity came to the face.

Randomly open the door, what appears in front of me is a very ordinary living room, in addition to the coffee table sofa on the side, there is a long table in the middle, and twelve chairs are neatly placed on both sides, making this living room more like a conference room.

Sitting down on the chair at the head of the long table, Zhang Longqian under the mask closed her eyes, and after a moment of silence, she spoke softly into the empty room.

"Qing, come over here."