Maria Aferona hid in the shadows.

A milkweed flower, common in the flowerbed, released its pollen and stuck firmly to a Czech wolfhound.

Once the wolfhound is exhausted, milkweed stretches out its large leaves, wraps around the wolfhound's body, and drags it toward itself.

As the wolfhound approached, the milkweed flowers, like the mouth of a python, slowly opened and became enormous.

Five streaks of gray mist shot out, appearing like ice cubes in Sprite in the pitch-black night, possessing a certain degree of invisibility.

After a fierce battle, three gray mists were lost and one was injured, but Aferona obtained her third identity card of the day.

Each wisp of gray mist possessed the strength of an enraged bull, the speed of a galloping horse, and was unafraid of firearms. With twenty such subordinates, only two remained after a day.

Aferona found it hard to imagine how long she could survive in this dangerous city if her crew were still the same ordinary mafia members.

She carefully left the scene, letting the injured gray fog patrol in mid-air, while the intact one followed closely behind her, before returning to the warehouse.

While waiting, she couldn't help but feel hopeful. She had obtained three identity cards on her first day. Hei Wu should be satisfied with her performance, right?

Aferona doesn't want any reward.

For some reason, she felt a sense of satisfaction and pleasure from wholeheartedly surrendering to someone and giving to them without expecting anything in return.

She sat on the cot and waited quietly. Soon, a white vortex appeared, followed by a surge of rich colors.

Black mist, a beautiful black-haired girl, a blonde, blue-eyed Tsar princess, and a snow-white owl stood before Aferona.

"Good evening, Mr. Kurogiri." She usually addressed her lover as "darling," but she didn't dare to do so in front of the beautiful black-haired girl.

She took out the identification card she had acquired that day: "This is all I have for today."

"How much gray fog was lost?" Li Changzhou asked.

“Eighteen, and of the remaining two, only one is intact,” Aferona replied.

"Next time, you can stop when there are only five left," Li Changzhou casually instructed, ignoring Aferona's reaction and examining the identity card in his hand.

【Nickname: Lion King】(20)

Name: Rubens

Value: 0

[Instinct: Breath Holding Hardening]

[Skills: "Sense of Crisis" (Rank E), "Night Vision" (Rank F), "Not Learned", "Not Learned", "Not Learned", "Not Learned"]

"Breath-holding hardening": Holding your breath hardens your entire body, like an invisible armor. Breath-holding can also help treat premature ejaculation.

The ID is good; Lions definitely need healing skills, it's very fitting.

"What's so great about three? If I wanted to, I could get three hundred a day!" The Tsar's princess said dismissively, seeing Li Changzhou's admiring expression.

Aferona then noticed that the Tsar's princess had a lollipop in her mouth, which meant that the other party had the ability to destroy everyone present at any time.

But she didn't do that... Has Bi completely submitted?

Aferona was a little anxious, worried that the black mist wouldn't like a mature red-haired woman like herself, and would prefer a blonde loli.

"Next one." Yang Qinglan woke Li Changzhou from his reverie of "Animal World".

Li Changzhou accepted the 20 points and placed the 'Lion King' at the bottom of the deck, as if cutting the cards.

The second identity card is also black.

【Nickname: Mercenary Auguma】(40)

Name: Ernest Owens

Value: 0

[Instinct: A Master of Western Fencing]

[Skills: "Dog Style - Bullet Time" (C-rank), "Ape Style - Agility Boost" (D-rank), "Not Learned", "Not Learned", "Not Learned", "Not Learned"]

"Master of Western Fencing": When using a Western sword, Strength +2, Agility +3, Perception +1.

The Black Card Instinct is almost as powerful as the instinct of a White Card player – limited to the early game only.

Another drawback is that when entering a dungeon, unless you have a rapier from the game, you have to spend time crafting one yourself.

Li Changzhou turned his gaze to "Dog-Style Bullet Time" (Grade C), showing some interest in 'bullet time'.

"Dog-style bullet time": In a dog's eyes, human movements are slow motion. What takes a human one second to do, a dog has four seconds to react to.

"Hmm—what do you think?" He turned to ask Yang Qinglan.

“He probably killed most of the gray fog.” Yang Qinglan first stated her speculation, then answered Li Changzhou’s question about skills, “He could give them to the owl.”

Standing on Li Changzhou's shoulder, Li Qianxia shook her head like a rattle drum, using the bird's beak as her usual ponytail to keep flicking it at her brother's face, which hurt just as much as a ponytail.

The conversation was so abrupt and disjointed that the Tsar's princess and Aphrodite thought they were talking about points.

Li Changzhou held the owl's head to prevent her from moving, and with a flick of his left thumb, the [Mercenary Auguma] identity card slid to the bottom of the card pile.

The last one is also a black card.

【Nickname: I am Big Red Flower】(10)

Name: Ma Lijin

Value: 0

[Instinct: Fancy Eating]

[Skill: "Orchid Style - Pollen Spray" (Rank F), "Not Learned", "Not Learned", "Not Learned", "Not Learned"]

"Fancy Feeding": The flowers adapt to the size of the food, with a maximum diameter of two meters.

Including the Tsar's princess's 10 points, Aferona's 10 points, and Li Changzhou's own 10 points, he now has a total of 100 points.

"Well done," Li Changzhou praised Aferona, "but you also need to be careful. As time goes on, the surviving players..."

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