"Can't you find any information at all?" Wan Chaoxin frowned as he looked at the intelligence that had just been received.

"I can't find it. According to your description, I have checked all the forces that could possibly produce that level of magic equipment, but I haven't found anything so far." said the woman wearing a peacock mask.

"Hasn't there been any findings in Space City and White Night City?" Wan Chaoxin put down the information in his hand, looked at Peacock and asked.

"The spies we have planted have verified repeatedly that their current research focus is on multi-core magic armor. The initial investment is quite huge, and they have already achieved quite good results. They should not have the time, energy and funds to research other projects. Judging from the magic armor you mentioned, it can use extremely high-powered magic weapons without any physical connection. They have not yet developed this technology." Peacock replied.

"What about the meeting?" Wan Chaoxin asked again.

"It's not easy to check within the guild. The Magic Equipment Group and we are in two different systems. Apart from Vice President Bai, only the President of the Magic Equipment Group has the authority to retrieve their information." Peacock replied.

"What did Dujuan say?" Wan Chaoxin pondered.

"What Dujuan means is that the magic equipment group has achieved a lot of research results, but he is not sure whether they have the magic equipment technology you mentioned." Peacock said.

"We can't be sure, but that means it's possible. Let Du Juan keep a close eye on it and report back as soon as we find any clues."

"Yes, I will convey your order to Dujuan right away." Peacock got up and left Wan Chaoxin's office.

"Neither Space City nor White Night City can produce this kind of magic costume, so it can only be the people from the magic costume group who are causing trouble. Who is trying to pick a fight with me?" Wan Chaoxin frowned and thought.

In another room, Bai Ying and Li Qingyi were also troubled by the same problem.

"What did Uncle Bai say?" Li Qingyi asked Bai Ying who had just returned.

"My dad said it's impossible. So far, no one has been able to create a magic weapon that does not require a physical connection. Moreover, to be able to burst out that level of magic light, it must be a magic weapon with super spiritual energy. Currently, there is only one magic laboratory that can utilize super spiritual energy in the magic group, and they have never created such a magic weapon." Bai Ying said after taking a breath.

"That's strange. Even the magic costume group can't make that kind of magic costume. Where did that magic costume master come from? He can't have fallen from the sky, right?" Li Qingyi frowned.

"My dad said that we can try starting from Space City or White Night City. If there is anyone who can possibly develop such magic costumes, apart from the Magic Costume Group, there are only these two places. The other magic costume manufacturing bases simply do not have such research and development capabilities and levels." Bai Ying said quickly.

"Did Uncle Bai mention the City of Light?" Li Qingyi asked after thinking for a while.

"How do you know my dad mentioned the City of Light?" Bai Ying was a little surprised.

"What did Uncle Bai say?" Li Qingyi did not answer Bai Ying and continued to ask.

"My dad said that the magic suit worn by Frost Leaf Magician should have been modified based on the Ghost Face Magic Suit. The modification level is quite good. Moreover, that Frost Leaf can use the Hand of God. He is very likely the person who fought with God in Taro City. He really wants to know what the final outcome of the battle between Frost Leaf and God will be." Bai Ying said.

"Is there a possibility that the magic armor master who took away the super spiritual gem is also from the City of Light?" Li Qingyi said thoughtfully.

"It's impossible. My dad said that a crappy place like the City of Light can't produce a magic costume like that. Even that modified ghost-faced magic costume is most likely from the Space City's No. 1 Laboratory." Bai Ying curled his lips and said with some disdain.

She didn't have a good impression of Li Xiu, and as a result, she didn't have a good impression of the City of Light either.

"That's true. To research such a magic suit, there must be a lot of technical problems that need to be solved. Without sufficient technical accumulation, it is impossible to make such a magic suit. I really want to know who made such a magic suit." Li Qingyi sighed.

"That's easy. Apart from the Magic Suit Group, there are only Space City and White Night City left. We should get the answer if we go to these two places." Bai Ying said with a smile.

"It's not that simple. Guan Jinghao has always had a bad relationship with us. You also know the situation in Baiye City. Even if we go there, we won't get the answers we want." Li Qingyi shook her head.

Although she said these reasons, Li Qingyi always felt something was wrong deep in her heart. For some reason, she always felt that the magic costume master might have some connection with the City of Light.

Li Qingyi herself felt that the possibility was very small, but she just couldn't help but have this thought.

"I remember that Chu Jun should be the son of Baiye City Lord, right?" Li Qingyi said after thinking for a while.

"Yeah, I really don't understand what that guy is thinking. I heard that the Lord of Baiye City is determined to let Chu Jun inherit the position of Lord of Baiye City, but he is unwilling to take over and insists on becoming a trial-taker. He is messing around outside by himself. It is said that he is the big boss behind the City of Light, and that Li Xiu is just a nominal Lord of the City, used by Chu Jun to cover up his tracks." Bai Ying curled his lips, seeming to be very disapproving.

"Let's go and take a walk around White Night City." Li Qingyi said as he stood up and walked towards the door.

"Do you suspect that the magic suit was made by Bai Ye City?" Bai Ying hurriedly followed.

"Maybe." Li Qingyi couldn't be sure, but she always felt that there was some connection.

…

Accompanied by Chu Jun, Li Xiu hurried to Bai Ye City. After entering the area of ​​Bai Ye City, Chu Jun kept introducing the local customs and practices to Li Xiu.

The sphere of influence of White Night City is no smaller than that of Space City. The entire Southern Cross Federation combined is probably not as large as the sphere of influence of White Night City.

Unfortunately, despite the vast sphere of influence of White Night City, there are not many mineral veins that produce gemstones, especially the five major colored gemstone mines are extremely scarce.

In the territory of White Night City, there are very few things related to trial-takers, and industries related to magic equipment are everywhere.

The toys held by children on the street are mostly star-level magical dolls.

Magic equipment experience stores and magic equipment talent testing centers can be seen everywhere. The Magic Spirit Competition is so popular nowadays, but in the White Night City, there is rarely any news about the Magic Spirit Competition, and no one holds the Magic Spirit Competition here.

This situation becomes more serious the closer you get to the main city of White Night City. In the Southern Cross Federation, you can occasionally see trial-takers, but after walking here for so long, I haven't seen a single trial-taker.

"No need to look. The situation here is similar to that in the Space City. It is basically difficult to see stores related to trial-takers. Except for the jewelry store, there is almost nothing related to trial-takers here." Chu Jun sighed.

"Isn't this great? Such a huge market is waiting for us to develop." Li Xiu said with a smile.

"You want to promote the Magic Spirit Competition here? Then you'd better kill me first. If you really do that, I will be the first one to be killed by the old man." Chu Jun said hurriedly.

"That's not necessarily true. Maybe the old man also wants to hold a Magic Spirit Competition?" Li Xiu said with a smile.

"Absolutely impossible." Chu Jun said firmly.

"Let's talk about this later. Do you want to go home first or come with me to Good Luck Slope?" They were almost at the main city of Bai Ye City. Li Xiu looked around and found that Good Luck Slope was just a few dozen miles south of the main city.

"I'd better go to Good Luck Hill with you first, so that you don't cause any trouble." Chu Jun paused, and then said depressedly: "To be honest, I'm really afraid to go home. After you and I organized the Magic Spirit Competition together, the old man was almost mad. He scolded me on the phone. I have never seen him get so angry with me since I was a child."

"Don't be afraid. When we come back from Good Luck Hill, I will accompany you to see the old man." Li Xiu said.

"We'll talk about it when the time comes." Chu Jun thought to himself, "If you go, and the old man doesn't break your legs, it will be a great blessing for your ancestors."

When the two of them arrived at Good Luck Slope, Li Xiu couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Originally, Li Xiu thought that Good Luck Slope should be a mountain, or at least a hill, but what he saw was indeed a big slope.

The slope is covered with green grass and various wild flowers. Although there are no tall trees, a few short trees sparsely dotted among them give it a unique charm.

Among the flowers and plants, one can see a large yard surrounded by a wooden wall in the distance. The wall is made of piled logs, with natural tree bark used as decoration. In addition, the wooden walls are covered with lucky ivy. If Li Xiu hadn't known in advance how terrifying the people living here are, he would have thought this was a tourist resort.

The two men walked along a cobblestone path on the grass slope and came to the gate of the yard.

Fortunately, the owner of this yard is not a real antique. Although the yard is built in a simple and natural style, giving a feeling of harmony between man and nature, there is a doorbell installed on the gate, which fails to bring the natural wind to its fullest.

After Li Xiu pressed the doorbell, two people waited outside the door.

After a long while, when he heard no movement in the yard, Li Xiu rang the doorbell for the second time.

In the end, no one came to open the door, so Chu Jun said, "Could it be that the owner is not at home?"

"Let's try again. If it doesn't work, let's go back." Li Xiu pressed the doorbell again.

If no one comes to open the door after three rings, it probably means that the owner doesn't want to see him and there is no point in staying any longer.

Li Xiu had already given up hope, but who knew that after the third ring of the doorbell, the door creaked open.

What was strange was that they didn't see any human figure inside the gate, nor did they hear any footsteps before. The gate actually opened by itself.

"It's broad daylight, there can't be ghosts, right?" Chu Jun said doubtfully as he looked around the yard.

"Have you read too many supernatural novels? How can a ghost come out in broad daylight? This should be a smart electric door." Li Xiu saw that there were no complicated buildings like pavilions and towers in the yard, nor were there elegant objects like fish ponds and rockery. The huge yard was still mostly covered with grass, dotted with a few low trees.

Because there was a row of bamboos planted right opposite the gate. The bamboos were as green as jade, like a jade screen, and the wooden houses inside the bamboos could not be seen clearly.

"Please forgive me for disturbing you. Is the host at home?" Li Xiu stood outside the door and did not go in. He raised his voice to the yard.

"The host is not here, but there is a guest. I have some tea here. If you don't mind, we can have a cup together." A man's voice came from the wooden house behind the bamboo.

"Since the master is not here, we'd better not disturb him." Li Xiu said as he turned around and prepared to leave.

Although he really wanted to go in and look for Sui Houzhu, there was no such thing as a guest entertaining guests on behalf of the host when the host was not at home.

This is a strange thing in itself, maybe there is something strange about it.

Li Xiu and Chu Jun were about to leave when they heard the person inside continue to say, "The owner of this place may not come back for ten or eight years. I have lived here for decades, so I am half the owner. Since you rang the doorbell three times, it means you must have come for a purpose. Why not tell me? Maybe I can help you."

Li Xiu and Chu Jun looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes.

"Today's incident is really strange. The host comes back once every ten or eight years, and a guest lives here for decades. So who is the host and who is the guest?" Li Xiu said with a smile.

The people in the wooden house also laughed and said, "This is not a strange thing. Some people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to marry a wife who they don't use themselves, but there are still people who do it for them. Some people have raised a son for decades, but he might be someone else's son. What's a house worth?"

"That makes sense. What is your name?" Li Xiu asked.

"When I was young, people called me Master Ba. Now that I'm old, I feel younger. Some people even call me Xiao Ba. The world is so wonderful. You can call me whatever you want." The man continued, "It's quite troublesome to talk like this. After all, I am half the owner. I still have the right to invite you in for a cup of tea."

"Eighth Master, then we will respectfully obey your command." Li Xiu wanted to go in anyway, and since things had already come to this, there was naturally no reason for him to leave.

Li Xiu and Chu Jun entered the yard, walked around the bamboo screen, and saw three wooden houses at the back.

These three wooden houses are quite interesting. The one on the left is painted red, the one on the right is painted blue, and the one in the middle is not painted at all. It is the original color of the wood.

The doors of the redwood house and the bluewood house were closed, but the door of the log house in the middle was open. Inside the door was a low wooden table, and a middle-aged man was sitting on the floor next to it, eating a bowl of noodles.

"There is tea in the teapot on the table, and the cups are in the cabinet next to it. Pour yourself." Mr. Ba said while eating noodles.

Li Xiu and Chu Jun both thought that this Eighth Master was quite interesting. However, he had described himself as so old before, but when they met him in person, he looked like a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, not as old as they had imagined.

Li Xiu was not polite. He walked to the cabinet next to him and took out two bamboo teacups. He gave one to Chu Jun, walked to the low table and sat on the ground. He picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for Chu Jun and himself.

However, Li Xiu did not drink it, but just held it in his hand, as if it were a hand warmer.

"Eighth Master, how come you have been a guest here for so long?" Li Xiu looked at Eighth Master and asked.

Although this Mr. Ba is a little older, his appearance and temperament are still excellent. It can be seen that when he was old, he must have fascinated countless women.

Even now, there are probably many young girls who like this kind of elegant uncle.

But the sight of such an uncle, holding a bowl of noodles and slurping it, actually lowered his temperament and image a lot.

"I do want to leave, but the host is so welcoming and insists on keeping me as a guest. I can't refuse his hospitality, so I have to stay a few more days." Mr. Ba held the bowl and swallowed the noodles in his mouth before saying with a smile.

"There are such hospitable people in this world who let guests live in their homes for decades. What kind of people are they?" Chu Jun couldn't help but ask.

"You may not believe it, but the owner of this house is a beauty, a great beauty. I have seen some beauties before, but those women I have seen before, even those who were known as stunning beauties, are nothing but rouge and powder in front of this hostess. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed that there is such a beautiful woman in the world. Before I met her, I always thought that the lines in poems like 'one glance can make a city fall, another glance can make a country fall' were all the poverty and vanity of those literati, but after I met her, I knew that there really is such a beauty in the world."

"What are cities and countries? If I can win the favor of a woman like this, it would be no harm to give her the entire earth. But I'm afraid I'd still have to worry that she would not accept it." said the Eighth Master.

Li Xiu thought to himself, "Give the Earth away? You're really smart. Isn't this the ultimate bootlicker? I never thought that this handsome Mr. Ba would be such a bootlicker."

"So, Master Eight, you're staying here just for the hostess and insisting on being a guest. What kind of woman can make you so infatuated?" Chu Jun became interested.

After hearing what Chu Jun said, Master Ba rolled his eyes and said, "A dog doesn't want to leave. No matter how beautiful a woman is, she can never compare to the vast sea and sky outside. If I could leave, I would have left long ago."

"What you said is true. The owner is not at home and the door is not locked. If you really want to leave, who can stop you?" Chu Jun said in disbelief.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it." Myna picked up the noodles and took two more mouthfuls. After swallowing them, he spoke again: "What are you two doing here? Judging from your looks, you must be here for something, right?"

"We want to find something here." Li Xiu said.

"It's really strange that you come here to look for something. What are you looking for?" Mr. Ba became interested, put the bowl on the table, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and asked.

"A bead, a bead that can glow at night." Li Xiu said with a smile.

"The bead you are talking about, is that the one?" Mr. Ba raised his hand and pointed upwards.