Their Commission Rewards Are Not Right

Chen Luo had some confidence in Mobius's skills, but the crucial question was whether Mobius truly understood the existence of souls and consciousness transfer.

However, no matter what, Chen Luo couldn't just give away this priceless treasure, bought for 1600 raw stones, to Mobius for free. Not unless she offered a higher price.

"Today was really exhilarating," Chen Luo finally sighed, putting a comma at the end of his day.

The reason it wasn't a period was that there might be even more exciting things happening tonight.

You never knew whether unexpected events or new guests would arrive first.

"Why not set up some poker and mahjong in the tavern? So they don't get bored? After all, the longer they stay in the tavern, the more raw stones I can fleece from them. Yeah, that's the plan!" Chen Luo slapped his thigh and pushed the door open to walk out.

He just hoped Chen Luo's future tavern wouldn't turn into a card and board game room, but the problem probably wasn't that big.

But as soon as Chen Luo stepped out of the tavern, his phone rang.

"Yun Xia?" Chen Luo's heart skipped a beat.

If Chen Luo guessed correctly, this call was probably related to... the War Angel.

Yeah, Yvette, Chen Luo always forgot her name.

"Hello," Chen Luo answered the phone.

"Alo, are you home now?"

"Oh, I just got home. What's up?"

"It's like this, aren't you going on a trip during the summer vacation? Since you're traveling, you won't have time to do your summer homework, right?" Yun Xia asked.

"???" Good heavens, you called specifically to ask about my summer homework?

"It's not a big deal. At worst, I can just say I lost my summer homework after school starts," Chen Luo replied casually.

"That's too risky. I have a machine here that can automatically imitate handwriting to do homework. I'll write your homework along with mine later."

"There's actually a machine like that? You people from the Dark World are really strange," Chen Luo exclaimed in surprise.

"Also, was your previous homework also done by this machine?" Chen Luo blurted out.

"How could that be? I'm an exemplary student, how could I do such a thing? If you weren't going on a trip this time, I wouldn't have used this machine. Anyway, I won't talk about it anymore. I'll have someone pick up your homework later, remember to give it to them."

"Oh, okay," Chen Luo nodded.

But even after she hung up the phone, Chen Luo was still bewildered.

Chen Luo had initially thought she might be looking for him because of that Yvette, but he hadn't expected it to be for this reason. Chen Luo felt that something was off.

Chen Luo's intuition told him that this matter wasn't that simple, but he couldn't pinpoint what was wrong.

"Ding dong!" The doorbell to Chen Luo's house rang.

"Holy crap, that fast?" Chen Luo was instinctively startled.

Despite being very surprised by their efficiency, Chen Luo calmly took out his backpack.

Carrying the backpack in his left hand, he walked to the door. After looking through the peephole, Chen Luo opened the door.

"Are you here to pick up the homework?" Chen Luo asked, looking at the person with some vigilance.

It was someone he didn't recognize, not one of Yun Xia's bodyguards.

Chen Luo couldn't sense any power fluctuations from the person, but his intuition told him that this person seemed very strong.

At least stronger than his usual combat power.

"Yes." The man dressed in a black suit nodded and took the backpack Chen Luo handed over.

"Please check carefully to make sure all the homework is here," the man in the suit said, opening the backpack while staring intently at Chen Luo.

This man in the suit gave Chen Luo the feeling that he wasn't here to pick up homework, but to kill him.

Chen Luo braced himself and opened the backpack to check the at least 10-centimeter-thick stack of summer homework for various subjects before handing it back to the man.

Only after the man left did Chen Luo let out a sigh of relief.

The visitor was clearly hostile, but they hadn't made a move.

This left Chen Luo feeling somewhat puzzled.

"My Lord Bishop, nothing unusual was found. He is indeed just a low-level talent user with slight Wind Element fluctuations. His perceived strength is even lower than mine, so he couldn't possibly have the strength to kill Lord Yvette. Furthermore, there are no traces of any battles on him, nor any residual curses or the aura of the Ring of Life."

After leaving the residential area and tossing the backpack onto the passenger seat, the man in the suit took out a satellite phone and spoke respectfully to the person on the other end.

"Mm." The person on the other end simply grunted and hung up the phone.

The owner of the phone, meanwhile, was standing atop a tall building, overlooking the entire city.

And at the edge of the rooftop next to the phone owner, a young girl was sitting there, playing with a dragon-shaped jade pendant in her hand.

"My Lord Bishop, now that it's been proven that Chen Luo is not linked to the death of your Yvette, shouldn't there be corresponding compensation?" Yun Xia put away the dragon-shaped jade pendant in her hand and looked at the red-robed bishop with a displeased gaze.

"You need to understand how serious it is to offend three S-rank Talent Users at once, especially when they unintentionally created Liu Wenxuan's talent. You should also understand that if Liu Wenxuan goes mad, he's capable of flipping the entire Vatican upside down."

Although Yun Xia didn't like to bring up Yun Lian'er, if Yun Lian'er found out about this, she might go even crazier than Liu Wenxuan.

Compared to herself, the other party was a genuine Witch.

The old man in the white suit, with slightly graying hair, turned to Yun Xia and said, "I understand. I will send compensation to the other party in other ways afterward."

It's common knowledge that cardinals don't wear red.

Of course, the most crucial point was that wearing red everywhere in modern times would attract too much attention, especially during such a sensitive period. It was better to keep a low profile.

Although the cardinal knew that based on the currently investigated strength of Chen Luo, he couldn't harm Yvette in the slightest, the latter was indeed the prime suspect, or at least the biggest known suspect so far.

Yun Xia and Liu Wenxuan might not understand, but did the cardinal not understand?

The purpose of this War Angel's visit was not simply to spar with S-rank talent users. If they didn't do something excessive, how could they provoke other S-rank talent users into retaliating desperately?

And as it seemed now, the simplest way to provoke them was to kill Chen Luo.

Yun Xia and Liu Wenxuan might think Yvette had the dignity of a strong individual, but the cardinal knew she absolutely did not.

Therefore, even at the risk of offending three S-rank talent users, the cardinal still had to have someone probe the other party's capabilities.

Of course, at the same time, all other potential targets also had scouts dispatched to investigate them.

Although less than 10 minutes had passed since Yvette's death, the church's reaction was that swift.

"Oh, right, remember to do his homework for him too. Get the best note-taker to do it, so the teacher won't notice anything amiss," Yun Xia said to the cardinal after standing up at the edge of the rooftop.

Where in the world could a machine perfectly imitate handwriting to do homework?

This was just the result of Yun Xia discovering someone was causing trouble for Chen Luo and then negotiating with them.

The other party used picking up homework as an excuse to briefly contact Chen Luo, and after Chen Luo was proven innocent, they also had to provide him with substantial compensation.

Although Chen Luo was not an S-rank talent user, the key was that Yun Xia and Liu Wenxuan had enough influence.

Especially Liu Wenxuan—a ruthless individual who, when provoked, would dare to overturn the Vatican.

As for whether Chen Luo had the possibility of actually killing her...

As Yun Xia leaped from a height of a hundred meters, a pair of wings appeared behind her. Simultaneously, a big sister, visible only to Yun Xia, flew over from a distance.

The big sister flying in the air, just as she was about to collide with Yun Xia, instantly transformed into a gentle breeze, assisting Yun Xia, who was flying, to break through her speed limit.

This arriving big sister had been sent by Yun Xia to the vicinity of Chen Luo's home as soon as Yun Xia knew Chen Luo had become a person of interest.

As one of Yun Xia's most treasured four elemental cards, the Wind card shared the same attribute as Chen Luo. With the Wind card's enhancement, even if she couldn't defeat the man in the suit, she could at least escape.

Yun Xia had also found the cardinal early on to monitor him and prevent him from resorting to dirty tricks.

Although Yun Xia didn't think Chen Luo could defeat Yvette, it was always good to be prepared.

However, she figured that if Chen Luo could defeat Yvette, then crushing that man in the suit would be as simple as crushing an ant.

It wasn't like he could knock out a dragon with one punch, only to be killed by a brown bear's sneeze...

"Phew, finally gone." Chen Luo breathed a sigh of relief as he felt the faint surveillance disappear.

The good news was that the surveillance only extended outside the room and didn't intrude into it, which at least preserved some of Chen Luo's privacy.

"I kind of feel like I tricked that guy in the suit."

Chen Luo wasn't stupid. He strongly suspected that the man in the suit was there to test him, and the Wind card, which could clearly sense the power of the wind element, was probably there to protect him.

Chen Luo felt he had become the focal point of their game, but they should have shifted their attention by now.

"Buzz!" A faint vibration sounded, and Chen Luo saw his phone ringing again.

However, this time it wasn't Yun Xia, but...

"Oh no, could it be that my dad's collection has been discovered? No, that shouldn't be it, he hasn't come back yet," Chen Luo muttered as he answered the call.

"My dear father, what business brings you to seek out your son, who was merely an accident of birth?" Chen Luo said preemptively as soon as he answered the phone.

No matter what the reason, it was always best to be preemptive when they called.

"Hi, my dear son, you miss me so much that you're making fun of me just because I haven't been home for a while? You know your dad, your dad and your... beautiful and young mother are archaeologists. This kind of work involves flying all over the world, it's not like we're on a honeymoon," a somewhat flippant male voice sounded.

Clearly, Chen Luo's father was not a staid adult, otherwise, he wouldn't have collected three sets of gashapon figures.

A collector's habit, perhaps with a touch of otaku.

"Hmm, let me guess, my mom is next to you, right?" Chen Luo said after a 0.1-second pause.

"Son, you're so smart," a gentle female voice chimed in.

"..."

The fact that it could force his father, whose survival instinct was never strong, to change from referring to his mother as "my wife" to "my beautiful and young mother" could only mean some greater crisis was pressuring him.

"Why did you decide to call today? Are you planning to come back early?"

Holy cow, are they coming back early? Then how would he explain the sudden appearance of a cousin in the house?

Or should Xiao Shi stay inside his body all the time?

"Oh, no, it's just that I calculated that you should be on summer vacation, so I decided to call and ask about your summer plans. But I don't need to think to know you'll either be staying home or helping others. Since that's the case, then..."

"Stop, stop, wait a minute. I'm planning to travel this summer," Chen Luo quickly interrupted his mother.

"What? You're going on a trip, what about your cousin?" a surprised voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Cousin? I have a cousin? Where did she come from?" Chen Luo looked utterly bewildered.

Chen Luo wasn't clear about other people's family situations, and he couldn't recall ever meeting any relatives, let alone a cousin from who-knows-where.

Chen Luo had never even met his paternal or maternal grandparents...

"Your grandparents went to a very faraway place..."

Hearing that, didn't it just mean they had passed away?

Being as smart as he was, Chen Luo never brought up such matters again since childhood. After all, Chen Luo didn't want to touch upon the already deeply wounded and shattered hearts of his parents again.

"Your cousin is quite distantly related, so I won't explain further. In short, you really do have a cousin. Originally, your cousin was planning to visit this summer, so I recommended our city. I thought you'd be home... How about you don't go on your trip?"

"Mom, don't you think what you're saying is a bit... unfair to me? I finally managed to plan a trip, and not only do you not support me, but you want me to stay home and entertain some cousin I've never even met?" Chen Luo quickly refused.

"Alright then, I'll reject her for you. But Xiao Luo, is it really okay for you to travel alone? Want to come and do some archaeology with Mom and Dad? Archaeology is so much fun."

"Where are you guys now?" Chen Luo asked casually.

"Greenland. Our next stop is the North Pole," Chen Luo's dad said.

"What? The North Pole! Who in their right mind would want to go there? It's freezing!" Chen Luo immediately rejected the suggestion.

Although he hadn't planned to go anyway, hearing the destination made him even less inclined to go.

"Oh, alright then. By the way, Xiao Luo, do you like foxes?"

"Foxes?"