After Chen Yinghe finished speaking, she found that not only did no one respond to her, the scene was also unusually quiet, and even Kong Xuan's face was unusually dark.

Oh no, did I say something wrong? Chen Yinghe thought about the mythological stories and wondered if perhaps the Peacock God actually had a rough love life, which is why he wanted to help others?

"If I said something wrong, just pretend I didn't say it." Chen Yinghe covered her mouth, afraid of divine retribution.

"Ahem, well, the Peacock God focuses on his studies...career." Tan Xiao said ambiguously.

"Oh, he doesn't want to date." Chen Yinghe suddenly realized.

...So annoying! Being single is annoying enough!!

Kong Xuan was furious but couldn't show it too obviously. He angrily poked Tan Xiao, "Tell her to stop guessing randomly."

Chen Yinghe, right? Still want to date? Keep dreaming! Go sharpen your pen!!

"Mm, let's just stop here." Tan Xiao turned his head to relay the message, "I'll send you to get a taxi."

Chen Yinghe thought that gossiping about deities behind their backs probably wasn't good either. She nodded and said unknowingly, "Hahaha okay, thanks."

After sending Chen Yinghe off in the taxi, Tan Xiao brought the card to the Bureau 404. He found that it was quite lively today. Even at this hour, there were still many masters from the various units around.

Tan Xiao asked Ah Jin. Ah Jin rubbed his head, "I don't know either. I've been going out on field work recently, but there seems to be a meeting notice today that I didn't read carefully."

Tan Xiao randomly grabbed a staff member and asked, "Hello, may I ask what day is it today?"

The staff member said, "Don't go too far."

"?" Tan Xiao thought he didn't do anything. He looked at the other person in a daze.

The staff member said unhappily, "I'm Mu Fei!"

Tan Xiao: "..."

That was indeed a bit too far.

Seeing this, Kong Xuan's previously bad mood was finally amused by Tan Xiao. "Hahaha!"

Mu Fei: "............"

She had been so busy recently that she felt she had no time to take care of herself, so she simply went to cut her hair short. It's one thing for Tan Xiao not to recognize her, that's always been his bad habit, but why on earth was the Peacock God laughing? Anyone can laugh but you??

Mu Fei didn't dare say anything. She secretly rolled her eyes and said, "There's a case coordination meeting today that's been dragging on until now."

"Spirit Master!"

Tan Xiao heard Xiong Hui's voice. As one of the temporary workers at the Bureau 404, they also came to attend the meeting.

Xiong Hui swam out from the window and coiled on the beam, looking at them.

"Are you done on your side?" Mu Fei asked Tan Xiao.

"It's done." Tan Xiao took out the chariot card and flicked it. The two sphinxes and the blonde warrior jumped out together, carefully observing the unfamiliar surroundings.

"!" Xiong Hui was shocked when he saw it!

In his view, Tan Xiao just flicked a talisman-like object and summoned three little monsters.

"Spirit Master--" Xiong Hui's grief and indignation surged. If anyone should be first in line, it should be them. They instantly came up with many slanders against the three strange-looking colleagues.

"It's fine if the Spirit Master wants to cut the line to accept other subordinates, but how many spirits and monsters are there in China that can't be obtained? You have to accept these three foreign monsters first? Those not of our kind must have ulterior motives. We are willing to die to remonstrate!"

Tan Xiao listened with a headache. The chariot trio became agitated, "What the heck, ah told you wey're domestically produced, yet you say wey're not of your kind. Is your turtle brain waterlogged?"

Hearing that they actually spoke in dialect and cursed at him, Xiong Hui became even more furious. "Well well, so you were pretending to be foreigners."

"Stop arguing, stop arguing." Mu Fei's head was already hurting from the meeting today. She took a careful look at the two human-faced, lion-bodied beasts with painted eyebrows and eyes. "Aren't these sphinxes? I see them outside pyramids and temples."

"Oh, so you're also a tomb-guarding beast." Xiong Hui finally understood the other party's background. "We're all more or less on the edge of the underworld. How many years of history do you have? What level of cultural relic are you?"

The white sphinx slowly said, "You seem quite uncultured."

Xiong Hui enunciated word by word, "How dare you?!"

It took Tan Xiao two seconds to react that it had spoken in English. He almost spat out, "Huh?"

Mu Fei chuckled, "Didn't expect that, did you? It suffered a loss in the tomb last year. Actually, besides history, it has also been taking language lessons, just hasn't shown it in front of you yet."

Not bad, Tan Xiao thought. He had always approved of Xiong Hui's enthusiasm for learning, as for the learning results, he wouldn't comment.

As Xiong Hui spewed foreign language, the black sphinx cursed, "Stop showing off here..."

The two sides started arguing. The Chariot group, relying on having three members, surrounded Xiong Hui and pointed at him, although they couldn't fight, their courage to charge forward and competitive spirit could also be used in quarrels. Seeing this, Xiong Hui sneered coldly, don't you know I have nine heads... The courtyard was lively for a while.

Passing staff members were used to seeing it. Even Mu Fei and Tan Xiao standing on the side were having a normal conversation.

"I originally heard it was a disturbance at the art studio, then later they said there were no ghosts. I thought it might be spirits. But how did the tarot cards come about? I thought it would be the statue of David." Mu Fei was still a bit regretful.

"It was a misunderstanding. The tarot cards belong to Chen Yinghe." Tan Xiao briefly explained this farce. While he was explaining the origin here, Xiong Hui and the Chariot group seemed to not hear it at all and continued to argue intently, making Tan Xiao feel that they might have all forgotten why they started arguing in the first place.

"Director Mu!" Someone called out to Mu Fei.

Mu Fei had originally just come out to take a break and go to the bathroom during the meeting. She sighed, "Do you want to come listen to the meeting too? There are only a few sections left."

Then let's go listen. Tan Xiao glanced at Xiong Hui and entered the conference room.

......

The Bureau 404's case coordination meeting was for cases that various responsible units kept pushing back and forth, all saying it wasn't within their scope of responsibility. In the end, some difficult cases were gathered together to hold a big buck-passing meeting to see who would end up with the pot.

As soon as Tan Xiao entered, he saw the conference room was like a battlefield, with people even bringing various regulations to argue.

Although he was in the Bureau 404's joint group, because he was only part-time, he never had to participate in buck-passing. He had observed a few times in the group before, but didn't expect there to be such a large-scale offline buck-passing activity.

Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan found two seats behind Mu Fei. Aperture poured tea for the two and also gave them a copy of the meeting materials.

"There are only a few parts left. Let's hurry up and finish it." Mu Fei tapped the form in her hand. "What about the demon-suppressing pillar at the high-speed rail station?"

Tan Xiao also glanced at the form, which had a simple case description. This type of case was different from the event cases he often handled. For example, this one mentioned an old demon-suppressing pillar near a high-speed rail station. The runes on it had worn out and lost their power, becoming visible and reported by citizens.

After the Bureau 404 reviewed it, they would notify the responsible unit to handle it. However, because it was so old, it was a bit difficult to identify the signature on the pillar, so they couldn't determine which unit or Taoist priest it belonged to.

Everyone had been arguing for a long time, with one saying "I think it looks like your grandmaster's work before he passed away", and another saying "I seem to vaguely see your family's logo on it."

"How do your superiors hold meetings?" Tan Xiao suddenly felt curious and asked Kong Xuan.

Kong Xuan thought for a moment and said, "About the same, but using more elegant wording."

Oh my, so the higher-ups are like this too? Humans and gods think alike, huh.

"Alright! We can argue here all we want, but we won't get a result." After all, each unit had sent their best debater. "Why don't we use the most ancient method and let the gods decide! Whoever it falls to, it's theirs!"

This could work, as no one present would deny the power of the gods.

But the problem was, everyone believed in different gods, so who should cast the divination? They were afraid of favoritism.

After a few seconds of silence, everyone couldn't help but look at Tan Xiao.

Now it seemed the Bureau 404 had a deity in residence who had no conflicts of interest with anyone. But they didn't dare to ask Kong Xuan for help with drawing lots. Tan Xiao, as the fully authorized representative of the Peacock God, was still easier to talk to.

Tan Xiao had originally come to watch the show, but didn't expect it to turn into him drawing lots. No matter who he drew, it would be quite embarrassing. He had cooperated with Duan Yang, Elder Baoping, and others, so he also felt a bit awkward.

"Hey, hey, don't bully a high school student." Mu Fei called out, "Have you no shame? In the end, you resort to drawing lots, but don't even dare to do it yourselves?"

Everyone smiled in embarrassment. After all, Tan Xiao's identity as a shaman was the most transcendent.

"Um, does the demon-suppressing pillar need to have its seal reinforced?" Tan Xiao asked cautiously.

"Although it's called a demon-suppressing pillar, it actually controls feng shui. The old one needs to be disposed of and a new one erected. Preparing a new suppressing object isn't urgent, but we can't just leave the old one there for people to gawk at." Mu Fei said.

However, although disposing of the old one was a small matter, it basically meant taking on the new one, and no one was willing to easily volunteer.