After dealing with various trivial matters, Ke Jin officially started business at the card pool in Mobis City.

Compared to the big cities on other planets, Mobis City can only be regarded as a very small city. Although the small population is a disadvantage, the advantage is that any small news can be quickly spread throughout the city.

The news that Ke Jin had previously drawn a high-star supernatural defense card had spread throughout the city. This card user who was "deeply favored by the city guardian spirit" had actually opened a card pool. On the official opening day, almost half of the city's residents flocked over to express their gratitude with practical actions, and actively supported and cheered on him.

Ke Jin was both happy and ashamed about this. He was happy that this was a good start, and the local residents did not reject him because he was an outsider; he was ashamed that his luck in drawing good cards was actually a bit strange, and now Ounuo, oh no, Oloyi was also here. He and Ke Jin were sent into the city by a car sent by the military, and no fortune-telling was done when they entered the city. If Oloyi had drawn a fortune lottery, everyone would know that the real super-powerful and invincible Ou Huang was actually this person...

But Ke Jin hasn't told Oloyi about this yet, because their relationship is a bit strained now.

Maybe it’s not quite right to say that they were stiff. Anyway, after kicking Ouluo out of his room that night, Ke Jin felt that everything was awkward when he recalled the past... After all, they were too close before, not to mention eating, living and sleeping together, and sometimes even taking a bath together! When the other party was a child, these were nothing, but now that he knew that the other party was actually an adult, all those warm and beautiful scenes in the past had changed...

Anyway, it's just weird! I can't think about it too much!

Ke Jin hadn't really thought about how to treat Orloy now, so his words and actions seemed rather stiff. He thought Orloy should have seen through it. After all, the other party was also a noble with a strong sense of superiority, and not as flexible as Eggers. So the relationship between the two of them was stuck there, neither hot nor cold. Apart from simply saying hello and sitting together to eat every day, there was basically no communication between them at other times.

Although he knew that he couldn't keep going like this, the card pool had just opened and was experiencing a peak in customer flow. Ke Jin really had no time to deal with personal matters and put all his energy into the operation of the card pool.

What he had to do was not to renew or make cards, as the momos had helped him find part-time partners in the local area, so there was no need for him as the pool owner to do anything. What he had to do was to analyze the customers who came to draw cards and do a good job of market research - this was the experience he had gained from his cooperation with Qing Buyu over the past year.

After five days of observation, Ke Jin was sure that his previous idea was correct - the residents of Mobis City were not very interested in sweets, but they were very fond of spicy snacks. For example, the spicy strips that he had recently added to the card pool were probably because they had never eaten anything like it before. The residents who had eaten the spicy strips were like crazy. After tasting it, they crazily recommended it to people around them, so that the customer flow did not decrease but increased. Everyone rushed into the card pool to draw this novel snack that they had never heard of and satisfy their appetite.

The card pool business was booming, and completing the system tasks was just around the corner. Ke Jin should have been able to sit back and relax, but something strange happened that made him feel troubled.

——The energy supply of the crystal sand pool is insufficient.

This was really unbelievable. After all, based on his past experience in running the card pool, with such a stable customer flow, the energy in the crystal sand pool should not be insufficient, but should be more than enough. But the reality was: after only five days, the energy in the crystal sand pool was on the verge of exhaustion. Fortunately, he still had the number of times the system could automatically refill the crystal sand pool. He immediately asked the system for help, which allowed the energy in the card pool to be replenished, thus avoiding the dilemma of having to close down after just five days of opening.

Ke Jin initially suspected that there was a problem with the card pool itself, so he specifically asked Momo about it. The answer he got was: the card pool in Mobis City does indeed lose energy faster than the card pools on other galaxies and planets, but it will never happen that with so many people drawing cards, the energy will be exhausted in five days.

So…what went wrong?

Ke Jin was puzzled and even pondered over it while eating. When he finally finished the last grain of rice in the bowl, he looked up and found that Ouloi, who would leave after dinner before, did not leave today. He folded his arms, leaned leisurely in the chair, and sat opposite him, staring at him without blinking.

"What, what's wrong?" Ke Jin quickly wiped his face with his hand, and there were no rice grains stuck on his face.

"I should be the one asking you this." Ouloi sat up straight, his eyes fixed on Ke Jin's face. "What's wrong with you?"

Before leaving, Eggers repeatedly told him not to be too radical and to give Ke Jin enough time to digest his identity change. If Oloy didn't think what Eggers said made sense, he wouldn't have the patience to keep his distance from Ke Jin until now. It was too uncomfortable to not talk to Ke Jin every day. He came all the way to find Ke Jin to enhance their relationship, not to pretend to be a wooden man all day long!

But tonight, Ke Jin looked unusually worried, which made Ouloi unable to bear it any longer, so he simply asked directly.

"I..." Ke Jin looked at the young man sitting opposite him. Perhaps he was full of doubts, or perhaps the other party spoke very naturally, the subtle barrier that had been between them before disappeared inexplicably. Ke Jin hesitated for a moment and told him the truth about the thing that had been bothering him.

"...It's really not normal." Oloy tapped the table with his fingers and thought for a while, "Take me to the card pool to have a look."

***

Oloy had seen many card pools. After being led by Ke Jin for a tour, he also tried drawing a few cards in the card drawing area. He had a rough idea in his mind.

"There is indeed a problem." Oloy finally stopped in front of the crystal sand pool in the card pool hall and stared at the calm surface of the pool. "Drawing cards comes with a high loss rate. It should have nothing to do with the card refill room, but a problem with the energy pool itself."

"Can you tell me what the specific problem is?" Ke Jin knew that he was not as knowledgeable as the other party, so he asked humbly.

"I'll try."

Oloy called up his card library, searched it, and picked out three high-star cards. Although Mobis City has restrictions on the use of external cards, only six-star ability cards are an exception, but what Oloy lacks the most is high-star ability cards.

Because Ke Jin had confirmed with Momo that this card pool had not experienced such exaggerated energy loss problems when it was activated in the past, Oloy suspected that something went wrong when Ke Jin activated the card pool, so he first threw out a supernatural card that reproduced the scene, wanting to see if there was anything abnormal when Ke Jin opened the pool.

The scene quickly flashed back, and everything was normal before. But when the screen showed that after Ke Jin left the card pool, a pure black card suddenly appeared above the crystal sand pool, Oloy couldn't help but be stunned, and Ke Jin was instantly horrified.

"Is it the black card?!" He stared at the familiar card in the picture in disbelief, watching it slowly fall into the crystal sand pool and completely merge into the pool water. "I have already thrown it away! It actually... actually appeared again??"

Oloy also had an impression of this black card, but after hearing Ke Jin say that there was something strange about this black card when the plane was hijacked, and that it had strangely followed here after being discarded, Oloy gradually restrained his original indifference, and his expression became rarely solemn.

"It seems that the problem lies with this card." Oloy frowned, "We must solve it."

He turned his head and glanced at Ke Jin: "Back off, stay away from here."

The rookie Ke Jin was very obedient and quickly moved away from the crystal sand pool.

Oloy watched the scene replay of the black card disappearing into the pool again, pondered for a moment, and pulled out another card from the card library. This card was full of light and ripples on the surface like flowing water. Oloy chose to activate it and then threw it directly into the crystal sand pool.

Ke Jin stared at it intently, and found that the crystal sand pool had not changed much, except that the water surface was slightly up and down. As Ke Jin watched, he gradually felt some patterns. After observing more carefully, he finally understood the function of the card - it was time travel!

It is not simply a replay of images, but a true reversal of time. The crystal sand pool is now rapidly replaying the various states it has experienced before!

Moving forward from the present time, the crystal sand pool soon returned to the time of Ke Jingang's card pool - the black card that had merged into the pool water reappeared and floated in the air. The moment it reappeared, a dark card as dark as the abyss appeared at Oloy's fingertips. He raised his hand and the card flew into the air. With the card surface as the base point, a black vortex appeared, which expanded and spun faster and faster, quickly taking the strange pure black card into the center of the vortex.

The black card seemed to have sensed the crisis and no longer tried to enter the crystal sand pool. Instead, it flew in the opposite direction. However, the speed of the black vortex was obviously faster. It was like a black mouth that suddenly expanded and swallowed the black card completely. After a stalemate in the air for a while, the black vortex shook and shrank, and finally turned into the shape of a card again and flew back into Oloy's hand.

Oloy lightly pinched the card with his fingers, and with a slight hissing sound, the Abyss Card instantly shattered into countless tiny pieces, which soon disappeared into the air and were completely gone.

"It should be completely cleared this time." Oloy breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew his hand.

Ke Jin was stunned. After he came to his senses, he felt both relieved and scared.

"Thank you, Oloy." He walked back to the young man and thanked him from the bottom of his heart, "If it weren't for you, I would have suffered a great loss this time... Thank you so much, you are really amazing."

Perhaps because he didn't expect Ke Jin to thank him so frankly, Oloy was stunned for a moment, looking like he wanted to be proud but was trying hard to suppress himself from showing it so obviously.

"It's just a small matter." Oloy curled the corners of his mouth, but quickly forced himself to be serious.

"Hmm...do you have any guesses about the origin of that black card?"

"That black card only appeared after we fought against the Demon King. I guess... this abnormal situation of excessive card pool depletion should be related to the Demon King." Ke Jin sighed, the more he thought about it, the scarier it became. "If you hadn't found it in advance, this card pool might have become like Su Yufeng's situation in the future."

"He's followed me to my doorstep. If the 'Demon King' suddenly jumps out to cause trouble for you in the future," Oloy frowned, "I won't feel weird at all."

"It seems that I have to investigate this matter." Ke Jin thought for a while and said, "I will go to the military base tomorrow."

"Hmm?" Oloy looked at Ke Jin, "Do you want to report this to them?"

"That's one thing. Another thing is to see if we can get some information about the Demon King from them." Ke Jin said, "I remember Qi said that the military of the Federation Galaxy had searched for the 'Devil King'. If we want to get relevant information, there is no faster and more effective way than asking the military directly."

Ke Jin wanted to find out before, but had no way to do so. Now they are almost at the doorstep of the military base, and Qing Buyu is acquainted with the major general named Leng Yan, so maybe they can get a lot of useful information.

"Okay." Oloy nodded, thought for a moment and added.

"I'll go with you tomorrow."