Ke Jin has been very busy recently.

He had seen many missed calls from unfamiliar numbers on his communicator before, but he didn't pay much attention to them at first. However, those people soon kept calling him. After answering a few of them, Ke Jin finally understood what these people were doing.

——Card pool headhunter.

This is what Bai Fan told him. In the card pool market, there is a group of people who specialize in new card pools, especially high-level first-draw card pools with great potential, which are most favored by them. These people will collect information about various high-level card pools and then push it to fixed customer groups, such as card hunters. Of course, this kind of push is a kind of precise advertising, which requires charging the card pool party; and the party receiving the information will also pay these headhunters the corresponding information fee.

In a word, these people came to Ke Jin to seek cooperation and promotion fees.

Ke Jin really wanted to cooperate - this model was just like the online platform promotion in his previous world - but he really had no money...

According to Bai Fan, most of these headhunters would visit directly at home. Ke Jin guessed that some people should have come before, but seeing how shabby his place looked, they probably just slipped away without even revealing their identities - after all, a card user who couldn't even afford to repair a yard didn't look like someone who would pay to promote his own card pool.

Everything is difficult at the beginning! Ke Jin sighed.

Although he felt emotional, Ke Jin was optimistic by nature, so he was not too depressed and continued to do what he could.

Following Gu Qianqian's advice, he registered an account on the "Card Master's Home" forum, logged into the forum and posted an advertisement for his card pool. He didn't care if anyone read it or not, as long as he could get some publicity.

He also printed some more advertising flyers. Although the flyers he had distributed before did not have much response in Dadas Town, the Card Pool Bureau did find a way to distribute some for him in the city. In addition, the reporter reports on the opening day had also spread. The news of issuing SSR cards on the first day of opening finally attracted the attention of some people. In the next few days, new customers came one after another.

The opening report had "truthfully" described Ke Jin's card pool as a "poor and down-and-out household", so new customers coming from the city were mentally prepared for the dilapidated state of Ke Jin's card pool; after drawing cards and tasting them, everyone's reaction was consistent with that of everyone in the card pool department: delicious!

Most of the new customers become repeat customers, and repeat customers will call their friends and bring new customers. Although the number of people is still limited, there is a stable source of customers every day.

"You can put out that SSR first-draw card, which can also be considered a selling point." Bai Fan reminded Ke Jin.

"Yeah, that makes sense."

Ke Jin nodded, turned around, tore off two pieces of transparent tape, and "snapped" the gold card to the broken pillar of the card pool pavilion.

Bai Fan & Oloy: "..."

Bai Fan thought: Fortunately, the card pool's transporter didn't know that his first card draw was treated like this... otherwise, he would probably have wanted to kill Ke Jin, the card user.

Oloy: When I return to my original form, I will kill him!!!

***

A week passed in a flash, and Bai Fan completed the production of the full set of "Honey Caramel Cookies" and "Almond Thousand Layer Puff" cards as promised, and officially put them into use in the card pool.

What surprised Ke Jin was that the moment the two cards entered the card pool, he heard a clear reminder from the system:

[New card pool bonus: The probability of extracting two new cards, "Honey Caramel Cookie" and "Almond Thousand Layer Puff Pastry", will be increased by 20% for a limited time, and will last for five days.]

You can actually increase the probability for a limited time, so great!

Ke Jin immediately made a new poster and hung it prominently at the gate - "Good news, good news! This card pool has launched two new snacks, "Honey Caramel Cookies" and "Almond Thousand Layer Puff Pastry". The probability of drawing is increased by 20% for a limited time of five days. Don't miss it if you pass by!"

The day after the promotional posters were posted, which happened to be the weekend, Secretary Xiaobai led a large group of people from the Kachi Bureau to come. I heard that Director Tai was supposed to come as well, but he couldn't come due to some urgent matters.

Everyone was extremely surprised when they saw the poster at the door. They even greeted Ke Jin perfunctorily. They went straight to the card pool after entering the door and started the crazy coin-throwing mode.

At first, Ke Jin thought that everyone was actively drawing in order to draw new cards, but after watching for a while, he realized that these people were actually more like hoarding goods...

"It's not easy to come here!" Secretary Xiao Bai complained, "This place is too remote, the road is not easy to walk, and the probability of circulating cards is too low. There is no way to ask someone to bring them. I can only stock up when I come here."

This is indeed true.

In fact, it’s not so bad that the card pool is in a corner. The main thing is that the probability of circulating cards is low, which has a great impact on the circulation of cards.

For example, Gu Qianqian's novel card pool, although also in the remote town of Dadas, her circulation card probability is as high as 80%, so she can draw a batch of books by herself, and then pick out the circulating cards and send them to card stores in various places for consignment.

Of course, the price of this consignment is not ten star coins per time when drawing a card, but will increase according to the attributes of the card. For example, an SR card can be priced at 60-100 star coins per piece. The premium part makes up for the 20% sunk cost of the bound card, which basically guarantees a profit.

Ke Jin also knew this fatal flaw of his card pool. He once consulted the system, and the system said that some task rewards in the later stage could adjust the probability of circulating cards in the card pool, but the prerequisite was that he could wait until the day to complete those tasks.

At the moment, let alone those unattainable long-term tasks, just the task of "achieving a cumulative achievement of 5,000 draws from the card pool within one month" has made Ke Jin very worried: more than a week has passed in a month, and although the "stockpiling-style card drawing" of everyone in the card pool has contributed a lot of card draws, the total number of completed draws has just reached 1,711, which is still a long way from the goal.

***

That day, just after Ke Jin and his friends finished breakfast, there was a sudden commotion outside the courtyard gate, and the sound of many people talking could be heard faintly.

This situation is very rare, because Ke Jin's card pool is located in a very remote corner. Unless you come here specifically to draw cards, there will usually be no one passing by the door.

But who would choose this time to draw cards so early in the morning? They are not the kind of popular card pools that have die-hard fans queuing up all night waiting for the pool to open.

Because it rained heavily the previous evening, Bai Fan stayed here last night, so he was also in the house now. He sat closest to the window, and when he heard the sound, he looked outside, startled for a moment, and his expression became a little subtle.

Ke Jin also stood up and looked outside, and saw that group of people were talking loudly about something while walking into the yard. Ke Jin rubbed his eyes and hesitated for a long time.

“This…this isn’t a local, right?”

Ou Luoyi was the shortest, and his leg injury had not yet fully healed. If he didn't climb onto the bed, he would have to hold onto Ke Jin's clothes and stand on tiptoe to barely see the scene outside. He stretched his neck to take a look, also with a look of surprise on his face.

"Damn, where did this group of budgies come from?"

Although Ke Jin wanted to say "children should not make random comments about others like this", he had to admit that Ounuo's comments were actually quite accurate...

All the people who walked into the yard were young people, at least twelve or thirteen in number, and they seemed to be about the same age as Ke Jin. Their clothes were very bright and exaggerated, their hair was dyed in various colors, and some of their collars and sleeves were decorated with bright feathers. Coupled with their fussy and chattering voices, they really looked like parrots...

In addition to their unique clothing and accessories, these people also have very handsome looks, all of them are handsome men and beautiful women. Ke Jin has been in this world for a long time, but he has never seen anyone with such a striking and special appearance and temperament, so he felt at first glance that they were not locals.

Well, the “not locals” here actually means that they should be visitors from alien planets... After all, their style is too different from the simple and rustic folk customs of the Azure Star.

Just as Ke Jin and the other three were looking outside through the window, the young people who walked in were also looking at the courtyard with the same surprised eyes.

"What the hell is this place? Is the navigation correct?" Similar words have been repeated hundreds of times since this group of people walked in. "Is Bai Fan really working here? Is he crazy or is there something wrong with my eyes? Is this a place for normal people?!"

"Please spare me. It's already very torturous to come to such a shabby place. Do I have to look for it again?!"

"I second the motion. I don't want to stay on this rustic, shabby planet for even a minute longer... By the way, is this really a card pool? Don't tell me that the shabby pavilion over there is a card pool. Is there any need to smash it? I think it will collapse at any time, right?"

Everyone was talking about it, and their attention soon turned to the initiator of this trip - Duan Zihan.

When Duan Zihan proposed to come to the Blue Planet, many people were very opposed to it. After all, they came out for vacation and didn't want to take a detour to a remote and dilapidated little planet just for the "grudge" of this young master.

So after some arguments, the spaceship stopped at a large planet nearby. Those who didn't want to go left one after another. Although the dozen or so people who stayed behind also disagreed with going to the Blue Planet, they were all Duan Zihan's close friends, and they didn't want him to go to a strange planet alone in anger, so they all followed in the end.

The grudge between Duan Zihan and Bai Fan has long been no secret in this small circle.

Logically speaking, Bai Fan was born in an ordinary family and behaved in a low-key and reserved manner in the academy. He was from a completely different world from these second-generation rich kids and should not have had any intersection with them. But later, somehow, the "little princess" of their circle, Duan Ziqi, who was also Duan Zihan's sister, suddenly fell in love with Bai Fan.

Duan Ziqi is a very playful person, and she changes boyfriends as easily as she changes clothes, so no one took it seriously at first. Even after Bai Fan rejected Duan Ziqi, everyone still laughed and teased her that this social little princess had finally met her nemesis.

Things got out of control afterwards. Duan Ziqi was determined to win over Bai Fan. She made all kinds of high-profile confessions and courtships, which caused an uproar in the city. Everyone knew that the little princess of the Duan family couldn't even handle a poor boy, and many people laughed at her and gloated over her misfortune in private.

Duan Ziqi didn't care about these rumors, but Duan Zihan was very angry. He always loved his sister and felt that Bai Fan was just pretending to be so arrogant and deliberately embarrassed his sister. He went to Bai Fan to argue, but Bai Fan didn't care about the other party's background and didn't treat him well at all. After a few exchanges, the two of them started to argue.

To some extent, Duan Zihan is even more willful than Duan Ziqi, and those he dislikes never have a good ending. Ever since Bai Fan made this enemy, he has always been in trouble in the academy, and Duan Ziqi is of course very dissatisfied with this, and had a big fight with Duan Zihan, which directly caused the brother and sister to turn against each other, and Duan Zihan hated Bai Fan even more.

As Duan Zihan's best friends, they were inclined to help their relatives rather than the outsiders, but they really felt that Bai Fan was quite wronged in this matter; this time they followed Duan Zihan to Azure Star, and although they didn't say it, they were afraid that Duan Zihan would go too far. If this young master went crazy again, they could at least help him to stop the fight...

Duan Zihan took a step forward and looked around the empty courtyard with a gloomy face. He was silent for a moment and then suddenly spoke.

"Bai Fan!! Where are you?! Get out here right now!"