Ke Jin was just worrying about how to ask, but he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to take him into the card pool, so he naturally agreed.

Su Xiaolan was left outside, while Ou Luoyi followed Ke Jin closely. Su Yufeng and the others saw that the other party was a child, so they didn't mind too much and tacitly allowed him to follow Ke Jin in.

They entered from the card pool that had never been opened. This was Ke Jin's first time entering someone else's card pool, and he found it very fresh. Similar to his own card pool, Su Yufeng's card pool was also divided into several rooms, but he did not have a control room. They entered the crystal sand energy pool directly - this was a white hall with extremely elegant decorations. There were three large pools in the center, corresponding to the three card pool drawing areas, but one of the pools was completely dry. Although the remaining two were not yet dry, they were just barely maintaining.

The energy of the crystal sand pool is related to the number of card draws and the quality of the card draws. Although Su Yufeng's number of card draws is indeed not as high as Ke Jin's, the operating energy obtained is so poor, which is really beyond Ke Jin's expectation. He looked at Zhou Shu and Su Yufeng in confusion, but the two of them seemed accustomed to it and led Ke Jin and the others straight to a door in the northeast.

"This is the card making room for the third card pool." Uncle Zhou said briefly, then opened the door.

Before Ke Jin had time to walk in, he took a look and immediately gasped.

“What’s going on??”

This room is much larger than Ke Jin's card-making room, but it is filled with thick black fog, which almost completely covers the interior furnishings. From time to time, cold light flashes in the fog. If you look closely, you will find that the light comes from the long black lines crisscrossing in the fog. They are like dense spider silk, sealing the entire room in layers of black silk nets. Staring at it for a long time will give you a creepy feeling. The deeper the room is - Ke Jin suspects that it is the area where the card-making table is placed - the denser these black silk nets are, as thick as a thick curtain.

"What's wrong?" Oloy glanced at Ke Jin, who was reacting strongly, in surprise. "What did you see?"

"Didn't you see it?" Ke Jin was very surprised, "The whole room is covered with black fog!"

Oloy looked around the room blankly - in his eyes, this was just an ordinary card-making room with two desks placed inside. Apart from the fact that the room was too empty and the card-making desks looked particularly old, as if they had not been used for a long time, there was nothing unusual about it.

Su Yufeng and Uncle Zhou looked at each other, and Uncle Zhou smiled bitterly: "It is true."

Ou Luoyi frowned and wanted to go in to take a closer look, but Su Yufeng suddenly pulled him back, and Uncle Zhou also stopped him, saying, "It's better for children not to go in, especially since you can't see anything."

"Can't see it?" Ke Jin asked back in surprise.

"Well, to be specific, only the card master can see the abnormalities inside." Uncle Zhou nodded thoughtfully, "I can't see the black fog you mentioned. In my eyes, it's the same as before. There's nothing wrong with it. At most, if you stay in there for a long time, you'll feel a little depressed and uncomfortable."

Depressed and uncomfortable... Ke Jin couldn't help but think of Qi saying something similar. But Qi didn't mention the black fog at the time, probably because he didn't see it, but just felt the weird atmosphere.

"How long has this situation lasted?" Ke Jin asked.

"It's been more than six years." Uncle Zhou said, "It started before Yufeng took over the card pool."

Six years ago again? Ke Jin was shocked - wasn't that when Su Xiaolan said that there was no SSR in the card pool?

"I want to go in and take a look." Ke Jin said, "It shouldn't be a problem if I just stay for a while, right?"

"I want to go in too." Oloy said immediately. Although he couldn't see those things, he could at least go in and feel the atmosphere.

Uncle Zhou was a little hesitant. He looked at Su Yufeng. The young man nodded slightly and walked to Ke Jin, as if he wanted to go in with him.

"Okay." Uncle Zhou stepped aside and checked the time. "Don't stay too long."

The three of them entered the card-making room one after another. As soon as Ke Jin walked into the black fog, he felt as if a stone was pressing on his chest, and it was a bit difficult to breathe. He looked at Su Yufeng, and the other person's face was not good either. He should feel the same as he did. Ou Nuo, on the other hand, had a normal expression and did not seem to feel anything.

"I don't think there's anything wrong." While Ke Jin was observing Ounuo, the boy also looked up at him, "Are you feeling unwell?"

Ke Jin nodded: "Very uncomfortable."

"Could it be that the abnormality here only affects the card users..." This was the first time that Oloy encountered such a situation and he found it very strange.

Ke Jinchao walked a few more steps in the fog and pulled a strand of black silk. The texture of these thin silks was very similar to that of a spider web, sticky and light. Ke Jin pinched one end and pulled it hard to see how long he could pull it, but the strand of black silk he pulled disappeared soon - like melting ice and snow, it dissipated into fine black mist and quickly merged into the air and disappeared.

Ke Jin didn't see clearly the whole process of the black silk disappearing. When he was about to pull another strand to observe it carefully, he found that Su Yufeng and Ouloi were looking at him with strange expressions.

"What are you doing?" Orloy asked.

Ke Jin thought that Ounuo couldn't see the black silk, so his movements of pulling the silk threads must look weird to him, so he explained: "In addition to the black fog, there are dense and strange silk threads here. I just pulled out one."

Ouloi nodded in realization, but Su Yufeng next to him widened his eyes slightly, and immediately took out a writing board and wrote a line of words.

What thread?

"Eh?" Ke Jin was stunned for a moment and pointed ahead, "These are the ones in the black fog... They are all over the room."

Su Yufeng narrowed his eyes in confusion, looked carefully in the direction Ke Jin pointed, and after a while, slowly shook his head.

"You can't see it?" Ke Jin was very surprised. He pulled out another strand and waved it in front of Su Yufeng. "This is it. It looks a bit like spider silk."

Su Yufeng looked blankly at Ke Jin's fingers that seemed to be pinching something. He reached out and touched it tentatively, but felt nothing - and in Ke Jin's eyes, the other party's hand passed directly through the black silk stockings, like a ghost passing through the wall, without any contact or intersection with it, which was extremely weird.

The three of them looked at each other, and they did not leave the card-making room until Uncle Zhou urged them outside the door.

***

"Xiao Ke, did you see something that even you haven't seen?" After listening to Su Yufeng's "narration", Uncle Zhou was also shocked, "How could such a thing happen?"

Ke Jin described in detail the situation of those strange black silk stockings. Not only had Oloy never seen them before, but Su Yufeng and Uncle Zhou were also very confused - ever since the abnormality appeared in the card pool, this was the first time in all these years that they knew that the actual situation was far beyond what they knew.

"In this situation, only the card master can see it." Uncle Zhou guessed, "And Xiao Ke, you are more perceptive than Su Yufeng, so you can discover it."

"Is this the reason why you refused the card pool linkage?" Ke Jin asked.

Uncle Zhou nodded. "The card making room in the third card pool is completely useless. Apart from the invisible black fog, everything inside is unusable. We can't make cards at all. The situation in the card renewal room is better than here, but Su Yufeng said that the fog is getting thicker and thicker. Maybe it will soon be like the card making room and will no longer be usable."

Ke Jin looked at the empty energy pool and said, "So... you didn't intentionally close this card pool draw area, but because it is simply unusable?"

"It's not completely unusable." Uncle Zhou paused. "Although the card making room is useless, the card renewal room can still be used, but it will be very laborious. In the past, other card pools have cooperated with us. They settled in the third card pool, but found that the card quicksand bottles in the card renewal room were consumed very quickly, while the renewal of cards was very slow and difficult. The output was not proportional to the consumption. It didn't take long for the crystal sand pool to dry up, and the other party had to withdraw in a hurry. Since then, we no longer accept cooperation with other card pools."

Ke Jin looked at the tightly closed door of the third card pool's card-making room, then looked at the dry crystal sand pool not far away. His brows were slightly furrowed, and it was unknown what he was thinking.

"We have been hiding this from Xiao Lan. She has always believed that the third card pool was closed because not enough people participated in the draws, so she took the liberty to invite you, Xiao Ke, to join the card pool linkage." Uncle Zhou sighed, "But you can see the current situation. We are helpless. What's worse is that this situation has already spread to the second card pool. We are very grateful for your trust, but the current state of the card pool is indeed not suitable for linkage, so..."

Uncle Zhou didn't finish his words. He knew that Ke Jin should be able to make a wise decision. The black-haired young man was silent for a moment, then spoke slowly and clearly.

"I still want to try it." Ke Jin's eyes swept past Uncle Zhou and looked at Su Yufeng, the real owner of the card pool.

"I want to rent the third card pool for linkage."

Su Yufeng was stunned, and Uncle Zhou also looked like he hadn't reacted: "Xiao Ke, you..."

"Uncle Zhou," Ke Jin interrupted him, "You just said that this situation has spread to the second card pool, but you are completely helpless, right?"

"……Um."

"If we allow this situation to develop, once the second card pool is destroyed, it will spread to the first card pool. What should we do then?"

Ke Jin asked, "Are you just going to watch the three card drawing areas being destroyed one after another and your card pool being completely abandoned and closed?"

Su Yufeng and the others understood this truth, but they had tried every possible means over the years and still failed to dispel the black fog that was like a "curse". What was even more terrifying was -

"Before, there were other card users like you who were enthusiastic and active and tried to help us find out the truth about this anomaly." Uncle Zhou said bitterly, "But after they moved in, they all failed without exception. Later, due to various reasons, the original card pools of these card users encountered operating difficulties, and finally had to move out of Qixing City one after another. Although there is no direct evidence that their decline is related to us, as long as there is a slight possibility, I don't want you, Xiao Ke, to be involved in this matter."

Ke Jin shook his head: "The card pool market in Qixing City has been very sluggish in the past few years. The migration of those card users is due to the general environment and has nothing to do with Uncle Zhou and you. Moreover, their previous entry was in vain, but it does not necessarily mean that I will not find anything. For example, the black silk this time, haven't you never seen it? But I saw it. When the third card pool is reopened, I may be able to observe how those weird black silks affect the card room and even the crystal sand pool. As long as we find the crux of the problem, there is a possibility of solving it. In any case, we should give it a try!"

***

After Ke Jin's repeated insistence and persuasion, Uncle Zhou and Su Yufeng finally gave in. However, to be on the safe side, they still hoped that Ke Jin would not stay for too long. Finally, the two sides agreed that the card pool linkage would last for a week.

The card pool linkage requires a lot of preliminary preparation. After both parties divided the work, Ke Jin wanted to go back and prepare quickly, so he said goodbye and left.

"Are you really not afraid of being affected by their card pool?" The boy asked Ke Jin as he walked out with Ounuo. "Although I can't see it, from your description, those spreading black things are very much like some kind of materialized curse. If you connect with them, it might really affect your luck in the card pool."

Ke Jin sighed: "If that's the case, do you think I can stay out of it if I don't care?"

"Hmm?" Oloy raised his eyebrows, not understanding.

"Qixing City used to be the largest card pool city in Chikongzhou, and there were many first-draw SSR card pools, but in just six or seven years, they were all withdrawn one after another, leaving only Su Yufeng's family still struggling. Don't you think it's strange?" Ke Jin's tone was very heavy, "Even if some of them were linked to Su Yufeng's card pool, causing their fortunes to decline and their business to become difficult, they had to move away, but what about the others? It's impossible that all the card pools that moved away were affected by Su Yufeng's card pool, right?"

Oloy thought for a moment, "So what you mean is...?"

"Something we don't know about must have happened at that time, which affected the entire Seven Star City." Ke Jin said firmly, "That incident should still be affecting Seven Star City, so the situation of Su Yufeng's card pool has been getting worse. Although my card pool is normal at the moment, it may be just because I have just started operating it for a short time, and that kind of change has not yet affected me. If Su Yufeng's card pool is really completely destroyed one day, and I am the only one left in Seven Star City with the first draw SSR card pool, what do you think is the probability that we will not be entangled by that strange "curse"? "

Ke Jin really wanted to help Su Yufeng, but apart from that, he had a strong premonition in his heart: if Su Yufeng's card pool "died", his own card pool would definitely not be spared. If he stood by and watched today, who would come to save him when he really needed help?

Therefore, for the sake of others and yourself, you must find out the reason for this strange situation and not give up any hope!

The two of them walked out of Kachi's yard while talking. Just as Ke Jin was about to turn left on the street, the boy next to him suddenly stopped and looked abruptly to the other side of the street.

"Someone is watching us over there." Oroi said suddenly, lowering his eyes slightly and showing vigilance.

Ke Jin was slightly startled, and looked forward along Ou Nuo's line of sight. Sure enough, he saw a group of people standing across the street, looking over here. Probably because they noticed that Ke Jin and his group had stopped, they talked to each other for a few words, and then walked straight towards Ke Jin and his group.