After putting away the communicator, Ke Jin carried the tea tray and left the house. There were quite a few card envoys who came to visit Ke Jin these days, and he was very experienced in receiving them. Although Ning Qiyuan looked very serious and the people accompanying him were also very quiet, Ke Jin handled it calmly - it was just a business blow-by-blow! Anyway, since he had lost his reputation in front of the entire Chikongzhou people, he no longer had the face to hide his shame...

So, after some "insincere" greetings and small talk, Ning Qiyuan mentioned the matter of merging the pools very naturally - but he did not say that he wanted to merge the pools with his own card pools, he just asked Ke Jin if he had any ideas in this regard.

"No." Ke Jin shook his head firmly, "I have absolutely no plans in this regard."

"Why?" Ning Qiyuan crossed his arms and showed an attitude of wanting to have a long talk. "With the current influence of your card pool, you can't always stay in the small Seven Star City, right? In fact, judging from the current situation, the most suitable development direction for your card pool in the future is..."

"Because I have no money." Ke Jin interrupted the other party decisively.

Ning Qiyuan was stunned, and subconsciously glanced at the crowd queuing in front of the card pool - judging from this level of customer flow, the daily net income of Ke Jin's card pool must be over ten thousand, which doesn't look like he has no money!

Ning Qiyuan still had no idea about Ke Jin's background. After a little thought, he wondered if the other party was really from a prominent background, so he didn't care about this little bit of profit at all. So he sighed with a smile.

"Envoy Coca is indeed ambitious."

"Not very far." Ke Jin shook his head, his tone extremely sincere, especially sincere, "I really don't have any money. Indeed, this card pool seems to be making money, but that money is not mine! I will use it to pay off my debts in the end."

Ning Qiyuan was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked back: "Repay the debt?"

"Yeah." Ke Jin nodded, his tone heavy, "You have to pay back 200 million."

Ning Qiyuan and his group: "..."

After a long while, Ning Qiyuan spoke in a stammering voice.

"Mr. Ke, you are so humorous."

"I'm almost driven crazy by the debt collectors. How can I have the mood to joke with you guys?" Ke Jin's tone became more painful, and he looked like he had lost all hope in life. "Originally, I only owed 100 million yuan, but after three months, the interest has increased to 200 million yuan... In order to prevent me from escaping, the creditor even packed up his bedding and moved into my house! Not only do I have to serve him well, and carefully arrange his food, clothing, housing and transportation, but I also have to read his face everywhere. If I say something wrong, I will be despised. If he is in a bad mood, I have to do everything I can to make him happy, otherwise, if he gets angry, not to mention me, the entire card pool may be blown to the sky!... Woo, why am I so unlucky, how could I meet such a petty, niggardly, cruel and ruthless bully creditor! Mr. Ning, do you think I am miserable?"

Ning Qiyuan: "... a bit miserable."

"It's very miserable!" Ke Jin slammed the table in anger. In fact, he wanted to bring out some tears, but this... uh, it was really difficult. In the end, Ke Jin could only cover his face and said with great sorrow, "One of my friends couldn't stand it, and broke into the card pool at night a while ago to save me from the dire situation. As a result, he was captured alive by me, the creditor. Not only did he severely whip him, but he is now being pressed under the card pool as a coolie! Alas, not only is he treated like a slave, but he is also bullied and beaten at every turn. He is even worse off than me!"

Ning Qiyuan's eyes twitched a few times, and he said stiffly: "If Keka really makes you short of money, I can..."

Ke Jin shook his head vigorously and quickly interrupted the other party: "I have figured it out now. Every debt has its perpetrator. Since it is my own debt, I can only repay it by myself. I can't let the kind-hearted person who helped me end up like my friend! Moreover, my creditor is moody. If he knew that I was not working hard to make money, but was thinking about how to spend money - such as merging pools, investing in other card pools, he would definitely be furious. Next time, I am afraid it will not be as simple as adding another 100 million debts. Maybe he will force me to sell myself...! He has threatened me like this before!"

***

Oloy, who was sitting in the primary school classroom of Xingchen International School, suddenly sneezed several times.

Several students sitting near him tensed up immediately, and quickly examined whether they had done anything inappropriate to cause this devil to issue such a "stern" warning; Mu Qian on the podium also glanced at the lesson plan reflexively - did she make any mistakes in what she just said? Would she not be ridiculed in public again?

Oloy had no idea about all this and just rubbed his nose in confusion.

Why did he suddenly sneeze... Is someone saying bad things about him behind his back?

***

Ning Qiyuan and his group left.

Ke Jin smiled and respectfully saw them off until he could no longer see their backs. Then he turned around and quickly escaped into the card pool.

"How is it?" Ke Jin asked as soon as he saw Qi, "Did they do anything?"

***

"It didn't work." On the other side, after confirming that they were completely out of the monitoring range, a burly and serious-looking man beside Ning Qiyuan said in a deep voice, "It's completely impossible to detect the situation inside the card pool."

Ning Qiyuan frowned: "Why?"

“It’s unclear at the moment.” The man, Ning Yi, shook his head solemnly. “There’s a strange wave interfering with my signal. The resistance feels a bit like a card spirit, and it’s a high-level card spirit that has awakened its intelligence.”

“High-level card spirits?” Before Ning Qiyuan could express his opinion, another person beside him asked in surprise, “Hasn’t his card pool only been in operation for a few months? Can it produce card spirits so quickly?”

"Maybe it wasn't bred by the card pool itself." Leng Liangxue interjected calmly, "Maybe he brought it from somewhere else... just like us."

***

"They didn't do anything tricky, but they probably wanted to spy on your card pool." Qi leaned against the table in the card making room, arms folded, with a relaxed expression, "But that person's skill was too poor, I easily blocked him, hahahaha!"

"What's the point of them spying on the card pool?" Ke Jin frowned in confusion. "Is there any point in being able to watch but not enter?"

"Maybe they want to check your card system." Qi Zaoyou guessed, "On the other hand, they want to test the strength of your defense system - if they really want to do something, this kind of early test is very necessary."

***

"In addition to the suspected presence of card spirits, we also detected the power of supernatural cards." Ning Yi continued to report the information he had collected. "Although we cannot determine the level of this batch of supernatural cards, everyone knows the situation on Azure Star. Ordinary people cannot afford supernatural cards. The methods we used in the past will definitely not work this time."

"Haha, we actually met our match this time." Someone laughed heartily. "The story he just made up was very interesting. If it wasn't so outrageous, I almost believed it. Hahaha..."

"Lan Hao, please say less." Seeing that their leader had a very bad face, someone immediately pulled the boy's sleeve.

Ning Qiyuan snorted coldly. Although his face was gloomy, his tone was as calm as ever.

"It doesn't matter. Whether Ke Jin is willing to cooperate with us or not, as long as Su Yufeng sides with us, it won't affect the overall situation. Ke Jin and Su Yufeng's card pool systems have something in common. After swallowing up Su Yufeng's card pool, we will see whether to take action against Ke Jin based on the results."

The others all nodded in agreement. After all, they were not merging pools just for the sake of merging. The plan involved a lot of things and needed to be kept secret. Otherwise, they would not have come to such a small planet. Ke Jin was the most difficult card user they had encountered so far, and his background was a mystery. Without a 100% prediction of benefit, it would be better not to take action. If they beat the younger one and the older one came, it would be a loss.

"Su Yufeng should be able to give us a final answer at the latest the day after tomorrow." Leng Liangxue said softly.

***

On a quiet night, the cool night breeze blew into the room through the window that was not closed tightly, and the bright moonlight penetrated the fluttering white gauze curtains and shone into the house.

Su Yufeng was wearing pajamas and sitting by the window alone. He seemed not to feel the coldness of the night at all. His usually calm face was now filled with shock and fear, and his light brown eyes were trembling violently.

How... could it be like this?

Is my persistence really a mistake?

But no one could tell him the answer - except for the dark purple card that he held tightly in his hand, which emitted an eerie and mysterious light in the night, flashing again and again, as if mocking him coldly.