The crystal pen suddenly changed, and Ke Jin was completely caught off guard. Qi and Oului could not see the abnormality of the crystal pen, but seeing Ke Jin's face suddenly change and his movements were quite strange, they immediately guessed that something must have happened.

"Let go!" Qi reminded quickly.

But Ke Jin couldn't get rid of the crystal pen at all. The sticky black liquid had already overflowed over his wrist. A terrible chill that could almost freeze the soul was transmitted from the skin that touched the mucus. Ke Jin shuddered violently and swung it hard. The crystal pen scratched a dent on the card diagonally, indicating that the light of successful card making instantly dissipated, and a layer of gray frost quickly condensed on the surface.

——This card is useless.

As the cards were destroyed, the black liquid that had spread over also quickly receded like the tide. Except for the lingering chill in the heart, everything returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

Ke Jin quickly threw away the crystal pen that was still covered with sticky black liquid, staggered back a step, and was supported by Qi.

"What's wrong? What happened just now?" Qi looked at Ke Jin in surprise - the black-haired young man had a pale face and blue lips, as if he had been extremely frightened.

"Is there something wrong with that pen?" Ou Luoyi followed Ke Jin's gaze and looked at the crystal pen lying on the table.

Ke Jin calmed down after a while and said with difficulty: "Something very strange happened just now..."

He recounted what had just happened. Oloy found it incredible, and Qi was also stunned, but his expression soon became a little subtle, and his eyes flickered.

"Are you still going to try?" Qi asked.

Ke Jin was silent for a moment and nodded affirmatively.

"certainly!"

***

Ke Jin’s second round of card-making attempts began again.

The previous incident happened too suddenly, and Ke Jin was quite frightened. This time he was mentally prepared, and his doubts and curiosity prevailed. When making the card, he observed the changes of the crystal pen very carefully, but everything was no different from the first time - the card making process was very smooth, and when he finished the last stroke, the mucus on the crystal pen would corrode his arm again. Even if he wanted to hold on a little longer, the instinctive fear brought by the coldness that froze his soul would force Ke Jin to destroy the card himself, so that everything would return to the starting point.

"It seems like they are deliberately preventing you from reviving the card pool." Oloy guessed, and subconsciously looked around. Although he couldn't see anything, "Could it be the culprit who caused the card pool to be invalidated?"

"Maybe." Ke Jin shook his head helplessly, "But why can it always accurately interrupt the card making at the last step? Is it still staring at this place?"

"Perhaps he feels the threat from your card." Qi said slowly, "This is already a 'dead zone'. Any 'life' that appears will alert the other party."

Ke Jin thought Qi was talking about the black fog and black silk that were everywhere in the room. He looked up and it seemed as if there were countless eyes staring at him in the fog. The feeling of being watched by something made Ke Jin's scalp numb. He forced himself to focus his gaze back on the desk and picked up a new blank card.

"I'll try again."

***

But things never turned around.

Ke Jin thought of many ways to try to prevent the last step from being interrupted accidentally, but unfortunately the situation did not improve.

He even changed the card-making location to the second card pool's card-making room, which was not particularly severely affected by the black fog. There was no sticky black liquid on the desk and crystal pen there. But when he was about to complete the last step, the black silk in the room quickly wrapped around his arm, easily causing the crystal pen to scratch unnecessary marks on the card, making the entire card completely invalid.

And this time, after the card-making failed, the black silk did not quickly dissipate, but slid into Ke Jin's sleeves like a snake, and then moved straight to his neck, threateningly touching the young man's exposed white neck. In a trance, Ke Jin seemed to hear a low sneer.

——【Don’t annoy me.】

Who is it?

Ke Jin looked back suddenly, but there was nothing except black fog and black silk filling the room.

It was at this moment that Ke Jin understood very clearly: the person who was affecting Su Yufeng's card pool was indeed someone, and that person was watching him. No matter what he did, he was under the control of the other person. That person could have interrupted him at the first step of making the card, but he insisted on waiting until the last moment - just like a cat playing with a mouse. His efforts were simply a joke in the eyes of the other person.

Ke Jin stood there silently for a while, picked up the invalid card and looked at it again, then turned and left the card making room of the second card pool.

***

It was already late at night. Qi and Oloy had already gone to rest. Ke Jin was also very tired, but he had no desire to sleep. He just sat cross-legged between the two dried-up crystal sand energy pools in the hall, staring blankly.

It was already the ninth day, and there was only one day left until the time agreed with Ning Qiyuan and the others. With Ke Jin's current card-making speed, he could only make one more card at most. If he failed this time, Su Yufeng's card pool would be completely hopeless.

Ke Jin was lost in thought when he suddenly felt an itch in his palm. It turned out that Xiao Ju had rolled out from his clothes, climbed onto his hand, and looked up at him.

"Why are you still here?" Ke Jin smiled and gently poked Xiaochu's soft body, "Didn't I tell you to go out with Qi?"

Qi would feel very uncomfortable if he stayed in the card making room for too long, so Ke Jin didn't let him stay in the card pool for a long time these days. Xiaoju was more sensitive than Qi, and the color of his body turned blue. Ke Jin originally asked Qi to take Xiaoju out with him, but the little one was unexpectedly clingy and sneaked back again, crawling into Ke Jin's clothes and staying there for a whole day, and Ke Jin couldn't get rid of him.

Xiaochu bit Ke Jin's finger, narrowed his black eyes slightly, and called "Awooo Awooo" several times at Ke Jin.

After all, he had been "raising" it for a while, so Ke Jin could already guess what Xiao Ju wanted to express, and his smile suddenly became a little bitter.

"Why, are you telling me to give up too?"

Xiaochu nodded quickly and his jelly body trembled.

"It's really Qi who brought this up. You two have the same idea." Ke Jin sighed and rubbed Xiaochu's head, "But I still want to try it."

After Ke Jin failed several times in a row, Qi tactfully told Ke Jin not to try again, but it was not Ke Jin's character to give up halfway, and he really couldn't just give up. Even though he had just been wrapped in black silk around his neck in the card-making room - this was already a naked threat of death - Ke Jin felt a little excited despite the fear: Could it be that he was close to success, so the other party lost his patience and suddenly sent a clear warning message?

But what did I do right to make the other party angry? If I go one step further in that direction the next time I make a card, will I succeed?

Ke Jin thought hard, and a series of alternative plans flashed through his mind, but he rejected them all. Xiaojiu whimpered a few more times, as if trying to continue to persuade Ke Jin, but the black-haired young man ignored it. Xiaojiu could only curl up in grievance and stay in Ke Jin's palm without moving.

Suddenly, there was a flash of light in the silent hall. Ke Jin looked up instinctively, and was stunned when he saw the person entering the card pool.

"Ono?"

The boy was still wearing the teddy bear pajamas that Ke Jin had bought for him. He yawned, rubbed his eyes, and then glared at the young man sitting next to the crystal sand energy pool in the hall with dissatisfaction.

"Do you know what time it is now?" the boy asked angrily, "Why don't you go upstairs and rest?"

Ke Jin had been staying at Su Yufeng's Kachi yard these days. After all, it took a lot of time to go back and forth to Dadas Town every day, and what Ke Jin lacked most now was time. As for Ounuo, it was more convenient for him to live here and go to school, so Ke Jin let him stay.

"I should be the one asking you this!" Ke Jin glanced at his watch and twitched his lips. "You have to go to school tomorrow, why aren't you asleep yet at this hour?"

"Who do you think you should blame? Who told you not to go up?"

"Come on, you don't need me to tell you a bedtime story. Do you have to wait for me to come up to you before you go to sleep?" Ke Jin was embarrassed and speechless, "Ah... Could it be that you are afraid of sleeping alone? Well, then I can buy you a big doll. Next time you hold it and you won't..."

Ke Jin didn't dare to continue talking halfway through his speech - Ou Nuo looked at him as if he wanted to eat him alive. Regardless of whether the other party was embarrassed by being exposed or his guess was wrong, this topic was obviously not suitable to be continued.

"...I'm used to it." After a long silence, the boy suddenly blurted out.

"ha?"

"I said I'm used to it!" The other party immediately glared at Ke Jin fiercely, but he didn't know whether it was because of anger or something, the boy's ears and cheeks were a little red, "I can't sleep without you by my side! Do you understand now?! If you know, hurry up!"

The other party spoke very quickly. Ke Jin blinked and was stunned for a long time before he understood.

"Oh..." Seeing the boy's awkward and reluctant look, Ke Jin found it more and more funny, and finally couldn't help but chuckle, "Haha, okay, okay, I understand... Well, I'll leave now."

Ke Jin stood up from the ground, pulling Ounuo towards the exit, while rubbing the boy's head with a smile.

"But is this really okay for you? What are you going to do when you go back? Do you think I have to continue having sex with you?" As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Ke Jin realized that something was wrong and quickly clarified, "Uh, I don't mean to send you home, don't think too much!"

Last time, because of saying something similar, the boy got really angry, and Ke Jin didn't want to bother coaxing Ounuo again. Fortunately, this time the other party didn't get angry, but looked at Ke Jin thoughtfully for a while, and suddenly smiled strangely.

“…That’s fine.”

"Um?"

"Nothing." Olloy looked away as if nothing had happened and asked casually, "How was your card making today?"

When this was mentioned, Ke Jin's expression immediately became gloomy and he sighed heavily.

"You've already made one?" Oloy asked in surprise, "Failed again? Changing the card making room doesn't work?"

Ke Jin nodded silently. He hesitated for a moment, and finally told Ounuo about the mysterious man's voice he heard in the card making room. After listening to him, the other party frowned, obviously thinking that the matter was a bit serious.

"Could it be related to Ning Qiyuan and the others?"

Ke Jin shook his head: "I don't think so. Just like Qi said, if Ning Qiyuan had the ability, he would have taken action against my card pool a long time ago. Why wait until now? I think he is at most an accomplice, not the mastermind."

"That's right." Oloy frowned and thought for a while, "It's impossible for ordinary humans to achieve this, and..." He suddenly glanced at Ke Jin, "Your luck suddenly became very bad tonight, but it wasn't like this before. It's probably related to the person who showed up to warn you."

"It's bad, so what." Ke Jin said listlessly, "My luck hasn't been good, I've always been unlucky."

"Who said that?" Oloi immediately glared at him in dissatisfaction. "You are lucky to have met me, right? Others can't even ask for it!"

Brother, after I met you, I have been in debt of 200 million! !

...But it seems that apart from this, there were really no bad things. On the contrary, with the help of Ounuo, a lot of things were accomplished.

"Yeah." Ke Jin smiled and squeezed the boy's hand. "Thank you so much. You traveled thousands of miles to help me get lucky. How can I thank you?"

"Do you think I'm kidding you?" Oloy suddenly stopped and showed a strange smile on his face. "You will be lucky to meet me - I have figured out how to make your card making successful."

"real??"

Oloy nodded and waved to Ke Jin. Ke Jin leaned down and the boy whispered something in his ear.

"What do you think?" After saying that, Oloy smiled proudly.

"It seems..." Ke Jin's eyes gradually brightened up, "You can give it a try!"

The two of them whispered a few more sentences, discussing all the issues and details they could think of, and finally finalized it.

"Oh, by the way," Oloy suddenly said when they were about to leave the card pool, "Don't tell Qi about this for now."

Ke Jin was stunned: "Why?"

"Don't trust him too much. I think he's been acting a little weird these days." Oloy snorted coldly, "Anyway... just keep this a secret from him for now."