At dawn the next day, Xiao Qiong took Gu Xingmian out.

Gu Xingmian lay in his spiritual body, looking at the gray sky in a daze, puzzled: [Are you going out so early?]

Xiao Qiong: [It's a bit far. If you go out too late, you won't be able to come back that day.]

He paused and said, [You go to sleep first, I'll call you when we get there.]

Hearing him say this, Gu Xingmian continued to lie down with peace of mind.

When Gu Xingmian woke up from a long sleep, he found that Xiao Qiong was still sitting on the suspension car, and the scenery outside the window was completely unfamiliar to him.

[Awake?] Xiao Qiong asked.

Gu Xingmian yawned: [Where is this? 】

Xiao Qiong:【This is Luke City.】

Gu Xingmian searched his mind for two times before he could find clues about Luke City. He asked hesitantly:【Isn't Luke City very remote?】

In his impression, card makers are high-ranking and wealthy, and basically live in various advanced and developed big cities. Even some card makers who like quietness generally choose places with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate.

Why would someone choose a remote and backward town like Luke City?

Xiao Qiong:【Well...his situation is a bit special.】

So, after getting off the suspension car, they took a steam train, and then changed to a car. The scenery outside the window gradually changed from remote and backward to desolate.

After getting on the ox cart, Gu Xingmian finally couldn't help asking, "Are you sure you didn't go the wrong way?"

Xiao Qiong calmly pushed away the goose that kept approaching him and said firmly, "No."

The lady in the same car looked at Xiao Qiong curiously, "Young man, you don't look like a local. Are you here to look for relatives or to visit friends?"

Xiao Qiong asked, "Do you know a man named Grof?"

The lady shook her head.

Xiao Qiong thought for a moment, and then said, "Or Job? Frank? Oberoi..."

He said seven or eight names in a row, and the old lady shook her head. Xiao Qiong had to ask, "Are there any new people who moved to your neighborhood in the past six months?"

The old lady frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "If it's six months, there are indeed some. About four or five months ago, an old man named Freddy moved to our town. But this old man is weird. He always stays alone in the house, and I don't know what he is doing..."

Xiao Qiong breathed a sigh of relief, "That's him."

The old lady kindly said, "Young man, what do you want to see Freddy about? This old man has a bad temper!"

Xiao Qiong said, "He has a bad temper, but he is a very good person."

"That's true." The old lady kept on talking, "Let me tell you, in the town before..."

The old lady was talking with great interest, and Xiao Qiong did not interrupt her. He even responded to her from time to time. Then the old lady talked even more happily, not only about this Freddy, but also about all kinds of trivial matters in the town, and even her family affairs.

Xiao Qiong just listened quietly, without showing any impatience.

Gu Xingmian was stunned, he never thought that Xiao Qiong had such a side. After all, when he was in school, Xiao Qiong was just a pure cool guy, and Gu Xingmian often worried that Eric would be beaten by him for talking too much nonsense.

Xiao Qiong seemed to sense Gu Xingmian's change of mood and asked: "What's wrong?"

Gu Xingmian said: "It's just that I rarely see you so patient."

Xiao Qiong was silent for a moment before saying: "They just like to nag, they are not bad people."

Gu Xingmian keenly felt the fluctuation of Xiao Qiong's spirit at that moment, and he intuitively felt that there should be a deeper story here, but the ox cart had stopped at this time.

Xiao Qiong politely said goodbye to the old lady, and then followed her instructions and found the door of the strange old man named Freddy.

However, before he got close, he heard a fierce quarrel coming from inside the door. Then the door was opened and a young man was pushed out. An old man with messy hair and beard stood at the door with his hands on his hips, and said in full force: "Brat, don't think I don't know what you are planning! What do you mean by being an apprentice and an adopted son? Aren't you just waiting for your grandfather to die and take over my property? You are really a toad with a bell in his arms, wishful thinking!"

The young man was exposed and felt ashamed and annoyed: "You think I do? You won't live long. When you die, your things will still be mine!"

The old man sneered: "Anyway, I will live longer than you, a turtle descendant!"

The young man wanted to use force, but Xiao Qiong stepped forward, grabbed him by the back of the neck, and threw him out.

"Who are you?!" The young man got up and looked at him in horror.

Before Xiao Qiong could say anything, the old man had already yelled: "Let me tell you, little brat, this is your father, your grandpa, my real son!!"

The young man looked at Xiao Qiong in horror and fear. The

old man took off his shoes and threw them at him: "If you don't get out of here, I'll let your father beat you up!"

The young man was so scared that he ran away.

After he ran away, Xiao Qiong glanced at the old man coldly: "My real father?"

"Why!" The old man

said righteously, "Am I not old enough to be your father? What's wrong with me taking advantage of you? Aren't you afraid that I will die and you won't even be able to see me for the last time?" Xiao Qiong said lightly: "No."

The old man opened the door to let him in, and he was a little happy to hear that: "You have such confidence in me?"

Xiao Qiong: "Well, the disaster will last for a thousand years, and you will live a long time."

The old man: "!"

"Fuck! You can actually tell a sneer! Are you really Xiao Qiong's dead face?! You are not someone pretending to be you!"

Seeing that he was even trying to pull Xiao Qiong's face, Xiao Qiong directly threw out a supporting card: "Shut up and get out."

"Tsk tsk." The old man squatted down with agility that was not in line with his age, then rolled himself back, "Rolled."

Xiao Qiong: "..."

Gu Xingmian was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

This was the first time he saw Xiao Qiong, so, so... lively.

Moreover, he could feel that Xiao Qiong and the old man got along very easily, which meant that Xiao Qiong trusted him very much.

Based on his understanding of Xiao Qiong, he is actually very wary of people, and it is rare for him to trust someone so much.

At this time, Xiao Qiong said again: "By the way, I want to introduce a friend to you."

[Xingmian. ]

Gu Xingmian came out of the spiritual body and stared at the old man.

"He is Gu Xingmian, my God Card." Xiao Qiong introduced him, and then looked at Gu Xingmian again, paused before saying, "He is the card maker I told you about before, you can call him Grof."

Grof looked at Gu Xingmian in shock: "God, God Card?!"

Xiao Qiong: "Are you surprised?"

Grof immediately pretended to be indifferent: "What's there to be surprised about, this old man I have traveled all over the world for so many years, I have seen everything!"

He said, and immediately stretched out his hand to Gu Xingmian: "Hello, hello, you can just call me Grove!"

Xiao Qiong said to Gu Xingmian: "Grove discovered my talent for playing cards, and he was also the one who taught me how to use auxiliary cards. Don't look at him like that, he is actually a very good card maker. Almost all the auxiliary cards I often use are made by him."

"What do you mean by 'don't look at me like this'? What's wrong with me like this!" Grove muttered unhappily, and quickly said to Gu Xingmian, "But he is not bragging about my card-making ability. Although I don't know many types of auxiliary cards, they are definitely better than the same type of auxiliary cards on the market! If you need them, one auxiliary card is 10,000 star coins, buy ten and get one free, the price is fair, no cheating... Shit "Xiao Qiong, you little brat, couldn't you be gentler?!"

Grove cursed as he rubbed his head that was hit. Then he looked down and saw what Xiao Qiong had hit him with. He almost jumped up three feet high: "Blood crystal! Blood crystal of such high purity! Oh, you loser! What if this treasure is broken!"

He held the blood crystal in his hands lovingly, and looked at it over and over again for several times before he was slightly worried. He put down the blood crystal with regret: "Such high-quality blood crystal, if used to make the auxiliary cards I know, it would be a waste."

Gu Xingmian asked curiously: "Why is it a waste?"

Grove explained: "Blood crystal is the energy source of auxiliary cards. The higher the purity of the blood crystal, the stronger the energy, and the more complex the auxiliary cards can be. What I know are just some basic auxiliary cards. A card of such high purity is like using a butcher knife to kill a chicken, it is a waste of natural resources!"

Xiao Qiong said lightly: "I like to use a butcher knife to kill a chicken."

Grove was so angry that he blew his beard and glared: "You little bastard! I really owe you..."

He put the blood crystal in the box with a distressed look, and then waved his hand impatiently: "As usual, come and pick it up in two weeks. If I change the place, I will notify you again."

"Wait." Xiao Qiong called him, "I have something else to ask you."

Grove's mind was full of thoughts about making auxiliary cards, and he asked absentmindedly, "What is it?"

Xiao Qiong took out the star map that Gu Xingmian had drawn overnight yesterday: "Do you recognize what this is?"

Grove took it carelessly, but when he saw it, his eyes were wide open, and he didn't even care about the blood crystal. He held the star map with trembling hands: "You... How did you get this?!"

Xiao Qiong and Gu Xingmian looked at each other, and he guessed correctly that Grove really recognized this.

"What is this?" Gu Xingmian asked.

Grove thought for a long time, as if he had made up his mind.

He stood up: "You guys follow me."

Xiao Qiong and Gu Xingmian followed him through the house, all the way to the cellar in the backyard. After unlocking several locks, he opened the door and led them downstairs.

Xiao Qiong had already guessed that the place where Grove took them was his card-making room.

Legend has it that the most mysterious place in the world is the card-making room of a card maker.

Back then, Grove was being hunted down, and Xiao Qiong saved his life. Afterwards, Grove discovered his talent for card making, and taught him how to use auxiliary cards carefully. He also went to collect blood crystals to make auxiliary cards for him, treating him like a teacher and a father.

The two lived and died together, and their feelings were deep. Grove was almost unreserved to him, but even so, he never let Xiao Qiong enter his card-making room.

With a creaky sound, the door gradually opened, revealing the space behind.

This place is not big. In the center is a huge workbench covered with various tools and materials, as well as many papers with drawings.

Grove ran to the workbench, swept everything on the table to the ground, then carefully opened the lock of the workbench drawer and took out a thick notebook.

The edges of the notebook were a little curled because it had been flipped for many years, but each page was well protected.

He put the notebook on the workbench and unfolded the middle. Gu Xingmian and the others discovered that there were dream cards sandwiched in the middle of some pages.

Dream cards are the only auxiliary cards that do not require card-controlling talent to use, and they are also auxiliary cards that all card makers can make.

However, the dream card in Grove's hand seems to be a little different from the common ones.

Grove said, "These dream cards are engraved with my spiritual imprint. No one can open them except me. If someone wants to open them by force, it will immediately self-destruct."

After he finished speaking, he held the dream card, closed his eyes, and opened it.

Suddenly, it seemed as if a scroll was slowly unfolding in the air.

In the darkness, the twinkling stars were connected by silver lines, forming a magnificent and brilliant star map.

Gu Xingmian was stunned.

Although this was slightly different from the star map he had seen before, it was really too similar!

At this time, Grove also opened his eyes.

The twinkling light of the stars fell on his face, making it flicker.

His expression was solemn, and he was no longer as playful as before.

"This is called the star pattern." Grof paused, "It is the core of the auxiliary card."

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