"Weird?" Ke Jin was stunned. "What's weird about it?"
Qi frowned: "Well... the security is very strict."
Oloy sneered: "Are all the card pools you failed to obtain considered to be 'heavily guarded'?"
Qi ignored him and continued to say to Ke Jin: "Although Ning Qiyuan's card pool is very large and is known as the 'No. 1 in the province', the cards produced are actually very ordinary, just a very common food card pool. But he actually placed dozens of supernatural cards near the card pool to prevent outsiders from snooping and sneaking in. Don't you think it's exaggerated?"
"Dozens of supernatural cards?" Ke Jin opened his mouth slightly. Generally, card users used some functional defense cards to guard the courtyard, and rarely used supernatural cards, not to mention that there were strict restrictions on the use of supernatural cards on the Azure Star. Ning Qiyuan's arrangement could indeed be called a grand move.
"Maybe he just cares more about the safety of the card pool?" Ke Jin guessed, "And if he has enough money, it is not impossible to buy more supernatural cards from other galaxies..." For example, Ounuo, he is not from the Azure Star, but his family seems to be very wealthy. Although he is young, he has a lot of supernatural cards.
Qi snorted and said disdainfully, "If those supernatural cards were really distributed throughout the card pool, I wouldn't find it strange, but Ning Qiyuan's card pool has five card drawing areas, and those supernatural cards are all arranged around one of the card drawing areas. Isn't this very strange? Of course, he probably didn't expect that someone on Azure Star could see through his arrangement, so he didn't hide the strict protection of that card drawing area at all."
At this point, Ke Jin also felt very strange: "Is that card drawing area special?"
Oloy heard something else from Qi's words: "Isn't the guy surnamed Ning from the Azure Star?"
Qi suddenly smiled: "The strangest thing is here - I checked carefully, his 'Origin' Food Card Pool, the original card user was someone else, and the development was very ordinary, but three years ago, Ning Qiyuan suddenly appeared, squeezed out the original card user, and took over as the new owner of this card pool. After that, this card pool began to expand rapidly until it became what it is today. As for Ning Qiyuan's origins, there are also different opinions, but he is definitely not a native of Azure Star, and judging from the means of expanding the card pool, the power behind him should be not small."
"Methods to expand the card pool?" Ke Jin frowned in confusion, "Spending money like crazy?"
Half of the star coins invested in the card pool can be converted into energy in the crystal sand pool. Many card users will use this "burning money" method to forcibly increase the level of the card pool in a short period of time. However, this method is only effective in the early stages of the development of the card pool. The promotion of the card pool in the later stages is mainly related to the ability of the card user and the quality of the cards.
"He is indeed not short of money." Qi nodded, "But the method he adopted is - pooling."
Ke Jin has been catching up on his knowledge recently, so he naturally knows how the "pool merger" works: one mode is a parallel merger, similar to a joint venture between two companies, but there will be a master-slave relationship; the other is that one card pool swallows up another card pool, and the swallowed-up card pool will be broken up and completely integrated into the system of the new card pool, and there is also a certain probability that the card pool will automatically generate a new card formula.
"Is Ning Qiyuan using the 'annexation' method to merge the pools?" Although it was a question, Ke Jin had already made a judgment in his mind - if Ning Qiyuan really developed a mediocre food card pool into the largest in the prefecture within three years, there was a 90% chance that he would use this simple, crude but fast and effective method of merging pools.
Qi nodded, "It's obvious." After a pause, he added, "And I suspect that when he merged the pool, the card drawing area he chose was the one with the supernatural card guard."
"So targeted..." Ke Jin seemed to be thinking, "Maybe he wants to use this method to synthesize a new card pool system? But to develop to this scale, how many card pools did he find to merge?"
"There are probably at least a hundred of them." Qi shrugged. "He should have visited every city in Chikongzhou."
"So many card pools agree to merge into one?" Ke Jin asked in surprise, "Isn't this the most difficult way to negotiate? After all, it's like giving up your own card pool completely."
"Well... that's their method." Qi smiled with an ambiguous tone, "At least as far as I know, there are very few card pools that Ning Qiyuan has taken a fancy to that he has not taken."
Ke Jin was startled, and suddenly remembered something: "He went to find Su Yufeng... Could it be that he wanted to share the pool with him?"
"It's possible." Oloy nodded. "For a pool merger, the higher the quality of the card pool, the better. Su Yufeng's card pool is currently in trouble, and I think his card user ability is average. If we can negotiate good terms to transfer the card pool, it would be a good choice."
Ke Jin shook his head: "Su Yufeng's card pool was left by his father. He values it very much and will not hand it over easily."
"But there are some things that he can't decide just because he wants to." Oroi disagreed.
Ke Jin frowned slightly: "Then I should go and remind Su Yufeng...at least he needs to be careful." Since Ning Qiyuan can even use ability cards in the guard card pool, who knows if he has other strange cards that can make Su Yufeng waver and submit?
"Haven't you already discussed the linkage?" Qi reminded Ke Jin, "If there are any changes over there, Su Yufeng will definitely come to you to discuss it first, so there's no need to be too anxious."
"Well... that's true."
"What about you?" Qi suddenly changed the subject and stared at Ke Jin.
"Hmm? Me what?"
"If Ning Qiyuan comes to you and offers you generous conditions to join your pool, will you agree?" Qi said slowly, "As far as I know, Ning Qiyuan has always been very active in striving for new and promising card pools. Besides, your card pool can be considered a 'gourmet' system, and it is SSR first draw quality. If he doesn't come to you... that would be abnormal."
***
Ke Jin didn't expect that Qi's words would really come true. Early the next morning, he saw Ning Qiyuan again.
At that time, Ke Jin was talking about today's arrangements with several part-time workers in the yard. Suddenly, he found that everyone's eyes were looking behind him. Ke Jin turned back in confusion and saw Ning Qiyuan and the four people he had met yesterday walking into the yard.
Meeting Ke Jin's gaze, Ning Qiyuan nodded slightly, even smiled very "friendly", and then walked straight to the young man.
"Mr. Ke Jin, I was busy yesterday, so I only saw you briefly. Today I happened to be free, so I came to visit you." Ning Qiyuan glanced at the people around Ke Jin, "Did I disturb you?"
After hearing so much "gossip" from Qi yesterday, Ke Jin also had some opinions about Ning Qiyuan, but he certainly couldn't show it on the surface.
"No, no." Ke Jin also smiled friendly and gestured to the small round table in the rest area. "Please take a seat first. I'll be here in a moment."
Ning Qiyuan had no objection and sat down with several companions. Ke Jin gave a few instructions to his part-time partner, and while going back to the house to make tea, he quickly sent a message to Qi.
——【!! You really got it right! Ning Qiyuan really came to see me! 】
Qi was currently in the card pool, probably idle, so he replied quickly.
——【Haha, are you impressed by me? →v→Don't worry, I'm watching over here, they can't do anything! ╮(╯▽╰)╭】
Ke Jin: Well, I haven’t thought that far. Should I say that this person is indeed worthy of being a “gatekeeper”? He has a very good sense of vigilance…
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