After saying this, Ke Jin no longer paid attention to Ning Qiyuan and walked straight to Su Yufeng.
"Yufeng, I want to talk to you alone." He slowed down his tone and said softly but firmly.
Su Yufeng raised his head. Although his hair covered most of his face, he could still see that the young man looked extremely bad. His brown eyes were no longer as clear as before, but looked cloudy and empty. He looked at Ke Jin in silence for a moment, then shook his head gently.
"Brother!" Su Xiaolan shouted anxiously. She wanted to rush over, but was held back by Uncle Zhou who noticed something was wrong.
Qi and Oloy looked at each other subconsciously. They both felt that Su Yufeng's condition was a bit strange, but it didn't seem like his mind was affected by the supernatural card. It's just that his aura and condition were much worse than that of a normal person.
"Mr. Ke Jin, I know you have a good relationship with Mr. Su, but I'm afraid he doesn't have time to entertain your friend today." Ning Qiyuan said slowly, "He will sign a pool-joining agreement with me in a while. If you want to watch, we certainly welcome you to stay and witness it together; but if you don't want to, please don't waste our time any more, how about that?"
As if he had heard something very interesting, Ke Jin suddenly laughed: "You want to sign an agreement? Sorry, I should be the one saying this to you - I should be the one who has to sign the agreement with Su Yufeng, not you."
Ning Qiyuan raised his eyebrows, not understanding what Ke Jin meant for a moment.
"Mr. Ning, when did you and Su Yufeng agree to merge the pool?" Ke Jin asked.
"Two days ago." Leng Liangxue, who was beside Ning Qiyuan, said concisely.
Ke Jin nodded: "That's it. Su Yufeng and I decided to carry out the card pool linkage five days ago. Although we only had a verbal agreement at the time, with Uncle Zhou, the card master, as a witness, it has the force of a contract. So before Su Yufeng fulfills the agreement with me, he has no right to dispose of the card pool in any other way."
"Verbal agreement?" Leng Liangxue sneered, seeming to find it ridiculous. "Can this count? I have never heard that this can be used as proof of a contract. Do you think we are children who have never seen the world?"
Ke Jin spread his hands and said innocently, "You came from the Zhou Prefecture, so of course you don't know the rules of Qixing City. Whether a verbal agreement is valid or not is ultimately determined by the Qixing City Card Pool Bureau. You and I have no say. Of course, if you insist on signing the pool-joint agreement now, and it is ruled as an 'invalid agreement' when you report it to the Card Pool Bureau, don't blame me for not reminding you in advance."
Although the Card Pool Bureau has no right to interfere with private agreements between card users such as "pool merging" and "linking", card users still need to report to the local Card Pool Bureau, otherwise some subsequent certification procedures will be flawed. Once the Card Pool Bureau pursues it seriously, it will also be a hidden danger.
Before Ke Jin released the linkage information on the information platform, he had already informed Director Tai Zhaoji. Although the Card Pool Bureau has not yet completed the entire reporting process, once Ke Jin and Ning Qiyuan have a dispute over this matter, the Card Pool Bureau will definitely support Ke Jin 100% - the people in the Card Pool Bureau will not be happy to see Ning Qiyuan poach Su Yufeng's card pool so easily. In addition, Ke Jin and Su Yufeng had an agreement in advance, so it is obvious who is right and who is wrong.
Ning Qiyuan obviously thought of this immediately. Ke Jin's card pool is the star card pool of Qixing City. Although the card users are supervised by the Card Pool Bureau, given Ke Jin's current status, the Qixing City Card Pool Bureau may not be able to support him enough. If he really makes a fuss over there, he will definitely not get any advantage.
Ning Qiyuan's companions were also helpless. When they discussed internally, they all guessed that Ke Jin would most likely come to stop Su Yufeng from joining the pool, but no one expected that he would actually make a fuss about the card pool linkage - after all, they heard that the two parties had only a verbal agreement, not a written agreement in black and white, so they didn't pay much attention. Who would have thought that the other party would actually pull the Qixing City Card Pool Bureau out to endorse it? Even if they could immediately contact the Zhoufu Card Pool General Bureau to intimidate and pressure them, it would be impossible to solve this matter immediately today. Otherwise, how can they say that a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake?
Ning Qiyuan was silent for a while, then asked, "The linkage time you agreed on will last for a week, right?"
Ke Jin nodded: "Yes."
"It officially starts in three days, right?"
Ke Jin did not intend to hide it. After all, this information had already been posted on the platform, and Ning Qiyuan could see it with just a simple check: "That's right."
"Okay, then I'll wait for you for ten days." Ning Qiyuan stared at Ke Jin, and every word he said was sonorous and powerful, "See you in ten days."
He heaved a sigh of relief, but Ke Jin remained calm and nodded calmly: "Okay, it's a deal."
***
Ning Qiyuan and the others left.
Although they didn't say another word, except Ning Qiyuan, everyone couldn't help but look at Ke Jin deeply when they passed by him.
Over the past three years, they have been to many card pools and met many card users. During this period, they have also encountered stubborn thorns and encountered difficulties that were difficult to overcome, but never like this - they have been defeated twice in just a few days by the same person, and the other party was just a pure newcomer who had been a card user for only a few months.
After watching Ning Qiyuan and the others leave through the side door, Ke Jin immediately turned his gaze to Su Yufeng.
"Yufeng," he walked up to the young man and observed the expression on his face inquiringly, "Can we have a good talk now?"
Su Yufeng looked at Ke Jin quietly without saying a word.
He could see the other person's worry, and he also knew that the other person was trying his best to help him. Since he lost his voice in the car accident, no one except Uncle Zhou and his sister had ever been so frank and sincere in conveying goodwill to him, trying desperately to pull him out of the quagmire. If it were three days ago, he would be extremely grateful for everything the other person had done, but now...
Ke Jin saw that the person in front of him had slightly red eyes. He opened his lips tremblingly and silently conveyed his "voice".
——You shouldn’t have helped me.
——I will harm you.
Not only Ke Jin, but the others also showed incredible expressions when they saw Su Yufeng's "lip reading". Su Xiaolan ran directly to Su Yufeng and carefully pulled his sleeve.
"Brother, what happened?" the girl asked worriedly, "Did those people say anything to you? They must be trying to sow discord between you. Don't believe them."
Su Yufeng glanced at Su Xiaolan and touched the girl's head with a sigh. Perhaps it was the power of his family that finally gave him some courage. Su Yufeng hesitated for a moment, then suddenly grabbed one of Ke Jin's hands, and with the other hand he slowly wrote on Ke Jin's open palm.
Ke Jin was surprised at first, but immediately realized: Su Yufeng probably didn't want to be "heard" by others, so he adopted this "one-to-one" communication method.
So he held his breath and concentrated on "listening".
As Su Yufeng wrote more and more words, Ke Jin's brows gradually furrowed, and his expression changed from confusion to shock, and then to increasingly solemn.
When Su Yufeng finally let go of Ke Jin's hand, Ke Jin was silent for a long time before slowly and firmly shaking his head.
"I don't believe it. That kind of thing can't happen." He said, "Yufeng, it's not the worst time yet. Don't you trust us?"
Su Yufeng didn't "say" anything, just smiled bitterly.
"Take me down first." Knowing that he couldn't convince the other party for the time being, Ke Jin sighed, "Let me see... what the card pool looks like now."
Su Yufeng nodded, and he stretched out a hand, and Ke Jin held that hand, accepting the authorization given by the card envoy to enter the pool. However, after the two let go of each other's hands, Ke Jin suddenly froze for a moment, and Su Yufeng took a step back, with no intention of entering the card pool together.
Ke Jin looked at the hand that Su Yufeng had just held, and looked at him again hesitantly: "...Is this okay?"
Su Yufeng nodded.
"...Okay, I got it." Ke Jin no longer hesitated, turned to Uncle Zhou and said, "Uncle Zhou, take Yufeng to have some rest."
After all, after following Su Yufeng for so many years, even if he didn't know the specific content of the conversation between Su Yufeng and Ke Jin, Uncle Zhou could still guess a little. So he didn't ask anything, just nodded neatly, and then dragged Su Xiaolan, who was a little reluctant, and the three of them quickly left the Kachi Pavilion.
"Let's go down and take a look." Ke Jin turned around and waved to Qi and Ounuo.
"Huh?" Qi was stunned. "Su Yufeng didn't give us permission. Can we go down?"
Ke Jin shook his right hand: "Yufeng gave me the authority to link with the card pool. I am now an agent card user and can enter and exit the card pool freely. Of course, I can also give you the authority." As he said this, he extended his hand to the two of them.
"bring it on!"
***
There was a flash of light, and the three of them soon stood in the card pool hall.
The layout here remained the same, with three crystal sand energy pools in the center of the hall, and silver doors leading to different card pool functional areas around it. However, among the three crystal sand pools, except for the first card pool which was still full of crystal sand energy, the second and third card pools were both exhausted - and when Ke Jin came last time, there was still a lot of energy left in the second card pool.
"The uncomfortable feeling is even stronger than before." Qi rubbed his arms, looking very uncomfortable.
"Awoo! Awoo!" Xiaoju was also very restless. He burrowed in and out of Ke Jin's clothes and finally hid in the deepest part of his pocket, shivering constantly.
Oloy, however, felt almost nothing, just like the last time he came - he suspected that it was because his luck was too strong, so things like "curse" had little effect on him, and even his perception was much slower than that of normal people - he looked around, and finally set his sights on Ke Jin.
"Did you see anything?"
Ke Jin didn't say anything, but his eyes were fixed on a door in the northeast corner. He looked at it for a moment, then suddenly ran to the door quickly, grabbed the handle and tried to open it.
But the door did not move.
No matter how hard Ke Jin pushed, even banging and kicking, the door showed no sign of opening. Qi arrived later, and he was much stronger than Ke Jin, but after repeated attempts, he still couldn't push the door open.
"We went in here last time." Oloy saw the sign on the door and immediately remembered, "Is this the card making room for the third card pool?"
Ke Jin nodded, frowning even more tightly: "There seems to be something inside... We have to find a way to go in and take a look."
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