When receiving the call from Uncle Zhou, Ke Jingang had just posted the news that he was about to collaborate with the Su Yufeng card pool on the information platform.
After the Autumn Festival, Ke Jin applied for his own card pool's official public account with the help of the card pool bureau, and opened a queue reservation function on it. He would also release some card pool information intermittently, such as the release of new cards, limited-time discount activities, etc. This joint cooperation with Su Yufeng is also a big deal. Ke Jin spent two days writing a promotional soft article, and stayed up all night to revise it. In the morning, he rubbed his dark circles and clicked "Publish" with a sense of relief.
So when Ke Jin saw the name "Uncle Zhou" displayed on the communicator, he was quite surprised - his promotional article had only been published for a minute, and Uncle Zhou and others had seen it?
He answered the phone with a bit of surprise, and the first sentence from the other party left Ke Jin stunned.
"Xiao Ke, I'm really sorry, but the card pool linkage thing... I think it will be cancelled."
***
Ke Jin immediately put down everything he was doing and rushed to the "Guo Yun" card pool.
Uncle Zhou didn't reveal much information on the phone. It's not that he didn't want to say it, but he was also very confused and shocked. According to Uncle Zhou, Su Yufeng suddenly told him that he wanted to cooperate with Ning Qiyuan, and the time for both parties to sign the agreement was set for this afternoon. No matter how Uncle Zhou asked, Su Yufeng refused to say more. He only asked him to inform Ke Jin and said that he was sorry for the cancellation of the linkage, but he had to do it and hoped that Ke Jin could understand.
The incident happened suddenly, and no matter how careless Ke Jin was, it was impossible for him to believe that there was nothing fishy here. When he was walking out in a hurry, he was seen by Qi, who asked a few questions. Qi also found this matter very strange. Thinking of the test of Ke Jin by Ning Qiyuan and his group a few days ago, Qi was a little worried, so he followed Ke Jin.
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When the two arrived at the "Guo Yun" card pool, they found that the gate was closed and a "Closed" sign was hung outside the door. There was no response when they knocked on the door.
Ke Jin took out his communicator and prepared to call Uncle Zhou, only to find that the other party had actually sent him a text message a few minutes ago, asking Ke Jin to come in directly through the side door after he arrived.
Ke Jin walked around the outer wall of the courtyard and found a small door hidden behind the thick green vine curtain hanging from the west wall. He and Qi pushed the door open and found that the huge courtyard was empty and silent.
"Uncle Zhou? Su Yufeng?" Ke Jin called out tentatively, "Are you there?"
No one answered.
Ke Jin and his friends walked all the way to the front of the card pool pavilion before they saw Uncle Zhou sitting on the steps of the pavilion. He was staring at the card drawing area in a daze, and Ke Jin called him several times until he patted his shoulder hard, and the man suddenly woke up.
"Xiao Ke." He raised his head a little slowly, and a little light flashed in his cloudy eyes, "...you are here."
"Where is Su Yufeng?" Ke Jin asked quickly.
Uncle Zhou sighed, turned around and continued to look at the card pool, his expression returning to the daze just now: "They are in the card pool."
"them?"
"Well, Ning Qiyuan and the others came here a few minutes ago and went down with Yu Feng."
Ke Jin suddenly opened his eyes wide: "Already here? Didn't you say that the pool agreement would be signed in the afternoon?"
"Maybe it's early? Or maybe they want to discuss something else?" Uncle Zhou murmured, "I don't know..."
Ke Jin opened his mouth but no words came out for a long time.
He could understand why Uncle Zhou was so distraught - he had been a card master in this card pool for decades. Before Su Yufeng inherited this card pool, he had traveled all over Chikongzhou with Su's father, participated in the preparation and operation of dozens of chain card pools, and witnessed the most brilliant and glorious moments of this card pool. For Uncle Zhou, this was like another home for him, and also a place for his soul to rest and return. Even though it had declined, he still stayed with it and even took the initiative to take on the unfinished obligations of the two elders of the Su family and carefully took care of the brother and sister Su Yufeng and Su Xiaolan.
But suddenly, his "home" was about to disappear.
It's not that he couldn't accept this fact, but he didn't expect it to come so suddenly, and before getting a clear answer, he didn't even have the right to enter the card pool - this was the saddest and most hurtful thing.
Without the authority of Su Yufeng, the card user, no one could enter the card pool. Although Xiaoju and Qi had a chance to sneak into the card pool with their cooperation, Ning Qiyuan seemed to have many tricks. Ke Jin didn't dare to take the risk and could only sigh softly, sitting on the steps with Uncle Zhou, silently waiting for Su Yufeng and the others to come up.
More than half an hour passed like this, and Ke Jin and his friends did not wait for Su Yufeng, but instead waited for two unexpected people.
“Uncle Zhou!” There was a sudden sound of running from the side door, followed by a panting, shocked and angry voice, “Where’s my brother?! Why did he suddenly want to join the pool?!!!”
Ke Jin was surprised to see Su Xiaolan in her school uniform rushing into the Kachi Pavilion. Her ponytail was all spread out, and her whole body looked like it had exploded. Behind her -
"Ounuo!" Ke Jin was stunned, "Why are you here too?"
"How would I know?" Oloy straightened the collar of his school uniform and rolled his eyes helplessly. "During the break, I was walking towards the playground, and she suddenly ran over and shouted 'something happened', and then dragged me over."
"Uncle Zhou, Brother Ke Jin, what on earth is going on?" Su Xiaolan was about to cry. She was studying well at school, but suddenly saw the message from her brother during the break. Her mind went blank. When she came to her senses, the man had already run over. "Where's my brother? Where is he? This is not right! How could he suddenly cooperate with those people!!"
Su Xiaolan was extremely emotional, and Ke Jin calmed her down after a long time. After that, Ke Jin briefly explained the current situation and asked Su Xiaolan if she had noticed anything unusual about Su Yufeng in the past few days.
"No." Su Xiaolan shook her head, also very confused. "My brother has always been very quiet. I can't guess what he is thinking. These few days... the only thing that is a little bit special about these few days is that he stayed overnight in Kachi Yard the day before yesterday. But this kind of thing has happened before. Sometimes I also stay here. It's not unusual."
When Ke Jin and the others were talking, Oloy didn't really listen, just wandering around the three card drawing areas. He thought for a moment, took out three coins from his pocket, threw one into the first card pool, and still only drew an SSR; he threw one into the second and third card pools respectively, and the latter had no response as it was already a waste pool, but the water in the former pool rippled and glowed, and soon returned to calm, and there was no sign of any card being drawn.
Oloy took a breath. Although he didn't care much about the fate of this card pool, the facts before him were indeed a bit strange and beyond his expectations.
"Hey, you don't have to guess anymore. I think I know why that guy suddenly changed his mind." He turned and shouted at Ke Jin and the others, pointing to the card drawing area of the second card pool.
"The second card pool has also been scrapped."
There was silence for a moment, and then——
"What!!!"
"How is that possible?!"
“Impossible!!!”
Su Xiaolan reacted the fastest. She rushed to the card drawing area and threw a handful of banknotes into it without thinking. The result was just as the boy said - all the coins disappeared into the sea, and the card pool just lit up symbolically without spitting out a single card.
Uncle Zhou was obviously shocked. The continuous blows made him seem to have aged ten years in an instant: "How could it be... it was still fine yesterday... Even if there were signs of contamination in the second card pool before, it shouldn't have happened so quickly!"
"Pollution?" Su Xiaolan didn't know the situation inside the card pool, and immediately looked at Uncle Zhou, "Uncle Zhou, what's going on? What happened to my brother's card pool?"
While Su Xiaolan was questioning Uncle Zhou, Ke Jin quietly asked Ou Nuo, who had already walked back to his side: "Are there any signs of the use of the supernatural card? Could it be Ning Qiyuan who did it?"
The boy shook his head: "There is no supernatural fluctuation. At least it looks normal from the outside. As for whether it was that person who did it... it's hard to say."
"I don't think he has that ability." As someone who had a "brief confrontation" with Ning Qiyuan and the others, Qi also expressed his opinion, "If Ning could really control that strange black fog, he would have used it to deal with your card pool a long time ago. Why would he sneak in to test it that day? There must be something else going on here."
The three were discussing in a low voice when suddenly a light flashed in the second card pool - that was a sign that someone with entry and exit permissions had come out of the card pool - in the blink of an eye, Su Yufeng, Ning Qiyuan and the others were standing outside the card pool.
Su Yufeng was the first to see Ke Jin. His eyes flickered for a moment, and he quickly lowered his head.
Ning Qiyuan did not expect that so many people would gather outside. He was slightly stunned, and a playful smile flashed in his eyes, which were always serious and cold, and his gaze was directly directed at Ke Jin.
"Mr. Ke." He smiled faintly, "I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon."
Facing the other party's somewhat provocative gaze, Ke Jin slowly stood up from the steps and looked calmly into the other party's eyes.
"Yeah." Ke Jin nodded gently, "I didn't expect that either."
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