"Why are you following me?" Ke Jin asked puzzledly.
"Aren't you going downtown?" Qi smiled and walked a few steps towards this side. "I'm going there too. It's on my way."
"You're going too?" Seeing the other party getting closer and closer, Ke Jin subconsciously took a few steps back. Although he felt that the other party should have no motive to harm him, he was not a human after all, and his thinking circuit might be very strange? He didn't have as many powerful cards as Ounuo to protect himself, so he had better be careful.
Seeing the vigilance and caution in the black-haired young man's eyes, the smile on Qi's face froze for a moment and stopped helplessly.
"Mr. Card Master, I need to eat too." Qi shrugged gloomily. "Although the cards in your card pool are good, I will get tired of them if I eat too much. You have to let me go out to improve the food, right?"
"Then you don't have to go to the city." Ke Jin was still a little skeptical, "It's not like there aren't other card pools in town."
"It's not hard to find a card pool, but I can't draw any good cards." When Qi mentioned this, he became even more depressed. "Even you humans dislike N cards. Do you think we card spirits will like them? I've been eating that stuff for several days. It's so miserable!"
Ke Jin: “…”
Recalling the fact that his opponent had drawn N cards 99 times in a row from the card pool, Ke Jin suddenly felt a sense of class friendship towards Qi, as if "we are all from the same organization!"
"But at least you drew an SSR card the 100th time." Ke Jin reminded.
Qi laughed even more helplessly: "That's Xiaochu's work, and it can be considered as one of its skills... Otherwise, how do you think it got into your card pool?"
Seeing that Ke Jin was still skeptical of his explanation, Qi sighed and spread his hands innocently: "Don't worry, I won't do anything to you. After all, if I really wanted to harm you, why would I be here talking to you for so long? In this wilderness, if I want to take action, no one will be able to hear you even if you scream at the top of your lungs. Of course, I am also very good at destroying corpses and covering up all traces of the crime."
After hearing what you said, I have to stay away from you even more, okay? !
"You go ahead." Ke Jin stepped back to the side of the road and pointed forward, "I'll follow behind."
Qi Fue - is my credibility so bad? Even this guy who looks easy to cheat treats me as a formidable enemy... It seems that my image in the early stage was too fierce...?
***
After some negotiations, the two men continued on their journey, one after the other.
Ke Jin's opinion of Qi has actually changed a lot, but Ounuo's words "The scar healed and the pain forgotten" made him feel that he should be more vigilant. However, Qi behaved well along the way, and Ke Jin finally felt relieved. When they arrived at the busy town, Qi slowed down his pace and walked side by side with him, and Ke Jin did not show too much resistance.
The two walked all the way to the bus station in the center of the town. Ke Jin swiped his card to buy the ticket at the ticket vending machine. Suddenly, he remembered that Qi might not understand the operation process. He turned around and saw that the other party skillfully took out a few coins, inserted the coins, clicked a few times on the screen, and got the freshly-made ticket in a blink of an eye.
Ke Jin: “…”
This guy is actually more skilled at operating it than me!
"You know a lot about these things." Ke Jin said with emotion, "You look exactly like an ordinary person. You can't tell it's a Ka Ling at all."
"Really?" Qi raised the corner of his mouth happily, "Thank you for the compliment."
"By the way, where does your money come from?" Ke Jin was very curious. "Do you work and earn money like humans?"
"Work?" Qi was stunned. "Why should I work? I can easily get your currency even if I don't work."
Ke Jin: “…”
Ke Jin: "...You didn't do anything illegal again, did you? Stealing and robbing are not allowed!"
"No, no." Qi waved his hand and smiled, "If you have any doubts, I'll show you later."
***
Soon, Ke Jin knew what Qi meant by the method of "easily obtaining your currency".
They took a bus to the city center. After getting off the bus, Qi did not leave the station in a hurry. Instead, he found a crowded place on the platform and took out a white handkerchief and a large cardboard from his pocket with great skill. The young man placed the cardboard on the side of the road, sat down directly on the spot, spread the handkerchief in front of him, and then lowered his eyes and looked quietly at the ground in front of him.
Ke Jin walked over and saw a few words written prominently on the cardboard: [I need money.]
Ke Jin: “…………”
It happened that a few girls who had just finished shopping and were carrying large and small bags passed by here. When they saw the big cardboard for the first time, someone immediately burst out laughing.
"Oh, beggars these days are really not reserved, asking for money right away. Do they have any sense of shame?"
"That's right, I would rather throw all my money into the water than give a penny to such a person!"
Hearing the discussion here, Qi raised his head and smiled faintly at the girls. His already handsome face, with the faint sadness (?) smile as a backdrop, added a bit of melancholy and charming charm.
Girls: “!!!”
A moment later——
"Yeah, he must have encountered something particularly tragic, so he had to beg here..."
"That's right. Seeing how sad he was, he must have suffered a very serious blow, and it was the kind that he couldn't even express. That's why there was nothing written on the cardboard..."
"If he hadn't been desperate, this kind of person wouldn't have fallen to this point... Let's help him!"
The girls rushed over, scrambling to take out coins from their wallets and donate enthusiastically, while also not forgetting to give sincere encouragement.
"Little brother, don't lose faith in life, believe that there are still good people!"
The young man seemed very moved, and even tried hard to suppress his inner grief (?), adding a little bright color to his melancholy smile: "...Thank you."
The girls covered their chests one after another and walked a long way away, but Ke Jin could still hear them excitedly discussing - "Wow, so handsome, so handsome!! That smile just now, my heart almost stopped beating!!!"
Ke Jin: “………………”
Soon, the white handkerchief in front of Qi was piled with coins and banknotes of all sizes. He skillfully folded the handkerchief into a purse, stood up as if nothing had happened, folded the cardboard and put it away, then walked towards Ke Jin with a smile on his face.
"Look, I'm rich now." Qi waved the bulging purse in front of Ke Jin and smiled, "How is it? I told you it's easy, right?"
Ke Jin looked at him expressionlessly.
Get lost! It's great that you're handsome! I've never seen such a shameless person!
…
Well, okay, this guy is not human either.
***
The two then changed to the city bus and headed straight to the Card Shopping Street.
After entering the "Kaleidoscope" card store, Qi chose the cards he wanted to "eat" in the store, while Ke Jin went to the office at the back to check the accounts of previous sales with the store manager and replenish a batch of new cards.
Ke Jin also took a look at the registration status of this week's "Sweet Train". Maybe because everyone had a good experience drawing cards last Saturday, he helped promote it after returning. The registration status so far this week is even better than last week. According to this trend, after the new customers draw cards this Saturday, the system task can be successfully completed!
He was in a good mood and everything looked good to him. So when Ke Jin left the "Kaleidoscope" card shop and saw Qi following him very naturally, he was not wary like he was in the morning. Instead, he looked at him with a bit of amusement.
"Haven't you already finished shopping?" Ke Jin asked, "Why are you still following me? Is it on your way again?"
"I want to go and take a look at the 'talent market' you mentioned." Qi said frankly.
"Where are you going and what are you doing?" Ke Jin raised his eyebrows and said with a half-smile, "You don't need to find a job."
"I like crowded places, so I can observe all kinds of humans." Qi spread his hands, "Didn't you say that you can't tell that I'm a Ka Ling? This is the result of my 'hard study'. You don't think that I'm naturally good at disguising myself as a human, do you?"
Ke Jin suddenly realized, and as if he was meeting Qi for the first time, he looked him up and down, and nodded after a while.
"Okay." Ke Jin smiled, "Then come along."
***
When Ke Jin and his friends arrived at the job market, the place was already bustling with activity. At first glance, it was filled with crowds of people. The buzzing sound of people talking hung over the place like a dark cloud. Even though air conditioners were turned on everywhere in the place, the room temperature did not feel much lower than outside.
According to the information sent by Secretary Xiaobai earlier, Ke Jin quickly found his booth. The display board materials that the Card Pool Bureau had helped to make were also safely placed on the booth. With a little tidying up by Ke Jin, it became a very presentable recruitment booth.
The recruitment area is divided according to the attributes of the enterprise, and Ke Jin's stall naturally belongs to the card pool area. The card pool market in Qixing City has been sluggish in recent years. All the slightly better card pools have moved away, and most of the remaining ones are half-dead. It is already very difficult to continue operating, and there is basically no spare money to hire a long-term card master - for example, Gu Qianqian, she did not hire a long-term card master, but only a part-time one. After all, the card output of her card pool is not large, so there is no need to have a long-term card master.
Ke Jin also thought about hiring a part-time job to deal with it, but Bai Fan and Gu Qianqian unanimously rejected it.
The former is from the perspective of a card master, who believes that if Ke Jin's card pool wants to develop continuously in the long run, the more stable the card master lineup is, the better. Even if the card master's initial level is average, the effect will be very good if he cultivates it all the way up. The latter's original words are - "This is an SSR first draw card pool! How can it be compared with my SR first draw card pool? You must hire a full-time person! You must!"
After Ke Jin put up the promotional board, he looked around and was suddenly embarrassed - he was surrounded by recruitment booths of card sales chain stores and there was not even a fellow card dealer in sight!
Market demand indicates the market trend. There won't be many people applying for card masters here, right? Ke Jin thought anxiously.
——Unfortunately, the result turned out to be as I predicted.
Ke Jin sat in front of the booth for more than an hour, and no one came to apply for the job, let alone ask for advice!
Qidu went for a walk in a crowded place twice. When he came back, he saw that the table in front of Ke Jin was still empty, and he couldn't help but be surprised.
"No one's coming yet?"
Ke Jin nodded weakly.
Qi looked left and right. In fact, the stall location chosen by the Card Pool Bureau for Ke Jin was very good, but the recruitment booths of the two large card sales chain stores around him were too flashy and immediately attracted most people's attention. Ke Jin's small stall was squeezed in the middle and at first glance looked like a logistics rest area and was easily overlooked by job seekers.
Qi thought about it, moved Ke Jin's recruitment display board away, and then stood next to the display board.
Although Ke Jin is good-looking, his temperament is rather gentle and introverted. He is the type that may not be stunning at first sight, but becomes more and more beautiful the more you look at him. However, Qi is different. He has a handsome and delicate appearance, a tall and graceful figure, and a bit of ostentatious nobility. When he stands over there, almost no one passing by will fail to look over here a few more times.
After a few minutes, some people noticed Ke Jin's recruitment and gathered around in groups of three or four.
"Eh? SSR first draw card pool? When did such an awesome card pool appear in Qixing City?"
"Yeah, the salary is not bad, why don't we submit our resume and give it a try?"
Ke Jin was so moved that he almost cried - it turns out that being handsome is really a great thing... Thanks to Qi for coming with him today!
***
After several rounds of consultation and submission, Ke Jin finally saw a few resumes that were retained.
However, because Ke Jin Ka Chi is too remote, most people leave their resumes with the mentality of casting a wide net. If there are better options, Ke Jin feels that they will reject his request for a re-examination without hesitation.
And another thing is, these people are all here to apply for the position of "Card Renewal Engineer", and the position that Ke Jin most wants to recruit, "Card Maker", is still vacant.
Another hour passed, and seeing that the number of job seekers in the venue was visibly decreasing, Ke Jin sighed helplessly, thinking that he probably wouldn't be able to recruit a card maker today, and he would have to find another way.
Just when I was hesitating whether to close the stall now, someone suddenly stopped in front of the recruitment board.
"Hey? There's actually an SSR first draw card pool in a place like ours? This must be fake, right? Are you the card user of this card pool?"
Ke Jin looked up and saw a slightly fat boy wearing black-framed glasses standing in front of the display board - the last sentence was obviously directed to Qi.
Qi didn't say much, just pointed in the direction of Ke Jin. The boy glanced at Ke Jin and then showed an expression that seemed to be a smile.
"You are a card user? Is that true? If you can draw an SSR first draw card, you must be rich, otherwise you can't afford a good fortune teller. But your clothes are too shabby, aren't they? Do you have 200 star coins?"
Ke Jin, whose clothes from head to toe were only worth 150 star coins: "..."
"If you are not here to apply for a job, please leave immediately." Qi narrowed his eyes and said lightly.
"I didn't say anything about you, why are you upset?" The boy rolled his eyes at Qi, then walked to Ke Jin's desk, pulled over a chair and sat down.
"I'm here to apply for the position of card maker," he said.
After being dissed for no reason, Ke Jin already had a very bad impression of this person, but he also wanted to know what the current level of card makers in Qixing City was, so he patiently said.
"Your resume?"
"I didn't bring it." The other party was unusually frank and confident. "Actually, you don't need to look at my resume. I graduated from XXX Card Master College in the capital of Chikongzhou with very good grades. Let me be honest with you. I have been accepted by a famous SSR first draw card pool in the next city. However, I am from Qixing City and I would rather work locally... If your offer can be higher, I will consider coming to your side."
Ke Jin was almost shocked by this man's arrogant self-confidence - Ounuo was usually quite self-righteous, but not like this! Could it be that the man in front of him was even more awesome than Bai Fan?
"So what price do you think is appropriate?" Ke Jin asked.
"It should be at least tripled." The other party pointed at the number, "150,000 a month."
Ke Jin stared at him for a while without saying anything, but took out a slightly old tablet from the backpack next to him.
"Then let's go straight to the retest." Ke Jin operated on the tablet for a few times and handed it to the boy, "Let's start now?"
This small tablet was left by Bai Fan for Ke Jin. It contained a lot of question banks for card renewal and card making. Card making usually focuses on simulation practice in school, and rarely has the opportunity to practice in the card pool. Bai Fan saw that Ke Jin was interested in learning card making knowledge by himself, and he seldom used this practice tablet, so he gave it to Ke Jin.
After the boy got the tablet, he took a look at the sign and immediately sneered.
"This is an old brand from many years ago. You are so poor, can you afford a monthly salary of 150,000? If not, I won't waste my time here." The boy said as he lowered his head to glance at the questions, and soon revealed an even more sarcastic smile.
"Hey, boss, if I can finish this set of questions successfully, the price will be more than 150,000." He pointed at the colorful test questions on the screen and said confidently, "You have to give me at least 300,000, okay?"
"Really?" Ke Jin said expressionlessly, "If you can do it, I can afford it."
Hearing that Ke Jin's tone looked down on him, the boy's face turned a little ugly: "Okay, this is what you said - if I finish this set of questions successfully, and you can't give me 300,000, I will sue you for recruitment fraud!"
Ke Jin was not angry, he just made a gesture of "please start".
The boy muttered a few words angrily, then lowered his head and started doing the questions.
He was very confident in his card-making skills. Although these questions seemed difficult, it was possible to finish them all if he spent some time. Sure enough, after some complicated calculations, he finally conquered the first question. When he was about to start the second question with full confidence, he was suddenly kicked on the chair by a strong force, and the boy almost fell off his seat.
The boy tried to steady himself in a panic, looked up and immediately said angrily.
"What are you doing?! Are you crazy?!"
Qi folded his arms, looking down at the boy, still speaking in a cold tone.
"I just said - if you're not here to apply for a job, get out of here."
"Are you blind?" The boy was very angry, "Am I not taking the retest?!"
Qi glanced at the tablet in the boy's hand and frowned, "How can you spend so much time on just a few simple questions? It's obvious that he's deliberately staying here."
The boy almost vomited blood: "What do you mean it took so long? I only did it for ten minutes!!"
Qi snorted coldly, snatched the tablet from the boy's hand, slid his slender fingers across it quickly, and then slammed the tablet heavily on the table.
"The paper has been submitted. It took one minute and I got full marks."
Boy & Ke Jin: “………………”
The boy grabbed the tablet in disbelief, flipped through it for a few times, and found that the result was indeed correct. His jaw almost dropped.
"Who is he?!" He pointed at Qi and asked Ke Jin in a trembling voice, as if he hoped that the other party would tell him that this was a dream and it was not real at all.
Ke Jin thought about it and answered seriously.
"...Well, he is the gatekeeper for my card pool."
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