Ke Jin erected a long wooden pole next to the gate and hung the poster on it, which served as the card pool's signboard for promotion.
Of course, the price written on the poster is still "10 Star Coins per draw", but the promotion of "1 draw for free when you buy 10 draws" has been crossed out. In Ounuo's own words, "Not only are you selling at a low price, you're also giving it away in bulk?! Are you crazy!!!"
Ke Jin felt that if he refused to compromise, it would not be him who would go crazy, but Ounuo. He could only swallow his pride and cancel the promotion.
After finishing the poster, Ke Jin said hello to Ou Nuo and went to the town.
The location of his card pool was too remote. After living here for two days, no one even passed by the door. He had to find a way to expand the publicity channels. He was unfamiliar with the place and had no experience in running a card pool, so he could only seek help from professionals.
***
The busiest place in the town in the morning is the market, and most of the card pool courtyards are empty. As soon as Ke Jin stepped into the courtyard that was not unfamiliar, Gu Qianqian's cheerful voice came.
"Hey, good morning, little brother Xiao Ke, why are you here?"
Gu Qianqian is three years older than Ke Jin, and they get along well. During their previous chat, she jokingly said that she wanted to recognize him as her younger brother. This greeting immediately attracted a lot of attention, and Ke Jin realized that in addition to Gu Qianqian, there were a few strangers in the yard. They sat around a small stone table in the corner of the yard, as if they were discussing something.
"Come, let me introduce you. This is the new card user in town, Ke Jin, whom I mentioned to you." Gu Qianqian pulled Ke Jin in front of the others and introduced him generously, "Xiao Ke, these are my card makers and card renewal masters, but most of them are part-time. You can leave your contact information with each other, maybe it will be useful in the future."
When the card pool reaches a certain scale, it is too busy for the card master alone to handle it, and it is necessary to hire card makers and card renewal masters. Gu Qianqian's card pool is actually of average scale, and she didn't need so many people originally, but now it is summer vacation, many students go home for vacation, and the number of people who come to draw cards and read novels has increased sharply, so Gu Qianqian temporarily hired a few more card masters.
Dadas Town is a very inconspicuous town under Qixing City. There haven't been new card pools and new card users for a long time. Now a newcomer suddenly appears. Everyone is very curious and immediately come to shake hands with Ke Jin enthusiastically and pass their electronic business cards to him - they are all students at Qixing City Card Master School, and they come here to work part-time during the summer vacation to gain experience. If Ke Jin can hire them, they will be happy to do so.
After everyone exchanged greetings, Gu Qianqian gave those people some instructions and then pulled Ke Jin to the small wooden table on the other side of the yard.
"You didn't come here just to visit, did you?" Gu Qianqian skillfully poured a cup of tea for Ke Jin. "Tell me, what do you want to talk to me about?"
As expected, she was a sharp-eyed big sister. She knew that he would come to her for no reason before she even opened her mouth. Ke Jin scratched his head embarrassedly and said that he had already opened a card pool and now needed to learn some experience in card pool operation.
"You've already opened the card pool? And completed the first draw?" Gu Qianqian opened her mouth in surprise, "So fast!"
Ke Jin nodded and took out his first draw card and handed it to Gu Qianqian. The first draw card of each card pool is a special card, with the card level displayed on the front and the attribute introduction of the card pool marked on the back.
As soon as Gu Qianqian saw the golden "SSR", she couldn't take her eyes away. She stared at it for three full minutes. After a while, crystal tears slowly flowed from her beautiful eyes.
"Sister Qianqian?" Ke Jin was shocked - why did she suddenly start crying? ?
“It’s actually an SSR card…” Gu Qianqian muttered, her hands shaking like a devout believer seeing the true God descend. She looked as if she wanted to kowtow on the spot. “I, Gu Qianqian, actually got to see an SSR card once in my life! Wuuuuuuuu! Oh my God! I’m not dreaming!!”
Ke Jin: “………………”
Gu Qianqian was so excited that she couldn't control herself. After getting Ke Jin's consent, she took the first card and ran to the small team of card masters at the other end of the yard. Soon, there was a commotion over there, with gasps and exclamations coming one after another.
I don't know what Gu Qianqian said, everyone left their seats and rushed into the house in a hurry, and then ran out carrying some table mats and bottles and jars. Everyone was busy for a while, and directly set up a small altar next to the card pool in the middle of the yard, just like bathing, burning incense and offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors.
Ke Jin was completely dumbfounded.
Seeing everyone placing their SSR gold cards on the top of the altar, a group of people knelt devoutly in front of the altar and began to chant something, Ke Jin was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.
...Is this some kind of cult activity going on? ?
Before Gu Qianqian joined the group, Ke Jin quickly pulled her aside and asked in amazement.
"What are you doing?"
"We want to absorb some good luck." Gu Qianqian said shyly, sweeping away her previous cheerfulness and boldness, and even a little nervous - just now Ke Jin agreed to lend her the card, didn't that mean he tacitly agreed to perform the "absorb good luck ceremony"? Did the other party regret it at the last minute?
"Is it really that serious?!" Although he had read the information provided by the system several times, Ke Jin was still stunned by the tough "customs" of this world. "And this card was not drawn by me! It was... drawn by a transportation master." And he was a part-time transportation master.
"It's incredible luck to be able to hire a fortune teller who can draw such an awesome first card!" Gu Qianqian suddenly got excited, her eyes red again, "Back then I sold everything I had and even took out a loan from the bank to raise two million, but I only managed to draw an SR!"
The first card Gu Qianqian drew from the card pool was of "SR" grade, which was not bad, but not very good either. When she awakened and became a card master, her family was overjoyed. The whole family went around raising money, and the bank also had a loan discount for card masters, so she made a desperate effort and invited the most famous fortune teller in Qixing City to help her fortune. Unfortunately, the card she finally drew was only an "SR".
She has been running the business diligently for five years, but the size of the card pool has not expanded. In addition to the low consumption level in the small town, the main reason is that her card pool is destined to be unable to draw "SSR" cards, and cannot attract those "card hunters" who travel around the country and spend a lot of money for SSR cards. This will always be Gu Qianqian's biggest regret.
"You spent two million..." Ke Jin murmured, "I... I spent one hundred million."
Ke Jin had looked at the system panel before. Maybe because it was a verbal deal with Ounuo, the 100 million was not counted in his debt, but Ke Jin did not intend to deny it. After all, from a long-term perspective, the first draw of the card pool is indeed very important, and he also received a lot of rewards from the system. He did not feel that this deal was a loss, but he did not know when he could save up the 100 million...
Gu Qianqian was also shocked by the "one hundred million" and suddenly became quiet. But what she thought of was -
Who said "The supernatural cannot save the innocent, and money cannot change fate"? ? Spending a lot of money is really worth it! ! Wow, I wish I could have borrowed 100 million back then...
***
Ke Jin stayed with Gu Qianqian for the whole morning, listening to her talk about her experience in operating the card pool over the years, and felt that he had gained a lot. When saying goodbye, Gu Qianqian gave him instructions.
"By the way, you should report to the Qixing City Card Pool Management Bureau right away. Let alone SSR, even if you get an SSR for the first time, the director will send you a congratulatory message! Maybe you can apply for government support funds on the spot!"
Ke Jin still had no idea about the status of the SSR card, and he couldn't empathize with Gu Qianqian and the others' excitement for the time being, but when the other party mentioned "support funds", he instantly perked up. After all, there were only more than 500 star coins left in his savings crystal card.
"Really?" Ke Jin said happily, "Then I will report it tomorrow."
It rained at around 9:00 in the morning. Ke Jin didn't feel it when he was indoors, but he felt how difficult it was to walk on the muddy loess road on his way back. It took him half an hour to walk a 15-minute journey. When he stepped into his yard, he saw a little head lying on the window of the house shrinking back. When he entered the house, the person only left him the back of his head and was angry and unwilling to pay attention to him.
Knowing that the other party was still upset about the "ten star coins per draw" pricing, Ke Jin was also quite helpless. He thought about it and went to the card pool in the yard to draw a snack card.
Although Ke Jin is a card user, the only way to obtain cards in the real world is to draw from the card pool. A card user has three chances to draw cards from his own card pool for free every day. Ke Jin did not spend star coins this time, and the one he drew was an R-card "Red Bean Paste Bread", which made him feel like he had made a profit.
He swiped the R card on the card reader, and the card immediately turned into a real object - a square transparent bag with an "R" marked on the lower right corner. It contained five or six individually wrapped red bean paste buns, each one was round and plump, with a brown and crispy crust, and looked delicious.
"Make up for your dessert." Ke Jin placed the bag of red bean paste bread in front of the boy like he was presenting a treasure. "This is the second draw from the card pool. Come and try it, huh?"
Oloy slowly turned his head and glanced at the packaging bag. His already ugly expression suddenly became even darker.
"Are you stupid?" He glared at Ke Jin fiercely, "Or are you trying to humiliate me on purpose?!"
"ah?"
"This is a binding card. No one else can use it except you!"
Ke Jin was stunned for a moment, then quickly looked at the packaging bag and found that there were indeed three small words at the bottom - "Binding Card".
In this world, cards can be roughly divided into two types: one is a "bound card" that can only be used by the person who draws the card, and the other is a "circulation card" that can be used by everyone. Ke Jin's R card is a bound card, which means that only he can eat this bag of red bean paste bread, and others can only look at it and cannot even touch it.
"And it's an R card!" Oloi continued to angrily condemn, "You use this kind of rubbish card to fool me. You don't have any sincerity to repent! Do you know that it is basic etiquette to use an SSR card to please others?"
"SSR card..." Ke Jin's mouth twitched, "That has to be something I can draw..."
As a card master, he is in charge of the entire card pool, which is like owning three thousand beauties in the harem. However, he cannot summon any of the most beautiful wives in the harem, and cannot even touch them. He can only watch and drool. He... he is also very frustrated!
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