A few days later, the "Kaleidoscope" card store.
The wind chimes at the door of the store made a crisp sound, and a new customer came in.
This was a middle-aged man with a serious face. Unlike other young customers, he did not wander around the store with the mentality of shopping. Instead, he went straight to a shelf in the center of the store. After carefully examining the compartments on the shelf, he took out his communicator and compared it with a picture on it, then decisively waved to call the clerk.
"Hello, I want the two cards in this grid, um, the R's honey caramel biscuits and animal cookies."
The saleslady helped him take out the two cards with a warm smile and pointed in the direction of the counter: "Sir, please go to the counter over there to settle the bill. Have a happy shopping."
Just as the man was about to pay, a middle-aged man with a beard came towards him. When he saw the two cards in the clerk's hand, he naturally reached out to take them.
"Oh, have you taken it out for me? I don't need to pack it, just give it to me directly."
The shop assistant and the serious man: “???”
The store manager's voice came from the counter: "Xiao Wu, the customer has already paid, just give him the two cards."
The clerk opened her mouth slightly: some customers will go to the front desk to pay first and then come to pick up the cards. Under normal circumstances, she just needs to hand the cards to the customers, but the problem now is - she subconsciously glanced at the empty grid - there are only the last two cards left.
The serious man naturally realized this problem, and immediately stepped forward and stretched out his hand to stop the bearded man.
"I was the first to ask for these two cards. You have to follow the first come first served rule." Then he reiterated to the salesgirl, "These two cards are mine!"
The bearded man took a look at the empty boxes and immediately understood the current situation: Oh, it turns out that he bought some leftovers. Since there are only these two left, he must try harder to get them. Who knows when the next supply will be? He can't stand being nagged by that little ancestor at home all day long!
"It's first come, first served. I've paid, so I'll go first. You go and cool off." The bearded man said bluntly.
"I paid too!" The serious man quickly stuffed thirty star coins into the stunned clerk's hand and reached for the card.
"Fuck! Do you have any shame? How dare you snatch something from me?!"
Seeing that the two were about to fight, the waitress stepped forward to mediate: "Two guests, calm down and talk it over nicely... Uh, can you each buy one? That way, everyone can have a share..."
"Why?! No!" the two people said in unison, and the salesgirl was immediately frightened and fell silent.
The commotion here quickly attracted the attention of everyone in the store. The manager heard something was wrong and quickly left from behind the counter and rushed over here.
However, before he got close, he saw one of the two people arguing suddenly raised his fist, and the other kicked out unwillingly. The two instantly went from pushing and shoving each other to a fierce fight, and knocked over the shelves next to them in the melee. Amid the huge collapse sound, customers in the store screamed and ran out, and several female clerks turned pale and trembled.
"Call the police, call the police, call the police quickly!" The store manager's heart was broken when he saw the mess in the room, and he shouted towards the inner room in a very collapsed voice.
"Xiao Wu, haven't you contacted the card clerk named Ke yet?!"
I don't know what happened these past few days, but the number of people who came to buy the snack cards deposited by that card master increased dramatically. They all asked which card pool the cards were produced from, but when consigning the cards, the card master only registered his name and phone number, and did not write the card pool address at all.
Although the store manager wanted to contact the card agent named "Ke Jin" to get things sorted out, he didn't know whether the information left by the other party was wrong or there was something else, and he couldn't get through to this person's phone.
"No..." Xiao Wu, the clerk in the inner room who was in charge of contact, was about to cry. She had to call that number every hour these days. Even her dreams were filled with the barrage of that number, which drove her crazy.
"I really tried my best, but he hasn't turned on his phone until now, and I can't get in touch with him even if I want to...T___T"
***
"Recently, a vicious fight broke out in a card store on Qixing City's Card Commercial Street. It is reported that the two parties involved, Wang and Liu, had a fierce argument over the only remaining card in the store, which then escalated into a physical conflict. Fortunately, apart from the damage to the shelves in the store, there were no casualties. We would like to remind the general public that not only do you need to keep a clear mind when drawing cards, but you must also abide by the rules and buy cards in a civilized manner when buying cards in the store..."
While eating the latest snack "Fortune Cookies" drawn from Ke Jin's card pool, Gu Qianqian watched the "Daily News" on TV with relish.
"Wow, they fought like this over a card. No wonder the reporters didn't dare to report what the card was...Are they afraid that more people would find out and fight over it? Tsk tsk!"
Gu Qianqian commented nonchalantly while fantasizing happily: "Oh, it would be great if someone could fight for my novel cards someday. Then my card pool and I would be famous! Hahahaha... Xiao Nuonuo, please don't look at me like an idiot, okay? Well, I'm just fantasizing..."
Oloy withdrew his gaze speechlessly, staring at the picture on the screen, narrowing his eyes slightly.
Although only a small part of the mess inside the store was released, why did he feel that the decoration of the store was familiar? It looked like the store where Ke Jin had consigned cards before... Uh, what was the name of that store?
After a news report, commercials began. Taking advantage of this break, Gu Qianqian tilted her head and glanced towards the inner room.
"Ke Jin, is the communicator not repaired yet?"
As if in response to Gu Qianqian's question, a muffled "bang" sound came from the inner room, like something exploded. Then Ke Jin walked out helplessly, wiping the sweat from his face. When he passed by the trash can, he threw the things in his hand into it.
"No, it's completely useless." He shrugged at Gu Qianqian, "After all, it's second-hand. It's not easy to hold on until now."
Gu Qianqian was stunned for a moment, and told the truth: "I think that when it started to malfunction a few days ago, you didn't just throw it away but tried to fix it. This was a very rare idea..." At least if it were me, I would definitely replace it with a new one without saying a word.
"Because there's no need." Ke Jin smiled, "No one has come to me recently anyway, so it's broken. I'll buy a new one when I have time."
After all, apart from advertising and promotion, no one will contact him these days. Let's wait until the card pool reopens!
***
A high-end hotel in Qixing City.
At this moment, a private room was filled with distinguished guests, toasting and chatting, making the place very lively.
Chairman Sun Xuan of the Qixing City Resource Exploration Committee also attended the banquet. He was drunk and in high spirits, as if all the bad luck he had suffered in the past few days had disappeared with this enjoyable dinner.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but President Sun always feels that his luck has been bad since he came back from Dadas. Losing a wallet or breaking a communicator are all minor things. Last week, he was walking on the road and was almost hit head-on by a large truck that ran out of control and rushed into the sidewalk. He was so scared that he started to have a high fever when he returned home and stayed at home for three days.
Heard that drawing cards can verify one's luck, a few days ago he went to a card pool in the commercial street and drew 50 cards, the result was: 30 N, 19 N, 1 R. In his wife's words, that is - "How come your luck is worse than Lao Tai in the card pool? Otherwise... you can take some time to go to the temple to pray?"
President Sun didn't believe in those nonsense and insisted on not going.
Maybe his luck has finally rebounded after hitting rock bottom. Yesterday he received news that the biggest leader in the Chikongzhou Resource System, known as "Old Wu", had come to Qixing City recently to celebrate his father-in-law's birthday.
Qixing City is located in the easternmost part of Chikongzhou. Because it is too far away, the leaders of the prefecture rarely come here. Chairman Sun is also an ambitious person. He does not want to live in Qixing City like Tai Zhaoji and work there until he grows old. Instead, he hopes to be promoted and transferred to the prefecture, where there is more room for development.
But dreams are beautiful, but reality is helpless. Although he has some connections in the state capital, he is still a little short of the right skills. Fortunately, now there is a great opportunity - Mr. Wu actually came to Qixing City!
Even if I cannot establish a relationship right away, as long as I leave a good impression on the other party, when the state government discusses personnel appointments and dismissals in the future, and someone mentions me, if Mr. Wu can vaguely remember me and say "this person is a good one", my hopes of transfer and promotion will be greatly improved!
Good things come in pairs. When President Sun was still racking his brains to figure out how to contact Mr. Wu, he suddenly received an invitation letter - an old classmate of Mr. Wu in Qixing City organized a party and invited many acquaintances to the banquet. One of the invitees had a good relationship with President Sun and knew that President Sun really wanted to attend. In addition, as President Sun was a small leader of the local resource system, it was only right for him to accompany him, so he was invited to join them.
President Sun would not let down such a godsend opportunity. He was very good at making friends at the banquet. Judging from Mr. Wu's attitude, President Sun felt that he had initially achieved his goal and left a good impression on the other party.
The dinner was halfway through and the adults were still enjoying themselves, but a few children who came with their families became a little restless and left their seats and gathered together to entertain themselves.
I don’t know what the children were playing, but they suddenly had a dispute. After a while, Mr. Wu’s little daughter ran to her father with a colorful bag in her hand.
"Dad, do you think this is fake?" She stuffed the bag into Mr. Wu's hand and said confidently in a childish voice, "It doesn't look like an R card at all! It must not be drawn from the card pool!"
While talking and laughing with others, Mr. Wu glanced at him casually. President Sun was about to toast Mr. Wu, so he also glanced at him subconsciously, and then the wine glass in his hand shook and he almost couldn't hold it steady.
Oh my god, isn't this a snack from that crappy card pool in Dadas Town? ?
The things produced by the card pool are of different quality from those produced normally. Although Mr. Wu is not the leader of the card pool bureau, he often deals with the resource system and the card users in the card pool, so he can judge it with just a light touch.
"This is drawn from the card pool." Elder Wu touched his daughter's head and smiled, "Why do you think it's not?"
"Because it doesn't look like an R card at all." The little girl showed a confused expression and scratched her face in confusion. "We all think it's delicious. At least it's SR, and Xiaoyu can't even tell which card pool it was drawn from, so we all think he's cheating."
Xiaoyu is the child of Mr. Wu’s old classmate. He also came over and said unconvincedly, “I’m not lying. This kind of card is very popular in our school now! They all said that this was drawn from our card pool, but… I just don’t know where the card pool is for the time being.”
The people who know the distribution of card pools in a place best are of course the people from the Card Pool Bureau, followed by the local Resource Exploration Committee, so Old Wu immediately looked at Sun Xuan, who happened to be seen by Old Wu before he could hide the surprised expression on his face.
"Xiao Sun, did you recognize it?" Old Wu asked with great interest, raising the snack bag in his hand, "It seems that this really came from the card pool of Qixing City?"
President Sun felt something was wrong and forced a smile.
"It is indeed the card pool of this city... and it's a new card pool." He paused and said with difficulty, "It's the card pool that we reported before, the first draw of SRR."
"Oh...it's that." Old Wu nodded slightly, obviously having some impression of this matter.
"Uncle Sun, where is that card pool?" Old Wu's little daughter blinked her big eyes and asked curiously, "I want to go take a look!"
"I want to too!" Xiaoyu said immediately.
"We want to, too. We want to, too!" The other children also joined in the fun and shouted excitedly.
President Sun: “…”
Why are you going to see it?! To that remote and poor place where even cars can't get through? That rubbish yard where you can eat a mouthful of dirt if you walk a few more steps into the yard? ?
If Mr. Wu could see that their local resources committee barely supported the SSR card pool... his hope of promotion would be gone!!
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