"There's something?" Oloy and Qi were both startled. "What is it?"
Ke Jin had an indescribable strange expression on his face. After a long while, he reluctantly said, "The black silk and black mist inside have spread out. Now... the whole hall outside is full of them."
In fact, he was shocked as soon as he entered the card pool. The last time he came, the black fog and black silk were only blocked in the rooms and had no impact on the outside. But now, the whole hall was filled with gloomy fog, and black silk threads spread out from this door. They seemed to have living tentacles, wriggling and extending into the dried up third and second card pools. They seemed unable to erode the first card pool for the time being, so they were entrenched near it in layers, like jackals eyeing the fat meat within reach.
And it's not just the crystal sand pool, those black silk tentacles have also extended into other rooms. Even without opening the door, Ke Jin can imagine that the situation inside is not very good, especially the various functional rooms in the second card pool, which must have completely collapsed, causing it to become a waste pool.
Qi and Oloy immediately looked around the hall. Unfortunately, they could not see the scene described by Ke Jin at all. However, judging from the worried expression of the black-haired young man, the current situation should be very bad.
"What did Su Yufeng say to you alone at that time?" Oloy suddenly asked, "Did he say that his card pool was completely hopeless?"
Ke Jin nodded, but shook his head after a moment and said concisely: "He said that Ning Qiyuan gave him a predictive card, and then... he saw some things in the future."
——I have to give up this place. If I don’t make any changes, it will soon become a den of demons.
——By then, the entire Seven Star City card pool will be affected, and my father certainly wouldn’t want to see that happen, so… I’m not betraying him, I’m trying to save him.
——Thank you, Ke Jin. But some things...were destined a long time ago.
"Precognitive card?" Qi frowned. "Is it a functional card or a supernatural card? The former is not very accurate, and the latter... although the accuracy is as high as 99.9%, there is still a 0.1% chance of something going wrong."
"Do you believe it?" Ouluo looked at Ke Jin, "Do you think the future that Su Yufeng saw will happen?"
Ke Jin shook his head blankly, "I don't know either... but if I give up without doing anything, I'll always feel unwilling. Besides..." He frowned slightly, "The speed at which the second card pool is falling has suddenly accelerated. I don't believe it has nothing to do with Ning Qiyuan and the others. And if the situation is really serious to the point where we have to give up the card pool, can we solve the problem once and for all by moving the still intact first card pool away and merging it? To put it another way, if Ning Qiyuan and the others really have a way to keep the card pool and curb the 'curse', it means there is still a glimmer of hope here, and we should try to seize it."
Qi seemed to be thinking about something, neither agreeing nor disagreeing; while Oloy chuckled, "I agree."
Although Oloyi's intuition made him think that the prediction card used by Su Yufeng should be a highly accurate ability card, he was never a person who easily believed in "fate". If you lose the motivation to fight because of a prophecy, such a life would be too boring. It would be interesting to make the 0.1% chance of a comeback a reality!
"Since we can't get in here for the time being, let's go check out other rooms first." Ke Jin cast his eyes towards another door next to him - that was the card renewal room for the third card pool. It was closest to the card making room, and perhaps a breakthrough could be found from here.
"Wait." Oloy suddenly walked to the motionless white door, flipped his wrist, and a small silver-white card appeared in his palm, "Let me try."
The boy pressed his palm against the door, and the card in his palm was quickly activated, emitting a bright white light.
Ke Jin discovered that the black mist and black threads emanating from the door froze for a moment. At the same time, the card gradually disappeared in the white light, and the entire door, like the card, began to become blurred and transparent, until it diffused into thousands of light points and melted in the disappearing light of the card.
——The entire door disappeared abruptly.
As the white light disappeared, the stagnant black mist and black silk immediately roared out from the open door like a flood. Qi, who could not see all this, felt his breath choked. The increasingly familiar breath made him instinctively move aside and dare not stand in front of the door; Ke Jin was frightened by the black mist surging out of the door and subconsciously blocked it with his hands; Oloy finally felt something this time - he felt a cool breeze coming towards him, but it was only for a moment, and he felt nothing again.
"How is it?" Oloy turned and looked at Ke Jin, "Can I go in?"
While waving away the fog around him, Ke Jin stuck his head and took a look inside - compared to the last time he came in, it was now so dark inside that he could hardly see his hand in front of him. He doubted whether he could see the road clearly after walking in.
"How do you feel?" He turned and asked Oloy and Qi.
Oloy: "Looks the same as last time."
Qi: "It's so uncomfortable!! I hate it here!"
Ke Jin squinted his eyes and stared for a while, then suddenly pointed to the northwest corner: "Is there anything placed over there?" He felt that the black color over there seemed particularly thick.
Oloy and Qi's sight was completely unobstructed, and they said in unison: "That's the card-making table over there."
"Take me over there to have a look."
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Ke Jin felt that this was a really strange situation.
Only he could see the black mist and black silk, so after he entered the card-making room, he could only hold on to Qi and Oloy's clothes like a blind man and let them lead him to the counter; and those two people, who obviously couldn't see anything, became the ones with the "best vision" at this time, and easily brought Ke Jin to the counter.
Although the thick black fog made the vision very poor, Ke Jin finally saw the scene clearly from such a close distance - there were two tables placed side by side here. Just like his own card pool, various card-making materials were neatly arranged on the table clips, as well as crystal pens and carving knives for card making. However...
Ke Jin shuddered subconsciously. He saw that the entire workbench and materials and tools were covered with a sticky substance. That substance was not black silk, but like asphalt, it was slowly flowing down the workbench, dripping onto the ground drop by drop, just like a person who had cut his wrist and was letting the blood slowly flow out.
"This crystal pen looks quite new." Qi picked up the card-making crystal pen and looked at it carefully.
In his eyes, it was just an ordinary crystal pen; but in Ke Jin's eyes, it was a stick-shaped object covered with sticky and suspicious substances, and he didn't even want to touch it - of course, when Qi's gaze fell on him, Ke Jin still had to quickly pretend nothing had happened and gave him an encouraging smile.
Qi played with the crystal pen for a while, and saw a blank card on the table, so he scribbled on it.
Of course, because the energy crystal sand pool of the third card pool had dried up, this transaction did not leave any trace. Qi and Oloy were not surprised, but Ke Jin suddenly opened his eyes wide and screamed.
"Ah! Did you see that?"
Qi and Ouluoyi looked at Ke Jin in surprise.
"What?" Qi asked.
"The crystal pen flashed just now!" Ke Jin gestured with his hands. Although he also found it unbelievable, he did see it. "It seems that it can capture energy!"
"Huh?" Qi raised his eyebrows and said simply, "Impossible, I didn't feel any energy fluctuations."
When a card master is making a card, he can feel the energy fluctuations transmitted from the crystal sand pool. After all, how to control the crystal pen to output the most suitable energy to make a card is also one of the most important skills of a card master. As a card spirit, he is more sensitive to this energy than ordinary people - this is one of the reasons why his card-making level can easily crush others.
"Maybe there is still some energy left in the crystal pen itself?" Oloy guessed.
"That's impossible, otherwise I would have sensed it long ago." Qi sneered, "There was no crystal sand energy from the card pool just now, at most it was my mental power..."
He suddenly stopped talking, and Oloy was also startled. The two seemed to have thought of something at the same time. They looked at each other strangely, and then looked at Ke Jin in unison.
"Did you really see the crystal pen flash just now?" Oloy asked quickly.
“Yes, yes…”
"What now?" Qi used the crystal pen to draw a few strokes on the blank card.
"It's been flashing all the time." Ke Jin paused, then added, "It's similar to how you usually make cards."
"How about this?" Qi continued to draw a few more strokes.
"Uh... I can't see it." Ke Jin shook his head. "What's going on?"
Qi didn't respond, but suddenly handed the crystal pen to Ke Jin: "You try it."
"ah?"
"Try making a card." Oroi pointed to the blank card with a serious expression. "It doesn't matter if you fail. Just give it a try."
Ke Jin looked at the "crystal pen" covered with sticky substance, and was extremely reluctant to use it. However, Qi and Oloy kept urging him, so Ke Jin could only hypnotize himself, "Actually, there is nothing and I didn't see anything," and stretched out his hand tremblingly.
As soon as Ke Jin held the pen, he felt a chill in his palm. The sticky mucus on the pen seemed to have life, and the speed of its movement suddenly increased, even tending to spread to Ke Jin's hand. Ke Jin's scalp tingled, and he forced himself to look away, focusing only on the blank card in front of him.
Compared to renewing cards, making cards is more difficult. When Bai Fan was still here, Ke Jin often asked him about card making. Later, when Qi came, Ke Jin also followed him to learn for a while, but even so, he could not draw a complete card from beginning to end according to the card formula - just like a person who is born with a lack of musical sense. Even if he practices according to the music score many times, the music he plays is still stumbling, and it is impossible to be completely smooth and natural.
Ke Jin felt that he had no talent for card making, so he studied more about card renewal. Now he suddenly picked up the crystal pen to make cards, which was really uncomfortable. He tried hard to recall the card making process, then focused his mind and began to draw lines on the blank card.
Although the crystal pen did not react at all after he made the first stroke, a tangible trace of energy was left on the blank card—a thin stroke, like a tiny rainbow, quietly emitting brilliant energy fluctuations.
Ke Jin didn't expect that the crystal pen that had lost the energy supply from the card pool could actually make cards, and he was stunned; Qi and Oloy were mentally prepared, but they couldn't help but show surprise, staring at Ke Jin as if they were meeting him for the first time.
Ke Jin quickly suppressed his surprise and continued to draw lines on the card. But for some reason, he felt normal at first, but after drawing more than a dozen strokes, he felt that his hand holding the pen was particularly heavy, and his spirit was particularly tired. He even had fine cold sweat on his forehead and his breathing became rapid.
After making a few more strokes with difficulty, Ke Jin saw that the lines on the card had become crooked like earthworms crawling. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and admitted it helplessly.
"No, I can't control it anymore."
He spread his hands towards Qi and Ono, only to find that they were staring at him without blinking, as if they were looking at a monster.
"Xiao Jin, you are really suitable to be a card user." Qi murmured after a while.
"That's right." Olloy agreed, which was very rare.
"What riddle are you two talking about?" Ke Jin was frowning, "What's going on?"
"Where should I start..." Qi stroked his chin and said slowly.
"Um...Xiao Jin, have you ever heard of 'The Chosen One'?"
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