At 6:30 in the evening, the power players who had finished their meal entered the game together. As soon as Xie Mingzhe entered his personal space, he heard a system notification sound: "You have a new email. Please check it on the LCD screen in the living room."

He followed the prompt and went to open his mailbox.

Official email: "The 10th Star Card Professional League will officially start on August 10th, and the ticket booking channel for the event is now fully open..."

Official email: "To welcome the new season, sign in for five days from August 1st to 10th to receive an anniversary card..."

Xie Mingzhe was dazzled by the long row of official emails.

Recently, it is the critical period for the new season. There are many official activities and dense notification emails piled up. Xie Mingzhe is too lazy to continue reading them, so he simply closes the mailing list. Brother Qi happened to invite him to join the team, so Xie Mingzhe joined his team and continued to upgrade to White Egret Star.

***

At this time, the black market.

"Hasn't that fat uncle replied to you yet?" Canyang looked at Shuangshuang and asked.

"I clearly sent him an email, maybe he's not online?" Shuangshuang looked frustrated.

"..." Canyang frowned and was silent for a moment, then said, "If he replies to you, tell me immediately. If you find him on the black market, contact him immediately and tell him that I want to buy a large number of his cards and ask him to come and talk to me in person."

"Okay, Vice President." Shuangshuang watched the Vice President leave anxiously, feeling very guilty. She had just played the game for more than a month and didn't know much about battle cards. Originally, it was her master who was in charge of the guild's stall in the black market. Today, her master had something to do and asked her to take over. She didn't notice how special the skills of this Wu Song card were. If she had thought about it more at the time, she wouldn't have let Fatty go so easily.

Now, it's hard to contact Uncle Fatty. Shuangshuang gritted her teeth and turned around to send another email to Uncle Fatty.

At the end of the street, Hong Cang still hadn't waited for the person he wanted to see at the "Beauty Card Purchasing Booth" he opened in the black market. Hong Cang was getting impatient, so he simply called all the elders of the guild over for a private meeting: "Everyone, search the black market in the next few days, pay attention to the back of all original cards, and if you find a card with the original LOGO of 'Yueban', immediately track down the seller and find out who this person is as soon as possible!"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment - Yueban? How did this guy offend Sister Hongzhu? Seeing how Sister Hongzhu gnashed her teeth, she almost wanted to skin him alive. I was really worried for him.

***

Canyang took Wusong Card back to the guild base and handed it to the chief guild master Huanyue.

Huanyue's real identity is the card expert of the Judgement Club, and he is quite knowledgeable about card data. After seeing this card, his eyes suddenly lit up, and his first reaction was to immediately take the card back to his personal space, and Canyang naturally followed him.

The two of them came to the card operation table in the study. Huanyue took out several sets of experience star stones of different levels from the display cabinet. He first fed the card with experience until it reached level 20, then fed it with two-star fragments to evolve it to two stars, and then fed it with experience until it reached level 30, evolving it to three stars...

In a blink of an eye, several million experience star stones and 600 evolution fragments of different levels were all fed to Wu Song.

The newly acquired level 1, one-star card kept spinning above the console, and the color on the back of the card gradually changed, until finally, the card took on a pure black metallic luster, with a large area of ​​gorgeous fiery red patterns forming on the back.

Level 70, seven-star black card!

Huanyue then picked up the card and looked at the data on it.

Wu Song (Fire)

Level: 70

Evolution Star Level: ★★★★★★★

Available times: 7/7

Basic Attributes: HP 19200, DEF 19200, ATT 19200, AGI 80, Critical Hit Rate 90%

Additional Skills: Wu Song Fights the Tiger (Stretch out your fist and smash the tiger's head, causing huge damage, with an 85% chance of triggering an instant death effect)

Huanyue looked at the data, frowned and asked, "Do you have Nie Shen's White Tiger card?"

Canyang nodded: "Yes. Ni Shen used this card too many times last season. He gave it to me to repair after it was damaged. I just fixed it."

Huanyue: "Let's go to the arena and try it out."

The two looked at each other, then teleported directly from the galaxy map to the Phoenix star field, opened a private battle arena, and added a password.

At the beginning of the fight, Canyang summoned the Seven-Star White Tiger, and the powerful tiger leaped forward and rushed towards the opponent's Wu Song illusion. However, as soon as the white tiger got close, Wu Song clenched his fists and smashed the tiger's head cleanly - the huge white tiger was actually knocked to the ground by him!

Kill in one stroke!

Canyangxin timidly flipped through the arena's battle records.

——Wu Song card releases the skill [Wu Song Fights the Tiger], triggering an instant death judgment and killing the White Tiger card.

Just this one sentence.

It's so simple and crude that it's hard to comment on it.

Huanyue also saw the battle record and said thoughtfully: "Instant death judgment really is a one-hit kill. This is the first time it has appeared in the game, right?"

Canyang was shocked: "I have never seen such a strange skill as 'death upon trigger'!"

Huanyue thought for a moment and said, "Do you have any other high-level cards from other masters? Try exchanging one."

Canyang said, "There is also a Fire Phoenix of the God of Storms."

The Seven-Star Fire Phoenix was summoned with a fiery red body, and its huge wings could almost cover the sky and the sun. The Fire Phoenix suddenly spread its wings, and let out a sharp cry, like a burning flame, and swooped down quickly towards Wu Song on the ground!

Wu Songka immediately punched back, but unfortunately his defense of less than 20,000 was too low, and he was killed instantly by Phoenix's fire group attack skill "Phoenix Dance in the Sky"!

Looking at the image of Wu Song burned to ashes on the ground, Canyang and Huanyue looked at each other in bewilderment.

After a moment of silence, Huanyue analyzed: "The skill of this Wu Song card is too niche. The instant death judgment is only effective against Tiger cards. It has no effect on other types of cards. The attack and defense data can only be regarded as third-rate level - but it is not right to say that it is a useless card, because once it encounters Nie Yuandao, it will be a magic card."

"Who would have nothing better to do than to create a white tiger specifically targeting the god Nie?" Canyang's expression was a little strange. "Does he have a grudge against the god Nie?"

“Who is the author of these cards?”

"A newcomer at level 15, his name is Fatty Uncle."

Fat Uncle? What kind of strange name is this? Huanyue muttered in his heart, turned the card over, and looked at the "half-moon" logo in the lower right corner of the black card. He suddenly felt uneasy and immediately connected to the database, saying, "Search to see how many cards this person has made."

Search for the author's LOGO, and the database will quickly give you the result: 20 photos.

Huanyue was startled: "Could it be that the remaining 19 cards are all Wusong cards and he sold them on the black market?!"

Canyang's face also darkened instantly: "If other clubs receive this card, wouldn't Nie Shen's White Tiger card be useless?"

“…………”The two looked at each other.

As the old president of the referee, Huanyue has always been calm, but now he can't be calm.

——Instant death sentence, damn instant death sentence!

This kind of judgment has never appeared in the game. Many people may not understand what "triggering instant death" means, and they think that "instant death" is similar to the "instant disability" of gold cards. Therefore, people who buy and sell cards on the black market are not very clear about the value of this Wu Song card.

However, professional players and top executives of major guilds are aware of this judgment.

Because this is a brand new type of skill judgment that was recently added to the database!

At the summary meeting of last season, Tang Muzhou suddenly proposed the concept of "one-for-one functional card" to give the card an "instant death effect".

It is said that at that conference, the professional players were divided into two factions and engaged in a war of words. One faction agreed with Tang Shen's concept and supported the addition of instant-kill cards to the database; the other faction strongly opposed it, believing that such cards would affect the balance of the game and were not reasonable at all.

Tang Muzhou smiled gracefully. He listed many reasons for adding instant death cards, and finally said: "The emergence of instant death cards will greatly enrich the tactics on the field. Don't you want to make a card that can kill my thousand-year-old sacred tree unexpectedly?"

Contestants: “…………”

Tang Shen’s hatred was really steady this time. Anyone who had been tied up by his sacred tree wanted to kill this annoying sacred tree in seconds.

What was unexpected was that Nie Yuandao, who had always been at odds with Tang Muzhou, actually supported Tang Shen's idea.

Nie Yuandao said calmly, "The threat of instant death cards is not as great as everyone thinks. If the authorities can regulate the data, the most they can do is to disable the one-for-one function. Using instant death cards to replace the opponent's magic cards will make the tactics of the game more varied. I agree with Tang Muzhou's suggestion."

Water player Qiao Xi said with a smile: "I also think that Tang Shen's idea is very good. The cards with instant death judgment appearing on the field can win by surprise at the critical moment. Otherwise, if someone puts a card with more than 200,000 HP there, I don't want to continue playing the game."

The Earth Element representative Zheng Feng, who was named, touched his nose and said, "The River God is talking about my White Elephant with 200,000 HP, right? I also think its HP is too high. I feel embarrassed that it takes everyone a long time to play in every game."

Everyone: "...Get lost!"

To prevent a fight, the alliance chairman immediately maintained order: "Okay, let's start voting now."

In the end, Tang Muzhou's proposal was passed by the general meeting of the Professional Alliance.

The alliance will submit the recommendations to the authorities, who will decide on their adoption after discussion.

In order to adjust the balance of the cards, the official team of data engineers held several meetings and conducted detailed formula deductions to determine the range of data such as life, attack, and defense of instant death cards. This process took more than half a year and was only officially announced last month.

The official announcement said that "instant death judgment" has been added to the skill database, but the requirements are very strict.

First of all, a card with "instant death judgment" can only have one instant death skill, and its targeting cannot be too broad. For example, cards like "instant death of plants", "instant death of animals", and "instant death of humans" are not allowed to appear - instant death judgment can only target cards of a certain subcategory.

Secondly, as long as a card has an "instant death judgment", this type of card will be classified as a "one-time function card" and its attack and defense attributes must be very low. In other words, after releasing the skill, it will die immediately, achieving a "one-for-one" effect at most, so as not to affect the balance of the competition.

In addition, the league has also issued a corresponding rule - that is, a maximum of one death card can be brought into each game, and it can be used as a secret weapon.

The official announcement was released not long ago, and many players in the game may not have noticed it. After all, every time an update is released, there are a lot of announcements, and people who don't specialize in card research will not pay attention to news like "the skill database adds instant death judgment."

Currently, experts in card research in major clubs are trying to make this kind of card with a "sure-kill effect". Huanyue does not know the progress of other clubs, but the Nie Shen and Lan Shen of the Judgement Club have not been made yet. Unexpectedly, they were beaten to it by a man called "Fat Uncle", and he even made a Wu Song card targeting tiger-type cards - directly targeting Nie Shen!

If Nie Shen knew that he agreed with Tang Muzhou's idea to increase the instant death judgment, but someone made a card that triggered an instant death against his White Tiger Card so quickly, would he be furious?

This card must not be found by any other club!

Huanyue frowned and made a quick decision. "Immediately arrange for people to conduct a carpet search of the black market! Buy back all the cards with the original LOGO of 'Yueban', especially the Wu Song card. Don't miss any!"

***

The black market hasn't been this busy for a long time.

The players setting up stalls in the black market were confused - why were so many managers from Fenghua and Judgment crowding the black market?

Hong Cang's head was about to explode when she saw the familiar IDs coming and going. Many elders of the Judgment suddenly appeared in the black market and searched carefully at the card booths, as if they were looking for some cards. She felt particularly uneasy, and always felt that the Judgment had bought back the Daiyu card. And Canyang had the same idea as Hong Cang, thinking that the Fenghua Guild had bought the other Wu Song cards and was looking for the original author.

The two people were suspicious of each other, but when they met, they pretended to greet each other calmly: "Sister Hong, are you still in the black market?"

Hong Candle pretended to be calm: "Well, I was just wandering around because I was bored."

Canyang smiled with a fake smile: "Me too, what a coincidence!"

Red Candle: "Yeah, what a coincidence."

The two of them greeted each other politely, but in their hearts they had already cursed each other a hundred times.

A moment later, the news that a large number of managers from the Fenghua Guild and the Judgment Guild appeared in the black market spread throughout the undercover circle.

The presidents of other guilds were all very confused when they received the news.

What happened? The two big guilds suddenly started to search the black market. Could it be that powerful cards appeared in the black market again?

As a result, other large guilds also began to take action.

"Although I don't know why, we'll go join in the fun." said the president of Liushuang City.

"Go to the black market and see what they are looking for?" the president of the Dark Night City ordered calmly.

"Is there a card-making genius appearing in the black market?" Lei Lifengxing, the president of the Temple of the Gods, came over in person.

Less than ten minutes later, a large group of guild managers arrived at the black market to join in the fun.

Hongzhu really wanted to cry. Who bought the other Daiyu cards? Canyang also wanted to curse. Fatty made 20 cards, but he only bought one Wu Song. Could it be that the remaining 19 cards were all Wu Song and were bought by major clubs? !

The black market is in chaos.

The streets were full of big shots with titles like "XX Guild Vice President" and "XX Guild Manager". Players setting up stalls took photos with the presidents. Xie Mingzhe, the culprit who completely disrupted the black market, was happily leveling up in the cave of White Egret Star with his friends.

Senior Brother Qi asked, "Uncle Fatty, you bought so much nebula paper before, saying you wanted to try making original cards. Did you succeed in the end?"

Xie Mingzhe smiled and said, "I just made two of them at random. Their basic properties were not very good, so I sold them on the black market and made some pocket money."

Sisi asked excitedly, "Uncle Fat, what kind of card did you make? Can you show it to me?"

"They are all character cards. They have all been sold. I will make a few more for you to collect in the future!"

Senior Brother Qi suggested in the tone of an old player: "It's true that character cards with poor attributes can't be sold at a good price, but it's good to make some pocket money. Making cards consumes a lot of mental energy. Don't make too many at once, otherwise it will burn your brain."

Xie Mingzhe nodded: "Yeah. I'll make ten more tonight and then call it a day."

——If Hongzhu and Canyang heard this, they would probably be so angry that they die.

Xie Mingzhe is actually very innocent because he knew nothing about any of this.

He was just a novice who had just started playing card games. In his opinion, there were countless cards in the Star Card World, and the attack and defense of the cards that could be sold at a high price all started at tens of thousands. For example, the Tuberose card that would sell for a high price at auction had 100,000 health points and 50,000 defense points. The Daiyu card he made only had 15 points of defense, and it would be less than 1,000 points if upgraded to seven stars. The attack and defense of the Wu Song card were not high either, so it would definitely not sell for a good price.

He had no idea that the instant death judgment skill had just been added to the database a few days ago and had never appeared in this game before - he thought this skill was very common!

People from the two major guilds searched the black market for the cards made by "Yueban".

Presidents like Hongzhu and Canyang are going crazy.

Xie Mingzhe, however, is very leisurely.

He followed Senior Brother Qi and Sisi in the cave of White Egret Star, chatting and killing monsters.

He had to reach level 35 as soon as possible and join Brother Chen's team. After all, he was now an official power leveler and couldn't neglect his work.

As for the cards, he planned to take some time tonight to make ten Wu Song cards, and then sell them on the black market to earn some pocket money.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it’s still meat. If you produce it in batches, you can always make some money!

The author has something to say: I believe this has explained a lot of people's doubts. The concept of instant death was proposed by Tang Muzhou, and Xie Mingzhe was the first to create instant death cards with his unique imagination. Daiyu is the first instant death card in the Star Card game, and Wu Song is the second, which is just aimed at Tang Muzhou who proposed the concept of instant death/Nie Yuandao who supported instant death cards.

Tang/Nie: Are we digging our own grave?

This is the setting. Everyone just watch the protagonist make cards happily, don't get too hung up on it, and ignore any parts that are not serious enough.