Fenghua Club.

After Tang Muzhou returned to the dormitory, he took out his helmet and logged into the Star Card World.

Two characters appeared in front of him. The first character's ID was "Tang". He looked very similar to Tang Muzhou himself and wore a silver mask. This was the character he created when he first entered the game six years ago. It was also this character that made him famous in the black market and became an original poker player in the professional alliance.

The second character is the system's default adult male character No. 1, who looks like a passerby in the game. His ID is "7456789", which is a random string of random characters. It is obviously a fake account. He uses this fake account to complete the debris collection missions in the game. Every time he develops a new card, he will give it to the fake account to play in the arena to test the card data.

Tang Muzhou chose to enter the game with his trumpet and was transported to the black market on the Business Star.

Hong Cang was setting up a stall to look for someone. When he turned around, he suddenly saw a passerby ID in the crowd. The string of scrambled numbers looked particularly familiar. Hong Cang immediately walked over and asked in a private voice chat: "God Tang, you really came to the game?"

"Hmm. Any clues about the author of that card?"

"I sent dozens of people to search the black market, but the Daiyu card was still nowhere to be found. There was no 'half-moon' logo on the back of other original cards. It was as if that person had suddenly disappeared..."

"I'll go look for it myself." Tang Muzhou turned and walked away.

He made his debut in the black market and is very familiar with this place.

There are two types of card stalls on the black market. One type is merchants who buy and sell original cards. These bosses are relatively professional and can distinguish good cards from junk cards. The other type is players who set up stalls casually and only look at the appearance of the cards and buy them at low prices to collect.

Some casual card players never play in the arena, nor do they like to study card data. They just like to collect all kinds of beautiful cards and fill up the display cabinets in their study, which gives them a sense of accomplishment.

If Daiyu's skill of burying flowers was bought by a professional boss, it would definitely appear at an auction or be sold to a large guild for a large sum of money. Since it has not been found, it may have fallen into the hands of casual players who like to collect character cards. These stall owners bought the cards back and put them in the display cabinet without upgrading or training them, and summoned them out of boredom for viewing.

Tang Muzhou discovered that many managers of large guilds such as Judgment and Liushuang City were also browsing the black market, picking and choosing at various stalls.

As Hong Candle said, the black market in the game has become a mess.

He didn't know the market back then, and sold several excellent vine battle cards at low prices on the black market, which disrupted the black market and attracted the search of various guilds. After many years, such a scene appeared again - the card author really looked like him.

Tang Muzhou smiled slightly, turned around and strolled leisurely in the black market.

"Boss, are there any character cards worth collecting? I would like to buy them at a high price." Tang Muzhou asked politely.

Tang Muzhou bypassed some large battle card booths and specifically asked at small booths selling collectible cards. He asked more than a dozen booths in a row, but got nothing. Until he came to a very cute girl.

When the girl heard this question, she smiled and said, "I have two, but I don't want to sell them."

Tang Muzhou said gently, "I'm very interested in the character cards. Can you show me the cards in your collection?"

"Well... okay." Perhaps because the other party's attitude was too gentle, the girl finally took out two character cards.

——It was indeed Lin Daiyu.

Tang Muzhou played with the card in his hand and said, "I really like the style of this card. Can you sell it to me for 500 gold coins?"

"This card is very beautiful. I bought it for my collection and don't want to sell it."

"1,000 gold coins."

"…" I bought it for 50 and sold it for 1000, which was 20 times the amount. The girl was so happy that she made a lot of money. She immediately handed the card to the other party: "Okay, I'll sell it to you!"

"Thank you." Tang Muzhou put away the card and asked with pretended curiosity, "Do you remember the name of the person who sold you this card?"

"Remember it, it's a very friendly name, Fatty Uncle."

——Fat uncle? No wonder the logo is called "Half Moon", is it really a fat uncle?

Tang Muzhou put away the cards, said goodbye to the girl, turned around and came to the red candle booth, and said in a private chat: "I bought two Daiyu cards, which were collected by a girl. I also found out the name of the author, which is Fat Uncle."

"..." Hong Cang was stunned where she was. She had been searching for the entire afternoon but couldn't find any information about the author of the cards. But when Tang Shen stepped in, he even found the author's name. He really deserves to have started out in the black market!

Tang Muzhou continued in private voice chat: "Send an email to Uncle Fatty as soon as possible and tell him that we want to buy a large number of Daiyu cards. Also, send someone to keep a close eye on the auction house. If this person makes a new card, he might auction it off.

"Okay... Tang Shen, are you still not going to sleep?"

"Play a few games of Arena before going to sleep."

Tang Muzhou tends to feel sleepy in the afternoon but is particularly energetic at night. Hong Cang doesn't want to persuade him and is busy sending emails.

***

Xie Mingzhe was lying on the bed at this time, sleeping soundly.

He had a beautiful dream. He dreamed that he made a batch of top-quality character cards and became the most popular card maker in the Star Card World. He took the cards to an auction house and sold them for a sky-high price. Countless people surrounded him and screamed excitedly. The screams at the auction were deafening. At first, he couldn't hear them clearly, but later he gradually heard them clearly.

Fat God! Fat God! Fat God, Fat God, Fat God!

"..." Xie Mingzhe was awakened by the shock.

Touching his skinny body, he regretted naming himself "Fat Uncle". If he became famous in the future, would he be chased by people and called "Fat God" just like in his dream?

Fortunately, there are also beautiful scenes in dreams, such as his cards being very popular.

He will work hard towards this goal.

Now he has 300,000 in his card. For him, the salary of a coach is nothing. He can just quit and make a fortune by selling cards. But Xie Mingzhe doesn't want to do that. Not to mention that it was Brother Chen who helped him in his most difficult time. Since he signed the coaching contract, he should abide by his promise. At least he will stick to the contract this month and wait for the girl who took leave to get married to come back.

Today happened to be Saturday, and everyone went online together. Brother Chen directly formed a team and took everyone to Venus to play the dungeon. In the morning, they played the dungeons of the five resource stars of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. After playing the dungeons, Xie Mingzhe gained a lot of knowledge, and the settings of the five types of creatures also gave him a lot of inspiration.

After a day's work, Xie Mingzhe logs off immediately to avoid a headache - he wants to combine work with rest and give himself some time to think carefully.

He turned on his worn-out laptop and logged into the official website of the game "Star Card Storm".

The official website was very gorgeous, and once he entered it it was like entering a realistic starry sky. He found the "announcement area" and entered it - recently it was full of announcements related to the professional league, the new season, and various activities, densely listed on an entire page.

He flipped forward a few pages and saw a bold news item that read "Annual Update Announcement of Star Card Storm".

The news was released on July 25, just one week ago.

Xie Mingzhe quickly scanned the announcement and captured the key information about the instant death skill.

Firstly, "instant death judgment" was added to the skill database, but the production requirements for instant death cards were very strict - the card face and skill settings were unified, with only one instant death skill, which could only target a small category of cards, and the card's own defense must be very low, so while killing others instantly, the card itself would also be quickly killed.

Secondly, you can only bring one instant death card into the arena, which can be used as a "tactical card" to achieve a surprise victory, and you cannot bring more than one.

Xie Mingzhe now completely understood why his Lin Daiyu card had only 15 points of defense?

Because Lin Daiyu's skills are too strong, her defense must be weak.

The same goes for Wu Song, because he has an instant death judgment, his attack and defense attributes are only third-rate.

When Xie Mingzhe was making the cards, he concentrated his mental energy on the segments of "burying" the flowers and "beating" the tiger. These two cards happened to perfectly match the settings of the official database, so the instant death judgment appeared by chance.

After figuring this out, Xie Mingzhe continued to search for information about the professional alliance.

Pang Yu previously said that the referee was one of the "six giants" of the alliance, and he wanted to find out the true strength of the referee.

Due to the large number of professional poker players in recent years, clubs of all sizes have sprung up one after another. Among them, Fenghua Club, Judgment Card Alliance, Dark Night City, Liushuang City, Temple of the Gods and Guiyu are the six clubs with the longest history and the strongest strength, which are the "six giants" mentioned by Pang Yu. They have a lot of fans. These six clubs have cultivated countless excellent poker players and are backed by big financial groups. They are the first-tier clubs of the professional league. There are too many other second-tier and third-tier clubs to count.

President Huanyue did not lie to him. The Referee Club is indeed a very powerful club. Nie Yuandao and Shanlan are also great players at the top of the league's pyramid. Especially Nie Yuandao, who has been playing in the competition since the first season, and it has been almost ten years now. Other great players have to call him "senior" when they see him.

If it were an ordinary person, he would definitely be tempted if the top club in the circle took the initiative to extend an olive branch.

Xie Mingzhe was indeed moved at the time, but in the end, reason overcame impulse.

He was poor before, and before he sold the copyright of Wu Song Card, he only had 200 yuan in his card. Of course, he likes money, but he is not short-sighted - his most valuable thing is his imagination, and the experience of rebirth is a "priceless treasure".

Sign a contract as a designer and hand over all the card copyrights to the club? Only a fool would agree to that!

He would rather be a freelance card designer, making whatever cards he likes without being restricted by any club rules.

He will no longer sell copyrights in the future, only cards.

Wu Song only targets tigers, and the copyright price is 300,000.

Daiyu's target is more general - flowers.

Even if the copyright is not sold, and only the Daiyu Card is sold, a single Daiyu Card can definitely be sold for a good price.

Selling it at a low price on the black market would be a huge loss. He should take the Daiyu Card to another high-end place.

——Auction house!