Xie Mingzhe stared blankly at the numbers scrolling on the screen, and felt deeply his own poverty and insignificance.
While he was worrying about the 800 yuan rent and was happy about finding a job with a monthly salary of 1,500 yuan, in the world of games, these rich people would actually spend tens of thousands of dollars on a small card.
I remember when he was playing online games, there was a local tycoon in his district who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars just to make a weapon. It is said that in many games where equipment is random, local tycoons will easily top up millions of dollars just to make a good set of equipment.
As expected, there is no shortage of rich people in any era. Of course, there is no shortage of poor people in any era. Unfortunately, Xie Mingzhe is a poor man whether he is on Earth or in this time and space.
He doesn't understand the world of the rich, he can only watch the excitement.
The card price on the screen soared to 150,000, and then stopped.
The host said: "150,000 for one time, 150,000 for two times, is there anyone else..."
Before he could utter the word "increase the price", the number suddenly jumped again.
——200,000.
——220 thousand.
——250,000.
——300,000!
Xie Mingzhe stared at the screen with wide eyes. Just now, the price was only a few thousand. Why did the situation suddenly change? Now the price is tens of thousands!
Senior Brother Qi beside him explained in a low voice: "It was just a small fight just now. The real local tycoon has just made a move. The attributes of this seven-star card are very good, 100 agility, extreme double crowd control, plus Tang Muzhou's aura bonus, the price must be more than this number."
Xie Mingzhe: “………………”
Sure enough, the world of the rich is terrible.
The precious cards in this game should be the same as the top-level equipment in other games. Especially since this card has perfect attributes, it seems reasonable to bid it at this price, right?
Xie Mingzhe sighed while continuing to watch the excitement.
***
At the same time, in the office of the Imperial Capital Club.
Xue Linxiang glanced at the young man who was lying on the sofa and yawning continuously, and said gently: "Xiao Tang, this tuberose card is also the result of your hard work. The data is really good. If you don't need it yourself, you can give it to others. Why sell it?" Xue Linxiang looked reluctant.
Tang Muzhou was so sleepy that he was about to fall asleep, his eyelids were fighting. Hearing Sister Xue's voice, he forced himself to stay alert, squinted his eyes and said, "Changfeng, Manman and Xiaoan are not good at plant cards, and they can't play the best effect. It's better to find a more suitable owner for this card."
When he was sleepy, his voice was low and hoarse, which was particularly pleasant to hear.
Xue Linxiang was afraid that he would fall asleep again due to his strange schedule, so she spoke to attract his attention: "That's right, since you can't use it anymore, instead of leaving it in the card display cabinet, you might as well find a new owner who can take good care of it... But, you sold the Tuberose support card, have you chosen the replacement card in your deck?"
"Of course." Tang Muzhou turned on the tablet computer, called up the information of a card, and introduced it, "This card was just made a few days ago. I used a different approach. Sister Xue, take a look at its data."
"..." Xue Linxiang's eyes suddenly widened.
Tang Muzhou sold the Seven-Star Tuberose to make good use of the remaining heat. However, the data of the card that replaced the Tuberose was even more terrifying. She believed that when this card appeared on the field, it would definitely give Tang Muzhou's opponents a splitting headache.
"How did you make this card?" Xue Linxiang turned around and saw that Tang Muzhou had fallen asleep with the computer in his arms.
He takes a nap every afternoon, like a plant wilted by the scorching sun, completely without energy. This strange schedule is simply frustrating. Seeing how deeply he sleeps, Xue Linxiang puts away her laptop and does not wake him up. She goes back to the office to check the schedule of matches that the league has just sent her.
***
The auction site.
The tuberose card was finally sold for 660,000, which is about 66,000 yuan in real currency. It's really 666.
After watching the excitement, Xie Mingzhe walked out of the auction house with his two friends.
The summer sun shines on him, and the realistic effect allows him to feel the warmth in the game - the temperature around him is just right, the weather is good, but his mood is particularly bad.
Rich people can spend tens of thousands on a card, but he is worried about living expenses.
The gap between the rich and the poor is a problem that exists in every world. Xie Mingzhe does not hate the rich. If someone is rich, it is because of their ability. He became an orphan when he was born and had to rely on himself. His starting point was much lower than others.
But he was unwilling to give up.
I am unwilling to be a poor boy again after living my whole life.
In his previous life on Earth, he completed college with a scholarship and planned to find a good job after graduation and live a stable life. At that time, he was very satisfied with that stable life.
But now it's different.
This world is highly technologically advanced, but people's spiritual appetite is extremely lacking, so holographic games like "Star Card Storm" have become popular all over the world. Many players regard this game as a spiritual sustenance, so naturally there are countless people willing to spend money in the game.
From the auction just now, we can see that a pet card "Nine-Tailed Fox" with little attack power was sold for 8,000 gold coins just because it looks cute, and a powerful battle card "Night Jasmine" was sold for a whopping 660,000 game coins, 66,000 real currency!!
If I give him this card, it will be more than enough to cover his living expenses and tuition for four years of college!
Xie Mingzhe was deeply shocked.
He had never played card games before, and since there were so many cards in the game "Star Card Storm", he thought the price of cards would be very cheap, and he could buy one for a few dollars and collect them slowly. Now, seeing those original cards selling for thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, Xie Mingzhe's worldview has been completely refreshed.
Maybe he could make a few original cards and sell them? It doesn't matter if he fails, but what if he succeeds? He doesn't need to sell tens of thousands of cards, even if he can sell one for a few hundred, it will be enough for him to live comfortably for a few days!
Thinking of this, Xie Mingzhe immediately pulled Senior Brother Qi aside and humbly asked, "I just heard you talking about 'original cards'. If players want original cards, are there any special requirements?"
Senior Brother Qi, an experienced player, patiently explained: "The original cards in the game rely on the player's mental strength and talent."
Xie Mingzhe nodded his head like a garlic: "Oh, tell me in detail?"
Senior Brother Qi simply took Xie Mingzhe to a quiet pavilion nearby to sit down. Sisi was also curious and came over to listen to the "veteran player's lecture".
"Spiritual strength, to put it simply, is the ability of your brain nerves to withstand external stimuli. It can be measured in the hospital. Most people have a strength of around 200. Those with a strength of over 260 can take on the most difficult jobs that require the most brainpower in various industries, or play in professional leagues of holographic games."
"..." Xie Mingzhe was stunned. What was his mental strength? When he first woke up in the hospital, Dr. Qin asked a robot to test him, and it seemed to be 300 - yes, at that time the robot pressed the electrode on his temple, and after the test, the number reported was 300!
So, his mental power is still relatively high, at least much higher than the average of 200. Xie Mingzhe was somewhat happy, and continued to ask humbly: "Does the original card in the game also require mental power?"
"Yes." Senior Brother Qi explained in detail, "What content the card has and what skills it has all depend on your mental power to create. For example, if you want to make a plant card, the card you create must be detailed, including what the flower of the plant looks like, how the rhizome grows, the shape of the leaves, how the skills are described, and how the data is distributed. The more specific and detailed the creation is, the better the quality of the card will be."
Xie Mingzhe was stunned - isn't this just like painting?
There are two ways to draw. One is to draw what you see on paper. The other is to draw based on your imagination.
For example, if you want to draw a plant, you must first sketch the plant in your mind, and then put pen to paper to draw the plant in your mind. A good painter can draw something very realistic, even to the point of being indistinguishable from the real thing.
This was not difficult for Xie Mingzhe. He had been a science student in his previous life, but Xie Mingzhe in this world was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts at Imperial University.
I can draw, I have imagination, and my mental power is 300. All the hardware requirements are met, only the software is missing.
Xie Mingzhe rubbed his hands excitedly and asked, "So, after imagining the specific contents of the cards, you can use your mental power to draw them on special card paper in the game and make them into cards. That's it?"
Senior Brother Qi shook his head: "This is just the first step. The more critical step is the card review. The game has a very strict copyright protection system. Your cards must be reviewed by the official card database before they can be used in the game world."
"Copyright protection? What does that mean?" Xie Mingzhe scratched his head in confusion.
"For example, the nine-tailed fox card at today's auction has passed the database review, so the copyright of this card belongs to the original author and others cannot plagiarize it. You cannot imitate it and make an eight-tailed fox card or a seven-tailed fox card, nor can you change its head and make a nine-tailed cat card."
Sisi nodded as if she understood something. "That is to say, we can't modify cards from the deck. We can only create new cards that have never appeared in the deck, right?"
Senior Brother Qi nodded, "Yes. Cards that already exist in the database cannot be treated as original cards after simple modifications, and the skills of existing cards cannot be directly copied. New cards must be made and new skills must be set before they can pass the system's review. If it is a character card, the official has a special requirement. The facial features of the characters in the real world cannot be directly imported. The characters must be original."
Xie Mingzhe suddenly realized.
This official rule is really powerful, and it has stopped a lot of people from copying cards. Doing so can protect the creativity of players to the greatest extent, so that they won't come up with a new idea and have it copied the next day. Character cards cannot be imported from the real world, which also prevents players from maliciously vilifying real people in the game world and giving them strange skills. For example, if you make a classmate into a card and give him a skill of "farting", that would be bad.
Senior Brother Qi added: "More importantly, your card skills need to match the image of the card. For example, the skills of [Night Jasmine], Enchanting Fragrance and Dark Night, are all related to the name of the card. Tang Muzhou's strongest group attack card [Millennium Divine Tree], has a skill called [Death Strangler], which strangles the star card illusion with a large range of wood vines. The reason why his cards are so strong is because the card, data, and skills are perfectly matched."
Xie Mingzhe nodded in admiration. It seemed that Tang Muzhou had a great imagination. He had endowed various plants with powerful abilities.
The official card creation rules are indeed very difficult. Players can't just do whatever they want. In order to make the game as fair as possible, the official must have a professional big database and calculation formula to control the values of the cards. For example, if a skill is set to kill a group of people within a 100-meter range, this kind of weird setting will definitely not be approved.
The earlier you play this game, the easier it is to create original cards, because there are fewer duplicate cards. But now, Star Card Storm has been running for a full ten years, with so many players, all kinds of cards have been made by predecessors long ago, right? Who knows whether the system card library includes all kinds of plants, animals, and characters. If you want to make a brand new card, this "creativity" problem can block a group of people.
I have to make a new card that is not in my deck? What should I do? Xie Mingzhe stroked his chin in thought.
Senior Brother Qi said, "If you are really interested in original cards, you can go to the black market and buy some nebula paper and try making one."
Sisi advised, "Uncle Fatty, original cards are very expensive. Last month, a friend of mine wanted to create an original pet card. She spent thousands of dollars on materials alone, but in the end, she didn't succeed. Don't fall into this trap so easily!"
Xie Mingzhe nodded: "Well, I'm just interested and want to give it a try. If it doesn't work, forget it. I won't invest a lot of money." He didn't have that much money to waste, but he really didn't want to not try.
At least he has high mental strength and can draw, so all the hardware requirements are met. Maybe he can really make cards and sell them, which can also be a source of income.
Having made up his mind, Xie Mingzhe followed Senior Brother Qi to the largest underground trading market on Business Star - the black market.
The author has something to say: The original rules have been explained clearly. You cannot directly copy other people’s cards. You must use your own “brainpower” to create new cards.