Green Fox Exchange

The Demi-human Beauty Card was a growth-type Pet Card.

A growth-type card did not mean that, once created, it could grow on its own like a living creature and become more perfect and powerful. It still required human effort to refine and improve it.

Once an ordinary, non-growth-type card had been successfully created, it could not undergo a second round of creation.

However, after a growth-type card was successfully created, one only needed to find suitable advancement materials to create upon the card once more, allowing it to "evolve and grow stronger" and increase its star rating.

Such cards were rare, more powerful than cards of the same tier, and constituted a precious card-making technique. Very few circulated on the market.

Moreover, creating upon a card again was not such an easy matter. It not only required the card maker to possess sufficient card-making ability, but if the attempt failed, the card would be completely destroyed.

Therefore, although growth-type cards were precious, it became increasingly difficult to improve them through further creation. One small mistake could result in failure.

Of course, certain extremely precious materials could increase the success rate of further creation, prevent failure, or preserve the original card even after a failed attempt.

It was like enhancing equipment in certain games. To create upon such growth-type cards again required a great deal of money. You had to spend money to grow stronger.

After confirming the existence of the Green Fox Exchange with He Xun, Tang Jian felt slightly relieved.

Regardless of whether what the other party had said in his previous life was true or false, he had to make a trip to the Green Fox Exchange.

By then, Tang Jian and Yang Mao had already been assigned to the same dormitory.

After arranging their accommodations, He Xun and the other Student Union members left. They told them they could look around the school that afternoon and familiarize themselves with the surroundings, but it was best not to leave campus casually.

Soon, teachers and administrators from the school arrived together and handed Tang Jian and the others a Campus Pass Card. With it, they could use certain facilities on campus, eat meals, and so on.

The school directly covered the expenses for lodging and meals, which counted as a benefit provided to the students in the Rocket Sprint Training Class.

After informing them that they would gather that evening to attend He Xun's lecture, the teachers temporarily left to rest.

"Yang Mao, I'm heading out. If there are any notices this afternoon, remember to contact me through the Communication Card."

After putting away his luggage in the dormitory, Tang Jian raised the Communication Card in his hand and spoke to Yang Mao.

The lowest-grade Communication Cards were one-star white-quality cards, while the highest-grade ones were five-star blue cards.

These cards were not expensive to produce and were not difficult to make. Their value was generally lower than that of ordinary cards.

The one in Tang Jian's hand was a one-star white-quality Communication Card that he had made himself. It could store one hundred contacts and establish contact within a fifty-li radius.

"You're really going to that Green Fox Exchange or whatever it is?" Yang Mao was sorting through his things. Hearing this, he looked at Tang Jian in surprise.

"Yeah. Oh, right, I have a bottle of Solar Energy Potion here. I've drunk too much of it lately and don't really feel like drinking any more. Do you want it? If you do, I'll sell it to you at a friendly price."

As he spoke, Tang Jian pulled out the bottle of Solar Energy Potion he had saved and not drunk from his luggage bag.

"Damn, you've drunk so much that you don't want any more?" Yang Mao practically bristled. When he turned around and saw the Solar Energy Potion in Tang Jian's hand, he asked suspiciously, "You're really selling it to me?"

"Yeah. Recently, I feel like I've built up a drug tolerance from drinking it. If you don't buy it, I can only drink it myself. I can't sell it outside either. It'd be troublesome if someone reported me to the police station." Tang Jian spread his hands.

"Sell it to me for thirty-one thousand?" Yang Mao asked tentatively.

The market price of a Solar Energy Potion was thirty-two thousand. In his view, Tang Jian would surely sell it for thirty-one thousand if he gave him a discount. That was a whole thousand dollars cheaper.

"You really are rich." Tang Jian was left speechless.

It reminded him of a joke he had once heard.

A rich second-generation heir had just gotten himself a beautiful girlfriend, but he was afraid she was with him for his money. So he lied and told her that he only had an ordinary sports car, an apartment of a little over a hundred square meters, and several hundred thousand in savings.

Yeah!

He thought that no matter how poor someone was, they could only be this poor.

Tang Jian felt depressed and said sullenly, "Forget it. Just take it for twenty thousand. You took pretty good care of me before, too."

Although he did not mind having more money, Tang Jian truly did not want to make money off Yang Mao.

Selling it for thirty thousand would not really count as making a profit, but if he sold it elsewhere, he definitely would not get thirty thousand. At most, he could get twenty-five thousand, and he would have to take the risk as well.

Besides, he had planned to sell it for twenty thousand from the start and had no intention of changing his mind.

If it had been Liu Kun offering thirty thousand, Tang Jian would not have talked about friendship.

"That won't do. Are you kidding? If you sell it to me for twenty thousand, you'd be losing a fortune. You might as well keep it and drink it yourself." Yang Mao immediately shook his head, looking displeased.

"Are you stupid? You insist on spending more money?"

"You're the stupid one. I want to give you more money, but you're unhappy about it. Tell me, aren't you stupid? Don't tell me you've fallen for my good looks?" Yang Mao puffed out his chest and glared.

Tang Jian felt helpless. "Are you buying it or not? Forget it if you aren't."

"I'm buying it. Thirty-one thousand. Your big brother here isn't short on money, so don't get any funny ideas about me." Yang Mao snorted with a roguish expression.

"Take it. Just transfer the money to this Bank Card." Tang Jian gave Yang Mao his Bank Card number.

"I'll transfer it to you tomorrow."

"Aren't you not short on money? Can't you do it today?"

"Get lost! Even miners have to dig up ore before they have money."

After taking the subway, Tang Jian quickly arrived at Miudong A District in southern Jiangbei City.

He had never been there in his previous life, though he had heard of it.

In Jiangbei City of Federation Year 205, it had yet to develop into a Base City, and conditions in every aspect were somewhat backward.

There were no magnetic levitation trains there, and the anti-gravity shuttle cars that had been commonplace in major cities in his previous life were almost nowhere to be seen. Mechs were even rarer.

What was more common there were ordinary sports cars powered by Energy Cards. All kinds of technological conditions were comparatively underdeveloped.

After leaving the subway station, Tang Jian saw construction underway in many areas.

In some unfinished sections, workers were welding steel reinforcement bars on scaffolding. Other materials had been mixed into the concrete, giving it a metallic sheen, and its durability was absolutely guaranteed.

A new urban district was being built. Judging from the construction materials, Jiangbei City was gradually moving toward becoming a Base City. When the chaos following the appearance of the Tiankeng came, these sturdy buildings would provide safer shelters.

After asking for directions several times, Tang Jian successfully found the large exchange in Miudong A District.

This exchange was more like a commercial street, but Card Police were clearly stationed at both ends, and iron gates sealed it off. Anyone entering or leaving had to undergo inspection.

The goods sold within the exchange were not ordinary items. Many stores even sold prohibited items that only Card Masters could use; non-Card Masters were not allowed to possess them.

A rich variety of supplies could be purchased here.

To prevent members of the Old Kingdom Organization, Federation fugitives, or others from entering to purchase supplies and cause trouble or destruction, or to keep ordinary people from buying highly dangerous items and causing social unrest, the exchange maintained round-the-clock lockdowns and inspections. Only those who passed inspection could enter.

After showing the Jiangbei City University Campus Pass Card he had been issued and his student identification, Tang Jian passed the inspection and entered the exchange beyond the iron gates.

At a glance, he saw the eye-catching sign for the "Green Fox Card Exchange" at the street corner ahead.

The exchange's sign was an illusion scene created with an exquisitely made Illusion Card.

Within that scene, a seductive green fox demoness held a degree instrument and cards as she fought and interacted with a bald, burly man. The two exchanged blows back and forth, sweat and blood flying everywhere. The spectacle was explosive, and the figures were vivid and lifelike, drawing countless eyes.

"Smells amazing."

Tang Jian watched for a while, then caught a burst of fragrance drifting from a nearby shop selling nutrient solution. He could not help swallowing.

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