"Click—"
The first Lucky Item Box was opened, releasing a faint, fragrant scent of foamwood.
Within the foamwood, which resembled red floral clay, card after card was embedded.
Tang Jian immediately pulled out the foamwood and carefully inspected the cards one by one.
The first card—the surface was grayish-black, engraved with silver threads as fine as spider silk.
However, those threads stopped abruptly before reaching even a quarter of the card's surface. The finishing stroke slashed diagonally toward another corner, looking highly jarring. It was clearly a failed card.
"This card face was probably made from dire bear bone. The silver Energy Ink should have been mixed with purple lightning bird blood, and the ink was at least green quality. It was probably intended to make a Bear Transformation Card from the battle-type Druid series. Too bad it failed."
After observing the first card for only a moment, Tang Jian had already identified the general details of the failed card.
Such a failed card was useless, but the dire bear bone card face still held some value. After washing away the Energy Ink with green-quality Rare Energy Water, it could be reused. It was worth roughly thirty to forty percent of the market price, around three to four thousand dollars.
"The Goddess of Fortune is smiling." Tang Jian muttered a Card Master catchphrase, the corners of his lips lifting.
A great start.
The very first failed card was worth this much. Not bad at all.
Today, luck was on his side.
He continued pulling out and examining the cards one by one, desperately suppressing his urge to find the Demi-human Beauty Card. He reminded himself to stay composed, calm, and patient rather than acting like a rash child.
Three minutes passed.
Tang Jian's expression gradually turned solemn, his eyes carrying a trace of disappointment and frustration.
Another two minutes passed.
He had gone through all one hundred cards. Aside from the failed Bear Transformation Card, which was worth something, the other ninety-nine were either white-quality one- or two-star cards or complete failures. Even if the failed cards were washed and sold as materials, they would fetch at most one or two thousand dollars.
"This Lucky Item Box of one hundred cards cost forty thousand. Including the three white one- and two-star cards, it's worth around four or five thousand. Add another five or six thousand for the failed-card materials, and I've recovered only a little over ten thousand. I've lost everything."
"Is today not my lucky day?"
Tang Jian shook his head. Of course he was disappointed. Who didn't harbor unrealistic dreams of getting rich overnight?
Still, though disappointed, he remained steady.
"Looks like the Demi-human Beauty Card isn't in this box."
Tang Jian looked toward the other three boxes.
He had originally thought the Lucky Item Box containing one hundred cards was the most likely to produce the Demi-human Beauty Card.
Now, it seemed that had been nothing more than wishful thinking.
Of the other three Lucky Item Boxes, two looked familiar to Tang Jian. Their purple underwear patterns resembled "ζ" and "ξ," respectively, and did not look too different from the design on the hundred-card Lucky Item Box.
As for the final bundled Lucky Item Box containing five cards, its underwear pattern was shaped like "," which Tang Jian found unfamiliar. He had not even planned to buy that box; it was merely a bonus.
Since the largest Lucky Item Box had not produced a Demi-human Beauty Card, then that card surely had to be in one of the other two boxes.
Tang Jian had a feeling that the card was definitely in these boxes.
Because all three boxes looked familiar to him.
Since the Green Fox Card Exchange truly sold Lucky Boxes in this style, He Xun's experience in his previous life was probably real. He had likely not been a shill hired by the exchange.
He quickly opened the second Lucky Item Box, which contained twenty cards.
He swiftly tore it open. At this point, he no longer cared about being composed or rash. The resolve he had just made was instantly thrown out the window, and he could no longer suppress the urgency in his heart.
He quickly scanned through the twenty cards.
Tang Jian was initially deeply disappointed, but then he felt a flicker of delight.
This Lucky Item Box still did not contain the Demi-human Beauty Card. Tang Jian was initially uneasy, but fortunately, he had pulled a Green Card radiating a lustrous green glow. It appeared to be one of the Mechanical Cards, which slightly lifted his spirits.
Yet he temporarily tossed the Green Card aside and immediately opened the final Lucky Item Box he had favored, the one containing five cards.
As soon as the box opened, Tang Jian's hands nearly began trembling. In a fluster, he pulled out all five cards and swept his gaze across them!
"Fuck!"
Tang Jian's face suddenly fell. He nearly threw all the cards in his hand away, his brows tightly furrowed.
Composed, my ass!
His luck was cursed.
"What the hell is going on? Was He Xun really full of shit? None of the three boxes had a Demi-human Beauty Card!"
Tang Jian felt like his mindset was about to explode.
Even a Three-Star Card Master would lose composure before a powerful, growth-type Pet Card.
The value of such a card was impossible to estimate. Although its level was extremely low, the materials for producing the initial card were incomparably expensive. Some materials were nearly unheard of on Earth Star. Even thirty million Federal Currency would be difficult to use to buy one. It was gear only the wealthy could afford.
What did thirty million Federal Currency mean?
Even after constantly striving and painstakingly consuming numerous resources in his previous life to become a Three-Star Card Master, Tang Jian had spent only a little over forty million Federal Currency in total. And that was after he had ventured into the Sinkholes several times, practically risking his life to earn those resources.
He had thought something so precious was within reach, only for reality to slap him hard across the face.
Tang Jian was somewhat dumbfounded. His heart twitched as his thoughts raced, wondering whether He Xun had misled him or whether something else had gone wrong.
"Impossible. Given He Xun's family background and personality, if he had truly pulled the card from the exchange, he might agree if the exchange paid him to promote it. But asking him to act as a shill and promote fabricated news? He Xun probably wouldn't agree to that."
Tang Jian calmed himself down. He felt that he might have been too impatient.
In his previous life, He Xun had pulled the Demi-human Beauty Card during the period before Tang Jian started his first year of university.
That had been sometime before or after the college entrance exams. Perhaps it was simply too early now.
The Green Fox Card Exchange replenished its stock of Lucky Item Boxes every so often. Perhaps more Lucky Boxes with similar purple underwear designs would appear later. It was not that the Demi-human Beauty Card did not exist; it simply had not appeared yet.
Of course, that was also nothing but wishful thinking.
Perhaps the card had never come from a Lucky Box at all. Perhaps everything was a scam.
Tang Jian gave a bitter smile. Right now, he felt like a gambler who kept buying lottery tickets and losing, yet desperately wanted to win. He kept comforting himself that he would definitely win next time, spouting nonsense like, "It's not that I won't win; the time just hasn't come yet."
"My mindset... It seems that after being reborn, not only has my strength weakened, but my state of mind has become increasingly fragile too. What I gain is my fortune, what I lose is my fate. I already have the mysterious Red Card, yet I still crave so much more. People truly are greedy."
Tang Jian reflected on himself. But after steadying his mindset, he did not entirely give up. His gaze fell upon the final box he had not thought much of, and he casually opened it.
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