Second Original Card

If every professional player got a Lin Daiyu Card, many of Tang Muzhou's flower cards would become completely useless!

Xue Linxiang was still feeling frustrated when she heard Tang Muzhou ask, "Do you know who created this card, Sister Xue?"

Snapping back to her senses, Xue Linxiang immediately replied, "Red Candle got this card from the Black Market. The owner forgot the seller's name. As for this card, the only clue so far is the logo on its back. See for yourself."

Tang Muzhou turned the card over. There were no patterns on the back at all. In the lower-right corner of the green card back were two words—Yueban.

Shen An scratched his head in confusion and guessed, "What does Yueban mean? Half a month?"

The corners of Tang Muzhou's lips lifted slightly. "Yueban, put together, means 'fat.' Could this creator be a fat guy?"

"..."

What the hell? A fat guy!

Who would put such an ugly, unpleasant logo on the back of a card? Was he here to be funny?

Tang Muzhou studied the card with interest and said with a smile, "From a data standpoint, this person clearly knows nothing about card-making. But in terms of creativity, he is a rare genius. My guess is that he is a gifted beginner who has only just started playing this game. This card may have been his first work. He does not understand numerical balance in card-making at all, which is why the skill design is distinctive, but the values are extremely chaotic."

As he spoke, Tang Muzhou opened his light brain and connected to the card database.

The game had copyright protection, and card creators' logos had to be unique. Therefore, the official database could use a creator's logo to search for the number of cards they had made—only the quantity could be searched, while the specific cards would naturally remain hidden for privacy reasons.

Tang Muzhou entered the official database and casually searched for the number of cards made by the creator Yueban.

19 cards.

Xue Linxiang had clearly seen it too, and her eyes widened abruptly. "Red Candle told me there were only 9 cards! How did it become 19?"

Tang Muzhou said, "Perhaps Red Candle only bought 9. The other 10 have already been scattered across the market."

At that thought, a chill ran down Xue Linxiang's spine.

The situation she least wanted to see had appeared. It would be fine if these cards were bought by collectors, but if any major clubs skilled in card functions and data got their hands on them, upgraded them to seven stars, and maxed out their probability enhancements, they would become god-tier cards for countering Tang Muzhou!

From then on, every opponent in the arena could use this card specifically to cripple Tang Muzhou's signature flower cards...

Was this fat guy specifically here to counter Tang Muzhou?!

Xue Linxiang took a deep breath and immediately sent Red Candle a video message. "Little Zhu, there may be another 10 Daiyu Burying Flowers Cards out there. Mobilize the guild members and search the Black Market and commercial streets thoroughly. Buy back every card as quickly as possible! Also, once you find the person who made this card, threaten him, bribe him—I don't care what method you use, bring him back to the club!"

Red Candle knew how serious the consequences were as well and nodded firmly. "Don't worry, Sister Xue. I bought the cards from Boss Zhang in the Black Market. I'm staking out the area around his stall right now. As long as he comes back to sell cards, we'll definitely catch him!"

***

At the same time, in the Black Market.

Xie Mingzhe did not go to Boss Zhang to sell cards. After all, he had just sold the boss 9 cards not long ago. If the boss had not managed to sell even one and they became unsellable stock, he definitely would not offer Xie Mingzhe 30 gold coins per card.

So the clever Xie Mingzhe found another stall.

The stall owner was a young girl. She loved the Daiyu Card as soon as she saw it and said, "The stats on this card aren't great, but the artwork is beautiful. How about this? I only want two cards, and I'll give you 30 gold coins each. I won't sell these two either. I'll keep them for my own collection!"

Of course Xie Mingzhe agreed. After all, he was the copyright holder and could make this card without limit. Selling one was better than selling none.

After selling two cards to the young girl, he went to a middle-aged man and used his silver tongue to pitch them.

The boss said with a troubled expression, "Character cards don't have much collector's value. This game has been in open beta for ten years, and cards featuring handsome men and beautiful women are everywhere. But... your style is rather unique. Give me 5 cards at 25 gold coins each."

The boss was right. Character cards did not sell well in the low-level card market. Knowing when to quit while he was ahead, Xie Mingzhe simply sold him 5 cards, then sold the remaining 3 to another boss at the same price of 25 gold coins each.

All ten Lin Meimei Cards had been sold, but Xie Mingzhe knew this was not a long-term solution. Character cards with poor attributes were not very popular in the game. At most, he could draw a few dozen more of this card before no one in the Black Market would want them anymore.

Therefore, he had to quickly figure out what new cards to make and how to improve their attributes.

Back in his personal space, Xie Mingzhe was pondering how to make new cards, completely unaware that the Black Market in the game had already descended into chaos!

Second Original Card

Red Candle had been staking out the area around Boss Zhang's stall for a long time. She never saw anyone come to sell Daiyu Cards, but several scouts she had sent to search the Black Market secretly reported, "Sister Red Candle, we found five Daiyu Cards!" "Sister Red Candle, I found three here!" Red Candle immediately replied, "Buy them back at once! And don't reveal your identities. Just say you're buying them for your collection."

The two acknowledged the order and swiftly bought back the eight Daiyu Cards, handing them to the guild leader.

Red Candle hid behind the stall, frantic with worry, nearly staring a hole through the Black Market street.

A long time passed, yet the person she was waiting for still had not appeared.

Sister Xue had said that 10 Daiyu Cards were currently circulating on the market. The people she had sent to scour the Black Market had recovered only 8. Where were the other 2? It would be fine if someone had bought them for their collection, but they absolutely could not fall into the hands of certain clubs! The thought made Red Candle increasingly uneasy. Her sharp gaze swept over the crowd moving through the Black Market, and she wished she could reach through them and seize that culprit in one grab.

However, instead of the culprit, she was greeted by a sworn enemy—Setting Sun, the vice president of Judgment Guild.