Chapter 22: The Red Copper Card Reappears

Soon, many who still had doubts began to speak:

"May I ask, how should we address you?"

"Well, for now, you can call me 'Master of the Trading Ground', or you may address me as 'Your Excellency'."

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"Your Excellency, you mentioned a forthcoming transaction event. Will there be more of these trading events in the future?"

"Yes, there will be a thirty-day interval between each trading event, with a duration of twenty-four hours."

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"Your Excellency, may I leave temporarily? There are many things I haven't brought with me from the outside world."

"Certainly, those who paid card points before can freely enter and exit this trading space within twenty-four hours, without having to pay again. Simply think 'leave' to return to the outside world, then think 'trading ground' three times to re-enter. However, there is one thing I must remind you, you cannot directly enter this space if you are in a state of combat."

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"Your Excellency, why are there fewer than two hundred participants in this transaction event? Are there so few survivors left in Jiang City now?"

"Regarding that question, I can only tell you that the invitations for this trading event did not cover the whole city. Moreover, only official Card Masters could receive the invitation. As to the current situation in Jiang City as a whole, I'm sorry, but I do not know."

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As questions were asked and swiftly answered, several minutes passed quickly.

Just as the questioners were dwindling and the black silhouette was preparing to leave, someone suddenly spoke up; and with the question that person asked, the entire trading space fell into silence.

"Your Excellency, do you know whether we are still on Blue Star, and whether other cities in Xia Country are in the same situation as we are?"

Upon hearing this, everyone's gaze instantly converged on the black silhouette in the center.

Clearly, this was a doubt in everyone's mind.

But the answer was a profound disappointment.

"I'm sorry, but I cannot give you an answer to that question. However, I would like to tell you:

Do not overthink, strive to survive, and time will eventually give an answer. Do not lose heart, for at least we are still alive, aren't we?!"

After saying this, the black silhouette quietly vanished, but his words echoed again and again in people's minds and took a long time to dissipate.

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In front of a stall in the trading space, Gu Ran suddenly came back to his senses, seemingly motionless the entire time, but in reality, his consciousness had switched to another body.

Indeed, from a certain perspective, that black silhouette was also him. It's just that the body was forcefully condensed using the Rule Power of the trading space, while the consciousness and soul were entirely under his control.

Speaking of which, one must mention the second active ability of the "Void Trading Ground" card, "Rule Controller". Once this ability is activated, the user virtually becomes the lord of the rules within this trading space.

It might be difficult to understand this way, so to put it another way, activating this ability means he becomes almost like the 'Heavenly Way' of mythological legends within this trading space.

Of course, all of this he discovered upon entering the trading space; otherwise, his previous concern about 'not being able to control the situation' now seems rather laughable.

After returning to his original body, Gu Ran wandered around again. The number of people who had entered the trading space had approached two hundred, and more importantly, nearly all these two hundred were Card Masters with official rankings.

Consequently, the Miracle Card Fragments displayed at the various stalls were diverse, and many had extremely superior attributes.

Currently enriched with card points, it would be foolish not to take this opportunity to acquire what he could, for once gone, there would be no second chance.

Walking along, perusing and selecting, a sudden exclamation erupted from a distance.

Gu Ran frowned, thinking that his recent actions had not been enough to deter some bold characters.

But soon he realized something was amiss. As the ruler of the trading space, he could see any part of it with just a thought. From his perspective, there was no conflict at the source of the shouting.

However, he didn't need to look any further, for a shocking piece of news soon spread throughout the trading space.

"Someone is about to trade a Red Copper quality Miracle Card."

In an instant, the entire trading space buzzed with excitement, virtually everyone attracted by the so-called Red Copper Card.

Even Gu Ran, the master of the trading space, was astonished for quite a while. After all, his own Void Trading Ground card was merely a Red Copper Card as well.

Using his absolute control over the trading space, he easily squeezed his way into the innermost circle of the onlookers.

The center of attention within the crowd was a small stall. The stall's owner was a girl who looked to be no older than seventeen or eighteen. Flushed with embarrassment under the scrutiny of so many, she appeared to be an ordinary, shy girl.

However, it was this somewhat cute girl who held in her hands a red card that made countless hearts race.

When he saw the card attributes, Gu Ran's heartbeat quickened. He had assumed it was likely a rumor gone out of hand, at most a Red Copper Card Fragment. Yet, it turned out to be a complete Red Copper Card.

[Red Copper Card•Hundred Card Set]

[Quality: Red Copper One Star (Common)]

[Passive: Equip this card, and the card set will randomly refresh with a Miracle Card of any quality every seven natural days, with a fixed quantity of 4 per month.

Note 1: Passive does not consume card points

Note 2: The odds of the random refresh producing cards of various qualities are as follows: Blue Stone 90%, Black Iron 9%, Red Copper 0.99%, Silver 0.01%.

Note 3: At midnight on the 7th of every month, the accumulated Miracle Cards from the previous month in the card set will be cleared.]

[Active (Card Extraction): Consume 20 card points to choose one card to extract from the four Miracle Cards refreshed in the previous month. (Cool-down period thirty days)

Note 1: The Miracle Card extracted from the set will be fully owned by the extractor.

Note 2: Each extraction will cause wear and tear to the set; after one hundred Miracle Cards have been extracted, the set will be completely destroyed.]

After reading the attributes of the card, Gu Ran's immediate verdict on it was just two words.

"Superb"!!

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