Chapter 1: The World of Card Masters
It's a noisy neighborhood, with old tin cars coming and going, their characteristic engines roaring, and the ultra-clear horns of maglev motorcycles echoing each other from time to time, and a young man standing at the intersection in the afternoon sun.
Dressed in a black sweatshirt with a card pattern, the young man is looking into the sky, just like in a science fiction movie from the previous life, with countless tall steel buildings intertwined and reaching into the clouds.
The alloy facades of these steel buildings reflect little sunlight, which makes the large screens on them even more visible.
The different shapes of the screens are connected to each other, forming a long scrolling screen on which the text of this world is scrolling.
Equality, freedom, and belief in the power of cards.
The traffic light display panel on the other side of the street began to switch, and the red card on the screen changed into a glowing green card after a few rounds of rotation animation.
The young man was not surprised, and walked directly towards the other side of the street.
This is the form of the traffic lights in this world, but it is better to say that there are various colored cards in many parts of the world.
It's like the boundless steel giant city in front of you.
The name of this city is also named after a card, corresponding to a card called [Star Energy Wave], and this city is called Star Energy City.
Compared with this huge steel city with a sense of science fiction, the area where the youth are now is relatively ordinary.
There are no exaggerated high-rise buildings, no metal buildings of different shapes, and they are more market-like in the eyes of young people.
Except for those maglev vehicles that have a completely different art style.
Walking through the street, the young man raised his right hand, and under the skillful operation of the young man, the white metal bracelet on his right hand projected an interface.
A navigation map is displayed in the interface, and the destination of the navigation is a place called Starpower Card Seminary.
This young man's name is Li Yan, he is a traverser, and his previous life was just an ordinary social animal game house.
And the games he is addicted to are mostly all kinds of card games, and his life is extremely energy-efficient, and his salary is also spent on collecting various real cards.
As if in response to his obsession with collecting cards, after staying up late and playing card games for a week, Li Yan crossed over, or crossed over and became a one-year-old orphan.
Reincarnated as an orphan, he was adopted by an orphanage and grew up in a civilian city on the outskirts of Star Energy City.
That's right, growing up in this world of cards.
The corners of Li Yan's mouth twitched, and he pulled out a stiff arc, which, combined with his dead fish eyes that didn't have much life, formed a terrifying gloomy smile.
Noticing the reaction of oncoming passers-by, Li Yan quickly hid his smile, skillfully pulled up the hood of his sweatshirt with his right hand and put it on his head, slightly lowered his head and accelerated the speed of his progress.
In his previous life, he was almost always alone, and the main reason was that Li Yan exuded eyes that were not close to people, and secondly, Li Yan's unpleasant personality.
This also led to Li Yan, who has always been accompanied by the card, almost never smiled much.
It is only when he collects rare cards that his eyes come back to life slightly.
Even though he has been reincarnated in this world for 18 years, Li Yan still finds it difficult to laugh at this expression.
When he was in the orphanage, Li Yan once showed a smile that he thought was kind to the girls in the same hospital, just to take a look at the daily card newspaper that the girl was reading.
As a result, the girl ran away crying, and then the girl's evaluation of her good-natured smile was that she wanted to intimidate her.
So Li Yan decided to implement the style of the previous life in this world, just stay away from the crowd.
Walking through the two streets again, Li Yan came to the buffer block that entered the Star Energy City, and the residents of the civilian area could only enter the city after passing the detection of the buffer block.
Li Yan skillfully merged into the queue into the buffer block, which was a wide pedestrian street.
At this time, hundreds of spherical machines were hovering over the block, throwing green beams of light that swept towards everyone who entered the city.
Li Yan didn't slow down, still moving forward at a normal speed, and the beam of light thrown by a spherical machine stayed on him for a second, and then swept away.
This can be regarded as passing the entrance test, and only after passing through this block can it be regarded as officially entering this sci-fi giant city called Star Energy City.
Entering the city, Li Yan put down his hood, although it was not the first time to come to this city, Li Yan still felt amazing.
In addition to the high-tech buildings, the main thing is the variety of people on the street.
A young man flying through the sky with a mace, a girl in a bright red knight's armor reading a daily card, and even a robot can be seen walking by from time to time.
Compared with them, Li Yan is the most normal person on this street.
And the reason why they are able to do this is because they have the power to control the cards.
Li Yan looked around for a moment, and then also pulled out a card from the metal card box on his waist.
It is a crimson metal card about the size of a playing card, with the word "Swift Eagle" on the top of the card and a lifelike eagle pattern in the center.
Li Yan pasted this card directly to his strangely styled belt, and the red card exploded directly after touching Li Yan's metal belt, turning into red points of light around Li Yan's body.
Feeling the power rising in his body, Li Yan confirmed the direction and rushed out directly like a cheetah.
He ran so fast that even a world-class sprinter in his previous life couldn't reach his current speed.
Following the route he had written down in his mind, Li Yan ran all the way until he came to the destination of his trip, the Star Energy Card Seminary.
This is a huge academy complex, with tall buildings towering inside, and various points of light outside the tall buildings are dotted like starlight, and huge airships hovering between the tall buildings, projecting images of the battle of the card master in the sky above the academy.
And above these tall buildings, there are also several huge silver mechanical floating islands, looming above the clouds.
The college complex on the ground is surrounded by a massive metal fence on which a short video is rolling.
Li Yan took a look, this is the pre-sale short film of the new replica card pack in Star Energy City, but Li Yan has already seen the version of this short film that has been leaked on the Internet, so Li Yan did not pay special attention to this short film, but walked directly to the side of the magnificent academy gate.
In this world, every civilian can take a free card teacher suitability test at the age of 15.
If the civilian passes the card master suitability test, he will be registered as a pre-card master, and finally at the age of 18, he will be escorted to the Star Energy Card Seminary.
Li Yan was one of the three people in the orphanage who were tested for the suitability of the card teacher, and before him, there was already a child from the orphanage who had enrolled in school five months ago.
The Star Card Seminary can be enrolled throughout the year, and those who enter each month are divided into one period, and then according to their respective grades at the end of the semester, they are assigned to the corresponding class of strength.
Unlike the grading based on the study time, the Star Energy Card Seminary is graded by strength, and some students have been enrolled for several years and have been wandering in the bottom class.
And some students can go straight to the elite class after only half a year of enrollment.
Li Yan stopped for a moment outside the majestic gate of the Star Neng Card Seminary, and then walked towards the admission office on the side of the Card Seminary.
He arrived two days early to report, and the official placement test will be held two days later.