Chapter 1: The Near-Star Federation

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This is a thriving mega-city, with countless huge high-rise buildings with unique shapes and full of sci-fi style piercing the blue dome sky, and the top of the buildings cannot be seen at a glance;

The gentle and bright simulated sun casts the appropriate comfortable sunlight between the high-rise cities, serene and tranquil;

Pedestrians walk quietly through the neat streets, streamlined hovercars shuttle along the winding electronic tracks between the tall buildings overhead, and the streets are flanked by shops with projection as storefront signs;

Not far away, a huge and clear image is projected on the glass wall of a high-rise building, and a female anchor with a beautiful face in professional attire is talking about news events:

"The Supreme Council of the Near-Star Federation has passed the draft for the development of the new resource planet 'Torsod A', and the military migration ······ is expected to be implemented in September this year."

"Star Technology Group announced that the seventh generation of card manifestation instrument - terminal wrist machine G type will be officially sold on June 6, this model on the basis of the J machine added two card slots, and reduced the conversion energy consumption, greatly reducing the threshold to become the acquired card master, I believe that with the popularity of this model, in the near future, human beings will have more living power that can make fantasy cards······"

"The Wild Crafts under the leadership of Master Illustration Barrom Mhow has completed the quantification of the new 'Wild Power' series, and the general-purpose cards of this set are expected to be released in early July······"

"The Federal Research Institute announced the results of a recent study, claiming to have discovered a new material for making high-star fantasy carrier base cards, and the quantitative popularization of seven-star fantasy cards will be promoted again······"

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No one noticed a boy standing on the side of the street standing on the side of the road, looking at the scene in front of him that looked like the world of the future, his eyes were horrified, and his mouth shouted: "It's really ······." Really crossed? "No, I'm a member of this world, but strange memories have come in, right?" "Lin Qingyin? Rollin? Ahh!!hhhhh Who the hell am I?······"" It's a mess! What the hell is going on? Words like that.

The boy's name is Lin Qingyin, 16 years old, is an ordinary citizen of the Azure Star T-11 city under the jurisdiction of the Near Star Federation, and has not awakened the manifestation of talent, that is, the necessary talent to become an innate card master, and he has no capital to buy an expensive terminal wrist machine to become an acquired card master who burns a lot of money, and is now studying in the basic department of card making in the federal public college, determined to become a card maker, and can provide the necessary material foundation for his sister who has a talent in the future.

If it develops like this, Qingyin's life should have been living peacefully, but accidents always come unexpectedly.

Last night, a soul from another world "Earth" suddenly descended on him, irreversibly merging with his soul, causing him to have a splitting headache and confusion, and two completely different memories were converted back and forth, almost splitting his personality, and he was still a little confused.

Time passes slowly, and the colors of the virtual dome change to dusk, which means that the day is coming to an end and night is about to fall.

Standing from noon to dusk, with the fusion of souls and the acceptance of memory, Qingyin gradually regained consciousness and accepted everything that happened to him, he is still Lin Qingyin of the Near Star Federation, he is also Luo Lin, the earth traveler, and now they are alone.

It may be that the fusion of the two souls has led to the improvement of the essence of the soul, and now Qingyin feels that his senses have become very keen, and his thinking speed and memory clarity have improved unprecedentedly, leaning on the wall outside the corridor, he hung his head slightly, his eyes exuded a smart light, and his heart replayed Lin Qingyin's original memory, and his thoughts were myriad:

Thousands of years ago, human science and technology had reached the level of exploiting the resources of the universe of the galaxy, and the power of human beings was concentrated under the parliamentary government agency called the Near-Star Federation, and thousands of planets in the system including resource planets, habitable planets, and comprehensive planets have been developed so far.

It is worth mentioning that this world is completely different from the universe of the world where the earth is located, and the distance between the planets of this world is not so far away, at least not even the idea of light years, which can be measured in kilometers; Outer space is not a vacuum, which means that if you can go to the sky, even without the help of a spaceship, you will not suffocate because of the lack of oxygen, at most you will feel uncomfortable because of the slightly different atmospheric pressure.

Of course, this does not mean that you will not die if you bring enough food to drift in the universe, on the contrary, there are more ways to die, being torn apart by the chaotic gravity, being smashed by free cosmic matter, being shattered by the chaotic cosmic energy, ······ in short, you will be broken in the end.

These common senses let Qingyin know that this world is essentially different from the earth world, but he is not surprised, what really makes him strange is the other things in his memory: the mirror subordinate plane - Gensokyo, and the fantasy card system that appears by borrowing the power of Gensokyo!

How so? The rapid development of human beings is not without enemies, on the contrary, because of the development of the near-star universe, they still have many enemies, including the indigenous beasts on various planets, the powerful monsters that roam around the universe and invade, the starry sky djinn that devours the planet for a living, and all kinds of cosmic races and ······ that are basically murderous and easy to kill, and the variety is almost too many to count.

Some of these enemies can be dealt with with by seemingly high-tech and not very powerful technological weapons, but some of them cannot be dealt with existing technology alone, and until the discovery of the miraculous plane of Gensokyo, humanity is not in a very good situation, and they are always in danger of destroying their habitat.

It wasn't until someone discovered the existence of Gensokyo a thousand years ago that the situation began to change.

Gensokyo is a subsidiary world that relies on the thinking and fantasy of the creatures in this world, where everything comes from the cognition or fantasy of the living beings in the world, and from the perspective of the Qingyin traveler, it should be a high-level existence similar to Alayya, the river of all beings, and the return or derivative of the cognitive consciousness of the souls of all beings in this world, and the plane maintained by drawing the overflowing thinking power from the convergence of collective consciousness.

Whatever it was, humanity discovered it and found a way to do it — and that's fantasy cards.

The principle of fantasy cards is to borrow the power or creation of Gensokyo with a substance or soul that can communicate with Gensokyo, and to maintain the connection between the present world and the creation through certain real substances, and to manifest it in reality to help fight and affect the energy and matter of reality when needed.

To put it simply, it's like a real-life version of the popular card game on Earth, Kouhu King, where humans with embodied traits can make and use fantasy cards to bring fantasy monsters or natural phenomena in Gensokyo to reality, achieve the purpose of battle, and even perform incredible feats.

Not to mention those fantasy creations that are strong and weak, it is not a problem to roll up an interstellar storm and summon the stars to fall.

It is precisely with the advent of fantasy cards that mankind has the power to fight against any enemy and solidify the position of human interstellar supremacy.

After thousands of years of development, the application of cards has developed four exclusive classes, forming an application system around Gensokyo.

Card maker: through the study of real materials to create the basic card that can carry the fantasy of the creation of the person, is the most basic card professional, is the cornerstone of this system, to become a card maker has no requirements, as long as through persistent learning to master professional knowledge, through long-term practice to exercise exquisite skills can become a professional card maker.

The basic cards are divided into levels 1 to 10, corresponding to 1 to 10 star fantasy cards;

Innate Card Master: The soul awakens the ability to communicate with the Gensokyo plane without the help of any machinery, and can use cards to manifest the talent of Gensokyo creation, such a talent is relatively rare, according to the survey of the Near-Star Federation, the number of humans who can awaken such talents in a lifetime is only about one in five hundred to one in one thousand.

As a result of their long-term communication with Gensokyo, their souls have been nourished, and not only will their mental power become stronger and stronger, but they will also be able to feed back to their bodies, making their physical fitness become higher and higher.

And the stronger the spiritual power and soul essence, the more the upper limit of the number and type of summons that can be manifested, and the longer the maintenance time, the stronger the corresponding strength will become.

They are divided into apprentices, beginners, intermediates, seniors, experts, and masters from low to high, and there seem to be higher levels above them, but that is a secret of the upper echelons of the Federation, and as an ordinary person, Qingyin is not clear.

Acquired Card Master: A human who does not have the talent of awakening and uses a terminal wrist machine, a machine that can embody fantasy creations, and consumes energy cards to use fantasy cards.

Theoretically, everyone can become an acquired card master, but in fact, whether it is the purchase and maintenance of the terminal wrist machine, or the consumption of energy cards and the fantasy cards used for their use, they are all valuable luxuries, and they cannot afford to use it without enough capital.

However, there are also various defects in the use of fantasy cards through this opportunistic way, first of all, the card slots of the terminal wrist machine are limited, which also means that the number of cards they can use is far less than that of the innate card master, and the number is at most equal to the junior card master, and it is not as convenient to use as the innate card master, and, due to technical reasons, human beings have not been able to create more than eight star energy cards, which has led to the fact that the acquired card master cannot use the eight-star fantasy card, so compared to the orthodox innate card master, Their flaws are unquestionable.

Card Painter: The highest ranking of the four classes, the others only use cards, and their job is to create cards.

Becoming a card artist requires a wealth of knowledge, imagination, construction and creativity, they communicate with Gensokyo, create new species or things in Gensokyo through their own imagination, if the creation is rigorous and perfect enough to be recognized and integrated into Gensokyo, then they can connect with their creations, and can think and draw on Kika, so as to create new fantasy cards.

At the same time, they can also explore the creations or powers that exist in Gensokyo, which have not yet been discovered by humans, and become familiar with them before drawing them, which is also one of their duties.

Theoretically, there is no limit to the act of creating fantasy creations, because everything in Gensokyo originally appeared based on the fantasies of living beings in the world, and the species in Gensokyo have never stopped increasing, but it is not easy to create fantasy creations.

Because the prerequisite for creation is rigor and perfection, you can't imagine it out of thin air, at least there must be a certain degree of rationality, that is, possibility, of which there must be a degree, which is precisely the most difficult to do.

It's a fantasy thing in itself, and it actually requires reasonableness, and it requires to conform to a certain world principle, but I don't know the measurement standards, and in this case, wanting to create a fantasy species has become a matter of luck, and the success rate is extremely low.

Nowadays, the fantasy creations created by human beings are basically deduced on the basis of existing knowledge and cognition, and there are very few species that are completely deduced out of thin air.

For example, most of the summoning beast cards sold on the market are based on the original form of wild beasts and monsters that exist in reality, and then they are successfully created in Gensokyo, and are drawn by card painters.

This method is the main means of creation for card artists.

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"Fighting with cards? It's a world with a sense of immediacy.,It's really powerless to complain.,But it seems to be fun.,But I don't seem to have the talent to become an innate card master.,It's a little embarrassing.,Do you want to be an acquired card master? I always feel like I don't have a future. ”

Qingyin touched his chin and muttered to himself a little unpleasantly, but after a while, he regained his confidence, patted his legs that were numb, moved his ankles, stood up straight and secretly cheered himself up: "What are you afraid of, I'm only sixteen years old now, doesn't it mean that there is still the possibility of awakening until I am twenty years old!" Besides, even if you can't wake up, you can work hard to make money and strive to be an acquired card master to have fun, and finally came to such an interesting world, how can you not experience this profession full of shame? My life has just begun! ”

"And, with memories of more than 20 years of the earth, is it possible for me to become a card artist? Wouldn't it be ······ if you could recreate the characters from movies, games, and anime in your memories in the form of fantasy cards?"

Qingyin, who was quick-thinking, immediately thought of this possibility, and couldn't help but open his mind, and his mind wandered out.

At this moment, countless anime characters, powerful monsters, and the existence of awesome roaring came to his mind:

The Silly Knight King, the Evil Golden Flash, the Rubber Man Captain who doesn't do his job, the Hulk who goes from head to toe, the cool Cybertron alien who changes around in a hurry, and the giant ape who is crazy about love······

All kinds of things, too many, endless, the more I think about it, the more I get better.

"Brother, what are you doing standing downstairs?"

Just when his saliva was dripping and he got carried away, a crisp and beautiful shout interrupted his YY journey.

Qingyin came back to his senses, wiped his saliva, I don't know when, there was already a slender and delicate girl standing in front of him, her facial features were delicate and soft, her eyes were as clear as water and her eyes were full of tenderness, her long black hair was draped on her back, and a few strands of green silk were scattered on her immature and mellow shoulders, adding a touch of quiet temperament.

A trance flashed on Qingyin's face, and he quickly reacted, and said with a doting smile: "It's Qianyin, you're out of school, you've worked hard at school today, right?" I'm ······, I'll wait downstairs for you to come back. ”

The girl is Qingyin's biological sister in this life - Lin Qianyin, she heard Qingyin's words, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Brother, don't go out if you are not feeling well, you have to rest more, what if you catch a cold?" Why are you so willful when you're such an adult, quick, don't stay outside, let's go upstairs. ”

Lin Qianyin said, and couldn't help but take Qingyin's hand and walk into the corridor.

Looking at this little girl's appearance as a little adult, Qingyin couldn't help but smile heartily on her face, and followed her into the suspended elevator in the corridor.

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