Chapter 001: Entrance Exam
"What is this place?"
With a burst of dizziness, Li Mu finally woke up from the darkness.
Li Mu looked around and felt that this place was like a classroom, with a group of fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenagers sitting on spacious desks and chairs. At this time, these teenagers were concentrating on drawing delicate lines on a small white card.
"Don't look around, this classmate will be disqualified from the exam next time."
Li Mu probed his brain and wanted to ask the person next to him about the situation, but a female teacher wearing a black teacher's uniform issued a warning to Li Mu.
"Hmph, the garbage also came to take the exam, it's just a waste of Kamo, wait until you drop out of school and see how I clean you up." In front of the classroom, a young man with short red hair looked at the ugly Li Mu and sneered secretly.
"Good teacher." Li Mu didn't know what was going on, so he decided to wait and see what happened.
When the female teacher walked away, Li Mu picked up the card on the table and wanted to take a good look, but it turned out that a violent feeling of dizziness hit him, and he suddenly fell on the table, and the invigilators thought that he gave up the exam and slept there.
Li Mu's mind suddenly flashed countless images, like a long movie, he experienced the life of the former owner of this body from beginning to end.
"I'm ...... Crossed? ”
Li Mu looked at the surrounding environment and everyone's dress before, and thought that he was still on the earth, but now after fusing the original memories of this body, he found that things were a little wrong, and this place was completely another world!
He remembers watching the latest season of Gintama in his room, but when he was in a hurry to go to the bathroom, he accidentally fell and then stopped waking up. It wasn't until just now that Li Mu's consciousness gradually woke up.
According to the memory in his mind, the original owner of this body also happened to be called Li Mu. Originally, Li Mu in this world was an orphan, but his luck was good and he was adopted by the owner of a card store in the city. The owner of that card shop was a kind old man, and everyone called him Lao Tie. Lao Tie's son was killed in the war, leaving him alone to run the small card shop. The lonely Lao Tie adopted Li Mu, who was only ten years old, by accident.
Lao Tie is better to Li Mu than to his own son, but because of his son's death, the old man doesn't want him to become Kaxiu too. So Lao Tie spent a lot of money to give Li Mu the opportunity to finally enter the Federal Junior Card Making Academy, so that Li Mu would have the opportunity to become a card maker.
Although it was many times more difficult to become a card maker than to become a card repair, Lao Tie didn't put much pressure on him. Lao Tie told Li Mu that even if he couldn't become a card maker, he could learn all kinds of card knowledge in school and meet some future card maker friends, then he would have the ability to take over the store after his death. At that time, Li Mu swore with tears in his heart that he must become a card maker, not for anything else, but for Lao Tie's nurturing grace.
After Li Mu entered the academy, he worked harder than everyone else, and in two years, he went from a stunned man who didn't know anything, and became the top three in the same level in the year-end assessment in the second year.
But all of this changed dramatically because of one thing.
A year ago, Li Mu's class finally reached the practical class, but he suddenly fainted while practicing drawing the simplest zero-star ignition card.
When Li Mu woke up, the doctor told him the bad news, he might not be able to become a card maker, or even become a card repair.
Generally, people's mental power will be protected by the brain, and when the mental power is consumed to a certain extent, symptoms such as coma and headache will be taken to prevent the body from continuing to use mental power. Li Mu's spiritual power doesn't know what's wrong, it's only less than half of that of ordinary people, even if Li Mu can grasp his mental power in the future and not faint, but the weakness of his innate mental power makes it almost impossible for him to become a card maker.
Although there are methods for cultivating spiritual power in this world, the initial spiritual power almost determines a person's cultivation speed and final achievement, and with Li Mu's spiritual power, it is difficult to catch up with others even if he cultivates.
In this world, the spiritual power of people who are too young has not yet developed, and the cultivation of spiritual power will have a bad impact on spiritual power, so the academy also specifically stipulates that the cultivation method of spiritual power is not allowed to be studied until the intermediate academy. But even so, Li Mu still did not give up, in the last year, except for the practical class of card making, his other courses were almost full marks in every exam.
Li Mu picked up an exam description next to the blank card and looked at it carefully.
This exam requires drawing a one-star arbitrary card, with Li Mu's mental power before, he couldn't complete this exam at all, but this exam is a necessary exam for advancing to the Federal Intermediate Card Academy, if you don't pass this exam, then even if you do well in other subjects, it's useless.
With Li Mu's strong perseverance, after continuous practice, he has been able to make the ignition card that made him fall into a coma at the beginning, but it was still too difficult for Li Mu to draw a one-star card. Card makers who can make one-star cards are already on the threshold of the industry, and even if they don't advance to intermediate colleges, they can make a living by making one-star cards.
If Li Mu had the same spiritual power as ordinary people, then with his ability, this would not be a problem at all. However, the reality is always hopeless. Li Mu didn't want to live up to Lao Tie's expectations, and he didn't want to let the suffering he had suffered over the years be in vain, in this exam, Li Mu overdrew a lot of mental power and did not complete the production of one-star cards, and he was unwilling to die in the examination room.
Li Mu sighed, the memory of the other party was like a personal experience in his mind, no one knew his efforts better than himself, but many times the best you did was probably not as good as others casually. For example, the red-haired man who was hostile to Li Mu before, he was already able to easily draw one-star cards three months ago, just because his mental power was almost twice that of ordinary people.
"What now?" Li Mu was a little speechless, he didn't know how to draw cards, although the memory just now was extremely clear, but there were many things that he couldn't learn from his memory.
For example, this semi-finished card in his hand, Li Mu feels that his mental power seems to be much stronger than in his memory, and he also knows the method of drawing cards from his memory, but he can't remember the texture and combination of this card at all.
It's like if you look at a map a few times and you can't redraw it when you look back.
Li Mu's memory of the previous owner of the body has not been fully inherited, it is more like watching an extremely real movie.
"It seems that this time it will fail......" Li Mu touched the card in his hand, the material of the card was very hard, and the touch was a little cold, just like his heart at the moment.
There are three grades in the junior card academy, and students are allowed to repeat grades for up to two years, Li Mu is a third-year student this year, although he still has two years of opportunities to repeat a grade, but Lao Tie's savings are no longer enough for Li Mu to squander.
Compared with the card maker college that is free first and pays later, the card maker college of the East City Federation is just the opposite.
Card makers are required to pay a high tuition fee for their studies at the junior college, while there is no tuition fee to pay at all after the intermediate college. For those card maker students who repeat grades, the school charges three times the annual tuition fee of ordinary students.
Li Mu, who thought about it for a long time and didn't think of any way, had no choice but to give up the exam, he picked up another blank spare card, and wanted to draw something casually to try what level his mental power was.
The exam time is running out, and even if these materials are not used, they will be accepted by the academy, and Li Mu doesn't want to spend expensive money to buy materials and drawings after going back. You must know that the materials required for one-star cards are much more expensive than the sporadic card materials that Li Mu used to practice before.
Li Mu remembered that he came to this world because of the silver soul, so he made a decision in his heart, picked up the drawing pen on the table, and began to draw.
This drawing pen is somewhat similar to a fountain pen, the most elementary drawing tool, and the card ink is the most inferior one, if this card ink is not drawn on the card in time, the energy in the card ink will quickly dissipate.
Li Mu was an amateur cartoonist in his last life, but his drawing skills are very superb. It didn't take long for a big white dog with its tongue stuck out as if it was about to burst out of the card. It is Dingchun in Gintama, a big dog who likes to "swallow people alive".