"Yo, isn't this the ambitious Chu Shao? What did you learn from going to the library today? ”

More than once in contact with these gangsters, listening to the voice, Chu Xiao knew who was talking - the leader of the gangsters, Hu Xin.

Although the black light blinded them at this time, the expressions on their faces could not be seen clearly, but they could be imagined that there was definitely a very mocking look on their faces.

Because he doesn't go along with him and seems out of place, these little gangsters have been targeting him.

A guy who can't even eat goes to the library to study all day long, in the eyes of these little gangsters, he has to laugh at him every time he meets, Chu Xiao is used to it.

"I didn't learn anything, please get out of the way."

Chu Xiao's tone was a little angry, he was already very tired, and now that he was blocked by the thugs, his mood was naturally not much better.

"Look at what Chu Shao said, you are different from us poor worms, you want to aspire to become a protégé of Sika Academy, how can you not learn anything in the future."

There are six thugs, all with steel rods in their hands, and they hang their lives by collecting protection money, and their ideals and dreams do not exist, and the only purpose is to live, although they don't know what the meaning of life is.

"Say whatever you want, don't beat around the bush." Chu Xiao's eyebrows were squeezed together, very irritable.

"Chu Shao is still so refreshing, another seven days have passed, it's time to pay the protection fee." Hu Xin put the steel rod on his shoulder, raised his chin and threatened.

Chu Xiao's brows furrowed even more, obviously he had only paid the protection fee the day before yesterday, and these people just saw that he was a bully, so they would kick his nose in the face.

But he has no choice, if he doesn't pay the protection fee, he will be beaten severely, these little thugs don't take it seriously, even if they are killed, no one cares, just because this is a black street, which is very different from the hell of the bustling city.

"I don't have any money on me, I'll give it to you tomorrow."

"Okay, we can still trust Chu Shao's personality, after all, he is a knowledgeable reader."

After Hu Xin finished speaking, the gangsters stood on both sides, got out of the way, and then laughed.

Chu Xiao squeezed sideways, the alley was very narrow, and the gap left could only be passed like this.

Far away, you can still hear the laughter of the thugs, and their only pleasure may be to laugh at him, who is not out of the ordinary.

Chu Xiao's home is a dilapidated room of less than 30 square meters, and the furnishings inside are very simple, a wooden bed, a desk with red paint faded, a lame stool, and some miscellaneous items piled up in the corner.

In order to save the energy card, Chu Xiao didn't turn on the headlights, but just turned on a small lamp on the desk, and the faint light illuminated the dark house.

There was only one book on the desk, which was bought from a tattered hand a long time ago, and it was related to card-making, and the book was about to be torn by him, and the contents were already familiar to him.

At this point he opened the drawer and took out a white card, the size of a card, clean and empty.

Close your eyes and get rid of distracting thoughts, and quietly think about the structure of the energy card without distractions, and wait until you are very sure, then pick up the oblique pen and write on the white card, and your eyes are focused on the card and under the tip of the pen.

The wrist is soft as a boneless, the pen walks the dragon and snake, if there is divine help, sometimes outlined into a front, sometimes the pen condenses, sometimes the horizontal fold of the confluence.

There is no pause after the pen is put down, and it is like writing ligatures in one go.

After finishing, Chu Xiao exhaled lightly and gently placed the oblique blade pen on the table, which was his daily must-practice - the drawing method of the one-star energy card.

The same movement is repeated at least 100 times a day, and the current level is expected to be able to cope with the practical assessment.

From theory to practice, to now being able to skillfully draw one-star energy cards, Chu Xiao spent a whole year, just for the annual admissions exam held by Sika Academy tomorrow.

Whether you can leave the black street and look forward to a new life depends on the exam in the next two days.

However, there is nothing on the card, and if you look closely, you will find that there are faint traces of water on it, and the smooth lines are like small snakes, which are gentle and soft, and a small water drop will appear in the place where the pen is condensed, and the other place is a soft line composed of water.

Card production requires an oblique edge pen, card material, and card ink.

This blank card is the most basic card material, and it is also the card material needed to make a one-star energy card, and the oblique pen is the cheapest kind.

Chu Xiao relied on the hard-earned money earned by working part-time in the hotel to buy a white card and a slanted edge pen, as for the card ink, because it required a lot of practice and huge consumption, it had to be replaced by tap water.

Kamo is different from tap water, the most obvious is the density gap, and the feeling of writing will be different, but Chu Xiao has no extra choice, so it can only be so.

He believes that the practice of practicing day and night for nearly Chinese New Year's Eve is enough for him to pass the entrance exam of Sika University, and even get the top three places to qualify for free admission.

The kind uncles and aunts in the black street didn't understand why he was so persistent, and once introduced him to a job selling coolies, although the income was small, but he could maintain a minimum livelihood, but he rejected them one by one, for the dream that was unattainable in the eyes of the people in the black street.

Card maker, that is the pursuit of countless people, the entry card maker can maintain food and clothing, not to mention the senior card maker, the major group companies give the best salary, and may not be able to invite a senior card maker.

A senior card maker can often bring high returns to the company group, if you develop a practical new card, the profit can be as little as a million federal dollars, as much as tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions.

However, the threshold for card makers is high, the theoretical knowledge is many and complex, and it is combined with practice, and it is necessary to control the perception, so there are not many card makers, and senior card makers are even rarer.

Most of the people in the black street are confused, for the card maker, they have always maintained a posture of looking up, if Chu Xiao has no special experience, and is instilled with these absurd concepts of getting by every day, then he will also become a gangster, and there will be no light at all.

This special experience is unknown to everyone, but he remembers it very clearly, he used to be just a middle school student with a very average academic performance, but he loved all kinds of trading card games, such as Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, Hearthstone, etc.

Due to the difficulty of getting started, Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh were not well developed and eventually declined, but the easy-to-play Hearthstone was an unprecedented success.

And this card game changed Chu Xiao's otherwise ordinary life.

He has won the championship of the BlizzCon Hearthstone series for five consecutive years, created the myth of the Hearthstone Circle, and is the only player who has broken the curse of "Spicy Chicken Game, All by Luck" by domestic and foreign furnace friends who is called the "game" of the Hearthstone Circle (the protagonist of the "Yu-Gi-Oh" anime is named Muto Game, which means God Draws Dog).

Chu Xiao has reaped fame and fortune, and he has also reaped happiness.

The interviewer once asked him something like, "Hello, how did you manage to win five consecutive Hearthstone championships?" ”

Although his answer is simple, he has a self-confidence that no one else has, and he is so confident that he makes domestic and foreign furnace friends scream.

"Because I want to, so I can!"

So confident, all because he has a special sense of cards since he was a child, the cards in his eyes are different from others, others see cool original patterns, but what he sees is the smooth and smooth lines inside.

One of the abilities derived from this is why he is a five-time champion: he can change the internal structure of a card by perceiving it, transforming the internal structure of one card into another, so that he can turn one card into another and draw whatever he wants.

In order to win the championship, he spent countless days and nights, writing down the internal structure of each card, and no championship can be easily obtained, and it takes a lot of effort.

He was supposed to continue to win the championship, but he fainted when he stepped off the podium at the fifth BlizzCon venue, and came to this card-dominated world.

Perhaps, he belongs to this world!