My exclusive card pool

Chapter 2 Where did this take me?
"came back!"

Wang Xi suddenly opened his eyes.

He first lifted the quilt and peeked inside, then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh—good, good, good! It's still there!"

The experience in the other world was like a dream, which made Wang Xi, who was 20 years old and could penetrate steel, still excited.

He fell back again and collapsed on the bed.

In my mind, the dark and narrow crack slowly closed.

Projection hosted

World: Fairy Tale

Exploration: 0.01%

"Advent Cooldown Countdown: 47 hours and 59 minutes"

This crack is the medium that allows Wang Xi to travel to another world. He doesn't know why this thing exists in his mind, but he knows its name inexplicably -

"Caius."

Wang Xi murmured.

Caius not only allows him to descend into another world in the form of a projection, but also helps him capture the extraordinary power of that other world, save it in the form of cards, and wait to be drawn.

But at present, Wang Xi has not yet fully understood its functions.

Not long after I lay down, the electronic clock on the bedside made a loud sound.

Jingle Bell--

Snapped!
Wang Xi stretched out his hand and slapped the electronic clock, causing it to jump and the alarm to stop abruptly.

The time above shows eight o'clock.

"It's been a week since I traveled here."

He murmured, a look of melancholy on his face.

Although he said he traveled through time, in fact, he suddenly awakened his memories of his past life a week ago, just like the "mystery in the womb".

Perhaps, he had already traveled to this world called "Gaia" for twenty years, but he was ignorant of the past and did not know the truth.

"Suddenly I stumbled upon the road I had come from, and I realized that I had been deceived all my life. Untying the old shackles, I now know who I am."

Wang Xi was quite emotional.

But when I think of the past, I can't help but shudder.

That was a painful memory that I couldn't bear to look back on.

In his previous life, he was a product manager for a well-known card game. He was exceptionally capable, young, and wealthy. Secretly, he was a playboy, eloquent and adept at women, the kind who could convince a wealthy woman to spend 180,000 yuan on him with just a few words.

Faced with such a winner in life, even the heavens have something to say: How you live is how others live. Success in career and love, you are so lucky.

Thus, the long golden hair left in the car became the key to his exposure...

The secret of dating ten girlfriends at the same time was exposed.

I won't go into the chaotic process for now. In the end, girlfriend number seven, who had the strongest temper, drove a large dump truck and hit Wang Xi on his way to work.

Wang Xi was lucky and died at the age of 28.

Like the "beat up the scumbag lemon tea", the squeezed and deformed carriage was turned into slag.

Thus ended his sinful life hastily.

Until now, Wang Xi still feels a lingering fear when recalling the last scene - his girlfriend has disheveled hair like a ghost, holding the steering wheel with a hideous face.

Her red eyes stared at him, and her dry and cracked lips opened and closed, as if she was muttering something.

Thinking of this, Wang Xi shuddered.

He sat on the bed with a sullen look on his face and murmured:

"In this life, I swear—"

As he spoke, Wang Xi suddenly turned his head and looked out the window.

A few dark clouds drifted across the originally bright sky, and there was a faint rumbling sound. He was startled and quickly changed his words:

"In this life, I will never play with girls' feelings, I won't fish, I won't raise fish, I won't touch them... In short, I will clean up my act and be a good man!"

The dark clouds outside the window were blown away by the wind again.

The bright sunshine fell on Wang Xi's face. At this moment, he seemed to be cleansed physically and mentally, and felt relieved from the inside out.

"But then again, Xu Mowan, where did you take me when you stepped on the accelerator..."

Wang Xi got up from the bed, walked to the window and sighed.

The "Xu Mowan" he mentioned was his girlfriend number seven who was hit and killed by her car.

She is the most infatuated and also the most cruel.

Wang Xi shook his head and withdrew his thoughts.

Outside the window, there are tall buildings and busy traffic.

It looks no different from the prosperous scene in the previous life.

But besides the sun, there is also a purple moon in the sky.

Sun and Moon in the same sky——

There are two moons in this world!
On the streets below, suspended trains shuttled between tall buildings, with strange blue-purple arcs flashing on the tracks.

The streets are dotted with humanoid mechanical devices, some standing and some flying, with smiles on their faces, dancing, leading the way, and selling all kinds of goods.

A dazzling array of unfamiliar advertisements flashed on the giant screens on the building's exterior. Most of them promoted a product called "Universal Cards," offering a wide variety of items, including cards for healing potions, self-defense laser guns, and unicycles.

All these made Wang Xi feel unfamiliar.

He gazed far into the distance again, past the tall buildings, towards the border of the urban agglomeration—

A towering city wall hundreds of meters high surrounds the entire urban area. At regular intervals on the wall, there are high-tech cylindrical towers, with blue-purple electric light shining on the top of the towers.

The world outside the city was shrouded in fog and could not be seen clearly.

The high walls and towers are more like a form of isolation or defense.

There was clearly some kind of danger out there.

According to my memory, the area outside the city is collectively called the "wilderness", and some dangerous areas are even called the "disaster zone".

These are all areas unsuitable for human habitation.

This situation originated from a catastrophe twenty years ago.

In 2025, a natural disaster struck.

It also marks the beginning of a new era. Doomsday-like earthquakes and tsunamis, along with the sudden appearance of various monsters that only exist in fantasy, completely overturn the existing world order.

Everything we see now is post-disaster reconstruction.

At first, humans experienced pain and panic, joined hands, and fought and struggled with the most advanced and lethal weapons, but ultimately they were defeated.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the human leaders discovered the source of those monsters and natural disasters——

maze!

Its entrances are random and can be found in manhole covers, elevators, hotels, and even your own toilet.

The places it leads to are even more bizarre. They could be grasslands, caves, empty streets in buildings, or underground parking lots... In short, they are full of dangers and strange things, but they also contain opportunities for human survival.

After more than a decade of exploration and research, the five reconstructed nations have now shared information and reached many conclusions.

The three most important ones are:

First, the maze has a unique number.

They seem to be distinguished by court cards, with the four suits corresponding to four categories - spades "Fairy Tale Maze", hearts "Miracle Maze", clubs "Mysterious Maze", and diamonds "Strange Tales Maze".

The higher the number, the greater the danger.

Second, a new maze will be added every year.

There are 18 mazes that have been explored, discovered and recorded so far, and 2 are still in the wilderness and have not been found.

The most dangerous known maze is the "7 of Diamonds", a maze named "Hand of God".

It had caused a major disaster nine years ago, which directly led to the direct loss of several city clusters in the country of Budden United Nations on the other side of the ocean, also known as the "Paradise Federation", and the indirect losses were difficult to calculate.

In addition, this also triggered a series of changes, which led to the division of the Paradise Federation in the following two years, turning it into two human settlements, North Budden and South Budden.

What’s even more bizarre is that there is no information about the “Hand of God” to be found, as if it had disappeared out of thin air.

Even those who survived the disaster seemed to have lost their memory and had no recollection of the experience at all. It was extremely strange.

Third, the maze needs to be cleaned regularly.

According to the Uranus United Nations where Wang Xi is located, the "Maze Research Institute" established by the "Mountain and Sea Federation", each maze will continuously cause radiation pollution.

When this pollution reaches a certain concentration, it will cause disasters. The Labyrinth Research Institute has developed a number of monitoring devices for this purpose and named the pollution "reality distortion".

The "World Alliance" composed of the world's five major countries has been working together to curb the increase in reality distortion to prevent unpredictable disasters from suddenly striking around the world.

As the saying goes, misfortune often brings good fortune, and good fortune often brings misfortune.

There must be an antidote within seven steps!

Although the maze is dangerous, it also contains countless unknown resources besides monsters. Many of the emerging technologies and energy sources of the five major countries today originate from here.

For example, magic stones, ether crystals and monster corpses.

Among them, magic stone is the rarest and most valuable.

Because its main purpose is to extract the extraordinary power of the corresponding maze!
People have long discovered that each maze contains unique extraordinary powers. By exchanging and extracting magic stones, that power can be manifested as cards.

These cards are collectively referred to as "wild cards".

Because it is almost omnipotent and encompasses all human fantasies.

A series of institutions and systems have been derived from the "universal cards", among which those who are proficient in the cards and have certain strength are known as "brave men".

In the Mountain and Sea Federation, and even in the five major countries and the whole world, "heroes" are the most respected and admired figures.

Because they are the iron wall cornerstone that resists disasters and monsters and protects the existing order of mankind.

They are recognized heroes.

...

...

"Oh right, the magic stone..."

Wang Xi suddenly thought of something. He quickly left his bedroom and went to his parents' room next door.

The empty room was spotlessly clean.

Two large desks were placed against the wall, and there was a whole row of bookcases filled with various scientific research materials and books, including many empty blue folders.

Wang Xi picked up a photo frame on the counter in the room.

This is a family photo taken in the laboratory.

A handsome man and a beautiful woman, wearing white coats with work ID cards hanging on their chests, stood side by side, smiling. Between them was a chair with a little boy sitting on it.

The man and woman in the photo are his parents in this life.

However, his parents, who were both "maze researchers", died in an accident fifteen years ago.

Some research materials that were originally kept at home were also taken away by official personnel.

Although Wang Xi was an orphan, he was able to grow up without worries about food and clothing and successfully complete his studies. A big part of the reason for this was thanks to his parents.

After all, Wang Xi belongs to the "family of special talents", and the contributions his parents have made to the Shanhai Federation have also turned into the shade of trees that protected him as he grew up.

The house he currently lives in, together with the one he currently lives in, was also an inheritance left by his parents from the institute.

Snapped.

Wang Xi put down the family photo, walked to the desk and started rummaging through the drawers.

Soon, he found a glass jar in the innermost drawer. Inside was two purple stones, one large and one small, smooth and round like pebbles.

Wang Xi opened the bottle cap and poured them out.

Wow.

The two magic stones were as big as lychees and smaller than longans. They seemed to be magic stone samples left by their parents for research.

Wang Xi still remembers that in another world, he captured the ability of the Wendy Knight, turned it into three cards and entered the so-called "independent card pool".

He needs energy to draw from it.

And the magic stone just happens to contain energy.

"Try it."

Wang Xi said.

Then he tried to clench his fingers and close his eyes.

The dark crack in his mind actually opened a crack, and immediately emitted an invisible force.

The two magic stones in his hands suddenly disappeared!

Energy: 230

"Can be extracted twice (100 energy/time)"

(End of this chapter)