MTL - Card-Chapter 1 living on cards

The blade-like tip slid lightly over a turquoise card. Thin blue lines run smoothly from under the nib. The light blue lines on the palm-sized card continued to increase, and gradually, a complicated and mysterious pattern continued to become more perfect with the sliding of the pen tip.

Chen Mu's eyes focused on this card, breathing lightly, as if he was afraid of disturbing something. If you look closely, you can see that his right arm has not moved at all from beginning to end, only his wrist is moving. His right wrist was as flexible as a snake, soft and boneless. With a slight turn of the pen tip, an elegant arc appears on the card. Suddenly the tip of the pen slammed heavily, changing the lightness just now, followed by a sharp side hook, the hook like a blade! The pattern on the card suddenly lit up, then quickly dimmed back to normal.

Chen Mu casually put it into the pile of cards stacked on the table. His movements are skillful and natural, and there is no obvious obstacle. After completing this card, his face was still as focused as before. He has only completed fifteen cards now, and there is still ten cards left before today's task. What he is currently making is a one-star energy card. As the lowest-level energy card, it is currently the most widely used and one of the most consumed cards. At this moment, the room suddenly became dark.

"Damn, the energy is used up again!" Chen Mu murmured a few words. He took out an energy card from the card stack with his left hand, and then pressed it lightly on his right wrist. The meter on his right wrist shot out a bright beam of light. With the help of the light beam, Chen Mu walked carefully to the corner of the wall. The room was too messy, and he didn't want to knock over anything. There is a square meter on the wall in the corner of the room, and there is a slot under the meter. The energy card on Chen Mu's hand is inserted into the slot of the meter.

As soon as the energy card was inserted into the card slot, the room returned to light. The number one hundred is displayed on the meter. Unexpectedly, the energy was used up, and it seems that today's task will be added one more. Back at the desk, Chen Mu quickly threw himself into work. All his sources of life depended on this most paper-level card. Since he learned to make this kind of energy card three years ago, he has never stopped working on twenty-five cards a day.

Chen Mu's room was small, only less than 40 square meters, and there was a half-old work table in it. In addition to the relatively clean work table, the other parts of the room are piled up with piles of debris. These sundries are also varied, piles of old books, scattered various raw materials.

In this humble place, Chen Mu lived for three years. This is a relief room specially provided by the federal government. For a small room like this, you only need to pay one hundred and fifty euros per month to move in. For poor people like Chen Mu, there is really no cheaper place than here. What's more, from his point of view, he was considered quite good, and he had even seen the whole family of four huddled together in a room of the same size.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Mu finally finished his day's work - twenty-five energy cards. After carefully counting the number of cards, he counted it twice in a row, and after confirming that the number was correct, he carefully put the energy card into the card bag in his clothes.

Walking down the street, the night has gradually thickened. The colorful lights are lingering in the night, and the fireworks ejected from the rear of the shuttle that fly by in the sky from time to time drag the gorgeous trails one after another. Chen Mu tightened his coat slightly and looked up at the sky. It's getting colder, and it looks like winter is coming. There is no extra thought to sigh about the passage of time, but it takes an extra expense to keep warm in winter, Chen Mu thought about it in his heart.

Passing by the back door of Dongwei Academy, Chen Mu has been on this road for three years, but every time he sees those students who come in and out together, he can't help but feel an inexplicable emotion in his heart. After arranging his mind, Chen Muchao walked quickly to a small shop next to the school. The name of the shop is "Dongwei Grocery Store" - there are at least twenty similar shops with the same name around Dongwei Academy. For the past three years, Chen Mu has visited this small shop every day, rain or shine, without interruption. It's just that he didn't come here to buy things, on the contrary, he came to sell things.

As soon as he entered the door, the owner noticed and greeted, "Amu is here!"

"Well, Uncle Hua." He replied to the shopkeeper. The owner of the shop, Uncle Hua, is an old man in his fifties, and the years have left undisguised marks on him. Fine wrinkles, half-white flower hair, and a pair of reading glasses.

"This is today's stock." Chen Mu carefully took out the card pack from his arms, pulled out the stack of energy cards, and handed it to the shopkeeper: "Twenty-five."

Uncle Hua took the card from Chen Mu's hand, put it on the shelf without looking at it, and said with a smile, "Thanks for having Ah Mu, you send the card every day, otherwise I would be in short supply here."

Chen Mu smiled slightly, but didn't answer, he knew that Uncle Hua's words were probably meant to be a joke. One-star energy card is the cheapest energy card, but it is also one of the most consumed cards, not to mention that it is located near Dongwei University, where can only twenty-five energy cards be sold a day?

Uncle Hua also knew Chen Mu's temper, and he didn't talk nonsense. He asked directly, "Does Mu need cash or transfer?" Hand it to Uncle Hua. After finishing the settlement, Chen Muchao said goodbye to Uncle Hua, and then turned to leave.

Uncle Hua suddenly stopped Chen Mu: "Amu, wait a minute."

Chen Mu stopped, turned and looked at Uncle Hua in surprise: "Is there anything else? Uncle Hua."

Uncle Hua took out a goose-yellow piece of paper from the drawer, and looked at Chen Mu with a smile: "I almost forgot something. This is a card maker training class attendance certificate, which is from the dealer when the stock was purchased yesterday. It's attached. It's also a piece of waste paper if you put it here, Amu, take it."

Seeing Uncle Hua with a kind face, Chen Mu couldn't help feeling moved. He knew how much the old man in front of him had helped him over the years. If it weren't for him, Chen Mu believed that his current life would also be out of reach for him.

Three years ago, he just learned to make energy cards, and he sold them everywhere, but few people were interested, and no merchants were willing to buy them. The amount required for a one-star energy card is very large, and merchants prefer to purchase in large quantities at one time. And Chen Mu can only make up to 30 pieces a day. For the merchants, this is only a small amount that is not even a fraction.

Fortunately, he met Uncle Hua. Uncle Hua agreed to buy his energy cards, but the purchase price for each card was 103 Euros, which was 2 Euros lower than the wholesale price of energy cards on the market. Despite this, Chen Mu was still very grateful to Uncle Hua.

Four years ago, Chen Mu was still a homeless child. Once, he met a card maker, a card maker who was dying. He used the five months of food he had accumulated in exchange for the card maker's lifespan, extending his lifespan by seven days. During these seven days, he learned a skill, that is, the production of one-star energy cards. After the card maker died, he did not leave any relics for him, and Chen Mu buried him in the wilderness. He still doesn't know the name of this card maker, but his fate has changed since then.

He spent a year doing day labor to the best of his ability, during which time he worked six different day labors, and this year, he was twelve years old. In this year, he finally had a small savings, a thousand Odi. For the thousand Odi, he bought all the raw materials needed to make the energy card. The card maker once told him that the wholesale price of a one-star energy card in the market is 105 Euros, the unified retail price is 110 Euros, and its cost is only 98 Euros .

Every one-star energy card maker can make a one-star energy card, but not many people know the difference, and even if they do, almost no one will make an idea in this regard. One Star Energy Card is one of the simplest cards, and it is fully industrially produced. And even a master-level card maker can only make twenty or thirty energy cards a day at most, and the output is really pitiful. Moreover, for the card maker, they didn't bother to pick up the money they earned through the difference. But for Chen Mu, the money was enough to feed him.

He succeeded in making eight for the first time, almost at a loss of two hundred audis, but this gave him hope. But what he didn't expect was that when he was selling energy cards, he was hindered. The merchants had absolutely no interest in the few energy cards he had. He ran for a whole day without eating, and at eight o'clock in the evening he stepped into Uncle Hua's shop. When he entered the store, his legs were trembling, and he was almost on the verge of coma after dropping rice all day long.

Although the price of 103 Oudi was lower than the wholesale price of 105, Chen Mu felt that he was surrounded by great joy. I sold all the energy cards in my hand, bought the cheapest food, and bought the raw materials for the energy cards with the rest of the money.

Since then, Chen Mu's life has finally stabilized.

Twenty-five energy cards a day, he doesn't have a day off.

It's been three years. In the past three years, he has only made one card - one-star energy card. In the second year, he has been able to control the cost to ninety-seven audi. Although it is only an Oudi difference, it is a great encouragement to him. In addition to making energy cards, he spends all his time researching how to reduce costs.

Finally, in the third year, the cost of the energy card was controlled by him at 95 euros, and he could earn 8 euros per energy card, and his daily income was stable at 200 euros. Three years ago, he was the Totally unimaginable numbers. The monthly income of 6,000 oudi has allowed him to live an ordinary life, but he still lives in a relief house that only needs 150 oudi a month.

After recovering, Chen Muchao uncle Hua smiled: "Thank you Uncle Hua!" He took the class attendance card and carefully put it into the card holder in his arms.

Training courses, especially for card makers, are one of the most popular types of training courses at the moment. They often have extremely gorgeous advertisements. For example, on this lecture certificate, it says that "Dongwei University recognizes the degree", "Dongwei University's senior card maker authoritatively speaks in person", etc. In fact, what is inside Chen Muyiqing Er Chu. The only thing that the organization hosting this training class had with Dongwei University was that the institution had to pay Dongwei University a fee every time as a price for them to maintain this nominal "joint organization".

Chen Mu still planned to listen to what was being said in the training class. Card making is one of the most difficult subjects. Over the years, he has not given up self-study, but with little success. It wasn't until last year that he understood what was going on. His foundation is really poor. After more than ten years of wandering life, he has not received any cultural education.

For a teenager without the slightest foundation, it is naturally more difficult to learn card making, which is known for its difficulty and obscurity. However, he had no doubts about his IQ. He could learn to make a one-star energy card within a week using only memory. The card maker praised him for his talent back then.

Since then, he has let go of this temporarily too high goal for him and has turned to the most basic theoretical studies. No matter how tiring work is every day, he will make time to learn these boring knowledge.

After saying goodbye to Uncle Hua, Chen Mu walked south along an alley. Today is Saturday and he has a job left.

After crossing two streets and walking for about 20 minutes, he came to a second-hand waste card collection station.

"Hey, buddy, here we come!" He was greeted by a black, thin, bald head, his name was Xiao Hei. He is also the owner of this buying station. Every Saturday and Sunday night, Chen Mu would come here to work as a day laborer for three hours.

Chen Muchao Xiaohei nodded slightly, but his face was still a little blank.

Xiao Hei has long been accustomed to Chen Mu's face. When Chen Mu came here to ask for a part-time job, Xiao Hei originally refused. This acquisition station has been managed by one person since his father, and when it comes to his hands, he has always managed it himself.

Hire someone? Xiao Hei can't afford the wages.

But when Chen Mu said he didn't want wages, Xiao Hei finally agreed. Of course, Chen Mu still got paid. Generally, Chen Mu would choose a few used cards to take away as his wages. Sometimes Chen Mu would pick out a few unused energy cards from these waste piles. Xiao Hei made a calculation. Every month, he saved a lot of money on this. It's just that Chen Mu, who is taciturn, can't help but feel a little curious. How does this guy know that there is still energy left in these cards?

But since then, every time he sees Chen Mu, he is always smiling.

Chen Mu squatted down and started sorting the discarded cards. There are many types of cards, including energy cards, item cards, quasi-object cards, and even some rare plant cards and animal cards. However, the cards here are all useless without exception, all Chen Mu has to do is to classify these cards into categories.

The work went on quickly, and it was obvious that he was very familiar with the job.

Chen Mu flipped his wrist and threw a card at Xiao Hei: "Well, this card can still be used for a while." This two-star energy card still has at least half of the energy in it, and Chen Mu couldn't understand it. Why was the original owner of the card so wasteful? The capacity of a two-star energy card is 1,000, that is to say, there are almost 500 energy in it.

"Hey, thank you Brother Chen!" Xiao Hei looked at the two-star energy card in his hand, and his eyes widened with a smile. Pidianpidian ran to the energy meter and inserted the card. When he saw the "523" number that was lit up, Xiaohei laughed until his facial features were almost huddled together.

Chen Mu paid no attention to it, and he was single-mindedly rummaging. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com Although there will also be some discarded intermediate cards, such as three-star and four-star cards, the probability of appearing is still quite high. But to him, it was of no value. The only thing he is interested in now is the one-star energy card.

The three-year production career has given him his own understanding of this most common and low-level card. There is not only one way to make a one-star energy card. Chen Mu has collected twelve types of one-star energy cards with different structures. These 1-star energy cards with different structures inspired Chen Mu a lot, and it was precisely because he borrowed some skills from these cards that he succeeded in reducing the cost of making a 1-star energy card to 95 Euros. However, such good luck does not come every day. So far, he has only collected twelve.

But luck seems to be good today.

Looking at the one-star energy card in his hand, judging from the texture on the surface, he was a one-star energy card with a new structure that Chen Mu had never encountered before.

He put the energy card aside and continued to dig through. There are too many one-star energy cards, but Chen Mu took the trouble to check them one by one. His speed is extremely fast, and almost as long as his hand gently strokes these one-star energy cards, he can know whether he wants it or not.

All of this comes from his familiarity with the one-star energy card. This kind of familiarity has been left over from three years of uninterrupted production. He doesn't need to look at it. He can judge whether this card is a one-star energy card or a structure he has seen just by the feel of it. He was so familiar with them that every detail of them.

The fingers brushing from the edge of the card stopped suddenly.

This card…