233 The Folding Yanbo Card II (1/2)

Chen Mu stood up and gave the fatty one of the folding Yanbo cards. ”I'd like to keep the other one. You may deduct the required fees from the income.”

Xi Ping carefully took the card the fatty handed him. Pearson, who couldn't wait any longer, went over to them.

The fatty waved his hand and said without a care, ”My young brother is too polite; just take it.”

”Since we've already decided the rules, how could I break them?” Chen Mu shook his head, insisting.

The fatty laughed. ”Well, then let's do as you say.” His appreciation for Chen Mu grew a few notches. A big business man like him treasured reputation and trust more than anything. They were the sort of people who followed the spirit of the contract. Not being petty, Chen Mu's conduct gave him a good feeling.

”Let's check this card out.” The fatty clearly wanted to know the true worth of the card. He turned around to say, ”I still haven't asked my little brother what the card is called.”

”The folding Yanbo card.”

”How many stars?”

”Three stars.”

The fatty responded with a grunt. Xi Ping felt a hot rush of blood to his head, and his face turned ugly. Three stars? Good god! That was 50 million Oudi in precious materials! To only make two three-star cards? Xi Ping felt his heart would drip blood.

An impostor! In Xi Ping's heart, Chen Mu had already turned into the same kind of imposter as Pearson. But seeing his boss look as though nothing was wrong, he repressed his urge to curse.

The appraisal of a card's value, and especially that of an excellent card, was a pretty troublesome process. When ordinary people spoke of cards, the first thing they would think of would be how many stars. For outstanding cards, however, or cards with the potential to increase in value, the number of stars was not the most important indicator.

More weight was given to the overall performance of cards like that. Sometimes special-purpose cards could bring in a good price.

The fatty was quite familiar with that principle, having built up string after string of classic cases, so he was completely fascinated after hearing Chen Mu. Pearson had a furrowed brow and a dull look all along, wearing an expression as though he were deep in thought.

Before long, the groups arrived at a training room.

It was a classic card assessment room. There were quite a few test instruments of every kind in the room, including some Chen Mu had never seen and didn't know the purpose for. There were also quite a few people in the assessment room awaiting orders.

”Come on, Jin Yu,” the fatty ordered.

”Yes, sir!” With a cold voice, the pretty female card artisan stepped forward from beside the fatty and took the folding Yanbo card from Xi Ping.

”Is there anything my young brother would like to bring up?” the fatty asked.

After thinking, Chen Mu said, ”This card requires pretty outstanding perceptual control.”

The fatty turned up his mouth in a smile. ”Ha, you don't need to worry about that.” The girl called Jin Yu flashed a look of annoyance. What she heard was that Chen Mu had doubted her ability.

”Begin.” The fatty spoke to Jin Yu. He was curious about what kind of outstanding qualities the card had, seeing as it was made by a card master who could get the attention of Faya.

Xi Ping and Pearson quickly looked toward the field. The assistants were all taking their places.

A half-dome shaped energy cloak covered the test field, which divided it from those watching. That was to avoid any accidents.

Jin Yu put the folding Yanbo card into her own apparatus. One could see at a glance what sort of high-grade goods that was. Chen Mu counted six card slots, which made him rather envious.

Jin Yu closed her eyes, carefully trying to understand the internal composition of the folding Yanbo card. The cold, jade-like face of Jin Yu wasn't as cold as usual, but it was intensely focused.

Chen Mu didn't really know himself what the power of the folding Yanbo cards was like. The tailless shuttle's power had already become shocking, so he didn't think the folding Yanbo card would fall far short of it. Moreover, when it came to the production costs, the folding Yanbo card cost several dozen times more than the tailless shuttle card.

The only thing he was worried about was that the requirements regarding the perceptual sensitivity index were too high. He'd gotten the reward of the folding Yanbo card only after his own perceptual sensitivity index had reached 65.

Jin Yu suddenly opened her eyes, and Chen Mu immediately felt a powerful energy fluctuation! It caused his heart to race. His gaze was fixed on Jin Yu on the field.

Jin Yu's snow-scallion-like right hand was tilted down in midair. A fiery, bright red energy was taking shape below her slightly wagging fingers as though molten lava were flowing and snaking out of them.

An extremely simple bright red energy body floated in front of Jin Yu.

The arrowhead-shaped energy body wasn't actually orderly; it gave out a crude feeling. The derision Xi Ping felt became still heavier. In general, high-grade cards emitted energy bodies with orderly compositions. They all had perfectly rigorous geometric structures. The arrow-shaped energy body emitted by Jin Yu was like a variable-thickness energy body with a fold in its middle. It was called the Yanbo—or swallow wave—and was probably the ugliest swallow in history!

The fatty's expression hadn't changed, showing neither discouragement or excitement. Pearson looked full of doubt, as though he'd encountered some problem that gave him a headache. His furrowed brow didn't show any sign of relaxing.

A look of joy emerged on Jin Yu's face.

Without any hesitation, she gave a light wave of her hand. The bright red folding energy body whirred into a trace of red that left a trail in everyone's eyes, and it hit the target precisely.

Hong!

Everyone felt a shock under their feet, and Pearson nearly fell over. Luckily Xi Ping was quick-witted and held onto him. The fat on the boss's body shook, which steadied him. The good thing about a heavy chassis at a time like that was its stability.

The shaking struck everyone, including Chen Mu.

Jin Yu remained on the field. The target that had been in front of her had already disappeared without a trace, and in its place was a big hole about a meter across and 30 centimeters deep.

All of the assistants stopped what they had been doing and looked onto the field in disbelief. The large testing ground was absolutely silent.

With a jangling, something fell to the ground from someone's hands, and the sound of it aroused everyone from their shock.

”My god! What did I just see?” The creases on Pearson's excited face shook like a roaring sea.

Xi Ping was completely flabbergasted, though he quickly responded. A hard-to-disguise look of ecstasy appeared on his face. It was clear to him how much money the folding Yanbo card could bring in!