Quick Travel: Card Destroyer

What matters is not the truth, but the choice.

Of course, for Cang Zhao, this multiple-choice question meant she didn't have to make a choice. She almost immediately chose the puzzle piece of happiness.

The main reason for putting together the dark puzzle is for comparison.

"Reality" may have different versions depending on people's subjective will, but "facts" exist objectively. She needs to know some exact events.

What is certain is that after she entered the card city, the Security Department quickly sent her to the adoption process, and a woman who could make noise-isolating earplugs became her adoptive mother. It is not clear whether the adoptive mother is good or bad, but at least quitting smoking and making earplugs are true.

Then something happened, her adoptive mother's throat was damaged, she urgently made a card for her adoptive mother that could maintain her vital signs. That incident had a great impact on her, she was frightened, and ran rampant in the card city, probably destroying a lot of public property, and bit the security guard who was looking for her, otherwise she would not have paid the fine for five consecutive years.

After making the choice, the "veil" gradually dissipated, and the girl in the lace white shirt became transparent, but she looked aware of the situation.

Until the last moment before she disappeared, she said to Cangzhao: "Thank you, sister. Goodbye!"

Smile brightly.

Fu Cangzhao looked at the girl's hand as it changed from real to illusory, his expression stunned.

"Goodbye," she whispered back, though the girl could no longer hear her.

The scene in front of her eyes became blurred, and her consciousness sank into darkness for a short time. When she regained consciousness, she was back in the therapist's room. She was half lying on the soft sofa, just in time to see the afternoon sun shining through the glass window and drawing a frame on the ground. Part of the frame covered the instep and a part of the calf, which was very warm.

Suddenly, her nose twitched slightly, and she smelled the refreshing aroma of tea for the third time today.

The therapist also brewed a pot of Qingxin Flower Tea for her. Different from the pure Qingxin Flower or Xingye Flower she drank the previous two times, the therapist added a lot of auxiliary ingredients to this pot. She recognized the wolfberry, a few Xinyang grass, and two pieces of Gastrodia elata floating in the glass pot.

"These auxiliary ingredients can maximize the efficacy of Qingxin Flower. I usually see patients and consume more, so I like to drink it this way." The therapist poured tea very skillfully, then picked up the small cup in front of him and drank it all, then poured himself a second cup.

Fu Cangzhao brought the teacup close to his nose, carefully sniffed the slightly complex aroma of the tea, put it to his mouth to cool it down, took a sip carefully, and immediately felt his anxious mood calmed down a lot.

As the trading month draws to a close, the threats outside the city are becoming more and more severe. The city's apparent power and the Sisters are far from being able to eliminate them all.

She was eager to eliminate the threat and to resume her status as the tomb keeper. But as the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Some things can't be done in one day, and you have to calm down and solve them one by one.

Even if the mayor didn't hide the death scepter parts in the eleven districts of the card city, she still needed to visit them one by one. This was the formal process for the succession of the southern tomb keepers - the pilgrimage to the tombs of the gods. The time it took for each generation of tomb keepers to complete the pilgrimage varied. The shortest one was a month or even half a month, while the longest one took more than six years. My grandmother took five months.

She thought that by the time she completed the pilgrimage, it would be almost exactly two months before she became an adult, and she would be able to give herself a unique coming-of-age gift.

The tomb keeper's mission has been completed.

After finishing a cup of tea, she stood up and said goodbye to the therapist.

The boy's figure walked farther and farther away in the warm afternoon sun until he disappeared around a corner. The therapist then returned to the room with peace of mind and went about his own business.

In fact, there was another surprise that calmed Fu Cangzhao down: Bing Haoqi was back and purchasing materials nearby.

This guy took advantage of the trading month to deal with countless wealthy ladies in the card city. He saved a lot of creation points in his identity card. As soon as he came back, he went straight to the building materials market to customize parts.

Fu Cangzhao rushed over and when he saw the small object she was making, he immediately felt a little absurd: "I thought you were going to design some kind of machine, but it turns out it's just a larger cup?"

"What can I do? Normal cups are not made of this material." Bing Haoqi forced a bitter smile and spread out his hands to indicate that there was nothing he could do.

Through mind sharing, Fu Cangzhao learned that she urgently needed a material that could withstand a large amount of creative ideas to hold the ink mixed on site.

There are two ways to make cards with card ink. One is to use a card-making pen to dip into the prepared ink and draw lines on the card. The pen technique and pauses are very particular. Since this method is too similar to making cards with an inkless pen, it is easy to attract dirt, and it is also a common card-making method used by combat card masters in the outside world. Bing Haoqi does not want to do this.

She decided to try another approach.

First, use a stamping pen to carve a mark on the white card, then use a special dropper to inject ink into the mark, and finally input the idea of ​​creation to solidify the card ink. This method was inspired by elemental guidance. In order to complete the mission of crossing into David Chang's card world, she taught herself this skill as "Greta Sikolari".

According to Yi Chunzhan, the reason why the Card City has not yet made up its mind to abandon the Inkless Pen is not only because the citizens' minds have been eroded by the Inkless Pen for a long time, but also because using pure mental power to make cards is the most environmentally friendly way.

From this point of view, what she said does make sense. Kamo needs a lot of exotic beast materials, including but not limited to blood, bone marrow, and body parts. The container for holding Kamo also needs special materials. However, the system of Card City does not allow citizens to go out in large numbers to hunt exotic beasts. Who can tell what will happen to them outside? Will they have an affair with the aliens? Will they take the opportunity to defect from Card City?

Fu Cangzhao could see that the management system of the Card City was not perfect. Strangely enough, it had been five hundred years since the Card City was built. Logically speaking, no matter how many imperfections there were, they should have been slowly resolved. Given the consistent style of successive mayors, it was impossible for them to be left alone.

Unless there is a gap in the city’s history.

Only the "generation gap" can explain the many loopholes in urban management. Because of the generation gap, future generations have no way of knowing the city's development plan, and in order to maintain stability as much as possible, they can only be content with the status quo. A rash breakthrough is likely to be like a mutation, which will put the city in a worse situation.

Thinking of this, she quietly clenched her fists.

Bing Haoqi read her thoughts, put down the freshly baked ink container with a smile, took her arm, and said, "Whatever you want to do, just go ahead and do it."

"I know, but..." Fu Cangzhao pursed his lips and covered Bing Haoqi's hand with his palm, "I don't know if my choice is right. Will my action make the Card City better, or... push ourselves and everyone into another fire pit?"

"You are just helping to clean up the deposited sludge. Even if you find another trap under the sludge after clearing it, that is another problem and has nothing to do with you." Bing Haoqi said in a low voice.

After confirming that there was no problem with the DIY container, she let go and walked to the counter to pay for the automatic design and manufacturing card.

After coming back, she put away the container, held hands with Fu Cangzhao, and strolled in the spacious shopping mall, just like other young couples.

When people smell the breath of change in the times and want to intervene to change something, they need a sense of mission of "who else but me".

The ingredients that the therapist adds to the tea are partly fictional and partly based on reality.

For example, Xinyang Caoling is inspired by Xinyang Maojian (and saffron x). Of course, I have never tasted it, but I have only heard of the name.

Why add Gastrodia elata? This is about the author of this book who went to a jewelry exhibition one day and saw a shop selling Gastrodia elata, saying that this thing can cure headaches. I slapped my thigh and thought that this thing can just cure my headache of unknown cause, so I went to buy it.

When I went there, I found out that this stuff is cut and sold freshly. When it was being weighed, they were frantically grabbing it into the basin. I have a social phobia, so I didn't feel comfortable saying stop. They finally stopped when they had almost grabbed enough, and after cutting it, they put it in a big bag, which weighed a full pound.

This stuff costs three dollars per gram.

That works out to fifteen hundred.

I reluctantly took out my Huabei account and bought a bag of Gastrodia elata in installments, which was enough for me to finish the whole year. However, it ended up being unused because I don’t usually like to soak things (it’s easy to forget), and I even forgot to bring it home.

*As for what exactly caused my headache, you can refer to Bing Haoqi...