Folk Card Maker: Starting from Painted Skin.

Chapter 1 Folk Card Making, Start

Lanruo City.

Crystal Lidu Community.

It was raining continuously when a rat as big as a cat crawled out of the sewer, bit a piece of raw pork infested with maggots, and then suddenly disappeared.

"Ta Tata..."

A man wearing a raincoat and rain boots rushed into the rain.

"evildoer!"

The man suddenly pulled out a card and quickly read out a name, and a headless soldier in armor slashed at the shadow.

"Quick, notify Lao Zheng, traffic control! Everyone stay home! The Lanruo City branch of the Card Creators Association is calling for card makers to go to Xihu!"

A paper bird flapped its wings and flew away.

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"A new season of the classic card simulation battle game Soul Card Legend is here! Pre-order and take it home for only 1688!"

"Diamond card maker Bird Thief has been secluded in the basement for two years. Now, the Off-Duty Witch has officially returned with a gold-quality card!"

"The Sakura Kingdom and the Kimchi Kingdom are in conflict again. The leaders of both sides have officially challenged each other to a duel. Each will send ten elite card makers to duel!"

"The 1th Zulong Cup is in full swing. The Working Girls team lost 4: to the Aikun team. A large number of fans are attacking the Aikun team's base!"

All kinds of weird news echoed in Zhang Jingtian's ears, and he felt a splitting headache.

What the hell is this!

Has he traveled through time?
He looked at the female anchor who was still reporting various news on her phone and gradually calmed down.

Originally, he was just a fledgling game designer, working on his new game: a horror game based on Chinese folklore and monsters from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

As a result, after working overtime as 007 for nine consecutive months, he finally died suddenly as expected.

But he is a game designer after all, so he is very accepting of time travel.

Moreover, when I thought that I would no longer have to work overtime and would no longer be oppressed by the company, I felt relieved instantly.

"We need to quickly familiarize ourselves with the world we live in."

"Does it have any supernatural powers? Is the setting Eastern fantasy or Japanese fantasy? Is it an infinite flow or the Fourth Calamity..."

"Well, do I have a system? Or a panel, or a deep blue plus point?"

Zhang Jingtian tried all the settings he was familiar with but there was no response. It was only then that he gradually understood his situation from various news on TV.

This world is called Earth, and it has experienced a historical fault.

There are very few records of the history before the fault, but it looks almost the same as Earth.

What made the two worlds go in different directions was an accident.

A world called the Scourge tore open a crack that ordinary people could not feel and invaded this world.

Since then, all kinds of unimaginable and even indescribable monsters have descended to Earth and started to slaughter humans crazily.

Even countless countries disappeared from then on. For example, the entire Oceania became a land of monsters.

Until a man named Zulong appeared in the Dragon Kingdom. He was born with divine eyes and could actually see the cracks torn by the Scourge Legion, which was called the "Secret Realm".

He took the initiative to go deep, not only surviving, but also obtaining a card with extraordinary power. From then on, the era of card makers began, and the battle between humans and the Scourge continues to this day.

However, the two sides are now at a stage of equal strength.

The only eight remaining countries, Dragon Country, Ugly Country, Sakura Country, Kimchi Country, Sand Country, Tianzhu, Rome and Maya have all started the national card maker training program.

Every July, Longguo would conduct a talent test called the college entrance examination on all high school seniors who had passed the final examination. A group of talented students would be selected and sent to the Card Maker Academy in their area.

It is December now, and there is still half a year before the college entrance examination.

And Zhang Jingtian is a senior high school student.

However, he was just the last-place student in the ordinary class. Half of the students in his class had passed the final examination and became reserve card makers, and were qualified to take the college entrance examination.

The examination was simple. You just had to take the first card you successfully made and send it to the city's Card Makers Association. After it passed the review, you had to take a written test that you could pass as long as you were not mentally retarded. Then you could become a candidate card maker.

However, how to make the first card is the fork in the fate of ordinary people.

Card makers have the resources of the entire country and are responsible for saving the destiny of mankind. They are currently the top profession.

The real Celestial Dragon.

However, making a card is not an easy task.

Basically, you need mental strength to draw on a blank card.

Moreover, during a drawing, it cannot be interrupted, otherwise all efforts will be wasted.

Zhang Jingtian's original body's current mental strength is bronze, the most common level among high school students, and also the lowest level.

The quality of cards he can draw, namely white, green and blue.

In order to make a card, in addition to mental power and blank cards, you also need a special card drawing pen, a special pigment rune that is only available in the secret realm, card making materials, determining the real name of the card, adding a story, drawing the card surface and other complex processes, and only after passing certain rules can it be summoned and used in battle.

It can be said that this places high demands on a person's talent, resources, logical thinking, storytelling ability and painting skills.

Therefore, if you want to become a superior person, you need to fight against all odds to cross a single-plank bridge.

Even many aspiring card makers cannot pass the college entrance examination to become real card makers.

Once you become a card maker, you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life.

"Since I've traveled through time, of course I have to be the best!"

After a moment's thought, Zhang Jingtian realized that mental strength can be trained and materials can be purchased directly. Only constructing the story is the most difficult and is also the key to determining the quality of a card.

This is difficult for other people in the world, but it is not a problem for Zhang Jingtian.

Because he has memories of his past life, especially folk legends and the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which serve as the background of his game, he can be said to know them like the back of his hand!

He believes that these things that have disappeared due to historical gaps can definitely be recognized by the rules!
There are even mythological characters in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and he also remembers some myths and legends, which can help him draw extremely powerful cards!

Even those geniuses who were cultivated through various secret manuals, their carefully constructed worldviews and stories were definitely not as powerful as the gods, ghosts and monsters in the legends in his mind that had been tested for thousands of years!
The card makers in this world do not have memories like Zhang Jingtian. In order to pursue these cards from ancient legends, they can only go to the secret realm alone to look for traces of the past.

However, Zhang Jingtian learned that only the Dragon Kingdom had not found any trace of its former legends in the secret realm.

This is also why the card makers of Dragon Country have been somewhat overwhelmed in the world competitions and international events such as joint attacks on secret realms in recent years.

This is Zhang Jingtian's opportunity and also his responsibility.

(End of this chapter)