Li Pu didn't have a cube card glove, but he could still get to the card table in another way.

That was by using the immersive cube pod, entering the cube card virtual network world built by the Federation.

This was also a great (?) achievement of new technology after the great upheaval.

In there, card players separated by great distances in real geographic locations could play games indistinguishable from face-to-face ones.

Moreover, the cube pod had another function, which was to serve the same purpose as sleep.

This meant that Li Pu could spend his days in the South Forest and his nights in the card house, without missing out on rest.

Previously, he didn't know these things; it was all informed by Li Fan.

But at least for now, Li Fan didn't have any plans to teach Li Pu how to play cards, just wanted him to help collect cards.

So after helping him activate the cube card panel, he didn't give much introduction but instead let Li Pu explore the card house himself.

Following the location given by Li Fan, Li Pu arrived at a relatively isolated area on campus.

"Is this really supposed to be called a card house?"

But when Li Pu arrived at the destination, he was a bit dumbfounded.

Originally thinking that being built in such a remote place, the card house would be very simple.

In fact, he was wrong, the building's area could rival several football stadiums.

As he approached the entrance, the glass doors automatically opened.

The spaciousness inside also surprised him.

In such a large building, there were not too many facilities; looking around, there were only one after another of reclining cube pods.

Each cube pod was slightly smaller than a dormitory bed, with a spacing of more than 3 meters between them.

The mechanical metal shells made Li Pu feel like they were iron coffins.

"With such a big setup, do people really come to play cards?"

He estimated by sight and guessed there were at least a few hundred of them.

But like the trading post, due to it being before school started, there weren't many people here.

From afar, only the indicator lights on four or five cube pods were lit, indicating they were occupied.

The key was that the trading post at least had staff on duty; here, there wasn't a soul in sight.

Li Pu wanted to operate it, but didn't know how to start.

[Hello, how can I assist you]

Just when he was in a dilemma, a short track-rolling robot drove out from behind a cube pod.

"No wonder there were no people; this place is fully self-service, huh."

Seeing this metal block, he understood.

In self-service places, this was a common type of robot.

After some inquiry and communication, Li Pu understood the operation process of the cube pod.

It's actually very simple; just show your student card and place Crystal Coins to use it.

The price was 10 Crystal Coins per hour, which wasn't expensive.

As for the student card issue, although it hadn't been issued yet, his personal data was already registered with the school.

So using a fingerprint instead was OK.

Ka-ka!

After he finished operating, the cube pod's door in front of him automatically opened.

Li Pu stepped inside and lay down; to his surprise, it was quite comfortable.

After pressing the inner button, the door closed.

At the moment the door closed, the indicator light inside turned on.

An unknown liquid began to flow in from all directions.

The liquid touching the skin didn't cause any discomfort; on the contrary, the slight coolness made Li Pu feel quite comfortable, as if the fatigue in his body faded a little.

The water level rose quickly, soon submerging Li Pu completely.

When it flooded into his lungs through the respiratory tract, there was a moment of discomfort.

But very quickly, it felt like nothing was wrong, and he continued to breathe normally.

In this novel experience, Li Pu's eyelids gradually grew heavy.

He knew this was the hypnotic component in the liquid taking effect, and once he completely fell asleep, his consciousness would enter the cube card world.

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds...

Suddenly his vision brightened, and Li Pu found himself standing in a closed cubic space.

All around were pure white walls, and besides him, there was no one else.

Only one wall had a blue control panel, like a projection.

The options weren't many, and the most eye-catching one was [Match Opponent].

"So does this mean I can start now?"

Curious, he clicked on that button.

[First-time login detected for card player, proceed with rule learning?]

A melodious female voice sounded in his ear.

Unexpectedly, this virtual world was quite sophisticated, able to identify Li Pu as a novice.

"That's right, too."

After listening, he realized he was indeed a bit too eager.

Concerning the rules of cube card, he still had to study them well first.

Even after prolonged exposure, even if he wasn't interested before, Li Pu had about 70-80% understanding of the cube card rules.

In a normal 1V1 card game, both sides could form a deck of 10 cards.

Arranged in a fixed manner, the decks were laid out.

[Front Card][Front Card][Front Card]

[Middle Card][Middle Card][Middle Card]

[Rear Card][Rear Card][Rear Card]

[Trump Card][Trump Card][Trump Card]

Among them, the placements in the first three rows, known as regular cards, totaled nine cards.

The last row could have one trump card freely placed in any of the three positions; opponents didn't know which position the trump card was in.

At the start of a game, all 10 cards were present as face-down cards, revealing one regular face-down card per round.

Additionally, the two empty trump slots were also shown as face-down cards.

Games proceed through cycles of [Card Reveal] - [Action] - [Card Reveal] - [Action].

The ultimate victory condition of the game was to take down the opponent's trump card.

After gathering from Mushroom Valley overnight, Li Pu now possessed a total of 13 cards.

Meeting the minimum requirement of 10 cards, which was why he was at the card house.

So subsequently, Li Pu underwent more than an hour of learning.

This duration far exceeded expectations.

He now understood that the supposed 70-80% understanding might actually just be about 50% at best.

In reality, the rules of cube cards had many nuances he was unaware of.

However, Li Pu's academic performance was already quite strong, which represented his learning ability to some extent.

Just after completing the entire process once, he felt he had fully grasped it.

"So this means that after becoming a card player, a Summoner will awaken an additional cube card-related summoning talent."

"The teacher didn't tell me about this before."

At this moment, Li Pu stroked his chin, lost in thought.

Previously only focused on card collection, he hadn't looked closely at his cube card panel yet.

"[Card Creation]? What does that mean?"

Until he opened the panel and found his cube card talent, he was puzzled.

"Uh, it does seem pretty good."

After browsing through the talent information, Li Pu nodded.

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