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Chapter 95 I said I was playing cards, and you really only play cards?

Seeing the beautiful women in the store, Wang Pan perked up, then glanced at Feng Moquan beside him, "Old Feng, Shen Kang organized this social event for me and Jin Chao, what are you doing here?"

When Wang Pan said this, there was a hint of jealousy in his voice: In the past few days, everyone in their dormitory had seen Feng Moquan constantly texting Zhong Lin on his phone, and it seemed like things were progressing very well, which made Wang Pan extremely envious.

At least Lao Shen is rarely in the dorm, so out of sight, out of mind. But Feng Moquan is always sticking to the dorm, which is annoying.

Feng Moquan said calmly, "Although I'm different from you, I don't participate in social events. Can't I even look?"

He felt that his relationship with Zhong Lin was progressing rapidly, and he had been quite excited these past few days.

Wang Pan remained silent and went inside with Jin Chao.

Upon entering, there was a reception desk on the left. There was a computer on the desk, and a girl with slightly dark skin and a single ponytail was standing behind the counter. Shen Kang was standing next to her.

"Do you have an appointment?" the girl asked.

Shen Kang stopped her, saying, "My friends, Wang Pan and Jin Chao, have already arranged the gathering."

Yang Yunhan scrolled the mouse wheel a few times to check the information in the Excel spreadsheet—the 302 study room is still in the trial operation phase, and the dedicated software has not yet been developed.

"Oh, let's go to table number 1."

Shen Kang then came out from behind the front desk and led Wang Pan and the others to table number 1.

The tables in the shop are all oval-shaped, and the chairs are arranged with one person at each end and three more people on the left and right sides.

Upon seeing that this was table number 1, Wang Pan was very excited: "There are two beautiful women at this table!"

Wang Pan was so excited that he put his mouth close to Shen Kang's ear and whispered, "Old Shen, I won't say more, you're a true buddy!"

Shen Kang thought to himself, "It's a good thing you haven't been on the Yangbei Forum these past few days and don't know what I've been doing, otherwise you wouldn't have said that."

He said, "We're brothers, we're practically family."

On this table number 1, besides the two beautiful women, there was actually a handsome man, but Wang Pan naturally ignored him.

Besides these two beautiful women and one handsome man, there are also two other girls and one boy at table number 1, but these three are of relatively ordinary appearance.

In study room 302, there are currently 5 tables of guests. At each table, there are either 2 beautiful women and 1 handsome man, or 2 handsome men and 1 beautiful woman. The rest of the guests are all of average appearance, at most just good-looking—it's all this kind of combination.

These beautiful women and handsome men were naturally found by Shen Kang and Yang Yunhan, who paid them 5 yuan per hour. The pay was decent, and since they could get paid just for playing games, it was quite easy, so everyone was happy to come.

To avoid trouble and risks, Shen Kang and Yang Chonghan had conducted inquiries and investigations to confirm that they were both single.

Meanwhile, the other tables had already started playing.

After Wang Pan and Jin Chao took their seats, and everyone else was seated, Shen Kang stood to the side and began to speak: "I believe everyone came here today to play cards."

Playing cards?

Wang Pan was taken aback, but upon seeing the two beautiful women at the table, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and nodded: Although he didn't know what kind of cards they were playing, he was just there to play cards, and he was completely innocent, with no other purpose!

The other people at the table didn't voice any objections either; clearly, everyone was there to play cards.

Shen Kang continued, "Now that everyone is here, let's begin."

He picked up the card box for the game "Three Kingdoms Kill" on the table—the cards he ordered online had finally arrived—and opened it, taking out all the cards and explaining: "First are the identity cards, with four identities: Lord, Loyal Minister, Rebel, and Traitor—"

After the explanation, everyone started playing. Shen Kang acted as the DM (game host) and corrected any rule errors.

Among board games, "Three Kingdoms Kill" is relatively simple; after one game, everyone basically knows how to play it. There was no need for Shen Kang anymore; they organized a second game themselves.

Feng Moquan had been watching for a while, and then asked, "Old Shen, do you own this shop?"

"Yes. But this isn't the card from the 'Three Kingdoms Kill' game; I bought this card online."

Feng Moquan added, "This card game seems quite interesting; I'd like to play too."

Shen Kang glanced at him: "Didn't you and Zhong Lin make progress?"

Feng Moquan looked at him with disdain: "Look at what you're saying, I just want to play this card game."

He could easily see that the four men and four women in the shop were arranged by Shen Kang for a social gathering. He was already in a relationship and no longer interested in social gatherings, but he genuinely found the cards interesting and wanted to play.

"Then go do laundry next door. Doing laundry now gives you a chance to win a voucher—one voucher gets you an hour of free playtime. Or you can reserve a Supreme Latte in our 302 study room," one Supreme Latte gets you two hours of playtime.

Shen Kang pointed to the inside of the shop, where there was a counter with a coffee set and a barista.

All the equipment and staff were borrowed from Guo Pinyan. Although his coffee shop was still under renovation, everything was ready, and they were just waiting to move in once the renovation was complete.

"Or, you can buy a set of 'Three Kingdoms Kill' cards online and play with your own friends. As for Wang Pan and Jin Chao, they didn't have trial vouchers or reservations for coffee, so letting them play is a small perk I'm giving them."

After listening, Feng Moquan was a little puzzled: "You're opening this shop, why not just do it like an internet cafe, with a price per hour like a few yuan? Why do you have this 'buy coffee and play games' thing?"

"We're still in the trial operation phase, so we need to do some research before we can determine the pricing. That's why we're using this method for now."

Shen Kang gave a brief explanation.

Pricing cannot be set arbitrarily. Setting it too high will affect business, while setting it too low will not meet his strategic goals. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a trial operation for two days to investigate the psychological price point of these real customers before deciding on the pricing.

As the two chatted, the atmosphere at Wang Pan's table became increasingly lively, but Wang Pan's behavior was unbearable for Shen Kang to watch.

At table number 1, the handsome guy and the beautiful girl were already exchanging glances; a pretty girl was also repeatedly pulling at the guy next to her, smiling and asking pointless questions like "Are you a traitor?"; even Jin Chao was asking the girl next to him questions about the rules of the game, whether he really didn't understand or was just pretending.

Wang Pan is actually playing games.

They got really into it and stood up. One of them pointed at a beautiful woman and declared decisively, "I can tell at a glance that you're a traitor. Duel!" He then threw out a duel card.

The beautiful woman's face turned a little pale. She hadn't killed anyone; her last drop of blood was deducted, and she was killed in a duel by her lord, Wang Pan. Then, she flipped over her identity card and found out she was a loyal subject.

"Then it seems I misunderstood you."

Wang Pan was somewhat annoyed. He held a hand of cards and looked at them one by one, seemingly trying to figure out who was the loyalist and who was the traitor.

He seemed unable to tell the difference, so he directly asked for help from the sidelines: "Old Shen, who are you calling a traitor? Who should I hit?"

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Shen Kang gave him a thumbs up, speechless, thinking to himself, "Wasn't Wang Pan perfectly normal when he came in just now?"