Fang Xiang

This is both a work of science fiction and an exploration of the meaning of life, love, literature and art. Brainpower is no longer the main ingredient for being human in this far distant future world.  Spirituality, physical balance, and diligence all come together as integrity for Chen Mu, the Card Apprentice.  The cards which Chen Mu masters in his own scrappy way, distill all the powers of the cosmos –  human and nonhuman –  into something that is not a book, not technology, and neither art nor magic, but is these and more.  Learn about these strange cards, which can embody everything you might imagine for the future of technology, but also a future beyond technology which promotes the best, and sometimes the worst, from mankind’s past.

The Card Apprentice

After returning to the base and bringing along five card masters who were good at processing materials and compounding, he turned everything over to Ru Qiu. That was a great relief to her work pressure.

The card masters were worthy of their titles in materials processing and compounding, after all. Each of them was frighteningly efficient, with two of them even more efficient than Ru Qiu. The five combined had still scarier production capacity. They finished 200 bottles of card ink on the first day.

They were like regulars regarding the price of the materials. After a little calculation, they were astonished to find they had made 1 billion Oudi worth of card ink!

The Transformation (VIII)