174: 1.1 person vs. 4 people

Chapter 174: 1.1 Person VS 4 People

[The circle is closing.]

[The circle will be fully closed in 30 minutes.]

As luck would have it, the circle closing notification popped up.

"Straight ahead! Rush to the safe zone first!"

A Ya Jun roared, then manipulated the magic carpet and shot out.

This type of magic carpet was made with the Banlan Tribe's special craftsmanship, and in terms of speed, it truly wasn't much slower than a hoverbike.

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However, the bone dragon in the sky was now slightly confused.

Because of the two ants fleeing on the ground, one was going straight, while the other was zig-zagging.

It couldn't even be described as an S-route; that thing would even make a small U-turn while running.

It had to admit, it was getting a bit dizzy from being led around, so it simply decided to chase the one going straight; it was less annoying.

[Roar!!!]

A furious roar, "Brother! Can you drive properly! Stop swaying!"

Gong Ping on the bike was already feeling nauseous.

"I'm not swaying at all."

Shi Li calmly held the handlebars.

In a flash, the bone dragon and A Ya Jun disappeared into the distance.

Soon after, two thin beams of light shot into the sky, and the number of people on the map changed to: 27 / 35.

In the team panel, A Ya Jun and Chang Zhun had both Escaped the team.

"Your luck is indeed good."

"Your car drives well."

The two exchanged commercial compliments.

Although Shi Li zig-zagged, it had to be said that the hoverbike was fast.

Not long after shaking off the bone dragon, the two had already entered the safe zone.

"Comfortable."

Shi Li put away the bike.

Now that they were in the safe zone, they couldn't be so ostentatious anymore.

"However, our team now has fewer members, so we need to be even more cautious."

Gong Ping vigilantly scanned his surroundings.

At the same time, he also wanted to see if there was a "temporary safe house" to prevent the bone dragon from returning.

"Shi Li, Gong Ping, put your hands up."

As he looked around, he saw four figures emerge from behind the trees.

It was Duan Xinxin's team.

"Don't do anything, we have information to share!"

Gong Ping immediately raised his hands.

"What are you thinking?"

However, Shi Li didn't pay much attention, and a cursor directly shot over.

"Heh heh, overestimating yourself!"

Duan Xinxin didn't expect the opponent to be so reckless.

She was Platinum 10, possessing a 9+1 deck.

And with three companions, that was equivalent to having 35 three-star character cards, making her deck practically bottomless.

On the other side, a Platinum 8 + a Platinum 7, 15 three-star character cards, could only field a 7+1 deck.

To be honest, when she saw that Chang Zhun wasn't there, Duan Xinxin had already breathed a sigh of relief.

Because if they really encountered that pervert, he might insist on dragging them until the dangerous zone arrived, leading to a mutual destruction.

Yu ·. ·

A Barrier rose, and the card game began.

"What cards should I play, and where should I place them?"

Gong Ping was already eager to try.

He recalled that it had been a long time since he last teamed up with Shi Li to play cards.

"I'll handle it."

Shi Li pushed him away.

"Ah?"

Gong Ping's self-esteem was hurt.

Then why are you still teaming up with me? Wouldn't it be easier if you just played by yourself?

He had to admit, facing Shi Li's deck with 35 three-star character cards, he still felt pressure.

Right from the start, the opponent played 4 character cards that were quite effective against him.

First, a pair of linked character cards, used to counter the link between bo shan and cloud river.

Next, there was also 1 Wise card with a defense-breaking effect and burst damage, specifically used to instantly deplete a health bar of the Jumping Guard.

The other two were a Rage card + a Wise card carrying True Damage, countering bo shan's Shield and 10 points of damage reduction.

Facing such a strong offensive, both sides exchanged LV2 Counters, with Shi Li ending up with health loss.

The second round arrived, and the card Shi Li revealed was a two-star Lotus Succubus.

"Come out! Lotus Succubus!"

Lotus Succubus

Berserk, 30 points, Two-star Attack 30, 100/100

Joyful Whip - Characteristic: Lotus Succubus's attack converts to Healing, consuming an equal amount of health (T5)

Narcissism - Passive: Lotus Succubus gains 10 points of Healing each round (T5)

Kiss of Betrayal - 30 Health: Lotus Succubus grants 1 target Defection effect for 1 round (T0)

(Defection: Forcibly attacks an adjacent target behind it)

As he revealed it, Shi Li secretly patted Gong Ping's hand under the table.

If anyone else had done that, Gong Ping would have thought they accidentally touched him.

But he and Shi Li had known each other for quite a while.

He knew this guy definitely had an ulterior motive.

Combined with the fact that the other party had never shouted card revelation lines in such a chuunibyou manner before, and the character card now revealed—

In an instant, Gong Ping understood.

He quietly slipped 1 card from under the table into Shi Li's hand.

"I already expected you to play this card."

Duan Xinxin smiled slightly at this, and also revealed her 5th regular card.

"Next, I will teach you how to behave."

As the card was revealed, a mustachioed man in a tailcoat emerged.

If one looked closely, they would notice his eyes were not human, but a pair of demonic vertical pupils.

He held knife and fork cutlery in his hands, appearing very polite.

Mr. Han

Berserk, 30 points, Three-star Attack 30, 100/100

Bloodletting Art - Characteristic: Mr. Han loses 20 health each round, attacks apply 5 stackable Bleeding

Dessert - Passive: When there is a Bleeding target on the field, Mr. Han gains an equal amount of Healing (T5)

Target Selection - Passive: Mr. Han can select 1 target each round to gain Healing Ban effect (T0)

Delicious Meal - Passive: On a round where Mr. Han participates in defeating a humanoid card, he gains 30 points of Healing (T5)

(Bleeding: Continues to take unavoidable damage at the start of the next round, any Recovery effect can remove it)

This card was Duan Xinxin's strongest character card.

Its power lay in the stackable Bleeding.

Unlike other delayed damage effects like Ignite and Poisoned, which only last for 1 round, the Characteristic of Bleeding is that if you don't deal with it, it just keeps flowing.

If it stacks 3 or 4 layers, losing 15 or 20 health each round, that can be very painful.

Another point is that after Mr. Han stacks enough Bleeding, it's equivalent to gaining extremely strong Healing effects each round, potentially even exceeding 100 points.

That is to say, in such a situation, if it's not defeated within 1 round,

Then it will be at full health the next round.

From this perspective, this is a very powerful and rare Rage System damage-absorbing card.

Warm-up, delayed damage, and damage absorption are its labels.

Of course, another very important reason Duan Xinxin revealed this character card was its Healing Ban entry.

A 100% coverage Healing Ban with no cost was the strength of an unique card.

However, just as Duan Xinxin's side thought it was time to enter the action phase, the game progress stalled.

This meant that T0 had not yet ended.

But both sides had already revealed their cards, so T0 not ending could only mean that there was a hand card that needed to take effect this round.

"It's useless, Shi Li."

Duan Xinxin, of course, knew what was happening.

Lotus Succubus's innate hand card, the opponent was going to play this card.

As for why she said it was useless, it was, of course, because of her Healing Ban.

With Healing Ban in hand, she could defeat anyone she wanted.

Whoosh!

A beam of light struck Lotus Succubus, and she immediately blew a kiss at bo shan.

Ambiguous red heart patterns rose between the two cards, and then the two cards successfully linked.

"Plasma Pulse Cannon, ready."

As a result, cloud river suddenly blurted out such a strange line, even though it wasn't its turn yet.

"Can it even do that?"

Shi Li truly hadn't expected such a jealous easter egg.

cloud river was going to fire a break-up cannon again.

What kind of cuckolding was this?

"I'll say it again, it's useless, Shi Li."

"Xinxin, look—"

Just as Duan Xinxin was dismissive, her teammate next to her patted her arm, pointing at Lotus Succubus's card face.

Lotus Succubus

Berserk, 30 points, Three-star (pseudo)

Attack 30, 100/100

Joyful Whip - Characteristic: Lotus Succubus's attack converts to Healing, consuming an equal amount of health (T5)

Forced Love - Passive: Lotus Succubus's Recovery effect ignores reduction. Narcissism - Passive: Lotus Succubus gains 10 points of Healing each round (T5)

Kiss of Betrayal - 30 Health: Lotus Succubus grants 1 target Defection effect for 1 round (T0)

"Why is this?!"

Duan Xinxin's expression stiffened.

That card was clearly two-star a moment ago, so how did it suddenly become pseudo-three-star?!

"Hehehehehe—"

This was, of course, Gong Ping's masterpiece.

Everyone has their own Talent and opportunities; his Star Ascension had already upgraded from LV1 to LV2.

LV2 Star Ascension: Temporarily changes a two-star card revealed this round into a three-star card. The card he secretly slipped to Shi Li was this hand card, and Shi Li played it along with his main hand cards.

"There's actually such a Characteristic."

"Doesn't that make Ban Healing useless?"

"Damn it—"

Duan Xinxin's teammates began to whisper. Although Shi Li had pulled out a Lotus Succubus in the placement matches, he had never shown the Forced Love Characteristic.

With the help of this Characteristic, it perfectly countered the opponent's Ban Healing.

And so, with the help of the Lotus Succubus, bo shan held firm.

When he started revealing his output cards, the subsequent situation began to improve.

Especially when Gong Ping played another one of his hand cards, Star-Down, directly disrupting the opponent's tactical deployment rhythm.

Finally, under the horizontal and vertical slashes of the ace Red Blade Maiden, Duan Xinxin's team was directly defeated by the two.

"Hahahaha! Four people couldn't beat two!

See? This is what you call fairness!"

Before Duan Xinxin's four teammates resentfully exited, Gong Ping let out a victor's boast... This time, Shi Li uncharacteristically didn't refute him.

He brought Gong Ping to fight the opponent precisely for this guy's two Star Ascension and Star-Down hand cards.

It must be said that using Star Ascension and Star-Down in crucial places can indeed make the card game much easier.

"This eliminates four people at once; we're one step closer to victory."

Gong Ping looked at the number of people displayed on the map.

In this short while, it had become 21/35.

Besides Duan Xinxin's group of four, two other people had also been eliminated.

"Roar—"

From a distant place, the roar of a bone dragon was heard.

"It seems that big guy will also enter the safe zone to catch people. We should find a place to hide."

Gong Ping shrank his neck; the bone dragon's might was still vivid in his memory.

Compared to the punishment zone, this thing was even more dangerous.

In the punishment zone, you could at least hold on for a bit, but if you encountered the bone dragon, you'd be dead on sight.

"You said, is there a possibility—"

Shi Li, however, held a different opinion.

"Is there a possibility of taking it down?"

"What the hell are you thinking?!"

Gong Ping was clearly startled by this audacious idea.

"A five-star Emperor-level monster, it makes one curious what it would drop."

Shi Li believed that even if it only dropped one or half a material card, it would definitely be a huge profit.

Even if that dragon only dropped a four-star material card in the end, it would definitely be a top-grade four-star material card.

Top-grade four-star material cards are rumored to sell for 500,000 to 1,000,000.

"You can think about it, but you won't live to get it."

Gong Ping firmly disagreed.

Isn't it better to just lie low and have a chance to win in the end, with rewards to be had?

"What we need to do now is first understand what kind of card it is."

"Are you even listening to me?! And don't use 'we'! Don't include me!"

"So we need a bait, a bait to scout the bone dragon's card."

"See you around, farewell!"

Gong Ping tried to leave but was pulled back by Shi Li who grabbed his collar.

"Don't worry, I didn't plan for you to be the bait."

"Shi Li?"

Gong Ping immediately showed a touched expression upon hearing this.

"You have other uses."

The word "use" immediately erased the touched feeling.

"But if I'm not the bait, are you going to be the bait?

You can't expect me to solve that big thing, I can't beat it."

"I want you to be my meat Shield."

"That sounds pretty similar to bait, hey."

"Never mind, just follow me."

Shi Li waved his hand, signaling Gong Ping to follow.

And so, the two of them wandered around the safe zone.

During this time, they encountered two other teams of classmates.

However, the opposing teams were not complete.

It was unclear if they had suffered losses midway or had split up.

Actually, splitting up was also a good strategy; at least they wouldn't be wiped out like Duan Xinxin's team.

When they met, both groups were quite far apart.

Under the influence of caution, the other side didn't dare to approach, and ultimately no interaction occurred.

"So what exactly do you want to do?"

Gong Ping expressed confusion about this aimless wandering.

"Looking for someone."

Shi Li spread his hands.

"Weren't those two teams just now people?"

"I need to find people who trust me."

"People who trust you?"

"Yes, others are too cautious, hard to use.'

—Well, you really are betraying people's trust in you.

And why do I feel like you're AOEing me?"

"You're different, you're my friend."

"Now that's a human thing to say."

"I can openly use you."

This conversation couldn't go on.

Gong Ping decided to shut up.

The two walked and walked, finally encountering a blond, blue-eyed guy.

"See? Someone who trusts me has appeared."

Shi Li smiled.

Fernando didn't know what he had encountered; he was alone at this moment.

Seeing Shi Li and Gong Ping, he hesitated for 1 second before turning to change direction.

"Don't run, I have a vehicle."

From afar, Shi Li said to the other party.

"Having a vehicle makes it harder to catch up, just run off course."

Close by, Gong Ping whispered a complaint.

"What do you want?"

Fernando was still backing away.

"Let's chat for a bit, what do you say?"

Shi Li actively walked towards him: "Anyway, you can't beat me. If I really wanted to eliminate you, I would have made a move already."

...Fernando actually stopped upon hearing this: "You have a point."

"Is this what you call someone who trusts you?"

Gong Ping was stunned.

"So, what's the situation with your team now?"

After getting closer, Shi Li actively inquired.

"Ah, don't even mention it, it's just too unlucky."

When asked this, Fernando opened up: "You saw the first person from our team get eliminated, and then we encountered a similar situation again. Two people were eliminated just in the danger zone.

Then I ran into Chi Xi's team. My teammate, to buy me time, actively initiated a card game with them and was also eliminated."

"I feel relieved hearing you say that."

Shi Li nodded slightly.

All three were eliminated normally, which means they probably didn't encounter the bone dragon.

"?"

"No, I mean, how strong is Chi Xi's team?"

Shi Li changed the subject.

"Strong, one Platinum 10, paired with one Platinum 9 + two Platinum 8s."

Fernando looked at Gong Ping, then at Shi Li: "I don't think you alone can contend with them."

"Hey, hello, am I not a person?"

This blatant disregard made Gong Ping a bit annoyed.

Get eliminated quickly, little foreigner.

"You've seen the situation on my side as well."

Shi Li sighed, troubled: "A Ya Jun and Chang Zhun chose to split up, but not long after we separated, they were successively eliminated.

Now it's just me left."

Gong Ping: "You two are enough."

It's fine that you lie without batting an eye, but why do you have to step on me too?

"So what exactly do you want to talk to me about?"

Fernando didn't believe Shi Li was without purpose.

"Let's go together. Although we can't form a team, it's still good to have someone to watch your back."

Shi Li extended an olive branch: "We can agree not to fight each other until there are only two teams left."

""..— ·, Okay, I'll trust you this once."

Fernando knew he was outnumbered and outmatched; this was the best option at the moment.

After all, Shi Li's strength was there; he could still trust him.

"Alright, alright, let's go quickly, the circle is about to shrink."

Gong Ping was speechless watching Shi Li repeatedly give him the OK sign from behind.

Although he didn't know Shi Li's plan, he was already starting to feel sympathy for Fernando.

[Circle shrinking begins.]

[Circle will be fully shrunk within 30 minutes.]

Just then, the circle began to shrink, so the three of them journeyed together towards the safe zone.