RNP 126. You'll have no friends if you keep going like this.
126. You'll have no friends if you keep going like this.
Welfare home.
Dongfang Liang walked into the annex alone and began the follow-up examination.
Ai Yi's mission report was simple: target missing, no abnormalities at the scene.
The room was empty except for an old television and a game console.
Dongfang Liang's gaze swept across the entire room. There was no residual spiritual energy in the air, nor any sign of fighting or energy bursts.
There were really no traces at the scene that warranted special attention, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
The absence of any abnormality is itself the biggest abnormality.
He looked at the empty room and quickly reviewed Ai Yi's behavior in his mind.
His deliberate attempt to erase traces must be to cover something up.
Or rather, he was protecting someone who was extremely important to him.
Dongfang Liang was not clear about the ins and outs of the matter, but he knew Ai Yi well enough.
He may seem carefree and nonchalant, but he is actually very meticulous.
That seemingly innocent and harmless baby face can make people lower their guard and not detect the scheming in his heart or the little calculations running through his mind.
Therefore, a bold conjecture formed in the conscience of the East.
The missing child is likely related to the Nine-Lives Cat, which has the ability to manipulate space.
And the only person who is related to the Nine Lives Cat and requires Ai Yi to go to such great lengths to cover it up is probably just one person.
Jiang Chen.
There has been no news of that poor soul who was possessed by the Blood Coral Tai Sui and parasitized by the Zombie Fungus Mother for nearly a year. It seems that Nine Lives Cat has arranged for him to be in a safe place.
Therefore, Ai used the power of the totem to erase all traces at the scene, along with the dean's memories.
If the purpose was to cover up the whereabouts of Nine Lives Cat and Jiang Chen, then everything makes sense.
Dongfang Liang stood up and did not conduct any further investigation.
He didn't expose Ai Yi, but instead issued a secret command via an encrypted line on the way back.
"From now on, keep a close eye on Ai Yi."
"I need a complete and detailed report on all his itinerary, communications, and contacts over the next few days, down to the smallest detail."
All he had to do now was wait. Ai Yi, who had been holding back for almost a year, was not going to be patient, but he could wait.
He wanted to play the long game, to see which unfathomable pool Ai Yi, this true dragon, would swim towards.
……
Meanwhile, at the Millennium Promise Bar.
Jiang Chen began to cultivate the game in a targeted manner.
Instead of letting Yugi continue playing those fighting games, he pulled out several physical Yu-Gi-Oh! card sets from a dusty box and threw them in front of Yugi.
Yes, he plans to train the game to become a card master.
Yu Yu Hakusho is a childhood classic, and so is Yu-Gi-Oh!, and they've stood the test of time, with plenty of people still playing them and willing to spend money on them.
"From today onwards, this will be your training regimen."
The power of spirit patterns and totems both converge towards mastering the laws, and rules can be considered a type of law.
Since the game's essence is still in its nascent stage, there is an opportunity for artificial intervention.
Jiang Chen's idea is very bold.
He hopes that the game can engage with a power system that leans more towards concepts and rules from the very beginning.
Even if it doesn't work, or if the direction is wrong, but it cultivates a kind of supernatural legend, that's still acceptable.
After all, the protective mechanism that the spirits in the game now have is quite similar to the Dark Games in Yu-Gi-Oh!
The game player picked up the cards and flipped through a few.
"What is this? Is it something a child plays with?"
He was used to hand-to-hand combat games where victory was determined by skill and technique, and did not show much interest in card games that required calculation and thought.
Jiang Chen didn't argue with him, but simply picked up a deck of cards himself.
It was a meticulously constructed, extremely torturous, hellish deck.
"Let's play a round first, so you can familiarize yourself with the rules. Anyway, it's all about taking damage, and whoever's health reaches zero first loses."
"OK!"
The competitive spirit of the game was ignited.
In the first game, he was tormented by Jiang Chen's various combinations of card reduction, blood burning, and attack prohibition effects.
With each reduction in health points, the excruciating pain that pierces the soul arrives as expected.
When the last of his health was depleted by the cotton candy's rebound damage, the player was in so much pain that he rolled on the ground in agony.
He is not satisfied.
In the second game, he began to seriously study the rules.
In the third round, he was able to make some simple counterattacks, but Jiang Chen used the Bad Beast, turning all the monsters in the game into turtle food.
In the end, the game fell victim to Jiang Chen's endless stream of underhanded tricks.
"You'll have no friends if you keep going like this."
Jiang Chen chuckled and uttered that classic quote.
"I'm already playing a weird deck, why do I need friends? If you're so capable, show me how weirder you can be."
"You just wait."
His competitive spirit was completely ignited, and this became a seed in his heart.
The gamer studied the card rules tirelessly, even catching up on the anime series and frantically learning about the world and card effects.
It must be said that his talent is truly amazing.
However, despite being limited by his literacy and the complexity of the K language, and having some misunderstandings about the complicated card rules, his adaptability and learning ability have exceeded Jiang Chen's expectations.
If given more time, Jiang Chen will have no advantage, and if he plays against him again, he will only be brutally defeated.
After several days of catching up on the series and memorizing the card effects, the originally chaotic spiritual energy fluctuations around him began to gradually converge and solidify.
A wisp of energy gathered behind him, vaguely outlining the shape of an extremely blurry card.
Targeted training has yielded initial results.
The seed has taken root and sprouted, but Jiang Chen can't say for sure how far it will grow.
A few days later, in the evening.
Following the faint spatial fluctuations left by Cat Master in her memory, Ai Yi wandered all the way to the vicinity of the Millennium Promise Bar.
Just as he was about to approach, the nascent dragon totem within his body suddenly emitted a faint tremor.
This is not an aggressive reaction.
Rather, it is a warning stemming from instinct.
There seems to be some great terror lurking in this bar.
This did not deter Ai Yi; on the contrary, it aroused his interest. Knowing full well that there were tigers in the mountains, he still chose to venture into the tiger's den.
At the entrance of the bar, security guard Xiao Huang was dozing off against the wall.
Upon seeing a well-dressed young man approaching, he immediately stood up straight.
However, when Ai got closer and her face was fully exposed to the light, Xiao Huang was stunned.
Ai Yi merely glanced at him casually.
He could tell at a glance that the other party was not human.
When Xiao Huang saw Ai Yi's face clearly, his legs went weak and he almost knelt down on the spot.
This face...
This face is exactly the same as the Grand Duke.
If it weren't for the fact that Ai Yi's temperament was completely different from Tai Sui's, he would almost have thought that it was Lord Tai Sui who had changed his clothes and gone out for a stroll and returned.