Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 1438 Fujiwara Appears

"It seems the other side has cut off this passage from the other end."

In the laboratory of Haima Group's space research department, the laboratory director explained to You Xuan.

"It's likely that the guy named Fica had a contingency plan before he came. If he found something was wrong, he would have the people on the other side immediately shut down the system to prevent our people from getting through."

The good news is that, thanks to our research on the pathways, we've essentially pinpointed the coordinates of the opposite dimension. Now all that's left is to do some more testing, and perhaps even more precise calibration.

The person in charge seemed to notice that Wang was somewhat distracted, and couldn't help but ask, "Is there something you need?"

"No, it's nothing. I just feel like there are fewer people here?"

You Xuan looked at the somewhat empty laboratory and said.

"What? Flu? Massive sick leave?"

The person in charge looked somewhat surprised.

He shook his head: "No. Everyone in our lab is here today, no one has called in sick."

This time it was You Xuan's turn to be surprised.

"No one has called in sick?"

He looked at the few empty seats and seemed a little confused.

"So you're saying this unit only ever had these people?"

"That's right." The person in charge nodded.

You Xuan frowned, looked around, and asked, "Where did Daniel go?"

"Who?" The person in charge seemed a little confused.

“The blond guy with glasses who always sits by the window is usually the one who livens up the atmosphere,” You Xuan said.

The person in charge laughed: "I never knew the Duel King loved to joke like this. If you're looking for a serious answer, then we don't have anyone named Daniel here."

You Xuan walked to the empty seat by the window: "Alright, if there isn't such a person, then at least tell me who's sitting in this seat."

The person in charge's smile vanished: "Are you serious?"

“100% serious,” You Xuan said.

“Alright then, you should know that no one sits here,” the person in charge said. “No one has ever sat here.”

You Xuan frowned slightly.

He was certain that the man named Daniel had vanished.

It wasn't just a physical disappearance; his very existence was erased from the memories of everyone who knew him, as if he had been completely wiped out of the world.

The other empty spaces in this lab are probably the same; several people have already gone missing.

He had someone retrieve the personnel list of all employees of Haima Group.

The list once again confirmed one of his conjectures.

Although he didn't remember exactly how many employees Haima Group originally had, one thing he was certain of was that the list had become shorter.

He had seen the employee list before. Haima Group was a behemoth corporation with a massive workforce. Looking at it now, he estimated that at least several dozen people were missing.

Yu Xuan immediately thought of a scene from the original work. Near the end of GX, Darkness began to operate in full force. People all over the world began to disappear one after another, being erased from existence in this way.

In the scenes shown in the anime, everyone on the entire Kaiba Corporation's employee roster had disappeared, until only the name of the president, Seto Kaiba, remained. However, this name didn't disappear completely; the scene cut away afterward.

It can be inferred that Darkness assimilated everyone else in the company in the anime. Perhaps they also approached the president but ultimately couldn't withstand the "shattering of the jade and the cheering of the king," so the assimilation failed. Or perhaps the president went to the underworld to find cards to play, so he never found them.

But given the current situation, You Xuan has reason to suspect that Darkness has begun to make its move. While You Xuan and his group are busy fighting with the visitors from the Hyperdimension, Darkness has quietly begun implementing its next plan.

You Xuanguan turned off the floating screen displaying the list in front of him and said to the person in charge, "Continue your research and notify me as soon as you locate the coordinates of the superdimensional dimension."

"Where are you going?" the person in charge couldn't help but ask curiously.

“Let’s go back to the Duel Academy and take a look at our old school building,” You Xuan said.

He knew that it was the place most closely connected to the Darkness world, and if the Darkness finally decided to implement the final plan, there should definitely be some reaction from the old school building.

However, before he could act, a voice rang out behind him: "There's no need to go."

You Xuan turned around and saw a young man with blond hair and a mask, wearing a loose black trench coat, who had appeared out of nowhere. He sneered, "As expected of the Duel King, you are really sharp."

I was initially considering whether it was necessary to target you first, or to wait until we had further assimilated this world before addressing your issue. However, it seems you are indeed a threat that must be eliminated first; otherwise, the Darkness process would be impossible to advance.

The person was wearing the same trench coat and mask as Fubuki when she was in her dark phase, and Yu Xuan quickly guessed her identity: "Fujiwara Yusuke?"

The man gave a dry laugh, removed his mask, and revealed Fujiwara Yusuke's face. But he said, "If you're referring to his human identity, then so be it. But Fujiwara Yusuke is long dead. What's in front of you now is Darkness."

He opened the Duel Disk.

"If we take you down, this world will probably be Darkness's possession."

"That's not necessarily true. But it doesn't matter anyway."

You Xuan initially thought that even if they passed this level, there would be even more powerful ones to come, but then he thought that since the other side couldn't even pass this level, there was no point in knowing in advance what hidden bosses were coming up.

"Duel!" x2
[Yu Xuan, LP4000]

【Yusuke Fujiwara, LP4000】

"I'll go first, draw a card!"

Fujiwara Yusuke's first move.

“I will summon this monster first,” Fujiwara Yusuke said. “I summon ‘Pure Illusion’!”

Hexahedral ice crystals condensed and floated in the air. These crystals were not ordinary crystals, but aggregates of countless tiny prisms, resembling a huge, clear, and transparent block of ice.

The outline of a demon gradually emerged from inside the cube. A semi-transparent skeleton, with a single eye tightly encased in a cage made of ribs. The upper body of the demon consisted of bones devoid of any flesh, while the lower body was a long tail, the end of which was a sharp blade.

【Pure Illusion, Attack Power 1200】

A deck called "Pure" has appeared, a series unique to the Darkness world.

The unique feature of the Clean deck is that all monsters are encased in a transparent prism of "cleanliness," and all monsters share the common effect of "having no attribute," which fits the characteristics of Darkness.

This deck was an anime exclusive for many years after the anime aired, and it wasn't until many years later that it was released as a physical card game. Furthermore, because the physical card game environment had accelerated to an extremely high level by then, the released version of the Cleanse deck was even stronger than the original.

Fujiwara Yusuke: "Then activate this card! Field Spell—"

—A pure and tranquil world!!!

(End of this chapter)