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Chapter 411 Fourteen hundred teardrops? That's terrifying!

Seeing her furrowed brows, looking as if the sky had fallen, Li Guanqi assumed she was worried about the war situation and felt a pang of sympathy.

The smart assistant Xiao Ai floated over silently and placed two steaming hot meals on the table.

He took his own portion and then pushed the plate of grilled eel rice, which was emitting a rich aroma of sauce, in front of Tang Xin.

"Let's think about it while we eat."

Li Guanqi's voice carried a hint of weariness, yet remained gentle: "Your twenty AIs won't affect the overall situation, so don't put so much pressure on yourself."

"Huh?" Tang Xin was immersed in her fantasy of "cutting onions" when his words snapped her out of her reverie, and she realized that the two of them were talking about completely different things.

In a flash, heat shot from the base of my neck all the way to the tips of my ears.

Tang Xin! What are you thinking!
They were talking about a duel!

"Yes...yes." She closed her eyes and covered her face in embarrassment, her voice barely audible, leaking through her fingers, "Managing twenty AIs is indeed...impossible."

She took two deep breaths, slowly removed her hands from her face, and hurriedly unwrapped the lunchbox, trying to use the rice to cover up her embarrassment.

A rich aroma wafted over, and she picked up a piece of eel with her chopsticks. Recalling the troubles of the duel, she suddenly lost her appetite and just idly poked at her rice.

"Switching between four or five different decks can sometimes make it impossible to keep up with the strategy."

"I was originally planning to put Dimensional Rift in my 'Dessert' deck to catch 'Reincarnation Flame Beast,' but then I had a brain fart and put Dimensional Rift in my 'Reincarnation Flame Beast' deck instead..."

"Pfft—" Li Guanqi tried hard to suppress his laughter.

"Waaah!" Tang Xin whimpered pitifully, shoveling a mouthful of rice into her mouth, and said as she chewed, "If..."

She shoveled another mouthful of rice into her mouth and said, "It would be great if I could just play one type of deck..."

Li Guanqi's mind went blank for a moment, his chopsticks stopped, and his eyes slowly widened.

He stood there frozen, his eyes fixed on the screen, countless thoughts flashing through his pupils.

Play only one deck...

As he was thinking, a sudden buzzing sound went through his mind, as if a thunderbolt had exploded.

Play only one deck...

Play only one type...

"Ella."

Li Guanqi suddenly spoke, his voice not loud, but it was like a stone thrown into stagnant water, startling everyone around him.

"I have an idea."

Ella was numbly putting food into her mouth when she heard this, she paused, and looked up wearily: "What are you thinking?"

Li Guanqi didn't answer immediately, but instead waved to Letong and Fangang on the other side: "Come here for a moment, both of you."

The two exchanged a glance, their faces full of doubt, but they still brought their trays over. Mickey hadn't been invited, but seeing everyone gathered in a circle, he naturally squeezed in as well.

In an instant, six heads crowded around the small dining table.

"Both AIs are using data cards, right?" Li Guanqi looked at Ella and got straight to the point.

“Yes.” Ella nodded. This was the basic agreement.

“Data cards have no intelligence, which means,” Li Guanqi’s gaze swept over everyone, “that even if the opponent’s deck has a counter card, as long as that card cannot be searched, the AI ​​will have a hard time drawing it, right?”

This was a bit of a nuance. Ella pondered for a moment and replied uncertainly, "Theoretically... that's true, but by increasing the amount of investment, the success rate can be improved."

“Increasing the amount of investment will affect the normal deck development,” Li Guanqi said, “and will not have a targeted effect.”

“But it doesn’t necessarily have to be a single card.” Iizuna frowned and raised the most crucial question. “There are system counters between decks. Switching to a deck that counters the deck won’t affect the combo and can still be effective.”

This is precisely the dilemma they are facing now: no matter how they assemble their team, the opposing team can quickly find a way to counter them.

“But, if…” Li Guanqi’s voice trailed off, each word distinct.

"Should we choose one deck that has no natural counters on the system?"

The air solidified instantly.

Izuna raised an eyebrow, his eyes wide with shock: "You mean...?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Le Tong had just taken a bite of rice and almost choked. "Have you ever played that big?"

Tang Xin looked at this and then at that, her eyes filled with confusion, her mind not yet fully processing her thoughts.

Mickey raised his hand earnestly and asked, "I don't understand. Teacher Li, could you explain it more clearly?"

No one cares about him.

Ella was deep in thought, her attention extremely focused, when suddenly an unusual flush rose on her face, which had been pale from exhaustion.

Li Guanqi knew Ella understood, so he lowered his voice and explained his thoughts in full: "This is what I think."

Blah blah blah for a few minutes.

He not only proposed tactics, but also envisioned the opponent's countermeasures and how his side should continue to suppress them after the opponent's countermeasures.

Think three steps ahead before taking one.

Le Tong fell silent. She put down her chopsticks, her gaze shifting from questioning to scrutinizing.

Izuna's breath hitched for a second as she frantically searched her mind, but couldn't think of a way to describe Li Guanqi's plan.

"This...this is too extreme..." Tang Xin finally understood a little and stammered.

Li Guanqi shook his head, his eyes filled with determination: "We are at a huge disadvantage right now. If we play the conventional game, we will definitely lose."

"To win, we have to take risks."

"Why did it turn into a chess game?" Mickey asked, puzzled.

No one paid him any attention; the few of his friends with normal IQs were still processing what Li Guanqi had just said.

Ella's chopsticks hung in mid-air, and her usually calm eyes were suddenly filled with intense emotions.

Her brain was operating at an unrealistic speed, with countless data streams and battle scenarios flashing, colliding, and annihilating in her mind.

Conventional tactics will inevitably lead to defeat.

So... what about flipping the table?
If only one type of deck remained on the battlefield, a deck with no natural counters, a deck that could even turn the opponent's turn into its own...

It lacks any special features, its targeted single cards are difficult to obtain, and it doesn't have any system counters.

The game of targeting and counter-targeting will no longer exist.

All that's left is pure deck strength, resource management, and... luck.

“It works!” Ella put down her chopsticks, her face flushed with excitement.

She stood up abruptly: "I'll contact headquarters and request a tactical change."

"We'll try anything, even if it's a dead end," Yue Tong said.

Iizuna took a deep breath; she couldn't think of any words to describe the plan.

Tang Xin looked at this and then at that. Although her mind was still a little fuzzy, seeing everyone's high morale, she also felt her blood boil and finished the last bite of rice in her bowl: "Cheers!"

The five people quickly finished their meal and returned to their seats.

Li Guanqi put on the helmet, took a deep breath, and let his consciousness sink into the metaverse.

……

"Dr. Immovable. Genius!" the assistant shouted as he rushed in.

Fudoki, dressed in a spotless white research coat, exuded a calm and serene aura, his gaze fixed intently on the Skybreaker chip before him.

“A genius, Dr. Ella’s application…” The assistant hesitated, unsure of how to phrase it.

“This isn’t like Ella,” Fudoki suddenly said, his voice calm.

His gaze never left the chip. "This solution... is rife with bloodshed."

The assistant was taken aback: "So you mean... reject it?"

"No." Fudouji shook his head, a slight smile curving his lips instead. "Execute."

"what?"

“Give the kids on the other side a little shock with ‘Tears of Joy’.” Fudoki’s gaze pierced through the virtual battlefield and landed on a specific coordinate. “I’m curious to see how Fujiki will react.”

"Yes!" The assistant replied immediately without asking any further questions.

Soon, an encrypted top-level instruction was simultaneously transmitted to the operating systems of all thirty players in Elvira.

In an instant, gasps of surprise rose and fell in the various analysis rooms, threatening to lift the roof off.

"Replace all the AI ​​decks with [Tears of Elegy Tribe]?!"

"Wait... the source of the command is... Dr. Fudo?! Really?!"

"They've gone mad! The people up above have gone mad! What if we get targeted? We can't afford to lose!"

The chess players were in an uproar; they couldn't understand this decision, which could only be described as insane.

But military orders are absolute.

Despite their many questions and doubts, they had no choice but to comply.

next second.

The red team's database of over 1,400 AI soldiers' decks has begun to be forcibly cleared.

Immediately afterwards, a completely new deck was forcibly installed.

The name of that deck is enough to wake any duelist who lived through that dark era from a nightmare.

【The Clan of Tears and Laments】!
Even with data cards and AI operations, the intensity is very high, but it is vulnerable to dimensional and tomb-sealing attacks.

The dreamlike collapsing world, the empty skeleton laboratory, the atmosphere is relaxed and lazy.

A researcher propped his feet up on the control panel and leaned back in his chair, almost lying flat.

"Those guys in Elvira are so stubborn." He yawned and idly swiped the screen. "They've lost so badly, and they're still using those same old, outdated builds. They have no originality whatsoever."

“That’s right,” another researcher chimed in. “Apart from the two generals, who were somewhat formidable, the soldiers were utterly pathetic.”

Victory was a given.

Fujiki Ai remained expressionless. He knew Elvira too well, knowing every person there, every style of doing things, and even the weaknesses of every decision-maker.

This war was unequal from the very beginning.

"Doctor, the capacity difference has reached 3,500 grids," a researcher reported, his tone light and boastful. "At this rate, in another eight hours, we will be able to completely breach their firewall."

"Get their parsed data!"

The researchers chatted and laughed, anticipating the moment they would venture into someone else's backyard and steal something.

at this time--

“Drip! Drip! Drip!”

A piercing red alarm suddenly blared throughout the laboratory, its sharp sound shattering the tranquil atmosphere.

On the main screen of the control center, the blue data stream representing our side cascaded down like a waterfall, while the curve representing the red side climbed vertically at a terrifying angle!
[Alert! Massive defeat detected among our units!]

[Abnormal kill/loss ratio! Current KD ratio is 38%! Capacity is continuously decreasing!]

[Warning! The capacity difference between the two sides has narrowed by 920 squares within five minutes!]

"What's going on?!"

The researcher, who had been lounging with his legs crossed, suddenly sat up straight, his fingers rapidly tapping on the control panel to bring up the detailed battle report.

Everyone's smiles froze on their faces.

"Is there a system error?" someone exclaimed incredulously.

"Impossible! Check the data source immediately!"

The entire laboratory quickly switched from vacation mode to wartime mode, with the sound of keyboards clattering everywhere.

Elvira has fought back before, but this kind of mad dog-like counterattack is the first of its kind since the start of the war.

Amidst the chaos, only Fujiki Ai remained seated, expressionless.

He raised his hand and lightly tapped the air with his fingertips: "Pull up the most recent battle reports."

Dozens of recently concluded game recordings were projected onto the main screens of the chess players and researchers. They only glanced at them.

"Shh-"

In the lab, a dozen top researchers simultaneously abandoned their lazy postures, straightened their backs, and a serious expression of "I have to sit up and fight him" returned to each of their faces.

On the screen, fifty duels, fifty decks that defeated them, all of them blue mermaids weeping, singing, and fusing!
"what's the situation!"

“The Pearl Tear Elegy Clan…” A researcher quickly searched, his voice trembling, “All one hundred of my decks are Pearl Tear Elegy?!”

“Me too!” Another person pulled up more data, his face turning ashen. “The fifty units I’m currently fighting are all being matched against… Tears of the Gods!”

"The same goes for me."

"Have the people of Elvira gone mad?!"

"They've replaced all the AI's decks with this one?! Aren't they afraid we'll counter it?"

This is no longer a tactic; it's a suicidal charge that risks everything.

Fujiki Ai's pupils suddenly contracted.

He had considered countless possible counterattack plans that Elvira might take, but this was the one he had never thought of.

Overturn the table.

The other side abandoned all bargaining and used the most extreme and unreasonable methods to forcibly drag this war back to its most primitive starting point.

Elvira wouldn't normally resort to such a desperate tactic.

There are experts.
"Stay calm," Fujiki Ai said slowly, her voice devoid of emotion.

"Immediately modify all AI deck builds, adding counter cards such as [Dimensional Attractor], [Dimensional Rift], and [Royal Valley of the Sleeping King]."

He paused, his cold gaze sweeping across the screen.

"I'd like to see."

"Can we catch them?"

Using the same deck for everyone is clearly a way of saying, "I'm not afraid of being targeted, bring it on."

They were extremely arrogant and rampant.

after a while.

The relaxed and leisurely atmosphere inside the Empty Skeleton Laboratory has vanished.

Only deathly silence and heavy breathing remained.

After Fujiki gave the order, the thirty players immediately modified the AI's deck construction, adding a total of nine counter cards—three [Dimensional Attractor], three [Dimensional Rift], and three [Royal Valley of Slumber].

This is a textbook example of standard approach.

However, the battle situation did not reverse as drastically as they had anticipated.

"Damn it, didn't get it again!" a researcher cursed under his breath, scratching his head in frustration. "I've been monitoring ten matches, and I got the first move in seven of them, but I haven't drawn a single counter card!"

"I got the first card," the other person said, even more angrily. "I got a [Dimensional Rift] card, and we went second!"

In this deck, only the [Dimensional Attractor] card can be used whether you go first or second; other decks require you to go first.

The whole scene was so comical that it made you want to laugh, but no one could actually laugh.

A monitor, his face grim, watched the data curve on the main screen slowly recover but failing to overtake, and reported, "Doctor, the kill ratio has increased to 75%... but..."

A kill-to-loss ratio of 1 indicates a 50% chance of winning.

I stuffed nine pieces of trash into the deck, which reduced its strength, and as a result, I couldn't even get a 50% win rate.

This battle was so frustrating!

"Nine targeted cards, and the success rate isn't high enough," the monitor said.

Fujiki Ai's face was ashen as he rapidly swiped his fingertips across the virtual control panel, reviewing battle reports.

The "Tears of Elegy" deck has virtually no natural counters in the system. Cards like "Salvation Maiden" have graveyard sealing and banishment capabilities, while data cards lack dynamism, the system's activation is poor, and it's easily defeated by traps, or even without traps, it still dies.

As for targeted single cards, there is no way to search for them, so you can only draw them by force. If it is not [Dimensional Attractor], drawing it after the turn is basically useless.

"continue."

Fujiki Ai's voice broke the oppressive atmosphere in the room.

"Increase investment in card-related products."

The researchers were taken aback, and one of them couldn't help but say, "Doctor, adding more will seriously affect the operation of our own deck..."

"Execute the order." Fujiki Ai didn't even glance at him, her gaze remaining fixed on the data stream.

That cold tone silenced all doubts.

"Yes!"

The thirty players gritted their teeth and reopened the AI ​​deck-building interface.

Soon, the three Continuous Trap Cards [Universe] were also forcibly crammed into every AI deck.

Twelve cards.

Nearly a third of the card slots are used to target the same opponent.

In architectural terms, this is already a deformed and pathological state.

Fujiki Ai stared intently at the screen, her eyes unwavering.

Whether it works or not, we'll only know after testing.

After some time.

"PhD……"

The monitor's voice was hoarse, "The battle casualty ratio... is stuck around 80%."

Twelve targeted cards, nearly a third of the card slots, only resulted in a slow death instead of a complete rout.

Although the waterfall with our blue capacity has slowed down, it is still falling steadily.

The red curve representing Elvira resembles a greedy beast, relentlessly devouring their living space.

"Adding more counter cards is pointless." A researcher suddenly stood up, somewhat agitated. "The deck is practically a pile of cards; it's completely immobile!"

Another person added, their tone full of frustration: "The opposing team, the Pearl Tears Chess players, are also adjusting their decks. They have a full set of [Shaking the World's Evil Incitement], and their Extra Deck also includes [Dream Shattering Shadow Phoenix]. If you have a bad hand, you can't stop them with just one [Dimensional Rift].

As Fujiki Ai watched the continuously scrolling defeat reports on the screen, the icy solemnity on her face slowly melted away.

A long-lost flame, a fighting spirit, rekindled in his eyes.

The opponent's move of sending everyone to tears caught them completely off guard.

But that's precisely why it becomes...somewhat interesting.

……

Elvira Analysis Room.

"Wow! We've caught up to a thousand!" Yue Tong exclaimed excitedly, slapping the table as she watched the rapidly shrinking gap on the capacity panel.

Four hours ago, they were more than 3,100 units behind the opponent; now, they are only 1,000 units behind!

"Newcomer! You really hit the jackpot!" She looked at Li Guanqi, her eyes shining. "Those Huanbeng guys are probably dumbfounded right now, they have no idea how to deal with our uniform Pearl Tears, hahaha."

Izuna even managed a rare smile: "This tactic is indeed surprisingly effective."

The tactics worked, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"We can't let our guard down yet." Li Guanqi shook his head, his expression still calm. "There are still twelve hours left until the end, and we are still at a disadvantage."

"Does everyone need a rest?" Ella asked at the right moment. "We've been dueling for twelve hours straight, and it's already dark outside. If we keep fighting, our condition might decline."

She glanced at the group and added, "We researchers are alright; working all night is common for us."

"A mere twelve hours." Le Tong cracked her knuckles, nonchalantly. "It's not like I've never played the KC Cup before, this is nothing."

“I’m in great shape,” Iizuna said with a smile. “The casualty ratio of the twenty AIs I’m in charge of has been steadily improving, and I’ve got the rhythm down.”

"Me! Me! Me!" Tang Xin quickly raised her hand, afraid of being left out. "Me too! In the midst of the chaos!"

Ella's gaze finally settled on Li Guanqi.

"No need," Li Guanqi replied thoughtfully. "I'm not sleepy, and besides—"

He raised his eyes, his gaze piercing through the virtual screen to see the other side of the battlefield, his tone cautious.

"I have a feeling they're about to flip the table too."

"Flip the table?" Everyone was stunned.

"Because it's operated by AI," Li Guanqi said slowly.

"Even the strongest deck has a weakness."

……

At the same time, in the Empty Skeleton Laboratory.

"Even the strongest deck has a weakness."

Fujiki Ai looked around at everyone, her voice eerily calm.

"that is--"

"When you encounter yourself, your chances of winning are almost 50%."

As soon as Fujiki Ai finished speaking, all of his dozen or so researchers and assistants were dumbfounded.

"You mean..." the assistant paused, unsure.

"Replace all of our AI's decks with the [Tears of Elegy] faction?!"

"Using tears to fight tears?!"

Fujiki Ai did not answer, which was taken as tacit agreement.

A dozen or so researchers made a commotion, instinctively wanting to refute something, but not knowing how to say it.

"But!" a researcher exclaimed instinctively, his face turning pale. "Even if the soldiers' win rate is increased to fifty percent, our general's... the general's win rate is still lower than the enemy's!"

"Yup!"

"That Li Guanqi is very difficult to deal with; he played for twelve hours straight without his performance declining."

"Is this guy still human?"

Fujiki Ai lightly tapped the console with her fingertip, bringing up a deep red encrypted interface.

"Release them."

"Them?" one of the researchers asked instinctively, not quite understanding.

But many more people turned deathly pale and bloodless when they saw that deep red interface.

“Dr. Fujiki!” The voice of one of the most senior researchers trembled. “Please, please reconsider.”

No one dared to speak; the entire laboratory was deathly silent, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Those imprisoned in that dark red area are no good people.

Instead, he was a high-profile "war criminal" who was captured alive eighteen years ago during the global war that nearly wiped out humanity!
The nightmare of eighteen years ago is a fear etched into the bones of this generation.

Yuanwu's electronic army, by eroding the nodes of the metaverse, locked the consciousness of 120 million humans in the virtual world, cutting off their logout privileges.

In the real world, Rarity activates all the world's smart tools, from smartphones to smart toilets, turning them into weapons to attack humans.

Even more powerful was the True Dragon Emperor, the Dharma King Beast, who used the most primal violence to unleash earthquakes and tsunamis, burning cities to the ground.

Natural disasters and man-made calamities require a three-pronged approach.

That was one of the darkest periods in human history.

"Their goal is to exterminate all of humanity."

"We can't let it go!"

(End of this chapter)