Yu-Gi-Oh!: This card wants to go to you.

"Just one more piece..."

[Bai] muttered in a low voice.

"Hiss hiss hiss—"

As the two ventured deeper, the snake's forked breaths grew more frequent and intense, the temperature dropped several degrees, and the heavy panting of several humans filled the air.

Finally, they arrived at a strange cubicle.

What comes into view is a huge sacred stone tablet, crawling with venomous snakes.

Another person mustered their courage and charged forward with a roar.

"Splash—"

In less than three seconds, it was riddled with holes by the snakes.

The remaining dozen or so people immediately took a half step back, their expressions horrified, their faces as pale as paper.

"What the hell is this thing?!"

One person lost control of his emotions, and his roar echoed in the narrow cave.

It was truly bizarre. Even though they were all experienced scavengers who had been to several ruins, this was the first time they had encountered something like this.

In the center of the cave, there was a pile of white bones, mottled and broken, which were hundreds of years old.

A strange, disc-shaped mechanical object, shimmering with a faint red light, was mixed among the pile of bones.

Guarding the extraordinary holy stone tablet was a stunningly beautiful woman with a human body and a snake tail. Her eyes were closed, as if she were asleep, and she wore that strange disc-shaped mechanical object on her hand, which shimmered with a faint blue light.

【Reptile Fairy Melusin】

Yandere Wife

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"Felina, it seems we've gone too far..."

[Bai] stared blankly at this bizarre scene.

Chapter 113 The First Duel (Part Two)

Water dripped incessantly from the damp walls, making eerie and terrifying crackling sounds. The cave was filled with a damp and foul odor. Occasionally, a deep green light would flash in the darkness, leaving strange and chilling marks on the cave walls.

A faint, irregular hissing sound came from all around. The area was filled with intertwined, complex, and venomous snakes of various shapes and sizes, writhing on the ground like zombies.

[Bai], protecting Filina, accidentally touched the rock wall. The cold, viscous liquid seeped into his skin; it was the stench emanating from a snake. The air was filled with the pungent smell of venom secreted by the snake, making it hard to breathe.

Snakes may not appear to attack people unless provoked, but snake venom in the air can indiscriminately attack friend or foe.

"This, this could be..."

[White] A trembling voice echoed in the eerie, deathly silent snake cave.

“That’s right.” A cool voice came from the right.

She was a woman wearing a research protective suit. She didn't seem to be afraid much. I don't know if it was the protective suit that gave her courage, but even if she was protected from the poison, she couldn't get out and would starve to death.

Humans are just that fragile.

The woman paused for a moment, then said, "This should be the legendary [Ruins Guardian]."

A faint laugh could be heard in the air.

"Heh... truly a relic of an old era..."

The year 204, before the Divine Explosion, was the old generation.

Legend has it that before the Great Explosion of the Divine Will, Biantana was once a prosperous civilization, and its ruins are guarded by guardians. One must complete a certain ritual with the guardians to obtain the sacred stone tablets inside and escape.

There are many different opinions about this ceremony, and no definitive conclusion has been reached.

After all, no one has ever heard of anyone escaping from inside.

"Who are you?" [Bai] slowly walked towards the woman in the protective suit.

A person who remains calm in this situation is a reliable partner, giving him a sense of security.

"Hello." She casually removed her gas mask, revealing her bright green hair, smiled slightly, and reached out her hand to [Bai].

"My name is Imi."

"He's a researcher."

Before Bai could respond, she tossed the gas mask over, glanced meaningfully at Filina, and said with a nonchalant smile, "She seems to need this."

"Thank you." [Bai] took the mask and breathed a sigh of relief.

He put a gas mask on Philina, lowered his guard, and slowly walked towards Immy.

"What are they doing?"

[Bai] walked over and found several people gathered around something, whispering to each other, discussing something.

In a single instance, there will be a group of reckless players, a group of observers, and a group of strategy players.

"Oh, they're studying a strange table," Immy said casually, leading the two into the crowd. "Come on, give me some ideas, we can take a look."

"table?"

[Bai] With doubt in her eyes, she squeezed into the crowd.

That was indeed a strange table.

The overall structure is mechanical, with a high-tech feel, and it is clearly divided into red and blue zones.

Each district has a dozen or so strange squares.

There are two special squares at the boundary between the red and blue zones, one on the left and one on the right. They are uncolored, and there is a display screen between the special squares.

There are several inexplicable numbers on it.

The only familiar thing was the cards on the table.

Unlike ordinary magic cards, these are made of a special metal and are extremely sturdy.

"May I pick it up and look at it?"

[Bai] looked at Immy and asked.

“Sure, you can look at these cards and press any buttons you like… Oh wait…” Immy suddenly remembered something and reminded him, “Remember not to sit in the chair and press this [Start] button.”

The mechanical table only had a stone chair on the blue side, and there was a strange mechanical device on the armrest of the stone chair with a conspicuous red "Start" button.

"What will happen if it starts up?" [Bai] asked, frowning.

“The person sitting in the chair will be [locked in], and if they can’t break free within three minutes…” Immy shrugged, raised an eyebrow slightly, and pointed to the corpse beside him, “they will be devoured by snakes, just like them.”

It was a pool of venomous, stinking corpse, its flesh and blood indistinguishable.

The body's clothes were charred and smoking, as if it had been subjected to a high-voltage electric shock before death.

[Bai] covered her nose, suppressing the churning stomach acid, glanced away, looked back at the mechanical table, picked up a card from the blue square [back area] and examined it carefully.

The Cry of the Living Dead

The sustainability trap.

①: You can activate this card by targeting 1 monster in your Graveyard. Special Summon that monster in Attack Position. When this card leaves the field, destroy that monster. When that monster is destroyed, destroy this card.

Magic Card Derivation: Reassembles one of your [Dispersed] Card Spirits in an attack state and [Spiritualizes] it. The newly assembled Card Spirit is bound to the Trap, sharing life and death.

After a card spirit goes to the Graveyard, it will disperse. The stronger the card's spirituality, the longer it can remain dispersed. During the dispersion period, other spell card effects can be used to reassemble the dispersed card spirits.

"It's just an ordinary card..."

[Bai] Carefully examined the cards in his hand, but couldn't find anything unusual.

The Cry of the Dead is not a rare card; many people own one and are very familiar with it.

For hundreds of years, however, no one has quite understood what the term "graveyard" means, what "special summon" means, or whether "attack position" has any other deeper meaning.

The effect displayed on the magic card after sealing the card spirit has always been Biantana's biggest unsolved mystery.

Some say that the effect contains divine will.

The words of God, the will of God, must not be profaned.

To expect them to solve a mystery that hundreds of millions of people have been trying to unravel for centuries in such a harsh environment is nothing short of a pipe dream.

"At most one hour left..."

[Bai] stared at the spreading purple poison gas, his face filled with worry and tension. His brows were furrowed and his eyes were solemn. He was not afraid of death because he was born without pain, but Philina was also caught up in it.

There must be something more precious than life.

"Could you restore the card to its original position?" [Bai] turned to Immy and asked.

“Okay.” Immy readily agreed, patting the shoulders of the other researchers in protective suits. “Come on, put them all back, let the newbies see what the place is like.”

Four researchers, dressed in sealed protective suits, their faces obscured, emitted low, hoarse cries like zombies, their movements stiff and halting as they placed the cards back onto their original slots on the mechanical table.

The atmosphere of a "endgame" is palpable.

Red team's front line: [Demon Summon, 2500/1200] (Standing upright)

Red team backcourt: [Cry of the Living Dead], [Dimensional Confinement]

Mysterious red value: 2500

The blue square with a seat.

Frontcourt: [Black Magician, 2500/2100] (in a horizontal position)

Backcourt: [Whirlwind], [Call of the Dead], [God's Warning]

Mysterious blue value: 4000

The central display screen showed the following message: [Winner of this round]

"What does this mean?"

Bai and Yimi frowned, spoke in unison, their expressions grave.

If the deadlock isn't broken within an hour, everyone will be poisoned to death in the ruins.