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

The new substitute has quite a background.

Su Ran's lips slowly curled into a smile, a wild grin spreading across her face. She grabbed Karl's shoulders tightly and burst into excited laughter: "Angel!"

"You're an angel who's come to save our team!"

“Shh—” Karl gently made a shushing gesture, his eyes deep and his voice low: “It used to be.”

[The Guidance of Death's Land. Arube]: Angel Race

【Arubo, Beast of the Abyss】: Dragon

Su Ran lowered her head tactfully and asked in a humble tone, "You...you plan to use this deck?"

“No… I have my own set.” Karl slowly walked towards Charlene, who had just screamed, and lifted her chin with his fingers, gently stroking her cheek as if touching precious porcelain. “This set of [Witchcraft] is yours…”

Charlene trembled all over; fear rendered her unable to resist.

"I...I'm not good at...playing this..."

Her throat tightened, and she spoke in a trembling voice.

As if driven by a survival instinct, her intuition told her that she should not touch this deck.

"Shh—" Carl gestured for silence again. "Don't rush me."

He slowly leaned close to Charlene's ear, his deep voice like a whisper in the night, carrying an irresistible allure: "It's very simple... you'll learn in one night..."

Karl gently wrapped his arm around Charlene's slender waist. The movement was gentle, yet it conveyed an irresistible force, as if soothing her inner panic.

“Be good—” His voice was like a murmur, carrying a subtle soothing tone.

Charlene's body tensed instantly, then a faint blush rose to her cheeks, and she slumped weakly into Karl's arms.

【Ding--】

A crisp message notification tone broke the delicate atmosphere.

Karl's face instantly darkened, and he quickly opened the supercomputing ring's message interface.

Ugh, time to work overtime!

【return!】

Come back! Come back soon!

The continuous stream of messages came from his colleague Qi Qiankong, and his words were filled with anxiety.

The continuous disappearances of people in the Wilderness Forest have forced many office workers to work through the night.

Strange things have been happening at Sumeru Garden lately. What's even stranger is that the mastermind behind it all seems to be able to cleverly evade the actor's investigation, as if he is very familiar with his methods.

"Old friend?"

Karl's expression turned cold, a complex glint flashing in his eyes.

...

"Ah—" Inside the Rebirth Shop, Luo Bai stretched his waist and let out a deep howl.

"Finally done."

The last card, [Liao Li], is now complete, and [Sky Striker] and all its commonly used backup cards are ready.

This card production confirmed one of his ideas.

Epic cards are selective in who you play them on.

When he was making cards for Miss Mei and Baiyun, no images would appear in his mind during the psychic session, but fragmented images would appear in his mind when he was making [Nail Dragon Queen], [Raging Tyrannosaurus Rex], and [Liaoli].

"A past life...?"

Luo Bai had some doubts, but the clues were insufficient and the timeline of the scene was very confusing.

Inside the water engine, I am the Phoenix pilot, in my twenties or thirties.

In "Electronic Dragon," I am a cyborg researcher whose age is indiscernible.

In the movie "Fear of the Exotic," I am sometimes a boy under ten years old, sometimes a teenager, and sometimes an old man in his fifties, but no matter the scene, there is always a woman named Filina.

From age seven to seventy.

To Luo's surprise, the two didn't have any children, nor were there any particularly intimate scenes.

"It has to be so straight, it must be a steel plate."

The visuals of [Sky Striker Princess] are related to [Kyoramitine], both depicting the daily lives of three people in a research institute: clubbing, conducting research, testing equipment data, and occasionally venturing out to explore... a peaceful life.

Until 100,000 abyssal beasts came to destroy the house, [Liao Li] sacrificed himself to launch a single attack.

After that, [Lingyi] was never seen again.

"Sigh—" Luo Bai leaned back and lay down, quite moved.

He picked up the two decks, [Terror Peptide] and [Sky Striker], and stared at the light, lost in thought.

That ominous premonition still lingered in my heart.

There's no resonance, and there's always a vague sense of unease. But it's unrealistic to expect to rise in the short term. There are only three employees, and even if we collect the debts now, we won't be able to collect them all. We're still short at least 30,000 to 40,000 points.

"Is there really no way to quickly improve Yi Na?" Luo Bai opened the AI ​​program again and typed in resentful words.

Epic card collisions only provide an improvement for the first two times; after repeatedly targeting the same person, the effect stops. However, he can't find anyone other than Baiyun who has epic cards.

【Have】

Table program return path.

Luo Bai was stunned, his brows furrowing: "Didn't you say it wouldn't work before?"

The screen flickered, and two new strings of text appeared:

[Store Manager B's points have exceeded 50,000]

[Can withstand a certain amount of damage].

"Oh—" Luo Bai couldn't help but feel a surge of anger. "You mean, when we first came here we were weak and frail, not tough enough to handle, but now that we've gained some weight, we can finally have some fun, right?"

【Yes】

"You son of a bitch."

He took a deep breath, deciding to stop arguing with this infuriating AI, and asked directly, "So, what's the shortcut?"

The program cursor blinked on the screen for a while.

Two words slowly appeared—

[Near death].

Chapter 334 Dilemma

...

I didn't expect so many people to remember Rina Uesugi.

KC only made one appearance.

So everyone likes the shrine maiden + masochist pairing?

You should have said so earlier, that scoundrel of an author shouldn't pretend to be a gentleman...

...

"Near death?" Luo Bai stared at the words "near death" on the screen, his eyes flashing with complex thoughts.

His fingers hovered above the keyboard, as if searching for the right words to describe a state he had never experienced before.

The worst injury I suffered was in the dungeon, where I was hit twice by the [Cartoon] skill, resulting in a direct hit of 3,000.

Damage caused by losing health points is generally not serious.

He pondered for a moment, then tapped the keyboard a few times, typing out his question: "If I get below 100 points in the [Fearful Peptide] game, does that count as being on the verge of death?"

The program's cold response:

Only when you genuinely feel you will die will your body unleash its full potential.

"I see..."

Simply put, self-harm or having friends hurt you won't work. If you subconsciously know you won't die, your body can't truly tense up and unleash its potential.

The damage must be inflicted by the enemy, and the enemy must be intent to kill.

One must genuinely feel the threat of death.

“Near death…” Luo Bai repeated the word in a low voice, his gaze shifting from the screen to the window, where the calm water and the darkness came into view.

When he first arrived in Biantana, he wasn't really afraid of dying.

But now...

Their background hasn't been investigated yet, and—

He quite liked Bian Yuelong; the food was indeed good, and the person was also...

Luo Bai paused, the image of Yi Lan's silly grin flashing through his mind, and quickly shook the thought away.

That was dangerous; we almost fell in.

He shook his head frantically, trying to clear his mind of these chaotic thoughts.

"How much damage can my body withstand in one round?"

Luo Bai regained his senses and typed a line on the keyboard.

There needs to be a standard for what constitutes near-death experience, so that one can have some idea of ​​what's going on.

The AI ​​program provided a detailed analysis without any pause:

[Without involving epic cards, without self-harm, and with the talent "Edict" activated]

[Level 8 pain, totaling approximately 25,000 points of damage]

[Or 8,000 damage in a single hit]

[Entering a near-death state, your lifespan will drop below 2%]