A duelist never gives up!

"What do you mean?" Yuan Qi asked curiously.

"They don't know how to duel, they only know how to kill." Shi Yu lowered his voice. "This might be hard for a kid your age to understand. Anyway, don't overthink it. Not everything has to be resolved by a duel, right? Do you think that when you get married to your wife, after you take off your clothes on your wedding night, you'll have to duel to decide who's on top and who's on the bottom?"

Yuan Qi opened his mouth and wanted to say that he was not a duel brain, but after thinking it over, he decided not to.

"In short, they are both very reliable, so you can rest assured. Even if I am not worried about your safety, I am worried about Xuefeng's safety, right?" Shi Yu said again.

"Okay, I think I understand." Yuan Qi breathed a sigh of relief. "Anything else?"

"Well... if you ask that, there is indeed one thing." Shi Yu was silent for a moment, then said seriously,

"Do you know... what LINK is?"

Chapter 42: Duel!

In the old city, outside a somewhat dilapidated orphanage, Seventeen put on a mask, then stretched out his hands to grab the rusty iron gate and jumped over lightly.

Accompanied by the rising dust, Seventeen came to the yard. It was exactly the same as before he left. There was no new table in the yard. However, the pattern he carved on the table had become a little blurred with the passage of time.

"I just don't know if there are any new family members." Seventeen murmured softly and continued to walk into the orphanage. He went to the kitchen first and saw that there seemed to be some meat in the refrigerator. This made him feel relieved. Having meat to eat meant that life was not bad.

Then he squatted down again, stretched out his hand, and gently stroked the smooth floor with his fingertips. There was not as much dust as he had imagined, which seemed to indicate that it was cleaned well on a daily basis.

He took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket, thought about it, and put it in the refrigerator. He also took out a few decks of cards and placed them aside.

Then he looked around the hall and classroom. Apart from the addition of a TV, there was no other change. However, on the floor of the classroom, there was a card lying quietly.

"Queen of the White Night." Seventeen picked up the card and softly read out the name on it. Just as he was trying to recall who in the orphanage would use this card, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his head and quickly rolled over to hide beside him.

"Peng!"

The solid wooden stick hit the floor hard, almost making a hole. Seventeen immediately became alert. He looked up and saw a child in his sight.

"Honglian? No, Honglian should have grown up...is she the new kid?" Seventeen couldn't help but mutter as he looked at the red-haired little girl in front of him.

The little girl panted, waving the heavy wooden stick. With bright eyes, she shouted at Seventeen, "I was wondering why my ace card was missing! Turns out you stole it! Give me back my ace monster, you card thief!"

"..."

No, you left it in the classroom by yourself, right?

Seventeen twitched the corner of his mouth and threw the card in his hand to the little girl: "Here, I return it to you."

The little girl quickly caught it and then continued to shout at Seventeen, "And more! You must have stolen other cards! Hand them all over!"

Seventeen asked curiously, "Do you have any cards worth stealing?"

"Of course!" the little girl puffed out her chest proudly. "Sister Honglian is about to become a professional duelist! When she does, her deck will be a professional duelist's deck, worth...worth a fortune!"

"Professional duelist..." Seventeen was slightly stunned and couldn't help frowning. It had been five years, but she didn't expect Honglian hadn't given up her dream yet?

I want to be a duelist, a professional duelist, and a duel king.

Then he questioned the God of Duel why he was "abandoned by God".

At that time, Seventeen didn't take it seriously. How could a Forsaken of God become a duelist? It was just a child's joke.

Didn't expect she would actually go this far?

Seventeen felt a little emotional, happy for Honglian but also sad for her.

Because... I am about to destroy this dream together with the organization.

"Ah! I understand!" The little girl suddenly realized, "You're here to steal Sister Honglian's deck!"

"..."

"Okay! You big bad guy! I will... I will beat you down!" As she said that, the little girl raised the wooden stick high and hit Seventeen.

"Clap!"

Something is broken.

But not Seventeen's arm.

But a wooden stick.

The little girl looked at her broken stick, her face pale. She looked at the thief in front of her with suspicion and doubt. Then she quickly threw the stick away, took out her deck and said, "What happened just now doesn't count. Dueling is my forte! Let's duel!"

As she spoke, she sat down on the throne she usually used, placed the deck on the table, and said seriously, "Come on!"

"...You don't even have a duel disk?" Seventeen looked at the little girl with pity.

"I... I'm still young!" the little girl said with a blushing face. "Anyway, if you don't come, you're scared!"

"Yeah, I'm scared." Seventeen nodded, then turned around and left.

The noise just now was a bit loud. It would be troublesome if it attracted other people here.

However, many times what we fear will come true.

As Seventeen walked out of the classroom, he heard the sound of "click" and "click" footsteps in the wide corridor.

A red-haired girl in a kimono slowly appeared in front of Seventeen, holding a duel disk in her left hand.

"Who are you?" Honglian narrowed her eyes and asked in a bad tone.

"He's a card thief!" The little girl chased out of the classroom and hid behind Honglian, "Sister Honglian, catch him quickly!"

"I didn't take anything from here." Seventeen said lightly.

"You sneaked in here in the middle of the night wearing a mask and telling me such nonsense, do you think I would believe you?" Honglian sneered, "Let's duel. I will make you regret showing up here tonight."

"Duel? Forget it." Seventeen was no longer a duelist, so he did not intend to respond to the duel initiated by Honglian.

Having said that, he turned and ran to the other side.

"You actually want to run away?" Honglian raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and then pressed a button on the duel disk. Then, a mechanical arm emerged from the duel disk and grabbed Seventeen's arm from behind.

"This is... um!" Before Seventeen could react, he felt his arm go numb and an electric current flowed through the robotic arm into his body.

"They actually added this kind of device to the duel disk... Was it done by Nineteen?" Seventeen subconsciously stopped and muttered to himself.

"If you don't want to be electrocuted, win the duel from me." Honglian said, inserting the deck into the duel disk and said lightly, "Duel!"

Why not just knock me out and hand me over to the investigator?

So you guys, the duelists, really are... Seventeen suddenly felt relieved when he thought of this.

If it were his previous words.

Maybe I'll make the same choice as Honglian?

"In that case, then it's as you wish." Seventeen sighed, and a red duel disk appeared on his left arm:

"duel!"

"drop!"

"I choose to take the initiative." Honglian said calmly: "I enter the main phase and then launch..."

Honglian was halfway through her speech when her pupils suddenly shrank. She said to Seventeen in front of her in a deep voice:

"Hey, what did you do?"

"Oh? You realized it so quickly?" Seventeen said lightly.

"The fact that LP has become 8000... is it obvious?" Honglian frowned.

Chapter 43: Connection Summoning!

"Is this the only thing you discovered? That's right. After all, it's a man-made mechanical duel disk. It can't change automatically. It's already very good to be able to start a duel." Seventeen said slowly.

"You won't answer? Never mind. Even if you beg me to tell you later, I won't listen." Honglian said, inserting a card into the Duel Board. "I activate the Spell Card, Pot of Greed and Humility, and flip over three cards from the top of my deck..."

"Chain." Seventeen calmly sent a card from his hand to the graveyard and said, "I'm activating the effect of Gray Flowing Beauty, negating the effect of your Pot of Modesty."

A bald-headed, blonde little girl appeared barefoot and stomped hard on the Pot of Modesty, which was about to take effect. She didn't stomped on it until the Pot of Modesty became dim. Then she nodded in satisfaction and returned to the cemetery.

"It's a hand pit! He actually has a hand pit!" The little girl behind Honglian couldn't help but pull Honglian's clothes and exclaimed when she saw this scene.

"It's okay, it's not a big problem." Honglian comforted the little girl, but she had already started to be alert in her heart.

Professional duelists don't necessarily have hand pits.

But ninety-nine percent of duelists with hand pits are professional duelists.

It seems that the opponent this time is no simple creature.

However... even a professional duelist can't easily break through my blockade!

Although Pot of Modesty was negated, Honglian's loss wasn't too great. She slapped another card in her hand onto the Duel Board and said, "I Normal Summon the Fossil Dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus!"

As he spoke, a dinosaur without any flesh and blood, made up only of bones, appeared in Honglian's duel arena.

"The attack power is only 1200!" The little girl looked at the attack power of the Pachycephalosaurus and couldn't help but said disappointedly.

Honglian's face turned cold, and he suppressed the urge to beat up the brat. He inserted the two cards in his hand into the duel board and said, "I cover two cards. This is the end of the round."

"So ordinary, Sister Honglian, can't you be like Sister Nero on TV and summon a bunch of powerful monsters in an instant?" The little girl said, spreading her two little arms and gesturing in front of Honglian.

"If you say one more word of nonsense, I will sell you to a noble in the royal capital tomorrow to be a maid. You will sweep the floor, wash dishes and clean windows every day, and eat black bread and rotten vegetable soup for every meal!" Honglian said gritting her teeth.

"Hmm!" The little girl quickly covered her mouth with her hands when she heard it. She didn't want to be sold to a noble family as a maid. She wanted to be a duelist in the future.

"Special Summon Block? It's certainly powerful," Seventeen said, casually placing his hand on the deck. "But this one card alone can't stop me."

"My turn, draw a card."

"Next, I enter the main phase." Seventeen said, inserting a card into the Duel Board, "I activate the Trap Card - Infinite Bubble."

"Ugh! Ugh! (Trap cards must be placed face down for one turn before they can be used. He broke the rules!)" the little girl said with her eyes wide open.

"No, I didn't foul." Seventeen seemed to understand what the little girl was saying, and explained, "Infinite Bubble: Even if you have no cards on your field, you can activate this card from your hand. You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls. That monster's effect is negated until the end of the turn."

"I choose to negate the effect of the Pachycephalosaur on your field."

"Has it been cracked like this?" Honglian pursed her lips subconsciously and touched her two covered cards.

Even without the blockade of the Pachycephalosaurus, I still have two trap cards in my backfield. As long as...

"Then I Normal Summon Debug Ladybug."

"Um??!"

Ladybug Girl?

What kind of monster is that?!

Honglian was stunned when she saw a monster that looked a bit like Ladybug suddenly appearing from the duel arena.

You know, in order to become a professional duelist, Honglian watched hundreds of videotapes and clearly memorized all the competitive decks and possible builds in the environment.

However, there is no such thing as a monster called Ladybug Girl, and no one has ever heard of it.

Or this monster is some unknown weak monster that has no effect at all.

Or... a new competitive deck!

"I activate the effect of Ladybug Debug. This can only be activated if this card is Normal Summoned or Special Summoned successfully. Add 1 Level 3 or lower Cyberse monster from your deck to your hand."

The Electronic World Clan?!

A new race?

Honglian stared at the mysterious man in front of him. Whether it was 8000lp, top-level cards like Gray Flowing Beauty and Infinite Bubble, or a race like the Electronic World that had never appeared before, all hinted that the man in front of him could definitely not be a thief.

A guy like that...why would he sneak into an orphanage? What on earth does he want to do?!

"What is your purpose in sneaking into the orphanage?!" Honglian couldn't help but ask again.

Seventeen's lips moved slightly beneath his mask, then turned into a sigh. He didn't answer Honglian's question, but continued, "I will add Salamangreat Gazelle to my hand."

"Salmanakin Gazelle, another card name I've never heard of." Honglian said with a serious expression.

After completing this step, Seventeen took out an extra monster from the card box and said, "Next, I will debug Ladybug Girl as the material and link summon it!"

"The Salamander, the Flame Beast, the Beacon Lynx!"

As the blue particles gently dispersed, a black lynx covered in metal armor appeared on the duel field, yawning. With only 500 attack power, it looked very weak in front of the Pachycephalosaurus. However, it was such a "weak" monster that made Honglian freeze in place, and her whole body couldn't help but tremble.

"Connect...Summon?" Honglian was slightly lost in thought as she stared at the lynx before suddenly reacting and saying, "A new summoning method? Is this a new summoning method?!"

"That's right, link summoning is the new summoning method." Seventeen nodded slightly.