The smoke seemed to have a special effect, making Shi Li feel weak all over and very sleepy.
Judging from Xixi's screams next to her, it seemed that she was attacked.
He wanted to help the other person but couldn't because he had no strength and couldn't see.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
Before he fell into a deep sleep, he felt something warm sticking to his hand.
It seems to be... some kind of insect silk.
The table mechanism was not triggered, which illustrates a problem.
This hostility does not come from the players.
You have to know that he was immune to the mental control of No. 285 by virtue of his status as a player on both sides.
Since he was poisoned by the insect incense and unable to fight, the only reason why the game was not triggered was because the hostile behavior came from the natives.
This means that these three Mothmen are not card players.
Or at least the two little Mothmen weren't card players.
Shi Li didn't have time to think about it and fell asleep uncontrollably.
However, when he woke up, he found himself lying next to the fire.
Ah Qing was standing guard beside it, and in front of it was a little brother of the Moth Man who was tied up with hemp rope.
As for Xixi and Mosaichou, they had disappeared without a trace.
"What's going on now? How long have I slept?"
Shi Li touched his head, sat up and looked at the sky.
It was still night and the position of the moon had hardly changed.
In other words, I might have only been asleep for about ten minutes.
Ah Qing did not answer, but handed over the small whiteboard that was densely written on in advance.
Through his short essay, Shi Li understood the whole story.
It turned out that because of the protection of the doll costume, Ah Qing had time to hold his breath, so he was almost not affected by the insect-repellent incense.
Then its first reaction was to look for Shi Li who was closest to it.
As a result, just as I was about to protect it, the PVE game was triggered.
The enemy in the card game is none other than the Mothman’s younger brother who wants to kidnap Shi Li.
Based on the experience of the battle with [Deteriorated Ant-Man] , it subdued the opponent by controlling the blood volume and tied him up with hemp rope.
This is what Shi Li is seeing now.
"Where did you get this hemp rope?"
Shi Li got the answer while he was wondering, because he saw that the other frog's stomach had deflated a little.
It seems that this guy's copy load is higher than he thought.
“Hmm…”
The effect of the medicine had not yet completely worn off, causing him to unconsciously cover his head, feeling a slight pain.
Then he saw Ah Qing walking in front of him, with one of his hands shrunken.
The whole doll costume was shaking, as if it had retracted its hand and was taking out something.
After a few seconds, a round bottle-shaped object appeared from the inside out and blocked its nostrils.
Ah Qing bent down and patted his head with his hand.
Clank, clank.
The glass medicine bottle fell to the ground.
"Take some medicine, maybe you'll feel better."
It held up the sign.
"..., are you some kind of Doraemon?"
Shi Li complained while picking up the medicine bottle.
At the same time, a sudden thought occurred to me: I wonder if the medicine brought from the Cube Card Metaverse can cure the worsening disease?
If Ah Qing has other medicine, try it when you get back to town. Xiao Ka has a bug.
After swallowing the medicine with water, he immediately felt much better.
"Now what should we do next?"
Ah Qing raised a sign to ask.
"Do you have any torture instruments inside you?"
Shi Li asked with a tentative attitude.
"I've used it just now. He confessed everything."
Ah Qing answered.
“…, awesome.”
Shi Li didn't expect that this guy actually had torture instruments.
Then Ah Qing handed him the small white board, and he saw that there were words on the back.
According to the results of the torture by the Mothman's minions, Xixi and Moshigu were taken to two different directions.
This is a common tactic used by these roving bandits when committing crimes. In order to avoid being caught in one fell swoop, they flee separately after succeeding.
Among them, the dwarf mothman took away Xixi, and the mothman's younger brother took away Mushroom.
"So what do you think, what should we do?"
Ah Qing holds up a sign.
"Of course we chased them. They were carrying a person, so they couldn't run far, especially since the dwarf's legs were as short as mushrooms."
Shi Li said so.
"Split up?"
Ah Qing asked again.
"No, we definitely can't split up. I feel like that shorty is probably a card player, and it may not be easy to deal with it alone."
Shi Li shook his head, and then said firmly: "Although I am heartbroken, at this time we must abandon the trash to save the king. Let's go after Xixi together."
"Abandon what?"
Ah Qing didn't understand.
"Abandon the garbage, the garbage."
Shi Li explained.
“…”
Ah Qing rarely wrote something on the small whiteboard.
"I feel like you don't seem to be heartbroken at all."
It wrote again.
But Ah Qing actually agreed with this suggestion. If teammates died, they died. It wasn’t like they were really dead anyway.
If Xixi died, she would be really gone. What's more, she was their mission leader and could not be in danger.
“Aaaaaaah!”
Just when the man and the young man had basically reached a conclusion, the Mothman's little brother who was tied up there suddenly shouted.
His skin began to turn purple.
This is a sign of things to get worse.
"Boss! Boss, save me!"
"Please let me go, I want to find the boss!"
His expression was very painful.
But it sounds like, could it be that the dwarf has a way to cure the deteriorating disease?
This time Shi Li did not say anything, but took the small whiteboard from Ah Qing on his own initiative.
"Let him go, we'll follow quietly."
He wrote:
"That's a good idea."
Ah Qing gave him a thumbs up.
Shi Li frowned slightly. Why was this guy swearing?
So they implemented the plan.
At this time, the Mothman's younger brother seemed to have lost most of his sanity and did not notice anything.
“Ahhhhhh!”
As soon as he was untied, he ran away as fast as he could.
As he ran, tiny bits of glowing amethyst powder fell from his body, making it easier for them to track him.
"I can't do it anymore."
However, he didn't run for long before Ah Qing raised a sign to surrender.
"Then I'll go ahead and hang him, and you follow."
Shi Li thought about it and decided to go first.
Just as he expected, the dwarf moth man didn't run far.
After tracking for about 10 minutes, he found the other party's trail.
From a distance, I saw the Mothman's little brother crawl into a hidden place surrounded by stones on three sides.
(If I approach head-on, I might be discovered, so I'll go around first.)
Shi Li slowed down his pace and went around to the back of the three-sided stone.
These stones must have been naturally piled up, so they are not solid.
Although the moonlight was not enough for him to see clearly what was happening inside through the cracks in the stone, he could clearly hear the sounds inside.
At this time, the dwarf moth man seemed to be using some means on his younger brother.
"Thank you, Boss. I feel much better now!"
After a while, from the voice of the Mothman's younger brother, it sounded like he had actually regained his sanity and the situation had improved a lot.
"Can you stop the exacerbation?"
There was surprise in Xixi's tone on the other end.
"Humph, that's nothing, I still have many tricks up my sleeve."
The dwarf mothman didn't seem to find this difficult at all.
"You haven't been followed by anyone along the way, have you?"
"No, it seems not, Boss."
"What do you mean by as if?"
It was obvious that the Dwarf Mothman was not satisfied with my answer.
In fact, when a seizure occurs, people not only lose their minds, but also don't remember what they did during the attack.
The Mothman's younger brother didn't quite remember the attack, but he didn't remember much either. He only remembered that he was running all the way following the boss's breath, and he wouldn't be able to notice anything more.
"Why did you kidnap me?"
This is what Xixi asked again, with a firm tone in her voice.
"For what? Of course it's for the money, hahahaha."
"Without money, how can we live?"
The dwarf mothman's laughter was very rampant.
It is true that he is a poker player, but if he wants to get things done in this world, he also needs money.
If my ability to treat illnesses didn't have serious side effects, there wouldn't be any need to go through so much trouble. I could just treat the illness and collect the money directly.
It would have been fine if the two players just now hadn’t caught it, since they weren’t natives anyway and it was hard to sell them.
Yes, because his appearance is closer to the style of this world, Mushroom was also mistaken for a native.
At this moment, Shi Li suddenly felt someone patting his shoulder.
Looking back, I saw Ah Qing had arrived.
Its idea coincided with his own, and it also came to the back of the three-sided stone.
"Go?"
It held up the sign.
"Wait, let's do this."
Shi Li took the pen and wrote something on the small whiteboard, then started drawing.
"Sell, sell for money?"
Xixi's voice on the other end began to tremble.
She struggled hard to break free from the cocoon, but failed.
"Yes, there are many bachelors on the other side of the mountain who want to buy wives."
"Boss, this mantis is pretty, it should be able to fetch a good price."
"You're right, hehehe..."
"No! No! I don't want to lay eggs for others!"
There was obvious fear in Xixi's voice.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense. It's not up to you."
The dwarf moth man snorted coldly and said to his younger brother, "It's your turn to carry her. We can't stay here for long. Hurry up and we'll take the money and meet up with the third brother."
"Yes, Boss!"
The Mothman's younger brother agreed and was about to carry the girl.
"Wait."
However, he suddenly heard human voices from above.
When I looked up, I saw two people standing there.
"You idiot, you're being followed!"
The dwarf moth man frowned and looked at the two of them: "You two are chasing pretty fast."
"Do it."
Shi Li didn't waste any time talking to the other party and directly made a mark at the same time as Ah Qing.
PVP mark, used exclusively for other players in the dungeon.
As long as the distance is enough, the game can be triggered 100%.
If a player is marked by multiple people in the team within a very short period of time, then it will trigger the NV1 game!
Is this fair?
Shi Li thought it was fair.
We are all poker players, why should I challenge you in a one-on-one duel?
Buzz!
A beam of blue light descended from the sky and the card table was spread out.
Marking success.
[Successfully marked the other player, the life and death PVP game begins]
[Winner's Reward Card Draw Times]
[ The loser will be expelled from the dungeon and the number of card draws will be reset to 0]
The subtitle panel pops up in front of Shili.
Life and death PVP game?
I'm not afraid.
Because there are a lot of people here.
My task tools have been snatched away by the other side, I can't tolerate this.
[Detected that the other player is LV25]
[Level ratio is 6+12:25]
[If you defeat the opponent, you will get 1 chance to draw a card]
Just as he expected, the opponent's player level was quite high.
"It's up to you."
Patting Ah Qing on the shoulder, Shi Li took a step back.
In a 2V1 game, it is not simply about using two sets of 6+1 to counter the opponent's set of 6+1, or two people using one set of 6+1 to counter the opponent's set of 6+1.
Instead, it is more like a round-robin game, where only one person can compete with the opponent at each table.
The advantage of a side with more people is that they can adopt a tactic of attrition.
The first person to go up should use up as many cards as possible from the opponent, and then the second person with full health will go up.
However, there are a few points to note:
1. Each person can only sit at the table once and cannot sit at the table again after the exchange.
2. When exchanging positions, your side will completely lose two rounds.
3. The person who replaces his opponent has to start over by revealing the cards, while the opponent's cards remain unchanged, and the status of health points, retired cards, revealed cards, etc. remain the same.
4. If the first player loses his trump card, he will be considered a failure and exit the instance. The next player to take his place will still need to stay at the table for two rounds.
5. The minority side has privileges and will be rewarded with more card draws if they win.
6. The minority side has the privilege of discarding a card to end the game and escape.
In other words, Shi Li thought the best situation was that Ah Qing used regular cards to replace all of the opponent's regular cards.
Then replace yourself, so that even if you are stuck for two rounds and are blocked by the opponent for nothing, it is still not a loss.
"Humph, with your level, I'm afraid you underestimate me."
At this time, the Dwarf Mothman also received information from the opposing player, an average level number: LV9.
To be honest, he was a little nervous when he was marked 2V1.
That’s the result?
Average level LV9?
[Ding Dong! ]
Then he received an additional message.
"Hahaha! God is really helping me."
"Now let's see how you fight!"
This made the Dwarf Mothman even more confident.
Escape?
Impossible!
What's more, if you beat these two guys on the opposite side, you will get 5 chances to draw cards, which is simply awesome!
Soon, both sides set up their cards.
In the first round, they each revealed their scene cards.
What Ah Qing unveiled was the C-level [High Ground Advantage].
The reason why Shi Li climbed up the stone and marked the opponent was to get this scene card.
The dwarf mothman is not to be outdone, or rather, he is even stronger.
What was revealed was a B-level scene card.
【Moth World】
Scene B
[Moth Swarm]: Each time a card of the same type is revealed, the attack power of that card increases by 1, up to a maximum of 5.
[Fire Fighting]: When your card leaves the field, select a target and make it take 5 points of true damage
[Cocoon]: Every turn, you can choose a regular card to be [petrified] in this turn.
([Petrification]: The target loses the ability to move, and the total amount of attack damage received in this round is -20)
Although he is not a native of this world, because his blood is quite compatible with this place, he obtained a very good scene card.
"Oh my god, is this the power of a B-level scene card?"
Shi Li said he was a little scared.
There are attack power bonuses, true damage, and hard control.
It feels so good.
Next, the first row of cards for both sides are revealed.
[Blue, Loyalty!] x2
[Blue, glory! ]
Ah Qing used his strongest deck, the Blue Knight deck.
The card projections on the left and right sides are the same, showing a medieval knight with blond hair and blue eyes, holding a steel sword and wearing simple armor.
The one in the middle was wearing fully enclosed armor and holding a long knight's spear.
【Balaton! 】
【Barathon! 】
【Bala ho! 】
What the dwarf mothman revealed were three cards with strangely projected shapes.
Three crawling monsters with similar but not identical styles.
There are differences in color, size, and specific shape.
To say they look like mud is not entirely like that.
Because there was a pair of arms with long nails growing on the mud , and it relied on the arms to crawl on the ground.
The mud had distorted facial features, which looked weird and scary.
"B-level cards, and all of them are... 40 points?"
Shi Li didn't expect the opponent to be so intense right from the start.
You should know that a 6+1 game only has 210 points, and the first row uses 120 points, which means that there are only 90 points left for the next 4 cards.
It seems that the other party intends to take the initiative and seize the opportunity.
And the most important thing is that these three cards have the same skill.
[Bala Bala Moss]: When there is a Bala-type card on the field, attack power +1
Add to that the opponent's scene card [Moth Swarm], and it is equivalent to having +6 attack power.
6x3=18, which means you are 18 points ahead of the opponent in attack power right at the start. This increase is a bit scary.
What's more, Shi Li can conclude that the cards behind the opponent must still be Bala monster cards.
Sure enough, even though Ah Qing’s Blue Knight suit was very powerful, it could not withstand the effects of the opponent’s scene cards + linkage cards.
At the end of the third round of the game, the cards had reached 5V3.
In other words, Ah Qing had two cards knocked down, while the opponent hadn't dropped a single card.
"hiss……"
Shi Li suddenly had a bad feeling.
Ah Qing was afraid that he would be left with a very difficult situation.
You know, when it's his turn to sit at the table later, he'll have to endure two rounds of attacks without being able to fight back, and he'll be in a covered state, unable to even defend himself.
"You really are overestimating your own abilities, hahaha."
Faced with such a huge advantage, the dwarf mothman smiled triumphantly.
Then, he made an unexpected decision.
"I won't reveal my last regular card. Just think of it as letting you have it."
He pressed his hand on the regular cover cards in the left second row, put it down and picked it up again.
As the fourth round came, the Dwarf Mothman really did what he said.
His last regular card was never revealed.
"I don't need you to give in!"
Ah Qing raised the sign angrily, obviously not accepting such an insult.
"Ignore him and fight your own battle."
"Follow your original plan."
However, Shi Li saw through the other party's intention at a glance.
It's a fraud, absolutely a fraud.
After being reminded by Shi Li, Ah Qing calmed down a little.
It remembered that it didn't actually have to win this round, it just had to do its best to consume the opponent's energy and create opportunities for Shi Li.
So he adjusted his mindset, eliminated the other party's mental interference, and continued to operate seriously.
In the end, in the round when his trump card was about to be revealed, he chose to exchange with Shi Li.
It also successfully knocked down two cards in the first row of the Dwarf Mothman, leaving only one with low health.
Next, hand the card table over to Shi Li.