Chapter 24 Can a Business War Be Fought by Playing Cards?
"Let's fight it out, Yugi!" Garen came out of the bushes... No, it was the mysterious guy who challenged Yugi directly. Recognizing him as the thief, Jonouchi, Honda, and the victim, Genshi Honma, naturally would not be polite to him and asked him to take out the stolen goods.
By the way, the boy's deck was also taken away by him, and now he is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
But the man ignored Jonouchi and others' questions. Because he covered his mouth and nose with a mask, only his eyes full of hatred and resentment could be seen, as if Yugi had killed his whole family.
Li Zheng in Hui's bracelet looked at the guy with both anger and resentment values, and maliciously thought in his heart whether Yugi had killed him.
Yugi felt his anger and could only agree to the duel, but Jonouchi, Honda, and Genshi Honma were still paying attention to his every move. They were worried that Yugi would also fall into his tricks.
The duel field slowly rose, and when both sides were ready, Yugi's temperament changed drastically again. This time, Li Zheng watched carefully. Under the perception of his spirit body, a powerful spirit body emerged from the golden ornament on Yugi's chest and exchanged body control with the original Yugi - Li Zheng guessed that it might also be a spiritual weapon.
【No, host. 】At this time, the system, which had not appeared for a long time, finally reminded Li Zheng, 【That is not a spiritual weapon. 】
【Not a spiritual weapon? 】Li Zheng glanced slightly. Is there anything else in the world besides spiritual weapons that can allow a "spirit" like him to live? Sensing Li Zheng's doubts, the system replied: 【That is a divine weapon. 】
The voice of the system was neither salty nor bland, but Li Zheng heard it as a huge wave. Divine weapons are one level higher than spiritual weapons and treasures. According to the information provided by the system during the "residence" mission, there are many spiritual weapons and treasures in this world, but there are very few divine weapons.
Unlike spiritual tools that rely on the spirits that reside in them to manifest their power, divine tools themselves have powerful power.
At the same time, Li Zheng also thought of himself. For him, the yin-yang fish on Hui's neck is a very powerful spiritual tool. If he were to live in it now, it would be difficult to complete actions such as "leaning over" due to the power gap between the spiritual tool and the spirit, and even communication would become difficult; if he were to be stuffed into a divine tool now, he might not be able to move for dozens or hundreds of years until he slowly adapted to the divine tool and used it to strengthen his spiritual body enough.
And the spirit behind Yugi was obviously able to shuttle freely in it, which made Li Zheng have to look sideways - what level of spiritual body is this?
"How many star chips do you want to bet?" No matter what Li Zheng was thinking now, Yugi and the mysterious man had already started a duel. Before the duel, Yugi asked the other party how many star chips he wanted to bet this time.
The man stretched out a hand, with five fingers spread out, indicating that he wanted to bet five.
Yugi frowned. He only had three and couldn't afford it. At this time, Jonouchi also followed Hui's example and lent his two star chips to Yugi, so that he would have enough star chips for the duel temporarily.
However, Jonouchi's star chips temporarily became two.
Yugi looked at Jonouchi, Hui and others below, gave them a thumbs up, and the duel officially began.
This duel... In Li Zheng's eyes, there was no technical content. To sum it up, the opponent summoned a monster and was killed by Yugi; the opponent summoned another monster (whose attack power was obviously not as good as the monsters on the Yugi field, but still attacked), and was still killed by Yugi...
Then Yugi began to talk nonsense with the opponent with the theory that "you can't win if you don't understand the heart of the card", and the opponent naturally didn't listen. When this duel seemed to be changing into a tug-of-war that was getting worse and worse, Li Zheng suddenly noticed one thing, that is, the duel field was so big, how did this guy steal other people's star chips and decks?
The more Li Zheng thought about it, the more confused he became. If it was the big venue where they played board games on the table in their previous life, it would be more convenient to steal star chips and card decks, but now this duel field is so big, how did he do it?
Li Zheng asked this question to Hui, and Hui became interested. She walked to the back of the duel stage where the duelists were located and saw that the duel stage under the duel field after it was activated was empty below the duel stage of both parties - that is, those who knew the duel field could use this gap to go underground.
The underground of the duel field... No one has been there, but Hui now thinks it should be hollow, so that the person on one side can directly pass through the gap under their duel stage and the equally empty duel field underground to the opponent's side.
Hui tilted her head and thought about it. The duel field was designed and manufactured by Kaiba Company. They have many patents on this technology, and the person who is so familiar with this duel field must be an internal staff of Kaiba Company.
After Hui told Li Zheng this analysis, Li Zheng thought about it and felt it made sense, but the voice of the person was very thin, so it was either a woman or a child. If it was a woman, it must be the dwarf employee of Kaiba Company; if it was a child...it was very likely the son or daughter of a senior executive of Kaiba Company.
"Keihei Kaiba..." "It's you, Keihei!" Hui and Yugi said the same name one after another. Hui was not like Li Zheng who didn't know about this world. After she came to the conclusion, she directly guessed that the true identity of this mysterious man was most likely the younger brother of the legendary president Kaiba Seto, who was called "the white dragon of Doujinno" (Note 1) in the business magazine... Keihei Kaiba.
And it was even easier for Yugi to come to this conclusion. He knew the Kaiba family very well. He knew the grudge between him and the Kaiba family. He could guess the other party's identity from the hatred of the other party.
There is no love or hate without reason in the world.
When the visitor saw that he could no longer hide it, he immediately took off the mask and hat that had been used to cover his identity, revealing a handsome face and long black and smooth hair.
(Li Zheng: Are you sure this is my brother? Not Didi?)
Keipi was still glaring at Yugi. He argued with Yugi, but Li Zheng didn't understand a word of what they were arguing about. He then went to Hui to ask, but Hui only knew that after Yugi defeated Kaiba, Kaiba, who always regarded himself as the "number one in the duel world", suffered a great blow to his reputation.
Just when Li Zheng couldn't help but be curious and wanted to discuss exchanging bodies with Hui to get information, Keipi suddenly began to expose his own dark history: It turned out that after losing to Yugi, Kaiba was hit hard and was always in a bad mood, and the company's operations fell a lot. And because of the relaxation of this strong president, the old generation of forces that had been suppressed in the company - the five giants - revived; at the same time, the cake of the emerging industry of Duel Monsters began to attract more and more attention - many other companies hoped to take advantage of the crisis of Kaiba, the giant in this industry.
Under the attack of such internal and external troubles, Kaiba Company - this behemoth has reached the brink of collapse.
Two days ago, Seto Kaiba left the company for the reason of "looking for the heart of the card" and handed the key of the company's top-secret data archive to Keipi.
The strong tiger - Seto Kaiba left, and Keipi, a child, naturally had no power to resist the Big Five and Bekas, who wanted to acquire Kaiba and cooperate with the Big Five. He was arrested and handed over to Bekas for custody. Bekas's purpose was to get the key of the confidential archive on him.
Not long ago, Keipi finally escaped from Bekas.
And the origin of all this was the duel between Kaiba and Yugi.
After listening to Keipi's bloody history, everyone present felt very heavy. They didn't expect that a child would have to carry so many things and be involved in the competition between such big companies and big forces. Even adults could hardly guarantee that they would not be squeezed into ashes, let alone a child?
Only Li Zheng was speechless as he felt the impact of the difference in worldviews. It was the first time he heard that a young business elite like Kaiba Seto would become depressed after losing a game, and eventually be taken advantage of by the Big Five. I, President, are you too obsessed with the game?
But this is because Li Zheng doesn't understand Kaiba, so he thinks so. Kaiba Seto has always been better than others in everything he does, whether it is knowledge, strategy, power or fighting, Kaiba is proficient in everything, but in the game, he tasted the taste of failure for the first time.
This kind of blow is hard for others to imagine.
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Note 1: This nickname is made up by myself (covering my face and running away...)