"Please turn over the cards."

As the host finished speaking, both sides stared at each other's slowly turning over cards with wide eyes. In this brief moment, the whole world seemed to stop turning, and only the heavy breathing sounded in the silence.

3!

Both players' cards were number 3.

Shi Shen's steady voice rang out in the duel room: "Draw, neither side scored."

This is a coincidence, Bearded Lily thought.

The evil puppeteer thought the same, but he didn't dare to slack off. He stared at the fat bearded man opposite him without blinking, and rubbed his fingers on the remaining cards repeatedly, but he couldn't make a decision.

Bearded Lily hid her remaining two cards in her fat palms to prevent them from being seen by the Owl Man.

Similarly, he stared at the White Snake gentleman intently, his eyes full of tension and anticipation, his fat body leaning forward slightly, as if he was trying to predict what the Owl man would do from his subtle movements.

The two people's eyes met in the air, creating intense sparks.

"Please play your cards." The host's brief and powerful command broke the silence in the room.

With a "pop", two cards hit the table at the same time.

When playing the card, beads of sweat oozed out of the evil puppeteer's forehead. After hearing the host's command of "please turn over the card", he slowly turned over the card, and it was still the number 3, but at this moment he was uneasy.

Bearded Lily looked calm and unhurried as she showed her card - it was also the number 3.

Is this still a coincidence? The monkey mask frowned, and the corners of the bearded Lily's mouth drooped.

The evil puppeteer glanced at the white tiger woman beside him, feeling that he seemed to have fallen into a trap. He rolled his eyes, put away the only remaining number 3 card, looked at the host and asked, "I don't want to play anymore. Can we end it?"

The host Shi Shen gave a positive answer: "Of course."

Bearded Lily didn't want to go on, so she gave up her seat and glanced at the big-backed baboon.

"Hey, that woman, let's have a duel." The big-backed baboon looked at the white tiger woman.

Busujima Kiriko walked to the table and crossed her arms, "Since this is a duel based on luck, you have to accept the loss."

"That's natural."

"This game prohibits the use of force..."

"Don't talk nonsense!" The big-backed baboon interrupted the white tiger woman dissatisfiedly, "If you lose, don't cry. Lady Lily hates women crying the most."

After hearing this, the evil puppeteer showed an amused expression and thought: He has a man's body and a woman's voice, but he actually hates women crying. What a strange person.

Busujima Kiriko looked displeased and said coldly, "Let's get started."

Following the host's instructions, both sides played their cards and turned over their cards. However, both rounds ended in a 3-on-3 draw, and neither side scored.

Busujima Kiriko frowned and clenched her teeth, "Come again!"

The evil puppeteer coughed twice, trying to remind the white tiger woman not to continue.

However, Busujima Kiriko, who didn't believe that her plan had gone wrong, didn't want it to end like this. She wanted to at least use up all the cards. As long as she had one card left in her hand, there would be a possibility of entering the loser's revival match.

But the bearded Lily stopped the game from going on: "Okay, let's stop here."

Immediately, the big-backed baboon ended the game, turned around and followed Lady Lily out of the duel room, looking for someone to destroy cards with again.

"Has my plan failed?" Busujima Kiriko looked at the only card in her hand.

"It's not a complete failure." The evil puppeteer sighed, "No one in this elimination match is a fool. I guess they have thought of the tricks you thought of, so the next round will still be a draw."

Busujima Kiriko looked at the Owl Man and said seriously, "Let's clear the cards. Winning or losing doesn't matter as long as we don't have any cards in our hands."

"You actually think so."

Suddenly, a broadcast sounded: "Attention participants with letter name tags, there are four hours left until the end of the second round of eliminations."

A few minutes later, Busujima Kiriko left the duel room with ease, but the evil puppeteer stood in the duel room, waiting for other participants to come in.

Soon, a group of Apocalypse believers in black robes crowded at the door of the duel room, and the loose black robes blocked the vision of most gamblers.

"What are these freaks trying to do?"

"You're blocking me from seeing it, right?"

Many people in the crowd expressed dissatisfaction.

"Get out of the way!" Some gamblers tried to drive away the group of black-robed men who were in the way.

However, the Apocalypse believers held hands and formed a solid line of defense.

Seeing this, one man got angry, rolled up his sleeves, and threatened: "You won't move out of the way, right? If you don't move out of the way, I'll beat you to death!"

A crisp female voice came from under the black robe, "No force is allowed in the second elimination round!"

"Heh! That's aimed at them, it has nothing to do with us..." Before the man finished his words, he saw a burly man wearing a blank mask walking towards him.

The man who had just rolled up his sleeves quickly put them down and glared fiercely at the man in the black robe in front of him, but saw a wisp of hair sticking out from under the black hood. Thinking of the woman's voice just now, he said, "Oh, she's still a young woman. I wonder what she looks like." After that, he reached out to take off the other person's hood.

"You!" The man in black dodged the hairy hand that was reaching out.

"Don't hide!"

Snapped!

The man's wrist was grabbed by a pair of big hands. He turned around and saw a man wrapped in a black robe and wearing a frog mask on his face.

"Who are you?"

Before the man in black robes opened his mouth, the Apocalypse believers around him shouted excitedly.

"Master!"

"The leader is here!"

The man twisted his wrist, trying to pull his hand back.

"Young man, do you want to join us?" a weathered male voice sounded.

"No, thanks. Can you please let me go?" The man looked around uncomfortably.

"If you want to join, you can tell me anytime." The Frog Leader released the man's hand and walked into the duel room under the expectant gazes of his followers.

Ooka Hongye, who was hiding behind Mingyue, poked his head out and looked at the black-robed people in the distance, "There are so many people, and except for the leader, the others don't seem to be very old."

"Hmm?" Mingyue looked at Ooka Hongye, "Can you hear it?"

Ooka Hongye nodded, "My hearing is very good."

In the duel room, the scalper girl walked up to the owl man and said, "Mr. Owl, please leave here."

The evil puppeteer looked at the door, and a pair of eyes were staring at him. If he stayed here by force, he didn't know what would happen next. It would be better to avoid the sharp edge and protect himself. But if he left like this, it would give people a feeling that he was easily controlled.

After thinking it over, the evil puppet master slowly said, "It seems that this elimination match does not say that spectators are not allowed. Do you want to use force to drive me out?"

The scalper girl said dissatisfiedly: "If I tell you to get out, then get out. Our leader..."

"Chun!" The Frog Leader stopped the scalper girl and walked slowly to the owl man. "I guess this young man has no cards in his hand."

The evil puppeteer was unsure of the intentions of the black-robed men. "Are you trying to recruit me into your group? If you promise not to target Miss Rabbit in the future, that's fine."

The Frog Leader chuckled, "If you want to join us, you need a card. As far as I know, your last card has been used up. So please leave here, otherwise..." The Frog Leader did not finish his words, but looked towards the door.

Threat, this is a naked threat.

The evil puppeteer clenched his fists, snorted coldly, and walked out of the duel room. He happened to meet the eyes of the gray rabbit. His heart beat wildly twice involuntarily, and he lowered his head and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

Lei frowned slightly and lowered his eyes to look at the bright moon beside him.

Bourbon felt uneasy and said, "I'll go and take a look. You guys discuss it first." Then he went among the group of gamblers at the door.

The Apocalypse believers in black robes blocked the door, blocking the room tightly, so that no one could see what was happening inside. There was chaos all around, and the sound of bickering and quarreling could be heard all the time.

"The door was closed." Seeing Mingyue's puzzled expression, Ooka Hongye explained in a low voice, "I heard the door close."

Mingyue smiled and said to Ooka Hongye, "You are so awesome." But in her heart she thought to herself, "Oh no!"

"Wouldn't there be a card that can't be removed in an odd-number combination?" Ooka Hongye tilted her head in thought, "They are making it so mysterious, have they figured out a solution?"

The red fox masked man took a deep breath and turned his attention back to the cards in his hand. This was his area of ​​expertise, but he was unsure whether others would cooperate with his actions.

There were only four people in the duel room with the door closed.

"Let's start now." The woman shrouded in black robe spoke first.

Shi Shen looked at the three black-robed men in the room and said calmly, "Please stand on both sides of the table."

The yellow scalper girl looked at Shi Shen expectantly, "Can't the three of us fight together?"

"The rules are two-on-two duels, please abide by the rules of the game."

The yellow scalper girl pursed her lips and looked at the woman wearing the orange pig mask, "Sister Enoki, if the plan goes according to plan, you will be the one who cannot eliminate all the cards."

"It's okay." The orange pig woman stood to the side of the table, "I'll find someone to remove the cards when the time comes."

"How about I be the participant with the remaining cards?"

The frog leader stood on the other side of the table, "Tsubaki, don't be willful."

"Yes, leader." The scalper girl stood aside with her head hung.

"None of us three will enter the loser's revival match." The Frog Leader looked at the host Shi Shen, "We are ready."

Shi Shen hosted the game step by step.

First up is the showdown between the orange pig lady and the frog leader.

In the first round, the Orange Pig Lady played a 3, and then played 2 in the next three rounds. The Frog Master played 2 in the first round, 3 in the second and third rounds, and 1 in the fourth round.

The Orange Pig Girl got 2 points and the Frog Leader also got 2 points.

The fifth to eighth innings were a duel between the Orange Pig Girl and the Yellow Scalper Girl. The Orange Pig Girl played two consecutive 3s, beating the Yellow Scalper Girl's 2 and taking the lead to win 4. Then, the Orange Pig Girl played 1s in a row, losing to the Yellow Scalper Girl's 3 and 2 respectively. The Yellow Scalper Girl scored a total of 2 points.

The ninth to thirteenth rounds are a showdown between the Yellow Ox Girl and the Frog Leader.

First, the scalper girl played three consecutive 1s, losing to the frog leader's one 3 and two 2s. Then, the scalper girl played two consecutive 3s and won the frog leader's two 1s.

In the end, the Frog Leader got a total score of 5 points, the Orange Pig Girl and the Scalper Girl got a total score of 4 points each, but the Orange Pig Girl still had a number 1 left in her hand. If she did not use the card, the original 4 points would be reduced to zero.

"Sister Enoki..." The scalper girl Tsubaki looked at the card with the number 1 and felt very uneasy.

The orange pig woman put away the card, reached out to adjust the scalper girl's hood, and said in a relaxed tone: "Don't worry, that person will definitely agree."

The noise in Room 2 was endless. Bourbon walked around outside the duel room again and again. Just as he expected, he could not hear the host's voice in the room at all. Just when Bourbon was anxious, the door was opened, and the Frog Master and a group of black-robed people left in a hurry.

Could it be that they really have thought of a way to remove the last card? Or is there some important information hidden in the rules of the game? Bourbon lowered his eyes and went over the rules several times in his mind. When he saw the woman wearing a cobra mask pushing Persephone into the duel room, he walked in and tried to find clues from other people's duels.

Unfortunately, the fight between dark horse Persephone and Ms. Cobra was just boring.

Persephone played the number 1 three times in a row, and Miss Cobra played the number 2 three times in a row, just as they had agreed at the beginning.

Bourbon guessed that in the next three rounds, Miss Cobra would play 1 three times in a row, allowing the dark horse Persephone to play 2 and win three times in a row, reaching a result of 3 points for each player. As for whether there would be a fool who would give away points? Bourbon thought of a participant - Brown Bear Jeffrey Dahmer. It happened that the Brown Bear was walking towards this side, and next to the Brown Bear was the leader of the Apocalypse Church and the two believers with letter name tags.

Dark horse Persephone and Miss Cobra simultaneously spotted the brown bear Jeffrey Dahmer walking in, and the original duel was paused.

"Get out of here." Brown bear Jeffrey Dahmer raised his leg and prepared to kick the wheelchair away.

Bourbon was faster and pulled the wheelchair away, but the brown bear missed his kick.

"Mr. Brown Bear, let's fight first." The Frog Leader reminded, "After all, time is running out."

As if to verify the truth of the Frog Master's words, the cruise ship's broadcast sounded again: "Attention participants with letter name tags, there are three hours left until the end of the second round of eliminations."

Brown Bear Jeffrey Dahmer stood in front of the table and said, "You said you would give me a point."

"Of course, I only have one card." The orange pig lady showed the number on the card in her hand to the brown bear. Beads of sweat oozed from her forehead and her fingers trembled slightly. "We will give you 1 point. If you enter the loser's revival match, you cannot choose any of us."

Bourbon leaned against the wall with his arms folded, sighing in his heart that the Apocalypse Church was so calculating, when he suddenly heard a quiet thank you from the side.

“Thank you…” Persephone, the black horse sitting in a wheelchair, put the card in her hand with the numbers facing down on her knees and said softly, “If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have been able to dodge just now.”

Bourbon's eyes were fixed on the table. "It's just a small favor. Even if I don't help, the host will probably help."

"Yeah." The black horse Persephone quietly observed the Siamese cat man beside her.

The host, Shi Shen, stood there, seemingly not moving a step. He mechanically presided over the game, "Please turn over the cards."

Both cards were turned over at the same time, and Shi Shen announced, "Mr. Brown Bear gets 1 point."

Brown bear Jeffrey Dahmer grinned and turned to look at the Siamese cat that had just stopped him from kicking the wheelchair away. The three men in black robes took the opportunity to quickly leave the duel room.

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