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"It's my turn." Li Bai draws the cards of this round, checks them and hands them to his left hand, and then cuts the cards as usual.

In the process, her gaze fell on the front of the brand, which was the cover monster.

What she holds in her hands is probably already an open secret between the two of them at this moment, so Li Bai doesn't think that there is anything strange about that cover monster - although that possibility exists, one is that the probability is too low, and the other is that even if it is determined that it is the backhand deployment of the brand, she can't take any action against it when the information is not clear.

So the most reasonable move at the moment is to do your cards first, and then decide the next step according to the result.

"I'll open the cover monster on my own field!" As she lifted the card, the monster flipped over, and a pale green chest appeared on the sideways board. It's a case because of the obvious keyhole in the lid, otherwise it's more like a small washing machine in terms of style - except that anyone who throws clothes into it will lose their money, and the box is full of layers of fine teeth.

[Dark Mimic LV1]: Dark/Demon, LV1, Attack: 100, Garrison: 1000; Effect: Flip: Draw 1 card from the deck. When preparing for your own process, you can send the card shown on the side of the table to the graveyard and summon a "Dark Mimic LV3" from your hand card or deck.

"Based on the effect of the Dark Mimic LV1, I can draw 1 card from the deck after flipping it." Repeating the card drawing + cutting operation at the beginning of the round again, Li Bai thought for a moment, and then continued to play cards.

"Then continue with 1 cover monster, add 2 folds, and the round is over!"

(Dark Mimic's attack damage of only 100 is too low...... It's not suitable for rash attacks, and it will be a loss if her cover monster is a card with a flip effect. The card with the highest attack power in my hand is the Shadow Lurker, 1500, which is still low, plus this guy is a double monster, I really can't have high hopes, instead of taking the initiative at this time, it is better to continue to strengthen the defense line and use the fold to play pre-reading...... ）

"Gacha." Seeing the rotation, the brand routinely drew cards, but as soon as this card was drawn, the corner of her eyes jumped, and some premonition was coming strongly.

Yes, the first hand deliberately deceived her big tornado of sand, and this time there is another escort, and this moment is the most suitable opportunity to open "that card".

"In your preparations, I opened one of the two folds I had just covered." Li Bai pressed the trigger button, and the cover card on the left side in front of him stood proudly, with a light red background...... There is no doubt that it is a trap card.

"MindCrush !!"

[Mind Collapse] Usual Trap: Declaration 1 card name. When the opponent's hand holds the cards declared by zài, all those cards are discarded and sent to the cemetery. If the other party does not have it, you will lose 1 card at random.

"Sure enough, it's a broken heart." Brand frowned, forced to reveal his hand and cut it precisely, and anyone would be unhappy if they were replaced. Even if she had been mentally prepared for this before, she was not exempt.

"Oh? I don't think I'm surprised. Of course, Li Bai's love is reversed, and she is very excited now to be able to read the information of the other party's hand and confirm her previous guesses, "Yes, you know very well that I have this card in my deck, combined with my previous series of choices and operations, it is not normal to be surprised by this; But since that's the case! I guess you know exactly which card I'm going to declare! ”

"Humph!" The sudden flip of momentum made Brand very uncomfortable, and she couldn't make any rebuttal at this moment.

"This guy, what's selling at this time." Lilith, who was watching from the sidelines, couldn't help but whisper, "It must be a desert tornado?" This card was added to someone else's hands by yourself, don't tell me that you still plan to blindly collapse other cards? ”

Her complaint here is not untargeted...... Because the collapse of the mind is indeed a trap that tests the level of the controller.

Most people use it only to declare the enemy's retrieval card on the surface, for example, A Tong guò reinforcement adds "Charging Captain" to the hand, and B then activates "Mind Collapse" to declare "Charging Captain", so that the dual goal of "removing the opponent's key card" and "reading hand information" can be achieved, the latter is especially important, if the level of the deck and the duelist on both sides is not too different, it is extremely difficult for the person who is exposed to win to win, it can be said that it is impossible - this kind of use of Mind Collapse, usually called open collapse or brainless collapse, as the literal meaning, is an operation that can be completed without consuming calculations and correctly entering the name of the card.

As for the blind collapse she mentioned, it belongs to a more advanced operation category, that is, "through the previous operation and layout of the other party, declaring the name of the card that the other party has not used before".

To paraphrase the example given earlier, assuming that B has some understanding of A's deck or habits, then B deliberately does not move after A retrieves "Charging Captain", and waits until A summons "Charging Captain", and when its effect is activated (summoning L4 or less monsters from his hand), he will chain "Mind Collapse", and declare that he can form a blockade with "Charging Captain" to attack the "Valkyrie Knight" of the combo, and remove the "Valkyrie Knight" from A's hand while reading the information. The Captain of the Charge" has a negative effect on A's combo - because the "Valkyrie Knight" has disappeared from his hand, if there are no other eligible monsters in A's hand at that time, this pull effect will naturally be lost; But if there is, then Ace must apply the "Charging Captain" special summon effect to them, and let them summon them - whether he wants it or not, and whether the card is his more important hole card.

The advantage of blind crash is to get further destructive effects on combo and layout in "removing the opponent's key card" and "reading hand information". It's not easy to do this kind of operation as you like, it's impossible to do without a thorough understanding of the entire card pool, so Lilith doesn't think that Li Bai is planning to collapse blindly, even if this "senior" is indeed the most powerful duelist she has ever seen, but the card decks used by both sides now are randomly drawn from the surrounding environment!

The brown-haired woman was a little better, at least having looked at her deck at the opening pass Guò Knight of the End and Bitter Choice, and could make some inferences about the general composition...... Li bai? Just the cards that were revealed, what could she read? How could she possibly know any combo and do this based on her knowledge of the composition of the decks on both sides?

"The name of the card I'm going to declare is, Desert Tornado!" A finger pointed to the branded hand that was more than ten meters away, and a trace of red flashed in Li Bai's eyes.

"Come on, let me see if your hand is as I guessed!"

"...... guess?" Lilith was stunned, "She's indeed the Desert Tornado of the Declaration...... The most common usage, let's laugh...... What does this have to do with speculation? ”

That monster card, that desert tornado, it's not you...... Didn't you choose to give it to your opponent!?

Since the previous turn covered 1 monster and 1 fold, the branded hand has been reduced to 3 cards, plus the 1 card drawn this turn, for a total of 4 cards. At this moment, similar to when she launched the Bitter Choice, the four cards in her hand spread out a huge virtual illusion, which was flipped into a table under the power of the Mind Collapse, so that anyone could see what the four cards were, including Lilith, of course.

"W-How is this possible......" The red-haired girl stared dumbfounded, at the hand above the brand's head that had conjured up a huge impact, or more accurately, at the two identical cards on the far left.

"How so? Desert Tornado...... Yes...... 2 sheets!? ”

[Dragon Hunter, Goblin Assassination Unit, Desert Tornado, Desert Tornado]

This is the content of the branded hand.

"Why do desert tornadoes have 2 cards?" Lilith came back to her senses, but felt a mess in her mind, "There is 1 card that was selected by the seniors to be added to her hand by the bitter choice of Tongguò, and what about the other one?" ”

"Wait, it's time to be—"

……

"Yes, I've already chosen." Li Bai withdrew his gaze from the dark corner of the heavenly dome and smiled at the brand as well.

"I'll choose the Desert Tornado."

……

At that time, the 5 cards picked out by the brown-haired woman with a bitter choice were the Dark Messenger, the Sandstone Monster, the Reincarnation Tengu, the Desert Guardian, and the Desert Tornado, according to normal people...... No, it should be said that anyone's thinking, with the habit of "balancing the opponent to the maximum extent and striving for the advantage to the maximum", will undoubtedly choose 1 of the Dark Messenger, Sand Monster, and Desert Guardian to stuff the opponent, but in this way-

If you choose the Dark Emissary to join your opponent's hand, the Earth-based Sandstone Monster, the Wind Attribute Samsara Tengu, the Earth-Attribute Desert Guardian, and the Wind-Attribute Desert Tornado will enter the Tomb, meeting the "2 Wind and 1 Land" exception special summon condition.

If you choose to add the Sand Monster to your opponent's hand, the Dark Emissary, the Wind Reincarnation Tengu, the Earth Desert Guardian, and the Wind Desert Tornado will enter the Grave, meeting the "2 Wind and 1 Land" exception to the special summoning condition.

If you choose the Desert Guardian to join your opponent's hand, the Dark Messenger, the Earth-based Sandstone, the Wind Reincarnation Tengu, and the Wind Desert Tornado will enter the Grave, meeting the "2 Wind and 1 Land" exception to the special summoning conditions.

No one has ever said that there will only be 1 Desert Tornado.

"Three looked ...... at the time The best target to choose, but they can, so that the graveyard is satisfied with the appearance conditions of the 'Desert Tornado'...... And this monster was already in her hand at that time. ”

Lilith felt her hands tremble, and not only that, but her heart was shaking violently.

It doesn't matter which of the three 'waste cards' your opponent chooses, as the Desert Tornado's effect of destroying the Backfield Trap itself requires discarding 1 card from your hand to activate it...... Even if you get a 5-star mortal bone sand monster, there will be no drag on the brand.

This kind of interlocking strategy, this kind of hidden layout ......!

Lilith's gaze turned to the other side of the battlefield and landed on the face of the white-haired woman standing quietly, her pupils suddenly constricted.

Predecessor...... She...... Did you see through it completely at that moment......

Deliberately gave the strongest desert tornado monster in the 5 cards to the opponent, so that the wind attribute monster in the graveyard only had 1 reincarnation tengu, killing the appearance conditions of this 6-star mini-boss...... Not only that, the desert tornado monster is a monster that cannot be summoned normally, and the woman can only honestly wait for the wind attribute monster to get started...... No, it's not right, if there are still wind attribute monsters in the deck, the Dark Emissary will definitely be replaced with it, so look at it this way, there are no wind attribute monsters in her deck anymore?

Doesn't that mean that no matter how many sacrifices she gathers, she can only watch 2 mini-bosses die in her hands? Useless other than discarding other cards?

In the case of Mind Collapse, once this calculation is successful, the opponent's 2 hand cards can be directly collapsed, preventing them from being discarded as costs in future duels. Also read hand information and force your opponent to fight with their cards exposed.

Also, because of the insight into the influence of the surrounding environment on the deck from this tomb, he didn't cover the heart collapse at the beginning, but deceived the Great Tornado of Sand and Dust with the Great Tornado of the Wilderness.

Right...... The reason why the woman was impatient to destroy the fold of the predecessor was because she did not expect the predecessor to choose that way, and she was also afraid of the possible collapse of the soul of the zài - and the reason why she knew about the zài of this card was because ...... Does she remember all the cards she'd handled before? And then through the final knight's tomb pile effect to spy on his own deck, so on this basis, understand the card deck of the predecessors!?

Mortal in front of Picasso...... ?

I didn't expect it to be true.

My Cognition...... And the level of dueling that I thought was okay, in front of these two people...... It's like addition and subtraction for young children.

Lilith didn't know what kind of expression she should show at the moment, and she didn't know what her expression was now, her facial muscles were completely out of control, as if she didn't have zài.

All she could do was to control her throat and use her dry voice to squeeze out a sentence from the deepest part of her heart.

"Two ...... Monster! ”

"Dragon Hunter, Goblin Assassination Unit, and 2 Desert Tornadoes, this is your hand." When his prediction was finally confirmed to be correct, Li Bai showed a satisfied smile.

Don't look at the current results, at the moment when she was forced to choose the card, she was indeed taking the risk of winning or losing. This kind of "blind reading" is by no means suitable for situations where she knows almost nothing, she doesn't know the other party's card deck, and the type of card is only a hidden guess at the time, just by virtue of a strange large amount of tomb on the brand, even if she guesses this, it will be shocking to put it into action.

"The contest of willpower and brain, it seems that I have the last laugh." Clenching his right fist, Li Bai once again stretched out his right arm straight, and his index finger was straight at the tip of the brand's nose.

"Now, according to my declaration, obediently send both desert tornado monsters to the graveyard!"

"......" faces an aggressive opponent, and Brand chooses to remain silent for a while, and she sends both Desert Tornado monsters to the graveyard before speaking again.

"You're stronger than before, Shiro."

"In the past, even if you saw my deployment, you might have made a different choice because of careful consideration." "But now you have steadied your wavering heart, and without the help of the crown, you have done it entirely on your own sanity," she said. ”

"So...... You may not have noticed that you have once again raised your dueling standards, building on the evaluation of the mortal dueling king. ”

"I never cared about that kind of evaluation." Li Bai interjected, frowning, obviously touched by something.

"What's the use of this illusory title, it can't be exchanged for the things I really value, it's just a joke......

"Not to me." The fiery gaze met him, a hundred times hotter than what Morana had looked at her before.

"For me...... It's a more perfect you, you know...... The brighter your brilliance becomes, the more I want to get you, and the stronger my feelings for you become. The brand laughed," ...... Sooner or later, you will be mine. ”

"What are you talking nonsense?" Listening to these words that were like a joke, Li Bai inevitably looked a little annoyed, perhaps a little embarrassed, "The moment I opened my heart to collapse, your failure was already doomed, in this case, dare to lie here!" ”

"Do you really think so?" The brand's expression returned to calm, and his pupils flickered slightly.

"Isn't it?" Li Bai didn't believe that there would be a big difference in the battle situation, in her opinion, even if there was a difference, she would have the ability to control the scene and firmly hold the sovereignty of suppression.

"I already know your hand, and the effect of the backcourt fold is nothing more than to defend against offense, is it a "bottomless quicksand"? Or is it "desert light"? Probably not around...... In this situation, what can you do with just one Gai Monster!? ”

"Can turn the tide of things in the direction you least want to see." Brand stopped arguing, her hand touching the dueling disc and pressing the button under the monster cover card in the monster area.

"Reverse the monster on my field, come on...... Re-inject the unknown into the deadlocked situation! Death Camel! ”

As the card flipped, a camel appeared, its entire body almost covered in yellowed and decaying bandages, with the occasional shriveled and dehydrated muscles exposed—as if it were a mummy in a camel.

"Death Camel ......" Li Bai was stunned, she couldn't believe the identity of the monster.

What's not good, it's a dead camel.

It's a death camel!?

"You know the effect of this guy very well." Brand reached out and placed it lightly on top of the deck of the dueling board, clinging to the top of the lid.

"Death Camel Reversal Summoning Successful, 1 card can be drawn from the deck."

"In addition, Death Camel also has the ability to turn itself back into the inner guard once per round!"

"Didn't you help me assume that I had folded?" A smile full of provocative flavor was revealed again, and the momentum of the brand was re-revealed: "Let's do the math again...... This plural unknown? ”

Trouble.

Li Baiban raised his face, quietly thinking about the impact of this variable on himself.

(The monsters in my hand have very low attack damage...... She holds the dragon, and I don't have the means to fight against these 1700 points for the time being. ）

(The reason for the relief is that I think I can control the trend in the big picture, so that I can decide whether to gamble with this card based on the cards in the next turn.) ）

(Death Camel can bring her at least 2 cards, both of which are unknown, plus gacha cards, for a total of 3.) ）

"I was careless, I was wrong, I forgot that you got the same power from my memory." Pink lips pulled out a slightly helpless wry smile, Li Bai shook his head, and abandoned all the chaotic thoughts in his mind.

Mistakes should be made up for with the right.

On the other hand, it's interesting, isn't it?

"Come on." She raised her left arm, and the dueling disc was raised like a sword.

"Let me see...... What progress have you made on my 'foundation'! ”