You Chen's words nearly made Hua Ningning think she had misheard him. A flash of astonishment and confusion appeared in her bright eyes.
"You probably don't understand the level of the Underground Duel Tournament here."
"Generally speaking, anyone who comes here to duel is a capable Duelist, at least five-star or above."
"As for high school seniors, it's practically impossible for them to appear here."
"Very few students dare duel here, because it's no different from throwing their lives away."
"So I advise you to think this through carefully."
Hua Ningning was talking animatedly, but when she opened her eyes, she discovered that You Chen had not been listening at all. He had already gone over and completed his registration.
"This guy! Can't he listen when someone's talking?"
Hua Ningning slapped her forehead. Whatever. He had money now, so he could treat the five-thousand-dollar registration fee as the price of a lesson.
"Sir, you have successfully registered. Your match has been scheduled for eight tomorrow evening. Please remember to arrive on time."
The female attendant explained with a smile.
"Okay."
Only then did You Chen leave, satisfied.
Hua Ningning asked from beside him, "It seems you've never considered the possibility that you might lose?"
You Chen found that strange and asked in return, "Why think about that? As long as dueling is fun, isn't that enough? Don't you have fun when you duel?"
Hua Ningning paused at those words, somewhat moved.
As long as dueling was fun.
That made a lot of sense.
But—
Damn it, why did it sound so wrong coming from his mouth?
Were you the only one having fun?
It was hard for anyone to have fun dueling you.
You Chen ignored Hua Ningning and went to buy cards instead.
He did not head to the Rare Card section. If he went there, even two million would not be enough to spend. What would be the point of having two million, then?
So he went to the mid- and lower-tier sections instead.
Through Kaiba Magazine and his previous duels, he had roughly learned that many strategies had yet to be discovered. Since they had not been discovered, many cards had not had their value recognized, so naturally, they were not expensive.
An old man sat beside a stall with a cigarette in his mouth, one leg crossed over the other.
"If you want cards, pick them yourself. All the prices are clearly marked."
The old man seemed unconcerned, his tone casual.
This time, Hua Ningning said nothing. She had stayed by You Chen's side for so long precisely because she wanted to see his deckbuilding ideas.
You Chen examined the cards.
He quickly pulled out a number of cards that might be useful. Of course, they were only possibilities, not his final choices.
He selected a little over sixty cards in total.
Then You Chen began narrowing them down from those sixty cards.
After comparing them against one another and pondering for a long while,
he removed more than twenty cards.
He completed a deck.
Normally, a Duelist might need half an hour just to choose a few cards. If they wanted to build an entire deck, they would not finish choosing without several hours.
Yet You Chen's speed was astonishing. It took less than ten minutes from start to finish.
He had chosen an entire deck.
It left Hua Ningning stunned for a long time.
Was he really not just picking them at random?
"How much? Calculate it." You Chen handed over the deck he had chosen.
The old man clearly had not processed what had happened either. The cigarette in his mouth nearly fell out.
Only after You Chen asked again did he snap back to his senses. He took the deck and calculated the price.
"Fifty-one hundred thousand in total. I'll waive ten thousand—make it five hundred thousand."
The old man said it directly.
You Chen did not waste words. He paid five hundred thousand on the spot and bought the deck.
However, while it was a deck to him, to many others, these were merely a pile of cards.
After watching You Chen leave,
the old man thought it over several times before taking out a small notebook and writing it down.
There was one advantage to working in this trade: they could record other people's deckbuilding ideas.
Because there were people who specifically came to them to buy deckbuilding ideas.
If a deckbuilding idea proved useful, those people would purchase it.
That was another source of income.
"This deckbuilding idea is way too strange."
"Forget it. I'll write it down."
The old vendor was only an average Duelist himself. Otherwise, he would not have become a vendor. Naturally, he could not see the core of You Chen's deckbuilding idea.
Not just him—Hua Ningning had only taken a hurried glance earlier, and she had not made sense of it either.
You Chen walked out at that moment.
"Are you sure you spent five hundred thousand on a deck?"
Hua Ningning asked with a suspicious look.
"Whether it's a deck or not, won't we find out by trying it?"
You Chen said with a smile.
"You want to test it against me?" Hua Ningning froze. For some reason, she felt a little uneasy. It was not about winning or losing; facing a deck built around You Chen's kind of ideas was simply uncomfortable by nature.
Though she still did not know the strategy, his previous deck had already made it clear.
"Come out. How much longer are you planning to follow us?"
"Rare Card Hunter!"
You Chen calmly spoke those words.
The crew-cut man following behind them was startled.
He had been discovered long ago?
"Heh. Kid, you really are fearless. Since you noticed me so early, how can you still be this calm?"
The crew-cut man stopped pretending and revealed a smile.
Only then did Hua Ningning turn to look, her expression instantly sharpening.
When had a Rare Card Hunter begun following them?
How had she not sensed it at all?
That alone would have been one thing, but You Chen had apparently noticed long ago—and he was not afraid in the slightest?
Rare Card Hunters possessed at least the strength of Three-Star Duelists.
They were Duelists too!
They made their living hunting others.
Duel World had always been a place where the strong preyed on the weak.
"Since that's the case, let's duel!!"
"Rare Card Hunter, codename Poison Wolf!"
Poison Wolf directly announced his identity.
The moment those words rang out, many people nearby gasped.
They immediately noticed that a duel was about to take place here.
"Rare Card Hunter Poison Wolf? He's a Three-Star Duelist!"
"Damn, that kid is so unlucky. A Three-Star Duelist actually set his sights on him."
"Rare Card Hunters have a keen ability to assess strength. Prey targeted by them almost never has any chance of winning."
The discussions around him gave You Chen a rough understanding of this Rare Card Hunter.
A Three-Star Duelist truly possessed strength.
In Duel World, the gap between every star was enormous.
Because the assessment for Duelist stars was extremely strict.
Even outstanding high school seniors like Hua Ningning had not reached two stars.
That showed what a Three-Star Duelist represented.
So when Hua Ningning heard the name Poison Wolf, she grew nervous as well.
"If it comes to it, I'll go find Uncle Yang. But you'll owe me this favor." Hua Ningning was just about to say more.
But You Chen interrupted her.
"Sorry, I don't intend to owe you a favor."
"And Duelists never refuse a challenge!"
"Enough talk. Duel!"
"And don't forget, Rare Card Hunter—if you lose, your deck belongs to me too!"
You Chen said with a smile.
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