After writing it, You Chen browsed through it once more before shutting down his computer.
Just as he was about to sleep, he noticed that the Chat Group was buzzing with activity.
Warm Worm: "Recently, I discovered that my value has increased. Someone must have used me in a duel and shocked a lot of people."
"It seems that after all these years, someone finally understands us bugs. So touching.jpg."
Needle Worm: "The higher your value, the more creative ways there are for you to die."
"I'm different. I don't need to go to the graveyard."
Resonance Worm: "I never expected the two of you, abandoned as trash by the Insect Queen, to endure for so many years before finally seeing the dawn."
Seeing this, You Chen had already vaguely guessed something.
It seemed there was a story behind this.
More precisely, it was probably a card art story from the Spirit World.
As for the bugs' story, even though he was a Duel Monsters player, he did not know much about it.
After all, they really had been obscure enough that nothing could even be found online.
Still, from those few lines, he could roughly piece something together.
For example, Warm Worm and Needle Worm had been kicked out of the forest by the Insect Queen. Of course, they were not the only Insect-Type monsters expelled; there had also been some weak, disposable trash mobs.
Resonance Worm seemed to have come to deliver a message.
Moreover, You Chen cared greatly about Warm Worm's first sentence.
Could it be that his value had risen because You Chen had used him to win a couple of duels recently?
Once a group member's value rose to a certain level, they could receive corresponding generous rewards.
That was why You Chen cared so much about this value.
"If I take these two brothers and defeat a deck with the Insect Queen, could I achieve even greater value?"
You Chen immediately spotted the key point.
"If that's the case, this could actually be pretty interesting."
You Chen closed the Chat Group. His Emotion Value was now over twelve thousand.
He would wait until a new group appeared before using it.
Perhaps he needed to fulfill the highest value expectations of these two before a new group could appear.
You Chen already had an idea, so he turned off the lights.
At the same time.
Inside the research institute of Thunder Academy, one of the Four Great Academies.
A gray-haired old man wearing reading glasses was looking over a paper in Kaiba Magazine.
His name was Xiao Shan.
He was the chief duel researcher of Thunder Higher Academy.
His deck-building research and teaching philosophy for students were so outstanding that he was widely respected.
However, in recent years, deck building had become saturated, and truly innovative decks had grown fewer and fewer.
In the past, Kaiba Magazine still featured different viewpoints, with a hundred flowers blooming.
Yet if an innovative deck-building concept failed, it would inevitably face criticism. Over time, many famous figures had become conservative and stopped innovating.
The duel papers they published were all old, familiar ideas about dueling philosophy and deck construction.
As a result, it had become difficult to find any good articles.
For those famous figures, there was no need to innovate. Not making mistakes was already the best thing they could do.
Still, Xiao Shan continued publishing some of his own deck-building ideas.
But lately, even he was running dry.
That was why he wanted to see whether Kaiba Magazine, which he had not visited in so long, had any fresh and interesting papers.
Anything published in the magazine appeared on the front page. After reading through many of them, Xiao Shan could only sigh and shake his head.
"If this continues, this rigid deck-building mindset will cause our country's duelists to fall further and further behind."
Xiao Shan was about to close the page when he noticed a comment beneath one of the papers.
"In this day and age, this kind of deck-building philosophy simply won't do."
That one sentence was like a pearl in the vast sea.
Someone actually dared to criticize a paper in Kaiba Magazine?
And instead of going with the flow and flattering it?
Xiao Shan was immediately intrigued and clicked on that person's profile.
To his surprise, it was a new account.
There was even a paper posted on it.
However, because that paper had received no exposure, almost no one had seen it.
But because of that earlier sentence, Xiao Shan was already deeply interested in the person's paper.
The moment he clicked into it, the opening lines immediately drew him in.
Deck-building philosophy was actually like marching into battle.
Not only did one need to train one's troops, but one also needed to understand the enemy's strengths, strategic deployments, and currently important deck strategies.
Only after understanding those things could one devise anti-meta deck-building ideas.
That could catch a large portion of duelists off guard.
Of course, because it went against the meta, it was naturally still very difficult. Many people had surely tried it before and failed.
The reason the mainstream was the mainstream was because many people had tested it and proven its success.
But difficult did not mean impossible.
Those words immediately resonated with Xiao Shan.
That was exactly what he believed as well.
Furthermore, the paper had even revealed a duel deck list below it.
Anyone who dared to reveal their deck list was either brainless or excessively confident.
Because no deck could possibly be perfect.
Once it was revealed, there would inevitably be people showing off, picking bones out of eggs, finding every possible fault just to display their own superiority.
One had to know that many famous duelists did not dare reveal their decks, because it truly was thankless work.
However, after Xiao Shan finished reading it, he did not understand it at first.
But after carefully pondering it, he realized the strategy was feasible.
And it would be very easy to let people die in warm water.
"Good heavens, this person is talented."
Once Xiao Shan figured it out, rare excitement appeared on his aged face.
He immediately sent a private message.
He almost wished he could receive a reply at once.
He had many questions he wanted to discuss with this person. And with such unique insight, this person was surely an old man or old woman around his own age.
"Such a good paper must not be buried."
"I need to call the magazine."
"I'll recommend this paper!"
"Perhaps it can even change the atmosphere of the entire dueling community!"
After saying that, Xiao Shan had already picked up the phone and made the call.
The next day, You Chen had just finished a class on Duel Philosophy and Morality at the academy.
As the name suggested, it taught the moral principles and philosophy of dueling.
During the lesson, the teacher had kept staring at him, glancing at him every so often and repeatedly calling on him to answer questions.
After the previous duel, the students in the class had already gained a new respect for You Chen. Defeating Chen Jianming had undoubtedly boosted Class Six's morale tremendously.
And when You Chen said that dueling was joyful.
That they should use duels to bring smiles to their opponents.
When those words came from You Chen's mouth, everyone's expressions became incredibly strange.
Even the morality teacher had heard about him long ago. Before You Chen could finish, the teacher could no longer listen to his nonsense.
You brat has morals?
I've been watching you for so long so you could reflect on yourself.
And yet you still shamelessly started boasting.
Sure enough, your homeroom teacher Fang Qing was right.
This kid's Duel Philosophy and Morality definitely had serious problems!
You Chen felt wronged. He really did want to bring smiles to others; he had not said anything wrong.
And he truly was happy.
Not long after class ended, Hua Ningning actually appeared at the entrance to Class Six.
"You Chen, please come out for a moment." Hua Ningning paid no heed to the gazes around her.
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