Playing Cards

"How boring. I thought you had more backbone than that!"

Luo Yihe released Ma Hongjun's underwear, then pulled out a deck of cards and said with a smile, "Hey, fatty, do you know how to play?"

Seeing that it was a deck of cards, Ma Hongjun hurriedly nodded.

Smack!

Luo Yihe slapped him hard across the face. "Talk! What do you mean by nodding without saying anything? Looking down on me?"

{Ding, negative emotions from Ma Hongjun +999}

Ma Hongjun said, "B-Big Bro... I know how to play."

Smack!

Luo Yihe slapped him again. "You know how to play, so you know how to play. Did you have to say it out loud? Showing off?"

{Ding, negative emotions from Ma Hongjun +1088}

Ma Hongjun held his face, tears still hanging at the corners of his eyes, and asked pitifully, "Then... should I talk or not?"

Smack!

Luo Yihe slapped him again. "Do I have to teach you whether you should talk? Is your mouth growing on me?"

"Waaah!"

Ma Hongjun cried, sobbing miserably. He had seen people pick fights before, but he had never seen anyone pick one like this. He got hit for talking, and he got hit for not talking...

"Luo Yihe, isn't this... a little too much?"

Zhu Zhuqing could not help trying to persuade Luo Yihe. One should always leave some room for future encounters. After all, they could not really kill them. If they offended them to the bitter end and ended up being hunted by Shrek Academy's teachers, that would be troublesome.

"Too much? Is it?"

Luo Yihe glanced at Zhu Zhuqing, then shifted his gaze to Xiao Chenghe.

"Would it be? I don't feel it at all! Not even a little."

Zhu Zhuqing's face darkened. She finally understood that these two brothers were not normal people. She simply stepped aside and stopped paying attention to them.

Ma Hongjun: "..."

No, sis, try persuading them some more! I think you're the one who can awaken their conscience!

Luo Yihe waved the cards in front of Ma Hongjun. "Come on, fatty. Let's play Fight the Nobles. Ten rounds. As long as you win one round, we'll let you go! But... if you can't win even once in ten rounds, then we'll deal with you however we see fit."

Ma Hongjun's gaze wavered.

Before Luo Yihe had slapped him a few times, he would have thought this was easy. But... he felt these two assholes were incapable of acting like human beings.

Xiao Chenghe pretended to blow on his sharp dagger. "Think carefully. This is your only chance to choose. If you agree, maybe you'll have a chance to live. If you refuse, then I'll give you three minutes. Hurry up and say your final goodbyes to your QQ!"

"If three minutes isn't enough, I can give you two more."

Luo Yihe seemed extraordinarily reasonable at the moment.

Ma Hongjun gritted his teeth. "Fine. Let's play."

Ma Hongjun took a deep breath. As long as he won one out of ten rounds, he would be fine. He refused to believe he could not win even once, unless these two really had no shame whatsoever... and resorted to rigging the game.

The three gathered around, and Luo Yihe dealt the cards.

As Ma Hongjun drew his cards, he searched for a chance to escape.

But a few seconds later, he felt there was no need to run!

Right at the start, he had four twos, four threes, and four kings—three bombs in total. There was no way he could lose.

"The noble goes first. Hurry up," Luo Yihe said.

Ma Hongjun nodded. "Three fours with one."

"Double jokers!"

"I can't beat that. Your turn."

"Straight!" Luo Yihe tossed down a string of cards.

"Four threes, bomb."

"J bomb!"

Ma Hongjun looked at his cards and threw down four kings.

Luo Yihe looked at the cards in his hand, thought for a moment, then said, "Double jokers!"

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Ma Hongjun, who had thought victory was assured, widened his eyes and stared fixedly at the double jokers on the ground.

Ma Hongjun raised his head and said, "Why is there another pair of jokers? Didn't you already play one just now?"

"Is there a problem? Can't double jokers beat four kings?"

{Ding, negative emotions from Ma Hongjun +777}

Was this even about whether it could beat it or not?

"How do you have two pairs of double jokers? You're cheating!" Ma Hongjun said excitedly.

"Listen to yourself. No one ever said you weren't allowed to cheat," Luo Yihe said faintly.

{Ding, negative emotions from Ma Hongjun +999}

If this had happened before, Ma Hongjun would have flipped the table outright. But now, he did not dare.

He could only swallow his anger and say, "Fine, I lost this round. No cheating next round."

"Fine!" Luo Yihe did not refuse and nodded.

The second round began. Looking at the two jokers, nine, ten, J, Q, K, A, and an airplane in his hand, Ma Hongjun felt this round was in the bag.

Until he heard the two inhuman bastards across from him talking.

"Give me a six. I'll give you the king, and give me your two twos too."

"No, if I give you the six, I won't have a straight. How about I give you the king and ace instead?"

"Why aren't there any jokers?"

"That bastard has double jokers."

"And the nine, ten, J, Q, K, A airplane."

"Then give me both twos. I'll give you these small bombs. We'll fly out in one set and give him a spring."

{Ding, negative emotions from Ma Hongjun +1088}

Ma Hongjun's mentality instantly exploded.

He threw his cards onto the ground. "I'm not playing anymore! You said no cheating, but you're swapping cards again."

If this had happened before, Ma Hongjun would have been spewing curses already. But now... he did not dare.

Xiao Chenghe held his dagger fiercely. "You have three seconds. Pick those cards up."

Ma Hongjun would rather die than submit. "With you two playing like this, I can't win at all. Even if I pick them up, I'll definitely lose, so why should I?"

Xiao Chenghe scratched his head and looked at Luo Yihe. "Brother Luo, this kid has a point. Besides, even if he really wins, we weren't planning to let him go anyway."

{Ding, negative emotions from Ma Hongjun +777}

Zhu Zhuqing covered her face. The card game had already left her speechless, but apparently there was something even more absurd.

Luo Yihe stroked his chin and thought for a moment. "This kid is from Shrek Academy, and he's even a Soul Sage's student. If we really uninstall his QQ, we might not be able to escape. How about we stick to the original plan?"

Xiao Chenghe thought about it and felt his big brother was right. Once they were no longer afraid of a Soul Sage, they could uninstall his teacher's QQ along with his.

Xiao Chenghe hung Ma Hongjun back beneath the eaves, stripped both him and Huo Yuhao of all their clothes and pants, leaving only their underwear.

Xiao Chenghe picked up the hemp rope. Seeing that the chili water had dried, he asked Luo Yihe for another bucket of chili water. He soaked the rope in it for two minutes before taking it out.

"Hey, Brother Luo, after soaking for a while, this rope feels so heavy."

"Of course. When a hemp rope gets wet, where I come from, it has a resounding name!"

Zhu Zhuqing asked curiously, "What is it called?"

"Corporal punishment!"

{Ding, negative emotions from Ma Hongjun +999}

{Ding, negative emotions from Huo Yuhao +888}

Zhu Zhuqing's mouth twitched. Even the word "punishment" had come out now?

Huo Yuhao was even more miserable. He had watched Ma Hongjun being tortured. In his previous life, he had felt that all of Douluo Continent was full of love. As long as he cried and acted pitiful, a whole crowd would come comfort him. He had never even felt that there was evil in this world.