Chapter 605: Chapter 450: Cube Card Metaverse_2

In those cube card panoramic virtual games, as long as you say this to an NPC, they’ll drop everything and immediately play a card game with the player.

"You’re a nutcase."

But the half-snake old man just shot Li Fan a disdainful look and continued fetching water.

Li Fan: "..."

Li Pu: "Are you sure about this, uh, oh no, teacher."

"Where did it go wrong?"

Li Fan rubbed his chin, perplexed.

Isn’t it supposed to be all about card play here? How could this NPC refuse me?

It wasn’t a big deal to be turned down, but the embarrassment in front of the student was a bit much.

"Could it be the code was wrong..." 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Seeing the old man already finishing with the water and about to leave, Li Fan decided to give it another shot.

So he casually pulled out a card and tossed it over.

Smack!

The card stuck right onto the old man’s bald head.

"...╬"

The old man was silent for two seconds. When he turned back around, he was furious: "You brat, you’ve gone too far!!!"

Then the two saw him wave his hand, releasing a blue light card table.

"Finally accepted the challenge, did you, NPC."

Li Fan smiled, looked back at Li Pu with an "I knew it all along" expression.

"Interesting."

But Li Pu’s attention was on that card table.

The old man initiated a 3+1 card game.

However, unlike the usual 3+1 games, this one was horizontal.

Three regular cards in front, three ace positions behind.

Perhaps in the cube card metaverse, this mode of 3+1 was more popular.

This way, the factors of uncertainty become higher.

If someone finds the ace position first, it could lead to a rapid defeat.

Of course, it also increased the operability for someone like Li Fan.

Both sides moved swiftly, deftly arranging their card decks.

"My ace is right here, do you believe me."

Before revealing the cards, Li Fan confidently stared at the old man, pointing to one of his ace positions.

"..."

Li Pu seriously doubted if this guy would feel uncomfortable if he didn’t pull these antics in a game.

"I don’t give a damn!"

But the old man seemed unimpressed, grabbing one of his covered cards and slammed it onto the table with force.

[Roar!!!]

A massive figure roared as it emerged from the card surface.

This was an extraordinarily strange snake, or perhaps it was closer to a lizard.

Because it had the head, neck, and tail of a snake, but also had four legs.

The most striking part was its flattened body.

Like a compressed snake body, it’s oval-shaped.

And it occupied a large area, surprisingly taking up two card positions.

Li Pu’s curious gaze followed the information displayed on the card.

[Four-legged Lizard]

Frenzy, 25 points, A

Attack 40, 200/200

[Oversized - Passive]: Four-legged Lizard occupies two card positions, but health +100%

[Beastly Oppression - Passive]: The Four-legged Lizard deals an additional 20 points of damage when attacking targets with a score under 10 points.

[Greedy Devour - 30% current health]: The Four-legged Lizard consumes a target with less than 30% health, forcing it to leave the game in 2 turns, and recovers 30% max health.

"Ah this..."

Seeing the card’s information, Li Pu was somewhat taken aback.

This ordinary-looking old man from a small town suddenly pulled out an A-grade card?

Could it be he’s a powerful NPC hiding in plain sight?

"Well, not bad, huh."

However, Li Fan wasn’t surprised at the card.

Ten minutes later, they smoothly entered the old man’s house.

"You guys are testers, aren’t you? Your skills are truly impressive..."

The old man sat at the guest table, looking at Li Fan with a peculiar gaze.

This guy’s playing style was so annoying that he was tricked twice, unable to find the correct ace position.

Otherwise, the outcome would be uncertain, hmph.

"So, old man, you’re really not an NPC?"

Li Fan was smoking the old man’s cigarettes.

After the old man’s introduction, they realized that this wasn’t a virtual world as they thought.

This is a real world that exists, so there’s no such thing as AI NPCs.

The residents of the metaverse were all voluntarily relocated here from other worlds under the call of divine messengers.

Some yearned for a card-centric world, others had nowhere to go after their homes were destroyed, among other reasons.

Now the cube card metaverse had just begun, and they were the first batch of inhabitants.

Eventually, more people would settle here, building a new world yet to be developed.

"I’m obviously a living person. You know, before coming here, I was a renowned figure in the card circles."

The old man appeared slightly weary.

Even Li Fan himself felt a slight fatigue.

The card game they played earlier brought a certain mental burden.

The old man, as the loser, would have a greater mental drain.

In this world, playing cards posed a certain degree of risk.

The consequences of Spiritual Power depletion were imaginable.

There were many ways to start a card game, but Li Fan’s "buddy" wasn’t one of them.

He accidentally discovered that using a card to contact someone was a way to start a game.

After listening to the old man’s brief introduction, the two left his place.

Besides Li Fan snagging a few packs of cigarettes, there was no tangible gain.

"Teacher, what should we do next?"

Li Pu wanted to hear Li Fan’s opinion.

"Don’t forget why we came to this world."

Li Fan glanced at him: "To find a bug."

Honestly, Li Pu considered himself pretty good at finding bugs.

But since they’d only been here for less than 20 minutes, there was no clue.

"First, let’s try to deal with all the original inhabitants and then act accordingly."

Li Fan waved his hand with spirited bravado.

"...can’t you do something a bit more agreeable."

Li Pu was speechless.

Just come here, and you’ve already offended all the residents, how are you going to get along here?

And if you really rile them up, the whole town could use people-power tactics to chase you playing cards. Even if you keep winning, your Spiritual Power won’t hold up, right?

"You take your time, I’m going for a walk."

He thought staying around Li Fan might lead to trouble for himself.

He saw quite a few people going to explore outside the town earlier, and he wanted to do the same.

After a brief discussion, they parted ways.

The town’s layout was casual, with no fixed entrances or exits.

So Li Pu just picked a direction and left the town.

But along the way, he remained relatively cautious.

After all, it’s an unfamiliar land, everything was too unknown.

"Huh?"

He hadn’t walked more than a few hundred meters when he suddenly saw a blue light dome rise in the distance.

Walking over for a look, he noticed a card game was underway inside the dome.

There was no card table, just individual card positions neatly placed on the ground.

All the card positions had face-down cards, implying that the game had just begun.

The participant was a woman who appeared to be around 30 years old.

For some reason, even though he hadn’t met her, she seemed vaguely familiar.

Then it suddenly clicked for Li Pu, he understood her identity.

She should be his opponent from tonight in the same battle zone fighting for a spot.

There were only two people who got a spot in the same zone, so You Xinqing’s identity was obvious.

However, it was strange that inside the dome, Li Pu saw only You Xinqing.

Regarding her opponent, there were only cards without a person.

Knock knock.

Arriving at the dome, Li Pu knocked on it twice with the back of his hand.

He found it quite sturdy, giving a sense of being unbreakable.

"Need help?"

His inquiry caught You Xinqing’s attention.

Though he didn’t know how he could help her.

"No need, I can handle it myself."

You Xinqing’s face was full of excitement, just one glance back before refusing.

As she declined, the card game began within the blue light dome.

Yet Li Pu saw an unexpected scene.

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