When Siegfried came over to collect Shu's hand, he clearly felt a bit of resistance. Siegfried almost instantly understood Shu's reluctance to part with his cards.
Out of curiosity, Siegfried glanced at the cards Shu handed over.
[Truth: You will specify the current acting player to say: Who is the person you least want to give up? (Can be forcibly executed)]
[Dare: You will specify the player in the next round to execute: Expose your most recent chat record. (Can be forcibly executed)]
Hmm? That's it?
These were only medium-strength cards. If Shu had drawn those high-strength cards, would he have chosen to beat up God to avoid handing them over?
Siegfried thought about the gap between himself and Shu and shivered.
"As everyone knows," in the game of Creation Mountain, there was a clear rule that players could challenge "God." There were various ways to challenge, including talent competitions and forced debates.
Generally speaking, challenges did not usually include physical combat. Perhaps some people had already privately practiced this rule with pure combat after learning about it, but everyone would still subconsciously avoid this method.
Until one day, in a warm-up match for a public competition, Siegfried had chosen to elbow Joyce in public...
It was a real elbow. The two of them had fought in public for a full half an hour during a live broadcast. Due to the attention of a certain evil, blue, chicken-coop-headed person who loved to watch the excitement, the official match, which was originally scheduled to start at seven o'clock in the evening, was actually postponed to eight o'clock.
As the instigator, Siegfried knew very well what he was holding back at the time. Putting himself in others' shoes, he knew very well the value of the rule "sometimes, you don't need too many reasons to resist God."
Right now, Shu didn't need a reason to hurt people!
Siegfried sheepishly gathered everyone's cards into a deck. Under Shu's direct gaze, he couldn't help but speed up his shuffling.
"Alright, everyone, take back the same number of cards as you handed in," Siegfried said to everyone after spreading out the collected cards. But he saw Shu's eyes sharpen. Without any hesitation, he reached out and randomly drew five cards from the deck and held them in his hand.
Those must be the cards Shu handed in, right?
Siegfried's eyelid twitched, but he didn't expose Shu's little trick.
The moment he saw the familiar cards in his hand, Shu finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked up at the others' expressions. Everyone's expressions were different. Some had gotten good cards, while others had lost good ones.
Everyone's luck was revealed at this moment.
As for why Shu didn't suspect that everyone had memorized the position of the cards like him, just to get back their own cards?
"Ooooooh! It's a super SSR!" Kiana, beside him, suddenly burst into a series of golden lights, almost blinding the glasses on Shu's face.
Unable to resist, he turned his head and glanced. Shu didn't understand why the ordinary cards would glow in Kiana's hands.
With the card she had begged from Mei, Kiana now had a full six glowing cards in her hand, ready to be used. In Shu's eyes, those were six bombs that could explode at any time.
"...End turn," while Shu was still in a state of trepidation, Mei had already ended her turn. Shu was surprised. He turned his head and saw that the situation on the field had suddenly become something he couldn't understand at all.
???
Wait? Is this game a math class? I was only distracted for a moment, how did the situation become something I can't understand?!
The confusion in his heart reached an unprecedented height. "Why" almost came out of his mouth.
But after his lips trembled several times at an almost imperceptible angle, Shu finally bowed his head deeply like a defeated dog and fell into a state of dejection.
He couldn't ask, especially when everyone present fully understood. He couldn't possibly be the ignorant one who was looked at by everyone with the "huh? you don't know?" look.
"Next turn! It's—Sin Mal's turn!"
Siegfried's voice was like a death knell, ringing in Shu's ears. He looked up abruptly and met Sin Mal's playful and malicious gaze.
In this chaos, was there still someone who had been paying attention to him?!
Sin Mal's hand was lightly resting on the chess piece in front of her. The little figure representing "bully" or a similar villain identity was gently swaying with her finger. At some point, it had moved to a position only three spaces away from his "farmer" piece through some method that Shu couldn't understand.
"Hee hee hee, heh heh heh..." Sin Mal let out her signature, spine-chilling laugh. Her other hand's finger slid back and forth on the only two cards in her hand.
Shu really had to beg for mercy. Could a villain's laugh really be laughed out like that?
"This great one has been patient for so long... heh heh heh... ha ha ha!" Sin Mal laughed maniacally at the sky in an extremely chuunibyou pose, then suddenly raised her hand and pointed.
Everyone's gaze instantly focused on the person being pointed at—Shu.
Shu's face was tense. He was still as dignified as a Buddha statue, facing Sin Mal's "picking on the weak" attitude without changing his expression. It was as if a mountain had collapsed in front of him without him batting an eye, and a huge wave had covered his face without him being fazed.
At least, that's what Shu thought. He felt that he had acted very well.
In fact, Sin Mal only felt that she had made the right choice!
The other two "farmers" were huddling together for warmth, and the surrounding relationships were also complicated. But this guy, Shu, was alone in a corner of the map, and from his expression, it was clear that his hand wasn't very strong.
Plus, her character was a "bully." Who else would she pick?
After looking at each other for two seconds, under everyone's gaze, Shu's eyelid twitched, and he was the first to look away.
This time, it wasn't because he was a coward, but because he didn't know what to do next... Sin Mal was obviously going to make a move on him, but how? What abilities did she have?
She hadn't even played her cards yet.
And as everyone knows, a person's field of vision is only so big.
Shu's gaze shifted and landed on Kiana, Mei, Bronya, and Seele, who were looking at him in a tiered formation.
The four of them were bent over in a progressive manner. Their four heads were lined up from top to bottom in a diagonal line. Seele, at the far end, even showed extremely high body flexibility, almost resting her face on her knees.
Shu: ...
There was a strange feeling of watching the excitement without caring about his life or death...