Chapter 79

"Are you complimenting me or insulting me?" Li Bingbing lightly tapped Zhou Xiaoyi's small head,

murmuring a gentle reprimand,

"Isn't it just the truth?"

Zhou Xiaoyi pouted, unconvinced,

"We all misjudged it!"

"Who would've thought Sp Diaochan's skill would be this sinister!"

"Brother Gu, every general you bring out is this strong."

Long Bowen sighed lightly,

no one had expected,

that Gu Xuan had been hiding a skill that could directly steal an opponent's entire hand,

"That's right!" Zhou Xiaoyi chimed in,

"This skill is just too overpowered."

"And it seems to have no negative effects at all,"

"Just discard one card, and you take the opponent's whole hand."

"Isn't this unbeatable in any match?"

"It feels even stronger than Huang Zhong the Strategist and Wen Yang!"

After all,

both of them only have high burst power,

but Sp Diaochan steals your cards outright,

leaving you with none,

then uses your own cards to kill you—with absolutely no way to stop it.

"No, no."

Li Bingbing shook her head, rejecting Zhou Xiaoyi's words,

as the strategist of Long Teng Team,

she had seen many skills and immediately sensed something off.

"No matter how strong a general is, it can't be this absurd."

"If he could discard one card every turn to swap hands with the opponent,"

"Brother Gu would've used it already."

"This skill must have some hidden restriction we don't know about!"

"And once triggered, it must drastically affect the entire battle!"

Long Bowen squinted and nodded in agreement,

"Exactly."

He opened the recently saved replay,

scrubbed the timeline to the moment Gu Xuan activated his skill,

"Did you see that?"

"When Brother Gu used his skill,"

"his general card turned completely black, like it flipped over!"

Li Bingbing had already noticed this,

but Zhou Xiaoyi, being careless during observation, hadn't seen it—now she leaned in close, staring intently,

then nodded,

"That's true."

Long Bowen continued his speculation:

"Although we've never seen this happen before,"

"the appearance clearly indicates Sp Diaochan's condition is severely affected!"

"I suspect this blackened general card state is a cooldown mechanism."

"It likely means Brother Gu cannot draw or play cards for the next one or several rounds."

"Until the general card returns to its original color."

"Such a severe consequence?!" Li Bingbing gasped,

being unable to draw or play for one or several rounds,

if the skill fails to secure an advantage,

this match might as well be declared lost!

But then she realized,

that made sense,

otherwise, if this skill could be used every turn,

Sp Diaochan would be an utterly unbeatable general!

No other general could possibly match her!

"Why not just ask Brother Gu directly?"

"He's our vice-captain! Wouldn't he tell us?"

"You two are guessing like you're analyzing the old general of Pink Dreamland's captain!"

"And you might end up guessing wrong anyway?"

As Zhou Xiaoyi spoke,

she opened the team private chat window

and began typing:

"Big Shot Gu, may I ask,"

"does the SP Diaochan you use have any negative skills?"

Long Bowen didn't have time to stop her

before he saw that Zhou Xiaoyi had already sent it.

"Alright then, let's see what Brother Gu says."

Not long after,

they saw Gu Xuan's reply:

"It can only be used on male generals, and after use, you flip over,"

"flipping over means skipping all your phases for the next round, then flipping you back."

"And if you don't kill off Lu Meng,"

"however much health he has left, I must give him that many cards."

"I see..." Looking at Gu Xuan's reply,

the three of them suddenly understood at once.

In that case, this general isn't actually as powerful as we imagined.

"Without the Zhuge Crossbow, you can only play one Slash per turn,"

"so it can't deal much damage,"

"there are simply too many restrictions."

"It can only be used in certain specific situations," Zhou Xiaoyi muttered.

"I feel that Strategist Huang Zhong and Wen Yang are still more formidable."

"That's what they say..." Li Bingbing looked at Gu Xuan's handsome face on the screen

and couldn't help but feel dazed.

"Although this general isn't that outrageous,"

"but if Big Shot Gu hadn't told us, who among us would have known?"

"Just like that Lu Meng, unprepared, foolishly hoarding so many cards, only to end up doing the work for someone else."

"Thank goodness, thank goodness."

"Thank goodness Big Shot Gu joined our team,"

"otherwise,"