Chapter 168: Phoenix Chick, do you know this plan is called

Only watched two rounds.

Pang Tong, that Phoenix Chick Sir famed throughout the Three Kingdoms, has already completely grasped the intricate Shu Han Mahjong rules!

He even began to infer beyond the obvious!

"Peng!"

"Gang!"

Pang Tong's card‑playing speed is astonishingly fast.

Each tile is played at the most critical moment, leaving no flaw in the plan.

He can not only calculate what he needs, but also deduce what the other three players at the table, including the lord, want and are listening for!

Then, one step ahead.

He blocks every one's path to survival!

Heavenly Win opening?

Sorry, I trap you with a tile, letting you die of suffocation.

Want to make a big hand?

Sorry, I cut your win, causing you to fall short of merit!

Su Ming's mindset is a bit shattered!

The game drags into its final stage.

He looks at the tiles in his hand, his eye corner twitching sharply.

It was clearly a Heavenly Win from the start…

By now, he's been outmaneuvered by Pang Tong into a mess, ending up with a hand that can't even declare ready.

Across the table, Pang Tong remains composed, everything under his control.

Once again it's Su Ming's turn to draw a tile.

He takes a deep breath.

This round for him…

It's a loss.

But losing to his own chief strategist isn't exactly shameful…

Not at all!

Since Su Ming's debut, has he ever suffered such a stifling loss?!

Su Ming lifts his hand, yet does not hurry to reach for the tile stack.

He only raises his eyes, giving a faint glance at the woman sitting at his lower seat.

Just one glance.

The woman's graceful body suddenly stiffens.

She understands!

Su Ming leisurely picks up a tile, doesn't even look at it, and slams it heavily onto the center of the table.

Immediately after.

He pushes down the tiles before him in one swift motion.

"Sorry."

"Thirteen Orphans."

"I win."

The air is dead silent.

The agent sitting opposite Su Ming, his hollow gaze exudes a hint of incomprehensible bewilderment.

Thirteen Orphans?!

Pang Tong's confident smile freezes completely.

He looks at the tiles Su Ming knocked down.

He lowers his head again to glance at his own hand of Quasi Thirteen Orphans, just one tile short of perfect merit.

Phoenix Chick Sir's mind, capable of calculating all heavenly mechanisms, has crashed.

That's wrong!

This is absolutely off!

He had just calculated that none of the remaining tiles in the wall could possibly let the lord win with this set!

Unless…

Pang Tong's gaze slowly shifts to the qipao woman, her face full of grievance, like pear blossoms in rain.

He glances again at his own lord's composed, nonchalant, as if it were natural, demeanor.

"Ha ha…"

"Hahaha!"

After a brief deathly silence, Pang Tong claps his hands and laughs loudly.

He laughs so heartily that tears nearly spill.

"Brilliant! Truly brilliant!"

"Lord, this scheme reverses heaven and earth unseen, creates possibility from impossibility, steps beyond the board, and directly manipulates the player…"

"High! Truly high!"

He stands, bows deeply toward Su Ming.

At this moment, he suddenly recalls the Late Emperor Liu Bei.

The Late Emperor was benevolent, loved the people as his own children, yet he was constrained, as if walking on thin ice.

Every misstep could cause a total loss, shaking the dynasty's reign.

These ministers must, on that peril‑filled board, strain themselves to carve a way of survival for the wavering Great Han.

Too poor!

Can't afford to gamble!

But what about the current lord?

He does as he pleases, with no taboos!

He can even, when about to lose the game, flip the board outright, showing with his actions—

I am the rule!

This is no longer a risky maneuver nor a cunning stratagem.

This is the absolute tyranny of overturning the board!

It stems from absolute confidence born of strength and depth!

He has never fought such a prosperous battle!

With a lord like this, why worry the great undertaking won't succeed?!

Why must we still be like before, calculating each step, each heartbeat terrifying!

Be a bit reckless!

"Tong, heart and mouth obey!"

"Willing to serve the lord, calculating all the heavens' gods and demons!"

Not only Pang Tong.

Fa Zheng and Jiang Wan also exchanged a complex glance, then bowed slightly toward Su Ming.

They understood.

The lord's move seems rogue…

In fact, it is teaching those old‑era souls a lesson by the most direct, brutal method!

In this brand‑new era, the so‑called rules are merely cages drawn by the strong.

Clinging to old rites leads only to a dead end.

The lord's realm is too high!

"I… slave…"

The qipao‑clad woman, seeing this, spun her eyes wildly, her will to survive pushed to the limit.

Those three elders all paid this great tribute to the New King; how could she dare any negligence!

She mimicked the three, bowed gracefully to Su Ming, her voice trembling beyond recognition.

"I, Magu, unaware of the New King's arrival, sins immeasurable!"

"I earnestly beg my king… forgive me!"

"I am willing to be my king's ox and horse, a slave forever!"

Su Ming's expression returned to calm.

Those deep eyes fell again upon the woman.

From the moment he stepped into the room, the Eye of Truth had already seen everything.

The reason he played two rounds with her…

First, to see with his own eyes.

Second, to see how his newly recruited schemers would react to this unheard‑of dilemma.

Now, it seems…

The effect is outstanding!

【Name: Magu】

【Quality】: Calamity (Quasi‑Legendary)

【Status】: Absolute Subservience (originating from Calamity Core's rank suppression)

【Ability 1·Blood Battle to the End】: Can create a Mahjong rule domain, pulling entrants into an eternal game. The winner takes all; the loser continuously has life essence, soul source, and even all possessions drained.

【Ability 2·Point Deer as Horse】: Within Blood Battle to the End, can silently alter the game's karma, swapping one's own cards with others at will, the core of its invincibility.

【Ability 3·Red Bean Grows South】: Can slowly draw the longing, obsession, despair and other emotions of all beings in the domain to nourish itself.

【Introduction】: A Calamity birthed by a V-shaped Altar, using the common human pastime Mahjong as a vehicle, weaving a warm‑water‑frog‑boiling style devouring cage! It is not highly offensive itself, but within its rule domain, it is the Mandate of Heaven.

Su Ming's gaze shifted from Magu to the still‑buzzing Automatic Mahjong Table.

In the Eye of Truth's view, it was not merely a table.

It was also an altar!

【Altar No. V88】

【Connection Marker: Rotting Warm Bed】

【Karma Overview: Awaiting the harvest season, offering the pool of despair to distant deities.】

【Magu】 and this 【V-shaped】 altar are merely a chive field sown by higher‑level Calamity.

Only…

Now, the harvester, once the Rotting Son, has become Su Ming!

As for why Magu did not kill those people…

It is not because she is kind!

But she treated them all as rechargeable batteries for cyclic use!

When they're squeezed dry, let them rest and recover.

Then continue extracting!

What a sustainable overfishing move!

"Bring all the living people here."

Su Ming spoke calmly.

Magu heard the command, as if granted a great pardon, and hurriedly waved her jade hand.

She understood that her little tricks were utterly laughable in the eyes of the New King before her.

From start to finish, it was just her playing along!

Soon.

Heavy footsteps echoed through the corridor.

Agents one after another, dressed in black combat suits, with hollow eyes.

Like walking corpses, they emerged from each room and gathered inside and outside Room 404.

Not too many nor too few, exactly twenty‑seven.

They had no obvious external injuries.

But each was sallow and gaunt, with sunken eye sockets, their Qi drained.

Su Ming glanced over, and a calculation formed in his mind.

The people can be returned to Chen Beixuan.

This is his way of keeping his promise.

It is also his leverage over the Jin Cheng Bulldozer's Chip.

But…

Su Ming's mouth twitched slightly upward.

He never said he'd return them without taking a single cent!