Chapter 158

Late at night.

Fujiki You Xuan sat in the chair in the laboratory, yawned tiredly, and stretched.

The large laboratory was empty, and only this lonely laboratory of his was still lit in the entire corridor. Moonlight spilled into the empty teaching building, and the lights flickered in the silence of the night.

Normally, he would have returned to the dormitory at this time, but today he had more ideas and stayed a bit late.

He had an in-depth exchange with Asuka tonight, trying to hint at the strengthening direction of Cyber Angels. Fujiki You Xuan thought that after it took shape, he would also get a set for himself first.

The operational capability of the strengthened Cyber Angels is actually quite powerful, it's just that there are no very capable terminal big brothers in the anime world at present. But it doesn't matter, it's always right to prepare a set of good things first.

The strongest form of Cyber Angels is actually not strengthened within the home system, but can only exert 120% of its combat power when equipped to certain other decks with extremely high adaptability.

But once this deck is unlocked and evolves into a complete form, it will instantly gain crushing combat power that surpasses several generations.

Misawa is currently mainly developing the Zombie-type. Fujiki You Xuan has also obtained one real-card version of Gozuki and Mezuki, which are solid Zombie-type thigh cards, and their strength is quite high in the current environment.

It's just that he doesn't play Zombie-themed decks much now, and he will definitely invest in them if he gets Zombie cards with considerable strength in the future.

He leaned back in his chair and moved his neck joints, turned his head, and suddenly saw a small hand handing over a mug.

A cup of steaming coffee.

Fujiki You Xuan subconsciously took the cup, looked up in that direction, and unexpectedly discovered that the one who handed the cup was Silent Magician.

The silver-haired magician girl looked away embarrassedly after handing the cup to him and turning back into a spirit.

Shocked, the spirit actually learned to take the initiative to help him make coffee.

Fujiki You Xuan smiled, picked up the cup, took a sip, and shook the mug at her.

"Thanks."

Silent smiled slightly, bowed slightly, and then retreated into the deck in the Duel Disk.

After finishing the coffee, Fujiki You Xuan looked at the time again; it was approaching midnight.

"Let's stop here for today."

He stretched, got up from the chair, turned off the lights and the power switch, and exited the laboratory.

Leaving the teaching building, the path to the dormitory was a small path surrounded by dense woods. The forest path was winding, and every step was accompanied by the fine sound of withered leaves being crushed underfoot. The branches and leaves of the trees swayed in the wind, and the rustling sound was like something whispering.

Fujiki You Xuan didn't think he was afraid of the dark, but even so, he felt that the atmosphere tonight was a bit strange. Every breeze passing through the woods seemed to carry the whispers of ghosts.

Silent Magician, who had returned to the deck, floated out again, holding her staff in front of her with some vigilance.

Fujiki You Xuan frowned: "Spirit fluctuation?"

Fujiki You Xuan recently began to find that spirit matters were a bit metaphysical. Just like the Yugi family in the protagonist group could all understand what Kuriboh said, after getting along for a long time, he seemed to be able to understand what Silent expressed normally without words.

I don't know if it counts as proof of deepening bonds.

Silent nodded seriously.

Fujiki You Xuan thought. Could it be another crack leading to the Spirit World like the abandoned dormitory last time?

It was at this moment that there was a sound in the woods.

The sound was faint at first, but quickly became clear, as if something was traveling through the woods at high speed, constantly approaching their direction.

Silent vigilantly protected Fujiki You Xuan, blocking the direction from which the thing was approaching. The leaves trembled in the rustling sound, and the branches swayed constantly, as if even the shrubs and jungle were vaguely uneasy.

Then a black shadow suddenly rushed out of the shrubs.

"Ugh! It's me, don't shoot... ah no, don't use the staff!"

It was Jaden Yuki.

Jaden, who rushed out of the woods in a hurry, almost ran into the staff Silent handed over as soon as he rushed out, and the tip of the staff, which was condensing a magic light cannon, almost hit his nose.

Jaden hurriedly braked and raised his hands in a surrender gesture. Silent raised her eyebrows, put away the staff, and retreated to the back.

"Jaden?" Fujiki You Xuan asked strangely, "What are you doing here so late?"

"This... it's a long story." Jaden scratched his head, "An Obelisk Blue student suddenly broke into our dormitory to shout for help..."

While speaking, Syrus Truesdale, Chumley Huffington, and Professor Banner appeared from behind, out of breath.

"Big... Big Brother, you ran too fast, I can't keep up..."

The three of them were panting.

"Eh? Classmate Fujiki You Xuan?" Professor Banner was stunned, "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, I stayed a bit late in the laboratory today..."

Jaden suddenly remembered something: "Ah, it's not the time to talk about this, saving people is urgent! Let's go, let's talk while running."

However, although he hadn't said it yet, this posture and this scene had already made Fujiki You Xuan guess what the situation was.

It seemed to be one of the plot nodes in the early stage of GX, and it was also the first time Jaden came into contact with a Duel Monster spirit appearing as a villain in the original work.

Jinzo - Jinzo.

Fujiki You Xuan thought about it and followed along first. Sure enough, what Jaden explained next was about the same as what he remembered.

Simply put, there was a club in the school specifically for researching Duel Monster spirits, and three students who were good at making death appeared in it.

These three were playing the special version of Spirit Board for Duel Monster spirits in the middle of the night, and they didn't pick the kind of Dark Magician Girl who could be rushed and easy to talk to, nor did they pick the kind of low-star, gentle-tempered Kuriboh, but for some reason, they chose Jinzo.

As a result, the channeling was successful but not completely successful, and the Jinzo summoned was in a half-dead, incomplete state.

Jinzo, who was pursuing to become a complete body, needed souls as sacrifices. However, he didn't directly rob people, but asked the three of them quite politely, saying I need three sacrifices, do you think it's acceptable?

As a result, the three of them were brainless and naturally thought that sacrifices must refer to cards, so they patted their chests and said of course no problem. Not to mention three, even thirty would be no problem.

So Jinzo appeared according to the contract.

Two days passed, and two students from the Spirit Club went missing.

The third student realized that sacrifices referred to themselves, and suddenly panicked, running out to seek help in the middle of the night. He didn't know how he ran into the Slifer Red dormitory and met Jaden and his party.

Just after explaining the settings to Jaden and others, the power of the Red dormitory was suddenly cut off, and the lights went out with a snap.

When they lit up again, everyone found that the spirit of Jinzo had really appeared, picked up the unconscious student with one hand, and rushed into the dense forest.

Jaden and others followed behind and chased all the way here.

And Fujiki You Xuan knew that if he remembered correctly, then according to the original anime, the place where Jinzo fled should be...

Sure enough, rushing out of the jungle, a huge power transformation facility blocked by a fence appeared in front of them.

"This is the power station of the academy island, and all the electricity of the entire academy is provided here." Professor Banner said.

Then, only a pale blue electric arc flashed in mid-air, like a dragon of thunder tossing in the air above the power station. A lightning bolt struck from the sky, exploding a semi-transparent phantom on the ground.

It was the well-known rare card monster spirit, Jinzo.

"Mom!" Professor Banner screamed, "Spirit! It's really a spirit!"

Fujiki You Xuan looked at him squintingly.

The big shot's acting skills were still as online as ever.

Chumley was puzzled: "Isn't it... Professor, you usually tell us that duel spirits are all real?"

"Ah this... knowing is one thing, but seeing it with my own eyes is the first time." Professor Banner adjusted his glasses.

Jaden took a deep breath, walked up and was about to talk to Jinzo, but saw Fujiki You Xuan had already rushed ahead of him.

"Jinzo spirit, right?"

Jinzo's figure circled between the electric lights of the power station, floating like a phantom, and didn't pay attention.

The three missing students were unconscious nearby, and it seemed they could still be saved.

Seeing that the other party had no reaction, Fujiki You Xuan revealed a card.

The card "Jinzo" he held.

Sure enough, this time Jinzo had a reaction, and took a step toward his direction urgently, seeming to show a craving for the card in his hand.

"Sure enough, this card is helpful for your complete resurrection, right? You want this card?"

Jinzo pondered for a few seconds, seeming to be thinking about the other party's motives.

Then he opened his mouth in a low voice.

"I want that card, but I won't give up these three sacrifices." He shook his head, "They agreed to be sacrifices for my resurrection themselves."

After a pause, he emphasized again.

"But I also want that card."

Well, still an adult spirit, knows that he wants everything.

"You look like duelists too, so let's solve this problem in your way."

Jinzo reached out and pointed at the Duel Disk Fujiki You Xuan was wearing.

"Sure enough, it's still a duel."

Fujiki You Xuan nodded.

Completely as expected.

"A duel is no problem. If you win, this card is yours, and I won't interfere in your affairs anymore.

But if you lose, what should happen?"

For spirits, a duel is more sacred than for humans, so naturally, the stakes must be discussed.

Jinzo thought about it and said: "If I lose, then I am willing to give up these three souls who volunteered to sacrifice themselves to me."

Fujiki You Xuan shook his head: "I don't know the three of them."

Jinzo: "?"

The people behind: "???"

Why don't you play cards according to the routine?

Does this sound like something a positive character should say?

Jinzo choked for a few seconds and asked: "Then what do you want?"

"Every card is like life to a duelist, it's irreplaceable. I took out a partner who is like my soul as a stake, shouldn't you also take out an equal stake?" Fujiki You Xuan said.

Jinzo hesitated: "Then you mean... you want my soul?"

"As expected of a high-level spirit, the comprehension is high."

Fujiki You Xuan smiled.

"If I win, then you can reside in this card. From now on, you don't need any souls, you don't need any sacrifices to resurrect, no problem, right?"

In this way, as long as he won, the three students naturally wouldn't have to be any sacrifices.

"Heh, interesting. Human duelist, want to become my master?"

Jinzo said in a deep voice, and had already set up a dueling posture.

"Then you need to win my recognition first."

"Then I'll take it as you agreed."

Fujiki You Xuan also opened the Duel Disk.

"Duel!" x2

The negotiation was completed, the talk was over, and the next step was to decide the winner with cards.

After the negotiation, the few people behind had no chance to interrupt at all. It seemed that when they came back to their senses, the two had already fast-forwarded to the card playing stage.

Jaden suddenly woke up.

Wait.

Is it... it seems... the card that came to the door was snatched by Fujiki You Xuan again?

(End of this chapter)