Chapter 361: The Infected

"Played well... quite difficult for a zombie."

Fujiki You Xuan walked up to the zombie.

It was still a gloomy environment, with invisible darkness circling around, like an invisible wall of darkness pressing in from all directions.

But these darknesses could no longer bring any pressure to Fujiki You Xuan.

Because now this was controlled by him.

He won the duel just now. The power of the Shadow Game was activated, wrapping toward the zombie.

"Don't be afraid, it won't hurt... well, it shouldn't, right?"

Fujiki You Xuan thought about it and felt that he should be rigorous in his speech. After all, he hadn't eaten his own Shadow Game, so he didn't know what it felt like to lose a card game and be arranged into eighteen postures.

"Well, in short, even if it hurts, it won't hurt for long." Fujiki You Xuan said, "I just want to ask a few questions. First, what happened here? How did you become like this?"

The zombie lay on the ground, eyes wide open, not blinking at all, looking like he died with his eyes wide open.

Following that, his whole body suddenly started to twitch violently, looking like a fish that had left the water and was being exposed to the sun on the shore.

Immediately after, his body began to collapse and disintegrate, the substances in his body flowed away like pus, and his whole body shriveled up until only a pile of rapidly shriveling clothes remained.

"Hmm?"

Fujiki You Xuan blinked twice.

This had nothing to do with him.

He didn't activate the Shadow Game to a fatal degree. Because this zombie was likely just a thug, or perhaps even a victim, and not the person who should be responsible for the anomaly here.

So Fujiki You Xuan just wanted to get some information from his mouth, and the Shadow Game was to help the other party open their mouth.

As a result, the person just disappeared...

Is he that unyielding? To avoid leaking information, he just blew himself up?

Fujiki You Xuan stood up and frowned.

Maybe there was some mechanism set in his body?

Maybe it was set that once defeated by a duelist holding shadow power, it would trigger a self-destruction, so as to avoid information leakage.

At this time, a rustling sound came from the woods behind him.

Fujiki You Xuan stood up, keeping alert and turning his head to look. Silent Magician also floated out in a spirit form, holding a staff and ready to go.

However, the person who appeared this time was not an enemy. Not only that, but it was also someone who surprised him quite a bit.

It was a blonde woman.

A blonde woman with a prominent figure because her figure was indeed too prominent, belonging to the rare level of not seeing her feet when looking down. Her slender and well-proportioned legs were wearing black over-the-knee boots, standing on the side of the forest path, looking at Fujiki You Xuan with a strange expression.

"Are you... Mai Valentine?"

Fujiki You Xuan asked a bit uncertainly.

Mai Valentine, now also a legendary duelist. DM old character, professional duelist, even in the DM period where gods fight, as a mortal without background or cheats, her strength was already top-tier.

And she is Jonouchi's lover, so to speak.

Although the anime didn't explain whether the relationship between the two had a follow-up, when Mai Valentine's voice actress got married, the official Yu-Gi-Oh animation director drew a wedding congratulatory picture of Mai Valentine and Jonouchi.

Fujiki You Xuan naturally associated that Gui Ping said Jonouchi happened to be nearby recently, and tried to contact Jonouchi to help investigate Qingshui Town, but couldn't be contacted.

I don't know how Mai and Jonouchi are in this world.

"An outsider duelist?"

Mai Valentine looked at him strangely, seemingly wanting to say something. But she looked around, seeing this gloomy and dark environment, and finally seemed to change her mind.

"Let's go first, it's not safe here."

She said.

"Follow me, we'll talk later."

Originally, there were no other clues, so Fujiki You Xuan didn't hesitate and followed directly.

Of course, he didn't forget to pick up a deck of cards without an owner on the ground.

Fujiki You Xuan followed behind her, and the two walked through the jungle one after another, moving rapidly through the dark and gloomy woods.

"Are you a professional duelist?"

Mai Valentine asked while leading the way.

"No." Fujiki You Xuan confessed, "I'm a student at the Duel Academy."

"Duel Academy... student?"

Mai Valentine couldn't help but look back at him in surprise.

She had just seen Fujiki You Xuan's duel, and it had to be said that it left a quite deep impression on her. Although his duel style was strange, with her vision, she saw at a glance that his strength was extraordinary.

She felt that he should be a professional level, and although she felt that he had reservations and couldn't see his depth through this duel, he should at least be at the upper level in the professional circle.

As a result, a Duel Academy student?

After a while, she couldn't help but say: "Well... then you are really a special student."

Fujiki You Xuan smiled: "Everyone says so."

Mai Valentine: "..."

No, what she actually thought was, the word "special" is really a bit of an understatement.

She hadn't encountered such duel zombies here, but she had always regarded them as walking corpses that only relied on instinct to duel.

She really hadn't thought that this thing could actually be angered into swearing...

"What happened to that guy just now?" Fujiki You Xuan asked.

"Infected duelists will trigger a destruction mechanism if they are defeated by a duel. But most means other than dueling are ineffective against them."

Mai Valentine said briefly.

"I once saw a guy with a broken head connect his head back, they are almost immortal."

Fujiki You Xuan: "..."

Okay, this is very Yu-Gi-Oh.

Immortal zombies can only be eliminated by playing cards, this is very reasonable.

"So how did he become like that?"

"Ghost knows, I want to ask too."

Mai Valentine cursed in a low voice.

"Suddenly this whole area became like this. No one knows how it spread, but most of the people in this area have been infected."

"Among the infected, if they are ordinary people without qualifications, they will become ordinary infected, completely without reason and only relying on instinct to attack others... You should have encountered quite a few just now."

"And if it's a special individual, it may become a duel infected like just now. That kind of guy is more terrifying, he has the ability to materialize the power of cards, and the destructive power and danger are not comparable to ordinary individuals."

"That kind of individual can only be completely defeated by dueling, otherwise it's useless to use swords or guns to cause damage."

The sense of sight of the duel-type zombie virus.

"By the way, is Mr. Katsuya Jonouchi here too?"

Mai Valentine looked at him: "Do you know Jonouchi?"

"No, but a friend knows him and asked me to come here to find him."

"Tch, you're here to find him too." Mai Valentine frowned.

"So he's here?"

"Ghost knows, if I knew, it would be great."

Mai Valentine cursed again.

"If it weren't for finding this bastard, how could I have run to such a ghost place?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 362 =====