Chapter 999

New Domino, a dueling highway.

Two D-Wheels are speeding, and the D-Wheelers are dueling.

One of the girl duelists said: "My turn, draw!"

However, before she could operate after drawing, a red light suddenly flashed on the D-Wheel dashboard. After a series of beeps like an alarm, the duel screen changed suddenly, and a sound came from inside the D-Wheel.

"Duel mode overwritten, entering melee mode."

Both riding D-Wheelers were greatly confused.

Melee mode? What does it mean?

A dozen pure black D-Wheels suddenly appeared in the girl rider's rearview mirror. These machines leaned into the turn in a completely synchronized posture. Before she could press the communication button, the black-clad riders in the front row waved their arms collectively, their D-Wheel duel disks activated in unison, and they entered duel mode simultaneously.

"Melee mode activated."

The girl's pupils contracted, almost unable to believe the scene before her.

More than ten opponents suddenly broke into her riding duel!

A riding duel conducted by more than ten duelists together, she had never even heard of such a thing before.

And similar things were happening not only here, but in every area of the city.

The dusk of New New New Tongshiye was torn by the roar of engines. The first to discover the abnormality were the duelists training on the cross-sea bridge. They were all contestants in the WRGP tournament, originally training here during the break, adjusting their decks and testing their D-Wheels.

While speeding, dozens of pure black D-Wheels suddenly emerged in their rearview mirrors. Mechanical riders called "Ghosts" cut into major tracks with perfectly synchronized trajectories, their helmet visors flashing with cold blue light.

Surveillance footage from all over the city recorded creepy scenes. On the central viaduct, several Ghost D-Wheels formed a mobile phalanx, forcing a WRGP rider into a dead end on the viaduct; in an abandoned factory in the Satellite area, young duelists were surrounded by black motorcycles arranged in a radial pattern.

It seemed that suddenly, these things were everywhere.

The alarm of the Security Bureau sounded loudly, and the Security Pursuit Team was in a mess.

Alarm messages from all over the place came one after another. D-Wheelers were constantly being besieged by these guys who popped out for no reason.

And the duels of these Ghost riders didn't seem to be just simple duels. Soon information came that the duels of these guys were likely truly fatal.

Although it was not a dark duel, the monsters summoned during the duel had real damage like psychokinetic duelists.

The intensity of the real damage might not be very high, and it belonged to a relatively weak category even among psychokinetic duelists, far inferior to psychokinetic masters like Akiza Izinski.

But riding duels were originally a more dangerous sport than traditional standing ones, and duels at high speeds were inherently risky. It was normal for people to flip over and be seriously injured when receiving real impact damage during such duels.

In just over ten minutes, the Security Bureau had continuously received reports from all over the place that riders had flipped over and were seriously injured due to attacks by Ghost D-Wheels.

When a pale lightning bolt split the sky, all electronic equipment in the entire New New New Tongshiye emitted harsh noise at the same time. The hurricane seemed to be manifested from cyberspace, sweeping the streets with the screeching sound of data streams. The glass curtain walls of skyscrapers shattered in the strong wind, and countless crystal-clear fragments reflected the black metal frenzy set off by the Ghost D-Wheels.

Yes, a hurricane. Just as this disaster descended, a hurricane blew in New New New Tongshiye. It happened to be at the time when a large number of Ghost riders poured into the city, it was as if it were a storm brought by the ghosts.

The once straight asphalt road surface now looked like it had been gnawed by a giant beast, with large pieces of asphalt curling up like fish scales, revealing the rusted municipal pipes below. The traffic lights at the intersection were bent and collapsed, and the broken cables hissed in the accumulated water, occasionally bursting with ghostly blue sparks.

The glass curtain walls of shops along the street all turned into crystal-clear murder weapons. The floor-to-ceiling windows of the cafe showed radial cracks, the vending machine at the entrance of the convenience store was overturned on the ground, and various beverage cans rolled and collided on the street, making hollow metallic echoes.

On the broken streets where the storm passed, Ghost D-Wheels rampaged, attacking D-Wheelers all over the city almost indiscriminately.

Fujiki You Xuan found Placido for the first time. This is natural. A similar situation happened in the original anime, and the culprit in the anime was Placido. Placido sent a large number of mass-produced Ghost robots to attack D-Wheelers everywhere, just to force these D-Wheelers to fight for survival in a desperate situation, so that they could draw a large number of circuits in one breath and accelerate the descent of the Ark Cradle.

Fujiki You Xuan had also fought against the Ghost robots remotely controlled by Placido before, and he knew that Placido had such machines. So this person naturally had the greatest suspicion.

However, when Fujiki You Xuan came to the door, Placido was also overwhelmed.

"My system has been hacked!"

Placido said angrily.

"Yes, these ghosts are mine. But all my factories have been invaded, and someone has tampered with the programs of these ghosts!"

Fujiki You Xuan raised his eyebrows suspiciously: "Oh? Isn't it you acting without authorization, sending these machines out to draw circuits?"

The reason he suspected this was because it was like this in the original work. Placido was an impatient person, although his teammates insisted on completing the circuit by holding the WRGP, he thought it was too slow, so he might as well invade the entire city directly and threaten the lives of everyone in the entire city to force these D-Wheelers to burst out their potential, which could allow the circuit to be completed faster.

Placido's expression became quite ugly: "These are indeed ghosts I made, but they are definitely not activated by me. My system has been tampered with..."

"Placido's words are probably true."

He Sai said in a deep voice from the side.

Placido: "He Sai..."

Fujiki You Xuan said: "Oh? How can you tell?"

"Although Placido is a reckless person, his goal is the same as ours. He also hopes to see the circuit completed."

He Sai pointed to the circuit in the void below.

"But from just now, Ghost robots have erupted on a large scale, and high-intensity duels are breaking out everywhere in New Domino..."

"Eh, really!"

Luciano also widened his eyes.

"The circuit hasn't increased at all since just now... Why is this? Clearly there are duels everywhere, and energy is erupting everywhere..."

"I'm afraid it's because those Ghost D-Wheels have been modified."

He Sai said in a deep voice.

"Someone modified the perpetual motion machine of the D-Wheel, making it absorb the energy released by the duel. In this way, the duel energy cannot be drawn into a circuit, but is digested."

"How can this be?" Luciano was shocked. "Doesn't that mean..."

"Hmm, someone is killing WRGP D-Wheelers, making the competition unable to continue. And the energy generated during this process cannot be drawn into a circuit."

He Sai narrowed his eyes.

"We are being targeted."

(End of chapter)