Chapter 92: The Terrifying Campus, Sunny Doll (30)

Tang Mu watched Jing You play like that and thought that Jing You was practically done for.

No sense of strategy at all.

Every card was played only to widen other people’s attack range.

Too defensive.

No offense whatsoever.

If everyone were as softhearted as Jing You, would she even be able to survive?

“Next. Hurry up and play.” Tang Mu motioned to the seer, Yin Juncai.

Yin Juncai had already played two Bestow cards.

No one knew exactly what those two Bestow cards were.

And by the look of things, it seemed none of them had a card that could force Yin Juncai to reveal himself. That was the only reason he had been able to keep drifting among them all this time.

“Bestow.”

As expected.

Another card turned face down.

Seeing that Yin Juncai had already played three Bestow cards, everyone felt irritated and contemptuous.

Irritated, because there was an opponent on the board who could not be controlled.

Contemptuous, because the seer’s play had remained cautious from beginning to end.

“My turn.” Yi Hongbo, who had been shifted to the fourth square by Tang Mu, spoke in a rather weak voice. In fact, if Tang Mu’s previous move had not been a swap, but the card nine, then Yi Hongbo would already have died in the last round.

Fortunately, Tang Mu did not have the card nine in her hand. Otherwise, Zhu Zhiming’s fate would have been his fate too.

At present, among the people ahead of him, Tang Mu was on square thirteen, Zi Yushu on square eleven, and Yin Juncai’s position was unknown. As for Jing You, she was behind him, out of reach. He could only let her cling to life for one more round.

Just so happened that Yi Hongbo had both card nine and card seven.

He could even pick anyone at random to attack.

And Tang Mu and Zi Yushu were both witches. They each had two lives. As long as he killed just one of them, he would gain another sliver of advantage.

“Yi Hongbo, I didn’t kill you just now.” Tang Mu looked back at him with moist, shining eyes.

Yi Hongbo felt himself being bewitched.

“That’s because Tang Mu didn’t have card nine in the first place,” Zi Yushu said coldly, tearing through her act without mercy.

Tang Mu blinked. “Who said that?”

She took out her card nine and showed it to Yi Hongbo. “I only said I didn’t have card nine because I like you, Classmate Yi Hongbo, and wanted to be friends with you. Classmate Yi Hongbo, you wouldn’t be so ungrateful as to turn around and cut down a flower, would you?”

Seeing the card nine in Tang Mu’s hand, Zi Yushu’s eyes contracted sharply.

He had never imagined that Tang Mu had not attacked Yi Hongbo because she lacked a nine. It was because she was doing the same as he was: aiming straight for square nine.

In complete silence, Tang Mu had already secured the key to her victory this round.

Ha. What a dazzling little treasure she was.

For some reason, he suddenly felt an urge to bring her under his command.

“Miss Tang Mu, I also founded an association outside the game,” Zi Yushu said abruptly. “It’s called the Dragon Association. I wonder whether you have heard of it.”

...

Why did one after another keep trying to recruit her?

Tang Mu was displeased inwardly, though her expression did not show it.

“I have heard of it.” She wore the lofty air of a victor. “But since I’m still a new player, I’ve decided to build a solid foundation first before joining any association. Besides, there are simply too many organizations trying to recruit me. I can’t even finish looking through the invitations. And you know as well as I do that newly founded associations are springing up everywhere these days. But every association has its own rules and logic for management and operation. It’s truly difficult to choose in such a short time. So for now, I still haven’t decided where to go.”

“What is it, Classmate Zi Yushu? Do you have other opportunities to recommend?”

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How could Zi Yushu possibly recommend anyone else?

Tang Mu was only saying this to raise the conditions for joining.

“Although my association is not short of talent, it is the leading association, so the treatment and resources are all top-tier. Many people want in, and I have turned them away. Miss Tang Mu would do best to think carefully before deciding.”

That was his way of saying that if Tang Mu did not join his Dragon Association, then she was simply too arrogant to appreciate the honor.

Tang Mu kept smiling, but inside she was cold as ice. “But even if I were to join, I would still have to live long enough to clear this game, wouldn’t I? By that, do you mean you would help me clear it, Classmate Zi Yushu?”

“That, I would not.”

Zi Yushu could not be bothered to keep up the act with Tang Mu any longer. He knew exactly what kind of person he was, and he guessed that Tang Mu had long since seen through him as well. What he loved was destroying beautiful things he had set his sights on. And Tang Mu, now a beautiful thing rebuilt after her worldview had collapsed, was still deeply alluring to him. So crushing her hard, shattering her faith, and destroying her personality was the scene Zi Yushu loved most to watch.

“If you can’t even clear the game on your own, then I don’t see any need for me to spend too much effort helping you gather resources. Besides, if I helped you and you left the game without joining my association, wouldn’t that be my loss?”

“Never giving an opponent any chance to grow is what a wise person does. You’ve heard that before too, haven’t you, Miss Tang Mu?”

“But I like you, Classmate Zi Yushu.”

Ha. What a line.

Zi Yushu felt that for a beautiful woman’s words, even ten percent credibility would already be astonishing.

Besides, even if she did like him, that would only have been in the past.

On that point, Zi Yushu was very self-aware.

“Hey, hey, hey, we’re playing a game here. What are you two doing? Openly recruiting people? Do you even have the rest of us in your eyes?” Yi Hongbo said, clearly finding Zi Yushu extremely annoying. Zi Yushu had stolen his chance to strike up a conversation with the pretty girl Tang Mu. He had not even had time to get any closer and flirt a little before being completely shoved aside.

So the card Yi Hongbo played was card seven.

“I play seven, moving from four to seven, bringing me to eleven. I attack Zi Yushu with Poison Arrow!”

Seeing him play like that, Zi Yushu was deeply disappointed in him.

“Bewitched by beauty. Truly the bane of a hero,” Zi Yushu said, shaking his head, as if Yi Hongbo were letting his lower half do the thinking and had no wisdom at all.

“Hmph, I just want to protect Classmate Tang Mu. What’s wrong with that?” Yi Hongbo huffed. “She didn’t kill me just now, so I’m repaying the favor! If you can’t win her over yourself, don’t go around saying other people are brainless!”

“That’s right,” Tang Mu added from the side, stoking the flames. “Classmate Yi Hongbo is so handsome. I like Classmate Yi Hongbo the most.”

After hearing Tang Mu’s sweet words from the side, Yi Hongbo even deliberately puffed out his chest toward Zi Yushu in a show of defiance.

Watching him, Zi Yushu had only two words in his heart: idiot.

Just like some fool, sold out and still helping count the money.

If that wasn’t an idiot, what was?