Chapter: Chapter 374
“This dice is targeting me, it’s definitely targeting me!” Seeing the bright red one she rolled, Leticia almost couldn’t resist slamming her cards onto the ground.
Since the game started, she had rolled the dice four times, and each time it was a one. This wasn’t a matter of luck anymore, the dice were clearly malfunctioning!
Bai Ling had rolled four consecutive sixes and was almost out of the新手村 (novice village), while she, Leticia, was still wandering in the starting village, not even having accepted a quest.
“This space, wow, it’s a quest space. Big sister’s luck is actually not bad.” Qila, acting as the referee, looked at the rulebook and drew a quest card from the task cards. After looking at the quest printed on the card, her eyes became a little strange.
This combat chess mission was similar to truth or dare. Completing the tasks on the cards would earn some game resources. The difficulty of the missions was generally not very high, but there might be some tasks that would cause people to blush.
For example, this one: “Say the name of someone you like, then hug her and look into her eyes deeply for ten seconds.”
“The mission reward is ten small gold coins.” Qila finished reading the information on the card and handed the shiny card to Leticia.
The girls gathered around the chessboard immediately got excited. They had been looking forward to this moment, finally someone was having bad luck!
Whose name would Leticia say?
The answer was in everyone’s hearts, wasn’t it? Besides that one person, who else could it be?
Even Miss Bai’s expression became serious. She was ready to embrace Leticia and look into her eyes for ten seconds, and accidentally sparks might fly!
“This mission is quite simple. You all know who I like.” Leticia glanced at the mission, a disdainful smile appearing on her face. “I accept this mission. Who I like is, of course…”
Bai Ling had already stood up, preparing to receive Leticia’s embrace and gaze.
“My sister.”
“Huh?” Everyone’s expression instantly became extremely interesting.
Qila?
Wasn’t something mistaken?
Shouldn’t she be blushing and saying the name of her beloved, then shyly moving next to that person, completing the task on the card, and giving everyone a feast for their eyes?
“What are you all thinking? Keep your thoughts clean. Would I dislike my sister?” Leticia stood up calmly, walked to Qila’s side, put her arm around her sister’s waist, and looked into her eyes for ten seconds.
The gaze was indeed deep and affectionate, but it felt like it was being used in the wrong place.
“Big sister, you’re cheating.” Qila, her cheeks slightly flushed, glared at her good sister with dissatisfaction. When she looked into her sister’s eyes, the sword-like gazes around her were constantly darting at her neck.
It seemed like she was being used as a shield.
Leticia completed the mission and happily collected ten small gold cards. After her, Xiao Ya, who rolled the dice, did indeed roll a good number.
“Five, that should be here.” Xiao Ya moved her chess piece to a space with two crossed swords. “This is a battle space, right?”
“Yes, it’s a battle space. You have to have a card duel with the player closest to you. The winner gets half of the loser’s gold coins.” Qila nodded. In the early stages of the game, everyone’s card decks were quite basic, so winning or losing basically depended on luck.
Oh, and it might also depend on other factors.
“The person closest to me is Xiao Meng!”
Just like now.
“Can I surrender?” Zi Meng raised her hands, righteously declaring that she had been subdued by Xiao Ya’s domineering aura and had no ability to resist.
“No! Show some respect for the game rules!” Qila angrily threw the rulebook to the ground, stating that her tolerance for such transactions was zero. “If I find anyone cheating, I’ll disqualify them immediately!”
“Tch.” Zi Meng snorted, but still honestly took her prepared basic card deck to the showdown area and engaged in a card duel with Xiao Ya.
Whether it was a miscalculation or something else, there was a turn where Zi Meng could have defeated Xiao Ya in one go, but she missed the opportunity and was counter-killed by Xiao Ya in a desperate comeback.
If you say this is cheating, it can’t be called cheating, because human brains aren’t that powerful, and mistakes like misjudging are always possible.
But if you say there’s no foul play involved, everyone present would probably not agree. Look at Zi Meng’s brilliant expression after losing, you know that she would have cried even more if she had won.
This is love, friends.
“This girl has great potential in the future.” The leader nodded with feigned seriousness. “Si Yu, if you played against me, would you deliberately lose to me?”
Lu Si Yu, who was looking at her card deck, glanced at the leader as if she were looking at an idiot. “Do you think I can beat you?”
Who is the leader? A true otaku!
In this kind of card game, the leader could hang and beat Lu Si Yu with one hand tied behind her back!
Not to mention that the leader was lucky enough to draw a high-rarity card in the previous rounds, which directly boosted her deck’s strength by one level. It would be suspicious if she lost.
Then, after one round, their invincible leader was defeated by the “little white” Lu Si Yu.
“Impossible, how is this possible! Why is my hand so bad!” Holding her head, the leader looked at Lu Si Yu’s laid-out formation, her head buzzing. She couldn’t imagine being defeated like this.
“I don’t think it’s the leader’s fault this time, her hand was really bad.” Leticia squatted behind the leader and looked at her hand, giving her evaluation.
Bai Ling, who knew a little about card games, nodded in agreement with Leticia’s assessment. “Even if it were me, I would have been crushed.”
“Why are you standing so close? Trying to grope me?”
“You don’t like me, so why do you care so much about me?” Bai Ling retorted directly, clearly still holding a grudge about what had just happened.
“I don’t like you, but you’re lusting after me. I know you well enough,” Leticia immediately refuted. When it came to talking, she was more agile.
Seeing that these two were about to start their daily bickering, everyone quickly pulled them apart and returned to the main chessboard. They were playing a game, not putting on a show of affection.
They had just finished dinner and didn’t want a late-night dog food snack.
After a few more rounds of dice rolls, everyone’s chess pieces had entered the middle part of the board, and the various types of spaces became more numerous than in the novice village.
Quest spaces, chance spaces, misfortune spaces, which made everyone play with great enthusiasm.
“Woohoo, I finally encountered a chance!” Leticia, being the unluckiest of them all, had fallen far behind the main group. She had no connection with the previous chances, but she had a strong connection with misfortune.
Without having to fight anyone, she was already close to bankruptcy, with only a few cards in her hand. She couldn’t compare to Bai Ling’s golden army.
The strength difference between her and Bai Ling’s decks was now equivalent to that of a ten-year-old girl and a giant robot!
Even if Bai Ling’s hand was bad all the time, she might not lose to Leticia.
It couldn’t be helped. If Leticia also had the luck to casually land on chances and always draw the highest level rewards, she would have taken off long ago.
Even a pig in Bai Ling’s current position wouldn’t have any problems. This guy’s luck was too much of a cheat.
“Roll a ten-sided die. One is a critical failure, two to four nothing happens, five to eight a minor success, and rewards increase progressively from eight, nine, to ten.” Qila drew Leticia’s chance card and then took out a ten-sided die to give to her sister.
A ten-sided die, she couldn’t possibly roll a one, could she?
Leticia tightly clutched the slightly heavy ten-sided die and reached out to touch Bai Ling a few times. “Lend me some luck, please.”
“Should I roll for you?” Bai Ling asked with a smile. Seeing Leticia in such distress made her a little happy.
“No, I’ll do it myself.” Leticia firmly refused the tempting offer and threw the die with all her might.
The beautiful crystal dice rolled a few times on the ground, and as expected, the bright red one faced the sky.
Leticia fell silent.
She raised her hand, and scorching airflow gathered in her palm.
Either erupt in silence or perish in silence. She didn’t want to perish, so she had to erupt!
“Big sister, calm down, it’s not that serious, it’s really not that serious!” Qila quickly grabbed Leticia’s hand.
Bai Ling, who almost couldn’t help but laugh out loud, quickly reached out and hugged Leticia’s waist, taking the opportunity to “flirt” a little.
It took some time for Qila and Bai Ling to calm down the enraged Leticia. It couldn’t be entirely blamed on Leticia; this perverted luck was really demoralizing.
It could be considered that Leticia had a good mindset to last this long.
“The punishment for a critical failure is… Oh my, there’s even this sort of thing?” Then, Qila, holding the rulebook, found the punishment for this chance. When she saw the punishment, her expression became strange. “Become partners with the player closest to you. After that, the actions of the two will have the same effect on the other.”
The closest player to big sister, it seems to be…
Qila’s gaze bypassed Bai Ling, who was far ahead, swept across the second tier group of leader Lu Si Yu and Zi Meng, then passed over Xiao Lu and the cat girl who were barely keeping up with the main group, and finally landed on Xiao Ya’s chess piece, who had fallen behind due to bad luck in the previous rounds.
Uh, Xiao Ya and big sister?
Clang! The sound of a blade unsheathing seemed to ring out in the room.
“I think Leticia, your choice just now was very correct.” Bai Ling narrowed her eyes, dangerous starlight flashing in her pupils.
And so, the farce from earlier was re-enacted. This time, Xiao Ya and Leticia each grabbed one of Bai Ling’s hands and pressed down the almost losing-control Bai Ling.
“I get it, I’m just the extra one. Leticia, you actually like Xiao Ya, don’t you?” Bai Ling covered her face and let out a insincere cry.
It turned out that Miss Bai, the legendary Sword Saint, was indeed not very good at acting.
Knowing that Bai Ling was just acting, Leticia sneered, pulled Xiao Ya over, and said righteously, “Yes, I’ve liked Xiao Ya for a long time. I approached you just for Xiao Ya!”
“Xiao Ya is not of age yet!”
“I can wait, I have plenty of time!”
“Hey, hey, wait, wait, wait!” As these two were talking back and forth, Xiao Ya, caught in the middle, had fainted. Her large black eyes were filled with confusion. Her little brain could no longer process the current situation.
“Ahem, since no one has any objections, then Xiao Ya and big sister are now partners. Sister Bai and Xiao Ya, please switch places. Partners should sit together.” Qila said to Miss Bai.
Although she could accept her sister and her lover becoming a couple in the game, Bai Ling felt that she couldn’t accept changing places. She had worked hard to get this position, and even her own sister couldn’t just take it away!
But Bai Ling, everyone knew, was a devoted sister-complex.
Under Xiao Ya’s watery, large-eyed gaze, Bai Ling closed her eyes and reluctantly gave up her position to her sister with a pained expression. It was just for a little while, she would give it to her.
Soon, Miss Bai regretted it. She regretted not smashing the chessboard just now.
Because Xiao Ya, with her “good” luck, landed on a challenge space, and the challenge she triggered was, “Choose your favorite person among the players and carry them around the room in a princess hold.”
If it were before, Xiao Ya might have hesitated for a while before making her choice, but now she had no choice. She could only choose Leticia, who was nominally her partner.
“Ahem, since it was Xiao Ya who triggered the challenge, big sister can only be the princess yo.” Qila said cheerfully, looking like she was enjoying the show. “Xiao Ya, you can do it. Big sister is super light.”
Xiao Ya, who hadn’t expected that the challenge she triggered would be like this, looked at Leticia with blushing cheeks and cautiously extended her hand. “I’ll try my best.”
Princess carrying Qianqian Jie!
“Relax, I’m not heavy.” Leticia lightly jumped and sat on Xiao Ya’s outstretched hands, naturally reaching out to wrap her arms around Xiao Ya’s neck.
Due to Leticia’s somewhat petite figure, these two girls actually looked incredibly harmonious at this moment, as if they were a couple from the start.
“Wow, Qianqian Jie, don’t be so close, it’s so embarrassing!” Smelling the special fragrance on Leticia, Xiao Ya’s face turned so red that it was about to drip water.
She finally understood why big sister liked Qianqian Jie. If it were her, she wouldn’t be able to resist such a little vixen like Qianqian Jie!
