Chapter 150 - Card Arrangements (2/2)
One S-grade card was Swan Lake, which summoned a large number of ballerinas within a specific 500 metre range to perform the cla.s.sic ballet ‘Swan Lake’ for 10 minutes. No one could bypa.s.s the stage and it was a very overbearing isolation technique. When escaping, they could place Swan Lake behind them and the chasing opponent would be forced to stop in place and wait for the ballet to finish.
The other card was ‘Latin Dance King.’ After activating the card, the user’s body was supple and flexible. It could bend to the extreme.
Liu Qiao was stunned. “Bend to the extremes? To what extent can you bend?”
Qu Wanyue used the dance king card and bend down, easily holding onto her toes with both hands. She could also split her legs, which was a basic skill for a dance teacher. However, after using the Latin Dance King card, her entire body was soft and boneless. Her fingers and arms could bend into an ‘S’ shape and her head could turn 180 degrees.
Suddenly her face turned behind her, Xiao Lou was also startled.
Qu Wanyue said, “This card can change the softness of my body. After using it, I can drill through a hole the size of a plate. It is much like the bone-shrinking skills in martial arts novels?”
Xiao Lou smiled and praised her. “Yes, with the chameleon card, there is almost no place you can’t get into.”
After looking at the cards that the couple drew, it was finally Shao Qingge’s turn.
Ye Qi joked, “You shouldn’t have drawn a bank?”
Shao Qingge raised an eyebrow. “This time, the cards are easier to use than the ATM machine but they are very expensive.”
Xiao Lou’s group of four didn’t understand. How could a card use money? Then Shao Qingge took two cards out and handed them to Xiao Lou.
[S-grade Special Effects Card: Stock Curve]
Description: The volatile stock market affects the mood of shareholders and will naturally affect everyone’s fighting power.
Effect: It costs one million gold coins to draw a stock market curve. When the stock rises, the range of all card skills of allies will increase by 50% and the hit rate will increase by 50%. When the stock falls, all enemy card skills will have the range reduced by 50% and the hit rate reduced by 50%. The stock curve exists for 10 minutes and fluctuations can be manipulated at will. The cooldown time is four hours.
Xiao Lou was stunned. The card drawn by Chief Shao was a team auxiliary card. According to the rise and fall of the stock curve, the range and hit rate of allies could increase or the range and hit rate of enemies could decrease. There might be only one skill but it could affect the whole group and the effect was actually very strong.
Especially for Yu Hanjiang’s weapons. Normally, he could only snipe targets within 1500 metres. If Chief Shao’s stocks rose and the range was increased by 50%, Group Leader Yu’s gun could snipe targets within 2200 metres.
In addition, Ye Qi’s musical instrument cards, Xiao Lou’s character field control cards, Long Sen’s badminton and football cards and even Old Mo’s Model Room, they would all get an increased range and hit bonus.
The second card drawn by Shao Qingge was a bit unspeakable…
[S-grade Special Effects Card: Rich and Willful]
Description: Do you think rich people aren’t happy? No, in fact, rich people are many times happier than you think?
Effect: Be rich and willful, buy whatever you want.
After using the special effect card, five million gold coins will be deducted from your account to let you copy any card you have seen within 24 hours.
Note: Can only be copied in the secret room world and the skill can’t be used in the main city. Can copy cards up to three times in a secret room. It is a so-called ‘three things’ but the rich can’t be too much. If the account balance is insufficient then the skill release will fail.
Everyone, “……”
Chief Shao’s card could be called a ‘loser card’. It cost five million to be used once! It was just that the effect was really worth the cost.
Copy any cards seen within 24 hours. It wasn’t only teammates. Opponents could also be copied!
Three cards could be copied in one secret room. If they chose a strong S-grade card to copy then the combat effectiveness of the entire team would be greatly improved. Although Chief Shao’s two cards cost money, they were very powerful auxiliary cards.
Xiao Lou wondered, “In the past few days, we’ve spent a lot of money and bought a car. Is our money reserve enough?”
Shao Qingge rubbed his temple because he had a headache. “It isn’t enough. The Rich and Willfull card requires a large amount of financial support since one use costs five million. This could be 15 million in a secret room. I think it is time to see our chrysoberyl bracelets.”
Old Mo interjected, “You can leave this matter to me. I know a jewellery auction and can find an agent to help us.”
Yu Hanjiang had been making records on the laptop. After collecting all the new cards, he made an information form and sent it to their WeChat group. “This is our team’s current cards. Take a closer look and we will test them out later.”
Moments later, the group led by Group Leader Yu came to the pool. Qu Wanyue was very interested in Liu Qiao’s new card. “Daughter of the Sea collectively changes us to mermaids. Will we grow tails?”
Liu Qiao used the card to actually grow a beautiful mermaid tail, making everyone marvel.
Xiao Lou also summoned all his character cards and tried Su s.h.i.+’s second skill. He found that Su s.h.i.+’s skill only affected historical figures. Liu Qiao’s Little Red Riding Hood, Thumbelina, Poison Queen etc. were fictional characters of fairy tales and weren’t real people. Their skills wouldn’t be refreshed.
Ye Qi played the erhu and guzheng, trying out the control range and time of the new instruments.
Long Sen played badminton and football while Qu Wanyue danced ballet…
Everyone was excitedly testing out their new cards. Only Yu Hanjiang stood to the side, watching everyone play with a serious expression.
Xiao Lou walked up to him and smiled. “Group Leader Yu, why don’t you try it?”
Yu Hanjiang took out the newly drawn handgun and saw a shuttlec.o.c.k falling toward the pool. His eyes narrowed as he aimed and pulled the trigger. There was a loud sound and a bullet directly shot through the shuttlec.o.c.k!
Long Sen, who was playing badminton, couldn’t help sweating. “Group Leader Yu is too amazing. His marksmans.h.i.+p is really accurate!”
Other people’s cards were messy while Yu Hanjiang’s cards were simple and brutal. No matter how strong a card, it was like a child playing house in front of his gun.
Xiao Lou couldn’t help admiring it. “Group Leader Yu’s shooting ability is really strong.”
The praised Yu Hanjiang nodded earnestly. “I have touched a gun since I was 10 years old and don’t have to practice it. Moreover, I can’t use the silencer in the main city so it is easy to be noticed if I start shooting.”
The group gave a thumbs up when they heard it.
Xiao Lou believed that Group Leader Yu didn’t need to practice. In a critical life or death moment, if Yu Hanjiang was forced to shoot then he would definitely kill the target.
***
That night, the group in the village used all their cards and rested.
The next two days, Old Mo went to the auction to sell their chrysoberyl bracelets. Each bracelet was sold for a good price and their wallet was stuffed. Shao Qingge’s personal account held more than 80 million gold coins while Xiao Lou also had 80 million.
After all the preparation, everyone took a half-day of rest before opening the A-grade room at 23:55 on Friday night.
According to the words from Brother Jiu and Tang Ci, the A-grade secret rooms had random plots and there was no strategy. They could only rely on themselves.
Facing the four categories, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang glanced at each other before tacitly pulling ‘8 of Hearts’ from the card wall. In the mystery room, they weren’t worried about the lives of their teammates and were confident about solving the A-grade secret room on their own.
A prompt appeared in front of everyone at the same time.
[The A-grade secret room is about to open.]
[The plot is being generated. Countdown 10, 9, 8, 7, 6…]
[The role a.s.signment is completed.]
[Welcome to the world of 8 of Hearts: Beacon in Troubled Times.]
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