"Your duel disk is pretty cool." After taking his position, Feng Bujue's eyes immediately locked onto his opponent's duel disk.

Unlike Brother Jue's, Snow's duel disk looked like a crystal skeleton, quite eye-catching in terms of shape, material, and color.

"Oh... this? While waiting for you, I was bored and browsed the online store." Snow replied casually, "Then I just bought some skins and stuff..." As he spoke, he deliberately raised his duel disk to show it off, "This duel disk is called DD-Death Skull, with an Ice Dragon skin. My taste is pretty good, right?"

"Not bad." Feng Bujue said, also raising his own duel disk, "My DD-Standard, Bare Edition, is also quite awesome."

"Uh..." Snow didn't dare to respond.

Although he wanted to retort, "Isn't that just the default configuration?" he faintly sensed a trace of resentment in the other's words...

Therefore, the clever Snow quickly changed the subject, "Well... anyway, duel equipment doesn't affect the fairness of the duel, there's nothing to discuss. Let's skip the small talk... and start quickly."

"Oh, sure..." Feng Bujue replied listlessly.

But the next second, his expression suddenly sharpened.

Seeing this, Snow reacted the same way.

Almost simultaneously, their eyes met, and they shouted in unison, "dueL!"

In the [Crazy Thinking] duel arena, players' actions are determined by "declarations," and this "dueL" was undoubtedly a signal that both sides had reached a consensus and were ready to officially begin the "duel."

Squeak—click click click—

After the declaration, Feng Bujue's duel disk on his left arm activated. After the mechanical wings unfolded, the duel disk looked like a blade mounted on the outside of his forearm.

And on the other side...

Ping! Gulu gulu—

Accompanied by a sound effect similar to a fighting game's ultimate move, and a bone-wriggling sound... Snow's duel disk also unfolded.

The unfolding method of the DD-Death Skull was one-sided. A beast's spine-like object swung out in an arc from the side of the duel disk. At the same time, under the effect of the "Ice Dragon skin," this duel disk also scattered some ice crystal fragments and emitted a faint dragon's roar when activated.

"Tch..." Seeing this scene, Brother Jue spat and gave his opponent a look that seemed like he wanted to bite him.

"Hey, hey..." Snow didn't say it out loud, but he thought to himself, "As expected, he's still resentful... this resentment is overwhelming..."

"It's my turn!" Two seconds later, Feng Bujue, who had the first move (the order was randomized on the card table), declared the start of his turn, and then reached out and drew a card, "Draw!"

According to the rules of [Crazy Thinking], each player's turn can be divided into six phases: "Start Phase," "Draw Phase," "Main Phase," "Battle Phase," "Second Phase," and "End Phase." Therefore, Feng Bujue had to declare "My turn" and say the words "Draw" to proceed.

If he didn't complete the "declaration," the system would consider his turn not to have started, nor to have entered the draw phase. In that case... some card effects triggered at the start of the turn would not trigger, and he would not be able to draw cards from the card slot.

Of course, not every phase needs to be declared. Usually, after drawing a card, the "Main Phase" is entered by default, and after the battle ends, the "Second Phase" is entered by default. It's optional whether or not to declare these two phases.

In summary... in a [Crazy Thinking] duel, the two players undoubtedly have to repeat various declarations many times. To avoid any suspicion of padding out the word count, I won't write out "every declaration in every turn" of the two players in great detail below. Therefore, I would like to make a special note here to avoid being misunderstood as having forgotten to write it.

"Hmm..." After drawing a card, Feng Bujue looked at the six cards in his hand and thought for about five seconds, then... in this first turn, he made an amazing move.

"At the cost of shuffling three cards from my hand back into the deck, I activate the special magic - [Director Z's Prophecy] from my hand." As Brother Jue spoke, he played the card and placed it face down in the magic trap zone of his duel disk. Then, he skillfully put three cards into the deck, and his duel disk automatically completed the card shuffling process in the first time. "According to the effect of [Director Z's Prophecy], I can declare one of my opponent's hand cards and force it to be placed on the field this turn. If this card is a 'monster card with no effect,' it will be revealed and discarded into the graveyard. However, if this card is an 'effect monster' or an 'effect card' such as 'magic' or 'trap,' a reversed negative effect will be triggered immediately, and the specific form of the effect will be generated by the system's calculation."

As Feng Bujue said this, the expression on Snow's face had become quite ugly.

Obviously, all the cards in his hand were "effect cards"...

In the game [Crazy Thinking], monster cards without any effects are rarely added to the deck; players who use such cards are likely to be using them because "they only have these cards available," in other words, they haven't spent any money...

Of course, the duel between Feng Bujue and Snow does not involve the "player card pool strength" factor, because they are playing a "random card selection" 1v1 duel... that is, each duelist randomly draws 600 cards from the card library, and then selects 40-80 cards from the 600 cards they drew to form a deck.

Such a duel, though not "absolutely fair," is already quite fair... even if a person's luck is bad, it is impossible for "all 600 cards on the other side are good cards, and all 600 cards on my side are garbage."

In short, in this 600-select-40 deck construction, it is unlikely that Snow would choose "monster cards with no effects." Therefore, what he is facing at this moment... is an inevitable trap.

"Then..." After finishing the declaration, Feng Bujue looked at Snow and said, "I choose... the middle card."

Snow hadn't drawn any cards yet, and he had exactly five cards in his hand, so there was no dispute about which one was in the middle.

After receiving Brother Jue's instructions, Snow glanced at the effect of the card, and then reluctantly played it.

"My card is a monster card... [Lamp Goblin]." Snow placed the card face down in the monster zone of his duel disk and said to Brother Jue.

As he spoke, the system displayed an image of the card in front of Brother Jue and generated a "Lamp Goblin" in the middle of the arena.

"The flip effect (the effect triggered when the face-down state is removed) is 'look at one of your opponent's hand cards'..." Feng Bujue looked at the description of the card and muttered, "Tch... that's all it is. I thought it would be the kind of effect that 'destroys 80% of the opponent's LP (Life Points) upon entry'."

"How could there be such an unreasonable card..." Snow's mouth twitched a few times as he responded, "If there really was one, the summoning cost would be more exaggerated than 'God'..."

As they spoke, the system had already begun to process the magic effect of [Director Z's Prophecy].

[Reverse effect calculation complete. Now randomly display one of the hand cards of player "Organizer" and cancel all normal, special, fusion and other summoning privileges for that player in the next turn.]

After the system broadcast, another hand card in Snow's hand - [Bubble] was displayed in front of Brother Jue.

"The effect of your card is really powerful..." Snow said, "I feel like this reverse effect is a bit too much... it far exceeds the benefits that the positive effect of my card can bring."

"Bullshit!" As soon as Feng Bujue heard this, his eyes widened and he shouted loudly, "Do you even know how to play? You think you're at a disadvantage?" After roaring, he spoke in a tone as if he were teaching the other person a lesson, "Look carefully! In order to activate my card, you must first meet the condition of 'having three other cards in your hand'. Secondly, you have to pay the cost of 'shuffling three cards back into the deck'. If I didn't draw this card in the first turn when I had a lot of cards, there would be a high probability that I wouldn't be able to activate it at all. Even if I barely activated it when I had four cards in my hand, I might become passive due to a lack of cards after the activation." He paused for half a second, then continued, "The most important thing is... the effect of this card depends on luck; what if the other party's deck happens to have monster cards without effects? Or what if I reveal an OP monster with negative effects, and instead the other party gains a positive benefit?" As he spoke, he pointed to the [Lamp Goblin] on the field, "Finally, you say that this negative effect is serious because you think that 'losing the summoning right for the next turn' is an extra punishment unrelated to the monster's own effect, right? Heh... then why don't you think about it, you already got a free monster on my turn, if the system doesn't restrict your summoning rights, wouldn't you be able to directly use this monster as a sacrifice to summon a higher-level monster next turn? If nothing else... your monster can still attack, right?"

He suddenly spoke a lot as if he were teaching, analyzing all the risks that [Director Z's Prophecy] could bring.

Snow was stunned on the other side, not knowing whether to interrupt or respond... Although this "Organizer" has a high IQ and is proficient in many card games, he is really a newbie when it comes to [Crazy Thinking], so it's really not easy to refute.

"Okay, okay... you're right about everything..." Snow felt that he couldn't argue with Brother Jue, so he quickly admitted defeat and said, "Your main phase hasn't ended yet... please continue..."

"Hmph, I'll continue even if you don't tell me." At this moment, Feng Bujue's words were a bit fiery. If you want to talk about the fuse... it was actually... because the other party's duel disk was cooler than his.

Some people may say, how could someone like Feng Bujue get angry over such a small thing?

That's right, Brother Jue is not a petty person. When facing many things that could drive ordinary people half to death, he can face them calmly.

Because his thinking is too fast, so when he encounters things, he often skips the "emotion" part and goes straight to the "handling" part.

For the same thing, while ordinary people are still "angry," Feng Bujue may have already thought of a "solution" and started implementing it; in his opinion, "emotion" is unnecessary in many cases, because emotion can only serve as a motivation, but it doesn't solve any problems itself.

For example... cutting in line; everyone in the line sees someone cutting in line and is angry, and then what? The person cutting in line is still cutting in line.

"Anger"... does not solve the problem, only "speaking out to stop it" or "beating him up" can solve the problem—the former is emotion, the latter is a solution; emotion is motivation, action can solve the problem.

Feng Bujue, often tends to go straight to the latter, so he rarely gets angry.

But, why is he angry now?

For no reason... it can only be said that he also has a childish side; he doesn't act like this in the face of major issues, but he will be upset about all kinds of things that others think are trivial.

"At the cost of discarding a card into the graveyard, I special summon... [Sword-Wielding Deceiver], attack position!" Feng Bujue's main phase continued, and he once again activated a card with a negative effect, summoning a powerful monster.

As he spoke, a humanoid creature wearing a long cloak, a wide-brimmed hat, hiding its face in the shadows, and wearing a long sword appeared in the arena, standing opposite Snow's [Lamp Goblin].

This [Sword-Wielding Deceiver] is a monster that cannot be normally summoned. It can only be specially summoned with a "cost." Generally speaking, these "special summon" monsters either have high attack and defense, or have some kind of effect.

Obviously, [Sword-Wielding Deceiver] belongs to the latter. Its effect is—"When the Sword-Wielding Deceiver battles any monster, its attack power will be determined by rolling dice. The number of dice depends on the total number of monsters on the opponent's field."

For example... next turn, if Snow attacks [Sword-Wielding Deceiver] with [Lamp Goblin] when he only has one monster on his field, then the latter's attack power will be determined by "one" die (1-6), and the number of dots on the die multiplied by one thousand will be the Deceiver's attack.

Considering that the [Lamp Goblin]'s attack power is 1500, Feng Bujue's Deceiver can win as long as he rolls a "2" or higher when attacked.

"The first turn of the first attacker cannot attack (unless there is a pre-emptive attack effect), so... I end this turn." After summoning [Sword-Wielding Deceiver], Feng Bujue immediately declared the end of the turn.

After this short turn, Brother Jue's hand... was actually empty.

He played two cards, shuffled back three cards, and threw one card into the graveyard—he used up all six cards.

And at the moment he heard the "end declaration," a smile appeared on the corner of Snow's mouth.