Can I become the Yu-Gi-Oh by summoning the Flame Swordsman?

"Hahahaha - you are worthy of being the young hero praised by Brother Ye, you are really a genius!" Deng Mi lowered his head to slowly fade away the pain of the punishment current, then raised his head and said with a fake smile: "You two must have been exhausted from the journey from Xiahe County. Please go to the mountain village quickly and have a good rest."

Then Deng Mi pretended to order others, "Why don't you invite the guests into the village to rest? You have been in the mountains for too long and don't know the etiquette. If Brother Ye blames me for neglecting the guests, I will show you how I will deal with you."

"Oh, yes, yes..." Upon hearing this, Deng Mi's followers came forward to lead the way, shaking their heads.

"Hey, wait, have you forgotten something?" The Snow Girl jumped out and blocked everyone's way: "Let me help you recall, didn't someone just say that if someone loses the duel, he will give up the position of the leader of the village to someone more capable?"

"Oh..." Deng Mi nodded seriously. "Look at my memory. But, little girl, you may not understand the rules of our village. Even if I am the leader of the village, everyone depends on me, but I am not the only one who has the final say on such important matters.

Well, I will ask my brothers and see what they think," Deng Mi turned and shouted to his followers, "Brothers, do you agree to respect this little brother Xian as the new leader of the mountain stronghold?"

Almost everyone answered at the same time: "No."

Deng Mi turned around and shook his head. "Oh, this is really difficult to deal with. How about putting this matter aside for a few days? Brother Xian, give me some time so I can do some ideological work for the brothers?"

"Even if you are bandits, you should still have credibility." The Snow Girl frowned and said, "Do you know that a man without credibility cannot stand?"

"Reputation?" Deng Mi sneered, "We have it every day."

"You!" The Snow Girl suddenly became furious, her eyes were red, and she was about to have a fit, but a pair of warm hands held her back.

Bai Chu looked at the Snow Girl and whispered, "Calm down for a moment. Let's explore the situation here first."

The Snow Girl glared at Bai Chu with her teeth bared, but in the end she didn't say anything more.

"Xian, little brother. I have many things to attend to, so I will take my leave now. Brothers, please come in and prepare a good feast for us. Anyone who dares to neglect us will be punished by the family rules!"

"Yes!" As Deng Mi left, several strong men came forward, "Please."

After entering the village, Bai Chu discovered that the scale of the village's buildings was even larger than he had imagined. Combining the density of the houses and the area of ​​the village seen from a distance, Bai Chu estimated that the entire village could accommodate several thousand people. However, there were not many people in the village, and many houses were vacant.

Finally, Bai Chu and Xue Nu were welcomed into a side room. It seemed that no one had lived here for a long time. There was a thick layer of dust on the ground, and there was almost no place to step.

"Please wait here for a moment. I'll go get a woman to clean up the place." The man who led the way said this and slammed the door and left.

"What on earth are you planning?" Xue Nu looked at Bai Chu in reproach: "You are not really here to be a bandit, are you?"

"Haha, I forgot to introduce myself to you." Bai Chu said with a smile, "I am actually the supervisory officer assigned by the court to suppress the local rebellion army, but I set out first to investigate the true situation of the local rebellious refugees to see if it is really the unruly people who are causing trouble, or if there are dark clouds in the sky."

"So your job is to destroy this village, and you shouldn't have stopped me just now."

"I won't act rashly before I have thoroughly investigated the situation. If these bandits really are causing chaos, I will naturally take action. If there are really dark clouds covering the sun, I will not kill any good person by mistake."

"So what are you thinking now? If my guess is correct, Dengmi's people are monitoring us outside the door, and we should be under house arrest." The Snow Girl looked out the window, and two figures flashed by in the courtyard.

"With our abilities, we can't stop them if they want to leave." Bai Chu smiled confidently, "The reason I want to stay is that I want to get to know Deng Mi better. My intuition tells me that he is up to something."

"Why? Because he's hostile to you?"

Bai Chu shook his head. "No, as far as I know, Deng Mi was born into a miner family and is not well educated. In my opinion, I challenged his authority, so it's not surprising that he wants to get rid of me. What's strange is the bet between him and me."

"bet?"

"Yes, the bet he made with me for the duel was that if I lost, he would smash my face, using his own standards. Since this was his bet, it means that smashing my face would be profitable for him."

"He thinks you're so handsome, so he's jealous of you?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out..."

Bai Chu was preparing to continue his analysis seriously when Xue Nu jumped up and kicked Bai Chu in the back. Bai Chu was caught off guard and fell forward. He looked up and said sadly, "Are you jealous of me too?"

The Snow Girl clapped her hands and said, "I am only giving you a more factual understanding of your face."

"That's not the point." Bai Chu stood up and dusted off his body. "If I ask you to name a characteristic that distinguishes Deng Mi from his people, a characteristic that allows you to identify him as a leader at a glance, what would your answer be?"

“Hmm…” Xue Nu imitated Bai Chu’s analysis and touched her chin. “If you say he is good at dueling, he didn’t even last a single round in your hands. He doesn’t seem that strong. It’s not impossible to replicate. Maybe… it’s just that scary face of his that can increase his aura.”

"Yes, Deng Mi gives me the impression that there is nothing special about him except his smashed face. It is this face that gives him a fierce and ferocious temperament, which is very intimidating to normal people. Why would he want to copy his own characteristics?"

"Perhaps... he developed a mental illness after being disfigured, and he took pleasure in torturing others in the same way?"

"But think about it, Deng Mi has no facial features, and I am of similar height and build to him. If I were to be disfigured, I would be able to imitate him. This is clearly something he must avoid, but he took the initiative and even forced himself to do this. Don't you think it's strange?"

"It doesn't make sense when you put it that way." Xue Nu looked at Bai Zhu in confusion: "What's your conclusion?"

"I don't have a conclusion yet." Bai Chu said calmly: "I have to get a better understanding of Deng Mi before I can get the answer."

……

In the gloomy secret passage, a ghostly figure slowly approached under the illumination of a torch. Accompanied by a burst of muffled footsteps, the owner of the figure came to the door of the secret room at the end of the secret passage and knocked on the iron ring on the door.

"Dong dong!"

"Why are you here again?" The door was opened a crack, and the firelight reflected the black pupils in the crack like a venomous snake. "I told you that every head must be processed with excellence. This is my attitude towards my work. You have to ask me for the goods in three days at the earliest."

Deng Mi, who was outside the door, lowered his voice and said, "I'm not here to urge you to get the goods. Today, a character came to the village that I can't deal with. He was introduced by Ye Xu from Xiahe County. I want to ask you what to do?"

"How come you can't handle anyone? You are such a complete loser!"

"I don't care what you say to me, just go and get rid of that troublesome guy. He lives in the village now. I think he is not easy to deal with and can threaten me at any time."

"You just said that Ye Xu from Xiahe County can introduce someone to you? Has Xiahe County become a powerful country?" The eyes in the slit closed for a moment, then opened again: "Why don't you use that guy to lure Ye Xu from Xiahe County to our territory? That way we will have endless acknowledgments."

"I, Deng Mi, am still alive today because I know what I can do and what I cannot do. I said I can't deal with him, let alone control him."

"Look at how scared you are now!" the voice in the gap shouted. "Well, let my toy go and meet him."

……

It was late at night, but the sounds of the bandits drinking and playing finger-guessing games could be vaguely heard outside the door, which even seemed to be much more lively than the dead silence of the day. In the mountain stronghold, the night was when the bandits were most energetic.

The bedroom where Bai Chu stayed was much quieter. The candlelight was extinguished early. The bandit guarding the door paced back and forth outside for a while, and seeing that the room was extremely quiet, he leaned against the wooden wall and took a nap.

Dark clouds slowly drifted across the sky, revealing a hidden corner of the waning moon. A ray of moonlight passed through the window, casting a silver glow on the ground.

Suddenly, a pair of booted feet stepped over the silver light and silently stepped into the darkness.

The shadow disappeared into the darkness, walking calmly, and came to the wooden bed in the bedroom without any sound. He raised the big knife in his hand, and a metallic luster flashed on the tip of the knife.

"Crack!"

The shadow swung his sword and the wooden bed broke into two pieces and collapsed into pieces.

"Huh?" Shadow weighed the big knife in his hand and seemed to feel something wrong, as if he was not cutting any flesh.

"Sir, you broke into my bedroom late at night without even saying hello or greeting me, and you even broke my bed..." At the side, the candles on the wall were lit again, and the candlelight illuminated Bai Chu's slightly smiling face. "You are a little bit ignorant of etiquette."

"What happened?" The Snow Girl, who was dozing on the table, heard the noise vaguely, opened her eyes in confusion, and saw the slow-moving shadow in the darkness. "No wonder you didn't let me sleep on the bed, so you guessed..."

As the shadow turned around and was exposed to the candlelight, the Snow Girl who was speaking lost her voice unconsciously.

The shadow in front of him was about 170 cm tall, much shorter than Bai Chu. However, Bai Chu had an advantage in this comparison because the figure in front of him did not include the height of the head - this was a headless corpse that could walk upright and hold a knife to chop people.

What's even more bizarre is that his left hand is actually holding a head like a basketball. Just like Deng Mi's, his face is disfigured and has no facial features. His lifeless eyes are staring straight at Bai Chu.

The end of the head was connected to a larynx, which was now dripping with bright red liquid, completely dyeing the left half of the headless corpse red, and leaving drops of blood on the ground along the way, revealing the whereabouts.

How strange it is that he came out holding his own head to chop off people's bodies, but he didn't even remember to fix his head on his neck so that he could free up one hand to commit the crime.

"What the hell is this?" Snow Girl was so frightened that she slumped down in her chair. "Wasn't Dengmi still alive during the day? How did he become like this at night?"

"He is not Deng Mi." Bai Chu said with rapid breathing, "Deng Mi and I are about the same height. If you count the head of this person, my forehead can only reach his nose... It seems that Deng Mi is not the only one with a disfigured face in the village. I just don't know if they are all dead."

When the Snow Girl heard this, her expression became even uglier: "What did you say? There are no living people in this mountain village?"

"You're a monster, and you're afraid of this?"

"You talk like you're not afraid. Your feet are shaking."

Bai Chu glanced at his legs that were almost numb, took a deep breath, and said calmly, "Who asked you to come, Deng Mi?"

The head held by the headless corpse trembled slightly, and made an indistinct sound: "Kill—you—"

“Huh—” Bai Chu tried hard to hold down his pounding heart: “If you want to kill me, then fight me in a duel!”

The head of the headless corpse did not respond, but dropped the sword with his right hand and swung it, and the duel disk was already attached to his hand.

"Duel!" "Duel!"