Chapter 358 Duel with Zombies
"Duel~"

The zombie said in a dry voice, unfolding the duel disk and drawing five cards.

"Okay, let's try it."

Fighting zombies, or at least things that looked like zombies, was a novelty even for You Xuan. He didn't mind giving it a try.

"Then I'll attack first and draw a card."

You Xuan drew a card and glanced at it.

"Activate the Spell Card 'Pot of Greed' and draw two cards from your deck."

Draw 2 for the banned card first. I think Mr. Zombie will have no objection.

Zombie: "."

"Face-down Defense means covering a monster."

You Xuan placed a monster card on the Duel Board.

"Then activate the field magic 'Stone Throwing Area'."

There was a rumbling sound, and the forest suddenly disappeared. A huge castle stood in front of the scene, and two huge catapults made of heavy steel and wood landed on a plain, like two solid fortresses.

The dueling zombie squinted his eyes as he looked at the changing scene, and vague groans came out of his nose from time to time, but it was unknown whether his brain could still understand the situation of the duel.

"Cover two cards onto the field, and the turn ends."

To be honest, You Xuan was a little looking forward to how the opponent would duel and attack.

It’s not that I’m expecting any fancy operations or powerful developments, but I’m simply curious about how much combat effectiveness the zombie duel can retain.

After all, traditional zombies are labeled as undead and brainless. Many zombies are basically equivalent to dead people, and have no ability to think. But if this is the case, then it is obvious that they should not be able to play cards.

"My turn, draw."

The zombie drew the card slowly, then squinted his eyes as if to examine it for a while, and seemed to be trying hard to identify the cards in his hand.

"Angel's Charity is activated," he said. "Draw three cards, then... discard two."

He took out three cards with his dirty hands, and then slowly picked out two cards and placed them in the Graveyard area. He looked a bit clumsy.

"Activate the continuous magic 'Unity of the Clan'."

A green magic card appeared in the zombies' backcourt along with golden light.

"Then the monster summons Blue Lightning T45, summon."

Like lightning streaking through the sky, it rushed into the area of ​​​​throwing stones. The fuselage of the Thunder Fighter was a deep sapphire blue, with smooth fuselage lines, and it landed with its engine jetting.

[Blue Lightning T45, attack power 1700]

"Raiden. Thunder Fighter?"

You Xuan frowned and carefully identified the zombie in front of him.

"Are you Morita from the professional league?"

He didn't know many professional players, and even if he had seen many of them, he had no impression of them. However, he knew this player named Morita because he remembered that the main deck he used had a lot of special fighter series.

For example, this blue Raiden T45 is based on K's arcade game "Thunder Fighter", and there is also a "Big Sword β", which is a machine in K's other horizontal scrolling flight shooting game "Space Cruiser".

But why would a professional guy also turn into a zombie in such a place?
But Morita ignored him and continued: "The clan is united, and the attack is rising."

Unity of the Clan: When there is only one type of monster in your Graveyard, increase the ATK of all monsters of that type on your field by 800.

It seems that his graveyard is also full of mechanicals, so the lightning attack power of mechanicals on the field increases by 800. [Blue Lightning T45, attack power 1700 → attack power 2500]

"Lightning attack. Kill the monster."

The command sounded strenuous. The Thunder Fighter jetted its engine and took off into the air. Two energy beams shot down in parallel, bombarding the monsters on the Yugen Field.

[Holy Magician, Defense 400]

"The effect of the Field Spell 'Sling Zone'," You Xuan said, "When a monster on your field is destroyed by battle, you can send a Rock-Type monster from your deck to the Graveyard as a replacement."

The deck automatically searched and a card popped out. You Xuan pulled it out and showed it to his hand.

"I send the Rock-type 'Intercepting Crusaders' from my deck to the graveyard, instead of destroying 'Holy Magician'."

The stone throwing area was processed like a stone barrier blocking the magician's way. The lightning beams hit the stone barrier, creating waves of aftershocks.

"Then let's deal with the effects of the Holy Magician first."

You Xuan smiled and nodded at the magician who had just flipped over on his field.

"Holy Magician, when this card is flipped face up, you can retrieve a Magic Card from your Graveyard."

A burst of golden light burst out from the Duel Tomb area, and You Xuan pulled out a card that had been withdrawn from the cemetery.

"I retrieved the Spell Card 'Pot of Greed' from the Graveyard back to my hand."

Morita Zombie: “.”

"Then deal with the effect of 'Intercepting Crusaders'." You Xuan said, "When this card is sent to the graveyard, you can choose one of the two effects to activate.

Put a face-up monster on your opponent's field into face-down Defense Position.

Or, bounce a face-up Spell or Trap Card on your opponent's field back to your hand, and all cards with the same name as the bounced card cannot be activated this turn."

You Xuan pointed at the opponent's backcourt.

"The continuous magic 'Unity of the Family' is returned to the hand and cannot be activated again this turn."

The shadow of the intercepting Crusader briefly appeared in You Xuan's field. A burst of golden light enveloped the opponent's magic cards in the backcourt, and then turned into a beam of light and flew back into his hand.

Morita's hollow eyes rolled around as he thought for a while, and his slow brain seemed to gradually begin to understand the situation he was facing.

The field magic "Slingshot Zone" is on the field. As long as Yugen's attack is destroyed by battle, the Slingshot Zone can throw a monster from the deck to replace it.

Then, throw "Intercepting Crusaders" from your deck, and you can choose to cover the monsters on your opponent's field and send them to the underworld, or blow the Magic Trap back to your hand.

To put it in an equivalent way, as long as you launch an attack, you will fall into a trap, and this trap is dug from the deck.
The zombie stared at You Xuan with wide eyes.

"Oh? It seems that his intelligence is pretty good. At least he can understand the situation and know what he is facing."

Comments by You Xuan.

But that was true. Just as he had thought before, if he didn't have intelligence, he wouldn't be able to duel.

So the zombies in Yu-Gi-Oh are not so much driven by instinct as they are by brainwashing. Although they are driven by instinct and their minds are full of playing cards and attacking others by playing cards, at least they have ideas about duels.

It turns out that in this world, even being a zombie is a technical job, you even have to use your brain
Of course, this theory is still a conjecture and needs further verification.

As for the verification method?
Also simple.

Fight him for two rounds and see if he gets angry.

(End of this chapter)