Chapter 822: Chapter 491: Still Claim Alice Isn’t Your Daughter?!_2
When feeling bored, watching these people’s little tricks actually brings a different kind of fun.
"Watch out for mosquito bites," Vivian casually said.
"If that happens, it’ll be even more interesting."
Shen Sui’s gaze fixed on the true patron behind Silver Moon Investment.
Even though they’ve hidden behind many layers, Xinyuan Tanchun’s intelligence-gathering abilities are unparalleled.
She can find useful information and summarize and compile it from the vast amount of deliberately created junk data.
It’s no exaggeration to say that if information has appeared on the internet, there’s nothing she can’t collect.
Don’t underestimate this ability; in the internet age, it’s practically equivalent to superpower.
"Valhalla..."
Shen Sui looked at the familiar name and fell into a brief silence.
"Why does this organization’s name look so familiar to me?" Freymia leaned on Shen Sui’s shoulder, looking at his phone screen, starting to recall any name that might connect with this one.
"In World No. 2, the Land of Heaven in the Nordic Divine System," Shen Sui said, "In this world, there’s also an organization named after this, and of course, you’re most familiar with the event they host: the Thor Cup."
"How did you get involved with them?" Freymia was somewhat surprised.
The Thor Cup is one of the most important global Life Card Duel events, recorded in Grand Slam achievements.
"No idea for now." Shen Sui felt there must be something very interesting inside.
"But one thing’s for sure..." Shen Sui flipped through other information sent by Xinyuan Tanchun, then continued, "They’re not just paying attention to you."
Valhalla’s sudden investments in global events, though all under various shell names, are undoubtedly things the organizers can boast about, thus most organizers will post related news online.
Xinyuan Tanchun integrated these messages and then reverse-checked the organizations that suddenly invested.
After extensive screening, she actually listed a long list of events heavily sponsored by Valhalla.
These events are widely distributed across the world, yet there are some very surprising regional similarities; often, champions of a regional event belong to the same person.
"Haha, look." Shen Sui held up the list made by Xinyuan Tanchun, laughing as he spoke to everyone, "Now we have a suspected list of Extranordinaries invading the real world."
Through this search, screening, and listing analysis, Shen Sui understood the prowess of intelligence analysis.
Turns out, there are indeed people who can analyze confidential information from news, forums, and netizens’ posts.
"So, what are you planning to do?" Vivian noticed Shen Sui’s interested expression and immediately realized that he probably had some mischief in mind.
Shen Sui replied, "Why don’t we invite these people over and let them join the competition?"
"I’m curious, what are the duel skills of these Extranordinaries?" Shen Sui continued with interest, "If they’re about to lose, will they secretly use their extraordinary powers to cheat?"
"..." Vivian saw Shen Sui’s expression and felt he wanted to stir things up, but never expected it in such a manner, "So you want to host a competition yourself."
"A grand invitation," Shen Sui said while opening his card library, "However, for such a competition, there must be a decent prize to attract people..."
Shen Sui browsed his deck of Life Cards, planning to choose a few to serve as prizes for this invitation.
But for some reason, though most Life Cards were completely useless to him, when it came to giving them away as prizes, Shen Sui felt extraordinarily reluctant.
He couldn’t bear it, really couldn’t bear it.
Even if they’re entirely useless cards, he couldn’t bear to give them to strangers.
What? You say Freymia will participate too?
It’s precisely because she’s participating that he can’t bear to! Isn’t this blatantly handing his Life Cards over to unknown outsiders?
Vivian watched as Shen Sui spent a long time choosing prizes to attract people over and probably guessed what Shen Sui was thinking: "How about...we change to other prizes? After all, Life Cards may not necessarily be attractive to those Extranordinaries; haven’t you noticed that many of their ranks aren’t actually that high?"
"Forget it, it’s too troublesome." Shen Sui sighed and ultimately gave up on using Life Cards as rewards.
"If there isn’t sufficient attraction, these people may not necessarily accept the invitation," Vivian reminded.
"Wanting others to follow your command, rewards aren’t the only choice," Shen Sui chuckled.
Working hard and getting a raise or not working hard and getting fired could sometimes achieve similar effects.
Using beautiful things to motivate, or terrifying things to intimidate, could also sometimes achieve similar effects.
"Here’s the idea." Shen Sui slightly clenched his fist and said, "Send out the invitation, but if you don’t come to the competition, you’ll be killed."
"..." Upon hearing Shen Sui’s words, everyone present fell silent.
Goodness, inviting others to travel a thousand miles to join the competition, yet not planning to offer any prizes?
"So...what exactly is your purpose in doing this?" Freymia couldn’t keep up with Shen Sui’s train of thought.
Vivian calmly and elegantly sipped her tea: "For some people, finding fun doesn’t require any purpose."
"Not entirely." Shen Sui spoke, "If the people on this list indeed share similarities with Freymia, I might be able to obtain keys from them to other Soul Card Worlds."
"Obtain keys?" Martina finally turned her head around from watching TV and looked at Vivian, "Is it necessary to go through so much trouble?"
Shen Sui’s mouth twitched slightly, if Vivian cooperated like that, would I need to go through so much trouble?
Vivian turned her head, coldly snorted: "I won’t be the type to give someone a push from behind."
Martina blinked, curiously asked: "What do you mean by giving someone a push from behind?"
Shen Sui looked at the naive Martina, unsure how to explain that term.
Freymia quickly leaned over to Martina’s ear to explain.
Martina realized: "Oh! That kind of action! Before in ancient times, the merfolk had such customs too; those who started out usually couldn’t find the precise location, so someone would give them a push from behind."
Freymia was shocked and widened her eyes: "Huh? You and Shen Sui...?"
Martina’s cheeks flushed slightly: "He seems not to need it, found it quite accurately..."
Saying this, the little mermaid was frantically waving her hands, looking a bit flustered.
Initially Vivian was a bit upset, but after Martina’s antics, she couldn’t help but break her composure.
She glared at Martina with a stern face: "Don’t discuss such weird topics during family gatherings."
Martina, feeling guilty, stuck out her tongue, blushing, turned her head to pretend watching TV.
"Since that’s the case, we can certainly host a similar competition," Vivian said, "Let’s hold it in the name of the Descent Association, as a debut for Descent Association."
Vivian felt no burden using the name of Descent Association.
For her, sending death threats to the people on the list was no big deal.
For these possible Extranordinaries, pure verbal death threats couldn’t touch their souls; Vivian intended to add extra weight when sending invitations so they deeply understand the fear of death.
As time passed, Alice emerged from the Dream World, and she found Shen Sui first, eagerly sharing her experiences in the Dream World.
["They’re really enthusiastic! Claude," Alice said delightedly, "And they seem to work very well."]
["By the way, Claude, if they’re so enthusiastic, maybe I shouldn’t need to give them any bonus?" Alice contemplated.]
Vivian, casually noticing Alice’s words, instinctively glanced at Shen Sui.
Just say Alice isn’t your daughter?
