Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God

Chapter 731: The Solution

The appearance of Li Hua, the Hai City Game Master of Order and East China Regional Director, had undoubtedly shattered the balance of the situation once again.

The moment the twenty-sided die stopped spinning, a gleaming golden "20" was displayed before everyone's eyes.

Following that, Phantom's top hat and the train vanished.

Both of them landed back inside the garden simultaneously, and Phantom's expression was extremely hostile.

"Li Hua... why are you everywhere?!"

"Aren't you the Hai City Game Master? What are you doing coming to Jiangcheng so often?!"

Li Hua pushed up his tortoiseshell-frame glasses. "Because tonight, you all seem to want to target my personally cultivated junior, so naturally, I couldn't miss it."

Over there, Xiaoyun had already flashed to Phantom's side. "The Gambler in person... this is a troublesome situation indeed."

"Phantom, how much magic do you have left?"

"The plan those two Order Team Leaders used to stall for time was perfect. But now, it's our turn to buy time," Xiaoyun said calmly. "After A Nian sent out her distress signal, it won't just be the two of us showing up."

As Xiaoyun spoke, Li Hua pushed up his glasses.

"No, you won't need to stall for time... because your reinforcements arrived long ago."

Phantom and Xiaoyun both froze at the same time upon hearing this, then simultaneously let out a dissatisfied sigh.

"Comedian!"

Their discontented voices rang out, clearly aware of who had arrived yet had been hiding without showing himself all along.

"Hahahahahahaha! Beep! Honk honk!"

Accompanied by a burst of canned laughter and horn sound effects, colorful smoke suddenly erupted around the open-air garden.

And within this colorful smoke, a slightly chubby man riding a unicycle, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and shorts, emerged from the corner.

"Sorry, my dear two friends, I had a toothache in the corner, so I didn't come out—after all, there's an idiom that goes, 'A comedian can't be tooth-ally fine'."

Phantom spoke helplessly. "Still with your bad puns? I almost got beaten to death by Order!"

Xiaoyun twirled the umbrella in her hand and said softly, "Since you're here, go take out Li Hua."

"Take out Li Hua? Hahahahaha, what a great idea. Too bad I can't do it," the Comedian said, jumping off his unicycle. "Because my ride disagrees!"

"Why would your ride disagree?"

Phantom asked, confused.

"It says you two share the same family name!"

The Comedian said with a straight face.

"Your broken unicycle is named Li?"

"It's named 'Uni'—short for unicycle!"

The Comedian burst out laughing, pulled out his phone from his pocket, fiddled with it a couple of times, and started playing canned laughter.

"Oh my god, hahahaha, don't make me laugh!"

Watching the Comedian's antics, everyone present—Xiaoyun, Phantom, and even Paper Kite, Good Night, and Li Hua—all fell silent.

Even Lin Yu, who was on the roof pretending to fight with Li Nian, couldn't help but poke his head out to look down.

"What the hell is this guy doing?"

Li Nian, on the other hand, was delighted and couldn't help but laugh. "Ahahaha, that's Uncle Comedian—he's hilarious, he's so much fun!"

Down below, the Comedian, who had just made his entrance, stood opposite Li Hua. "Anyway, Gambler... how about we both give each other some face?"

"If we keep fighting, things will get out of hand—if the two of us go at it again, what comes next? The Tycoon from Jiangcheng shows up, then the Central China and South China Directors and Inspectors, and then our Mountaineer, Prisoner, and Fisherman all come too... followed by the Marauders and the Psychological Society getting dragged in, and even General and Grandmaster themselves show up—then everyone in Jiangcheng kicks the bucket together!"

"Now that wouldn't be fun at all."

The Comedian said with a smile, while Li Hua spoke calmly.

"I don't want to blow this out of proportion either, but... tonight's matter can't just be brushed aside."

"The Master Thief from your organization took a [Item] from Chris's hands..."

The Comedian pulled out a rubber chicken and, without warning, squeezed it, producing an "AHH" screech that cut off Li Hua's words.

"Objection, my friend. Chris isn't part of your Order."

"But this matter still falls under Order's jurisdiction," Li Hua said calmly. "And even setting aside the [Item] she stole, in the last dungeon, the Master Thief colluded with the Psychological Society, stole [Items] from Night Watchmen and our Order members, and brought a very dangerous demon into the mortal world—we can't just sit back and do nothing about that."

"Especially tonight, two of our Team Leaders have already been injured."

The Comedian stroked his chin. "So it seems... this can't be resolved amicably?"

Li Hua said nothing. The Comedian thought for a moment, then reached into his pocket, rummaged around, and pulled out an iron basin filled with a white, doughy substance, handing it to Li Hua.

"Here, take this."

Li Hua glanced at it. The danger of accepting this object was infinitely close to zero, so he took it.

Then, nothing happened.

"What did you give me?"

The Comedian spoke. "Before I came, my wife and daughter said they wanted to eat dumplings tomorrow."

"And?"

Li Hua looked confused.

The Comedian said seriously, "So, this is the dough I woke up."

"You're trying to say you also have a family, children, and a life to live, so you hope I'll just let this slide?"

Li Hua countered.

The Comedian waved his hand. "No, no, don't put that kind of value on it. I hate it when people do that."

"What I'm trying to say is... how about we let this slide for the sake of my dough?"

As the Comedian's words fell, a long silence settled over the surroundings.

Good Night, who was on the ground sucking on a healing nutrient potion, tossed the bottle aside and rubbed his temples. "Shit... so this guy is actually the most unhinged one in the Free Alliance!"

Li Hua set the basin of dough on the ground and pushed up his glasses. "If that's all you have to say... then I'm afraid we don't have much to talk about."

The Comedian quickly raised his hands. "Just kidding, just kidding—my friend, it's just an irrelevant joke."

"What I really meant to say is this: although Order is indeed worried about our Master Thief, that young lady, doing something to harm the player community or even our world... but honestly, I don't think this matter is worth going to war over between our two sides."

"The core conflict is really just the 'Nine Great Treasures of Pure Abyss' she took, the two [Items] from the Night Watchmen, and one [Item] from Order—plus the demon she and her friend brought out from the Prison Mountain Realm."

"Since all of these things are essentially [Items]... with you here, Li Hua, isn't this easily handled?"

"Why don't we just use the most common method for resolving disputes between veteran players?"

Li Hua narrowed his eyes. "You mean..."

"Bets."