Chapter 111: It’s Okay to Figure Out the Title with Just a Few Fingers.

"Hello, your name."

Behind a desk, an office worker in a suit kept writing something on a form with the title "GeneX Competition Registration Form". He lowered his head and asked the person in front of him.

"Ah? Didn't you recognize me?" The suspicious-looking Huang Mao standing in front of this desk raised his eyebrows, pointed at himself with his thumb, and said, "The legendary duelist, the undead who controls the black dragon , Conqueror of Destiny, No. 1 on the list of the most troublesome teachers at Doshino High School, Katsuya Jonouchi, this is me!”

However, Jonouchi's passionate self-introduction could not make the office worker's mood fluctuate at all. He raised his head and looked at Jonouchi and said: "There are not so many names to fill in the form, and we can only sign up for one person at a time."

"Ah, no, no, just fill in Jonouchi Katsuya, 'Jounouchi Katsuya', um." Jonouchi also quickly explained, watching the office worker fill in his name.

"And what is your birth date?"

"January 25, 1984."

After writing "25" on the form, the office worker quickly calculated that Jonouchi's current age was exactly 17. At the same time, he also realized that the other party was almost stuck because of his age and was unable to participate. However, there was still no big emotion on his face, but he operated a device the size of a rice cooker next to him with eyes that were as calm as a dead fish.

With a "click" sound, the crack on the side of the strange device revealed a small slot, which was just big enough to put a deck of cards in. The office worker also stretched out his hand to signal Jonouchi to put his deck in. Put it in there.

At the same time, as if he had memorized it many times, the office worker explained to Jonouchi skillfully: "Considering that after the GeneX competition, both the youth group and the adult group will become new blood in the field of duel monsters in the future, after consultation, it was decided that Kaiba Entertainment The group and International Illusion Society will obtain permission from the Tongshiye City Government and will prepare registration documents for each participant after registration."

"However, binding the deck to the contestant does not mean that the contestant can only use the cards in the deck to duel or exchange cards with others in the GeneX competition. This measure is only to prevent any illegal activities. Elements infiltrated Tongshiye City to carry out sabotage activities to prevent card hunters like the former international criminal organization Grus from hunting rare cards from happening again."

"After all, the leader of the international criminal organization Ghulus - a vicious criminal named 'Malik' has still not been caught to this day."

"Ah sneeze!" Behind the city, someone suddenly sneezed.

"Ah, thank you for your explanation, uh, Mr. Aoki." Jonouchi glanced at the office worker in front of him with a slightly higher hairline and black hair with a few strands of white hair that seemed to have appeared early due to overwork. On his chest The word "Aoki" is written on the nameplate next to the International Illusion Society's logo, which is probably the other party's name.

After putting the card group into the slot, the device that seemed to be used for registration closed automatically, and the countdown and red light turned on like a rice cooker. However, in just a few seconds, the countdown returned to zero and the red light also changed to With the green light, the device turned on again allowing Jonouchi to retrieve the deck.

Aoki, an ordinary office worker, also pulled out a magnetic card from the other end of the device. After putting away the registration form, he handed the magnetic card to Jonouchi and said: "The registration for the GeneX competition has been completed. Please keep your magnetic card. This is It is an important item used to prove your identity and qualifications after the competition starts. The GeneX competition will officially start in Doshino City one month later on February 10th. Please participate on time. I wish you excellent results in the competition. score."

Although the words were quite thoughtful, Jonouchi could also tell that it seemed to be a fixed set of words, but he still thanked Aoki, took the magnetic card and moved away, and the person behind him rubbed it Rub your nose and take a step forward.

"Hello, your name."

"Malik Yinshudar is my uncle!"

"Well, then the date of birth." Even after hearing the name "Malik", the leader of the criminal organization Gurus, whom he just mentioned, Aoki still filled in calmly with a calm expression that had nothing to do with him. Looking at the form, I don't know whether he is facially paralyzed or because he has no extra energy to care about other things because of the complicated and boring work.

"My registration has been successful!" Jounouchi happily came to his friends who were waiting for him by the registration line. Jonouchi showed the magnetic card in his hand to Honda and the others, "Hahaha, my registration is successful. , doesn’t it basically mean that the candidate for the championship has been decided!”

"You are really confident. Aren't you worried that you will encounter some difficult guy?" Honda pointed at Ma, who was at the front of the registration team not far away and was still going through the formalities in front of the office worker named Aoki. Li Ke, "Not to mention anything else, that guy Malik also plans to sign up for the competition."

"Huh? It's just Malik, nothing to worry about." Jonouchi said arrogantly, "When we competed in Duel City, he was only one of the top eight, but I am one of the top four. I have the advantage."

"That's because your opponents are completely different in strength. We can clearly see how strong the relationship between you and Miss Mai is, and Malik's opponent at that time was just playing a game." Kyoko said mercilessly. The truth came out, but Jonouchi didn't care too much, he still looked confident.

Putting the magnetic card away, Jonouchi looked around Honda and Kyoko, but saw no one else: "Speaking of which, why are there only two of you left here? Where did Yugi, Hayato, and Tairyo go? Why didn’t I see them? Weren’t they all there when they came?”

"When you were queuing up to sign up, Keihei came over after knowing we were here. He seemed to be looking for a game for something. By the way, he also called Tapiliang over. I don't know what he wanted to do." Honda spread his hands. , "Hayato said that he seemed to have seen someone and left suddenly."

"Before he left, he seemed to have said, 'I'm sorry everyone, please go back first. I will catch up with you soon. Let's go first' or something like that."

"It sounds like you are going to track down some black organization and then be drugged and become smaller." Malik, who had completed the registration, approached and heard Honda's words. He also complained and shook the magnetic card in his hand. , "The ambitions of the Haima Group are really obvious."

"Ambition? What do you mean?" Jonouchi looked at the GeneX contest participant qualification card in Malik's hand in confusion, "Isn't this just an ordinary magnetic card?"

"My vision is bad, Jonouchi, is this the level of the top four in Duel City?" It could be heard that Malik heard clearly that the conversation between Honda and Jonouchi was longer than expected, "You can't just look at something at its surface. Think carefully about the meaning behind what this card represents.”

"If you are just qualified to participate, there is no need to use magnetic cards that can be used multiple times, right? Where do you usually see magnetic cards appearing? And the so-called reason to prevent rare card hunters is simply ridiculous. Seto Kaiba obviously knows that I am in Dominino City, so he is simply using the Gurus that once existed but has been disbanded long ago as an excuse."

After hearing Malik's words, Honda also followed his train of thought and murmured: "The place where you see more magnetic cards is probably in the factory. Workers need to punch in every day when they go to work. Every magnetic card They all correspond to the identity of each worker.”

"Wait a minute, I remember-" As if thinking of something, Honda opened his mobile phone and looked up information on the Internet.

It has to be said that with the existence of search engines, the difficulty for humans to obtain knowledge and intelligence was greatly reduced in that moment. In just a moment, Honda relied on several key factors such as "Doshinoichi", "Haima Group" and "Government Cooperation" Ci found a piece of news that he had seen a few days ago.

Looking at the photos posted in the news, Honda also came to the same guess as Malik, and raised his eyebrows: "It's exactly what you thought Malik, Seto Kaiba's ambition is really not small. Ah. Is this already a conspiracy?"

Jonouchi moved closer to Honda and saw that the news he was actually scrolling through on his phone was from last week. The time was probably when they were still in Egypt and Kaiba had returned to Doshino City with Keppei.

The title of this news is "Tongshiye City Government and Haima Entertainment Group have reached a cooperation and will vigorously develop people's livelihood." The content is probably that Haima Group will undertake a large number of infrastructure projects in Tongshiye City and carry out a large-scale and extreme development of Tongshiye City. It has undergone extensive renovation and construction, and the photo posted as an example shows a gate-like device on a tram stop.

"Although it has not been announced yet, it is easy to come up with an answer by combining the magnetic card issued by the GeneX competition with the gate with the card swiping device that appeared in the news." Malik played with the card in his hand. magnetic card track,

"Once the construction of the gates built at the main entrance of Doshino City is completed, it is likely that entrants will begin to be screened. Those who are not qualified as duelists will most likely be expelled directly from the city. Get out?"

"With Seto Kaiba's character, it is not an exaggeration to install surveillance equipment in every corner of this city. As a large amount of infrastructure is gradually completed, this city will change little by little. It will become a city that belongs to the duelists and the Kaiba Group. And Seto Kaiba, who is in charge of the Kaiba Group, will also become the ruler of this city."

Kyoko was a little surprised when she heard what Malik said: "Is it that exaggerated? Seto Kaiba wants to rule Dominino City?"

"Actually, I've tried to keep it as small as possible. Although Seto Kaiba may not have the idea of ​​becoming a ruler, his actions have brought the city under his control little by little." Malik said Spreading his hands, "Just like the current GeneX competition, duelists from all over the world who want to become members of dueling academies will probably gather in this city."

"Under the guidance of the Kaiba Group, those troublesome visa issues were easily solved with a card issued by the Kaiba Group. Doshino City was completely controlled by the Kaiba Group as if it was independent from Japan. Even because of the previous duel The citizens of Tongshino City, who are influenced by the city and have experienced the benefits of the arrival of a large number of outsiders, will not have any resistance to this GeneX competition."

Jonouchi wanted to say no, but even after thinking about it for a while, he actually came to the same answer as Honda and Malik. Kaiba seemed to really want to bring Toshinoichi under his rule, and the starting point was the current situation. This GeneX competition.

"Speaking of Duel Cities, I remember we met that guy named Gosaburo Kaiba before. He said that Kaiba had the ability to rule the world. I thought he was trying to deceive people. But now it seems that Kaiba is Hasn’t it already begun the first step towards world domination?”

Honda said, looking at the airships floating in the sky in Tongshino City in the distance. The advertisement for the GeneX competition has been hanging below the airship to attract attention. The huge poster has the "KC" logo of Shanghai Horse Group. It seems that it is patrolling its territory on behalf of the king Kaiba.

So, what is "King" Seto Kaiba doing now?

"Huh? I'm going to be the publicity ambassador for the GeneX competition?" Looking at Kaiba sitting in front of him, Tairiang looked as if he had just heard a hallucination, a little unbelievable, "But my duel monster game is basically Don’t you know anything?”

"It doesn't matter. You don't need to fight in the duel anyway. You just need to sit on the stage and watch the battle with the commentator. It's a simple job, right?" Keppei, wearing a suit, persuaded Tapirang, but paused mid-sentence. After a while, he sighed again, "Much better than me. Brother, he came up with such a game in a flash. There is so much preparation work that I have to handle it all."

"You also told me that it was Hayato-nii who proposed this competition? Who would believe it?"

"Well, if there is no need for a duel, I think it's okay." Tapirang thought for a while, then looked at Yugi who was acting as his "agent" next to him and said, "What do you think, Yugi-kun?"

Yugi did not answer Tapirang immediately, but looked at the silent Kaiba and said, "Can you tell me why you thought of asking Tapirang to become the publicity ambassador of the GeneX competition, Kaiba-kun?"

"Hmph, are you questioning me, Yugi? Do you think your performance in that duel was enough for me to take a high look at you?"

'Although it seems to be true, I do admit that this guy is an excellent duelist', I thought to myself, but Kaiba still did a good job on the surface. He crossed his arms in front of his chest and said coldly, " The reason I chose this guy to be my ambassador is simple, and you should know it."

Hearing Kaiba's words, Yugi suddenly remembered that Hayato had told him that the fish they were going to "catch" had a lot to do with Zuo Ke Nerofa, also known as "Dark Tapire", who once lived in Tapiryo. It's a holiday, and now that "Dark Tapirung" has died, the other party will most likely find trouble in the house and in the dark about Tapirung, who has nothing to do with it.

"Are you going to use him as bait, Kaiba? Such behavior is too bad. If that's the case, I won't let him be used by you——"

"Hmph, in your imagination, am I the kind of scum that does everything?" Kaiba snorted and said with some displeasure, "I'm talking about the ranking list in Tongshiye High School!"

"Uh, the ranking of 'most want to fall in love with him'?"

"Although this guy is ranked one place behind Hayato Kobayashi, in addition to that list, his name is also on the 'most want to fall in love with her' list. He is also ranked second, only in a list called Nosaka Miho. After the woman, so letting him be the publicity ambassador is the most cost-effective.”

Kaiba stopped mid-sentence, and his eyes met the strange looks from Keihei, Tapira, and Yugi, "What are those looks from you?"

"No, I just didn't expect Kaiba-kun to care about the school's ranking list. I thought only Jonouchi and the others would pay attention."

"Oh, am I even ranked on the girls' list? It's really embarrassing~"

"Brother, you have finally grown up, which really makes me happy."

"Hmph, it's boring, don't you take it for granted!" Hearing a few people teasing him, Kaiba leaned his back dissatisfied.