National Fortune Golden Shovel: I Can See Hidden Bonds!

138: Chapter 139 His cake layers were stacked too fast...The void spectators began to regret it. Inside the livestream, the barrage comments even dwindled. The spectators from the four countries were all silenced at this moment, like ducks with their throats grabbed, their eyes wide open, unable to utter a single word.

”Wait. This hasn’t even really started yet, right? How come your HP is already down to 70-something? What happened to the promised joint effort to snipe Shen Mo? Shen Mo is still at 100 HP!”

Sakura Country spoke up weakly: ”Could this be a strategy? Show weakness to the enemy first, and then counterattack?”

As soon as these words came out, many people rolled their eyes. Show weakness to the enemy? Do you even believe that yourself!

On the field, the communication channel was heavy. Hans gritted his teeth and said: ”So, what do we do now?”

The quality of Shen Mo’s lineup on the field was so high that their HP wouldn’t last long. If Shen Mo kept winning, even if they could beat him later, his margin for error would be too high.

It was very likely that they would give Shen Mo the opportunity to reach level 10!

”This kid is a bastard! I even suspect he figured out our strategy; he’s not selling HP in the early game anymore, but prioritizing unit quality instead!” Arnor complained internally.

What now? Everyone’s eyes involuntarily turned towards Xu Shijun. There was no other way; after all, Xu Shijun was the initiator of this joint challenge. Now that a problem had arisen, they definitely needed a backbone.

Xu Shijun naturally understood this, and his face was terrifyingly gloomy at the moment. However, his thoughts were racing. After a long while, Xu Shijun took a deep breath and said: ”It’s not that there’s absolutely no way!”

As soon as he said this, everyone’s eyes lit up. Old Mike was even more impatient as he spoke: ”If you have a way, say it! If we drag this out any longer, we’re going to die!”

Xu Shijun looked around and said coldly: ”The method is... if Shen Mo’s lineup on the field continues to be this strong, we can choose to sacrifice two people!”

Sacrifice two people?! Everyone was stunned. How to sacrifice? Sacrifice whom?

”Shen Mo’s current lineup on the field is very strong; this is something I hadn’t anticipated before...” Xu Shijun admitted his miscalculation and continued to analyze: ”Therefore, we now only have one core problem...”

”That is, we will lose when we face Shen Mo. Not only that, but we are also fighting each other every round, which is why our HP is dropping so fast!”

”But what if 2 of us keep winning when facing each other in civil wars? Wouldn’t that guarantee our HP? This is actually a way to preserve strength!”

After Xu Shijun finished speaking, everyone’s expressions turned somewhat ugly. They understood; simply put, it was match-fixing. Since they couldn’t win against Shen Mo, they could try to sacrifice the HP of 2 people during their internal battles to ensure the HP of the other two remained high!

This method was theoretically possible, but the problem was... who was to be sacrificed? Sacrificing meant -10 points to the arena score!

It would lower their selection authority, and since the top leadership of each country was watching, if these players chose to give up, they would very likely be held accountable after the match ended!

”Let us think about it...” The four-nation alliance faced a huge trust crisis right from the start.

On the other side, Shen Mo was so comfortable he almost laughed out loud!

After finishing the Malphite fight in the 2-7 stage, the amount of equipment he had was at a terrifying level! This was no longer a question of whether he was lucky or not; this game was simply the ultimate satisfying match!

6 Sugarcraft were in place!

He even placed several 4-cost cards on the bench, leaving only Soraka + Rumble + Jinx + Bard + Gwen + Nasus on the field. Now, both Nasus and Gwen had three full items.

Jinx was also equipped with a guinsoos rageblade and an Infinity Edge.

The starting monsters plus the monsters in the 2-7 stage gave Shen Mo a total of 9 component items. Hextech gave 6 components, Pandoras Items gave 2, and the carousel gave 1. Shen Mo had 9 full items in hand!

If you counted the components, there were a total of 18! And that wasn’t even counting the Sugarcraft emblem he had in his hand!

”Level up! Level up!” ”Go straight to 6 Sugarcraft, forget about saving interest!”

Shen Mo didn’t hesitate to push his population to level 6. Saving interest was for before; he was playing for the Easter egg in this game, and he would have so much gold he couldn’t spend it all—saving that bit of interest was useless.

Stacking cake layers was the most important thing!

Clang! As the upgrade light flashed and vanished, Shen Mo’s population successfully reached level 6!

He glanced at the current cake layers: 210 layers! The 6 Sugarcraft Synergy was active!

With 9 full items + 1 emblem, he could now add 120 layers of sugar every round!

”120 layers!” ”It’s only stage 3-1. At this rate, by the time I reach stage 5, I’ll basically be able to stack up to 2,200 layers! And the probability of refreshing a golden spatula is maximized at stage 5. This is almost playing ahead of the appearance probability of the Staff!”

[Stage 3-1, the match begins!] [Shen Mo vs. Xu Shijun!]

The countdown ended, and the voice of Alodes rang out again! Entering the battle interface. Unsurprisingly, Shen Mo slaughtered Xu Shijun again!

”He won!” ”Holy crap, he won again!” ”This game is simply invincible!” ”Wow, the layers are stacking up way too fast!” ”What kind of hero is this? Why does he have so much equipment?” ”Holy crap!” The barrage flooded the screen again.

Many people had already noticed the anomaly; the speed at which Shen Mo was stacking cake layers was truly fast!

Offstage, in the Korean camp, Park Bushun’s face looked a bit ugly. If Xu Shijun kept losing like this, could he still win later?

But the problem was that Park Bushun couldn’t understand the match! He could only cast a pleading look at Bae Soo-hyun beside him, hoping the other party could give him some confidence. Bae Soo-hyun sneered internally, ”Hmph, now you’re thinking of me, huh?”

”Didn’t you think highly of this piece-of-trash Xu Shijun?” ”Ahem, uh, Bae Soo-hyun, do you think Xu Shijun can win?” Seeing Bae Soo-hyun ignore his hint, Park Bushun could only speak awkwardly.

Bae Soo-hyun glanced at him and said indifferently: ”Don’t ask, he’s doomed.” Park Bushun: ??? What does that mean? Why is he doomed?

Although he disliked this guy, Park Bushun was a national leader after all. Bae Soo-hyun grunted a few times and said: ”This Shen Mo is problematic. His cake layers are stacking up too fast...”

Bae Soo-hyun’s expression also turned grave. His personal record was only 1,600 layers, so he knew very well that the higher the layers, the better the rewards. As for what was above 1,600 layers, no one knew!

And once Shen Mo broke through this layer count, the situation would immediately spiral out of control. Bae Soo-hyun couldn’t predict what would happen, which was why he told Park Bushun that Xu Shijun was doomed!

Meanwhile, on the field, Shen Mo smiled calmly. There wasn’t much joy on his face, as if all this was within his expectations. He was in a winning position, and only one step remained: getting the golden spatula!

”I’m just missing one golden spatula right now!” ”Stage 5 is where the real test begins!”