Chapter 24: Surpass the Past, Open up a New Future, Revive, Scrap Iron Dragon!

After activating the magic card Pot of Greed, Lou Bai shuffled all the monster cards in his graveyard except the Kite Robot graveyard back into the deck, and drew two cards from the deck.

"This is..." Seeing these two cards, Lou Bai fell into deep thought. Could it be that even my deck is supporting me in doing this? Looking at the old iron boy opposite, he carefully held the scrap iron child with both hands, just like a piece of fragile and precious porcelain, his eyes full of love for it.

The old man has been completely addicted to the past... This yearning and reluctance for the beautiful past can even create miracles. In the world of Duel Monsters, their family reunited in another sense. However, reality is different from Duel Monsters. It is cold, cruel, and merciless. After this duel, neither the scrap mother nor the scrap child will appear again. So how will the old man who has just experienced a reunion in Duel Monsters face this suffocating world and survive the torment of loneliness? Woolen cloth?

"I'm sorry, old man, although it's cruel, but let me expose your beautiful illusion." After muttering in a low voice, Lou Bai picked out one of the two cards with a complicated expression and placed it solemnly. On the duel stage: "Activate the magic card and exchange hand cards! The effect of this card is that players on both sides reveal their hands, and each chooses a card from their opponent and adds it to their own hand!"

"No! No! You can't do this!" After seeing the card played by Lou Bai, he focused all his attention on the scrap iron child in his hand. The happy smile on Lao Tie's face disappeared as he no longer paid attention to the duel. He shouted sadly: "Please, don't take Haoshu away from me again!"

Ignoring Lao Tie's wailing, Lou Bai's face was expressionless, like a cold machine. He said in an emotionless voice: "Now you and I only have one card in our hands, let's face the irresistible reality!"

"Don't do this!" Lao Tie held the card tightly with both hands, his eyes full of reluctance.

"Xiao Lan, snatch him away from me!" Lou Bai turned his head and said to Xiao Lan, who was floating beside him. Although I couldn't bear to see Lao Tie's sad expression, it was the master's order after all. Xiao Lan finally controlled the elf power to let the card in Lao Tie's hand fly out across the entire duel field and towards Lou Bai.

"Bang!" Lou Bai caught the flying card between his index and middle fingers, and showed its card picture to Lao Tie.

"I see the effect of Scrap Iron Dad on your field. Without this, it would be impossible to increase his attack power to 3600, right!" Lou Bai said coldly. Along with his words, because he left Lao Tie, the card that was shaped by Lao Tie with false happiness gradually emitted light spots. The scrap iron child's card picture and card name slowly disappeared, and the card's The card surface gradually became blank.

Because Lao Tie held the card so tightly when it flew away that one of his palms got a deep scar from the card. Covering the wound with his other hand and watching the scrap metal child in Lou Bai's hand gradually disappear, Lao Tie shouted angrily: "Stop!"

After witnessing the Scrap Iron Child turning into a blank card, Lou Bai took it back into his hand, looked down at the card in his hand that had just been washed back by the effect of the Pot of Greed, and then drew a card to get it into his hand. The unknown synchronist raised his head and said to Lao Tie: "Then in exchange, I will give you this card!"

After that, he took the card and flew out. The unknown synchronizer accurately inserted it into the center of Lao Tie's deck, leaving only the upper part of the card outside.

Holding the unknown synchronist obtained in exchange for the useless child in his hand, Lao Tie angrily asked Lou Bai: "Why? Why do you do this?!"

Seeing that Lao Tie was not depressed after experiencing huge emotional fluctuations, but still had the strength to question himself, Lou Bai felt a little relieved. To be honest, what I just did was also a risky move. The appearance of the Scrap Iron Child card stems from the old man's nostalgia for the beautiful past, but the existence of this card also created a cage, a cage that imprisoned the old man in the past.

Unless this cage is completely removed, there will always be a trace of luck in the old man's heart: If his wife and Haoshu don't go home today, what if they come back tomorrow? If they don't come back tomorrow, what if they don't come back tomorrow? When the old man's family is very likely to be killed, this kind of luck is like a carrot hanging in front of a donkey. You can see it but not eat it. It will only make the donkey keep running until it is exhausted and collapses to the ground.

To take a step back, even if they are still alive, do they have any reason to come back to see the old man after having abandoned him for 18 years? What qualifications do they have to keep the old man waiting?

Based on this idea, Lou Bai played this magic card that might make Lao Tie hate him completely. He exchanged the cards in his hand and completely pulled the old man out of the prison of the past.

Pulling his thoughts back to the present, facing Lao Tie's angry questioning, Lou Bai encouraged himself in his heart, taking advantage of the present, let the old man stop dwelling on the past and focus on the future. Lowering his head and slightly adjusting his expression to make himself look more ruthless, Lou Bai raised his head and responded with a sullen expression: "Oh, you asked me why, shouldn't I ask you this question?"

"Why did you stop paying attention to the duel after you got this card?"

"Why are you so sad to lose this mortal bone?"

"Why are you so obsessed with useless mothers and useless children?"

"There is only one answer!" Lou Bai waved his hand, pointed his finger straight at Lao Tie, and shouted: "The reality hidden behind this card is the reality you don't want to face!"

"I...I don't want to face...reality?" Hearing this, Lao Tie's heart seemed to ring a bell, and the memories of his family after they left appeared in front of him again like a roll of film: he set up the dishes in front of two empty chairs and ate with the two chairs, talking and laughing; he was in Hao Shu's study, mumbling to the empty desk; he said good night to the other side of the bed before going to bed...

"It turns out that they are really gone..." Lao Tie said with a wry smile, and tears fell as he spoke.

Seeing this scene, Lou Bai also said softly: "Old man, people can't go back to the past. If you indulge in the past, you will only lose the beauty of the present and the future. You don't want those who love you to see you in such a decadent state, right?"

"Yes, yes." Lao Tie laughed at himself in a low voice, then raised his head and said firmly: "Now it's your turn, attack me!"

"No." To Lao Tie's surprise, facing his invitation, Lou Bai shook his head and said: "I won't attack, and the round ends like this."

"Stinky boy, are you looking down on me?" Facing Lou Bai's move, Lao Tie naturally regarded it as a contempt for himself, and he cursed angrily.

"Not really." Lou Bai shook his head, pointed at the unknown Synchro that he had just exchanged with Lao Tie, and said, "What I just exchanged with you is an unknown Synchro with unknown power. Under the light of synchronization, it can guide the power of people's hearts. Come on, old man, let me see your inner enlightenment! I'll end my turn like this!"

Frontcourt: Phantom Guardian-Amadeus, Mediocre Ghost, Giant Mediocre Ghost

Backcourt: None

Hand: 0

"Really? If you want to see my inner enlightenment, then you better watch me! My turn, draw a card!" Facing Lou Bai's invitation, Lao Tie smiled softly and drew the top card of his deck. Flipping the card, Lao Tie drew a trap card that can special summon monsters from the graveyard, and increase one star and 100 attack power, strengthening resurrection.

"A card that resurrects monsters from the graveyard? I can't use it now." Lao Tie said softly. After covering the trap card in the backcourt, he looked at his only card, which was also the card Lou Bai gave him in the last round, the Unknown Synchron.

My inner awakening, then let me show you. Lao Tie thought to himself. However, when he raised his head and looked at the duel field, he saw the figure of his child Hiroshi again. Lao Tie was stunned again. Although he had made up his mind to let it go, it was not so easy. Seeing the figure of the child, Lao Tie's eyes became red again.

Unlike the last time he appeared, Hiroshi this time has grown a lot taller. He wore a suit and a pair of square-framed glasses and appeared between the scrap iron father and the scrap iron mother. Holding the hands of Scrap Father and Scrap Mother, Hiroshi said to Lao Tie with a gentle smile: "Father, I'm sorry, this is the last time I see you. My mother and I are going to another world. You must live well here. Don't torture yourself anymore, otherwise my mother and I will worry."

"Okay, okay." Although Lao Tie was a father at this time, he cried like a child, with tears streaming down his face.

Just as Hiroshi's shadow gradually dissipated, Lao Tie wiped his face with his left hand and raised the unknown synchro with his right hand. It was already evening, and the setting sun gradually fell, just behind Lao Tie, making him look full of epic sense. That skinny face looked so solemn at this time.

"I use the unknown synchro to adjust the stars of my Scrap Father and Scrap Mother on the field!"

As Lao Tie spoke, with the unknown synchro in his hand as the center of the circle, an iron-gray halo slowly opened behind him, and the Scrap Father and Scrap Mother on the field floated into the air and gradually disintegrated. The parts that made up their bodies seemed to be attracted and gathered in the circle behind Lao Tie.

"Even the most old scraps can give birth to new life under the gathering of thoughts! Synchro Summon, revive! Level 8, Scrap Dragon!"

Accompanied by Lao Tie's words, many discarded parts interspersed and spliced ​​in the halo. After a moment, the giant dragon made of scrap iron lit up red eyes, opened his black wings, and let out his first roar since he came to this world.

"Roar!"

[Scrap Dragon 8-star Synchro Dragon Clan ATK: 2800→3300 (Scrap Factory Effect)]

"It's so magnificent!" Looking at the Scrap Dragon standing behind Lao Tie, Lou Bai exclaimed sincerely.

"The effect of Scrap Dragon is activated!" Lao Tie turned his head and looked at the giant dragon born from his past, and activated its effect: "You can activate it by targeting one card on my field and one card on your field, and destroy them! I will choose the cover card on my back field and the mediocre ghost on your field!"

Scrap Dragon first swept the cover card on its field, smashed it to pieces, and then flapped its wings, and the fragments flew towards the mediocre ghost like bullets. As a normal monster, the mediocre ghost with no resistance naturally entered the graveyard. Afterwards, a huge explosion sounded on Lou Bai's field. Because there was no control of the mediocre ghost, the huge mediocre ghost blew itself up as expected.

Lou Bai, who usually sends his self-destruction to others, experienced the feeling of being blown up for the first time. The blazing sound and light accompanied by the heat wave came towards him. Under this momentum, the duel stage under him made an unsettling creaking sound, and the waste piles next to the duel stage also seemed to be a little shaky.

Lou Bai lp: 3100→600

"Ahem, so this is what it feels like to be blown up. It's really exciting!" Lou Bai wiped the dust off his face and said with a wry smile.

"Smelly boy, it's not over yet. Don't you want to see my inner consciousness? Then watch me!" The stinky old man looked at Lou Bai's dusty face and smiled gloatingly: "Scrap Iron Dragon, attack the Phantom Guardian Amadeus!"

The huge dragon flapped its wings and rushed towards the Phantom Guardian Amadeus who was blocking Lou Bai. Facing the attack of the Scrap Iron Dragon, Lou Bai also shouted: "Amadeus, we can't lose in momentum, come on!"

The two magic balls in Amadeus's hand collided fiercely with the head hammer of the Scrap Iron Dragon. Unfortunately, due to the gap in hard power, Amadeus' magic failed to stop the Scrap Iron Dragon in the end. The Scrap Iron Dragon flapped its wings fiercely, and the head hammer penetrated Amadeus with an irresistible momentum and hit the duel field fiercely.

Lou Bai lp: 600→0

When the duel ended, Lou Bai was just about to discuss his new monster with Lao Tie, but at this moment, an accident happened. Due to the explosion of the giant mediocre ghost and the collision of the scrap dragon, the crumbling mountains of scrap on the side finally couldn't hold up and fell towards the duel field. Under this chain reaction, the duel field, which was made of scrap, also had problems. The bottom of the two duel platforms carrying the duelists suddenly broke, and Lou Bai and Lao Tie, who had not yet stepped off the duel platform, were immediately in danger.

However, in this dangerous situation, Lou Bai's mind was extremely calm. He first shouted loudly to Larry, who was at a loss in the audience, to go to a safe place for refuge, and then picked up the deck and jumped forward, jumping onto Xiao Lan, who had materialized and turned into a dragon, and quickly flew towards Lao Tie. Finally, at the critical moment when the scrap was about to bury Lao Tie, he grabbed Lao Tie's collar and dragged him into the sky.

"Hahahahaha!"

When the collapse of the scrap subsided, Xiao Lan put them on the scrap pile. Lou Bai and Lao Tie looked at each other's dusty faces and couldn't help laughing. The setting sun shone on the two men, the old and the middle-aged, stretching their shadows very long.