Chapter 45

"If you've ever been on a team, you'll know the answer."

Shen Hao paused for a moment, then suddenly said:

"Yitu, what do you think of Nightingale?"

Yitu didn't expect Shen Hao to ask so directly. After all, he hadn't considered joining the team at the beginning.

He doesn't trust people easily, but once he does, he will believe them to the end.

However, Shen Hao and he were just card players who had known each other for a few days, but he kept extending olive branches to him, which made Yi Tu have to think more.

Just when he wanted to decline, Shen Hao spoke again:

"Yitu, I know what you're worried about. Don't worry, nothing you worry about will happen."

"Because I've been through this just like you, the issues you've considered are all the worst-case scenarios I've ever considered. I can honestly tell you that the internal ostracism and fighting within the team has always existed and has never stopped."

"But I think you are a smart person. You know how to deal with it, right?"

The best way to avoid exclusion and conflict is to speak with strength.

When a person is strong enough, to the point where he has the final say, looking back at the past entanglements and right and wrongs is nothing but a joke.

Having worked in the workplace for many years, Yi Tu naturally understands this truth.

He raised his eyebrows slightly and had to admit Shen Hao's ability to persuade. While arousing people's fighting spirit, he unknowingly lifted them up an inch.

If he were an arrogant person, he would probably just nod in agreement.

But Yitu was not like that. His tone was full of helplessness:

"You really want to drag me down with you?"

Chen Hao on the other end of the phone smiled. "I'm just trying to benefit the team while also sincerely wanting to help you as a friend."

"Yitu, although I don't know how many card games you have experienced, no matter how brave a lion is, it cannot defeat a group of male wolves hunting together. The higher the level of the card game, the more this is true."

"Especially the players in the high-level card games, almost all of them are members of the top 100 teams. Some of them are even so famous that you can call them by name when you meet them."

"If you really have no aspirations, or even just want to earn a few measly points to save your life, then just treat me as just bullshit."

Shen Hao had already said so much, there was no need to waste any more words.

He did not continue to persuade her, but gave Yi Tu time to think alone.

After Shen Hao hung up the phone, Yi Tu stopped and remained silent for a long time.

Shen Hao was right, fighting alone would never be as good as fighting side by side.

Maybe joining the team wasn't such a bad choice. Yitu's frown remained on his face.

He had too many concerns, and it was far from as simple as Shen Hao said on the surface.

While the system bound him to the King of Spades, it also gave him an identity card of the Queen of Hearts.

So far, this card has not brought much benefit to Yitu. On the contrary, it has forced Yitu to be more cautious.

Because the Q card can be taken away by other players, as long as you kill him, you can inherit his identity.

Once you join a team, it is only a matter of time before your identity card is exposed.

Yitu thought about it for a long time but couldn't come up with an answer. People do have ambitions, but they are not stronger than their concerns, so they seem so hesitant to act.

Judith, who was standing behind him, seemed to have sensed something and walked towards Yitu.

"I heard that your spouse also joined a team when he was still a newcomer."

Yitu turned around and looked at her: "Are you talking about... Jiang Hanyu?"

Judith smiled slightly. "Yes, that King of Spades was much more reckless when he was a rookie than you are now."

"He's made a lot of mistakes, but he's not a fish in the pond after all, so why worry about the small fish and shrimp?"

"The team he leads now is a split from the old team."

Yitu was stunned. It turned out that Demon Fang was a part split from other teams?

He knew nothing about these things, but Judith seemed to know them all.

"How did you know that?"

Now it was Judith's turn to be confused. She looked at Yi Tu with some doubt in her eyes.

"David will tell me everything, even though your relationship with his master doesn't seem to be friendly."

"David? Jiang Hanyu's attendant?" Yi Tu was confused.

He had no idea that servants could be connected to each other. Could it be that these two guys were secretly sharing their daily lives with each other?!

Judith nodded. "We met long before the beginning of history."

"Before history began..." Yitu recited softly, smiling: "That sounds so beautiful."

Their story began before the system was born and will not end after the system is destroyed.

Yi Tu's anxious mood inexplicably eased a lot. For some reason, he thought of Jiang Hanyu's serious face, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

Shen Hao was right. No matter how brave a lion is, it cannot defeat a group of male wolves hunting together.

Jiang Hanyu understood this principle better than him, otherwise he would not have led a team personally.

The next morning, Yitu and Judith had breakfast together and then called Shen Hao.

Chen Hao was washing up when his boyfriend Qi Zizhen answered the phone.

"Yitu, is that you?"

Wang Xiaolei's real name is Qi Zizhen. He has always been very lively both inside and outside the card room.

With an almost identical voice and tone, Yitu quickly recognized him:

"It's me, you guys just woke up?"

"Yeah, Brother Hao drank too much yesterday and got up a little late today." Qi Zizhen didn't feel unfamiliar with him at all and continued to ask:

"Yitu, are you calling me for something? Wait a minute, I'll go call Brother Hao..."

"Fuck, Yitu, you called me to agree to join the Nightingale team, didn't you?!!"

Qi Zizheng, who was a little slow to think, just remembered this. What else could Yi Tu have called him for?

Yitu said with a smile: "Yes, I thought about it all night and felt that everything Mr. Shen said was the truth."

"I just have one more question..."

"What's the problem?" Shen Hao took the phone.

Yitu's tone suddenly became serious, "Mr. Shen, are you inviting me to join the team in order to win over my spouse?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment before Shen Hao's voice came:

"Yes and no."

"I did invite you partly to try to win you over, but not entirely. I'm also naturally optimistic about your abilities."

"Besides, my idea has been rejected by the captain. Your spouse is not someone our team can handle."

"Do you understand what I mean?" Shen Hao said softly.

If the captain of a team is overpowered by his teammates, the team will inevitably fall apart.

The team Demon Fang that Jiang Hanyu is currently leading was separated from the old team.

He is a natural leader. His extraordinary ability and pride will never allow him to be inferior to others and listen to orders from others.

The captain of Nightingale is a wise man, and he sees things much more clearly than Shen Hao.

And Shen Hao's answer was completely within Yi Tu's expectations.

"If that's the case, then I'm really relieved." Yitu said with a smile:

"Because my partner and I are about to end our relationship, and I'm worried that you'll end up with nothing."

Chen Hao was stunned. "Break the relationship? Why? Didn't he treat you very well?"

"...Men are all the same." Yitu thought for a moment and made up an excuse:

"When the relationship fades and you find a new love, it's natural to end it."

Shen Hao was really stunned this time. For a long time he didn't know whether he should comfort her or join in the scolding and call her a scumbag.

However, Yitu felt inexplicably guilty because of his nonsense.

Although the possibility of him and Jiang Hanyu meeting was almost zero, after all, there were many card rooms and players in the gambler's game, and they would never be placed together no matter how they were arranged.

Even if they meet again in the future, no one will know that he and Spade King were ever in a relationship.

As for Jiang Hanyu, it was even more impossible for him to tell anyone about it himself.

Thinking of this, Yi Tu no longer felt guilty. No one would know about it in the future anyway, so it was easy to fool Chen Hao.

"It's okay, brother. There will be better ones later."

Shen Hao offered a few simple words of comfort, but Yitu wished he would stop talking about it.

"No need to comfort me, he and I are just brothers."

Even though he said this, Qi Zizheng, who was eavesdropping with great interest, slammed the table in anger.

"Damn it! I knew that bastard was unreliable. I should have seen it at the poker table a long time ago..."

Shen Hao covered her boyfriend's mouth in time.

"Yitu, you can add me first. In a few days, when all the team members are here, we can meet officially."

"good."

The members of the Nightingale Team are not concentrated in one city, some are even from different provinces.

But except for special circumstances, they generally live together, mainly to make it easier to form teams and enter the card field to score points.

As for the card apprentice that Yi Tu saw, Shen Hao also told him the final reason.

The reason why card players are related to the team is that only the captain of the team can bring card players into the card field.

When an individual player's level and points reach a certain level, he or she can apply to the system to start a team.

When a team is first created, it needs to recruit players.

The way the team confirms its members, in addition to using points to purchase specific props, is through the induction of identity cards against identity cards.

The identity card will sense other players with identity cards within one meter of the card field the moment the card field is opened. After entering the card field to confirm the information, the player will become an official member of the team.

Shen Hao told Yitu that this way of joining the team was what they called team bonding.

In order to test the strength of players who want to join the team, many teams will deliberately bring them into the middle and high-level card fields in this way.

If you can survive successfully, you will become an official member.

If you can't, and die in there, there's no question of joining the team.

Killing two birds with one stone is a bit disgusting, but it is indeed the most effective method so far.

Players who have just reached the level to apply to create a team can use this method to bring normal people into the game in a limited capacity as captain, in order to gain a large number of points.

Although such invalid teams will be cleared by the system because they fail to reach the team honor points, they can still get a lot of JR points for free.

After Yitu understood the whole story, he couldn't help but sigh.

If nothing unexpected happens, in a few days, he will most likely join the team through team ties.