Wu Bai Ya Zi

“Five Hundred Ducks” is a humorous expression for nonstop, overwhelming talk. In the scene where Gu Huaian loses patience with two overly talkative teammates, the comparison turns their chatter into a noisy flock and gives the irritation a deliberately exaggerated comic shape.

Meaning and Usage

The expression characterizes speech by its quantity and noise rather than by its content. Calling someone “Five Hundred Ducks” suggests that the person is talking so much that the conversation becomes difficult to endure or follow. Its exaggeration makes the criticism playful and vivid instead of purely severe.

Use in the Gaming Scene

Gu Huaian uses the expression when two teammates repeatedly call out to him as “Sister-in-law.” Their continued interruptions test his patience, and he sharply tells them to stop, adding that they talk more than five hundred ducks. The phrase therefore emerges directly from a moment of mounting annoyance rather than from a formal explanation of its meaning.

Comic and Narrative Function

The expression intensifies the scene’s comic contrast between noisy enthusiasm and practical failure. After several rounds, the team loses as many rounds as it plays; the problem is not merely that the teammates talk too much, but that their chatter accompanies ineffective cooperation. The later explanation that two players are secretly helping the opposing side makes the losses understandable, while the duck comparison remains the scene’s memorable verbal punchline.

Significance

“Five Hundred Ducks” condenses Gu Huaian’s exasperation into an image that readers can immediately recognize. It also helps establish the light, teasing register of the gaming exchange: amid repeated losses and confused team play, an exaggerated animal metaphor supplies the humor and marks the point at which ordinary annoyance becomes comic characterization.