Everyone's playing hide-and-seek: This crazy beauty has maxed-out third eyes.

Everyone saw a flash of light, and the orange cat disappeared.

Lin Sui'an turned the card over, and the black background with gold patterns was no longer blank.

An orange cat is drawn on it, with a round face, big ears, and a chubby appearance. There is a shadow behind the orange cat, the outline of which is a woman.

Successful.

"Did you succeed?" Li Yu's voice rang out from the side.

Jiang Lai and Chen Zheng also stared at the card without saying a word.

Lin Sui'an didn't rush to speak. He held up the card and examined it carefully. There was a letter in the upper left corner: 'D'.

She turned the cards over to Jiang Lai and grinned, "Sister, it's done!"

Li Yu's cheers exploded first: "Ahhhhh!! It's done!!"

She spun around, almost kicking the cat bed leg next to her, but jumped to the side to steady herself and continued cheering.

Jiang Lai breathed a sigh of relief, and Chen Zheng smiled, leaning forward to look at the card.

"Can it be woken up?" Chen Zheng asked first, his voice a beat faster than before.

"Yes." Lin Sui'an nodded.

She pointed to the D in the upper left corner of the card: "The soul is somewhat weak, strength D."

Jiang Lai looked up at Lin Sui'an: "D?"

"Um."

"Does that mean their souls can also be upgraded?"

Lin Sui'an was stunned for a moment.

That's right.

D corresponds to level; levels can be increased, and then there's the soul...

"It should be possible," she said. "I'm not sure how it will work, but theoretically, it's possible."

Jiang Lai pressed her finger on the card: "Not just the top left corner, look at the bottom right corner too."

Several people's eyes followed the word "speed" to the bottom right corner.

"It's its ability; the orange cat's ability in the game was speed."

"Once sealed into the card, the ability also manifested."

"Yes." Lin Sui'an turned the cards over and looked at them one by one.

Front view, orange cat, woman's shadow, D in the upper left corner, speed in the lower right corner.

The back is black with gold patterns, and nothing is written on it.

"I don't know if the upgrade path is speed or soul strength." She put the cards back in her hand. "The cards don't give any hints."

Jiang Lai thought for a moment and then said, "Let's awaken them first. Perhaps their souls can know how to upgrade and strengthen themselves."

"Okay." Lin Sui'an steadied the cards. "You guys stand back a little."

"How much further back?" Li Yu had already taken half a step back.

"Not too many, just one meter is enough. We don't know if it's a person or a cat coming out, so we need to leave room for someone."

Li Yu took another step back, pushing Chen Zheng aside. The others followed suit, clearing a space in the middle.

"Should we go to the monitoring room to wake it up? The protection level there is higher," Chen Zheng suggested.

"No need, I can manipulate the card after it's sealed."

Lin Sui'an turned the cards face up, with the orange cat side up. Instead of immediately waking the card, he first focused his mind, probing inside the card to find the soul.

found it.

It was very weak, huddled in a corner of the deck, like it hadn't woken up yet.

She didn't rush to pull it, but stayed with that soul for two seconds, letting it feel her presence.

The soul stirred and slowly opened its eyes.

It was time. Lin Sui'an pinched the card between his fingers and pointed it to the ground: "Release!"

The orange cat pattern on the card began to glow, the black background with gold patterns began to flow, and then a ball of white light floated up from the card and hung in the air.

The white light circled twice in the air, slowly coalesced, and finally settled.

Ivana Petrova, a player from the Southern Kingdom, floated in mid-air, looking around with her eyes open.

Li Yu's voice came from behind, softly: "Can she...see us?"

The woman's gaze swept over everyone in the room, finally settling on Jiang Lai's face. Then she spoke, surprisingly in Mandarin.

Do all the people of Nan Sai speak the language of Long? Lin Sui'an's thoughts drifted for a moment, seemingly out of place.

"...Dragon Kingdom, Chief of Staff Jiang?"

Jiang Lai immediately replied, "It's me. Do you know me?"

"Of course, I saw what you looked like online before I died." The woman's gaze swept from Jiang Lai's face to the cards in Lin Sui'an's hand, then to the people around them. "Is this... reality?"

"Yes, outside the game, in the Dragon Kingdom."

The woman remained silent for a few seconds. Jiang Lai didn't urge her, just waited: "How long have I been dead?"

"The game has reached its forty-seventh round, which has taken about two months."

"Two months," the woman repeated, her voice tinged with melancholy. "An orange cat...how long have I been an orange cat?"

"I don't know when the game turned you into an orange cat; that probably depends on your memories."

"In this round, it was our players who brought you out of the competition."

The woman's gaze returned to Lin Sui'an's face, and she remained silent for a little longer than before before saying, "Thank you."

Lin Sui'an put the cards into his pocket and asked directly, "Do you remember who you are, what your name is, and what country you're from?"

"Remember, I am Ivana Petrova, a player from the Kingdom of Southern Serbia."

At this point, she seemed to suddenly realize something, and her emotions became agitated: "Why am I in the Dragon Kingdom? Could it be... could it be that our country has been destroyed?"

"Don't be nervous, Ivana, your country hasn't been destroyed," Jiang Lai reassured her softly. "Our country has formed an alliance with your country. If you'd like, we can make communication with your country's command center right now."

Upon hearing this, Ivana fell into a long silence again. After a moment, she spoke, "No, Ivana... has no face... to see... the people of my homeland..."

"Ivana!" Jiang Lai raised her voice, "Every player who fights for the country is the pride of the nation. In fact, since you were taken out of the game, your country's command center has called us three times, constantly concerned about your situation."

Upon hearing this, Ivana looked up: "Everyone...you're not blaming me?"

Jiang Lai smiled slightly, her expression both gentle and powerful: "You are their pride."

Upon hearing this, Ivana's weakened soul suddenly began to tremble violently, and a tear welled up from her eye.

No one spoke, allowing Ivana to slowly calm down, and also to calm herself down.

"Thank you." Ivana thanked them again, and this time she turned her gaze to Lin Sui'an.

"I remember you. In the game, you touched my head and provoked all the eerie things."

Lin Sui'an scratched his head awkwardly, took out the card, and held it up to explain, "I wasn't touching your head, it was the orange cat's. Look at its chubby, round appearance, don't you want to touch it?"

After saying that, Lin Sui'an coughed lightly and changed the subject: "By the way, how are you feeling now?"

"It's very light." Ivana paused for a moment. "No... it's very empty. The body is gone, only this little thing is floating."

"Would you like to go in and rest in the card room?"

"No need. You brought me out and woke me up because you want to ask me some questions, right?"

"I also want to tell you some things that happened to me in the game."