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

Without delay, Lin Sui'an drew the second card and walked to the cow-and-cat.

"seal up."

A flash of white light, and the cow cat disappeared, replaced by a cow cat image on the card, with a "D" in the top left corner and the word "Bouncing" in the bottom right corner.

The third one is a tabby cat, D; the fourth one is D; the fifth one...

Lin Sui'an played one card after another, his movements getting faster and faster. He would place the card face down, pour his mind into it, and a flash of white light would appear. The cat would disappear, and the card would take shape.

Lin Sui'an walked up to the last cat, a calico cat, the first cat to speak in the dungeon. Lin Sui'an couldn't help but feel a little excited. She had a feeling that the calico cat might give her a surprise.

Lin Sui'an turned the cards face down and pressed his fingers against the back of the cards.

"Seal." A white light appeared, the calico cat disappeared, and the card was formed.

Lin Sui'an flipped it over and saw that the letter in the upper left corner was no longer D, but C.

"This one is different!" Lin Sui'an's voice rose, sounding somewhat happy. Hehe, she guessed right!

Li Yu leaned closer: "C? C-level?"

"Hmm." Lin Sui'an picked up the card. The calico cat on the card was sitting down, with distinct fur colors. The figure behind the cat was much clearer than the shadows on the other cards, and you could see the outline of a short-haired woman.

The four words in the bottom right corner are "Imitating Sound".

Lin Sui'an laid out the nine cards in a row on the table.

Including Ivana, there are a total of nine Ds and one C.

"Ivana." Lin Sui'an looked up at Ivana, who was still floating in mid-air. "Think about it, is there any information we've missed?"

Ivana thought for a few seconds and shook her head: "No more for now. I've told you everything a cat can sense."

"Okay." Lin Sui'an held up the card. "Then you should go back and rest first, take a break."

"Okay." Ivana's soul shrank back onto the card, the light receded, and she sank back into the card.

Lin Sui'an placed the orange cat card next to the nine cards, then turned to Jiang Lai: "Sister Jiang Lai, there are ten cards, nine Ds and one C. Should we wake them up one by one and ask them?"

Jiang Lai glanced at the ten cards on the table: "We need to wake them all up, but we can wait on the others."

Her finger pointed to the C-grade calico cat: "Wake this one up first."

Lin Sui'an picked up the C-grade card and twirled it in his hand: "You want to see if there's a difference between a C-grade and a D-grade?"

"Yes." Jiang Lai nodded. "Ivana said that the souls will be continuously extracted. A D-level soul might be extracted down to only D-level, while a C-level soul means that the remaining amount of this soul is more than the other nine."

"Either she died late, and the extraction time was short."

"Either her soul was stronger than others when she was alive."

"Either she has a way to enhance her soul power."

Chen Zheng added from the side, "Regardless of the type, the information density that a Class C certificate can provide is theoretically greater than that of a Class D certificate."

Lin Sui'an placed the cards face up, and the calico cat squatted in the middle of the cards, with the shadow of a short-haired woman pressing down on the cat from behind.

She focused her mind and peered into the cards.

found it.

This soul was a size larger than Ivana's, huddled in the center of the card, curled up, and motionless.

Lin Sui'an's mind went to it, and his soul trembled.

"release."

The card surface glows, gold patterns flow, and white light surges from the card, gathering in mid-air.

A woman with short, ear-length hair appeared in mid-air. Her features were distinct, and she had short hair, narrow shoulders, and faint traces of military uniform on her body.

Lin Sui'an recognized the face; it was the woman inside the peeping crystal sphere in the [Devil's Forest] instance.

Song Jinshu.

A very soft gasp came from behind him. Chen Zheng's pen fell to the ground, but he didn't pick it up.

Jiang Lai staggered forward, reached out her hand, but then stopped.

The soul slowly opened its eyes in mid-air, its blurry vision sweeping across the room, over the instruments, over the faces of several people, and finally landing on Jiang Lai's face.

"Jiang Xiaolai?" The woman's voice was soft, tinged with doubt.

Jiang Lai's lips moved slightly, but she didn't make a sound. Then she moved them again.

"Ah Jin." The two words were squeezed out of Jiang Lai's mouth, her voice very low and trembling.

Song Jinshu floated in mid-air, the outline of her soul beginning to tremble: "Jiang Xiaolai, I..."

"I……"

Her lips moved, the exact same movement as in my memory.

"I failed."

"I didn't make it back alive."

Jiang Lai took a step forward: "You haven't failed."

"You survived two rounds, your strategy was written into the tactics database, and your strategy saved eleven players worldwide, Ah Jin."

Song Jinshu's soul trembled even more violently, the outline of her short hair swaying and gathering in the air.

"But... I'm dead, the monster has invaded."

"Even if you died in battle," Jiang Lai's voice trailed off, "you did not fail."

"Ah Jin, you are the pride of our Dragon Kingdom."

"Ah Jin, I'm so glad to see you again." As she said this, Jiang Lai couldn't help but shed a tear.

Chen Zheng bent down and picked up the pen from the ground. He placed the pen tip against the record board, but didn't write anything; his hand was shaking.

Li Yu stood next to Lin Sui'an, covering her mouth with her hands, her eyes red. Lin Sui'an held the C-level card in her hand, her fingertips stroking the gold patterns on the back of the card. This was the first time she had seen Sister Jiang Lai cry.

She remembered the ice tree in the Devil's Forest, the one with four corpses strung on its branches, its leaves rustling as they rubbed together.

The memories she saw with the viewing crystal ball—a wasteland, military uniforms, a dagger, and a strange red-clad man with a hooked sickle.

"I'm sorry to the country...and the people..."

"I failed."

That ice tree is the woman standing before me.

A warrior from the Dragon Kingdom, whose memories were erased by the game after death, was stuffed into the body of a monster to hunt down her own people. Unexpectedly, she was encountered again in the [Dark Night Marketplace] dungeon.

Song Jinshu's soul trembled violently, his voice was a little hoarse, but he pretended to be relaxed: "Jiang Xiaolai, you still cry so much. It's a pity that I can't hug you this time."

"Honestly, you're already the chief of staff. If you keep acting like this, I'm going to have to criticize you."

Jiang Lai could no longer hold back. She turned her face away, covered her face with her hands, and tried to wipe away her tears, but the tears slid down her cheeks and fell down her chin.

"Oh... Sister Jiang Lai, I just remembered I have something to do, so I'll head back first. You guys chat for a bit." Lin Sui'an remembered how she used to hide away and cry when she was sad, and she felt that it wasn't the right time to ask questions.

Without waiting for Jiang Lai's response, he grabbed Xiao Yu and was about to leave the room. As he passed Jiang Lai, he stuffed the scapegoat doll into her arms, then winked at Chen Zheng and another observer: "Let's go, let's go first."

Chen Zheng immediately stood up, his steps a little flustered: "Oh right, I just remembered, I have to process Xiaoyu's school transfer today. The principal just called me, I have to go now. Xiaoyu, let's go."

Little Fish's sadness came to an abrupt end: Huh? I'm already in the army, do I still have to go to school?