The Card Cultivation System
CCS-36

The girl ate it well. Unconcerned by Xika's astonished gaze who saw her had eaten Black Scorchpion's flesh more than she thought, even though Xika ate more of the girl.

"So....Yin Xingli, right? What did you do before, before being sucked into this place before? Wait, were you also sucked in by the black hole in the air?"

"........"

The girl came back as before. Not answering, not even glancing at Xika in the slightest. He focused on the meat in front of him.

Seeing that, Xika sighed. Then he spoke,

"Hahh........After eating meat given by a stranger, then silence the person. Ahhh...... This world is completely destroyed. Is there any ethics in the world?"

Then the girl was silent for a moment. Finally he nodded because he was not good with Xika's words and had eaten Xika's meat for free. He wanted to thank her before, but she made him owe more and more.

While Xika looked at the girl with a strange look.

"Huo Bing, Huo Bing!"

"What?"

"It looks like the girl has a problem with her head. Did I take him too fast? Or was he injured during the fight just that I didn't notice it?"

"What makes you think the girl has a problem with her head?"

"I asked 'what did you do before?' and he answered with a nod. Youunderstand?

It's like you're asking what you had for lunch? and you answer it by nodding."

"........"

Huo Bing had no response on what Xika was thinking, but to her it made sense.

Xika spoke again,

"Do you think all his luck was spent on his face? So the other part doesn't have a good thing anymore."

"Looks like. Meeting you already proves he has bad luck. Especially being stuck in this weird place with you."

"Damn it! Can you not mock me and focus on what I'm saying?"

"It doesn't seem to."

"So, miss Yin."

Xika looked at the girl and she remained motionless even though she was summoned.

So Xika tried to upset him.

"Alright then Xingli."

The girl was silent for a while then looked at him sharply, a sign that she objected to being called Xika like that, as if they already had a close relationship.

But Xika paid no heed to the sharp gaze of the girl. He would only stop when the girl spoke.

But whatever Xika did the girl didn't talk anymore. It seemed like Xika had to settle for hearing her name 3 times.

'Know that I should have pretended not to have heard it more just now' XIka thought.

"Xingli. What's your next plan? After finishing off the meat of the stranger and not answering all his questions of course" Xika said deliberately in order to make the girl answer him.

The girl kept quiet and blinked her eyes a few times, then nodded.

And Xika was getting confused with this girl in front of her. It came to his mind to ask whether he was human or not but he paused for fear that the girl was offended.

"Do you mind if we travel together? It's probably safer than being alone in a strange place like this."

The girl was silent for half a minute. He was confused if he answered Xika's question or not, because for him it was an unimportant question. Then he shook his head.

And Xika's face turned a little disappointed, just a little, and it was just a moment that she showed and the girl didn't notice it.

But Xika misunderstood.

What Xingli meant was 'no, I don't mind traveling with you', but what Xika thought was 'no, I don't want to travel with you'.

Then Xika stood up.

"Well, if you mind."

Then Xika walked away.

But the girl stood up and followed Xika with meat in her hands and mouth and a sword in her other hand.

Xika walked for a while then realized that the girl was walking behind her.

Looks like we're heading in the same direction.

So Xika turned to head in a different direction to the girl. Because he thought, if the girl did not want to be with him, he would not disturb her and give her privacy.

But once again the girl followed him again.

Xika shut up for a moment. Then he walked again.

And the girl followed him.

Xika turned around and asked,

"Do you........follow me?"

"......"

As usual, Xingli did not answer Xika.

Xika walked again and Xingli followed her.

Finally Xika was convinced that the girl, Xingli was indeed following her. So he sat down and waited for the girl to finish her meal.

Xingli sat down following Xika and finished his meal.

"........"

Xika took out a drink bag and threw it at Xingli who was captured perfectly by the girl, then drank it until there was not a single drop left.

"........"

Now it was Xika's turn to be silent. He was silent to see the girl draining her water supply just like that.

After seeing the face of the girl who was now quite fresh after finishing Xika's water supply, Xika got up and was about to explore this place even deeper.

Xingli followed him and walked behind.

Xika slowed her pace and tried to make herself level with Xingli.

He tried again to start the conversation. He was still curious about what he had done before in the forest.

"What did you do before in the forest, Xingli?"

"........"

"God! Can't you answer my question? Do you only talk when there's a fee? It seems to you that talking isn't free."

"......"

Again Xingli was just silent, not even glancing at Xika in the slightest.

"Bright......It's really sad for me. After all my food and drink was exhausted because I gave it to a starving stranger, he did not even answer or glance at me. Hahh."

And Xingli simply nodded in response for feeling bad about Xika's words. Again.

"HHHHHH!!!!" Xika shouted from a headache with this creature next to her.

"Can't you answer me, at least with a nod or a sash or a hand gesture?"

Xingli was silent then nodded.

"........"

Xika had already resigned herself to the girl next to her. He tried what came to his head.

"Yin Xingli is Xing Xika's woman."

Finished speaking a sword directly towards Xika's head, with the owner's flat expression of course.

Xika lowered her head then walked back after seeing Xingli not attacking her anymore.

'It turns out he still has feelings. Why didn't he show it on his face?'

Xika continues to walk with the girl who Xika thinks has a nerve paralysis on her face - perhaps a result of being too pretty - so can't have an expression.

The walk was so boring because they seemed to be walking nothing at all. The scenery that entered in their eyes was only black soil that even now there were no dried trees anymore.

So, every once in a while Xika would say words that made a sword float like 'Xingli loves me' or 'Xingli cannot live without Xika' or 'Xingli and Xika are destined to be together'.

But eventually Xika couldn't stand the 'paralyzed girl' - Xika called her so because she had no expression on her face - so she did something she rarely did.

"AHHH!!! You're driving me crazy.

What if we continue our previous fight? But this time when I win you have to respond to my words and look at me as I speak."

Xingli looked at Xika. And Xika understood Xingli's gaze, which made Huo Bing even more confused as to how Xika could understand the meaning of a gaze.

Xingli asked what he would get if he won.

"Well. Whatever you want from me, or whatever you want me to do, as long as it's within reasonable limits."

Xingli thought for a while (Xika knew it from her eyes that were staring up ) then she agreed (Xika knew it from Xingli's eyes gaze looking at the Space Shifter then looked into Xika's eyes).

Xika and Xingli looked at it for a second then both of them both jumped backwards keeping their distance.

Xika took off the Space Shifter that had previously become a bracelet and turned it into a stick. After that he threw half his cards up and coated them with various elements (with all four element symbols lit up in his right eye of course).

At the same time, Xingli held onto his white sword and threw the needles up and coated it with qi.

Xika jumped towards Xingli, and pointed her element card towards Xingli, and Xingli also approached Xika and aimed her needle at meeting the Xika card.

But Xika did not aim to pit her card with Xingli's needle.

When her card was about to meet Xingli's needle, Xika shifted it slightly so it didn't clash, then she pointed her card towards Xingli.

Xingli was quite surprised by Xika's attack because he honestly wanted to measure her strength with the Xika card that was now already coated in elements.

Xingli's needles fell in shock. Indeed, Xingli's control of object control was weaker than Xika's, let alone that he controlled it using qi which made his qi constantly depleted where Xika only needed concentration to control her cards.

Xingli fended off Xika's cards with his sword, but he was quite desperate because of the sheer number of cards attacking him.

This time Xika did not fight fair or like a man, she used all her strength.

He really wanted to win and hear Xingli speak again, which was why he used all his abilities from the start.

Xika came forward and approached Xingli who was already in a fuss facing his cards.

He was confident of winning when he saw Xingli who was very troubled.

But suddenly a knife with a white hole behind it came from his left.

Xika fended it off with the Space Shifter, but now several white holes appeared around him and took out various weapons.

Swords, spears, knives, arrows, and axes appeared around Xika and targeted her.

Wind symbols appeared in Xika's right eye and instantly a vortex of wind appeared around her and flew those weapons.

When Xika was surrounded by the white hole that took out various weapons, her concentration broke so much that the cards that attacked Xingli fell.

So now Xingli was in front of him with a sword pointing towards his stomach.