The Card Cultivation System
CCS-76

Huo Bing's body shone. The longer the brighter.

Xika and Heiliao looked at Huo Bing with shocked gazes. A moment later, Heiliao's countenance turned ugly.

"What did he do?" asked Xika who saw the expression on Heiliao's face.

"He was about to blow himself up. Maybe he can't face reality."

"What?"

Xika came straight over and shouted,

"Hoi stupid bird! What the hell are you doing? Stop doing it right now!"

But Huo Bing did not hear it. It was too late in his sadness. For him, he was not worthy of living. He wanted to end his life and nothing could change his decision.

Xika continued to shout, but Huo Bing grew even more radiant.

"It's urgent. If this continues, it will soon explode!"

"Ck, shit!"

If words do not work, they will use action.

Xika came forward and punched Huo Bing in the face.

Huo Bing's body stopped for a moment. It does not get brighter, but it does not dim.

"Xika."

"What's? Where's your brain, stupid?"

Then Xika kicked the Huo Bing she received without a fight.

"Why did you end your life?!"

"Because I don't deserve to live. Thank you for waking me up."

"Ck, you half-baked bird! I'll make you 'ripe'."

After that Xika attacked Huo Bing many times. Starting from the punch, kick even to the curse. Huo Bing was completely resigned. He did not hold on or evade at all.

Xika ran out of sense. What should he do to awaken Huo Bing?

"Stay alive, fool!"

"For what? I've made many lives lost. And to them I am their savior. I killed them."

"That's why you have to live stupidly! You think only you feel guilty? You think you've made so many lives lost that you don't deserve to live, so you're gonna end your life?"

".................."

Huo Bing was silent unable to retaliate.

"YOU MUST LIVE A FOOL! HOW DO YOU THINK IT WILL BE WHEN YOU DIE, HUH?!! WHO WILL ACCOMPANY ME IN ARGUING?"

".................."

"Do you think I'll let you die, HUH?! YOU FEEL GUILTY? THEN KEEP LIVING A FOOL! LIVE TO ATONE FOR ALL YOUR SINS! WHAT DO YOU THINK IS MY REASON FOR SURVIVING UNDER ALL THAT INSULT AND SOBBING?"

The deg!

Slowly Huo Bing raised his head. The light appeared in his eyes.

"If you feel guilty, then live to atone for your sins......................"

"I know how you feel. I experienced the same thing. But that's why we can't die. Death is too light for us. Haven't. It's not time for us to die yet."

"But. I don't have the right to breathe the same air as them."

"But you don't have the right to just die either. If you feel guilty about the lost life, stay alive. Stay alive and avenge them so that they can settle down in nature."

Huo Bing silently heard Xika's words. His body was no longer glowing. But he still needs a reason to live.

Xika knew that. And he gave it.

"You almost killed me, too. You have sinned against me too.

Therefore, atone for your sins against me. By staying alive. Understood it?

If that's not enough, I'll give you another reason.

You have allowed me to cultivate. And I haven't returned your services. Our deal is not over. You can't leave me. Are you trying to make me break my promise?"

Huo Bing smiled slightly.

"alright. I'll stay alive."

Moreover, there was still one more reason that Xika had yet to say. That night, when he told Huo Bing his mass, the bird promised in front of him. Although he was asleep, somehow Huo Bing's words entered his head. And he heard Huo Bing's promise intact.

You haven't kept your promise. How do you know that I won't experience anything like that again if you're not with me?

After that they sit together and spend time having fun. They share stories with each other. Both pathetic and pleasant.

Huo Bing and Heiliao told the story of their lives. While Xika, she has not lived long enough to be able to share her story, so she tells the stories she read as a child.

Both Huo Bing and Heiliao acknowledged that the child was talented in that field. Through her story, it is clear that Xika really likes books. Especially books that contain various stories about life.

That night, they feast on the flesh of Cobra, the leader. And the meat was really good as they thought. Their choice to eat it last was indeed not wrong.

The next day, they discussed the corpse of the snake.

"So, what should we do about the corpse? I have absolutely no idea what formation is engraved beneath it." Huo Bing asked very differently from yesterday.

Yesterday his eyes were no longer colored, and had no reason to live. Today, his eyes are so different. His eyes carried the color of the spirit of life. So too with his tone of speech. Before was a hopeless blank tone waiting for death to pick up. But now, it is a confident and anticipatory tone to look forward to what the future holds.

"Should we try to activate that formation? Maybe it's the key to getting us out of this place."

"But it's dangerous. Neither I nor the half-baked bird knew what formation it was. We don't know what the formation will do."

"But how can we know what formation it is if we don't try it?"

"..................."

"If only there were other living beings so we could ask him to try the formation."

But there are other living beings. From the ground, came out some small but quite fat worms.

Huo Bing directed his beak to target the worms.

Grep's!

Xika held off both halves of Huo Bing.

"W-what are you doing?" she asked in a trembling voice as she tried to remove her beak from Xika's grip.

"You can't eat them. They are our hope."

"What?"

While Xika was trying hard to hold Huo Bing back, Heiliao walked forward then opened her mouth. The black balls came out and approached the worms.

Plop!

The worms entered Heiliao's black sphere. He intended to secure the worm from Huo Bing, but the bird misunderstood and thought Heiliao was also about to eat it. Though Heiliao would not want to eat such insects.

"Hey! Find your own lunch there!"

"What's? So Cobra meat alone is still not enough? Have you been eating those worms all this time?"

"................"

Huo Bing was unable to answer because Xika's words were correct.

"It is only fitting that Heiliao and I have almost never seen any other living creature. Isn't that Heiliao?" xika asked Heiliao.

As Xika turned her head, she saw a lizard in Heiliao's mouth.

"Hm? A-ah, that's right."

"..................."

Slurp!

Heiliao hurriedly swallowed the lizard.

"W-What's with that expression of yours? Do you have a problem?"

"My only problem is you two."

Then Xika approached with a horrifying look.

So actually, so far there is no other living creature, but almost entirely eaten by the two creatures. It was only fitting that Xika thought that there were no other creatures in that place, before he saw them, they had all been eaten away.

Finally Xika asked Heiliao to catch a few more lizards without eating them. It seemed like just a few worms was not enough to see what formation it was. He asked Heiliao because he thought Heiliao was more trustworthy in this regard.

But he was wrong. Just as the thought flashed through his head, he saw a tail twitching out of Heiliao's mouth.

Gluey!

Heiliao tried to swallow his prey as quickly as possible. Then he put on an innocent look.

"Ekhem. I-I've been looking everywhere, but I haven't found a single tail."

"Oh yeah? I've found one." said Xika with a smile on her face.

"really? Where's where?" heiliao asked as she turned her head left-right.

"You've just eaten" Xika said with the same smile as before, but somehow this time made Heiliao feel a bad feeling.

"Really? A pity......Nothing can be done then."

"No, there's still something to do."

"Eh? What do you want to do?" asked Heiliao who saw Xika approaching herself with an increasingly sinister gaze.

"Splitting your stomach to pick up the lizard you just ate. If it's fast, maybe he's alive."

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!"