VCRMM: Chapter 165

The living room was extra quiet.

Xu Sili waited patiently while staring at the card of the girl placed on the table.

He didn’t know what choice this girl called Lilith would make, but if she really refused to show her abilities, he probably would have to keep her in a card box and she would continue waiting for her destined person.

After all, he should be cautious in the face of the unknown.

He had a big family and business now. He had to think about Roland first in everything he did.

Finally, under his gaze, Lilith closed her eyes.

She refused? It seemed it was impossible to understand the story behind this card… Xu Sili thought with some disappointment.

He reached out to put the card away. Then at this moment, he saw an icon slowly appear under the card.

The icon was also blue. It was close to the color of the girl’s blue hair and eyes. Xu Sili looked at it carefully and found that the icon seemed to be a book.

Could this be Lilith’s ability or one of her abilities?

Xu Sili curiously activated the Insight technique and found that the information of the card had changed.

[Card (Lilith Carter)]

[Level: Four stars.

Description: A mysterious girl who was forcibly transformed into a card. She is showing the world one of her abilities.

Card Skills:

Teaching: Support skill, can be learned by releasing the card. Current open knowledge: introductory skills for card masters.]

Xu Sili read the information of the card and was stunned when he saw the new skill displayed by the girl.

Introductory skills for a card master?

F*k!

Was this Lilith a card master mentor?

He stared at the card for a long time before suddenly remembering something. Then he quickly opened the future forum.

If this card girl was really a card master mentor, there should be relevant posts on the future forum. From these posts, he could know whether this Lilith could be trusted or not.

Unfortunately, the forum might have information on the card master but Xu Sili didn’t see what he needed.

It was because the search basically just found help posts.

A player was given the card master profession transfer task which was very difficult. Judging from the time when the post was published, the player had spent more than a year without finding where the card master mentor was.

He asked for help on the forum and got some clues, but according to the feedback, these clues didn’t help much.

Xu Sili turned to the last post in time.

In this post, the player who triggered the task complained about the difficulty. It wasn’t very popular and there were only a dozen replies to the post. As for whether the player had completed the subsequent transfer, there was no feedback in the post.

It seemed that the difficulty of the card master professional transfer wasn’t ordinary…

Of course, if this mysterious girl called Lilith was really a card master mentor then it made sense that the players couldn’t find her.

After all, who would’ve thought that the mentor NPC would be in a card? How wild would the player have to be to think about this and have enough luck to find her?

As he was thinking, the girl in the card opened her eyes again and looked at Xu Sili with more expectations in her eyes.

This time, Xu Sili saw what the girl meant.

He looked at the card, thought about it and frowned. “I’m not a card master and I can’t use card skills.”

Introductory skills should be for beginners but beginners couldn’t use card skills. Wasn’t this a conundrum?

However, the girl on the card shook her head slightly when she heard these words.

Xu Sili paused and pondered on it. “You mean… non-card masters can use this skill?”

Lilith nodded and gave him an affirmative answer.

Non-card masters could use cards…

It seemed that his previous guess was feasible. Xu Sili couldn’t help thinking that if ordinary people could use cards, the energy that could be exerted was absolutely terrifying.

He suppressed the excitement in his heart, looked at the Lilith card in front of him and couldn’t help feeling a bit eager to try it.

“Ah Sheng, I want to try this card.”

Xu Sili didn’t act rashly but discussed it with Si Sheng. “Do you think there is any danger?”

He wouldn’t try it if there was danger.

Si Sheng glanced at him and the card. Then he reached out to pick up the card. There was a slight flash in his eyes, as if he was carefully feeling something.

The girl on the card looked at him with a trace of uneasiness on her face. She didn’t dare to look directly at him, as if she was quite afraid of Si Sheng.

Obviously, she could feel Si Sheng’s power even though she was sealed in the card.

Si Sheng glanced at it a few times before handing the card back to Xu Sili. Seeing his nervous look, Si Sheng couldn’t help the corners of his lips curving up as he comforted the young man, “You can try it.”

Xu Sili was overjoyed. “Okay!”

Then he squeezed the card. He was just thinking about how to use it when a realization rose in his heart, as if some force was guiding him.

He unleashed his spiritual power and tentatively extended it toward the card. Then he wrapped his spiritual power around it.

The moment his purple spiritual power wrapped around the card, the girl on the card suddenly moved. The hand on her lower abdomen was raised and she made a mysterious gesture.

At the same time, in Xu Sili’s perception, the card released a dazzling blue light that almost drowned him.

Xu Sili instinctively closed his eyes.

It was just that this blue light directly acted on his spiritual world. Even if he closed his eyes, he couldn’t block out the blue light.

Xu Sili thought of Si Sheng’s words and didn’t panic. He waited calmly and opened his eyes when the blue light faded.

Then he found that he was no longer in the cabin of the spaceship but had come to a room that looked like a study.

The decorations of the room were classical and had a touch of a literary and artistic atmosphere. There were two huge bookshelves on the left and right sides. There was also a set of tables and chairs next to the bookshelves. On the table were a set of cards and what looked to be tools.

Xu Sili glanced at it. He suddenly came to an unfamiliar area so he couldn’t help being a bit wary.

The next moment, he saw blue light in the center of the room and the slender figure of a girl slowly appeared in the light.

Xu Sili was slightly taken aback.

This was Lilith Carter?

The light dissipated and the girl completely revealed her figure. Her back was to him but her identity could be seen from her wavy blue hair and the retro dress on her body.

Xu Sili stood there and looked at her without making a sound.

Perhaps she hadn’t expected him to be so quiet and not ask who she was, but in the end, the girl slowly turned around by herself.

She still had a shallow smile on her face. Then when she raised her eyes to see the scene in front of her, she suddenly froze.

“You… you…”

Her eyes widened as she looked at Si Sheng beside Xu Sili with some surprise.

Xu Sili’s lips curved. His fingers were interlocked with Si Sheng’s fingers and he didn’t feel that there was anything wrong at all.

“Are you Lilith Carter?”

He looked at the girl and asked.

Lilith recovered from her trance. She lifted her skirt and bowed at them. “Hello, I am Lilith Carter from the card civilization San Cano.”

“You can call me Lilith.”

Xu Sili could obviously feel the pride of the girl when she mentioned her origins. Just like the elementalists, she was proud of being a card master.

Unexpectedly, this ‘teaching’ card skill allowed him to communicate directly with the card character. It was surprising.

Card civilization? San Cano?

Xu Sili memorized the name of the place. Then Lilith finished bowing and straightened up again.

She looked at Xu Sili and Si Sheng, who shouldn’t have appeared together, and asked softly, “What should I call you?”

Xu Sili said, “Xu, you can call me that.”

Lilith glanced at him and knew it was a pseudonym, but she didn’t care.

She nodded and said, “Then Mr Xu, please let me teach you the introductory skills of card masters.”

Xu Sili looked at her in surprise.

Did she really bring him into this space just to pass on the card master heritage? This NPC mentor was a bit conscientious.

“Miss Lilith, I have a few questions for you before that.”

Lilith looked at him and nodded. “You ask.”

“Where is this?” Xu Sili wondered.

“This is a space built by a card illusion where you can learn how to draw cards. I will guide you to the world of card masters.”

Lilith explained seriously. In the end, her eyes fell on Si Sheng again and she continued, “I don’t know exactly how your companion came here with you but it is okay if you want to study together.”

This girl was a really good mentor. She just wanted to impart knowledge to others.

Xu Sili inwardly sighed and asked again, “Just now, I asked you if you wanted to get out of the card. You nodded and then shook your head. Why?”

Lilith looked at the two strange people in front of her. The people who came in would usually start studying quickly after she explained what this place was. They would never ask questions like this.

She wasn’t very used to it.

However, how did they know she could get out of the card? They even knew her name?

Lilith belatedly realized this. Her thinking, which had been rigid and dull due to sleeping for too long, rarely worked faster.

“How do you know my name?”

She looked at Xu Sili and asked directly.

Xu Sili paused and said with a smile, “This isn’t important.”

He couldn’t say that he saw it using the Insight technique.

Lilith glanced at him suspiciously before she showed a look of realization. “Did Cook tell you?”

Who was Cook?

Xu Sili was taken aback by her question before realizing. Was this Kuris?

As a result, Lilith continued, “But I don’t know if his name is Cook. He probably used a pseudonym like you.”

He was directly exposed but Xu Sili wasn’t embarrassed. “If the Cook you mentioned is the previous card owner then it is indeed him.”

“He gave me your card.”

Lilith showed an expression like she thought so. Then she said with some disappointment, “It seems he also failed.”

“What do you mean?” Xu Sili frowned.

Lilith looked at him and a hint of surprise appeared on her beautiful face. “That is why I nodded and shook my head.”

“I would like to leave this card but the premise is that I need to develop a card master and that master has to release me.”

“Until then, I have to stay here and I can’t leave.”

Her expression was calm when she said this. There was no trace of resentment. She was just numb.

Xu Sili looked at her. He hadn’t expected there to be such a restriction on her. In a sense, this was also a curse.

“In the past, I have met many people who claimed to be able to save me but they all failed.”

Lilith lowered her eyes slightly.

They also took advantage of her eagerness and did many bad things. Later, she changed hands several times. The people she met were both good and bad but she never mentioned it again.

In any case, the end result was the same.

She didn’t even think the two people in front of her could grow into card masters. After all, so much time had passed and many things were no longer the same.

The only thing she could do was continue to pass on the flame of the card civilization and guide anyone who was lucky enough to talk to her to learn to be a card master.

Seeing Lilith’s bleak expression, Xu Sili thought for a while before asking, “Does it have to be a card master that saves you?”

Lilith nodded.

She had met many people and tried many methods, but all of them failed even if they had learned some card-based skills.

This was her test and her mission.

Xu Sili saw Lilith’s childish face and couldn’t help secretly cursing the planners for not being human. The setting of this mentor was too miserable.

The key was that the clue was hidden so deeply that no player had successfully changed jobs in the next ten years.

For the timeline of the future forum, it wasn’t known when this unlucky girl would see the light of day again.

“So can we start studying?” At this time, Lilith controlled her expression and looked up at Xu Sili.

Xu Sili wasn’t very anxious.

In any case, this card was in his hand and he couldn’t lose it in the short term. He could learn to be a card master at any time.

“I still want to hear your story.”

He was really curious about who this Lilith was before she was sealed and…

“The San Cano you just mentioned, this is your homeland right? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it.”

There were more than 200 nations in the interstellar world and he naturally couldn’t remember them all. However, since the players of the future forum couldn’t find any relevant clues, it was likely that this was an ancient nation that no longer existed.

Lilith’s numb expression showed a hint of sadness. “San Cano was destroyed in a disaster. I might be the only card master who survived.”

“The things that exist in the past are so distant that they are blurred in my mind. I’m afraid I can’t tell you about them.”

“It is really regrettable.”

Xu Sili sighed and nodded. He didn’t like revealing people’s scars so after his guess was confirmed, he just said, “Then let’s start learning.”

“Okay.”

At the mention of learning, Lilith perked up. She waved her hand and a book flew from the shelf to in front of her. It levitated and turned automatically to the first page.

“Please sit down at the desk. Today, I will explain to you the basics of cards. After understanding the common sense knowledge, you will be able to get started faster.”

Xu Sili sat down on the chair. Si Sheng came to stand beside him. Under Lilith’s confused gaze, he conjured another set of tables and chairs.

Then he sat beside Xu Sili. He seemed like a good student just looking at his upright sitting posture.

Lilith looked at him with a frown. Then she asked directly, “How did you do it?”

“It is just an illusion,” Si Sheng replied.

Lilith’s frown increased even more. This was true but as the owner of this place, even she couldn’t add things as she wanted.

If she could, she would’ve remodeled this dull, antique-like room long ago.

She said, “You’re amazing.”

Si Sheng nodded before ignoring her again.

Lilith also withdrew her attention. She turned to the first page of the book, cleared her throat and prepared to start class.

She had just made the opening statement but got stuck again before she could continue.

She stared at Si Sheng.

To be precise, she was staring at what came out of his hand.

She saw that there was an extra tray in Si Sheng’s hand. On it was a pot of coffee and a cup. This was followed by two small plates containing small snacks of exquisite style.

He seemed to feel this wasn’t enough so he waved his hand lightly and a small dish of sugar cubes appeared on the tray.

He nodded with satisfaction. He put the tray on the table, poured coffee and added the sugar cubes to make it Xu Sili’s favorite drink.

Xu Sili was listening carefully to the class. Once the teacher suddenly stopped, he looked sideways and saw Si Sheng place a cup of coffee in front of him. In addition to the coffee, there were small snacks.

“……”

Was it really okay to do this in class? The small teacher’s eyes were about to pop out.

Xu Sili looked at Lilith and smiled with some embarrassment. He just wanted Si Sheng to put it away when he saw the girl suddenly purse her mouth and water appeared in her blue eyes.

F*k, he made the little teacher cry from anger…

Xu Sili was thinking about how to remedy this when he saw the blue-haired girl pouting and saying with teary eyes, “Wu wu wu, Lilith also wants to drink. Lilith hasn’t eaten in years…”

Xu Sili, “……?”

Seeing the tears in the girl’s eyes and how she looked like she was going to cry at any time, Xu Sili quickly moved the tray in front of her.

“You drink. There are also snacks and you can have some.”

Lilith sniffed. Then she looked at him pitifully and asked, “Is it really possible?”

“Uhuh. Let’s eat.”

Xu Sili smiled stiffly and pushed the things in front of her again.

Lilith took the coffee and took a small sip. The bitterness filled with a sweet taste made the numbness of her eyes fade a bit. Her expression finally came alive.

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