Chapter 1637 He woke up, but not fully awake?

"Oh, a single six?"

Nikita saw the cards clearly, and his smile became even more arrogant.

He raised his hand and slapped down a King of Spades, declaring with great confidence:

"Old K is in charge!"

Lin Shi refused, and Lin Cheng immediately played a two of clubs.

Nikita immediately drew his trump card to suppress the opponent, his face full of confidence.

Seeing this, Lin Cheng frowned, lightly pulled out the King of Spades, and placed it on the deck.

"Bomb!!" Nikita seemed to have anticipated that the opponent would play this card, and slapped out four fours.

Lin Shi blinked and continued to refuse.

Lin Cheng didn't intend to play a card either, and silently shook his head.

"Then don't blame me for showing off!" Nikita's smile stretched almost to her ears.

"Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, a straight!"

Lin Shi and Lin Cheng shook their heads again, indicating that they could not afford it.

"Hehe, I only have five cards left, Lin~Cheng~~~" Nikita brandished his cards in a show of force, played a three of diamonds, and then turned to Lin Shi, who was also a peasant, and said:

"If you have a bomb, deploy it now! I want a super multiplier!"

Lin Shi shrugged and dutifully tossed out four sevens.

But just then, Lin Cheng threw out a King, the kind with a wild card.

Five cards instantly wiped the smile off Nikita's face.

However, she quickly forced herself to speak:

"I didn't realize there was a big bomb hidden there... but it's useless!"

"You have twelve cards left, but I only have four!"

"I refuse to believe you can beat me with twelve cards today!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Cheng's tightly furrowed brows completely relaxed, and a strange expression appeared on his face:

"A twelve-card instant kill is possible, isn't it..."

Lin Shi silently examined the deck of cards, his expression growing serious.

"Maybe my foot! You put up a single card and I'll take care of it!" Nikita's arrogance remained undiminished.

"Today I'll show you what 'a stepmother teaching her son' really means!"

"I'll beat you until you cry for your mommy! Hiahiahia~~~"

Lin Cheng: "..."

"What if I actually win?"

"If you actually beat me with these twelve cards, I'll eat the ship's cannons right now!" Nikita shouted, her gambling temper flaring.

"Alright then..." Lin Cheng pursed his lips and threw all twelve cards in his hand onto the deck.

"airplane."

Nikita froze on the spot.

With his eyes wide open and lips slightly parted, he remained motionless for a full minute.

Until Lin Shiyou gently reminded him:

"Would you like me to help you disassemble the ship's guns into smaller pieces?"

Nikita's expression was incredibly interesting at that moment!

Not knowing what to say, I could only remain silent.

Fortunately, the data panel sounded just in time, rescuing her from this embarrassing situation.

"Uh... someone messaged me, let me check it first, so I don't miss anything important..."

Nikita abruptly changed the subject and opened the data panel to browse through it carefully.

Lin Cheng and Lin Shi exchanged a smile, then shook their heads helplessly once more.

The two of them were just playing cards with Nikita to kill time.

Naturally, one wouldn't dwell too much on winning or losing the final game.

Instead, I was a little curious about who had just sent Nikita the message.

Has something happened?

Do we need their help?

"Hey? Ma Shouzi messaged me saying that Lin Shou is bringing Wu Siyuan over?"

Nikita couldn't keep anything to herself, and the moment she saw the message on the panel, she blurted it out:

"They said they were ambushed and injured?!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Cheng and Lin Shi's relaxed expressions vanished instantly, and they immediately became alert.

Where are they now?

Lin Cheng pressed for an answer, and a burning heat slowly rose from his palm.

With just a thought, one's innate abilities can be activated immediately, throwing oneself into battle.

Nikita's mouth opened slightly, as if she was about to speak.

But a response came from above first:

"We've reached the bow of the ship."

Nikita and the others instinctively looked towards the bow of the ship.

After recognizing the two familiar figures, he suddenly came to his senses and looked up sharply.

Elisa, who had been hovering near the mast with her eyes closed, was now slowly descending onto the deck.

The eyes that reopened shimmered like a wide, boundless river, flowing silently.

"Elisa, you're awake!?"

Nikita's gaze kept jumping between the cat-eared girl and the approaching Lin Shou, his head shaking like a rattle drum, and the paper strips on his face rustling.

“She’s awake, but not fully awake.” Elisa landed on the deck without offering further explanation.

She simply turned slightly and walked lightly toward Lin Shou.

"Put her down," Elisa said calmly.

"Otherwise, your sense of 'presence' will also be eroded and stripped away."

"What?" Lin Shou looked completely bewildered, clearly not understanding what the cat-eared girl meant.

However, Lin Cheng and Lin Shi reacted quickly, stepping forward to support the unconscious Wu Siyuan on either side and laying her flat on the deck.

however,

Lin Shougang stepped back two steps, and the woman's body, which had been lying quietly, began to twitch slowly again.

The relaxed muscles gradually stiffened, and the whole person began to contort in a terrifying posture.

"Sister Wu..."

Seeing this, Lin Shou wanted to step forward again.

Fortunately, Lin Cheng and Lin Shi, who were nearby, reacted quickly and held him down.

Elisa approached slowly, raising her right hand in a gesture.

The next instant, just like Xu Xiao, he used his mental power to lift Wu Siyuan up.

The contortion of her body was quietly stopped, and the woman's pained expression returned to its peaceful state.

The invisible healing process takes place quietly.

During this process, Lin Cheng and the others on the other side noticed that the shimmering light in Elisa's eyes, like the flowing water of a river, was slowly diminishing.

After about a dozen breaths, Wu Siyuan was laid back flat on the deck.

Elisa closed her eyes wearily and said softly:

"All right."

"Tell her not to use her talent ability for the time being."

After saying that, without waiting for Lin Shou and the others to respond, his figure rose slowly again, as if it were a weightless feather.

Finally, it hovered again beside the mast of the black-sailed ship, reverting to its previous 'reclusive' state.

Nikita, who witnessed the whole thing, blinked and tentatively shouted:

"Elisa? Are you still awake?"

There was no response.

"Just now... Elisa must have sensed something and forcibly woke up for a moment, right?" Lin Shi guessed.

"Sister Wu only helped Xu Xiao locate the Palu child, how did she end up in such a mess?" Lin Shou looked at the unconscious woman on the deck and said with great heartache:

"Even Xu Xiao's use of his authority couldn't completely alleviate her abnormal condition; Elisa needs to be forcibly awakened to help cure her..."

"Even the Holy Mother's use of her authority and power couldn't eliminate the strange phenomena surrounding Wu Siyuan?" Nikita finally realized the seriousness of the problem and frowned as she pressed for an answer.

"What exactly happened down there?"

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