Playing Cards Is the Fundamental Logic

"Look! That black thing waiting at the red light!"

Bai Lili shouted.

The two in the back seat turned from the street and looked toward the pitch-black race car to the right of the intersection, meeting the gaze of the Obsidian Shadow behind the wheel.

Almost the instant their eyes met, the black car lurched—

Vrooom!!

The engine roared to life, its four tires briefly spinning. Ignoring the red light and the traffic, it floored the accelerator and shot toward the open road ahead.

"It's running! Follow it!" "Hold on, you two!"

Hellcat yelled, and Bai Lili wasted no time. She floored it too. The magically enhanced sedan roared at full power, tires squealing as she cranked the wheel into a right-angle drift and stuck close to the Obsidian Shadow's race car.

"We finally caught it. We need to take it down and find out what secrets that car is hiding."

Nan Jiayu continued,

"Bai Lili, can you drag it into a card duel? That might keep it from escaping."

"You seriously want me to play cards with it?"

"Didn't we say fighting in this Mindscape mostly comes down to card games? If you don't play cards, what are you going to do, get out and punch that Shadow?" Hellcat retorted.

Bai Lili fell silent. That was exactly what she'd been thinking—

Force the Shadow's car to stop, have all three of them charge out and gang up on it, let Hellcat smack it to its knees with a couple of Cat Fist moves, then interrogate it about Garuda.

That'd suit your Villain persona better, Haki Cat. Bai Lili didn't dare say that part aloud.

"If those are the rules of this Mindscape, we'd better follow them to the letter," Su Tianqing said.

"If we break the rules of combat,