Strange Cards

Chapter 288 No Need to Meet Again

Shi Yu was stunned when she heard the old woman's words, and then Yu Yan's undisguised laughter rang out.

"Hahahaha!!!"

"Yes, Grandma Nan, this girl is exceptionally beautiful."

"She's the most beautiful girl in our school's freshman year."

Shi Yu stared at Yu Yan, who was laughing wildly, and said calmly.

"If you keep laughing, I'll make you a starter."

Yu Yan immediately fell silent, while the others just chuckled secretly.

After all, Shiyu was too good-looking; it was hard not to mistake her for a girl with her pretty face and gray hair.

Gu Yue walked over and gently patted her mother's hand.

"mom."

"This is your son-in-law's colleague, a boy."

"He might be a little good-looking, but he's a real man!"

"Ohhhhhh"

The old woman turned her head to look at Shiyu, stared at her for a while, then sighed and shook her head.

"What a beautiful girl."

Shiyu simply stopped steaming and let people say whatever they want.

After everyone finished their tea, Qi Wuqing cleared a small space and addressed his father-in-law.

"dad."

Do you have a map of the fishpond you contracted?

"promise."

The old man got up and took a scroll from under the TV cabinet. When he unfolded it, it looked like a mountain.

The area marked with a red circle in the mountains is where the fishpond is located. Shi Yu roughly calculated that the fishpond was not small.

"As you can see from the map, this fishpond is not small."

"Moreover, because it is a fishpond in the mountains, there may be some underground fissures or the like, which has caused considerable difficulties for our work."

"Xiaoyu, do you think there's any way?"

After rubbing his chin for a while, Shi Yu gently tapped the table with his hand.

"Don't rush the task."

"What we need to determine is exactly what that wreaking havoc in the fishpond is."

"Is it a ghost, or some other unclean thing?"

"Catching it is simple. At worst, I can just use my ability to seal off the fishpond and drain the water. Since it can't hide in the water, it will naturally reveal its true form."

"What I fear most is that it's a rule-breaking demon."

"If a rule were implemented that we couldn't get wet, we'd all be out of a job if we accidentally got wet."

"So what do you think, Xiaoyu?"

Liu An was peeling an apple with a small knife, and after finishing, he cut it into four pieces. He then handed one piece to Shi Yu.

While eating an apple, Shigure calmly said...

"I've already sent Nine Shadows and Steel Claw out to gather intelligence."

"The Nine Shadows are made up of my shadows anyway, so as long as I don't die, they won't die either."

"Perfect for this kind of pioneering work."

Before long, a huge, ferocious figure emerged from the shadows. Shi Yu looked at the wounds on Steel Claw's body and couldn't help but feel a little angry.

"Did someone lay a hand on you?"

"What happened to your injuries?"

Steel Claw shook his head and lay down on the ground.

"No one laid a hand on me."

"The injuries on my body are from fighting that ghost. If the Nine Shadows hadn't risked being torn apart to send me out, I probably would have died there too."

"What level is this ghost?"

Guan Yun, holding a tablet, looked at Steel Claw curiously, while Steel Claw simply recovered and stood up again.

"There wasn't much intelligence; we only retrieved one piece of special intelligence and one piece of graded intelligence."

"There's bad news and worse news. Which would you like to hear first?"

"Since they're all bad anyway, let's just read them together."

"The bad news is that all the workers who fell into the fishpond are beyond saving. We searched the bottom of the pond for a long time but couldn't find their bodies."

"The worse news is that the thing is also, as the Lord said, a rule-based demon."

"The rule of this ghost is that you can't get wet. If you fight it while you're wet, its fighting power will increase several times or even dozens of times."

"I barely managed to escape only because Jiuying forcibly activated the Nine Shadows Fusion to send me out. That guy is too strong."

After thinking for a while, Shigure patted Steel Claw on the shoulder and said.

"Thank you for your hard work."

"Once we find a solution in time, I will also find a way to create a set of rules specifically for you, so that your combat power can continue to increase."

"Nightmare level is never the top; only by possessing even more terrifying power can one gradually become the strongest."

"I think I know how to solve this. Let's all come together and discuss it."

The people discussing things inside the room were completely unaware that two figures standing on a tree in the distance were quietly watching them.

One was Chun, who had short pigtails, and the other was Gu Nian, who only had one right arm left.

Gu Nian shook his head as he looked at his left arm, which he had to lose because of sealing Joker, and then continued to look at the people in the house.

"Aren't you going to check on them, boss?"

"Didn't you say that we can decide everything except the script?"

Gu Nian gently shook his head and placed his only remaining right hand on the hilt of Bai Lei's sword.

"I'm not stupid."

"Do you really think there are no complaints about hunters in the country? Many people have lost their jobs and even their lives because of hunters, so naturally some people hate them to the core."

"If I go to meet them, my identity as the leader of the otherworldly beings and my brother-in-law's identity as the Southern Headhunter will have the most terrifying impact. If someone with ulterior motives uses it to do something they shouldn't, then there will be no way to undo it."

"Could it be...?"

"Of course I can do what you want, but there's no need."

Gu Nian brushed aside her wind-blown hair and said calmly.

"My identity is a huge threat. If I go out to meet them now, it proves that I still have a weakness, and who knows if someone will use them to threaten me later."

"If that's the case, why bother seeing each other again? The final act of the play has already sacrificed enough people; I don't want to see anyone else sacrificed."

"For me now, it's enough to just look at them from afar, to let them know that I'm alive."

"You've got a real knack for living life to the fullest, boss."

Chun took a lollipop out of her pocket, tore off the wrapper, and put it in her mouth.

Gu Nian took a lollipop and put it in his mouth.

"I could live a life as full of wisdom as you."

"You can't hide anything from your heart. Basically, whatever you want to do or don't want to do will be written on your face."

"You mainly slack off and only occasionally do nothing; I've hardly ever seen you take any missions seriously."

"I'm on a mission!"

"The copper coin that could support a small world during the Evil Buddha incident was taken out by me."

"But that's a script I wrote in advance and the copper coins I gave you."