Strange Cards

Chapter 405 The Cruelty of Fate

Shi Yu gently kissed Liu Yu's forehead, then walked to the balcony and jumped off.

He knew that leaving again would only tear open Liu Yu's already repaired heart.

But he had to go; he had responsibilities on his shoulders.

He could come back to see Liu Yu from time to time, but he couldn't stay with the hunter.

Fate is so cruel and inhumane.

……

This was the most peaceful night Liu Yu had slept in all these years.

Shigure is back; for her, there couldn't be better news in the world.

If there is such a thing, it can only be Liu An's resurrection.

But she knew perfectly well that it was impossible.

"Hmm..."

"Brother Shigure..."

"Today we..."

Liu Yu woke up groggily, moved her body slightly, and suddenly realized that something was missing from her arms.

Liu Yu touched herself, and then instantly came to her senses after reaching into her empty bosom.

"Brother Shiyu?"

Liu Yu quickly changed her clothes and got out of bed. As soon as she looked up, she saw the Q-version doll on the bedside table.

Liu Yu searched the entire house, but still couldn't find Shi Yu.

She even searched the entire island for Shigure, but still couldn't find him.

She couldn't find it; she had no way to find it.

Now, her only hope is that Shiyu has gone to buy groceries.

But they waited all day, from dawn to noon, from noon to afternoon, and from afternoon to nightfall.

Shiyu has not returned.

Gu Yue has gone out twice, but Shi Yu has not returned yet.

If they had bought groceries normally, even directly from the source, they should be back by now. At the very least, Shiyu would have left a message for Liuyu.

And now everything points to one possibility.

Shigure is gone.

After finally coming back, he left again.

After a day in a daze, Liu Yu returned to her room. Looking at the room that was beginning to feel alive again, tears streamed down her face.

"Liar! You filthy liar!"

"You damned liar! Shiyu, you big liar!"

Liu Yu looked at the Q-version doll on the bedside table, hugged it to her arms, and punched it repeatedly in frustration.

But none of them dared to use too much force, for fear of breaking the doll.

Because Liu Yu knew that this was the only thing Shi Yu had left behind.

"You promised me..."

"You'll always be with me..."

After crying her heart out while hugging the doll, Liu Yu discovered that there was something underneath where the doll had been.

It was a snow-white letter, and underneath it were two items.

The two items were a token and a golden peony, which were the Xie Zhi token and hunter card that Liu Yu returned to Shi Yu last night.

With tears in her eyes, Liu Yu opened the letter and found a card inside.

The handwriting on the card was in beautiful regular script, but it was clearly not the handwriting that Shigure usually used.

It looks like it was written in a particularly neat and tidy manner.

The card is the way.

"Please forgive Shiyu for leaving without saying goodbye. He has very important things to do and he has to leave."

If you stay obediently with the hunter, it won't be long before Shigure comes to see you again.

If you don't behave, Shigure will never come to see you again. Be good, okay?

Liu Yu looked at the signature and found that it was a simple character: "界" (jie).

Liu Yu flipped the card over and found another message on the back.

I hope you live happily and become a cheerful little girl all day long.

Please forgive me, this is the last time.

Please believe me, I will always love you.

Looking at the familiar handwriting, Liu Yu could not help but recognize that it was Shi Yu's handwriting.

Liu Yu hugged the doll in her arms, tears welling up in her beautiful eyes and falling drop by drop onto the card.

"Brother Shigure..."

From then on, Liu Yu took this doll with her wherever she went.

This doll became the only thing that remained with Liu Yu, and they were inseparable from it from then on.

……

Otherworldly Base.

Gu Nian smiled as he looked at Shi Yu, whose breathing had become much more stable.

At least for now, there's no need to worry about Shigure being possessed by the Joker's consciousness.

"This kid has already developed his first nullification ability."

"Logically speaking, each Joker has two abilities, and only when the two Jokers are combined can the Joker be considered complete."

"So what's this kid's second ability...?"

"Could this ability have been created specifically to target the Joker?"

Gu Nian looked at Shi Yu, and then quietly made a prediction.

But strangely, this time the prophecy failed to come true.

Gu Nian's prediction regarding Shi Yu's second ability yielded no results.

After each prophecy, Gu Nian would either have the cause, process, and result of the prophecy in his mind, or a voice in his mind would tell the story of the prophecy.

Sometimes, a script will appear directly in your hand.

Gu Nian had already used his ability several times, but nothing happened.

There was no script in hand, no voice in mind, and no understanding of the cause, process, or outcome of the event.

"It can negate the power of my prophecy..."

"Resistant types?"

"Or is it still untenable?"

Gu Nian was thinking to himself, but he had already roughly guessed the second ability that Shi Yu had developed.

But that ability was too terrifying, so terrifying that fate, time, space, calamity, and a series of special and absolute abilities could not affect it.

Gu Nian's thoughts were merely about Joker, who was trying to deceive him. After Joker was able to compete with Gu Nian for control of his body, the state of Joker and Gu Nian was similar to that of Shigure and A.

However, their relationship is not as good as that between Shigure and A, nor does A directly know Shigure's thoughts.

Joker can only know what Gu Nian is thinking, but cannot fathom the thoughts in his mind.

What Gu Nian needs to do is help Shi Yu confuse the Joker.

In the final script, the Joker transforms back into his complete form, and all the information he knows will inevitably be taken away by the Joker.

All Gu Nian could do was to use as much false information as possible to confuse them and prevent them from guessing what Shi Yu's second ability was.

That ability can determine the final victory and is the key to saving the world.

Gu Nian looked at Shi Yu, then looked away and said.

"Jie, go and reclaim the Southern Base tomorrow."

"Hunter King Niu and Yu Yan's cards."

"The script should move on to the next scene."

"Kuang Lei, Zhao Guang, Ye Xue, Cang Li."

"The four of you go and keep an eye on the Joker."

"This little script is crucial; we can't let him ruin it."

"All we need is to know his whereabouts."

"Tsubaki has already begun attempting to break through to the half-step Calamity level; she cannot be disturbed."