Strange Cards

Chapter 144 The Forest in the West

"I'm going to fight you to the death today!"

Luo Yushang suddenly climbed up Shi Yu's shoulder along Shi Yu's hand, grabbed Shi Yu's ears with her two little hands and twisted them 180 degrees.

Shi Yu winced in pain and pulled Luo Yushang off her shoulder.

"You really think I don't hit kids, huh?"

Shi Yu was also skilled at disciplining children; after five or six slaps, Luo Yushang was too exhausted to even cry.

With glistening tears on her face, Luo Yushang's delicate little nose twitched as she sobbed.

Shi Yu also understood the principle of combining hard work with sweetness, so she went to the kitchen, took a string of candied hawthorns, and handed it to Luo Yushang.

"Give."

Luo Yushang's eyes were swollen from crying, and she couldn't see clearly what Shi Yu was holding. She thought it was a red stick.

"Stop hitting me! Stop hitting me! I won't pull your ear, okay?"

Shi Yu rolled her eyes in boredom, then tore off the paper wrapping the candied hawthorn and pried open Luo Yushang's mouth to stuff it inside.

The sweet candied hawthorn skewer entered her mouth, and Luo Yushang instantly stopped crying, hugging the candied hawthorn skewer and starting to lick it.

Qi Wu suddenly patted Shi Yu on the shoulder and said with a solemn expression.

"Hey kid, do you know who this little girl you hit today is?"

"Don't worry, if anyone here dares to cause me trouble, I'll teach them a lesson. How can you treat a stranger so brutally and then expect to be taught a lesson?"

"Aren't you afraid?"

"If you're not afraid, you're not afraid!"

Qi Wu suddenly handed a holographic panel to Shi Yu and said.

"This young girl's name is Luo Yushang. She is the second-in-command of the Eastern Hunter Base and is very likely to be the next Eastern Headhunter."

"This little girl's strength is on the same level as mine, and she is also one of the few people who can use both the Strange Card and the Deceptive Card."

"I'm still not afraid!"

Qi Wu looked at Shi Yu, who seemed fearless, and suddenly laughed. He then patted Shi Yu on the shoulder and said...

"Very good, I'm rooting for you, you loser."

"Around the end of September, we hunters will be holding a gathering, and all hunters from all directions will be going to the headquarters in the capital."

"There's a battle of hunters inside, waiting to be wheeled around by the guys from the Eastern Base."

"And this girl arrived just as you were losing control of your belt. In your bloodlust, you grabbed her without a word and used a powerful attack to severely injure her."

"Well........"

Shi Yu scratched his head, never expecting that the reason was actually his own doing.

"Boss, I'm scared."

"Don't worry, you won't die. With Liu An here, you'll just have to stay in bed for a day or two at most."

"Hurry to the meeting room, we're about to go on another mission."

At this time, Luo Yushang had finished eating the candied hawthorn and followed Qi Wu to the conference room first.

After getting a bottle of water from the kitchen, Shi Yu went to the meeting room. As soon as she entered, she noticed a small stool next to Qi Wu's seat.

Sitting on the small stool was Luo Yushang, but she still looked at Shi Yu with some fear in her eyes.

Qi Wu looked at the assembled crowd and cleared his throat.

"Alright everyone, I have two announcements to make today."

"First of all, I would like to thank Luo Yushang, the second-in-command of the Eastern Base, for bringing a batch of new resources and technology production lines to our Southern Base, which has greatly accelerated the production of our Hunter God Mech."

"By early July, we should be able to produce two mechs, enough to resist the monster tide."

"Alright, now that we've covered the exciting stuff, let's get to the important stuff."

Qi Wu clicked on the big screen, and what appeared on it was the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum.

"The first thing I did was report the matter of Bai Qi's remnant soul to headquarters, and headquarters responded very quickly."

"Because there is no historical record of where Bai Qi's tomb is, we have decided that our southern base will take the lead, and together with the eastern and northern bases, we will go to the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum to search for clues about Bai Qi's tomb."

"The number of people is approximately 433, with four of us contributing."

"I've also decided on the people: Shunzi, Da Niu, and Shi Yu."

"Is there a problem?"

"no."

Six voices rang out in unison, and Qi Wu nodded in agreement.

"Then a related event was that when we went down to the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, the government wanted us to bring a few archaeologists with us so that they could collect and record the secrets of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum."

"What are your opinions?"

Li Shun was the first to stand up and cast his dissenting vote.

"I disagree with bringing those guys."

"Those guys are always protecting this artifact and that artifact. Last time, Da Niu and I went out to protect a group of archaeologists from coming out of a tomb. In the end, they triggered a mechanism in order to take away an artifact, which almost killed the whole group. My opinion is that I disagree."

"I agree with Shunzi's statement."

"We're going down here on a mission, not to play along with their so-called artifact collecting."

"We can force our way out by breaking down the wall at a crucial moment, but they can't. There's no need to drag these burdens along."

After Da Niu cast his dissenting vote, the remaining people cast their dissenting votes as well, and Qi Wu nodded in approval.

"Alright, it's decided then. The meeting is scheduled for two days from now."

"If we move quickly enough, we can be back before the end of June, and then we can go directly to the city we're supposed to be defending."

"Then, the second thing."

Qi Wu opened a video file, and just as everyone was looking at the lush forest with confusion, a peculiar ghostly howl rang out.

"This is also one of the reasons why Luo Yushang came to our South this time. The Eastern Base discovered this ghostly howl during its weekly satellite inspections of our Nanhai City."

"This voice comes from our western forest, so it's clearly a very powerful ghost."

"Based on initial assessment, it is very likely to be of the Purgatory level, or at the very least, SSS level."

Upon hearing this, Shigure's hand suddenly trembled, as long-sealed memories from twelve years ago were gradually unsealed.

Shigure listened carefully to the sound in his mind and then discovered that it was actually a ghostly howl composed of two different sounds.

"Boss, use the smoke and clouds to break up this ghostly howl."

Shi Yu stood up, sweat pouring down her face from nervousness.

Qi Wu quickly manipulated the smoke and clouds to separate the peculiar ghostly howl, and everyone discovered that the strange howl was actually a mixture of two ghostly howls.

Qi Wu clicked on one of the segments and discovered that the ghostly howl sounded remarkably similar to that of a bear.

Shi Yu's knuckles began to turn white from the force she used. Upon seeing this, Liu An gently pulled Shi Yu's hand and rubbed it in her own.

Shi Yu turned to look at Liu An and found that the latter just smiled gently, then took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from Shi Yu's face.