Strange Cards

Chapter 98 The Gates of Hell Are About to Open

Meanwhile, as Tsubaki was cleaning up the mess on the other side, Shigure felt incredibly comfortable holding the warm and soft woman in his arms.

Shi Yu slept soundly until dawn, and then woke up precisely at seven o'clock when Liu An was about to call them for dinner.

Good morning, Sister Liu An.

"Hurry up and bring Bai Yu to have breakfast. You still need to prepare for your driving test today."

Liu An called out and then turned and walked out, while Bai Yu woke up groggily at that moment.

"Eek..."

Bai Yu hugged Shi Yu and whimpered for a while before waking up. Shi Yu just smiled and then took Bai Yu to brush her teeth and wash her face.

When Shi Yu led her silly girl into the kitchen, she found that almost everyone had arrived, and even Yu Yan, who always loved to stay up late, was sitting properly at the dining table.

Qi Wu waved to Shi Yu as she arrived.

"You're here? Come on over quickly."

Shi Yu led Bai Yu over quickly, while Liu An handed two servings of fried eggs and steaks to the two of them.

Qi Wu clapped his hands and then gestured to Guan Yun, who was engrossed in eating fried dough sticks.

Guan Yun nodded, then casually opened a huge holographic screen.

"We all need to intensify our training and monster-hunting recently."

"Is something bad about to happen?"

Shiyu asked, then swallowed the fried egg whole.

Liu An promptly handed Shi Yu a cup of hot milk, while Bai Yu ate her breakfast by herself.

"It's almost July, the day when the gates of hell open again."

"The Ghost Festival will be particularly frequent in July, so we need to spread out."

"Because we are the only hunters in the entire south, we will have to split up and go to the southern cities to guard them until we find out exactly where the Gate of Hell opens."

"The one that opens the gate to the underworld will definitely be a nightmare-level monster, and there might even be more than one, so the construction of the Hunter God Mech must be put on the agenda."

"In the past, we used to send away nightmare-level monsters using some very special methods. We've been holding back for so many years, this time we must give them a good beating."

"There are about seven cities in the south. We'll divide them up using the old method, and the headquarters in Nanhai City will be handed over to Shiyu."

"Boss, if the Gate of Hell opens in our south and each of us owns a city, we won't be able to get reinforcements in time."

After taking a bite of breakfast, Shi Yu said, while Guan Yun took out another brand new mecha manufacturing blueprint.

"This is a new mecha remade based on your mecha design blueprint, while the Remnant Fire mecha's body is completely based on your mecha design blueprint."

Guan Yun, who rarely praises others among the hunters, surprisingly praised Shi Yu this time.

"To be able to keep the driver unharmed at Mach 25, I must admit he's a genius."

"If you dedicate yourself to scientific research, I believe you will soon become a research hunter like us, and definitely a leader among us."

"You flatter me."

In response to Shi Yu's humility, Guan Yun spoke with utmost seriousness.

"There's no need for you to be modest, because I've already submitted that mecha design to headquarters under your name."

"Headquarters gave it extremely high praise, and in the future, solo hunters may use this mech to travel, while also giving us, the research hunters who are powerless, combat capabilities."

"This image might even be a reference for the design of fighter jets. Let's wait for the good days to come."

Qi Wu coughed twice.

"In the coming days, everyone should try to train as much as possible, and when patrolling at night, try to go out together as much as possible to kill as many ghosts as possible."

"The eerie tide that opens the gates of hell is no joke; even we could lose our lives."

"Last time, even with our team and the state-organized Dawn team specifically tasked with controlling the supernatural, we still lost hundreds of people."

Liu An added from the side.

"The last time the gates of hell opened was in the Gobi Desert in the west. At that time, we were even forced to use nuclear weapons and a series of other weapons."

"The Western base lost four hunters, all bases lost personnel, and even we lost two."

"Even more people died at Dawn. They didn't have any strange cards to resist the corruption of the strange contract, and many of them died from exhaustion."

Guan Yun, however, spoke in a heavy tone.

"The Western base's defenses were almost breached at that time, and we were already prepared to use the quantum space collapse pulse."

"However, in the end, a senior member of the Central Committee risked his life to seal the Gate of Hell with his own magic, which finally brought an end to the disaster."

As everyone spoke, their spirits dampened, even affecting Bai Yu, who was eating nearby. Qi Wu looked at everyone and said in a heavy tone.

"To be honest, we are hunters, but we are also family. I consider you all my own children. As a headhunter and as a parent, I do not want to see you get hurt or even die."

"But we have to do it. We are the hunters, the hunters of the unpeaceful."

"So in the last bit of time, everyone should try to improve their strength as much as possible, even if it's just a little bit, it will increase your chances of survival."

"At the gathering after the day the gates of hell open, I don't want to see the owners of any of those faces disappear. I already feel guilty about the deaths of those two children."

As he spoke, Qi Wu patted Shi Yu on the shoulder.

"I'm sorry to let you know this harsh truth in advance, but it's something every hunter will face."

"Even if we are the ones who are going to die in the night, we want to break the darkness for those who are sleeping, so that they can see the sun of the next day."

"It's all for..."

"Love and peace."

.........

After finishing breakfast, Shigure did two hours of practice problems before going to the virtual training room to start training.

Shooting, close combat, strangulation—Shigure absorbed every combat technique that humans could use, like a sponge.

He didn't want to die in the treacherous tide; he had a reason to live.

While Shigure was practicing with the demon-slaying sword, a virtual figure suddenly appeared in front of him, holding a large anti-Japanese sword in its hand.

After a series of extremely simple yet highly practical sword techniques, the name of this sword technique resounded throughout Shigure's training ground.

"Is this the Eight-Blade Breaking Sword?"

Shi Yu looked at the large sword in the virtual character's hand, then at the silver-white demonic sword in her own hand, and began to practice along with the virtual character.