Strange Cards

Chapter 163 Young Friend, Please Wait

Shi Yu reconstructed a combat suit for Bai Yu, and with Xiao Tu at full speed, they returned to the Hunter Base in Nanhai City in less than three minutes. Back at the base, Shi Yu went to the conference room and began researching data on the opening of the Ghost Gate in previous years.

Bai Yu sat quietly to the side, wearing headphones and watching the Tom and Jerry game that Shi Yu had set out for her. Her short legs dangled under her white hair.

"The falling rain... a terrifying wail."

"An ocean suspended upside down in the sky..."

"The situation... is really serious."

Shi Yu sat down at the conference table and looked at Yan Yun standing to the side.

"Did the satellites detect any unusual fluctuations tonight?"

Yan Yun shook her head.

"No, it feels like this year's symptom came much faster than in previous years."

"What signs?"

Yanyun pointed out two documents and placed them in front of Shiyu.

"As the gates of hell are about to open, the eerie fluctuations will gradually decrease until they disappear."

"But when the gates of hell open, the eerie fluctuations reach an unprecedented peak, as if they have been released from the underworld."

"These are the signs that the Ghost Gate is about to open, as summarized by the hunters, and this has become the ironclad rule for the opening of the Ghost Gate."

"And in the past few days, Liu An and the others have hardly encountered any ghosts while staying behind, so I say this sign is earlier than in previous years."

Shi Yu stroked her chin and said.

"What stage is the development of the Hunter God Mech at?"

"It's 85% complete. At full capacity, it should be ready to be manufactured and assembled in four days. Assembly time is expected to be half an hour."

"Ignore production line losses and produce the mechs at full speed and on all axes."

"If the Ghost Gate is located in Nanhai City, I don't think those ghosts will give us time to assemble the mechs, so the mechs must be manufactured quickly."

"It's better to be safe than sorry; it's always good to be prepared."

"How are the standard-issue mechs' equipment doing?"

"The entire Dawn army is fully equipped, and the commander of Dawn also sent me a message around 5 p.m., indicating that Dawn will fully cooperate with us Hunters."

After responding, Shi Yu checked the data for a while, trained in the training room for an hour, and then went to bed.

Shi Yu felt like she hadn't slept long before dawn, but seeing the sun already rising, she decided to get up, brush her teeth, and wash her face. After breakfast, she went to Guan Yun's lab to start designing equipment.

Shi Yu felt a strange sense of unease; he had a feeling that the gates of hell might open in Nanhai City.

Shigure was also facing the opening of the Gate of Hell for the first time, and he had no confidence at all, feeling extremely panicked.

So Shiyu arrived at the laboratory and began frantically designing weapons and equipment, which, in layman's terms, was a typical case of insufficient firepower phobia.

Shigure also discovered that all the data in the laboratory had been made available to him, including the data on quantum space collapse pulses.

If Liu An hadn't said that this planet couldn't withstand multiple collapse pulses, Shi Yu would have even planned to use this thing on the battlefield where the gates of hell were open, attempting to use this kind of firepower equipment to cover up his inner fear.

In a single day, Shi Yu even designed twelve different types of equipment and weapons, including a series of modified versions of the Destruction Death Ray Cannon.

Shiyu worked tirelessly and frantically in the laboratory, completely unaware that two days had already passed outside.

Bai Yu was very well-behaved and didn't bother Shi Yu, because she also knew that something big was about to happen.

But Gu Yue couldn't stand it any longer, so she walked to the laboratory and gently knocked on the door.

The door opened shortly afterward, and Gu Yue saw Shi Yu, who had been in the lab for two days.

Shiyu has completely lost his former youthful charm; his beard is unkempt, his hair is messy, and he even has heavy dark circles under his eyes.

Some white hairs began to grow in Shigure's black hair, which stood out conspicuously against her thick black hair.

"Alright, Xiaoyu, you should rest now."

"It's alright, sister-in-law, I..."

"You haven't rested for a full fifty hours."

As she spoke, Gu Yue placed a cup of herbal tea meant to strengthen the body's foundation next to Shi Yu's hand.

"If you continue like this, your health will collapse. If your health really collapses, not to mention what will happen to Bai Yu, you had surgery not long ago, have you forgotten?"

"What's meant to happen will happen; there's no use being anxious."

"What shouldn't come will definitely not come; just accept reality."

"It's getting dark. Quickly wash your face, go to the deep hibernation pod to rest for two hours, and then eat something. You'll be on night patrol tonight."

"I'll stay at the base to handle some matters."

Gu Yue gently patted Shi Yu's shoulder and said tenderly.

"Don't put yourself under too much pressure, or you'll break down."

Shi Yu watched Gu Yue walk out, then looked at the three little ones peeking out the door, and after drinking the medicinal tea, she washed her face and went to the deep hibernation chamber to rest.

The deep hibernation chamber worked very well; after just two hours, Shigure felt her energy fully restored.

Shi Yu ate dinner hastily and then rode his little rabbit out on a night patrol, but after wandering around the entire South China Sea City, he found that he hadn't even spotted a single strange figure.

Shi Yu stopped the car at the convenience store by the roadside and went in to buy a bottle of water.

When Shiyu came out drinking water, she saw a fortune-telling stall not far from the convenience store. An old man with white hair, dressed in a Taoist robe, waved a whisk at Shiyu.

"Young friend, please wait a moment!"

Shi Yu found herself suddenly stopping in her tracks, and then uncontrollably walking towards the fortune-telling stall.

Shigure immediately thought he had encountered a ghost and summoned the remnant fire without hesitation.

The old Taoist priest, seeing the embers in Shi Yu's hand, quickly waved his whisk and said.

"Young friend, you've misunderstood. I'm not a ghost."

"I find your appearance quite remarkable, young friend, so I would like to perform a divination for you."

"Go ahead and calculate it, you won't get anything out of it anyway."

The old Taoist priest laughed and threw nine copper coins into a tortoise shell, then began to shake it.

The old Taoist priest quickly shook the copper coins and tossed them out, but strangely, all nine coins got stuck in the gaps in the table and stood upright.

"How strange! How strange!"

"I'm seventy-eight years old now, and I've been doing fortune-telling for most of my life, but I've never done such a strange fortune as today."

Shi Yu became interested in the nine copper coins stuck in the gap and looked at the old Taoist priest.

"What's strange? Tell me about it?"

The old Taoist priest took out a small bell and said...

"This item is a ghost artifact crafted by the Shadow-Treading Gu, capable of separating all nine shadows of a person."

"All nine shadows are human shadows; to calculate shadows is to calculate people."

"I used nine copper coins to calculate the nine shadows at once. Logically, there should be nine different or similar endings, but these nine copper coins gave me the same ending."

"Young friend, you will die."