Strange Cards

Chapter 428 Snow in the South

the next day.

Gu Nian brought several combatants from other worlds to Linhai City, one of the three major coastal cities in the south.

And this is the next battlefield.

The otherworldly beings began to warm up, while Shiyu Gu Nian and Chun watched them quietly from a high place.

Gu Nian looked at Shi Yu's belt, which was already tucked into her waist, and at the Sin Sword in Shi Yu's right hand.

"boundary."

"You don't need to make a move later. The Hunters don't have much fighting power left."

"Apart from Qi Wu, who is the user of the Heartstring, the strength rank of all the other hunters has dropped by a significant level."

"Only a few hunters have made contracts with demons and still have some fighting power left. The rest are almost the same as ordinary humans."

"A cataclysmic being will appear in this great calamity, but I'm not sure if it's the Joker or something else."

"Unless a second Cataclysmic-level monster appears, you don't need to intervene."

"Hide and watch, I'll make my move."

"That little girl isn't here. If you lose control of your emotions again, you're really in big trouble."

Shigure paused for a moment, then nodded, and used his cloak to conceal the belt around his waist and the sword in his hand.

Gu Nian glanced at Shi Yu, then turned to Chun.

"Chun, you have high hopes for him."

"We're leaving now."

Chun nodded, and then Gu Nian leaped away.

After Gu Nian left, Shi Yu planted the Sin Sword in the ground and rested against the blade.

Chun looked at Shiyu, sat down beside her, and supported herself with her hands behind her back.

"I said, Little Gray Fur."

"If the Joker came again, would you lose control again?"

Shiyu glanced at Chun beside her and lit a cigarette.

"It would be a miracle if that guy could even move."

"Well, ghosts really do exist in this world after all."

Shi Yu took a deep drag and sipped most of the cigarette in one go.

Shi Yu exhaled the smoke and looked at the azure sky.

"The three of us with calamity-level rules belong to the very top tier, and in terms of rule priority, we are the three with the highest priority."

"My ability to nullify Deathkick Joker's abilities, not to mention that I pinned him down in the sea and beat him for so long that night."

"Although I was emotionally out of control at that time, I could still clearly perceive the things around me."

"His injuries will take at least six months to heal. If he were to come out again, we might be able to seal him away right now."

"What I'm worried about is, what's the rule that the first natural disaster will occur?"

Why?

Tsubaki looked at Shigure, who exhaled a puff of smoke.

"That guy's rule is the same as the three of us; we're all among the top tier of abilities."

"Or something else?"

Shigure took the cigarette, now only the butt remaining, out of his mouth and stubbed it out with his fingers.

"The appearance of a catastrophe-level event proves that the final, massive thing is coming."

"The fact that we don't know how many catastrophe-level threats will appear in total means that we're going to be at a disadvantage again."

"The Cataclysmic level is the last level that humanity's top-tier combat forces can deal with. Beyond that level, there is no chance of victory."

"But demons grow much faster than humans. Even the Asuras, who can go on forever, don't grow faster than them."

"This body I have now is not my own. It is the body left behind by Steel Claw that allows my consciousness to reside in, so that I can continue to live as a ghost."

"I was already dead, but in order to continue living, I became this inhuman and ghostly form."

"If humanity doesn't continue to break through its limits before the next level of demons emerges."

"That would be a true catastrophe, and this world would eventually be destroyed."

"..."

Tsubaki looked at Shigure, who had fallen silent, grabbed the corner of Shigure's mouth, and forced him to smile.

"Alright, stop looking so gloomy."

"If this world is really going to be destroyed, then we might as well die together."

"We've been at odds for so long, wouldn't it be better to die together?"

Shigure gave Tsubaki a playful tap on the head, and just then, snowflakes began to fall from the sky.

Shi Yu raised her hand and caught a snowflake. Looking at the snowflake in her palm, she said in disbelief.

"etc."

"This is Linhai City, one of the southernmost cities."

"here...."

Why is it snowing?

……

On the other hand, there's the Hunters' Temporary Base in Linhai City.

The headhunters and hunters from various bases have already arrived here. The northern headhunter, Kong Xiangyun, has been replaced, and the acting headhunter, Dafu, has taken his place.

The researchers were busy at the temporary base when a piercing alarm sounded.

Upon hearing the familiar alarm, everyone's nerves tensed instantly, and Qi Wu was the first to speak.

"Guan Yun, activate the satellite and locate the direction of the Ghost Gate."

"That alarm..."

"Has the Demon King made his appearance?"

Guan Yun stared at a pitch-black dot on the satellite map, his face turning frighteningly pale.

"..."

"Boss."

"A signal with the same intensity as Shigure's demonic power has been detected."

As Guan Yun finished speaking, the hunters all realized what it meant to say that the signal was of the same strength as Shigure's demonic power.

That is, the appearance of a natural disaster.

Feng Chuan approached Guan Yun, skillfully opened the map, and said...

"Check the frequency of the ghostly energy fluctuations to see if it can match the three known Calamity-level beings."

"If it's one of the three, then we still have countermeasures. At least we have relatively good intelligence on them."

Guan Yun shook his head, brought up the four frequencies of ghost power fluctuations, and then brought up the brand new one.

"The frequencies of the three natural disaster-level individuals, led by Gu Nian, have all been recorded, but this frequency is completely new and does not correspond to the other three."

"In other words..."

"This is the first true calamity-level ghost king."

"That is, the first natural disaster to be born besides the three of them."

Meanwhile, everyone in the base felt a chill.

"Strange, why is it cold in the middle of summer?"

"Yanyun, turn on the temperature control."

As Qi Wu finished speaking, the temperature in the room quickly rose, and then Yan Yun opened the curtains that had been drawn to let in light.

When everyone saw the snow-covered landscape outside, they realized that this was a true disaster.

"Has it snowed in some of the southernmost cities?"

"Could this be...?"

"The rules that this Calamity-level Demon King possesses himself?"