Strange Cards

Chapter 435 The Real Dream

After undergoing emergency treatment, Qi Wu slowly woke up from his hospital bed.

Qi Wu looked at the pristine white quilt, then slowly turned his head to gaze at the snow outside the window.

Although the snow outside the window has begun to melt, there is still some snow that has not melted completely.

Qi Wu suddenly realized something and sat up abruptly.

Looking at the needle sticking out of the back of his hand, Qi Wu casually pulled it out and walked out of the ward wearing a snow-white hospital gown.

Looking at the familiar furnishings, Qi Wu knew that he had returned to the southern base.

Looking at the empty base, Qi Wu felt as if a piece of his heart was missing.

"Da Niu! Yu Yan!"

"You two, at least say something while you're at the base!"

As Qi Wu spoke, he walked into the room in the two-person base. The two rooms were quite clean, and there was even a thin layer of dust on them.

Qi Wu looked at Yu Yan's tidy room. Having watched Yu Yan grow up, Qi Wu knew that the girl's room couldn't possibly be this clean.

The desk in the room was piled with potato chips and drinks, and there were even several boxes of AD calcium milk piled up in the corner.

There was even a box of AD calcium milk that had just been opened, and it looked like only two or three bottles had been taken.

Qi Wu took a few steps and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart; the intense emptiness pierced through his entire body.

Qi Wu rubbed his chest for a while before staggering into the conference room.

Meanwhile, Guan Yun and Feng Chuan had been waiting in the conference room for quite some time.

Qi Wu didn't think anything was wrong when he saw Guan Yun in the conference room, but he couldn't help but feel a little strange when he saw Feng Chuan, the chief hunter, also in the conference room.

"The Grand Hunter?"

"Why are you here?"

Seeing Qi Wu's still-ill appearance, Feng Chuan quickly got up and helped Qi Wu to his seat.

"I came here to see how you've been, and also to pay you a visit."

"You don't need to call me Chief Hunter."

"Just like we used to do in private, call me Brother Feng."

Qi Wu nodded, coughed twice, and then opened a message window.

"Brother Feng, please forgive my neglect."

"I need to see where Yu Yan and Da Niu went."

As Qi Wu spoke, he pointed to a virtual keyboard, took a good breath, and then frantically typed on the keyboard with both hands.

Qi Wu opened an encrypted software, entered a long password, and then verified his identity using his iris, fingerprint, and palm print.

This encryption software is specifically designed to detect whether the Hunter Card is turned off.

At the same time, this software can also locate hunters using satellites in the sky.

Even in areas with forced magnetic field interference, satellites will begin searching around the location where the last Hunter Card signal appeared.

Even if you eventually have to search the entire globe, the software can still accurately find the person you're looking for.

Qi Wu didn't want to use the software from the bottom of his heart, but the dream that seemed so real kept bothering him.

Qi Wu was very anxious, so he desperately needed to know the truth.

Even if the truth is cruel.

After three layers of verification, looking at the still loading encryption software, Qi Wu raised his hand and summoned a robot to serve himself, Guan Yun, and Feng Chuan a cup of tea.

"I'm sorry, Brother Feng, I lost my composure."

"I had a very long dream, a very long nightmare."

"This dream felt so real, I couldn't tell the difference between reality and illusion."

"In my dream, I set off with everyone to fight the first natural disaster that appeared, but the battlefield situation changed rapidly, and we faced the invincible natural disaster, Pomp..."

"I could only watch helplessly as Da Niu and Yu Yan chose to severely damage Tian Zai by using the self-destructing Hunter God Mech."

"And I'm like a scarecrow in a field, unable to do anything."

Qi Wu gave a wry smile, took a sip of tea, and said.

"I was so enraged by the deaths of my two children that I attacked the natural disaster and was almost killed by it in one blow."

"The irony is that in that dream, it was Xiaoyu who stepped in to block the blow for me."

"Thanks to that person who took that hit for me, I was able to save my life."

"So, by that logic, I still owe him a life."

Feng Chuan stared blankly at the information window in front of Qi Wu, which was almost loading, for a long while. Finally, he reached out and placed his hand on Qi Wu's large hand.

"Wu Zi, it's been many years since Brother Feng called you that."

"Be prepared for what your older brother is about to say."

"The nightmare you had wasn't a nightmare."

"It really happened."

"Those two children..."

"He did indeed die in battle."

"At the cost of sacrificing two lives and self-destructing their mechs, they dealt a heavy blow to the natural disaster."

"We will always remember them."

……

Qi Wu looked at Feng Chuan in front of him, listening to Feng Chuan's story with disbelief in his eyes.

After Feng Chuan finished speaking, he let out a long sigh of relief, took a sip of tea, and then said...

"If it weren't for Gu Nian bringing the otherworldly beings to help us..."

"We're absolutely doomed if we face the first extreme cold disaster, Pomp."

At this moment, the encryption software in front of Qi Wu was successfully loaded.

Besides Ji Xuan and Luo Yushang, the two Eastern Hunters who came to provide support, six of the eight Hunter cards that were originally lit up by the Southern Hunters have been turned off.

The only two remaining lit-up tables belong to Qi Wu himself and Guan Yun, who is sitting quietly in the conference room.

Guan Yun kept her head down the whole time. Although there was no expression on her pretty face, the sadness in her eyes was real.

Although Guan Yun's emotions were rather cold, and he was usually even more rational than emotional.

But Guan Yun is still human, and her human emotions still make her sad when she sees her dead comrades.

"turn out to be..."

"It's all true."

"So it wasn't a dream after all."

"These are all true stories."

After he finished speaking, Qi Wu seemed to have all his strength drained away, and collapsed into the chair as if all his strength had been drained.

Qi Wu managed a forced smile, but it looked utterly bitter.

Feng Chuan looked at Qi Wu, whose hair had turned almost half white in an instant, and his eyes were full of heartache.

It was a long time ago, but Qi Wu looked nothing like the decades-old man standing before him.

At that time, Qi Wu was full of vigor and ambition. Even though he was over forty years old, he still had a full head of black hair, without a single gray hair.

But the successive deaths of his companions shattered Qi Wu's high spirits, leaving only rubble on the ground.

And that head of jet-black hair has turned gray.

Feng Chuan looked at Qi Wu and took out the red heart-themed strange card that Qi Wu had given to Luo Yushang and Ji Xuan from his pocket.

"The misfortunes of this year are over, and there won't be any ghosts appearing for a while."

"Yu Chang and Ji Xuan returned to the Eastern Base to recuperate after being injured. They asked me to pass on the strange red heart-shaped tokens they had to you."

"Take a good break and relax."

"Go home and spend time with your wife and kids."