Strange Cards

Chapter 425 One Pillar of Calamity

The far north.

Inside a snow cave.

Joker lay on the snow, the light in his eyes completely extinguished by Shigure's berserk state.

If Joker was initially a player holding a chess piece, now he has completely become a piece in the game.

In the beginning, the Joker and Gu Nian played a game of chess from afar, using this world as the chessboard, engaging in a life-or-death struggle.

But what Joker didn't expect was that Gu Nian had hidden Shi Yu, a potentially lethal piece, well in advance. Even more unexpected was that Shi Yu, who should have been part of the game, would suddenly jump out and become a third-party player.

At this moment, one can fully understand why Gu Nian did not unleash the power of the Joker in his hands, abandoning the strength of the unleashed form, but instead used the Joker as a normal, strange card.

Joker used to find it strange, but now looking back, he realizes that there were calculations everywhere during the Lunar New Year.

Ultimately, Gu Nian's move was to make room for Shi Yu, allowing Shi Yu to become the third Joker without affecting his own combat power.

At the same time, it saved Shigure's life, because without that vacancy, even if Shigure had a way to save his body, he would still die soon.

There can only be two jokers, that's absolute.

The Joker card that was sealed as a card lost its ability to move after Shigure took its place. Given that Shigure took its place, the Joker card had no choice but to fuse with the Joker card to become the complete form.

There is no other way.

The only thing that wasn't in Gu Nian's calculations was that Shi Yu would become a demon, but that actually became the icing on the cake.

Shura's limitless growth potential directly raised Shigure's ceiling, and what was once an ant that Joker could destroy with a flick of his wrist has now grown into a behemoth with the power to destroy the world.

If Joker had the chance to travel back in time, he would have definitely cut off Shigure's head on that night before leaving. Even if Gu Nian had activated his ability to control fate in advance, Shigure would not have been able to come back to life.

Dying in this way, Shigure would have difficulty retaining his consciousness completely, and would eventually become one of the many vengeful ghosts.

In fact, the Joker has many ways to disrupt Gu Nian's strategy, because when the Joker enters the game, Gu Nian has to enter the game to make a move.

Ultimately, it was his overconfidence in his own abilities that gave Gu Nian and Shi Yu the opportunity to take advantage of him.

To say that Joker was reckless is an understatement. After all, he was quite cautious back then, even though he was only at the Nightmare level and still managed to pierce Shigure's heart.

At that time, only Gu Nian and Joker were the only two with the title of "Calamity-level". Shi Yu only obtained the title of "Calamity" after he had more than ten Spade-type Mysterious Cards.

In fact, at that time, Shigure's strength was at most at the late stage of Earthly Calamity, and he couldn't care less about the edge of Natural Calamity.

Even with thirteen cards, Shigure was still just one step away from victory because he hadn't yet awakened the terrifying rules unique to the Cataclysmic level.

It wasn't until the ability to nullify within his body that Shigure truly crossed the threshold of the Calamity level and became a member of the Calamity class.

Now, Joker's four two-of-a-kind with a royal flush have been completely dismantled. He managed to turn a good hand into a three-of-a-kind with a single extra card, making him look like a bomb disposal expert.

Joker slowly used his own power to heal his wounds, and he already had ideas in mind for the eleven pillars of disaster that he was preparing for when the natural calamity would strike.

"If all eleven pillars of disaster were to strike simultaneously..."

"There's absolutely no time to spare. Those two bastards are probably up to some dirty tricks again."

"Damn it! They've almost collected all the Mysterious Cards, and the last five Hearts are all in South China City."

"Those two unlucky guys are fixated on Nanhai City, and they only have five loose cards, so even if they take them, it won't be of much use."

"..."

"Looks like we need to speed things up and bring the natural disaster down as soon as possible."

"Otherwise, there really won't be anything to play."

"Snow Mountain Demon Ape..."

"We need to find a way to force him to wake up."

"The remaining ten pillars of calamity."

"We also need to find them slowly and let them revive."

……

Looking at Shigure, who was completely unyielding, Chun was so angry that she felt like her fur was standing on end.

Chun vaguely remembers that Shigure used to love to laugh, and even when he was normal, there would always be a faint smile on his lips.

Now, Shiyu always has a poker face, and you can't even see the pupils in his gray eyes unless you look closely. He looks like a living person who is not dead.

Chun's hair had turned quite a bit gray from worry, and she realized that the hardest thing in the world was making Mu Tou laugh.

Although Gu Nian asked Chun to stabilize Shi Yu's emotions, Chun felt that rather than keeping Shi Yu in this emotionally stable state, it would be better to bring him into an emotional state, as long as the emotions didn't go out of control.

Just like switching between normal and normal forms, you can switch forms directly from normal to normal, but to switch to another form from one form, you need to switch back to normal form and then switch to the other form.

This gives Tsubaki time to react and prevents Shigure from suddenly falling back into a state of liberation.

Chun was depressed for a long time, and had almost finished the big bag of potato chips in her hand.

Until a small orphanage image flashed through Tsubaki's mind, Tsubaki suddenly remembered something, grabbed Shigure's hand and said.

"Come on, Little Gray Fur."

"Come with me somewhere tonight, I have a plan."

Before Shigure could react, he was taken away by Tsubaki Kagura. When Shigure saw what was in front of him, his pupils suddenly contracted.

"here it is..."

Shi Yu looked at the few words on the door that were about to fall off. Although some of them had fallen off, the most important two words, "Chen Xing" (Morning Star), were still there.

"Morning Star Welfare Home? Why hasn't it been demolished yet?"

"And how did you know about this place?"

Chun smiled and said with her hands behind her back.

That's because~

"We started investigating you a long time ago."

As Chun spoke, she took out a document and handed it to Shiyu. Shiyu took the document and looked at the time on it. She found that the time on the document was her first year as a member of the Hunters.

In fact, Shigure had only been a member of the Hunters for less than a month at that time.

After looking at the materials for a long time, Shi Yu slowly sighed.

"In other words..."

"You knew everything about me back when I first joined the Hunters, right?"

Chun nodded, and a cluster of black flames suddenly ignited in Shigure's hand, burning the documents to ashes before looking at the pure black sky.

"Was all of this predetermined?"

"Is this world just like the sinner's aria and the savior's requiem that I possess?"

"Was everything predetermined?"