Strange Cards

Chapter 74 The Time Has Not Yet Come

Liu An carried Shi Yu on his back and followed slowly behind the group, while Da Niu carried the girl on his shoulder like a cargo.

The group soon emerged from the abandoned factory. Qi Wu, still not entirely at ease, used thermal imaging several times to confirm that the killers were completely eliminated before getting into the driver's seat.

Li Shun opened the trunk and took out a bundle of hemp rope as thick as his forearm.

Li Shun bound the girl's limbs tightly in the same way he had bound her, threw her into the trunk, and then got into the car.

Liu An put Shi Yu inside, and then sat down himself.

Looking at Shi Yu, who was drowsy, Liu An irritably placed Shi Yu's head on his lap.

"You should use that Blade less lately, especially that blood-red scythe."

"You almost had all the evil power drained from your body. I saw it through the memory trace on your combat suit. That stuff is only good for desperate measures."

"I'll go back and make you a new weapon, okay?"

Shi Yu said, her eyelids heavy with sleep.

"That girl... let me join the Japanese."

"I was so angry... that's why I used that sickle."

"Ahhhhhh"

Shi Yu yawned and mumbled sleepily.

"It won't happen again... Sister Liu An..."

After saying that, Shigure fell silent and fell completely asleep.

Liu An looked at Shi Yu, who was fast asleep on her lap, and gently stroked his head.

"Boss, slow down, Shiyu is asleep."

"OK."

Qi Wu's car slowed down quickly, and Liu An helped Shi Yu disarm her and then helped her turn over.

Liu An took out a towel, and just as he was about to wipe the sweat off Shi Yu's back, his hand suddenly stopped.

Because she saw the tiny knife mark peeking out from Shigure's back.

Liu An pulled up Shi Yu's clothes and felt a pang of heartache when he saw the scars on Shi Yu's back.

Those scars were obviously old wounds that you could tell at a glance. Even someone as strong as the Jack of Spades couldn't repair those shocking scars that had been left behind.

"This kid..."

Li Shun was instantly shocked when he saw the wounds, while Liu An simply touched them gently and said...

"At least the Hunters are still a big family, and hopefully we can heal his past wounds."

What they didn't know was that Shigure had thought about dying and ending it all long ago, but he survived time and time again.

What kept him alive was hatred—hatred for his parents and hatred for the place he once called home.

.............

After simply wiping Shi Yu's body clean, Liu An put her on the bed and covered her with a blanket. Then, he spoke to Bai Yu, who was yawning sleepily in the beanbag chair.

"Go to sleep now, Shigure has been brought back for you."

Bai Yu groggily climbed into bed, snuggled under the covers, hugged Shi Yu's arm, pressed her shoulder against Shi Yu's, took a deep breath, and then fell asleep contentedly.

"Good night."

............

Qi Wu and his group then grabbed the bound girl and threw her into a small room.

"Snapped!"

The girl was thrown to the ground by the three men, and then slowly woke up.

The girl opened her eyes, looked at the unconscious girl in front of her, and suddenly let out a sharp scream.

"younger sister!"

"It's so damn noisy!"

Da Niu slapped the girl hard across the face, forcibly shutting down her phone.

"It seems that Dr. Guan Yun's intelligence was indeed correct. I didn't expect that old dog Emperor would actually dare to send his two daughters here."

"Just a heads-up, by the time you caught the one in the shrine maiden's outfit, that old dog was already on its way."

Dr. Guan Yun walked over slowly, wearing glasses and holding a cup of coffee in his hand.

"What are they doing here?"

"The situation is obvious: they need people."

"That won't do."

Qi Wu took out a pack of cigarettes, shared some with Li Shun and Da Niu, and then lit them.

"These two girls still have some value. We should at least extort some resources from them. The Hunter God Mech probably still needs quite a few resources."

"Should we send them back?"

After taking a puff of his cigarette, Da Niu asked, puzzled, while Guan Yun turned on the room's ventilation system and took out a small box from his pocket.

"The boss had instructed me long ago to plant this kind of microbial bomb inside these two people."

"Letting them take two corpses back is the greatest mercy I can show. If the Chief Hunter finds out about this, it might become a reason to start a war."

"And what about you, boss?"

"The commander-in-chief has already begun preparing for retribution. Their orders are for us to protect our forces and await the appearance of the Hunter God mech..."

"Settle the score from back then, get back everything that was stolen, and demand some compensation from those bastards."

"We love peace, but there are some deep-seated hatreds that we can never forget."

"Retribution may be delayed, but it will come."

...........

In the middle of the night, a light rain suddenly started to fall outside the window.

The drizzle quickly intensified, eventually turning into a thunderous roar.

Upon hearing the thunder, Shi Yu's sleeping face suddenly turned ugly. After taking a few deep breaths, she suddenly sat up.

Shi Yu looked out the window at the thunderstorm, and her heart suddenly started beating very fast.

"That damn nightmare again."

Shi Yu lay down several times but found that she was not sleepy at all. She glanced at the holographic clock on the wall that was pointing to four in the morning, so she simply started brushing her teeth and washing up, and then took a cold shower.

Shi Yu looked at Bai Yu, who was sleeping sprawled out on the bed, smiled, and then tapped the wall a few times. Instantly, a soft, eye-friendly light shone on.

Shiyu tapped the desktop a few more times to bring up the mecha design blueprints, and then began to modify them after the holographic projection of the mecha design blueprints appeared on the desktop.

"Full-power burst speed..."

"Set it to Mach 25 for now."

Shi Yu frowned as she looked at the mecha that suddenly disintegrated while flying in the simulation experiment, along with the blood-splattered pieces of broken flesh, and then picked up the experimental results to read.

"We need to adjust the pressure balance inside and outside the cockpit, as well as the external materials of the mech."

Shi Yu looked at the thrusters that were only on her back, and a wild idea suddenly flashed through her mind.

"Will this work...?"

Shiyu was still happily making changes, completely unaware that a figure wearing a white nightgown and holding a white pillow was standing behind her.

The white figure paused for a moment, then sat down on the ground, gently resting its head against Shigure's leg and falling asleep.

"call......."