Strange Cards

Chapter 331 Those Who Died Yesterday

Grandpa Gu and his companion parted ways with the hunters at the entrance of Little Green Mountain, while Gu Yue, along with the three children, went home with Grandpa Gu.

The group drove back to the hunter's base, but everyone was clearly not in high spirits.

As soon as everyone pushed open the meeting room door, ready to discuss something, they discovered a virtual figure sitting in the spot in the meeting room that was covered with a thin layer of dust.

Qi Wu stared at the virtual figure and exclaimed in disbelief.

"A straight?"

As if he had heard someone call him, the virtual figure turned around and smiled.

The virtual figure was none other than Li Shun, who had just been buried.

"Everyone..."

"They must have just come back from Xiaoqingshan, right?"

At this moment, Guan Yun and Shi Yu were dumbfounded, because neither of them had the ability to upload the consciousness of the deceased into the data world, so that the deceased could be transformed into an intelligent AI and continue to live.

Seemingly noticing the shock in Guan Yun and Shi Yu's eyes, the virtual Li Shun smiled and waved his hand.

"Don't be silly, you two."

"This is a projection I left behind before my death, and it will be activated after you bury my body."

"I suppose everyone has already buried me on Little Green Hill?"

Da Niu forced back his tears and nodded.

"Um..."

"Why didn't you tell everyone about this?"

Why are you going to your death?

"Why!"

Li Shun seemed to have anticipated Da Niu's question, and stood up to answer it.

"Because I..."

"I don't want to be a puppet being controlled anymore."

"I delivered the final, devastating blow to them at the cost of my life, and I also broke free from the shackles I had been bound to since childhood."

The virtual Li Shun sat on the conference table, swinging his legs as he spoke.

"I know they absolutely have the ability to completely turn that imposter into someone just like me, after all, they already have the ability to activate Hunter cards."

"I don't want people to one day discover that the person next to them has suddenly become an imposter, and that I am just a puppet who is completely controlled. This is the only way I can remind them."

"This virtual figure was left behind by me using Xiaoyu and Boss's two Hunter God Tokens together as commands. It's a top-level command, and even Yanyun doesn't know about it."

"My life has not been smooth; the period before I turned eighteen was all darkness."

As Li Shun spoke, he jumped down from the conference table and looked at the conference room filled with memories.

"This has been one of the few happy times I've had since joining the Hunters. I'm so lucky to have met everyone."

"Although my life has not been very smooth, I still want to thank everyone for your company these days."

"The name of Hunter Li Shun will be buried forever, and I hope everyone can continue on and not be saddened by my death."

"For me, death is the best relief. Living only makes me a puppet, living in constant fear."

"After I realized I had chosen to die, I understood everything, and nothing could hold me back anymore."

Li Shun looked at everyone, seemingly unaffected by his death. Instead, he acted like a normal boy next door.

"In the end, I feel that I have lived a pretty wonderful life, even though it started off very poorly."

"But the most crucial part of a play is not the beginning, but the ending."

"I am very fortunate to have been able to go through these dangerous, fulfilling, and wonderful days with everyone."

"I'll hand over my strange card to Big Bull for now, until a suitable successor comes along."

"I had already tidied up my house. My belongings were piled into a box and placed in the storage room at the corner of the stairs. But I was in a hurry when I left and forgot to take them with me."

"Please help me burn it."

"I believe that house will soon have a new owner, and I, a dead man, should take my final bow."

"I also left everyone a set of wood carvings before I left. It is the most perfect work of my life and the last gift I left for everyone."

"This is the only thing I can be proud of, and the only thing I feel has value."

"In the end, I have nothing more to say."

"I've said everything I needed to say, and everyone knows what I haven't said."

"I realized the final truth in the moment before I died."

"Very important, extremely important."

That's it.

"You must live well."

"I'm going now. Goodbye, everyone."

Take care.

After he finished speaking, Li Shun's illusory image gradually disintegrated and disappeared until it vanished completely.

Among the hunters, only Shigure, who had become a Shura, sensed a trace of strange power attached to the phantom, which was clearly left by Li Shun.

Everyone remained silent, sitting in their seats with their heads down, no one knowing what they were thinking.

The silent meeting ended quickly, and none of the participants stayed at the base; instead, they returned to Jiangtian Haoyuan.

After returning home, the group found the set of wood carvings that Li Shun had mentioned. The small figures in the wood carvings were actually the hunter's big guy, and the background was the family photo.

The group opened the door to Li Shun's house and found the box Li Shun had mentioned in the storage room at the corner of the stairs.

There wasn't much in the box, just some clothes and items that Li Shun had used.

Li Shun's other belongings had already been packed into a box, and everyone unanimously decided to put all the mementos related to Li Shun into the base's relics room, while the clothes and used items were burned.

Li Shun's clothes and the box quickly burst into flames, and the firelight was reflected in everyone's eyes, making it seem as if the flames had come to life and were dancing.

Looking at the clothes, Liu An realized that she had picked out and bought many of them for Li Shun.

Liu An had long since become the big sister of the Southern Base, a sister who always protected everyone.

Shi Yu squatted on the ground, watching the fire gradually grow stronger as Liu An threw clothes into it one by one, and murmured to herself.

"Life is truly a fragile thing."

You can never know if the person who was with you yesterday will have a tomorrow, and you will never know if you will have a tomorrow.

"Which will come first, tomorrow or an accident?" This is never just empty talk; you won't understand its meaning until the moment it actually happens.

"When you die, everything is empty; when a person dies, it's like a lamp going out. Everything has nothing to do with the deceased anymore."

"Perhaps..."

"That's probably why those ancient emperors went to great lengths, even at the cost of their kingdoms, to find immortality."

Bai Yu looked at Shi Yu, who was muttering to herself, her eyes reflecting the firelight.

"Owner..."

Bai Yu isn't good at comforting people, but she knows how to comfort them in her own way.

Bai Yu gently pressed her body against Shi Yu's back and hugged her from behind.

Bai Yu... attempted to soothe Ping Yu's grief in this way.

Liu An looked at Shi Yu, who was staring blankly at the fire, and gently patted Shi Yu's head.

"Okay, Xiaoyu."

"I know you're feeling terrible, but..."

"People should look forward."

"Some people are forever left in yesterday, but you can never go back to yesterday; you can only look at yesterday from today."

Time cannot be reversed, but a force called time will never wait for you; it will only push you slowly forward, slowly moving you away from yesterday.

"You can only keep moving forward and going further."

"Only then will you have the chance to see those who died yesterday."

"And they will smile and greet you from that yesterday that has been frozen in time."

Shi Yu nodded bitterly and took a drag on his cigarette.

"I know."

"But I still can't quite accept the fact that Shunzi is dead."

"After all, it feels like just yesterday that he took me on my first mission."

"That matter keeps swirling in my mind, as if Shunzi had never died."

Liu paused for a moment, then slowly began to speak.

"While everyone else was on missions, Shunzi stayed home and worked on his wood carvings."

"While everyone was going home, Shunzi was buying groceries at the market."

"While everyone else went to the market, Shunzi went on a mission."

"Shunzi is not dead; he has always been with us."

"only..."

"We'll never see Shunzi again."