Strange Cards

Chapter 45 is here.

At that moment, Shiyu suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing down the back of her neck, and without hesitation, she swung her left arm behind her.

Five claw marks flashing with black and red light struck the terrified clown behind Shigure, tearing a huge gash in its body.

But the clown in terror crushed a spherical object in his hand, instantly releasing a cloud of smoke.

"Activate the mask! It's very likely hallucinogenic!"

Qi Wu's voice rang in everyone's ears, while A's voice suddenly echoed in Shi Yu's mind.

"Don't close your eyes with the mask on, that's a clown illusion."

Everyone put on their masks, while Shigure summoned his Blade back and held it in his hand.

Shi Yu saw bones emerging from the haunted house, forming a giant skeleton. But the skeleton was covered in a huge human skin and started dancing to "Chicken You Are So Beautiful".

Shigure felt his samsara level dropping rapidly, and his consciousness seemed to be starting to go haywire.

"Hey, the world is a strange place. Today, I got a mission and saw a giant skeleton in human skin doing a 'chicken dance' – am I crazy, or is the world crazy, or is everything crazy?"

At that moment, Shiyu saw the giant skeleton and remembered that A had once said there were two terrifying clowns. After thinking about it, Shiyu immediately realized what was going on.

"Damn, two layers of illusion."

"Think of a way to bring your teammates to their senses."

Shigure created four stun guns directly on his left hand through reconstruction and then precisely attached them to his teammate's neck.

"Shatter the darkness with thunder!"

Shi Yu suddenly pressed the button in her hand, and Qi Wu and the others, who were trapped in the illusion, were instantly electrocuted and started breaking into a dance.

"You'd better not electrocute your own teammate, would you?"

"Don't worry, twelve volts won't kill a complete idiot. At most, it'll just damage his brain. You can have Sister Liu An treat him when we get back."

A looked at the group of people who were being electrocuted and breakingdanced, took a deep breath, and slowly uttered a sentence.

"Sometimes you're more like a ghost than me, damn it, even the King of Hell wouldn't dare tattoo your open eyes on his back."

At that moment, a gust of wind suddenly rose behind Shigure. After recalling her Blade, Shigure slashed backward without hesitation.

"Shigure, it's me!"

Yu Yan's voice rang out, and then Shi Yu's sixth sense sent a dangerous signal.

"It's you."

Shigure slowly lowered the blade and planted it in the ground.

"I recognize you. Ryotomo Himuro."

The steel claws mounted on Shiyu's left arm swung out suddenly, and the terrified clown disguised as Yuyan retreated sharply, but was still grazed by the steel claws.

A huge scratch mark was left on the terrified clown's body, and Shigure suddenly sensed something was wrong.

"Fight!"

Shi Yu immediately took out the strange card that Gong Long had left him and armed it.

A barbed steel whip lashed out at Shigure's right arm, and the terrified clown pulled hard, tearing off a large chunk of Shigure's flesh.

"Hiss!"

"It's a bit tiring."

Shigure used his arm to thrust the steel whip fiercely towards the blade of the alien blade, and the entire steel whip was cleaved in two by the sharp edge of the alien blade.

The three of them had barely recovered from the electric shock, and Qi Wu's anger flared up instantly when he saw Shi Yu's bloodied arm.

"Big Niu Shunzi, get him!"

After saying that, Qi Wu flapped his wings and charged towards one of the terrified clowns. Da Niu also roared to the sky and activated the double-headed drill on his right arm again.

Li Shun snapped his fingers, and the bat emitted ultrasonic waves that affected the two terrified clowns.

Shigure's arm quickly recovered to its original state thanks to the enhanced regeneration effect, and through this effect, Shigure felt that his right arm was now full of power.

The three fought with increasing ferocity, and even Shigure joined the battle.

Just as the four were about to kill the terrified clown, Yu Yan suddenly spoke up.

"Please wait a moment, everyone."

Upon hearing Yu Yan's voice, Li Shun used a bat to envelop one of the terrified clowns, while Da Niu was even more ferocious, directly shoving the double-headed drill through the gap in the middle of the other terrified clown's neck.

"I want to make a pact with them, just like Shigure did."

"No!"

Qi Wu glanced at Yu Yan and spoke.

"Although your physical condition has reached the point where you can form contracts with the supernatural, it's not the kind of contract with an S, especially since this is a twin S."

"Shigure, who is so much stronger than you, has only contracted an A-rank Steel Claw Monster, and it just evolved."

"But boss..."

"No buts! I can't just stand by and watch you go and die!"

Shigure asked A if there was any solution, and A reconstructed a scroll track in Shigure's hands.

"Contract scroll, this is another method besides directly using a physical contract, and it is also a relatively safe method."

"However, this thing requires that it must be bound to a card, and the card cannot change owners."

"Otherwise, the monsters inside the contract will seize the opportunity to break out, and the contractor will be the one who dies."

"Wild monsters aren't as loyal as Gong Long's Steel Claw Monster; those things are known to stab you in the heart from behind."

Shigure took the scroll and deactivated the armor on the two cards.

"Perhaps there is a way."

Shigure gestured by waving the scroll in his hand.

"I found this in the Ace of Spades database. Who knows, Yu Yan might actually have a contract with them."

"This is a strange contract scroll. It can only be used after the hunter's strange card is bound to it and their own blood is dripped on it to completely bind it to their master."

"The twin clowns' abilities are more psychic, unlike my Steel Claw Clown."

"Steel Claws require more physical strength, while Contracts and these two monsters depend on how strong your will is."

Shi Yu handed the scroll to Yu Yan and said calmly.

"Be prepared before using this reel. If you don't have that determination, just return it to the hunter."

"This thing was created by me using the power of separation, and it will not disappear just because I disarmed it."

After thinking for a moment, Yu Yan opened the scroll, took out the card, placed it on the scroll, put her finger in her mouth, and bit down hard, drawing blood.

Yu Yan dripped the blood from her finger onto the scroll, and then the two terrified clowns turned into two streaks of light and burrowed directly into the scroll.

The scroll depicted two terrifying clowns attacking each other with eerie laughter. After putting the scroll away, Yu Yan sat cross-legged on the spot.