Strange Cards

Chapter 197 Arrival in Kyoto

The next day, Shi Yu looked at Yu Yan, who had no scars on her body but was trembling with pain, and couldn't help but wipe away a cold sweat.

"Sister Liu An is really ruthless..."

"After the beating, heal, then beating again, tsk tsk tsk."

Shi Yu looked at the three maids following her. Suddenly, Qi Nannan and Liu Yu seemed to remember something and tugged at Shi Yu's clothes.

"Brother Shiyu, could you teach us a few more skills?"

"Yes, yes, anything related to close combat is fine, even if it's unrelated, we can learn it."

"Can."

Shi Yu thought of those chubby boys from yesterday, and then solemnly patted the two of them on the shoulders.

"However, if you two cause trouble in the future, just don't say that I taught you to do it."

"Otherwise, the boss and Sister Liu An will really tear me apart."

"Let Yu Yan take the blame; she's the eternal scapegoat."

After some laughter and chatter, everyone quickly prepared their things, while Shigure used a black hole to send the items over in advance before boarding the plane with the others.

The plane was huge; it even had several rooms inside.

At the front of the several rooms was a huge reception room. As soon as Shi Yu saw the artificial intelligence, he knew who the plane belonged to.

"Sister Liu An, you still have a plane?"

"It's only a little over a year's salary I've saved, not much."

"You didn't forget to check your hunter's paycheck, did you?"

Liu An suddenly thought of something terrifying and shook Shi Yu's shoulder.

"No, I've been using the money from my old bank card for food and lodging lately. I haven't seen the Hunter's salary card yet."

"Bai Yu should get a salary too, right? I haven't really looked at either of our cards."

When Yu took out the two cards to check the balance, she was stunned by the numbers on them.

"Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, millions..."

"Two hundred million? How can that be so much?"

"How come Bai Yu's salary card has over three million?"

Qi Wu then had Yan Yun prepare Shi Yu's salary income statement and threw it over to her.

"That time when the Gate of Hell opened, you single-handedly took down almost three Nightmare-level monsters. If I hadn't suppressed the fact that you were too young to have made any significant contributions, then 200 million would have been a relatively small amount."

"Bai Yu's salary is entirely earned by killing ghosts on her own. Don't forget that this girl wiped out all the ghosts in the entire South."

"Basically, each ghost hunt can be considered a mission, and the bounty for each ghost is different depending on its level."

"This girl is aiming to wipe out the ghost race. What's the point of even trying?"

"We've been much less busy this month and haven't gone on many missions. Bai Yu has taken care of all the work."

Shigure looked at Baiyu, who was lying there playing games in a white dress, and couldn't connect her cute catgirl image with the image of the ruthless person who had killed all the demons to extinction.

"Why do I feel like I've spoiled Bai Yu a bit? Shouldn't someone with Bai Yu's image be a support or healer?"

Qi Wu gestured with his lips, indicating that Shi Yu should look in Liu An's direction.

"Does your sister Liu An's demeanor resemble that of a woman known as 'the woman even ghosts fear'?"

"You should know that before you came, Liu An was the top dog in the entire South. She practically handled all the work at the base by herself."

"She was only in her early twenties at the time, and her favorite thing to do every day was to ride her little motorcycle around the streets looking for ghosts."

"The only thing that confused me was that I searched all seven cities in the south but couldn't find any ghosts. After confirming that there were no ghosts in the cities, I rode a motorboat into the sea to search for them."

"Why don't you let Bai Yu learn from you?"

"No, I'd rather learn from Sister Liu An. I'm afraid that if she studies with me for a few years, she might steal my position as Shura."

"That's true. Bai Yu is indeed worthy of being the inheritor of Liu An's martial arts. He is fierce indeed."

"Your sister-in-law is the same, and so are my brothers-in-law, both of them."

"Brother-in-law and sister-in-law? Isn't she an only child?"

"That's a long story, but it's fine to tell you. Most of the hunters have heard about it."

Qi Wu led Shi Yu to a room and locked the door from the inside, then had Yan Yun turn on the soundproofing.

"In the beginning, there were three people in your sister-in-law's generation: the eldest brother Gu Ri, the second was your sister-in-law Gu Yue, and the third brother was my brother-in-law Gu Nian."

"When I took over the Southern Base, most of the older generation of Southern Hunters were old or dead. The Southern Base had lost a lot of combat power after the Ghost Gate incident, and there were only three people left."

"Me, your sister-in-law, and my brother-in-law Gu Nian."

"Gu Ri was the leader of the otherworldly beings at the time. The three of us were under a lot of pressure until Liu An came in and things got a little better."

"Guan Yun came in after Liu An. She came in as a research hunter, but she did indeed support the research and technology of the entire Southern Base."

"Back then, Gu Nian was still a hunter. Besides dealing with ghosts, we also had to be wary of Gu Ri causing trouble."

"However, Gu Nian later killed Gu Ri during another mission, but not long after, Gu Nian betrayed the Hunters and joined the Otherworlders."

"And the current leader of the otherworldly beings is Gu Nian."

"Your sister-in-law retired from the Hunters back then because she was pregnant with Nan Nan and had to take care of her. At that time, only Guan Yun, Liu An, and I supported the entire South."

"Because I basically don't mention my two brothers-in-law's affairs in front of your sister-in-law, after all..."

Shi Yu smiled as she looked at Qi Wu's hesitant expression.

"I understand."

"You guys really had a tough time during that period."

"It's alright, once you get used to being busy, it doesn't feel like much."

"After you came, my workload was reduced by more than half, until Bai Yu joined and there was no workload at all."

"You better do a good job, kid. I've decided to make you my successor and the next headhunter in the South."

"I'm over forty, I'm getting old."

"Hunters typically retire at fifty, but very few actually live to that age."

"You're still young, you're only eighteen this year."

"I can hold on for another three to five years. Once you've fully matured, I'll hand over the reins of the South to you."

"If you don't want this position, then pass it on to Bai Yu or Li Shun."

"With you guys around, I'm at ease about the future of the South."

"I will try to live to be seventy or eighty years old, help you find and train the next batch or even the batch after that of hunters before I leave, and then my life will be complete."

"I've been a soldier, gone to university, worked as a hunter, and even reached the position of headhunter."

"I'm so satisfied."

Shi Yu looked at Qi Wu, whose face clearly showed signs of vicissitude, and smiled as she handed him a cigar.

"Then you'd better live a long life."