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Chapter 172. Obtaining the Tarot Cards

"Hoo hoo——"

Chu Zhibai stood atop the ruins of the Xingfuli residential area, his pupils suddenly contracting.

Kondo Masaharu, who had just been fighting with her, now transformed into countless specks of light and scattered in the wind.

She instinctively thought the other party had used some kind of escape technique, but the next second—the teru teru bozu (Japanese teru bozu dolls) suspended in mid-air also collapsed one after another, turning into fireflies all over the sky.

The entire battlefield fell silent in an instant, leaving her alone standing in the center of the still-present card array.

The scroll of paper in front of him slowly drooped down. Chu Zhibai looked up at the dazzling points of light and suddenly understood something.

This is not an escape, but a complete and utter annihilation.

A fatal blow that transcended spatial limitations crushed all of Kondo Masaharu's life force in an instant—not even his carefully prepared substitutes had time to be triggered.

Chu Zhibai recalled the black cross-shaped symbol that had just appeared in front of Kondo Masaharu and belatedly realized the destructive power contained within it.

The most powerful attacks often appear in the simplest way. The attack that wiped out Masaharu Kondo was low-key and silent, yet it was enough to intimidate others.

—When did this kind of person appear in the world of superpowers?

Chu Zhibai pursed his lips, unable to imagine the person's true strength.

Kondo Masaharu is dead, and Xingfuli Community has been destroyed, so there's no need for Chu Zhibai to stay here.

She remembered Jiang Jianxin, whose heart had been pierced by a mysteriously appearing golden magic circle, and decided to go to the cemetery station to take a look.

In this instance, as long as you haven't used up all your resurrection attempts, you will wake up in the graveyard—Chu Zhibai guessed that Jiang Jianxin pushed her away so decisively because he still had resurrection attempts left.

She waved her hand, flicked her fingertips, and the floating card array gathered like flowing water, rolling back into the paper scroll.

Chu Zhibai was about to turn and leave when he suddenly stopped, his brows furrowing slightly, and he uttered a barely audible sound of doubt:

"what……?"

Within the ruins, something seemed to respond to her senses.

Chu Zhibai suddenly turned around, raised his hand and pointed, and a rustling sound came from the depths of the ruins.

Between the reinforced concrete walls, a dust-covered cardboard box burst forth and flew into her palm with a "whoosh".

Chu Zhibai took the card box and saw that it was decorated with complicated patterns that she couldn't understand. So she opened the box and drew a card from inside.

Based on her paper sense, this thing is a very powerful special tool made of paper.

Although Chu Zhibai could sense the power within this special tool, he didn't know what it was for.

The card that was drawn had messy black lines on it. Sensing her gaze, the black lines began to writhe, twisting and rearranging themselves on the paper, eventually forming a few small words:

【I am the Diviner's Card】

Chu Zhibai was taken aback, then suddenly remembered that the landlord played by Jiang Jianxin seemed to be a fortune teller.

So, this belongs to Jiang Jianxin?

"What a coincidence."

She muttered to herself, casually stuffing the card box into the pocket of her work pants and dusting it off.
"I'll give it to her on my way to the cemetery station."

……

At this moment, inside the cemetery station.

Jiang Jianxin leaned against the tombstone, looking at the hooded child calmly holding an umbrella beside him, and stammered in astonishment:

"That... such a big teru teru bozu... you wiped it out in an instant?"

After Kondo Masaharu's companion doll swept through the entire Xingfuli residential area, its figure swelled to the height of a twenty-story building.

However, this enormous object transformed into a dazzling stream of light in mid-air, leaving not a single fragment behind.

Faced with Jiang Jianxin's surprise, the hooded child remained remarkably calm, his tone as indifferent as if he were eating or drinking:

"Yes, not just one doll. I also killed the person who wanted to kill you."

She paused, then added solemnly:
"The kind where both body and soul are destroyed."

"what?"

Jiang Jianxin's mouth dropped open.

This wasn't because she objected to the hooded child's actions, but rather because she was surprised by how quickly the child acted. "I remember that person should have a bunch of tools to take their place. You really killed him, and you weren't fooled?"

Jiang Jianxin asked again.

She worried that the hooded child might not have been killed as cleanly as she had that night.

"Don't worry, I am a follower of the God of Death... No one knows the art of ending better than me."

The hooded child said calmly.

"There's no such thing as a substitute dying; he's completely dead."

Her words carried an invisible authority and a reassuring sense of calm and security.

Jiang Jianxin breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a moment, and then gave her a thumbs up, saying:
"As expected of the fourth brother, you are really strong."

The hooded child in the fourth episode readily accepted Jiang Jianxin's praise, nodding slightly as she said:
"It's just a small thing."

Having successfully killed his rival, Kondo Masaharu, with the power of the fourth cycle, Jiang Jianxin began to consider what to do next.

She had heard that Zuo Siquan was at the Thirteenth Experimental University—she thought she could go there and meet up with Zuo Siquan.

However, before setting off, we need to confirm that Zuo Siquan is still there.

So Jiang Jianxin flicked his sleeve, and a small blue fish swam out—the battle had been too intense, so Jiang Jianxin had kept it in his sleeve.

"Ayu, do you have a signal at the Thirteenth Experimental University?"

Jiang Jianxin asked.

Ayu wagged its tail and replied:
"Yes, but the signal isn't very good."

"Is Elder Zuo still inside? How is she?"

Jiang Jianxin continued to ask.

"Elder Zuo Siquan is indeed inside, but because she is strong enough, she has already entered the final stage and has begun to use her abilities to cause destruction."

Ayu explained.

He knew Jiang Jianxin wanted to go to the 13th Experimental University, so he added:

"I don't recommend you go now, because you're likely to be caught in the most intense phase of the battle between the two sides."

Jiang Jianxin thought for a moment and then said:

"Do you have a way to send her a message and tell her to come to the cemetery and stand here to find me?"

Ayu said happily:
"I can do that, but please repeat the specific message you want to convey."

Jiang Jianxin said what he wanted to transmit, and a blue light emanated from around the small blue fish, indicating that the transmission had been successfully established.

While Ayu was relaying the message, Jiang Jianxin was also examining the subway tracks.

"Om————"

The rails trembled, and suddenly a sharp, long whistle of a subway train entering the station came from afar, startling the stones beside the tracks into a frenzy.

At the same time, her intuition gave her her first warning since her resurrection:
Chu Zhibai took the subway to see you, and he brought you something you left behind.

【? 】

Jiang Jianxin was a little confused.

What good stuff is it?

[These are the tarot cards that Yin Qingyue, as a fortune teller, possesses.]

Intuition didn't intend to keep them in suspense; it spoke frankly and directly.

This special tool can influence the future, though it's not always accurate, but keeping it will benefit you later.

Jiang Jianxin's lips twitched. She thought to herself that the tarot cards were more than just inaccurate; they were downright skewed to the extreme. The only time she used them, they got the time and the person completely wrong.

It's hard to imagine what great use such an outrageous and unusual tool could possibly have.

But since her intuition told her so, Jiang Jianxin wouldn't ignore it. She nodded and said:

[Pretty good, I got a dungeon run and also picked up an unreliable cheat.]

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