Strange Cards

Chapter 374 Dreams are a rehearsal for death

What are dreams?

"It is a rest for the body and soul, a haven from reality."

"still..."

"A rehearsal for death?"

"No rush, think it over and then tell me your answer."

"If you haven't thought it through, you can make your move first."

"There's still time."

Shigure, seeing this unsolvable situation, began to play casually, while the other Shigure, seemingly having anticipated this outcome, also played without a care.

This game is unsolvable; there is no chance of breaking it.

Shigure suddenly realized that the game he was playing casually had unexpectedly found a way to break the deadlock.

Shigure slowly placed his pieces, and with the last piece, he completely turned the seemingly hopeless situation around and even managed to defeat Shigure on the other side.

Shigure, on the other side, was not surprised at all. After waving his hand to put away the chessboard and pieces, he looked at the white clouds outside the pavilion and said.

"Exactly the same."

"Only you can break this deadlock."

"What do you mean?"

The other Shigure turned her head, looked at Shigure standing in the pavilion, and smiled.

"Literal meaning."

"Only you can break this deadlock."

Another Shigure reached into his pocket and pulled out all fifty-two strange cards along with two Joker cards at once.

"You must have traveled through many timelines and know that all worlds have been destroyed."

"At the end of my timeline, no one died. I collected all the strange cards by myself."

"After collecting them all, I approached someone who had two Joker cards and gave the fully evolved Joker a big surprise."

"That battle was fierce and devastating; Nanhai City was completely destroyed."

"Although I evacuated everyone in Nanhai City in advance, and I defeated two Jokers with my courage to fight to the death, this deadlock still couldn't be turned around."

"I completely obliterated the consciousness of both Jokers. Before they died, the two Jokers suddenly gave me a meaningful smile."

"At first I didn't understand the meaning of that smile, but I only recently found out."

"I became the Joker, the third Joker after the two of them."

"Two Jokers can maintain the balance of this world, but if only one Joker remains, the remaining Joker will destroy this world."

"The Joker keeps causing trouble for Gu Nian, and even wants to destroy the world because he wants to find that Joker."

"Unexpectedly, a Cheng Yaojin appeared out of nowhere. With the help of the things left behind by Gu Nian, I killed two Jokers in one fell swoop."

"Then I inherited their positions, because no other Joker ever appeared, and my consciousness..."

"It's been severely worn down by the strange cards and is on the verge of going berserk."

"So I left everyone and came to this deep mountain to live in seclusion."

"Seclusion did allow me to linger on for a while, but now there's absolutely no way out."

"The day I'm driven insane by this will be the day a natural disaster strikes."

"This world, in the end, cannot escape the fate of being destroyed."

"What about A?"

"Why did you...?"

"It was A who came up with the solution and idea."

"In order to prolong my worn-out consciousness, he chose to strengthen my consciousness with his own. He died long ago in his battle with the Joker."

Shigure looked at Shigure as he put all the strange cards back into his pocket and tried to speak.

"Then you won't..."

"To create a second Joker and achieve a state of peace with me?"

"Don't be silly. Shigure is a person born by the will of Heaven. Apart from us, no one else has the ability to fuse all the strange cards."

"I've tried the method you suggested, but let alone fusing 52 cards to evolve into the Joker like I did, most people can't even fuse 13 cards."

"Even if someone can fuse all thirteen strange cards, their body will inevitably be burst open when fusing them all, and their body will be blown into a rain of blood."

"At this point, there's no other way."

Another Shigure looked at Shigure and put his hand on Shigure's shoulder.

"But you are different from me. You became the Joker by merging only thirteen cards."

"You might be able to change all the tragic endings in this world."

Shigure paused for a moment, then another Shigure continued.

Your assumption is wrong.

"I possess another Joker's Prophecy and the ability to use type K and type J, so I know exactly what you're thinking."

"Your timeline is the only correct one; our timelines only exist because of your existence."

Believe in yourself; you are the one who can break the deadlock.

Keep moving forward boldly, and don't look back.

"There is nowhere to go from where we came from."

As the other Shigure spoke, he suddenly began to experience fluctuations, and then the strange cards in his pocket flew out one by one and merged into the body of the other Shigure.

The other Shigure's consciousness was clearly resisting, and in the end, the other Shigure, whose body gradually turned into a monster, looked at Shigure and smiled.

"Before I lose myself and completely destroy the world."

"Can I know your answer?"

What exactly are dreams?

Shi Yu thought for a moment, then spoke.

"A dream is nothing."

"Whether it's a rest for the body and soul, or a haven to escape reality."

"Or perhaps it's a prelude to death; dreams are not them."

"A dream is just a dream."

"Because we will eventually wake up tomorrow."

"Reality can never be escaped, no matter how cruel it may be."

"We can only learn to accept it."

"..."

"Thank you, you've helped me think things through."

"Since we can't avoid it, let's keep going."

Even if it's a race towards death.

The other Shigure listened to Shigure's words and a relieved smile appeared on his face before he completely transformed into a monster.

Shigure watched as another Shigure, transformed into a monster, went on a rampage in this world, killing his former companions, family, and friends one by one.

Until we completely destroy this world and perish together with it.

Shi Yu suddenly sat up, her numb mind revitalized.

As Shi Yu gazed at the eternally unchanging River of Oblivion, she suddenly noticed small flowers blooming along its banks.

Shiyu picked a small flower and discovered that it was actually a flower of the other shore.

"This is the River of Oblivion."

"It's still the River of Oblivion."

As Shiyu spoke, she waded back into the River of Oblivion and continued walking towards the souls of the deceased.

What Shigure didn't know was that the River of Oblivion...

That is the River of Oblivion.