Chapter 25 A disease that can never be cured.

Li Xiaogou quickly replied: [I'll let you know the time and place for our meeting.]

Su Min quickly replied again: [OK.]

The answer he had been pursuing for so long was right in front of him, but strangely, Li Xiaogou did not seem as excited as he had imagined.

The farce at the top celebrity's wedding didn't look like it was going to end anytime soon, and Li Xiaogou was equally disinterested in watching his good sister's mischievous behavior. After asking Mo Shang and Wang Bo to stay and watch, he returned to the Special Investigation Bureau.

Yunlou was working at his desk as usual. The light welded his shadow to the wall, as if it were petrified.

If light could exert force, the silhouette of Yunlou would have been carved into this wall long ago.

Li Xiaogou was thinking randomly, Yunlou had already finished reviewing the last document.

He told Yunlou what happened at the wedding truthfully, not missing any details: "I'm sorry, I let the prisoner escape."

Yun Lou's fingers were twirling the pen cap, his eyes fixed on Li Xiao Gou. Just when Li Xiao Gou was wondering if he had suddenly grown two horns on his head, Yun Lou spoke up, "I didn't expect you to be quite popular with girls."

Isn't the point a little off?!

Li Xiaogou's lips twitched: "I didn't expect that either."

Yunlou's lips curled up slightly: "Perhaps I should assign you some serious tasks."

…

Li Xiaogou looked up and saw Yunlou wasn't joking. His scalp tingled instantly, and he abruptly changed the subject. "Originally, I only suspected that woman was connected to the previous supernatural case, but I couldn't be sure until I saw her use her powers. And then she instantly broke free from the Special Investigation Bureau's handcuffs, and my suspicions are now 80% confirmed."

"Do you still remember what she looks like?" Yunlou asked.

"Um."

Yunlou picked up the phone and dialed the internal line. He spoke some code and other jargon, then hung up and said to Li Xiaogou, "Go to the Information Department to have your portrait taken. The bureau will issue a wanted order later."

Ministry of Information? Li Xiaogou was stunned. Was this the Ministry of Information he had always wanted to join?

I have been in the Special Investigation Bureau for such a long time, and I have rarely heard news from the Information Department, let alone the Information Department. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most mysterious department in the entire Special Investigation Bureau.

Li Xiaogou curiously went to the Information Department with the one-time pass given by Yunlou.

The department with only one staff member was extremely quiet. Although he had lowered his footsteps, the only sound he could hear in the entire corridor was his own breathing.

After sticking the access card on the door, a beep sounded and the mysterious veil of the Ministry of Information was finally slowly unveiled before his eyes.

In the information processing room, which is as large as two football fields, all the computers are turned on at this moment, and complicated and incomprehensible program instructions are flashing on the black and blue interfaces.

He took two steps forward, wanting to take a closer look at the instructions. Just as he leaned forward, he was suddenly tapped on the shoulder. The thing that tapped him felt hard and cold, definitely not from a human.

The blood in his body froze, his neck twisted slowly with stiffness, and after seeing the person behind him clearly, Li Xiaogou's pupils suddenly shrank.

Standing behind him was a woman, a woman of striking beauty—if you only looked at half of it.

Half of the woman's body was wrapped in metal, and even her cheeks were covered with a silver-white mask. It was unknown what material it was made of, but it glowed faintly in the dim information department.

Li Xiaogou instantly thought of the two-dimensional beautiful girl named Ayanami Rei in his previous life.

"Are you the brat sent by Yunlou?"

Well, the image is shattered.

"...Team Cloud asked me to come over and collect the prisoner's image."

The woman waved her robotic arm, signaling Li Xiaogou to follow.

"Excuse me, what should I call you?"

"zero."

Li Xiaogou didn't understand and repeated, "You?"

The woman stopped and looked at him as if he were a fool: "Zero one two three four five, zero."

She muttered, "Were you really trained by that little guy Yunlou himself?"

Could it be that Yunlou said this? Li Xiaogou was slightly surprised.

As he spoke, Ling led him to a room decorated like an operating room and had him lie on the only recliner in the room.

As she placed the cold metal patches on both sides of Li Xiaogou's temples, she teased, "You and Yunlou look quite alike."

Li Xiaogou: ...

For a moment I didn't know who you were scolding.

Unlike his cool appearance, he is quite talkative.

Few people came to the Information Department, and she knew too many secrets, so she was restricted and could never step out of the bunker. Every day she was either in an online romance or arguing with people online.

Now that a living person finally came, she talked nonstop.

"It seems that Yunlou is still the same as before, tough on the outside but soft on the inside, protecting his child."

"He's protecting his own child?" Even if he were given two pairs of eyes, he wouldn't be able to tell.

After Zero finished debugging the machine, he smiled and said, "Isn't this just protecting your own people? If I were in your shoes, seeing your strange ability, I would definitely choose to kill you instead of keeping you in my team."

Zero's voice was AI-like, with a crackling sound like electricity, but Li Xiaogou could sense the murderous intent coming from her even from the flat mechanical voice.

She is serious.

"What's wrong with my powers?"

Ling rolled his eyes: "You're just as stubborn as Yunlou."

"Don't worry, I can't reveal anything that happens in the Information Department, including your secrets."

She stroked her chin and circled around Li Xiaogou. "But I'm also very curious. My most advanced equipment can't detect any fluctuations in your superpowers, but you truly possess superpowers... I really want to cut you open and take a look."

Li Xiaogou swallowed his saliva and said, "How about we start collecting the materials?"

Zero regretfully let him go.

"From now on, clear your mind of all distracting thoughts and recall the person's appearance, including her tone of voice, demeanor, and movements."

Li Xiaogou followed Ling's instructions.

The whole process lasted twenty minutes.

"alright."

Li Xiaogou opened his eyes, and his first reaction was to see whether the machine worked.

However, the first thing he met was Zero's mischievous gaze.

"The images you recall...tsk, using work as a pretext to seek personal benefits."

"Sister, you are so beautiful. I want to hug you too."

Li Xiaogou: ...

"I was forced to do that."

"Yeah, yeah." Zero said perfunctorily, "The Loli Island owner of the beautiful country next door also committed suicide by shooting herself eight times in the back."

Li Xiaogou finally understood how powerful the Yin-Yang techniques he practiced online every day were.

He was undoubtedly defeated.

The resulting image of the woman is identical to her own photograph.

The image on the wanted poster was even dynamic. If he hadn't experienced it himself, he might have thought that Zero was the one who had seen the woman.

In less than an hour, the wanted warrant was issued.

Li Xiaogou was shocked by the efficiency and was despised by Ling again.

Before leaving, Zero politely escorted him to the door.

Li Xiaogou considered it over and over again, and finally asked tentatively: "If I know a very important secret, I would trade it with you and ask you to help me find another secret, is that okay?"

"What secret?"

This means a deal is done.

Li Xiaogou was also straightforward: "This world will be destroyed in a few years."

Ling pricked up her ears, waiting for the rest of the story. But when she saw the boy in front of her looking around with a furtive look, thinking that she had said some important exclusive information, she couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Hahahahaha, you—" After wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, Ling asked, "That's it?"

…

Li Xiaogou was confused.

"Don't tell me you already know that?"

"It's not just me who knows this. Everyone in the Special Investigation Bureau knows this. Isn't this an open secret?"

Li Xiaogou:!!!

Zero generously included an off-site message: "Three years before you joined the Special Investigation Bureau, someone predicted the impending end of the world."

"A prophet?"

A pale and weak face appeared in Li Xiaogou's mind.

"It's someone you know."

Ling confirmed Li Xiaogou's guess.

After leaving the Information Department, Li Xiaogou immediately called the system.

"How do you explain it?"

What's the explanation? I never said it was a secret...

As long as you are thick-skinned, there is nothing you can't overcome.

After realizing this truth from the system, Li Xiaogou immediately applied this truth to the system.

After a series of "cordial and friendly" exchanges, Li Xiaogou successfully obtained the benefit of a painless free upgrade +1 to the Chigua system.

Not only can he now eat two types of melons from one person at a time, he can also choose a character related to the object of eating melon and eat the melon of that character.

Unfortunately, these two functions cannot be used at the same time.

After finishing the work at the Special Investigation Bureau, Li Xiaogou went to meet Su Min. The meeting place was not far from the Special Investigation Bureau.

"We can only tell you half of the secret you want to know. The remaining half can only be told to you after your matching is successful." Pan Rong's action of tightly gripping the bag strap revealed her guilty conscience.

"Okay." Li Xiaogou agreed. As for whether he would regret it... he would tell you after hearing half of the secret.

Su Min licked his lips and said in a dry voice: "The reason we abandoned you in the first place was——"

Li Xiaogou interrupted him and chuckled, saying, "It seems I need to reiterate that I am not interested in the reason why you abandoned me. What I want to know is who are those people who followed me like hyenas and tried to kill me?"

The man didn't like being interrupted while speaking, but when he met Li Xiaogou's smiling yet warning eyes, he swallowed his dissatisfaction and said stiffly, "We didn't misunderstand you."

"Abandoning you and hunting you down are essentially for the same reason."

Li Xiaogou was stunned for a moment and made a "please continue" gesture.

"We abandoned you because you have no special abilities."

At this point, the man frowned slightly and gave Li Xiaogou a strange look: "Obviously we were wrong, you have awakened your superpowers."

"Is it just because I don't have any special powers?" Li Xiaogou tapped the table with his knuckles, completely unaware of how similar he was to Yunlou.

There are many perverted and twisted parents in movies throughout history who want their children to be successful and abandon their failed works. It is not surprising.

Abandoning him just because he has no special abilities barely makes sense.

But - just because he had no superpowers, he was hunted down for decades, and the people sent to assassinate him all had superpowers.

Mobilizing such a large force to deal with him... just because he has no special abilities?

"Because I'm still alive, are you worried that I'll expose your crimes and turn you in?"

He asked tentatively, but deep down he didn't believe this explanation. Given Su Min and Pan Rong's conditions, they couldn't do this, whether they wanted to or not.

Su Min clasped his hands together and placed them on the table. "The rest, I can only tell you after the matching."

Li Xiaogou felt that he could already touch the layer of window paper that seemed to be non-existent.

He agreed.

It was a good opportunity to meet his younger brother whom he had never met before.

Following the two of them to the hospital, after blood was drawn and tests were done, Su Min took the initiative to ask Li Xiaogou to see his younger brother.

Li Xiaogou naturally understood Su Min's naive thoughts. He was just hoping that after seeing his brother, he would feel some compassion and choose to help them actively. At the very least, it would be good if he could soften his stance in the next round of negotiations.

This was exactly what Li Xiaogou wanted.

But Li Xiaogou didn't expect that the person he would see when he opened the door would be an acquaintance.

"Suse?"

The boy's face was paler than the last time Li Xiaogou saw him, and his eyes looked even darker.

Very similar to Li Xiaogou's eyes.

The two just stared at each other, and finally it was Sus who smiled first with his bloodless lips: "No wonder I felt you looked familiar the last time I saw you, it turns out you are my brother."

Li Xiaogou shuddered at the sound of "brother", but he immediately realized something was wrong: "I was abandoned after I was born. You shouldn't have seen me."

Sus explained, "Actually, I saw it secretly."

"Peeking?" Li Xiaogou sat down beside his bed.

"Yeah." Sus nodded and struggled to sit up.

Li Xiaogou helped him shake the bed.

"Thanks."

He clenched his fist and coughed twice: "I first knew about your existence before I joined the Special Investigation Bureau."

"You should already know that my ability is a bit special. It's prophecy." He smiled. "After my parents confirmed that I really had abilities, they went through a lot of trouble before they learned about the Special Investigation Bureau and reported my abilities to them."

"It's rare for someone like me to escape the supervision of the Bureau of Supernatural Powers and be discovered to have supernatural powers. Everyone must go through a rigorous background check before they can join the Bureau of Supernatural Powers. Otherwise, they need someone to guarantee them."

At this point, Sus smiled mischievously at Li Xiaogou and said, "You probably don't know yet, but your guarantor is Yunlou, right?"

This is the third secret Li Xiaogou has known so far.

It was also the one that shocked him the most.

Fortunately, Suss didn't mean to laugh at him and quickly continued, "Yunlou wasn't the captain of the detachment at the time. He was mainly responsible for investigating special incidents like this, so he came to my house."

"You know, Yunlou is very handsome and has a unique temperament." Su Si smiled shyly. "I was very curious about who he was, so I hid and eavesdropped on what they were talking about. It was then that I heard from my parents that I actually had an older brother, but he died at a very young age."

Li Xiaogou sneered.

"I'm sorry." Sus looked at him apologetically, "After Team Yun left, I saw my parents put your photo away. Then one night, when I was alone at home, I secretly took out the photo and looked at it."

"You look very young in the photo, but your facial features are vaguely recognizable as they are now."

"What does it look like?"

"He looks lazy and looks down on everyone."

"That sounds a bit annoying."

"really."

The two looked at each other and smiled at the same time.

Li Xiaogou didn't have much emotion towards this adopted brother.

"Yunlou has only been to your house once?"

"Yes, what's the problem?"

Li Xiaogou shook his head and suddenly realized that his misunderstanding of Yunlou seemed to be a bit deep.

After reading the original body's diary, he always thought that Yunlou, Su Min and Pan Rong were old acquaintances, but the reality was far from that.

"Thank you for being willing to do the matching." Sus spoke again.

"You're welcome. It's just an exchange." He looked at Sus and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Sus smiled and said, "It's a disease that can never be cured."

It was an expression of relief about life and death, and it was particularly glaring on a young face like Suss's.

So Li Xiaogou started talking nonsense again: "Then why do you still want to find a match?"

Sus's expression froze for a moment, then he burst into laughter.

"Hahahahaha, I like you as my brother more and more."

He laughed for a while before regaining his composure: "Maybe they need me to do more things and can't let me die so early."

Just as he was about to ask who "they" were, Sus's expression suddenly changed slightly, and he spat out a mouthful of blood without any warning.

The blood was spit out quite heroically. Although Sus had controlled the strength and direction, a rainbow-shaped blood line was still sprayed on Li Xiaogou's sweatshirt. Looking at the amount of bleeding, Li Xiaogou was a little afraid that he would be sprayed to death.

He hurried to find a doctor, but Sus grabbed the corner of his clothes.

"If you were dead when we met, I wouldn't be able to explain myself even if I jumped into the Yellow River."

He tried to push Sus's hand away, but the latter held it tightly like a soldering iron.

Sus swallowed the blood in his throat with all his strength, and said with bloodshot eyes, "I'm fine."

"Go save Mom and Dad. They're on the rooftop. It will be too late if you don't go now."

Sus's special ability is prophecy, he must know something.

Su Min and Pan Rong deserved to die, but they still hid half a secret.

Li Xiaogou nodded, greeted the doctor, and ran in the direction Sus pointed.

Places like hospitals are not short of people who have lost hope in life and are seeking death.

Therefore, the door leading to the top-floor terrace from the inpatient department has always been tightly locked.

Now the heavy, rusty chain lock was thrown on the steps in the corridor.

The muffled cry for help was carried to my ears by the wind through the gap in the iron door.

Li Xiaogou jumped onto the stairs and pushed open the old iron door while panting.

The wind on the top floor was very strong, and the loose sweatshirt was blown inward by the wind, and the hat was also blown off. Opposite Li Xiaogou, a thin woman was strangled by a man, and the strong wind blew her hair away.

Her eyes were wide open, and the nails of her ten fingers were bleeding: "Help, help—"

She stretched out her hand towards Li Xiaogou.

"Su Min, let her go."

The man ignored her and tightened his grip on the woman's neck.

Li Xiaogou didn't have time to think about why Su Min suddenly went crazy and wanted to hurt Pan Rong. He tried to persuade him:

"I've already called the police. If you strangle her now, you won't be able to get away."

"Sus just vomited blood again because of you guys. Don't you want to save him? Have you ever thought about how he would react if he knew that his father killed his mother?"

Li Xiaogou said this while observing the surrounding environment.

He moved, and the man moved with him, but the strength in his hand did not loosen.

The entire top-floor balcony is in full view, with no place to lean on.

If this continues, the woman will die.

We can't wait any longer.

Li Xiaogou took a step back slightly, then rushed out like an arrow.

He was much faster than Su Min. Even if the man dodged his sweeping kick, he could not dodge his fast punch.

However, just as his fist hit the man's temple, a sharp conical metal slipped out of Su Min's sleeve and pierced straight into the woman's neck.

Su Min was sent flying by the punch, and the woman fell slowly in the wind like a withered leaf.

Li Xiaogou caught her.

The woman raised her hand and then lowered it, as if she wanted to touch Li Xiaogou's face.

Li Xiaogou pressed her wound, but it was of no use. The blood was still gushing out. Her lips opened and closed, and there was a gasping sound in her throat, as if she wanted to say something.

Li Xiaogou leaned down and put his ear close to her lips.

"Save, save Sus. He is...the last hope."

"What last hope?"

However, the woman was unable to respond to Li Xiaogou's questions.

After saying this last sentence, the woman's hands fell to her sides, and the blood flowing out of her body gradually turned cold.

She is dead.

Li Xiaogou put her body on the ground.

All this happened suddenly and absurdly. Until death came, the woman still had only Sus as her child in her heart.

Fortunately, the original body will not see such a scene, and will not have to experience the heartache of being abandoned again.

Li Xiaogou looked at the man who was struggling to get up.

"Why did you kill her?" Li Xiaogou stepped closer to the man. "You regretted it and didn't want to tell me the secret, but she insisted, so you killed her?"

This was the only answer Li Xiaogou could think of, and it could also explain the woman’s dying instructions.

But this still doesn't make sense. If Su Min wanted to deceive me, he should have chosen a more secluded place to kill the woman. If he did, everyone would know about it. How could he possibly be deceived?

Li Xiaogou waited for the man's explanation.

However, Su Min did not give any explanation. He just struggled to get up from the ground and retreated step by step as Li Xiaogou approached until his back was against the edge of the wall.

He climbed up.

Li Xiaogou's pupils suddenly shrank as he realized something. He pushed his body to the limit, but he was not a person with physical abilities. Su Min jumped down after all. Li Xiaogou stretched out his hand, but he only had time to grab Su Min's wrist.

The huge wind blew Su Min's body back and forth. Under him was an endless abyss. Li Xiaogou held his wrist tightly, and his arm rubbed against the rough concrete wall. Soon, bright red liquid flowed down the edge.

"Why?"

The sound of police car sirens could be heard downstairs. Li Xiaogou gritted his teeth to resist the piercing pain in his arm and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth.

Su Min slowly raised his head, and the blood on Li Xiaogou's arm just dripped down and dripped onto his face like a drop of bloody tears.

Su Min looked dazed for a moment, and then began to struggle desperately.

"Don't move!" Li Xiaogou said angrily, "Since you're not even afraid of death, why don't you wait until I heal Su Si before you die? Or, as long as you live, Su Si will definitely die?"

Su Min stopped struggling. His facial features were distorted and the flesh on his cheeks was trembling violently. It was an expression that could not be described in words.

He spoke slowly:

"They abandoned you because you were useless. Useless people should be wiped out. They..."

Li Xiaogou was listening attentively when suddenly, Su Min raised the hand that had been hanging by his side, placed it on his hand, and slowly and firmly pried his hand open.

"Save Sus—"

In the final moments of his fall, the man said exactly the same words as the woman.

Li Xiaogou stared blankly at his empty palm.

"Don't move. Put your hands up."

There was a sound of the iron door being kicked open behind him, and the police surrounded him layer by layer.

Li Xiaogou raised his hands and slowly turned around.