Chapter 241 Gu Qiye: Wen Yu, I am actually Lan Hu (asking for monthly tickets)

"You mean, Blue Arc, your...son?"

Lin Yilong raised his head, looked at Gui Zhong's lowered scarlet eyes, and asked him almost word by word.

The ghost bell was silent.

"Mr. Gui Zhong...what nonsense are you talking about?" Lin Yilong lowered his head and laughed softly, "I didn't expect that after not seeing you for two months, you have become so humorous?"

He seldom smiled. He had hardly smiled in the two years since he lost his father, but at this moment, the corners of his mouth suddenly pulled into an ugly smile. The muscles on his face twitched slightly.

But the ghost bell remained silent.

Slowly, he took off the metal breathing mask on his face, lowered his head, and looked like a dejected man with an unshaven beard.

Gu Zhuoan frowned and said with a complicated expression:

"I should have told you about my son, Gu Qiye, before."

Lin Yilong said softly: "That's right, but you told me that he was a normal person; and you also said that you were glad that he didn't inherit your superpower gene."

"But that's not the case. Qiye had already awakened his supernatural powers several years ago."

"you mean……"

"Yes, my son is the same as me. His first thought after awakening his superpowers was to find out the truth about Su Ying's death, but we chose to embark on different paths. I became a criminal, while he wanted to join Rainbow Wing, so he became a walker."

At this point, Gu Zhuoan paused for a moment, "He doesn't even know who he should take revenge on, and thinks that as long as he joins Hongyi, he can find out the truth."

He took a deep breath and murmured in a low voice:

"This kid is too stupid... He is really too stupid, but how can that be true? He will only be squeezed dry by Hongyi and then thrown away like a piece of waste paper."

Lin Yilong was stunned for a long time, "You are not kidding?"

"Yitaki, don't you understand yet?" Gu Zhuoan looked up at him, "Qiye's purpose of becoming a stranger is the same as yours, to avenge his dead parents."

Lin Yilong was silent.

"He is the same as me?" he murmured. "You mean, my enemy is the same as me and has experienced the same thing, so I should forgive him? Then tell me, what is my father's fault?"

"I didn't say that."

"Putting all that aside, what have you been hiding from me?"

Lin Yilong looked up at him, his tone getting stronger with each word: "Mr. Gui Zhong, in these two years, you have never told me once that my enemy... is actually your son?"

Gu Zhuoan shook his head and explained self-deprecatingly:

"I only found out about this recently, and I was shocked when I found out. After all, there were many times before... I almost killed my own son."

"So...what do you want to say?"

"I don't know, I'm just telling you this and you can make the judgement."

"If I say I will not stop seeking revenge on your son, will you kill me?"

Gu Zhuoan was silent for a moment, and then he said in a low voice, "This world is too complicated. Sometimes it's hard to just cover your ears and pretend to be deaf... But no matter what, as a father, I want to ask you to stop."

"You are so selfish, saying such things to me..."

"I won't kill you, Makutaki. But I don't know how to convince you, just like I can't convince myself."

Lin Yilong lowered his head and remained silent for a long time. Finally, he just said softly:

"You... shouldn't have saved me."

Gu Zhuoan understood the answer given by the young man. He took a deep breath and said, "I know it's not that easy to convince you."

"If you hadn't saved me, I wouldn't have known these things, or at least I wouldn't have been shaken... or at least I wouldn't have needed to express gratitude to my enemy's father." Lin Yilong smiled, "I am very grateful to you and regard you as a father. Without you, I wouldn't have made such rapid progress in the past two years. But now you suddenly tell me that the enemy I have always hated is your son, and then ask me to give up revenge?"

He raised his head, stared at Gu Zhuo'an coldly, and almost growled, "Stop joking, what does this world want from me to be satisfied?"

Gu Zhuoan stood on the chair like a statue, letting the other party vent his anger. After a long while, he spoke:

"There's still time... Think about it carefully."

"Don't think about it. I won't forgive him."

"I'm not asking you to forgive him, I just hope... you can forgive yourself."

After saying that, Gu Zhuoan stood up from his chair, clutching the metal breathing mask, and walked slowly out of the basement step by step.

However, just as he opened the door, he suddenly heard a weak and hoarse voice behind him:

“What about you…Mr. Gui Zhong, have you forgiven yourself again?

"I can't forgive... maybe I will never forgive myself in this life." Gu Zhuoan said, "But you are different, you are still young, so I hope you can choose a different path, now... there is still a way back: change your identity and start over, no matter where you go, let go of the past, and live a good life."

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned the doorknob, pushed the door open, and walked out without looking back.

Lin Yilong slowly watched the door close, breathing heavily, and the scars under the bandages seemed to be painful.

"Go tell your own children this..."

He muttered to himself hoarsely, and suddenly recalled Blue Arc kneeling in front of him, with his head hung, begging for death.

"He needs this."

Guyimai Street District.

It was already dusk. The sky was tinged with a wine-like red hue. The sun was slowly falling toward the bottom of the horizon. The chirping of cicadas in the trees had become a little weaker.

When Gu Qinye left the Alien Association, he changed into a set of casual clothes.

He hung his head, standing silently at the door of his house, just like a student who was more than ten minutes late standing at the classroom door, hesitating to step in, fearing that he would be scolded by the head teacher with a ruler.

After a moment, Gu Qiye suddenly raised his head and looked at the birds flying over the electric fence and iron chains. The high-speed train rumbled through the viaduct under the blood-red afterglow, stirring up a breeze that carried the breath of dusk.

He felt a little tired, and perhaps it was enough to stop here. He would go and talk to the people from Hongyi in a few days.

He gave up and didn't want to go on. What good would it be even if he pursued that illusory truth?

Can mom come back?

No, the family in front of me is real.

If I don't look back, I might even lose the people around me...

Gu Qinye lowered his head and was silent for a long time. Suddenly, he curled the corners of his mouth and reached out to turn the doorknob.

He inserted the key into the hole. Before he could unlock the door, he heard a click and someone opened the door for him from the inside.

He raised an eyebrow and looked up curiously.

Su Zimai was seen wearing a snow-white nightgown, with her hands behind her back, looking up and staring at him motionlessly.

"I've been watching you in the living room for a while. I just wanted to see when you would open the door." She said aggressively.

"I'm just expressing my feelings. I thought I was dead."

"Why don't you thank your good sister? Without me, you would have died a long time ago. Make me a delicious meal tonight to reward me. Do you hear me?"

"Of course."

Gu Qiye smiled, hugged his shoulders and leaned against the door frame, thinking while saying: "Let me think about what to do today?"

Su Zimai was silent for a while: "I was really worried to death... I didn't close my eyes for the past two days, I was waiting for your news, but you came back and acted like nothing happened. I thought you were traveling."

“I’m used to it.”

"Get used to it?"

"After all, it has happened many times before. He was beaten half to death and then went home as if nothing happened."

"How dare you say that?!" Su Zimai glared at him.

"Okay, don't be angry... and remember to say thank you to Ke Qirui for me." Gu Qiye shrugged and smiled.

As he said that, he walked towards home first, loosened his shoelaces, and took off his sneakers. "By the way, didn't you say a few days ago that you were leaving? To follow your team leader to work in another place?"

"I told the team leader that I wanted to stay in Lijing for a few more days," Su Zimai said, "and he agreed."

"I see."

"What about you? Did the people from the association say anything to you? Like asking you to stay home and recuperate for a few days."

Gu Qiye was silent for a while, then suddenly said:

"Xiaomi, the people from Hongyi have invited me."

Su Zimai was stunned when he heard this, he stopped, slowly raised his head and looked at Gu Qinye's back.

"when?"

"Just this afternoon, when I woke up from my bed in the association building, Rainbow Wing's 'Sail Holly' and another member were sitting beside the bed. They gave me an agreement to let me join Rainbow Wing and fill the last vacancy."

Gu Qinye said this, put his sneakers on the shoe cabinet, and turned his head to meet Su Zimai's gaze.

Su Zimai looked at him in disbelief, and after a while he spoke:

"That means, brother... you have a chance to find the person who killed mom?"

Gu Qinye opened his mouth slightly.

After a moment of silence, he nodded: "Yes, there is a chance."

"Is that so..." Su Zimai's eyes flickered with light, and he curled his lips slightly, "Then be careful and don't get beaten half to death like this time. Be a good sister and I will save you."

She paused and said, "Anyway, no matter how much I persuade you, you won't give up, right?"

"Xiaomi, I..."

Gu Qiye lowered his head, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.

Su Zimai raised his head and looked at him in confusion.

"I suddenly figured it out today, and I thought, why don't we just give up?"

Gu Qinye finally said this. He sat down leaning against the shoe cabinet with some uneasiness and put his hands behind his back.

"give up?"

"Well, actually I don't want to join Hongyi." Gu Qinye said slowly.

"What are you talking about? All your efforts over the years have been in vain?"

"I used to be too stubborn, but my whole family is stubborn. I inherited that from my dad."

Gu Qinye laughed at himself.

He paused for a moment. "Yesterday I felt like I was going to die. It was so cold... I felt like I really couldn't hold on this time. I was lucky in the past and always narrowly escaped death, but this time I woke up and suddenly felt that I might not be able to come back next time."

He lowered his voice and said, "Then... I was thinking, maybe it would be better for our family to put aside all those trivial matters earlier and live a normal life like we do now. Wouldn't that be what Mom wants?"

After saying that, Gu Qinye leaned against the shoe cabinet with his body tilted, his head lowered, and his hair covering his eyes.

He looked at his hands in silence, not even daring to look up at his sister's expression, nor daring to imagine what his sister would say to him.

Will his sister say that he is a coward or stupid? Or will she criticize him for everything and say that he has forgotten about his mother?

Yes, just such an ordinary decision has destroyed all the efforts of the past five years. If he misses this opportunity, he may never be able to get close to Hongyi again.

"Will I regret it?"

Gu Qinye asked himself in his heart, but he didn’t know clearly, he just knew that he was really tired.

After a moment of silence, Su Zimai said, "Are you very tired?"

"What?" Gu Qinye was stunned and looked up at her.

"That's great... You finally said you were tired and wanted to give up." Su Zimai lowered his head and said softly, "I won't interfere with your decision. Whether you want to give up or join Hongyi, it's up to you to choose."

She paused: "But no matter what decision you make, I will support you."

As she spoke, she closed the door, blocking out the afterglow of the evening. At that moment, Gu Qiye's dazed expression was swallowed up by the darkness, and silence shrouded the entrance.

"Thank you, Xiaomai." Gu Qiye laughed at himself. "I thought you would say something like, this brother is really useless. He suddenly backed down at the last step. I thought about it all the way before I came back. How should I bring this up with you..."

"Are you stupid?" Su Zimai interrupted him with red eyes, "I feel so sorry for you, why should I ask you to continue to persevere? You can't even be happy yet."

Gu Qinye was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand and touched her head.

"Our Xiaomai is not going to cry, is she? If Wenyu finds out, he will laugh at you again." He said with a smile.

"He...he's not at home again."

"Has he not come home yet? I sent him a message at noon asking him to come back."

"It should be soon."

"That's good." Gu Qiye thought for a moment, "Oh, by the way, did Hei Pupa tell you anything in the past two days?"

"Actually, it was Black Pupa who asked us to rescue you."

"So that's how it is. I guessed it." Gu Qiye said calmly, "I really have to thank him this time. But judging from Hei Pupa's style, maybe even Mu Long's killing me was arranged by him in advance."

"No way, is the big moth that sinister?" Su Zimai said suspiciously, "I think that although he is bad and mean, he is... maybe... maybe he is still a good person, right? Would he really do such a wicked thing?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the door was pushed open with a "click". The afterglow of the evening once again shone into the room, illuminating the faces of the brother and sister.

Gu Wenyu lowered his head to play with his mobile phone, pulled the key out of the keyhole, then was stunned for a moment and looked up at the two people in the entrance.

"What are you two doing here?" Gu Wenyu narrowed his eyes, "Are you not secretly saying bad things about me?"

“I’m back.”

As he spoke, Gu Qiye curled his lips at him, "Everyone is waiting for you."

"Speak of the devil, and here he comes." Su Zimai said calmly, "We were just talking about whether you died somewhere."

"Wait a minute, what's going on?" Gu Wenyu looked at Gu Qiye first, then turned to look at Su Zimai, "Didn't you say that my brother went out of town?"

"It's a lie."

"Where did you go yesterday, brother?"

Su Zimai put his hands behind his back and thought for a while, then suddenly turned his head to look at Gu Qiye, as if asking him silently with his eyes: "Do you want to tell the truth to your second brother?"

"Uh..." Gu Qinye hugged his shoulders and thought quietly.

After a while, he couldn't stand being stared at by Su Zimai anymore, so he finally rubbed his forehead and said:

"Wenyu, let's go into the living room and talk. I have something to tell you."

"Of course, but why are you so serious?" Gu Wenyu speculated suspiciously, "Is our family bankrupt? Or maybe Dad got drunk and got hit by a car and died?"

"Neither." Gu Qinye shook his head.

"Could you please stop saying such unlucky things?" Su Zimai rolled his eyes at him.

Gu Wenyu took off his shoes and changed the subject: "By the way, did you guys watch the news? That new alien, Mu Taki, beat Blue Arc half to death yesterday, and then Black Pupa rescued Mu Taki."

"I didn't see it." Gu Qinye said.

"I saw it." Su Zimai said.

The three of them walked into the living room while chatting.

"Makutaki also said that Blue Arc killed his father, and now Blue Arc's haters are already celebrating." Gu Wenyu said, "Except for Blue Arc's fans who are still mourning, the whole network is waiting to see the fun."

"It's okay... Blue Arc is dead anyway." Gu Qiye said, "Whatever they say."

"Blue Arc is dead?"

Gu Wenyu was stunned.

"Yeah...Blue Arc will never come back." Gu Qinye said in a low voice.

Before he could mourn for Lan Hu's death, Gu Wenyu suddenly covered his mouth and said in a muffled voice:

"Wait a minute, Blue Arc is dead and Makutaki is a wanted criminal, doesn't that mean..."

"illustrate?"

Su Zimai turned his head and looked at him with contempt and curiosity.

"This means that our Swallowing Silver Rat is going to dominate the association and become the face of Li Jing!" Gu Wenyu finally couldn't hold it in anymore and cheered, "I didn't expect this day to come. We Swallowing Silver fans can finally vent our anger."

Su Zimai sighed, "That's it. If we let a comedian take over, what will become of our Lijing?"

"Very good." Gu Qiye said something for Tun Yin, "Although Tun Yin has a bad temper, he is very responsible, much better than Lan Hu."

As he said this, he looked out the window at the twilight and asked casually, "Where's Dad?"

"He hasn't come back yet... I called him on the phone." Gu Wenyu said, "By the way, what did you want to tell me just now?" As he said that, he turned his head and looked at Gu Qinye.

"Wen Yu, actually I am..." Gu Qiye hugged his shoulders and paused for a moment, "Lan Arc."

"Hey, you might as well say you swallowed silver, that way I'd be more surprised."

Gu Wenyu waved his hand disapprovingly, silently opened the drawing board on his phone, and added a new sketch on it.

In the sketch, Silver Swallowing Rat was standing on the top of a mountain holding a broken Blue Arc battery, with a determined look in his eyes, and he was crying while mumbling:

"Being invincible is so, so lonely."

At this moment, Su Zimai suddenly coughed twice in a serious tone, walked to the wall of the living room, and raised his hand to turn off the lights in the living room.

The surroundings suddenly became dark, leaving only the twilight of sunset shining on the floor near the window. The mottled light and shadows swayed, and suddenly the roar of a train was heard from the viaduct in the distance.

She looked at Gu Wenyu's back expectantly, then looked at Gu Qinye expectantly.

Gu Qinye sighed and smiled unhappily, thinking that his sister didn't leave him any way out at all. She was replicating the scene when he confessed to her.

"It's my birthday today?" Gu Wenyu asked, "Why did you turn off the lights? Are you going to bring the cake over?"

"Wenyu, actually I am...Blue Arc."

As soon as he finished speaking, a beam of black lightning suddenly jumped up on Gu Qinye's right hand, illuminating the surroundings, and then slowly changed color, transforming into a bunch of dancing deep blue.

"I already knew that..."

Before Su Zimai could utter a smug sneer, Gu Wenyu suddenly let go of his phone and slumped backwards, falling on the sofa with his head tilted and one hand hanging to the ground.

He fainted.

(End of this chapter)