Chapter 289 Bookstore Talks Gu Qiye's Revenge (asking for monthly tickets)

Gu Zhuoan put his hands in the pockets of his torn coat and stood motionless at the door of the bookstore. He felt depressed and heavy, as if all the air in his lungs had been sucked out.

Although he was just standing there, the scenery on all sides seemed to be pressing towards him like huge walls.

The towering electric poles, the interwoven power grids above the city, the rows of tightly closed shop doors, everything that came into view was apparently ordinary, yet it made him breathless.

In the early morning, cool air blew over, carrying with it the faint chirping of cicadas.

After a moment, he took a deep breath, slowly raised his head to face the bookstore in front of him, looked at the "Broly Bookstore" sign above his head, and then looked inside through the glass door.

The figure sitting behind the counter gradually overlapped with the silhouette of Su Wei in his memory.

Rather, it was just one person.

More than ten years have passed.

In the few times he had seen him, the man always squinted his eyes, with a smile on his lips and his hands behind his back, making him unpredictable. But Su Wei never smiled once when facing the Gu Zhuo case, because in his eyes, this was the person who took his daughter away from him.

"Come in," the man suddenly said. His voice was very soft, but it was clearly audible to the ears of a superhuman.

After hearing Su Wei's permission, Gu Zhuoan finally plucked up the courage to take this step.

He walked into Broly's Bookstore and looked at the man sitting behind the counter reading a book. He felt uneasy and for a moment, like a student who walked into the classroom after the bell rang, not knowing where to put his hands.

"Gu Zhuo case." Su Wei raised her head and asked expressionlessly, "How have you been these years?"

"I..." Gu Zhuoan said, "I'm sorry. I failed to protect her."

"You don't have to feel sorry. You were just an ordinary person back then." Su Wei said, "I heard from people that you have done a lot in the past two years. Can you tell me about it?"

"I became a criminal and tried hard to attract Hong Yi's attention, so I did a lot of wrong things." Gu Zhuoan said, taking out a silver and black breathing mask from his pocket. The mask was broken, revealing a corner with blood dripping.

"Ghost Bell?" Su Wei looked at the familiar mask, frowned, and murmured the name.

"Yes." Gu Zhuo'an's eyes were empty. "I became Ghost Bell... the notorious criminal. I destroyed many cultural relics and killed many superpowers. But in the end, the people of Hongyi were right in front of me. I lost... and watched my own son join Hongyi."

Su Wei was silent for a long time, and his brows slowly relaxed.

"So that was you..." He shook his head, sighing, and suddenly laughed, "I was wondering, what have you done in the past two years after abandoning your child? You still haven't grown up... You're so old, but you're still so stubborn. You insist on asking an 'outsider' like me to look after your child."

"Thank you for the past two years." Gu Zhuoan said softly, "Hei Pu told me that if you hadn't secretly protected Xiao Mai and Qi Ye, they might have been in trouble a long time ago."

"It's okay. These years have not been easy for you." Su Wei whispered, "Put away the mask. It will be troublesome if someone with ulterior motives sees it... Now the outside world thinks you are dead, and your child has joined Hongyi. It will be disadvantageous for him if your identity is exposed at this point."

"I know."

Gu Zhuoan said this and silently put the breathing mask into his coat pocket.

"At first I thought you had abandoned those children and went out on your own, but now I know that you are not as useless as I thought."

"I'm just useless." Gu Zhuoan shook his head and whispered, "Looking back now, I haven't accomplished anything in the past two years. I haven't been able to spend enough time with my children."

Su Wei was silent for a moment, "Has Su Ying ever talked to you about a girl named Tong Zizhu?"

"We talked about it. When she was still in college, she left a girl at home. The girl seemed to be only five or six years old at the time. She was a homeless child." Gu Zhuoan said, "What happened to her?"

"I calculated that Tong Zizhu is about 20 years old this year." Su Wei said, "She lied about her name and age two years ago, disguised herself as a 19-year-old girl, joined the Exorcist Association, and has been asking around for Su Ying's whereabouts."

After saying that, he raised his hand, picked up the coffee cup on the table, leaned close to the cup and took a sip.

Gu Zhuoan was silent for a moment. "I should have let Su Ying take her away at that time. I could have let her live with my children."

"At that time, Su Ying had already decided to completely cut off her relationship with exorcists." Su Wei said softly, "And she saw that Tong Zizhu's child had the embryonic form of Tianqu in his body, and she was sure that the child would become an exorcist in the future, so she handed Tong Zizhu over to me. After that, I secretly arranged Tong Zizhu's life so that she could grow up normally. In the end, just as Su Ying expected, she became an exorcist."

He paused and said, "Su Ying hesitated for a long time before deciding to entrust Tongzizhu to me. My daughter is very kind, but she still did it in the end and abandoned the child."

"Why?"

"Because Su Ying's biggest and most selfish wish is that your family can have nothing to do with the exorcists and live a simple, happy life."

Gu Zhuo'an's mouth twitched slightly, and he lowered his head, feeling a sharp pain in his heart. The emotions that had been suppressed for a long time poured out like a collapsed dam.

"But I failed to protect her..." he said hoarsely, "nor did I protect the life she wanted."

After saying this, for a long while, he stood there like a child who had made a mistake, waiting blankly for a lesson from his elders.

"This is not your fault alone. I didn't do well either. I'm not a competent father." Su Wei said softly, "I've always regretted it. I always wanted to tell her, 'No matter what decision you make, you are your father's daughter.' It would be better if I could wake up earlier, but... there is no chance now."

After a moment of silence, Su Wei took off her glasses and said, "I have been avoiding it for many years, trying to convince myself that my daughter brought it upon herself, and that it is nothing to be regretful if she dies..."

He suddenly laughed at himself, "But I can't deceive myself. In the past three years, I quit all my positions in Lake Hunter and ran here to open a bookstore to help my stupid daughter look after these troubled kids."

Su Wei took a deep breath and rubbed his nose. His deep eye sockets made his eyes suddenly look sharp.

"So, while there is still a chance, while I am not too old to hold a weapon, while the anger in my heart has not dissipated, I don't want to deceive myself anymore, I want to seek justice for that stupid daughter."

He raised his head and looked directly into Gu Zhuo'an's eyes. "We all need a chance, a chance to say goodbye to the past and start over. I will help you get rid of those people from Hongyi, but after this incident, let it go... My silly daughter must want to see your family live an ordinary life."

Gu Zhuoan looked at him silently, and tears started to flow from the corners of his eyes without him noticing.

He didn't even know that he could cry. He was so old and thought that his heart was so numb that he couldn't shed tears anymore, but he couldn't stop the tears from flowing from his eyes.

After a moment, he lowered his head in self-mockery, and his messy hair covered his eyes.

"I am such a disgrace to be your son-in-law," he said. "In all these years, I have never been able to straighten my back in front of you."

Su Wei smiled silently, raised her hand and patted his shoulder gently, then put on her glasses again.

At the same time, in the underground parking lot of the Empire State Building in New York, USA.

The parking lot was empty. Dark orange light poured down from the ceiling. Half of the parking space was shrouded in light, while the other half was engulfed in shadow.

At this time, a black Maybach stopped in the corner of the shadow.

In the driver's seat, Yuriel lowered her head to check the meeting arrangements for tomorrow. She heard that at the same time as the White Crow Brigade's prison break incident ended, the Light-Eating Bee investigation incident in Osaka, Japan had also ended.

The three Rainbow Wing members who participated in this investigation mission were "The Last Sword Demon" Oda Hideo, "Polar Scholar" Kalina, and "Overloader" Garfield.

With the investigation of the three people, the mission was successfully completed in less than a day - they found out the location of the island where the light-eating bees were located, and obtained a series of important information about the internal ecology of the light-eating bee colony.

Therefore, tomorrow, all members of Rainbow Wing will hold an emergency meeting focusing on the two issues of "White Crow Brigade" and "Light-Eating Bees".

The severity of both cannot be ignored.

After all, Julius, the warden of the Hokkaido prison "Shinye Township", was a disaster-level psychic, and such a psychic with both qualifications and strength actually died tragically at the hands of a group of robbers.

This sudden news shocked the top UN officials and attracted their attention.

However, as the investigation into the Light-Eating Bee incident progressed, the danger level increased sharply.

Even in terms of the order of treatment, the Light-Eating Bees are a whole level higher than the evolved White Crow Brigade and are ranked at the top priority - this means that it is at least a crisis of the level of national annihilation.

Yuriel flipped through the meeting schedule and said, "Tomorrow at noon, all Rainbow Wing members who are on vacation and those who are out on missions will return to New York. It is noted on the information that no absences are allowed at the meeting. This matter is very serious."

At this moment, Gu Qinye was sitting quietly in the back seat, with his back hunched and his dark hair covering his eyes.

Before getting in the car, he told Yuriel that he wanted to lie down and rest, so he didn't sit in the passenger seat.

Silently, a dark flash of lightning appeared in the darkness. His five fingers were bent upwards, and his empty eyes silently stared at the arcs of electricity dancing on his fingertips.

Black melted into black, just like water melted into water, and it was as if nothing had ever existed;

In the past, lightning roared, but now it was dead silent, because the sound had no time to spread out and was swallowed up by the lightning itself that annihilated everything.

Gu Qinye knew in his heart that this was a great opportunity. The man who killed his father was sitting in front of him without any vigilance, with his back to him.

He only needed to use lightning to pierce the back of the chair, and then he could pierce the other person's chest from behind and crush her heart in one fell swoop.

It was easy for him.

It couldn't be simpler.

No one can survive a broken heart. She won't stand a chance;

Gu Qiye would also destroy her brain, trying to make her die without feeling any pain or even death.

In the rearview mirror, Uriel still had her head down, quietly looking at the tablet, unaware of the murderous intent surging in the darkness.

However, the next moment, a "ding dong" reminder sound suddenly rang in the car.

Yuriel raised her head and looked at the rearview mirror, only to see that Gu Qinye's cell phone, which had been placed on the car seat, suddenly lit up and a message popped up on the screen.

"Friends?" she asked.

Gu Qinye was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses and glanced down at the name of the sender on his phone.

"No, it's just spam text messages." He shook his head and said softly.

(End of this chapter)