Chapter 359: Gu Wenyu's Relics (Two-in-One Monthly Ticket Request)

"Brother said before that he didn't want you to know that he was Black Pupa because he didn't want you to worry about him. Also...if you knew his identity, he would be restricted in what he did, which would be very inconvenient."

"...Wenyu said that? Why did he think that at the time?"

The local time was 8:30 a.m. on August 18th, a sunny morning with white clouds.

The early sun rose from the other side of the horizon and hung high under the slightly blue sky. The streets and alleys were once again shrouded in hazy summer air, and the summer cicadas were chirping desperately in the trees.

At this moment, in a corner of Lijing, China, in the old Jingmai neighborhood that had undergone a large-scale relocation and reconstruction, there is a residential building inside a blockade set up by the police.

On the second floor of the building, in a room next to the balcony.

The light blue curtains swayed gently, blocking out the sunlight coming in from the window.

The floor was dark, yet dappled with light and shadow. The blades of the upright fan were humming, and the wind blew slightly lifted the curtains, driving away the scorching heat.

Su Zimai sat on the tatami in the corner, looking up at Gu Wenyu's wardrobe in a daze.

Gu Zhuoan sat on the bed with a hunched back, slightly tilted his head back, and silently glanced at the messy game posters on the wall of the room. Every object in the room seemed as dazzling as the sun to him, making him dare not look directly at it.

It was only then that he realized that he knew nothing about Gu Wenyu. Even though they hadn't seen each other for several years, he had focused all his attention on Gu Qiye and Su Zimai, and ignored this neglected child.

But it was this child whom he neglected the most who made the greatest sacrifice for the family. This is what makes Gu Zhuo most heartbroken and regretful.

The room was quiet at this moment, and no cicadas could be heard.

Su Zimai hadn't been home for a long time, but at this moment her eyes were wandering in the closet. Every time she saw a piece of clothing on the shelf, she could still recall how Gu Wenyu looked when he put it on.

It seemed like ages ago when we had that argument on the sofa in the living room.

At this moment, she saw the "Silver Swallowing Fan T-shirt" in the closet. She was suddenly stunned, and then she couldn't help puffing up her cheeks slightly and laughing softly.

It was as if he was laughing at Gu Wenyu's ever-present bad taste, or as if he had been laughing for so long that he hadn't noticed the extremely obvious similarity between Hei Pupa and Gu Wenyu, which was...

——They are all super loyal fans of Tunyin!

Obviously, Gu Wenyu did not hide this fact in front of them at all, and even hinted at it in many ways, but she and Gu Qiye just didn't think of this possibility.

Rather, who in their right mind would associate the family they live with day and night with that psychopathic moth who sings and dances all day long outside?

"What an idiot..." Su Zimai lowered his eyes and murmured nonchalantly.

After a moment, she gently reached out and touched the clothes in the closet, looked down at the wrinkles on the snow-white shirt, and took a T-shirt from the shelf. After hesitating for a moment, she put her nose close and gently smelled the scent on it.

Seeing that Su Zimai suddenly stopped talking, Gu Zhuoan lowered his head and remained silent for a moment, then asked again:

"Xiaomi, why did Wenyu refuse to tell us until the very end that he was Hei Pupa?" He had been thinking about it over and over in his mind these days, but in the end he still couldn't figure out the problem.

If Wenyu had told them his identity from the beginning, wouldn't their cooperation have been much easier and simpler? Why would they have to go through so much trouble? Why did Wenyu do this? He didn't seem like that kind of fool.

Su Zimai stared down at the shirt in his arms in a daze. "Because he said that if you keep thinking about how to protect him, he will drag you down and won't let you concentrate on your own things."

She paused for a moment. "He only cares about your safety and never considers himself... He doesn't want you to miss him and wants you to hate him, so he keeps picking on your weaknesses and deliberately making you angry."

After hearing Su Zimai's answer, Gu Zhuoan was stunned for a long time.

After a moment, he pondered and asked, "Did he... say that to you?"

Su Zimai shook his head, "He didn't tell me."

"Then how did you know that?"

"Because he told my team leader, he was the first person to know his identity. Otherwise, I would still be in the dark..." Su Zimai said nonchalantly, "Brother is always like this. He can't say a word in front of people he cares about, but he will tell everyone he's thinking to those who don't care about him."

Gu Zhuoan was silent for a long time, and then said with emotion, "I paid too little attention to Wenyu before. Obviously, he is the child who needs the most care in the family."

Su Zimai lowered her eyes and lowered her voice. "When he revealed his identity to me, he didn't tell me the reason. He just asked me to keep it a secret from you. He said he would bring you back with him. I was so stupid at the time that I believed his lies..." As she spoke, her voice suddenly stammered, with a hint of tears in her voice. "If only I hadn't kept it a secret from you, would you have protected him then?"

Gu Zhuoan was stunned. He slowly lowered his head, a dull pain in his chest.

After a moment, Su Zimai took a deep breath and suddenly raised his head.

She curled her lips and said calmly, "Forget it. If it's him instead of you who comes back, he will definitely be sad. Maybe this is the best ending for my brother."

"I'm so useless..."

Su Zimai was slightly stunned.

Then she turned her head and glared at him, "Alright, are you done yet? If my brother were still alive, he definitely wouldn't want to see you suffering and resentful! Even though he used to be so angry at you, he actually wants you to be happy more than anyone else..." She thought for a moment, "Also, he hopes you can come home more often and not run around outside alone. We are all very worried about you."

"I'm sorry, Xiaomai..." Gu Zhuoan said hoarsely, and suddenly he recalled the first time he met Hei Pupa.

It was in an abandoned building in Tokyo, Japan. It was a day of torrential rain, and a dark figure, joking like a madman and a clown, hung upside down from the eaves, hurling insults at him and mocking him without limit, driving him to a rage.

Accompanied by the sound of rain as surging as a tide in my memory, the whole world seemed to be washed clean, hazy and invisible in the rain.

Then, the joking and frivolous words that Hei Pupa had said at that time echoed in his mind one after another.

"You could have noticed it earlier - if you had come back even once in the past two years... but you didn't. You entrusted both children to Gu Qiye."

"While he's taking care of your two children, he's also enduring high pressure and risking his life every day to clean up the mess for the government you so despise. He's working so hard to tell his powerless, self-destructive father the truth..."

"But what did this father do? Do you want me to enumerate your sins? You used a knife to carve scars upon scars on your beloved child. Do you think you were happy?"

Gu Zhuoan lowered his head with a complicated expression and frowned slightly.

Looking back now, every word Gu Wenyu said at that time was as loud as thunder in a rainstorm.

Was what Gu Wenyu said to him as "Black Pupa" really just illogical nonsense? Wasn't that what Gu Wenyu himself wanted to say to him?

If Wen Yu hadn't said it out loud at the beginning, how would he know what Gu Qiye was thinking?

Over the years, this seemingly introverted and taciturn child has seen everything.

Gu Wenyu knew in his heart how difficult Gu Qiye's life was, and he also knew how irresponsible his father had been over the years. That was why he put on the black and red mask and said those heartfelt words to him in a strange identity.

But he was completely furious at that time.

He didn't even think about why Hei Pu used those words to provoke him, and even... vented his emotions on Gu Wenyu in helplessness and rage.

If Gu Wenyu had come to see him with his real body instead of using the clone created by his ability, perhaps... he would have killed his own son with his own hands!

Thinking of this, Gu Zhuoan couldn't help but recall his hysterical words and actions that day, and his face couldn't help but twitch slightly. He seemed to hear the roar of a beast echoing in the building, and the sound of heavy rain hitting the windows was still clear.

"Wen Yu, what on earth did I... do?" Gu Zhuoan frowned tightly, muttering to himself in confusion and fear, closing his eyes and unwilling to continue recalling the scene of that day.

Until now, if Gu Wenyu had not been secretly connecting all of them using the identity of "Black Pupa", it is possible that he still did not know that Lan Hu was his son, and he would not have recognized Su Wei in the bookstore.

Therefore, he might still be fighting with Gu Qiye, and without the help of Su Wei, the veteran lake hunter, their fighting power would be no match for those from Hongyi.

The reason why all this went so smoothly was thanks to Gu Wenyu.

But what did this farce, so-called revenge, bring them in the end? Their family lost another person, the child who always watched them silently.

If I hadn't been obsessed with revenge from the beginning, but stayed at home and watched my three children grow up, would I not have these regrets?

Gu Zhuoan felt a sharp pain in his heart, as if something bitter was about to flow out. He felt that he was stupid, unreasonably stupid. Why did he only learn to cherish something when he lost it?

"We...can't stay home too long. The leader is waiting for us at the train station. She's urging us to hurry. Maybe the Rainbow Wings' men have already arrived to arrest us." Su Zimai said softly, "I want to pack up some of my brother's clothes and things and take them away. It won't be long. Dad, if you have anything you want to take away, go check it out too."

"Okay, I'll go take a look..." Gu Zhuoan was absent-minded and spoke hoarsely after a long time.

"By the way, it seems like there are guests downstairs." Su Zimai suddenly said.

She pricked up her ears alertly and listened to the noise coming from the living room downstairs.

"Guest?" Gu Zhuoan came back to his senses. He understood what it meant to have a guest at home in this situation. The other party was either vicious or evil, and was most likely an alien sent by the government.

"Shh! Dad, don't make any noise. Let's not go down. I'll use my phone to ask my brother. If it's a bad guy, he should have dealt with him by now." Su Zimai said, picked up his phone and opened the encrypted text message interface, but suddenly thought of something.

She murmured, "Wait...could this be the couple that Big Brother met in Rainbow Wing?"

"Little... couple?" Gu Zhuoan asked in confusion.

"Yeah, yeah, a short, white-haired guy named 'Uriel.' Big brother mentioned it to me a couple of days ago, saying that the girl seemed to like him." Su Zimai said angrily, "Big brother is really something. He's clearly infiltrated the enemy camp, yet he still owes such an inexplicable debt of love! I don't know what he's thinking."

"White hair..."

Gu Zhuoan frowned, as if he suddenly recalled some unfriendly memories. It was half a month ago at the Lijing Starlight Amusement Park, when he faced a member of the Rainbow Wing.

A figure in black tights appeared in his mind again. The other person had snow-white medium-length hair and looked between a girl and a young girl.

At that time, Gu Zhuoan's supernatural power had not yet awakened for the second time, so he was beaten half to death by the other party. If Gu Wenyu had not brought the third prince and the shark to rescue him, he would most likely have died at the hands of the white-haired girl.

Su Zimai was about to send a message to Gu Qinye, but suddenly shook her head, "No, I have to go and take a sneak peek first. Dad, you're too fat. Stay where you are!" After saying that, she lowered her footsteps and trotted lightly to the stairs.

She leaned on the handrail of the stairs on the second floor and looked down cautiously, only to see a white-haired boy in a T-shirt.

Su Zimai was stunned for a moment. The scene that came into her eyes was obviously completely different from what she had imagined.

"Wait... white hair, little one, could it be that Uriel? But... why is it a boy? Could the white-haired guy that big brother was talking about be this little boy?" She covered her mouth blankly, her eyes wide open. "A boy... no way, big brother actually likes this kind of boy?"

Gu Zhuoan couldn't help it and leaned over to take a look. When he saw Xi Ze'er's back, he remembered that Su Zimai didn't know Xi Ze'er yet.

Then he couldn't help laughing, "Xiaomi, this is a friend of ours, he's not from Hongyi."

Su Zimai was stunned for a moment, then he raised his head and stared at Gu Zhuoan.

"Really?" she asked word by word.

"Yes, it just so happens that he also has white hair." Gu Zhuo'an nodded. "This child is the third prince of the Whale Box Garden. His name is 'Xizel'. He also helped us a lot on that island."

He paused, "He was also introduced to us by your second brother. Thanks to Wenyu's connections, we were able to win this battle."

Su Zimai stared at his father's expression for a long time. He knew in his heart that this man was not good at lying, but he still had doubts in his heart.

She said, "You should have said it earlier. My image of Big Brother has almost become something unspeakable." After thinking for a moment, she asked, "So what are they talking about?"

"I don't know... Anyway, time is limited, let's pack up first." Gu Zhuoan shook his head.

"That's true. Otherwise, those lackeys from Hongyi will really come after us and bite us."

After saying that, Su Zimai withdrew his suspicious gaze from Xizel, turned around and walked towards Gu Wenyu's room.

At the same time, in the living room downstairs.

"Little Xizel, who is the 'Ji Minghuan' you just mentioned?" Gu Qiye raised his eyebrows and glanced at Xizel from the sofa.

Xizel opened his mouth and was about to speak, but someone spoke first.

"Who else could it be?" The little shark popped its head out of the pocket, "Of course it's Shark's good friend."

"Aren't you a marine creature? Marine creatures also have friends?" Gu Qiye asked curiously. "Speaking of which, I was very curious from the beginning. How did you know my brother?"

"Don't mind Shark's business." Little Shark curled his lips, "You are Black Pupa's brother, not Shark's brother."

"Okay, so what happened to your friend called 'Ji Minghuan'?"

"He's been locked up in the Salvation Society base, and those bad guys are using him as a guinea pig for research..." Little Shark said, then suddenly lifted his fin to wipe his eyes, tears streaming down his face as he stammered, "Shark, when I think of my friend still being tortured, I can't eat or sleep. Originally...originally, Shark could eat five tons of sushi a day, but now I can only eat one ton."

"Okay, don't cry, Yagubaru." Xizel said softly, poking the shark's round head.

"Shark Sha is not crying." After saying this, the little shark retracted his head into his pocket with a wronged look.

Gu Qiye lowered his head and thought for a moment, "Then why would the Salvation Society target him?"

"I heard from Yagubaru that Ji Minghuan was very useful to the Salvation Society, so he was captured." Xizel raised his eyes and then lowered them. "We were about to rescue him, but it's a very dangerous thing, so I was thinking if Mr. Blue Arc could come and help."

Gu Qiye was silent.

After a long while, he still didn't speak. He just leaned his head against the back of the sofa, looked up at the dark ceiling in confusion, and stared blankly.

There was a faint chirping of cicadas in his ears. If he lifted the curtains in the living room, he would definitely be able to see the sunlight hitting his face. He thought so in his heart, and his mind was a little dazed.

"Mr. Blue Arc, it's okay if you don't want to help." Xizel added, "I just came to ask you a question. I also hope that your family can live safely."

"I'm sorry, I don't have the energy to take care of those things anymore." Gu Qiye said, "I really want to help you, but... I can't risk my life and the lives of my family for someone I don't know. After all, if I go to help, my father and sister will definitely follow, and even grandfather will."

He paused and said, "I've already lost a brother, and I really don't want to lose anyone else around me. So now I just want to live quietly for a while and not think about anything."

Hearing this, for some reason, Cesar felt relieved.

He curled the corners of his mouth and said softly, "Well, that makes me feel relieved."

"We will leave Lijing soon, Xizel, do you want to go with us?" Gu Qiye was silent for a moment and asked in a low voice.

"No, we still have things to do." Xizel shook his head. "Don't worry about us. Yagubaru and I won't be caught so easily by the Savior Society."

"That's good. Be careful." Gu Qiye said, getting up from the sofa. "My family and I will leave here soon. You can contact us in Haifan City later."

"Yeah, oh by the way, I don't know Mr. Blue Arc's sister yet." Xizel suddenly thought of it.

"Uh... have you heard of the name Diaper Demon?" Gu Qiye asked.

"Diaper Demon?" Xizel scratched his head. "I think I've heard of it. I often heard it from Mr. Black Pupa, but I don't know what diapers are."

"Yes, that's actually talking about my sister. My brother likes to give people nicknames." Gu Qiye teased.

"Brother, are you guys saying bad things about me again?" Su Zimai said as he walked downstairs and came over angrily.

"That's impossible. How dare I say bad things about our Xiaomai?" Gu Qinye chuckled and raised his hand to touch her head.

"So he said something bad about me?" Su Zimai said, turning his head and looking coldly at Xizel.

Cesar was stunned until the little shark in his pocket patted his chest with its fin, and then he came to his senses.

"Hello, I'm Cesar." He coughed twice and immediately introduced himself. "I heard your nickname from Mr. Black Pupa, Miss Diaper Devil. Speaking of which, what are diapers? They must be something very cool and fancy!"

"ha?"

Su Zimai's eyes twitched with anger, wondering if this man was truly innocent or mocking him. Gu Qiye, stifling a laugh, leaned against the wall, hugging his shoulders and pretending to be stupid.

She suppressed the urge to vomit blood, stared at César, and asked tentatively, word by word:

"Let's put aside the diaper demon thing, you are Uriel?"

Gu Zhuoan also came downstairs at this time. He heard his daughter's words. It seemed that even though he had explained it once, Su Zimai still suspected that this androgynous white-haired boy was the guy his eldest brother mentioned.

Xizel was stunned and pointed at himself.

"Me? I'm Caesar, Caesar is Caesar, who is Uriel?" He tilted his head and asked innocently.

Gu Qinye was also stunned. Only then did he realize that his sister seemed to have misunderstood something.

"Xiaomi..." He was about to explain, but the doorbell suddenly rang in the living room, interrupting him.

Gu Qinye was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed slightly. He immediately turned his head to look out the window. Through the curtain, he saw a figure. From the outline, it looked like a girl wearing something similar to a dress.

She stood outside the house in silence, not moving.

"Oh no...someone is coming, we have to hide." Xizel said in a low voice and quickly summoned the atlas of strange stories.

He and the little shark in his pocket anxiously flipped through the atlas, one using his fingers and the other using his fins. In a few seconds, they took out a piece of strange story with silver light patterns printed on it. It was a popular strange story - "The Umbrella of the Hidden God", a piece of strange story that had saved their lives countless times.

"Who would come here at this time?" Gu Zhuoan frowned and stared at the shadow on the curtain.

"How should I know?" Su Zimai whispered, "Could it be that my brother has another lover coming to collect a debt of love?"

"Stop talking and come here!" Xizel said silently, stretched out his hand to greet the people in the living room, and then held up an ochre-red paper umbrella high.

Although the two of them didn't know what was going on, they both came over obediently. Su Zimai even pulled Gu Qiye, who was in a daze, and glared at him, "What are you doing, brother? Do you want to die?"

Gu Qiye remained silent.

A moment later, the sound of the door being pushed open suddenly came from the entrance. The summer sun poured in from outside, casting the outline of a beautiful figure.

She stopped for a moment, then slowly walked in.

Gu Qinye hid at the bottom of the Shenyin Umbrella, raised his eyes from the shadows in a daze, and looked timidly at the figure walking through the entrance.

What caught my eye was a young girl in a light blue hoodie. She wore a sunhat, her icy blue eyes standing out against the shadow of the hat's brim, and her snow-white hair, set off by the sunlight, looked like flowing gold.

"Uriel..."

In the shadow of the paper umbrella, Gu Qiye stared at the girl's face, his lips moving silently.

Uriel's face was expressionless, her expression as indifferent as ever. She walked into the house, turned on the light, then looked around, quietly gazing at the empty living room.

Little did she know that the person she was looking for was only a few steps away from her.

(End of this chapter)