Chapter 12 Private Meeting
After the insect pupa man left, the air pressure in the entire Lijing Square seemed to rise a lot.
Blue Arc said to Green Wing, "I suggest you surrender. The five accomplices you hid on the roof have been subdued by my teammates. The detonators in their hands are useless. There are people from the Deviant Association all around. You can't run away."
"But the hostages...the hostages are still with me." Green Wing took a few steps back and approached the hostages.
"Take a closer look," Blue Arc said calmly.
Hearing this, Green Wing shuddered and turned his head suddenly, only to see that the five hostages had disappeared without a trace, and the onlookers in the square were evacuated without them noticing, and were replaced by a group of people in strange costumes.
“Damn it…”
Green Wing was about to say something, but he found that Blue Arc's attention was not on him at all. His eyes under the helmet were staring at the direction where the Pupa Man left from beginning to end.
The next moment, Lan Hu's figure turned into a beam of deep blue lightning and disappeared.
The light of the LED screen went out for a second, and it didn't work again until the arc lingering in the air dissipated.
A minute later, on a secluded path near Lijing Square.
"I knew you would follow, Mr. Blue Arc."
A black insect pupa hung upside down under a street lamp. The light was dim and the pupa shell slowly opened, revealing a slender figure. At this time, Ji Minghuan, wearing a mask, was looking down and reading an old newspaper.
He looked focused, holding a ballpoint pen in his right hand and turning the pen from time to time, looking like a studious scholar.
"What is your origin?" Blue Arc asked.
"I don't have a code name or a name yet, but I believe I'll have one soon... This is the charm of being a public figure. If people like you or are afraid of you, they will always give you various nicknames."
The pupa man talked to himself and turned to the next page of the newspaper.
The newspaper was quite a few years old, and it recorded a tragic accident that happened five years ago: a mother named "Su Ying" was accidentally killed by the Alien Association. The poor man filed lawsuits with the government many times but to no avail. He didn't even know who killed his wife by mistake, because the Alien was from "Rainbow Wing" and his identity was kept absolutely secret from the outside world.
It was only then that Blue Arc noticed the news picture in the newspaper, and his face under the mask twitched slightly.
"Mr. Gu Qiye, you were only thirteen years old when the incident happened... Right in front of you, your mother 'bang'," the insect pupa man said, deliberately lengthening the onomatopoeia, and then spread his hands and continued: "She was blown into a pile of minced meat. It's a pity. A childhood without maternal love is incomplete. I sympathize with your experience more than anyone else."
"Of course... I also lacked maternal love in my childhood." Ji Minghuan teased in his heart under the mask.
Blue Arc remained silent the entire time, and didn't even question why this strange man in front of him knew all these things.
Seeing that he remained silent, the insect pupa man continued, "Since that day, you have been resentful of those 'outsiders' who abuse their power in the name of justice."
He paused and said, "This is exactly why you became an 'Outlier'. You want to gain enough reputation within the Outlier Association, and be recommended by the top leaders with your unparalleled performance, so that you can enter the United Nations organization 'Rainbow Wing' and find the Outlier who crushed your mother to death like an ant."
"That's nonsense."
Blue Arc took a deep breath, the anger in his pupils about to burst out.
"Is what I said really nonsense? You know this best in your heart." The insect pupa man said sarcastically.
"Then what?"
"And then? Then I showed up."
The pupa man closed the newspaper as he spoke, and threw it into the trash can on the corner. He raised his eyelids from behind his mask and looked at Blue Arc upside down: "I'm here to help you, Mr. Blue Arc, let's work together. I'll help you join Rainbow Wing, help you find the alien who accidentally killed your mother, and take revenge on him."
At this point, he raised a finger wrapped in a black leather glove, "And you, just need to help me with one thing... a trivial matter."
"What's up?"
The pupa man thought about it, then shook his head: "For the time being, it is better to keep this matter secret from you, otherwise it is very likely to bring you a fatal disaster..." He sighed, "In short, in the next few days, I will also be active in this city, which means we may meet often, so please take care of me."
"You, why do you know my identity?"
Gu Qinye, hidden under the mask, finally raised a crucial question.
"The reason is very simple..." The insect pupa man said lightly, "I know what everyone looks like behind their mask."
"absurd."
"Aren't you curious? What on earth has your father been doing outside these past two years? Did he really just have a quarrel with you and didn't want to see you again? Or... your father actually had other plans in mind, and in order not to involve you and your brothers and sisters, he had no choice but to run away alone."
Blue Arc was stunned: "My father?"
"That's right, Gu Zhuo, is he hiding some unknown secrets like you..." the pupa man said quietly, "Think about it carefully, is your father really such a coward? How could he be so cowardly as to hide from his own child for two years? Is there any reason that forced him to do that, just like you joined the Alien Association to find out the truth about your mother's death."
He paused, "If you want to know these things, cooperate with me. I never treat my collaborators unfairly."
Blue Arc said hoarsely: "What on earth are you..."
The pupa man interrupted him, "Oh... Although you are wearing a helmet and I can't see your expression, I can imagine that you must love me to death..." He looked away, "Well, our graves can be built closer in the future, so that it will be more convenient for me to steal your tributes."
"Shut up. What on earth are you…"
"No, no, no, don't worry about who I am or why I know your details. It's meaningless." The pupa man said jokingly, "You should be more worried about your own situation now, right?"
At this point, his body was gradually pulled upward by the restraints, and he sat on top of the street lamp. "Goodbye, Blue Arc. The injuries on your waist and neck are so serious, so don't chase me anymore... If you delay any longer, I'm afraid your life will be in danger, otherwise you would have attacked me a long time ago. In fact, sometimes asking others for help is not such a shameful thing. I hope you can be smarter."
As he finished speaking, a series of restraints appeared from behind him, dancing gently in the dim light, as if saying goodbye.
Before Lan Qi could speak, the figure of the insect pupa man fell backwards, plummeting from above the street lamp to the ground and disappearing into the endless darkness.
(End of this chapter)
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