Chapter 167 Gu Qiye: Xiaomai, I am Blue Arc (asking for monthly votes)
The time in Lijing, China is almost the same as that in the Whale Box, so it is also night in Lijing.
"Wen Yu, are you awake?" Gu Qinye's voice came, followed by a slight knock on the door.
Hearing the noise, Ji Minghuan, who was controlling the No. 1 machine, Gu Wenyu, opened his eyes, got up from the bed, and dazedly glanced at the time on the wall: "21:25".
After putting on his pants, he quickly got up, turned the doorknob and opened the door.
Looking up, what came into view was Gu Qinye's face, the bright white light in the corridor illuminating his clear eyes.
"What's wrong, brother?" he asked.
Gu Qiye rubbed his forehead, hesitating: "Uh...my sister sent a WeChat message saying that she has something to talk to us tonight."
At this point, he hugged his shoulders, raised his head, and smiled, "Now that you're awake, let's go downstairs and talk?"
"Oh," Ji Minghuan said, "Then I'll wash my face."
"Okay, I'll wait for you downstairs." After saying that, Gu Qinye went downstairs first.
Ji Minghuan looked at his back, raised his hand to scratch his messy hair, and walked into the bathroom feeling a little puzzled, wondering what was wrong with his sister again?
He stopped in front of the sink and looked up at the unwell face in the mirror. Then he slowly recalled:
In two days, Su Zimai will go to London with Ke Qirui to capture the crazy exorcist - "Red Light".
In fact, from Ke Qirui's perspective, they did not overestimate their own strength this time. After all, with the ability of the Ghost Train Group, it is still very easy to deal with a mere Red Street Light. No matter how famous Red Street Light is, he is just a second-level exorcist. Usually, he kills exorcists by attacking them.
But what they don’t know is that the “Salvation Society” will also be involved in this incident.
Even if we take a step back and assume that they knew, they might not have figured out what the "Salvation Society" was.
This is the most dangerous place...
"Let's take it one step at a time." Ji Minghuan sighed.
After washing his face, he smoothed his hair and quickly went downstairs.
All the lights in the living room were on, and a standing fan was facing the sofa, its blades slowly turning to blow out a cool breeze. Outside the window came the sound of cicadas chirping and the laughter of children chasing and playing with glow sticks.
Under the orange light, Su Zimai was wearing pajamas, sitting on the sofa, watching TV; Gu Qiye was leaning against the wall of the living room, with one hand in his pants, staring out the window in a daze.
Ji Minghuan thought: Dad is not here, you guys really know how to pick the time. It turns out that you still don’t take Dad’s opinions seriously. But it’s true that he doesn’t have much say.
"What do you mean?"
Ji Minghuan walked over as he spoke and found a seat on the sofa.
"I have to go out in two days and I don't think I will be back for a while." Su Zimai said.
Gu Qiye was startled: "Are you going out again?"
"Yes...there is something to do." Su Zimai said in a low voice.
The sofa was facing away from Gu Qinye, so he couldn't see her expression clearly.
"What's the matter?" Gu Qiye lowered his head and asked softly, "You've only been home for two days, and you're in a hurry to go out again... Don't you really want to stay at home?"
"It's my own business, it's not convenient to talk about it... I just tell you so that you don't worry about me again." Su Zimai replied nonchalantly.
A moment of silence fell between the three of them, and the latest news was being broadcast on TV.
The host read the script and said, "Last night, members suspected to be from the White Crow Brigade appeared in Lijing, China, and participated in a bank robbery that took place yesterday. The superpower wanted criminal 'Black Pupa' also appeared at the scene of the incident. The following are photos of the crime scene..."
Ji Minghuan glanced at the TV, put a peanut into his mouth, and then said in a sarcastic tone:
"I don't think so. Last time, my sister even went to Japan secretly without telling us. Who knows what she will do this time."
Su Zimai raised his eyes and turned to glare at him fiercely, his eyes seemed to say: "I thought you would speak up for me."
Ji Minghuan also didn't say anything, but just looked back at her coldly, his eyes seemed to say: "Who are you?"
Su Zimai didn't say anything, nor did he want to say anything.
When she thought about how Gu Wenyu got angry at her at the door of the room two days ago, she didn't know what to say and couldn't lose her temper. Instead, she felt warm in her heart.
He really cares about me, she thought.
The upright fan blew against the side of her face, making her ponytail move up and down.
The summer evening breeze poured in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, gently caressing Gu Qinye's forearm.
He looked at the night view outside the window, was silent for a while, and finally spoke: "Xiaomi, the 'things to be done' you mentioned are about the exorcist, right?"
Su Zimai was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "No! Didn't I explain to you before that the exorcist is just a title in a game? You are still so shocked. Can you please stop..."
Amid the gradually growing sound of cicadas, Gu Qiye suddenly interrupted her:
"You don't have to hide it from me. I know what an exorcist is."
Ji Minghuan was stunned for a moment, looking around while chewing melon seeds.
He looked at Gu Qiye's expression, then at Su Zimai's expression, and then chose to evacuate the battlefield on his own initiative. He broke the silence by asking in a dumbfounded manner:
"What is an exorcist?"
Seeing his brother's reaction, Gu Qiye secretly breathed a sigh of relief and thought, Xiaomai really hasn't explained the matter of the exorcist to the rest of the family yet?
He had originally thought that since Gu Wenyu and Su Zimai had been on such a good terms lately, Su Zimai might have already told him about the "exorcist".
But now it seems that everything is not as he thought.
Gu Wenyu was still kept in the dark.
But is it good for Wenyu to know these things now? He still has to study hard in high school... Given his personality, he will definitely ask questions, right? Xiaomai will not be happy in this way.
I'd better talk to her alone first, ask about her attitude, and then consider discussing these things with Wenyu.
Thinking of this, Gu Qiye suddenly said, "Wenyu, I want to talk to my sister alone."
"What's the matter? Is it inconvenient to say it in front of me?" Ji Minghuan tilted his head.
"I'm afraid she'll be angry." Gu Qiye smiled, "Please understand."
"Okay, okay... You two have a deep relationship as siblings, and I'm just an outsider. I'll just leave."
Ji Minghuan snorted coldly and said nonchalantly, holding a handful of melon seeds in his hand before leaving, and then openly took out the Coke that Su Zimai had just frozen in the refrigerator.
I went upstairs while eating melon seeds.
Sure enough, Su Zimai was so lost in thought at the moment that he didn't even notice that his Coke had been taken away by his second brother.
As soon as he reached the second floor, Ji Minghuan stood up with his back against the wall. He stretched out a restraint belt from his sleeve and unscrewed the pull ring of the Coke can for him with a "click". Wisps of cool air rose up.
Then, the black restraint belt loosened its pull ring and fell down, resting on the floor.
Taking advantage of the sense of the restraints penetrating down, Ji Minghuan quietly eavesdropped on the conversation between the two while drinking Coke.
Su Zimai asked suspiciously, "You said you knew about 'The Exorcist'?"
"Yes," Gu Qiye smiled, "What is your Sky Drive? I'm quite curious about what superpowers my sister has."
Su Zimai was stunned. "No way? How come you even know this?"
"Of course I know." Gu Qiye said calmly, "Ke Qirui, your teacher, she is from the Exorcist Association, right?" He thought for a moment, "Her Sky Drive is a one-way mirror, her ability is to control demons, and the demons she contracted are the 'Train Demon' and the 'Movie Demon'..."
Su Zimai was stunned and speechless.
Her brain had stopped functioning at this point.
To put it in an analogy, it was as if she had finally pieced her brain together with Lego bricks, and Gu Qiye was like a naughty kid from the neighborhood, running over yelling and kicking her newly assembled brain over with a very rough kick.
At this moment, her brain had shattered into pieces of building blocks, which fell to the ground with a clatter.
A moment later, a thought like a raging storm suddenly appeared in her mind.
"Brother, could it be that you are..." She tilted her eyebrows and said in surprise.
Hearing this, Gu Qinye lowered his head with a complicated expression and the corners of his lips slightly raised. After a moment, a relieved and free smile appeared on his face.
He whispered, "Did you guess all this? Yes, I am Lan..."
Su Zimai interrupted him: "Are you... Black Pupa?"
Gu Qiye was stunned for a moment, then slowly raised his head.
The two looked at each other.
A brief silence fell between the two of them. At this moment, a "puff" sound came from the corridor upstairs. It was Ji Minghuan who sprayed out the Coke he had just drunk.
He lay on the ground and pounded the ground, while quickly wiping the water stains on the floor with the restraints.
Ji Minghuan coughed several times and thought to himself, sister, you are truly a genius of the ages, although you are a genius in comedy.
In order to avoid suspicion from the two, Ji Minghuan began to mutter to himself on the phone:
"Come on, Li Qingping, can you hit one of your skills? I can play better than you by throwing some rice chicken on the screen of my phone. Can you please not fight for the AD position next time! Just play a cat and hang on me!"
Listening to the cursing coming from upstairs, Gu Qinye and Su Zimai remained silent for a while.
The two thought, "When did Gu Wenyu get addicted to mobile games again? This Li Qingping seems to be his good buddy. Sure enough, playing together hurts the relationship."
After a moment, Gu Qiye seemed to have thought of something, so he asked tentatively:
"Hmm... Xiaomai, why do you think I'm the black pupa? Can you tell me the reason? Did the black pupa tell you anything?"
The corners of Su Zimai's eyes twitched slightly, and she held her head which was about to explode. She had given up thinking, and a series of clues were intertwined in her mind, and finally led to the fact that Gu Qinye was the black pupa.
So she lowered her head in panic, then raised it again, her eyes were already red.
Finally, she almost shouted out in shame and annoyance: "You really are the black pupa, right? Brother, you bastard! You've been playing tricks on me... Is it fun to play me around?!"
"no I do not……"
Before he could explain, Su Zimai's verbal bombardment swept over him: "I was wondering why Hei Pupa knew so much about our family! Why did he look so familiar to me? Why did he come to save me? It turned out to be you, why did you hide it from me? Didn't you know that I was an exorcist a long time ago? Why didn't you tell me clearly earlier?"
“I’m really not black…”
"You're not? And you still say you're not?!"
Su Zimai stood up from the sofa, walked towards Gu Qinye indignantly, and stared into his eyes angrily.
When she gets angry, she is like a penguin, rushing towards you stupidly and pecking you hard.
Gu Qinye didn't feel anything was wrong, he just thought that such a sister was quite cute.
But even so, Gu Qiye was speechless for a moment because of his sister's speaking speed.
The living room was completely silent.
Finally, he came to his senses, raised his hand, gently rubbed Su Zimai's hair, and said in a gentle voice: "Xiaomi, calm down first and listen to my explanation carefully, okay?"
Su Zimai suddenly raised his hand, his right hand frozen in mid-air, as if he wanted to slap Gu Qiye, his eyes flickering.
After thinking about it, she seemed a little distressed, and finally with red eyes she retracted her right hand and just punched him lightly on the chest.
"You must give me a satisfactory explanation," she said softly, lowering her eyes, "otherwise I will never forgive you, ever..."
Gu Qinye frowned, wondering what on earth Hei Pupa had done to make Su Zimai so stressed?
The next time the black pupa appears, he will definitely go and ask about it. If it dares to bully his sister, he will make this black bug pay a price.
"I understand." Gu Qiye said, "I will explain it to you."
"I feel so ashamed," Su Zimai said softly, "I just told you that I can handle things on my own... but at the auction, you still had to save me."
Gu Qinye was stunned for a moment, thinking that it was indeed him who asked Hei Pu to look after Su Zimai at that time. Judging from what his sister said, it was indeed Hei Pu who saved her in the end?
But this black bug clearly saved his sister, but he didn't come to take credit the next day. This doesn't seem to be in line with his style. Gu Qiye thought, did I blame the black pupa wrongly?
At this moment, Ji Minghuan, who was eavesdropping on the second floor, was slightly startled and thought, oh no, why did he forget to ask his brother for the credit after saving his sister that day? It was such a huge mistake.
As long as she tells Blue Arc that she saved his family, his favorability toward her will surely soar, which will also be beneficial to their long-term cooperation in the future.
After all, they still have to work with Ghost Zhong Daddy to destroy Hongyi, so how can they do that without establishing a solid cooperative relationship in advance?
Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan nonchalantly moved closer to the bottle and took a big gulp of Coke down his throat. He thought that it was actually not bad now. Telling Gu Qinye about this through Su Zimai would make him trust him more.
By accident, I managed to gain the big brother's favor.
In the living room on the first floor, Gu Qiye said, "You just said that I am a black pupa, right?"
Su Zimai pressed on: "Could it be that you are not? Who else could it be besides you?!"
"I suspected at first that Dad was a black pupa." Gu Qinye joked.
"ah?"
Su Zimai's brain froze again. She hung her head and pinched her fingers as she thought.
When Hei Pupa first appeared in Lijing, Dad happened to return home; when Hei Pupa was taking action in Lijing, Dad happened to go out; when Dad traveled to Japan, Hei Pupa also happened to come to Japan; Hei Pupa was very familiar with their family's situation, and Dad was also very familiar with their family's situation.
It matches perfectly!
She slowly opened her mouth, slowly opened her eyes, and stared at Gu Qiye blankly:
"Black Pupa is... the father?"
At this second, Su Zimai's worldview completely collapsed. He thought of his father, who was usually stern and serious like a statue, and who instantly turned into a singing and dancing, dirty-talking lunatic after putting on a windbreaker and a mask.
What a contrast...what's going on?
She bit her fingers, her face was pale, and her whole body seemed to be petrified on the spot as if she was glared at by Medusa.
After a while, she said, "Don't stop me. I want to run away from home... and never come back in this life."
Gu Qiye looked at her expression with amusement, then shook his head and consoled her: "Don't worry, I'm not sure either."
"Wait a minute! Brother, you are not trying to divert attention, are you?" Su Zimai suddenly became alert and frowned, "Who among you is the black pupa?"
"You already suspect us, why can't it be Wenyu?"
"I checked with my team leader, it can't be him!"
"That's true. You two have been so close recently." Gu Qiye shrugged. "Forget it... Stop joking and be serious."
"So who are you?" Su Zimai wanted to cry but had no tears. "I feel like I'm going to break down. Can you give me a quick death?"
Gu Qiye suddenly stopped talking. He slowly raised his hand and turned off the lights in the living room. The living room suddenly became dark, and you couldn't see your hand in front of you. Only the cicadas' chirping could be heard.
Su Zimai was stunned, not knowing what his brother was going to do.
The next second, deep blue electric light slowly rose from the darkness, illuminating the faces of the two people, as warm as the candlelight at a birthday party.
"This is……"
Su Zimai was stunned for a long, long time, then he looked in the direction of the light source, and saw arcs of electricity dancing on the five fingers of Gu Qinye's right hand.
"I'm... Blue Arc."
In the silence, Gu Qiye spoke calmly.
(End of this chapter)
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