Chapter 196 Black Pupa's Public Exhibition, Makutaki's First Kill (asking for monthly tickets)
July 26, 5pm, Lijing, China.
After controlling the restraint incarnation to meet the ghost bell, the black pupa let it fly all the way back to Broly's Bookstore, patiently put a plastic cover on the copy of "Old Master Q" on hand, and then gently put it back on the bookshelf with the restraint.
So as to avoid being scolded by the bookstore owner who is cleaning the place.
Afterwards, the avatar came to the huge Lijing Square with sketchbooks and pencils picked up from an elementary school classroom on the road.
The sun was setting, and the afterglow of the setting sun was gradually fading. At this moment, the whole square was shrouded in colorful neon lights, and pedestrians passed by in an endless stream, like a flowing piece of music.
Soon, a scream broke the silence and passers-by stopped to look.
Following the sound, I saw a young girl covering her mouth and pointing a trembling finger at a corner of the square; and following her fingertips, I saw a huge, black insect pupa hanging upside down under a cosmetics billboard.
A dead silence suddenly fell in the center of the square, as if God had turned on the mute button, leaving only the absurd advertising slogans lingering in people's ears.
Then, under the gazes of thousands of people, the sudden and bizarre giant cocoon slowly opened, and a figure wrapped in black restraints emerged from it.
Some people screamed, some ran away, some stopped, some cast curious glances, and some were so excited that they couldn't control themselves. It seemed that different people held different views and attitudes towards this mysterious gray figure.
Hei Pu raised the sunglasses on his face and silently hung upside down under the fashion billboard, holding a drawing board and a bunch of pencils in his hands.
He paid no attention to the noise and discussions around him and continued painting seriously without raising his head.
After a while, Hei Pupa slowly opened his mouth and introduced to the pedestrians standing in Lijing Square:
"Hello, everyone. This is the organizer of the first Silver Swallowing Rat painting exhibition... As long as you shoot a video, upload it to social networks, and like it, you will have a chance to get a cartoon portrait of Silver Swallowing Rat from him."
Hearing this, the passers-by were stunned for a moment, and then several fanatical fans of Hei Pupa looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, and finally moved over.
While asking him all sorts of questions, they turned on the camera on their phones and took pictures of him.
The camera's built-in flash flickered in the center of the square, illuminating Hei Pupa's sunglasses. But he always kept his eyes down, focused on the drawing board, showing the demeanor of a performance artist.
Uninformed passers-by saw this happy scene and came over to join in the fun. The guards in the square waved sticks to drive them away, but to no avail.
"Kid, congratulations on winning the prize. I wish you good luck with your studies." Black Pupa patted a young boy's shoulder with his restraints, tore a page from the notebook, and handed him the cartoon drawing of a silver-swallowing rat that he had just completed.
The boy in school uniform screamed excitedly and ran away holding the drawing. Then a burst of booing came from all directions.
"Can you please not swallow the silver? I want the cartoon of Blue Arc!"
"I want Makutaki-sama's!"
"I want a cartoon of Tunyin and Blue Arc together!"
Black Pupa shook his head and scribbled on the notebook with a pencil while saying:
"My children, I have vowed to paint only for Tunyin in my life. Lan Hu and Mu Taki are simply not worth mentioning in my artistic opinion. They have no aesthetic appeal. Compared with Tunyin, they are just like... a stray dog on the side of the road.
"After all, nothing can be more artistically valuable than a savage primitive man living in modern society. I can feel the anxiety deep in Mr. Tunyin's heart, and I am also happy to depict this sense of separation."
After a pause, he suddenly raised a finger: "However, I can reluctantly draw you a picture of "Silver Swallowing Rat Violently Chewing Blue Arc Battery."
As soon as the words fell, cheers broke out from the crowd.
"Don't worry, let me get some inspiration."
As he spoke, Hei Pupa scratched his chin, narrowed his eyes, and pretended to trace on the notebook with a pencil with an earnest expression.
It's like an artist thinking about how to compose a picture.
Soon after, a man wearing a silver uniform and a metal helmet suddenly flew over the square. He had a fire propeller installed on his limbs and back, which made him fly in the air like the protagonist of the animation "Astro Boy".
Below the man, a young man wearing a medieval dark blue knight helmet and a gray cloak was raising his hand to grab his shoulder.
The visitors were the strangers "Tunyin" and "Makutaki".
I'm afraid the guards at the square informed the Association of the Outliers as soon as the black pupa appeared. Since Blue Arc has gone home to rest, there are only these two high-level Outliers on standby in the Association.
Hei Pu raised his sunglasses and glanced at Mu Taki out of the corner of his eye, thinking to himself, I finally lured you here.
The next moment, Mu Taki let go of Tun Yin's shoulders and fell straight down from mid-air, making a standard superhero landing. Then he reached inside his cloak and took out a long sword as black as the midnight from the scabbard.
"Stand back." He said to the crowd as he walked over, his voice as cold as ice.
For a moment, passers-by screamed and scattered away from the black pupa, and soon the entire square became empty.
The restraints avatar hanging upside down below the billboard turned his head and stared calmly at Makutaki through his sunglasses.
He said, "Oh, isn't this the new stranger from Lijing... Let me think, what's your name, Deaf, Wooden Cage, or Mother Dragon?"
Mu Taki remained silent and just walked towards him.
"In fact, sometimes, judging the situation is also an important ability. Didn't you see that everyone likes my silver-swallowing exhibition? You rudely drove them away. Aren't you more like a lawbreaker than I am?"
At this point, Hei Pupa retracted his gaze and continued painting. "This style of doing things is not conducive to gathering people's hearts. An unpopular outsider will find it difficult to move up even if he is talented. This is the truth of the era of big traffic."
He paused, and suddenly lowered his voice: "Or... in fact, from the beginning you never thought about being a good alien, but had other intentions in mind?"
"You're just a clown." Mu Taki lowered his voice.
Suddenly, a bottomless darkness spread out from him, covering an area of 100 meters in radius like the sudden arrival of night.
The glow of the neon lights was completely swallowed up.
The pitch-black darkness spread in all directions like a sea tide in an instant.
The restraint incarnation hanging upside down under the billboard had black eyes and a buzzing sound in his ears. His vision and pain, even all his senses, were completely deprived by the black curtain at this moment, leaving only silence and emptiness.
"Domain-type ability?" Black Pupa looked around. "His ability is to surround the surroundings with a domain and devour the light source... It seems that people trapped in the domain will also be deprived of their five senses, but it should be more than that. This is a quasi-disaster-level ability user."
In the bottomless darkness, the incarnation of the restraint belt suddenly heard a hoarse eagle cry. Mu Taki appeared behind him without knowing when, raised his sword, drew his knife, and pierced his shoulder.
Because of the system of the Alien Association, Mutaki could not kill Black Pupa directly, so this sword did not aim at the vital points of the restraint belt incarnation.
"I advise you to surrender..." Mu Taki whispered in the darkness close to Hei Pupa's ear.
Even though his shoulder was pierced by a long sword, Black Pupa still hung upside down quietly under the billboard as if nothing had happened.
He held a pencil in his left hand, which still had the ability to move, and used a restraint to support his shaky sketchbook, and continued to draw without raising his head.
Two seconds later, he finally spoke:
"Comrade Makutaki, you know... the cold-faced judge type like you is no longer popular among the popular aliens nowadays. People like Mr. Blue Arc who are talkative and friendly and tell jokes from time to time are the answer of the times. Since you want to be a good alien, you should learn more from him."
Makutaki was silent.
As soon as he pierced the black pupa's shoulder with his sword, he realized something was wrong: it didn't feel like human flesh at all, but rather like a pile of rotten banana peels.
Black Pupa said faintly in the darkness: "We should get to know each other. Every capable person in this city knows me, and there are many people as irritable as you among them..."
“How arrogant.”
"Mr. Makutaki, I know your past, your struggles and obsessions, and I also know why you want to approach Blue Arc. Maybe I can give you some help?"
Mu Taki was startled at first, then lowered his voice and said, "Nonsense..."
"It's finished... Please pass this great painting to Mr. Tunyin for me as a birthday present for him."
As soon as the words fell, before Mu Taki could react, the body of the restraint belt incarnation collapsed and disintegrated in the dark area, turning into a piece of scorching steam that hissed towards the sky above the city.
The next moment, Makutaki's domain faded, and the darkness that shrouded the surroundings was burned like weeds, and Lijing Square was illuminated by neon lights again.
It was as if the Creator had called up a palette and re-dyed all the scenes with dazzling colors.
Tunyin stood motionless in mid-air, raising his arms to protect himself, his back already soaked with cold sweat.
This was his first time working with the alien Mu Taki, so it was naturally difficult for him to adapt. Just now, even he was affected by Mu Taki's ability, so he had to remain alert and did not dare to move at will.
I have to say, the feeling just now was really terrifying. My five senses were taken away, and it seemed like I was the only one left in the world.
It was like experiencing a spiritual death.
"Hey...newcomer, where's Black Pupa?"
Tunyin came to his senses, restrained his firepower, and landed on the ground of the square.
Mutaki shook his head and looked down in silence. All that was left on the ground was a sketchbook and a broken pencil.
On the white paper was a sloppy pencil drawing of a black eagle wearing a knight's helmet, flying in the air with a blue electric mouse in its mouth, while a silver hamster was holding a battery and hiding nearby, shivering.
"Did he get away again?" Tun Yin said as he walked over. When he saw the cartoon version of himself on the drawing paper, he was immediately furious, with black lines on his forehead. "This guy... is really endless."
Makutaki remained silent. He just raised his head, crushed the sketchbook with one foot, and then walked slowly towards the end of the square, dragging his long gray cloak.
At the same time, inside a residential building in Guyimai District.
Gu Wenyu opened his eyes from the bed, and a red and black prompt panel popped up in front of him.
[Tip: Your "Restraint Belt Avatar" has died. You need to wait for 12 hours of cooling time before you can release the Avatar again.]
He yawned, picked up the spare phone next to his pillow, and sent a message to Blue Arc's private account.
[Black Pupa: Be careful of the new guy next to you, Mr. Blue Arc.]
【Blue Arc: What does that mean? 】
[Black Pupa: Mu Taki, he has an unusual background, be careful when you are alone with him. ]
【Blue Arc: Do you have to beat around the bush instead of just telling me why his background is so special?】
[Black Pupa: This is the professional quality of a gray character, maintaining 50% mystery.]
Despite accepting Gui Zhong's commission, Ji Minghuan was actually unwilling to tell Lan Hu the truth about Makutaki, nor did he want to mediate the conflict between the two;
Quite the contrary, he wanted to use Makutaki's revenge to add another achievement to Blue Arc's career, so that when his eldest brother was promoted to Calamity Grade, the possibility of being chosen by Na to be a member of Rainbow Wing would be even greater.
Now, the only channel he has to connect to Hongyi is "Blue Arc".
If the eldest brother cannot successfully enter Hongyi, he will not be able to come into contact with the Salvation Society led by "Urushihara Ruri".
"I don't know how many spies of the Salvation Society there are in Hongyi..." Gu Wenyu thought, "No matter how many there are, as long as I can cooperate with big brother to catch one of them, I can use the 'Restraint Belt Mantra' to find out the location of the Salvation Society base."
To be more ideal, the best development direction would naturally be to catch all the undercover agents of the Salvation Society in one fell swoop.
But this depends on whether Gui Zhong is willing to cooperate. It is highly unlikely that he and his eldest brother can accomplish this task alone.
【Blue Arc: Oh, I paid attention to him in the short term, and I could indeed feel that he was not natural when he was with me, although I don’t know the reason.】
[Black Pupa: That's right. Especially when you are alone with him, please be vigilant.]
【Blue Arc: Let’s not talk about this anymore. Let me ask you a question. 】
[Black Pupa: What happened? ]
[Blue Arc: My brother, isn't he an ordinary person either? ]
[Black Pupa: Uh, why do you suddenly have this question? ]
[Blue Arc: It just occurred to me. I found that there was no one in his room early this morning, and Xiaomai happened to be out.]
[Black Pupa: Is there a possibility, Mr. Blue Arc, that I am actually... your younger brother.]
【Blue Arc: I’ll log off first. We’ll chat next time.】
Gu Wenyu stared at the screen of his mobile phone, expressionless and silent for a while, the last trace of the setting sun reflected on his bewildered face.
He thought to himself, what do you all mean by this? It's rare that I'm being honest for once and you still don't believe me, right?
(End of this chapter)
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