Chapter 228 Epilogue, Gift from a Distant Country (asking for monthly ticket)
It was late at night on August 1st, in the Guyimai District of Lijing, China. Ji Minghuan, controlling the No. 1 machine, Gu Wenyu, woke up in the room of the residential building and got up from the bed.
[The first unit, "Black Pupa", has been loaded.]
[Hint: Due to the death of the target character, the main mission 4 of Unit 1 - "Reaching a cooperative relationship with the vice-captain of the Royal Court Team, 'Red Dragon'" has failed. ]
[This quest route has been abandoned. ]
Gu Wenyu was silent for a moment as he looked at the text on the panel. After a moment, he turned his head and looked out the window, silently watching a brightly lit iron dragon passing through the viaduct.
After being in a daze for a long time, he slowly took out the remote control from beside the pillow and pressed the power button to turn on the TV.
The host was reporting an incident that occurred near Bergen at 1:30 a.m. Norwegian time more than ten hours ago. It said that many islands appeared out of thin air in the sea, and there were signs of human habitation on each island. The official organization of the Alienists is currently conducting a full investigation into the matter.
Gu Wenyu raised his head and stared quietly at the photo on the screen. In the heavy rain, islands with lonely lights flashing were floating on the sea, rising and falling.
He got up from the bed, lowered his head to put on his slippers, turned the doorknob to open the door, and walked slowly towards the stairs with his head lowered.
"You're still going out so late?"
Hearing the noise, Gu Qinye walked out of the room and turned to ask him.
Gu Wenyu paused, without even turning his head, and said, "I'm in a bad mood, let's go to the beach to relax."
"Do you want me to accompany you?"
"No, I'll be back in a while, you go to sleep first."
"Okay, then be safe."
Gu Wenyu nodded, put on his coat, waved to the brother behind him, then went downstairs, put on his sneakers and went out, walked along the quiet long street for a while, and then stood in the empty bus stop.
The cicadas chirped again and again, and the lights in the station flickered. He put his hands in his pockets, lowered his head and waited for a moment, then took the last bus, sat down in the last row of seats, and quietly turned his head to look at the city with changing neon lights and bright lights.
Not long after, he got off at a bus stop on a highway around the sea.
Walking down along the coastal road, Gu Wenyu arrived at the beach. Standing in front of the harbor fence, he silently looked at the sea surface under the night sky, with the water rising and falling.
The lighthouse cast a lonely beam of light onto the sea, and the black tide hit the shore, breaking into a piece of white waves. Everything was silent, and only the sound of the rippling sea tide enveloped the whole world.
Suddenly, a strange shadow flew in the night sky. It was a shark wrapped in the black tide. On its back sat a boy with white hair and blue eyes. The boy was wearing a sky blue T-shirt and pants that he bought on the road.
Gu Wenyu was stunned, raised his head and stared blankly at the man and the shark.
"I said that Shark Shark has clairvoyance. He recognized Gu Wenyu from eight hundred miles away." Yagubaru said proudly, flying over the port fence and hovering in the air.
Cesare turned over, grabbed the fin and fell off the shark's back, stumbling onto the ground; the shark quickly shrank in size, turning into a palm-sized Norwegian shark, and landed lightly on his shoulder.
Just as he was about to speak, Xizel suddenly froze in place and turned to look at the little shark on his shoulder.
"Oh no, Yagubaru... I forgot I don't know Chinese, and I don't have the fragments for translation with me. What should I do?"
"It's okay, Shasha's Chinese is top-notch, I'll be the translator."
Yagubaru shook his head and spoke proudly, then his eyes suddenly became sharp and he raised his head to look at Gu Wenyu.
"You kid are Gu Wenyu?" The little shark pointed his fin at Gu Wenyu viciously, just like a gangster pointing a gun at a debtor's chin.
Gu Wenyu put his hands in his coat pockets and nodded blankly:
"What kind of monster are you?"
"I'm Yagubaru, and this guy is Cecil." Little Shark said, "We are friends of Li Qingping."
Gu Wenyu suddenly stopped talking.
"Stop dawdling, Yagubaru, and get down to business. I feel like he's about to faint from your shock." Xizel whispered, looking at Gu Wenyu's legs that were shaking like a pipa. It seemed that for an ordinary person in the human world, creatures like Yagubaru were still too advanced, he thought.
"Li Qingping asked me to give this to you."
As the little shark spoke, he suddenly scratched his throat with his fin and vomited out a card from his stomach. The front and back of the card were blank, completely different from the other pieces of strange stories. This was what Li Qingping wanted him to leave for Gu Wenyu.
Xizel was stunned: "Yagubaru, what is this? Why haven't I seen this type of fragment before?"
"A homemade piece of oddity."
"A self-made fragment? My father said that if someone could really do this, it would be an invention that could subvert a country... Li Qingping is indeed a genius." Xizel was stunned and whispered, "Can you show me the fragment?"
"No, that's for Li Qingping's friend." As he said that, Yagubaru threw the blank card to Gu Wenyu with his fin.
Gu Wenyu stretched a hand out of his pocket, caught the fragments, and fanned them vigorously to shake off the shark's saliva.
After a moment of silence, Xizel looked up at him and said, "Gu Wenyu, we will be leaving soon."
After a pause, Cesar suddenly said softly: "You have a very good friend."
The little shark on his shoulder was silent for a moment, then translated these words into Chinese for Gu Wenyu:
"We're leaving soon. You have a very stupid friend."
Gu Wenyu nodded.
Xizel lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then continued, "Li Qingping will not be back for a long time. He... is traveling around the world."
Little Shark translated: "The big idiot won't be back for a long time. He's traveling around the world."
Gu Wenyu nodded.
"Yagubaru, are you really translating seriously?" Xizel turned his head to look at the shark on his shoulder and asked suspiciously.
"Yes, it's original. Are you doubting Shark's character?! Although Shark is a shark and has no character."
The little shark yelled and slapped Cesar's head hard with his fin.
Then it jumped from his shoulder and turned into a two-meter-long shark again. César sighed, stepped on the harbor fence and jumped onto its back, grabbing the fin.
The man and the shark quickly left the port and sped towards the brightly lit red-light district.
"Yagubaru, is this China?"
"This is the capital of China. Let me take you to eat my favorite stinky tofu first."
"But Yagubaru, why did you come to China? Aren't you a marine creature?"
"Don't worry about Shark's business."
"Also, why didn't Li Qingping tell me about the homemade fragment?"
"Isn't it amazing? This is the charm of Shark Shark's Shark personality. In just a few days, he made the small fry Red Dragon work like a slave and give in to everything."
"Not charisma?"
"Shauger charm."
Their voices gradually faded away in the night, and the sound of the roaring tide once again drowned out the harbor.
Gu Wenyu withdrew his gaze from their backs, breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his eyes to look at the blank card in his hand, and put the card in his coat pocket.
Then he sat on the harbor fence.
As he felt the sea breeze and looked into the distance, he suddenly remembered the Chinese New Year a few months ago. The city was deserted and bustling with people. The sounds of gongs, drums and firecrackers were everywhere. Only the port was empty, without a single person in sight.
Li Qingping was cunning and asked him to come here alone. The two of them sat on the fence of the port, drinking beer and chatting while quietly enjoying the sea breeze. They looked up and watched the fireworks rise into the dark night and explode at the top of the sky, reflecting brilliant fireworks on the sea.
At that time, Gu Wenyu bumped him with his shoulder and said jokingly, "The second generation of rich people really know how to enjoy life."
Li Qingping sat on the fence in silence for a long time. He curled the corners of his mouth, lowered his head, drank a sip of beer and said nothing.
Gu Wenyu took out the blank card from his pocket and looked at the blank space on the card. At this moment, he suddenly understood what Li Qingping wanted to say at that time.
In fact, only lonely people would think of hiding in such an isolated place to watch fireworks. Li Qingping has been an orphan since he was a child. After being adopted by fishermen, they didn't pay much attention to him. In the sandbox world, every time the islands on the sea gathered together and the towns lit bright bonfires, everyone sang and danced and drank in the town, he would sit alone in the fishing boat on the sea, quietly looking at the brightly lit islands.
Because I don't want to be seen alone, that would be too embarrassing.
Even in the outside world, it was the same. Before he met Gu Wenyu, every New Year, he would stand alone at the harbor and watch the fireworks rise in the distance. The world was so lively and noisy, but it seemed very far away.
So he must have been very happy to have a friend accompany him to this desolate place, to watch the fireworks and the excitement together, as he felt that he was no longer a stray dog left behind by the world.
Thinking of this, Gu Wenyu suddenly shrugged and sighed, "Okay, rich second generation... you are the only one who is so sentimental and likes to pretend to be an artistic youth."
He walked to the vending machine, put in a coin, bought a bottle of beer, then leaned on the fence, drank the beer and looked up at the dark sea.
The world gradually darkened, and even the lights in the city dimmed.
Gu Wenyu turned over, leaned against the fence, took out the card from his coat pocket, and looked at it silently. Suddenly, cracks appeared on the card.
"No, buddy, your workmanship is so shitty..." He was stunned and tried hard to cover the crack on the card, but in the end it still broke and turned into a blank piece of incompleteness in his palm.
Gu Wenyu's eyes went dark. He was so angry that he felt like he was being fooled. After hesitating for a while, he simply grabbed those blank fragments and scattered them all into the sea.
He sighed softly, lowered his head close to the mouth of the beer can, and muttered: "Even though his life is dead, he still wants to cheat his brothers. How can he be so bad..." At this point, his voice suddenly stopped.
After being stunned for a moment, Gu Wenyu slowly turned around and looked at the sea surface that was suddenly brightening. A beam of fire suddenly rose from the bottom of the sea and rushed straight into the sky.
Looking up, the colorful fireworks instantly lit up the empty night sky, and even the sea surface was illuminated. In the dark night, there were bursts of deafening noises, as if someone was setting off firecrackers.
There was silence for a long time. Before the fireworks went out, Gu Wenyu drank the rest of the beer, threw the bottle into the sea, and then left without looking back.
(End of this chapter)
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