Chapter 23 Father and Son
Ji Minghuan and Su Zimai reached an agreement and sat motionless on the sofa, watching TV and pretending to be dead.
None of them expected that on the first day of summer vacation, the father who had disappeared for two years suddenly came home without saying goodbye - this is not heartwarming at all, how is it different from accidentally walking into the set of a horror movie?
Gu Qinye was still in the kitchen. He put the pot of lotus root soup on the table and turned on the keep warm function of the rice cooker.
Then he leaned against the disinfection cabinet, folded his shoulders, and took out his cell phone from the pocket of his kitchen apron.
At this moment, at the door of the house, Gu Zhuoan raised his hand to close the door, and stood there looking at the shoe cabinet for a while.
Then he took off his leather shoes, put on home slippers, and slowly walked into the living room.
At this moment, the extremely awkward father and son, one with his back to the kitchen and the other hugging his shoulders and playing with his mobile phone, seemed unwilling to see each other.
Gu Qinye's expression looked a little strange.
He hasn't seen his father since he had a fight with him two years ago. Even for his living expenses, he uses his deceased mother's bank card - even though his father transfers money to that card every month.
The two of them had a tacit understanding on this point. It seemed as if their father knew that he would use their mother's bank card, so he transferred every month all the money he owed, so the lives of the three brothers were still guaranteed.
Ji Minghuan looked at Gu Zhuo'an curiously. Even in Gu Wenyu's character memory, he had not seen this father for two years. Even Gu Wenyu was not familiar with his current father, let alone Ji Minghuan.
The moment he saw Gu Zhuo'an, a panel appeared in his pupils.
[Main Mission 2: Explore what is hidden in the case of your "father" Gu Zhuo.]
Although he was bearing Gu Wenyu's face, Ji Minghuan, as an outsider, was obviously not as embarrassed as Su Zimai and Gu Qiye.
So he looked away from the task prompt and spoke to break the silence that enveloped the living room:
"Dad, is your work going well outside?"
Gu Zhuoan put his hands on his waist, lowered his head and thought for a while, then asked in a hoarse voice: "I'm fine... But Wenyu, you seem to be... You should be in the second year of high school, right?"
"Yes, I will be a senior after the summer vacation." Ji Minghuan nodded.
"Studying, how's it going?"
"Not bad," Ji Minghuan said teasingly, "It should be... similar to your job."
In fact, the case of Gu Wenyu is similar to that of Gu Zhuo. One of them was busy studying his special abilities to prepare for his future debut and didn't care about his studies at all. The other disappeared for two years and was doing something in another place. It was impossible for him to have a proper job.
Gu Zhuoan nodded and looked at Su Zimai: "What about you... Xiaomai."
Su Zimai was silent for two seconds, tilted his head, and the cold hair brushed across his eyes. "Is fifth in the grade good enough?"
Gu Zhuoan was stunned for a moment, raised his hand and touched his stubble, as if he didn't know what expression to make. Finally, he squeezed his stiff facial features and revealed a smile.
“…That’s good.” he said.
Behind him, Gu Qinye was leaning on the sink, one hand on the table and the other playing with his phone.
He listened to the conversation between the three people in the living room, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Dinner is ready."
Hearing this, Ji Minghuan was the first to get up from the sofa, walk into the kitchen and sit down at the dining table.
Su Zimai immediately stood up, passed by Gu Zhuoan, and glanced at him: "Why are you still standing there?"
Gu Zhuoan lowered his head and pondered for a while, then slowly turned around and looked at Gu Qiye who was standing next to the sink.
Gu Qinye didn't meet his gaze. He just lowered his head and played with his phone expressionlessly.
Gu Zhuoan didn't care. He walked into the kitchen, pulled a chair and sat down opposite Su Zimai and Gu Wenyu. He stared at the table full of steaming food without saying a word.
The chirping of cicadas outside the venue gradually faded, and the last of the noise disappeared, so that the atmosphere at the dinner table became awkwardly quiet.
The faces of the four people were covered in the orange-red light. Except for Ji Minghuan who was leisurely and even had an expression of watching the fun, the expressions on the faces of the other three people were a little stiff.
Ji Minghuan said to his sister, "Hey, sister, help me get the dishes and chopsticks." He broke the silence again.
"You don't have hands?" Su Zimai asked while holding chopsticks in his mouth.
"Brothers are as close as brothers. Is it okay for you to help me get a set of bowls and chopsticks?"
"You've crossed the line. We are siblings, not brothers."
"Okay brother and sister."
Ji Minghuan rolled his eyes, stood up from the chair and walked towards the disinfection cabinet with an indifferent look. He turned his head and saw that the table on Gu Zhuo's side was empty and there was no tableware, so he took another set of bowls and chopsticks from the cabinet.
Holding a set of bowls and chopsticks in each hand, he approached Gu Zhuoan's back while side-glancing at the other two people.
Su Zimai and Gu Qinye both lowered their heads awkwardly, doing their own things, not paying attention to this side.
“It’s an opportunity.”
Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan walked closer to Gu Zhuoan, then pretended to hand the bowl and chopsticks to his father, and slowly stretched his right hand holding the chopsticks to Gu Zhuoan's shoulder from behind.
This second, he repeated the same trick and pulled out a small strip of restraint from the tip of his index finger.
The pitch-black belt flew out like a black-backed snake and silently touched Gu Zhuoan's shoulder.
Unfortunately, Gu Zhuo'an was not Su Zimai. In this short half second, Gu Zhuo'an's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he almost reflexively stretched out his hand and grasped Ji Minghuan's wrist hard, almost leaving a red mark.
Fortunately, at this moment, the small snake formed by the restraints still touched his shoulder, otherwise he would have lost both the wife and the army.
[Achievement conditions: Touch the target's body, and activate the passive skill "Restraint Detection". ]
While Gu Zhuo'an was still not turning his head, Ji Minghuan pulled the restraints back between his fingers, and then he deliberately let go of the bowl and chopsticks in his hands. The porcelain bowl and chopsticks fell onto the table together, making a clear "crackling" sound in the silent kitchen.
Gu Qinye looked up from his mobile phone screen, saw this scene, and immediately frowned.
"What... do you mean?" he asked Gu Zhuoan word by word.
Su Zimai was also stunned for a moment. He raised his eyes belatedly with the chopsticks in his mouth and looked at Gu Zhuoan who was pinching Ji Minghuan's wrist.
Under the gaze of the two, Gu Zhuoan was visibly stunned for a moment. He slowly turned his head and realized that he was holding Ji Minghuan's wrist. He suddenly let go of his hand, and his cold eyes relaxed instantly, even with a little panic.
However... at this moment, Ji Minghuan's attention was not on the Gu Zhuo case at all.
He looked at the text on the ability panel, slightly widened his eyes, and a faint light flashed in his pupils.
[Target gender: Male]
[Target attributes: Strength: A++ level; Speed: A level; Spirit: A level]
[Superhuman]
[Power introduction: Create a three-meter-high clock tower, and "stand" your own "shadow" up from the ground (the shadow will inherit the three attributes of the power user's body, which is equivalent to creating an avatar, the difference is that the shadow cannot leave the body too far)
Every 30 seconds, the hour hand of the clock tower will randomly move to a specific time between "one to twelve hours".
At different times, the clock tower will bring "different" ability enhancements to the ghost clock's shadow. 】
The ability description on the panel was almost identical to the ability of a super criminal that Ji Minghuan had just seen on the official website of the Association of Aliens.
The criminal's code name is...
"Ghost...bell?"
Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and slowly recited this name that terrified countless people in his mind.
The next second, a red and black task panel appeared in front of his eyes.
[Completed main mission 2: Explore what is hidden in the case of my "father" Gu Zhuo. ]
[Obtained rewards for Main Mission 2: 1 Split Point, 1 Skill Point, 1 Attribute Point]
[Main Mission 2 has been updated: Reach a cooperative relationship with the super criminal "Ghost Bell", and then develop interpersonal relationships among evil superpowers. ]
(End of this chapter)
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