Chapter 238 Revenge, Black Lightning (asking for monthly ticket)
In Lijing Square, everyone stared blankly at the video playing on the screen.
Everything was completely silent. Even the giant LED screens on the tops of tall buildings were playing the same video:
——It was in the corridor of a residential building. A beam of dark blue lightning suddenly broke through the window and shattered the man in the video into a pool of blood. The boy who was trapped under the rubble wailed loudly.
"That was... something I did?"
Lan Hu raised his head and stared at the picture on the screen.
In the picture, blood flowed along the ground, slowly spreading to the edge of the boy's cheek. The boy stretched out his hand from under the rubble and screamed hysterically: "Dad——!"
Looking at this scene, Lan Hu's pupils shrank, and he woke up as if from a dream. At this moment, he finally remembered that it was the Lijing earthquake that happened two years ago.
At that time, he was confronting the supernatural criminal "Di Ming". When he was almost forced into a dead end by the other party, he fought back in his last moments, piercing the other party's chest with a beam of lightning and destroying a residential building.
But at that time he didn't realize that in that collapsed residential building...
There are actually other people.
"Yes." Makuto stared at the blue arc and whispered, "You did it."
"But...why didn't anyone tell me before?"
Blue Arc asked in a low voice, staring motionlessly at the desperate boy on the screen.
"Because the people who wanted to tell you were silenced, no one wants their hero to be tarnished."
"How is that possible?"
"Don't act stupid. Aren't you curious about who the two people in the video are?"
Makutaki asked slowly.
In the dead silence, Lan Hu slowly lowered his head, closed his eyelids, and his Adam's apple moved up and down.
“…Who is it?”
After a while, he finally spoke, his voice extremely hoarse.
Makutaki looked straight at him and said word by word: "The person on the screen... is me."
As soon as the words fell, the whole audience was in an uproar. The crowd within a radius of several hundred meters erupted in waves of sobs, engulfing the two people on the stage like a tsunami.
Amid the overwhelming discussion, Mu Taki remained expressionless, his eyes fixed on Lan Hu. He was very satisfied at this moment, the truth that had been buried for many years finally surfaced, and the instigator of the incident was standing on the stage accepting everyone's doubts, just like taking off clothes and swimming naked in the cold ice sea.
Lan Hu lowered his head and remained silent.
He didn't seem to find the answer surprising. He just opened his eyes, remained silent, and slowly took a step back.
But he didn't know where he could retreat to. In front of him was a surging Avenger, and behind him was a wave of doubts as loud as a tsunami and a landslide.
It will soon... drown his figure.
After a long silence, Lan Hu slowly raised his head and looked at Makutaki's face through the lenses.
"Then... who is the other person?" He asked slowly, as if deceiving himself.
"My father," Makutaki said decisively.
The moment he heard the reply, Lan Hu was stunned.
"Your...father?"
he asked in a hoarse voice.
"Yes." Mu Taki said slowly, "He is just a person who does not have innate supernatural powers like you. He is a person who loves his children like every ordinary father..."
He gritted his teeth and squeezed out the words word by word: "So he died, just like an ant, he was easily stepped on by you!"
"impossible……"
Blue Arc shook his head, took two steps back, and staggered like a puppet with its spring broken.
"impossible?"
"Yes, impossible..." Blue Arc whispered hoarsely as he stepped back, "I won't do such a thing, otherwise what's the difference between me and the person who killed my mother?" He almost growled, "Tell me, what's the difference between me and the person who killed my mother?!"
Makutaki remained silent.
After a moment, he said, "You know what? Those bastards from the Deviant Association covered my mouth and claimed that it was a hallucination I had after the disaster. They said... my father was actually crushed to death by the rubble."
Lan Qi was startled, his eyes wavering beneath his helmet.
He slowly raised his head and met Makutaki's gaze in disbelief.
Makutaki lowered his face and continued, "He even asked me to cooperate with the psychiatrist for treatment and come out of the traumatic hallucinations."
At this point, he suddenly laughed, no longer suppressing the anger in his voice:
"At that time, I felt like a worm. Yes... Everyone reminded me that I was just an insignificant worm that could only be manipulated by others and could be trampled to death by this dirty world at any time. But what about you? Even if you do something wrong, there will be people who will support you and worship you as a hero."
As he spoke, Mu Taki suddenly pulled the sword out of the scabbard and walked closer to Blue Arc step by step.
With his hoarse growl, every step he took created a spider-web-like crack on the ground.
"But those beasts didn't expect that I would be able to find the video footage later! And one day... I would stand here openly and make the truth known to the public!"
The crowd in the audience was still as dense as puddles during a rainstorm. After hearing what Makuto said, they looked at Lan Hu's back in astonishment.
Everyone was waiting for Blue Arc's rebuttal and explanation, but they had never seen such an embarrassed figure.
Even though Blue Arc was wounded in battle in the past, he would still stand confidently and calmly in front of the camera, because he is the people's hope and the people's loyal backer, and he cannot be seen falling down.
But at this moment, Lan Hu was like a lost dog. He hunched over and retreated in fear.
He slowly raised his head in the sunlight and looked at the tall gray shadow on the stage.
At that moment, he felt like he was looking at a sun that he couldn't look at directly, and couldn't help but look away. Lan Hu slowly lowered his head and stared blankly at the yellowed floor.
Makutaki lowered his voice and said as he walked away, "I was asking you for help. In my heart, I thought of you as a hero, just like any other teenager."
At the end, he spoke almost word by word, gnashing his teeth and sucking blood: "But you gave me back in that way... You killed my father!"
Lan Hu staggered back like a kite with a broken string, with his head lowered, thinking silently.
Did I kill an innocent person?
Over the years, I have risked my life and put in so much effort to track down my mother who was accidentally killed by Hong Yi, but I did... the same thing as my enemy?
In front of a child, I brutally smashed his father into pieces.
Gu Qinye suddenly remembered five years ago, when his mother died in front of him. He could do nothing but open his eyes weakly and watch his mother being crushed by the beam of light that fell from the sky.
Makutaki...
He is just like me.
He must have been thinking that his family was broken apart by such an inexplicable bastard.
But I can see that inexplicable person on TV every day. Everyone calls him a hero. He must have felt very wronged in the past two years, so he tried so hard to get close to me and want revenge on me...
What on earth have I done… What on earth have I protected, and what on earth have I been working so hard for all these years?
"Mom...can you tell me?"
Lan Hu murmured softly, unable to hold on any longer. He lowered his head and knelt weakly on the stage.
Mu Taki looked down at him indifferently.
After a moment, Blue Arc broke the silence and spoke tiredly, "Is that so? So... are you here to seek revenge on me?"
"That's right. Exposing your crimes is only the first step. I want you to be ruined..."
After a pause, Mu Taki continued calmly: "Then, I will kill you."
Through the LED screen of the high-rise building, Makutaki's hoarse voice spread and echoed throughout the square.
"Blue Arc killed someone? Did he kill the person on the screen?"
"But Blue Arc himself admitted it, otherwise why would he be kneeling on the ground?"
"The association's officials also helped him cover up the murder? That's too cruel. Telling a child whose father was murdered that it was an illusion, what on earth were those people thinking?"
"That has to be fake! I don't believe Blue Arc would do something like that. He saved me... He saved me. If it weren't for him, my brother and I would have died."
The voices coming from all directions drowned Lan Hu's figure like a tide. He lowered his head and knelt on the ground without moving.
After a long silence, Blue Arc curled his lips in self-mockery, smiled hoarsely, and then spoke:
"I'm sorry, from the beginning to the end... I don't know anything. You must have felt very wronged all these years. I understand how you feel."
Makutaki stood there in a daze.
"You say you understand how I feel?" He lowered his face and shouted in astonishment, "You understand how I feel?! You also watched your father die in front of you?!"
"I……"
Lan Arc was speechless.
"Stand up... I didn't come here to listen to your hypocritical words, nor did I come here to take revenge on a useless dog who surrendered without a fight!"
Makutaki spoke word by word, raised his sword, and pointed the tip of the sword at Lan Hu's head, "I want to avenge that person who is high above and thinks he is a hero..."
But Lan Hu still knelt there motionless, as if he hadn't heard anything. His head drooped, his arms dropped to the ground, and his eyes stared blankly at the ground.
Like a prisoner awaiting execution.
"Go, take them away!" At the mayor's urging, the guards had already driven all the onlookers and media visitors out. They all understood how fierce the battle between the two quasi-disaster-level monsters would be.
Makutaki's face twitched slightly, and he narrowed his eyes, staring deeply at Lan Arc.
"If you don't stand up... then you will die."
After a while, Makutaki finally displayed his supernatural powers to the outside world.
A bottomless darkness spread out from him, like the sudden arrival of night, instantly covering an area of 100 meters in radius.
The glow of the neon lights was completely swallowed up.
It was a bottomless darkness that swallowed up all the buildings in all directions with irresistible force.
Everything within a hundred meters disappeared. Lan Hu's senses were completely taken away by the darkness at this moment.
He seemed to be the only one left in the darkness.
It was like a black and white pantomime, he was kneeling alone on the stage, no spotlight, no lines, nothing, he could not feel anything. The whole world was slowly getting colder, like falling into the deep sea...
Suddenly, a giant black eagle descended from the sky.
With a whistling sound, the snow-white sword blade, which had merged into a bird's beak, slashed down and pierced into Blue Arc's back without any hindrance.
His five senses were still blocked at this moment. Only in the half second when Makutoki was infinitely close could he hear some movement in the darkness.
But it was too late. The blade pierced his spine, stirring inside him, opening a huge hole. Lan Hu grabbed the blade that pierced his abdomen and held it with all his strength, as if he wanted to use the blade to cut through his gloves.
But at this moment, Makutaki suddenly raised his leg and kicked his back, pulling the sword out of his body. At the same time, he once again disappeared into the endless darkness.
With a "puff", a waterfall of blood gushed out from the breach in the blue arc body, but was quickly swallowed up by the boundless darkness.
Blue Arc curled up on the ground, raised his hands to cover the wound on his abdomen, and got what he wanted... blood stained his hands red.
He had given up thinking, and his body was like a puppet, acting almost entirely on instincts cultivated over the years.
Instinct told him that he had no chance of winning in Makutaki's territory. So he instinctively stood up, bent his knees slightly, and his whole body was covered with a deep blue electric light, and he ran in a fixed direction.
Like a beam of deep blue lightning passing through a dark tunnel, it leaped dozens of meters in an instant. However, before he approached the edge of the barrier, a deafening eagle cry came from the dome of the dark curtain again!
Lan Hu suddenly turned around, swung his arm to gain momentum, raised his fist wrapped in blue electricity and smashed it upwards, facing the sword blade. The blade edge was shaken outwards in the strong wind, and the jumping arcs of electricity spread upwards along the sword body like roaring pythons.
A scream of being burned by lightning filled the air. Mu Taki's hands were numb and his body flew backwards, but Lan Hu's body was also bounced into the barrier.
He looked up in the darkness.
After that, no matter which direction the blue arc ran, the giant eagle living in the depths of darkness would always follow it like a maggot attached to its bones, like a shadow. In the pitch-black darkness, deep blue sparks lit up again and again, and each time they lit up, they were accompanied by the hoarse eagle's cry and the trembling of the long sword.
Makutaki always swooped down from the sky at the moment before he left and knocked him back into the barrier.
Just as he rushed to the edge of the barrier again, the pitch-black giant eagle no longer dropped from the sky, but attacked from another direction. Mu Taki rushed out from behind the blue arc, raised his hand, drew his sword, and made a snake-like hissing sound in the air.
In an instant, the sharp sword pierced Lan Hu's thigh.
Blood spurted out from the inside of his thigh. Lan Hu knelt on the ground, twisted his right arm violently, raised his hand to grab the blade that pierced his right leg, and slightly bent the five fingers of his other hand.
Violent arcs of electricity extended from the fingertips and gathered into a jumping electric ball in the palm of the hand.
He held tightly onto the sword that pierced his thigh, preventing Makutaki from breaking free, and thrust his palm backwards at the same time.
Wrapped in surging lightning, a devastating sphere swept out.
In the lightning that came towards him, Mu Taki was startled, and then frowned. He wanted to abandon the long sword in his hand, but it was too late, so he had to raise his arms to protect himself.
But the next second, just when the lightning was about to touch Makutaki, the lightning suddenly went out... That's right, the jumping lightning shattered like bubbles.
In the darkness, Mu Taki stood there in a daze, and then his face gradually became gloomy. At this moment, he was burning with anger, and the anger in his heart was completely ignited, because he understood that just now... his enemy actually showed mercy to him.
Show mercy?
Being pitied by your own enemies?
It was like a punch on cotton. The face under the knight's helmet twitched, and Mu Taki finally couldn't help but let out a long-suppressed roar from his throat:
"Blue Arc, what are you doing? Resist me, or what's the point of my revenge?!"
As he spoke, he once again pulled out the blood-soaked sword from Blue Hu's body.
Blue Arc didn't even scream, he just spat out a mouthful of blood, then knelt in a pool of blood with his head hung like a puppet and his eyes blank.
With a pair of giant wings formed by the vibrating gray cloak, Mu Taki soared high toward the top of the dark curtain. At that moment, he seemed to have turned into a black sun, which could fall down at any time and burn everything in the world.
In the darkness, his furious roars continued to be heard.
It was as if tens of thousands of people were simultaneously striking the ground with the handles of their swords, just like a solemn court in ancient times.
But Gu Qiye couldn't hear it.
I don't want to hear it either.
He suddenly felt as if his blood was cold, as if a heavy snow had covered his body. Although blood was flowing through his body, he could not feel the slightest bit of warmth.
"Is it really okay to die like this..."
Suddenly, an idea came into his mind.
I killed someone else's father, but I want to avenge my own mother? How selfish... But if I don't have the right to revenge, then what have I been doing all these years?
What’s the point of me giving so much?
But if I die, what will happen to Xiaomai, Wenyu, and Dad?
Dad finally came back after a few years. Yes, maybe he also wanted to let go of Mom's matter and start over with us, but I have never forgiven him.
The same goes for my younger sister. Obviously, if I just persuade her nicely, she will stay at home, right?
If I gave up revenge, I could definitely persuade her to give up, and then our family could live in peace and quiet...
I am already very happy to have them by my side, but why do I keep dwelling on my mother's death? Why... I just don't know how to cherish them?
If I can still survive, I will go back and reconcile with my father, tell him I’m sorry, and then tell my sister that I won’t seek revenge...
No more revenge.
Mom must also want to see the four of us together...but I killed innocent people, do I really have the right to live?
If I were in his shoes, standing in front of the man who killed my mother, could I still forgive him?
If he begs me for mercy, will I forgive him?
No...I will not forgive him.
Therefore, I don’t deserve to be forgiven by this person in front of me.
Because I know better than anyone how much pain he has suffered in the past two years. He has been tormented for so long... The originally happy family has been broken up, and the family members have become strangers.
He finally made it to the day when he could kill me. How could I be worthy of asking him to forgive me?
I was wrong. I was wrong. I really was wrong.
But……
I don't want to die yet.
I still want to see Xiaomai, Wenyu, and my dad. I haven’t reconciled with him yet, and I still have a lot of things to do... I just don’t want to die. Is this really selfish?
I tried really hard, but why did I do everything wrong?
Why are they all wrong?
I really...
real……
Under the mask, Gu Qiye's lips moved slightly.
"I just really..."
He knelt in a pool of blood, muttering softly.
"Really, I don't want to die..."
Suddenly, a loud eagle cry came from the darkness, and at that moment, Mu Long seemed to have turned into a giant eagle falling from the sky. The long sword in his hand was an indestructible bird beak.
He roared and fell, with the tip of the blade pointing directly at Blue Arc's head and slashing down.
“I just want to…
Live. "
Gu Qiye raised his head and roared silently. At that moment, a kind of sticky darkness seeped out from the depths of his bones, and then transformed into a sudden flash of lightning. It was a kind of lightning that was far different from the previous ones, a black lightning! It was far deeper and more violent than the dark curtain of Mu Long!
In an instant, black arcs of electricity tore open his blood vessels like millions of poisonous snakes, spreading out from his body and forming a huge magnetic field.
His roar seemed mixed with thunder.
The moment he came into contact with the magnetic field, the dark curtain created by Makutaki was shattered, as if the covering layer on a lottery ticket had been peeled off, and all the scenery rushed into his pupils intact like a rushing train.
Immediately afterwards, the square, the ten high-rise buildings near the square, the glass curtain walls and billboards on the surfaces of the high-rise buildings, everything was split apart by the criss-crossing black electric light!
It was as if the gods had brought down a natural disaster, and all things were being judged equally.
The next moment, the inky black lightning suddenly shattered the pitch-black eagle that fell from the sky. The blade trembled for a moment, and then shattered in an instant.
A strong wind blew, and the broken blade pierced into Makutaki's right eye. His entire eye socket was pierced, leaving only an empty hole, and blood gushed out of it.
Before he could even let out a scream, the lightning tore off Makutaki's right arm.
At this moment, the flesh and blood of his entire arm were torn apart, and then among the layers of torn flesh and blood, the white bones were exposed. Finally, even the bones were pulled out and devoured by the lightning.
The grey cloak transformed into a pair of wings that vigorously vibrated upwards, and amid the eagle's mournful cries, his body flew backwards uncontrollably.
The medieval knight's helmet suddenly shattered, and the flying fragments cut his forehead.
The warm blood flowed down, blurring Makutaki's vision.
"Dad...I'm sorry."
He stared at the birds flying across the dark sky with empty eyes, and slowly closed his eyelids.
After a long silence, Gu Qiye looked up in a trance.
Black lightning tore through the concrete and steel bars. Tall buildings in all directions collapsed synchronously, as if playing a cheerful movement. The glass on the curtain walls also shattered layer by layer, pouring down like heavy rain.
He took off his broken helmet, slowly raised his head, took a breath towards the sky, his hair covering his eyes.
Looking down, he saw dark electric light jumping out from his fingertips, like ink, and his pupils were also filled with inky arcs of electricity.
Suddenly, he seemed to realize something, so he turned his head sharply and looked at Makutaki, who was embedded in the ruins and was already half paralyzed.
At this time, a black arc of electricity still remained on Mu Taki's body surface, flickering.
After being in a daze for a long time, Gu Qinye wanted to make a sound from his throat, but he couldn't. He just knelt on the ground, slowly raised his head, and looked drowsily at the sun hanging high in the sky.
At this moment, the sunlight penetrated the broken glass curtain wall and the criss-crossing ruins and fell on his face.
But after a long, long time, until he fell into coma and his eyelids closed, the black lightning in his eyes still did not fade away.
"elder brother--!"
Finally, he seemed to hear a hurried shout. Su Zimai rushed out from the movie screen and ran towards him.
(End of this chapter)
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