Chapter 24 Ghost Bell
Ji Minghuan shifted his gaze from the text on the panel and once again looked at the decadent man in front of him. His tall silhouette was infinitely similar to the bloodthirsty and gloomy ghost clock in the TV camera.
"You can't do that. Let's get someone from Hongyi to come find me..."
This was the criminal declaration that Ji Minghuan heard on TV. At that time, Gui Zhong was wearing a Z-shaped mask, and his blood-red eyes flashed with a cold light. After the mechanical voice change, it became gloomy and hoarse, as if it was still echoing in his ears.
At this moment, many questions in Ji Minghuan's mind seemed to be clarified.
Why didn’t Gu Wenyu’s father come home for two whole years?
Why has the super criminal "Ghost Bell" only harmed those superpowers who abused their abilities and destroyed priceless cultural relics in the past two years, but never attacked ordinary people?
And the most important point:
——Why is Gui Zhong so obsessed with having the Abnormal Association send members of Hong Yi to arrest him?
After understanding the identity behind this violent maniac's mask, the reasons behind all these problems became as clear as a piece of white paper soaked with water:
Gu Zhuo wanted to lure out the Rainbow Wing member who killed his wife, and then... tear him into pieces with his own hands.
A few years ago, the protest marches against Hong Yi failed, and Gu Zhuo suffered humiliation. In the end, he seemed to have chosen to compromise and took hundreds of thousands of compensation from the authorities, but in fact, he never gave up this obsession in his heart, as if he had a ball of fire in his stomach, which would burn him to death if he didn't spit it out.
That's why he chose to become a superpowered criminal and tried every means to attract Hong Yi's attention.
The funny thing is that Gu Qiye's approach is exactly the opposite of Gu Zhuo's case:
In order to find the Rainbow Wing member who accidentally killed his mother, Gu Qiye chose to join the Alien Association and become a powerful Alien, so that he could be introduced into the Rainbow Wing by the Association and find his enemy openly.
Thinking of this, the surprise in Ji Minghuan's eyes slowly faded away.
He held Gu Zhuo's bloody wrist, thinking with interest, "They are obviously father and son, but they made completely opposite choices for the same goal, and even stood on opposite sides of each other due to causal coincidence. They put on masks and killed each other like trapped beasts in the arena... It turns out that there was a reason why my first game character was inserted into this family. Did they want me to enjoy this Greek tragedy-style family farce?"
"Oh no... I have begun to subconsciously play the role of Black Pupa. How come my mental activities have been assimilated into something so childish?" he thought again.
At this moment, Gu Qiye looked at the fingerprints on Ji Minghuan's wrist, his face twitched slightly, and his already expressionless face became even colder.
He didn't want to get angry in front of his brother and sister, so he took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said to Gu Zhuoan as calmly as possible:
"What are you doing?"
But the calmer the tone, the more frightening it sounded to Su Zimai: She had never heard Gu Qinye speak like this. Normally, her brother always had a smile on his face and spoke in the calmest possible tone. Even when he was angry, he would temporarily avoid others and never show that he was angry.
Gu Zhuoan sat in the chair in silence, looking pale.
For a moment, he couldn't find a reason for what he did just now. Perhaps it was because he had been living a life of danger on all sides for the past two years, and his tired nerves were too sensitive. So when his son just patted his shoulder, he had such a stress reaction?
But what exactly was that strange feeling just now… It was as if a snake suddenly flew out of the jungle and crawled onto his shoulder, its dark green eyes shining brightly in the darkness, piercing every corner of his heart.
"Dad... I was just helping you pass the dishes and chopsticks." Ji Minghuan took a breath, then said slowly, "Why are you so nervous? Have you been working as a drug enforcement officer in the past two years? Aren't drug enforcement officers in the movies often unable to go home for many years?"
He thought to himself: But the power of a quasi-disaster-level mutant is terrifying. If he hadn't restrained his strength in time, my wrist would have been torn off.
Seeing that there was no response to the Gu Zhuo case, Ji Minghuan quietly opened the system panel, selected the [System Settings] option, and lowered the "Pain Sensitivity" from 50% to 1%.
In this way, even if he broke his hands or feet, he would only feel the pain of having his thumb stepped on.
"I'm sorry, Wenyu, I..." Gu Zhuoan looked at the dishes and chopsticks scattered on the table, and was hesitant to speak.
Gu Qinye walked towards Ji Minghuan without saying a word, wanting to see the wound on his wrist.
Ji Minghuan smacked his lips, looking a little timid, fearing that his good brother would notice something, so he ignored him, said "nothing", and went to the living room to find a Band-Aid.
Gu Qiye was silent for a while, then turned to look at Gu Zhuo'an and whispered, "Don't bring your bad habits home... You disappeared for two years and you're like this when you come back. How do you want us to trust you?"
He tightened his jaw and slowly lowered his voice, "I thought you had changed... but you are still the same as before. You haven't changed since mom passed away. All you can think about is the people who have left. You never thought about how painful your children are."
"Have you ever thought that your children have also been hit hard by their mother's death, just like you, but in order to make you feel better, every child hides his or her emotions, but you turn a blind eye and treat us all as air."
"Do you know how many times Xiaomai cried after you left without saying a word? And how many times did she tell me that she wanted her dad to come back?"
At this point, Gu Qiye laughed in anger, and a sarcastic arc appeared at the corner of his lips:
"I shouldn't have told her that you would come back. I should have told her that people like you should spend your life hugging a dead person's coffin. Your living family members are not important to you anyway...your dead family members are the most important to you, right?"
Gu Qinye still had a lot of things to say, but he couldn't say them.
He knew better than anyone that his father had been devastated by Hong Yi's incident and had never recovered.
In order to help his father find out who killed his mother and to give himself an explanation, Gu Qiye had to balance his studies while taking care of his younger siblings over the years. At night he had to put on combat uniform and report to the association, carrying out secret missions again and again, brushing shoulders with death countless times, and dealing with all kinds of psychopathic criminals under extremely high pressure.
It can be said that he risked his life to achieve his current status and reputation in the Association of Differentiators.
What he knew even more clearly was that if he became depressed and unable to recover because of his mother's death, it would be unfair to the surviving children. So in order for his younger brothers and sisters to grow up healthily, he kept all the pain in his heart over the years and always had a smile on his face.
But he had done so much, and kept so many things in his heart, and he had been almost crushed countless times...
What is this useless father doing?
Rather, it could be said that Gu Qiye never expected his father to do anything from the beginning to the end.
He just hopes his father can get over his mother's death and face the other children in the family;
I hope my father knows that he is not the only one in the family who is sad about the sudden death of my mother. Every child who sees his father's dejected look will try to force a smile on his face and pat him on the shoulder to make him feel better, even though they are also sad.
But the coward ran away and stayed on the run for two years.
He originally thought that after two years of not seeing each other, Gu Zhuo's case should have changed. After all... it was during these two years that Gu Qiye grew from a helpless child to the "Blue Arc", a prominent alien in Lijing City. So his father might have already turned over a new leaf.
No one stays where they are.
But Gu Qinye, who had this idea, was soon disappointed, extremely disappointed, and even felt sick of himself for having such expectations.
Right in front of him, the father he hadn't seen for two years attacked his own child for no reason.
What's the difference between this and... scumbag?
However, at this moment, Gu Zhuoan lowered his head and stood there like a stone statue.
No matter how Gu Qinye vented his anger on him, he remained motionless. However, the more he did so, the more complicated the expression on Gu Qinye's face became, as if he had punched a marshmallow, feeling powerless and resentful, and all his accusations were in vain.
After a long while, the father suddenly asked, "Have you... forgotten your mother?"
Gu Qiye froze in place for a moment. The next moment, veins popped out on his forehead. He almost growled and spoke with a trembling voice: "Shut up... How much do you know I've done?!"
Su Zimai remained silent from beginning to end. She lowered her eyes, held the chopsticks and said nothing.
Ji Minghuan stood alone in the living room, took out a Band-Aid from the drawer of the tea cabinet and symbolically put it on his wrist.
Listening to the voices coming from the kitchen, he glanced at the father and son who were in a stalemate, and sighed in his heart: "What a family ethics drama... Speaking of which, you two are really a pair of gods. You wear masks and fight to the death outside, and then take off the masks and quarrel after returning home. In a sense, it is true that a tiger father will have a dog son."
In fact, he also knew why Gu Qinye behaved so abnormally today.
The reason why Gu Qiye's emotions were extremely unstable was because his two minefields had been stepped on by others:
First, he was fooled by an uninvited guest named "Black Pupa" last night. Black Pupa even told him that he knew his identity, which meant he could attack his family at any time. Gu Qiye valued his family so much, so his heart must be extremely turbulent;
Another minefield was that his father hurt his younger brother in front of him and said things like "You have forgotten your mother". You have to know that in order to find out the truth about his mother's death, he risked his life in the association in the past few years, just to get a chance to join Hongyi.
But these unspoken efforts were simply denied by his father's words. Forgot? How could he forget?
Although it seemed that he was the fuse of everything, Ji Minghuan did not think it was his problem.
Because in time, Gu Qiye will definitely know the other side of the Gu Zhuo case, and know that he is the super criminal "Ghost Bell" who has fought with him twice, and that Gu Zhuo case, like himself, has been "struggling" to find the truth about his mother.
By that time... I'm afraid that the inner defense that Gu Qinye has built up for such a long time will completely collapse in an instant, and shattered on the ground, never to be picked up again?
Ji Minghuan was only giving a slight push for his own benefit, making this inevitable event develop faster. The fire was bound to start, he just made it burn faster, and he was not the one who set the fire in the first place.
"Do you guys still want to argue?" Su Zimai suddenly spoke up.
She stared at the chopsticks in the bowl and asked in a low voice: "Didn't you say... to eat well?"
Gu Qiye was stunned for a moment, his anger gradually subsided, and his Adam's apple moved up and down.
Gu Zhuoan still didn't say anything, standing there quietly like a statue.
Ji Minghuan turned his head and saw Su Zimai with his head lowered, his eyes hidden by his hair.
Su Zimai continued, "I'm going to stay at a classmate's house this summer, starting tonight. I hope you won't bother me." After saying that, she stood up from the dining table, walked quickly into the living room, picked up her schoolbag with one hand, and turned away.
The hurried footsteps faded away, and then a loud sound of a door closing penetrated the entrance and entered the living room.
Then there was dead silence. There was no sound in the whole house, but the chirping of cicadas outside the window was deafening.
After a long silence, Gu Qinye took a deep breath.
He stood by the disinfection cabinet, supported the corner of the sink with his right hand, and said to Gu Zhuoan, "I have tidied your room in advance. I don't want to see you now."
Gu Zhuoan nodded in response, turned his head to look at the twilight outside the window, and whispered: "Xiaomi she..."
"You don't need to take care of her," Gu Qiye said calmly, "You haven't taken care of her for two years anyway."
Ji Minghuan immediately jumped out and suggested, "Then I'll go find my sister."
Obviously, he did not like this kind of family atmosphere of deep hatred and resentment. As a spiritual outsider, it was better for him to avoid it, lest he be possessed by the old actor and go up to star in a family ethics drama with tears in his eyes along with the twisted father and son.
Gu Qiye looked up at him: "But you haven't eaten yet."
"No need... How can you eat if you're like this? I have no appetite. Besides, didn't she say she didn't want you to bother her? If anyone wants to go find her, I'll have to go."
Ji Minghuan, the instigator, said this and then walked out of the house without looking back.
The first moment after closing the door, he took out his mobile phone from the pocket of his school uniform jacket, and while editing the message using the anonymous software he had tinkered with, he stretched out his restraints and used his senses to reach out into the twilight, looking for the direction in which Su Zimai had left.
After a while, Ji Minghuan finally edited his text message, entered the other party's mobile phone number, and clicked send.
At this moment, he also relied on the hearing sense of the restraint belt to distinguish Su Zimai's footsteps, so he put his hands in his school uniform pockets and walked towards the source of the sound.
The figure gradually blended into the twilight.
At the same time, Gu Qiye, who was sitting alone in the kitchen, held his forehead with his hands, lowered his eyes and murmured: "I shouldn't have lost my temper in front of Xiaomai..."
As he was thinking, he suddenly heard a "ding" sound from the phone in his pocket, which was the notification tone of receiving a message.
He originally wanted to turn off the phone, but considering that it might be a message from Su Zimai or Gu Wenyu, Gu Qinye picked up the phone and took a look.
What was received was a text message with the sender's name and mobile number invisible, which looked like a common prank or spam message.
But the content of the text message made Gu Qinye stunned for a second.
[Anonymous user: So, do you believe my words now and have a little doubt about your father? ]
Gu Qinye's face twitched slightly.
After hesitating for a while, he clicked on the text message interface with a confused mind.
Although I already had the answer in my mind, I still sent a message to the other party to confirm.
【Gu Qiye: Who are you? 】
[Black Pupa: I see... Then I will use this name to communicate with you, and you should be more impressed.]
Please give me a monthly ticket, please give me a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)
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