Chapter 251 News of Father's Death, Hong Yi's Final Notice (Thanks to the leader of "Space Father Ship" for the reward)
At 4 pm on August 5th, Guyimai Street District.
After buying a birthday cake from Connie's Cake Shop, the two brothers sat on the sofa in the living room, fanning themselves and taking a short rest.
At this time, it was raining heavily outside. The water in the streets and alleys was deep enough to submerge the trouser legs of passers-by, but fortunately the doors and windows on the first floor were closed tightly, so when the sound of heavy rain reached the living room, it seemed to turn into a drizzle.
At this moment, Gu Qinye raised his head and stared blankly at the lines of text on the TV screen, his eyes lingering on the words "Ghost Bell" marked in red.
The announcement on the screen never stopped:
"It has been confirmed that the extremely dangerous element codenamed 'Ghost Bell' was killed on the spot, and no civilian casualties were caused during the operation."
"According to the reports of the reporters on the scene, a large number of facilities in the amusement park have been damaged. Currently, the Association of the Different has funded the reconstruction work, and the professional psychics of the association, the 'machine workers', have promised to participate in the reconstruction work."
Hearing the clear broadcast, Gu Wenyu, who was sitting on the sofa, also raised his eyes from the mobile phone screen.
He raised his eyebrows and saw one or two photos of Lijing Starlight Amusement Park on TV, with the shocking meteorite crater coming into view.
Although it is not as spectacular as what we see in person, it is enough to make people gasp.
The gap between ordinary people and disaster-level psychics is so huge that there is an unbridgeable gulf. The magnitude of the two is like the difference between a river and the sea, so it is understandable that one is accidentally stepped on to death like an ant.
"Is Gui Zhong dead?" Gu Wenyu raised his eyebrows and said with emotion, "It's good that he died. The people of Hongyi were very efficient. Brother, didn't this person beat you up before..."
Before he could finish his words, a snapping sound suddenly rang out in the living room, interrupting his speech.
Gu Wenyu's voice suddenly stopped. He was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at the cake on the ground. The cream was splattered all over the ground, and the fruit and chocolate in the middle were also not spared. There were also a few candles stuck crookedly on it.
Gu Wenyu sighed and thought, if you don’t eat it, then I will. My sister took so long to pick it and you dropped it?
"What's wrong with you?" he asked knowingly, "Does it require such a big reaction, brother?"
After saying that, Gu Wenyu was silent for a moment, then looked up at Gu Qinye's back.
The world was silent. Gu Qiye's back was motionless, as if frozen like a statue. After a long while, he showed some reaction.
Gu Qinye slowly lowered his head. He clearly wanted to look at the cake that had fallen on the ground, but his eyes couldn't help but stay on the TV.
In the corner of the screen was a full-body photo of Gui Zhong. This strange yet familiar dark figure made him feel fear for the first time in a long time. Starting from his hands, his whole body was shaking slowly.
"No, that's not Dad."
"Dad lied to me yesterday."
"Yeah, how could he be a ghost clock?"
"He... is just a useless person who has accomplished nothing and only knows how to drink."
"Gui Zhong is dead, it has nothing to do with him."
"He's fine, he's still alive, he..."
The self-deceiving thoughts in his mind came to an abrupt halt, and Gu Qiye's eyes dimmed little by little.
He didn't understand what he was feeling at the moment. He just felt that his brain was like a ball of wool that was roughly pulled apart and rolled to the ground. His thoughts rolled in all directions like the wool, extending and extending endlessly.
There were too many things, and they were too confusing… In the end, even he couldn’t figure out what he was thinking.
After a long time, Gu Qinye finally took his eyes off the screen.
He suddenly saw the broken cake on the ground, and an expression of surprise finally appeared on his face, as if something had suddenly dug a hole in his chest and spilled out.
After a moment of hesitation, Gu Qinye lowered his eyes to look at the candle that had fallen to the ground, then turned his head to look at the cream splattered on the corner of the table. An indescribable despair and gloom enveloped his heart uncontrollably.
The news of his father's death did not make him collapse immediately, he was just numb, but when he saw the broken cake on the ground, Gu Qiye suddenly realized something:
"I... screwed up everything."
Gu Qiye whispered to himself, gritted his teeth, and the taste of rusty blood came from the corners of his mouth. Tears kept flowing from the corners of his eyes, and he didn't know how long it had been since he last shed tears.
"Brother, are you okay?" Gu Wenyu tilted his eyebrows suspiciously and interrupted his thoughts, "Does this news surprise you so much? Are you afraid that you were traumatized by the ghost bell when you were working before?"
Gu Qiye lowered his head, his lips moved slightly, and he murmured:
"Wenyu...listen to me, the ghost bell is..."
"he……"
"He is...our..."
He spoke intermittently, but suddenly stopped talking in the middle of the sentence.
Gu Qiye knew that his younger brother didn't hear what he and his father were arguing about yesterday, so he didn't know that the Gu Zhuo case was actually the ghost bell, but how could he say this out loud?
Does he have to tell his brother: Dad was shot dead by Hongyi’s men today?
But how long can he keep it secret?
If my younger brother knew about this one day, how would he feel? What about my younger sister, what would she do?
Behind him, Gu Wenyu silently watched his back, and then reminded him softly: "Brother, you knocked over the cake you just bought."
He paused, "Want to buy a new one?"
Gu Qiye remained silent for a long time, lowered his head, and silently looked at the candles stuck in the broken cake. Finally, he just asked hoarsely:
"Wenyu, can you...help me turn off the TV?"
"oh."
Gu Wenyu nodded, picked up the remote control on the table, pressed the power button, and turned off the TV.
The clear voice of the host disappeared. When he reported the news of Gui Zhong's death, his voice was filled with unconcealed joy, as if he saw a pest being stepped on to death. Because of this, his voice sounded so noisy to Gu Qinye's ears.
It's so noisy that people want to tear his mouth apart.
Gu Wenyu threw the remote control on the sofa and silently looked at his brother's back.
In fact, Ji Minghuan knew in his heart that if he told Gu Qiye at this time that his father was not dead yet, his brother would probably feel better, right?
But the problem is, once he tells Gu Qinye about this, he might really give up the opportunity to join Hongyi. Therefore, Ji Minghuan must be ruthless no matter what, and at least keep this matter secret from him as much as possible for a short period of time.
"My father's fake death may be the last chance for my brother to join Rainbow Wing... This is the last chance."
Gu Wenyu thought to himself, and without hesitation, he withdrew his gaze from Gu Qinye's back.
"I'm going to take a shower...I'll clean up later. Don't worry about it for now."
Gu Qinye spoke softly, got up from the sofa and staggered into the bathroom.
He closed the door casually, and then leaned his back against the door, unable to support his body any longer, and slowly slid down. He sat on the ground in silence, with his head down.
At this moment, great regret enveloped his heart.
If I had told Gu Zhuoan yesterday that I would not join Hongyi, would Gu Zhuoan not have been so impulsive in looking for people from Hongyi?
If he told his father that the people from Hongyi came to this city just to find him, would he have a chance to escape?
What am I doing? Why can't I be more honest? Why is there such a thing as a conflict?
Why?
Gu Qinye, what are you doing?
Everything is over, there is no hope. Knowing that Dad is dead, what will Wenyu and Xiaomai think? They finally got over their mother's death. What about me? What should I do... It's so hard to start a new life, and it's so hard to decide to say goodbye to the past, to say goodbye to that damn mask.
Gu Qiye couldn't understand anything, and couldn't see anything. Tears blurred his vision. He held his head in his hands, curled up behind the door, and listened quietly to the banging of the wind and rain against the window.
"Mom, save me..."
Outside the door, Gu Wenyu lowered his head to pick up the cake on the ground and licked the dark chocolate on his fingertips. "What a waste. I have never eaten cake in the welfare home. I was looking forward to it..."
He muttered, picked up the broom, and quietly cleaned up the cake and cream on the ground and mopped the floor.
Then he extended a black restraint belt from his sleeves, picked up the light strip and candles engraved with "Happy Birthday", and threw them all into the trash can.
After a while, Gu Wenyu collapsed on the sofa and suddenly turned his head.
Looking through the back of the sofa, I looked at the dejected figure sitting on the ground behind the glass screen door from afar.
In fact, he could understand Gu Qinye's feelings. Precisely because he was a fake person, he understood his brother better than anyone else. After so many years, this stupid brother thought he had matured and become stronger and could protect his younger brothers and sisters.
I always thought that I would never have to watch the same tragedy happen in front of me again.
But when he heard the news of his father's death, Gu Qiye seemed to have returned to that night, watching his mother shattered into a cloud of blood. He suddenly realized that he had never grown up, but was just a child blinded by powerlessness and hatred.
Thinking of this, Gu Wenyu murmured softly: "I'm sorry, brother, I can only do this..."
He lay on the sofa like Ge You, staring at the time on the wall in a daze, while observing the blurry figure behind the glass screen door out of the corner of his eye, curious about when Gu Qiye would stand up from there.
Finally, he couldn't wait any longer, so Gu Wenyu got up from the sofa and slowly walked towards the bathroom.
In the sound of rain, he stopped in front of the door, knocked twice symbolically, and whispered: "Brother... I'll help you clean up the spilled cake, so don't squat in the bathroom in a daze. If you want to sleep, go to bed, okay?"
After hesitating for a moment, he asked again: "Uh, do you want me to go out and buy another cake?"
"No need..." After a moment of silence, Gu Qiye responded softly, "Wenyu, Dad just called me and told me that he's out of town, so... you don't need to buy the cake."
"Wow, it's only been a short time since Dad came back. Is he a human? Forget it."
After saying that, Gu Wenyu went upstairs and lay down on the bed in the room to rest.
He turned his head from the pillow and looked out the window.
The rain stopped silently, and after the dark cumulonimbus clouds dispersed, the emerald sky at dusk was revealed. The sun dropped to the bottom of the horizon, and the last trace of red wine-like afterglow hanging on the horizon flew away with the flying birds.
As the night deepened, it was pitch dark in the bathroom on the first floor and the only sound that could be heard was the dripping sound of water in the sink.
In the darkness, Gu Qiye hugged his knees in a daze, his lips moving as if he was asking for help. After a long time, the phone on the ground suddenly vibrated.
He was slightly stunned and looked down at the phone screen that suddenly lit up.
【Ice: Have you not made a decision yet? 】
"Ice" is the WeChat name of Hongyi's "Ice Girl" Yuriel.
Her profile picture is a piece of ice in a glass, which is as minimalist as her name. When you open her Moments, you can't see anything, not because she has set it to be visible for only three days, but because she has never posted anything.
After thinking for a long time, Gu Qiye picked up his mobile phone, typed silently, and sent it.
【Gu Qiye: I saw the news. You killed Gui Zhong?】
[Ice: Yes, I heard that you were beaten badly by him before you were promoted to the Calamity Grade.]
【Ice: I helped you get revenge. 】
【Gu Qiye: Who killed him? 】
【Ice: I can’t answer that. We have signed a confidentiality agreement.】
[Ice: Unless you become a member of Rainbow Wing, I can't reveal it.]
[Ice: The reason is as follows: We can judge the capabilities of the Rainbow Wing members by the photos taken at the scene and the extent of the damage to the buildings.]
【Gu Qiye: Then when are you leaving? 】
【Ice: Tomorrow night, we will return to New York. 】
【Gu Qiye: Really fast.】
[Ice: Blue Arc, this is your last chance, please think carefully. ]
【Ice: Join Rainbow Wing.】
【Ice: Or just be an ordinary person? 】
Gu Qinye stared at the lines of text on the screen. After a moment, he slowly raised his head and looked at himself in the mirror.
At this moment, black arcs of electricity were dancing in his pupils, his haggard cheeks were sunken, but tears were still flowing from the corners of his eyes.
It's like a monster that has changed beyond all recognition.
The dim light from the phone screen shone upwards, illuminating his numb and indifferent face. Pitch-black lightning danced in his pupils, almost ready to burst out.
The young man in the mirror had no expression on his face, yet he looked as ferocious as a ghost.
Gu Qiye's eyes slowly turned cold.
He tapped the screen with his fingers, sending the last message to the other party, and then the phone went dark.
【Gu Qiye: I join. 】
(End of this chapter)
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