Chapter 260: The possibility of three generations living together, farewell to Lijing (asking for monthly tickets)
It was still the morning of August 6th, in the city center, on an exhibition stand on a tall tower.
Black Pupa sat on the fence, playing with his phone while using his restraints to swallow various metal fragments from a metallurgical factory on the road. This was the effect of the ability to swallow silver.
He looked down at his phone and sent a message to the grandfather he had just met.
[Black Pupa: Grandpa, are you interested in meeting your son-in-law in the future? ]
[Black Pupa: It's been so many years, and you're still blaming him for not being able to protect your daughter? ]
[Black Pupa: After all, he was a Muggle before, so he is helpless too, okay? ]
【Su Wei: Let’s talk about it later.】
"We'll talk about it later?"
Hei Pupa hummed the tune of "London Bridge Is Falling Down" while looking up from his phone. The sun hadn't risen yet, and the background color of the sky was in an intermediate state of blue and white, just like the sea at dusk.
He thought, so when dad wakes up, he should go to the bookstore to meet grandpa first. Mom has been dead for so many years, maybe dad can reconcile with father-in-law?
Thinking of this, he looked at the restraints that were swallowing up the metal fragments. With a "crackling" sound, those sharp teeth ground the metal into pieces and then sent them into the mouths. Saliva flowed out of it, with the smell of rust.
“When we finally have to kill Hongyi’s four undercover agents from the Salvation Society, maybe grandpa and dad can show up together, and we can have three generations living under one roof?” he thought again.
After a while, passers-by saw the black pupa. Most of them were office workers who got up early to catch the high-speed train, or housewives buying groceries. Because it was summer vacation, students were not often seen.
So they all raised their heads, pointed their fingers, and screamed at the sudden black shadow on the top of the tower.
It seemed that no one expected that this mysterious figure would appear in such a conspicuous place in broad daylight.
Hei Pupa held a megaphone and said to the crowd below: "I know that many of you are my fans, and I also know that many of you hate me very much, but the situation is this... I am about to retire."
"Why!"
Someone in the crowd shouted, it was a childish voice.
Black Pupa raised his eyebrows, remembering that he seemed to have seen this child. When Green Wing held five hostages to threaten Blue Arc, one of the hostages was this child. It seems that the psychological trauma left on this child at that time was not very deep.
He thought for a moment and said, "Good question. Uh... As for the reason, it may be because his skin is too dark, so he was exiled to Africa by the Abnormal Association to help the black version of Tunyin and the black version of Lanqiu achieve great things. They are also called 'Tunhei' and 'Black Arc'."
Some people on the street laughed out loud, while others remained expressionless, thinking that he was talking nonsense.
He paused for a moment, picked up the speaker and continued, "Of course, it's also possible that I'm just plain bored. People are really complicated. Why do we always have to wear masks and say one thing and mean another? Sometimes... I really, really want to tear off my face and show it to you."
As he spoke, Hei Pupa slowly peeled off the restraints on his face, raised his hands to cover his face, and a pair of dark eyes appeared between his fingers.
Through his fingers, he lowered his eyes and silently looked at the faces on the street.
There were screams and sighs from the street. No one would have thought that this madman would suddenly take off his mask.
"But of course this is not allowed. It is not allowed... You absolutely cannot do this. Even if you want to be a madman, you must be a rational madman. Otherwise, you will only face destruction, just like Mr. Ghost Bell, who was smashed into crispy corners by a meteorite."
Black Pupa shook his head, muttered to himself, and covered his face with the restraints again, enveloping his dark eyes.
There was an immediate sigh of disappointment from the crowd, but no one thought that Hei Pupa would really reveal his true identity.
"I know you are disappointed, and I also know that people from the Association of the Different will be here soon, so I can't continue chatting with you. The ship to Africa is about to land."
"Finally... this is a gift for you from a friend of mine. How could someone use technology that is enough to reform a country to set off fireworks? It's so stupid that it makes people laugh. Don't you think his IQ is a little insufficient?"
Hei Pupa spoke casually, lowering his head to play with his mobile phone while raising his right arm.
Starting from his palm, the restraints spread out towards the sun like the tentacles of a squid. Under the dim blue sky, the scene was extremely strange, as if a group of monsters were chasing the sun, and the restraints swayed upward like rippling water waves.
After swallowing the metal, the restraints glowed with a cold silver color. The mouths attached to them expanded outwards and shrank into a crack. Each long crack was grinning upwards, as if countless smiles appeared on the restraints.
"Well, it doesn't matter if you don't like it...as long as I like it, that's enough."
As the faint voice fell, the mouths of the pitch-black restraints suddenly opened outwards, and beams of fire shot up into the sky from countless holes, and finally exploded one after another under the slightly blue sky, turning into brilliant fireworks.
It was a grand fireworks show. The clock had only turned to seven or eight in the morning, the sky was not yet fully light, and the long street was still shrouded in a dark dusk.
However, the faces of the crowd were suddenly illuminated by the fireworks. The next moment, a deafening explosion sounded at the bottom of the sky. The cold world was bright and dark, dark and bright. In their pupils, the smiling face-shaped fireworks were reflected, colorful and dazzling.
After a long time, when the audience came to their senses, they looked up and found that the figure on the tower had disappeared. The world was silent, and a cloud of airplanes spanned half of the dark blue sky.
Ten minutes later, at the old site of Guyimai Street District, in a long-abandoned train station.
"Sorry to have kept you waiting, Miss Ke."
On Platform 7, Black Pupa was hanging upside down under the eaves, flipping through "Quiet Flows the Don" and waving to the figure in front of him with the restraints that had returned to normal.
A woman in a brown windbreaker was leaning against the outer wall of the train, with one hand on her shoulder and the other holding a pipe. She lowered her head to the pipe, took a puff of smoke, and then said:
"You are so naughty. You stole the ability to swallow silver and set off fireworks for others? I feel more and more that you are a minor. You have to put on a show to leave."
Black Pupa raised his eyes from the book, glanced at the dark red train that was spewing steam from every gap, and then looked at the fierce old man's face of the train demon.
He raised a finger and said, "I prefer to be called a 'performance artist'. Sometimes artists are very similar to children. This is because only those who are not domesticated by society and still retain a bit of innocence after growing up are worthy of being artists."
Ke Qirui raised his eyes from his pipe and looked at him, with a slight smile on his lips. "But as far as I know... children who lack love are like this. Because they lack the attention and love of others, they are prone to develop a histrionic personality."
"Don't analyze me, Miss Ke. I just heard you say you would pick me up in advance, so I said goodbye to this city in advance. After all, after this, I may never see it again. The sense of ceremony is still very important."
As he spoke, Hei Pupa scratched his chin and said, "But fireworks are more exciting when set off at night."
"Why do I feel... like you're going to die in America?"
"Maybe?"
"Xiaomi will be sad. Although she is full of complaints, she actually likes you very much."
"She and I are just collaborators, as are you. Believe me, she won't feel anything after I die."
Hearing this, Ke Qirui was silent for a while, then put the pipe into his windbreaker pocket.
"I rarely meet people I don't understand." She said with emotion, "The first one is you, and the second one is Xia Pingzhou."
"Is Xia Pingzhou still hard to understand?"
"Who knows?" Ke Qirui shrugged, expressionless. "Let's go to Haifan City to attend Zhengquan's funeral first, and then I'll take you to New York."
"Okay, thank you very much for your help." Black Pupa said, closing the book, "But after all, I have helped you so many times, so as a reward, it is only natural that you can use the Train Demon to send me off occasionally. Otherwise, how can you be called a collaborator?"
He loosened his restraints, twirled down from mid-air, approached the train demon, and climbed the iron gangway into the carriage.
"Isn't Su Zimai coming?" He sat down.
"No, she's still in Haifan City, waiting to attend the funeral."
As Ke Qirui spoke, he walked into the car, closed the door casually, and sat opposite him.
"Is it really okay if you don't stay with her?" Hei Pu asked curiously.
"You care about her a little too much." Ke Qirui said, looking up at him.
"After all, she is the sister of an important collaborator. I can't afford anything that happens to her."
"Don't worry, Lin Xingshi and Zhou Jiuya are also at the funeral. With them around, the people from the Salvation Society can't openly attack the people attending the funeral."
The train demon began to become restless, like an awakened steel beast, roaring into the dark tunnel, and then crashing into the crack of time and space.
"Lin Xingshi?" Hei Pu raised his eyebrows and broke the silence. "Captain of Lake Hunter?"
"Although I feel that you really want to meet him, I am also happy to introduce you to each other, but I advise you to keep your distance." Ke Qirui said lightly, "Lin Xingshi is gentle to others, but Zhou Jiuya has a very strange personality. If you accidentally annoy him..."
Black Pupa interrupted her, "I know what you want to say."
"What do you want to say?"
"If you accidentally annoy him, you'll become Duoduo." Hei Pu said meaningfully with a serious expression.
(End of this chapter)
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