Chapter 261: First meeting with Lin Xingshi, three people at the funeral (asking for monthly tickets)
The train demon is rumbling through the cracks of time and space.
Looking out from the carriage, the scenery in the tunnel is bizarre. The Statue of Liberty, Notre Dame de Paris, Tokyo Tower... iconic buildings from all over the world are mixed and piled up, like an illustration edited together.
"Duoduo-chan?" Ke Qirui murmured, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Hei Pupa from the shadow of his hat brim, "What do you mean?"
"It's just a nickname for a good friend." Hei Pupa spread his hands and changed the subject. "Since there are two people from Lake Hunter present, will Lin Yilong attend the funeral?"
"Yes." Ke Qirui nodded, "I have contact with him privately."
"By the way, don't the people in the Exorcist Association care about wanted criminals?" Hei Pupa said, "Lin Yilong is now a well-known wanted criminal, the man who killed Blue Arc. The whole world is looking for him. At least hundreds of millions of people are eager to skin him alive."
Ke Qirui shook his head and said slowly: "Everyone in the association's top management can guess that Blue Arc is not dead yet, but the top leaders of the United Nations want to take this opportunity to make him disappear and join Rainbow Wing."
She paused, "Besides, our business scope is only to exorcise demons and punish exorcists who violate the rules. Unless they have committed something as heinous as 'massacre of the city', ordinary supernatural wanted criminals are not within our scope of responsibility. Makutaki's crime was only to assassinate Blue Arc, and he has not succeeded yet. What's the problem?"
"Then how do we explain the Tokyo auction?" Black Pupa scratched his chin.
"Situations like the Tokyo auction are rare. They usually occur when the association cooperates with other forces." Ke Qirui said, "Didn't you see that Zhou Jiuya was too lazy to conflict with the White Crow Brigade at that time?"
"So, the people from Lake Hunter shouldn't suddenly attack me and Lin Yilong?"
"Don't worry, as long as you don't take the initiative to provoke them, they won't bother with you." Ke Qirui said slowly, "Why don't we talk about Gu Qiye's affairs? Xiaomai doesn't know that his brother has joined Hongyi yet."
"I hope you keep it a secret from her first." Hei Pu said, raising his index finger and circling it around his head. "After all, with her small brain capacity, Lin Zhengquan's death is already too much for her to handle, not to mention knowing that her brother has joined Hongyi."
"Okay then." Ke Qirui nodded. "The wheat is not yet mature enough. It is easy to make irrational judgments under high pressure."
While the two were chatting, the train demon had already rushed out of the time tunnel and drove into an empty station. The pillars of the platform were covered with moss. It was drizzling, and the rain was filled with the salty and humid smell of the sea breeze.
It seems that the train station is not very far from the sea.
After all, this is Haifan City. As the name suggests, this is a port city by the sea with a developed local fishery. After getting off the train, Hei Pupa did not go out on the street openly, but wandered over the city and silently followed Ke Qirui to the funeral site.
It was a cemetery in Haifan City, located on a mountain near the sea, where Lin Zhengquan's head was buried. The cemetery was full of maple trees, with blood-red maple leaves swirling and falling, dotted with stone tombstones.
The black pupa hung upside down under a maple tree, curling its body into a giant pupa, remaining invisible. The raindrops dripped on the pupa, and the color of the restraints soaked became even darker.
Ke Qirui walked into the cemetery alone. There were only a few people in the cemetery at that moment. They were all familiar faces - Su Zimai, Xu Sanyan, Lin Yilong, Zhou Jiuya...
When he saw Zhou Jiuya, Hei Zhu's heart tightened slightly. To be honest, he was still wary of this man. After all, he had witnessed with his own eyes that Oda Takikage and Lan Duoduo were smashed into a bloody mist by him. It was hard not to remember Zhou Jiuya's methods.
Zhou Jiuya still had his slicked-back hair and Mao suit on today. His face was expressionless, his hands were in his coat pockets, and he looked like everyone owed him money.
Besides, standing next to Zhou Jiuya was a young man who looked to be about 17 or 18 years old. The young man wore an ordinary white shirt, had thick eyebrows, big eyes, a high nose bridge, slightly curly black hair, and a long fiery red braid behind his head.
Hei Pupa stared at the young man, raised his eyebrows, and sent a message to Ke Qirui.
[Hei Pupa: Oh? Is the person next to Zhou Jiuya Lin Xingshi? Hearing the name, I thought he was a muscular, older man. I didn't expect him to be an ambitious young man. Why is his braid different from his hair color? Is it an ornament? It's quite trendy.]
[Ke Qirui: Apart from the other things, I must correct you on one point: she is a woman.]
Hei Pupa was stunned, and once again looked at Lin Xingshi's face through the restraints. Although he was indeed very handsome, his temperament, body shape, and various other features all showed that he was a man.
At this moment, Lin Xingshi's eyebrows suddenly rose slightly, and he slowly turned his head and cast his eyes in the direction of the black pupa. Finally, his sight was fixed on the maple tree.
"Wow, I was discovered?" Black Pupa thought, "Is this true? My restraints can not only change color to be transparent, but also block my breath. How did he find me under such circumstances? Oh... It's raining, maybe he noticed that the direction of the rainwater is wrong."
Lin Xingshi stared at the maple tree silently for a while, then patted Zhou Jiuya's shoulder expressionlessly and whispered something to him.
Zhou Jiuya turned his head and stared at the maple tree with his golden eyes, impatience in his eyes.
"It's over. I'm about to turn into Black Pupa sauce." Black Pupa narrowed his eyes, aware of a sense of crisis.
At this moment, Ke Qirui's message came again.
[Ke Qirui: The Lake Hunters stipulated that the heir of each generation must be male, but Lin Xingshi's talent stood out among the Lin family of this generation, so in the end they had to let her dress up as a man, and then you saw what happened.]
[Ke Qirui: Actually, it doesn’t make any difference if you treat her as a male, because her family raised her as a boy, and her personality is more like a boy.]
Hei Pupa looked down at the phone wrapped in the restraints and typed a reply.
[Black Pupa: I see. Transgender people like me who are not defined deserve respect... But as a person with advanced ideas, I must criticize your feudal family's tendency to favor boys over girls.]
[Ke Qirui: So, are you a man or a woman? ]
[Black Pupa: I am an awakened woman. ]
[Ke Qirui: Okay, awakened female, come over here directly, no need to hang around there. Zhou Jiuya told me that Lin Xingshi found you. He asked if you were my friend. I said you were my collaborator, otherwise they would have caught you.]
[Black Pupa: Okay, I won’t pretend anymore.]
After sending the message, the black pupa twirled and fell from above the maple tree, releasing its invisibility, brushed off the fallen leaves on its body with its restraints, and walked towards Lin Zhengquan's tombstone step by step.
Ke Qirui was hugging his shoulders, standing with Lin Xingshi and Zhou Jiuya, and the three of them focused their eyes on the black pupa.
Xu Sanyan was smoking alone in the distance, standing at the foot of the mountain and looking at the sea in the distance.
In front of the tombstone, Su Zimai was standing with his head down in a daze.
She didn't notice the arrival of Hei Pupa, but she saw Lin Yilong standing on the other side. Lin Yilong had no expression on his face and looked at the tombstone quietly. After hesitating for a long time, Su Zimai took the initiative to approach Lin Yilong.
She said: "My brother is no longer a stranger, so... I hope you can forgive him."
"It has nothing to do with you." Lin Yilong said expressionlessly.
"Since you hate him so much, why don't you use me to threaten him? I'm just standing here." Su Zimai asked.
"Because...it has nothing to do with you." Lin Yilong emphasized again.
"I'm his sister."
"I know you're his sister." Lin Yilong's tone turned cold. "Don't make me say the same thing for the third time. Get away from me. Do you hear me?"
Su Zimai frowned and was about to say something to him when she suddenly saw Hei Pu's figure from the corner of her eye. She was slightly stunned for a moment, and then a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.
"Big Fluttermoth?!" she said, "Why are you here?"
Hearing Su Zimai's call, Lin Yilong raised his eyes from the tombstone, turned his head, and looked at the black pupa silently.
"I was passing by and stopped by to take a look." Black Pupa put his hands on his hips and greeted the two people in front of the tombstone, "Aloof little prince, pants-peeing devil, how are you two?"
"Shut up, bug." "Still peeing your pants. Didn't you promise me not to joke about this? You broke your promise!"
Lin Yilong and Su Zimai rebuked in unison.
Su Zimai didn't seem to want to continue this topic, and was too lazy to be angry about it anymore, so he relaxed his frown and glared at him unhappily.
"How is Mr. Gui Zhong?" Lin Yilong asked.
"Same old, he hasn't woken up yet." Black Pupa replied, "Doctor Zelsey is watching him, don't worry."
"So you know that bad guy like Gui Zhong?" Su Zimai was stunned and turned to look at Lin Yilong.
"He is..." Lin Yilong frowned, and hesitated to speak, "Forget it."
Su Zimai looked at him as if he had found something to hold against him. He stared at him and said, "No wonder you like to beat my brother up so much. It turns out that you are just as bad as Gui Zhong! If you do bad things, you will end up in hell like Gui Zhong. Do you understand?"
Lin Yilong said coldly, "Whatever you say, I'm too lazy to get angry with a child."
After saying that, he walked away on his own initiative, leaving only Hei Jin and Su Zimai in front of the tombstone.
Su Zimai watched Lin Yilong walk away, feeling mixed emotions. He knew that this person was bad for his brother, but he had no way to stop him.
"See? This is the aloof little prince."
Hei Pupa leaned close to Su Zimai's ear and pointed at Lin Yilong's back.
"Don't mention him!" Su Zimai was so angry.
"Who then?"
"Big moth, how is my brother?" Su Zimai pulled Hei Pupa to the corner of the cemetery, raised his head and asked him, "Is he okay these two days?"
"Your brother is enjoying his retirement life at home with your father." Hei Pu said casually, "He celebrated your father's birthday yesterday and bought a big cake. Didn't you see it on the video call?"
"That's good..." Su Zimai breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Then what are you here for? To show your presence?"
"I'm going to the United States next, so I asked your leader to give me a ride."
As Hei Pupa spoke, he glanced sideways in the direction of Ke Qirui.
At this moment, Ke Qirui and Hu Lie were staring at the black pupa motionlessly.
"Cousin, how come you can make friends with everyone?" Zhou Jiuya tilted his head, "Is this kind of person really your friend?"
"Yeah." Ke Qirui held his pipe in his mouth and smiled slightly, "Isn't he quite unique?"
"It looks quite interesting..." Lin Xingshi raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Zhou Jiuya, "Jiuya, should we go over and have a chat with him?"
"No, don't let us lose our lake hunters." Zhou Jiuya sighed, "A place like a cemetery is already unlucky, and I didn't expect that there would be something even more unlucky."
"Big moth." Su Zimai's voice attracted the black pupa's attention.
"What's wrong, diaper demon?"
Hei Pupa turned his gaze away from the two people hunting in the lake and lowered his eyes to look at Su Zimai's face.
Su Zimai thought for a moment, then asked in a low voice: "Big moth, I checked my phone this morning and heard someone say that you are retiring and that you will not return to Lijing. Is this true?"
"Oh? You're paying so much attention to me?" Hei Pu raised his eyebrows and stared at her curiously. "This matter has only been reported for a short time, right?"
Ke Qirui came over and teased, "Stop talking. Xiaomai is bored and searches for 'Black Pupa' and 'Blue Arc' a hundred times on Weibo every day. Blue Arc is her brother, so she naturally pays close attention to him. But why does she pay so much attention to Black Pupa... I don't understand."
Su Zimai was stunned, and then his face turned red.
She slowly widened her eyes and opened her mouth in panic. She first looked at Hei Pupa, who looked suspicious, then turned her head and glared at Ke Qirui, who looked playful, and stammered in defense:
"Don't talk nonsense, Captain! How could I have ever searched for a big moth?! I was just reading the news about my brother and a link accidentally popped up and I clicked on it!"
"Oh? Really?" Ke Qirui raised the corners of his mouth. "Isn't it true that every day when you lie down on the bed, you open Weibo and check Hei Pupa's Weibo super topic? Then you mutter to me, 'This big moth deserves a beating, why hasn't anyone punished him yet?' And you also say something like, 'Actually, after watching it for a long time, this moth is not that ugly, it's quite cute.'"
"I never said those words! And even if I did check his Weibo, I just watched it as a stress relief video!" Su Zimai blushed and frowned, like a little lion with its fur standing on end.
She pointed at the black pupa and said word by word, "Who said this big fluttering moth is so funny? There are so many funny things to do!"
Hei Pupa put his hand on his chin and looked at her seriously.
He said quietly, "Ms. Su Zimai, I think if you knew who I am under my mask, you would definitely regret being so obsessed with me, and even... want to slap yourself twice."
"Get lost! No one cares whether you are a human or a ghost under your mask, stop being so narcissistic!" Su Zimai couldn't stand it anymore, "A bug should have its own consciousness!"
Black Pupa raised a finger and said to himself:
"Also, I must state that I am an awakened woman, Ms. Su Zimai. If you like me, then... you should seriously consider your sexual orientation."
Ke Qirui smiled and said, "Wow, it seems that what Gu Wenyu said about our Mai Mai being a lesbian is not without basis."
Su Zimai was completely furious. She pushed Hei Pupa with one hand and Ke Qirui with the other, gritting her teeth and saying, "Captain, you should quickly go to America with this big moth, and don't let me see you again!"
(End of this chapter)
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