Chapter 360: Yuriel's Visit, Silent Farewell (Two-in-One Monthly Ticket Request)
At 9 a.m. on August 18th, China time, in Gu Qiye’s home, in the living room on the first floor of this old residential building.
In a secluded shadowy area near the entrance to the stairwell, a few furtive figures were huddled together, their faces filled with surprise as they stared at the uninvited guest standing outside the house.
Su Zimai bent over and half-knelt on the ground, hiding beside Gu Qinye, with the corners of his eyes twitching slightly.
This little bully in the family who has been domineering since childhood has never felt so aggrieved. She is staying at home, but has to avoid the eyes of outsiders. She thinks to herself, is there any justice in the world?
But there's nothing we can do about it, because there just happened to be several notorious internationally wanted criminals in their family.
And after a while, even this old house where she had lived for several years and which had accompanied her throughout her youth would soon be officially handed over.
Su Zimai thought that if some habitually corrupt guy took over this house in the future, she would definitely fly over on a magic pigeon at night and release the refrigerator demon to cool down their dormitory.
At this time, César was standing among the group, trembling.
He thought that Su Zimai's resentment was directed at him. After all, Su Zimai had been hostile to him from the very beginning for some reason. So he clicked his tongue, raised his head in panic, and raised the umbrella of invisibility higher.
The boy's face was serious, and his snow-white hair fluttered slightly in the wind.
As the ochre-red umbrella fully opened, the figures of the four people at the corridor entrance were completely covered by it.
After hearing what Xizel said, Gu Qiye, Gu Zhuoan and Su Zimai all cooperated and hid under the shadow of the umbrella.
Although they were not familiar with the superhuman race of Qimonshi and had not witnessed the power of this "Umbrella of Hidden God", the situation was so urgent that they had to try their best even if they still had doubts in their hearts.
Then, the result presented surprised everyone.
It was clear that the huge paper umbrella was emitting an ochre-red glow, but to outsiders it seemed to be empty.
Yuriel walked into the living room, raised her head, and looked around carefully and quietly, but she didn't notice their presence at all.
They were only a few steps apart, and the sense of dislocation was wonderful.
In the dead silence, Xizel's expression was a little ugly, and cold sweat kept dripping from his forehead, wetting his hair.
Because Xi Zeer was only 1.6 meters tall, and Gu Qiye and Gu Zhuoan were both over 1.8 meters tall, with Xi Zeer holding the umbrella, the Shenyin Umbrella could hardly cover everyone present.
He had no choice but to take care of everyone as much as possible. The Shenyin Umbrella in his hand was shaking, and the umbrella tilted left and right, sometimes hitting Gu Zhuoan's head, and sometimes hitting Gu Qiye's head.
Gu Qiye's head hurt from the collision, and he finally realized Xi Ze'er's embarrassment. So, while silently looking at Yu Ruier, he made a gesture and took the umbrella from Xi Ze'er's hand.
Then he raised the umbrella a little higher so that Gu Zhuoan and Su Zimai were completely covered by the shadow of the umbrella, so that half of their bodies would not be exposed awkwardly, like little mice with their tails sticking out of the sewer.
"Who on earth is this person..." Under the umbrella, Su Zimai lowered his face, frowned slightly, and stared at Yuriel with curiosity and vigilance.
I saw the girl in a light blue dress standing at the entrance of the living room, motionless like an ice sculpture.
After a moment, she suddenly raised her hand, groped for the circuit board in the darkness, and turned on the light with a "click".
The entire world lit up, revealing the girl's features. Her skin was translucent in the cool light, and her pale white hair cascaded over her shoulders. Beneath the brim of her sunhat lay a pair of icy blue eyes.
His temperament is indifferent yet clear, like the spotless sky of the Arctic.
Being around her seemed to make the temperature drop by several degrees.
Looking at the girl, Su Zimai was slightly stunned, as if she was amazed. She had never seen such a beautiful girl before. She looked like an elf walking out of a Nordic cartoon.
At this moment, she suddenly realized that she had misunderstood César before.
"So the 'little white-haired fellow' that Big Brother was talking about is actually someone else..."
Su Zimai secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
If Big Brother really liked that little boy who looked like he was only in elementary school, then her worldview would really collapse completely. She even had to wonder if Big Brother had an affair with Tunyin during his service in the Odd Walker Association?
After all, the two are so close that they appear together no matter what show they are on.
Even Gu Wenyu recognized that the relationship between Blue Arc and Silver Swallow was abnormal, and he drew fan art of the two of them every day. Su Zimai could see a lot of photos of Silver Swallow rats gnawing on Blue Arc batteries on the drawing board left by Gu Wenyu. It was hard not to wonder, given the second brother's personality, whether this was a hint of something.
Of course, it's also possible that it's just plain bad taste.
But from this perspective, Yuriel wasn't actually short. Her height of nearly 1.6 meters was definitely average for a girl. It was just that in her eldest brother's eyes, she was indeed tiny, half a head shorter than her younger sister, Su Zimai.
Su Zimai raised his head suspiciously and glanced at Gu Qiye's dull and bewildered expression, which further confirmed the fact that this woman was definitely having an affair with the eldest brother.
As far as she could remember, Gu Qiye had never had a close relationship with any girl of the same age since childhood.
Even though he was extremely popular at school and often received love letters, this silly boy always rejected them in a gentle and distant manner.
Every time Su Zimai heard Gu Qiye talking about those outrageous love experiences at the dinner table, he wished he could take action himself, control his brother's body and win over those girls who confessed their love to him. He felt very disappointed with this wooden brother.
But until now, she has never seen anyone who can make her elder brother show such an expression.
Ever since his mother passed away, Gu Qinye has been thinking only about his family. He has no life of his own, let alone caring about other girls.
But this white-haired girl named "Uriel" did it, and Su Zimai was filled with thoughts.
At this time, Gu Qiye's expression was very incredible in Su Zimai's eyes, and she couldn't help but secretly take a few more glances at him.
But among them, the one with the most mixed emotions was Gu Zhuo.
His brows were furrowed, and the pain of being pierced through the abdomen by an ice spike and nailed to the ground vaguely emerged in his mind. The scene of the girl smashing the Ferris wheel with a meteorite was still vivid in his mind.
"What is the relationship between Qiye and her..." Gu Zhuoan lowered his head in thought, "Could it be..."
He raised his head and looked at Gu Qiye's eyes, and suddenly remembered the look in Su Ying's eyes when she first saw him a long time ago. She obviously cared about him, but pretended to be nonchalant, and her eyes were bright and shining.
Gu Qiye's eyes at this moment were the same, exactly the same as his mother's.
Su Zimai wanted to speak several times but held back because she was not sure whether the Umbrella of Invisibility could block out their voices. At this moment, she suddenly thought of a way to communicate silently.
So, she pulled her phone out of her hoodie pocket and typed silently.
Then he lifted the screen and shook it vigorously in front of Gu Qinye.
Gu Qinye was staring at Yuriel's profile in a daze, puzzled. Why did Yuriel come to their house at this time? Shouldn't the official investigation into this residential building have ended long ago?
It wasn't until he saw the mobile phone screen swaying in front of him that he came back to his senses. He looked up and saw a line of Chinese characters written on the top of the screen:
——"Brother, she is the little white-haired girl you told me about"?
Gu Qinye nodded silently. Su Zimai put away his phone, lowered his head and typed at the speed of light, then raised it again.
"Why did she come here? Did she discover us?" she asked.
"Not like it." Gu Qinye said silently with his lips.
"Should we go out then?" Su Zimai asked. "Didn't you say you have a good relationship with her? Shouldn't we avoid her? Or is this actually Hong Yi's honey trap, trying to trick you into falling for it?"
Gu Qiye was silent for a long time, then he pulled out his phone from his coat pocket and started typing, "Everyone at Hongyi knows that she and I are close. Now her every move is definitely under surveillance. It's very likely that there are officials hiding nearby. We can't go out."
"Really? Why do I feel like you really want to go out?"
"If I were alone, I might chat with her. But you are with me, and I will not risk your safety." Gu Qiye typed frankly.
"Okay, I almost pushed you out from under the umbrella." Su Zimai also typed.
Gu Qinye no longer paid any attention to her and just looked at Yuriel quietly.
She took off her sun hat, put it on the sofa, and walked around the living room casually, looking at every corner carefully and curiously. She opened the refrigerator door, took a look at the empty freezer, and saw some popsicles that had melted into water.
Yuriel stared at the popsicles, then raised her hand and used her supernatural powers to add a few cubes of ice to the ice chamber. The refrigerator quickly started working again. She took out a blueberry popsicle.
"Ah, the popsicles I bought this morning!" Su Zimai typed quickly.
Uriel put the popsicle back, walked over to the TV, and glanced at the family album on the cabinet.
"Brother, why did you forget to take the photo album!" Su Zimai was typing again.
After opening the photo album, Yuriel sat on the sofa and looked at it for a while.
She was a patient with hyperthymesia. She could have quickly scanned the photos in the album like a cheat, and then slowly recalled them. But she didn't do that. She just slowly scanned the photos one by one, her eyes casually passing over Gu Qiye's childhood face.
When Yuriel saw the young Gu Qiye standing on the lawn and doing the Ultraman pose, she lowered her ice-blue eyes and a barely visible curve appeared at the corner of her mouth.
The living room was empty and so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, with only the rustling sound of flipping through photo albums.
Xizel and Su Zimai both turned their heads and stared at Gu Qiye holding the umbrella with suspicion and curiosity.
Gu Qiye raised his hands to cover his face, his ears turned slightly red and his face felt hot. After a while, Yuriel finally finished flipping through the not-so-thick photo album.
Because Gu Wenyu doesn't like taking photos and hates appearing in front of the camera, from childhood to adulthood, most of the family photos were taken by Su Ying forcing them to take them. After Su Ying died in an accident, they never took photos together again.
So there weren't many photos left in that family album, and you could basically finish looking through them by sitting on the sofa and flipping through them for a while.
Uriel got up from the sofa after this and went upstairs.
"Hurry up and follow her, otherwise she will see the box of diapers in her brother's room!" Su Zimai typed and shook the phone screen in front of Gu Qinye.
Gu Qiye just stood there motionless, silently watching her walk away. At this time, Su Zimai snatched the Umbrella of Hidden God from Gu Qiye's hand, and then she walked sideways step by step like a crab and went up the stairs.
Gu Qiye was stunned for a moment.
The few of them had no other options. Once they left the umbrella, they would be discovered. So they had no choice but to follow Su Zimai's pace, and like a group of crabs, they stumbled up to the second floor with her.
Then they looked towards the open room.
Yuriel had already walked into Gu Qinye's room. She sat on the bed, staring at the old upright fan. Then, bored, she reached out and studied the fan's operating panel, then pressed the button with a "click".
The fan blades began to turn slowly, and the buzzing sound broke the silence.
She turned her head and suddenly saw Gu Qinye's study materials, so she picked them up and flipped through them, staring at the notes and doodles he made in the book with her ice-blue eyes lowered.
After a while, she put down the materials, sat quietly on the bed and looked around.
Uriel suddenly reached out and grasped the hand of the fat blue hedgehog doll on the bed, shaking its hand expressionlessly. Then, leaning slightly against the doll, she stared blankly at the yellowed awards on the wall.
The fan turned slowly, and the summer breeze blew the snow-white curtains. A beam of sunlight shone through the window onto her face. The girl slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep peacefully. From beginning to end, Uriel's face was expressionless.
"I feel like this guy is beyond saving." Su Zimai stuffed the umbrella back into Gu Qinye's hand and typed quickly on his phone.
"If I had known she liked it so much, I would have given her the doll." Gu Qinye was silent for a moment and typed a response.
"Brother, I think you're hopeless." Su Zimai wrinkled his nose and continued typing. Every word seemed to squeeze out of the screen and bite.
"Xiaomi, Qiye, let's leave quickly before she wakes up. It will be troublesome if we are discovered by Hongyi's people..." Gu Zhuoan wiped his stubble, took out his mobile phone and typed, showing it to the two of them.
Xizel was the most frightened one. When he saw this message, he finally held his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Mr. Gui Zhong was indeed the most rational.
Gu Qiye lowered his eyes and nodded silently.
He lowered the umbrella, raised his eyes from the shadow, took one last look at Yuriel's sleeping face, and just stared blankly for a while, then slowly walked away.
At the same time, in Lijing, China, there is an abandoned office building located in a remote area.
"Two days off, two days off, two days off, overtime, overtime, overtime..." Hoarse whispers accompanied by the sound of saliva flying echoed inside the office building.
At this moment, the diamond-bodied Queen's colossus leaped in through the broken window and half-knelt inside the floor.
She slowly raised her eyes from the mess on the ground, and her empty eye sockets stared at the working demons in the office.
These two-headed giants in work uniforms were wandering around the office building. They smelled the human scent and began to spit and stagger towards them. Their bloated purple bodies were almost bursting their clothes, and the buttons seemed ready to burst at any moment.
One of them kept muttering "double day off" with a happy look on his face, while the other kept muttering "overtime" with a gloomy look on his face.
"What's going on? Why do China's migrant worker demons appear so frequently? We have encountered them several times." Xia Pingzhou asked.
He was deeply impressed. The first demon he met in Tokyo was a working demon. However, he had encountered it more than once in Lijing, and the number of them was astonishing each time.
"Maybe it's due to the environment." The fingertips of the queen's stone statue burned with cold blue flames, forming lines of text in the air.
"Never mind." Xia Pingzhou said expressionlessly, "This place is close to the city center, so it's easy for people from the Deviant Association to harass us. Go ahead...finish it in ten seconds, and then get out of here quickly."
The stone statue of the queen nodded, and then her body turned into a clear trajectory and flew out, heading towards the working demons in the office like a hurricane.
In just a moment, the heads of the working demons fell to the ground in the flash of knives, and poisonous blood spurted out from the broken necks, covering the entire office.
The queen's stone statue's body turned into nothingness, and it passed through the purple poisonous sea like air, picked up Xia Pingzhou's body, then flew over the window and fell straight down to the street from the sky.
A bus hit him head-on, the deafening horn sounded and filled his eardrums. The summer sun shining in his face made Xia Pingzhou unable to open his eyes.
These days, while Ji Minghuan was busy planning the revenge plan of the Hei Pupa family, he did not neglect the growth progress of the second machine "Xia Pingzhou".
After all, the other machines can slack off, but the No. 2 machine cannot.
The core mechanism of the chess player is "Winter of the Wild Hunt", a training system that relies on the number of enemies killed to improve attributes. The existence of this system means that he can only be like an online game player, logging in every day to brush and brush, and frantically killing monsters and upgrading.
So for a whole week, Xia Pingzhou's every day, apart from eating and drinking tea with Ayase Origami, was to let the evolved queen statue take him out hunting.
Now, after several rounds of chess enhancement, the Queen's sense of smell for demons has become very sharp.
If a demon appears within a radius of ten kilometers, she will be the first to sense it and tell Xia Pingzhou the specific location of the demon. Then the two of them will rush to the scene as soon as possible.
As a result, the members of the Tokyo Exorcist Association have probably been wondering where all the demons in the city have gone. At least in the area near Tokyo Bay, Xia Pingzhou has taken full control of all the demons, leaving no room for others to interfere.
Fortunately, Xia Pingzhou had already relocated and flown back to the familiar city of Lijing. If he took a taxi to the Old Jingmai Street District, he might even run into Su Zimai.
But he was worried that he might accidentally kill the diaper demon instead of a real demon, so he gave up.
At this moment, after killing all the working demons in the office building, Xia Pingzhou returned to one of the brigade's bases in Lijing - the underground bar "Gray Crow".
The queen's stone statue raised her diamond finger, entered the password on the password door, pushed the door open, and put Xia Pingzhou down from her shoulder.
He sat at the bar, took a sip of ice water, and called up the personal panel of Unit 2. At this moment, a series of black and white data popped up, reflecting in his pupils.
[Currently, the second character's Sky Drive "Chess" advancement progress is: 87%/100%]
"There's very little progress left. I estimate that in four or five days, I'll be able to successfully advance to the third level and obtain the player's domain blocking ability. Then I'll be ready to fight the Ripper."
Thinking of this, Xia Pingzhou called up the interface of the training system "Wild Hunt Winter" and received the task reward.
[Completed Training Mission 6 - Kill any 120 C-rank or higher "Demons", or 120 C-rank or higher "Superhumans".]
[Received the training mission reward: 1 attribute point.]
[Cultivation Mission 7 has been refreshed, and the number of kills has increased to 140 (Current progress: 120/140)]
Xia Pingzhou called up the character panel without thinking and quickly allocated attribute points.
Your second unit, Chess Player, has its Speed attribute changed from A++ to S (your Chess Type's speed will also increase accordingly).
[Current Character Attributes: Strength: D-level; Spirit: S-level; Speed: S-level]
"Both attributes have reached the threshold of the disaster level. All that's left is to upgrade to the third level of Exorcist." Xia Pingzhou thought.
At this moment, a cold system prompt sound suddenly rang in his ears.
The fifth stage of the main quest has been updated. The quest is as follows: Accompany the White Crow Brigade to kill any member of the world's leading exorcist organization, Lake Hunter.
[Task deadline: Complete before August 25th. Exceeding the task deadline will be considered a failure.]
"So, will the brigade really fight those monsters from Lake Hunter?" Xia Pingzhou thought. "I don't know if this mission can be successfully completed. It's too difficult."
Seeing the four eye-catching red words on the panel - "Task Deadline", he suddenly thought of something, so he called up the system panel with a chessboard as the background, found the "Main Task" column, and opened it.
Lines of blood-red text came into view.
[Main Mission 2 (Phase 2): Lurk in the White Crow Brigade, waiting for an opportunity to kill the second member - "Jack the Ripper."]
[(Task Reward: 3 attribute points, 3 skill points, 3 split points) (Deadline: Complete before September 1st)]
[Warning: There are only 12 days left to complete the second main quest, "Revenge for Jack the Ripper." Please complete it as soon as possible before the deadline.]
Suddenly, a cold voice came from the darkness, "It's time to go... The leader asked us to go to Haifan City today. The other members have already gathered there."
Xia Pingzhou turned his head and looked in the direction of the voice, only to see Yan Molin push open the password door of the bar and slowly walk in. Ayase Origami followed her expressionlessly, holding a shopping bag with a somewhat old-fashioned Hellokiki doll hanging on the bag.
At this time, Yan Molin raised his eyes, which were as dark as the midnight, and turned his head to meet Xia Pingzhou's gaze.
The two looked at each other in the darkness, with no expression on their faces.
"Let's go..." Xia Pingzhou looked at her and said softly, "It's time."
(End of this chapter)
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