Chapter 9 Peeping
Relying on the senses of the restraints to peek into the living room on the first floor, Ji Minghuan immediately confirmed an astonishing fact: Gu Qiye was the famous alien in Lijing City - "Blue Arc".
Then a series of panels popped up, flickering on and off in the dark room.
[Completed main mission 1: Explore what your "brother" Gu Qiye is hiding. ]
[Task rewards obtained: 1 split point, 1 skill point, 1 attribute point. ]
[Main Quest 1 has been updated: Reach a cooperative relationship with the Outlier "Blue Arc" and then develop interpersonal relationships within the Outlier Association. ]
In the darkness, Ji Minghuan temporarily ignored the panels that popped up in front of him, moved them aside, and then used the senses of the restraints to monitor Gu Qiye's every word and action.
Although Gu Qiye was on the first floor and Ji Minghuan was in the room on the second floor, he did not act rashly. His whole body remained still, trying not to make any noise - after all, he could not be sure how sharp the hearing of a top psychic like Gu Qiye was: maybe if he just turned on the light in the room, his brother on the first floor would also hear the noise.
"He ran away again. This is the second time..." In the living room on the first floor, Gu Qinye sat down leaning against the wall.
He put the metal helmet on his side, bandaged the wound on his neck and muttered, "It's so hard to catch him... No wonder the alien branch next door spent so many years trying to catch him. It seems I overestimated myself."
At this point, Gu Qiye teased himself, "Now that he has come to our side, we will be busy in the future."
Ji Minghuan used the senses of the restraints to record his mutterings. His smart eyes turned in the darkness, and he guessed in his heart:
"The criminal with superpowers coming from next door? Gu Qiye's strength is obvious to all, and there are only a handful of criminals with superpowers who can beat him... So, he should be facing the 'Ghost Bell' mentioned in the news just now. The host also said that Ghost Bell had just arrived in this city and provoked the Superpower Association. Gu Qiye is the representative of 'Blue Arc', that is, the Lijing branch, so it is reasonable for him to be sent to investigate."
He looked at the injuries on Gu Qiye's body and made another judgment: "It seems that they just fought, and Gu Qiye was defeated and had to flee back home."
Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan turned on his mobile phone and searched for information about the "Ghost Bell" on the Internet, while continuing to use the restraints to monitor what Gu Qiye was doing downstairs.
"Ghost Bell", a notorious criminal with super powers, has killed a large number of super powers and destroyed many cultural relics of extraordinary significance in Mio City next to Lijing in the past few years.
But strangely, he never attacked ordinary people, and never robbed people. It felt as if his criminal actions were simply to attract other people's attention. No one knew what his real purpose was, and perhaps only Gui Zhong himself knew.
It seems that Gu Qiye had just fought with the supernatural criminal codenamed "Ghost Bell" and finally escaped with serious injuries, so he had to flee back home to bandage his wounds. In Gu Wenyu's memory, it is not clear that his brother had such an embarrassing time. Of course, it may also be because Gu Wenyu has never discovered the other side of Gu Qiye.
"Is that ghost bell so powerful?" Ji Minghuan wondered.
After bandaging the wound on his neck, Gu Qiye took a deep breath, leaned the back of his head against the wall, closed his eyes, and sat quietly in the darkness, as motionless as an old monk who had passed away. Ji Minghuan wondered if he would never be able to open his eyes after falling asleep like this.
After a while, Gu Qinye's cell phone suddenly rang.
The ringtone of Doraemon's theme song was particularly harsh in the dead silence. He opened his eyes, took out his mobile phone from his pocket reluctantly and answered the call.
He tilted his head and held the phone to his ear with his shoulder. He asked, "Why? You just found out I lost and you're laughing at me right away?"
The cold female voice on the other end of the phone said: "No, there is a criminal who has kidnapped a group of hostages in Lijing Square. He asked you to appear in front of him by name, and said that he would kill a hostage every night within 10 minutes."
Gu Qiye was stunned for a moment, then asked tentatively: "Don't tell me... or is it the 'Ghost Bell'?"
"No, it's not him this time. Gui Zhong fled the port after fighting with you just now. The other aliens in the team are still chasing him. He didn't appear in the free time of Lijing Square."
"Who is that?"
"The one causing trouble in the square is another supernatural criminal, codenamed 'Green Wing'." The female voice on the other end of the phone paused, "...You have too many enemies."
"Tonight really has no end."
Gu Qinye sighed and took off the upper half of his uniform, revealing his muscular body in the darkness.
Through the sense of the restraints, Ji Minghuan could clearly see a shocking groove on his waist, the surrounding skin was covered with bright red blood, and the untreated wound was worsening - fortunately, Gu Qiye was a psychic, and an ordinary person would have fainted with such an injury long ago.
"You'd better move quickly. They're already preparing to attack the first hostage." A voice came from the phone. "If the hostage dies in public, the video will have a significant impact on the image of our association branch if it gets out."
"I understand... You guys drag him away first, and try not to let him hurt the hostages. I'll be there soon." Gu Qinye held the phone, lowered his eyes, and wrapped the blood groove on his waist with bandages several times with his hands. The wound had not even been disinfected.
"Understood." The female voice on the other end of the phone paused for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Are you seriously injured?"
"It's okay, I can hold on..." Gu Qinye said casually, and he suddenly used his hands to tie the bandage around his waist into a knot and groaned softly.
After barely stopping the bleeding, he breathed a sigh of relief, put on his blue and green metal combat suit again, put on the symbolic helmet of the alien "Blue Arc", and turned to walk towards the entrance.
Watching Gu Qiye's back as he walked to the end of the entrance hall, Ji Minghuan slowly retracted the black restraints that were pressed against the floor. The vision that could penetrate the floor disappeared, and his extraordinary hearing also disappeared.
"You're injured like this, but you still plan to go..."
Hearing the sound of a door closing downstairs, Ji Minghuan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and whispered to himself with interest.
He could tell from Gu Qiye's conversation that Gu Qiye had just escaped death from the Ghost Bell, and then another criminal with superpowers appeared in the square in the center of Lijing, demanding him to show up, otherwise they would kill the hostages.
In this extreme situation, as the face of the Lijing Alien Association branch, Gu Qiye would never turn a blind eye to it even if he was seriously injured.
He had to be there, not only to save the lives of the hostages, but also to preserve the people's trust in the Association of the Different. If he avoided it, or if a hostage died in this live crime, it would definitely cause a public opinion storm that would be difficult to calm down.
Ji Minghuan didn't turn on the light in the room, in case Gu Qiye saw the lights on in the upstairs windows after he went out.
He gently climbed down from the bed, half-crouched beside the French window like a wild cat, and looked down at the street in the moonlight.
The moment Gu Qiye, wearing the Blue Arc combat uniform, walked out of the house, his figure turned into a beam of deep blue electric light, and shuttled into the darkness at the end of the street, disappearing from Ji Minghuan's sight in an instant.
"So fast... He can still run at this speed even though he's injured. He's worthy of being a big star in our Lijing City." Ji Minghuan sighed sincerely in his heart.
He stared at the empty street for a while, then retracted his gaze from the window and turned his head slowly. In the moonlight, he glanced at the black mask that he had thrown in the corner of the room and the folded swallowtail windbreaker.
The next moment, Ji Minghuan suddenly stretched out his right hand towards the mask, and the pitch-black restraint strip extended forward like a bandage, climbing to the end of the mask in an instant, wrapping it tightly, and then pulling it back towards himself.
He held the mask in his palm, stood up and walked towards the door.
As he passed by the closet, he used the straps to pull up the windbreaker at the bottom, then slowly left the room.
(End of this chapter)
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