My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 23 Father and Son
Ji Minghuan and Su Zimai reached an agreement and sat motionless on the sofa, watching TV and pretending to be dead.

None of them expected that on the first day of summer vacation, their father, who had disappeared for two years, would suddenly come home without even saying goodbye. This was not heartwarming at all, and what was the difference between this and accidentally walking into a horror movie set?
Gu Qiye was still in the kitchen. He put the pot of lotus root soup on the table and turned on the keep warm function of the rice cooker.

Then he leaned against the sterilizer, folded his shoulders, and took out his cell phone from the pocket of his kitchen apron.

At this moment, at the door of his house, Gu Zhuoan raised his hand to close the door, and stood there looking at the shoe cabinet for a while.

Then he took off his leather shoes, put on home slippers, and slowly walked into the living room.

At this moment, the extremely awkward father and son, one with his back to the kitchen and the other with his shoulders hugged and his head down playing with his mobile phone, seemed reluctant to see each other.

Gu Qinye's expression looked a little strange.

He hadn't seen his father since he had a fight with him two years ago. Even for his living expenses, he used his deceased mother's bank card - even though his father transferred money to that card every month.

The two of them had a tacit understanding on this point. It was as if their father knew that he would use their mother's bank card, so he transferred every month the required amount of money, so the lives of the three brothers were still guaranteed.

Ji Minghuan looked at Gu Zhuo'an curiously. Even in Gu Wenyu's character memory, he had not seen this father for two years. Even Gu Wenyu was not familiar with his current father, let alone Ji Minghuan.

The moment he saw Gu Zhuo'an, a panel appeared in his pupils.

[Main Mission 2: Explore what is hidden in the case of your "father" Gu Zhuo.]

Although he was bearing Gu Wenyu's face, Ji Minghuan, as an outsider, was obviously not as embarrassed as Su Zimai and Gu Qiye.

So he looked away from the task prompt and broke the silence that enveloped the living room:
"Dad, is your work going well?"

Gu Zhuoan put his hands on his hips, lowered his head and thought for a moment, then asked in a hoarse voice, "I'm fine... But Wenyu, you seem... to be in your second year of high school, right?"

"Yes, I will be in my third year of high school after the summer vacation." Ji Minghuan nodded.

"Studying, how's it going?"

"It's not bad," Ji Minghuan said teasingly, "It should be... similar to your job."

In fact, the case of Gu Wenyu is similar to that of Gu Zhuo. One of them was busy studying his special abilities to prepare for his future debut and didn't care about his studies at all. The other disappeared for two years and no one knew what he was doing in another place. In any case, it was impossible for him to have a proper job.

Gu Zhuoan nodded and looked at Su Zimai: "What about you...Xiaomi."

Su Zimai was silent for two seconds, tilted his head, and the cold end of his hair brushed the corner of his eye. "Is fifth in the grade good enough?"

Gu Zhuoan was stunned for a moment, raised his hand and touched his stubble, as if he didn't know what expression to make. Finally, he squeezed his stiff features and revealed a smile.

“…That’s good,” he said.

Behind him, Gu Qinye was leaning against the sink, one hand on the table and the other playing with his cell phone.

He listened to the conversation between the three people in the living room, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Dinner is ready."

Hearing this, Ji Minghuan was the first to get up from the sofa, walk into the kitchen and sit down at the dining table.

Su Zimai immediately stood up, passed by Gu Zhuoan, and glanced at him: "What are you still standing there for?"

Gu Zhuoan lowered his head and pondered for a while, then slowly turned around and looked at Gu Qiye who was standing next to the sink.

Gu Qinye didn't meet his gaze, but just lowered his head and played with his phone expressionlessly.

Gu Zhuoan didn't care. He walked into the kitchen, pulled a chair and sat down opposite Su Zimai and Gu Wenyu. He stared at the table full of steaming food without saying a word.

The chirping of cicadas outside gradually faded, and the last noise disappeared, so that the atmosphere at the dinner table became awkwardly quiet.

The faces of the four people were covered in the orange-red light. Except for Ji Minghuan who was leisurely and even had an expression that seemed to be enjoying the fun, the expressions on the faces of the other three people were a little stiff.

Ji Minghuan said to his sister, "Here, sister, help me get the dishes and chopsticks." He broke the silence again.

"You don't have hands?" Su Zimai asked while holding chopsticks in his mouth.

"Brothers are as close as brothers. It's not too much to ask for a set of dishes and chopsticks for me, right?"

"You've crossed the line. We are siblings, not brothers." "Okay, siblings."

Ji Minghuan rolled his eyes, stood up from the chair and walked towards the disinfection cabinet with an indifferent look on his face. He turned his head and saw that the table on Gu Zhuo's side was empty and there were no cutlery, so he took out another set of dishes and chopsticks from the cabinet.

Holding a set of bowls and chopsticks in each hand, he approached Gu Zhuoan's back while glancing at the other two people.

Su Zimai and Gu Qinye both lowered their heads awkwardly, doing their own things, not paying attention to this side.

“It’s an opportunity.”

Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan walked closer to Gu Zhuoan, then pretended to hand the dishes and chopsticks to his father, and slowly stretched out his right hand holding the chopsticks to Gu Zhuoan's shoulder from behind.

At this moment, he repeated the same trick and pulled out a small piece of restraint from the tip of his index finger.

The pitch-black belt flew out like a black-backed snake and silently touched Gu Zhuoan's shoulder.

Unfortunately, Gu Zhuo'an wasn't Su Zimai. In that brief half-second, Gu Zhuo'an's gaze suddenly turned cold, and he reflexively reached out and gripped Ji Minghuan's wrist so hard it practically left a red mark.

Fortunately, at this moment, the small snake formed by the restraints still touched his shoulder, otherwise he would have lost both the wife and the army.

[Achievement conditions: Touching the target's body, and activating the passive skill "Restraint Detection."]

Before Gu Zhuoan turned his head, Ji Minghuan retracted the restraints between his fingers and then deliberately loosened his grip on the bowl and chopsticks. The porcelain bowl and chopsticks fell onto the table, making a clear "crackling" sound in the silent kitchen.

Gu Qiye looked up from his mobile phone screen and frowned when he saw this scene.

"What... do you mean?" He asked Gu Zhuoan word by word.

Su Zimai was also stunned for a moment. He raised his eyes belatedly with the chopsticks in his mouth and looked at Gu Zhuoan who was pinching Ji Minghuan's wrist.

Under the gaze of the two, Gu Zhuoan was obviously stunned for a moment. He slowly turned his head and realized that he was holding Ji Minghuan's wrist. He suddenly let go of his hand, and his cold eyes relaxed instantly, even with a little panic.

However... at this moment, Ji Minghuan's attention was not on the Gu Zhuo case at all.

He looked at the text on the ability panel, slightly widened his eyes, and a faint light flashed in his pupils.

[Target Gender: Male]

[Target Attributes: Strength: A++; Speed: A; Spirit: A]

Superhuman

[Ability Description: Create a three-meter-high clock tower and raise your own "shadow" from the ground (the shadow will inherit the three attributes of the psychic's original body, which is equivalent to creating an avatar, the difference is that the shadow cannot stray too far from the original body)

Every 30 seconds, the hour hand of the clock tower will randomly move to a specific time between "one to twelve hours".

At different times of the day, the clock tower will grant the Ghost Bell's shadow "different" power enhancements.

The ability description on the panel was almost identical to the ability of a super criminal that Ji Minghuan had just seen on the official website of the Association of Deviant Artists.

And the criminal's code name is...

"Ghost...bell?"

Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and slowly recited this name that terrified countless people in his mind.

The next second, a red and black task panel appeared in front of his eyes.

[Completed Main Quest 2: Explore the hidden truth behind the case of my "father" Gu Zhuo.]

[Received rewards for Main Quest 2: 1 Split Point, 1 Skill Point, 1 Attribute Point]

Main Quest 2 Updated: Establish a cooperative relationship with the super criminal "Ghost Bell" and develop interpersonal relationships among evil superpowers.

(End of this chapter)