My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 24 Ghost Bell
Ji Minghuan shifted his gaze from the text on the panel and once again looked at the decadent man in front of him. His tall silhouette overlapped infinitely with the bloodthirsty and gloomy ghost bell in the TV camera.

"You can't do it, let's get someone from Hongyi to come find me..."

This was the criminal declaration that Ji Minghuan heard on TV. At that time, Gui Zhong was wearing a Z-shaped mask, and his blood-red eyes flashed with a cold and cruel light. After the mechanical voice change, it became gloomy and hoarse, as if it was still echoing in his ears.

At this moment, many questions in Ji Minghuan's mind seemed to be clarified.

Why didn’t Gu Wenyu’s father come home for two whole years?
Why has the super criminal "Ghost Bell" only harmed those superpowers who abused their abilities and destroyed priceless cultural relics in the past two years, but never attacked ordinary people?

And the most important thing:
——Why is Gui Zhong so obsessed with having the Abnormal Association send members of Hongyi to arrest him?

After understanding the identity behind this violent maniac's mask, the reasons behind all these problems became as clear as a piece of white paper soaked with water:
Gu Zhuo wanted to lure out the Rainbow Wing member who killed his wife, and then... tear him into pieces with his own hands.

A few years ago, the protest march against Hong Yi failed, and Gu Zhuo suffered humiliation. In the end, he seemed to have chosen to compromise and took hundreds of thousands of yuan in compensation from the authorities, but in fact, he had never given up this obsession in his heart, as if he had a ball of fire in his stomach, which would burn him to death if he didn't spit it out.

Because of this, he chose to become a criminal with super powers and tried every possible way to attract Hong Yi's attention.

The funny thing is that Gu Qiye's approach is exactly the opposite of the Gu Zhuo case:

In order to find the Rainbow Wing member who accidentally killed his mother, Gu Qiye chose to join the Alien Association and become a powerful Alien, so that he could be introduced into the Rainbow Wing by the Association and find his enemy openly.

Thinking of this, the surprise in Ji Minghuan's eyes slowly faded away.

He held Gu Zhuo's bloodied wrist in his hand, pondering with interest, "They're clearly father and son, yet they made diametrically opposed choices for the same goal. They even stood on opposite sides of each other through sheer coincidence, donning masks and slaughtering each other like trapped beasts in an arena... So there's a reason my first game character was inserted into this family. Did they want me to fully appreciate this Greek tragedy of a family drama?"

"Oh no... I have started to subconsciously play the role of Black Pupa. How come my mental activities have been assimilated into such a childish state?" he thought again.

At this moment, Gu Qiye looked at the fingerprints on Ji Minghuan's wrist, his face twitched slightly, and his already expressionless face became even colder.

He didn't want to get angry in front of his brother and sister, so he took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said to Gu Zhuoan as calmly as possible:
"What are you doing?"

But the calmer the tone, the more frightening it sounded to Su Zimai: She had never heard Gu Qiye speak like this. Her brother always had a smile on his face and spoke in the calmest possible tone. Even when he was angry, he would temporarily avoid others and never show his anger.

Gu Zhuoan sat in the chair in silence with a pale expression.

For a moment, he couldn't find a reason for what he did just now. Perhaps it was because he had been living a life of hanging by a thread and being ambushed on all sides for the past two years, and his tired nerves were too sensitive. So when his son just patted his shoulder, he had such a stress reaction?
But what exactly was that strange feeling just now... It was as if a snake suddenly flew out from the jungle and crawled onto his shoulder, its dark green eyes shining brightly in the darkness, piercing every corner of his heart.

"Dad... I was just helping you pass the dishes." Ji Minghuan took a breath, then said slowly, "Why are you so nervous? Have you been working as a narcotics officer for the past two years? Aren't narcotics officers in the movies often unable to go home for years?"

He thought to himself: But the power of a quasi-disaster-level mutant is terrifying. If he hadn't restrained his strength in time, my wrist would have been torn off.

Seeing that there was no response to the Gu Zhuo case, Ji Minghuan quietly opened the system panel, selected the [System Settings] option, and lowered the "Pain Sensitivity" from 50% to 1%.

In this way, even if his hands and feet were broken, he would only feel the pain of having his thumb stepped on.

"I'm sorry, Wenyu, I..." Gu Zhuoan looked at the dishes and chopsticks scattered on the table, and was about to say something.

Gu Qiye walked towards Ji Minghuan without saying a word, wanting to see the injury on his wrist.

Ji Minghuan smacked his lips, looking a little timid, fearing that his good brother would notice something, so he ignored him, said "nothing", and went to the living room to find a Band-Aid.

Gu Qiye was silent for a moment, then turned to look at Gu Zhuo'an and whispered, "Don't bring your bad habits home with you... You disappeared for two years and you're like this when you come back. How can we trust you?"

He tightened his jaw and slowly lowered his voice, "I thought you had changed... but you're still the same as before. You haven't changed since Mom passed away. All you can think about is the people who have passed away. You don't even think about how much pain your own children are in."

"Have you ever considered that your own children, like you, have been deeply affected by their mother's death? But to make you feel better, every child hides their emotions, but you turn a blind eye and treat us all like air."

"Do you know how many times Xiaomai cried after you left without saying a word? And how many times did she tell me that she wanted her dad to come back?"

At this point, Gu Qiye laughed in anger, and a sarcastic arc appeared at the corner of his lips:

"I shouldn't have told her you'd come back. I should have told her: People like you should spend their lives hugging a dead person's coffin. Living family members aren't important to you anyway... Dead family members are the most important to you, aren't they?"

Gu Qinye still had a lot of things to say, but he couldn't say them.

He knew better than anyone that his father had been devastated by Hong Yi's incident and had never recovered.

In order to help his father find out who killed his mother and to give himself an explanation, Gu Qiye has had to balance his studies and take care of his younger siblings over the years. At night, he has to put on combat uniform and report to the association, carry out secret missions again and again, brush with death countless times, and deal with various psychopathic criminals under extremely high pressure.

It can be said that he risked his life to achieve his current status and reputation in the Association of Different Walkers.

What he knew even more clearly was that if he became depressed and unable to recover because of his mother's death, it would be unfair to the surviving children. So in order for his younger brothers and sisters to grow up healthily, he kept all the pain in his heart over the years and always had a smile on his face.

But he had done so much, and kept so many things in his heart, and he had been on the verge of being crushed countless times...

What is this useless father doing?
It would be better to say that Gu Qiye never expected his father to do anything from the beginning to the end.

He only hoped that his father could get over his mother's death and face the other children in the family;

I hope my father knows that he is not the only one in the family who is sad about the sudden death of my mother. Every child who sees his father's dejected look will try hard to force a smile on his face, pat him on the shoulder, and make him feel better, even though they are sad too.

But the coward ran away and stayed away for two years.

He originally thought that after not seeing each other for two years, the Gu Zhuo case should have changed. After all... it was during these two years that Gu Qiye grew from a powerless child to the "Blue Arc", the face of the alien in Lijing City. So his father might have changed his ways long ago.

No one stays in the same place forever.

But Gu Qinye, who had this idea, was soon disappointed, extremely disappointed, and even felt sick of himself for having such expectations.

Right in front of him, his father, whom he hadn't seen for two years, attacked his own child for no reason.

What's the difference between this and... scumbag?
However, at this moment, Gu Zhuoan lowered his head and stood there like a stone statue.

No matter how Gu Qiye vented his anger at him, he remained motionless. But the more he did so, the more complicated the expression on Gu Qiye's face became, as if he had punched a marshmallow, feeling powerless and resentful, and all his accusations were in vain. After a long while, his father suddenly said, "So... have you forgotten your mother?"

Gu Qiye froze in place. The next moment, veins popped out on his forehead. He practically growled, his voice trembling uncontrollably: "Shut up... Do you know how much I've done?!"

Su Zimai remained silent from beginning to end. She lowered her eyes, held her chopsticks and said nothing.

Ji Minghuan stood alone in the living room, took out a Band-Aid from the drawer of the tea cabinet, and symbolically put it on his wrist.

Listening to the voices coming from the kitchen, he glanced sideways at the father and son in a stalemate, and sighed in his heart, "What a family ethics drama... Speaking of which, you two are really a pair of geniuses. You wear masks and fight to the death outside, and then when you get home, you take off your masks and still bicker. In a sense, it really is true that a tiger father will have a dog son."

In fact, he also knew why Gu Qinye behaved so abnormally today.

The reason why Gu Qiye's mood was extremely unstable was because two of his minefields had been stepped on:

First, he was fooled around by an uninvited guest named "Black Pupa" last night. Black Pupa even told him that he knew his identity, which meant he could attack his family at any time. Gu Qiye valued his family so much, so his heart must have been extremely turbulent;

Another minefield was that his father hurt his younger brother in front of him and said something like "You have forgotten your mother." You have to know that in order to find out the truth about his mother's death, he has been fighting in the association at the risk of his life in the past few years, just to get a chance to join Rainbow Wing.

But all these unspoken efforts were simply denied by his father with one word: Forgot? How could he forget?

Although he seemed to be the fuse of everything, Ji Minghuan did not think it was his problem.

Because in time, Gu Qiye will definitely know the other side of Gu Zhuo's case, and know that he is the super criminal "Ghost Bell" who has fought with him twice to the death, and that Gu Zhuo, like himself, has been "struggling" to find the truth about his mother.

By that time... I'm afraid that the inner defense that Gu Qinye has built up for a long time will completely collapse in an instant, and shattered on the ground, never to be picked up again?
Ji Minghuan was just giving a slight push for his own benefit, making this inevitable event develop faster. The fire was bound to start, he just made it burn faster, and he was not the one who set the fire in the first place.

"Do you still want to quarrel?" Su Zimai suddenly spoke.

She stared at the chopsticks in the bowl and asked in a low voice: "Didn't you say... to eat well?"

Gu Qiye was stunned for a moment, his anger gradually subsided, and his Adam's apple moved up and down.

Gu Zhuoan still didn't say anything, standing there quietly like a statue.

Ji Minghuan turned his head and saw Su Zimai with his head lowered, his eyes hidden by his hair.

Su Zimai continued, "I'm going to stay at a classmate's house this summer, starting tonight. I hope you won't bother me." After saying that, she stood up from the dining table, walked quickly into the living room, picked up her schoolbag with one hand, and turned to leave.

The hurried footsteps faded away, and then a loud sound of a door closing penetrated the entrance and entered the living room.

Then there was dead silence, no sound in the whole house, and the chirping of cicadas outside the window was deafening.

After a long silence, Gu Qiye took a deep breath.

He stood by the disinfection cabinet, supported the corner of the sink with his right hand, and said to Gu Zhuoan, "I have tidied your room in advance. I don't want to see you now."

Gu Zhuoan nodded in response, turned his head to look at the twilight outside the window, and whispered, "Xiaomi, she..."

"She doesn't need your care," Gu Qiye said calmly, "You haven't cared about her for two years anyway."

Ji Minghuan immediately jumped out and suggested, "Then I'll go find my sister."

Obviously, he did not like this kind of family atmosphere of deep hatred and resentment. As a spiritual outsider, it was better for him to avoid it, lest he be possessed by the old actor and go up to perform a family ethics drama with tears in his eyes to accompany this twisted father and son.

Gu Qiye looked up at him: "But you haven't eaten yet."

"No need... How can I eat if you guys are like this? I have no appetite. Besides, didn't she say she doesn't want you to bother her? If anyone wants to go find her, I will definitely be the one."

Ji Minghuan, the instigator, said this and then walked out of the house without looking back.

The moment he closed the door, he took out his cell phone from the pocket of his school uniform jacket, and while editing the message using the anonymous software he had just figured out, he stretched out his restraints and used his senses to explore the twilight, looking for the direction in which Su Zimai had left.

After a while, Ji Minghuan finally edited his text message, entered the other party's mobile phone number, and clicked send.

At this moment, he also relied on his hearing senses in the restraints to distinguish Su Zimai's footsteps, so he put his hands in his school uniform pockets and walked towards the source of the sound.

The figure gradually blended into the twilight.

At the same time, Gu Qiye, who was sitting alone in the kitchen, held his forehead with his hands, lowered his eyes and muttered, "I shouldn't have lost my temper in front of Xiaomai..."

As he was thinking, he suddenly heard a "ding" sound from the phone in his pocket, which was the notification sound of receiving a message.

He originally wanted to turn off the phone directly, but considering that it might be a message from Su Zimai or Gu Wenyu, Gu Qiye picked up the phone and took a look.

What I received was a text message with the sender's name and mobile number invisible, which looked like a common prank or spam message.

But the content of the text message made Gu Qiye stunned for a second.

[Anonymous user: So, do you believe my words now? Do you have even a tiny bit of doubt about your father?]

Gu Qinye's face twitched slightly.

After hesitating for a while, he clicked on the text message interface in a confused state of mind.

Although I already had the answer in my mind, I still sent a message to the other party to confirm.

【Gu Qiye: Who are you?】

[Black Pupa: I see... Then I'll use this name to communicate with you, and it will probably make a better impression.]

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