My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 9 Peeping
Relying on his senses to peek into the living room on the first floor through his restraints, Ji Minghuan immediately confirmed a shocking 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 Quest 1: Explore what your "brother" Gu Qiye is hiding.]

[Task rewards obtained: 1 split point, 1 skill point, 1 attribute point.]

Main Quest 1 Updated: Establish a cooperative relationship with the Outlier "Blue Arc" and develop interpersonal relationships within the Outlier Association.

In the darkness, Ji Minghuan temporarily ignored the panels that popped up in front of him, simply moved them aside, and then used the sensory organs 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 placed the metal helmet at his side, bandaging the wound on his neck while muttering, "It's so hard to catch him... No wonder the Deviants 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's come to our side, we'll be busy from now on."

Ji Minghuan used the senses of the restraint belt to record his self-talk. His smart eyes turned in the darkness, and he guessed in his heart:

"The criminal with superpowers from next door? Gu Qiye's strength is obvious to all, and there are only a handful of criminals with superpowers who can defeat him... So, he must be facing the 'Ghost Bell' mentioned in the news. 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 there 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, nor did he commit robbery. It felt as if his criminal activities were simply to attract attention. No one knew what his true purpose was, and perhaps only Ghost Bell himself knew.

It seemed that Gu Qiye had just fought a battle with the supernatural criminal codenamed "Ghost Bell" and had escaped with serious injuries, forcing him to return home to bandage his wounds. Gu Wenyu didn't remember his brother being in such a state of distress, but it was also possible that Gu Wenyu had never discovered this other side of Gu Qiye.

"Is that ghost bell really that 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 again after falling asleep like this.

After a while, Gu Qiye'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 helplessly 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 line said, "No, there's a criminal who's kidnapped a group of hostages in Lijing Square. He's demanding you appear before him by name, and he's saying he'll kill one of the hostages 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 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's that?" "The one causing trouble in the square is another criminal with special abilities, codenamed 'Green Wing.'" The female voice on the other end of the line paused, "...You have too many enemies."

"Tonight really is endless."

Gu Qinye sighed and took off the upper half of his uniform, revealing his muscular body in the darkness.

Through the senses of the restraints, Ji Minghuan could clearly see a shocking ravine 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 a hostage dies in public, the video will have a significant impact on the image of our association branch."

"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 bandage around the blood groove on his waist with his hands. The wound had not even been disinfected.

"Understood." The female voice on the other end of the phone paused and asked in a low voice, "Are your injuries serious?"

"It's okay, I can hold on..." Gu Qinye said casually, and suddenly tied the bandage around his waist with both hands 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 hear 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 City, demanding him to show up, otherwise he 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 maintain 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 quell.

Ji Minghuan didn't turn on the light in the room, in case Gu Qiye saw the light on in the upstairs window after going out.

He gently climbed down from the bed, half-crouched by the French window like a wild cat, and looked down at the street in the moonlight.

Gu Qiye, wearing the Blue Arc combat uniform, turned into a beam of deep blue electric light the moment he walked out of the house. He shuttled into the darkness at the end of the street and disappeared from Ji Minghuan's sight in an instant.

"So fast... Even though he was injured, he can still move at this speed. He is worthy of being the big star of our Lijing City." Ji Minghuan sighed sincerely in his heart.

He stared at the empty street for a moment, then retracted his gaze from the window and slowly turned his head. In the moonlight, his eyes glanced at the black mask he had casually tossed in the corner of the room and the folded 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 wardrobe, he used the straps to pull up the windbreaker at the bottom, then slowly left the room.

(End of this chapter)