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Chapter 92 Ghost Bell, Meeting Time (First Order)
The rain was pouring down, and the glow of neon signs filled the rainy Tokyo. But only a single ray of lightning from the sky would shed light on this abandoned building in a remote corner.

At this moment, in the floor shrouded in darkness.

From a distance, Ghost Bell stared at the black pupa motionlessly.

The black pupa was hanging upside down from the ceiling. He looked away from the book and slowly turned his head to look at the uninvited guest who had suddenly appeared on the floor.

After just a glance at the other person, he lowered his eyes and continued to flip through the book "How to Get Rid of the Negative Influence of Original Family" in his hand.

After a moment, he said slowly:

"Mr. Gu Zhuo'an, oh no... I'm calling you 'Mr. Ghost Bell' now... You're so punctual! I thought you'd already gone home to beat the kids, but you still remembered a stranger like me. It's so touching, I'm almost in tears."

Amidst the roar, a flash of lightning once again illuminated the awe-inspiring figure standing in the center of the floor. He wore a metal helmet with a Z-shaped pattern, a pitch-black cloak, his scarlet pupils narrowed slightly, and a violent glint of light shone from the corner of his eyes in the darkness.

Ghost Bell walked slowly towards the black pupa. Amidst the clattering footsteps, a heavy metallic sound emanated from behind the mask:
"Tell me, why do you know those things?"

"what you mean?"

"Don't play dumb..." Gui Zhong lowered his voice.

Black Pupa rustled the pages of his book, suddenly realizing, "Oh, I see. You mean: how did I know you were having an affair with the mafia boss's wife?"

He scratched his chin. "But compared to that, I actually want to remind you: our poor little widow, Mr. Ghost Zhong, has been a widow for five years. It's not illegal to find a new girlfriend, and your wife won't crawl out of her grave to kick your ass."

"Be bold. Embrace your new life, Mr. Ghost Bell."

After Hei Pupa finished his last words, Gui Zhong suddenly stopped.

At that moment, it was as if a train roared through the sky, thunder rumbled, and lightning flashed across the gray sky, bringing a flash of daylight and briefly illuminating the motionless figure in the middle of the floor.

When the lightning faded, the ghost bell was no longer visible at the spot.

The next moment, Gui Zhong's face was reflected in the black pupa's pupils, and those violent, blood-red eyes were very close.

He pulled the black pupa down from the ceiling with his movements as natural as taking a toy box from a convenience store shelf.

With a "click", the restraints burst apart.

Then Gui Zhong raised his hand and grabbed Hei Pupa's neck, pressing him against the wall. In a battle with such a huge disparity in levels, there was no need to use any abilities at all. Relying on strength and speed was enough to achieve the purest and most primitive crushing of combat power.

"Why do you know me so well... and the people around me?" Gui Zhong asked hoarsely, word by word.

Despite having his neck pinched and his legs hanging in the air, Black Pupa's expression remained calm.

He looked at Ghost Bell with amusement and said, "What are you angry about, and why are you so uneasy, Mr. Ghost Bell?"

Gui Zhong remained silent, just narrowed his eyes and stared at him motionlessly.

"I understand... you're angry about your own incompetence. You're also angry about why Gu Qiye became a Deviant without consulting you first... But after abandoning his child for two years, he's now come back, acting like he's willing to fight and take the fall. Do you think that in his eyes, everything that happened in the past two years can be written off?"

Having said that, Hei Pupa slowly looked away, a hint of regret in his tone:
"Unfortunately, it's too late. Gu Qiye was used as a pawn by the UN officials. Do you think they didn't investigate his background thoroughly? No... They took advantage of Gu Qiye's obsession with Hong Yi and used him as a tool."

"And when your son finally entered Rainbow Wing, he thought he could find out the truth about his mother, but he had no idea he had stepped into hell."

Gui Zhong tightened his grip on his neck, his growl resounding through the building like thunder:
"Shut up!"

Hei Pupa coughed twice and let out a hoarse laugh from his throat, as if mocking him.

He said, "To the United Nations, your good son is just a piece of waste paper that can be thrown away after use. After squeezing out all his value, they will symbolically hold a mourning service for Mr. Blue Arc, just like... five years ago, they used those hundreds of thousands of yuan to get rid of your deceased wife."

"And the reason this happened... was because of you, a father who didn't care about his own children."

Black Pupa's voice was as calm as if he was recounting history that had already happened, and he immediately gave the other person a look of pity:
"We've made the same mistake again, Mr. Ghost Bell."

After these words fell, a silence fell between the two of them. Gui Zhong stood there in shock, recalling the moment he watched his wife die five years ago.

Black Pupa used his restraints to pick up the book "How to Get Rid of the Negative Influence of Your Original Family" from the ground and said slowly:
"You could have noticed it earlier - if you had come back even once in the past two years... but you didn't. You entrusted both children to Gu Qiye."

"While he's taking care of your two children, he's also enduring high pressure and risking his life every day to clean up the mess for the government you so despise. He's working so hard to tell his powerless, self-destructive father the truth..."

At this point, Hei Pu raised his head and met Gui Zhong's turbulent gaze, and said in a sarcastic tone:

"But what did this father do? Do you want me to enumerate your sins? You used a knife to carve scars upon scars on your beloved child. Do you think you were happy?"

He lowered his eyes, looking at his restraint-wrapped fingers. "On a practical level: you slit his throat with your wrist blade. On a spiritual level... not only did you ignore him, but even after returning two years later, you gave him the cold shoulder and said to him, 'Have you forgotten your mother?'"

Gui Zhong stood there in a daze.

He nodded slightly and looked at the ground, the red light in his pupils fluctuating like a candle flickering in the darkness.

Yes, he did say that to Gu Qinye... No wonder Gu Qinye was so furious and hysterical at that time, like a mad little lion.

"Your words are very interesting and destructive, like a child pouring hot water into an ant nest," Hei Pu admired. "I'm afraid that in Gu Qiye's eyes, it's as if his own father has negated his entire life... You so cruelly and easily write off all the sacrifices he has endured for his family, reducing him to a ungrateful and useless person."

"No, that's not what I meant!" Ghost Bell growled, and the metallic magnetic silver shook the entire floor.

He suddenly jumped up, grabbed the black pupa's body and smashed it against the wall!

The entire floor was rumbling and shaking, and holes were cracking in the walls one after another.

"You're so incompetent! You're still the same as always... unable to accept reality. You only use violent, extreme means to numb yourself, throwing yourself headfirst into that bloodthirsty, crazy world, like a stupid bear hiding in a tree hole."

The black pupa opened his mouth with a grin, his body already torn into pieces: from the wounds in his body, there were faint traces of dead snake-like restraints leaking out, just like pinching a pillow and letting out piles of cotton scraps.

The ghost bell continued to smash his body against the wall, and the black pupa's body sank deeper and deeper.

Bang, bang, bang! A series of violent bangs echoed throughout the building, drowning out the din of the rainstorm. But no matter how he abused it, Black Pupa's voice still drifted calmly through the building, like a demonic sound piercing his ears:
"Your son is completely throwing himself into a flame, Mr. Ghost Zhong. From the moment he has a father like you, once he successfully joins Rainbow Wing, it will only become an irreversible tragedy."

"The UN's top brass will never trust a deviant whose father is a criminal. When the fact that you are 'Ghost Bell' is exposed soon, your son's situation will become even more interesting. Guess how the UN will treat him then?
"And what will Gu Qiye think of this father who made all his efforts go to waste?"

"Shut up--!!!"

Ghost Bell roared, and punched into the deep pit with his fist wrapped in a metal glove, piercing through the black pupa's abdomen.

But he saw no blood, only a piece of restraints drooping on the ground. He panted like a wild animal, pulled his fist out of the black pupa's body, and looked at his bloodless fingertips, as if he had punched cotton.

At this moment, the black pupa's voice came slowly, like a maggot attached to the bone, like a ghost:

"By the way, let me tell you: in a few days, the White Crow Brigade will be visiting Tokyo, Japan. Their target is the underground auction."

“…Auction?”

Ghost Bell muttered to himself hoarsely, narrowing his scarlet eyes.

"Yes, it's the auction that the proprietress you've been dreaming of told you about. What a shame, I thought you would accept her offer."

Black Pupa paused, then lowered his voice and asked, "And why did your son choose to come to Tokyo at this exact moment? Even with your muddled mind, you shouldn't be able to guess, right?"

Gui Zhong was stunned for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and met the dark eyes in the deep pit:

"He...will attend the auction?"

"That's half right. To be precise: Gu Qiye will serve as the bodyguard of the auction and face off against that vicious group of villains head-on." As he spoke, the black pupa squeezed his head out from the recess in the wall.

He slapped Gui Zhong's hand away. "You should have heard about that incident. A few days ago in Lijing Square, Mr. Blue Arc, who was severely injured by you, had no choice but to accept Green Wing's offer." He smiled. "At that time, he actually wanted to wear the handcuffs that Green Wing handed him... You and I both know what would happen if he put on those handcuffs. Maybe the handcuffs suddenly exploded, and both of your son's arms were blown off."

Having said that, Hei Pupa slowly raised his head and looked directly into Ghost Bell's eyes:
"But the question is... why was Gu Qiye so stupid as to wear those handcuffs? What made him become like this today?"

Gui Zhong narrowed his eyes and asked indifferently:
"why?"

"Because long before he put on those handcuffs, a 14-year-old boy had already put shackles on his heart... He never got over his mother's death, so he couldn't bear to watch any ordinary person die at the hands of a superpower."

Black Pupa paused. "Otherwise, he would feel like he had betrayed himself, the powerless boy who had watched his mother die in front of him five years ago."

Gui Zhong was slightly startled, muttering Gu Qiye's name to himself: "Qiye..."

"So do you understand? In your family, the one who's having the hardest time getting over your mother's death isn't you, but your good child—Gu Qiye."

Hei Pupa spoke slowly, and his voice seemed to be mixed with thunder outside the window.

The rain was getting heavier. Ghost Bell hung his head, panting like a mad buffalo, and the hand that had been gripping the black pupa's head slowly loosened. He muttered to himself:

"I can persuade him... persuade him to stop."

Black Pupa shook his head. "No, it's already too late. What were you doing earlier? If you had even been willing to show this poor child some care instead of abandoning him, he wouldn't have become the self-righteous fool he is today, blinded by obsession. A complete tragedy."

"No...it's not too late."

"Face the reality. He's beyond saving. As a father, you can only watch him walk step by step into the fire and meet his inevitable end." Black Pupa said slowly, "You, the culprit, are the one least qualified to persuade him... Mr. Ghost Bell."

"What do you know?" Ghost Bell roared, "I will make up for everything!"

Hearing this, Hei Pu closed the book in his hand contentedly and said quietly:
"You do have a chance to redeem yourself, but it's only one chance, and this one-of-a-kind opportunity is right before you..."

"What do you want to say?"

"Cooperate with me, this is your last chance."

"Cooperate... with you?" Gui Zhong laughed in anger.

"That's right, cooperate with me." Black Pupa grinned. "I will help you pull your child back from hell. And... I can also help you find the Rainbow Wing member who killed your wife. I'll give you an opportunity, a chance to take revenge on him."

"Do you think I will believe you?" Ghost Bell paused and sneered coldly, "Believe a... madman?"

"Actually, I think you're more of a lunatic than me," Black Pupa retorted sarcastically, "Take a good look at yourself in the mirror. When did you become so unrecognizable?"

"No, I won't cooperate with you. Don't even think about it."

Gui Zhong spoke word by word, his pupils flashing with madness under the mask.

"Really? But I think if you see what I look like under the mask, you'll want to work with me." Black Pupa shrugged. "Mr. Ghost Bell, are you curious... what kind of face I have under my mask?"

Gui Zhong turned his head to look at him and sneered coldly, as if mocking this madman who had no self-awareness.

But just as he was about to speak sarcastically, his pupils suddenly contracted - at this moment, the pieces of restraints wrapped around the black pupa's face had shrunk back into the skin of his face.

Then, a beautiful face was exposed in the humid air during the rainstorm.

A flash of lightning outside the window suddenly illuminated the face.

It was slowly reflected in the eyes of the ghost bell.

Gu Zhuoan stared at the face beneath the black pupa mask and muttered hoarsely to himself:

"wheat?"

It was Su Zimai's appearance.

(End of this chapter)