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Chapter 178 The Two at the Train Station, the Sister's Question (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

July 26, 1:30 a.m., Guyimai Street, it was a quiet night.

Black Pupa was hanging upside down below a building, with a transparent restraint strap above his head. He was playing Minesweeper on his phone while silently observing what lay ahead using the senses of the restraint strap.

Before long, he saw a young woman in a suit wearing a red cloak and a magician's hat appear under the moonlight. A crystalline thread fell from the magic glove covering her right hand, the end of which connected to a giant dove with bloodshot eyes.

Su Zimai rode a giant pigeon, flying high under the moonlight, soaring over the brightly lit street, her ponytail swaying gently in the wind.

"So slow."

Black Pupa mumbled something and looked up from her phone at the white trailing shadow.

Then, using the restraint straps, he grabbed the base of the air conditioner unit next to him, swung diagonally upwards in a circle, and silently followed behind the giant white pigeon, heading towards the edge of the Guyimai neighborhood.

Before long, the man, the pigeon, and the insect arrived at the no-man's-land, which was off-limits.

The existence of this area dates back to the Rainbow Wing incident several years ago, when Su Zimai's family lived in this corner until the Rainbow Wing members unintentionally turned it into ruins while fighting against superpowered criminals.

Their mother, Su Ying, died in these ruins. The victims at that time, like this abandoned and desolate land, only caused a brief stir in public opinion before being forgotten by people.

The deeper you go, the fewer people and signs of life you see.

Su Zimai looked down at the earth from the back of a pigeon, her gaze complex as she glanced at the old site of their home.

Just then, she glanced at her phone, then looked up and looked around with an annoyed expression.

"Did Ke Qirui tell her that I was following her around?" Hei Yong shrugged, seeing her reaction.

The next moment, Su Zimai pulled hard on the magic thread as if whipping a horse, and the pigeon's flight speed suddenly increased.

The black pupa whistled silently and stayed close behind her, never leaving her side.

He gripped the restraints and leaped over a dilapidated billboard, like a petrel soaring over waves. A howling wind whipped at his clothes, and finally, he stood on the eaves of an abandoned train station, his steps breaking through the moonlight.

Looking down, I saw that Su Zimai had already landed on the pigeon's back and was standing on the empty platform No. 7.

The platform was deserted, indicating that the train station had been abandoned for some time.

It was pitch black all around, with only a patch of moonlight providing illumination. Weeds grew haphazardly on the rusty tracks, and dark blue moss twisted and spread across the platform pillars, reaching out to the sky like the claws of a ghost.

The pigeon shrank rapidly, transforming into a small pigeon that landed on Su Zimai's hand and gently pecked at her left hand with its beak.

She lowered her eyes and gently teased the pigeons with her fingers.

tick tock...

The puddles left by last night's light rain cascaded from the eaves of the platform onto the tracks, tracing a beautiful and clear parabola. The incessant sound of the falling water broke the platform's quiet stillness.

“Come out,” Su Zimai suddenly said. “I know you’re following me.”

Upon hearing this, Black Chrysalis peeled off the restraints from her bosom, took out a comic book called "Goodbye Eri," and then used a restraint to hang upside down under the eaves, slowly removing the transparent straps that wrapped her whole body.

He raised his hand to his ear and pressed the button on the mask to activate the voice changer, then broke the silence with his voice.

“Miss Su Zimai, thank you for showing me the way. Otherwise, I definitely wouldn’t have been able to get to this train station on time.” Hei Yong licked his fingers and turned the pages of his book. “It would be terrible if I were late. After all, I will have to appear in teenagers’ textbooks in the future. A person who doesn’t keep his word can’t set a good example.”

"You really enjoy being a pervert that much?" Su Zimai frowned. "You're always either stalking this person or that person."

“Actually, we were just going along the way,” Black Chrysalis shook her head. “You know, as a feminist and an awakened woman, I would never do anything to infringe on women’s personal rights.”

Su Zimai was silent for a moment: "Did my brother ask you to protect me?"

"Hmm...it seems, Miss Su, that you already know your brother's true identity?"

As Hei Yong spoke, he looked up from the pages of the book and glanced at Su Zimai.

"Otherwise what?" Su Zimai said calmly, "He has already told me that he is Blue Arc."

"Which brother?"

Which brother are you talking about?

“I see, it’s our lovely Mr. Gu Qiye,” Hei Yong said. “I knew that once he found out your identity, he would eventually lose his composure. It seems that things have developed as I predicted.”

"Stop talking nonsense. You're quite good at bluffing. You even told me before that 'your brother is Blue Arc'."

"Isn't that right?" Black Chrysalis shrugged.

"Why don't you just say he's the eldest brother?" Su Zimai asked coldly.

"Isn't the eldest brother a brother too?" Black Chrysalis retorted.

Su Zimai suddenly paused, feeling that the sentence sounded familiar, as if she had heard it before, but she couldn't quite place it.

She shook her head, pulling herself out of her jumbled thoughts: "Anyway, is it because my brother asked you to protect me that you got involved in this Red Light Operation?"

“No.” Black Chrysalis said while flipping through the comics, “Strictly speaking, Mr. Blue Arc did not entrust me with protecting you; and the reason why I participated in this ‘Red Light Chase’ operation obviously comes from my other collaborator—Mr. ‘Chess Player’. Don’t be too narcissistic, Miss Magician.”

"The chess player, Xia Pingzhou?" Su Zimai asked in a deep voice.

"That's right, it's the one who scared you so much at the auction that you peed your pants..."

Seeing that Su Zimai's eyes suddenly turned cold, as if an angry penguin was about to pounce on you, Hei Chang shook her head and did not continue speaking.

“Although you have a terrible sense of humor… you’re annoying, you’re so annoying, like a fly, I haven’t properly thanked you yet…” Su Zimai paused, “Thank you for saving me at the auction that day.” “You’re welcome,” Hei Yong said, “but I can answer you, at the auction, it was indeed Mr. Lan Hu who instructed me to protect you.”

"really……"

"Well then, before the operation begins, I'd like to offer you one last piece of advice, Ms. Su Zimai: this 'Red Light' operation is not as simple as you imagine."

"Just a second-tier exorcist, could there be other variables?" Su Zimai wondered.

"Of course, but I can't tell you what this variable is for now, because it would put you in a dangerous situation... Given my friendship with your brother, I'm trying to see if I can persuade you."

Hei Yong thought to himself that if Su Zimai was a person who kept her mouth shut, it would be fine, and it wouldn't matter if he told her about the "Salvation Society". But he was worried that his careless sister would casually tell others about the "Salvation Society", and then things would get complicated.

It should be noted that the traffic lights were targeted for extermination by the Salvation Society because they were used to display images of the Salvation Society everywhere, which attracted widespread attention.

If Su Zimai were to learn about the "Salvation Society," there's a good chance she would end up with the same fate.

Su Zimai lowered her eyes and thought for a while: "We've come this far, no matter how dangerous it is, I won't run away. Don't try to persuade me."

“As expected…” Black Chrysalis had anticipated this, “Your whole family is the same, you’re all stubborn bulls that can’t be persuaded.”

"I suddenly have something I want to ask you."

"what's up?"

"Is my second brother really just an ordinary person?" Su Zimai thought for a moment and looked up at him.

Why would you ask that?

“Because my team leader said before that he might be a superhuman…” Su Zimai said softly, “I’ve been trying not to think about it, but I feel that I will have to face it sooner or later, and I don’t want to be completely unprepared when that happens.”

She paused for a moment, then said, "Especially after I found out that my eldest brother was from Blue Arc, this possibility suddenly became greater. These past few days, I couldn't help but think of my second brother's face every time I went to sleep, and I kept wondering... whether he was hiding something from me, just like my eldest brother."

The black chrysalis gazed at her silently for a moment, then looked away and replied slowly:

"To put it simply, your second brother is just a complete Muggle, so you don't need to worry about that."

Su Zimai was stunned for a while, then slowly breathed a sigh of relief. Hei Yong might mislead her with some ambiguous and vague language, but he had never lied to her.

Thinking of this, she immediately felt relieved, a slight smile appeared on her lips, and she said in a barely audible voice:

"Thank you."

Black Chrysalis did not respond, but after a moment he suddenly spoke, breaking the silence between the two.

"He loves you very much."

Su Zimai was stunned, her face flushed red in an instant, and then her ears turned so red they looked like they could bleed.

She suddenly looked up and glared at the black cocoon, both embarrassed and annoyed, and said, "Everyone knows that! Why did you say it out loud? It's so cheesy, it gives me goosebumps!"

“How come I feel like you don’t know?” Black Chrysalis said. “You are just as arrogant as your older brother, never taking your own life seriously, always making the people around you sad and worried, yet you think you are doing the right thing… It’s like some kind of self-destructive mentality in your genes is at work.”

He scratched his chin. “I strongly suspect that this self-destructive mentality is inherited from your father, except that his side of it is manifested in alcoholism and self-abandonment, while you are even more hopeless, hypnotizing yourselves like ascetics… Even though you are covered in wounds, you don’t realize it, you just keep running forward, waiting for death to free you.”

"That's my stupid brother, I wouldn't be that stupid." The image of Lan Hu flashed through Su Zimai's mind.

"Who knows."

"You said I made the people around me very sad... Is my second brother very sad?" Su Zimai asked suddenly after a long silence.

She didn't know what she was thinking, actually wanting to learn about her family from an outsider... Even though she hated this big moth that teased her every day, she always felt a strange sense of familiarity whenever she saw him, and unconsciously let her guard down.

"Of course... Gu Wenyu is a child who is not good at speaking and is shy about expressing himself. He is used to hiding his feelings under his cheerful exterior and never easily reveals his inner thoughts to others. Perhaps only by wearing a mask can he be a little more honest?"

Black Chrysalis paused, then lowered her voice: "But this child got angry in front of you, asking if you cared about his feelings, and you ignored him, making him seem like he was being unreasonable."

Su Zimai remained silent, her complex expression shrouded in moonlight.

The black pupa turned the pages, the rustling sound of its fingers stroking the paper overlapping with the sound of water splashing.

In the silence, he spoke:
"Perhaps you could try to put yourself in his shoes and see why Gu Wenyu has never spoken to you in that tone. Like your older brother, he doesn't want to see you get into danger, but he's powerless to do anything about it because he's just an ordinary person."

"Besides, the truth about his mother isn't actually that important to him... We can't let the whole family be on the verge of death just because his father can't get over it, right?"

Su Zimai felt a slight pang of sadness, and suddenly felt a pang of sympathy for Gu Wenyu, who was left at home.

She thought to herself: Yes, he's always so awkward, but he's already poured his heart out to everyone. This time he must really be worried about me to be acting so emotional...

Just as she was about to speak, Hei Yong suddenly raised a finger and said calmly, "By the way, it was actually him who asked me to deliver the diapers to you, to remind you to stop in time and not overestimate yourself."

"roll!"

Su Zimai gave a cold, low shout, about to say, "You never lie, so why are you making this kind of joke?" But a sudden roar of an engine drowned out her thoughts.

She and Hei Chang turned their heads together and saw a beam of searchlight shooting out from the exit of the train tunnel, cutting through the night and illuminating the mottled tracks and the empty platform.

Immediately afterwards, a colossal, dark red vehicle roared out of the tunnel, its thunderous roar almost engulfing the entire world.

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(End of this chapter)