My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 194 The Ghost Bell's Reminder, Li Jing's New "Hero" (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Brain death?

Black Chrysalis leaned against the car door, murmuring softly, and turned her head slightly in surprise.

“That’s right.” Ke Qirui nodded.

Black Chrysalis squinted, silently gazing at Red Light's gradually paling body, thinking to himself, "The mentor must have given Red Light's 'id' instructions that once Red Light reveals his information, he will suffer brain death in a short time."

His brain nerves are already dead, and soon the traffic light will die from lack of oxygen. Even if a ventilator is used to forcibly maintain his vital signs, it will only keep this empty shell of a body alive for a little longer, which is meaningless.

Thinking of this, Hei Yong raised her head and said, "Let's give him a break for the sake of the chess player, Miss Ke."

Aren't you going to ask any more questions?

“No, there’s nothing more to ask.” Black Chrysalis shook her head. “Besides, whether my abilities would even work for someone who is brain dead is also a question.”

He knew perfectly well that the traffic lights couldn't possibly know the location of the Salvation Society's base.

The only connection between this person and the Salvation Society was probably just meeting the mentor once. It was after that one meeting that Red Light completely entered hell and wandered the earth like a lost ghost for two years.

This is what makes the Salvation Church so terrifying.

“I understand.” Ke Qiyu pondered. “I originally planned to take the red light back to the Exorcist Association and hand it in as a mission, but it seems that if there are some people among the enemies who can reconstruct the scene from the corpse, then we’ll be in trouble.”

"Indeed, that's exactly what I was thinking of bringing up."

"Don't worry... I understand your concerns. We're in this together now."

As she spoke, Ke Qirui reached into her trench coat pocket, took out a vintage-style revolver, turned the cylinder, and expressionlessly pointed the muzzle at Hongludeng's chest.

She lowered her eyes and remained silent for a moment: "The line of Latin text left by the traffic light each time it committed a crime translates to 'Salvation Society' in Chinese. That's the name of that mysterious organization, isn't it?"

"Yes."

"Xia Pingzhou, was he also aware of the Salvation Society's existence?"

"There is some connection."

“I see…” After saying that, Ke Qirui pulled the trigger of the revolver.

A gunshot rang out, shattering the deathly silence that filled the carriage. The bullet pierced the red light's chest, leaving a gash in its heart.

Blood splattered a foot across the ground, the menacing red covering the old and rusty iron plate.

The black pupa remained silent.

Hearing the commotion, the three people in the next carriage quickly opened their doors and rushed over, staring in astonishment at the corpse on the floor. Blood was gushing out, staining their shoes red.

"Is this okay?" Ke Qi asked, raising his hand to close the red light's eyelids.

“Yes… that’s enough.” Black Chrysalis glanced sideways at the spacetime turbulence outside the car window. “Miss Ke, here’s a piece of advice… you’d better stay with the people from Lake Hunters for the time being. Right now, the people from Lake Hunters are probably the only ones in the entire Exorcist Association that you can still trust.”

He paused for a moment, then said, "In fact, if even Lake Hunting has been infiltrated by that organization, then you have no way out. Leaving as soon as possible is the best option."

"Thank you for your concern." Ke Qirui put away his revolver and straightened up. "Well then, let's part ways here for now, Mr. Black Chrysalis."

She looked up at the black cocoon: "Thank you again for your help. Without your prior warning, we might have already died at the hands of those children."

As soon as he finished speaking, accompanied by a deafening roar, the train demon burst out of the time tunnel, braked sharply, and came to a stop on the rusty and mottled tracks.

The car door opened, and Hei Yong turned to look outside. What came into view was the abandoned train station in the Guyimai neighborhood, where they had boarded the train in the early hours of the morning.

The afternoon sun was so bright it was hard to look directly at it, and the water left on the tracks last night had been quietly washed away by the summer heat.

"I probably won't be appearing before you for a while, so please take care of yourselves."

After saying that, the black pupa stretched out a restraint strap and grabbed the eaves of the train station to distribute its own weight. Pulling on the restraint strap, it leaped up and disappeared into the strong sunlight.

On his way home, he glanced at his phone as he flew over the city.

It was 4 PM Beijing time when a WeChat message popped up on the screen.

[Gu Qiye: I'm on my way home after buying groceries. Why haven't you replied yet? Is something wrong?]

Black Pupa looked at the message, then swung across the high-altitude work platform on the building's surface, extending a black restraint strap to help the worker right the teetering paint bucket, while typing a reply on her phone and clicking send.

[Gu Wenyu: I went to a classmate's house this morning and forgot to tell you.]

[Gu Qiye: Uh...no time to check your phone?]

[Gu Wenyu: My phone died, and we were playing games, so we didn't have time to check. I'm on my way home now.]

[Gu Qiye: Oh, let me know when you get home.]

[Gu Wenyu: Okay. 】

After sending the last message, Hei Yong put his phone into his restraints and headed towards the apartment building without looking back.

Before long, he fell into the room through the open window, peeled off the restraints covering his entire body, and put them back into his skin, leaving only one restraint. He then removed his mask and swallowtail coat and immediately put them under the bed. Afterwards, he took out a bath towel and a set of T-shirts and shorts from the wardrobe.

Holding a change of clothes, Gu Wenyu slumped down and wearily opened the door to leave the room.

Just then, he suddenly heard a loud bang of a window closing coming from the next room.

So he turned his head to the side and silently waited in the corridor for a while. He saw Su Zimai also carrying a change of clothes and slowly walking out of the room.

"What a coincidence?" he asked.

"I just woke up," Su Zimai said. "I need to take a shower too."

So the two people in the corridor raised their hands in unison, chanting "rock, paper, scissors" as they threw their fists.

Su Zimai threw scissors, and Gu Wenyu threw rock. She remained expressionless, silently retracting her index finger, leaving only her middle finger suspended in mid-air, facing Gu Wenyu's back.

"Can't you take a joke?" Gu Wenyu yawned, walking into the bathroom without looking back. "My brother said he'll cook dinner tonight, so don't go out later." After saying that, he casually closed the bathroom door, looked up, and stared blankly at his dark circles and pale face in the mirror for a while.

"It's time to get some rest..." Gu Wenyu murmured softly, "We'll have to fight again in the Little Garden in a few days."

I took off my clothes, turned on the shower, and soon hot air rose into the bathroom.

After taking a shower, he changed into clean clothes, then went out of the bathroom and stuffed his dirty clothes into the washing machine on the rooftop.

Gu Wenyu dared not put Hei Pupa's clothes in the washing machine, lest his older brother or younger sister open the washing machine one day and find a swallowtail trench coat and Hei Pupa's mask.

When needed, you can sneak out in the middle of the night and throw the black pupa's clothes into one of those unmanned laundromats to get them cleaned up.

He yawned, hunched over, and staggered out of the rooftop, where he bumped into Su Zimai again as she came out of her room.

Just as Gu Wenyu was about to slip back to his room, Su Zimai suddenly reached out and grabbed his sleeve.

He turned his head and asked impatiently, "What is it?"

Su Zimai was silent for a moment, then looked up into his eyes. "My brother told me that he found you weren't home when he woke up this morning?"

Gu Wenyu replied, "Yes, I went to a classmate's house this morning. Do you have a problem with that?"

"You went to your classmate's house at 4:30 in the morning?"

"Can't we go to the beach to watch the sunrise together? Don't you understand the romance of high school boys? He even brought a camera."

At this point, Gu Wenyu shrugged and smoothly changed the subject: "But what about you? Where did you go so early this morning? I didn't see you in your room when I got home this afternoon."

Su Zimai lowered her head and thought for a moment, then looked up at him suspiciously before silently walking into the bathroom and closing the door.

Gu Wenyu walked into the room nonchalantly, lay down on the bed, closed the door with the restraints, then picked up the remote control on the tatami and pressed the power button.

The TV screen flashed, and the restraint strap pressed the channel code.

The moment the broadcast switched to Le Kyung News Channel, the host's fluent Mandarin rang out:

"The following is a public announcement from the 'Lijing Heretics Branch'."

"At 10:7 a.m. on July 26, the Lijing Outcasts Association held a special briefing in the press conference hall."

"Association spokesperson Jiang Lin confirmed that the new Aberrant codenamed "Mulong" officially completed his professional registration at 18 pm yesterday. His ability strength has been measured by the Association's Disaster Assessment Center and has reached the 'quasi-disaster level', which is on par with the data of the current ace fighter Blue Arc."

"At the 25-minute press conference, the Aberrant 'Mulong' appeared in formal combat attire. The Aberrant representative from Lijing, 'Blue Arc,' also made an appearance at the conference."

"When asked about the details of their collaboration, 'Blue Arc' took the initiative to shake hands with Mu Long's right hand and told reporters that they would work together to protect the city and actively deal with crimes committed by people with superpowers."

The host read from his prepared remarks while a recording of the press conference was shown on the screen.

The outcast "Mulong" was completely wrapped in a tattered gray cloak, and wore a dark blue helmet like that of a medieval knight, revealing only the lower half of his face, with eagle-eye-shaped eye sockets.

"Work hard, with you here I don't have to work overtime every day anymore."

As Lan Hu spoke enthusiastically, he patted Mu Long on the shoulder and then extended his right hand to him.

After a moment's hesitation, Mu Long silently grasped Lan Hu's right hand, and the two faced the media cameras together. The image froze at that moment, and then the host changed the script and began to deliver the following news.

Gu Wenyu raised an eyebrow, curiously examining the Aberrant Mu Long in the corner of the screen, thinking, "Is Li Jing getting another near-disaster level? Black Chrysalis's contact list will have another name."

Just then, his spare phone, hidden under his pillow, suddenly vibrated. He took it out, turned the screen, and saw the sender's name, which made him raise his eyebrows slightly.

[Ghost Bell: Are you free?]

[Black Chrysalis: So polite? Mr. Ghost Bell, you must have something important to discuss with me, right?]

[Ghost Bell: I'd like to talk to you about this new oddball in Lijing.]

[Black Chrysalis: Makutaki?]

[Ghost Bell: That's right... this person is dangerous.]

[Black Chrysalis: Where is the danger?]

[Ghost Bell: We'll talk when we meet.]

At this point, Gui Zhong sent an address. Gu Wenyu clicked on the address and saw that it was an abandoned building in the Guyimai neighborhood of Lijing.

[Black Chrysalis: I have a psychological aversion to these unfinished buildings. Couldn't you find another place to meet? You know, last time in that unfinished building in Japan, you first punched my stomach and then punched my head and blew it out.]

[Ghost Bell: Enough talk, time is limited.]

[Black Chrysalis: Understood, I'm coming right now.]

Gu Wenyu put away his spare phone and muttered, "What's going on... Dad knows this 'Mulong' in private?"

"Please, I just got back from a long trip and I have to get back to work. Spare me the trouble."

He sighed, straightened up and was about to get out of bed when he suddenly remembered that the cooldown time for the restraints had ended. So he lay back down on the pillow, stretched his right hand to the edge of the bed, and peeled off large pieces of black restraints.

The restraints rose from the ground like a small mountain, gradually forming a crooked human shape that wobbled like a roly-poly toy before finally regaining its balance.

"Work hard, with you here I don't have to work overtime every day anymore."

Gu Wenyu mimicked the tone Lan Hu used to speak to Mu Long on TV, resting his head on his right arm and patting the avatar's shoulder with his left hand, "Try to avoid getting punched by Gui Zhong twice this time."

The restraints nodded, and with a "whoosh," their entire body was instantly covered in black restraints, entering a transparent form. Then, they opened the window, leaped up, and plummeted into the alley.

　Asking for a monthly ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)