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Chapter 233 Sound, Labyrinth, Black Chrysalis's Plan (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
A pale white light shone down from the ceiling, covering the children's playground like an insect net on a dining table.

On the sandy ground, Sun Changkong and Shang Xiaochi were swinging on a swing.

The swing swayed up and down, and Sun Changkong's mood rose and fell with it. Honestly! She was almost driven crazy by this guy with his severe case of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome)!
Shang Xiaochi never looked at her directly from beginning to end, and her words were things like, "Don't come near me... I don't want to get involved with others," "Only the weak need to get involved, the strong walk alone," and "After experiencing the betrayal of friendship, my heart is already riddled with holes."

Despite his resentment and helplessness, Sun Changkong, as the leader of the Salvation Squad and the captain appointed by his mentor, felt he had to be responsible for the newcomers.

From the very beginning of entering the park, she spontaneously offered to help the newcomers resolve their inner conflicts and let the others have fun on their own.

She had already made those boastful remarks, and more than ten minutes of talk had already passed, but Shang Xiaochi still treated her with indifference, which severely frustrated Sun Changkong.

Gradually, her feelings of inferiority as a little girl from the countryside were rekindled.

The two of them became melancholy together. Suddenly, no one spoke on the swing.

"You...you don't mean you don't want to play with me because you think I'm a country kid or a wild child, right?"

Sun Changkong hung his head and muttered softly.

"what?"

"As expected, you look down on me... Just say so."

“No way!” Shang Xiaochi said, “I didn’t look down on you.”

“Wild children are inferior, only... only fit to graze with cattle on the mountain, that’s what you must be thinking.”

With tears welling up in his eyes, Sun Changkong opened his mouth with a pitiful expression, his little tiger teeth trembling. "No one has ever wanted to play with me since I was little. As soon as I enter the village, they throw stones at me."

"You're right, but I don't have many friends myself... Why are you crying? I... I shouldn't have ignored you. Please don't cry. I'm sorry, I was wrong, I was wrong."

Shang Xiaochi was at a loss.

Towards the end of their conversation, their positions suddenly reversed. Shang Xiaochi gently patted Sun Changkong's back, and Sun Changkong hugged her and burst into tears.

It felt absurd, like a psychologist trying to comfort a patient, only to have the doctor take off his glasses and burst into tears at the end, while the patient patted him on the back and said, "It's okay, it'll all pass."

Meanwhile, Filio sat obediently behind Mario, quietly watching him play the shooting game.

Every time Mario blows a zombie's head off, Filio's ears perk up slightly.

Mario says he's thirsty, so Filio wags his tail and runs to the water dispenser to fill a plastic cup for him. Mario then slows down his drinking to let Filio play the game console for a while, while he leans against the slide and watches silently.

Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling stayed alone in the winding maze. They sat on the ground and chatted by writing characters stroke by stroke in the dim light of the maze.

Kong Youling said, "My mentor said that I can't hear because of the side effects of my psychic abilities."

"side effect?"

Kong Youling nodded. "He said that my special ability, in order to protect me, not only helped me block out other people's thoughts, but also blocked out the voices from the outside world."

“If this is true, then no wonder the hearing aid didn’t work for you,” Ji Minghuan murmured. “Does that mean… you can hear now?”

“My tutor helped me; I could hear him as long as I was close by.”

Kong Youling scribbled words with a pencil, held up her notebook to show him, and her white hair swayed gently on her forehead.

“I don’t believe you unless you close your eyes right now and don’t peek at my lips,” Ji Minghuan said.

The white-haired girl obediently closed her eyelids.

"Stupid penguin."

Kong Youling opened her eyes, holding the notebook, and looked at him with some annoyance, her cheeks puffed out slightly.

"You really heard me clearly..." Ji Minghuan was stunned for a moment, then slowly lowered his head. "I never thought that old bastard would have a moment of conscience. It's unbelievable."

"I heard your voice the first time I didn't need superpowers," Kong Youling said.

"how do you feel?"

"Good to hear."

“That’s not what I meant,” Ji Minghuan sighed. “I meant, do you ever feel like the world before was so boring, so quiet, so oppressive, so stifling… The world with sound and the world without sound are completely different things.”

Ji Minghuan once entered Mulong's barrier and experienced the feeling of having her five senses taken away.

That's why he understood how oppressive it was to live in such a silent world, where you couldn't even hear yourself speak, and it was almost suffocating.

But... perhaps just as the people in the miniature garden have never seen the morning or midday sun, a girl who has been deaf since childhood would not naturally feel that living in a world where one cannot hear is actually an unbearable thing.

“I don’t think so,” Kong Youling suddenly said. “Because I can’t hear or speak, it feels more real when I touch you.”

"for example?"

Kong Youling thought for a moment, then suddenly took Ji Minghuan's hand, slowly spread out his five fingers, placed them on her pale face, and then closed her eyes.

The two remained silent for a while until Ji Minghuan came to her senses.

Finally, he turned his head and pinched the white-haired girl's slightly chubby cheeks: "Okay, I understand, there's no need to give any more examples."

Kong Youling then released his hand, opened her eyes, and curiously looked at his slightly flushed face.

"Ah, he's turned into a red-faced elementary school student."

She held up the notebook and gave him a surprised look.

"You stupid penguin, you're doomed! You dared to insult the title of the world's number one dark elementary school student."

As Ji Minghuan spoke, he vigorously ruffled her hair and tickled her.

Just then, the instructor's voice came through the children's playground's broadcast system, "Children, it's time to go back and rest. I'll have someone bring you back to the playground when I have time."

"Let's go."

Ji Minghuan stopped their playful antics and led Kong Youling out of the maze. Shang Xiaochi, already melancholy, turned her head and saw this scene, her melancholy deepening. While swinging on the swing, she muttered with her head down, "Traitors, kill without mercy."

The elevator doors opened. Inside, the experimenters, clad in white coats, were waiting. They led the six children from the playground in order, with Ji Minghuan being the first to leave. He waved to the five people behind him without turning back, then followed the experimenters into the elevator.

The elevator car slowly rose with a hum, and following the group of people beside her, Ji Minghuan soon returned to her cell in the brightly lit corridor.

The lights overhead went out one by one, and with a rumbling sound, the metal door closed once again.

He lay down on the pillow, staring blankly at the dark floor.

"Can Kong Youling hear anything now?" he wondered. "Perhaps keeping her in the Salvation Society for the time being isn't such a bad thing. It's not free enough here, but it's safe for her. The outside world is so chaotic, full of monsters."

He tugged at the metal collar around his neck, lost in thought.

"But we can't guarantee when the Salvation Society will run into trouble. It seems that the mentor is not necessarily on the same page as the other Salvation Society members, which means... there is a high probability that an internal conflict will break out in the Salvation Society soon."

"At that time, the Salvation Team will definitely become the focus of the struggle between the two sides. Kong Youling is the most promising psychic ability user. Regardless of good or bad, both factions will try to get their hands on her and use her abilities to control the other side."

"So it's best to take her away as soon as possible."

Thinking of this, he lay down on his pillow and slowly closed his eyes, soon falling into a deep sleep.

"Knock knock..." A knocking sound came from the darkness. A rapid knocking sound. An impatient knocking sound.

The knocking grew increasingly frantic. Finally, Gu Wenyu opened his eyes and looked at the time on the wall: it was 8 a.m. on August 2nd.

"Are you a pig? This won't wake you up." Su Zimai's voice came from outside.

"What?" Gu Wenyu asked groggily.

"I'm leaving today, so I wanted to let you know in advance."

"Why are you telling me this? Go tell your older brother and father," Gu Wenyu said. "Don't bother me, let me sleep some more."

"If I died out there, would you still keep sleeping...?"

"At worst, I'll bring diapers to your grave when I have some free time."

After Gu Wenyu spoke, Su Zimai outside the door was silent for a moment: "Paper...diapers?" She paused, and then a suspicious and surprised voice came from outside, "What do you mean?"

"It's over..."

Gu Wenyu suddenly woke up, got out of bed, and started chewing on his fingers. He then realized that he had said the wrong thing in his half-asleep state.

He was stunned for a moment, cold sweat pouring down his back. He thought to himself, "Oh no, is my glorious reputation going to be exposed because of a diaper? How can this be? Where will I find any more fun in the future?"
"Explain yourself clearly," came Su Zimai's icy voice, "or I'm not leaving today."

Gu Wenyu lowered his eyes, looking at the blanket covering his legs, and slowly said, "It was my older brother who told me. He said that the diapers in the living room that day were yours, and also said... you might be pregnant."

Su Zimai outside the door suddenly fell silent. After a long while, she raised her fist, knocked on the door weakly and resentfully, and then walked downstairs through gritted teeth.

After getting rid of this big shot, Gu Wenyu lifted the covers and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Brother Blue Arc, you'd better watch yourself."

Thinking this, he pulled his phone out from under his pillow and looked at the message he had received.

[Ghost Bell: How's the matter with Mutaki going?]

[Black Chrysalis: I've been busy these past few days, this is just the beginning. But don't worry, Mr. Ghost Bell, I'll get Blue Arc and Mu Long in love soon.]

[Ghost Bell: Don't disappoint me, or I promise I'll make sure you have a hole in your stomach every time we meet.]

[Black Chrysalis: Yes, sir.]

[Black Chrysalis: As expected of the tough guy Ghost Bell, you really have the air of a tough guy... Mr. Ghost Bell, who likes to boast in front of his family, certainly has the demeanor of a tough guy, but it seems your family doesn't really like this criminal.]

[Black Chrysalis: Uh... to praise yourself in front of Blue Arc, who was beaten up by Ghost Bell several times and almost lost his life, you do have a good sense of humor. If I were Blue Arc, I'd give you a Lightning Whirlwind Thunder Slash.]

[Ghost Bell: Just how psychopathic are you to keep eavesdropping on our conversations?]

[Black Chrysalis: Well, what can I do? I'm an indispensable member of your family.]

Gu Wenyu put down his phone and scratched his head: "Speaking of which, with your great reputation, if you were to join an organization like Rainbow Wing that requires extremely high secrecy, how would the United Nations ensure that it wouldn't be known to others? Are they suggesting that he fake his death in the eyes of outsiders?"

He shook his head, clearing his mind of the chaotic thoughts.

After getting out of bed, I went to the bathroom to wash up. Soon after, I changed into a black swallowtail trench coat, put on a dark red mask, raised my hand to my ear to turn on the voice changer, and leaped through the French windows, plummeting down in the warm summer breeze.

Black Chrysalis, swaying on its restraints, flew to Broly Bookstore, borrowed a copy of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" from the owner, and along the way rescued a kitten trapped in a tree branch using the restraints. Finally, it flew across most of the city and arrived at Lijing Central Hospital.

Lin Zhengquan is being discharged from the hospital today.

During this time, his younger brother Lin Yilong and several members of the Ghost Train Gang stayed at the hospital. Once Lin Zhengquan recovers, the Ghost Train Gang will leave Lijing, and Su Zimai will join them to seek refuge with Lake Hunter.

Currently, the entire central hospital is staffed with informants from the Exorcist Association to ensure that a second attack does not occur.

However, now that the warning from the mentor has been given, the Salvation Society should not take action against the Ghost Train Group again in the short term.

In the sweltering summer, the cicadas chirped incessantly, and the city felt like a giant steamer.

Black Chrysalis remained in stealth mode, hanging upside down on the rooftop near the hospital, hiding in the shadow of the high-altitude work platform, flipping through "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" while using the senses of its restraints to gaze at the distant hospital.

Next, he planned to talk to Lin Zhengquan about his good younger brother Lin Yilong, and tell Lin Zhengquan that Lin Yilong was actually "Mulong" and had murderous intentions towards Lan Hu.

After that, take the opportunity to reveal Blue Arc's identity to the Ghost Train group, letting them know that Blue Arc is actually Su Zimai's brother.

After Mulong's assassination attempt on Lanhu fails, Heiyong can try to use this connection to persuade Mulong. In this way, they might be able to fulfill Guizhong's request and achieve a win-win situation.

"Finally here."

After waiting for a while, Hei Yong looked up from his book and spotted Su Zimai getting out of the taxi.

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