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Chapter 235 Kill your brother, or kill my younger brother? (Seeking monthly votes)

"Why is no one reacting to such an exciting scoop segment?"

Black Chrysalis looked around, but for a while no one responded to his words.

The ward was silent. He pointed at Su Zimai with his left hand and at Lin Zhengquan with his right. Both of them were stunned.

After a moment, the black pupa silently withdrew its hands, hugged its chest, shook its head and sighed.

"Alas... It's true that someone as intelligent and upright as me, who dares to speak out the truth and expose the dark side of society, is still easily isolated and ostracized by others. This is such a sophisticated society, it's not suitable for someone as overly innocent as me to live in."

He paused for a moment: "Well, I'm as innocent as a twelve-year-old boy."

The ward remained silent until Lin Zhengquan, lying on the hospital bed, finally broke the silence.

"Mu Long... is my younger brother?" Lin Zhengquan frowned and asked, almost emphasizing each word.

Su Zimai was also stunned.

She didn't understand why Black Chrysalis would reveal her brother's identity at this time; hadn't they agreed to keep it a secret?

Also, why did Black Chrysalis say that Blue Arc and Mulong would fight? Didn't the mayor publicly praise these two role models of outcasts yesterday? My brother and Mulong were standing together, laughing and joking.

Her mind nearly went blank, and finally, she blurted out this sentence:
"Is Blue Arc my brother?"

"Otherwise what? If Blue Arc isn't your brother, is he mine?"

Hei Yong sighed, then tilted her head, staring at Su Zimai with a look of utter disappointment.

He thought to himself, "You diaper-wearing devil, can you please stop having your brain short-circuit in situations like this? Doesn't this make my words seem less persuasive?"
Only at this moment did Su Zimai finally come to her senses from the state of brain overload.

Putting aside her own foolishness, attacking the black chrysalis was more important. So she frowned and said:

"Pah! You dare call yourself my brother? If my brother knew he had a stinky little brother like you, he would have come all the way from the Stranger Association, eight hundred miles away, and slapped you right here and now, you big moth!"

"He really is a good older brother."

Black Chrysalis shrugged and continued dismissively, "Hitting me is as easy as Ghost Bell hitting him."

Inside the ward, the other three members of the Ghost Train remained silent, their expressions somewhat incredulous.

Clearly, they were more shocked by the fact that Blue Arc was Su Zimai's brother than by the fact that Mu Long was Lin Zhengquan's brother.

Not to mention that Black Chrysalis had previously fooled them, saying that Blue Arc was actually Su Zimai's second brother, "Gu Wenyu". They never expected that the truth was so close, and that it turned out to be her eldest brother, "Gu Qiye".
No wonder Black Chrysalis once said, "That's right, Blue Arc is your brother."

At the time, none of them had any impression of Gu Qiye, so they naturally didn't make any connections in that direction. After Ke Qirui had Xu Sanyan confirm Gu Wenyu's identity, he had already lowered his guard against Su Zimai's family.

But at this moment, Black Chrysalis's words were like a bolt from the blue, awakening those long-forgotten memories once again.

The three of them had been keeping silent, waiting for Su Zimai to refute Hei Yong's statement, but to their surprise, Su Zimai stopped pretending and confessed in front of everyone.

She asked angrily and aggressively, "What exactly is going on with you? Didn't we agree to keep it a secret? I said I didn't want the commander and the others to know yet, but now that you've revealed it, how am I supposed to keep it from you?"

While saying this, Su Zimai was actually quite proud inside.

Who doesn't know Blue Arc? Excluding the elusive Rainbow Wing, Blue Arc is probably among the top five most popular outsiders in the world.

Even among foreigners, Lan Hu is an extremely popular figure; you can even buy his dolls or figurines on the street. She was naturally happy and proud that the people around her knew that such a famous and outstanding person was her brother.

However, aside from that, my feelings were still vaguely complicated and heavy.

Even though a full week had passed since the day the siblings confessed, she still found it hard to connect the radiant, eloquent figure on television with her brother who was busy with housework all day.

It's even harder to convince myself to accept the hardships Gu Qiye has endured over the years. How tired and lonely must my brother be? He bears so much, yet he can't say a word to his family. Many times he must have wanted to confide in someone, but no one would respond to him.

Every night when I come home and turn on the lights, the living room is completely empty.

He wouldn't wake his younger brother and sister, but quietly tended to his wounds in the bathroom. He gritted his teeth in pain but didn't make a sound. Finally, he opened the door a crack and glanced at his brother and sister's faces. Anything he wanted to say, he could only keep to himself.

He fell asleep all alone like that.

The more Su Zimai thought about and put herself in her brother's shoes, the more upset and heartbroken she became. In the end, she could only pretend to be indifferent, otherwise she wouldn't be able to interact with her brother normally as before.

Ke Qirui didn't release her pipe for a while, her face still showing surprise. She murmured:

“I see, that makes sense now. Why did Lan Hu happen to arrive in Tokyo at the same time as her family? Why did Gu Qiye happen to ‘bump into’ us at the barbecue restaurant? And why did Lan Hu seem preoccupied at the last meeting?”

Su Zimai said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, Captain. I didn't mean to hide it from you. I just can't accept this myself yet, so I want to process it for a while."

"It's nothing." Ke Qirui smiled and said, "Even I, an outsider, was quite surprised, let alone you. It's normal that you don't want people to know." As she spoke, she raised her hand and touched Su Zimai's head.

"Are you serious?" Xu Sanyan frowned. He, a complete outsider, was shocked.

Black Chrysalis slowly said, "Miss Su, Mr. Lin, your families will be appearing at tomorrow's annual Outcast Awards Ceremony. There, they will fight like wild beasts, a battle to the death."

He paused, then looked at Lin Zhengquan in the silence:
"And you should understand why your brother is so obsessed with killing Blue Arc, and even became an Outcast."

After a moment of silence, Lin Zhengquan said, "He... still hasn't forgotten about Dad."

“It seems you knew about this.” Black Chrysalis raised an eyebrow. “I thought you were kept in the dark.”

“A-Long told me that my father was killed by Blue Arc,” Lin Zhengquan said. “Because there was no evidence, I didn’t believe Blue Arc would do that. So for all these years, I’ve always thought of it as a hallucination that my brother had when he was trapped under the rubble during the earthquake.”

Ke Qirui was taken aback: "Blue Arc killed your father?"

She thought to herself, but the records in the Exorcist Association showed that Lin Zhengquan's father died in an earthquake.

Lin Zhengquan thought for a moment, then said with a complicated expression:

“This is what my brother said: He was trapped under the rubble, and Dad was trying to pull him out. The two of them called for help from Blue Arc, but Blue Arc didn’t hear them. They were just focused on fighting the criminals. Finally, a bolt of deep blue lightning broke through the window and crushed my father….”

Xu Sanyan frowned.

Su Zimai stared blankly at Zheng Quan's gloomy face, her expression full of disbelief, and opened her mouth but could not utter a word.

She turned her head and looked at Ke Qirui for help: "Captain, this kind of thing..." "The ability to control lightning is very rare, let alone deep blue lightning." Ke Qirui said softly, "If what Zhengquan's brother said is true, then in Lijing, the only one who can do that is... Blue Arc."

Su Zimai's face was pale, and her eyes twitched slightly.

She said, "How could that be... You mean my brother killed an innocent person? Commander, don't be ridiculous. I've known him for so many years, don't you think I know him better than you do? My brother would never do such a thing, absolutely not."

At this point, she suddenly raised her head, her youthful voice trembling slightly: "Because...because Mom died because she was caught in the crossfire of the battle between superpowered individuals! After Mom passed away, everyone in the family was in great pain, including my brother! How could he possibly do the same things as those bad people?!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the ward was once again enveloped in a deathly silence, with only Su Zimai's trembling breathing audible.

"It's a pity... this is most likely true," the black chrysanthemum said softly.

"What makes you so sure this is true?" Su Zimai asked.

The black pupa remained silent.

Su Zimai's lips twitched, and she frowned slightly as she looked at the floor.

After a long pause, her voice trembled with tears as she stammered, "Fluttering Moth, don't you know everything...? Tell them quickly, tell them it's fake... My brother... he's not the kind of person who would do that kind of thing."

The black pupa clicked its tongue.

He shrugged, leaned against the windowsill, and looked down at the restraints protruding from his fingertips.

He said, "Objectively speaking, it's difficult to investigate events from a few years ago. At that time, man-made disasters and natural disasters occurred simultaneously, making it extremely difficult to find out the truth. It's like... you can't be sure whether your mother really died at the hands of Rainbow Wing."

Hei Yong paused for a moment: "But one thing I can be sure of is that, regardless of whether Lin Yilong is telling the truth or not, Lin Yilong's idea of ​​revenge against Blue Arc is hard to change. Rather, it's more like... now that things have come to this, he has no way out."

"Why?" Su Zimai asked in a low voice.

"Why else?" Black Chrysalis said, "Just think about it, he spent several years honing his skills, all for the sake of joining the Outcasts Association. Would he really let this opportunity slip by, standing on the same stage as Blue Arc?"

Lin Zhengquan lowered his head and took a deep breath: "I can be discharged from the hospital this afternoon, and I will go to talk to him then."

Hei Yong crossed her arms and turned to look at him: "The question is, how do you plan to deal with this? Will you stop your younger brother from avenging your father, or... will you reconcile with your brother and have a touching brotherly alliance to kill Su Zimai's brother together?"

Su Zimai was startled, her pupils slowly contracting.

A moment later, she suddenly lowered her head, her bangs obscuring her eyes. She took a step back, her lips moving slightly.

"Anyone who dares to touch my brother, I'll kill them all, even... you won't be an exception."

As soon as Su Zimai said this, the atmosphere in the ward seemed to freeze instantly, as if the air was filled with sticky glue, and everyone was speechless.

As expected of inheriting Ghost Bell's genes, the father and daughter are exactly the same in this respect. Black Chrysalis turned her head to look at her, thinking that Su Zimai's words at this moment were exactly the same as the harsh words Ghost Bell said to the Phantom Troupe at the auction.

After a long pause, Ke Qirui lowered his head, took a puff of smoke from his pipe, and then spoke:

"MaiMai, calm down, don't rush... Let's hear what Zhengquan has to say."

“I’ll figure something out,” Lin Zhengquan said in a low voice. “For my sake, Yilong should stop. When that happens, Xiaomai, you can call Lanhu over, and we can sit down and talk.”

He paused for a moment, then said in a hoarse voice, "Even if we take a step back and confirm that it was indeed Blue Arc who killed my father, then we can talk again."

Su Zimai was silent for a moment, then nodded.

"If only there were such an opportunity," Black Chrysalis said softly. "You know, because I was entrusted with a task... I can't see either Mu Long die, nor can I see Lan Hu die. I have to ensure the safety of both of them."

At this point, he shrugged: "But I'm just a harmless-level ability user. If I get involved in a battle between two top-tier near-disaster-level beings, I'll probably get crushed to dust if I'm not careful. That's why I've come to seek your help."

But Black Chrysalis had another purpose deep down, which she did not tell the four people in the ward.

He wanted this matter to be known to everyone—"Blue Arc successfully stopped a near-disaster-level criminal from infiltrating the Heretics Association," which was no small achievement.

Once the incident is exposed, it will be enough to cause a sensation throughout the country and complete the last piece of the puzzle before the eldest brother joined Rainbow Wing.

Moreover, since Blue Arc entered the public eye again after being on the verge of death during the auction incident, his strength has obviously increased.

So simple, even netizens with little understanding of superpowered individuals can raise questions at the dinner table:
"Has Blue Arc become faster?"

Based on Black Chrysalis's observations over the past few days, while lying in bed watching both fan-made videos of the Silver Swallowing Rat and Blue Arc videos:
Gu Qiye's current strength is just one step away from advancing to the Calamity level; at such a juncture, the appearance of an equally matched opponent like Mu Long might help him break through this threshold smoothly.

"Brother, you've already endured so much pressure. It's not too much for me to put a little more pressure on you to help you achieve enlightenment, is it?"

Hei Chang raised her hand and scratched her chin, silently apologizing to Gu Qiye in her heart.

"In short, I've already told you the time and place. It's tomorrow afternoon at the mayor's awards ceremony. What you do with it is your business," he said. "I have a cable car appointment to attend to next. Goodbye, everyone."

As soon as he finished speaking, he leaned backward from the windowsill, plummeting from a hundred meters above the ground to the earth, disappearing from the four people's sight.

Ke Qirui exhaled, took out her phone from her trench coat pocket, and opened a search engine.

She murmured, "The Outcast Awards Ceremony? If it's held tomorrow afternoon, then we still have time to find Blue Arc and Mu Long and have a chat with them."

The next moment, Ke Qirui looked at the latest search results that popped up on the screen and suddenly froze slightly.

"What's wrong?" Xu Sanyan asked, a cigarette dangling from his lips.

"The event was moved up a day; it was announced this morning." Ke Qirui spoke very quickly, put away her phone, took out a one-way mirror from her pocket and put it on. "There are only twenty minutes left; we have to get there immediately."

Xu Sanyan was taken aback, stubbed out her cigarette, and looked out the window at the sky:
"That bug bastard tricked me again..."

Lin Zhengquan frowned, threw off the blanket and got off the hospital bed, put on his slippers, and looked up at Su Zimai, who had a stunned expression.

He said, "Xiaomai, no matter what, we'll make sure your brother and my younger brother are safe."

“Yes, I know,” Su Zimai nodded and responded softly.

As soon as he finished speaking, movie screens rose from the hospital room, engulfing the four figures within them.

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