My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 247 Tomorrow, Movements, Bell Tolls (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

On August 4th, the heavy rain continued into the night.

After Gu Zhuoan and Gu Qiye had an argument in the entryway, Gu Zhuoan turned around and walked into the downpour, and was never heard from again.

The old man was already in poor mental condition, and after being provoked like this, he went berserk like a bull and couldn't be stopped. Unless he was crippled, captured, and locked in the basement, Gu Wenyu couldn't think of any other way to stop him from going to his death.

And Gu Wenyu certainly had the ability to execute this: all he needed to do was call on Caesar and Agubaru, along with Black Chrysalis, and capture Ghost Bell without suffering any losses; it was an easy task.

After all, Unit 3 and Caesar together managed to kill the captain of the Royal Court team, a Calamity-level powerhouse comparable to Li Qingping.

No matter how powerful the time-based abilities are, they can't change the fact that Ghost Bell is only a quasi-disaster level creature. Seeing a 300-meter-long shark fall from the sky, Old Man could only tremble in fear.

That's what he thought. Gu Wenyu did indeed intend to follow Gui Zhong to see if his father would really do something incredibly foolish, like going to fight several Rainbow Wing members by himself.

But then I realized that the Salvation Society members were currently hiding in the city.

For Gu Wenyu, Lijing is now fraught with danger and peril. Since the Salvation Society has killed Lin Zhengquan, they may also send someone to capture "Black Chrysalis" and bring the big moth that is active in Lijing back to the Salvation Society. After all, in the mentor's eyes, the character Black Chrysalis is still suspected of being related to Ji Minghuan.

Even if we assume there's absolutely no connection between the two, given the unique abilities Black Chrysalis has displayed, she wouldn't have to complain even if she were captured and brought back to the Salvation Council a hundred times.

With his thoughts focused on this point, Gu Wenyu refrained from taking any rash actions.

In the end, he simply released a restraint-bound avatar out of the French windows.

The dark, shadowy figure, like a lost soul, wandered aimlessly around Lijing.

The restraints' senses swept through every street and alley, even the Ferris wheel carriages in the amusement park, and they even managed to save a worker who was attempting suicide from a high-rise building.

But in the end, they still couldn't find their father.

The Gu Zhuo case seemed to be submerged in this sudden downpour in a single day.

Even when questioned by the man disguised as a black cocoon, Gu Wenyu still received no response. It seemed Gu Zhuo had completely forgotten about his phone.

This person has completely lost his mind, and the price of madness is very likely to be death.

Left with no other choice, Gu Wenyu took out his phone and asked Mu Long a question.

[Black Chrysalis: Have you seen our beloved old father, Mr. Ghost Bell?]

[Mutaki: No.]

[Black Chrysalis: Then can you help me look for it?]

[Black Chrysalis: I don't know many people in the gang. Maybe Mr. Ghost Bell has gone to their territory. You've known Ghost Bell for so long, you should know something about the local gang.]

[Mu Long: I said, whatever decision he makes is none of my business.]

[Black Chrysalis: Okay, okay, you can continue playing your aloof, vengeful knight. I won't bother you anymore.]

[Black Chrysalis: Do you feel like the whole world has isolated you?]

[Black Chrysalis: Don't you feel like a high-and-mighty flower, the protagonist of a tragedy, the melancholy little prince in a fairy tale? Having witnessed the night of your genocide, you're about to awaken the beauty of your pupils, adorned with tomoe.]

[Black Chrysalis: Yes, that's right, Mr. Mutaki, you're right.]

[Black Chrysalis: You win! Cold and aloof guy!]

[Notification: You have been blocked by the other party.]

In the dead of night, Gu Wenyu lay on the bed with his arm as a pillow, looking at the rain outside the French windows, and picked up his phone to send a message to Su Zimai.

[Gu Wenyu: Tomorrow is Dad's birthday, do you want to come back?]

He waited for a long time, but Su Zimai still did not reply.

In the darkness, Gu Wenyu silently stared at his phone screen, the fluorescent light illuminating his dark eyes. With nothing else to do, he swiped up the screen and discovered that he had largely ignored the numerous messages Su Zimai had sent him.

Although Su Zimai often throws tantrums and blocks other family members, she has never blocked or ignored Gu Wenyu. Therefore, Gu Wenyu can tell that his younger sister is probably really on the verge of a breakdown this time.

From the moment she suddenly approached Gu Wenyu at dusk yesterday and hugged him, telling him not to forget her, my sister's mental state had already reached its breaking point.

This morning, the impact of Lin Zhengquan's death on her was no less than anyone else's, especially given the way his body was dismembered and hung from a street lamp.

After much deliberation, Gu Wenyu felt that the Salvation Society's design of this method was actually quite cautionary.

After all, Lin Zhengquan angered the Salvation Society by investigating something he shouldn't have—"the past of the red streetlight"—so the Salvation Society cut off his head and hung it above the "streetlight" to warn them not to cross that line again.

Gu Wenyu stared at the ceiling, pondering in his mind:

"Rather than calling it the Salvation Society, it's more accurate to say that this was the Master's doing alone... Logically speaking, the other high-ranking members of the Salvation Society should not know that the Master hypnotized Red Light a few years ago, causing Red Light to expose the Salvation Society's existence. Therefore, the Master does not want anyone else to investigate the truth about Red Light."

"What exactly is the mentor's goal? Could it be that he is also a victim threatened by the Salvation Society, and therefore wants to completely destroy the Salvation Society from within?"

Gu Wenyu shook his head, pulling himself out of his jumbled thoughts, and picked up his phone to continue sending messages to Su Zimai.

[Gu Wenyu: Are you alright, little sister?]

After sending the message, Gu Wenyu stared at the WeChat interface for a long while, but Su Zimai still didn't reply.

So he had no choice but to open the text messaging interface and start bothering Ke Qirui instead.

[Gu Wenyu: Lesbian sister, my little sister is with you, right?]

[Ke Qirui: Yes, we're in Haifan City. Don't worry, the people from Lake Hunter are with us; she's safe.]

[Gu Wenyu: Then why aren't you replying to my messages?] [Ke Qirui: She needs some time to calm down.]

[Gu Wenyu: Has something happened?]

[Ke Qirui: She doesn't want you to know, and I can't tell you these things either. It's getting late, I'm going to sleep now. High school students are still growing, don't stay up late.]

Amid the pattering rain, Gu Wenyu put away his phone, rolled twice off the soft bed, and landed on the floor.

He stood up, lowered his eyes, slipped on his slippers, then pushed open the door and went downstairs. Leaning against the stair railing, he glanced at the entryway.

The lights were off on the first floor, and it was pitch black. Gu Qiye was still sitting quietly against the wall in the entryway. His eyes were closed, and he wearily tilted his head back, resting the back of his head against the wall.

He's been sitting there all day.

In his memory, Gu Wenyu had never seen Gu Qiye so exhausted.

In the past, no matter how tired she was, Gu Qiye would never show her dejected side in front of her younger brother and sister. Like a robot unaffected by emotions, she would never miss a single task.

"Was the death of our father, the Ghost Bell, too much of a blow for him? My older brother was planning to retire anyway, will he just give up like this?"

Gu Wenyu sighed, silently returned to the second floor, pulled a small quilt from the bed, dragged it on the floor, and carried it down to the first floor as if he were sweeping.

Then she quietly walked towards Gu Qiye and gently draped the blanket over him.

Gu Qiye's eyelids trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes.

He lowered his eyes, glanced at the blanket covering him, and then looked up at Gu Wenyu.

"Brother, you'll catch a cold sleeping here," Gu Wenyu said. "Let me make this clear first, don't think you're omnipotent just because you're a superhuman. Do superhumans not get sick?"

He shrugged. "Well, it seems I really don't know how."

"I'm a little tired, I'll rest here for a while," Gu Qiye said after a moment of silence.

"I can't get in touch with my younger sister, and neither can my father."

"Oh... It's okay, it'll be fine tomorrow."

Gu Qiye spoke softly, seemingly no longer wanting to think about anything, simply closing her eyes and murmuring:

"It will be better tomorrow."

With his hoarse voice, he turned his head to the side, leaned against the wall, and fell asleep again.

Amidst the patter of rain, Gu Wenyu remained silent for a moment, then ignored Gu Qiye and walked towards the refrigerator in the living room. Opening the refrigerator door, the built-in light illuminated his face.

He took out a bottle of Coke from the refrigerator; it was the one Su Zimai had frozen two days ago.

My sister had specifically told him not to move around, or she'd use her magic pigeons to lift him into the sky. But since she wasn't coming back anytime soon, it didn't matter.

Gu Wenyu closed the refrigerator, took a Coke, and sat down on the sofa.

As he listened to the sound of rain in the darkness, he unscrewed the bottle cap, and the cool white steam hissed upwards, hitting his face.

He brought the bottle closer, took a sip of cola. The first sip of an ice-cold carbonated drink always felt so intoxicating, like fire burning his throat.

Gu Wenyu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling much more relaxed.

He glanced at the gray world through the rain, the billboards flickering on and off, the neon lettering above them dim and lifeless, like candles that might go out at any moment.

"It'll be better tomorrow..."

Gu Wenyu stared blankly at the ceiling, softly repeating the self-deceptive words.

How many times has my brother lied to me with this phrase? Will things really get better this time when I open my eyes? Thinking of this, Gu Wenyu turned his head and glanced at Gu Qiye, who was sleeping soundly in the entryway.

He suddenly felt a little sleepy, after all, searching for someone all day was not an easy task.

So he leaned his head against the back of the sofa, and in a relaxed, reclining position, slowly closed his eyes.

But late at night, Gu Wenyu suddenly woke up on the sofa.

He opened his eyes and stared motionlessly at the dark ceiling, like a machine following a set program.

Because his restraint avatar, hanging upside down in the city center, suddenly heard a huge noise at that moment.

The commotion came from a nearby amusement park that had already closed.

The avatar moved. Drifting among the skyscrapers, its fluttering restraints trailing behind it, the closer it got to the amusement park, the more it felt a chilling aura, as if the land were frozen solid in the dead of winter. The summer heat and stuffiness that had been lingering in the air were swept away.

Intermittent, earthquake-like tremors seemed to awaken the slumbering city. Lights gradually illuminated the once-dark buildings, and people in every household opened their windows, casting their gazes towards the amusement park.

As the restraints avatar approached the center of the amusement park, he gradually heard a deafening bell ringing.

It's like London's Big Ben suddenly ringing at midnight.

Not long after, Gu Wenyu closed his eyes again, tilted his head, and fell asleep against the back of the sofa.

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