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Chapter 251 The News of Father's Death, Rainbow Wing's Final Announcement (Thanks to "Spacefather Ship" for the generous donation)

8 PM on August 5th, Guyimai Street.

After buying a birthday cake from Connie's Bakery, the two brothers sat on the sofa in the living room, taking a short break with the fan blowing.

At that moment, a torrential downpour was falling outside, and the floodwaters in the streets and alleys were deep enough to submerge the trouser legs of passersby. Fortunately, the doors and windows on the first floor were tightly closed, so when the loud rain reached the living room, it seemed to turn into a light drizzle.

At this moment, Gu Qiye raised her head and stared blankly at the lines of text on the television screen, her gaze lingering on the words "Ghost Bell" marked in red.

The broadcast on the screen never stopped:
"It has been confirmed that the extremist known as 'Ghost Bell' was killed on the spot, and no civilian casualties were reported during the operation."

"According to reports from reporters on the scene, a large number of facilities in the amusement park have been damaged. The Association of Extraordinary Persons has funded the reconstruction work, and the association's professional superhuman 'mechanical worker' has pledged to participate in the reconstruction work."

Hearing the clear broadcast, Gu Wenyu on the sofa also looked up from his phone screen.

He raised an eyebrow and saw one or two photos of the Lijing Starlight Amusement Park on the TV, with the shocking meteorite crater coming into view.

Although not as spectacular as what you see in person, it's still enough to make you gasp in shock.

The gap between ordinary people and superhumans with catastrophic abilities is so vast, there is an insurmountable chasm between them, the difference in their magnitude is like the difference between a river and the ocean, so it is understandable that they are treated like ants and accidentally stepped on.

"Ghost Bell is dead?" Gu Wenyu raised an eyebrow and said with a sigh, "Good riddance. Rainbow Wing's people are efficient. Bro, didn't this guy beat you up pretty badly before..."

Before he could finish speaking, a loud snap suddenly rang out in the living room, interrupting him.

Gu Wenyu's voice stopped abruptly. He paused, then turned to look at the piece of cake on the ground. Cream was splattered everywhere, and the fruit and chocolate fillings were also damaged. A few candles were still stuck crookedly in the cake.

Gu Wenyu sighed, thinking to himself, "If you won't eat it, I will. Little sister, you spent so long choosing, and you just dropped it?"
"What's wrong with you?" he asked knowingly. "Is there any need for such a big reaction, buddy?"

After speaking, Gu Wenyu remained silent for a moment, then looked up at Gu Qiye's back.

The world was silent. Gu Qiye's back remained motionless, frozen like a statue. After a long while, he finally showed some reaction.

Gu Qiye slowly lowered her head. She clearly wanted to look at the cake that had fallen to the ground, but her eyes couldn't help but linger on the television.

A full-body photo of Ghost Bell was displayed in the corner of the screen. This strange yet familiar dark figure evoked a long-forgotten sense of fear in him. Starting with his hands, his entire body began to tremble slowly.

"No, that's not Dad."

"Dad lied to me yesterday."

"Yes, how could he possibly be Ghost Bell?"

"He... is just a good-for-nothing, a drunkard."

"Ghost Bell is dead, it has nothing to do with him."

"He's alright, he's alive, he..."

The self-deceptive thoughts in his mind came to an abrupt halt, and Gu Qiye's eyes gradually dimmed.

He didn't understand his feelings at that moment. He felt as if his brain was a ball of yarn that had been roughly torn apart and rolled on the ground, his thoughts rolling in all directions like the yarn, extending endlessly.

There was too much, it was too chaotic... In the end, even he couldn't figure out what he was thinking.

After a long while, Gu Qiye finally took her eyes off the screen.

He suddenly saw the cake shattered all over the floor, and his face finally showed a look of astonishment, as if something had suddenly ripped open his chest and spilled out.

Startled, Gu Qiye glanced down at the fallen candle, then turned to look at the cream splattered on the corner of the table. An indescribable despair and gloom overwhelmed his heart.

The news of his father's death didn't break him immediately; he was merely numb. But seeing the cake shattered on the floor, Gu Qiye suddenly realized something:

"I...I messed everything up."

Gu Qiye muttered to himself, gritting his teeth as he tasted the metallic taste of blood at the corner of his mouth. Tears streamed down his face; he didn't know how long it had been since he had last shed a tear.

"Hey bro, are you alright?" Gu Wenyu raised an eyebrow suspiciously, interrupting his thoughts. "Is this news really that surprising to you? Are you still traumatized by the ghost bell you were hit on at work?"

Gu Qiye lowered her head, her lips moving slightly as she murmured:
"Wenyu... listen to me, the Ghost Bell is..."

"he……"

"He is...our..."

He spoke haltingly, but suddenly stopped midway through his sentence.

Gu Qiye knew that his younger brother hadn't heard what he and his father had been arguing about yesterday, so he didn't know that Gu Zhuo's case was actually about the Ghost Bell. But how could he bring himself to say it?

Is he supposed to tell his brother: "Dad was killed by Rainbow Wing's men today?"

But how long can he keep it a secret?

How would my younger brother feel if he found out about this someday? And what about my younger sister? What would she do then?
Behind him, Gu Wenyu silently watched his back, then softly reminded him, "Brother, you spilled the cake you just bought."

He paused, then asked, "Should we buy a new one?"

Gu Qiye remained silent for a long time, lowering her head and staring at the candles stuck in the broken cake. Finally, she asked in a hoarse voice:
"Wenyu, could you... turn off the TV for me?"

"Oh."

Gu Wenyu nodded, picked up the remote control on the table, pressed the power button, and turned off the TV.

The announcer's clear voice disappeared. When he announced Ghost Bell's death, his voice contained an undisguised joy, as if he had seen a pest being trampled to death. Because of this, his voice sounded so noisy to Gu Qiye's ears.

His chatter was so loud it made you want to tear his mouth apart.

Gu Wenyu casually tossed the remote control onto the sofa and silently watched his older brother's back.

In fact, Ji Minghuan knew in his heart that if he told Gu Qiye at this time that their father was not actually dead, his older brother would feel much better.
The problem is that if Gu Qiye is told about this, he might really give up the opportunity to join Rainbow Wing. Therefore, no matter what, Ji Minghuan must harden her heart and keep this from him as much as possible, at least for the short term.

"Dad's faked death might be the last chance for my brother to join Rainbow Wing... This is the last chance."

With that thought in mind, Gu Wenyu no longer hesitated and turned his gaze away from Gu Qiye's back.

"I'm going to take a shower... I'll be back to tidy up in a bit. You don't need to worry about it."

Gu Qiye spoke softly, rising from the sofa and staggering into the bathroom. He closed the door behind him, then leaned against it, unable to support himself any longer, and slowly slid down. He sat silently on the floor, head bowed.

At this moment, immense regret overwhelmed his heart.

If I had told Gu Zhuoan yesterday that I wouldn't join Hongyi, would Gu Zhuoan have been less impulsive in going to find people from Hongyi?

If he tells his father that the Rainbow Wings came to this city to find him, does he have a chance to escape?
What am I doing? Why can't I be more honest? Why do we have to create conflict?
why?
Gu Qiye, what exactly are you doing?
Everything is over, there's no hope. What will Wenyu and Xiaomai think when they know Dad is dead? They've finally managed to catch their breath after Mom's death. And me? What am I going to do...? I'm finally about to start a new life, I've finally decided to say goodbye to the past, to say goodbye to that damned mask.

Gu Qiye couldn't understand anything, and he couldn't see anything anymore. Tears blurred his vision. He held his head in his hands, curled up behind the door, and quietly listened to the pounding of the wind and rain against the window.

"Mom, save me..."

Outside the door, Gu Wenyu was cleaning up the cake on the floor, licking the dark chocolate off his fingertips. "What a waste. I've never had cake in the orphanage. I was really looking forward to it..."

He muttered to himself, picked up the broom, and quietly cleaned up the cake and cream on the floor, then mopped it up.

Then, he pulled out a black restraint strap from his sleeve, picked up the light bar with "Happy Birthday" engraved on it and the candle, and threw them all into the trash can.

After a long while, Gu Wenyu slumped back on the sofa and suddenly turned his head.

My gaze traveled through the back of the sofa to the distant, dejected figure sitting on the floor behind the glass screen door.

Actually, he could understand Gu Qiye's feelings. Precisely because he was a fake, he understood this older brother better than anyone else. Over the years, this foolish older brother thought he had matured and become stronger, and that he could protect his younger brother and sister.

I always thought I wouldn't have to watch the same tragedy happen to me again.

But the moment he heard the news of his father's death, Gu Qiye felt as if he were back on that night, watching his mother shatter into a shower of blood mist. He suddenly realized that he had never grown up, but was just a child blinded by powerlessness and hatred.

Thinking of this, Gu Wenyu murmured softly, "I'm sorry, brother, this is the only thing I can do..."

He lay on the sofa, staring blankly at the clock on the wall, while glancing at the blurry figure behind the glass screen door out of the corner of his eye, wondering when Gu Qiye would finally stand up from there.

Finally, unable to wait any longer, Gu Wenyu got up from the sofa and slowly walked towards the bathroom.

Amid the sound of rain, he stopped in front of the door, knocked twice symbolically on the bathroom door, and whispered, "Brother... I've cleaned up the spilled cake for you. Don't just sit there in the bathroom spacing out. If you want to sleep, go to bed, okay?"

After a moment's hesitation, he asked again, "Um, should I go out and buy another cake?"

“No need…” After a moment of silence, Gu Qiye replied softly, “Wenyu, Dad just called and told me that he went out of town, so… we don’t need to buy a cake.”

"Wow, Dad's only been back for a short time, is he even human? Never mind then."

After saying that, Gu Wenyu went upstairs and lay down on the bed in his room to rest.

He turned his head from the pillow and looked out the window.

The rain stopped silently, and after the dark rain clouds dispersed, the crimson sky of dusk was revealed. The sun sank below the horizon, and the last rays of its wine-red afterglow, hanging in the sky, disappeared into the distance with the birds.

As the night deepened, the bathroom on the first floor became pitch black, with only the sound of water dripping from the sink audible.

In the darkness, Gu Qiye sat there, hugging her knees, lost in thought, her lips moving as if pleading for help. After a long while, her phone, lying on the ground, suddenly vibrated.

He was slightly taken aback and looked down at the phone screen that had suddenly lit up.

[Ice: Haven't you made a decision yet?]

"Ice" is the WeChat name of Yuriel, the "Ice Girl" of Rainbow Wings.

Her profile picture is an ice cube in a glass, as minimalist as her name. Her Moments feed is completely blank, not because it's set to be visible for only three days, but because she's never posted anything.

After thinking for a long time, Gu Qiye picked up her phone, silently typed, and sent the message.

[Gu Qiye: I saw the news. You killed Gui Zhong?]

[Ice: Yes, I heard you got pretty badly beaten by him before you were promoted to Cataclysmic level.]

Ice: I've avenged you.

[Gu Qiye: Who killed him?]

Ice: We cannot answer that; we have a confidentiality agreement.

[Ice: I can't reveal this unless you become a member of Rainbow Wings.]

[Ice: The reason is as follows: the capabilities of Rainbow Wing members can be judged by examining on-site photos and the extent of damage to the buildings.]

[Gu Qiye: When are you leaving?]

Ice: We'll be going back to New York tomorrow night.

Gu Qiye: That was fast.

[Ice: Blue Arc, this is your last chance. Think carefully.]

Ice: Joins Rainbow Wings.

[Ice: Should I just be an ordinary person?]

Gu Qiye stared at the lines of text on the screen, and after a moment slowly raised her head to look at herself in the mirror.

At this moment, black arcs of electricity were dancing in his pupils, his haggard cheeks were sunken inward, and tears were still streaming from the corners of his eyes.

It's like a monster whose face has been completely disfigured.

The faint light from the phone screen shone upwards, illuminating his numb and indifferent face. Dark lightning danced in his pupils, almost leaping out.

The young man in the mirror was clearly expressionless, yet he looked as ferocious as a wandering ghost.

Gu Qiye's gaze slowly turned cold.

I tapped the screen lightly to send a final message, and then the phone went dark.

Gu Qiye: I'm joining.

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(End of this chapter)