My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 262 Rainbow Wing Gathering, Twelve Calamity-Level Individuals (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
New York, USA, August 6, 8:8 AM local time, inside an unmarked elevator in the Empire State Building.

The lights shone down from the ceiling of the elevator car, illuminating Gu Qiye's pale face.

The surveillance cameras were set up inside the elevator without any attempt to conceal their presence; countless red dots flashed on the wall, like the eyes of an eight-eyed spider.

Standing beside Gu Qiye was a white-haired girl dressed in a black bodysuit. She held a tablet computer, her icy blue eyes lowered, and her fingers slowly tapping the screen.

They boarded a plane to New York in Lijing ten hours earlier. After arriving in the United States, due to the time difference, it was still morning on August 6th there, giving them a disorienting feeling that it was still daytime after crossing into daylight.

"Our meeting place is actually the Empire State Building?" Gu Qiye finally spoke.

“Rainbow Wings’ meeting location is different every year. Last year it was in Japan, the year before that it was in China, and this year it’s in the United States,” Yuriel said without looking up.

"But...aren't there a lot of tourists at the Empire State Building?"

“Therefore, it’s hard for others to associate our meeting place with the Empire State Building. The more conspicuous the place, the safer it is.” Yuriel said expressionlessly. “We will take the invisible passage and will not run into any guests. The only risk is Fan Dongqing. He is the only person whose identity is publicly known, so his movements are restricted.”

As she spoke, she opened a file lying in the folder and handed the tablet computer in her hand to Gu Qiye.

"What is this?" Gu Qiye asked in a low voice.

"Generally speaking, Rainbow Wing members are only allowed to know each other's abilities when they need to cooperate with each other, and the confidentiality agreement states that they must never disclose them to outsiders, otherwise the consequences will be self-evident."

"and then?"

“I’ve compiled a basic list of Rainbowwing members, which includes each person’s codename and general abilities,” Yuriel said. “Would you like to see it?”

Gu Qiye nodded and took the tablet computer.

He thought that everyone in this file could be the murderer who killed his mother, and... the person who killed his father that day was Fan Dongqing, You Ruier, Qi Yuan Liuli, and Jiu Shi Jiu. At that time, only these four Rainbow Wing members were in Lijing.

The authorities have blocked all information and dealt with all eyewitnesses, but it's not difficult to find them. The clues are the photos of the amusement park riddled with holes and the crater that looks like a meteorite impact. Anyone with the ability can tell the difference with just a glance.

Thinking of this, Gu Qiye glanced at the file on the tablet without making a sound.
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【The Boat of the Viking】: Sail Holly (China) (Rainbow Wings' "No. 1")
1. Physical characteristics: Long hair, likes to wear a white traditional Chinese jacket, estimated height is 1.81 meters.

2. Special Ability: Create a giant dragon boat that floats in the sky, with various internal structures for warfare hidden inside.

3. My impression of him: a narcissistic man, an arrogant madman, and the only publicly acknowledged member of Rainbow Wing.
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[Spotting]: Ke Qingzheng (China) (Rainbow Wings' "Number 2")
1. Physical characteristics: Black hair and black eyes, short haircut, solemn demeanor, height estimated at 1.77 meters.

2. Superpower: Air Manipulation (He has refined and precisely controlled sharp air currents in the air. He has created air blades, created an air giant, and fired an air bullet; these are all combat techniques he has used.)
3. My impression of him: I have no impression of him.
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【Thousand Returns Hand】: Ruri Urushibara (Japan) (Rainbow Wings' "Number 3")
1. Physical characteristics: Medium-short hair, wispy bangs, black hair and black eyes, pupils that look like they are inlaid with glass, height 1.72 meters.

2. Special Ability: Details are unclear and will not be recorded for the time being.

3. Note: Strategic-type Cataclysmic-level ability users have different specialties than combat-type Cataclysmic-level ability users.

4. My impression of her: Pokémon "Ditto".
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【Arctic Girl】：Yuriel (Iceland) (Rainbow Wings' "Number 4")
1. Appearance: Pure white hair, ice blue eyes, height 1.59 meters (not short, but because of the side effect of his superpower, he will not grow taller. He usually wears a black tight-fitting combat suit when carrying out missions).
2. Special Abilities: These are suspected of being self-aggrandizing and will not be recorded.

3. Self-image: None.
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[Polar Scholar]: Karina (USA) (Rainbow Wing's "No. 5")
1. Appearance: Long blonde hair, blue eyes, height estimated at 1.68 meters.

2. Special ability: Never cooperated before, details unknown.

3. My impression of her: A research fanatic. It is said that during a polar research mission, all her companions died in a sudden blizzard. But she survived thanks to her strong will to live and awakened supernatural abilities.
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[The Last Sword Demon]: Oda Hideaki (Japan) (Rainbow Wing's "Number 6")
1. Appearance: Pale hair, broken eyebrows, height estimated at 1.80 meters.

2. Special Ability: We have never cooperated with each other, and the details are unclear, so we will not record it.

3. My impression of him: a robust old man, wearing a black kimono, and not very talkative.
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[Princess]: Alexandra Ivanovna (Russia) (Rainbow Wings' "Number 7")
1. Appearance: Silver-white hair styled into a high bun, amber pupils, estimated height 1.81 meters.

2. Special Ability: We have never cooperated with each other, and the details are unclear, so we will not record them.

3. My impression of her: from the Russian royal family, a queen, high and mighty.
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[Black Flash]: Gu Qiye (China) (Rainbow Wing's "New Number 8")
1. Appearance: Shoulder-length black hair, black eyes, estimated height 1.82 meters.

2. Special ability: Previously, it was the ability to control lightning, using it to stimulate the activity of its own cells, etc. (After the second mutation, it gained a new type of lightning with unknown abilities).

3. My impression of him: Blue paste → Black sesame paste.
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Upon seeing this, Gu Qiye paused for a moment, then looked up at Yu Ruier.

However, Yuri ignored him, instead focusing on playing "Nobita's Biohazard" on her iPhone. On the screen, Nobita was being chased by bio-zombies. Her snow-white hair hung down, obscuring the girl's eyes, and Gu Qiye also looked away from her face.

He silently looked at the files on the screen, where only the introductions of the last three people in Rainbow Wing remained.
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[Arms Queen]: 9,999 (Russia) (Rainbow Wings' "Number 9")
1. Appearance: Pink hair, twin ponytails, wearing the same Russian military uniform for years to come, estimated height 1.56 meters.

2. Special ability: Creates a large number of enhanced weapons and even air force missiles.

3. My impression of her: When she first joined the team, she strictly required herself to be in position 9, so she swapped numbers with one of the Rainbow Wing members. We usually called her "Ninety-Nine".
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[Gothic Doll]: Esther Doolittle (UK) (Rainbow Wings' "Number 10")
1. Appearance: The same old Gothic Lolita dress, long and straight black hair, estimated height 1.65 meters.

2. Special ability: Creates marionettes, can freely control the size of the marionettes, and the range of control is unknown; it is said that when near death, one can turn oneself into a marionette and make the body fight automatically.

3. My impression of her: She's easily sleepy, always has droopy eyelids, needs to sleep for 16 hours a day in a lead coffin before waking up, and is always late for gatherings. The side effects of her superpowers seem to be causing her to slowly lose her emotions, like a doll.
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Overloader: Garfield West (USA) (Rainbow Wings' "Number 11")
1. Appearance: A little boy, usually wearing a turtleneck sweater, with blue hair and blue eyes, estimated to be 1.60 meters tall.

2. Special Ability: Never cooperated, details unknown, not recorded.

3. My impression of him: an arrogant child.
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[Father of Puppetry]: Name unknown (British) (Rainbow Wing's "Number 12")
1. Appearance: Wearing an oversized trench coat, with bandages wrapped around his face, he is estimated to be 1.75 meters tall.

2. Superpower: He can turn deceased superpowered individuals into puppets and control them in battle. The puppets retain their original superpowers; however, the number of puppets he can preserve is limited.

3. Note: It is currently known that the Father of Puppet has a total of two Cataclysmic-level puppets. One of the Cataclysmic-level puppets is the former No. 8 member of Rainbow Wing - "Machine Soul Bodhisattva" (real name: Ajaya, Indian monk, bald, wearing a red robe, died in the Sahara Desert Operation). Machine Soul Bodhisattva's special ability is to summon a "Thousand-Handed Mechanical Bodhisattva Statue".

Details of the other Cataclysmic-level puppet are unknown and have not been disclosed in the archives.

4. My impression of him: a bandaged man, a puppet, a person who desecrates corpses.
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Upon seeing this, Gu Qiye raised an eyebrow slightly, thinking to himself that this member number 12's ability was ridiculously strong, actually able to turn a catastrophe-level ability user into his puppet, especially since he was the previous member of Rainbow Wing...

He took a deep breath, pulled himself out of his jumbled thoughts, and started flipping through the pages from bottom to top, recalling the pillar of light that had crushed his mother into a cloud of blood that day.

The abilities of many Rainbow Wing members are unknown, and among those whose abilities are known in the files, it is very far-fetched to connect them to the scene of that day.

He had some clues about the superhuman who destroyed the Lijing Starlight Amusement Park. It was very likely that it was the "Arms Girl" Jiujiu, whose superpower was to create enhanced versions of weapons.

The Russian girl was in Lecce at the time. If she had killed her father, it wouldn't be surprising that the amusement park was destroyed like that.

"I need to delve deeper into Rainbow Wing and start by witnessing the abilities of other members firsthand."

As Gu Qiye's thoughts drifted to this point, he was suddenly drawn to the sound of gunfire coming from inside the elevator. Turning his head, he saw Yu Ruier's fingers tapping on her phone screen as if playing the piano.

She is controlling Nobita to shoot zombies with a pistol, and blood is splattering on the phone screen.

Gu Qiye withdrew his gaze expressionlessly, no longer observing the white-haired girl addicted to the game. He thought to himself that the people of Rainbow Wing seemed even more eccentric than he had imagined, though it was possible that Yuriel was an exception.

The elevator car was descending with a hum, but its speed was extremely slow compared to ordinary elevators, probably to allow ample time to prevent any uninvited guests from sneaking in.

Gu Qiye lowered her head, glanced at the photos pasted in the file once more, and finally fixed her gaze on Oda Hideaki's face.

He felt that the old man looked familiar, as if he had seen someone similar to him before, but he couldn't remember where.

Without realizing it, Gu Qiye swiped the screen. The tablet in her hand exited the file interface and jumped to the homepage.

He paused for a moment, then glanced over and saw the homepage filled with countless mobile game icons.

Yuriel has downloaded a lot of mobile games, and it's clear that she's seriously addicted to the internet: just logging in and checking in every day is enough to take up a lot of her time.

However, the moment Gu Qiye looked away from the software icon, she was drawn to the tablet's cover.

It was a slender figure clad in cyan-blue metallic armor, standing beneath the neon lights of the city center, with deep blue arcs of electricity dancing in the air.

"Blue...Arc?"

Gu Qiye looked at the cover of the tablet computer and read out his former name.

Upon hearing this, Yuriel's fingers, which were fiddling with her phone, suddenly paused slightly.

The elevator suddenly fell silent, save for a buzzing sound. On Yuriel's phone, a pixelated bio-zombie, baring its fangs and claws, chased after Nobita, tearing them into a mangled mess of flesh, while Doraemon lay to the side, a look of despair on his face.

A moment later, she raised her icy blue eyes and stared intently at Gu Qiye.

“That’s the system cover,” she said. “If you’re done looking at it, please give the tablet back to me instead of flipping through it.”

Gu Qiye nodded and handed the tablet back to her without hesitation.

He looked up at the elevator's information panel; the car had descended to the 25th floor underground of the Empire State Building.

With a rumbling sound, the elevator doors slowly opened, revealing a spacious conference room.

The long table in the conference room was now full of people of different races and temperaments, from different countries, but each of them had a unique and memorable quality.

Gu Qiye had already seen their photos in Yu Ruier's records, so she could recognize them at a glance.

Pairs of eyes shone from the dim blue light, focusing on Gu Qiye. Only Fan Dongqing had his head down, tapping the table lightly with his fingers, lost in thought.

Ruri Urushihara rested her chin on her hand, her clear and deep pupils, like glass, looking at Gu Qiye with a playful smile on her lips; the old man in the black kimono opened his eyes, his eyes shining with a clear light, like a peerless sword that had been polished for decades.

The Russian princess crossed her arms and turned her face away, her amber eyes possessing an inherent aggressiveness, like the gaze of a snake sizing up its prey.

The girl in the gothic dress in the distance glanced at him and then looked away, her eyelids drooping as she gave a soft yawn.

A low yawn broke the silence that enveloped the conference room, and a rabbit doll she was holding suddenly started to chuckle strangely.

"gone……"

After speaking, Yuriel turned off the power to her tablet and phone, looked up at the other ten people in Rainbow Wing, and stepped out of the sedan chair before Gu Qiye.

Gu Qiye remained silent for a moment before walking into the conference room.

The elevator doors behind him slowly closed, and the cool light illuminating his back was replaced by deep shadows.

(End of this chapter)