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Chapter 360 Yuriel's Visit, A Silent Farewell (Part 2, Seeking Monthly Tickets)

At 9:8 AM on August 18th, China time, in the living room on the first floor of Gu Qiye's old residential building.

In a secluded, shady spot near the stairwell entrance, several furtive figures were huddled together. They stared in surprise at the uninvited guests who had stopped outside.

Su Zimai bent over and knelt on the ground, hiding next to Gu Qiye, her eyes twitching slightly.

This little tyrant, who had been domineering since childhood, had never felt so frustrated. She was in her own home, but she had to avoid the gaze of outsiders. She thought to herself, "Is there any justice left?"

But there's nothing they can do; their family just happens to have produced several notorious international fugitives.

And after a while, even this old house, where she had lived for several years and which had been a part of her entire youth, would soon be officially handed over.

Su Zimai had thought that if any habitually corrupt guy ever took over this house, she would definitely fly over in the middle of the night on a magic pigeon and release the refrigerator demon to cool down their dorm rooms.

Caesar was standing trembling among the group.

He thought Su Zimai's resentment was directed at him, since Su Zimai had been hostile towards him from the beginning for some reason. So he clicked his tongue, hurriedly raised his head, and held the Hidden Umbrella even higher.

The boy's face was serious, and his snow-white hair fluttered slightly in the wind.

As the ochre-red umbrella opened fully, the figures of the four people at the entrance of the building were completely enveloped within it.

After hearing what Caesar said, Gu Qiye, Gu Zhuoan, and Su Zimai all cooperated by hiding in the shadows of the umbrella.

Although they were not well-versed in the superhuman race known as the Oddity Envoys and had never witnessed the power of the "Hidden Umbrella," the situation was so urgent that, despite their lingering doubts, they had no choice but to try anything, even if it seemed hopeless.

The result that followed surprised everyone.

The enormous paper umbrella was radiating an ochre-red halo, but to outsiders it appeared to be nothing at all.

As Yuri walked into the living room, she looked up and quietly surveyed her surroundings, completely unaware of their presence.

They were only a few steps apart, and the sense of dislocation was quite peculiar.

In the dead silence, Caesar's expression was rather grim, cold sweat constantly streaming down his forehead, wetting his scalp.

Because Caesar is only 1.6 meters tall, while Gu Qiye and Gu Zhuo'an are both over 1.8 meters tall, it was difficult for the umbrella, held by Caesar, to cover everyone present.

He had no choice but to try his best to take care of everyone. The Hidden Umbrella in his hand swayed and tilted from side to side, sometimes hitting Gu Zhuo'an's head and sometimes Gu Qiye's head.

Gu Qiye's head throbbed from the impact, and he finally realized Caesar's predicament. So, while silently watching Yuriel, he made a gesture and took the umbrella from Caesar's hand.

Then he held the umbrella higher so that Gu Zhuoan and Su Zimai were completely covered in the shade of the umbrella, so that half of their bodies would not be exposed awkwardly, like a little mouse peeking out of a sewer.

"Who exactly is this person..." Under the umbrella, Su Zimai lowered her face, frowned slightly, and stared at Yu Ruier with curiosity and vigilance.

The girl in the light blue dress stood motionless at the entrance to the living room, like an ice sculpture.

A moment later, she suddenly raised her hand, groped for the circuit board in the darkness, and turned on the light with a "snap".

The whole world lit up, revealing the girl's appearance in its entirety. Her skin was so white it seemed almost translucent in the cool light, and her pale white hair cascaded over her shoulders. Beneath the brim of her sun hat were a pair of icy blue eyes.

Her demeanor was detached yet serene, like the pristine Arctic sky.

Being around her felt like the temperature dropped a few degrees.

Looking at the girl, Su Zimai was slightly stunned, as if she was amazed. She had never seen such a beautiful girl before, like an elf who had stepped out of a Nordic cartoon.

Then she suddenly realized that she had misunderstood Caesar.

"So the 'little white-haired kid' that Big Brother was talking about really is someone else..."

Su Zimai secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

If her older brother really liked those little boys who looked like they were only in elementary school, then her worldview would completely collapse. She might even have to wonder if her older brother had been having an affair with Swallow Silver while serving in the Alien Association.
After all, the two are so close that they always appear together on any show.

Even Gu Wenyu confirmed that the relationship between Lanhu and Tunyin was unusual, drawing fan art of the two of them every day. Su Zimai could see a lot of photos of Tunyin rats gnawing on Lanhu batteries on the drawing board left by Gu Wenyu. It's hard not to suspect that, given the second brother's personality, this might be hinting at something.

Of course, it could also just be a case of sheer morbid humor.

But from this perspective, Yu Ruier isn't actually short; her height of nearly 1.6 meters is definitely average for a girl. It's just that in her older brother's eyes, she is indeed a little girl, half a head shorter than her younger sister, Su Zimai.

Su Zimai raised her head suspiciously, glanced at Gu Qiye's blank and bewildered expression, and became even more certain of the fact that this woman was definitely having an affair with her older brother.

In her memory, Gu Qiye had never had a close relationship with any girl her age from childhood to adulthood.

Even though he was incredibly popular at school and frequently received love letters, this goofy guy always rejected them in a gentle yet distant way.

Every time Su Zimai heard Gu Qiye recount those outrageous romantic experiences at the dinner table, she wished she could personally take control of her brother's body and win over those girls who confessed their feelings. She felt incredibly disappointed in her wooden brother.

But so far, she has never seen anyone make her older brother show such an expression.

Since her mother passed away, Gu Qiye has been preoccupied with her family and has no life of her own, let alone any interest in other girls.

But this white-haired girl named "Yu Rui'er" did it, and Su Zimai's thoughts were in turmoil.

At this moment, Gu Qiye's expression was incredibly unbelievable to Su Zimai, and she couldn't help but steal a few more glances.

Of the group, Gu Zhuo's feelings were the most complex.

His brows were furrowed, and the pain of being pierced in the abdomen by an ice pick and pinned to the floor was still vivid in his mind. The image of the girl smashing the Ferris wheel with a meteorite was also still fresh in his mind.

"What exactly is the relationship between Qi Ye and her..." Gu Zhuo'an pondered with his head down, "Could it be..."

He looked up at Gu Qiye and suddenly remembered the look in Su Ying's eyes when she first met him a long, long time ago. She clearly cared a lot, but pretended to be indifferent, yet her eyes were bright and sparkling.

Gu Qiye's eyes were just like that at this moment, exactly the same as his mother's.

Su Zimai wanted to speak several times but held back because she wasn't sure if the Umbrella of Concealment could block out their voices. Then she suddenly thought of a way to communicate silently.

So she took her phone out of her hoodie pocket and started typing silently.

Then he lifted the screen and waved it vigorously in front of Gu Qiye.

Gu Qiye was staring blankly at Yu Ruier's profile, completely puzzled as to why Yu Ruier would come to their house at this time. Shouldn't the official investigation into this residential building have ended long ago?

He only snapped out of his daze when he saw the phone screen swaying in front of him. Looking up, he saw a line of Chinese text at the top of the screen:
"Brother, is she the little white-haired girl you told me about?"
Gu Qiye nodded silently. Su Zimai put away her phone, lowered her head, typed at lightning speed, and then raised it again.

"Why is she here? Did she find us?" she asked.

“It doesn’t seem like it,” Gu Qiye said silently using lip reading.

"Should we go out?" Su Zimai asked. "Didn't you say your relationship with her was okay? We shouldn't need to avoid her, right? Or is this actually Hongyi's honey trap, trying to trick you into falling for it?"

Gu Qiye remained silent for a long time before taking out his phone from his coat pocket and typing, "People at Hongyi know that she's close to me. Now her every move is definitely being monitored, and there's a high chance that there are government agents hiding nearby. We can't go out."

"Really? I get the feeling you really want to go out."

“If I were alone, I might chat with her for a bit. But with you all here, I won’t risk your safety,” Gu Qiye typed honestly.

“Okay, I almost pushed you out from under the umbrella,” Su Zimai typed back.

Gu Qiye ignored her and simply watched You Ruier's figure quietly.

She took off her sun hat and placed it on the sofa. She walked around the living room casually, looking at every corner with seriousness and curiosity. She opened the refrigerator door, glanced at the empty freezer compartment, and saw some popsicles that had melted into water.

Yuriel stared at the popsicles, then raised her hand and used her powers to add a few more ice cubes to the ice room, and the refrigerator quickly started working again. She took out a blueberry-flavored popsicle.

"Ah, the popsicles I bought this morning!" Su Zimai typed quickly.

Yuri put the popsicle back, walked to the TV, and glanced at the family photo album on the cabinet.

"Brother, why did you forget to bring the photo album!" Su Zimai typed again.

After opening the photo album, Yuri sat on the sofa and looked at it for a while.

She suffers from hyperthymesia, and could easily have quickly scanned the photos in the album like cheating, then slowly recalled them. But she didn't do that; she simply glanced at each photo slowly, her gaze casually sweeping over Gu Qiye's childhood face.

When Yuriel saw Gu Qiye standing on the lawn making an Ultraman pose as a child, she lowered her icy blue eyes and a barely perceptible smile appeared on her lips.

The living room was completely empty and so quiet you could hear a pin drop, with only the rustling sound of flipping through photo albums.

Caesar and Su Zimai both turned their heads and stared at Gu Qiye, who was holding the umbrella, with suspicion and curiosity.

Gu Qiye raised her hand to cover her face, her ears slightly red and her cheeks burning. After a moment, You Ruier finally finished flipping through the not-so-thick photo album. Because Gu Wenyu disliked taking pictures and hated appearing in front of the camera, most of the family photos from childhood to adulthood were forced to be taken by Su Ying. After Su Ying passed away in an accident, they never took any more photos together.

So the family album doesn't contain many photos; you can basically look through them all while sitting on the sofa for a while.

After that, Yuriel got up from the sofa and went upstairs.

"Hurry up and catch up, or she'll see the box of diapers in my brother's room!" Su Zimai typed, waving her phone screen in front of Gu Qiye.

Gu Qiye stood motionless, silently watching her retreating figure. At that moment, Su Zimai snatched the Umbrella of Concealment from Gu Qiye's hand, and then, like a crab, she moved sideways step by step up the stairs.

Gu Qiye was stunned for a moment.

There was no way for the group to escape the umbrella; they would be discovered if they left. So they had no choice but to follow Su Zimai's steps, like a group of crabs, stumbling and bumping their way up to the second floor.

Then, they looked into the open room.

Yuriel had already entered Gu Qiye's room. She sat on the bed, staring at the old, upright fan. Then, out of boredom, she reached out and examined the fan's control panel, pressing the button with a "click".

The fan blades began to turn slowly, and a buzzing sound broke the silence.

She turned her head and suddenly saw Gu Qiye's study materials. She picked them up and flipped through them, staring blankly at the notes and doodles he had made in the books with her icy blue eyes.

After a while, she put down the documents and sat quietly on the bed, looking around.

Suddenly, Yuriel reached out and grabbed the hand of the chubby blue hedgehog plush toy on the bed, shaking it expressionlessly. Then, she leaned against the toy, gazing blankly at the yellowed certificates of merit pasted on the wall.

The fan whirred slowly, a summer breeze lifted the snow-white curtains, and a ray of sunlight streamed through the window, falling on her face. The girl slowly closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep peacefully. Throughout, Yuriel's face remained expressionless.

“I feel like this person is beyond saving.” Su Zimai shoved the umbrella into Gu Qiye’s hand and quickly typed on her phone.

"If I had known she liked it so much, I would have given her that doll." Gu Qiye remained silent for a moment before typing a reply.

"Brother, I think you're beyond saving too." Su Zimai wrinkled her nose and continued typing. Every word seemed to be squeezing out of the screen to bite someone.

"Xiaomai, Qiye, let's get out of here before she wakes up. It'll be troublesome if the Rainbow Wings find out..." Gu Zhuoan wiped his stubble, took out his phone, typed, and showed it to the two of them.

Caesar was the most terrified one. When he saw the message, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, clutching his chest, thinking to himself that Mr. Ghost Bell was indeed the most rational.

Gu Qiye lowered her eyes and nodded silently.

He lowered the umbrella, looked up from the shadows, and took one last look at Yuriel's sleeping face. He stood there quietly for a while, lost in thought, before slowly walking away.

Meanwhile, in Lijing, China, behind an abandoned office building in a remote location.

"Weekends off, weekends off, weekends off, overtime, overtime, overtime..." The hoarse whispers, accompanied by the sound of spittle flying, echoed inside the office building.

At that moment, the diamond-shaped Queen Colossus leaped through the broken window and knelt inside the floor.

Amidst the chaos, she slowly raised her eyes, her empty eye sockets staring directly at the office workers, these devils of a job.

These two-headed giants, dressed in work uniforms, were wandering around the office building. They smelled humans, spat, and staggered over. Their bloated purple bodies seemed to be bursting their clothes, and the buttons looked like they might pop off at any moment.

One of them was muttering "weekends off" with a happy expression, while the other was muttering "overtime" with a gloomy look.

"What's going on? Why are these 'labor demons' appearing so frequently in China? We've encountered them several times already," Xia Pingzhou asked.

He vividly remembered that the first demon he encountered in Tokyo was the part-time worker demon, but he had encountered it more than once in Lijing, and each time the number was astonishing.

"Perhaps it's due to environmental factors." Cold blue flames burned at the fingertips of the Queen statue, forming lines of text in mid-air.

"Never mind, it doesn't matter." Xia Pingzhou said expressionlessly. "This place is close to the city center, so we're likely to get harassed by the Alien Association. Let's go... finish this in ten seconds, and then leave quickly."

The Queen statue nodded, then its form transformed into a clear, sharp trajectory as it shot out, rushing towards the office's working demons like a whirlwind.

Almost instantly, the heads of the working devils fell to the ground amidst the flashing blades, venomous blood spurting from the severed necks and splattering throughout the entire office.

The Queen statue vanished into nothingness, passing through the purplish-blue sea of ​​poison like air, embracing Xia Pingzhou's body, then leaping over the window and plummeting straight down to the street.

A bus crashed into him head-on, the deafening horn blaring in his ears, and the blazing summer sun blinding Xia Pingzhou.

In the days that followed, while Ji Minghuan was busy orchestrating the Black Chrysalis family's revenge plan, he also made sure to keep up with the development of the second mecha, "Xia Pingzhou".

After all, the other units can slack off and be lazy, but the second unit cannot.

The core mechanic of the chess player is "Winter of the Wild Hunt," a system that improves attributes by killing enemies—the existence of this system means that he can only play like an online game player, logging in every day to grind and level up like a madman.

For a whole week, Xia Pingzhou spent his days eating and drinking tea with Ayase Origami, and having the evolved Queen Statue take him hunting.

Now, after several rounds of chess enhancement, the Queen's sense of the devil has become extremely keen.

If a demon appears within a ten-kilometer radius, she will be the first to sense it and tell Xia Pingzhou its exact location. Then the two of them will rush to the scene immediately.

So, the members of the Tokyo Exorcists' Association have probably been wondering where all the demons in the city have gone. At least in the area around Tokyo Bay, Xia Pingzhou has taken complete control of all the demons, leaving no room for anyone else to interfere.

Fortunately, Xia Pingzhou had already moved his base these past two days, taking a plane back to the familiar city of Lijing. Now, taking a taxi to the old Jingmai neighborhood, he might just bump into Su Zimai.

But he was worried that he might accidentally mistake the diaper demon for a real demon and chop it up, so he gave up on the idea.

At this moment, after wiping out all the working demons in the office building, Xia Pingzhou returned to one of the group's bases in Lijing—the underground bar "Grey Raven".

The queen statue raised her diamond finger, entered the password on the keypad, pushed the door open, and put Xia Pingzhou down from her shoulder.

He sat at the bar, took a sip of iced water, and simultaneously brought up the personal control panel of Unit 2. A series of black and white data popped up, catching his eye.

The current advancement progress of the second character's Skyward "Chess" skill is: 87%/100%.

"There's very little progress left. I estimate that in another four or five days, I'll be able to advance to the third tier and obtain the Chess Player's Domain Sealing Ability. Then I can prepare to take on the Ripper."

Thinking of this, Xia Pingzhou brought up the interface of the training system "Winter of the Wild Hunt" and claimed the mission rewards.

[Training Task Six Completed – Kill any 120 or higher-ranking "Demons," or 120 or higher-ranking "Superhumans."]

[Reward received for completing the training mission: 1 attribute point.]

Training Mission 7 has been refreshed; the kill count has been increased to 140 (current progress: 120/140).

Without hesitation, Xia Pingzhou brought up the character panel and quickly allocated attribute points.

[Your second unit, "Chess Player," has had its "Speed" attribute changed: A++ to S (Your "Chess Type" speed will also increase accordingly)]

[Current character attributes: Strength: D-rank; Spirit: S-rank; Speed: S-rank]

"Both attributes have already reached the threshold for the Cataclysmic level. All that's left is to upgrade them to the third tier of Exorcist," Xia Pingzhou thought.

At that very moment, a cold system notification sounded in his ear.

The fifth stage of main quest one has been updated. The quest details are as follows: Join the White Raven Brigade to eliminate any member of the world's number one exorcist organization, "Lake Hunters."

[Task deadline: Complete before August 25th. Failure to complete by the deadline will be considered a failure.]

"So it seems the troupe will really have to fight those monsters from the Lake Hunt?" Xia Pingzhou thought to himself. "I wonder if this mission can be completed smoothly; the difficulty is excessively high."

Seeing the four striking red characters on the panel—"Mission Deadline"—he suddenly thought of something, so he brought up the system panel with a chessboard background, found the "Main Mission" section, and opened it.

Lines of blood-red text came into view.

[Main Quest 2 (Phase Two): Infiltrate the White Raven Brigade and wait for the opportune moment to kill member number 2 – "Jack the Ripper."]

【（任务奖励：3个属性点、3个技能点、3个分裂点）（时限：9月1日前完成）】

[Warning: The main quest "Revenge Against Jack the Ripper" has only 12 days left. Please complete the quest before the deadline.]

Suddenly, a cold voice came from the darkness, "It's time to go... The guild leader wants us to head to Sea Sail City today. The other guild members have already gathered there."

Xia Pingzhou turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw Enma Rin push open the bar's keypad door and slowly walk in. Ayase Origami followed behind her expressionlessly, carrying a shopping bag with a somewhat old-fashioned Hellokiki doll hanging on it.

At this moment, Enma Rin raised her eyes, which were as black as the midnight sun, and turned her head to meet Xia Pingzhou's gaze.

The two looked at each other in the darkness, their faces expressionless.

“Let’s go…” Xia Pingzhou looked at her and said softly, “It’s about time.”

(End of this chapter)