"Shut up, do you think your mother doesn't understand these things?" Bai Wenna asked coldly.

Since his goal had been achieved, Ke Mingye obediently shut his mouth.

Bai Wenna stared at Ke Mingye for a moment, then looked at Ke Yinzhi: "You never act like a boss, always so carefree and irresponsible. I really don't know where you got this personality from..."

As she spoke, her mother took the phone out of his coat pocket, confiscated it, and then turned to look at Ke Xiaomo and Ke Mingye.

Ke Xiaomo said, "It won't happen again next time, Mom."

Ke Mingye said, "Even my second brother can't say no, Mom, please let us go."

Bai Wenna asked, "Second Brother said no, what about you?"

“My second brother took me out to play, I had no choice but to do it,” Ke Mingye sighed. “So it’s enough that he reflects on his actions, why should I reflect on mine? Mom, you’re being a bit unreasonable.”

Ke Xiaomo offered no explanation, only shook her head and sighed, then stood silently with her arms crossed.

He knew Ke Mingye was injured, so he didn't want to make things difficult for him. If he could take the blame for him, then so be it; it was better for him to go back to his room and rest than to be scolded in the corridor.

"It seems we haven't reflected enough yet; let's stand here a little longer."

After saying that, Bai Wenna took the feather duster and went downstairs. Soon after, you could hear Bai Zini and Bai Ziling begging for mercy. The two of them hopped upstairs like rabbits.

Just then, a soft sigh came from the next room. She had to go to tutoring class the next day, and the noise kept her from sleeping.

Immediately afterwards, Ke Yongzhu's complaint came from another room: "So noisy..."

He's been going to bed early these past few days and rarely leaves his room. He either stays in his room playing on his phone or goes out for a walk by himself. Unless Bai Zini and Bai Ziling drag him out to play, it's hard to find him at home.

When Ke Mingye saw Bai Ziling go upstairs, he quickly mouthed to her, "Help me, little sister number one."

"It can't be saved."

Bai Ziling spoke softly, shaking her head slightly with a very serious expression. Her snow-white hair swayed as she walked past them expressionlessly into her room.

The door was closed and locked, the main purpose of which was to sever ties and avoid being affected by the mother's anger. Hearing the "click" of the lock, the three older brothers felt quite chilled.

Ke Yinzhi yawned, smiled slightly, and said sarcastically, "It seems... even your sister is unwilling to save you. You two brothers are really failing as brothers."

Ke Xiaomo retorted sarcastically, "Are you sure it's not that you've failed as the eldest brother?"

Ke Mingye said, "I think you're all pretty failures. If I were the only one standing here, Ziling would have already begged her mother for mercy. She clearly doesn't want to pay any attention to you."

After saying that, he immediately pinned his hopes on the second figure coming upstairs, clasping his hands together in a prayerful gesture: "Please save me, little sister number two!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Zini looked up from her phone and saw the three of them standing as punishment. She was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but hold her stomach and suppress her laughter. Finally, a gloating expression appeared on her face.

She coughed twice and said, "Wow...aren't these our old brothers and great brothers? You guys are so interesting, correcting your hunchbacks here so late at night. Are you rehearsing for university military training?"

To be honest, Ke Mingye also wanted to let the Dice Monster in at this moment and say sarcastically to Ke Xiaomo and Ke Yinzhi, who were being punished by standing.

"Hey, isn't this our Ninja Sect Master and Black Judge? Why are you so slovenly, standing against the wall as punishment in the middle of the night? You weren't like this when you were out there killing everyone."

However, he himself was also in the line of people being punished, which was really annoying.

"Should we save her or not?" Ke Mingye asked, squinting his eyes.

"Xiao Ni, please plead with Mom for us," Ke Xiaomo said with a sigh, arms crossed.

“If you’re really in a difficult position, just plead for your older brother. You can ignore the two people next to him,” Ke Yinzhi said with a smile.

"That depends on your attitude. I'll give you some time to think about it."

With that, Bai Zini hummed and walked into the bathroom under the gazes of the three people. She closed the door, washed up, and then slowly came out.

"Please, Lady Bai Zini, I'll run errands for you for the next week." Ke Mingye clasped his hands together. "Is this alright?"

"Where are the other two?"

Bai Zini seemed unsatisfied, tapping her arm lightly with her fingers as she looked at the other two.

"I'll buy you a Pikachu plush toy tomorrow," Ke Yinzhi said.

"I'll buy you a new backpack," Ke Xiaomo said.

Bai Zini immediately got into character, her eyes sparkling, and clapped her hands, saying, "Wow, you three gentlemen are so kind! It would be even better if you were always this kind. Well then, I'll reluctantly help you out!"

With that, carrying the hopes of her three older brothers, she confidently walked into her mother's room.

He was blasted out in less than three seconds.

He was covered in dust and looked quite disheveled.

Ke Yinzhi shrugged.

Ke Xiaomo sighed;

Ke Mingye looked at him with disdain.

Bai Zini hung her head dejectedly, glancing sympathetically at her three brothers' faces, each displaying a different degree of disdain. She said, "Can you stop looking at me like that? It's all your fault for offering so little. If you were willing to buy me a Lolita dress, I would have slid to my knees by the bedside and begged Mom for it. How could I possibly have been kicked out in the blink of an eye?!"

She paused, then said deeply, "It seems... only Father can save you."

Ke Mingye said weakly, "Then hurry up and call Dad home. Tell him Mom has gone crazy again."

While saying this, he knew that Qingya was probably busy investigating the KQA Trade Building incident and searching for Blue Owl's whereabouts. After all, Ke Mingye hadn't used his phone to let Che Zhengchen and Bai Yi know he was safe before returning alone, and they probably all thought Blue Owl was missing.

"My phone is on the sofa downstairs. If I go down now, my mom will yell at me. You guys better watch yourselves..."

After finishing her sentence, Bai Zini turned around and walked back into her room without looking back.

Ke Yinzhi shrugged and said, "Mingye, if you hadn't asked Mom to confiscate my phone, I would have already secretly texted Dad to tell him to come home. You got what you deserved."

Ke Mingye said disdainfully, "Then I might as well stand here as long as you, you slut, and we'll die together."

Ke Xiaomo took a deep breath: "You guys really need to stop arguing. I don't want to stand here with you all night."

"Alright... seeing how pitiful you all are, I'll sneak downstairs and call my dad."

As she spoke, Bai Zini quietly emerged from the room, bent over, and began her infiltration, taking small steps toward the stairwell.

The three brothers held their breath, hoping that their breathing would disturb her infiltration.

Less than two seconds later, she stopped in her tracks, trembling, at Bai Wenna's reprimand.

"Bai Zini, aren't you going to sleep yet? You want to go downstairs to watch TV?!"

"No, Mom, it was all my third brother's doing. He said he was bored standing there and asked me to go downstairs and get his phone for him to play with!"

Bai Zini mumbled something, then darted back into the room. She glanced pitifully at the three of them through the crack in the door with a look that seemed to say, "It's not that I don't want to help, it's just that I can't do it!" before closing the door and remaining silent.

Ke Yinzhi shook his head and chuckled softly;

Ke Xiaomo couldn't help but laugh;

Only Ke Mingye couldn't laugh.

"I'm speechless. Not only did they die at lightning speed, but they also betrayed their teammates?" He sighed, rubbing his forehead.

Bai Wenna came out of the room and asked in an icy tone, "Still not behaving while being punished? Did you have your sister secretly get your phone for you?"

“This is pure slander,” Ke Mingye quickly explained. “My second brother and eldest brother can testify.”

As he spoke, he turned to look at Ke Xiaomo and Ke Yinzhi. The two remained silent when asked, each averting their gaze to the left or right. It seemed they had chosen to support their sister over their brother.

"Ugh, I can't stand living in this house anymore, there's not a single person here who's even human..."

Ke Ming sighed with a sense of despair.

Forced into a helpless situation, just as he was thinking about how to kneel down and apologize to his mother, he suddenly heard the sound of a door opening downstairs.

Kaka!

The sound was so clear and melodious that it made Ke Mingye's ears bloom.

Soon, the old man came up, lit a cigarette, glanced at the three of them expressionlessly, sighed irritably, and then turned to Bai Wenna and said a few kind words.

Following this, under a barrage of criticism such as "Look at what the kids have become since you're never home," "Do they look like the kind of people who will amount to anything in the future?" and "If you don't take care of them, this family will become a complete mess," he finally found an opportunity to give the three a way out, allowing them to escape from Bai Wenna's clutches.

Ke Mingye was the first to rush into the bathroom, wash up in front of the mirror, then quickly walked back to his room, lay on the bed and let out a long sigh, casually picking up the spare phone that was placed next to his pillow.

I unlocked the screen and opened the call log.

Sure enough, he received a bunch of call notifications from Che Zhengchen, but his phone was on silent, so he couldn't hear the notification sounds.

Upon entering the message page, I saw that the number of text messages from Che Zhengchen's phone number was already piled up. I randomly clicked on two or three of them to take a look.

[Che Zhengchen: Are you alright?]

[Che Zhengchen: Blue Owl, are you still alive? Please reply if you receive this message.]

[Che Zhengchen: Bai Yi said you were also seriously injured. Why didn't you wait for the association's rescue team to arrive before leaving the scene? You could have come to the association to report first before going back.]

[Che Zhengchen: Anyway, I don't mean to blame you, but if you're safe and sound, please reply to my message as soon as possible. Your teammates and I are very worried about you...]

This was the first time Che Zhengchen had texted him; he probably remembered his backup phone number from the last time.

Fortunately, this phone number was purchased from the dark web, so its location cannot be traced by telecommunications companies. Moreover, Cai Bing had taken further precautions for him, so there was no need to worry about information leaks.

Just in case, Ke Mingye still opened the "Spider-Man Flirting App" designed by Cai Bing, entered Che Zhengchen's phone number into the app's contact list, and then replied to his text message.

This further reduces the likelihood of their location being traced.

[Blue Owl: I'm fine. But what about White Wing and the others? I see Vanguard and the Nun are quite badly injured. Especially Vanguard, he even lost an arm.]

[Che Zhengchen: I'm glad you're alright. They're all fine. Xianfeng is a cyborg; he just needs to have a new arm reattached.]

[Che Zhengchen: I called you just now, why didn't you answer?]

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