Chapter 186: Deathly Encounter with Gastello (I)

July 7th, nine o'clock in the evening.

Street No. 7 in the old Jingmai District is deserted and pitch dark.

Even so, Blue Owl just walked in the dark along the shadows of the street corners, looking around calmly. After confirming that there was no one, he held his chest and slowly walked into the abandoned train station.

Because he was playing the role of Blue Owl in his true form today, the wound on his chest from the previous self-inflicted injury had not yet healed completely, and now he had experienced a high-intensity battle at the KQA Trading Company, which was like adding insult to injury, and directly caused his chest injury to worsen a little.

Fortunately, he took out a "resurrection medical bottle" from his bag and alleviated the injury a little, preventing it from getting worse.

Of course, the wound was not completely healed at the same time, but the injury on the chest was kept at a tolerable level for him to avoid being checked by his family and not being able to explain why his wound healed suddenly.

Ke Mingye thought that he couldn't explain to his family, "My self-healing ability is so amazing that everything will be fine after a good night's sleep." This also couldn't explain why his leg was lame for four or five days after the battle with the mechanical man Lester before he recovered to normal. His second brother and father would not be so slow.

As he thought about it, he walked into the train station. There was no one on the platform, and the ground was flowing with moonlight like watermarks. He walked along the swaying moonlight, as if he was walking on the sparkling lake, and soon he arrived at Platform 7.

This should have been a time to finally take a breath, but the blue owl was startled for a moment, raised its head with the bird-beak helmet on, and looked forward through the lens.

I saw a figure sitting on a public wooden chair on the platform. He was leaning back in the chair, his eyes lowered, quietly flipping through a yellowed ancient book in the moonlight.

There was a brief silence between the two, and then the man sitting on the public wooden chair spoke first.

"I just saw on the news that you and those superheroes encountered the dice monster while on a mission. Was your teammate seriously injured?"

"Yeah, but I was lucky, it didn't do much to me..."

Ke Mingye hesitated for half a second, then answered while taking off his bird-beak helmet.

"Why is it targeting you?" Ke Xiaomo was silent for two seconds and then asked.

"I don't know. I just got entangled with it for some reason. From what I understand, it seems that all the superheroes and vigilantes in this city have been harassed by it to some extent, like Black Goku, Magical Girl Ash, and... Blue Crow."

When he read the last name, Ke Mingye lowered his voice slightly.

"What's so good about Qing Ya that makes you so obsessed with him?" Ke Xiaomo asked slowly.

"He is a hero, but he never asks for empty reputation. He is clearly carrying a bad reputation but still silently protects this city... Moreover, he saved my eldest brother."

After saying that, Ke Mingye opened the old locker at counter No. 7. A faint "clang" sound came from the locker door, which was particularly loud on the silent platform, like raindrops falling into a calm lake.

"He saved my eldest brother?"

Ke Xiaomo asked the question even though he knew the answer, not knowing how Ke Mingye knew about this.

"My mom and dad were talking about this at the dinner table before, and I accidentally overheard it." Ke Mingye said, "You have such a good relationship with my eldest brother, he should have mentioned this to you... It was when he was still in junior high school. The fleeing criminals took an entire classroom of students hostage and threatened the police to evacuate the school."

He paused, lowered his eyes, and his eyes moved slightly: "At that time, a gangster pointed a gun at my brother's head, and it was the blue crow that fell from the sky and saved him. If it weren't for the blue crow, maybe we can only visit my brother's grave in the cemetery every year."

Ke Xiaomo remained silent, just closed the ancient book and took a deep breath.

He really had no idea what Ke Yinzhi would think if he told him about this.

Should we put it this way: His good brother Mingye awakened his superpowers without knowing it, and became a superhero in a daze. Moreover, his motivation for wanting to become a hero was that Qingya saved Ke Yinzhi a few years ago. Therefore, he admired Qingya and wanted to become famous by imitating him and clear his name in the Beijing area.

After hearing this, Ke Yinzhi would probably ask "Are you kidding?", and then after Ke Xiaomo's explanation, he would probably be so angry that he couldn't help laughing...

He would never have thought that his accidental capture as a hostage by criminals would actually trigger such a chain reaction: it would be the beginning of his brother's journey to becoming a superhero.

It's absolutely absurd.

Ke Mingye also remained silent.

He took off his slightly torn red and blue combat uniform in front of the locker, leaving only a pair of underwear on his body. The wound on his chest was clearly exposed: although it was bandaged, some blue, black and red swelling outlines could be vaguely seen from the edge of the bandage.

Ke Xiaomo caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of his eye, his face twitching slightly, and a hint of violence flashed in his lowered eyes.

Ke Mingye folded the Blue Owl combat uniform and put it in compartment No. 6 of the locker.

He stared at the damaged parts of his uniform, thinking to himself that he would ask the Super Hero Association's technical specialist to fix it in a couple of days, and also see if Commander Che could find some connections to get someone to modify his uniform.

"So, second brother, when did you discover my secret base?"

Ke Mingye asked as he took out a set of T-shirt and shorts from his locker.

"At noon, I happened to see you walking into that train station." Ke Xiaomo replied.

"Oh my god, I thought I was hiding well enough. You still ran into me. Maybe it's because I wasn't vigilant enough."

As he spoke, Ke Mingye put on the clothes he had just taken out, and then sighed slightly: "To be honest, second brother, I think you are not suitable to be a Taoist priest now."

"why?"

"I suddenly feel that you are more suitable to be a private detective. It would be a waste of talent if you don't do it." Ke Mingye mocked.

Ke Xiaomo was silent for a moment, and did not continue the topic. He just asked: "Is your chest injury not a big problem?"

"No. It will heal in two days. I am a superpower. Don't you see how strong I am?"

"How did you join the Superhero Association?"

"White Wing. The superhero said that his commander admired me very much, and then gave me a business card." Ke Mingye said, "I called the number on the business card and said on the phone that I wanted to hide my identity in the association. The commander agreed, and then I made an appointment with him and got the association's ID card from him."

As he spoke, he pulled out the Super Hero Association's ID card from the pocket of his Blue Owl uniform, showed the front of the ID card to Ke Xiaomo, and closed the locker.

"impossible."

Ke Xiaomo stared at the ID card, frowned slightly, and said firmly, "How could the commander of the Super Hero Association allow someone whose identity has not been made public to officially register as a superhero?"

Ke Mingye was silent for a moment before he said, "His son is Gray Pigeon. Do you understand what I mean?"

Ke Xiaomo was stunned for a moment, then quickly understood the meaning of Ke Mingye's words.

"So that's how it is..." he whispered to himself.

"I'm going home to rest. Second brother, don't sit here. Are you planning to secretly burn my uniform? Let me make it clear first. If my uniform is lost, you will be the first one to come to me tomorrow."

As Ke Mingye spoke, he turned around and walked towards the stairs at the platform exit, his figure slowly swallowed by the darkness.

Before returning to the train station, he summoned another trickster puppet, turned it into a magical girl, and then put the spare phone into Little Red Riding Hood's magic book.

So there is no need to worry about his second brother finding his phone in the locker, otherwise he would not dare to leave the train station like that.

"Che Zhengchen must have called my phone like crazy by now. He never expected that I would leave without saying a word."

Ke Mingye was walking on his way home, looking down at the road that was sprinkled with moonlight like salt, thinking to himself. After walking for a while, he arrived in front of the duplex apartment building and took the elevator to the 12th floor. He saw Bai Wenna standing at the entrance of the corridor with a feather duster in her hand.

Ke Mingye was slightly shocked and walked out of the elevator tremblingly.

She asked, "Now you know you didn't reply to messages for a long time?"

Ke Mingye said: "My second brother took me out to fool around. If you don't believe me, ask him."

Bowenna slapped him hard on the head with a feather duster and said, "Okay, brat, I'll let you go for now, and we'll settle the score when your second brother comes."

Ke Mingye nodded, scratched his hair, quickly passed by Bai Wenna, took off his shoes and walked into the living room.

Bai Zini, who was sitting on the sofa, asked, "Brother, why do you come back so lately?"

Bai Ziling, who was sitting on the side, said, "That's it." Then, she handed a bottle of Wanglaoji on the table to Ke Mingye, "This is all we have left."

Ke Mingye took the bottle of Wanglaoji from her, unscrewed the cap, and took a gulp. "Thank you." As he said that, he casually rubbed Bai Ziling's white hair.

Bai Zini narrowed her eyes: "Why do I remember you saying that even dogs wouldn't drink Wanglaoji."

"Brother is a dog." Bai Ziling said lightly.

"Okay, okay, I'm a dog. I'm a dog."

Ke Mingye said this expressionlessly, moved up to the second floor, returned to his room, locked the door, and lay down on the bed.

“It’s fucking exhausting.”

As soon as he lay down on the bed, he could hear his mother downstairs scolding Ke Xiaomo: "Now you know why you're hanging out with your brother so late?"

"Well done, Mom. You helped me to contain my second brother. Now I don't have to worry about him spying on me."

Ke Mingye took the opportunity to take out the magic girl transformation card, transformed into Little Red Riding Hood, then took out the spare mobile phone from the magic book, and then quickly untransformed and returned to his original appearance.

As a result, just as I held the spare phone in my hand, I heard an angry call from downstairs: "Mingye, you come down too."

Ke Mingye rolled his eyes, pretended not to care, and put on his earmuffs. Anyway, the door was locked, and unless his mother got so angry that she took out the spare key, there was nothing she could do to him.

He rested his right arm behind his head, unlocked his phone screen, and glanced at the software on the homepage.

A few days ago, Ke Mingye casually asked Cai Bing, "Can you help me make an app that can send emails risk-free, without worrying about personal information and email addresses being checked?"

As a result, Cai Bing actually took the time to make such an APP these two days and sent it to his spare phone a few seconds ago.

Rather than saying "send", it would be better to say "insert", because the hacker girl seemed to find it troublesome, so after making the software, she directly hacked into his backup phone and downloaded the APP directly to the homepage.

Strangely, when Ke Mingye opened the homepage of his mobile phone, he only saw an unfamiliar software after searching through it.

The software icon is "Australian Casino Beauty Dealer", which is very eye-catching. For a moment, I thought my phone was infected with a virus, or I accidentally clicked on an ad while browsing the dark web and automatically downloaded such a money-sucking thing.

However, when Ke Mingye saw the software name showing "Spider-Man's Special Chat Software", he couldn't help but be stunned for two or three seconds before he barely realized: it turned out that this thing was the software made for him by the hacker girl.

So the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he opened the chat panel with an unhappy look on his face.

[Failed Man: Can you be more awesome, hacker girl? ]

[Cai Bing: The customer service girl is working, please do not disturb her. ]

Ke Mingye shrugged, closed the chat panel, and started to tinker with the APP: he used the APP to send himself two or three emails, and then tried it with some box-opening software circulating on the dark web. He soon confirmed that this APP was really useful, and the box-opening software on the Internet could not find the address and source of the email at all.

So he was secretly happy, thinking that since he didn't have to worry about his address being discovered, he could use this APP to send messages to his second brother and eldest sister in the future, and he wouldn't have to roll the dice to ask them to meet on the bridge or the beach, which would not be very friendly to his family as a stay-at-home kid.

The key is that playing a weird character is very stressful, and your character may collapse if you are not careful.

After a while.

Ke Mingye used the "Spider Man Flirting APP" to send an email to Ke Xiaomo's QQ mailbox, signed "Your good neighbor - Mr. Weird Thing".

[Mr. Strange Thing: Do you have time tomorrow, Mr. Ninja? ]

【Mo: What do you mean by pestering my brother? 】

[Mo: I saw the news. You attacked the superhero team called "Platinum Wings" and seriously injured two superheroes.]

[Mr. Weird Thing: At least I didn't seriously injure your brother and his White Wing Captain, right? ]

【Mo: Why did you do this?】

[Mr. Weird Thing: Because it makes me happy. What other reasons do I need? Then let's talk about tomorrow's event. The player named "Gastro" I mentioned to you earlier, the culprit who spread the parasite, will meet another player in a private cafe tomorrow morning. If you are interested, why not come and take a look?]

In order to avoid arousing his eldest brother's suspicion, Ke Mingye and Gastro agreed to meet at a cafe in Hongge Food Street instead of the previous open-air cafe.

【Mo: What’s the address? 】

[Mr. Weird Thing: Hongge Food Street, there is only one cafe on that street, just look for it with your ability.]

【Mo: Will you come? 】

[Mr. Strange Thing: It depends on the situation. I have done my best to help you find that player. It would be too lame to ask me to help you catch him. By the way, that player may bring people from the Blood Clan Hunter Organization with him. You'd better be careful, Mr. Ninja. They are not easy to mess with.]

After sending this email, Ke Mingye decisively turned off his spare mobile phone and stuffed it into his shorts pocket.

"Tomorrow I will find out where Gastro is."

"Even if she came to the appointment with a puppet, as long as she brought even a vampire hunter with her, I could use the anchor sunglasses to lock their position, and then follow the clues to find her real body."

Ke Mingye thought about it and slowly closed his eyes.

He was feeling very sleepy when he suddenly heard a "click". He opened his eyes and turned around, only to see that Bowenna had opened the door with a spare key, then forcibly pulled him off the bed and dragged him out to stand in the corridor with his second brother to be punished and scolded.

After his mother left, Ke Mingye leaned against the wall and sighed deeply.

"What sin did I commit in my previous life?"

Ke Xiaomo hugged his shoulders and sighed softly.

"Shouldn't I be the one saying this?"

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