Chapter 191 Bai Zini: What? My brother is a superhero (Part )

"You said so... Blue Owl."

As An Inchuan finished these shocking words, he raised his right hand and placed it on Ke Mingye's shoulder, with a knowing smile on his face.

In the living room, Bai Zini, Qiu Xia, You Minglu, and An Hong were all stunned. Qiu Xia, in particular, almost crushed the bottle of Ma Ti Shuang in her hand.

The cicadas are chirping outside the window.

The people in the house were in a daze.

There was no air conditioner in the living room, only a fan was slowly turning, blowing on the faces of several people, but their expressions seemed to be frozen.

You Minglu was the first to come to her senses, but she remained calm and expressionless.

She slowly turned her head, got closer to Bai Zini, and whispered in her ear in a calm tone: "It turns out that Senior's brother is actually a superhero, so awesome. But Senior didn't even tell me such an important thing. It turns out that a little girl who grew up with garbage in her mouth is not worthy of playing with a little girl with a silver spoon in her mouth."

Bai Zini stood there frozen like a sculpture. She stared at Ke Mingye's face for a few seconds, and then came to her senses after hearing what You Minglu said.

Then, his cheeks puffed up slightly.

She lowered her head, trying not to laugh, and leaned close to You Minglu's ear, whispering, "Oh my God, he actually lied to us and said my brother is a superhero... He really thought we didn't know how capable this guy is. I can't stand it."

"Yes, it's hilarious." You Minglu nodded and responded calmly, "A lazy dog ​​can't be a superhero, I can testify to that..."

"You lazy pig, didn't you become a magical girl anyway?"

"Becoming a magical girl is uncontrollable. Lazy Pig will also be chosen by the comet and become a lazy pig contract beast."

As the two talked, Qiu Xia finally came out of her daze. She pointed her finger at Ke Mingye, staring at him in amazement, and stammered, "Wait, so you—you—you—! You are Blue Owl?"

"Right. Why else do you think he's here?"

An Renchuan took a sip of hot water and replied on behalf of Ke Mingye.

"I'm not, I'm not..."

Ke Mingye slumped against the back of the sofa, muttering to himself with his hands covering his forehead.

"Blue...Owl?"

An Hong murmured. She found it hard to associate Ke Mingye with that slightly neurotic superhero, so she was the first to question it.

"Brother, are you serious or joking?"

"Of course I'm serious." An Incheon smiled.

"Are you talking about the owl that gets beaten up every day?"

You Minglu added a question.

"Being beaten up every day is a bit exaggerated..."

As he said this, An Inchuan laughed twice and then continued teasing.

"Our comrade Blue Owl is quite capable. He sent the cyborg Lester to prison right after his debut. Everyone calls him the rising star of the Super Hero Association, and many female heroes in the association are his potential suitors. Even I am a little jealous of his popularity. How can it be as unbearable as you say?"

Hearing this, You Minglu put his hand on his chin and said expressionlessly, "Your statement seems to be different from what I heard. Why is it that when I was surfing the Internet, I saw others saying that he was the 'illegitimate son of Qing Ya' and 'the person with connections, Chao Ying', but no one said that he was a rising star."

Bai Zini was puzzled, thinking that these people were really good at lying with their eyes open, so she picked up the drink, put the bottle mouth to her lips, and gulped down a mouthful of the drink to relieve her boredom.

Then he said, "Can you stop kidding me? Does this guy look even a little bit like a superhero?"

As she spoke, she looked up at Ke Mingye unhappily, then quickly looked away.

"Didn't you say you only met once?" An Renchuan smiled, "Why do you sound like you know him so well?"

"Just meeting once is enough." Baizini said as she turned her face away, her ponytail swaying slightly.

"I also think that he doesn't look like a superhero. He looks like an ordinary high school student. Senior An Hong's brother really knows how to amuse us."

You Minglu said calmly.

Qiu Xia listened to the conversation between the three people and finally realized: "So it was a joke?"

"otherwise……"

Ke Mingye was silent for a moment, and just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by An Renchuan.

"No." An Renchuan shook his head and said in a more serious tone, "Because An Hong said she wanted to bring her friends home to play, and you are all magical girls, I called Blue Owl over as well. We are all superhumans fighting for the city and belong to the same official organization, so I think there is nothing to hide in terms of identity."

"You are invincible..." Ke Mingye said deeply.

"So you really are a blue owl?"

"Do you think I look like that?"

Ke Mingye tried to make a final struggle, but at this moment, An Inchuan took his mobile phone while he was not paying attention, opened the album, took out one of the photos and showed it to the four people.

In the photo, Blue Owl and Magical Girl Kaede put their heads together and took a photo.

Qiu Xia stared at the photo and froze in place, his eyes trembling.

She remembered that this was taken after they solved a mass riot together. At that time, Blue Owl took the photo with his mobile phone and asked her if she had an email address, saying that he wanted to send the photo to her.

But at that time, before she could tell him her email address, she was pushed away from the scene by An Hong.

She felt regretful for a long time at that time, and kept complaining to An Hong afterwards, asking why they were so anxious to push her away. However, she was so nervous at that time that she could hardly think. It was just a simple matter of reporting an email address, but she couldn't remember her email address for a while, so she couldn't blame others.

At this moment, looking at this photo silently, Qiu Xia thought, if there is only one person in the world who may own this photo, that person must be Blue Owl.

Thinking of this, Qiu Xia slowly shifted her gaze from the photo and secretly looked at Ke Mingye's profile.

"Give me back my phone, do you have manners?"

Ke Mingye said this with a sullen face and quickly snatched the phone back from An Renchuan's hand.

An Renchuan raised the corners of his mouth, shrugged lightly and explained: "He just mentioned this photo to me. He said that you solved a parasite riot at that time, and then classmate Qiu Xia asked him for a photo. But he didn't have time to give it to her, so this photo has been saved in his mobile phone album."

An Hong opened her eyes wide and covered her slightly open mouth with her hands, thinking that this was basically ironclad evidence. It turned out that her brother did not lie. Was the person next to him really the blue owl?
"So it really is you..." Qiu Xia murmured.

"No. This photo was only given to me by Blue Owl."

Ke Mingye sighed deeply, avoided her gaze, and continued to make excuses.

"No, Blue Owl can't be that kind of person." Qiu Xia shook his head and asserted.

"Haha, people say you're not that kind of person anymore."

As he spoke, An Renchuan touched Ke Mingye's shoulder with his shoulder and said in a relaxed and teasing tone, "Don't be stubborn when the evidence is irrefutable. If you still refuse to admit it, how sad do you want to make your little fan?"

"You are really annoying. It seems that I will have to ask Commander Che for a transfer after I return."

"Is it that serious?" An Inchuan spread his hands.

"Can you give me that photo?" Qiu Xia said.

"for you."

"I have been thinking about this photo for a long time. Thank you, Mr. Blue Owl."

"Can you please stop calling me that?"

"Blue Owl?"

"Ke Mingye."

"Oh, is this your name?"

"if not?"

"I always thought Blue Owl was at least an old man, but I didn't expect him to be so young."

"What on earth did I do to cause you to have this misunderstanding?"

While several people were talking, one person remained silent.

Bai Zini listened to the conversation of several people like an outsider. They were obviously talking about her brother, the person she was most familiar with and closest to, but she could not join in the conversation at all and could only sit on the sofa, feeling out of place.

It's like... I know nothing about this person.

She lowered her head and was stunned for a long, long time, then slowly raised her eyes, glanced at An Inchuan, then at Qiu Xia, and finally turned her gaze to the pale-faced Ke Mingye.

She stared at Ke Mingye motionlessly for a long time.

After a while, he opened his mouth slightly and asked slowly: "Is what he said true... or false?"

The girl's voice was very calm, as if she was asking a very normal question, but her tone was as soft as the chirping of a cicada.

Ke Mingye met Bai Zini's gaze and seemed to want to say something, but just sighed softly.

"Since when?" she continued.

Ke Mingye still did not reply, but just avoided her staring gaze.

"Let me ask you...when did it start?"

Ke Mingye opened his mouth.

"Why don't you speak?"

Ke Mingye turned his cheek away.

"Is it fun..."

Ke Mingye lowered his eyes.

“Since I was a kid.”

"I don't want to see you get hurt at all."

"Why don't you say a word?"

"You obviously know that."

Baizini paused for a moment before continuing.

"No one cares about you more than I do..."

"nobody."

At the end of her speech, Bai Zini bit her lip and slowly lowered her head. Her hair covered her sullen eyes which were slightly filled with tears.

The living room was shrouded in silence for a short time. No one knew what was going on or why Baizini suddenly had such a big reaction. They just stared at them blankly.

After a while, seeing that Ke Mingye still didn't say a word, Bai Zini stood up from the sofa, turned around, and walked towards the entrance without looking back. She didn't even change her shoes, but just held her pair of sandals in her palm, then turned the doorknob, walked out of the house barefoot, and closed the door with a "click".

Qiu Xia and An Hong were both shocked. They looked at Ke Mingye again and thought to themselves, there is someone in the world who can make Senior Huijin show such a reaction. Who is he?
"Comrade Blue Owl, what happened between you and that girl?"

An Renchuan was also a little confused and couldn't help but give Ke Mingye a surprised look.

"Really annoying……"

As he spoke, Ke Mingye took a deep breath and slowly said, "I'll go back first, you guys continue to play, don't worry about us." After that, he stood up and walked out of the house.

On a hot summer day, the wind carrying the heat wave blew on his face, and he felt as if he was about to melt into a pile of roast meat.

"Where did you go?"

Ke Mingye raised his arms to block the bright sunlight, walked along the Yandai Commercial Street for a while, and came to a nearby riverside path.

He remembers this place.

When they were young, he and Bai Zini would often come here after school, sit by the river and chat, until the sun set over the horizon, and then walk home along this path. Along the way, they watched cyclists coming and going in the twilight, and watched children chasing and playing by the river.

Under the rosy sunset, among the flying grass clippings, the girl put her hands behind her back, turned around and looked at him, stepping back step by step. The smiling face in his memory was still vaguely visible.

Ke Mingye was thinking as he walked forward. He looked up and saw a young girl sitting on the grass by the river, hugging her knees and looking at the sparkling lake. Under the bright sun, the bottom of the lake looked like a transparent display box in an aquarium, and the turtles and fish swimming slowly underneath were clearly visible.

Ke Mingye was silent for a while, then walked over to her side, patted the weeds, and sat down.

"What are you doing...you're almost getting tanned like a pig's head," he said.

Bai Zini ignored him and just buried the lower half of her face on her slightly bent knees with her eyes lowered.

"Is it my fault?" Ke Mingye sighed, "You didn't tell me that your friend is a magical girl? I wasn't even angry yet, why are you angry when it comes to you?"

Bai Zini still didn't speak.

"I know you're worried about me, but I'm afraid you'll worry about me, so I don't want to tell you."

Ke Mingye looked at the opposite bank and talked to himself.

"You are my sister. Remember you said you wanted to be a magical girl to protect me... Can't I be a superhero to protect you? The world is so chaotic now. You also said before that a friend of yours was attacked by a superhuman and you were in a bad mood..."

At this point, he paused for a moment before continuing, "Now that I think about it, the friend you're talking about isn't a magical girl, is she?"

"died."

"What?" "My two friends are dead, they died a long time ago." said Baizini.

"I watched the news. Are they the two magical girls who were killed by the Ghost Hand Buddha and the Abyss Swordsman a few months ago?"

"Yes. So I don't want anything to happen to you, brother." Bai Zini paused, "You are very, very, very, very..." She repeated the same word until she was almost out of breath. Then she took a deep breath and lowered her voice, "...important."

"Got it, idiot."

As Ke Mingye spoke, he picked up a pebble and threw it hard into the river.

The pebble drew a beautiful parabola in the air and then fell into the river, creating ripples.

"Then...when did it start?" asked Bai Zini.

"About two months ago, I awakened my superpowers, and then I wondered if I could become a superhero."

As he spoke, Ke Mingye casually pulled up a piece of grass by the river and said with his eyes lowered, "Then, in a daze, it was like this. I joined the Super Hero Association, met some friends, went to his house... and ended up running into you."

"So...how long were you going to keep it a secret from me?"

"Who knows." Ke Mingye said softly, "Maybe I won't be able to help but tell you someday."

"Really?"

"Please, don't look at me as heartless. I actually have worries too," said Ke Mingye.

"I think if I hadn't caught you, you would have kept it a secret from me."

"Will not."

"I believe you once."

"Are you still angry?"

"fine……"

"Then... do you still need to go back to your classmate's house?" Ke Mingye asked.

Bai Zini shook her head slightly.

"Then let's not go back, shall we?"

"do not wanna go Home."

"So what are you going to do? Just sit here and wait to be roasted by the sun?"

Ke Mingye tilted his head and asked unhappily.

Baizini stood up from the grass in silence, walked up to the path along the river, turned her head sideways, and looked towards the slowly rotating Ferris wheel in the distance.

"Let's go ride that." She pointed to the Ferris wheel.

"Okay...you're the boss."

After saying that, Ke Mingye walked with her to a nearby amusement park, paid for the tickets by scanning the QR code with their mobile phones, and boarded the Ferris wheel car under the supervision of the staff.

Time slowly came to dusk, the sun was setting in the west, they had not spoken a word, Bai Zini just sat quietly in the carriage and looked out the window. The girl's clear silhouette was reflected on the window, intertwined with the mountains in the distance, swaying in a trance.

From beginning to end, the two of them didn't speak a word, but just silently looked at the city shrouded in the afterglow.

When the two finally got off the Ferris wheel, it was almost dark, and they walked all the way to the beach in silence.

Baizini took off her sandals and walked barefoot towards the sea step by step, leaving footprints of varying depths on the beach.

"Don't go...the tide is coming in."

Ke Mingye stopped on the rosy beach and spoke to her back as she walked away.

After a moment, Bai Zini slowly turned around, with her hands behind her back and her eyes downcast. Her figure was shrouded in the afterglow, like a hazy butterfly wing.

"Answer me a few questions."

She spoke softly under the setting sun on the horizon.

Ke Mingye stared at her motionlessly and shrugged.

"Then ask," he said.

"Will you lie to me again?"

"will not."

Bai Zini took a step back gently. Looking from the side, the sunset on the horizon made the beach rosy, like wine.

"Will you leave me, like my friends did?" she asked.

"will not."

Baizini took another step back, getting closer to the sea and farther away from Ke Mingye.

"If I said... I said I was a magical girl, what would you think?"

she asked softly.

"What's there to think about? You're still my sister that way."

"Aren't you angry?"

"not angry."

Baizini's hair fluttered gently in the sea breeze, dyed golden by the afterglow of the setting sun.

She slowly took another step back. It was almost night, the sky was getting darker, and the turbulent sea tide was slowly engulfing her white ankles.

"last question."

"ask."

In the growing sea breeze, Bai Zini's lips moved slightly, and her voice was drowned out by the "splashing" sound of the waves hitting the coast. The hazy afterglow and the splashing waves swayed her figure together, and seagulls flew across the dim sky in groups, dropping their white feathers.

In the fleeting two seconds, Ke Mingye couldn't hear clearly what she was saying, but he could vaguely tell from her lip movements that she seemed to be asking something.

"To you, I am just..."

But...what? Ke Mingye thought.

"The wind was so strong that I couldn't hear clearly."

Ke Mingye said loudly while walking forward, gradually approaching Bai Zini, and said unhappily: "Bai Zini, didn't your mother tell you not to hang around on the beach at night...it's really dangerous."

He walked closer to Bai Zini step by step, stretched out his hand, and wanted to hold her hand. At this moment, the setting sun completely sank below the sea level, taking away the last ray of afterglow that fell on the world, and the whole world became dark. From one end of the sea level, an overwhelming tide swept in, swallowing up the two figures.

Amid the cries of seagulls, the tide slowly receded into the sea.

When they came to their senses, two figures were lying in a spread-eagle position on the soft and wet beach, staring blankly at the completely dark night sky, with the waves gently washing over the back of their heads.

After a while, the two slowly turned their heads, looked at each other, and smiled softly.

"go home."

"Ah."

Soon, two wet figures took the subway back home, attracting strange looks from passers-by. The slightly swaying carriage was lit with cold lights.

The two sat together, their wet shoulders touching, in silence. The carriage was filled with the smell of disinfectant, and the air conditioner above was so cold that it made Ke Mingye sneeze.

He scratched the tip of his nose with his hand, and his nose was red.

"I have something to tell you after we get off the bus..." The girl leaned on his shoulder with her eyes closed.

"Can't you say it now?"

"No."

"Oh."

When the train arrived at the Laojingmai District, Ke Mingye and Bai Zini got off the train side by side.

Holding hands, we walked through the bustling crowd and out of the subway station. The smell of mothballs and disinfectant in our noses immediately dissipated, replaced by fresh air.

In the gradually darkening night, it was so quiet that one could hear the cicadas chirping in the trees. They walked slowly on their way home, and in the dimly lit area, there were children playing with glow sticks.

A "ding" notification sound was heard, and Baizini lowered her head to glance at her phone.

"Mom's information?" Ke Mingye asked.

"My second brother, he asked us where we were doing."

Bai Zini replied to her second brother's message while talking. She sent a photo with Ke Mingye, saying that she was with her third brother and told her second brother not to worry.

At home, after receiving the message, Ke Xiaomo took a look at the photo and breathed a sigh of relief. He thought, since Mingye and Xiaoni are together, he shouldn't suddenly put on a combat uniform and run around, right?
So he ignored them and continued to sit by the windowsill and read the ancient book.

"So...what were you talking about on the subway just now?" Ke Mingye asked as he walked.

Bai Zini remained silent.

Suddenly, she took Ke Mingye's hand and led him into a deserted alley. Then, like a magic trick, she suddenly took out a crudely made folding umbrella from behind her.

"You still have your umbrella?"

Bai Zini still didn't speak. She slowly let go of Ke Mingye's hand and took a step back.

Then, starting from the umbrella handle, the hazy cocoon light poured in like a tide, gradually expanding from her slender palm to her wrist, spreading to her shoulders, and then slowly covering her whole body, trapping her like a butterfly about to break out of its cocoon.

Ke Mingye looked at this scene and widened his eyes slightly.

The next moment, as the figure shrouded in cocoon light gently lifted the hair at the base of the ear, the hazy light shattered like a whirlwind.

Then, a girl in a Gothic dress appeared in his pupils.

Ke Mingye stood there in a daze, muttering to himself.

"real or fake……"

As she spoke, the magical girl Ashes slowly raised her eyes, her gaze was as bright and clear as a spring under the moonlight.

She lowered her head slightly, avoiding Ke Mingye's gaze, and her ears turned red.

"You're still blaming me, when it's obviously you who..."

Before Ke Mingye finished speaking, he was interrupted by a cold touch from his palm. The girl in the Gothic skirt held her hand, raised the magic umbrella Cinderella, and opened the graceful and magnificent umbrella to the night sky. The pattern connected by thorns sparkled in the moonlight.

The next moment, ripples of magic power spread in the air like blooming flowers, carrying the girl and the boy up into the night sky and straight into the clouds.

After a while, one of the viaducts around Beijing appeared.

The girl holding an umbrella slowly descended and landed on top of a high-speed train. The strong wind over the city blew on her snow-white cheeks. Her black hair fluttered in the moonlight, and the gray ribbon on her head spread far away.

She lowered her eyes and slowly let go of Ke Mingye's hand.

Ke Mingye subconsciously took two steps back. He opened his mouth slightly, but could not utter a word. His hair was messy and deformed by the wind. He looked a little lost.

His figure was like a tumbler, swaying slightly as he stood on the high-speed moving train.

Under the moonlight, the two stood on top of the white high-speed train, and as it gradually drifted away over the city, there was no trace of neon light touching their figures, as if they were isolated from the world.

After a moment, the magical girl Ashes walked to the edge of the train without saying a word.

She slowly leaned down and sat on the top of the train. Then she put the magic umbrella Cinderella beside her, hugged her knees, raised her eyes as clear as the aurora, and looked at the sky in the distance.

Ke Mingye stood there in a daze for a long time before he slowly came to his senses. He turned sideways, took two steps forward, hesitated for a while, and sat down on the roof of the train like her.

The two of them looked into the distance, and the brightly lit city was disappearing from their sight.

The top of the carriage was shaking gently, and the clanging sound carried them away into the distance, as if they were escaping to another corner of the world.

"This is what I wanted to tell you..." the girl said softly, her gray ribbon and black hair fluttering in the wind.

"Then you still have the nerve to say that to me."

"I have a lot of enemies, and I'm afraid you'll be implicated... I wanted to tell you many times, but I gave up."

"Does anyone else in the family know about this?"

"No..." The girl in the Gothic skirt paused and said softly, "I only told you."

"Then maybe I should ask you."

"ask."

"Since when?"

"long long ago……"

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