Chapter 194 July 7, a bunch of fireworks on the viaduct

August 7st, early morning.

After Ke Mingye and An Inchuan took off their combat uniforms in the secret base, they met at Hongdeng Commercial Street, had breakfast, took a walk, and then separated.

Ke Mingye took a taxi back to the old Jingmai district and took the elevator to the 12th floor of the duplex apartment building.

As the elevator door opened, he stepped into the car and looked up from his mobile phone screen.

Bai Ziling was standing alone at the entrance of the corridor, in a daze. She turned her head and looked at the sky with an empty gaze, like a harbor at the autumnal equinox. The sky was slightly bright, and the soft and hazy morning light shone through the dusty window and fell on her pale cheeks.

Ke Mingye looked at the silhouette of the white-haired girl, stunned for a moment, then asked while putting away his phone.

"Get up so early?"

"I was woken up by you. And then... I was waiting for you to come home."

Bai Ziling turned around as she spoke, her white skirt swaying gently.

"Why are you waiting for me? Can't you just go back to sleep?" he asked.

"travel."

"Huh?" Ke Mingye was confused by such a nonsensical sentence.

"I want to travel." Bai Ziling said softly, tilting her head slightly, with her snow-white hair falling beside her ears, "But Dad and Mom won't agree."

"Uh... so, you want me to take you there?"

"Ah."

Bai Ziling nodded and raised her eyes from her snow-white hair.

The pair of red eyes, as if covered with a layer of fog, stared at Ke Mingye motionlessly, as if waiting for his response.

Hearing this, Ke Mingye thought for a while.

To be honest, he was 100% sure that Gastro must have deployed a tight network of spies in important places outside Beijing, such as airport ticket inspectors and fishermen at the port.

Otherwise, why would Gastro so blatantly announce the arrival of the vampire hunters in the city?

The strange words she manipulated the hundreds of people to say might have been incomprehensible to ordinary people, but to the ears of vampires they were a clear indication.

You can tell from Bai Ziling's reaction.

She was so scared that she was shaking all over and hid in her room without coming out.

From this point, it can be seen that perhaps the words were like a spell used exclusively by vampire hunters, which contained the magic power to shock vampires. And Gastro wanted to use this spell to tell the white-haired vampire hiding in the city: We are here, you have nowhere to hide.

And Gastro would naturally expect that after receiving the threatening signal from her, the white-haired vampire would most likely try to leave the city and stay away by some means out of fear.

So, she would naturally place spies at exits all over the city, and then, like a seasoned hunter, patiently wait for her prey to take the bait.

Moreover, Bai Ziling's appearance was so conspicuous: white hair, red eyes. Even if she wore a wig and cosmetic contact lenses, it was possible that those vampire hunters could use some kind of equipment to see through her.

Therefore, it is not realistic to take Bai Ziling to other places openly, which is even what Gastro wants.

Otherwise Ke Mingye would have done it long ago.

If what Gastro said was true, then once the 30 days were up, the blood clan oath mark on her body would automatically activate and end her life which was like a candle in the wind.

Ke Mingye only needed to keep finding excuses to fool his family and flee with Bai Ziling. Then when Gastro died, the group of blood clan hunters behind her would not continue to be obsessed with finding the white-haired vampire.

Even if they still refuse to give up by then, it would be a good thing for Ke Mingye.

Once Gastro died, Ke Mingye no longer had to worry about the problem of "player identity being exposed".

Other than that, it was just a small matter: how could the remaining vampire hunters compare with the monsters around him? If it really didn't work, let Bai Zini call Xi Ziyue over and launch a dimensionality reduction attack.

Of course... Ke Mingye also thought that since he couldn't take Bai Ziling away from the city, he could actually leave this problem to other people in the family.

First of all, it was unlikely that Dad and Mom would be able to come. They had just returned from a trip to London, England, and Dad was busy with a lot of Superhero Association matters and couldn't get away.

So naturally, I had to leave this matter to my brothers and sisters at home.

Among such a group of brothers and sisters, the eldest and second brothers are naturally the most suitable.

If Ke Yinzhi and Ke Xiaomo were to take Bai Ziling out of this city, no matter how strong the vampire hunters were, they would not be able to do anything to the monster brothers.

But the problem still exists, that is, if the eldest and second brothers have direct contact with Gastro, they are likely to get clues about other players from Gastro.

In other words, there is a high probability that Ke Mingye will expose his identity.

To be honest, the scene that Ke Mingye least wanted to see was Gastro falling into the hands of his eldest brother.

Black Judge understands the rules of the system, and there is a high probability that he can force Gastro to reveal information about other players while avoiding the death rule.

And with Black Judge's investigative ability, after obtaining information from Gastro, the possibility of Ke Mingye's player identity being revealed is at least 90%.

Because of this, he didn't really want his eldest brother and father, two overly shrewd people, to get involved in this matter.

But since the situation is already so bad, giving it a try might be a bad choice.

Let Ke Yinzhi and Ke Xiaomo take Bai Ziling on a trip, so that they can lure out those vampire hunters at the airport or train station.

Ke Mingye secretly watched from the sidelines, trying to see if he could take this opportunity to find out Gastro's true form and kill her.

Of course, if his identity was really exposed, Ke Mingye also had a way to deal with it: he would take advantage of the fact that Ke Yinzhi and Ke Xiaomo were not home yet and escape on the train to the Laojingmai Street District.

From now on, he is no longer a child of the Bo Ke family, but a member of an anti-superhuman organization, a wandering traveler, or a hermit.

To be honest, no matter how things develop, it will be much easier than staying in this house for a year.

Thinking of this, Ke Mingye sighed.

He pretended to be helpless and asked, "Why don't you ask your second or eldest brother? They are both college students and have more experience in traveling far away. I have never even left my province in my life. Wouldn't it be fooling myself to ask me for help?"

"My brother said he had something to do." Bai Ziling replied.

"Where's the second brother?"

"Same."

When Ke Mingye heard this, he couldn't help but shrug his shoulders. He thought that he should have expected this. How could these two people go out for a leisurely trip at this time? They were probably thinking about the parasites.

"Where's my sister?"

"I just want to go with my third brother." After a moment's silence, Bai Ziling suddenly said.

"What about that elementary school student...you're so close to him."

Ke Mingye asked curiously, thinking, do you really not trust your brother? With a disaster dragon by your side, wouldn't it be better to just close the door and let the dragon bite them as soon as those vampire hunters start making a move?
“He is an elementary school student.”

"Then what's the point of you looking for me? Even if I'm not an elementary school student, my parents will definitely not allow you and I to go together."

"why?"

"It's not realistic for one of us, a high school student and the other a junior high school student, to travel alone. My mom will definitely scold me if I tell her. Just wait and see."

Bai Ziling put her hands behind her white dress, lowered her eyes and said nothing.

Ke Mingye stared at her for a long while, then asked unhappily, "Do you really want to go out and play?"

Bai Ziling nodded silently.

"Don't worry. There's still one month left in the summer vacation. Let's talk about it next month." Ke Mingye said calmly, "Next month our whole family will go on a trip. We don't need that little bit of time."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true." Ke Mingye shrugged. "How can I lie? Even if Dad and Mom refuse to do it next month, I will try my best to convince them."

"Ah."

"Would you like me to go out for a walk with you? I see you haven't been out much lately, and have been hiding at home." Ke Mingye paused, "You need to bask in the sun occasionally."

"I do not want to go out."

"Didn't you just say you wanted to travel?"

"I don't want to go out. But I also want to go outside the Beijing area."

Although Ke Mingye understood why she thought so, he could only pretend not to understand and gave her a puzzled look.

"I don't really understand what you junior high school students are thinking. You've reached your rebellious stage, right?"

After saying that, he put on his slippers first, opened the door and walked in.

After that, there was no news from Gastro for nearly a week.

He has never even spoken in the player discussion group, and the last message in the local discussion group was posted on July 7.

Quietly, time came to July 7th.

Because he was not sure about Gastro's movements, Ke Mingye asked Paranoia to disappear temporarily and try to evacuate from the city center, but he should not leave the city completely, otherwise he would probably run into the spies set up by Gastro.

Surprisingly, the paranoid adult did not raise any objections, but did as he was told very honestly.

So in the end, the only players left in the city around Beijing were Ke Mingye and Cai Bing. With only two people, and with Gastro's whereabouts unknown, it was impossible for them to meet, let alone go to the dungeon.

So, these days, after Ke Mingye completed the daily tasks assigned by the system, he would show up at the Super Hero Association and patrol specific areas of the city with the White Wing Squad. Then, at the end of the day, he would fall asleep without asking about what was happening outside.

As for the Alliance, since Ashes didn't inform him, he wouldn't go.

Ke Mingye guessed that Bai Zini was probably still worried about his affairs and had no time to care about the Alliance or Little Red Riding Hood. She just flew secretly behind the Blue Owl on her magic umbrella every day, fearing that her brother would get his head blown off by some super criminal.

As a result, Magical Girl Ashes, a cadre of the Alliance, was troubled by family affairs and went on strike openly; and the president of the Chinese branch was a lazy person like Xiziyue.

So, Little Red Riding Hood naturally did not receive any notification from the Alliance during these days and was forced to take a vacation.

By July 7th, the one-month death deadline that Gastro mentioned was getting very close... This meant that there was a high possibility that Gastro would take action during this period of time. With her ability, she could at least make the whole city know about it. After all, the authorities have not found a way to completely eliminate the parasites.

Ke Mingye still remembers that he left a trump card when he used the identity of the Dice Freak.

After his first meeting with Gastro, he let the strange thing tell Gastro that as long as Gastro brought it the head of the blue owl, it would tell Gastro the location of the player and the white-haired vampire she was looking for.

Therefore, during these days, when Ke Mingye played the role of Blue Owl, he always let the trickster puppet take the stage, and hid himself in an unknown corner, so as to prevent Comrade Blue Owl from being killed by Gastello. However, it just so happened that he successfully passed the routine brain imaging helmet test of the Superhero Association by letting the puppet play the role of Blue Owl.

The results of the test undoubtedly successfully made the association's top leaders and Che Zhengchen mistakenly believe that he was not a player.

The most important thing is... Qing Ya can also see the test results.

This is what Ke Mingye values ​​most, and it is also the reason why he has been reluctant to reveal his identity to Qing Ya: he knows that since brain imaging helmets have gradually become popular in official organizations, then as a new hero, it is only a matter of time for Blue Owl to undergo brain imaging tests.

And at home, he couldn't use a trick doll to hide his tracks, after all, the elder sister's sharp eyes were there. So if he was put on a brain imaging helmet at home, it would basically be an unbreakable dead end.

Because of this, he had to convince his father that he could not possibly be a player before revealing his identity to him...

As long as Dad confirms that he is not a player through the test results submitted by the association, then when Ke Mingye takes off the Blue Owl mask and reveals his identity to the Blue Crow, there should not be a thriller scene where he returns home after a busy day and wants to have a good rest, but suddenly someone enters his room in the middle of the night and puts a "brain imaging helmet" on his head.

Just thinking about it made Ke Mingye almost pee his pants.

"All the necessary preparations are almost done, so it's Gastro's turn next."

On this morning, Ke Mingye stood in the corridor on the second floor, glanced at the closed door of Bai Ziling's room, and thought to himself.

"The deadline she mentioned is not far away. Either she has been lying to me from the beginning and she doesn't actually have anything like the 'Blood Clan Oath Seal' on her; or she is still hiding, waiting for an opportunity to catch me."

"Let me see how long she will hide before taking action."

The interior of an underground private bar at dusk on July 7.

Under the dim light, Flinks gently picked up Stro's body from the wheelchair, helped her to the chair in front of the bar, and then sat down next to her.

The two took the drinks handed to them by the waiter, Flinks drank liquor and Stro drank milk.

The waiter had empty eyes and no life in them, serving the two people like a puppet.

"Is that really a good thing?" Flinks said, "Those players are likely to take advantage of this period to leave the Beijing area."

"The prophecy book says that the player who has a vampire hidden in his home will not leave the city for at least one month due to some restrictions." Stro said calmly, "According to the prophecy, he will not run away. It doesn't matter if the other players run away. I will slowly find them later and get rid of them one by one. The most urgent task now is to find the white-haired vampire so that I can live a little longer."

"Yes." Flinks nodded, "The next time the Book of Prophecy is unlocked is..."

"Six days later. But I can't wait until that time." Stro said, "In four days, I will die because of the blood oath on my body, so I can't use the Book of Prophecy to find him."

After a pause, she took a sip of milk, licked her lips, and continued.

"It's strange. After receiving my hint, the vampire didn't seem to think about escaping the city, but stayed in hiding. Otherwise, we should have caught it long ago."

Flinks thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's not as complicated as you think. It was just simply scared, so scared that it didn't even have the courage to escape from the city, so it found a place to hide."

Stro put down the cup, supported his chin with both hands, and said with a pout.

"So, my actions have had a negative effect?"

While the two were talking, a blonde woman in a green raincoat walked in from the entrance and sat next to Stro.

She said: "It was a bit casual. Alerting the enemy is not a good thing. You were too hasty in announcing yourself, which had a negative effect on both finding those players and finding the vampire."

"Link said the same thing," said Stro, tapping the ground with his cane. "It seems like it's my fault. I look down on those players too much. Since we have no choice, let's take the worst possible approach."

"The worst option?" Link asked.

"That dice freak. He seems to know a lot, and he may be connected to the player." Stro raised his lips, "He told me to kill the superhero called Blue Owl, and then he will tell me who the player with the vampire hidden in his house is and where he is hiding."

"This could be a trap." Link paused, "This is my intuition."

"It doesn't matter. Even if this is a trap, let's catch the blue owl first." Stro said, "After catching him, the dice monster will appear in front of me. Then I will ask it some questions to confirm whether my guess is correct."

"So...what we need to do next is...capture the superhero?"

Flinks asked thoughtfully while drinking his liquor.

"Right. It should be easy for you guys." Stro smiled. "Of course, we don't have to do it in the Super Hero Building. We can just wait for him to come out to carry out the mission and then do it."

"I understand."

July 7, 20 p.m.

As the sun sets in the west, tall buildings stand tall, shrouded in a hazy twilight mixed with afterglow and neon lights.

On his way home from the Super Hero Association, Ke Mingye sent a message to Bai Zini, from whom he learned that his second brother and father were still at home. After confirming that no one was following him, he released a trick puppet in an inconspicuous corner.

Then, he used a spare phone to open the "Spider Man Chat APP" and sent an encrypted text message to Bai Qiuwu's phone.

The content of this text message is: [Ms. Sun Wukong, if it is convenient, please come and meet at 7 o'clock tonight, still at the old place - your good friend, dear Mr. Weird Thing.]

After sending this text message, Ke Mingye asked the puppet to take a spare mobile phone, equip it with a spider web launcher, and head towards the No. 7 viaduct with spider webs swinging over the city.

When the puppet let go of the spider silk that was stuck to the bottom of the viaduct, flew diagonally upward and landed on the top of the viaduct, it turned its head and looked around, but there was no human figure in the gradually darkening dusk.

The weirdo curled his lips, squatted above a street lamp, opened his spare phone, and found that the "Spider-Man Chat APP" did not receive any message.

Although Bai Qiuwu did not reply to his message, he felt that Bai Qiuwu would definitely come.

So, after Ke Mingye took off his combat uniform at the abandoned train station and walked back home, he walked around the house and soon discovered that Bai Qiuwu was nowhere to be seen.

I asked other brothers and sisters, and they all said that Bai Qiuwu was going to meet some friends and went out not long ago.

Ke Mingye shrugged, sat down on the sofa, and checked his personal panel while drinking a drink.

From July 7 to July 13, during these eight days, he completed eight "Daily Tasks 7", providing him with a total of 20 attribute points that could be freely allocated.

Among the eight spin rewards he received for completing "Daily Task 9000", he drew "Mall Coins" in the first four times without exception, totaling coins;
The fifth time he turned the wheel, he drew "2 attribute points that can be freely allocated"; the sixth time he drew a B-level magic card "Elf's Sorrow" (medical effect).

The last two spins of the wheel produced a synthetic fragment of a low-level skill enhancement card and a 30% off shopping voucher.

Ke Mingye evenly distributed the total of 18 attribute points obtained during this period to the three attributes, focusing on stable development.

【目前玩家属性如下——身体素质：74点（↑6点）；神经反应：44点（↑6点）；精神力量：38点（↑6点）】

[Total number of mall coins currently held by players: 9100]

Not long after, when Ke Mingye was bored and confirmed his personal information, in the eyes of the strange thing, a figure slowly walked above the No. 7 viaduct.

Ke Mingye breathed a sigh of relief, drank the last sip of Sprite in the bottle, and waved at her while controlling the strange thing.

At the same time, at the top of Viaduct No. 7.

From the road in the distance, an uninvited guest wearing a silver and black metallic long windbreaker was walking slowly towards them.

The visitor wore a monkey mask and held a dark gold staff behind her shoulder. As dusk faded, the last ray of sunset fell on her body, setting off her cold back and dragging her shadow very long on the road.

"Hey... isn't this our Miss Sun Wukong? Long time no see."

The strange thing squatted on the street lamp, waved to her, and said while thinking back: "The last time we met was probably half a month ago. Did you miss me? I missed you very much... So today I couldn't stand it anymore, so I sent a text message to call you out. By the way, I'm very happy to see you."

Hearing this, Black Goku took out his cell phone from the pocket of his metal windbreaker, opened the memo, typed with his fingers, and then turned the screen towards the strange thing.

The memo read: "Enough of the small talk. What is the reason you are looking for me this time?"

The weird thing curled its lips, glanced at the words on the memo, and looked up at the sky: "It's only been half a month since we last met, and you don't even want to talk. You've gone back to communicating on your phone... Is the relationship between us so fragile?"

He paused, shook his head and sighed: "It seems that what was said on Weibo is right. Women are indeed like this: as long as you don't treat her well for three days, she will forget about you."

"Are you a human being?"

Black Goku asked coldly as he put his phone into his pocket.

"If that's the case, then it doesn't count." The strange thing said, poking its chin with a finger, "Of course, if you want me to be a human, I can be one too."

"What do you mean?"

Black Goku said as he crossed his shoulders and tilted his head, narrowing his crimson eyes as he stared at it from behind his mask.

"Excuse me, do you like little boys, teenagers, muscular men, or handsome blond men?"

The strange thing changed its face as it spoke. Sometimes it was a handsome little boy, sometimes a sunny teenager, sometimes an evil blond man, and sometimes a handsome strong man with a buzz cut.

"Stop it now..." Black Goku said, covering the eye sockets of the mask with his hands, lowering his head and sighing softly, "I'm about to throw up the dinner I just ate."

"Well, it seems that beauty seduction is useless. It seems that I have to use something else to attract your attention."

As the strange thing spoke, he curled the corner of his mouth downwards, and suddenly a red and black dice appeared in his right hand.

Black Goku remained silent, staring at it in confusion.

The strange thing flipped over and fell from the street lamp, stepping on the road surface of the viaduct. It walked towards Black Goku while reaching its right hand outside the bridge railing, then released the dice, causing it to fall towards the city.

At this moment, the setting sun completely fell below the horizon, and the whole city was shrouded in the sudden darkness. It was pitch dark on the viaduct, and only the bright flames flickered in Black Wukong's golden eyes.

At the same time, as the disaster dice fell from the viaduct a hundred meters in the air and crashed to the ground, two numbers appeared in succession on the part directly above it.

"⑥."

In the darkness, the strange thing faintly read out a number.

[Event "⑥" has been selected from events with the number "⑥" and the number "③". ]

【Event ⑥: A large bunch of fireworks rises in the sky. 】

The next moment, from the bottom of the dark sky, a beam of fire like a meteor suddenly rose upwards, cutting through the night sky with a "swoosh", and then after reaching the apex, it exploded completely.

With a loud bang, the rose-shaped fireworks bloomed in the night sky, casting a star-like halo of light on the city. The world was brightly lit, and the lit sky swayed dazzlingly with the gorgeous fireworks.

From below in the city came the sounds of people screaming and cars honking.

On the empty overpass, the dazzling light from the night sky suddenly broke the dead silence and darkness, rendering the figures of Black Goku and the strange thing the same color.

Black Goku was stunned for a moment, then slowly raised his face and looked at the fireworks in the distance.

"Do you like my birthday present for you?"

The strange thing turned its back to the fireworks, looked at the night sky with its side profile, and called her by her name.

"Happy birthday...Ms. Bai Qiuwu."

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