Chapter 221 Dimensional Fighting Competition
After the battle at Yandai Commercial Street ended, Ke Mingye parted ways with Bai Yi, then took off his combat uniform at the train station in Laojingmai Street, changed into ordinary clothes and went home.
On the way home, the rain had almost stopped, with only a few raindrops hitting his messy hair, but he still played with his mobile phone while casually holding up the umbrella that Baizini had given him, and hastily covered himself up.
I took the elevator to the 12th floor of the duplex apartment building, leaned against the shoe cabinet to change into slippers, and then opened the door.
I lowered my head and played with my phone, walking through the dark entranceway with the sound of "dong dong" footsteps, followed by a news broadcast.
"We have just received an emergency notice that a superhuman crime has occurred in the Tobacco Merchant District. The C-level wanted mutant 'Ghost Shark' launched an attack in the district, targeting the D-level superhero team 'Dark Squad'. According to the intelligence currently available, all members of the 'Dark Squad' have unfortunately died... We express our deepest condolences for their sacrifice and pay them our deepest respects."
"After the incident, the superheroes 'Red Giant', 'Octopus Man', 'Blue Owl' and 'White Wing' quickly rushed to the scene to provide support, and jointly sanctioned the mutant 'Ghost Shark', successfully putting an end to his further criminal activities."
"The following is an incomplete video clip sent back from the scene. Let us pay attention to the details of the incident."
Listening to the news reports, Ke Mingye smacked his lips, wondering who in his family was so blind as to broadcast news about Comrade Blue Owl on the TV in the living room.
Isn't this a public execution?
How is this different from a public execution?
No, this is a public execution, right?!
It must be Baizini, right? She did this in the living room to get revenge on me for cheating her.
Okay, okay, then I will change to Little Red Riding Hood's account to torture you tomorrow, or project the fan-edited video of Magical Girl Ashes on the TV for everyone to enjoy, and give you a taste of your own medicine.
Thinking of this, Ke Mingye walked into the living room angrily and turned his head to look.
At this moment, except for mom, dad and second brother, all the brothers and sisters in the family are sitting neatly on the sofa, watching the news about Comrade Blue Owl attentively. I have never seen them so focused even when watching movies. They stare at the TV screen without blinking.
Seeing this, Ke Mingye pretended to be calm and walked towards the refrigerator, thinking to himself, will I be broken by you doing this? You think too simply... With my thick skin, even if you play a video of a blue owl being stepped on by bad guys and drinking urine in front of me, I won't be upset.
In ancient times, there was Han Xin's humiliation under his crotch, and now there is Blue Owl kneeling on the ground begging for mercy. Those who achieve great things are good at forbearance...
After comforting himself, he opened the refrigerator door and took out a bottle of iced cola.
The cool white air blew towards him, easing his anxious mood.
At this moment, the people who were watching the show attentively heard the noise behind them. They all turned their heads to look at him meaningfully, then turned their heads back to watch the TV quietly.
Ke Mingye disagreed, sneered, unscrewed the bottle cap, took a deep gulp of Coke, then lowered his head, held his chest and took a deep breath, ready to face the sneers from the people on the sofa.
He knew in his heart that except for his parents, almost everyone in his family knew his superhero identity, so everyone watched the news on TV even though they knew he was Blue Owl. It was as awkward as if his brother had become a ballet dancer and his younger brothers and sisters had all gathered in front of the TV to watch him spinning around on tiptoe on the stage.
Damn, this is so embarrassing...
Ke Mingye prepared himself mentally before he had the courage to move his gaze away from the Coke bottle and look towards the TV.
On the TV screen was the scene where White Wing and Blue Owl teamed up to end the Ghost Shark.
White Wing was attacked by a ghost shark and taken hostage. At this moment, he and Blue Owl looked at each other in tacit understanding, and Blue Owl suddenly said a line full of gay love: "Shut up, stupid bird."
"puff--!"
Baizini spat out the drink she was drinking.
"cough……"
Ke Yongzhu covered his mouth with his hands, tears welling up in his eyes. He was almost kneeling on the ground and pounding his fist with laughter.
"what……"
Bai Qiuwu's cheeks puffed up, she hugged her shoulders with her hands, lowered her head slightly, and her shoulders shook slightly.
"Um……"
Bai Ziling was squatting on the sofa barefoot, painting silently on the drawing board like a kitten, but when she saw this scene, she couldn't help but turn her face slightly.
"Ah……"
Ke Yinzhi rested his left arm on the back of the sofa, with his other hand hanging by his leg holding a book. Seeing this scene, he also couldn't help but lower his head slightly and put his fist against his mouth.
Ke Mingye covered his face with his hands. He was devastated. Although he only saw the backs of these five people, he was really devastated... He thought to himself, I was the one who usually laughed at you guys silently, but now that my identity has been revealed, my stance has reversed.
This is like being a slave owner for 100 years and suddenly experiencing the feeling of being a slave for a while. He felt really bad, as if a boomerang had hit him in the face. He thought to himself that if he had known this would happen, he would not have created such an account in the first place.
"Damn it, if you were human, I would eat you directly... Really, if any of you had any human qualities, you wouldn't laugh like this. Even though I can't handle nuclear bombs like my dad and big brother, at least I'm getting rid of harm for the people, right?"
Ke Mingye secretly complained in his heart and decided to face the abyss, so he stood behind the sofa, with a pair of dead fish eyes, admiring the operation of the great Blue Owl with bloodshot eyes.
In the news video, as the words "Shut up, stupid bird" were uttered, the blue owl instantly used its special abilities and exchanged positions with the ghost shark.
Then White Wing spread his huge wings and shot a rain of sharp feathers at the Ghost Shark. Blue Owl's fists were blazing with flames and he rushed out diagonally in the rain.
Perhaps because the subsequent scenes were too bloody, the video ended abruptly.
Baizini was trying to hold back her laughter, but now that she calmed down, she started to feel unhappy again, her face fell and her brows furrowed.
When she thought about how Ke Mingye lied to her that he was going to buy game cartridges, but actually went out to fight criminals alone without telling her, she gnashed her teeth in anger, her shoulders trembled, and her head and ears seemed to be emitting steam.
At that time, she was browsing Weibo on her mobile phone, and she saw a photo taken by a passerby near Yandai Commercial Street. In the photo, she saw Bai Yi flying in the sky and the blue owl that he was flying with.
Bai Zini’s first reaction when she saw this photo was that either this photo was photoshopped, or this was definitely not a current photo. My brother promised not to lie to me.
So I clicked on the report button, deleted the post, and looked at the next post. The information that caught my eye was that a passerby had captured a picture of a blue owl running on Hongge Commercial Street.
When you zoom in on the photo, you can see that his figure is like a beam of red and blue light, moving through the heavy rain, creating a splash of water behind him.
Bai Zini still didn't believe it until she saw a live broadcast by a passerby on Weibo. In the live broadcast, Blue Owl and White Wing landed above Yandai Commercial Street.
Seeing this, she wanted to run out with Cinderella, but was stopped by her mother. Her mother said that it was almost lunch time, and no one was allowed to go out or go upstairs. Everyone had to stay in the living room and wait for dinner. Finally, under many obstacles, Bai Zini had to give up, sat on the sofa with her hands folded, and silently chanted in her heart: "Anita Buddha, Anita Buddha... God, please don't let my brother die too miserably, I will definitely burn two incense sticks to thank you..."
Let’s go back to the present moment.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she got, so she said, "Can you please stop watching the news? Why do I see this guy every day in the news recently? This guy called 'Blue Owl' is so incompetent and pretentious. I can't stand it. I will die if I see him showing off."
Hearing this, Ke Yongzhu began to act reasonable.
He said: "I feel the same way. This Blue Owl is really the first person to pick up the spoils. Others were fighting for most of the day, but he came to make the final move and all the credit goes to him."
Bai Ziling disagreed and said calmly: "Owls and pigeons are both cute."
Bai Qiuwu looked down at the tutorial materials and said as he stroked his cheek with the body of a pencil: "I feel... this Blue Owl is really not as good as Magical Girl Ashes. The difference in strength is too great."
"Is that so? Sister, you have good vision." Bai Zini clapped her hands and looked at Bai Qiuwu with shining eyes. "There are some idiotic battle power voting websites on the Internet. Some people think that Blue Owl is stronger than Magical Girl Ashes. At that time, I was so angry that I couldn't speak. In the end, I reported the website a hundred times, but it didn't close down."
Ke Yinzhi lowered his head to read a book, yawned, and said slowly: "I think, after all, this is a new hero, and Huijin has been fighting criminals for several years. Aren't you a little too harsh on Blue Owl?"
"I also think that this Bai Zini just can't stand seeing others doing well."
After saying that, Ke Mingye leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and drank his drink silently. There was no place for him on the sofa, so he had to stand there stupidly.
Seeing that Bai Zini was about to continue criticizing Blue Owl, Ke Mingye quickly interrupted her and changed the subject: "By the way, has the second brother arrived in Xi'an?"
"We're there, right? It only takes an hour to fly from Beijing to Xi'an. He should be in the school dormitory by now?" Bai Qiuwu said as he flipped through the tutoring materials.
Ke Mingye raised his eyebrows: "We are also allowed to live in school during winter and summer vacations?"
"Good question. You will know when you go to college. But your second brother is not in college. He is somewhere else."
Ke Yinzhi said with a smile, picked up the phone that was closed in the book, unlocked the screen, and opened WeChat.
Then he moved his finger and clicked into the chat interface with Ke Xiaomo, found a photo in the chat history, and turned the phone screen to show it to the other people on the sofa.
He said: "After Xiaomo flew to Xi'an, he and his friends went hiking at Yingfan Mountain near Xi'an. They are almost at the top of the mountain now. This is the photo he posted."
"Yingfan Mountain, this name sounds very unlucky, okay? Who would climb a mountain with such a name?"
Ke Yongzhu said this calmly without even glancing at the photo.
Ke Ming is right about your ambition to say that it is unlucky. You'd better not climb this mountain in your life, otherwise you will suffer the consequences.
Except for the elementary school students who were too lazy to look at it, everyone on the sofa turned their heads and looked at the photo.
The background of the photo is a corner of Yingfan Mountain. Under the scorching sun at noon, Ke Xiaomo and a bald man wearing a mask are standing on the edge of the cliff, gazing into the distance.
Ke Mingye's gaze was not on Ke Xiaomo, but on the bald man wearing a mask next to him. He was secretly surprised.
He thought: "This guy should be the Ink Writer, how come he's already bald after just half a month of not seeing him... Is it that frustrating to try your best but be defeated instantly by Black Judge, or is he originally bald, and the Super Hero Association's agency partner just made him a custom wig?"
Bai Qiuwu took a look at the photo and joked, "I thought my second brother had found a girlfriend, but I didn't expect he went hiking with an old man."
"My second brother can find a girlfriend, and I can eat noodles with my nose," said Ke Yongzhu.
"That's what you said." Bai Zini turned her head to look at him.
"Eating noodles with nose..." Bai Ziling seemed to have found inspiration and doodled a little dragon eating noodles with its nostrils on the drawing board.
"Come on, our classmate Xiao Mo is still very charming. He has received a lot of love letters since he was a child." Ke Yinzhi said, "It's just a little less than me."
"Stop being so narcissistic. I suggest you first confirm whether your love letter was written by the bald middle-aged man in the photo. After all, you and your second brother both look very feminine." Ke Mingye said, "By the way, how are you getting along with the big sister you met in the cafe before?" He paused: "I think her name is... Song Wen?"
"Speaking of this..." Ke Yinzhi leaned his head against the back of the sofa, looking thoughtful, "Uh...how should I put it? I think we broke up. It's hard to put it into words."
"what?"
Ke Ming said ambitiously, "Sister Cai Bing, you are too cruel. You won't just dump my brother after knowing how to imitate the authority of the members of the Control Bureau. You are such a cruel person..."
As he was about to ask a question, he was interrupted by the cursing voice of Bowenna coming from the kitchen: "It's time for lunch! A bunch of brats, making so much noise all day long, it's hard to keep one's ears quiet for a moment."
Ke Mingye stood up silently, took a pair of chopsticks and sat at the dining table. With the chopsticks in his mouth, he took out the spare phone that was vibrating in his pocket and looked at the screen.
【Che Zhengchen: Are you okay? I saw it on TV. You did a great job.】
[Che Zhengchen: You can come to the Super Hero Association later to collect points and register for the hero level promotion.]
[Blue Owl: Oh, so after this incident, I have accumulated 500 points? ]
[Che Zhengchen: To be precise, it was the combined result of the Blood Clan Hunter incident and the Ghost Shark incident. At the time, because we were not sure how much contribution you made in the Blood Clan Hunter incident, the higher-ups did not give you a reward for the time being.]
[Blue Owl: I'll come when I'm free, and get a bottle of gene enhancer to play with. This thing seems to cost exactly 500 points.]
【Che Zhengchen: That’s right, I’ll be waiting for you at the association. I should be here from 2pm to 8pm.】
【Blue Owl: Okay.】
Ke Mingye had just put down his phone after sending the message when a crystal blue panel popped up in front of him with densely packed text on it.
[Important system notification: Dear player "Failed Man", there is an important message to inform you: the first "Player Dimension Fighting Competition" will be officially held on September 9st. All players who meet the requirements can enter the fighting competition site through the system panel to watch the battle or form a team to participate in the fighting competition. ]
[Eligibility criteria: On September 9, the player's level must be at least 1. ]
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