Chapter 274 "Brother, let's run away together"

Late at night, under the moon, on the edge of an unfinished building.

[Codename: Fangongta Starman-Z5893]

[Danger level: ? ? ? level]

"My child... now is not the time."

Accompanied by a hoarse voice coming from the darkness behind, the head of the strange creature was lifted high up by a metal bar, facing the huge moon.

The cold wind in the evening choked my mouth and nose, and the scenery of the city came into my eyes like a high-speed train passing through.

A ray of moonlight fell from the crab-blue sky, covering its face.

Then, its empty eyes were covered by a wriggling metal strip, and the moon that appeared and disappeared in the clouds was swallowed by darkness.

Like an ancient sacrifice, the villagers knelt on the ground and offered a blood-stained deer head to the gods living in the forest.

Ke Mingye remained silent. He could no longer see anything from the perspective of the strange thing.

So he had to calm his breathing and listen to the hoarse whispers coming from behind him along with the many beings in his mind.

Little Red Riding Hood said calmly, "I used the 'All Languages' function, and in a short time we can understand what this alien woman is saying." She paused, "By the way, I have prepared the lie detector necklace, which can be used when needed..."

"She is worthy of being our Little Red Riding Hood. She is smart and brave, and talented in both civil and military affairs." Kobe said with stars in his eyes.

"Wait, what did this alien just call us?" said Blue Owl. "'My child'?"

After thinking for a while, he said, "Could it be that our Lao Ke is really her child?"

"You mean we are also androids?" Spider-Man raised his eyebrows.

"Alas, fortunately Master Kobe is a contracted beast." Kobe breathed a sigh of relief, "I don't have to be involved in the conspiracies and disputes of the mortal world. I just need to roll around in the sweet and soft arms of the magical girl. I won't be bothered."

The strange thing raised an index finger: "No, have you ever thought about it, if we are originally a superhuman race, then why do we become a 'player'? Players can only take over the bodies of ordinary people. Isn't this something everyone knows?"

It paused, "And if we are ordinary people, then why did Bowenna go to so much trouble to create such an 'ordinary person'? What is the meaning of her doing so?"

"You... these things please be quiet for now."

Ke Mingye said irritably, "Let me hear what she is saying first."

However, everything did not go as he expected.

Even though Little Red Riding Hood activated the magic card - "All Languages", the monster still couldn't hear what the voice behind him was saying, as if his hearing had been severely disturbed.

Ke Mingye had activated his spider sense long before talking to Bowenna. At this moment, he had goose bumps all over his body, and it was as if a string in his brain was continuously playing, and then continued to evolve, like a piece of iron burning.

Then a thought flashed out at a very high frequency like a pop-up window when a computer malfunctioned, shaking every nerve in his body.

That thought reminded him frantically:
——We must get this weird thing out of there.

Otherwise, his mind might be affected by something, something that cannot be reversed. Just like what happened just now, Bowena invaded the mind of the strange thing and made it see so many incredible images.

Her abilities...are definitely more than that.

So, at the last moment, Ke Mingye made a prompt decision and activated the self-destruction function of the trick puppet. Then, the strange thing was splitting its brain and body into two parts, and at the same time, a thick layer of fire appeared.

In the flames, thousands of hideous cracks stretched out, like cracked lava.

"Bad boy..."

Finally, the creature behind her seemed to complain, murmured softly, and then let go of the strange head. She threw the flaming gray ball towards the moon.

The strange creature's head swayed in the air, up and down, spinning like a fallen leaf, and finally turned into a beam of fire that shot straight into the sky.

Finally, under the moon, it exploded into dazzling fireworks. Even the bright moon could not cover its brilliance. The strong wind in the sky covered up the weird laughter.

In the distance, Bai Zini looked up from her phone and watched the flames rising in the night sky. The flames rose to their apex, exploded with a bang, and turned into a rain of light that scattered down.

She was stunned, her beautiful pupils reflected with starlight, and she was speechless for a moment.

After a moment, she came to her senses and asked in surprise: "Brother, are we having a fireworks show here today?"

Ke Mingye glanced at his phone and muttered, "It seems so, but I remember it was supposed to start in ten minutes. Is it early?"

As the two were talking, the first bunch of fireworks exploded, but the second bunch of fireworks did not rise.

"It looks like they are setting off a bunch of fireworks before the show to test the effect." Bai Zini guessed, and then changed the subject: "Since the fireworks will not start until ten minutes later, we can see them clearly from the Ferris wheel over there."

After saying that, she raised her hand and pointed at the Ferris wheel that was slowly turning in the distance. The cabin was brightly lit, and from a distance it looked like a group of colorful flames rotating in a circle.

On the street, the two looked up at the Ferris wheel.

"Okay... let's go ride the Ferris wheel then." Ke Ming was absent-minded and tilted his head slightly, "But you have to be prepared to be scolded by your mother. You are not allowed to escape at the last minute."

"It's okay. Mom said she went out to buy groceries and might be back late."

As she spoke, Bai Zini picked up her phone and turned the screen towards Ke Mingye, raising the corners of her mouth, "Brother, is this God helping us?"

Ke Mingye was stunned. He glanced at the screen and saw that his mother had indeed sent a photo of the supermarket in the group.

She also sent her location and asked Bai Qiuwu to help her carry the shopping bags after she finished her cram school.

"What a hell..."

Ke Mingye sighed and secretly sighed again, thinking that since his mother was in the supermarket, what on earth was the creature that just held the strange head?
As he was thinking, Bai Zini beside him suddenly exclaimed: "Ah, my second brother actually sent a message in the family group. I thought he was dead."

"Second brother? What did he post?"

"I posted photos of climbing a mountain with my friends, with flowers, grass, mountains, rivers, etc...."

"It's so tacky. Does anyone in our family really like to watch this kind of stuff?" Ke Mingye smacked his lips. "He might as well just post it on WeChat Moments... The old man's friends are also old men. Maybe some of his friends will like this kind of stuff."

"My second brother doesn't have a Moments circle just like my eldest brother." Bai Zini looked at him, "Aren't you the same?"

Ke Mingye rolled his eyes at her and said, "How dare you say that to me? Someone's Moments records are still stuck in two years ago."

After saying that, he looked at his phone and saw the last circle of friends that Baizini posted two years ago.

No text, just photos.

In the photo, she and her two friends were walking on a deserted zebra crossing, their faces pressed together, with the afterglow of the evening falling on their heads.

Ke Mingye looked at the photos and could guess who the two people were.

They are "Magical Girl Bird Art" and "Magical Girl Silver Clothes". The former's real name is "Lin Jiaqi" and the latter's name is "He Yinlu". They are the two magical girls who were killed by the Ghost Hand Buddha a few months ago.

According to news reports, Lin Jiaqi's "body" has been cremated, if it can still be considered a body.

He Yinlu's body was not left behind: according to the official explanation, He Yinlu's body was most likely torn into many pieces by the Ghost Hand Buddha and thrown into the factory's furnace, so it could not be recovered.

He Yinlu is the pretty girl with short medium-length hair in the photos in Baizini’s circle of friends.

She was also known as "Witch Black Rose" - the first witch to receive Schnaian after she entered the Witch Church as a witch.

It was hard for Ke Mingye to imagine what Bai Zini would think after learning that He Yinlu was still alive. Perhaps... the last line of defense in her heart would collapse.

"Let's go. It will be too late if we don't leave now." Ke Mingye said after putting away his phone.

"Ah."

The two strolled along the long, brightly lit street and bought a string of candied haws from a street vendor. The girl walked in front and turned around, with her hands behind her back, staring at the boy, her hair swaying in the neon lights.

Amid the noisy voices, the girl asked softly:

"What if one day, I suddenly disappeared?"

"what?"

Ke Mingye couldn't hear clearly.

She raised her voice slightly and said, "I said, if one day, I suddenly disappeared."

"and then?"

"Brother, will you find me?"

"Why are you saying such things? Why are you running away from home when you're this old?"

Bai Zini turned her face away and walked ahead. Without even turning her head, she said, "Sometimes... I can't quite tell who I am. I feel better only when I'm by your side."

"I can't tell either." Ke Mingye said, "I can't tell whether I am Blue Owl, Ke Mingye, or someone else... Are you the same as me?"

"Me too."

As she spoke, Bai Zini suddenly lowered her head slightly, stopped, and waited for Ke Mingye to come to her side.

On the dimly lit street, the figures of the two were scattered together.

"What's wrong?" Ke Mingye asked her sideways.

Without saying a word, Bai Zini took his hand and ran down the long street. The two of them seemed to be carrying the wind, running in the lantern-like halo, and turning into foam-like silhouettes on the long street under the night sky.

Ke Mingye stared at her back in a daze.

They walked further and further away from the street, onto the path along the riverbank. The noisy voices gradually faded away, and no one looked at them sideways. The world was so empty that it seemed as if there were only the two of them. The moonlight created ripples on the lake, and the shadows of the boy and girl merged in the ripples, swaying faintly.

The girl ran as fast as she could, as if she wanted to escape from this noisy world and take a breath.

A moment later, as she was about to reach the end of the riverside path, her body was suddenly covered with a layer of cocoon light.

As the cocoon light shattered, a black-haired girl in a Gothic grey dress appeared in front of Ke Mingye. He slightly widened his eyes, and before she could come to her senses, the girl opened her umbrella and flew up into the sky with him.

"What the hell are you doing—?!"

Ke Mingye raised his wrist to block the wind pressure from above.

But the girl in the Gothic skirt ignored him and flew upwards on her own. Magic ripples spread out from the tip of her umbrella, and the hem of her skirt was like bird feathers fluttering in the evening breeze.

A moment later, she came to the brightly lit Ferris wheel, sat down on the top of a car, and let go of Ke Mingye's hand.

The two of them sat on top of the slowly moving car, rising with the Ferris wheel. Looking down, it seemed as if they could see the entire city. Countless vehicles merged into an endless stream of light on the elevated highway.

"This is fare evasion... Comrade Bai Zini."

Ke Mingye lowered his head and sighed, and said something in an unpleasant mood, thinking to himself, Bai Zini, what's wrong with you again? Is it necessary to do this just to not miss a fireworks display?

The girl in the Gothic skirt did not speak, but silently folded up the magic umbrella, lifted up the protective piece on the handle, revealing the magic gem hidden inside the handle.

Seeing this, Ke Mingye looked sideways with displeasure, then froze in place.

The pupils contract to the size of wheat awns.

In his eyes, half of the gem was already covered with black stains, and there were faint cracks on all sides, flashing with strange halos.

Like... a piece of glass about to break.

"When did it start?" Ke Mingye asked slowly, his voice a little hoarse.

"A few months ago, on the morning after killing the Demon Hand Buddha."

Hearing this, Ke Mingye's face darkened and his eyes flickered slightly.

It happened that night that Baizini was waiting outside his room, asking him to chat with her.

If I had opened the door at that time... instead of leaving her outside alone with her wild thoughts, would my sister not have shown signs of turning into a witch?

But he had not come into this world at that time, and he was not the Ke Mingye he is today.

What can he do?

Ke Mingye took a deep breath of the cold air, lowered his head to look at the noisy amusement park, and asked softly, "Why are you telling me now?"

"Don't want you to worry."

"So...you have been hiding it from me until now?"

Ke Mingye lowered his head, his eyes were obscured by his drooping hair, and there was a hint of anger in his words.

Once she becomes a witch, Comet Qiamat will not be able to take back her power. By then, she will be targeted for extermination by players as a "superhuman".

And what could Ke Mingye use to stop the ninety players? What could he use to stop those beings that were like a tornado sweeping away everything... He was just one person.

"Every morning when I wake up, I see more and more cracks." The girl hugged her knees and said softly, "I wonder if I have done something wrong, and if it is irreversible. Will all magical girls who have killed people become witches..."

She lowered her eyes and continued, "Sometimes in the mirror, I seem to see another me. She is talking to me and laughing at me, but I can't hear clearly what she is saying..."

The girl paused, her voice seemed too low to be heard clearly.

"This feeling... is like I'm about to break apart."

Ke Mingye remained silent. He opened his mouth but could not utter a word, his face shrouded in gloom.

The girl next to me suddenly said, "Let's run away together."

"Speaking of escaping...where can we escape to?" Ke Mingye asked softly.

"It doesn't matter where we run to... Let's run away together."

The girl in the gothic skirt whispered, as if she was deceiving herself, "This way I won't have to worry about my brother being caught by the watch man and being unable to sleep every day, and you won't have to worry about me being caught by the witch... How great."

"But if we leave Huanjing, we will be in more danger." Ke Mingye said, "Without Xiziyue and Qingya, we are more likely to be caught. Do you understand?"

"I know nothing... and I understand nothing."

As she spoke, she raised her hands and gently covered her ears. "I just want to run with you. When we run, there will be wind, and with wind we can leave all the troubles behind."

"But running away is useless...it won't solve anything."

"Then what else can I do besides running away?" The girl's voice suddenly became louder.

"You know, everyone I meet says that once a crack appears on the gem, it's only a matter of time before you become a witch. Even the masters say it's destined..." The girl said softly, tears welling up in her eyes. "I can only not tell them about this. I dare not tell them that I'm about to become a witch... I hide carefully every day. Brother, can you teach me? Besides running away... what else can I do?"

She was silent for a long time, burying her face in her knees, "Only when I'm with you... can I breathe."

Looking at the girl's tear-stained face, Ke Mingye was slightly stunned, lowered his head, and was speechless.

Wasn't he also avoiding telling her that he was actually a player, not her brother, and that he was actually about to break apart... There were so many people in his head, and they were all so noisy that his head was about to break apart, but he still had to keep acting, keep acting...

Every day and every night, no matter how tired he was, he had to continue performing, because any mistake would result in death.

The world was not kind to him at all, not at all.

Isn't it only when I'm with her that I can forget those things and take a breath?
The Ferris wheel slowly rose with a clang, and the cabin below trembled slightly. The two figures were close together, and the lights dispelled the cold and lonely night. The world was like a camera, and the lens focused on a small warm spot of light.

"Will you come to save me?" the girl suddenly asked.

Ke Mingye was silent for a long time, his hair was messy in the evening breeze.

"I……"

He opened his mouth.

"I will save you."

Ke Mingye lowered his eyes to look at the crack on the gem and spoke in a low voice, enunciating each word.

"I won't let my sister become a witch...never."

"Then you must come and rescue me."

"Ah."

"Don't leave me alone, like I did that day."

"of course."

"do not leave Me."

"it is good."

Magical girl Huijin leaned on his shoulder, and the two of them sat on the top of the brightly lit car, feeling the evening breeze and looking into the distance together. The sky was a cold crab-green color, and under the sky were dark low-rise buildings.

Therefore, when you look ahead, you can see very far.

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