My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS

"Really? I've always wanted a sister." Su Zimai's eyes brightened slightly.

"Aren't I Maimai's sister?" Ke Qirui raised her hand and patted her on the head.

"You're my aunt, and right now, Commander, I don't want to hear you talk, so please shut up." Su Zimai said with a cold face.

Ke Qirui smiled indifferently.

"Let's not talk about sisters. The problem is... why did this person called 'Tong Zizhu' join the brigade?" Gu Qiye asked, "If she follows the brigade and harms the innocent, would mom still recognize this child?"

"Su Ying abandoned her back then; Tong Zizhu is still searching for Su Ying's whereabouts to this day," Su Wei said solemnly, "That's likely why she joined the brigade."

"Ah... joining the White Crow Travel Brigade just to find someone who's already passed away?" Ke Qirui raised her eyebrows, "No wonder she's Su Ying's kid, her thought process is quite unique."

Su Zimai and Gu Qiye's expressions both turned solemn.

"Aunt Commander, Commander Aunt... are you deliberately provoking us?" Su Zimai smiled slightly.

"Miss Ke, just because you're my grandpa's adopted daughter doesn't mean you can say whatever you want." Gu Qiye also smiled slightly.

"Sorry, sorry, my mistake... I'm just a bit obtuse," Ke Qirui said and then turned to look at the chairman, "Chairman, what should we do? Should we find a way to lure Tong Zizhu out of the White Crow Travel Brigade?"

Su Wei pondered for a while, then looked up at her: "Can you do it?"

"It shouldn't be too difficult," Ke Qirui said, "It's just about luring away a less capable member, the success rate is quite high for us. Xiaomai, Sanyan, and I can handle capturing her."

Su Wei nodded: "Alright then, do your best, but don't force it. If you really can't bring her back, then just forget about it."

"Okay, let's leave it at that for now."

"I'll go chat with Zhuo'an about this, where is he?"

"In the underground training ground, just go to the end of the hallway and you'll see it." Ke Qirui said this, then suddenly shook her head and changed her mind, "Never mind, I'll go with you, everyone knows you're terrible with directions."

With that said, she and Su Wei headed toward the end of the mansion corridor.

"The world is so strange," Su Zimai said with a sigh, "We were supposed to deal with bad guys, but somehow we ended up trying to bring a sister back from among them."

"Right?"

Gu Qiye shrugged.

Su Zimai shifted her gaze from her aunt and grandpa to him and asked, "Bro, what are we going to do now?"

"Wash up and get some sleep, prepare for the day after tomorrow's event. Even though I don't agree with you participating in the operation, since grandpa said so, I'll trust our family's Xiaomai just this once," Gu Qiye said softly, "No matter what happens, even if dad and I are in danger, your own safety must always come first... understand?"

"Got it." Su Zimai nodded gently, grumbling, "I know, bro, you're the most nagging one at home. I feel like you're more of a mom than mom is."

"Well, what can I do, maybe in the next life I'll be born a girl so you'll have a sister."

"Are you still bothered by me wanting a sister thing?"

"Yeah, isn't having a brother enough?"

"Of course it's enough, you're the best, big bro."

"Why does that sound so perfunctory? How come you're not like this with your second brother... Let's go, Lin Xingshi said he's arranged a place for us to stay in this mansion. It'll be good to stay here these few days, we can look out for each other."

"Sounds good, it's not every day we get to stay in a seaside mansion."

"It's not really a mansion, it feels more like an antique, looks like it's been renovated multiple times. The Lin Family is a historical and profound family; they have houses like this in every city in China."

The siblings chatted as they walked along the wooden corridor filled with a faint aroma of classical tea. Then Gu Qiye stopped in front of a room and pushed open a redwood door.

He said, "The middle room is mine, yours is on the left, and dad's is on the right, don't get it mixed up."

"Got it," Su Zimai nodded, "By the way, didn't we bring back our second brother's clothes earlier... where are they?"

"In the suitcase in the corner of my room, you go look for them."

"Oh, okay..."

Su Zimai responded absently and walked into the room with Gu Qiye, finding the white suitcase in the corner.

Gu Qiye, meanwhile, retrieved his phone from a basket in the wooden cabinet, then sat on the bed with it.

To avoid being tracked by the Rainbow Wings' white hat, he had removed all the sim cards and such from his phone and asked Gu Zhuo's hacker friend to enhance the security.

His phone didn't have a sim card, so he couldn't send or receive texts.

But there was still a secret contact channel in his phone's address book, usable even without a sim card, accessible only to him and "Black Cocoon."

Gu Qiye lay down on the bed, silently watching the phone screen, the glow illuminating his eyes in the dark.

He opened the contact interface, looked at the contact name "Black Cocoon," and reviewed their previous chat history, his fingers sliding across the screen, pushing the chat records into the past.

Black Cocoon would often chat with him out of the blue, sending cute emoticons or memes found on Twitter, just to bother Gu Qiye.