Superman Termination Manual-Chapter 365 - 209 Family Meeting Week Three (Part 1)
Chapter 365: Chapter 209 Family Meeting Week Three (Part 1)
Silence briefly enveloped the two on the living room couch.
Ke Xiaomo’s face was downturned, his expression slightly somber.
He thought to himself that if it were only about Mingye, he might have planned to keep it from Ke Yinzhi for now, letting his big brother have a peaceful vacation before worrying about it after the holidays were over.
But with Xiao Ling and Xiao Ni involved, the nature of the matter was different.
Now, more than wondering why his little brothers and sisters had become like this, he should consider… Was there someone in the shadows manipulating them to be this way?
Could all this be connected?
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Ke Xiaomo mused silently, his mind as chaotic as a tangled ball of yarn. The more he thought, the more it seemed like a ball of yarn that had fallen to the ground, rolling and unraveling endlessly with thousands of threads spreading inexorably.
Next to him, Ke Yinzhi rested the back of his head against the back of the sofa, silently staring at the light bulb on the ceiling. His face was expressionless, revealing nothing about his mood.
A moment later, Ke Yinzhi broke the silence.
He sighed softly, straightened up from the back of the sofa, his hands tucked into the pockets of his black coat, glanced at Bai Wenna in the living room from the corner of his eye, and then said,
“Let’s talk somewhere else.”
“Mmm.”
After receiving the reply, Ke Yinzhi slowly stood up from the sofa. Taking advantage of Bai Wenna still being on the phone with Ke Youqing, he nonchalantly slipped past her and opened the door at the end of the entryway.
Ke Xiaomo followed closely, also keeping his footsteps quiet, fearing that he would be called out for a lecture by his mother before they could even leave, a state in which Bai Wenna could scold anyone.
Soon, the two stopped in the hallway, their backs against the wall, remaining silent.
Ke Yinzhi stretched out his right arm, casually closed the door, then lowered his bright eyes and gently squatted down, his hand stroking Yuri, who was dozing at the hallway entrance.
Yuri meowed, its soothing cries mingling with the chirping of cicadas.
Ke Xiaomo gazed up at the night sky, silent, his thoughts quietly drifting away.
The last time the two of them had talked in the hallway like this was after the incident with the Ninja Sect. A stray cat had also made its way to the twelfth floor, circling around Ke Yinzhi’s feet. The big brother seemed always to have been favored by the affection of cats;
Beyond that, tracing back to the past,
Their first conversation in the hallway happened when Ke Yinzhi found Ke Xiaomo hanging upside down from the railing of the apartment building’s rooftop, meditating—it was the rooftop of a building more than twenty stories high, a place not even a madman would frequent…
So, that night, Ke Yinzhi stood quietly in the hallway waiting for his brother to finish meditating, then broke the silence by addressing his identity.
The second time was when Ke Yinzhi encountered a sudden accident during his high school years and became a mutant.
Then, Ke Xiaomo had rescued him and brought him home.
But Ke Yinzhi didn’t let Ke Xiaomo take him to the hospital. Instead, he sat in the hallway, his face covered in blood, displaying his powers and saying with a hooked corner of his mouth,
“We’re the same now…”
The blood dripping from his cheek splattered on the floor of the hallway, plop, plop, echoing.
Ke Xiaomo would probably never forget that scene, the first time he felt that Ke Yinzhi seemed so unfamiliar, alien as if he hadn’t lived under the same roof with him for over a decade.
“Meow…”
The voice of Yuri pulled Ke Xiaomo out of his thoughts.
Glancing down, he saw Yuri squeezing through a gap beside the door into the apartment and scampering away.
Ke Yinzhi watched as Yuri ran off, then stood up while asking, “So… what exactly is going on?”
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“I just found out today, those Hunters from the Blood Clan were targeting Zi Ling.”
Ke Xiaomo fell silent for a moment, then spoke softly.
“Zi Ling, huh…”
Ke Yinzhi stuffed his hands in his coat pockets, raised his head, and said nonchalantly.
“Yes,” Ke Xiaomo nodded, “one of the Blood Clan Hunters said that they wanted the vampire’s heart, and the vampire they referred to was Zi Ling.”
“What about Xiao Ni then, what’s her situation?”
“That Magic Girl Ash, I heard her today referring to the transformed Yongzhu as ‘elementary school student’, as if she was quite fond of him, even knowing his identity…”
At this point, Ke Xiaomo paused for a while before continuing, “Also… when Xiao Ling had an issue, she seemed very anxious, as if Zi Ling was someone very important to her. Finally, she even helped Mingye get home, which shows that she not only has a relationship with Yongzhu but also a good relationship with Mingye and Xiao Ling, so I immediately thought of Xiao Ni.”
Ke Yinzhi raised his eyebrows, asking instinctively, “Could it be that she is a friend of Xiao Ling and Mingye, which is how she knew Yongzhu is a dragon?”
“Impossible.” Ke Xiaomo was emphatic, “Xiao Ling doesn’t seem like someone who would talk about these things.”
“Hmm… then there’s indeed a high possibility that this Magic Girl Ash is Xiao Ni. Do you remember the time when she brought the brain imaging helmet home?”
“Yes,” Ke Xiaomo nodded, “that must have been taken from Xizi Yue who covered for her and let you think that Xiao Ni had borrowed the helmet from Magic Girl Feng.”
“Right…” Ke Yinzhi smiled, “Now that I think about it, that Ash and Magic Girl Feng, close as they were, and her identity never being revealed to the public despite my access, Xiao Ni has always been mentioning this Magic Girl’s name under our noses, with so many slips, and yet we never noticed, truly dull of us.”
Ke Xiaomo remained silent.
