CHAPTER 386: CHAPTER 234: KILL YOUR BROTHER, OR KILL MY YOUNGER BROTHER

"What’s with this explosive revelation segment, why is no one reacting?"

Black Cocoon looked around, and for a moment, no one responded to his words.

The ward was silent; he pointed his left hand at Su Zimai and his right at Lin Zhengquan. Both were stunned.

After a moment, Black Cocoon silently withdrew his hands, crossed his arms, and shook his head with a sigh.

"Ah... People like me, who are exceptionally intelligent and dare to reveal unknown truths and expose the dark sides of society, are indeed easily isolated and rejected. This is truly a slick society, not suited for someone too pure like me to survive."

He paused: "Hmm, I’m as pure as a twelve-year-old boy."

The ward remained silent until Lin Zhengquan, on the hospital bed, broke the silence.

"Mu Long... is my brother?" Lin Zhengquan asked in a frowning, deliberate manner.

Su Zimai was also stupefied.

She didn’t understand why Black Cocoon would reveal her brother’s identity now; hadn’t they agreed to keep it secret?

And why did Black Cocoon say Blue Arc and Mu Long would fight? Didn’t the mayor publicly praise these two Mutants just yesterday? Her brother and Mu Long were together, laughing happily.

Her mind almost crashed, and she finally blurted out:

"Blue Arc is my brother?"

"Otherwise? If Blue Arc isn’t your brother, then whose brother is he, mine?"

Black Cocoon sighed, then tilted his head, staring at Su Zimai, looking as though she really disappointed him.

In his mind, he thought, "Diaper Demon, can you not short-circuit your brain in this situation? Doesn’t that just make my words seem unconvincing?"

It was at this moment that Su Zimai finally snapped out of her overloaded mind.

Putting aside the fact that she made a fool of herself, it’s still more important to attack Black Cocoon first. So she frowned and said:

"Pah! Do you really think you deserve to be called a brother to him? If my brother knew he had a lousy little brother like you, he would rush from eight hundred miles away from the Mutants Association to smash you, this big moth, right here with a slap!"

"Well, he would indeed be a good brother."

Black Cocoon shrugged dismissively and continued: "Hitting me would be as easy as Ghost Bell beating him."

At this moment, the three other members of the Ghost Train Corps were still silent, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

Obviously, compared to Mu Long being Lin Zhengquan’s brother, they found the fact that Blue Arc was Su Zimai’s brother even more shocking.

Not to mention that previously, Black Cocoon had tricked them, saying Blue Arc was actually Su Zimai’s second brother— "Gu Wenyu." It turned out the truth was just a hair’s breadth away; it turned out to be her elder brother "Gu Qiye"?

No wonder Black Cocoon had previously said: "Yes, Blue Arc is your brother."

At the time, they had no impression of Gu Qiye, so naturally, they didn’t make the connection. After Ke Qirui had Xu Sanyan confirm Gu Wenyu’s identity, they let their guard down about Su Zimai’s family.

But at this moment, Black Cocoon’s words were like a bolt from the blue, reawakening the sealed memories from that time.

The three had remained silent, waiting for Su Zimai to refute Black Cocoon’s claims. Unexpectedly, Su Zimai stopped pretending and confessed in front of everyone.

She angrily and aggressively asked: "What’s your deal? Weren’t we supposed to keep it secret? I said I didn’t want the captain to know yet, how am I supposed to hide it now that you’ve blurted it out?"

Although she said this, Su Zimai felt quite proud inside.

Who doesn’t know Blue Arc? Excluding the elusive Rainbow Wings, Blue Arc’s popularity among all the Mutants in the world could probably place him in the top five.

Even among foreigners, Blue Arc is a highly popular figure. You can even buy his dolls or small figurines on the street. Knowing that such a famous and excellent person is her brother made her both happy and proud.

Yet apart from that, her feelings were somewhat complicated and heavy.

Even though it had been a whole week since the siblings confessed, she still found it difficult to associate the charismatic and eloquent figure on TV with the brother who was always busy with housework.

It was even harder to convince herself to accept the hardships Gu Qiye has been through all these years. How tired and lonely must her brother be, bearing so much yet unable to speak a word to his family? So many times, he must have wanted to talk to someone, but no one responded to him.

Every night he came home, turned on the light, and the living room was empty.

He wouldn’t wake his brother and sister, just quietly tended to his wounds in the bathroom, biting back the pain without making a sound. Finally, he’d open the door slightly to look at his brother and sister’s faces, and any words he wanted to say could only be swallowed back down.

And he would fall asleep alone like that.

The more Su Zimai thought about and empathized with her brother’s situation, the more uncomfortable and heartache she felt. In the end, she could only pretend she didn’t care, or she couldn’t interact with her brother like before.

Ke Qirui took a while to release the pipe from her mouth, still bearing an expression of surprise on her face. She murmured:

"So that’s how it is. It all makes sense now. Why Blue Arc happened to come to Tokyo at the same time as her family, why Gu Qiye would happen to ’run into’ us at the barbecue restaurant, and why at that time... Blue Arc appeared so preoccupied during the final meeting."