Chapter 416: Chapter 247: Death, Birthday, News
The puddles reflected the dim neon signs, and the world in the rain seemed to be covered with a layer of blurry filter.
"Uncle Kangni, how did you know you were retiring?" Gu Wenyu suddenly asked, "Haven’t you not told anyone yet?"
"Because he knows me too well." Gu Qiye said softly, "After hearing what Mu Long said, he would know I would definitely give up, right?"
"But you saved so many people, isn’t it just an ordinary person who got killed..."
"But mom," Gu Qiye interrupted him, "wasn’t she just an ordinary person who got killed by accident?"
He muttered softly, his falling bangs covered his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curved into a self-mocking smile.
After a long time, the rain showed no sign of stopping.
But a figure came running through the rain; it was a clerk from the bakery. She had been looking for a long time and finally saw the two under the shelter, so she hurried over and stuffed an umbrella into their hands.
Gu Wenyu was surprised and asked why she was in such a hurry.
She said, otherwise the store manager would get angry.
"Uncle Kangni is really kind, I know a bookstore owner, he’s nice too." Gu Wenyu sighed, opening the umbrella.
"Yeah."
The two brothers held the umbrella together, walking side by side out of the bus station, gradually disappearing in the drizzle.
Soon after, Gu Wenyu released the keys and pushed open the house door.
He put the wet umbrella on the shoe cabinet, changed into slippers, and sat on the sofa first, turned on the fan, and lay flat.
"When did dad say he’d be back?"
Gu Qiye asked as he entered with the cake box.
"He’s not back yet." Gu Wenyu checked his phone.
"Then let’s wait."
Gu Qiye put the box on the table in the living room, took the cake out, looked at the candles on top, and the unlit neon sign.
Gu Wenyu played with his phone; after Gu Qiye closed the doors and windows in the living room, he picked up the remote from the sofa, pressed the power button, and turned on the TV.
He quietly sat on the sofa, holding the cake in his hands in advance.
Just like the birthdays of siblings in the past.
When dad gets back, Gu Wenyu was responsible for turning off the lights, and he would carry the cake over, light the candles in the dark with a spark from his fingertip, giving the other a surprise.
Funny enough, his siblings never asked him: "Big brother, how do you light the candles without a lighter?" Every time, Gu Qiye could bluff through.
At this moment, Gu Qiye’s mind was a whirl of thoughts.
"Was what I said yesterday too harsh? Should I properly apologize to dad today?"
"If he hadn’t saved me during the auction, I’d be dead at the hands of the expedition group, right?"
"Half of what dad said yesterday, what was he originally going to say..."
"Did he want to say: Because you are my... son?"
Gu Qiye lowered his head, looked at the cake in his arms, quietly thinking. Suddenly, the news broadcast on the TV caught his attention:
"According to the disclosure from the Mutants Association—at 5:12 this morning, the United Nations special action group ’Rainbow Wings’ elite forces launched a thunderous raid action in the east district of Li Jing City’s Starlight Theme Park."
"It has been confirmed that the extremely dangerous individual codenamed ’Ghost Bell’ was killed on the spot, and no civilian casualties occurred during the operation."
"According to on-site reports, a large number of facilities in the amusement park have been..."
Gu Qiye paused for a moment. Slowly, he looked up from the cake in his arms, gazing at the TV screen’s ruins of the amusement park. His dull pupils reflected the fluorescent light.
The rain was still falling.
In the silence, the world in his eyes seemed to dim little by little.
The cake he held silently slipped from his arms, with a splat, fell to the ground.