Chapter 438: Chapter 261: Rainbow Wings Gathering, Twelve Catastrophe Level Members
3. My impression of him: blue mush → black sesame paste.
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At this point, Gu Qiye paused slightly in silence, then looked up at You Ruirui.
However, You Ruirui ignored him and was focused on playing "Nobita’s Biohazard" on her iPhone, where Nobita was being chased by zombie-like creatures. Her snow-white hair hung low, covering her eyes, and Gu Qiye also moved his gaze away from her face.
He silently looked at the file on the screen, which still had the introduction of the last three Rainbow Wing members.
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[Gunpowder Queen]: Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine (Russia) (Rainbow Wing’s "No. 9")
1. Appearance: Pink hair, twin tails, always wearing the perpetual Russian military uniform, estimated height 1.56 meters.
2. Superpower: Creates a vast amount of enhanced military weaponry, even including air force missiles.
3. My impression of her: When she first joined the team, she insisted on being in the 9th position, therefore she exchanged numbers with one of the Rainbow Wing members. We usually call her "Jiushijiu."
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[Gothic Puppet]: Esther Doolittle (United Kingdom) (Rainbow Wing’s "No. 10")
1. Appearance: Eternally wearing a gothic Lolita dress, long straight black hair, estimated height 1.65 meters.
2. Superpower: Creates marionettes, can freely control the size of the puppets, manipulation range unknown; it’s said that in near-death situations, she can turn herself into a puppet, allowing her body to fight automatically.
3. My impression of her: Easily gets sleepy, always drooping her eyelids, needs to rest in a lead coffin for 16 hours daily to wake up, always late for gatherings. The side effect of her superpower seems to gradually strip away her emotions, making her like a puppet.
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[Overloader]: Garfield West (United States) (Rainbow Wing’s "No. 11")
1. Appearance: A little boy, usually wearing a turtleneck sweater, blue hair and blue eyes, estimated height 1.60 meters.
2. Superpower: No cooperation experience, details unknown, not to be recorded.
3. My impression of him: An arrogant kid.
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[Father of Puppets]: Name unknown (United Kingdom) (Rainbow Wing’s "No. 12")
1. Appearance: Wears an oversized trench coat, face covered with bandages.
2. Superpower: Converts deceased superpower users into puppets, controls the puppets in battle, and the puppets retain their original superpowers; he can only maintain a limited number of puppets.
3. Note: Currently known, the Father of Puppets has a total of two Catastrophe-level puppets.
One of the Catastrophe-level puppets is Rainbow Wing’s former No. 8 member—"Mechanical Soul Bodhisattva" (real name: Ajaya, Indian monk, bald, draped in a red cassock, died in the Sahara Desert operation), whose superpower was summoning a "Thousand-armed Mechanical Bodhisattva Statue."
The details of the other Catastrophe-level puppet are unknown and have not been disclosed in the file.
4. My impression of him: Bandage man, puppet, desecrator of corpses.
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Upon reading this, Gu Qiye raised an eyebrow slightly, thinking to himself that the superpower of this No. 12 member is extremely strong, able to turn Catastrophe-level superpower users into his puppets, moreover, it was a former member of Rainbow Wing...
He took a deep breath, retracting his chaotic thoughts, and scrolled from bottom to top again, recalling the light beam that pulverized his mother into a blood mist that day.
Too many Rainbow Wing members have unknown abilities, and among those whose superpowers are known in the files, it is quite far-fetched to connect them to that day’s scene.
And the superpower user who destroyed the Li Jing Starlight Amusement Park like that, he had a certain suspicion— likely it was [Gunpowder Maiden] Jiushijiu, her superpower being the creation of enhanced military weaponry.
At the time, this Russian girl was in Li Jing, if she was the one who killed the old man, then it’s no surprise the amusement park was destroyed like that.
"Take it one step at a time, I need to delve deeper into Rainbow Wing, starting by witnessing the superpowers of other members firsthand."
As his thoughts reached this point, Gu Qiye was suddenly distracted by the sound of gunfire coming from the elevator, turning his head to look, You Ruirui’s fingers were tapping on her phone screen like playing a piano.
She was controlling Nobita to shoot zombies with a handgun, blood splattering on the phone screen.
Gu Qiye withdrew his gaze expressionlessly, no longer observing this game-addicted white-haired girl, thinking that Rainbow Wing’s people seemed even more erratic than he had imagined, though it might be that You Ruirui is an exception.
The elevator car at this time was humming downward, moving at an extremely slow pace compared to normal elevators, perhaps to allow ample time to guard against any trespassing intruders.
Gu Qiye lowered his head, and once again swept over the photos attached to the files, eventually fixing his gaze on Oda Ehgo’s face.
He always felt that this old man’s appearance was very familiar, as if he had seen someone similar to him, but couldn’t recall where.
Unintentionally, Gu Qiye swiped the screen. The tablet exited the file interface, jumping to the homepage.
He paused slightly, glancing over, seeing the homepage crowded with numerous mobile game icons.
You Ruirui had downloaded quite a few mobile games, showing her serious internet addiction: just logging in to these games daily would already consume quite some time.
However, the moment he moved his gaze away from the app icons, Gu Qiye was drawn in by the cover of the tablet.
It was a slender figure clad in azure blue metal armor, standing amidst city center neon lights, beaming a radiant smile at the camera, with deep blue electric arcs dancing in the air.
"Blue... Arc?"
Gu Qiye looked at the figure on the tablet’s cover, reciting his former alias.
Upon hearing, You Ruirui’s fingers playing with the phone suddenly paused slightly.
Silence fell in the elevator, leaving only the humming sound. On You Ruirui’s phone, pixelated bio-zombies clawed after Nobita, biting them into a mess of blurred flesh, while Doraemon lay hopelessly beside them.
Moments later, she lifted her ice-blue eyes, staring unblinkingly at Gu Qiye.
"That’s the system cover," she said, "If you’ve finished reading, please return the tablet to me instead of browsing randomly."
Gu Qiye nodded, handing the tablet back to her without a second thought.
He then looked up at the elevator’s display panel, the car had already descended to the 25th basement level of the Empire State Building.
With a rumbling sound, the elevator doors slowly opened, revealing a spacious conference room.
At this moment, the long table in the conference room was filled with people, from different races, with distinct temperaments from various countries, but each with unique and vivid recall points.
Having seen their photos in You Ruirui’s records, Gu Qiye could recognize their identities at a glance.
Pairs of eyes under the dim blue light converged on Gu Qiye, except for Fan Dongqing who kept his head down, tapping his fingers lightly on the table, seemingly lost in thought.
Urushibara Ryuri leaned her cheek on her hand, her glass-clear deep pupils looking at Gu Qiye, a playful smile on her lips; the old man in a black kimono opened his eyes, a clear light emanating from within, like a peerless sword sharpened for decades.
The Russian Princess crossed her arms and turned her cheek, her amber eyes exuding an inherent sense of aggression, like a serpent eyeing its prey.
Far off, the Gothic dress girl glanced at him once and withdrew her gaze, drooping her eyelids, letting out a soft yawn.
The low yawn broke the silence enveloping the conference room, and the rabbit doll in her arms suddenly chuckled eerily.
"Let’s go..."
With that, You Ruirui powered off the tablet and phone, looking up at the ten other members of Rainbow Wings, stepping out of the elevator before Gu Qiye.
Gu Qiye paused in silence for a moment, stepping into the conference room.
The elevator doors slowly closed behind him, the cold light illuminating his silhouette replaced by deep shadow.