CHAPTER 332: CHAPTER 209: PARENTS, TRUTH, DEFECTOR, PERSONALITY COUNCIL

After exchanging goodnight, a person and a shark quickly closed their eyes and fell asleep. Not long after, Ji Minghuan was awakened by a cold and stiff voice like iron from the broadcast, opening his eyes from his dream.

"Limiter superpower user, number 1002, Ji Minghuan, mentor visiting, please prepare quickly."

Blinking his eyes, what came into view was still that silver-white ceiling and the penguin-shaped broadcasting equipment. The experimenters seemed to have finally straightened the skewed penguin face while he was asleep.

"So, old man, why are you looking for me?" Ji Minghuan spaced out for a while, then turned his head to look at the figure already sitting at the desk. Surprisingly, the mentor did not wake him up in advance this time but sat quietly on the chair, watching him awaken.

"What do you mean by not speaking?" Ji Minghuan asked, "Have you gone mute?"

The mentor clasped his hands on the tabletop, bowed his head, and remained silent for a long time, then slowly opened his mouth and said:

"We have already investigated. Your father ’Ji Huaiye’ and your mother ’Lin Xi’... the reason they left you without a word back then, leaving you at the Welfare Institute."

Ji Minghuan was taken aback, then raised his eyebrows indifferently, and asked, "Why?"

"At that time, your mother was pregnant with a child."

"Huh?"

"The Salvation Society has a kind of instrument that reacts when a child with an extremely high superpower gene is born, leading us to find them," the mentor said. "For the sake of their second child, your parents chose to hide from the Salvation Society personnel, erase the instrument’s records, and then disappear. Then... they entrusted you to the people at the Welfare Institute and left you."

Ji Minghuan thought for a moment: "Are you kidding me? Uh... You mean I actually have a brother or sister? Great, I’m actually a siscon."

"It’s a brother, and he’s dangerous."

Ji Minghuan’s eye twitched slightly, and his expression immediately darkened.

"Limiter level?"

"Not quite, according to the Prophet, we are well aware you’re currently the world’s only Limiter," the mentor said. "But your brother’s danger level is indeed high enough to be contained by the Salvation Society. That time, the instrument’s reaction was so high it almost exceeded the threshold, which is why your father felt fear... he was afraid the Salvation Society would dispose of your brother."

"Oh, so have you found my brother whom I’ve never met?"

"Not yet." The mentor shook his head, "But there are leads... Soon, our people will find your parents and your brother."

"Oh oh, then the Salvation Squad has one more person. You must be happy with our family reunion, giving you another reason to keep me here."

"You might be able to see your parents."

"Oh, please... Are you planning for our family reunion here? Truly a great person; my shattered childhood was redeemed, all thanks to you. Mentor, you’re my Jesus, my Buddha, my God, my life, my light."

"No, in fact, your parents may not be alive anymore."

"Oh, have you already killed them?" Ji Minghuan said expressionlessly, "Let me guess... is this script similar to Sun Changkong and Filio, where my brother lost control of his superpower, killed his own parents, and then you took him in, he thought of you as a parent, and you lived father-son harmony under the Salvation Society."

"Your brother might have some similarities with you," the mentor said. "We believe that from your brother, we might find the answer to unlocking your superpower."

"Huh?"

"As long as we can find this answer, we can let you and Kong Youling live openly in this world without any constraints."

Ji Minghuan was silent for a moment, then slowly sat up from the bed, meeting the mentor’s gaze.

He said word by word, "No matter what tricks you’re playing, don’t use my family to disgust me... I have no interest in them at all, stop mentioning them in front of me, you understand?"

"I know you’re very averse to family matters, but this concerns your safety and freedom, I had to tell you."

"Alright alright... May you soon find the solution to my superpower from my brother so I can graduate from this broken place smoothly."

After speaking, Ji Minghuan laid back down on the bed, folding his arms behind his head and closing his eyelids.

The mentor still sat quietly for a while, then got up from the chair and walked out of the detention room. The lights went out, and the pale iron box turned dark in an instant.

A moment later, the boy in the hospital gown suddenly opened his eyes in the darkness, staring blankly at the pristine ceiling.

"Looks like I have to move faster, there’s another hidden danger... I need to overthrow the Salvation Society sooner and leave here with Kong Youling."

In reality, the main reason he wanted to leave the Salvation Society was still Kong Youling.

She is known as the highest potential psychic superpower user in the world. The Salvation Society will definitely do everything to study her abilities, and if someday the mentor breaks her mental defenses and turns to use her abilities to threaten Ji Minghuan, he really wouldn’t know what to do.

Ji Minghuan isn’t sure if he can be completely immune to psychic abilities, nor is he sure what he would do if he lost control.

He stared at the ceiling, thinking that the mentor and the Salvation Society didn’t seem to be on the same team, otherwise he wouldn’t perform acts like manipulating the traffic lights and disclosing the Salvation Society’s name.

What is his real purpose? Could it really be just to use the traffic lights to attract the external world’s attention to the Salvation Society?

If the Mentor’s true purpose is to use me to destroy the world or something, he could have acted from the beginning. He only needed to unlock my Superpower Inhibitor and kill Kong Youling in front of me...

But he didn’t do that.

Never mind, whatever the Mentor’s goal is, whether it aligns with the Salvation Society’s intentions or not, I cannot let him continue his scheming. With that thought, Ji Minghuan slowly closed his eyes.

Like plunging into the icy sea of Siberia, he kept sinking amid a blue unconsciousness.

Finally, the brilliance of the sunset rushed forth, piercing his eyes. He slowly opened his eyelids, and the scene before him was clearly the library situated within his spirit world.

The setting sun glowed red, its slanted rays shone into the library, spilling onto Ji Minghuan’s face.

He looked up, and the three corpses hanging from the library’s ceiling were enveloped in a warm halo. From left to right, they were a man wearing a dark red mask and a tailcoat, a young man in a hoodie, and a ghostly blue shark about two meters long.

"Oh, he’s here, he’s here..." The Black Cocoon suspended on the ceiling suddenly spoke.

"Shh... don’t let Ji Minghuan overhear your secret conversations with Shark." The shark, like a fishy stench from the market, was helplessly hanging from the ceiling.

"Isn’t it boring?" The Chess Player asked.

Ji Minghuan silently sat in the corner of the library, casually picking up a book, beside him appeared the phantom of a white-haired girl.

He leaned his head on the white-haired girl’s shoulder, paging through the book without lifting his gaze, and spoke to the three corpses on the ceiling:

"Give some advice."

The shark said, "Shark is hungry. Give me a friendship fee first, or else I’ll refuse communication."

"A worthless simulated persona daring to ask for a friendship fee," Ji Minghuan said, "Say something useful."

"What do you want to ask?" Black Cocoon stared at him.

"Do you think what the Mentor said is true? Do I have a brother?"

Black Cocoon thought for a while: "The Salvation Society might be guiding your cognition."

"Why?"

"They want to use your reality distortion ability to create something from nothing."

"I’m still under the suppression of inhibitors, don’t joke around."

"That’s true, if you really have a brother, then he indeed could pose a threat to you," Black Cocoon said, "You have to act quickly... if the prophecy is true, then the Salvation Society might really find a new worldline to erase you from existence."

Ji Minghuan mockingly retorted: "Aren’t you stating the obvious? Move quickly, but how specifically should I act?"

Black Cocoon said: "Rainbow Wings, Lake Hunting, the Third Prince, and Li Qingping, these are the strongest forces you can gather in a short time, also the world’s most formidable combat power... ’Blue Arc’, ’Ke Qirui’, ’Urushibara Osamu’, you can entirely use your current interpersonal relations to guide them to the Salvation Society’s base, at least at the moment of the final battle, gathering close to fifteen Catastrophe Level is no problem."

Ji Minghuan asked, "Why can Blue Arc mobilize Rainbow Wings people?"

Black Cocoon said: "After escaping by killing Rainbow Wings, I faked my death on the surface, and after some time, I will message him, asking him to find you at the Salvation Society’s base, and then leak Blue Arc’s location to Rainbow Wings’ people, leading them to hunt the Catastrophe Level fugitives ’Blue Arc’ and ’Ghost Bell’, and that’s how it works."

He paused: "Considering Blue Arc’s concern for his family, as long as there is a clue, he will surely come looking for you... and then we can use his fugitive status to attract Rainbow Wings people, thus involving them in this unprecedented battle."

"You are right..." Ji Minghuan lowered his eyes to the book, "but the premise is that Blue Arc must survive until then."

"Ghost Bell can do it too." Black Cocoon squinted, "Either Blue Arc or Ghost Bell needs to survive."

"Then another question, why can Ke Qirui mobilize ’Lake Hunting’ people?" Ji Minghuan said, "I know she knows Su Zimai, after the fake death of Unit One, Su Zimai will also come looking for me regardless, but are you sure Su Zimai is important enough... to allow Ke Qirui to ask Lake Hunting people?"

Black Cocoon thought for a while: "You’re right... how to wield ’Lake Hunting’s power is still a problem, but we still have plenty of time to consider it slowly."

The Chess Player expressionlessly said: "Instead of long speeches, you should think about the most important issue now, increasing the power of the machine... and finding the Salvation Society’s headquarters."

Black Cocoon shook his head: "These are secondary considerations, since it’s already known that Urushibara Ryuri is in Rainbow Wings, then they can’t escape."

The shark said: "The most important thing is to pay Shark a friendship fee, Shark is hungry."

"Forget it, let’s sleep first... still have to prepare for the battle in Norway tomorrow, this Box Garden war might cost several lives." Ji Minghuan said, putting the book down on the ground.

He pulled the rope falling from above, and with a snap, turned off the library’s lights.

The sunset instantly sank beneath the horizon, and the night draped over the world like a curtain, all was silent, plunging the entire library into darkness.

The sickly boy slowly closed his eyes and soon leaned against the bookshelf as he fell asleep.