Chapter 697: A New Brother
Walking on the road with Sister Siwei, suddenly two people rushed out and stood in front of us. They said they wanted the "jade" on us.
But we didn't have any; it was all with Uncle Wan.
I thought we were going to get beaten up, but at that moment a big brother suddenly appeared. He threw out a few cards, and then conjured a ball of flame in his hand, quickly scaring off the two bad guys.
He was so amazing, like Superman.
Sister Siwei held my hand and stood in front of that person.
That person also looked at the two of us with some curiosity, then calmly put his small cloth bag into his pocket.
"Women and children shouldn't act alone. Find a place to hide," he said.
I saw that he was dressed all in black, and his hair was very long. I had never seen a big brother with long hair before.
He casually nodded to the two of us, and then was about to leave.
The scent on him was different from others. Aside from the "fragrance," there wasn't much "despair," but more of "confusion."
"Sister..." I squeezed my sister's hand, and she understood what I meant.
"Um... could you wait a moment?" my sister asked.
The big brother in the distance stopped upon hearing this, turned his head to look at us, and said, "What?"
My sister turned her head and called me, "Yingxiong..."
I nodded, lifted my nose and sniffed. The two words appeared clearly.
"Concealment."
"It's the fragrance of 'Concealment'..." I said.
My sister nodded, then stepped forward and asked, "This handsome guy... have you recently discovered... that you've acquired some strange 'ability'?"
"I..."
A scent of "wariness" first emanated from this big brother, but after he looked at my sister and then at me, he probably decided that we weren't bad people, and that scent quickly faded.
"And who are you two?" he asked.
"My name is Li Siwei, and this little brother is Zheng Yingxiong. Both of us are like you — just ordinary 'participants.'"
Hearing my sister introduce me, I whispered on the side, "My name is 'Yingxiong,' with the fourth tone."
The big brother nodded. "Hello, I'm Gu Yu... The strange ability you mentioned..."
Sister Siwei scratched her head after hearing that. "This is a bit metaphysical to explain... I don't know if you'll believe it..."
"We're already here..." Big Brother Gu Yu shook his head with a bitter smile. "What else is there not to believe? I did feel something strange just now in the 'game'... But I don't know what you mean by 'Concealment'...?"
Sister Siwei organized her thoughts and roughly explained the matter to Big Brother Gu Yu.
She said that I seemed to be able to smell the name of other people's superpowers, and she tried her best to make him understand that statement.
Big Brother Gu Yu seemed to accept it quickly; he kept listening attentively to Sister Siwei, nodding repeatedly.
"So that's how it is..." After listening to Sister Siwei's explanation, Big Brother Gu Yu nodded silently. "Just now, on this 'Human Monkey' game field, I made a card silently disappear from my hand..."
He looked down at his hand, then moved his finger and conjured a playing card out of thin air.
This action startled Sister Siwei.
"Huh...? Is this your 'ability'?"
"Oh... no, no..." Big Brother Gu Yu shook his head. "Don't misunderstand. I'm originally a magician. I've tried many ways to make a card disappear, but never as thoroughly as today... It wasn't hidden behind my hand or in my palm; it completely disappeared."
Sister Siwei nodded after hearing this. "So the fireball just now was also a magic trick? Your ability is to make something 'disappear'?"
"Calling it 'disappear' isn't quite right either..." Big Brother Gu Yu replied. "It's indeed hard to understand... I can feel the card, but neither I nor the 'Human Monkey' could see it... So from an observer's perspective, the card no longer exists."
"It is a bit hard to understand..." Sister Siwei reached up and scratched her head. "So you made the card 'invisible'?"
"Yes... that's the idea."
Big Brother Gu Yu moved his finger again, and the card in his hand disappeared once more.
I didn't know whether the card had been vanished by him or was "invisible."
"What a bizarre place..." Big Brother Gu Yu slowly raised his head. "I thought I was special... I didn't expect there were others here who obtained this 'fragrance' too?"
"I don't know that either." Sister Siwei smiled and looked at me. "Only little brother Yingxiong can tell whether others carry this 'scent' on them. Perhaps it's not that others are special; he is the special one."
Big Brother Gu Yu pondered for a moment after hearing this, then suddenly thought of something. "By the way, do you two have a team?"
"Ah...?" Sister Siwei was taken aback. "You mean..."
"According to the referees, there are only two days left... The people in my room decided to split up from the start. Now I've completely lost contact with them. I should have gathered everyone together." Big Brother Gu Yu sighed. "So do you have a team? Want to go together?"
After hearing this, Sister Siwei looked at Big Brother Gu Yu again, then at me, as if waiting for me to say something.
I seemed to understand her intention, so I lifted my nose and sniffed. Very clean. Big Brother Gu Yu's scent was also clean, but there was something extra—he seemed to carry a hint of "sinister ruthlessness" within the "cleanliness."
But overall, this big brother's scent was a thousand or ten thousand times better than Uncle Wan's, so I nodded at Sister Siwei.
Sister Siwei also understood what I meant. "We don't have a team; let's go together."
I turned to look at Sister Siwei, but didn't contradict her.
I never liked Uncle Wan to begin with; if I could not stay with him, that would be a good thing for me.
The three of us formed a team and were about to leave when we suddenly heard the voice that made my hair stand on end.
"Yo, Little Li, made new friends?"
The three of us turned around and saw Uncle Wan approaching from a distance. It seemed he had been following us all along.
"Wan... Brother Wan." Sister Siwei forced a smile. "What a coincidence, you're here too?"
"You guys haven't come back for a while, so I was worried..."
Seeing Uncle Wan appear, I suddenly felt a bit scared. Just now, Sister Siwei had told Big Brother Gu Yu that we didn't have a team, but once Uncle Wan showed up, wouldn't Big Brother Gu Yu know we were lying?
I glanced fearfully at Big Brother Gu Yu, but saw that he smiled as if nothing had happened, then stepped forward and shook hands with Uncle Wan.
"Siwei, is this the Brother Wan you mentioned? He does look very reliable."
Sister Siwei was slightly stunned, then quickly nodded. "Yes, Gu Yu, let me introduce you. This is Wan Cai, Brother Wan."
Uncle Wan, with a heavy scent, nodded with a fake smile. "Young man, you're a very smart person. Would you like to join our big family?"