173: Chapter 61: Sudden Negativity 173: Chapter 61: Sudden Negativity Over half an hour passed.
The people who had finished dining left one after another, leaving only Gongsun Ce and the information dealer in the room.
The two sat side by side on the couch, looking at the television report on the large screen.
“Is there anything you want to ask, Ah Ce?”
“Yeah, Ming Guest said that Superpower Users are from the Dragon Species.
The thing Yan Qi avoided talking about when I asked about my heart issue last ti, it’s this, right?”
“Yes.”
“I guess if we have so big problem…
there would be a giant dragon phenonon, huh?”
The female anchor was seriously presenting the chaotic situation in the central district from the afternoon, attributing it to “a gas explosion caused by so Superpower Users, local earthquakes, and collective hallucinations,” and reiterated multiple tis that the existence of a Superpower Organization in the Sky City is just unfounded rumors made out of thin air.
There was no Ming Guest on the program, no unknown mastermind behind the scenes, not even the photographs of several participants were shown.
In the news report, the Sky City was peaceful.
Mo Yuankai turned off the TV, and the darkened screen reflected their faces, each with a different expression.
“Yes.”
“You knew all along.”
“I found out three years ago.”
“I see.”
Gongsun Ce fell silent.
The information dealer waited for a while and then, with surprise, turned to look at his younger brother.
“What’s with that face?
You look as if I’ve gone mad.”
“Ah Ce, you’re actually not angry?!”
“If I’m not angry, you’re not satisfied?
Big brother, what do you think I should do?”
Mo Yuankai’s eyes widened in anger, he slamd the table hard, stood up, and roared, “—Why didn’t you tell !!!”
He exaggeratedly clenched his fists to produce a shaking effect, causing even his cheeks to tremble.
The youth with gray hair comnted, “I’ve always thought it a regret for the art world of this century when you didn’t go into the performing arts.”
“Not at all, you flatter .
How could my amateurish acting compare to you, Ah Ce.”
Mo Yuankai sat back down on the couch and asked, “Why are you taking this so calmly?”
“My heart was just used to summon the Colored Glaze Dragon two weeks ago, and then there’s the fact that we were locked up, I guessed seven or eight parts of it,” Gongsun Ce shook his head, “Besides, I’m not in high school anymore; what good is it shouting at a friend.
You wouldn’t want to tell without a reason, and it must have been for my own good.”
The information dealer stared at his fingertips and said solemnly, “I was scared.”
“What’s there to be scared of?”
“I feared you’d react too emotionally and explode, afraid you’d go kill soone after knowing the truth, even more scared you might not handle it and consider suicide.”
Gongsun Ce let out a helpless laugh, “Co on, big brother, am I that fragile in your eyes?”
“That’s the thing, you’re not fragile at all.
You’re daring and combative, value brotherhood, consider the big picture, and you risk your life for the slightest chance.
If you were to run with gangs, you’d definitely be the leader that everyone respects, and if you wanted to take an official position in the future, you’d surely beco a leading expert.”
“But that’s exactly why I’m scared.”
“Because you take yourself too lightly.”
Mo Yuankai said with a serious tone while patting his shoulder.
“You don’t value your own life highly, so of course, I fear that you’ll act rashly after knowing the truth and do sothing wrong.”
Gongsun Ce took off his glasses and cleaned them slowly with a cloth.
“Stop being so lodramatic, okay?
You’ve watched too many cartoons.”
“You’re turning to jokes now, that ans you know what I’m saying is true.”
“I’m just trying to lighten the mood, you’re overthinking it.”
Mo Yuankai didn’t argue further and continued, “You’ve grown up now, and you’re no longer impulsive.
But what about you, fresh from your return from the Country?
What about you before slaying the Colored Glaze Dragon?”
“People grow.
But growth doesn’t happen in a day.
It requires a variety of experiences, eting many people, a lot of ti before attitudes and personalities change.
I believe in your growth, but I didn’t know if you could truly handle it, so I didn’t dare tell you.”
The existence of Superpower Users is a hidden danger for a Dragon Disaster.
For the sake of the world, it would be better if all Superpower Users just died.
I myself could possibly provoke the advent of a giant dragon.
No one knows if Gongsun Ce will one day turn into a gray dragon.
Or should I die first instead?
He couldn’t refute and say the past him wouldn’t be so extre.
Nor could he firmly say the past him would really do that.
Unable to affirm, but also unable to deny.
What the past him would do or what the future him would beco, all these are hypotheses based on the present.
All he could see was his current self.
Whether he truly saw his own heart clearly was yet another unanswerable question.
In the depths of his heart, a voice whispered softly,
Big brother is right.
You don’t really see yourself as all that important.
Or rather, that statent is still too mild.
Actually, the person known as Gongsun Ce—
“—”
He said sothing randomly, letting the sounds of reality drown out his inner thoughts.
A Dragon Species caged in the sky, why be so harsh on oneself?
Burying one’s head in the sand like an ostrich, deliberately ignoring the facts before one’s eyes.
Wouldn’t that make life easier, what’s wrong with that?
Avoiding reality is a good strategy.
You can’t run from an enemy, but when facing yourself, the farther you run the better.
Who says you must face reality one day?
You might just drag it out until you die a natural death; living a lifeti like that can be quite happy too.
He continued to ponder in a negative direction, like a mole burrowing into the ground, the deeper he dug and the darker it got around him, the more he felt an odd sense of joy and satisfaction.
Gongsun Ce shook his head and said, “I got a bit lost in thought, what was I saying just now?”
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