Chapter 711: Brother, Skilled in Tactics

"Hero Didi... you..."

"I don't know if I'm right about this, but if Big Brother and Big Sister didn't have my help, you'd have a hard time controlling the 'Yucheng' beast. After all, those people need me." I continued smiling as I said, "You don't have to keep treating me like a little kid anymore. If there's anything you need me to do, just tell me."

Siwei Jiejie and Gu Yu Gege exchanged glances after hearing my words, and a scent of "guilt" emanated from them both.

"But..."

"This isn't the time for fooling around." I added, "I don't want to hold everyone back. If I can help all the people in this city... then let me become a true 'hero'."

"He's right." Gu Yu Gege nodded. "It's the perfect time to make him a true 'hero.' Let him see Wan Ge off on his final journey. And as for the 'yu' in those safes... I've already thought of a better place for them."

That day, Siwei Jiejie and Gu Yu Gege both carried a scent of sorrow as they took me down to the square on the hill, where I witnessed Wan Bobo die under the rules he himself had designed.

Wan Bobo struggled the whole time, refusing to say "gambling with his life" to Niutou Ren Jiejie. So, everyone started beating him, but not fatally—just enough to make him bleed all over while crawling on the ground. They kept stomping on his fingers.

When the three of us approached, he looked up at Gu Yu Gege in disbelief, as if he suddenly understood everything.

"Damn it... Gu Yu...?"

"Long time no see, Wan Ge." Gu Yu Gege smiled. "How have you been? Need me to help find anything that's gone missing?"

"You bastard..." He crawled forcefully on the ground, inching toward Gu Yu Gege. "Gu, you're the one who stole my 'yu'!! It was you!!"

"What are you talking about, Wan Ge?" Gu Yu Gege shook his head. "That safe only you knew the code for. Now that there's a problem, are you trying to frame me?"

Wan Bobo thought it over carefully, his body filled with a scent of confusion. It seemed he really didn't know what was going on.

Although he suspected Gu Yu Gege, he had no evidence.

So, he could only turn his head with difficulty on the ground and look toward Siwei Jiejie beside me.

I saw that Wan Bobo's teeth were all bloody, but I felt no fear or sympathy at all.

Why was that...? Every time I returned to the real world, whether it was seeing my parents or Xu Jiahua die, I'd cry in agony. But after being family with Wan Bobo for four years, I felt nothing.

"Xiao Li... save me!" Wan Bobo said to Siwei Jiejie. "You know I'm innocent! You know how useful those 'yu' are to me—I wouldn't hide them at a time like this!!"

Siwei Jiejie stepped forward, slowly squatted down, and pressed her face close to Wan Bobo's, whispering softly, "Wan Cai, I love every person in this world, but unfortunately, you don't even count as one. You've committed far too many sins, and it's time you paid for the victims whose families were destroyed."

With that, she stood up and asked, "Hero, now that Wan Ge has lost all our 'yu,' what should we do?"

I sighed deeply and said, "Handle it according to the 'jiagui' that Wan Bobo set."

That day, Wan Bobo vanished from our family.

From then on, I never saw him again.

Jiejie said he would become a "youdangzhe" wandering freely here, possibly starving to death one day, but that had nothing to do with us anymore.

"Ladies and gentlemen." Gu Yu Gege suddenly spoke up, addressing the crowd. "You've all seen it—even someone as respected as Wan Ge faces the same consequences for breaking the 'jiagui.'"

Most of the people there didn't know Gu Yu Gege, and a scent of confusion spread through the crowd at that moment.

"You... are you that Xiao Gu from a few years ago?" an aunt asked.

That aunt was one of the people in my room; she remembered Gu Yu Gege.

"That's right, it's me." Gu Yu Gege said. "To be honest, Hero Didi asked me to come back this time."

"Hero...?" The crowd began to murmur.

"He sent people to find me and told me about Wan Cai's scheme." Gu Yu Gege said loudly to everyone. "He had already discovered that Wan Cai wanted to keep the 'yu' for himself, so he specifically asked me to return and deal with him. But I didn't expect Wan Cai to act so quickly—he moved all the 'yu' before I got back."

Someone in the crowd quickly pointed out the inconsistency.

"Wait... why would Hero go to someone outside the 'family' to handle this? Why didn't he tell us?"

Siwei Jiejie smelled a bit tense, as if she didn't know how to answer.

Gu Yu Gege smiled and continued, "Because you all trusted Wan Cai too much; you wouldn't have believed he could do something like that."

The crowd fell silent upon hearing his words.

"If Hero had told you a day earlier that Wan Cai was going to move the 'yu,' how many of you here would have believed him?" Gu Yu Gege asked again.

These successive questions changed everyone's expressions, and their scents became more complex.

"So don't be foolish—who should you really trust?" Gu Yu Gege said gravely. "Is it some 'family member' who suddenly shows up trying to rule over you... or the true 'hero' of this city?"

At that moment, thousands of people surrounded us, yet not a single sound could be heard.

"But... but Wan Ge has been leading us all along..." an aunt said. "Without him..."

"Leading you to do what?" Gu Yu Gege asked. "Leading you to earn 'yu' for him so he could use it to escape?"

The aunt fell silent.

"Let me reiterate." Gu Yu Gege said loudly. "In this city, you can distrust me or distrust Li Siwei, but you must believe in 'Hero.' He's the one who's always thinking of you—don't side with the wrong person."

I could smell it... they were just one step away from believing what Gu Yu Gege was saying.

But what should that final step be?

"I still feel something's off..." an uncle said. "Even if it's as you say... our 'yu' is still gone. Staying here doesn't help anything..."

"Hero thought of that already!!" Gu Yu Gege smiled confidently, his expression full of assurance.

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