66: Chapter 66 Su Yun: Dad, you wouldn't happen to be that Night Owl, would you?

"Dad."

Su Yun sat on the single sofa, holding that cup of lukewarm water, his tone very gentle: "Don't be angry at Xiao Qing. I know you've always been a die-hard fan of Night Owl. She's young and has a blunt temper. But I think she was right about one thing just now."

Su Jianguo's eyelids twitched as he turned his head stiffly.

"That Night Owl really isn't a good person." Su Yun sighed, looking pained: "The authorities are out there risking their lives to defend against Strange Tales, and he's over there buddying up with those anti-human terrorists. Scum like him, who would sell out all of humanity for a little petty gain, deserve to be shredded to pieces. Don't you think?"

Su Jianguo's facial muscles twitched.

He stared fixedly at his seemingly well-behaved youngest son, his molars grinding together.

Don't I think?

Think my ass!

I blocked that attack to save your eldest uncle!

No, that's not it!

I didn't even see the true face of that lunatic Bai Cang!

Seeing Su Jianguo remain silent, Su Yun held the cup of warm water, his tone gentle and sincere.

"Dad, you really shouldn't be a fan of people like that anymore. Supporting a terrorist will only ruin your reputation if word gets out."

Su Jianguo's face twisted into a knot.

He stared fixedly at his youngest son, his molars grinding.

He couldn't refute it.

Once he refuted it, that unexplainable Black Flame and his muscle mass would be exposed on the spot.

He could only agree with Su Yun's words.

Just then.

"Click."

The sound of the front door lock turning stiffly echoed.

The door was pushed open.

Su Jianguo let out a sigh of relief; he had managed to bluff his way through it.

Su Yao stood at the entryway. She didn't change into her slippers.

The combat boots on her feet were only stained with a little street dust, and her crisp special forces combat uniform remained intact, looking clean and sharp on her tall, upright figure. There was no mud, let alone bloodstains.

However, she leaned against the doorframe and gently rubbed the space between her eyebrows.

Her face, usually cold and firm, was now filled with an unconcealable, deep exhaustion. Her eyes were slightly lowered, showing the fatigue of staying up all night, but her gaze remained clear and focused.

The air in the living room went quiet for a moment.

Seeing his daughter like this, Su Jianguo immediately threw whatever he had been calculating to the back of his mind and walked quickly to the entryway: "Yao Yao is back? Why didn't you even change your shoes? You look so tired, have the team's missions been heavy lately?"

Su Qing also turned off the mute on the TV, stood up from the sofa, went to the water dispenser, poured a cup of warm water, and handed it over, saying softly: "Sister, don't stand at the door. Come in and drink some water to rest."

Su Yao took the cup, felt the warmth from her fingertips, and let out a long breath. Her tense nerves finally relaxed slightly at this moment: "I'm fine, Dad. Just had back-to-back meetings all day, a bit exhausted..."

She dragged her heavy steps to the long sofa and collapsed into it.

Her whole body sank into the soft cushions, her head tilted back, staring blankly at the white ceiling of the living room.

Executive Jiang Xu has gone mad.

That strongest executive of Great Xia actually wants to gamble the fate of all humanity on a monster.

He volunteered to be a guard dog for a farm, and even planned to send that bloodthirsty monster to Dahuang Prefecture to deal with Old Fengdu.

Su Yao closed her eyes, her hands gripping the leather of the sofa tightly.

A sense of extreme helplessness completely drowned her.

She had Rebirth from a destroyed future, her mind filled with plans to save Great Xia.

She used her memories from her past life to intercept resources and Cultivate desperately, trying to turn the tide before the Abyss descended.

But it had only been three days.

Just three days! The timeline had collapsed to a point she couldn't understand at all.

That monster that broke the Formation chewed up a Half-step King Level giant wolf like it was crispy bone. It didn't even need to step in personally; just standing there was enough to forcibly distort the rules of the Half-step King Level Strange Tales, making the giant wolf paralyze itself!

What was she?

What was the point of her Rebirth?

Su Yao questioned herself in her heart.

Even if she used her memories from her past life to avoid all the minefields and Cultivate smoothly to the Half-step King Level, what ending could that change?

The Half-step King Level was just a dish that was a bit tougher to chew.

It wasn't even enough to get stuck between that monster's teeth.

That status, which stood above all rules, and that cruel logic of treating humans as long-term meal tickets, had completely shattered her Dao Heart.

How could this game be broken? There was simply no solution.

Su Yun sat on the single sofa to the side, holding a glass.

He watched Su Yao quietly.

The fire today had indeed burned a bit too brightly.

He had been so focused on intimidating Executive Jiang Xu and the people from the Sanctuary that he had established authority too harshly, completely shattering his older sister's psychological defenses.

She was already carrying the heavy burden of being a Rebirth person, living in panic every day with the countdown to the apocalypse.

Now, he had used his "leek farming theory" to directly uproot her sense of security.

He sighed inwardly.

His sister's sense of responsibility was still too heavy.

Although the world had been destroyed once, wasn't it completely different now?

To take a step back, even if the sky fell, there were stronger people to hold it up.

Protecting the world wasn't something a regular Psionic User had to carry.

Just then, the sound from the TV speakers broke the silence in the living room again.

"It is now officially announced that Night Owl has completely betrayed the human camp and is classified as an S-rank defector. A kill-on-sight order has been issued across the entire territory..."

The highest-level wanted poster, broadcast on a loop, started from the beginning again.

On the screen, that burly figure burning with the Black Flame of the Abyss was extremely conspicuous.

Su Jianguo: "..."

Su Yao opened her eyes abruptly.

Her gaze followed the direction of the sound and nailed itself to the TV screen.

On the TV screen was a surveillance screenshot from the Great Xia breakwater.

Even though that man had his back to the camera, Su Yao would recognize the man with the silver-white mask standing beside him even if he turned to ash!

Bai Cang!

The leader of the Salvation Society!

Su Yao's originally unfocused pupils contracted suddenly, and an extremely intense disgust and shock burst from the bottom of her eyes.

Su Yao's breathing became heavy. Her brain rapidly retrieved memories from her past life.

In the history of the anti-apocalypse struggle in her past life, the person called Night Owl was extremely marginalized.

Except for occasionally killing a few high-level Strange Tales, he almost never participated in the core decision-making of the authorities or the Sanctuary. Even until the very last moment when Great Xia fell, the true identity of Night Owl remained an unsolved mystery.

He was hidden too deep.

In her past life, she didn't know at all that Night Owl was a member of the Salvation Society.

Su Yao sat up straight, supporting herself on the sofa armrests, her eyes becoming extremely cold.

The butterfly effect caused by her Rebirth had actually forced this tumor hidden in the dark out early. Bai Cang, Night Owl... how many more trump cards did this group of lunatics from the Salvation Society have? If they colluded together, they must be plotting a terrifying sacrifice on a scale far exceeding her past life!

"Good riddance to this wanted notice!"

Su Yao slammed her hand on the coffee table, making an extremely crisp, loud sound.

The water cup on the coffee table jumped.

Su Jianguo, who was standing to the side, had his blood pressure, which had just calmed down, explode through the roof again with this slap.

He turned his head sluggishly to look at his eldest daughter.

"Sister! You think so too, right!" Su Qing immediately found an ally, pointed at the TV screen, and chimed in loudly, "I told you this old bastard is no good! Look at his sneaky, hidden appearance, with that black aura all over him; he's clearly a psychopathic piece of trash!"

Su Yao stood up, walked to Su Qing's side, stared at the TV screen, and began to output mercilessly.

"Xiao Qing is absolutely right." Su Yao gritted her teeth, every word hammering into Su Jianguo's heart, "On the surface, he's a light of the city, but behind the scenes, he's colluding with the lunatics of the Salvation Society! This treacherous old beast is a cancer to humanity! Every extra breath of air he takes is an insult to those Awakened who died on the front lines!"

Su Jianguo was hit with a critical strike again.

His chest heaved violently, and the pectoral muscles that had just returned to a youthful state twitched uncontrollably, stretching his old undershirt to the point of bursting.

He raised his hand with extreme difficulty and covered his heart.

A breath was stuck in his chest, neither going up nor down.

"Dad, are you okay?" Su Qing was startled by Su Jianguo's roar just now, and her tone softened slightly, "Why are you reacting so strongly? Did I offend you by scolding a wanted criminal?"

Su Yao also turned her head, her brows slightly furrowed.

She now keenly sensed her father's extreme emotional abnormality.

"Dad, your complexion is very bad." Su Yao walked over and placed a cup of hot water on the coffee table, "Is your heart uncomfortable? Should we go to the hospital?"

Su Jianguo opened his mouth, his throat feeling as if it were stuffed with dry grass.

What could he say?

Could he say that the old bastard taking the fall on TV was their own father!

"I'm fine." Su Jianguo forced a deep breath, suppressing the bloodshot eyes.

He picked up the cup on the coffee table, but his hands couldn't stop shaking.

No.

Even if he couldn't reveal his identity, he absolutely could not watch his image in his daughters' hearts turn into such anti-human scum.

He had to say a few words for "Night Owl", at least to win back some impression points.

Su Jianguo put down the water cup, cleared his throat, and tried to make his expression look like that of a wise, weathered father who had seen through the ways of the world.

"Yao Yao, Xiao Qing." Su Jianguo crossed his hands on his knees, speaking earnestly, "Some things, we can't just look at the surface. The news on TV isn't necessarily the whole truth."

Su Yao and Su Qing were stunned at the same time.

"What do you mean by that?" Su Yao's eyes instantly became sharp.

Su Jianguo swallowed, biting the bullet and continuing to make things up: "Think about it, this Night Owl is, after all, a legendary Monster Hunter. Over all these years, he's made quite a few meritorious services for Great Xia, right? How could a big shot of his level get involved with an extremist organization like the Salvation Society so easily?"

He paused, trying to lead them on: "Is there a possibility... that he's actually an undercover agent sent by the authorities to the Salvation Society? Today at the port, was he actually executing some top-secret mission and deliberately acting along with that Bai Cang?"

After Su Jianguo finished speaking, he gave himself a mental thumbs-up.

Reasonable and evidence-based, perfect logic.

However, after hearing these words, the expression on Su Yao's face sank at a visible speed.

Now that her father was actually making excuses for such a wanted criminal, it touched her absolute bottom line.

"Dad, never say such things outside again." Su Yao's voice was very cold, revealing an unquestionable official authority, "This is very dangerous."

Su Jianguo was stunned: "How is it dangerous? Can't I just explore the possibilities?"

"There is no such possibility." Su Yao said decisively, "The High Command's special-grade wanted order must undergo the highest-level joint review by three parties before it can be issued. The surveillance footage is clear; Night Owl blocked all the fatal attacks for Bai Cang and turned his back to that anti-human lunatic."

Su Yao hugged her chest, her eyes showing extreme disgust.

"Undercover? Which undercover agent would risk their own life to save a mission target?"

Su Yao looked straight into Su Jianguo's eyes, word by word.

"This kind of scum who abandons the bottom line of humanity and colludes with Abyss monsters is not worthy of being called a legend. He is just a traitor to humanity hiding extremely deep!"

A traitor to humanity!

I've become a traitor to humanity again!

Su Jianguo was so angry that his hands trembled.

Su Qing quickly took over, fearing the firepower wasn't fierce enough: "Sister is absolutely right! Dad, you just watch too many TV dramas and always think that villains have hidden motives. I'm telling you, this old beast is rotten to the core! I heard his fighting style is extremely insidious, specializing in attacking people's lower parts, and his conduct is extremely low!"

Su Qing's mind echoed with the humiliation of being slapped into a pit at the quarry, and she gritted her teeth to add: "He'd better not fall into my hands, or I'll definitely use my high heels to flatten his old face!"

Su Jianguo felt black before his eyes.

He grabbed the armrests of the sofa tightly, his nails almost digging into the wood. His blood pressure soared, and his head buzzed.

"Click."

The crisp sound of the water cup being placed on the glass coffee table interrupted the one-sided condemnation in the living room.

Su Yun sat on the side, looking at the ashen-faced Su Jianguo, his eyes extremely concerned.

"Dad, why are your hands shaking so badly?"

"Big sister and Xiao Qing are just casually scolding the wanted criminal on TV. You usually don't even care if the neighbor Auntie Wang's chicken is lost, so why are you so concerned about this Night Owl today?"

"You're in such a hurry to speak up for him, could it be... you know this Night Owl?"