Chapter 317: Drama At Home And Overseas

"How the heck did you know?" I asked.

He leaned back in his chair and smirked at me, "Come on lah... You think I don’t know anything meh?"

"More like I’m wondering where you’re getting this information from. I don’t think I shared that around, did I?"

He reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone before showing me the screen, "You didn’t share it, but someone else did."

On the screen was what appeared to be a social media page and on it was Singa Sister posing for a selfie in the foreground with a big smile on her face while shooting up a peace sign.

That wasn’t the main thing as in the background you could see me wearing my hoodie standing at the edge of a building’s roof and looking down at the streets below.

In the captions of the picture was ’Hey everyone! Looks like I finally ran into Hooded Fighter today! One of the proud defenders of our country! I think he needs a new name though! Everyone suggest some names!’.

I stared at it for a good few seconds before shifting my gaze to Dan, "I didn’t know you follow her."

He shrugged, "I don’t, it went viral and popped up in my feed so I went to check her page out," He explained before tapping on the picture to open up the comments section.

"New hero?"

"No man, he’s a Vigi. Saved my ass a few days ago actually."

"Aren’t Vigilantes illegal?"

"Who cares, he’s putting away the bad people. That makes him a good guy in my books!"

"Why is Singa Sister hanging out with that guy? Where’s Captain RV?"

"Is she cheating on him or something?"

"I smell drama here."

"Guys, it’s obviously a new TV series that’s coming out. This is just promotional material for it. I know because my dad is a director at MediaKore."

"I think we have a new powercouple in the city!"

I looked up from the phone screen to see Dan smirking at me, "What’s that smile for?"

"What? Not funny meh? I think this is quite funny. And by the looks of it, she also thinks it’s funny."

I shook my head, "I’m more surprised that she actually posted this online. She covered for me when Captain RV wanted to arrest me for being a vigilante. Wouldn’t this incriminate her?"

Dan shrugged, "She’s one of the top superheroes right? It’s not like that Captain RV guy can just go and arrest her also."

"Well... He’s definitely not going to be happy about it if he finds out she tricked him."

Dan shrugged again, this time even more exaggerately, "Same thing, what is he going to do about it? Go and beat her up? He’s definitely not going to do that. Also... Even if you get caught anyway, nothing’s going to happen to you aside from people being silenced about your real identity. I can imagine Olivia barging her way into the police station and hushing everyone up and getting you out of there."

"That’s bad isn’t it? My identity as the Mortal God will be revealed."

"No, they will see it that Qing, a Guardian of the Mortal God, is moonlighting as a vigilante. Your Guardian identity is public what."

Oh right, I actually forgot about that.

Even if they unmask my vigilante persona, they would first see me as the Guardian working under the Mortal God instead of the Mortal God.

Dan gestured at me, "Anyway, you still doing that vigilante thing ah? I still thought you no time to do that since we have a new rift liao."

I gave him a pointed look, "We handed the rift over to those two didn’t we? So we don’t have anything else to do now."

"Except you lah. You got a lot of things to do. Specifically those two girls that came along."

I rolled my eyes at him and ignored it to look at my computer screen again, closing the tab for the god I was researching on since I have already determined I was not that rabbit god.

Dan wasn’t done with the superhero topic though as he scrolled through his phone, "Eh. This Singa Sister also not bad ah. You planning on hitting her up?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Aiyah. Surely if she got this close to take the picture with you, she got give you her number right? Call her leh."

"She gave me her work number. And it’s meant for work."

"What work? Going out to get ice cream ah?"

"She’s a professional hero, bro. Her work is keeping the city safe from criminals. For me, I’m a Vigilante so I don’t get paid for doing this but she does. We thus made an arrangement that she can claim credit for the criminals I deal with as long as she covers for me."

"Sounds... I don’t know? Like... Inefficient? She can fly around and stuff right? Wouldn’t it be faster for her to do it on her own?"

"She wants someone to talk to while she’s working."

In an instant, Dan’s face changed into one of understanding as though the entire situation just explained itself to him.

"Ah, right. Understandable. Have a good day."

I waved my hand at him, "So did you really come all the way here just to rub this in my face? You really have nothing else better to do?"

"Yeah, kind of. What else is there to do around here? Not like I can help with building the stuff also. I just know how to whack stuff."

Before I could answer, a sleepy voice came from the doorway.

"Gor... Who you talking to?"

Both of us looked at the doorway to see a yawning Hui Zhen slowly trudging in while rubbing her eyes.

She still had the blanket I gave her wrapped around her shoulders, looking none too bothered by its presence as she held the blanket close to her with her other hand.

She finally recovered enough to blink away her sleepiness to see me and Dan seated inside the room.

"Oh... It’s you... Hello..." My sister greeted him casually.

Dan chuckled, "Wah lau, at least be more happy to see me leh? Why you so cold sia."

Hui Zhen didn’t even respond and just yawned again before trudging into the room.

She then walked around the table and climbed into my lap before cuddling herself against me, wrapping the blanket around herself like a cocoon and falling back to sleep.

Both Dan and I just looked at my sleeping sister for a good few seconds before we looked at each other.

"She’s still like this ah?"

I shrugged, "She claims it’s sleepwalking... I don’t buy it to be honest..."

"Aiyah, at least you have a sister who likes you."

I patted Hui Zhen’s head, "I suppose. Anyway... You want to help me find which gods I’m supposed to be?"

Dan thought about it for a moment, "You just now say we going to go the People’s Central Republic or something right? How would that even help you find out who you might be? You just go in the temples and feel the energy ah?"

I shrugged, "I dunno. It was just something that Olivia had suggested that we do and I believe part of the reason is for us to establish friendly relations with that country too."

"Wah. What about the United American States leh? They won’t be happy about it leh."

"I’m not sure but I don’t think it would matter since we’re supposedly on friendly terms with both countries anyway."

He leaned forward, "Yeah... On paper. But you haven’t hear meh? There’s some politics going on right now."

I snorted, "There’s always politics going on all the time. What are you talking about."

"Yeah, true... But there was some conflict or something happening in a rift that showed up above the Pacific Ocean or something. Then both of them trying to claim that it’s theirs to take. The portal is closer to the PCR’s mainland but... It’s technically closer to UAS since they have Hawaii there also."

I frowned, "They’re really trying to fight for a portal that showed up above the sea?"

"Ya. So far they never send out their Mortal Gods lah, but they got send ships to blockade that area and they’ve been at that stalemate for like a week liao. I think at this point ah, they might end up not doing anything and the rift stabilises for a Rift Breakout."

They really want to put everyone else at risk for something like this?

I groaned, "Can’t they just form a group and go in together and split the rewards? Are they stupid?"

"Aiyah, which person who runs the important positions in politics isn’t stupid?" Dan chuckled.

I sighed as well, "I guess we can only hope they deal with it before it stabilises then. The rewards split two ways should still be a lot and they would rather waste time, energy and money by putting their ships there... Stupid..."

People really are weird...