Chapter 24: An Uncertain Clue
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The attitude towards the mutant Li Jie is a bit complicated, because mutants are not vampires, and they should not be mortal enemies of humans. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
And in fact, there is no completely irreconcilable contradiction between normal people and mutants, especially Li Jie remembers that he has said it in the plot he has watched.
In fact, most people have X genes in their bodies, but some people will not trigger this gene in their lifetime, but will hide it, making him an ordinary person for the rest of his life.
But the X gene is inherited, which creates a high probability of mutant children in their offspring.
This is a paradox, if a guy who is resolutely against mutants is actually a mutant himself, but has not caused change for the time being, then how should this person be counted?
What if one day he suddenly mutated himself, or that his child suddenly became a mutant, and could he still insist that all mutants were evil?
Li Jie didn't know what these people thought, but the complexity of human nature simply cannot be explored. Even if there really is an all-knowing and all-powerful God in this world, I am afraid that he will not be able to truly understand the most complex things in human nature.
For example, Hale, the mutant he saw that day, he mutated. He can't choose whether the mutation will happen or not, he can only passively accept it.
But this undoubtedly caused him more trouble, even if he became a mutant, he still hated mutants, or rather, hated this ability.
He caused Hale to lose his job, his family, and finally his life.
Through the police department's files, Li Jie knew that this Hale also had a child, he didn't know what would happen to this child in the future, although his father was unintentional, but he did kill someone.
I'm afraid that the charge of a mutant murderer will always be on his father's shoulder.
For some unknown reason, Lee Kit came to this neighborhood with a box of Captain America toys, on the edge of Queens, near Brooklyn.
The houses here look old, but the neighborhood looks clean, which is probably the reason why the residents are not wealthy, but they are very self-disciplined.
Hale's home is here, a small bungalow, and Hale's children are temporarily housed here to be cared for by community volunteers for a few days.
After a while, after the formalities are completed, the child should be handed over to the orphanage, and the property will also be repossessed by the government due to arrears of property taxes.
The gift Li Jie brought was a box of high-end Captain America dolls, worth more than $400, and even Hale was reluctant to spend so much money to buy such high-end toys for his children when he was still working.
When Li Jie knocked on Hale's door, a middle-aged woman who looked kind opened the door. "You are?"
The woman did not know Li Kit, and as a social worker in the community, she had met all the more than 200 residents of the community.
"Sorry to interrupt. I heard about Hale, but the child was innocent. I'm just here to show some kindness. Li Jie pointed to the gift in his hand and made it clear.
"You are such a kind-hearted person. The middle-aged woman's tone contained a kind of emotion. "No one has come to see poor little Cain since Hale's incident. ”
"Hale is a kind man, he was originally a skilled mechanic, even if he was really a mutant, I don't believe he would actually kill people, there must be some misunderstanding here. The middle-aged woman opened the door and let Li Jie in.
"No one has come to see poor little Cain now, the child is innocent, and it's not good for everyone to do this. Under the guidance of the middle-aged woman, Li Jie came to Cain's room.
In fact, all the furnishings in this house are very simple now, and it can be seen that the life of the two fathers and sons was not very good before.
Only Cain's room looked a little decorated, with yellow stars and moon printed on the blue wallpaper, which was supposed to be a very cosy room.
But the owner of the room seemed very unhappy, and Li Jie saw a thin little boy standing at the window of his room and looking out.
According to the information, the little boy should be thirteen years old, and he will be a fourteen-year-old boy at the end of this year.
But he looked far thinner than his peers, looking only eleven or twelve, and his black hair drooped listlessly on his head.
The brown eyes do not have any of the agility and liveliness that a child of this age should have.
He heard the sound of the door opening, and just watched Li Jie walk in blankly, without any expression on his face.
"Honey, someone has come to see you. The middle-aged woman looked at Kain's appearance, and there was a feeling of distress in her tone.
"Are you here to blame my father, too? Are you here to laugh at me, too! I'm the child of a murderer!" Cain's sudden outburst of rage came suddenly.
This sudden outburst startled Li Jie and the middle-aged woman.
Li Jie was relatively tall, and he quickly walked up to Kain and half-squatted down to talk to Kain at eye level.
"Your father is not a murderer, I promise. He didn't do it on purpose, trust me, I was there. ”
As Li Jie spoke, he quietly put his hand on Kain's shoulder, and a small amount of Zhongzheng and peaceful internal qi worked in Kain's body, since the last battle of the hand, Li Jie found that his internal qi had the effect of calming his mood.
The internal qi ran through Kain's body, and it took him a while to look better, without that terrifying anger.
Just now, even his facial features were distorted, and this emotion is not conducive to the growth of the child.
"Your father is a good man, he doesn't want to hurt anyone, he just wants to go buy you toys, he doesn't want to hurt anyone. Li Jie looked at Kain and calmed down before continuing.
"Then why did the police shoot him!" Kain didn't seem to know about Hale's death, thinking it was the police who had shot his father, tears rolling in his eyes.
"Everything was an accident, everything was an accident. Li Jie felt a little sorry for the little boy, he explained.
"Your father inadvertently hurt other people, and he feels guilty, even if it was an accident. But he chose to take responsibility for his mistakes. ”
"It's a toy your father bought you, voila. He had already paid for it at the time, but unfortunately he didn't get a chance to give it to you himself. ”
"But I was there at the time, and I brought it for you, and now I'm giving it to you. It's a box of Captain America's soldiers, and I think it's because your father wants you to be as strong as Captain America. ”
Li Jie said this, took out the box of high-end toys he had bought, and handed it to Kain.
"Do you like Captain America?" Cain nodded.
"So can you follow the example of your idols? Be strong and optimistic, and never be crushed in the face of even the greatest setbacks and difficulties. ”
"Captain Steve Rogers and his team were trapped in the snow for a week without food or water, but they held on and beat the Nazis flattened. ”
"Can you be as strong as Captain America?" asked Li Jie, looking at Kain.
Cain nodded, "My grandfather was also a soldier back then, and he said that he once fought alongside Captain America, and together they breached the Nazi lair in Sweden. ”
"Then you should have the blood of a hero in your veins, and you should learn like your grandfather, who must have also encountered many difficulties in the war. ”
"Kain, your life is a little difficult for the time being, but everything will be fine, promise me to be a hero in life, okay?" Li Jie talked to Kain with an equal attitude.
"Like Spider-Man?" Cain finally smiled.
"yes, like Spider-Man. Li Jie made a high-five gesture, and Cain stretched out his little palm and slapped Li Jie.
When Li Jie and Kain chatted for a while and were about to leave, Kain stopped him.
"Thank you, Jason, I know you're lying to me, my dad can't afford such an expensive toy, but I'm still grateful to you so that I can invite Ruhl to play with me next time. ”
Li Jie smiled and was not embarrassed by the lie being exposed, but asked with a smile. "Is Ruhl your partner?"
"Yes, his grandfather and my grandfather were comrades-in-arms, and they both kicked the Nazis in the ass. Cain made a kick, which made Li Jie laugh.
"So you can go to Ruhl's house next time?"
"Maybe we'll go to the same orphanage, Ruhl's dad also passed away the other day when he went out of town. Kain's words were a little sad.
"Because he also suddenly became a mutant in the first two years, but he can control his abilities, so he still has a job, but this time he went on a business trip to the field, his mutant ability went berserk, and then he was shot dead by the police. ”
But this sentence made Li Jie's heart sudden, he seemed to have caught something, but he didn't seem to understand it very well.
One day after he left Kain's house, all the formalities for Kain had been completed and he was to be transferred to an orphanage to be raised.
When the nuns at the orphanage were about to take Kain away, Kain stopped and told her that he still had an important toy to take, and that the nun had to let him go home and get it first.
Cain went to the garage at the back of the house, where there was a basement for storing miscellaneous items, and he expertly climbed down the stairs.
He found what he was looking for in the box in the corner, and it was tightly wrapped in black cloth. Cain opened the black cloth and checked that it was in good condition before taking it out.
Visible through the black cloth was a metallic green demon mask, which Cain held and smiled, then wrapped it up again.
As the nun leaves the home where she has lived for more than a decade, Cain will also start a new life of her own.
And inside the base of the Nightcrawler, Li Jie is asking the hacker Zeng Chu to find something according to his own ideas.
Maybe it's all speculation, maybe I'm just thinking too much. (To be continued.) )