Chapter Ninety-Five: The Only Key
The calm wind blew in the mountains and fields, making a slight whistling sound, and the sound echoed in Lird's ears, making his whole body and mind unusually calm.
Suddenly, a warmth ran over Liard's head, and then and again.
When the warmth flowed to Lird's limbs, it suddenly turned into a violent lightning bolt, which made Lird feel a thrill, and then Lird sat up as soon as he stood up.
The peaceful dreams that had just been peaceful were shattered in an instant, and Lird finally realized that everything that happened was just his own dream, and he fell asleep unconsciously.
And it was none other than his father Pym who was just touching the top of his head.
The moment he made eye contact with his father, Lird only felt that his heart moved, his nose was sore, and the next moment tears were about to flow out.
Seeing Lird sobbing, Pym said to Lird with a bitter voice: "Silly boy, don't cry..."
My father's voice was heavy and old, a far cry from a few days ago.
"Father," Lird said with a sob, and at this time he really wanted to throw himself into his father's arms and cry bitterly, but reality did not allow him to do so, and the tired Pym naturally could not bear any weight.
Pym still smiled, looking lovingly at his child.
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"How long have I been asleep?" Pym asked Lird first, who pursed his lips and said, "It's been a long time." ”
Pym let out a sigh when he heard this, and then said to himself as if he had thought of something: "It seems that the last part of my life has been spent in a coma..."
Lird wanted to comfort his father, but he couldn't say anything, because his lies were so pale and powerless.
Pym chuckled, "My child, you don't need to say anything, the situation of the father himself is the clearest, it is also my own choice, I don't blame anyone, or I accept my fate very calmly." ”
Listening to his father's words, Lird just shook his head in pain, unable to utter a word.
Pym said, "What happened during the time I was asleep?"
Lird shook his head, what he said was the truth, and he also concealed it, and the plan he had proposed for Qianrou before Lird did not reveal it.
Pym frowned when he heard this, and then said in a dry voice, "It's not a good thing like this. Apparently Pym was aware of the anomalies lurking within.
Lird said hoarsely: "Father, this is not something you should think about, leave everything to others." Pym smiled and said, "That's true, I don't have any power to change this world anymore." ”
"By the way, I dreamed of your grandmother before I woke up." Hearing his father mention his grandmother, Lird's heart moved again, and before he fell asleep, he mentioned his grandmother to Jim, wondering if it was at that time that his father was induced by some kind of inspiration to dream of his grandmother.
Pym continued: "In my dreams I seem to have gone back a long, long time, when there was no you, I was only your age, and your grandmother was very young, and we lived in an old house in Poland, living a simple and ordinary life. ”
"In my dreams I also saw the young Father Scar, and I didn't know the secret of his use of snow to turn holy water, because in the dream I was not aware of any of them, or I was not aware of many things. ”
"Suddenly one day I told my grandmother that I was leaving Poland for another country, where I was going to fight my way. In the dream, your grandmother did not resist or hinder me, but was in a hurry to make me a good dinner to see me off. ”
"But I don't know why, at that time I was so anxious to leave, as if I couldn't stay any longer. ”
"When your grandmother saw that I insisted on leaving, she told me, 'You can go first, and I will continue to cook here, and when you come back we will eat together, and the meal will be ready.' ”
After that, Pym smiled and said: "I woke up after that, and now I think that this dream is really meaningful, maybe your awakening is just a trip, and I am destined to return to my hometown, return to my roots, and have that reunion dinner with your grandmother." ”
Lird closed his eyes in agony, he did not know whether his father's dream was true or false, but he understood the meaning of his father's words.
Undoubtedly, Pym's words gave Lird some great comfort in his heart, but it also brought out the softest and most painful side of Lird's heart.
"If you leave me too, I... There are no relatives left..."Pym smiled, and then said, "No, my child, believe me, as long as you live strong in this world, you will never lose your loved ones." You and the Wyatt family besides me, and I'm sure they'll treat you like dear to you. And in a few years, when you are fully grown, married and have children, and become the pillar of the family, you will have a new family, a family that you love all your life and are willing to give everything for. I'm looking forward to that day and looking forward to it, it's just that I've been... I can't see it..."
Weighing that, Pym tried to reach out and touch Lird's cheek, and said softly: "I have not been completely by your side for more than ten years, witnessing and helping you grow, for which I am very sorry, as a father I am extremely derelict in my duty, I do not ask for your forgiveness, but I sincerely hope that you will not do this to me, and do not let your children grow up without a father." ”
Lird shook his head vigorously and said, "Father, I don't blame you... I don't blame you..."
Pym smiled and said, "Thank you, my child..."
After a heart-wrenching confession, the father and son finally calmed down briefly.
Pym seemed to ponder for a moment and then said to Lird: "Son, when I die, I will be cremated and buried, although this is not my native land, but the beautiful environment here is also what I love, and I really prefer this place to Poland, which is constantly bleeding, and the materialistic United States." ”
Leard thought for a moment and said, "I want to bring you back to the United States, where my grandmother is still there..."
Pym nodded and said, "It's also... I didn't do my filial piety by your grandmother's side before she died, and I should accompany her after she died. After that, he smiled bitterly at Lird: "It's just that you, my child, have to take an old guy like me on the road." ”
Lird shook his head, then said to Pym, "All of this is what I should do, and that's what I'm here for. ”
Pym let out a long sigh and looked at the top of the tent and said, "Actually, now I regret insisting on letting you come here, I used to stubbornly think that you can take over the responsibility in my hands, and finally change the world through it by mastering the [power] of the mysteries of the Atlantean remnant, but now I have changed my mind." ”
"When this place was reduced to a sea of fire, I completely changed my mind, I no longer thought that there was any responsibility and obligation on my body to change the world, all I thought about was to be able to keep you alive. ”
"Although my action that night seemed to save the lives of many Atlantean remnants, it was not a deliberate choice, and it could even be said to be very stupid! ”
"I'm not a hero with a heart for the world, I'm just a selfish father who wants to protect his children. ”
Speaking of this, Pym's eyes were also filled with tears, and he said sincerely to Lird: "Child, I don't want anything in the future, you have to leave here as soon as possible! Believe me, there is always an ominous premonition in my heart that an unprecedented storm is coming here!"
Lird looked at his father's anxious eyes, he believed that what his father said must not be the advice of Qianrou and others, but completely at the high end of his own premonition, perhaps the father in a coma realized the danger of his son's sinking, so he was desperate, even if he destroyed all his previous designs and painstaking efforts.
But can Lird really leave now?
The answer is obvious.
However, Lird could not tell his father of his determination, and he would not strike the heart of the old man in front of him again.
Lird nodded obediently.
When he saw Lird's promise, Pym's hanging heart finally let go, and he showed a rather relaxed expression.
Lird also smiled and squeezed his father's hand, which had never been so natural and harmonious between father and son.
After a few brief conversations, Lird turned to Pym and said, "Father, what was it like for you to use that [power] that night?"
Pym was not suspicious of Lird's inquiry, he only thought that it was his son's curiosity about supernatural powers, as long as a normal person would feel this way when he thought about it, and it was understandable to think about it.
Pym shook his head and said, "You saw that scene that night, how do you feel?"
Lird pondered for a moment before replying, "Very scary. ”
Pym laughed, "It's hard to imagine that it's a power released from a person's body, but if it were in the eyes of the world, I would never remember that I could be called a god." ”
Lird nodded, and Pym said, "But even now I am just an ordinary person, and the power in my body that I wield is only 'stolen', for example, I am just a thief who stole fire from under Apollo's solar car." ”
"Prometheus is not a thief, he is the hero and hope of mankind. ”
Pym laughed: "But he is a thief in the eyes of the gods of the Olympus, and Prometheus ended up being trapped in the Caucasus and suffering, which sounds a little similar to me, but the difference is that Hercules will never save me." ”
"As for how it feels to be in control of that power," Pym thought for a moment, "it's a sinking feeling." ”
With that, a sense of fear appeared in Pym's eyes, as if he recalled something very bad.
"I haven't tried drugs like opium, but I think that's what I want to do with a feeling, and it's a wonderful feeling. ”
Lird only wanted to ask his father how he felt when he used his supernatural powers, and he didn't want his father to seem to say more important information about him.
Pym continued: "Of course, it wasn't just one thing to feel, in fact, as you can see, pain and suffering took over the majority. ”
"But even so, it is not unpleasant to use [power], and that kind of freewheeling power control will give you unprecedented satisfaction, and it can be said that at that moment the whole world is in my hands. ”
In contrast, Lird can imagine.
That night, my father blocked the attack of the German fighter plane with a wave of his palm, and at the same time shot it down at an altitude of dozens of meters, and the strength was incomparable. Lird wondered what it would be like if his father had joined the war with this force.
And that feeling of looking down on the world can indeed satisfy a person's psychology to the greatest extent.
Then Pym said, "But just like don't get involved in drugs, you should never touch this [power], I dare say it's not a power that doesn't belong to this world." As your grandmother said, that's what the devil left on this earth. ”
Lird pondered for a moment and said, "You mean the [power.]
Can you open the gates to hell?"
Lird's questioning was quite ingenious, he did not clearly express his inner intentions, but he was invisibly questioning his father.
And that so-called hell is the parallel universe space that he has always been curious about.
Pym was puzzled by his son's question, and felt that there was something special about it, but he still didn't think anything else.
Pym thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps, although I have only come into contact with a drop in the ocean of that [power], I still feel that I am omnipotent, and I think that if I completely master and control that power, I should also be able to find the gate to hell, after all, there are indeed forces in this world that are difficult to explain." ”
After that, Pym also smiled bitterly and said: "But I think this kind of thing can't happen, even if I come into contact with this bit of power, I will end up like this, if I come into contact with more, I'm afraid I won't have time to feel that power, and I will explode and die." ”
Lird didn't ask anything more about it, he already knew something about that power, and he realized something important.
The only "key" that can completely control this [power] and change everything currently is in Qianrou's hands.