Chapter 15: The Man of Steel
Tom Lane is the only son of Gibson Lane, a state legislator in Massachusetts.
As Gibson Lane, who is running for the next governor, there is no room for chaos at this critical juncture, because through his long-term efforts, his approval rating has exceeded 40% last week!
If nothing else, he will win the governor's crown over the other five candidates.
But now the accident happened, his son was driving a luxury car, speeding in downtown Boston, and got into a car accident!
As the most populous of all the constituencies in Massachusetts, the Boston constituency has a self-evident place in the hearts of all candidates, but it was here that his son brought him a very "timely" scandal.
Looking at his son, who was lying in the hospital bed and had come to his senses, Gibson was annoyed, but he couldn't get angry at this time, because his son hadn't recovered yet, because there were reporters outside the ward.
In this country, if you don't have the ability to hack other candidates, then you don't participate in any elections, and go home and be a good person.
So within an hour of Tom's car accident, Gibson was questioned and accused of fulfilling his obligation to educate his children and of not being public enough about his financial problems.
Tom, a top student at Harvard University, was often used as a bargaining chip for his son's advancement in Gibson's previous campaign speeches.
Now he can't be proud, and he has to worry about how to face those annoying reporters when he goes out later.
"I'll ask you a question, my son," Gibson rubbed his temples, "why do you drive so fast in the downtown?" ”
"Because of Jessica's birthday party, Daddy" Tom knew he was in trouble, but he was aggrieved, he had a moderate concussion and wanted to throw up every second. He had no idea why he was in a car accident, because his last memory was to hit a child, he hit the brakes, and then he didn't know anything, and it stands to reason that even if he didn't brake, at most the little girl was knocked off or run over to death, and he shouldn't have been injured.
"Jessica? Who is Jessica again? Gibson's brow furrowed even tighter, "As far as I know, aren't you courting a female classmate named Annie?" ”
"Yes, Dad, I'm really chasing Anne, but Jessica is Anne's cousin, and she's just as beautiful, and I'm tempted!" Tom laughed, "Besides, isn't it normal that Anne never promised me that I was pursuing other girls at the same time?" ”
Gibson took a deep breath, and he resisted the urge to scold, "Half-heartedly like you, you can chase a girl to have a ghost!" ”
Tom pursed his lips disapprovingly and muttered, "Who said that, I stayed at a love hotel with two Texas girls last weekend, and they all liked me!" ”
"You!" Gibson is in his fifties this year, and he was almost angry with his own son and had a cerebral hemorrhage, not only distracted, but also messed around? If this is photographed by a reporter, it will be over! This son is a cheat!
"By the way, how is that little girl?" Tom asked suddenly.
"Humph! You still know to ask! Gibson couldn't help but rejoice when he saw that his son was still thinking about others and hadn't broken it completely.
"I'll just ask, it's best to be dead, and if you're still alive, how much more compensation will you have to pay!" Tom's next words made his dad stunned, "Where's my car?" How's my car? That's a global limited edition! ”
"You're really... Bastard! After a long time, Gibson smiled wryly, and silently decided not to let Tom be interviewed, or else the pit father son would poke a bigger basket.
"That little girl is fine, your car is scrapped!" Leaving this sentence, Gibson left directly.
Tom was stunned for a moment, and when he realized that his father had left.
"Is the girl okay, my car broke down? What do you mean? Did I hit the wall? No, I didn't turn it! Tom thought to himself that it was incredible, and that his father was gone again, so he called his best friend to inquire about the situation.
"Go on Youtube! The above is very clear. The best friend said a word, and Tom logged on to his YouTube account.
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On the YouTube homepage, one of the most popular videos is pinned.
"Kung Fu Kid's new miracle - Man of Steel!"
Looking at the title of this video, Tom nodded curiously.
This is a video shot with a mobile phone, the picture is a little shaky, after all, it is not professional photography, but the picture quality is very clear.
At the beginning of the video, a bustling street is filmed, and a voiceover can be heard: "First time in Boston!" It's a nice place, I don't think it's worse than New York! ”
It seems that this is a person who is taking a travel log, talking while shooting, and this has been very popular recently.
"I decided to spend one night in Boston today and then go to Cambridge tomorrow, God forbid, I can find that kung fu kid at Harvard tomorrow! I think he's cooler than Bruce Lee! After all, he didn't make movies, he really beat the robbers! Sky! That's real guns! The photographer seems to be chattering, and as he speaks, the camera shifts to the door of a hotel that is just across the street.
"Kung Fu kid? Who is it? Tom still doesn't know about the robbery that happened the other day, he only cares about the wine, the beauty and the party.
The camera pans, the photographer seems to want to cross the road, suddenly there is a screeching sound of wheels rubbing in the video, the photographer is startled, curses (silenced), the camera turns, and sees a red Ferrari sports car drifting around the corner of the street, and then flying forward at a high speed.
"Damn! With such a large flow of people, shouldn't it be closed to traffic? Speed limits are fine, I'm a little disappointed with Boston! The voiceover complains, in fact, he has wronged Boston, no matter how strict the law is, there are also illegal people, isn't it?
The camera continues to shoot after the sports car, and the voiceover says: "I want to take a picture of the license plate!" Damn it! I'm going to post this video on the web! Let people see this damn local tyrant who disregards life! ”
In the camera, the sports car didn't go far, and a little girl jumped across the street not far away, and the photographer shouted at the sports car: "Hey! Damn it! Stop it! There's a little girl! Are you blind? ”
"Squeak!" This is the sound of brakes, and then another figure actually rushed into the road from the opposite street, and even in the video, you can only see an afterimage!
Before the sports car hit the little girl, the fast figure arrived, it was a man, he picked up the little girl, probably too late to run, so he turned his back to the sports car and hunched his waist and hugged the little girl tightly in his arms.
"Phew!" The car crashed into the man, and then the front of the car deformed, dented, and stopped, and the man took root in the ground like a thousand-year-old tree, nailed to the spot motionless!
“WTF?” The voice of the photographer is very sharp in the video, probably because this scene is so incredible!
"Superman? Hulk? X-Men? The photographer's voice was very excited, and he quickly ran towards the scene of the incident, because the running speed was very fast, so the video screen shook very much.
By the time the photographer got there, someone had already arrived. He squeezed into the crowd and finally captured the mysterious man's face.
“oh-my-God!” In the video, the trembling screams of the filmmaker were heard: "It's you! Kung Fu Kid! ”
In the video, Lu Xiaoqi, known as the kung fu kid, walked to the opposite side with the little girl in his arms and returned the child to her mother.
Lu Xiaoqi's lower body was mosaiced. There are subtitles at the bottom of the video, which may be that after the car crashed, the front of the car was deformed, so his pants were scratched by the torn front of the car.
Then the camera turns to the photographer himself, a slightly chubby, baby-faced boy who doesn't look very old, and he excitedly says to the camera, "Wow! I've come to the right place! I'll be posting this video online! Hey! Did you know? I feel like I've stepped into a movie, and it's a superhero movie! I witnessed a superhero save lives! Cruel! My stupid classmates! I regret that I didn't come here with me, but went to some bullshit summer camp, right? Hahaha! Okay, let's not talk about it! I'm going to get a superhero autograph! Hide yourselves in your tents and read comics! I'll tell you a sad story, Superman in the comics is fake! Hahahaha! Envy, jealousy, hate, go! Fools! ”
The video ended here, Tom turned off the video software with a gloomy face, his head hurt even more, the video was shot very clearly, what kind of "kung fu boy", wasn't it the Chinese student he saw next to Anne a few days ago?
His mind was full of anger and jealousy at the moment, and he didn't care about Lu Xiaoqi's superhuman ability at all, he was desperate to destroy Lu Xiaoqi, especially when his car was deformed just now, and when Anne was holding Lu Xiaoqi with concern in the picture!
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Below that YouTube video, the comments have exploded a long time ago:
"Okay, this is definitely a superpower, the title of the video is right, this is a veritable [Man of Steel]!"
"Kung Fu can't do that! No! Humans can't do it! ”
"He's an alien, isn't he? Just like Clark Kent! From Krypton! ”
"You've read too many comics upstairs, haven't you?"
"The hero of the last robbery, today he saved people again!"
"I analyzed it last time, he used superpowers to defeat the robbers, and his kung fu is a fart! It's a pity that no one believes it! ”
"He must have eaten too much dog meat and mutated, right? Chinese yellow-skinned pigs love to eat dog meat......"
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The popularity of this video is far greater than last time, because there are no experts and scholars who can make explanations other than "superpowers", and as the protagonist of the incident, Lu Xiaoqi has returned to his school dormitory.
At Jessica's birthday party, no matter how hard Anne grinds and hard, he denies that he has superpowers and refuses to answer Anne's questions head-on, so Anne is so angry that she ignores him for the whole party.
Maybe he thinks that today is Jessica's birthday, and the movement he made just now is so big, causing the protagonist of the party to seem to be himself, plus he doesn't like the lively atmosphere of the party very much, so after sending birthday wishes, he left by himself.
Lu Xiaoqi, who returned to the dormitory, didn't know that because of the car accident and rescue incident, from today onwards, he not only became an American citizen, but was officially included in the FBI's monitoring list!