Chapter 18 Willing to be ordinary?

The bell for the end of class rang as scheduled.

At this time, it is early summer, and the cherry blossoms in full bloom still have a hint of spring; As far as the eye can see, the campus is full of swaying foliage and cherry blossoms.

And on such a sunny and sunny day, people's mood will naturally become comfortable.

"It's been a long time since I've been studying in school, what kind of vague comfort is this vague feeling of comfort?" As the silence of the corridor was shattered by the hustle and bustle, a blonde teenager stretched and slumped with a hazy drowsiness in his tone slowly walked to the edge of the corridor, bathing in sunlight.

The dark black school uniform contrasts sharply with the large pink patches outside the building.

"The sunshine, the cherry blossoms, the blue sky, the world doesn't seem to be as bad as I imagined...... Yes. Before the words fell, there was a slight tremor from the soles of his feet, like an earth dragon turning over; At the same time, a shocking muffled sound came from the sky, and immediately after, a towering building in the far east fell to the ground, but a black dragon rose into the sky, straight up to the clouds.

Wade, who was still sighing about how beautiful the world was under the sun at the last moment, was speechless for a while after seeing this scene that can only appear in movies, and the previous comfort disappeared in an instant and ceased to exist.

"I haven't said anything about washing your hands and getting married at home, why are you so excited?!" Looking at the black smoke and fog that had occupied a small half of the blue sky, Wade faced the sunny sky on the spot and scolded angrily.

"Stupid, what are you talking about here? You couldn't have caused that movement just now, right? There is also a hint of playfulness and disgust in the dreamlike female voice; After hearing the unfriendly words, Wade was not angry but happy, and the displeasure on his face was also deliberately hidden by him, and he did not do it.

He didn't have to look back to know who the owner of that voice was, because no one in the entire school except her would rebuke him with such disgust, and only one person would call him stupid.

"Of course I didn't do it, I'm an ordinary earthling; As for what's going on, look over there for yourself. Wade replied without looking back, and he pointed to the growing smoke in the sky; The golden pupils were flying in streamers, as if they were thinking about something.

His eyes drifted to the direction of Wade's finger, and he saw that in the deep blue sky, there was a dark smoke that was eating away at the sky step by step, gradually expanding his territory.

There seemed to be a faint smell of coke in the fresh air, and the heat wave was against the wind, lapping Wade and Ezaki on the faces.

"Where's Guangmao Building?" Esaki Yukina wondered, in her impression, the location where the smoke was billowing should belong to a crowded supermarket.

When Wade heard this, he just shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, and turned his back to Xue Nai with a strange expression: "Isn't it obvious." ”

"There must be a lot of people who will get hurt." Ezaki Yukina's eyebrows frowned slightly, and her tender white jade hands were unconsciously clenched into a show fist; As soon as she thought that she would be able to see the report about the Guangmao Building in a few moments, she felt a tingling in her heart, as if she was mourning for those lives she had never met.

"yes, it's a pity that this is not Marvel or DC, there are no ronins and no Astro Boy." Wade sighed meaningfully, and he suddenly turned to face Ezaki Yukina, his lips lightly raised, but he didn't make any sound.

"What do you want to say?" After observing his strange movement, Yukina Ezaki immediately ignored his thoughts; I didn't hesitate to say it directly.

Seeing Ezaki Yukina being so direct, Wade no longer concealed it, and said what he wanted to say: "I want to ask you a question, do you think there is really the kind of person in this world who can risk his life to help others for a group of people he doesn't know?" ”

Esaki Yukina was silent, her eyes lowered with a thoughtful expression; After a while, under Wade's gaze, she slowly opened her small mouth and said softly: "Everyone is selfish, even the heroes in the story have selfish times, after all, perfect human beings do not exist, but those human beings who are infinitely close to perfection are real." ”

"I don't want to admit it, but think about it, if you hadn't gone out of your way to save me, maybe I wouldn't be able to stand here and talk to you now." As soon as he said goodbye, Edazaki Yukina closed her cherry mouth and waited patiently for Wade's response.

"I see, thank you." After receiving the answer, Wade showed a relieved expression; He waved goodbye and walked past Yukina Ezaki towards the classroom.

Just as he was about to step into the classroom, he finally looked back at the smoke in the sky, and muttered, "What do you have to do with me, I'd better be an ordinary person." ”

The bell for class rang at this moment.

"A number of cars in Guangmao Building were detonated at the same time, causing the building to collapse; So far, more than 1,200 people have been killed and more than 3,000 injured......"

"The only thing we can be sure of now is that the collapse of the Guangmao Building was a real and complete terrorist attack......

"Now we can see that the fire has been brought under control, with the help of cranes, more broken buildings have been cleaned up, and rescue work is being carried out in an intense and orderly manner......

The LCD TV, which was playing real-time news, "beeped" to end the show, and the screen that had returned to darkness gained a mirror-like reflection under the sunlight outside the window, and Wade was faithfully portrayed in the sofa with a blank face.

After school, the news of the collapse of the Guangmao Building has spread to all over the world through various media channels, and has become the hottest topic of major TV stations and websites for a while; In the eyes of the outside world, this is another major terrorist attack after the Twin Towers incident.

"If I had chosen to be a hero, there would have been one more death toll now." Wade said self-deprecatingly.

As a person with the super speed of a flash, when Wade met the first opportunity to be a hero in his life, he did not choose to save others desperately, but was willing to be ordinary and watched coldly.

In fact, he did not want to be an indifferent bystander, the moment he saw the building collapse, he had actually rushed out, but the miracle did not appear as expected.

He found that he could not activate the superpowers hidden in his body as he wished, let alone rush to the scene to save others in an instant.

So, he gave up; But after hearing Ezaki Yukina's words, a belief quietly took root in his heart, and it suddenly struck at this time, shaking his heart.

"Are you really content with the ordinary?" A voice asked in his mind.

When: May 18, 2020, location: on the outskirts of Osaka City.

The boundless dark clouds obscured the sky like a tarp, and the refreshing land breeze was like a mischievous child, and the branches and leaves were swaying and the grass dancing wildly everywhere it passed.

It is located in an abandoned airport on the outskirts of Osaka City, which has been abandoned by the government since the opening of the central airport on the city side. From the original crowd to the current overgrown weeds, it has only passed more than 40 years.

And today, it welcomes the first human to visit it in a century.