Chapter 15: Frank Relations Between Brothers
"Toot . . . Honk.. Honk.. Hey, is it blue? Do you know where Peter is? He didn't come to class today, and his phone was turned off again. The phone rang a few times and was answered.
"Well, it's Harry, and Peter and I are at home, but you might have to take a leave of absence for us, and I need a few boxes of your company's Green Goblin creature cables, and a few more watch launchers." Speaking of asking for leave, Zhang Lan couldn't help but purse her lips.
"Of course these are fine, why take a leave of absence? Is it sick? How many days do you want to please? I don't know about you, but Peter and I are in the same class, and I've already helped him get it, so you don't have to worry about it, it's Professor Carmen who is in class today, and he doesn't manage it strictly. Harry agreed, and joked lightly.
Why take time off? For a while, he couldn't open his mouth, and he really didn't want to say this reason.
After a few seconds of silence, the sound of the class bell ringing came from the phone.
"Hey, Blue? Are you still there? It's almost time for class, if you don't say I'll hang up, I'm a good boy who wants to get a scholarship. Harry hadn't listened to Zhang Lan for a long time, and thought that the other side was no longer listening to the phone.
"Harry, Uncle Ben... He last night... Shot by robbers last night. Zhang Lan opened her mouth with difficulty, Harry often came to the house as a guest, and his feelings for Uncle Ben were not shallow.
โ......โ
Harry on the other side of the phone was silent for a while, and instead of speaking, an older voice came out, asking where Harry was going and that it was time for class.
The older voice faded away, thinking it was Harry who got up and left the classroom.
"Blue, April Fool's Day is over, it's better not to make this kind of joke." Only then did Harry speak, with a hint of tremor in his tone.
Zhang Lan has been the most sensible person among the three since he was a child, and he has always played the role of the elder brother of the two, he knows that Zhang Lan respects Uncle Ben very much, and he will never joke about this.
Rice Harry still hopes, it's a joke.
Zhang Lan: "......"
Seeing that Zhang Lan was silent, Harry also gritted his teeth tightly, wanting to say a few words of comfort, but he didn't know where to start.
Just like that, neither of them spoke, and there was a rush of footsteps in the microphone.
"I'll be there in half an hour." Harry ended the call with the sound of a car starting its motor.
Standing in the corridor, Zhang Lan held the mobile phone in his hand for a long time, listening to the "beep" sound of hanging up, his eyes flickered, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.
The roar of a motor came from outside the house, and as the sound of sudden braking stopped, the broken door of the room was opened, and a white boy pushed the door in, carrying a silver-white suitcase.
The boy has an elegant temperament, but there is a trace of gentle sunshine, which makes people feel close, but now the boy's face is gloomy and terrible, and he should not be approached.
Zhang Lan was sitting in the living room, and the boy saw him at a glance.
"Blue, what the hell is going on? Did the damn guy get it? Harry couldn't wait to ask, and the suitcase in his hand was still casually in the doorway.
"Harry, be quiet." Zhang Lan glanced at Aunt Mei's room behind her: "Aunt Mei just fell asleep, let's go to Peter's room and say." โ
Twenty minutes later, in Peter's room, Harry glared at Peter with a sad face, and under Zhang Lan's neutral statement, Harry knew very well that Peter was most responsible for Uncle Ben's death.
Harry gritted his teeth, his fists clenched, and stared at Peter uncertainly.
He was trying to control his anger, believing that Uncle Ben had died, and that Peter was the most bitter of the three.
For a moment, the small space was eerily quiet, except for the occasional sound of cars passing by outside the house, except for the sound of Harry's heavy breathing.
"The murderer hasn't been caught yet, has he? Are there any photos? Harry was Austin's acting executive after all, and he was able to keep his emotions under control in the end.
Peter didn't dare to say much, and handed Harry a copy of the portrait he had taken from the police, for fear of angering Harry, who still remembered the beating he had taken last night.
He was the youngest of the three, and he had always been the one to be taken care of, and he had a heartfelt respect for Harry and Zhang Lan.
Harry took the copy of the portrait, looked at it carefully, made sure he remembered the face, and took a picture with his phone, he was going to mobilize his resources to find this damn guy.
After Harry had simply arranged to put down his phone, Zhang Lan spoke.
"Harry, it's not just the material and... These two things. There are two other things that are the main reason I called you. โ
Harry didn't speak, but looked at Zhang Lan silently, waiting for Zhang Lan's next words.
Usually the three of them get along like this, most of them are Peter talking, Zhang Lan and Harry are listening, Zhang Lan occasionally interjects a few words, and Harry doesn't talk if he can.
But at the critical moment, Zhang Lan, who has been a man of two lives, has shown his experience to the two many times.
"The first thing is to use your connections to swap Uncle Ben's body out of the police hospital morgue, and then refrigerate it to ensure that Uncle Ben's body does not decompose."
Harry didn't immediately agree, and looked at Zhang Lan with a frown.
This requirement is very unreasonable in the eyes of ordinary people, and the rest of the dead is the greatest respect for the deceased.
Zhang Lan continued: "The reason lies in another thing, that is, the secret about me, I..."
He re-said what he said to Peter last night to Harry, focusing on his own pseudo-"prophecy" ability, and classifying the scripts and novels he had written before as he "saw" these future possibilities with prophecy, and he just wrote down what he saw.
"Blue, though I trust you very much." Harry touched his forehead a little worriedly, making sure he didn't have a fever, "But what you're saying is outrageous, and there is no scientific basis at all. โ
Zhang Lan also guessed that Harry would not believe it immediately, after all, he had not mutated like Peter, so he had not been exposed to similar situations, and it was normal not to believe it immediately.
The way to convince him was simple, after Peter used his unusual speed and spider crawling ability, Zhang Lan simply released the transformation technique and the clone technique, claiming that this was the ability he learned in the future.
Harry was a little shaken by the facts, he still thought it was weird.
"Harry, it's okay if you don't believe it now, but please trust me for the time being, because I need your trust for what I'm going to talk about."
Zhang Lan doesn't force it, he still has a killer feature.
"Harry, Peter, if one day I face death, you can all save me, and the price of saving me is that Peter may expose your special abilities, and Harry is... Your father's possible hope for healing, yes, Harry, is the hope for healing your family's genetic defects. โ
"Are you willing to pay that price? Don't answer me now, think for a minute. Zhang Lan's tone was more serious than ever.
The next decisions of Peter and Harry will affect his next decisions, and whether they will be brothers in the future.
A minute was not long, and soon passed, Zhang Lan raised his hand to stop the two who wanted to answer, and said solemnly again.
"You must answer me seriously, my life is at stake."
After speaking, he stretched out his hand and motioned for Peter to speak first.
Peter replied in the affirmative, "Yes, no matter what the cost." โ
With that, they looked at Harry.
"Blue, I don't know where you got the news about our family's genetic defects, in fact I didn't know there was such a thing," Harry said with a solemn expression, "but my father is indeed seriously ill. If I had to choose, I think I would choose you. After all, it was you and Peter who have been by my side to this day when I was abandoned at school at the age of thirteen. โ
"In this world, apart from my deceased mother, you two are my closest relatives, and then you can be regarded as the father who uses me as a tool of inheritance."
โYSEใโ Zhang Lan secretly congratulated in her heart: "It's not because I have taken care of you for so many years, Harry. โ
Zhang Lan's spirit was stronger than that of ordinary people, especially after cultivating, he could feel Harry's sincerity, and he believed that what Harry said was sincere.
After getting the answer he wanted, Zhang Lan made another move, this time he didn't use words to narrate, but sealed his hands and activated the only illusion he mastered.
ใIllusion: Illusionใ
This illusion is only a basic E-level, and it has no attack ability, so it can simply make the unsuspecting fall into a pre-designed illusion.
And will Peter and Harry be wary of Zhang Lan?
Obviously not, Mirage was a successful hit.
In the illusion, the two experienced part of Zhang Lan's original viewing of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2".
Harry's hands began to shake at a young age...
Norman Osborne collapsed in a hospital bed, and the family history he told Harry...
Harry's loss of his father and death were struck, and Peter's outstretched hand of friendship...
Norman Osborne murdered Peter's father, Richard Parker, for the sake of profit...
In the abandoned subway tunnel, the information left by Peter's father...
Refusing Harry's request to pump blood in order to protect him...
Harry's madness when he faced death...
Harry was injected with the spider venom made from Peter's father's genes, and although he was successfully cured of the genetic defect by relying on the healing function of the Green Goblin armor, he was also disfigured and his personality changed drastically...
The battle between Harry and Peter, and...
Gwen who was indirectly killed by Peter.
This is the end of the illusion, and this is the picture that Zhang Lan thinks they need to see.
"Uh... Wow.... Poof..."
Just as Peter and Harry were still digesting the information in the illusion, Zhang Lan suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of blood, and also carried a large number of internal organ fragments, and his face turned pale rapidly.
This scene frightened Peter and the others, and they didn't care about the shock they saw in the illusion, and gathered around Zhang Lan to eagerly ask what was going on.
"Blue? Oh God, no, what's the matter with you? โ
"Don't be like this, oh my God, why are you vomiting so much blood? Call the emergency number... Yes, call the emergency number. โ
Harry hurriedly took out his mobile phone on his body, and the phone number was dialed out, and before he could speak, a burst of blood mist suddenly erupted on Zhang Lan's body, and the whole person's skin was opened.
Seeing this, Harry panicked and put aside his mobile phone, which was smashed on the ground, and threw himself next to Zhang Lan, unusually nervous to check his pulse.
Pulse... Stop it
Breathe... Stop it
Heartbeat... Stop it.
Harry and Peter were all blindfolded, weren't they still chatting properly? Why did he suddenly die so miserably?
Just when the two of them were at a loss, the closed door of the room was pushed open from the outside.
Peter reacted quickly between the door and Zhang Lan, and he thought it was Aunt May coming.
He didn't dare to imagine if Aunt Mei could accept it, losing two relatives in a row within 24 hours.
The door opened, but Zhang Lan walked in carrying a gourd with the word "sand" written on it.
It was the shadow clone who was sent out by Zhang Lan before.
Harry didn't know how to react, and pointed at the shadow clone and Zhang Lan who was already dead on the bed.
"Can anyone tell me what's going on?"