On the second day of the New York trip, the sun was as warm as the first day, and the mood was average.

Melinda May, a cold-eyed S.H.I.E.L.D. Level 7 agent wearing sunglasses, sat in the driver's seat, the steering wheel turned flexibly in the palm of her hand, this is New York, the metropolis, people come and go very bustling, the city covers an area several times that of Gotham, and the population is more than 5 times.

But Cyber is not envious of the prosperity here, he has an instinctive resistance to this kind of noisy environment, and the place they want to go to today takes more than 1 hour to drive, so naturally the guide can only be responsible for guiding the way.

Catherine, dressed up, sat next to Cyber, and she looked unusually active, in stark contrast to Cyber, who had sunk her body deep in her seat.

"Cyber, Cyber, do you think they remember me?"

The little girl asked Cyber the same question for the seventh time, the young man's eyes twitched under his sunglasses, he took a deep breath, and patted his left hand on the top of Catherine's head,

"They must remember you, who would forget such a cute little girl?"

So Catherine was satisfied, and sat beside him obediently, yes, today is the day to take her to her house, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s power in New York is amazing, and it took half a day to find the current address of the Prydes.

Catherine's life is Catherine Anne Pryde, who is of Jewish descent, according to the information in May's hand, Catherine's life before the age of 8 is indeed very happy, it is the general state of the American middle class, her parents are loving, she is almost the little princess of the family, but after the awakening of ability, the Pride family moved 3 times within 1 year, Catherine's ability brought almost endless trouble to Pride's parents.

The reason why heterogeneity is called alien is because they are different from ordinary people, and heterogeneity is the easiest to be excluded and attacked, which is one of the original sins flowing in the blood of human beings, even if the object is just a child.

What will happen to Catherine when she returns home, Cyber doesn't know, and he doesn't want to guess, he has seen a lot of the dark side of human nature, and frankly, he doesn't want his guess to come true, but interestingly, along the way, Cyber discovers a small "secret" of the cold Agent May.

She is afraid of small children... To be precise, she was resisting contact with a little girl like Catherine, and although she was wearing sunglasses, in Cyber's eyes, her body trembled every time she saw Catherine in the rearview mirror.

"Interesting... She didn't seem to have that problem last time. ”

Cyber touched his chin and didn't say what he had observed, first of all, it was a personal matter, and it was likely to involve some taboos, and secondly, at least for now, they were still in a cooperative relationship.

Agent May also seemed to sense Cyber's watchful gaze, so she was very silent along the way, until 30 minutes later, the black Dodge stopped outside a small white cottage in the suburbs of Brooklyn, and the three of them got out of the car, and Cyber looked at the villa in front of him, and from the outside, carefully manicured garden, you could see the family's pursuit of quality of life.

The little girl was very active all the way, but when she really stood in front of this villa, she took Cyber's hand in fear, he looked at the young man leaning on the car, and whispered,

"Cyber, will you come with me?"

When Cyber heard this, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he squatted down, took off his sunglasses, and looked at Catherine who was about to cry,

"Are you scared?"

"No... I was just... I just..."

"Don't be afraid, I'm right here. ”

Cyber tapped on her little head,

"If you really don't know how to deal with them, why don't you quietly "go in", don't be found by them, see how they are living now, if they still remember you, you go to see them, if they forget, you come out, let's go back to Gotham together, okay?"

The little girl was a little nervous and speechless, and Cyber's hand gently rested on her shoulder and said to her,

"Come, take a deep breath... Exhale, inhale... Are you better?"

"Hmm!"

She nodded vigorously, and Cyber stretched out his fist,

"Don't let them see it!

Catherine also stretched out her fist, touched it lightly on Cyber's fist, and then ran behind him, and at May's surprised gaze, it "melted" into the ground like magic.

Cyber put on his sunglasses and stood up, and May's voice sounded at the same moment,

"This kid... Mutants too?"

"What do you say?"

Cyber shrugged, "You've been with us for a whole day, and you didn't even notice that, Miss Agent, and it looks like you don't have the ability to detect mutants." ”

"If an advanced mutant is unwilling to reveal his identity, ordinary people will not be able to detect it unless they are tested with special instruments. ”

May's voice became colder and colder, and Cyber clearly felt the coldness in her voice, as if the news that Catherine was a mutant made her feel bad, which made Cyber more and more interested in May's transformation, but before he could ask, May took the initiative to say,

"This kid is going to be disappointed this time. ”

"Huh?"

Cyber turned his head to look at her, at this point in time, there were almost no pedestrians in this neighborhood, and naturally no one noticed them.

"Yesterday while looking for information about the Prides, I noticed something interesting. ”

Mei took off her sunglasses, closed her eyes, leaned against the side of the car, as if she was basking in the sun, her voice was low, but it was very clear to Cyber's ears,

"Catherine's loss is a difficult question to tell, and I think you wonder if they deliberately abandoned Catherine because of her abilities, but in fact, according to my analysis, this is unlikely to be true, not only because the Prides have their own beliefs, and they can't do such a thing as abandoning their children, but more importantly, after Catherine went missing, the Prydes who returned to New York commissioned a lot of people to find the traces of their daughter. ”

"So young lady, you mean, this couple is innocent?"

Cyber felt that the worry disappeared in his heart, but at the same time, he also had his own doubts about this statement,

"That said, the Prydes should welcome Catherine's return, why do you say she's disappointed?"

"Hmph, I didn't say they were innocent. ”

Mei Leng snorted, "Even if they don't have that mind, but with an 8-year-old girl's carelessness at the station, it is very likely to lead to the loss of a life, they are incompetent parents, Catherine can meet you, it is her luck, as far as I am concerned, I actually hope that this girl can return to her family, but unfortunately, this is no longer possible." ”

Cyber didn't speak, but his eyes were fixed on May, who was silent for a moment before speaking,

"They have amnesia. ”

"What?"

This answer made Cyber's thinking stop in an instant, and after a few seconds, he jumped up from the spot and stood in front of May,

"You're not kidding, are you?

Mei didn't like this title very much, she shook her hand, and there was an impatience in her voice, "I warn you, if you give me a messy nickname again, I'll cut out your tongue, I'm in a bad mood right now!"

"Okay, okay!"

Cyber raised his hand and signaled that he had surrendered, and May finished the story.

"Despite the inescapable responsibility for Catherine's disappearance, the Prides do love their daughter, and after a 1-year search without news, the couple has reached the brink of collapse, and their neighbors have twice called the police to say that they tried to commit suicide in agony, and if there had been no accident, they would have been crushed by the pain by now. ”

"So, there was still an accident, right?"

Cyber asked, and May nodded, her gaze turned to the southeast,

"Just three months ago, when the Prydes were about to be crushed by remorse and pain, a mysterious man visited them, and that afternoon, the Prydes, who had fully recovered their temperament, moved happily and moved here, completely forgetting all information about their daughter, far from the source of pain, and in this month, Mrs. Pride became pregnant, and the broken family would once again have a new life. ”

"So I would say that it was a real mistake for you to bring Catherine here at this time. ”

The unexpected news made Cyber's fists clench, and after a few minutes he let go again, and he took a deep breath and said in a deep voice,

"I once said to my little brother that the irrepressible pain of losing a loved one will continue to haunt the heart until it turns a person's thoughts about the loved one into a toxin flowing in the blood, and one day, he will wish that the person he loves has never... has existed, and only in this way can the pain entangled in fate disappear completely... It's ironic that someone actually did that..."

He gritted his teeth and looked at Mei again,

"But I'm more curious, how did that mysterious man do it? Did he tamper with their memories?"

"Tampering? No, no, no, that was too low-level, and he directly "erased" all memories of Catherine from the painful Prydes. ”

Mei stretched out her hand and made a wiping motion in the air,

"It's like you grinding off the dirty water off the car window, leaving a blank space, and he just needs to carefully replace the happy memories on the blank space, and he can turn two poor people who want to kill themselves into happy ordinary people, Cyber, you look so surprised... It seems that you still don't know anything about the miracles that can be derived from the blood flowing in your body. ”

The Level 7 agent sighed, and a complicated look appeared in his eyes under the sunglasses,

"I sometimes wonder why the same normal form, but mutants can derive so many horrible abilities, yes, it's a mutant who does all this, and you'll see him soon. ”

"Honestly..."

Cyber swallowed, "After hearing your description, I don't really want to see this big guy who can modify memories at will, and with his full operation, will he turn me into a stupid X who can only drink porridge and snot for the rest of my life and smirk?"

Mei hugged her shoulders, and a mocking smile appeared on the corner of her mouth,

"With your strength, Professor Charles only needs about one-fifth of his strength to turn you into a real dementia, and you can't hide from it, Cyber, didn't you come to New York this time to meet Professor Charles at Xavier's Talented Youth Academy?"

"You don't really think that one of the two poles of mutant society is an ordinary person you can take down with a casual punch, do you? Let me put it this way, Cyberber, Professor Charles, if he stays in that academy if he wants, he can kill anyone in any corner of the world in an instant... It doesn't matter if the other side is a civilian, a high-ranking official, a president, or... A mercenary. ”

Cyber's breathing became heavy at this moment, he took a crumpled cigarette from his pocket, put it to his mouth, and after taking a few deep breaths of smoke, he shrugged,

"If you say so, isn't he any different from God?"

May glared at him, faith is something that can't be said nonsense in American society, especially with such unscrupulous language as Cyber, but she still abides by her duties as a guide, she put her sunglasses back on, and said to Cyber, a guy who knows almost nothing about mutant society,

"Do you really think that ordinary people reject mutants just because you are "aliens"? It's easy to make one person hate one thing, but it's frighteningly difficult to make the whole human world fear one thing, Hitler is called a "demon", but there are still people who worship him, but what about mutants? Do you know how many people in ordinary people have good intentions towards mutants?"

"That number is far lower than you think, let me tell you, Cyber, if mutants are united, they already have the strength to threaten the current human civilization, which is the biggest reason why ordinary people are hostile to you, they are afraid of you! ”

Mei took a deep breath, she looked up at the sky,

"Professor Charles and Magneto Eric, they teamed up once, or when they weren't fully capable of each other, and that time, they ended the Cuban Missile Crisis with the help of both of them, which were the two most powerful fleets in the world at the time, and the two men combined... It was so easy to turn the future around. ”

"Study hard, Cyber, the reality of this world is much more exciting than you think. ”