18. Contradictions
"Do you like it here? ”
After lunch, Grey Jean took Catherine to walk on the grass of Xavier's Talented Youth Academy, in the warm winter sunshine, one big and one small two beauties were so pleasing to the eye, Grey squatted down, helped the little girl wipe off the cookie crumbs from the corner of her mouth, gently touched her head, asked,
"Is it fun here?"
"Hmmm!
Catherine nodded, she shook her little head and looked left and right, and asked in a low voice, "Are you the only ones in this big house?"
"There are other children, but they are in class, and it will take a while to come out and play. ”
Jean explained, while taking the little girl's hand and continuing the exercise after the meal.
The professor asked Agent May to take Catherine over because he valued the child's talent, and in fact, he began to pay attention to Catherine when he went to heal the Prydes of despair.
But in order to find a child in Gotham City, 800W, the professor must use the brainwave booster, but unfortunately, that thing is currently forbidden, because when sitting on the brainwave booster, Professor Charles can easily kill everyone in the world, which is too dangerous... S.H.I.E.L.D. and Congress require that every use of the brainwave enhancement machine must be approved by them.
The professor has no intention of destroying the hard-won peace, and with the power of the brainwave enhancement machine, as soon as it is turned on, it will be monitored immediately, coupled with the 4-month-long California mutant riots, the professor and his disciples have not been able to find time to find little Catherine.
Fortunately, Seber eventually brought her to Xavier's Gifted Teenage Academy, and now this girl can enter this academy for young mutants as long as Cyber agrees.
Grey Jean wanted to have a good relationship with Catherine in advance, but while walking, she soon noticed that Catherine in a white dress was hanging on her body, and she never left her small bag, which was a cute hammerhead shark bag, which was usually used by children to hold toys, but Catherine's teddy bear was hung around her waist with a rope, so the question was, what was in Catherine's bag?
When the two of them sat on the chairs on the grass, Jean touched Catherine's head, she liked this sensible little girl very much, she asked softly,
"Little girl, do you have something very important in your bag?"
Catherine also liked this beautifully haired sister, she hugged her doll bear, nodded vigorously, and said with a hint of pride,
"It's a gift from Cyber!"
"You're on good terms... It's enviable. ”
Jean's teenage years were terrible, especially in the period after the awakening of her abilities, it was a long time ago, the passage of time made her gradually forget those memories, in short, it was not a story worth remembering, she was also curious about the relationship between Cyber and Catherine, but she was not good at asking these questions before she really made contact, so she whispered.
"Can you show me the baby that Cyber gave you?"
"Hmm!"
Catherine tilted her head in thought in the face of Jean's request, then put the doll bear aside, put the hammerhead shark bag on her lap, and pulled it away, revealing the black, icy "gift" that would make anyone stunned in place.
A M9 loaded with bullets, a weapon that can take a person's life by just opening the safety and pulling the trigger, it's hard to believe that Cyber would give it to a 10-year-old girl!
“...”
Jean watched silently as Catherine flicked the black pistol in both hands.
Hell he's crazy?
Jean suddenly felt that she didn't know anything about Cyber.
The guy deceived her from the harmless disguise of humans and animals after waking up, and it was not until this moment that she vaguely saw the truth under Cyber's disguise... can fight to the death with the top mutant killer Sabertooth Tiger Victor in a state that has not yet awakened his ability, how can that guy be a harmless guy?
She watched the little girl disassemble the cold weapon with some difficulty, and then took a handkerchief to maintain it skillfully, wiping it while humming a happy song, how weird this scene looked, she even felt a chill, she swallowed her saliva, and asked with difficulty.
"Don't you think, Catherine, that this 'gift' is not for you?
"Click"
As soon as Jean's words fell, Catherine, who had finished maintenance, inserted the magazine, and the machine springs collided, making a crisp sound, and she put the pistol back into her hammerhead bag, and then looked up at Qin,
"I like the bear very much, but the bear can't protect me..."
As she spoke, the little girl's face suddenly became serious, and she learned from Cyber's earnest tone that night, patted the back of the qin's hand like a little adult, and whispered,
"When they try to hurt me, I pull the trigger... I won't give them the right to hurt me a second time, Sister Qin, you know, this world is too dangerous, too cold, it doesn't even want to give us even a little more love, so we have to learn to love ourselves. ”
The words that the same Saiber used to educate her came out, and then the little girl scratched her head, remembered for a moment, and then coughed lightly,
"Tears can't stop bullets, otherwise what a gentle world this would be... It seems that this is what Cyber said, do you think what he said makes sense?
Jean's face is hard to see, in essence, she is also a qualified teacher, and Cyber's preschool education really opened her eyes, but she can't directly say to Catherine that Cyber is a bastard, and children of your age can't play with such dangerous weapons.
With Catherine's intimacy with Cyber, Jean is sure that as long as she says so, the little girl will definitely think that she is a villain who sows discord, and the child's liking is unreasonable, they don't think too much, and whoever is good to her, she likes unconditionally.
Even if it's close to a flaming rose with a terrible toxin.
Just when Jean was angry, Professor Charles's voice sounded in her heart,
"Jean, come in with the little girl. ”
Distance is not a problem at all for mind manipulators, especially for an existence like Professor Charles, whose voice can sound in the heart of any person in New York as long as he wants, but this ability is also dangerous, for ordinary people, the sudden appearance of a voice will destroy their long-standing worldview, so the professor basically will not use this method on ordinary people.
Jean breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that the conversation between the professor and Cyber was over, and she glanced at the little girl holding the bear and smiled gently.
"Come with me, Catherine, and we'll go to Professor Charles. ”
The little girl obediently took her hand, and in Jean's heart, she secretly swore that she must start correcting some of Catherine's cognitions recently, otherwise she will be affected by Cyber's violent behavior if it goes on like this, and the 10-year-old child can't tell the difference between good and evil, and she doesn't want to see Catherine become a violent queen.
Alpha-class mutants have great potential and strength, and once they are drawn into the abyss of sin, the damage they cause is much more terrifying than that of ordinary people.
A few minutes later, Jean walked into Professor Charles's office with Catherine, and when Catherine saw Cyber sitting in the corner, she immediately broke free of Jean's hand with a smile on her face, and threw herself into Seber's arms, writhing there like a restless little monkey.
Cyber reached out and patted her on the top of her head to silence her.
"Catherine, I just spoke to Professor Charles about you. ”
The young man sat in the sun, holding the little girl, whispering softly, the delicate skin that Cyber had just reshaped once, with that unique temperament, he looked a little handsome in the light, how to look at this picture and how gentle, he hugged the little girl and whispered,
"You've seen how ordinary people treat mutants before, right?"
"They're badass!"
Catherine waved her little hands and screamed, "They're all stupid X!"
These words immediately ruined the gentle picture, and Cyber glanced at Professor Charles with some embarrassment, and Jean, whose face changed slightly, this sentence was still taught by him to the little girl, he coughed lightly, and crossed the topic,
"There are very few mutants in Gotham, but here, Xavier's Talent Academy, they are all mutants, and when you were having dinner just now, what was your name with that little boy?
"I don't like him!"
The little girl played with her hair with her fingers, which seemed a little twisted, and she whispered, "He's like a sissy." ”
Belch... Cyber felt embarrassed again, he felt the increasingly serious gaze of Professor Charles and Jean, and thought in his heart whether to correct Catherine's habit of talking, or to tell his father not to swear when he took the child.
"Hell... Well, let's get it straight. ”
Cyber shrugged, "I just made a deal with Professor Charles, you are free to choose now, follow me back to Gotham, or stay at Xavier's Gifted Junior Academy, and wait until you graduate here, and then go back to Gotham to inherit Daddy's bar, uh, we'll come to see you often, New York and Gotham are not far away, and there are your godfathers and godmothers here, and you won't be alone here." ”
When Catherine heard this, tears flowed down her eyes, and she hugged Cyber's shoulders tightly and screamed,
"You don't want me anymore!"
"No! I didn't, I just let you make the choice. ”
Cyber was a little scrambling to try to wipe away the little girl's tears, but he saw Catherine's hand penetrate his clothes directly, another rather terrifying method, took out the new mobile phone that May brought him from his clothes, and quickly pressed a string of numbers, and in less than 2 seconds, Daddy's loud voice came out of the phone.
"Damn the sissy, what's wrong with you? Did the trip to New York go well?"
"Daddy! Cyber doesn't want me anymore! He's going to leave me alone in New York!"
Catherine screamed with tears, and the next moment, Daddy's voice became futile and violent, and he could be heard banging something and roaring through the microphone.
"Stupid, disgusting maggots, sewer rats, hell Cyber, you brought my granddaughter back to me, do you hear me? she's missing a hair, and I'm going to shove that gun out of your XX... XXXX!”
Cyber hurriedly hung up his phone, just now Dad demonstrated what standard scolding is, you can't expect a veteran's etiquette to be good, not to mention that after involving Catherine, whom he loved very much, the old man almost lost his mind.
"Alright, alright!"
Cyber rubbed his head with a headache, Catherine squatted on the ground with her shoulders crossed, looking at Cyber with tears in the corners of her eyes, like an abandoned kitten,
"Look, just let you choose, my Catherine, it's like being in the alley of the docklands, you decided to save me, as long as you don't want to stay here, I'll take you away immediately... I just don't think Gotham is a good place for kids to grow up. ”
"That's good!"
The little girl wiped away her tears, "I don't want to stay here, let's go back to Gotham immediately, I'll just call my mom and dad, they know we're leaving recently." ”
Cyber smiled helplessly at Professor Charles, and was about to leave with the little girl, but at this moment, a figure stood in front of him.
"You can't take her!"
"Huh"
The smile on Cyber's face vanished.