Catherine's voice appeared so abruptly that Cyber himself was taken aback.

He turned his head suddenly, and the next moment, the wall lamp was turned on, and he saw the little girl standing next to the wall lamp, she was wearing pajamas, standing at the top of the stairs, looking insomnia, and there was a trace of panic in those big eyes that was not easy to find.

Cyber breathed a sigh of relief, maybe because he was thinking too seriously just now, so he didn't notice the little girl's approach, he beckoned to Catherine, the little girl walked up to him, sat on the sofa next to him, she secretly looked at Cyber's expression with the corner of her eye, and didn't find anything abnormal, she breathed a sigh of relief.

But the next moment, a large hand landed on her head, making a mess of her neatly combed hair, and Catherine blew up like a kitten, and then she heard Cyber's playful question,

"What are you going to tell me, little Catherine?"

The little girl scratched her fingers a little tangled, and she didn't even care about what Cyber had messed up her hair just now, she looked at Cyber with some cringe, and secretly plucked up her courage, but when she spoke, she lowered her voice again, like a bullied little animal,

"Cyber, do you believe there are superpowers in this world?"

"Huh?"

Cyber Lang paused, what kind of problem is this?

But when he thought of the little girl's age, he suddenly realized, isn't it the time when children at this age like to think crankily, maybe it's the question of what movie the little girl watched, right?

Thinking of this, Cyber suddenly felt that he had a great responsibility to instill some good ideas into this little girl, so he showed a very gentle smile and nodded,

"Well, I believe that. ”

"Then do you hate people with superpowers?"

The expression on the little girl's face was a little richer, she grabbed her fingers, and asked more seriously, "Do you like them?"

"Uh..."

The question stopped Cyber again, and he scratched his head,

"Anyway, if they don't mess with me, I don't think it matters, if their superpowers are interesting and they're not badasses, maybe I'll like them. ”

The expression on Catherine's face was a little richer, and she simply got up from the sofa and looked at Cyber very expectantly,

"Do you hate me, then? ”

This question made Cyber laugh dumbly, he stretched out his hand, grabbed the little girl's slightly chubby face, and gently pulled his left hand outward,

"Did you say you hated you, little girl, what's wrong tonight, always talking about this nonsense..."

"Buzz"

Cyber felt his hands grip Catherine's little face tremble slightly, and then Catherine, who was standing in front of him, disappeared with a mischievous smile.

No... It's not that it disappears, but that the whole person falls into the ground... It was as if he had fallen into black water, and he could even see Catherine's hair sinking under the floor.

It's like playing a game with him!

But this game made Cyber's hair stand on end, he got up from the sofa, pinched the back of his hand for the first time, confirmed the pain, confirmed that it was not a dream, and began to nervously start to look left and right for Catherine's traces, in the dim light, all this seemed so unreal.

The three questions of the little girl before were suddenly connected together, and all of Cyber's doubts disappeared at this moment.

Catherine... She's what she calls "superpowers", this girl... She's a mutant!

Seber turned his head, his face was gone, there was no lightness, his expression fell into Catherine's eyes that appeared from the wall on the other side, and the happy little girl saw this expression, her eyes were red, and tears welled up from her eyes.

She had seen this expression many times, and her former parents may have turned a blind eye to her disappearance for this reason, and in the days of falling into Gotham, the initial panic, those memories of being abused by the administrator after being sent to an orphanage, she subconsciously thought that it was these "superpowers" that made her unliked by everyone.

She never used it again, except in the most critical moments, how did a little girl, who was only nine years old at the time, climb over the towering walls of the orphanage on a cold, rainy night?

Catherine felt that Cyber would give up on her because she was "different" like everyone else, and Daddy would not accept a monster, and she felt the cold, even in the warm room, and she slowly crouched down with her arms around her body, crouching in the corner, shivering like an abandoned little beast.

Seeing this scene, Cyber couldn't help but sigh, before he got the gift from Coulson, he had thought that he was a freak, almost exactly like Catherine now, and he could almost imagine how much pressure this girl was under to confess to him this "secret" that she had carefully guarded.

Perhaps because of the fat Jon, Catherine relied on him much more than he thought, he stepped forward, crouched down in front of Catherine, stretched out his hand and tried to pat her head as before, but was dodged by the little girl.

The way she dodged was peculiar, and when Cyber's hand reached out, half of her body retreated and merged into the wall, and it was clear that Cyber's expression had broken her heart.

Seeing this scene, Cyber was a little helpless, he thought about it, and simply sat cross-legged in front of Catherine, who was crying with his head down, his left hand dug into his pocket, took out a dagger, shook it in front of the little girl's eyes, and then slashed down, the sharp blade cut through his skin, it was not a terrible wound, but the red blood still flowed out.

Cyber bared his teeth, the sleeping heat in his body was awakened, and in Catherine's stunned gaze, the small wound slowly stopped bleeding, healed, and disappeared completely after a not long 1 minute, the silent hall did not seem to have happened, but the dozen drops of blood on the floor proved that what Catherine had just seen was not an illusion.

Cyber shook his smooth arm in front of Catherine, who had stopped crying, reached out and took the cigarette out of his pocket, put it in his mouth, he comfortably propped his arms back, swallowed a smoke ring towards the sky, and then looked down at the little girl.

"Uh... Now you are relieved, you little clever ghost, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"I... I'm scared. ”

Catherine slowly "walked" out of the wall, her face still with tears on her face, she snorted, and said to Cyber seriously,

"Cyber, are you also a person with superpowers?"

"Isn't it called a superpower?

Cyber reached out and hugged Catherine gently, rubbing his stubble against her forehead,

"We, we have a name, mutants, uh, that sounds more frustrating than that, but remember, Catherine..."

The little girl sat on Cyber's lap and looked at him, Cyber raised his head and looked at the night sky outside the window,

"We're not freaks, we're normal people! Normal people who are stronger than all of them! By the way, when did you have this ability?"

"About a few years ago, I fell asleep and dreamed that I could walk through the bed, through the walls, even through the earth, and then I woke up and found me lying in the basement of my home..."

Catherine scratched her head, "Maybe that's the dream, my mother was terrified, and she told me repeatedly not to tell anyone about it. ”

"And then?"

Cyber spat out a puff of smoke, this was the first time in the past half a month that the little girl took the initiative to tell her past story, his question seemed to remind Catherine of something bad, but after she was silent for a few seconds, she continued,

"I didn't think it had happened for half a year, until half a year later, once my kitten fell into the sewer, and when I rescued it, I was seen by the neighbors, and they said I was a witch, and then we moved, moved to Brooklyn, and from that day on, my mom and dad who were so good to me changed, and I always locked myself in the house, and I was afraid that I was really a witch who was pointed at by those people, and I once heard them cry in the bedroom in the middle of the night, and I knew they still loved me. ”

Catherine's eyes were red again, and Cyber grinned with a mocking smile,

"Those people who point fingers at you are stupid X, ignore them, so how did you come to Gotham?"

Catherine's body trembled, presumably remembering the abuse that fat Jon had mistreated her, and Cyber put his left hand on her back and patted her to calm her body.

"It was a trip, from New York to Toronto, it was my mom and dad trip to make me a little happier, we went to a lot of places before my birthday, Gotham was our penultimate stop, and then at the station, I got lost with my mom and dad, and then... I haven't seen them. ”

"Cyber, do they not love me anymore? Am I them off?"

The little girl threw herself into Cyber's arms, and he could feel the fear in her heart, the fear of being abandoned by her loved ones, a feeling that Cyber was also familiar with, and he had been raised as an orphan and had thought about the same question more than once in the middle of the night.

Why did they abandon him?

Is it because of life, or is it because of some weird reason?

Cyber hopes that it is the former, but when he grows up, he will no longer think about these issues, let him go to the past, the most important thing for people is to live well in the present, in order to be qualified to look forward to the future.

He put out his pipe on the floor and gave Catherine a hug, and he comforted her, saying,

"No, they must be worried about you, silly girl, don't cry, aren't you going to New York with me?

"Hmm, will you want me?

"No... I won't, because we're the same kind of people, aren't we all freaks they call -- how can one freak get rid of another?"

Cyber put his hands on Catherine's shoulders, he sat on the ground, looked at the sobbing little girl, he showed a smile that was not good-looking, reached out to help her wipe away her tears, and said to her very seriously,

"You, you have to learn to be strong, tears can't stop bullets, otherwise what a gentle world this should be... Oh, yes, I said I was going to give you a gift. ”

As he spoke, Cyber took out a black pistol from the lining of his clothes and grimaced in an exaggerated manner.

"Dangdang, dang!"

He placed it solemnly between Catherine's palms, stretched out his hand to let the little girl hold the cold toy that was too big for her, and said to the ignorant little girl in a serious voice,

"Weapon, this is probably the most loyal partner in the world, you see, as long as you hold on to it, even if the whole world abandons you, it will silently guard your safety, you are still too young, although the ability is very strong, at least much more useful than mine, but it is not enough to protect you, hold on to it, Catherine, when others try to hurt you..."

Cyber squinted and laughed, smoothing out the little girl's loose hair, and whispered in her ear,

"When they try to hurt you, kill them... You can't give them the right to hurt you a second time, you know, the world is too dangerous, too cold, it won't even give us even a little more love, so we have to learn to love ourselves, remember?"

"Like you did with fat Jon?"

"That's right!"

"Well, I remember!"