28. Awkward times
After just tossing and turning for ten minutes, the black SUV restarted.
Barry's story is actually somewhat magical, according to him, when he was 11 years old, one night, he was awakened by a strange noise in the house, he walked down the stairs, and saw his mother slumped on the carpet, and panicked and told him not to come, next to his mother, there was a helpless father.
Two rays of light, one red and one yellow, were circling the room quickly, like fairy fairies in mythology, and the two rays seemed to be fighting, and after a few minutes, they broke out of the window, and then Barry saw that his mother had a fruit knife in his heart, and his father looked desperate, and most importantly, the fruit knife had his fingerprints on it.
Naturally, what the 11-year-old said could not be used as evidence, so in the end, his father was prosecuted for intentional homicide, and due to his fact that he was a well-known doctor in Central City, coupled with insufficient evidence, he was eventually sentenced to life in prison.
He was adopted by his father's friend, Sergeant Joe West, and when he grew up, in addition to aspiring to be a good forensic expert, he also went crazy to track down various urban legends, coupled with his magical talent, which is why he was able to guess Cyber's identity so quickly.
Like a helpless traveler, he tries to find proof of his father's innocence in the legends of urban magic, but so far, he has found nothing.
It wasn't until today that he first got to see the protagonist of an urban legend, and after the panic, Barry became so active that he couldn't even get the nerdy air anymore, and he simply switched places with his father, pestering the driving Cyber to ask him some very strange questions.
He believes that Cyber must know more secrets about the truth of the world.
Most of Cyber didn't answer, and it wasn't until he approached Sheriff Lance's house that Cyber revealed some real secrets.
"A few days ago, when I faced Dukad, the leader of the Shadow Warrior Alliance, Barry, I saw something really unscientific. ”
Seber held the car steady and said to Barry, who looked longing,
"Can you imagine a person who was almost blown apart in a big explosion and completely repaired his body in a matter of seconds with just a small vial of weird liquid?"
"How is this possible!"
Barry exclaimed, "The energy generated by the Big Bang will wipe out a part of the body, and it is impossible to completely recover!
Cyber winked at him,
"But it just happened, right in front of my eyes... Look, Barry, that's the problem you're struggling with, you're struggling to find the truth you want, but you have to explain it with what you know, but kid, there's a lot of things in this world that can't be explained by science, and if you really want to save your father with your own power, then listen to my advice, at least in these urban legends, and don't think about them with your own mind. ”
He pulled out the car keys and patted Barry on the shoulder,
"Little Barry, those things you see are not illusions, I can seriously tell you that those things really exist, although I haven't seen them, but as long as you are lucky enough, you can find it!
"Hmm!"
Barry clenched his fists and nodded fiercely, "Thank you, Mr. Cyber!"
There was a silent smile on the corner of Cyber's mouth as he opened the car door and stepped out of the car, he didn't know if what Barry said was true or not, but he knew at least that this confused young man needed a little affirmation, otherwise the heavy pressure would eventually crush him.
In fact, many times, we ask others what they need is not the real answer, but the kind of answer they want, there is a saying that Cyber thinks makes a lot of sense, when you can't meet other people's expectations, no matter how much you do, it is a failure, which is a key point related to interpersonal communication, and Cyber is familiar with this.
This was evident from Barry's apparently scrappy state of mind, and the young man was content now, and that was enough.
"Ah, doing good deeds is always so happy!"
Cyber triumphantly took out the gift that Daddy brought for Sheriff Lance from the trunk, while pulling Catherine's little girl, while keeping up with Daddy's pace, Barry walked at the end with Robin on crutches, Sheriff Lance's house is very large, it is a unique two-story structure in Star City, and there is a small garden in front, it can be seen that Mr. Sheriff is a person who pays attention to the quality of life.
But as they approached the door, they heard a quarrel coming from the room, and even through the wooden door, they could hear the angry roar of a man and the shrill voice of a girl, which seemed to be mixed with the sound of crying.
Dad looked back at the equally confused Cyber a little confused, didn't he say that it was good to eat, why was there a quarrel in it again?
"Wow"
Daddy reached out and knocked on the door three times, and then an angry middle-aged man opened the door, and the moment he saw Daddy and his party, his face changed from anger to embarrassment, and he patted his head,
"Christian!ah, my God, I forgot we had dinner together tonight, come in, come in!"
This is a very handsome middle-aged sheriff, with short brown hair, a thin face, sunken eye sockets, a very righteous face and a very difficult feeling to deal with, his somewhat embarrassing stubble did not destroy the temperament of this face, but also pushed his temperament to another height, to be honest, if you meet Quentin Lance on the street, Cyber's first reaction is definitely to turn around and leave.
Such guys are the toughest.
However, thanks to his father's super hard relationship, Sheriff Lance's attitude is very good, but when everyone walks into the living room, they see a very embarrassing scene.
Lance's daughter, two similar-looking girls, stood face to face behind the couch, looking at each other with an enemy-like gaze, and there were fragments of vases on the ground, making a mess of the carpet.
Cyber looked at the sisters with interest, they were very beautiful in appearance, they all belonged to the kind that could really be called beautiful, the taller one should be the older sister, with chestnut hair, who looked like she had just cried, and the younger sister, who was slightly shorter, with long blond hair and a little cute baby fat on the chin.
I don't know what happened to make these two sisters become like enemies, but in Cyber's experience, it's nothing more than feelings or love... It's probably the latter.
"Dinah, Sarah, there's a guest, can you put aside all the troublesome conflicts between you?"
Sheriff Lance looked at his daughter with a headache, he was not involved in the quarrel, and the roar that everyone heard outside the door was that he was trying to stop the conflict between his daughters, but it didn't seem to work well.
Daddy wasn't embarrassed, and when he entered the house, the two girls turned around at the same time and greeted Daddy,
"Hello, Uncle Christian. ”
"Uncle Christian, why are you all here?"
Obviously, they had a good relationship with Daddy, and Cyber sat down in the chair next to him very familiarly, and started the theater mode, and he had a hunch that there might be a good show tonight.
The two girls did not greet the others, but walked into the kitchen one after the other, apparently, they were still polite, and knew what was most important now, and Sheriff Lance beckoned everyone to sit down, and after knowing the news that Daddy was leaving, Mr. Sheriff was a little reluctant, and he walked quickly to the bedroom, and when he came out, he had already taken out a bottle of whiskey.
How can a man's friendship be without wine?
"Come on, Quentin, I'll introduce you!"
Daddy drank a glass of wine and said to the sheriff with great interest, "This is the Cyber I told you, my buddy, my good friend, he is completely different from Robin, and I even suspect that I went crazy when I took him in." ”
Daddy's introduction was terrible, Cyber was a little embarrassed, but he still greeted the sheriff with a straight face, the latter looked at Cyber with strange eyes, in Lance's perception, the temperament of the yellow-skinned young man in front of him was almost exactly the same as those dangerous elements, but he couldn't interfere too much with Daddy's way of making friends, he raised his glass towards Cyber, which was a gesture of goodwill.
"This is Robin's good friend, Barry Allen, who recently interned at your police station, and he admires you very much, so I brought him here today, you still have that stinky temper, Lance, it will scare the people around you. ”
Daddy introduced Barry again, the latter doesn't drink, but still raised his glass and touched a glass with the sheriff, when he was off duty, Lance was really as Daddy said, a very cheerful middle-aged man, the two soon talked happily, from time to time there was a little quarrel in the kitchen, but soon the smell came out, obviously, the sheriff's two daughters are good at cooking.
However, this kind of happy scene made Cyber feel bored, he put down his wine glass, the mood that was originally looking forward to watching a good show was gone, and he was weak with an apple and fruit knife, peeling apples and playing, and the little girl Catherine took advantage of the opportunity of the adults to talk, secretly ran to Cyber's side, and said to him,
"Cyber Cyber, you're going to New York, right?"
Cyber put down the fruit knife in his hand, reached out and patted the little girl's smooth hair, and put the peeled apple in her hand.
"yes, I'm going to New York and meet some famous people. ”
"I want to go too, will you take me with you?"
Catherine took a bite of the apple in her hand, it was a 10-year-old little girl, she spoke in a milky voice, which made Cyber feel very funny, but he didn't immediately agree, traveling with a child like Catherine is the most troublesome thing, and the father probably won't agree, he is Catherine's nominal guardian, without his nod, the little girl can't go anywhere.
"What are you doing in New York? You're going back to Gotham with your daddy, and you're going to school after New Year's Day. ”
The little girl pouted, pretending to be pitiful, but she knew very well that this set was useless to Cyber, after Cyber rescued her from the fat Jon, the little girl had a special closeness to Cyber, she thought about it, and decided to tell Cyber the reason,
"I want to go to New York to find my parents..."
Catherine lowered her head, she put the apple aside, her fingers crossed together, her thumb spinning around, she seemed afraid to see Cyber's eyes,
"I remember living in Brooklyn, New York before we traveled to Gotham, and I wanted to go to them..."
Cyber's fingers throbbing on the table suddenly stopped, he looked at Catherine standing in front of him, he felt a little clogging in his chest, but he still relied on his powerful emotional manipulation ability to calm himself down, he asked in a very serious tone,
"And Catherine, what about them after you found them, have you decided that you want to give up Daddy?"
"No! I won't give up on you and Daddy! and Robin!"
Catherine jerked her head up, she reached out and grabbed Cyber's hand, she whispered, "I just wanted to ask them why I disappeared and they didn't come looking for me... Am I really that nasty?"
This answer made Cyber's mood immediately happy, he was such a simple person, he smiled and touched Catherine's head,
"I can take you there, but you'll have to get Daddy's consent first, or else..."
"Sarah, Sarah, come out!"
A voice from outside the house interrupted Cyber and Catherine, and the others were interrupted, and there was a clanging sound in the kitchen, and Sarah Lance rushed out of the kitchen, as if trying to rush out of the house, only to be yelled at by Sheriff Lance,
"Don't go out!"
Sarah's footsteps immediately stopped, and Sheriff Lance, like an enraged beast, stood up, spun around in circles, and finally lifted an empty bottle from his hand, and walked out of the door.
"That bastard is here again! I swear! I'm going to kill him!"
"Hey, man, what's going on? Who's that?"
Cyber stopped the irascible Sheriff Lance at Daddy's signal, and the frightened Sarah hugged her father's waist from the other side, and after a few minutes of commotion, the quiet sheriff glared at his little daughter fiercely under Daddy's questioning, and then told the terrible story of his family.