Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Don't mess with people who work overtime
Just as Jason said, Benjamin and Li Hua followed him and found a church after walking a few steps, but its door was locked.
"How about we just take shelter under the eaves?"
Li Hua had just finished speaking when he turned around and saw his two friends, one trying to climb through the window and the other observing the lock on the gate.
...So I'm actually the most honest one here?
Benjamin announced regretfully, "The windows are locked, too."
"It's not a big deal. This lock wouldn't last a minute in my hands," Jason said. "Do you have any wire or hairpins?"
Li Hua and Benjamin searched their bodies, and finally Benjamin pulled out a rusty hairpin from deep in his coat pocket.
Benjamin: "This belongs to my cousin. She forgot her hairpin in the car last time. I wanted to return it to her later, but I forgot. I've washed it so many times that it's rusted..."
“It’s not a big deal.”
Jason took a look at it and removed the wire from the hairpin. The poor padlock on the church door, which was as big as a fist, could not last more than three seconds under his hands.
"It's done!" Jason put the hairpin back in place and handed it back to Benjamin. "Thank your cousin for me."
The church is not big, and the furnishings inside show that they have gone through many years with the building.
Li Hua couldn't help but look up and around: "Wow, this is my first time in church."
"Atheist?" Jason smiled after receiving Li Hua's nod. "What a coincidence, me too. I trust my own hands more than those illusory gods."
Benjamin agreed: "Me too."
The illusory God will not save people. Only people themselves can save people.
Jason walked around the church, found a switch to turn off so they could turn on the lights, and then he grabbed a crowbar from the corner of the church. "...Okay, it seems like there's really nothing more useful than this right now."
Li Hua: "Why is there a crowbar in the church?"
Jason tapped the crowbar against his palm and found it felt quite good. "For renovations, and also for prying open nailed wooden boxes. After all, churches sometimes hold funerals and weddings, so they always need some extra supplies."
After pointing out the bathroom to Li Hua and Benjamin, the two clay figures tidied themselves up and left without looking back, picking up the crowbar.
Even though he hadn't been back for a year, the map of Gotham in Jason's mind would not fade. He knew that there was a place nearby where criminals might be resurrected at this time. He could make some money from them while fighting crime and treat Li Hua and Benjamin to a meal.
It would be even better if I could get the cell phone out, so that I can call Bruce directly and ask him to pick the person up.
But speaking of Bruce...
Having successfully found his target, Jason turned the crowbar in his hand guiltily and swung it at an angle to hit him less severely.
He remembered that he had a quarrel with Bruce and acted alone, and finally fell into the Joker's trap and lost his life... Bruce must be very sad and angry.
What will he say when he sees Bruce later?
"I'm back" sounds a bit scary and stiff, while "Sorry, I accidentally lost my life" sounds more humorous, but this attitude may make Bruce even angrier...
After thinking for a long time without being able to come up with a suitable response, Jason simply touched his nose and stopped thinking about it. He decided that when Bruce lectured him later, he would definitely not talk back, and Bruce could scold him as long as he wanted.
While Jason was thinking about things, he fought back against the street thugs who tried to rob him and stripped the thugs' clothes without wasting any time.
He finally managed to change out of his muddy, soaked suit that was cumbersome in a fight, and into clothes that didn't smell good but were dry and warm at least.
"Thanks for the clothes, man." Jason tapped the crowbar on his palm gratefully, putting on an expression that was even more robber-like than the robbers. "You were on the phone with your accomplices just now, right? Where are they?"
Just one set of clothes is not enough. How can Jason let a woman who is about to give birth wear wet clothes?
After experiencing Jason's uniquely European and American physics-based holy swordsmanship firsthand, the thug no longer had any desire to resist. He put his head in his hands and confessed honestly, "They're not here. Batman and Robin took them to jail. They just asked me to pay their bail."
"...What did you say?" The crowbar hit the thug's ear fiercely, and his voice trembled slightly as he asked, "Isn't Batman's Robin dead?"
"Tell me everything you know."
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In the church, Li Hua took out the clothes he had stored previously from the system of No. 666, but he did not put them on himself. Instead, he handed them to Benjamin.
Li Hua had the same idea as Jason. He couldn't let Benjamin, a man with two lives at stake, freeze in muddy clothes at this time, right?
"Actually, I just took off my coat. Really, I was barely wet."
To prove it, Benjamin took off his bright green windproof and waterproof jacket, and then he found that the clothes he was wearing underneath were also soaked with sweat.
Li Hua: "You should change it, for the sake of Ice Ghost. I remember that your cold will also affect the alien heroes."
Benjamin had no choice but to take the coat and put it on because he knew Li Hua was telling the truth.
He had caught a bad cold the summer after he got the Omnitrix, and all the alien heroes he transformed into were affected, with Cyborg and Flame being the worst hit.
The super beast that could only rely on its sense of smell to perceive the surroundings became blind, and the fire man turned into an ice flame man.
Benjamin later learned from Azmis that if the body temperature of ordinary flame people dropped to that level, they would have died long ago. The reason why he was still alive in his flame form at that time was entirely due to the Omnitrix balance mechanism.
Even though Benjamin didn't want to be a mother, he couldn't cause trouble for his good partner Ice Ghost at this critical juncture. Ice Ghost was already very uncomfortable and busy.
Li Hua: "Do you think that man just now is trustworthy?"
"If it were before, I would have gone with him, but now I have to be cautious," Benjamin said. "Don't you think this is a coincidence? How come he just happens to have all the resources we need?"
Li Hua: "So you think he's a bad guy?"
"Not really. I could sense that he was genuinely worried that we would both be in trouble, and he really wanted to save us."
Benjamin knew very well the feeling of being afraid of life slipping away before his eyes.
"But I can sense that he's definitely hiding something from us... I can't conclude whether he's a good person or a bad person based on just this. Many things in this world aren't black and white. There are also cases where good intentions lead to bad results, and there are many of them."
For example, Benjamin once met two wild descendants of plumbers, Manny and Helen. They thought they were saving the Earth from aliens, but in fact they were exiling innocent aliens who entered the Earth legally, or even just Earthlings with special abilities, to the void of zero to fend for themselves.
Although being exiled to the hellish world of the Void Zero Realm is a serious matter in itself, at least they can go in and bring the people out to redeem themselves from some of their mistakes... because they originally thought that the "Void Zero Realm Projector" in their hands was some kind of destructive device, and they thought they were hunting aliens.
Another time, a thousand years ago, the Eternal Warriors believed they were protecting the world. They paid a heavy price to imprison the "World-Destroying Dragon" and even organized for a thousand years to develop a huge sect.
In the end, Benjamin and his friends discovered that the so-called "magic dragon" was just a star cartographer. His spaceship and translator broke down when he passed by the Earth. His appearance and abilities happened to be exactly the same as those of the magic dragon in Western legends on Earth, so the knights mistook him for a world-destroying magic dragon and imprisoned him on this remote planet for a thousand years.
After being released, the interstellar cartographer was of course furious and wanted to kill all the Eternal Warriors, but fortunately, as a senior intellectual, he quickly calmed down after being persuaded by Benjamin and chose to drive the spaceship home.
Because if you think about it carefully, you will know that both sides are innocent and it is impossible to explain.
From the dragon's perspective, their spaceship ran aground, the translator malfunctioned, and they were besieged and imprisoned by strange creatures for a thousand years. From the perspective of the Eternal Warrior, their homeland was suddenly struck by a world-destroying dragon. After countless casualties, they finally managed to seal it. To protect the world from destruction, they held on for a thousand years...
Apart from anything else, a thousand years have passed, and the descendants of the group of people who first imprisoned the dragon and ordered them to guard the dragon for generations have all died for eighteen generations. The dragon can't go to hell to seek revenge on them.
"But considering what the Eternal Warriors have done... unfortunately, although they believe they harbor a savior's heart, they are actually a terrorist organization with cult-like characteristics and human chauvinism."
"Honestly, these people are even harder to deal with than those who know they're bad guys. With the latter, you can just use your fists to deal with everything, but with the former, you have to put a lot of effort into persuasion. Sometimes, if they're too angry and your persuasion fails, you have to beat them until they're willing to listen, and then continue the process... and even then, they might not listen. The scariest thing is when they act in groups... it's a disaster."
Benjamin painstakingly explained the lessons he had learned to Li Hua, concluding, "So, do you understand? Sometimes, even if you believe someone's words and actions indicate they're a 'good person,' that doesn't necessarily mean they're going to do good things. As people with special abilities and responsibilities, we should have our own judgment and the courage to set things right when it counts."
Li Hua: "...Alas, it's so hard to be a hero."
"It was tough for me at the beginning, too. Growth always comes with pain. After a setback, I took off my watch and lived an ordinary life for five years before deciding to return to my heroic life." Benjamin patted Li Hua on the shoulder. "Take your time. You'll get the hang of it eventually. I'm still learning, too. Let's keep going together."
Seeing that Li Hua had truly taken his mistakes to heart, Benjamin began to discuss his own affairs: "What does it take to produce an Ice Ghost? Is it dangerous? What do we need to be careful about?"
No. 666 answered them one by one: [Question 1: All you need is a large amount of metal and an absolutely remote and quiet nesting site where you won't be disturbed by others.]
[Second question: The genes chosen by the Omnitrix are the best of the species, so they cannot be dangerous. Also, please trust the Omnitrix Life Ark's ability to restart the universe's species and Azmis's technological capabilities.]
[Third question: As I said before, the Nakfuji lifeform will handle everything on its own. The only thing you need to be careful about is not doing too much unnecessary work that might draw too much attention and cause stress to the Nakfuji lifeform. No one can guarantee what a pregnant mother will do when stressed.]
Summary: It’s none of your business. The best way to help is to just go play and not make trouble.
"That Nakfuji lifeform is absolutely desperate to emerge, and they're rushing to finish it, so it's best you don't mess with it." Number 666 added, "Benjamin, you mentioned before that you were experiencing a time-space situation back in your original world, right? Back then, it was probably your Nakfuji lifeform searching for a spawning site. Now that you two have come here, the spawning site it had originally prepared can't be used anymore, so it needs to be rushed."
No living creature would be happy to have its work results cleared out and have to work overtime.
The Nakfuji even found herself preparing to nest again just before giving birth.
To be honest, after figuring out the whole story, No. 666 felt that Benjamin's remaining weak instincts in that situation were able to stabilize Nakfuji's life form and prevent Him from harming humans. He even retained the instinct to save people. He was simply a spirit of steel.
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