Chapter 109 Chapter 109 I didn’t type the name wrong
After briefly discussing their future career development plans, the three teenagers began to think about another more important matter at the moment.
Pick up the children.
Fourteen ice ghost cubs are waiting in the nursery!
"I can't even imagine how much I'd cry if my children were gone."
Benjamin ignored No. 666's reminder that "the Nakfugi cubs are not that fragile" and dialed Superman's private number.
After the call was connected, Benjamin first expressed his gratitude to Superman for helping him take care of the child, and then asked if he could go and pick up the child now.
"Of course."
Clark looked over to the nearby area, where Martha, with a loving expression, was feeding metal pieces to the ice ghost cubs, and Connor, with a nest of ice on his head, was looking towards them expectantly, and spoke enthusiastically.
"This is a rare opportunity. Would you like to come visit my farm?"
Benjamin covered his phone's microphone and, along with Jason, looked at Li Hua, the most socially anxious. Seeing Li Hua nod, Benjamin replied, "Okay! Where's your farm? We'll be there soon."
"No need, just open the window and I'll pick you up."
Clark still hasn't forgotten how exhausted Benjamin was yesterday. It only takes him half a second to fly such a short distance. Don't tire the kid out.
The three changed their clothes and went to the rooftop to open the glass canopy. A gust of wind blew past, and they were standing in front of a farmhouse. Superman, wearing a shirt instead of his primary-color uniform, stood before them, a warm smile on his face.
"Welcome, kids. Connor's been wanting to meet you."
Before Superman could finish his words, a young man who looked at least 50% like him popped his head out from behind the farmhouse. Atop his head was a massive ice nest, so massive that Connor needed to hold it with one hand. But even the icy headdress couldn't dampen Connor's enthusiasm. "Hello, I'm Connor! Nice to meet you."
There wasn't that much metal on the farm, but the ice nest on Connor's head was not only made of various metals, but also of frozen grass, branches, and ice. It looked crystal clear, and one could even see the big green eyes of the ice ghost cubs inside.
"Me too. I'm so sorry my children have caused you any trouble."
Benjamin's smile froze when he saw the masterpiece on Connor's head that was obviously the work of his own son.
He accurately grabbed an Ice Ghost cub that flew towards him, walked quickly towards Connor, and shouted at the nest on Connor's head with a stern face.
"Come down! Did I ever tell you not to spit ice on other people's heads to make nests? I want to see which bad kids are disobeying me."
At that moment, Clark and Connor seemed to see an angry Martha in Benjamin.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't blame the kids. I took the initiative to put their nest on top of my head to tease them. It's just like a child building a sandcastle and putting a garland on their parents. I even helped pass the materials."
Connor stopped Benjamin from pulling the child over his head.
"You've also been a Kryptonian, so you know our bodies aren't that fragile. It's just our heads that are a little cold."
"But the human body can't handle it. Humans and Kryptonians look too similar, and they can't tell them apart." Benjamin frowned and pulled down the children who had only poked their heads out when they heard their parents' voices. He explained to Connor, "They don't fully realize the consequences of their abilities yet."
Nest-building is an instinctive skill for the Nakfuji people. Species with a certain degree of intelligence will learn future survival skills through play when they are young. Therefore, these ice ghost cubs who have no survival pressure and are bored also unlock the tendency to play nest-building games as they grow up.
When Benjamin discovered that they were trying to use ice to connect the hair and wire on the parents' heads, he immediately forbade them from this dangerous behavior that could freeze the guardian's scalp or even the entire head to death.
"Ah, maybe that's my fault." Clark frowned awkwardly. "They were building a house... and it collapsed once when they were making a nest. They tried to spit ice to reconnect the broken parts, but failed."
It could be due to the weather being too hot, too little filling, too broken metal, the cubs being too young... or many other factors. But in any case, seeing the kids trying for a long time but still unable to build a nest, and sitting pitifully next to the remains of the nest with their heads drooped, Clark and Connor couldn't help but feel relieved.
Jason: "You guys are not..."
"Yes," Clark said, his eyes slightly evasive. "Connor twisted the metal fragments together with his hands, and I used my freezing breath to solidify them... That's how they realized we weren't ordinary Earthlings, so they didn't hesitate."
Li Hua: “…”
Jason: “…”
Benjamin: “…”
No wonder.
Adult ice ghosts build their nests in much the same way.
Judging from the simple logic of these cubs who have only been out of the factory for a month, they are likely to regard Superman and Connor, who can spit ice, fly, tear steel with their bare hands, help repair the nest, and demonstrate standardized nest construction technology as their own kind.
Connor's super hearing allowed him to hear his guardian's analysis even without approaching. He lowered his hand from the ice sculpture's nest above his head and looked at it. Then he shifted his gaze to the black and blue moth-shaped cub squeaking on Benjamin's body. "I think... there's still a big gap between Kryptonians and Nakfuji people."
Li Hua: "Most Nakfuji people wouldn't admit their mistake, but they can't help but think that their biological parents are Ben."
As soon as these cubs were born, they saw their mother Benjamin transform into the human form on Earth. They were then handed over to two human guardians, Li Hua and Jason, to be raised together. After that, they witnessed the ever-changing lives of their parents with their own eyes. It was a good thing that they did not develop any racial recognition disorders.
I guess when the children grow up a little, they will ask the question "When can we grow up to be like our parents, godfathers and godfathers?"
Jason: "Besides, Benjamin's Kryptonian DNA was originally taken from Superman. In their eyes, wouldn't you be more like their mother? Then wouldn't it be logical to think that you are also Ice Ghosts?"
"So it's not the children's fault, it's just a beautiful misunderstanding." Connor broke off the ice nest on his head. "The children remembered your words well. They were very careful when playing with Martha."
Benjamin looked down at the cub in his arms. It didn't realize its mom had lost her temper, and was still happily squeaking and scrabbling for its parents' arms. Seeing its mom looking down at it, it turned over on its stomach, spread its arms and legs, and acted coquettishly, even taking the opportunity to kick away its siblings who tried to push it away.
After seeing this scene, any anger the parents had would subside.
Benjamin took a deep breath, gathered the increasingly numerous cubs in his arms, and rubbed his face against them. "I'm sorry that Mommy took so long to pick you up and that I misunderstood you. Do you miss me?"
The cubs, whose language systems are underdeveloped, cannot speak, but the fluttering of their large wings and the excited chirping are enough to express their excitement.
While they were enjoying family happiness over there, Li Hua was looking around the farm excitedly.
Clark noticed that Li Hua had been looking at the wheat field and said, "The wheat is growing well, right? We planted it in late September, and it will be ready for harvest soon."
Li Hua praised: "It's so beautiful! It's really unsightly if we don't plant something on those empty lawns in the city!"
"That's right!" Clark, who grew up on a farm, immediately sympathized with Li Hua when he recalled his first time in the big city. "When I first arrived in the city, I also felt that some community rules were really unreasonable. Why can't we grow vegetables in such good open space?"
Growing grass consumes a lot of water and requires regular pruning, but the vegetables are still edible.
It was really uncomfortable for him to watch. Fortunately, the Kryptonian's speed allowed him to go back to the farm often, otherwise Clark was really afraid that one day he would be lost in thought and dream at night, and sleepwalk to plant corn in the vacant land of the community.
Li Hua: "I'm a blacksmith, and people like this are the blade! Why doesn't the food look good? If you think it doesn't look good, don't eat it! Why should I care what I plant in the yard of the house I bought myself?"
Clark: "That's it!"
After venting his anger, Clark and Li Hua became much closer. He took the initiative to invite Li Hua to visit the wheat field. Li Hua happily rolled up his sleeves and said, "I have [Wind] cards and [Earth] cards here. I can be of great help when harvesting and loosening the soil! Is there anything I can help you with?"
Benjamin watched as the two of them bonded in less than five minutes, happily reentering the wheat field: "Li Hua looked like he was about to fly with joy."
Jason: "That's normal. He's been staring at the lawn in front of his house so much that he's almost made a hole in it. Last time I heard him say he wanted to plant potatoes in the lawn, but he said they wouldn't be visible from above."
Connor: "But potatoes also have stems and leaves, and they're still very noticeable in the lawn."
"That's what I said," Jason said. "But Li Hua said the potatoes he wanted to grow were the heads of people who wanted to leave their lawns and not allow themselves to grow anything. God, I've rarely seen him hold such a grudge against something."
Theoretically, they could use flower pots to plant something on the renovated rooftop, but Li Hua didn't do anything.
In Li Hua's words, "I can choose not to plant it, but they can't not let me plant it. This is a matter of principle." The frequency with which he asks about the lawn regulations is second only to Jason's frequency with the Joker.
"Ah...a farm." Benjamin, his face completely covered by the crawling cubs and relying on the conversations of others to assess the scene, fell into a state of reminiscence. "During the summer vacation when I was ten, my grandfather took my cousin and me to a farm to experience life there. It left a deep impression on me."
Jason: “…”
At this point in time... Benjamin, how much happened to you that summer vacation?
"What did you do?" Connor asked curiously, knowing nothing. "Are the farms in your world the same as here?"
Connor was born this size. He had no childhood and naturally no memory of spending summer vacation with brothers and sisters of the same age, so he was very curious.
Benjamin said, "Most of it is similar. I think the farm also grew wheat and raised cattle. It was a while ago, so I don't remember much, just the exciting parts."
Connor: "How exciting is it?"
Benjamin: "Back then, life on the farm was boring for my cousin and I, two ten-year-olds. So, to be lazy and finish the work early and leave, we teamed up when the adults were away. My cousin was in charge of keeping watch, and I was in charge of using the Omnitrix to transform and do the farm work."
"I used the Four-Handed Overlord to milk the cows, the Super Beast to plow the fields, the Wild Magic Vine to feed the pigs, and the Flash Star to pick up eggs... In short, we quickly finished all the farm work before dawn."
"That farm had no TV, no radio, no entertainment, and the internet wasn't as developed as it is today. Even my cousin found it quite boring. The farm manager had a son about our age... Oh! His name was Todd, what a coincidence. After finishing our work that evening, my cousin and I would ask Todd how to have fun on the farm."
Connor tried to put himself in Benjamin's perspective. It would be really boring for two active kids to be on the farm at night without any entertainment.
"A farm at night...it's certainly a bit boring. But it sounds pretty similar to the farms in our two worlds."
Jason: ...It's hard to say.
God knows whether the farm Benjamin encountered during his abnormal summer vacation when he was ten years old was a normal farm.
"Sometimes when I'm bored I go out for a little flight. Did you later use your watch to transform and go out with your sister?"
"No, we went exploring in the wheat field... or maybe the corn field," Benjamin said, "because the farmer's son said he found something in the pasture of an old man named Jason..."
Jason couldn't help but ask, "Didn't you say you couldn't remember? How come you remember the name so clearly?"
Calling him "Todd" and "Jason" again, Benjamin, are you doing this on purpose?
Benjamin said he was completely innocent. "We were our peers, after all. You don't understand the redemption of finally finding someone you can talk to in a place where there's nothing fun to be had. The food on that farm was as horrible as a tombstone paste, and we even slept in the chicken coop at night!"
Connor, who lives on a farm, feels something is wrong: "...sleeping in a chicken coop?"
He had indeed heard that some farms would organize life experience activities, allowing outsiders to pay to do farm work.
But those activities are mostly experience-based, similar to summer camp. What Benjamin said sounds like...
It feels like I've been cheated?
Benjamin: "Yeah, it's like sleeping in a chicken coop. That's what Todd said himself. Not only does it stink, but the only light source is a desk lamp, and chickens jump on my bed."
Connor: ...
I was definitely ripped off. How could anyone be asked to sleep in a place like this?
Connor even began to reflect on whether he shouldn't have asked this question, as it felt like it brought back Benjamin's tragic memories.
Jason asked, "So what did Todd see?"
The person who could make Benjamin remember it so clearly must not be an ordinary person.
"He said he saw purple lightning and living mummies digging holes!"
As expected, Benjamin suddenly became energetic.
"That was a truly thrilling adventure. Connor, I'm assuming that in your world, farms like wheat and corn fields don't automatically generate highly radioactive minerals that can turn living things into mutant monsters, nor do they have living mummies carrying radioactive minerals around, right?"
Connor: “…That’s certainly not the case.”
The farm life in this other world is a bit too exciting.
Jason: ...Are Todd and Jason from the other world still alive?
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The author has something to say: The farm plot is the ninth episode of the third season of the first part of "Ben10"
This is the first episode of the Mummy's appearance.
Jason and Todd were not dead. When the little boy saw the mummy, he ran away immediately and the mummy did not touch him.
What’s a little funny is that the little boy named Todd also has black hair and blue eyes, but it’s a pity that he didn’t have any more roles in the film.
【Catch a bug once】
Just like that, the bug I caught appeared again. In the end, the modified version was not uploaded to the cloud document and sent out. I am fed up! [Lemon]
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