Chapter 218 Chapter 218 Pulling out the carrot brings out the mud...
A few hours later, Benjamin looked at Jason, Li Hua, and Kevin, who were carrying large and small bags, and couldn't help but click his tongue: "Did you empty the store?"
Is the golden jade crystal stone he mined so valuable?
"I'd like to, but the realities don't allow it." Jason, clutching a large bag and carrying a backpack, beamed with joy. "Let's see how these things work first. If they work, I'll come back next time."
He also got some mechanical devices and tools from his boss to practice with. These things were not expensive but took up the most space, so he would have a lot of work to do when he got back.
Gwen looked at Kevin holding a large cardboard box with something he couldn't figure out its function. "What are these?"
Didn't you say you brought Jason Li Hua here to get some technological devices that could be used later in operations? Why do the things in here look like spare parts?
Kevin said happily, "I'm going to be a cool gadget for my car in the future. I'll have a lot to do when I get home!"
Li Hua, carrying two overflowing shopping bags, asked Benjamin, who was holding a thick stack of papers, "How are things over there? What did the doctor say?"
"The children are very healthy," Benjamin said, his face beaming with pride, like an old Texas farmer watching his crops thrive. "And they're especially strong. The doctor said they're several times bigger than their peers!"
It was worth it that the Court of Owls was forced to make Ember Gold's contribution, and it was worth it that when he was free in the DC Universe, he would take them to different planets for a change of pace, as well as provide them with a variety of leisure activities.
Of course, the superior genes provided by Omnitrix are worth it.
Gwen: "The doctor said that some Nakfuji people don't return to their home planet to raise their children. The Nakfuji are very adaptable to extreme climates, so not returning to their home planet during infancy isn't a big deal. If I had to put it simply... it's more like the difference between domesticated animals and wild animals."
That is, their physique is worse than that of wild animals, but their courage, survival awareness and combat awareness are not as good as those of wild groups.
But these are nothing, and you can wait until your children are past their fragile infancy before exercising.
Li Hua: "Then how can the refrigerator be released?"
Gwen: "We also asked the doctor, and he said that it's because Refrigerator and his brothers were released. The only people the Nakfuji can see on their home planet are basically their released compatriots. The vast majority of Nakfuji will independently travel into space after birth."
Especially the first child.
The "coming-of-age ceremony" of other species is either a stronger body or a coming-of-age ceremony, but the "coming-of-age ceremony" of the Nakfuji people is to give birth to children against their will during a weak period, and there are so many children. It is a hellish start for both single parents and children.
"It's a truly hellish start, according to the information provided by the doctor. The Nakfuji people's high reproductive capacity and relatively independent lifestyle are due to their correspondingly high accidental mortality rate," Benjamin lamented. "The specific cause of death is unclear. Doctor, Nakfuji people aren't often seen here... I should have asked the refrigerator more."
"Actually, I think He might not know much," Li Hua said. "Have you forgotten? Refrigerator said He was very weak. If He had really encountered such a death, this conversation wouldn't have happened."
"That's right." Benjamin stroked the cub's chubby head in his arms and sighed, "Besides, it's not easy to ask about such a heavy matter... Just treat it as my nonsense."
"You've become so corny since you became a mother. Please go back to being that silly, dorky person you used to be." Kevin rubbed the goose bumps on his arms. "My own mother, who let me go when I was eleven, wasn't this corny to me."
Jason: "That's good, Kevin. I wish my real mother had been a little more 'cold' to me, like the Nakfujis are to their firstborns. Can you guess why?"
Kevin: “Why?”
Jason grinned. "Because she's literally on fire with passion for me."
Kevin suddenly didn't dare to continue asking.
The aftereffects of the last injury and his intuition told him that if he continued asking questions like this, the words that would come out of Jason's mouth would probably be so thick with the atmosphere of hell that even the demons would laugh out loud.
Kevin had been through bad enough things, and he couldn't tell his most painful dark history as a joke like Jason did, but sometimes he envied Jason in this regard.
But he envied Jason for having the courage to face up to the worst period of his life and talk about it as a joke, and he envied Jason even more for having friends and family who would listen to him talk about his dark history without looking down on him.
Gwen and Benjamin are both gentle and kind people, and I...
If they knew that the thought of "killing someone" still pops up in their minds sometimes, they would probably be very disappointed in themselves.
...Forget it, the past is the past, he shouldn't think too much about it, it's fine the way it is now.
The next day was a sunny day. Kevin was preparing to perform a complete maintenance and modification on his car, but an uninvited guest came.
Li Hua, Dr. Mao Dun's half-colleague, appeared at the door of his garage, his face filled with the same silly smile as Benjamin's. "Are you busy? I brought milk tea."
Kevin slid the repair panel and peeked out from under the car. He found that the only person there was Li Hua. "Are you the only one?"
"Yes, we have a shift system for taking care of the kids and doing housework. I'm taking a day off today."
Li Hua glanced around and found that there was no seat in the garage, so he simply squatted next to Kevin's car and put the milk tea where Kevin could slide out and get it.
"I came to chat with you. Ben said your home is here."
Kevin slid back under the car. "What if I say I'm not interested?"
Li Hua: "Then I'll come back next time when I'm free."
"Compared to that guy Ben, you're really on another level of persistence." Kevin slid out from under the car and wiped the dirt off his hands.
Li Hua: "What type is Ben?"
"He would just ignore the words 'I'm busy' and keep talking."
Kevin asked after sitting on the scooter to repair the car and taking a few sips of milk tea.
"What do you want to tell me?"
Li Hua: "I want to get to know you."
Kevin: "Why don't you just ask Ben? Aren't you two close friends?"
Li Hua asked back, "Do you know Ben's girlfriend?"
Kevin: "Yes, what's the matter?"
Li Hua: "You and Ben are very close. If Ben's girlfriend wanted to know more about him, wouldn't she ask Ben or you?"
Kevin: "You're not Ben's girlfriend!"
What kind of nonsense are you asking?
Li Hua sipped his milk tea nonchalantly. "The same applies. It wasn't you in the first place. You're asking me such a simple question. I'm afraid you've lost your mind."
Kevin: "...You want to pick a fight?"
"I swear to God, that's what I did to Dr. Dong Wu," Li Hua said. "But if you're like Jason and his family back home, and you like to use fists and beatings as a necessary step before any conversation, I can adapt to the local customs."
"Arguing hurts feelings, so it's better to just fight. You can make up after the fight."
"I actually thought you were such a good kid. I really underestimated you," Kevin said, noting that Douhen couldn't scare him away. "What do you want to know about me? How I nearly killed you, or do you want to hear my boring tricks about how I changed my mind?"
Li Hua: "I consider the former to be a half-live broadcast, so I want to listen to the latter."
Kevin: ......
It’s really direct.
Kevin sneered: "Why, are you worried about me, a former criminal?"
Li Hua laughed: "Look at what you said. I've made friends with the Evolved Man. We were planning to dig up Albedo later. I even nearly blew up the universe. Do you still care about your criminal record?"
"To be honest, Jason asked me to come. His exact words were, 'Kevin hasn't been feeling well lately. Based on my extensive experience, Kevin must be feeling resentful about our sudden appearance together. His past has left him feeling a bit inferior, and he's using false anger to mask this inferiority. I'm afraid Ben won't be able to discuss this. It might just become a miserable spectacle. You know him better, so go talk to him.'"
Kevin: "And that's all you said?"
He should have realized it earlier. Benjamin, that idiot, would definitely not be able to notice such a subtle problem, but Jason and he had too many similar life experiences, so he would definitely be able to notice something was wrong after so many days.
Li Hua: "What else? I'm not good with words, so sincerity is my main goal. Of course, I won't just ask you. I have Jason's permission. If you want to ask him, I can tell you. As for me, you can ask anything."
"...I'll ask him anything I want to know."
Kevin is not good at dealing with other people's relationships, but he also can't get angry at other people's concern. Coupled with Li Hua's straightforward approach, he suddenly didn't know how to get angry.
"I'm not really jealous of you two. Ben may be a bit dull, but he's a very good person. It's normal for him to find people with similar interests. You're not allowed to tell him this."
"But I'm different. To be honest, I still have an enemy who occasionally wants to collect a debt... but I swear I'm just thinking about it!"
Li Hua waited for a long time, but found no further news: "And then?"
Kevin: "That's all. What else do you want to hear?"
Li Hua, chewing the pearls, looked increasingly puzzled. After swallowing them, he said, "You want to kill your blood relative who betrayed you?"
Kevin: "No, I forgot about them a long time ago."
Li Hua's expression became even more confused: "You want to kill the murderer who tortured you to death?"
“No,” Kevin said, “but that man killed my benefactor. He told me to run and leave him alone. Finally, I heard a gunshot…”
"Legally, I know that the perverted prison guard who abused prisoners and used sting enforcement to treat the people like dirt was exploiting a legal loophole. He was simply doing his job and killing the two escaped prisoners. Morally, Brother Kui told me to be a better person and never go back to prison. I must remember his kindness. But... in my dreams at midnight, the sound of that gunshot still rings in my head."
Kevin finished a long string of words and sighed deeply: "So you understand? I am just this kind of bastard who sometimes has dark thoughts."
Li Hua:.......
To be honest, he didn't understand anything at all and only felt Kevin's pure emotional output.
If I had known that Kevin was going to talk about such a gloomy thing, I should have asked Jason to bring the local interstellar prison management method.
If it were in the past, when Li Hua heard about "prison break", he would directly stand on the side of the prison guard.
But after witnessing with his own eyes how the staff of Arkham and Blackgate prisons, as well as Arkham-M prison, could always be bribed for various reasons, Li Hua deeply understood what it meant that "professions are not noble, only individuals are noble", and he would not express his opinion until the matter was clarified.
So Li Hua asked, "What was the crime you were imprisoned for?"
Kevin: "Because I teamed up with Vilgax to steal Ben's watch and was thrown into the Void Zero Realm. Didn't you say you knew everything?"
Li Hua: ".......No, I mean the formal charges. Didn't you say before that you had been to the Universal Court?"
"I don't know. The only things I've been to court for before were minor offenses like speeding and illegal drug trafficking, which were fines I could have just paid. I've already said I'm a clean slate and won't end up in jail," Kevin said. "Okay, thank you for listening to my useless rambling for so long. I should get back to fixing my car. Thank Jason and me for that when I get back."
After coming out of Kevin's garage, Li Hua always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what exactly was wrong.
Finally, number 666 offered a hint: "He's in prison and doesn't even know why. He's been out for so many years with no warrant, and he hasn't been identified as an escaped prisoner in court. It's clear Kevin's imprisonment didn't follow the proper procedures."
[That's the problem. Kevin didn't go through the formal prison admission process, and he didn't even have a proper charge or record. So how did he get incarcerated and booked into a prison with a life sentence? Furthermore, the serious dereliction of duty and abuse of prisoners by prison guards are equally criminal, and they can't be justified just because Kevin and his benefactor are also prisoners.]
[Check local laws and regulations, check the case records, check Kevin's criminal record, check the Void Zero Realm's prison records and official entry and exit records, and check the prison's management regulations and warning codes.]
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The author has something to say: I'm pushing this plot point to you now, and don't even think about giving me any awkward plot points in the future because of the dark history of this illegal prison! [Cracked]
The Void Zero Realm… Ouch, the Void Zero Realm [covering face and laughing and crying] “Hidden sins” in every sense [covering face and laughing and crying]
【Catch a bug once】
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