Chapter 247 Chapter 247 Don’t roll anymore!
When night fell, when Jason was sent back to the apartment by Kevin, he ran into Benjamin who came to pick up the child at the door.
The lights in the house were brightly lit, a stark contrast to the Tennyson residence next door, which had been darkened due to the family's collective absence. The three of them stood behind the peephole, casting a light, and stared at each other.
No one wants to be the first one to knock on the door.
Jason asked, "Why are you standing here and not going in?"
Benjamin said, "Why don't you go in? That's why I won't go in."
If we find that it has the same configuration as the AK Scarecrow incident, everyone will be embarrassed.
Kevin looked around the house cautiously. "The exterior structure of the house looks intact. They probably didn't fight."
Benjamin: "That sounds even scarier. Is it still going on?"
Jason: "How could you not know that there is no lead layer in this house?"
"I'm not interested in prying into other people's privacy, especially with Albedo right in my face," Benjamin said. "So I landed somewhere deserted."
"Don't give me that," Jason said. "Given that big guy's abilities, I doubt you didn't notice anything unusual."
Benjamin’s right eye twitched: “….I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
"It seems the otherworldly cram school hasn't broken your habit of twitching when you lie," Kevin said gloatingly. "Seeing you're not in a hurry, I guess it's Albedo who's in trouble, right? Did you hear something good? Come and share it with us."
Benjamin shook his head heavily.
Kevin's speculation was correct.
After Benjamin took a quick look to confirm that the house was intact, he knew that Li Hua and Albedo had definitely not fought. He heard that Li Hua's heartbeat and breathing rate were indeed normal...but Albedo's were not!
Even though Benjamin was not good at medicine, he could tell from the accelerated heartbeat and heavy breathing that something was wrong with Albedo in the attic.
Although it is not known whether Li Hua stuffed chili peppers into Albedo's mouth, accidentally fed Albedo peanuts and caused an allergic reaction, or simply pissed Albedo off like this... Benjamin believes that even though Albedo is a bad-mouthed, stubborn, picky eater, and arrogant, he has not really fallen to the point of being publicly executed like AK Scarecrow.
Therefore, after Benjamin landed a little further away, he specifically called Li Hua to tell him that he was coming back, leaving Li Hua and Albedo plenty of time to finish.
As he hesitated, the door was pushed open from the inside. Li Hua, dressed in his home clothes, looked at the group of people at the door in surprise: "I thought the kids had misheard... Why are you all standing at the door and not coming in?"
Everyone looked into the house cautiously and found that the furnishings in the house were not much different from when they left. There was nothing scary, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm just here to see someone off. If nothing else, I'll go back first. I have to get up early tomorrow to get ready."
Seeing that no major battle requiring help had broken out, Kevin left the scene, taking Jason's advice to "restrain your curiosity" to heart and putting it into practice.
As soon as Kevin left, Benjamin, who was holding the Ice Ghost cubs, quickly said, "Li Hua, what happened to Albedo?"
"Albedo? Nothing happened." Li Hua asked curiously, "I didn't feed him peanuts, what else could have happened to him?"
After Li Hua used the same method he used when he was a child to help Albedo take medicine when his father was sick and refused to take medicine, he helped Albedo face up to his pursuit of food, and then he let him go.
Of course, Li Hua’s biological father did not tie young Li Hua to the chair, because Li Hua’s biological mother took over the restraint function of the chair.
But Li Hua had no choice. Albedo's biological mother was not there, and there were few people on the entire earth who could hold down the transformed Albedo. He could only ask the chair for help.
After escaping, although Albedo scolded Li Hua for making him consume too many calories and causing him to double the amount of exercise today, and for having a problem with his brain, and he also muttered and scolded Benjamin, he did not take any action. He just took the food back to the attic with a sour face.
Li Hua felt that this was normal. After all, the person who held Albedo down was not his biological mother, and he was not his biological father. Albedo just cursed a few words and did not attack, which showed that his emotions had indeed stabilized.
During dinner, Albedo came down again while Li Hua was taking a shower.
This time, he ate up all the leftover takeout from Li Hua's lunch at the table, including sweet and sour pork, a serving of spicy diced chicken and a serving of three fresh vegetables, and looked at him smugly.
Albedo raised his eyebrows and asked Li Hua: "Any opinions?"
Considering that Albedo's diet over the past few hundred years is equivalent to hundreds of years of boiled fitness meals and energy bars for humans, Li Hua had no complaints about Albedo eating his dinner. He just felt that this Gavin, who was so obsessed with face that he suffered in return, had finally let go of his pride.
So I asked Albedo if the food was enough, and if not, I could order more.
So Albedo performed the smile-disappearing technique for Li Hua, muttering, "I'm crazy to compete with a little Earth kid like you who only knows how to eat," and packed up the takeaway chili fries and returned to the attic.
Li Hua was confused - mainly because he didn't understand why Albedo felt that he, the guy who forced him to eat, would be angry because his food was eaten.
So Li Hua, who was confused, added two sausages, a handful of vegetables, an egg and a slice of cheese to his instant noodles for dinner, and went to watch cartoons with the ice ghost cubs.
In Li Hua's opinion, Albedo can eat, drink, jump, and run, so what could possibly happen to him? It would be even better if Albedo could go out and bask in the sun, dry the clothes in the washing machine while he's basking in the sun, and help take out the trash at the same time.
Benjamin leaned forward and asked Li Hua quietly, "You didn't feed Albedo anything weird, did you? Like fear toxin or [Illusion] cards?"
Li Hua was baffled. "Do I look like someone from Arkham Asylum? I just ordered takeout and used the same method my dad used on me when I was a kid, stuffing a few mouthfuls of rice into Albedo's mouth and trying to force him to eat."
"...No wonder you have such strange thoughts. You must have suffered trauma from childhood abuse."
As he was speaking, Albedo, who had changed into pajamas and had a towel draped over his shoulders, as if he had just washed his hair and taken a shower, walked out from behind the corridor, his wet white hair hanging down in wisps.
"You are a special case, so you need to use the enhanced version."
Li Hua looked at Albedo, calmly took out a small plastic jar from his pocket, poured something out of it and held it in his hand.
"Ben, Albedo said he can give you master control of the Omnitrix."
Benjamin opened his mouth subconsciously, "Really?" Before he could finish his words, Li Hua stuffed the thing in his hand into Benjamin's mouth.
Before Li Hua could say anything, Benjamin chewed and swallowed the food in his mouth: "What is that? It tastes sour and sweet."
Li Hua: "Dried figs."
Benjamin held out his hand: “It’s delicious, give me some more.”
Li Hua gave the entire jar of dried figs to Benjamin, then said to Albedo, "Ask yourself, do you think you'd fall for this? If I don't do that, can you stomach Amway?"
Albedo: ...
"That makes sense. I won't blame you." Albedo said to Benjamin who was eating dried figs, "So I will put this on your head, Benjamin."
After that, you will be blocked from receiving promotional notifications from snow mud shops.
Benjamin: ???
"What does this have to do with me?"
"If you had been a little more cautious, Li Hua wouldn't have had this misunderstanding about me, who was using your skin."
After Albedo finished speaking, he also felt that it was a bit far-fetched, but the rational Gavin has never been rational when it comes to Benjamin, so he just put the blame on others.
"Anyway, it's all your fault."
"Just in case you think we're making groundless assumptions about you, I should point out that this has happened before," Jason said. "So, you're not going to break the truce and assassinate Ben in the middle of the night just because of this?"
"No," Albedo said, "Compared to this, I'm more curious about what's wrong with you. Why are you suffering from paranoia and being under so much surveillance?"
"Do you really think I didn't notice the hidden camera you placed at the attic door, the specific DNA detection alarm you placed at the door of Benjamin's house, and the super barrier you placed in the rooms of the three of you to prevent the Nakfuji from penetrating?"
He originally thought that it was Benjamin who set it, but based on close observation over the past few days, Benjamin and Li Hua, who knew nothing about alien technology, were completely ruled out as suspects, so it could only be Jason who did it.
Jason was partially candid. "Because the enemies back home are more shameless and immoral than you might imagine. The result of not being vigilant and trusting others is that you'll find yourself in a graveyard the next moment you open your eyes. I've experienced this all too well."
Albedo said disdainfully: "Don't compare me with those highly perverted psychopaths. I am a highly qualified and knowledgeable person."
"In my hometown, most of the people who carry out indiscriminate massacres and terrorist attacks against civilians are highly educated and qualified people like you," Jason said. "Because they are all highly skilled technicians, they always develop all kinds of strange machines, chemical and biological weapons, and other things, and then use them in large-scale attacks."
"Some of them simply enjoy torturing people, causing them to die in excruciating pain. Once you've seen the hideous, inhuman corpses of your own kind, and experienced a scene resembling hell on earth, you'll become as vigilant as I am. And you'll realize how restrained I am in only installing surveillance cameras in public areas."
"Besides that, I've also realized you need to see a psychiatrist," Albedo said. "This isn't your home universe. And it seems to me there's something wrong with your home universe itself."
"There's a fine line between genius and madness. It's not just Jason's hometown. Right here, Dr. Dong Wu was arrested just as he was about to tear up the Void Zero Realm and invade the plan."
Benjamin said.
"Guess what? He used to be a very talented researcher like you, working in a very famous laboratory. Until one of his research failed to win first prize in a competition, he went crazy and started indiscriminate attacks and extensive biological and biochemical experiments. He was only defeated by me and my teammates several times."
Li Hua nodded vigorously. "So, Albedo, you must not let your rationality collapse and you go insane just because you didn't win first place in the competition, were tricked into jumping into a pool of chemicals, went crazy studying psychology and switched to chemistry, developed racial cognitive impairment and decided to become environmentally friendly, became your nemesis, became disfigured, your partner was about to die... and so on and so forth, like your peers in the other world!"
Albedo: "Wait, did you mix something weird into this option? What is Duwei Mengnan..."
"That's right, what can't be said in a nice way? If you really want to fight me, just challenge me to a fight. There's no need to go through so many troubles and involve innocent people."
Benjamin said while holding the Ice Ghost cub.
"Especially not like Luther did, using my DNA to create illegitimate children for me without my consent. I can barely raise all 14 of them!"
Li Hua whispered, "I know you wouldn't do that. It's mainly because two superheroes have already been infected, and they still have to raise the supervillain's child, whether he knows it or not... You know, raising a child is very stressful."
"...You may not believe this, but I haven't lost my empathy."
Albedo said seriously.
"But it sounds like the three of you, as well as your fellow aliens, are in dire need of proper counseling."
Albedo originally thought he was crazy enough, but he now reasonably suspected that these three children who had seen so many perverted lunatics and lived in a world where they felt the whole world was crazy for several months were the most mentally unstable people in the house and the most likely to become crazy.
Li Hua has obviously learned bad things and gone astray. Jason is directly a native resident there. His madness may be hidden under his calmness, and Benjamin...
Although Albedo didn't want to say this, compared to the other two, Benjamin, who had always disliked him, seemed to be the most mentally stable and the safest one in the room.
After saying that, Albedo turned and left the living room.
Forget it... Normal people don't bother with people with mental problems, mature people don't bother with children, and it's not that he can't tolerate these two children who have good hearts but are suspected of having mental problems.
As for Benjamin?
Albedo doesn't want to tolerate him, a kid with a heart big enough to outrun Tukusda and no mental problems.
When he heard Albedo going up to the attic, Jason asked, "What happened to him?"
The meaningful but silent look just now looked like Bruce.
Li Hua spread his hands and said, "Who knows? He always likes to say this and then walk away with a deep expression. Maybe it's a bad habit of Azmithism."
Benjamin said, "Maybe he was swept up by his fellow travelers from another world."
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The author has something to say:
Albedo (before): I'm going to go all the way! If I'm going to be a bad guy, I'm going to be a bad guy!
Albedo (present): I was wondering why these kids were speculating about me so maliciously before... Never mind, this line of work is too complicated.
Albedo (present): Put it on Benjamin's account.
Benjamin: ??? Why!
Albedo: Nonsense, they might have a problem with their brains. You are a healthy person, if I don’t put it on your account, whose account should I put it on? (I won’t do anything anyway)
Previously, Li Hua and Jason looked at Albedo: It’s a belated rebellious period... Never mind, be more tolerant.
Now Albedo looks at Li Hua and Jason: They might be bad kids or those with mental trauma... Never mind, it’s not that we can’t tolerate them.
Previously, Benjamin said to Albedo: An annoying arrogant person!
Now Albedo says to Benjamin: An annoying narcissist!
Oh yes, Albedo is very serious about agreements and promises. In the original work, he never took the initiative to tear up even a verbal agreement, nor did he betray his allies and friends. He was always the unlucky guy who got torn up and betrayed [covering his face with laughter and tears]
【Mini Theater】Albedo goes to Gotham
Albedo (bad version): I heard that this city is a mixed bag, superheroes are just ordinary people, and there are many highly educated criminals who are as crazy as me. This place will definitely help me develop my next plan to deal with Benjamin!
Albedo (bad version): What does it mean to instill fear in all of Gotham? What does it mean to play a killing game with your friends? What does it mean to let plants rule the world and kill everyone? What does it mean to kill for art? ...
Albedo: ....I've never felt so conservative, I've never felt so normal, I want to leave this city right now! (Albedo's homemade watch doesn't have a protector mode, so it will be affected)
Jason: So, compared to the people in my hometown, this guy who is hundreds of years old is really simple and honest.
【Catch the bug twice】
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