Chapter 36 Chapter 36 “Now is not the time to give up…
"Now is not the time to give up!"
A thunderous shout woke Peter up, and Aster and Luze rushed back. One of them used her special powers to drive away the vines at Peter's feet, and the other grabbed Peter by the back of the collar and lifted him up.
They narrowly avoided the herd of strange beasts and continued to run forward.
"You..." Peter was speechless for a moment, "Why do you want to save..."
"We've turned so many corners, why are these strange beasts still chasing us?"
"The teacher is already like this, aren't you ready to take action?!"
Before Peter could finish his words, they were drowned out by the shouts of Luze and Aster. Looking at the two people jumping up and down and completely ignoring him, Peter, who was shaken to the point of nausea, suddenly felt moved.
I must be a fool for thinking they were so handsome just now.
"No, no, you have to do your homework yourself." Zhe lowered his head to avoid the tree branches and replied, "Also, you have to punctuate the sentence correctly. It should be 'Teacher, it's like this', not 'Teacher is like this'."
Lu Ze and Asthe rolled their eyes at the same time, and when they saw that Zhe was not prepared to take action, they started discussing heatedly again. When Peter suspected they were going to strangle him with their collars, they finally discovered the blind spot.
“Come to think of it, when that guy fell to the ground just now, did the monsters behind him slow down?” Lu Ze had an idea.
Aster's eyes lit up. "Oh, right, we were talking about the powder issue before. It was those powders."
"We didn't alarm any gregarious animals along the way, but this group of animals suddenly appeared and chased us. These guys were lured by the mysterious people. When their first plan failed, they used a backup plan and sprinkled the powder on any of us to attract these animals."
The more Asther spoke, the smoother her thoughts became, and the faster she spoke. At the end, she stared at Peter, who was being held by Lu Ze, like an eagle. She raised her hand, and a leaping flame ignited in her hand.
"Wait, wait, what are you going to do?!" Peter couldn't help but yell.
After they got rid of the herd of strange beasts, Peter huddled up, his hands folded across his chest, and stood beside the pile of firewood lit by supernatural powers to keep warm, all wet. When his body was almost roasted, Lu Ze took out a piece of clothing from his bag and handed it to Peter.
Peter put on his clothes and stood silently in front of Lu Ze and others. Seeing that he had a gloomy face and didn't say a word, Asthe said awkwardly: "Well...you don't have to be shy. I don't want to look at your rib-like body."
Aster said "Ouch!" "If it wasn't an emergency, I wouldn't have burned your clothes. Anyway, it was my fault to destroy your clothes, so let's consider it as an offset to the fact that you lied to us!"
The silent Peter was not thinking about this matter. After returning to a safe place and calming down his feverish brain, he thought of the previous question again.
"Why did you save me?" he demanded.
Frankly speaking, Asthe also understood that there was something wrong with the way she spoke. When they were in the small town, the only person who was willing to play with her was Lu Ze. Seeing Peter was so persistent, she wanted to say something to encourage him, but when the words came to her lips, what came out was: "What does this have to do with you? I don't care about you anyway."
For a moment, the atmosphere around them froze.
Lu Ze interrupted as if he didn’t sense the wrong atmosphere, “What reason do you need to save someone? Just save them if you want to.”
Asthe secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Peter was speechless. He sniffed and asked, "Don't you dislike me? Otherwise you wouldn't keep teasing me."
Lu Ze laughed after hearing this: "Not liking someone is one thing, saving someone is another."
This time, Peter fell into a long silence.
This was the second time these people saved him. Maybe he should tell them the truth.
Maybe if you stay with fools for a long time, you will become a fool yourself. Peter was not going to tell anyone about "Lillian", but he was going to tell Lu Ze and the others something else, something he had not told "Lillian".
"Those people must have come to kill me. Among them there are people I have seen before."
Some things are not so difficult to say once you open your mouth.
Peter said, "There's one more thing I haven't told you... Lillian and I offended those people because we accidentally overheard their conversation. I told you that the Shark Gang has suddenly risen recently and started to challenge the old gangs nearby."
"There are many people with special abilities among their gang members, and no one knows why. But that day, Lillian and I heard the reason."
"The Shark Gang received support from outsiders. They provided him with a drug that, after injection, could turn ordinary people into superpowers."
"Maybe it's because we heard this that we were hunted down."
At this point, Peter took a breath and said, "You may have been wondering why I was able to escape and why I was able to bring you to meet them. It's because I am also a superpower. As long as I concentrate, I can see what they are going to do."
After he finished speaking, he raised his head, but none of the three people in front of him looked shocked.
Lu Ze looked at Peter's doubtful eyes, and as if he had just realized something, he said with a terrible acting skill: "What, you are still hiding this from us?"
Peter twitched his lips and asked uncertainly, "Do you know that I'm hiding something from you?"
Seeing that he couldn't fool him, Lu Ze put away his expression and patted him on the shoulder: "Can't we see that you have something to say? There's no need to keep pestering you, but thank you for your honesty."
Asthe also said, "Your acting is pretty good, but you need to practice more if you want to hide it from us. Ah... no, I mean it's just a small matter, it's okay to tell us directly!"
Judging from their expressions, they didn't seem to be planning to continue questioning Peter. Peter stared blankly at the hand on his shoulder. In a flash, he suddenly remembered what "Lillian" had said.
——"But I suggest that when they ask you at first, you don't admit that you have superpowers. You don't need to know the specific reasons."
Could it be that she had expected this moment a long time ago, and his acting skills could not fool these people at all? When he reveals that he is a mutant, will they think that he has revealed what he has been hiding, and that "Lillian's" secret will be covered up by his secret?
No, no, no. Just because he is a superpower, can Lu Ze and the others misunderstand him? If he had said it in advance, wouldn't there be no way to get around it?
Could it be... Could it be that "Lillian" already knew about it? She already knew that he was hiding things from everyone, she already knew that he and Lillian got involved in gang fights because they heard things they shouldn't have heard, she already knew that he would tell Lu Ze these? !
At this moment, a different kind of fear gripped Peter's heart. His body trembled slightly, but Lu Ze misunderstood it as fear of them.
“Hey, don’t be afraid…we didn’t do anything to you.” Lu Ze said.
Peter had no time for anything else. He went over in his mind all the scenes since he met "Lillian". From the time he met "Lillian", to "Lillian" teaching him how to lie and how to control his superpowers, to her calm eyes before leaving "Lillian".
These memories gradually calmed Peter down.
Peter was not a fool, he could see that "Lillian" was coming for Lu Ze and his group, and she didn't even bother to hide it from him. He is a nobody. If Lillian just wanted to use him, she wouldn't have to be so kind to him.
Yes, mercy. The methods of lying and controlling superpowers that "Lillian" taught him were priceless in Peter's eyes, not to mention that she also saved the real Lillian. And now, Peter discovered that "Lillian" knew his little thoughts but did not expose them.
She was too tolerant towards a stranger who was only of use to her.
At this moment, countless complicated emotions surged in Peter's heart.
"Lillian" saved Lillian. Peter was indeed grateful to her and was willing to go through fire and water for her, but that was all. After repaying the favor, Peter wanted to take the real Lillian away from all the right and wrong.
This might be a bit ungrateful. Lillian also said that he doesn't think with his brain and can only see what is in front of him.
So what? Even the things right in front of them are difficult for them to grasp.
It's different now.
Unlike his previous passive gratitude, Peter suddenly wanted to take the initiative to help "Lillian" solve her problems.
He remembered that the people that the adult had brought complained to the adult that their enemies were too difficult to deal with before taking Lillian away. He also remembered that the person the adult had brought said that Lillian's special ability was very useful before taking him away.
He wanted to be like the man in black robe who took Lillian away, become that adult's subordinate, do things for her and fulfill her wishes.
He wanted to be useful to that adult.
Peter made up his mind.
Ren Xiaoyue, who was not far away, had no idea that she suddenly had a potential younger brother before she had done anything, nor did she know that her behavior of ignoring unimportant details was regarded as kindness. She was standing beside Bai Ling, seemingly concentrating, but actually staring blankly in the direction of Lu Ze.
As I said, Ren Xiaoyue doesn't like to work with Bai Ling.
Mainly because I don’t like working overtime. If she had come alone, she wouldn't have to act all the time. But since she came with Bai Ling, she could only control her expression.
"They are really outstanding children." Bai Ling said while standing on the branch.
Ren Xiaoyue casually replied: "Are you admiring them?"
"What's wrong with admiring it?" Bai Ling raised the corners of her lips and threw a coquettish glance at Ren Xiaoyue, "Or are you jealous?"
Ren Xiaoyue ignored Bai Ling, and Bai Ling was not depressed. He teased others just out of his subconscious habit. Bai Ling continued, "Yeah, just kidding. I didn't expect that guy would be involved with the organization. Is that why you came here?"
"You can think of it this way." Ren Xiaoyue said.
Bai Ling rolled her eyes secretly.
It's really hard to talk to a taciturn person.
Regarding organizational issues, Bai Ling actually felt that they had a certain tacit understanding, but other than this tacit understanding, Sixteen obviously had no intention of telling him anything.
Tsk, maybe Sixteen has already arranged everything and just didn’t tell me. Bai Ling thought. As he watched Lu Ze and others packing up their things and heading back in the distance, he suddenly remembered something.
Bai Ling said uncertainly: "Wait, if someone attacks them, then someone will also attack the house."
Ren Xiaoyue nodded without turning his head. Bai Ling always felt that this guy was laughing at him for remembering this matter just now.
"Shall we go?" Bai Ling asked.
Ren Xiaoyue nodded again.
So, when Lu Ze and others rushed back to Peter's place, what they saw was the scene that Bai Ling and Ren Xiaoyue had handled.
The already dilapidated house had completely turned into a dangerous building. Bai Ling and Ren Xiaoyue were in the shadows outside the house, and their eyes lit up when they saw Lu Ze and others. Ren Xiaoyue trotted over. Bai Ling followed behind her and walked very quickly.
"Are you all right?" Bai Ling ignored the two men as if she was blind, and looked at Aster with concern, "A group of people suddenly rushed over and attacked us."
He turned to look at Ren Xiaoyue who was pretending to be depressed: "It's a pity that I was not capable enough and was busy protecting the child, so I didn't keep him here."
Ren Xiaoyue took two steps forward, took Peter's hand before he could do anything stupid, and asked with concern: "Are you okay over there?"
"No, it's okay..." Peter was stunned for a moment and said, "Well, I have something to tell you later."
After the two sides met, after the usual greetings and information exchange, Peter pulled Ren Xiaoyue to an empty corner in front of the protagonists and started talking in private openly.
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