marvel angel

The next morning, Angela received a text message reminder for bank transfer, happily added an egg to her breakfast, and then took a taxi to upper Manhattan.

"Hello, madam, what can I do for you?" As soon as she entered this small law firm, the front desk lady greeted Angela diligently.

"Hello, my name is Angela Ziegler. I'm here to inquire about the transfer of a store on West 155th Street. Could you please assign an attorney to help me?"

"Of course, we have a dedicated lawyer to handle the business affairs in that neighborhood. Please wait a moment, I will go find him now."

Angela turned around and looked at the clean and decent layout in the spacious living room, and looked at the patter of raindrops outside the window.This drizzle is very good at air scrubbing due to the surface area effect.It has been raining for a while, and the air outside must be as pure as an undoped silicon chip.Angela opened the window and took a deep breath. The fresh fragrance of the city seeped into her skin. She thought she even smelled the cuckoo bushes swaying in the park in the distance.

"Ms. Ziegler." The voice of the front desk lady changed Angela's mind back to the room. She looked back and saw a young man wearing sunglasses walking out of the office.Although he was dressed seriously, his warm smile still gave people a full sense of intimacy.

"This is Mr. Murdoch. He will help you handle related matters."

"Thank you, Deborah" the man gently bowed his head to greet the lady at the front desk.

"Hello, I'm Angela Ziegler." Angela just stretched out her hand, but her eyes followed the fingertips and saw the guide cane in Murdock's hand.

"Hello, Ms. Ziegler, I'm Matthew Murdoch." The man responded politely. After noticing a second of silence, he immediately extended his hand, "Oh, I'm so sorry, you must shake hands." .”

"No, it's my fault," Angela adjusted the angle and held Murdoch's warm right hand, "I didn't react, and you laughed so hard that my heart almost melted."

"I can hear it, your heart is pounding. Please come this way, Ms. Ziegler, let's sit here." Murdoch skillfully brought Angela to a location, even the guide cane Useless.

"They say that the other senses of invisible people are particularly sensitive, and now I believe it."

"Have you never treated a blind person, Dr. Ziegler?"

"I have, but I have never met anyone as special as you."

"I've been like this since I was very young. Is there anything else special besides this?"

"For example, you knew right away that I was a doctor."

"Mr. Lieber called me last night," Murdoch smiled softly. "He told me excitedly that he had found the heir to the gift shop, a young female doctor who had to give up her career."

"So, please don't call me doctor again. I have not passed the qualification examination and am not qualified to practice medicine independently."

"But you still have a Ph.D., Dr. Ziegler."

"Please stop calling me that. I don't want to differentiate myself from others by academic qualifications. Just call me Angela, Matthew. Can I call you Matthew?"

"My friends call me Matt and Angela. Although I don't quite understand what you just said, I think if I am lucky enough to study for a doctorate in the future, I will also understand your humility."

"You want to get a J.D."

"Yes, speaking of which, we are still alumni. I just received my master's degree in law from Columbia University this year and just completed the bar exam, so now I am working as an intern here to lay a good financial foundation for my future plans."

"I think with your cheerful and easy-going personality, you will definitely realize your wish. But, Matt, I still want to ask, I don't remember telling Mr. Lieber which medical school I attended. "

"Ah, sorry, I didn't mention it earlier. I have a police friend, Brett Mahoney, who was involved in the investigation of what happened the other day at Columbia University Medical Center. But make no mistake, he's a very upright man. He just told me that there was a suspected mutant attack in the hospital. It was originally thought to be a false alarm, but then the intern doctor who was affected suddenly resigned due to mental problems. At this time, another person who wanted to take over Lieber appeared. Mr. Gift Shop, a retired doctor of about the same age, so I guess that’s you. Angela, if you’re offended.”

"No, you were sincere to me, and I liked it. I learned a little about you because of it."

"What did you learn?"

"Since you mentioned that your friend is an upright policeman, he will not talk about things casually. So it is most likely that you asked him to tell you if something strange happened. You must be interested in mutants, right, Matt?"

"Angela, I really want to invite you to go to law school with me right now. You were born to find the truth."

"Okay, if you save enough for the tuition for both of us."

"I will try my best, but now that you know it, I am no longer taboo. Can I discuss mutants with you?"

"of course can."

"How do you think mutants are created?"

"I don't know much about it, but I recently heard a background radiation hypothesis. Do you know this?"

"Yes, I know. This is exactly what I want to ask. If mutants can really be produced due to radiation, and those mutants have not changed their genes due to radiation, but only gained some abilities that are slightly stronger than ordinary people. Are people who are mutants also considered mutants?”

"What does it mean to have slightly stronger abilities due to radiation, Matt?"

"Well I just met a person in a situation like this. He was a little concerned about his identity."

"You seem to be hiding something, Matt, but I know you must have been through a lot, and I won't force you to tell me. My idea is that people always use various indicators to distinguish this and that. It's really the same. It's a bad habit. Scientists used to say that it was impossible for humans to run 100 meters in ten seconds. Are the [-]-meter athletes who ran under ten seconds non-human? I have a hunch that in this year's Olympics, the [-]-meter record will be set. Still to be broken.”

"So you think this kind of person is not a mutant"

"The point is not to be right or wrong, but to look at it without distinction. To judge others is to condemn yourself. Maybe you can't see it, Matt, I used to be a conceited and arrogant girl. I felt that I had knowledge and was superior to others. But. Later, when I entered medical school where everyone around me was smarter than me, I fell into a deep inferiority complex. Because I felt that they knew more than me, and similarly, they were superior to me. It took me a long time to understand Overcoming this misunderstanding, I gradually learned to patiently impart knowledge to people who don’t understand, and gradually learned to remain confident in front of people who are much better than me.”

"That's why you just didn't want me to call you Doctor."

"Actually, if I were pursuing a career in medicine or science, I wouldn't mind. But obviously I don't. Then again, Matt, it's not just about knowledge, it's about everything else too. I don't know if you're a bit more capable. What Qiang’s friend has been through will make him care about whether he is a mutant. But I want you to tell him that many people, including me, will not care about the difference between him and us, and even put real mutants in my At present, I will only care about whether they are willing to communicate with me sincerely and equally, and will not care about anything else. So, tell your friends that you are not too concerned about the difference between yourself and others, but instead take the initiative to communicate between yourself and others. A wall was erected.”

"Thank you, Angela, I'll tell him. I don't think he'll dwell on it anymore."

"I think so. After all, he has a friend who won't treat him differently, which is you, right? Matt, maybe he will meet more people like you in the future, and maybe he will meet me in the future. , maybe he will also integrate into a large group of friends and completely say goodbye to the loneliness he once had."

"He will, Angela, he will."

Angela saw the glowing corners of Murdoch's eyes behind his sunglasses through her ability, and felt that she should end this somewhat solemn atmosphere.

"By the way, Matt, I also have something to ask you about mutants."

"What's up"

"What are the current government laws and regulations regarding mutants?"

"It hasn't changed for many years, and it's almost unchanged since the 70s. At that time, people were widely discussing the relationship between mutants and humans, and the government was still planning the Sentinel Project to target the mutant population, but well After the famous Mystique saved Nixon, public opinion applauded her and other mutants, the Sentinel Project was terminated, and mutants were widely accepted by the public. But it is undeniable that there are mutants who cannot control their own... Power, intentionally or unintentionally, harms other people. Therefore, since then, the trial standard for cases involving mutants has always been that as long as a mutant endangers the safety of others or society, regardless of whether it is of their own will or not, it will be judged as intentional. The crime is dealt with, but the sentencing is no different from ordinary people.”

"That is to say, let me use an analogy. An ordinary person deliberately provokes a mutant, and the mutant accidentally injures him. The mutant will receive the same punishment as a normal person who intentionally injures others, and the provocateur must also bear the corresponding consequences. Responsibility"

"That's the case in most cases. You understand correctly."

"It still sounds a little unfair, and this unfairness is still based on people's lack of understanding of mutants."

"This is already very good. I think mutants probably don't understand themselves well enough. And now it's impossible for people to understand them. Now if a mutant suddenly appears in the crowd, it's probably like a giant panda hug. When you walk down the street with bamboos, you will be watched by a large number of people taking photos and taking group photos.”

"Haha, it's so funny, Matt, panda, I really can't wait for the Olympics next month. The TV in Mr. Lieber's gift shop is huge, it will be great to watch the games on it."

"Oh, speaking of the gift shop, I almost forgot our business, Angela, I need to confirm your contract again."

"Okay," Angela took out the store transfer contract from her bag, and then looked at Murdoch blankly, "Uh, what should I do?"

"Sorry, Angela, you need to read it to me, but I'll charge a little cheaper, too."

"No need to do this, Matt, you are serving me with professional knowledge, not customer experience. I will pay according to the firm's standards."

"Just a question," Murdoch interrupted Angela when she was about to read the contract, "Angela, don't you have a middle name?"

"No, I am an orphan. Sister Grace said that since I came into this world without any worries, I no longer have to bear the burden of a useless middle name."

"Margaret Grace, you were also in the Saint-Yanni Orphanage before."

"That's right, you too"

"It seems that we will have many topics in common in the future, but why am I not impressed by your voice?"

“I went to boarding school when I reached school age.”

"I see, let's not talk about it for now, Angela, please continue."

"Okay" Angela read the last few sentences of the contract, "Party A: Stanley Martin Lieber, Party B: Angela Ziegler."

"No problem, leave the rest to me. You can start preparing to move now."

"Thank you, Matt" Angela breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, by the way, Mr. Lieber also mentioned to me yesterday that you can change the name of the store as soon as possible. Even he thinks the name Stanley Gift Shop is outdated."