Meet the father-in-law [Comprehensive]

It was exactly 02:30 p.m. when Elide rang the Hodges’ doorbell, having just returned to Washington from Gotham with a box full of baked cookies in hand.

The sound of the doorbell was still lingering in the air, and Hodge had already opened the door. Before Elide entered, Jack screamed excitedly:

"Hey hey hey hey! Elied!"

"Hello, Jack," Elide immediately greeted him with a smile, "how was the game in the morning?"

"I scored two goals!" As soon as he mentioned football, Jack immediately became happy. He puffed up his chest vigorously, and his eyes sparkled with excitement.

"You are amazing!"

Elide said and handed him the paper bag in her hand, and the little guy cheered immediately, thanking Elide and Afu loudly.Before Hodge could finish saying "remember to wash your hands", he happily rushed to the kitchen with his short legs in his arms and a paper bag in his arms.

"It's a good thing Jack likes Alfred's desserts. Seriously, I'm not good at dealing with kids his age."

Elide's sigh at this moment is sincere, without any perfunctory or unhappy emotions.

"Don't say that, you've done a good job," Hodge smiled and added a light kiss, "and it's not difficult to get along with a kid his age, as long as you show interest in what he says and keep agreeing , Urge him to continue talking—then again, you are not much older than Jack!"

"Why, do you think I'm young?"

Elide couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and glanced at Hodge, then turned around and walked towards the kitchen. Hodge quickly smiled and took her hand, making a pitiful look on purpose, and blinked at her constantly:

"No, I'm just stating the facts, you look younger than your actual age!"

As a woman, as long as she is over 20 years old, she likes to be praised as young, no matter how old she is.Elide cheered up immediately, and she stood waiting for Hodge to come, grabbed his hand and dragged him to the kitchen.

Jack had already pulled out two colorful china plates from the cupboard, and was now pouring the cookies on top.He frowned, pouted slightly, and carried out this "important work" seriously, until he divided the cookies into two plates, one big and one small, and compared them for a long time, with a look of reluctance. A piece was taken from the pile and placed on the large side.

It wasn't until he finished all these tasks that he raised his head to look at Hodge and Elide, and happily pushed the more plate to them:

"I've divided the cookies!"

The little guy had a complacent look of "seeking praise" on his face, which was slightly funny no matter how he looked at it. The two adults also laughed, thanked him exaggeratedly, and praised him for his actions.

With a smug expression on his face, Jack held up his plate of cookies and ran to the living room. Hodge poured coffee for Elide, reached out and knocked on the table, and glanced secretly somewhere in the house.

"Do you want to start now?"

"I don't care, can I solve it before dinner?"

Yes, Elide came to Hodge's house early this time. Apart from exchanging feelings and having dinner with the two Mr. Hochner, of course there is another important activity - overtime.

On Friday, Hodge received a case from the National Security Bureau. Because of its special nature, he decided to discuss it with him before releasing it to the entire bau team.

The reason for deliberately choosing this method is, of course, that... these files come from an extension department of the National Security Bureau, which is still in a classified state.

The full name of this department is "Superpower Frontier Joint Investigation Team", abbreviated as Argus, which is responsible for secretly handling, detaining and utilizing those extremely dangerous and difficult criminals, terrorists, and most importantly - people with superpowers.

In the very beginning, Elide was able to enter bau as an unreasonable "intern" because she had some background in the sky.So, although the file was handed over directly to Hodge, he still called on Elide to help.

This time the case involved an "extremely dangerous" serial killer who was "very likely to be a person with superpowers". Before the local police station asked bau for help, the case had already been taken over by the Sky Eye Society.Hodge had already skimmed through these case files in advance. The unknown suspect's methods were very cruel, and there were some criminal methods that were obviously beyond common sense... It is also reasonable for Sky Eye to suspect that the unknown suspect is a person with superpowers.

Because many of the pictures in the dossier were very scary, Hodge and Elliot deliberately avoided Jack who was watching TV in the living room, went to the study room without saying anything, and deliberately closed the door tightly.

It is not entirely correct to say that it is a study room. Since Jack moved in, Hodge has changed the original guest room into Jack's bedroom, and added a sofa bed to the study room, barely meeting the function of a "guest room".At this moment, Elide was lying on the sofa leisurely, as if reading a novel, flipping through the archives in her hand with a leisurely expression.

In about half an hour, Elide had read all the materials. As Hodge concluded, there were indeed many "abnormal factors" in this case.Several of the victims suffered lengthy and fragmented abuse before their death, but the final cause of death was a large penetrating wound to the chest.

In other words, according to the forensic doctor's point of view, such a wound is like someone directly pulling out their heart or other organs with their hands or other limbs with sharp claws.

Even for members of bau, such a cause of death is unreasonable and shocking.

"... Even people with superpowers are mostly human beings. They grow up in human society and behave like humans. In other words, we can make profiles to help the Sky Eye Society locate unknown suspects."

As soon as he saw Elide close the file, Hodge immediately explained.

"According to the forensic report, the epidermis and muscles at the wound have obvious tear marks, and the unknown suspect has the ability to penetrate the human body in the simplest and most brutal physical way... A high-speed power user like the Flash can also do this This kind of thing, but according to the theoretical analysis, the wounds they formed are completely different from this kind of wound." Elide said, throwing the file to Hodge's desk, smiling firmly, "I think this unknown suspect The superpowers are increased strength, or the body has animal-like mutations."

"You're right, but the Sky Eye Society has not ruled out the possibility that people with high-speed superpowers are involved in the case. Let me tell you—"

Hodge was about to share his analysis results when the two of them suddenly heard a knock on the door, followed by Jack's "Daddy?"

Hodge and Elide couldn't help being both stunned. After reacting, Hodge hurriedly put away all the photos spread out on the table.After confirming that there were no "bloody pictures" on the bright side in the room, he rushed out the door to respond to Jack:

"Wait a minute, Jack, I'll open the door."

When Hodge rushed towards the door, Elide still maintained the posture of leaning on the sofa, following his figure curiously.

Jack was standing at the door with a serious face, he nodded at Hodge and Elide in turn, and then asked:

"Are you going to stay here forever?"

"We'll go out before dinner, can you watch cartoons in the living room alone?" Hearing Jack's words, Hodge's voice seemed a little guilty, and he quickly comforted Jack with a gentle tone.

Jack pouted again, as if he was lost in thought. His eyes went back and forth several times between Elied and Hodge, and then he blinked and asked in a childlike voice:

"Will I have a brother or sister?"

"……Eh?"

"Our teacher said, if you don't use it, uh...it's a condom! If you don't use it, you will get pregnant and have a baby!"

"--Eh?!"

Hodge squatted in front of Jack with a dazed expression on his face. Elide, who was lying on the sofa, had already laughed and rolled directly to the ground, and fell on his back without any image. In the end, he used a posture like a dog planing , barely got up from the ground.

Then immediately rubbed in front of Jack.

"What class does your teacher teach, physical hygiene education?"

Elide suppressed her laughter and looked at Jack solemnly.

"Yes, this is the class!" Jack nodded proudly, "We learned a lot of interesting knowledge!"

"Oh, you are awesome! You can use what you have learned in your life!"

Elide praised more and more sincerely. At this moment, she seemed to be firmly implementing Hodge's previous "getting along advice" and was going to seriously discuss with Jack what he had learned in class.

For such a scene, Hodge sincerely... refused.

The man held Elide by the collar, and calmly pulled her back a little bit, the smile on his face was too bright:

"Hey, little man, thanks for the advice. But Irid and I are at work, bau's job, and we have nothing else to do."

Jack blinked blankly, as if he wanted to understand the difference between "work" and "other things". Seeing this, Hodge immediately changed the subject, exclaimed exaggeratedly, and pointed to the wall clock in the living room:

"Look! The Spider-Man animation is about to start, don't you go to the living room?"

As soon as the animation he liked was mentioned, Jack's attention was immediately diverted, he completely forgot what he was going to say, and happily jumped back to the living room.Hodge stood up straight, closed the door behind him—he didn't close it this time—stretched out his hand and rubbed his temples, and glanced at Elide helplessly.

The latter has already rolled back onto the sofa nimbly, posing in a flamboyant, vulgar and seductive pose like a third-version girl, and winking at him exaggeratedly:

"How did I behave just now? I am doing exactly what you suggested. This is what I have learned!"

The expression on Hodge's face became more and more helpless, but after a while, that helplessness turned into a kind of doting smile.

"It's really good, but... it would be better if you could change the subject."

"As for other things, maybe we can discuss them later-work is important, don't distract me!"

The author has something to say: The author is crazy after watching Germany vs Italy_(:3」∠)_

Although the rice cooker kicked the ball like Xiang, but...

I feel like everyone is super high, hahahaha, there are still people in the village setting off fireworks to celebrate hahahaha

ps: My home wireless network is broken. In this chapter, if you use your mobile phone to update it, it will not be anti-theft... I don’t know what the problem is with the network, it’s so annoying_(:3」∠)_