[Zhongyingmei] At the end of time

Luna and Lily had a quick meal at noon, and then rushed to the place Jack had mentioned before.It was a small square in the center of the city. There were a lot of people at noon, and the environment was pretty good.

When Luna passed by, there were already a dozen people gathered there. Luna walked over and greeted Jack. Jack introduced to everyone: "This is Luna, the reporter who reported on mutants in the Daily Bugle."

Most of those people were young people, and the blue-skinned kid was among them. Hearing this, they all greeted Luna in a curious and friendly manner.Luna's mutant identity is a well-known and unspoken secret in the mutant circle in New York.

Luna asked Jack: "I didn't make it clear on the phone just now, what are you going to do?"

A man in a white T-shirt stood up, smiled and pointed to his clothes, which said 'I am a mutant, would you like to hug me? '

Luna was a little excited and asked, "Are you planning to broadcast live? Have you announced it online before?"

Jack scratched his head, and said a little shyly: "I wanted to contact you to help promote it, but I couldn't get in touch with you. I just mentioned it on Lawrence's personal Twitter. It only said that there was a mutant hug event, but I didn't say anything about it. The location, likes and retweets are quite small."

Lawrence—the man in the white T—smiled and said, "I don't play Twitter much, and I don't have many friends. Originally, Jack and the others wanted to help me promote it, but I don't know how effective the event will be, so let's not Expose their mutant status."

Luna asked, "Where are you going to broadcast live, Facebook?"

Lawrence shook his head and said, "Twitter."

As they said that, several other people had already put a mobile phone on the tripod, walked over and said, "It's almost time."

Lawrence stood in a position where there was a lot of traffic but would not block the passage of pedestrians. Others set up tripods facing him. With the hard work of a few people, there were already a few good-hearted young people around.

The man with the tripod gave Lawrence an OK sign, and Lawrence took a deep breath and opened his arms.

The live broadcast has started.

Luna felt that she was even more nervous than Lawrence, who looked calm. She immediately looked at the young people watching beside her. After seeing the words on Lawrence's clothes, their expressions changed immediately, and they pushed each other. Shoved away.

Lawrence stood there for 5 minutes, but no one came to hug him. Even those who were attracted to watch the fun left without saying a word after seeing the words on his clothes.

Luna glanced at the data of the live broadcast platform, and it was extremely bleak.She thought about it, first mentioned the event on her own Twitter, and then stepped forward and hugged Lawrence-becoming the first person to hug him.

She heard Lawrence laughing, "Now I know why they asked me to do this. It's tiring to keep raising your arms."

Luna also smiled and stepped aside.

At this time, a middle school student-like girl came out from the crowd of onlookers. She walked up to Lawrence firmly with a blushing face, gave him a big hug, said softly, "Come on", and then ran away blushing again.

It was the first real human hug Lawrence had received this afternoon.

Things got better after that.

An office worker in a neat suit held a sandwich in one hand, and patted Lawrence on the back comfortingly with the other: "I think those who are clamoring to suppress you are idle."

There was a boy in tracksuit who hugged Lawrence with a clean smile, and walked away without saying anything.

Several cheerleading girls in miniskirts embraced Lawrence generously one by one. One girl secretly asked for Lawrence's contact information, which made Lawrence blush.

A girl wearing a hat came over and took off her hat as she strode towards Lawrence, revealing two flesh-colored horns on her head. After hugging Lawrence, she couldn't help crying.

A five or six-year-old boy stood by and watched curiously for a while, then raised his head and asked his mother, "Can I hug him too?"

The young mother smiled and said, "Of course."

The two walked in front of Lawrence. The boy was only tall enough to reach Lawrence's thigh. Just as Lawrence was about to squat down, his mother picked up the boy. The boy hugged Lawrence and said in a childlike voice, "Come on, uncle!"

A middle-aged man hurried over, hugged Lawrence and patted him on the back: "Well done, brother."

After the hug, he didn't leave like the others, but walked towards Luna and the group of people standing behind the tripod, and introduced himself: "I drove here from Pennsylvania, and you didn't clearly write the address in the previous notice. I'm running around in New York."

Jack asked, "Are you a relative of Lawrence?"

The man smiled and said, "No, I'm just a mutant living in Pennsylvania. I saw your event on Twitter before, and I thought I'd come to participate no matter what."

Jack hugged him vigorously and said nothing more. Before leaving, the man said, "Please persevere."

Luna saw the blue-skinned mutant boy with a nervous expression all the time, so she knelt down and asked him, "What's your name?"

The boy said timidly, "Aaron."

Luna encouraged: "I heard that you came up with this activity, you are really amazing."

Aaron whispered, "But I didn't dare to participate. Later, Uncle Lawrence took the initiative to say that he came."

Luna didn't ask him why he didn't dare, but just said, "Let's hug Lawrence together after the live broadcast is over."

Aaron nodded vigorously.

Peter also rushed over, with a DSLR on his chest: "Paul asked me to come over to help take pictures, why didn't you call me in advance for such a fun thing? By the way, where did you go a few days ago..."

Luna pointed to the mobile phone on the tripod, and made a gesture of silence. Peter closed his mouth graciously, and began to look around for an angle to take pictures.

At this moment, a middle-aged man came over, pointed at Lawrence and said, "You mutants and us are not a species at all. According to natural selection, either you will eliminate us, or we will eliminate you. If this is the case, why should we tolerate and grow?" you?"

Peter was squatting on the side to take pictures, and when he heard this, he stared and wanted to get up to argue with that person, but Luna pushed his head down.

The mutants behind the tripod all showed resentment, but before they could speak, the girl who had just hugged Lawrence who was about to leave turned around and came back: "It doesn't matter whether we are a species or not, even if we are not a species, there are people in this world." There are so many kinds of creatures, are we going to exterminate them one by one?"

The middle-aged man was obviously very unhappy when he lost face in front of the live broadcast. He quarreled with the girl with a sullen face. People who had been watching for a long time but had not hugged Lawrence all stood by the girl at this moment. The man said so much that he had no power to fight back, so he had to leave in despair.

After the man left, the strangers who had dissed him just now looked at each other. It was unknown who took the lead in laughing, and they finally stepped forward and hugged Lawrence one by one.

Aaron who was standing beside Luna suddenly exclaimed: "Iron Man!"

Everyone looked up one after another, only to see a dazzling golden red approaching, and then landed precisely between Lawrence and the tripod. Luna heard Aaron gasp, and her breath trembled in surprise.

Luna turned to Peter, who silently covered his face with a DSLR, expressing his innocence.He just sent Tony the interesting things he was going to do before departure according to his habit, but he didn't expect him to come.

The steel armor was opened staggeredly, and Tony in a suit walked out flamboyantly. He looked around for a week, but his eyes did not stop at Luna.

He walked towards Lawrence: "I have to say that your activity is really nothing new. Homosexuals have tried it before, but the difference between you and them is—"

"—they're not doing their event on Iron Man's way to get a burger."

While desperately taking group photos, Peter looked at Luna speechlessly, only to find that she was really smiling.

Tony kept a certain distance and looked Lawrence up and down in disgust: "Maybe you look good, but I'm only interested in women. I mean, I don't usually hug men."

Luna felt the disappointment of Aaron beside her. She knelt down and whispered to Aaron, "Don't listen to him, he will definitely hug Lawrence."

As soon as the words fell, Tony stepped forward and gave Lawrence a gentle hug. Although it was just a touch, it was a real hug.

Tony took a step back and said to the crowd: "Don't forget to watch the Stark Group's new product launch next week."

After he finished speaking, he flew away amidst the cheers of the crowd. Luna leaned over to take a look at the number of people watching the live broadcast, and was taken aback by the huge number.

She sighed: "Stark is really a born businessman."

Jack's eyes lit up: "My God, Iron Man is willing to participate in our event. I should have asked him for an autograph just now."

The next uptick in the number of people watching the live broadcast happened when Captain America appeared in his uniform. He also ignored Luna and Peter as if he had never known them, and naturally hugged Lawrence: "I believe you are standing on equal footing. And the side of justice. No matter what lies ahead, I hope you will never stop fighting."

When Iron Man appeared, Luna was still lucky. After Captain America appeared, Luna knew that this manuscript probably had nothing to do with her, so she had to call Paul: "Iron Man and Captain America both showed up, look It looks like this will undoubtedly be the headline on tomorrow's page."

Paul said calmly: "The newspaper has sent people there, don't forget to handover with them."

Jack asked interview-like behind the phone: "Do you remember how many hugs you received?"

Lawrence rubbed his arms and said, "Thirty-seven."

It took an average of more than three minutes of waiting to get a hug from a stranger. The general indifference, a lot of discussion and avoidance made these 37 warm hugs seem precious.

The live broadcast lasted for more than two hours, and Jack saw the crowds thinning out, so he made a decision: "Five more minutes of live broadcast, two and a half hours, and then we will stop."

Lawrence said with a smile: "That's really great, I can't lift my hands anymore."

However, in the last 5 minutes, there was an accident.