The oak tree is alive, the locust tree is alive, the wild flowers are alive, and the grass is also alive.

The green branches rushing towards the face seemed to be infused with infinite vitality in an instant, growing like crazy, and the hard branches smashed the glass on all sides of the classroom.The grass, which usually can't even be submerged by the ankles, is rising upwards, and the surrounding lawns are trying their best to reach Hilda's direction, and the grass clippings with the aroma of the earth are sprinkled along the air leaking window. room.

Sophia stared blankly at everything in front of her.Hilda stared at the front lazily. The brown-black pupils in the past have now turned into emerald green glass beads, which are transparent and bright. They obviously seem to flow with infinite vitality and hope, but they are so cold, and they can no longer find "hope." A trace of Erda.

"Hilda..." Sophia's heart sank to the ground, she knew that she seemed to have gotten into trouble, but she stood in front of Hilda, watching her seem to be in some weird mood, But I don't know what to do.

"Damn!!!" Damian Wayne was so angry that his fingers were shaking.The slender boy stretched his hands, jumped in front of Hilda, picked up the girl, and quickly moved her out of the room under Sophia's wide-eyed eyes.

"Wait..." Sophia didn't have time to think, so she ran after her.

As soon as Hilda left, the green plants outside the house seemed to have lost their backbone, trembling with the wind in a panic, and chasing the footsteps of the three of them rustlingly.

So, when the students in the mathematics class who were described as miserable finally panted and adjusted their clothes, and each of them poked their heads out of the classroom to look out the door curiously, what they saw was such a jaw-dropping scene …

——The boy hugged the girl with empty eyes and ran forward at an unimaginable speed, and another girl with black hair followed them aimlessly.Behind them, there is a group of covetous plants, stretching their branches and leaves unscrupulously, while following the steps of a few people conscientiously like dog legs, the green paper danced wildly in the air, sweeping away all the miscellaneous things on the ground like a whirling cloud. thing.

"Run!!! Trees, leaves, grass, grass are chasing us!!!"

Sophia heard the rustling sound behind her, and looked back in confusion—the next second, she panicked and yelled at the boy in front of her.

"Shut up, idiot!" The veins on Damian's forehead twitched, he didn't dare to look back, but only quickened his pace.

Hum Chi Hum Chi chasing after a group of plants: what are you running!We don't want to hit you, we just want to rub that sweet little girl!

Finally, a group of three people and the plants chased each other to the door of the principal's office.

"Bang bang bang!" Damian knocked on the door impatiently, and broke in without getting a response.

Sophia twisted her waist and slipped into the crack of the door, hastily locking the bolt tightly.

"Huh..." Panting with lingering fear, Sophia turned and leaned against the door that was knocked by those horrible plants, and slowly looked into the house.

Principal Charles, who is discussing school funding with Bruce Wayne: "..."

"Bo, cloth..."

Damian looked at his father, like a cock whose neck had been strangled, stuck for a long time, and almost threw Hilda out of his hand.

Bruce Wayne: ...Silence.

"Quick, put Hilda on the chair."

After a moment of daze, Charles quickly understood the situation here, and quickly slid out from behind the table pushing the wheelchair.

"...Okay." Damian didn't know how to react to his father, so he simply looked away and only focused on the girl in his arms. The trembling Hilda rested lightly on the armchair beside her.

Charles closed his eyes, put his index and middle fingers on his temples, and went straight into Hilda's chaotic mind.

Time seemed to stand still. After Sophia and Mr. Wayne stared awkwardly at each other for 5 minutes, Hilda's emerald green eyes finally shrank slowly, turning back to the original brown-black little by little.

"Sleep for a while, child." Charles whispered softly, and the girl nestled in the armchair seemed to be bewitched by a wave, and slowly closed her eyes, falling into a deep sleep.

The noisy sounds outside the door gradually dissipated as the girl fell asleep, and the stimulant-infused plants yawned lazily and retreated slowly to their territory.The spacious principal's room was finally silent, and the four people who were awake in the room continued to look at each other awkwardly and silently.

Sophia, Damian:  …

Charles, Wayne:  …

"...Then, Mr. Wayne, let me send you out of school first." Charles broke the silence first.

"No, I don't trouble you." Bruce Wayne nodded lightly, glanced at his own child in the corner who was staring at the little girl on the sofa in a daze, and turned and left the school conveniently.

"...Okay, now you can tell me what's going on."

But to Charles' surprise, neither of the children spoke.

"...Okay. Then you guys go out first, Hilda will rest with me for a while, and we can talk about anything after she wakes up."

Sophia and Damian did not quarrel, they lined up to open the door and left the principal's office, and closed the door intimately.

Charles looked at Hilda who was balled into a ball on the sofa, and couldn't help sighing with a headache.

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For the next week, Sophia didn't see Hilda in the dormitory.

The girl who was always full of energy like a little sun in the past has visibly wilted down, unable to lift up her strength to do anything.

Before falling asleep every night, Sophia closed her eyes, thinking of the words that Damian Wayne yelled at herself in confusion:

"You know she doesn't like being watched, why do you want to hurt her like this?!"

"No..." Sophia murmured, "I didn't mean to hurt her, I just thought, thought..."

I just thought that this would get her what she wanted.

After tossing and turning for a long time and still not feeling sleepy, Sophia tore off the quilt abruptly, put on her coat hastily, and planned to go outside to relax.

The "Xavier School for Gifted Boys" planted at 11 o'clock in the evening was very quiet, and the night had dyed everything into a deep black silence, only occasionally a few cicadas rustling to break the silence.

Sophia bent her waist, dodged the patrolling teacher like a car, and walked forward along the deep path on the south side of the teaching building.

Pushing aside the dense leaves, and climbing over an uneven brick wall with her arms, Sophia quietly came to an unknown "secret base" - it was her and Hilda's secret base.

Sophia leaned against the corner, feeling sad again suddenly.

Hilda always likes to be alone, so she still knows a lot about such a remote little corner suitable for solitude, but she tells Sophia all of it, it's like... Silently telling the vibrant The little girl rowed into her territory, carefully revealing her soft heart.

But what have I done... Sophia felt uncomfortable.

She obviously just wanted to help Hilda win the chance to communicate with her most admired "Professor Moriarty", but she didn't know when things suddenly turned to an irreversible point.

Will she blame me?Hilda must have blamed me, when she pulled my hand to keep me from answering questions, and I didn't listen, and caused her so much trouble.

Hilda hates trouble the most, she must blame me, she doesn't go back to the dormitory anymore, has she found another roommate?Sophia thought about it, and felt so uncomfortable that she wanted to cry.

Sniffing aggrievedly, Sophia stood up, planning to go back to sleep.Just then, she suddenly heard a strange noise.

"Boom! Tear..."

It seemed that something fell from the sky and fell into the grass in the distance.

Sophia pricked up her ears, and cautiously rubbed her way to the distance, the sound really became clearer and clearer.

"Alas..." The man behind the bushes seemed to sigh, and the sound of "thrilling, stabling" stopped for a while, and did not sound again.

"...Huh? The smell of blood?!" Sophia raised her nose and frowned vigilantly.

The rusty smell of blood became stronger and stronger, and Sophia's nerves tensed up inch by inch.Counting the clearly audible heartbeats in her chest, she slowly squatted behind the stones in front of the grass.

After waiting for a long time, the person behind the bushes seemed to have fainted, and there was no movement for a long time.

Sophia swallowed, and stretched out her hand to brush away the rough grass.

Through the wisps of weeds, the moonlight shone across an overwhelmed lawn, reflecting flickering lights.Dots of blood smeared along the leaf veins little by little, and in the rendering of the night, only the deep black exuding bloody smell remained.

In the middle of the lawn lay a man with an unclear face.He leaned sideways on the oak tree behind him, slightly closed his eyes, half of his cheeks were covered in shadow, and he couldn't see clearly.

Sophia saw that blood seemed to be spreading from the man's thighs and arms. As night fell, Sophia couldn't see clearly, but she could probably recognize a few deep wounds there.

The man's intact arm rested lightly on the stone, with a few bandage-like things wrapped around his fingertips, as if he wanted to bandage the wound, but he gave up helplessly because he was too tired.

Sophia stood up slowly, poked her head, trying to see the man's face clearly, but unexpectedly bumped into a pair of familiar brown eyes with a hint of strangeness.

"Hey, Professor Peter?"

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