West's Summer [Comprehensive English and American]

Fifteen times in less than a week, he 'ran into' the same person, no matter how inhumane West was, he had to make room in his brain to firmly remember that person. An ordinary face with no features at all.

"Hi! What a coincidence, West, we actually met again!!"

Holding lunch, standing in front of the bar with no expression on his face.He stared at the blond kid not far away who greeted him with a surprised face. He really couldn't understand why he had watched him get off the bus at the other end of the city half an hour ago, and he had already run away to get away from them. In the farthest restaurant of the college, he still couldn't escape the sad fate of encountering Colin Burns, the soul behind him, anytime and anywhere.

...Ah, even if you get lost, you will end up getting lost together, what a coincidence.

"Hello, Colin." Try to speak calmly, lest you can't resist twisting the guy's neck with your bare hands.He folded his arms and sat on the only remaining seat in the restaurant. He didn't even eat, and looked up into the sincere and innocent eyes of the man: "Tell me, what do you want to do by following me?"

"Eh?"

With a puzzled expression of 'Oh, what are you talking about, how could such a cute baby of mine do such a thing', the blond boy took a mouthful of beef brisket in a leisurely manner, pretending to be such a thing :

"I just happened to meet you a few times... Well, although the number of times may be a bit too much... But it shows that there must be a wonderful bond between us! Seriously, do you want to make friends with each other? I think We're pretty lucky."

"..."

——Do you still think I look like a fucking idiot?

Almost putting the whole plate of mushroom pasta on Colin's head, West took a deep breath, probably his expression must be very distorted now.In order to prevent himself from being pissed off like this, or blowing this guy up with the entire restaurant, he decided to put it in a more euphemistic way.

"Well, listen to you, we run into each other every time—" Colin swore that he saw West's hand on the knife move dangerously, "—then Mr. Burrence, please take care of yourself." Answer, what exactly do you want to 'meet' me?"

"It's really nothing..." Grievance flattened his mouth, and the boy's eyes were as wet as a deer, as if he was accusing his companion of unwarranted and severe accusations, which made people unable to get angry anymore.But obviously, this trick is of no use to the 'hermit' who is used to the big wind and waves - in fact, he has learned enough in the mutant school in the past few years about avoiding homework or review by acting cute and coquettish .

Leaning on the back of the chair with folded arms, listening to this kid talking nonsense.West hesitated for a while, but shook his head and rejected the idea of ​​finding the answer with telepathy.After all, he has kept Charles' teaching in mind for many years, and he is unwilling to spy on other people's * privately in this way, and he also believes that Colin has no malicious intentions.Otherwise, as early as the second time they met, he had already used unconventional means to completely brainwash him to ensure safety.

However, this does not mean that his tolerance is unlimited.

"... Colin." interrupted the chatter of the boy opposite.West looked at his light gray eyes that were as clean and clear as the sky after the rain, and sighed helplessly.

"I hope you can be honest. Due to some personal reasons, I can't let go of my guard against anyone who deliberately approaches me. If you insist on concealing it and refuse to give me a reason to rest assured..."

He stretched out his index finger and tapped his temple: "Then I'm afraid I'm going to take some measures that neither you nor I want to see."

As a kind of verbal intimidation, West actually didn't expect the boy to fully understand what the so-called "measures that each other didn't want to see" were.But Colin seemed to understand this very well, and before he could continue to explain further, he immediately closed his mouth, looking a little distressed.

"Okay, I'm just afraid you'll laugh at me." There was a long silence, seeing that he really couldn't fool himself today, Colin finally raised his hand and surrendered:

"Because you are very similar to someone I know, really. He... I have been looking for him for a long time, spent a lot of time, walked a lot, almost desperate, but let me see it again in you his shadow."

"I'm sorry, West. I didn't mean to bother you...I just missed him so much."

This is a reasonable and unexpected answer.

Carefully observe every change in the boy's expression to make sure he is not lying.West hesitated for a while whether to take the risk of exposing others' scars, and finally decided to continue.After all, as a mutant who has been familiar with fighting for many years, being cautious is already a deep-rooted habit in his bones.

"Who is that person?" Therefore, he followed the doubts in his heart and asked.And decided that if he got standard pick-up lines like "my ex-boyfriend," he'd crush the kid.

however--

"It's my ex-boyfriend." Colin Silly White Sweet Burrence replied happily, squinting his eyes happily.

"He also has charming blue eyes like Xia Tian, ​​and short brown soft hair. Although his temper is not very good, he is still... Hey, I haven't finished talking yet, Serena, where are you going?"

"..."

West felt like [beeping] like a dog.

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So, after several fruitless attempts to throw the boy off the Bridge of Sighs, West, who is said to look 'exactly like his ex-boyfriend', is also heartbroken today. The reality of getting a foot in the middle.

It's not that West really hates being around Colin.In fact, he quite liked this big boy who didn't have any plans and was stupid.For a mutant who has been forced to live away from family and friends, and possibly surrounded by powerful enemies, a genuine friendship can take some comfort in knowing that honesty with each other is impossible.However, these are all based on the premise that he really only came to Oxford to study. Even if he is living a comfortable life now, West still comes here with a blood debt and a mission after all.All the years and years will be of no concern to him until he finds his old enemy and destroys his ambitions once and for all.

The nightmare of 20 years is still going on, and the ghosts of 20 years have not yet rested.No one knew that he would wake up from his sleep almost every night.That damp and dark laboratory, the blood-stained scalpel, the screaming and crying that filled the entire underground base... There are too many unbearable memories that fill every corner of the body, lingering in the heart along with the blood flowing all the way deep.For West, in fact, what he hates is not only Yi Laijie who left nearly a hundred experimental scars on his body, but also the one who was humbled and crushed all pride, so angry but powerless to save anyone. Man's tiny self.

At the very least, he couldn't stop his revenge before dragging that lunatic into hell.

"Hi! Hi? Serena, are you okay?"

But he didn't know that he had passed the fate of being brainwashed countless times, and now he was able to sit here with a sound mind and flirt with men because of Wester's mistake.The blond boy leaned half of his body on the window sill, looking at the choked boy in the file room who was choked to tears, couldn't help but waved his hand in disgust: "This place hasn't been cleaned for many years, it's thanks to you that you made up your mind to come in. "

"You think I want to?"

Shaking the file in his hand, as expected, another burst of dust rose.West curled his lips in dissatisfaction, and while crazily cursing Tony Stark who lied to him to find the information in his heart, he carefully opened the yellowed documents.

...f**k.

He stared blankly at the cockroach sheet in the paper for five seconds, closed the folder with a 'snap', and flung it to the bottom of the bookshelf under Colin's sympathetic gaze.

"So, you still won't tell me what you're looking for? Maybe I can help you."

The expression was between worried and gloating, the boy said so, and his tone didn’t look like he was sad because of his companion’s distrust—anyway, everyone has a desire that they don’t want to be spied on, and he himself has a lot of secrets to hide from threats. ster.Since you can't have a clear conscience, what qualifications do you have to ask others to be completely honest?

"No, it's not like that." One look at Colin and he knew what he was thinking.Casually picking up another heavy document, West rarely explained: "There are some things that I don't want to tell you, but that I can't... For your safety, the less you know about this kind of thing, the better— —”

At least not dead.

Silently added the last sentence in my heart.If it weren't for the fact that Colin could not be rejected, and more than two people were required to check these old records at the same time, West would not even let him enter the archives.After all, the reason why he is in such a ghost place now is that Tony called at noon, saying that he had found a clue about Dr. Yi, and he insisted on checking the experimental records of the Oxford Department of Biology, and asked him anything else. From left to right, he made West confused.But in any case, this is a matter between superheroes, and it is not appropriate for Colin, an ordinary person, to get involved.Otherwise, if their enemies follow the clues to trouble this kid when he is not around in the future, his crime will be serious.

"... But, I'm not that weak... I've saved you many times before." Hearing this, the blond boy complained in a low voice, his voice was getting smaller and smaller, until it was close to whisper.

"It's a bad habit not to face up to your own weakness, Colin."

Looking through the densely packed records in his hand, he replied casually.Of course, West didn't hear Colin's last words, so he also missed the only chance to reveal his true identity—until later, the boy with black hair and high cheekbones confessed his identity in front of him. It finally dawned on them that they had missed each other so much time.As for the so-called fate puzzle, you will never know what it will bring you until the answer is finally revealed.

However, that will be a long, long time in the future.

"Ah, found it."

I don’t know how long he was in a daze on the dusty window sill. When Colin came back to his senses, he just heard West whistling excitedly—of course, what happened to Lang was that he accidentally ate another mouthful. Ash.

'Bah' a few times, but his eyes never left the page. The brown-haired boy's eyes kept jumping between the faded black ink.Tony was right. Yi Laizhe was teaching at Oxford that year, and the laboratory records he borrowed from West were not fully understandable, but he could read some data about a certain genetic engineering.What's more, he may have initially simulated and analyzed his genetic data here...it is of no value to him, but it may be a very useful reference for Tony and Dr. Banner who are also researching .

With this in mind, he turned on the cell phone specially modified by Stark, and West scanned all the records and sent them to Jarvis's database. He was about to send a message to Tony to remind him to check it out. There also appears to be some illegible writing on the back of the document.

'April 4th, I received the professor's analysis report today, which is different from my experiment, and I have informed you. '

'The professor discovered a new base pair change in the sample, and the structure is roughly...'

'...The aberrations and point mutations in the existing gene samples are not clear, and I need more experimental materials. '

At first glance, these scribbled and illogical sentences should be the notes Dr. Yi jotted down during the experiment.But West found the key points that need to be paid attention to - it seems that when Yi Laizhe was studying his genetic structure, someone he called a "professor" was also conducting research at the same time, and they may have often conducted research before academic exchange.

He frowned slightly.

Speaking of 'Professor', West's first reaction was of course Charles.Although Charles has indeed made a lot of achievements in life sciences, it is impossible for him to join forces with Yi Laizhe and help that lunatic study his own dna... This so-called professor must be someone else.After all, it was just a public title. If everything was applied to Charles, it might not be enough for him to have three heads and six arms.

Shaking his head, he secretly laughed for a while at the "three-headed and six-armed" Charles he imagined.West withdrew his thoughts, and was about to continue looking through other files to find out who this mysterious 'professor' was, when a burst of metal rock music suddenly sounded in the quiet room, which made his hands tremble in fright, and almost knocked down the tall filing cabinet in front of him .

"Colin..." Subconsciously looking back at his companion, West's face was not very good.

"It's really not me this time." With an extremely aggrieved expression, the boy who had been sitting obediently raised his mobile phone with a black screen: "I never set such loud music as a ringtone."

...The problem is that I never made a fucking rock music like this.

I froze for a moment, then realized that the song seemed a little familiar.West was silent for a while, and grabbed his cell phone.Sure enough, the flashing name on it gave him the answers to all his questions——

'Tony Stark'

... Hehe, he knew that there was only one bastard in the world who could be so bored as to set his own exclusive ringtone on someone else's phone.

Press the call button hard.Although he knew Iron Man couldn't see, West still rolled his eyes towards the ceiling:

"Hello?..."