After buying the earth [Comprehensive British and American]

United States, New York.

Hilda wore sunglasses, put one hand in the pocket of the windbreaker, and pulled the suitcase with the other. She passed through the hurrying crowd expressionlessly, and Alice followed her, looking around curiously.

"This is New York." She whispered, "It looks the same as Gotham?"

A double-decker bus slowly passed in front of them. A boy stuck to the glass of the bus and made faces at the two of them. The glass of the bus reflected the colorful light reflected by the huge electronic screen behind them. On the screen, the female star was sexy Beautiful, with a slight smile on that flawless face, as if the city is silently and reservedly welcoming guests from afar.

"Where are we going next, Hilda?" Alice asked.

Hilda looked around, trying to find a place to sit down and rest for a while, and soon, she locked on - Starbucks.

Some heavy glass doors were pushed open, bringing a breeze and blowing in Mary's face.She raised her head subconsciously, and showed a commercial smile to the customer who pushed the door, and then her nerves tensed.

Although Mary is just an ordinary Starbucks waiter, she has been sensitive and intuitive since she was a child, and can often quickly perceive subtle things that ordinary people cannot feel-this ability has helped her avoid accidents and big and small accidents many times. Small dangers, which of course included the last time aliens attacked New York, so her friends called her "Lucky Mary".

But at this moment, when she saw the dark-haired lady who pushed the door and entered, her fragile and sensitive nerves suddenly started to go crazy and called the police. ...Evidently this lady looks like an ordinary traveler, why does she feel that what she encountered was a frightening beast?

Her body tensed unconsciously, so that her smile seemed a little stiff: "...Hello, what do you need?"

Miss Beast pushed up her sunglasses and stared at the menu for a while, thinking. Her brown eyes looked like glass without emotion in Mary's eyes. She shrank suddenly, and then slowly moved forward under the cold glance of the other party.

"What do you want?" She turned to the girl behind her.

"Matcha Frappuccino!" said the little girl.

So Miss Beast nodded and said to Mary, "Two cups of Matcha Frappuccino."

"Okay!" Mary replied quickly, ignoring the suspicious glances of her colleagues, while preparing the Frappuccino, she pricked up her ears to listen to the movement behind her.

"Don't you drink coffee, Hilda?" Alice asked.

"Don't drink."

"Are you in a bad mood? From the time you set off until now, your air pressure is so low," Alice said, "Just now that young lady turned pale from your fright."

Mary who was suddenly cue: "!"

Hilda: "Of course I'm in a bad mood. Who would be in a good mood today because I got up so early in order to come to New York?"

Alice: "Ah, I thought it was because you lost love."

Hilda: "?! What broken love, I'm not broken in love, I have a boyfriend, okay?"

"But isn't your boyfriend breaking up with you because he doesn't like long-distance relationships?"

Hilda turned her head in disbelief and looked at Alice: "??? Who did you hear that? It's nothing like that."

Alice tilted her head: "Isn't it? But, I heard you calling..."

Hilda put down her sunglasses with a stinky face: "You may have heard wrong."

Alice: "Then will you break up?"

Hilda sneered: "—Break up? Dreaming."

The last two words were extremely cold. Turning around and bringing over two Frappuccinos, Mary stood on her head. She swallowed, lowered her head nervously, picked up a marker and asked, "You, your two Frappuccinos ...May I ask your surname...?"

"—Walker." Alice and Hilda said in unison.

Hilda paid the money, took the suitcase in one hand, and found a Frappuccino with "Miss Walker" written on it in the other, and found a seat by the window together with Alice.

Alice sat on the chair, shaking her legs: "So you and your boyfriend just quarreled?"

Hilda wasn't sure if that counted as an argument.

A week ago, she decided to agree to the Penguin, come to New York to do business, and take a break in New York by the way. She thought Bruce would be happy for her—after all, she stayed away from Copperpot and kept her job. Who knows , Bruce is not only not happy, but very depressed.

Although he tried his best to conceal it, Hilda, who proclaimed herself an eighth-level Wayne interpreter, couldn't fail to see his unhappiness.However, it is one thing to see it, and it is another thing to ask the truth from this guy. She walked around him for a long time without making a fuss, and finally pried out some clues at the moment when his mind was empty and most defenseless: for Penguin is that doggy.

Hilda couldn't figure it out. It was obvious that she and Coppert had a plastic employment relationship where one hand paid for the other and the other hand delivered the goods. Why is Bruce so obsessed with this matter?And she was planning to alienate Cobbot, why wasn't he satisfied?What else do you want?Does she have to stab the Penguin back in a bloody betrayal scene?

She was really upset at the time. Originally, she happily guessed whether it was because Bruce loved her too much and was reluctant to let her leave Gotham. She proudly carried out a passionate operation, and even took the initiative to accompany Bruce to play his favorite Batman role-playing: Although he protested, Hilda knew that was what he liked, after all his nerves tensed with excitement when she looked him in the eyes and called him Batman!

Hilda could totally understand his little quirk—Bruce must still like superheroes, otherwise he wouldn't be funding Batman.She is very happy to satisfy the big boy's naive little idea of ​​playing a hero, after all, she also finds this game extremely exciting.Although the uniform is missing, the fantasy of holding Gotham's most powerful and suspicious cat-eared man under his body is enough to make people excited.

...In short, she thought she had done the best, but it turned out that Bruce was not unhappy because of a different place, but because of an inexplicable penguin!

For the first time Hilda felt angry, though half of the anger was self-indulgent exasperation.This level of embarrassment made her unwilling to obey his will in order to coax Bruce this time. On the contrary, she just wanted to go against him, to go to New York to be chic, and to maintain a plastic but long-lasting friendship with Penguin.

Coppert's saying is right: Men, you can't be too used to it.

So, for the first time, Hilda didn't hug Bruce for a pleasant aftertaste after having a good time, but put on her clothes and left with a dark face.

Then came the inexplicable Cold War.

In order to get rid of the habit of contacting Bruce, she began to accompany Martina to investigate Alice's activities, trying to find out who the friend who led Alice was.She got nothing, but in the process, she violently returned to her old business and wiped out half of the East Side.Until one day, Bruce took the initiative to call, and in a long silence, he proposed to break up.

Hilda: ? ? ? ? ?

She finally discovered that her blue eyes were good no matter what she looked at before, but in fact, she only saw one side of him. As time spent together, she gradually discovered other sides of him. These aspects are not all surprising, sometimes , they can make her feel angry or helpless.

But... quarreling?

"No, that's not a quarrel," she pulled back her thoughts, "it's just a little emotion in the communication."

Alice took a big sip of the Frappuccino, a little confused: "...Oh, should I wish you two get married soon?"

Hilda coldly refused: "No, I don't want to get married early."

Alice: "You're such a scumbag."

"Instead of talking to me about this," Hilda said, "let's talk about business. Do you want to go to school first, or play here for a while, and then go after I finish my business?"

"Of course it's after you finish your business," she replied obediently, "I can find a place to wait for you. Hilda, after you finish your business, can we go around New York City before going to school?"

"If you want."

Hilda paused for a while: "Do you want to go to Xavier Academy for Gifted Boys?"

Alice stirred the Frappuccino with a straw: "Think about it, I haven't seen a few mutants since I was a child, and now a school is full of mutants, isn't it interesting?"

Hilda: "But I heard that the principal can read minds, and can see through any thoughts that flash through your mind."

"He's a good man, and he doesn't invade other people's privacy for no reason," said Alice. "I'll have a good time there."

Hilda laughed: "...you 'see'?"

Alice: "I will not waste my ability on all insignificant things. Such an important ability should be used at the most critical moment."

Hilda said casually, "...so your bad friend is also a mutant?"

Alice: "!"

Hilda raised her eyes and glanced at Alice, raised her eyebrows slightly: "Looking at your expression, I guessed it right?"

Only then did she realize that she had been cheated, she couldn't help but lowered her head, and remained silent in annoyance.

"I don't care what you want to do at all." Hilda yawned, "As long as you don't hinder me, you can do whatever you like—even if you don't plan to go to Xavier Academy for Gifted Boys at all It doesn't matter."

"No," Alice replied, "I'll go to Xavier Academy for Gifted Boys, and I'll stay until the end of term, just like Martina expects, to be a good person."

Hilda is amused: "Martina wants you to be a nice guy? Seriously?" Be a nice guy on Gotham East?

Alice: "Martina hopes that I can leave Gotham. Maybe, in her opinion, New York is a good choice."

"What about you, do you want to stay in New York?"

"I've said it before." Alice held the cup, "For me, there is no difference between New York and Gotham."

Hilda was noncommittal: "Well. Then, I will go to do some things later, so you stay in Starbucks and don't run around. I will send you to school after I settle the matter."

"But I want to play here for a day—"

"I don't have time for kids."

The phone in her pocket vibrated silently, and Hilda took it out to take a look—it was Copperpot's phone.

She stood up angrily: "I'll go outside to answer the phone."

Alice sat on the chair, watched her back, and said softly: "...you will be free."

"Mary!" a cry came from inside the store, "Come on, Mary's fainted!"

"Ah oh," Alice took a sip of her drink, cast a casual glance at the chaos, and looked out of the window at the irregular sky surrounded by tall buildings, where the dark clouds condensed and covered the sun, "...the sky is going to change gone."