After buying the earth [Comprehensive British and American]

When the black cloud in the sky gradually condensed into a black hole-like vortex, Alice was lying on the small table in Starbucks drawing.Mary noticed something was wrong at the first time. She was packing up the cups that the customers had finished drinking. When she looked up, she saw "black raindrops" scattered under the dark clouds in the distance. An ominous premonition enveloped her immediately. She immediately thought of The tragedy of the last time aliens invaded New York.

Fortunately, there were not many customers in Starbucks at this time, and she rushed to Alice while warning the adults loudly: "Girl, come with me!" She didn't explain too much to her here, and pulled Alice up. Si, turned around and rushed inside.

The little girl didn't seem surprised at all, she let her lead her, and followed her around the Starbucks counter, through the glass door connecting with the mall, and ran into the mall.

Mary took her to a spacious and convenient place, let go of her hand, bent down and looked at her and said to her: "Honey, terrible things may happen outside later, can you understand? You My sister entrusted us to ensure your safety before leaving, but now we can't stay in Starbucks, so can you wait here for a while, wait for me to finish things, and then take you to a safer place?"

Alice nodded: "You go, Sister Mary, I will wait for you here."

Mary was taken aback: "You know me?"

"I heard other sisters calling your name." Alice smiled, and she patted Mary on the shoulder very "maturely", comforting, "Don't worry, we'll be fine. Hilda will protect us of."

Mary laughed. At this moment, she noticed that the little girl was still holding a red oil pastel and an unfinished painting in her hand.It was a very common children's graffiti. Mary took a quick glance and vaguely saw Alice drawing a black bird with red eyes, soaring freely in the blue sky.

She wasted no more time and quickly turned back to Starbucks.

Alice stood at the corner of the mall and picked up her own picture again.

"So those alien birds outside are also in your expectation?" A female voice sounded behind her. The green-haired girl folded her arms and leaned over to look at the rough stick figure, "Metal black bird."

"No." Alice didn't turn her head back, and she was not surprised by this sudden conversation, "I don't know anything about this matter, and I don't care about it. I can't waste my strength on everything Now, I have my own work to do."

The green-haired girl stood up straight: "...So, you plan to go to Professor X's school."

"Yes."

She was tall and slender, and looked at Alice with an uncertain expression: "...I assume you didn't temporarily change your goals, such as deciding to join the X-Men or something."

"Never." Alice folded the stick figure.

She nodded: "Do you need me to take you from here to a safer place? Or, do you need me here to provide you with some necessary shelter?"

"When did you become so considerate?...Besides, don't treat me like those useless trash." Alice turned her head and smiled at the other party, "Lorna."

Mary often wondered what New Yorkers were thinking.

When she returned to Starbucks alone, not only did she not see everyone evacuating rationally, but instead saw a black group of people staying in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows and videotaping the swooping alien creatures.

She almost wanted to roll her eyes, deeply feeling that the reason why she is the lucky Mary is to thank this group of New Yorkers who are not afraid of life and death.According to the saying "when being chased by a bear, you just have to outrun your mates", Mary couldn't be safer leaving now - but alas, her conscience won't allow her to do so.

"Get out of here!" she rushed up and said to the guests who were filming, "Don't forget what the aliens did when they came to New York before! Aren't you afraid of death? Back off—into the mall, don't go any further Stay by the window, later those things will break these glass and break in and attack humans, believe me, I have experienced the last alien incident!"

When most normal people heard this, they regained their senses, gave up watching the excitement, and retreated into the shopping mall with their personal belongings.There were only one or two guys who were not afraid of death, persistently holding up the phone screen, and one of them said to Mary with a kind of confidence that came from nowhere: "It's okay—this time is different from last time, didn't you see that?" ? This time it’s just some birds. What kind of threat can this kind of bird pose? Can it peck my eyes? Hahahaha..."

Before the words were finished, several blackbirds had rushed towards them. Mary was shocked, and without hesitation she gave up on the irreparable idiot, and hid at the Starbucks counter first.

The bird hit the glass - this should be a very funny scene. On the earth, this simple fact often happens several times. People will even take pictures of those "stupid birds" and upload them to Internet bloggers smile.But this time, before the man holding the phone could laugh out loud, the glass shattered suddenly under this simple impact, and the flying fragments pierced the fragile human skin. The man yelled and threw away the phone, covering his hands Eyeballs impaled by shards of glass.

Chaos often appears in a flash, and so does death.

The weird mechanical flying bird opened its mouth, and the red light wave pierced through the man's body, as well as the painful howl.

fragile humans.

Mary closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and signaled her colleagues to follow her and leave this temporary shelter together—go to a safer building. In her opinion, the safest place in this building should be It is negative one or two floors. As long as everyone can hide in, they can temporarily avoid the attacks of those alien creatures. As long as they can persist for a period of time, they will definitely be able to wait for the superheroes to solve these enemies, and then they will be able to wait for the real rescue.

The colleague trembled and shook his head at her, eyes full of fear.Mary could only take his arm and force him to follow: "We have to go, and sooner or later something will happen if we stay here." The colleague nodded tremblingly, and followed her to move to the counter near the shopping mall door with small steps. edge.

She didn't have the courage to poke her head out to find the trace of the strange bird outside the counter, she just wanted to leave this place as soon as possible, her premonition told her that if she didn't seize this opportunity, something would happen to her later.

One step, two steps, three steps.

Getting closer and closer to the door that symbolized hope, Mary took a breath and decided to wait until she got to the edge of the counter, take a look around, and rush in quickly.

——God, Mary prayed silently in her heart, the little girl who was entrusted to look after was still staying in the mall, please bless me to ignore it safely this time, so that I would not miss the appointment with that beast lady.

Her hands had already touched the edge of the counter, and she poked her head out slowly, wanting to see if the blackbirds were still in place——

She met a pair of small inorganic mechanical eyes.

A strange bird stood less than two meters away from her. It tilted its head, as if it had been waiting for her to poke its head out. When it finally waited, it spread its wings and opened its mouth like a mockery. In an instant, Mary's pupils shrank suddenly, and the only action she could do was to reach back in vain to prevent her colleagues from approaching.

—God, if you can save me!she thought desperately.

At this critical juncture, a boot suddenly appeared in Mary's field of vision and stepped heavily on the bird.

The metal body of the alien creature, which is strong enough to penetrate glass, is vulnerable under the short boots. The light waves are extinguished, and the strange bird seems to have been trampled to break its bones and lose its vitality in an instant: if such a "cruel" video is posted on the Internet , can almost arouse the anger of most people who don't know the truth-whether they are animal protectionists or not.

In Mary's heart, there was only gratitude. She looked at her savior as if she was looking up at a hero, and she didn't understand why she had previously regarded him as a dangerous person who needed to be avoided.

It was Hilda who came. She seemed to come in a hurry, her hair was a little messy on her forehead, and she didn't care at the moment. She glanced at Mary in overalls and asked, "You know who was sitting by the window before?" Where did a little girl go?"

"I know!" Mary looked at Hilda eagerly, "I carried her into the mall, and she was inside, and I will take you to find her—"

Hilda was bluffed by her enthusiasm: "...you wait for a while, don't worry." She turned around calmly, first went to pack Alice's left suitcase, and then took Mary and her Colleagues walked into the mall.

For the first time, Mary felt that it was such a pleasant and reassuring thing to be able to walk into the mall with her head held high.

Alice stood there obediently. She caught sight of Hilda and waved to her.Hilda pulled the suitcase and walked over quickly: "Are you okay? Alice."

"I'm fine." The little girl replied, "Before the aliens attacked us, Sister Mary took me to hide."

Hilda glanced at Mary: "Thank you."

Mary immediately shyly pulled the curly hair behind her ears: "This is what it should be. When facing danger, of course we should protect the children first.... Let's go downstairs quickly, if those strange birds find the same thing later If you don’t have a way to get in, it won’t be safe here, in my experience, the safest place is the underground floor...everyone will go there to take refuge.”

"It's too big here." Hilda looked around. "There are too many entrances. I can't defend against those enemies alone, but I can't protect Alice well."

"So are you going to go out alone to face those monsters?" Mary's colleague calmed down a little. He looked anxiously at the people running towards the underground floor around him, as if if he slowed down at this moment, his life would be more dangerous , "—that's not realistic at all! Mary, let's go down first, we're just ordinary people..."

Mary seemed very hesitant. Reason told her that she should obey her experience and go downstairs to take refuge, but the intuition that had saved her countless times told her to follow Hilda closely.

"That's your business." Hilda glanced at the man, "I never interfere with other people's choices, Alice, pack your suitcase later, and I will send you out of this war zone first."

"Let me be with you. I can help take care of Alice." Mary made up her mind and looked at Hilda with courage.

She tilted her head and stared at Mary: "Are you sure?" She didn't care, she just brought one more person, but did the other party's trust come a little too violently?

"I'm sure." Mary nodded vigorously. She took the suitcase from Hilda's hand and took Alice by the hand. "I will take Alice well and promise not to cause you any trouble."

The man following Mary was almost stunned by the sudden turn of events. He almost suspected that there was something wrong with Mary's mind. He followed the flow of people without hesitation and flocked to the B[-] floor.

The three women present didn't care about his behavior either.

"We'll go out from there later." Hilda pointed to the main entrance, "Okay, get ready, let's go now."

Mary closely followed her footsteps. She held back, but still didn't hold back, and asked Hilda in a low voice: "...well, I don't mean anything else, I'm an egalitarian, I mean, Are you... a mutant?" The last word in her mouth was infinitely light, if she didn't pay attention, she would miss it.

Hilda slowed down and gave her a positive smile without hesitation: "—Yeah, of course I'm a mutant, the most powerful kind!"