super actress

If she could go back in time, Rhea Nolan swore she would never do such a stupid thing again.

They try to mess around at a movie preview, only to end up with this situation, frozen blood, panicked crowds, expensive perfumes and absurd blood smells in the air.Yeah, they did make this screening too big to stop.

Rhea patrolled among the stalemate crowd, knowing that she was just as embarrassed as them, no matter how big a person was, it would be no different at this time, human beings are instinctive animals that are greedy for life and afraid of death.

Unless he is not an ordinary person.

Her sudden silence made the managers around her quiet down, they were like the most law-abiding audience, eagerly looking forward to the protagonist's appearance.

A slight creak broke the silence of the moment.

For a moment, Rhea thought that time had resumed its flow again.

However, there were only two other active people walking into this static crime scene. Rhea constricted her pupils unconsciously, and she had already classified the other party as an enemy before they could express anything.

Terrible publicity plan!Crazy criminal!Awakening of the most inopportune ability - of course, there will never be a shortage of insiders with ulterior motives.

And the situation was even worse than Rhea had imagined. The two men on stage looked very special. The younger man didn't take off his sunglasses when he entered the room, and the older man was sitting in a silver wheelchair.In movies, these distinctive and impressive features are standard for important characters.

Ha, special people always have to be different.

She unconsciously pored over seemingly insignificant details, then cursed herself in her head to stay sane.

The man in the wheelchair spoke first: "Please relax, we have no malicious intentions."

"You guys did this?" Rhea's agent, Matthew Malloy, asked directly. Before she recovered, he had already stood in front to block the other party's sight.His tone wasn't friendly, but somehow the hostility was restrained, and Rhea was surprised how quickly he recovered.

The man wearing sunglasses remained silent, and the man in the wheelchair smiled: "It depends on what you are referring to. I know it's hard to believe, but we are here to help."

Listening to the voice, Rhea also knew which one was Professor X. She hated mind reading.

"It's not difficult to explain at all." Rhea organized her words quickly: "Your

Meaning, you have nothing to do with this incident, but you are now getting involved, and we can't say no.So tell me, what do you want? "

Professor X sighed without changing his smile: "We just want to help you, Rhea."

Malloy almost took this sentence as a provocation, and he clung tightly in front of Rhea, like a mountain that had a premonition of a storm.The man wearing sunglasses turned his head and gave Rhea a few seconds to look at Malloy.

"It's my disrespect for not introducing myself. I'm standing next to Scott Summers, and I'm Charles Xavier." Professor X controlled the speed of his speech, trying to ease the atmosphere.

Rhea wanted to roll her eyes, she hated this group of people's penchant for keeping things secret, "Oh, isn't it Professor X this time?"

Malloy turned around and asked, "What?"

"Superpowers! They must have super nicknames!" Rhea sighed half-truthfully: "Okay, two mysterious people, I don't want to know whether you are superheroes or supervillains, and I don't care, so let Let's get straight to the point, I have a lot of things to attend to, and you know I'm not putting it lightly."

She didn't tell Malloy directly that he had access to her brain.

Obviously, he couldn't get into Malloy's head now, or he wouldn't have to talk nonsense for so long.

"I know, Rhea." Professor X smiled: "For the sake of controlling the situation, at least I gave us a little time."

No one asked stupid questions about why other people couldn't move, how they did it, what happened, etc. The facts in front of them were so obvious that even a fool could understand them.

In the face of superpowers, they are like remote-controlled toys that can be paused at any time.

Professor X looked at Rhea first: "This world is not as simple as it seems on the surface. As you can see, compared with most human beings, we are a little special and have unlimited unknown potential. You can call us mutants—— And we are here because we sensed new mutants."

He turned to Malloy, "Your ability should have awakened suddenly. It erupted too suddenly. If you can't control it, it will cause bad consequences. You have also seen it, Matthew, you need our help."

She felt it was two different things, Rhea hadn't forgotten who was trying to shoot her, and Malloy was just trying to save her!

"Are mutants born?" Rhea interjected abruptly.

After only a pause, Professor X immediately answered her: "Yes."

"Then he

He should have had superpowers since he was a child. Rhea expressed her doubts to the seemingly incapacitated mind reader: "Why is he awakening now?" "

Professor X replied to her gently: "Nut allergy is also born, but they have to eat peanuts for the allergy to occur."

He might be right, but Rhea didn't believe a word of it.

The jerk could see what she was thinking.Although Rhea suppressed the information that jumped out of her brain as fast as she could, she knew that Professor X still caught it.

'Excuse me, I don't normally pry into other people's minds like this, but there are some things I can only tell you. '

——A hypocritical liar, how could it be possible to restrain the desire to spy on selfishness with such an ability.

Rhea rolled her eyes annoyed as soon as she thought of this, she could control herself to think of some specific pictures, but it was difficult to stop her immediate reaction.

'Too much mind reading is also taxing my brain. He used one of the most convincing explanations, "No matter how powerful an ability is, it must find a suitable method, and improper use will bring bad results." '

Malloy asked suddenly: "Then what is my ability?"

Rhea was taken aback by the voice, she couldn't adapt to this kind of simultaneous communication in reality and in her mind so quickly, now she can only think of ways to distract her attention to disturb her thoughts.She began to notice another young man named Scott Summers, wondering if he was blind after all.

'He is not. 'Professor X gave the answer directly.

Then Professor X opened his mouth to answer Malloy's question: "I'm not sure. As I said just now, the potential of mutants is mysterious and unknown. Only by constantly digging can we fully utilize those talents."

"But we understand this ability better than ordinary people, and we can help you better, Matthew—"

"So you are here to poach the wall." Rhea blurted out, and she looked at Malloy: "Ha, they want to recruit you."

The tall Jew smiled for the first time since the confrontation: "Do you want to form a team and fight against humans?"

The word human made Rhea frowned subconsciously. She kept emptying her brain and didn't react in time to Malloy's separation of mutants from the human category.

"No, it's actually the opposite." Professor X shook his head calmly, "We've always just hoped to coexist peacefully with ordinary people."

Malloy turned his head and glanced at Rhea's face, then he nodded commercially: "Really, it's really for you

They are happy. "

'You could tell he wasn't happy at all. 'Professor X sneaked in again and had another private conversation with Rhea: "He hasn't realized that his identity has changed, Rhea, although I firmly believe that mutants and ordinary people can maintain peace, there must be respective positions."

She slowed down her thinking: 'You don't want me to help you dig yourself out, do you? '

'You are brilliant, Rhea.You are a promising superstar, and whenever you want you can find elite agents in Hollywood who will rush to work for you.Your occupation makes you more risk-averse than ordinary people, but your business partner is your biggest threat now, which is an irreversible fact. '

'You're wrong, I'm going to be the unluckiest female star in Hollywood, a film critic was indirectly killed by me, and I'm about to die.My biggest threat is getting into another pile of trouble once I get away with it. Rhea chattered in her heart: "It's you, my biggest threat is you!"

Taking a deep breath, Rhea forced her thoughts to stop there, and she asked aloud, "What do you think, my dear agent?"

"I've never felt better." Malloy put his hand on half of her shoulder, "No annoying old problems, no headaches, no cigarette addiction... It's just that I care, Rhea, what do you think?"

He narrowed his eyes, "It must be annoying to be interrupted all the time."

The moment Malloy looked at Professor X, the man who had been silently guarding beside the wheelchair quickly raised his hand to take off the sunglasses on his face.

"Scott, no!"

The voice of stopping came from Professor X sitting in a wheelchair, but he didn't have time to stop it.

Before Rhea reacted, things had happened, and after she reacted, everything was over.It was just that her body trembled unconsciously, as if she had sensed an unknown force intertwined in the air.

Malloy slightly increased the strength in his hands, and calmed Rhea's emotions with the touch of his shoulders. He lowered his voice: "It's okay, everything is over, girl, I won't let you have an accident."

What responded to him was Rhea's continuous questioning: "What? What happened?"

Looking at the young man who was still taking off his sunglasses, Rhea had some guesses but couldn't believe it: "Fuck, don't tell me you did this?"

"Maybe." Malloy swallowed, looking weird and absurd with the slap marks left on his face, Rhea

Feeling a little vaguely guilty.

"How did you... when did you learn it?" Professor X changed his question halfway through the question.

Apparently the genius Matthew Malloy discovered the true ability of Professor X, and he quickly grasped this trick. Just now, he used it on that Mr. Scott.

"Blood." Malloy paused for a moment to calm down, "You can't stop the blood—so, you can only control people, Rhea knows your nickname, you told her, when I couldn't hear it .”

"Wait, can we fix this quickly?" Rhea interrupted them: "Since time doesn't really stand still, gentlemen, we need to hurry, or sooner or later someone will find out that something is wrong."

'Rhea, you don't understand--'

"Not now! You are the ones who don't understand." She yelled to dispel the voice in her head: "Unless you have controlled the whole world, I don't think you really realize the specialness of my identity, Professor X, Charles, whatever What—listen, we've got to get this mess out of the way!"

"Hundreds of cameras are on me! Thousands of people are waiting for the results of this movie test, and I'm fucking crazy to agree to the next stupid relationship promotion plan, and now it's all over " Rhea pulled away Malloy's hand and took a step forward, "Do you want mutants to have a grand exposure in front of the whole world? Well, then we can continue to talk about the broken positions between mutants and ordinary people. It's a joke!"

The man in the wheelchair must have glanced at her and didn't make a sound immediately.

"I will never sacrifice my damn career for you." Rhea concluded with a calm attitude that was almost insane: "And you don't want to expose the existence of mutants prematurely, but also want to develop your own. strength."

Professor X sighed: "I understand that this is very important to you, but you don't have to overact like this, Rhea, I know where the boundaries are, I won't dig into those memories that you sealed up, you don't need to pretend in front of me of."

Ironically, that's the line that makes her performance all the more important.

Now any mind reader who enters Rhea Noren's brain, he can only see the memories belonging to the real Rhea Noren before the age of 12 - thinking reconstruction, which section is a compulsory course for actors Class is coming?Rhea couldn't remember.

She just sealed up all the content about Chen Rui layer by layer, and added countless relocks. Even if Professor X came to read the mind now, he would not be able to quietly

Walk those secrets.

Yes, the biggest threat to Rhea Noren is not her precarious Hollywood career, nor the danger of death she has repeatedly approached, but the truth that cannot be divulged in all her past and present lives——

Rhea will never let the second person know about being reborn from another world in the future.

Even if this is a crazy and chaotic world of super powers, she will stick to this last hole card.

"Someone died here! Do you understand Charles? Or do you only care about mutants like you." Rhea didn't know if she was really venting her post-traumatic stress or just messing with her brain and messing with Professor X's use of it. Mind reading.

"You know how the media will cover this? They'll write: Rhea Noren killed him! She's the 'Genius Noren.'" Rhea paused for a byte, and then she was sure: "What's worse, even I think I killed him."

"Rhea, calm down!" Malloy held her back: "Listen, no one dies here, it has nothing to do with you!"

"And it's still too late, we can solve this. There must be a way, even if there is no way now, there must be some mutants who can change their memories, maybe I can..."

Professor X finally frowned, "Enough." This was the first negative emotion he showed. When he said this softly, Scott beside him regained his mobility, In front of him, Malloy couldn't be his opponent.

The man in the sunglasses never took his hands off the temples again, and Scott stared at Malloy: "You will regret refusing our help."

"Scott." Professor X comforted the other party with a flat tone, and this skilled dominant gesture got Rhea's gaze.

The man in the wheelchair looked back without avoiding it, his blue eyes were so calm that there was no trace of strangeness, "Do you know what your manager did just now?" '

Rhea resented the ease with which he drove straight into her mind so much, she seemed to see this body when she was 14 years old in front of Andre Witte.

'Shit, you still want to do this with me! '

'No, Rhea! ’ The mind reader’s attitude suddenly hardened, ‘You brought him back to life, Gene Siskel!I think it's the name of the hapless film critic.Do you know what that means now? '

She suddenly returned to reality from the battle of brain attack and defense, and Rhea couldn't help screaming: "Fuck! You better not joke with me!

"

Before Malloy asked, Rhea pointed to the corpse on the ground, "Tell me, he's not actually dead! Right?"

A voice came into her head: 'He died once. '

And yet all they heard was: "Yes."

Professor X glanced at Scott who was about to say something, and he tightened his five fingers on the armrest of the wheelchair, "It seems that this can indeed be redeemed, you are very lucky."

Regardless of Malloy's objections, Rhea walked over stubbornly. She wanted to listen to poor, old Gene Siskel's heartbeat herself. The moment she heard the slight thump, she felt her own heart stop for a moment.

'screw you!Mutant. '

She first vented a meaningless swear word in her heart, and then looked around the scene. Rhea pursed her lips before speaking again: "Well, Charles, we really need your help."

'You know I'm not kidding.He is very dangerous, no one can measure how far such power can develop, and no one can decide how such power should exist.It's not the shooter you're looking out for, and it's not us—'

fraud!Mind Manipulator! !

The strong sense of self-prevention has begun to make Rhea feel a slight nervous tingle, and Charles' mind reading seems to have finally evolved from sneaking into invasion.

'So you can decide? ' Rhea asked him, 'You can decide whether a mutant who is so powerful and terrifying is a normal person or a mutant? '

When he passed the first barrier, Professor X remained calm, 'You already knew. '

'All I know is that somebody's messed with Matthew's head and he's always getting headaches, obviously he wasn't born that way. ' Rhea gasped, 'you did it, didn't you? '

The man's voice was distorted repeatedly in his mind: "I'm sorry...you will be a very good mind reader." '

'Yeah, you could read my brain one more time and you'd be surprised that I'm really just a normal person. Rhea mocked him and herself in one breath.

She never denied her ambitions, and it was far easier for Rhea Noren to admit greed than weakness.She has been trying to make herself special all her life, but what happened today is just another verification. In such a world, she will always be a mortal.

After staring at each other for a while, Professor X said, "We have a school for mutants, you can come and have a look."

They are well aware that cooperation is

the best choice.

After listening to Malloy, he couldn't help laughing. Scott, who was still on guard, took it as a mocking provocation, and it couldn't be wrong. Malloy really had no good intentions.They are hostile to each other, always afraid that a certain person will make the first move.

"I see, 'Professor X'." Rhea bit down on the word, and she adjusted the request from their first conversation.

"Well, we don't erase memories, because they're so precious to normal people, we can't use mutant powers for personal gain. 'But', we can edit out certain insignificant details, right?"

Malloy was the first to respond, "Sounds perfect."

He walked up to Rhea and stood there, very much like Scott next to Professor X, which made her feel funny, but at the same time had a vague premonition of some kind of unspeakable future.

Scott Summers emphasized in opposition: "Gene Siskel was still shot, and as you said, under the eyes of the whole world-we can't cure him immediately, and we don't have time to deal with the scene."

"That's right." Rhea admitted that even if there were mutants to help, it would be a troublesome matter. The bullet marks and bloodstains are all evidence, but she didn't think about erasing the shooting incident.

"But if there must be a victim." Rhea lowered her eyes and stared at the bloodstains, her blue eyes with slightly different colors were dim, "That's me and it should be me."

"I'm the perfect victim who was injured to save Gene Siskel." She stroked the blood stains on her arm, and didn't mind rubbing away the shocking red.

As soon as the words fell, the faces of the others changed, and Malloy's reaction was the most violent, "It's impossible! We don't need to make sacrifices for this kind of shit." Rhea meant to let herself get shot.

Even if Scott stood on the opposite side of Malloy, he couldn't help asking: "Why are you doing this?"

"If you want to hide something, besides burying it in darkness, you can also put it in the shadow of bright light."

Rhea raised her head and looked at Professor X, "No matter how deep it is buried in the ground, there is a possibility that it will be dug out, and I am surrounded by a group of vicious dogs with sharp noses, and the things in the ground will not be hidden for long."

"Oh come on, we have a complete hype plan before!" Malloy was indignant: "Any plan is better than your idea!"

This sentence subtly hit Rhea's pain point, and she reluctantly admitted that she was indeed not qualified to seriously manage a relationship under such circumstances.neither does she

Maybe after experiencing such an incident, continue to fall in love as if nothing had happened.

"He really loves you." Professor X didn't dissuade him, he just reminded Rhea from another angle, "At least at this moment, I can be sure that he will also be willing to sacrifice everything to save you."

The mood of the heroine in the incident became indescribable. She found that this passage touched her heart even more than when she accepted the pursuit, because deep down in her heart she did not believe in love.

Facing the sincerity voluntarily revealed by her charismatic lover, she is more willing to believe the confession of a strange mind reader.

"I……"

Malloy didn't give Rhea time to hesitate, "But he didn't."

The man in the wheelchair looked at Malloy meaningfully, and wisely pressed the fleeting truth that had been peeped from him.

The horribly chaotic scene forced Rhea to make a quick decision, and she immediately bounced back like the actress who was destined to shine on the stage.

She sighed softly: "Now our interests are common, and we don't want the matter of mutants to become a big deal, so let's make another matter bigger, and then no one will pay attention to the other things."

Once she became gentle, the amazing charm continued to radiate from under the beautiful body, which was the attraction outside the skin. This change made Scott look away uncomfortably.

"After you decide what appearance you want to use to really appear in front of the world, I will be your best distraction focus, and after you are exposed to the world, I will also be the voice that you can speak among 'ordinary people' Most popular socialite."

Rhea reiterated word for word: "You need me now, and you will need me later."

Don't, use her brain.

She knew that Professor X could hear the words.

It was quiet for a while, no one commented on Rhea's words, Scott looked at her again: "Do you need my help to shoot?"

"Yes, please." Rhea looked directly at those shots. She didn't know how many pictures had been taken there. Unfortunately, no matter how precious those photo shots were, there would be no chance to keep them.

The new mutant, whose ability is still unknown, immediately changed his position, and Malloy took the conversation away: "I'll do it." The frowning on that face was full of force, and it seemed that his impatient character was not awakened And ease.

Especially now that he seems to be in control of everything, this feeling of unprecedented supremacy is as intoxicating as sex, but Malloy has not had time to experience it

.

Charles didn't want to give him such a chance to become stronger on his own. From the very beginning of intervening in this matter, what Charles wanted to change was everyone's memory and bring everything back to normal.Even the world of mutants might not be able to accommodate such variables, not to mention the complicated pattern and the split of mutants, Charles didn't dare to take the risk of placing a bet.

However, he had to start thinking about another thing now, and he didn't know if it was because he was worrying too much.

Since Rhea's decision could not be changed, Malloy quickly made up his mind.

He suggested in a professional tone: "Since you want to forge the scene, you must do it to the extreme." This man is another kind of cold, treacherous egoist who started planning.

"A powerful mind reader, the youngest actress in Hollywood, an agent who has awakened superpowers, and a...mutant." Malloy skipped Scott Summers, he Calculating the available resources around the team, "If this tossing for a long time is just a shooting crisis caused by fanatical fans who are not clear-headed, please, even a biopic screenwriter will find it boring."

Scott immediately questioned: "What are you trying to do?"

"This is a crime movie." Malloy brought the topic back to the original purpose of this press conference, "As a criminal and murderer, Ripley is not talented enough, and he was finally discovered."

Professor X pointed straight to the root, "You want a perfect crime."

"No, we need a mysterious case that is so bizarre that it will not be solved within ten years, or even forever, so that Rhea Nolen's name can be recorded in the police history file, enough to make her be mentioned forever." Malloy All ideas are contrary to Professor X.

He said without hesitation: "And I will always be Rhea Nolen's agent. As long as we stay in Hollywood, I can assure you that at least one-third of the media will stand in the future." We're around."

But Malloy made no attempt to hide his desire, "even more."

This condescending attitude irritated Scott, and he retorted dissatisfiedly: "What can that change? Mutants are still mutants, and those media can make the government stop targeting mutants—"

"Scott!" Professor X grabbed the words and did not continue.

Without waiting for a response, Malloy took it as their tacit cooperation proposal, so he continued: "This is still a world dominated by ordinary people. If this is the case, let us play the role of ordinary people first."

"first,

We need a best prisoner. "

"No, it's not right." Rhea looked straight at the black muzzle pointing at her, "We need the best crime-solving genius."

"boom--!"

After a pause, another gunshot rang out, breaking the film premiere of "The Talented Ripley" that had been silent for a while, tearing apart the storm that would soon be raging across the entire United States, and even the world, in the most absurd way. The prologue to the high-profile Rhea Noren case.

Gene Siskel, who survived, left a review, which was edited by Time Magazine in 1999: "Everyone is like crazy. People are wandering outside the theater at the crime scene. After she was sent to the rescue Waiting outside the hospital, wandering in every place and time related to this matter, they are looking forward to it, they are heartbroken, it is more like expecting Rhea Noren to die like this, so they can leave a perfect question mark-"

"They're more lunatics than The Talented Ripley."

The most terrifying madman, however, may still be the one who tried to murder himself.

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