[Comprehensive British and American] vampires modern daily life

The principal of Xavier School does not have thin hair and bald at an early age as Pietro described. On the contrary, he has thick brown hair with slightly long hair and slightly curly ends. He can still see that the quality of the hair is good. When he entered the room, the first thing others saw was the hair that looked like a literary youth.

In Eunice's imagination, the principal of the mutant school should be an elderly man with a kind face, but the real person has a soft smile on his face, but he is not very old, at most in his thirties, with a good-looking appearance Handsome, but not as handsome as Steve is full of male hormones, his outline and facial features are more delicate and beautiful, full of bookishness, gentle eyes, without a trace of aggression, as if just looking at him, you can Let go of all the negativity weighing on your chest.

What is embarrassing is that he was pushed into the office by Hank in a wheelchair.

It's just that although he is in a wheelchair, he doesn't have the gloom and self-abandonment of a paralyzed patient. His clothes and expression are the same as ordinary people, and he even looks more confident than most people with able-bodied hands and feet.

On the one hand, his temperament is very close to that of Carlisle, the same as the temperament of a close sister who can make Eunice feel fear.

However, this confidant sister just glanced lightly at Pietro, which already made Pietro fight with each other, almost fleeing.

Hank pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, "Miss Stiles, this is Mr. Charles Xavier, the principal of Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters."

Principal Xavier smiled slightly and said, "This is Miss Stiles, the anchor of "The Reader" that Pietro listened to every day recently. I happened to listen to one episode, and it was very good." When it came to Chris, who was sitting on the sofa and supplemented with glucose, his face looked a little better, "This is..."

"Young mutant looking for Xavier, Chris Lee." After finishing speaking, Eunice took off her sunglasses, and calmly looked at the headmaster. The headmaster's eyes were a little subtle when he saw her face, but he He quickly adjusted his expression, and then said with a smile: "I am happy to help those young people who need my help."

Next, the principal Charles, the teacher Hank, and the senior Pietro, who was paler than Chris, took Eunice and Chris around the campus, and talked about the history and current situation of the school by the way.

It was already evening, and the sun was not so strong, so Eunice simply didn't put on the sunglasses anymore, but pulled the scarf a little higher to cover the area below the bridge of her nose. She wasn't very interested in the history of mutants. When Hanke introduced the school curriculum and various functional laboratories, her thoughts had flown along the two swallow-tailed kites parked on the bell tower to the fountain in front of the teaching building. In the center of the fountain was a marble sculpture of a Roman priestess. , from her perspective, she could only see the priestess' slim back, the fluttering skirt, and the flower basket on her wrist.

But for some reason, she felt a strange sense of familiarity.

"Is Miss Stiles interested in that sculpture?"

Eunice turned her head following the sound, and happened to meet Charles's smiling blue eyes. She also bent her eyes and said, "It's a beautiful sculpture."

At this time, Hank had already walked a certain distance with Pietro and Chris, and Eunice simply slowed down and walked with Charles.

She knew the headmaster of the young mutant school had something to say to her.

Charles' wheelchair can be freely controlled by himself, so he doesn't have to roll the wheels of the wheelchair like other patients who can't walk, but leans on the back of the chair with his hands naturally on the armrests.

"That young man, I said Chris, is he not related to you?" Charles said.

Eunice nodded: "It's just a chance meeting. As for why I helped him, it was just a whim."

"Miss Stiles is such a kind person." After Charles finished speaking, he stopped and turned his head. Eunice also stopped, looked in the direction he was looking, and was slightly taken aback. .

From their angle, they could just see the front of the statue of the priestess in the fountain. The priestess's face had soft lines, her facial features were exquisite and beautiful, her eyes were slightly closed, and her mouth was smiling, looking dignified and serene.

Eunice froze slightly.

"Miss Stiles should know about Michelangelo?" Charles asked.

Eunice nodded: "Of course."

One of the three masters of the Renaissance, a great sculptor, painter, and architect. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, she met Michelangelo in Rome who was painting the dome frescoes for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. When Adam and Eve were painted on the 18-meter-high shelf, she stood below supporting the shelf, raised her head, and looked in amazement at the unfinished paintings on the dome.

That is the later shocking "Genesis".

Charles smiled, and continued: "The Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters was originally the Xavier Manor, which was built by the ancestors in 1870. In the year of completion, the ancestors looked at the empty pond and felt that something was missing. He loved Michelangelo. Qi Luo was going to ask someone to carve a statue in the middle of the pond, hoping to make people feel serene and serene like the Pieta, so he set off for New York and searched for famous painters at that time, but he couldn't find a satisfactory candidate. On the day he was about to go back to West Chester, someone told him that there was an old painter in Brooklyn named Francis Madison, who was famous for copying Michelangelo's paintings when he was young."

When Eunice heard this, she looked away from the sculpture and moved to Charles.

Charles still had a smile on his face, and said slowly: "It's a pity that the painter is very ill. He said that he will not be alive soon, and he may not be able to fulfill the ancestor's request. Just when the ancestor was very disappointed and was about to return, he accidentally Saw an unfinished portrait of the artist."

"He got the permission of the painter, and led the craftsmen to carve it according to the appearance of the person in the painting. However, just after he finished carving the head, the painter passed away, and the painting disappeared."

After Charles finished speaking, he looked at Eunice.

Eunice looked at him calmly and said, "Then what happens later."

"Later, the ancestors fused the face of the person in the painting with the only one of the six Vesta virgins in Michelangelo's "Vestal Virgins" painting, which shows people from the back, so that today's This statue," Charles said.

Eunice turned her head again to look at the sculpture.

No wonder, when she saw the back of the sculpture, she felt familiar. She thought that Charles' ancestors combined the characters in the two paintings into one sculpture, and it turned out that the person in the two paintings was actually her.

She wanted to find it funny, but couldn't.

As the principal of the mutant school, Charles must have a certain talent. Although Eunice didn't know what kind of mutant talent this person possessed, she was sure that Charles knew her secret.

She was not a shy person either, so she asked directly: "What does Mr. Xavier want to know?"

Charles smiled slightly: "I don't have anything to know."

He tapped the armrest of the metal wheelchair with his fingers, and said: "There was a family in the town before. Although they were not mutants, they all had special talents without exception. Among them was a young girl whose talent was Predict future."

Eunice narrowed her eyes.

"Her name is Alice." Charles glanced at her and said with a smile, "The head of this family is named Carlisle. He is a gentle and knowledgeable doctor. He told me that he would not harm anyone here. And he will only stay here for two years. I believed him. Not long ago, he told me that he was moving to Washington State, but before he left, he said that his daughter Alice predicted that there would be a catastrophe in New York recently. And let me see the scene of this catastrophe."

"Did you see that?" Eunice asked.

"I see." Charles smiled deeper, "I have similar abilities to a boy in their family, but unlike him, I can completely control my abilities."

Eunice: "..."

Another guy who can see through the hearts of others.

"Don't worry, Miss Stiles, I can completely control it, and I won't pry into other people's hearts easily." Charles shook his head, "The reason why I told Miss Stiles this is because, I In the future that Si presented to me, I saw the sculpture that has stood in front of my house for more than a hundred years...that is you, Miss Stiles."

Eunice: "...I don't really like that description."

Charles laughed, and then said, "Well, it's Miss Stiles, the prototype of the sculpture in front of my house."

Eunice's expression softened a little: "I know this future. Edward told me that my younger brother walked downstairs to me, and then he had a battle with the Avengers in New York. Both sides suffered losses."

Charles nodded, and continued: "So did Edward tell you anything else?"

"Other?" Eunice frowned.

"Right." Charles said after deliberation, "For example, why did your brother go to war with the Avengers?"

Eunice was stunned: "...Why?"

"Miss Stiles, have you ever thought that vampires will die one day, but time is not endless." Charles retracted the smile in his eyes, "The future I see is too painful, but fortunately Carlisle Tell me, the future that Alice can see is subjective and can be changed, but seeing you this time means that in the real future, your brother walked to your door and was welcomed by you. The future has changed for the first time. I just hope that you will think more about your true thoughts, after all, tragedy is not what everyone wants to see."

Eunice exhaled and looked at the sculpture again.

At that time, Michelangelo wanted to paint the six priestesses of the Vesta Temple in ancient Rome. She agreed to be one of them, but finally chose to turn her back.

Michelangelo said helplessly: "Well, maybe the Virgin of Vesta with only one back is more memorable."

He was right. Of the six Vestal virgins in the painting, only one turned his back to the picture, which only gave people a back view that gave people infinite reverie. The most beautiful and puzzling mystery, countless people guess the story, and some people say that Michelangelo deliberately created suspense.

In fact, there are not so many puzzles.

It's just that Eunice didn't want Ah Luo to see her face in any way. When she left, she said that she would never see him again, and at the same time deprived him of the right to see her.

Even though so many years had passed, she thought about turning into a wisp of smoke countless times and wandering in the place closest to him, even if it was only a quarter of an hour, it was enough to make her less painful.

But every time, she told herself, it doesn't matter, the vampire's time is very long, so long that one day she can really forget those irreversible things, then at that time, she would smile at Ah Luo without any gaps, saying The last sentence "long time no see".

It's just that now, thousands of years later, some things still cannot be forgotten.