When the Super British Ruled the Earth[British and American]

Celia is an ordinary state university student who just entered her sophomore year this year.

Her life is very ordinary, very ordinary - in the past 20 years, she has never encountered any disasters, and has never seen any superheroes and villains.

Her hometown is a small city without any big people.In the 20 years she grew up, Celia had never even encountered a car accident.The worst time she was injured was just climbing up to the attic at home, then accidentally fell out of the window, fell on the grass, and bruised her arm.

Any disasters that the earth has encountered over the years, like superheroes, seem to her to be just news on TV.

Even after the disappearance of Chaoying, the university chosen by Celia was far away from big cities like New York and Washington, where incidents occurred frequently, and went to another state with better security.In her first year of college, Celia still kept her past records and lived a very peaceful and safe life.

Xilia put on her clothes and put her bag on her back. As soon as she opened the door, she met the neighbor across the way.

"Good morning, Michelle." Celia smiled, "How is the life after transferring?"

Michelle is an African-American mixed-race girl with wheat-colored skin and naturally curly hair. Her eyes are always half-opened as if she has not woken up.

"That's it." She shrugged.

Michelle was transferred from New York. University transfer is a very troublesome thing. Other students are interested in her, but Michelle is a bit withdrawn and unwilling to talk about it.

Celia rented a house near the school for four years. Unexpectedly, Michelle just moved to the opposite side of her, and the two became neighbors.

The two chatted casually and walked towards the school.As we walked, the number of students on the road gradually increased.

"Hey, Celia!" A few hot girls in cheerleader skirts cut between the two of them forcefully from the side, and one of the girls grabbed Celia's shoulders and asked her, "What do you want this afternoon?" Don't come to our rehearsal? That way you can go to the girls' party with us tonight."

The girls chattered one after another, and Michelle stopped for a few seconds because she thought it was too noisy. The cheerleaders surrounded Celia and laughed loudly without knowing what to say.

Saying goodbye to the cheerleaders as they entered the school, Celia turned around, smiled again, and bumped fists with the students in the same class in front of her.

"How was your weekend?"

"great."

"Hey Celia."

"Good morning."

After saying hello to a few boys like this, there was a relatively quiet brunette girl looking around with a book in the busy campus. When she saw her, she immediately waved her hand happily.

"Xilia! Can you come to our experiment this afternoon, our team is short of one person."

"I just promised Hailey to watch their rehearsal..."

"Oh, those brainless cheerleaders." The brunette girl sighed complainingly, "It's okay, I'll talk to the professor and see what he means..."

Walking into the teaching building, I greeted and chatted all the way, until I entered the classroom and sat down on a chair, the whole world was quiet for a while.

Judging from Xilia's life, she is the most ordinary and inconspicuous girl.I have never encountered any disasters, and there have never been any particularly huge luminous points.Even her appearance is very ordinary - she does not look like a pure American, but a bit like a European, with black hair and blue eyes, not the kind of clothing and appearance that mainstream aesthetics like.

However, if we say that her most distinctive feature is her popularity.Yes, everyone, as long as they were in contact with her, almost all became her friends.Even if there are avant-garde, conservative, sports-loving, scientific research people... no matter what camp and personality, they will become friends with Xilia.

This is an extremely miraculous thing, because Xilia's character is also inconspicuous. She is very polite and nice, but she doesn't seem to have such a great charm.

Michelle transferred here for a month, and the biggest impression she has on Xilia is that she is very popular and can easily blend into any circle she wants to enter.

After another 2 minutes, Michelle also arrived.She sat down next to Xilia, her eyes filled with incomprehension.

"I feel like you know everyone in the whole school," she said. "Don't you get tired of doing this every day?"

"Why are you tired? I didn't do anything on purpose." Celia took out the book from her bag and smiled again.

Just as Michelle was about to say something, she saw a few tall boys wandering around the door for a while from the corner of her eye, and finally walked in.

here we go again.Michelle rolled her eyes.

Sure enough, one of the boys came to their table.

"Uh... good morning, Celia," he said, "Our team will practice on the weekend. Are you interested in street basketball? We can teach you a few tricks."

"Thank you." Celia said politely and gently, "I've been busy recently and may have to participate in group experiments, so I don't have extra time."

"Oh." The basketball boy looked a little disappointed and left.

After returning to silence, Michelle couldn't help looking at Celia.

"What's wrong?" Celia also looked at her.

"I finally understand why you are so popular and don't have a boyfriend." Michelle said, "Those boys are obviously interested in you—"

Celia took out the water bottle and said calmly as she twisted the cap, "I don't like boys."

"Okay, I understand you. Boys of the same age are almost childish." Michelle shrugged, "It's just..."

"But what?"

Michelle didn't say anything after that.

At noon, the physics professor sent out everyone's last report card.

Michelle's physics is a strong point, and she ranked among the top five just one month after transferring.She glanced at Xilia's score. Xilia's score was neither high nor low, and it should be almost in the middle of the whole sophomore year.

She recalled Celia's previous grades in other subjects, each of which was at the mid-range level, with none of them weak or particularly good.

At noon, the two ate in the school cafeteria. The whole cafeteria was full of laughter. The students chatted with their friends while eating, and some occupied the table to play board games. There was even one person playing guitar in the corner.

At this moment, several TVs hung in the cafeteria switched from music programs to news channels.

"...the alien war five years ago is still fresh in most people's minds. We don't know why all the superheroes turned into powder and disappeared at the same time. Scientists still haven't found out."

Celia looked up, and she saw photos of superheroes scrolling through the news.

"Since yesterday, flags all over the world have been lowered to express the people's tribute to these heroes. New York, Washington, Metropolis and other cities that have been protected by heroes are about to start a whole month of commemorative activities. New York and Washington poured in A large number of people came to the Superhero Monument to mourn, and the Police Department stated that they will go all out to protect the safety of the people..."

Unknowingly, the whole cafeteria was quiet.

Everyone stopped what they were holding and stared at the TV.

In this dull atmosphere, Celia began to feel her chest oppressed.

She doesn't like to read this kind of report.

She is a lucky one. When the superheroes were still around in the past, they were as far away from her as the story.Sometimes she thinks that superheroes never came to her hometown, and she was never saved.What does the existence of superheroes have to do with her?The people they saved weren't her either, so she didn't seem to need to be grateful for them either.

Perhaps most of these students in the cafeteria are as lucky as her.But at this moment, a dignified and tragic atmosphere circulated among the crowd.

All the superhero-related videos of the past are playing on the TV, but the picture is adjusted to black and white.

Looking at it, someone suddenly began to sob in a low voice.

Yeah, how many of these people in the cafeteria have actually seen a superhero?But why are they still so sad?

Throughout the afternoon, low air pressure spread in the school, and there were far fewer people talking and joking.Only then did Xilia know that the whole school had broadcast the news just now.

Celia was a little annoyed by this atmosphere, and she didn't join any clubs.After class, I went back to my place with Michelle.

After returning home, Xilia's mind was still in a mess, and she didn't even understand why she was so irritable.Because she is a person with very weak empathy, she seems to have never sympathized with anyone, let alone feel any grief for heroes she has never met.But she was still upset.

She fell asleep on the sofa, and it was already evening when she woke up.

The door was knocked lightly.

Celia opened the door, and standing outside was Michelle in plain clothes.

"Hi... May I come in?"

Celia moved sideways to allow Michelle to come in.She poured juice for them both, then handed Michelle a glass.

"What's the matter, Michelle?"

Michelle sat on the sofa, she looked a little disgusted, and her mood was not too high.

"Actually... I want to ask you one thing." She said, "I want to go to New York to commemorate the superheroes, can you go with me?"

Celia froze.

"What...?" she murmured, and quickly refused, "No, no, Michelle. I promised my family that I would never go to those dangerous cities."

This seemed to be expected by Michelle, she sighed and took a sip of the juice.

"Why did you ask me to accompany you?" Celia asked strangely.

"Because you're a courtesan who won, I think you're my friend," Michelle said moodily, "but I don't think our friendship is the same as your friendship with other people, and you'll understand me. Because you're a friend too." Misfit freak."

Celia thought she had heard wrong.

"Why do you think so?" Celia said with a smile, "I have so many friends, and I have a good relationship with all of them. How can I be out of group."

Michelle raised her head, and she looked at Celia calmly.

"Yes. You have a good relationship with everyone." She said slowly, "I have been watching you for a month, girl. When you socialize and laugh with everyone, there is no smile in your eyes. In fact, you Don't like them at all, you just see through everyone and do what you like, don't you?"

Celia was taken aback.

"You are the same as me, Celia." Michelle said calmly, "I hate crowds so I live alone, but you blend in after seeing through everyone, but being gentle to everyone shows that you are not gentle at all .You don't have any real friends at all, and you shut everyone out from getting close to you, don't you?"

Celia didn't speak.She drooped her eyelashes, and gently picked the lines on the sofa with her fingers.

"Well, what you said is actually quite right." After a while, Celia said, "I have been sensitive to other people's moods and preferences since I was a child, which allows me to befriend everyone. Even if you After seeing this point, so what? It doesn't mean that you and I are friends, I don't think our relationship is to the point of going out together. "

This time Michelle was silent.She slowly and feebly leaned on the sofa.

"You see through me. I just want to find someone to accompany me, and you are the only person by my side." Michelle said wearily, "I dare not go to the monument alone."

"Are you a fan of superheroes?" Celia looked at her.

Michelle's eyes were staring straight ahead, she seemed to be recalling, and her thoughts were traveling.

"I used to have two friends, in high school," she said slowly, "and one of them was a boy—he was as ordinary as you in school, but I always felt that he was different."

Celia's eyes dimmed.

"You like him," she said.

"You see through me again. In fact, I think you are very similar to him." Michelle said, "That boy... I should say that I have a crush on him. But he had a crush on our school girl at that time, so I can only Say nothing. Finally one day, the wonderful girl transferred and nothing happened to them. I made up my mind, I will finish high school with them, and I will confess my love at the prom. If I can, I will To be admitted to the same university as him..."

"What then?"

Michelle raised her head, she looked at Celia, and then slowly smiled.Sad smile.

"One day in the second year of high school, he suddenly disappeared. From that day to now, he has never appeared again."

Celia suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart.

Michelle lowered her head.

"I went to his house to find his aunt, but I heard a secret..." she said, "The three brothers in their family are actually superheroes. And he is the youngest one. On the day of the alien invasion war, He went into space with Iron Man."

Celia's bad premonition came true, and she murmured, "Is that boy Spider-Man?"

Michelle covered her face in pain.

"...he was only 15 years old! He went to the battlefield, and finally died in outer space..." She choked up, "I kept thinking, would he be afraid when he died, would he regret it? So far away, how lonely...he was only 15 years old! Why..."

For the first time, Celia was unable to respond with her perceptive dexterity.

She didn't know what to say, in front of a person who lost an important person, what comfort could stop the huge wound.

Celia stared blankly at Michelle and cried loudly, because of Michelle's connection with Spider-Man, it seemed that the superheroes who appeared on TV finally became more realistic.It seems that they have slowly changed from gods to human beings, and become ordinary people with flesh and blood.

Celia didn't know what to do, she had never encountered such pain in her life, so she could only helplessly put her hand on Michelle's back.

After a while, Michelle slowly sat up straight.

"Thank you. This is the first time I have cried in five years." She said hoarsely, "I know this request is too difficult for you. I just dare not face his tombstone alone, but people always grow up, right?"

Michelle stood up tiredly, ready to go back.Celia was still sitting on the sofa.

"Why do you think I look like him?"

"Because you always remind me of him when he was in school." Michelle said, "It's like——with great skills, but you want to hide yourself, so you deliberately make yourself very ordinary." After a pause, she was hoarse said, "Just a hunch. Good night, Celia."

After Michelle left, Celia was still in a daze.

Early the next morning, Michelle left the house with a backpack on her shoulders, planning to go back to her hometown of New York alone to pay homage to her high school friends.

Unexpectedly, almost at the same time, Celia opened the door.Michelle looked at her with two dark circles under her eyes.

"I'd better go with you." Xilia revealed a kind of sleepless numbness, "I'm afraid you will die in love."

There was a short silence, and Michelle couldn't help laughing.

The two walked outside, and Michelle used her mobile phone to help Celia book a ticket.

"What time is the plane?" Celia asked.

"The plane at nine o'clock will fly to Washington. Then fly from Washington to New York, so we will drop by."

Celia was stunned, "Why stop in Washington?"

After booking the ticket, Michelle put down her phone, and she looked at Celia.

"The monument to the heroes of the Justice League headed by Superman is placed in Washington." She said, "They are all heroes. Since they are going to commemorate, it is better to go."