Temptation on the tip of the tongue

No matter how perfect your plan is, there will be a betrayal in the end.

Looking at the thirteen cards in his hand, Tony suddenly had this thought.

Number one, himself.Number two, Pep.Number three, Quicksilver.The number four, Dulles, had become a vital number four even though he didn't know it yet.No. 11 Roddy, No. 12 medical staff, No. 13 Natasha, No. [-] construction staff, No. [-] Peter, No. [-], No. [-], No. [-] have died in the hunting and massacre, No. [-], Chen Xiaoxiao.

He repeatedly deduced his plan, and felt that it was seamless, and there would be no problems in any way.

Everyone was placed in the right place by him, and no one was misplaced.

He had repeatedly asked himself whether it was right to sacrifice the few for the sake of the many, but finally he came to the answer: he had no choice.

Tony repeatedly infers from different angles, and uses the computer to integrate each situation, and feels that there will be no variables in this plan.

Apart from the fact that Chen Xiaoxiao would definitely die, which made him extremely regrettable, there was no worse result.

But for some reason, he was still so disturbed.

Where exactly is the problem?

He couldn't tell what went wrong, he just felt that the most important part was stuck, and he couldn't proceed to the next step anyway.

Finally, Tony gave up completely and continued to think hard, put away the cards in his hand, and stood up.

He glanced at himself in the mirror, the sleepless night made him haggard and miserable, and his tired eyes made him feel dazed.

Tony took off his clothes, put on a wrinkled white shirt, and walked out the door in a 'gaunt' way.

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At the same time, Chen Xiaoxiao closed her eyes and read out mechanically:

"sorry."

"I didn't know breaking your neck would make you sad, I won't do that in the future."

She breathed a sigh of relief, and after apologizing, she looked up into the other's eyes.

Elijah was sitting on the floor with a pillow in his arms. Because it hadn't been cleaned up in time, there were still black blood stains on the pillow, which was very eye-catching in such a room.

Elijah's almost out-of-focus eyes looked at her intently. The slightly dark blue always made her feel very uncomfortable, like a sky covered by haze.

After watching it for a long time, he said slowly: "Because you lied to me once before, so I know what it's like for you to lie. I think that as a good friend, you shouldn't lie to me."

Chen Xiaoxiao is not afraid of Brandon, but every time she gets along with this powerless guy, she will feel a wave of fear from the bone marrow. She knows that he is not afraid of death, and she hates people who are not afraid of death.

Especially him, back from the dead.

She must not kill him on impulse, and finally cause irreparable damage to Mr. Stark's plan, so she will try not to anger him as much as possible before Mr. Stark needs her...

Chen Xiaoxiao said to herself, but still stood far away from him.

Elijah sat on the sofa and raised his face slightly to see her.When she saw this childish action for the first time, she thought he should be a gentle person, but when she saw this action for the second time, she wished to wring his head to pieces.

But Elijah soon laughed again; "But it's okay, I forgive you."

"We are good friends."

As he said, he reached out and touched the place where the black thread was stitched on his neck, as if to confirm whether the necklace was still there, to confirm whether his neck was cracked, then stood up carefully protecting his neck, and walked away from the table. After the knife.

A terrifying coolness passed over Chen Xiaoxiao's body, and countless noisy voices almost rushed out of her head screaming.

No.

do not do that.

You know it's not good for us.

But she couldn't make a sound, and took a step back, her back against the cold wall.

What she didn't expect was that Elijah didn't mean to cut her, but just lowered his head intently and looked at his hands.

Then, he took out the knife in his hand and cut the skin of his left hand.

A drop of blood slid down the pale and bloodless wrist and dripped to the ground.

The wound on his hand healed quickly and disappeared like a wave.

Elijah was stunned for a moment, as if he couldn't believe it, he cut the skin on his wrist with a knife again, opened his eyes wide, watched the moment when the skin healed, and suddenly laughed loudly: "Hahahahahaha! !"

Chen Xiaoxiao was always extremely timid in front of him, although she had no idea where this fear came from.

After the crazy laughter stopped, he turned his head to look at Chen Xiaoxiao: "We are finally the same."

"I don't need to be afraid of you anymore."

Chen Xiaoxiao said, "Yes."

She finally understood why she was afraid of him.

There are many fearful people in this world, everyone is afraid of their own fear, and always try their best to hide it.

People fake it, they get numb, they get vain, they hurt, but Elijah was honest about his fears and never saw them as fears.

Elijah wiped off the remaining blood on his hands, with a smile still on his face: "Good friends should share. You gave me a gift, but I haven't given you a gift yet."

Chen Xiaoxiao wanted to say something to reject him, but she could never say it.

Elijah raised the controller in his hand.

"Let's go, take you to a fun place. Don't tell brother."

Saying that, he grabbed Chen Xiaoxiao's hand and ran out of the room like a child playing hide-and-seek.

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Something must be wrong, Tony thought, walking behind Brandon.

definitely is.

But he couldn't figure it out.

Damn, he hated the powerlessness.

"Mr. Stark. Are you listening to me?"

Tony snapped back to his senses, looked at Brandon blankly, reached out and stroked his face, breathed weakly, and said wearily, "No."

Brandon looked at him intently: "You're always tired."

Tony nodded and smiled stiffly.

Brandon said: "It's strange that Elijah doesn't like you very much. He always thinks that the great Tony Stark can't be so crushed. Interesting?"

Brandon would always find his stupid brother amusing, Tony thought.

Actually it was a goddamn stupid kid who messed things up by doing stupid things anyway.

But Tony can't say that because he's never met the kid head-on.Elijah was like Brandon's shadow, always hiding in the corner of the light. When he turned around several times, he found that guy standing far away, looking at him with his unique shadowy eyes. He is hairy.

Pretentious child, Tony thought irritably.

However, Brandon in front of him suddenly stopped.

The straight body of the soldier lay in front of him, like a cold wall without warmth.

Brandon stood with his hands behind his back, squinted his eyes and looked at the laboratory behind the glass, and said, "What do you think is the limit of number 84?"

Tony was awakened by that number, and immediately woke up from his own world, frowning: "What?"

Brandon stood far away, looking at the world behind the glass, his eyes seemed to be watching the father of the child playing, and he said to himself: "Elijah only likes her."

Tony followed his gaze, and found that the child was standing side by side, not much different in height. For a moment, he felt that Elijah and Chen Xiaoxiao were like twins—they were almost the same height, small stature, and thin face , Eyes always buried in the shadows.

Standing in the distance, he always felt that there was a rare tenderness in that boy's smile, like...

As if aware of something, Elijah looked up in the distance, and a smile appeared in his gentle blue eyes.

Tony was startled.

It was a cruel smile.

It's like Brandon has tried to pretend countless times, but unfortunately he can't do it thoroughly.

That kind of cruelty is not terrible, but the tenderness in cruelty is the most terrible.

Because he thinks all his torture is a gift to others.

Tony finally saw what he handed to Chen Xiaoxiao - a stick made of paper at that time, which seemed to be rolled out of white paper, and looked very light and brittle.

Brandon turned on the wall speakers to hear what they were saying.

Elijah's voice was soft: "The first one is for you, okay?"

Chen Xiaoxiao clenched the stick made of paper: "I don't like this game. Don't you like drawing? I'll accompany you to draw. I beg you, I don't like this game."

Elijah said, "But we have agreed, you can win. Don't worry, I won't let you lose."

Tony stepped forward and asked sharply, "What is he doing?"

"What's going on with those people on the opposite side? Brandon!"

Brandon said, "It's all right, don't you see they're holding paper sticks? It won't hurt anyone."

Tony quickly scanned the faces of those people, and quickly recognized a few of them. He had seen them in the data: "Isn't that your test subject?"

Brandon said: "That's right. But these people are always unwilling to obediently fill in all their abilities on their forms, so we are helpless and have to force them to use their abilities, but you know, generally Soldiers cannot complete such tasks, so we will select experimental subjects with outstanding abilities among mutants, and they can volunteer to be testers."

Since Brandon kept it a secret, Tony knew almost nothing about the lab: "Tester?"

"Mutants have their pros and cons. The strong ones will make the inferior fear. The losers have to do their best to survive. Anyway, there will always be traitors. After all, testers will not be sent to do experiments. It will be much better."

He said, whispering: "Elijah's method is very clever."

He turned his head and looked at Tony with those pale blue eyes: "He's going to have everyone isolate that girl so she has nowhere to go."

"Traitors usually end up worse than invaders, don't they?"