Temptation on the tip of the tongue

Chen Xiaoxiao thought, she didn't like Elijah's eyes.

That kind of blue has a slight dark inside, even a little purple in the dark, that bruise-like color made her extremely uncomfortable.

She was sitting by the window with shackles on her hands, and the monitors around her were watching her every move all the time.

At that moment she prayed to God—let him die.

But God didn't answer her, and Elijah finally opened his eyes.

His eyes were dark blue, but not such a terrifying color as she had imagined, but the coldness still made one's heart palpitate.

When Brandon heard that he was awake, he kept knocking on the door. The knocking sound made Chen Xiaoxiao feel flustered, and the silence in the room made the sound even more terrifying.

Elijah didn't look at her, but just looked up at the ceiling: "I don't like my brother's cowardice."

"He was always afraid, afraid of everything, and he didn't know what kind of person he had to be to get rid of his fear, so he kept imitating his father, like a poor imitation."

Chen Xiaoxiao lowered her eyes: "He is very worried about you."

Seemingly not hearing her, Elijah looked up at the overhead light and squinted his eyes to see where the light was brightest: "He has been afraid of mutants since he was a child, and he thinks he is the son of Congressman Eisenhower." , because my father suggested that Congress send mutants to concentration camps, so sooner or later he will be killed by those rioting mutants."

"He used to always like to bully the kids around him. Winning the older kids made him feel strong, but in reality it was just because he was cowardly. Until one day, he hit a girl because the girl refused to be with him. contact."

"He didn't know it was a mutant, a powerful mutant. He thought the girl was soft, but she wasn't."

"She let her father's car hit the truck, but the police could only find out that there was a problem with the brakes, or that the driver was distracted, but we all knew it was not. She let the car fly and hit it. The tree trunk was crushed by the speeding truck."

"So I watched him clumsily plead in court, utter words of fear in front of the police, and then wait for the girl to appear in court and she controlled his mind and changed his confession."

"I watched my elder brother make an innocent confession for the enemy who killed my father."

When Elijah said this, he turned his eyes that looked like bruises to look at her, and said softly: "From then on, I knew that he was a cowardly fool who was only worthy of being manipulated forever. "

He turned his head again and looked at the lamp above his head. Circles of halos appeared in the white: "That woman's name is Jean Gray. Thank you for helping me find her."

The knocking on the door continued, and the speed was getting faster and faster, almost to the point of smashing the door.

Chen Xiaoxiao asked: "You don't want to open the door?"

Elijah lay there sleepily: "I don't want to see him. He must be terrified now, but I don't want to comfort him. I don't like cowardly people."

Chen Xiaoxiao knew that if the door was not opened again, Brandon would probably blame her for everything.If she added another layer of restraint to her actions, she would definitely screw up Tony's plan completely.

So, she persuaded as much as possible: "Your brother is the ruler of the three districts, you are omnipotent here, no different from a prince in the feudal era, what are you not satisfied with?"

Elijah suddenly turned his head to look at her, with mocking smiles in his eyes; "What's so good about living like a puppet under the control of others? If he wasn't so useless, we could obviously—"

At this moment, there was a loud noise at the door, and the whole door was knocked open!

Brandon rushed into the house, almost threw himself on his brother's bed, and asked in a trembling voice, "Why don't you open the door?"

Elijah looked at his brother indifferently with his characteristic lack of interest, as if seeing him turned into a doll pulled by a string, and for a while he became more and more disgusted.

Elijah looked away: "You are very noisy."

Brandon was eager to see if there was anything missing from his body. He carefully inspected his brother's body as if examining a piece of porcelain, and found that the huge blood hole on his body had healed. Except for the blood stains on his clothes, There was no other sign that he was near death.

Elijah didn't like the look on his face.

He knew that he yearned for powerful mutant abilities, but was afraid of the consequences of that ability; he hated mutants who were too powerful, and was afraid of being slaughtered by those abilities.

It is precisely because he is so contradictory that he is so cowardly.

At this moment, there was another knocking sound on the crashed door.

The figure of Tony Stark appeared at the door.

He didn't seem to care what happened between the two brothers, he just motioned to Brandon to speak.

Brandon knew that his brother would not want to see him, so he reached out to hold his brother's hand and looked at him pleadingly: "The reason I accepted that condition was because I wanted to save you. You know, I will do anything to save you."

Elijah doesn't look at him: "You'll do anything for your fear. You compromise with him, like you compromised like Jean Gray back then."

Brandon was completely enraged by this sentence, and he threw away his brother's hand and shouted: "I saved you! It was me who sacrificed myself and saved you! If you say such things again, then we still don't see each other." better!"

Elijah seemed rarely agitated.

He just watched his brother silently, watching him breathe fiercely, and then gradually calm down and turn into hopeless fear.

"Please, Elijah, don't do this to me."

Elijah looked at him very lightly: "He will eat you up slowly. By then you will no longer be my brother, Brandon."

Seeing that Brandon was about to start arguing with his brother again, Tony said impatiently: "They caught Spider-Man. He also has a mutant who can move at high speed, and the one you lost, Black Widow. "

"Are you really going to waste your time arguing with kids instead of meeting those powerful resources?"

"He's Spider-Man. You're still short on your Legion, aren't you?"

Brandon suddenly stood up, turned to the door, and stopped in front of the smashed door: "Stop saying such things, Elijah."

After taking Brandon out, Tony looked at Chen Xiaoxiao: "I hope you will take good care of Elijah during this time, miss."

Chen Xiaoxiao didn't answer.

Tony caught up with Brandon and asked, "Are you relieved to let that man be alone with your brother?"

Brandon walked quickly in anger: "It's all right. She doesn't have any weapons."