[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Absolute Center

At the beginning of the night, Fifth Avenue in New York, in the private elevator of a luxurious high-rise apartment in a prime location in Manhattan, a girl who looked only fourteen or fifteen took out a dark gold pocket watch from her coat. The difference is 1 minute.

In this short period of 1 minute, the elevator climbed steadily to the height of the 65th floor. Accompanied by a ding sound, the cold elevator door slowly opened.

Two steps away, there is a thin sliding alloy sensor door. As the elevator opens, the sensor door also slides to the two sides with a slight movement. The smell of alcohol stirred each other, the girl withdrew her foot from the elevator, and was about to press 1F——

"Anna! Youarehere!" A pleasantly surprised male voice broke through the ecstatic crowd and came out. It was a slender young man with profound features and a rather handsome smile on his face. He was wearing a white shirt and long trousers. He walked to the elevator to support himself. He opened the door, holding a glass of dark blue special cocktail in his hand.

"How are you going to run away?" The man smiled and looked at the other party, using this to cover up his inner excitement. To be honest, Neil did not expect to invite Anna today. After all, he was a classmate for six years since he was a child, and he was often invited to birthday parties from northern Europe. half-breed goddesses, but no one ever made it—Anna was sort of a lonely girl.

The people of the United States, who love novelty, should have blacklisted this little classmate who "couldn't be invited repeatedly". There are three reasons why they didn't do so, and they still keep hiring people over and over again:

First, Anna is very beautiful, the kind that no matter who appreciates taste, she will look at her more when she sees her. She has long black hair, white to transparent skin, and blue eyes like sea water. She is mysterious and beautiful. The key point The face is very small, everyone is, people's [-] is no different from [-] or [-] years old, and the water is crystal clear-the desire to protect.

Second, Anna is a top student. She has studied at HoraceMannSchool for six years, and she is always the one to be commended every year.It would be better if Xueba is not so cold.

Thirdly, there is a private bet between the 11th grade students in the small class of Huo School. Everyone takes turns inviting people for their birthdays every year, and whoever gets it first...

"Hey Neil, wow Anna!" A silver-haired boy rushed out of the party crowd again. He staggered over and whistled frivolously, looking left and right, "What are you talking about here? I said Ni you."

The silver-haired man took the special cocktail from Neil, raised his head and drank it all, then handed back the empty wine glass, and smiled with arms crossed, "You're going to make a lot of money."

"Arthur, are you jealous?" Neil raised his eyebrows at his friend, his face full of pride.

The host of today’s birthday party is the handsome man Neal Caffrey who came out to greet him early in the morning. He is a grade 11 student of Huo School, an honor student, and a famous top three—high IQ, EQ, and good looks. He is nicknamed Peacock, so he is as charming as a peacock. .

Arthur smirked when he thought of this, "No wonder Anna is willing to show up... Neil's beauty has played a role."

Neil laughed off Arthur's joke. If "beauty" was useful, he should have attracted him a few years ago. He guessed that Anna was willing to come, probably because of his tentative message:

[If you don't show up tonight, Neil himself, I will jump from my house on the 65th floor to your balcony on the 35th floor]

Thinking of this, there is a feeling of success.

It was inconvenient to talk outside, so he pushed Arthur, who was paralyzed on his body, and pointed to the upstairs room—the apartment building was a duplex structure starting from the 60th floor.

"What are they doing? The hall is too noisy. Is it convenient for us to go in?" Neil asked Arthur while letting go of the elevator's hand, and asked Anna to come out in a very gentlemanly manner.

Anna stepped out of the elevator and looked at the room on the second floor, her eyes full of intentions to hide in.

She doesn't like to make trouble, and often avoids crowds. She likes to read, especially ancient books. She usually has a heavy academic book in her school bag. She doesn't gossip or use her mobile phone in her spare time. Apart from reading, she is self-study—this is the Anna that everyone knows.

Neil obviously understood Anna's character very well, and took good care of her. After seeing his companion Arthur make the OK gesture, before everyone in the hall was intoxicated by the sound waves and did not notice the arrival of the little goddess, he took Anna from another place under the cover of changing lights. One side of the stairs slipped upstairs.

However, as soon as the door opened, Neil was stunned.

The sound insulation effect of the apartment building is excellent. Compared with the frenzy in the lobby on the first floor behind, it seems that the sound is turned on, but it is quiet... Looking at the pile of male and female students staggering around and the messy instruments on the table in front of him, Neil gritted his teeth.

He invited Anna into the room with his remaining rationality, then slammed the door shut and glared at Arthur, "You know they're here, at my house, at my birthday party playing with these?"

Arthur wandered over to the couch in the room, and said with a smile, "What's the age, Brother Neil, in 16, we were all adults in the third year of high school, what's so strange about trying it once in a while?"

"You can try it, but not in my house. Let the old man know..." Neil thought about his father, "Wake them up and clean up these things."

Arthur had no choice but to wake up the students one by one. Everyone put away their things in a trance, changed positions and continued to sleep. After cleaning up for a long time, Neil suddenly remembered what he had forgotten, and turned his head to look.

Fortunately, Anna didn't stand alone because she was ignored. Instead, she sat on the side of the couch, helping to pass water to the female classmate who was so excited that she was so excited that she was begging for water. She seemed to be still whispering comfort.

Neil felt that he was healed in an instant. He took two steps to sit next to Anna, his handsome face wrinkled with a pitiful feeling, "Sorry, I don't usually act like this, maybe today is more... the carnival after the quiz."

Anna nodded understandingly, "I'm fine."

Of course Neil knew that the other party would not mind, and Anna was equally famous for her "solitaryness" and Anna's good temper.

But I still breathed a sigh of relief when I heard this sentence, and was about to talk about other divergent topics when I saw Anna slightly leaning over and asking in a low voice what kind of help the classmate lying on the sofa needed—the exquisite and beautiful profile The face, the peaceful sea-blue eyes, and the softness at the corners of the lips, this scene made Neil suddenly want to sigh: "You make me very comfortable."

After saying this, he heard a few half-awake classmates start booing like spring back. Neil realized that he had said something frivolous, and quickly blushed. He grabbed the glass of water on the table and tried to keep calm.

"Cough... what's in it?" Neil struggled to swallow the foreign object in his throat, frowned and looked at the other water glasses on the table, and found an orange-yellow capsule in each glass.

Arthur smiled and said, "It's empty, I'll give everyone vitamin supplements, even though you haven't been high yet, haha."

Neil felt relieved, "The old man will be back next week, remember not to come to my house from now on..."

Heck, keke, keke, a sound like icing spread in the room. Neil stopped talking, lowered his head as if feeling it, and saw that a layer of black and blue stone had formed from his feet—is it a stone? !

The range of petrification gradually spread upwards, and Neil began to panic. However, everyone in the room was in a state of terrified stupor, and when there was no way to call for help, someone suddenly grabbed his hand.

"Don't be afraid, please breathe."

A gentle voice came into Neil's ears. He looked into the other's deep and shining eyes, and did as she said, but, "My chest seems to have turned into stone too..."

Before he finished speaking, Neil turned into a blue-black stone sculpture—except for the right hand held by Anna.

**

"Hello, Miss Anna, Phil Coulson, on behalf of the Homeland Strategic Defense Offensive and Logistics Agency, I would like to ask you some questions."

The room that was crowded and chaotic just now was orderly. The music in the downstairs hall stopped and everyone was dismissed. The students who were frightened into unconsciousness were all cleared out. Only a few staff members in black uniforms were left at the scene to carefully handle the "stone man" .

A staff member brought a transparent bag containing a pack of capsules. The middle-aged man who claimed to be Coulson nodded helplessly, "Destroy everything you can find. Also, handle it carefully."

Moving refers to moving Neil's stone sculpture.

After Coulson explained the processing order, he continued to wait for Anna to speak. His face was gentle, and his eyes seemed to be smiling, but this kind of smile would not make people feel disgusted by the occasion, but instead gave people a feeling of trust.

As the only witness at the scene who was sober and witnessed the whole process, Anna cooperated and accepted the questioning.

Coulson raised his eyebrows slightly, a little surprised at the other party's calmness, but he had come into contact with too many people of all kinds during the mission, so he didn't think too much after being surprised, "How many of you here tonight have drunk this kind of water with vitamin capsules?"

Anna thought for a moment, "I'm not sure, it seems that Arthur also drank, but he didn't become like this."

Coulson nodded, tilted his head slightly, and conveyed to someone unknown: "Find Arthur and send him home, and observe for a few days."

After speaking, he said to Anna with a smile on his face: "Thank you for your cooperation, I can go home now, do I need to see you off?"

Anna shook her head. She lives on the 35th floor of this building. Go down to the first floor and take an elevator to get home.

During the conversation, the staff had wrapped "Neil" in some kind of film and shipped it downstairs.

Coulson followed Anna to the elevator and shook hands with her, "Thank you again."

Anna bowed politely, "You're welcome."

The little girl is a bit bold, calm to this extent, and the standard of etiquette... is a bit high, children are so well-bred now, Coulson wants to help Anna press the elevator, and his tone is a little more relaxed after finishing the business, no Wang took out a business card from his pocket, "If you have any questions, you can contact me."

Anna thanked her, and finally couldn't help but ask before entering the elevator: "Neil, what's going on?"

Coulson folded his hands in front of him, and his face returned to the gentle expression of dealing with affairs, "If there is a situation, I will contact you as soon as possible, and I may need your assistance at that time."