[Comprehensive British and American] No.1 grid

"I have... here a message about your mother."

"......my mother?!"

Aerys' expression was indescribable.

After breakfast, there were no arrangements, and various TV programs were broadcast. After all, as a holiday, the ratings have been rising since the morning. At this time, no matter how busy the guy is, he is happy to enjoy a quiet and leisure time at home.

Stopping the girl alone, Bruce watched Steve and Dick rummaging in the living room for a show that suits them, and couldn't notice their actions for a while.Entering the study one after the other, Iris, who was familiar with his routine, knew that Bruce had something to say to her.

"Sheila Heywood, after leaving New York she went to the Middle East as a support doctor and is now a resident doctor at a charity medical institution there."

Bruce's nice voice narrated for her, and Iris, who was a little dizzy after only listening to the beginning, couldn't pay attention to the dense file, and could only look at the same expression on the floor numbly. listen.

Even though the familiar face in the upper right corner was vicissitudes and blurred, she still recognized the woman who occupied a certain proportion in her memory at a glance.

I don't know what kind of luck I should count as. Whether it's the previous life where the memory is beginning to blur or the current life that has been unclear, she has lived with her mother for the first half of her life.

The mother in the previous life was the most ordinary woman of that generation. The family had land that could be used for planting, and the grandparents who were farmers relied on this land to support the whole family.As the youngest daughter in the family, Iris' mother can get along well with her two older brothers and one older sister, and as the youngest daughter, she is the most beloved one in the family.

Until one day, a man who suddenly appeared in her life took her heart away.

In the eyes of her brothers and sisters, the woman's eyes were simply blurred by this man.

The man said that he would give her happiness, so he wanted to go out and work hard, so only one man left went to Hong Kong, and there was no news after that.

The woman kept talking about the sunset and the cloud that seemed to be on fire when he was leaving.She reluctantly sent him onto the ferry, and the determined man didn't look back, his face was as red as blood.

He said in the letter that if he turned back that day, he might not have the motivation to go on this road.

At first there were letters, which passed like alms from the postman to the woman.

However, after she pleasantly mentioned her pregnancy in the reply letter, it seemed that she was cut off from the follow-up, and there was no news again.

Even when Aerys was born, he didn't send a letter to reply, and the whole person seemed to evaporate from the world, and there was no news from then on.

The woman brought Iris up alone, so she could only do some light work to support the family, but it was still necessary to ask relatives and friends at home to help.

So after she heard some unpleasant gossip, she suddenly felt that she was gritting her teeth and taking Iris on the ship to Hong Kong.

Along the way, the young girl vomited in the dark. She was not at an age that could be taken care of, and because of the long journey, after getting off the ship, Aerys fell ill as a matter of course.

Even in this situation, the woman has not given up the idea of ​​looking for a man, searching for the sporadic information that the man revealed in her memory to comfort herself, and the woman who thought that she could find him in this way can only collapse and find out that the whole process from beginning to end Just a scam.

Her elder brother, who is always loyal, found the mother and daughter within a few days.It was also thanks to the uncle who had been treating the girl very well that he arrived a few days earlier, so Iris did not suffer from the high fever for many days.

Just returning to the familiar hometown again, the spirit of the woman will never return to the way it used to be.

Iris, who was promoted to junior high school and high school, often recalled this memory, and never gave a good face.

She and her mother are everything to each other.

A gloomy and neurotic personality has never been a popular trait, and her family is not rich, she has been an invisible person in the eyes of her classmates since she was a child.

But she dares to do many things.For example, once, some unscrupulous relatives wanted her mother to marry someone else, but the mother refused to agree with her life and death, so when the other party asked someone to rob her, Iris fiercely chopped off the opposite party with a kitchen knife. The toes of a disapproving man.

The bewildered adults cursed viciously at the door of her house, and Iris kept guard at the door with a kitchen knife from afternoon to midnight.In the end, they were still cursing and didn't dare to come in again. They extorted a high medical fee and went back.

The two of them were never seen again in front of relatives.

While others were discussing and criticizing the woman and Iris, no one should have thought about how the mother and daughter spent those long and depressing nights.

What does it feel like to die?

Iris might be able to say that it was the moment when she heard that her mother, who was returning home from work, was in a car accident on the road because no one called the ambulance, and she lost too much blood and was judged dead?

The heart contracts suddenly, and the next beat is already unconscious.

She doesn't remember how she signed her name on the death verdict.

She couldn't remember how she had resisted her uncle's offer to take her home.

In the gap between falling from the building, Iris was still thinking, maybe she could catch up with her mother one step faster?

Mother is reluctant to bear herself, yes, she must be reluctant.

"Don't think too much, I just want to tell you some news about her." Bruce keenly noticed that Iris's mood was not normal, which made him feel a little worried, "After all, you haven't seen her for many years .”

"...Well, maybe after middle school? I can't remember any earlier."

The memories before that were like old photos that were taken and developed with poor quality techniques, either overexposed or underexposed, showing a comically distorted appearance, anyway, she couldn't remember clearly.

From the perspective of the memory curve of ordinary people, this is also a normal thing. Few people can clearly remember what happened in the past.

"It's a good thing if I don't remember." Bruce gently stroked her hair, full of comfort, "She...is doing well now, as a doctor, she spends all day in hospitals in war zones, Take charge of philanthropy there."

He felt that Aerys would never want to bring up the past, at least not now.

"Um—hey." Iris went against his perception, and just sat down at the desk opposite Bruce, "I'll be content if she can raise me up."

Breaking fingers, as if counting the experiences of others,

"I haven't seen my father since I was born, and you even told me about his death before, Bruce." Pretentiously speaking in a disdainful tone, Aerys sat there with his legs crossed, thinking nothing of himself She retracted her complicated eyes, "She never mentioned anything about my father to me, even when I was born, my mother didn't even know what my father did. She was afraid of my mutant ability since she was a child. After doing that kind of thing, I have less contact with me, except for hiring a nanny to take care of the basic daily life, I don’t care about my life at all.”

"Speaking of which, does that count as child abuse?"

"And my father—although he is indeed recorded in my file, he should have never mentioned me in front of others."

"Ah—as expected, being a parent never needs a license. What can I do about this kind of thing?"

"...Maybe?" Bruce nodded in agreement with difficulty, thinking about going to a reliable counselor to ask about the girl's situation.

Judging from the information he collected, the girl's temperament in the past is completely different from her current temperament.

She was taciturn, and to put it mildly, she was cowardly... Her personality was cultivated very ordinary, and she also talked to herself like schizophrenia in the follow-up treatment and supervision.

But it has never been the cheerful and talkative appearance that he can still talk about his own affairs like now.

In the former nursing home, the most common report was that Iris would always sit on the bed in a daze, not wanting to do anything, and she would be in a daze for about a whole day.The doctors and nursing staff are all used to it. In comparison, her habit is still the kind of quiet they like, but she is much easier to take care of than other crazy and paranoid guys.

Although he didn't think there was anything wrong with the girl's current personality, Bruce really didn't have any affection for those nursing homes that took her in indiscriminately based on the parents' one-sided words.

"Have you heard clearly?"

"......Um"

Alfred stood motionless three meters away from the door of the study, maintaining a standard smile and smiling at the two guys who were grabbing the door frame without saying a word.

Of course, the soundproofing effect of Bruce's study is nothing to say. No matter how much Steve put his ear against the crack of the door, no matter how cautious Dick and his movements were, what he could hear was very limited.

"cough."

Hearing such a cough suddenly at this thrilling critical juncture, the young Robin was not as sophisticated as the captain after all, and his foot slipped and caused quite a commotion at the door.

"..." I was afraid that the two people in the room couldn't hear it, except for the whisper that hit the door, there were also various murmuring complaints and disputes.

"Looks like we're done chatting?" Puchi laughed out loud, without even thinking about what was going on outside.

Adding fuel to the fire, the door opened so suddenly that even Steve didn't have time to pull him, causing Dick to fall completely to the floor in the direction of the door opening.

"Why are you so careless, I thought you had already stood up—!"

The moment he stepped out of the door, Iris paused at Dick's outstretched hand, and subconsciously cast a concerned look out the window.

Outside the quiet window, there were only few birds that came out to feed in the cold wind. To be precise, there was no movement at all, and nothing changed.

"This feeling... so familiar?" For some reason, she sensed the call from a distant city, and couldn't help but want to go to that direction to find out.

Sure enough, almost at the same time, the captain received the long-lost message from S.H.I.E.L.D.

Since that time, the vibration of the mobile phone that I dare not take away from my side has attracted my attention. There is only one encrypted text message without beginning and end, which is very simple in the style of S.H.I.E.L.D.

After decompressed software translation, shorter characters jumped into his eyes.

His eyes froze, and before he could identify the sending point of the automatically traced message, he was stunned by the straightforward content.

The not-so-distant memories are revived and awakened, and the body automatically enters the best state of readiness due to the mobilization of consciousness.

[Monitored the fluctuation of the Rubik's Cube in the universe - the destination city, the metropolis. 】

The author has something to say: emmmmm, the life experience of Iris has been written in the character design for a long time, and it can basically be revealed by now

Her story can be divided into three stages?The first stage is as updated today. It is the experience of the previous life, which originally shaped the abnormal and paranoid character experience as the foundation.

The second stage is the period of her and [Jane]'s symbiotic existence. It can be seen that until she thinks she is time-traveling, in fact, the No.1 character has always been Jane Noel, who exists in her body as a spiritual body. Whether Iris is regarded as the second personality, the cognition of memory is one-sided, and the character is also reshaped.

The third stage is the beginning of the state of mind chapter. The soul gem separates the two souls [en, let’s talk about it here], so now she is an independent person, and her own experience and characteristics will be different from her before, separate from Jane.