[Comprehensive British and American] Capernaum

Kate was reluctant to adopt Ronika, she was a very perceptive woman, especially after listening to Sister Abigail's story about Ronika's last orphanage.She prefers Esther next to her, because he is smart and well-behaved, younger, and more able to talk to her.

Esther painted a sleeping female leopard on the canvas, with two cubs lying beside her.When Kate saw this, she smiled knowingly, and when she turned around, she saw that her husband and Ronika were still looking at each other "affectionately". Of course, the expressions of the two were not so much confused as confused.

I must have seen her, John confirmed.

The couple left the classroom and began discussing adoption, with Sister Abigail offering advice: "I know what you think about Ronika, but I promise God she's such a good kid, that horrible thing , just happened around her, but has nothing to do with her."

"Why do you say that?"

"I once saw her take muffins to feed the pigeons, which is not surprising, many kind and curious children will. But again, several children bullied her, grabbed her snacks, and pushed her to the ground In order not to overwhelm the injured pigeon in her arms, she would rather wipe off a large piece of skin on her arm. Ronika is a strong little girl. She didn't even make a sound, and continued to feed the sweet corn kernels she had hidden for dinner to the pigeons. Pigeons." Sister Abigail sighed.

"The most precious kindness in this world is that you will not abandon the other side's kindness when you encounter suffering."

Kate seemed to be touched. She looked at her husband and found that he was also thinking, but said nothing.Sister Abigail continued: "I know it is a very difficult decision to adopt an older child. On the bright side, Ronika is already 14 years old. As long as she is raised for another four years, she will be able to support herself. If she continues to stay In the orphanage, to be honest, our care for her was really limited, and during these precious four years, she didn't get any education that would help her in the future."

Kate continued to look at John, who finally spoke. He looked at his wife and said with a sigh: "You should like Esther more?"

The wife nodded, and John continued: "I mean, maybe we can adopt two children, we can afford it anyway, and like Sister Abigail said, in another four years, Ronika will be on her own Going out is a good thing to do. Of course it's up to you, you're the mother, the mistress of the house. Whatever you decide, I'll be there for you, Kate, and you know I'll always love you .”

These words made Kate feel sweet in her heart. In fact, she also cared a little about John's attitude towards Ronika. After all, a little girl is not too young at 14 years old.But John's absolute trust in her made Kate feel that she should give him the same return, and she said, "Okay, we will adopt two, as if the girls are good friends."

good friend?Ronika didn't think so either.

When she learned from Sister Abigail that the Colemans had adopted two people, she felt Esther's expression stiffen next to her. When the nun had just left, the nine-year-old girl's face darkened, and Looking at Ronika with a terrifying look, she said softly, "You just want to pester me, right?"

Ronika didn't know how to answer, so she didn't respond at all.

After dinner, each child got a glass of milk. Ronika felt very sleepy today. She rubbed the pillow and fell asleep without any accident.In her sleep, she seemed to see the ghost from that night appearing on the bedside again. This time, the ghost's face was more resentful and distorted than playful.

The knife went down from the top of the head and directly pierced the heart, and the pain permeated the chest cavity.

The blood-red knife was pulled out with a soft "pop" sound, and then the white porcelain doll-like ghost stabbed the second time, the third time, the fourth time, even Ronika Her face was bloodied and her ears and nose were cut off.

The ghost laughed lightly in satisfaction, echoing non-stop in the dark and empty room.

The next day, Ronika woke up from a deep sleep. The dream last night was so real that even the pain felt real, but she was still not afraid at all.When the ghost kept slashing her with a knife, she felt that she could clearly see the opponent's movements through her eyelids, even though her eyes were closed, like the third eye of a god.

She touched the wound in her dream, and then touched her face. Esther came in from the door, her expression froze, as if she had seen a ghost last night.It was shock at first, then disbelief and anger, and then slowly turned into fear, because Ronika smiled subconsciously and waved to her.

Ronika swears to God, she seemed to see Esther's feet step back.

Tsk, her volatile little partner is really strange.

During the three weeks when the Colemans went through the adoption procedures, Ronika would have nightmares from time to time. In the dream, she was still the white porcelain ghost, and the other party seemed to fall in love with the game of killing herself by tricks.Some used pillows to suffocate her, some poured poisonous water, and even once, a ghost baby chopped off her head and hid it in a flower bed.

But these were just nightmares. Ronika touched her earlobe, it was wet, and there seemed to be a little bit of earthy smell. Could it be that she got it when feeding the pigeons yesterday?She smiled and greeted Esther, who was painting next to her, who trembled and seemed even more frightened.

The Colemans finally came and drove them to their house in the suburbs.It was a three-story brown wooden house.Although there is snow all around, the flowers are still carefully cultivated in the glass conservatory, which makes people feel warm and comfortable.

"You guys still have a piano." Esther ran over excitedly, and Kate smiled and promised to teach her herself.

John introduced several children to each other. The eldest son of him and Kate is Danny, who seemed to be a little resistant to the arrival of the two girls, while the youngest daughter, Max, was five or six years old and looked sweet. Even if he could not speak, he quickly got She became the favorite of Esther and Ronika.

Kate remembered something and asked, "Do you understand sign language, Ronika?"

The latter shook his head, which surprised everyone. After all, some aphonic patients would learn sign language in order to express themselves, but Ronika looked at the limp Max and said that she would learn it, which would also facilitate everyone's communication.

Everyone ended the day with laughter and laughter. Ronika also received gifts from everyone. Kate gave her a beautifully illustrated pigeon breeding manual. A girl, Max gave a pigeon doll.

No... why do you all think I like pigeons?I don't like pigeon people!

Ronika's face was full of question marks. After expressing that her favorite animal was not a pigeon, everyone discussed the topic of loving animals.Among the children, Danny likes dogs, Max likes kittens, and Esther likes soft little white rabbits.

"What about you, Ronika, what do you like?" Kate encouraged the girl to communicate and gave her a cardboard book to communicate before learning sign language.

The little girl lowered her head and began to graffiti. After half a minute, a fat, dark animal with two wings appeared on the cardboard. Seeing everyone's blank eyes, she probably realized that she was a soul painter , the little girl aggrievedly added three letters next to it: Bat (bat)

John: ...I always feel a little pain in my knees and my shoulders. Why?

I like bats, this taste is also unique.But Kate didn't say anything, because she could see that Ronika was sincerely sharing with them, and the bat she drew had two fierce-looking but cute eyes on its face, as if roaring " I'm super fierce", but without any attack power, it makes people dumbfounded.

John: ...Ah, even the scalp is starting to hurt, am I going to be bald?Being a designer is such a daunting profession.

At night, the two girls slept in two rooms. Esther's room was unclear, but Ronika's room was decorated by the Colemans like a dream, like a princess paradise of some copyright madman. The word "childish" was written all over her body.Ronika felt sleepy again, so she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

This time, there were no ghosts to kill her. Ronika was tired of killing her every day.But she found herself walking in Coleman's wooden house, holding on to the banisters, wandering slowly as if in a spirit state, and she saw a bow and arrow on Danny's forehead, emitting a faint, weak white light, and Next to Max's heart is a lily flower, petite but holy,

She continued to walk down, and ended up near the refrigerator, and saw the white porcelain ghost standing there, as if it couldn't see her, Ronika shook her hand in front of her, curled her lips boredly, and continued to walk The door to Kate and John's room.Kate didn't sleep well, the reed grass swaying at the tip of her heart both protected her and kept her awake at night.

When Ronika turned her eyes to John—

Fuck, the painting style of the new father is different from that of the whole family. It's like a sand sculpture cartoon image mixed into the classical realistic style!Tell me, what the hell is that fierce, chirping, cute black bat that is still jumping around? !Ronika looked closely at it curiously, and could hear the little ball-like thing making a "hum", and two white triangular eyes staring at her fiercely.

"What are you?" Ronika almost poked her hand.

"Hmph!" The furball bat opened its mouth and bit Ronika's hand, and saw the blood beads.

Ronika woke up, and the sun was shining on the bed at this time. She suspected that the gift-giving session yesterday had impressed her too much, and she had such a strange dream.She rubbed her eyes, but felt a pain in her hand. When she took it out to look at it, she saw another small circle of blood on the index finger of her right hand. The wound was not deep, and it was already scarred. It's like an animal has taken a bite.

The little girl blinked blankly, feeling that her purely materialistic world view was about to collapse.

Both Batman and Ronika are gone, eaten by a pocket watch.

Ye Yi felt that his brain was about to hurt like a wound in his abdomen. He lay on the ground and gasped for a long time before continuing to climb up to Zatanna's side and abruptly shaking her awake: "Xiao Zha, don't sleep, something happened, hurry up!" Inform people, that magic pocket watch ate Batman."

After saying this, Ye Yi couldn't hold on any longer and passed out.

As a result, the Justice League exploded all of a sudden.Firstly, Superman was controlled, then Batman disappeared, and again Nightwing was seriously injured and unconscious, and Zatanna was knocked out as soon as he came, and then the enemy was able to retreat completely, leaving only a small prop, and a room with all information. House not found.What a powerful enemy this is, what a ridiculous situation this is!

After Superman was awakened by the alliance magician, he said that he didn't remember anything. Zatanna said that this was a sequelae, and it might take more than ten days to recover slowly.But Wonder Woman said that Batman may not last more than ten days: "Who the hell did this!"

"I remember in the beginning, Batman came to me to deal with the Red Hood."

"Then let's go find this red hood." Wonder Woman pulled out her long sword majestically, "Let's help Batman and save our comrades in arms!"

The Red Hood had just finished off the guards and was about to rush into the cell and bring the Joker out to kill him.However, before he took a step forward, he saw the wall collapsed, a mighty heroine holding a sword, a flying man covered in green, a red lightning bolt, a cyborg and a sea king holding a trident .

What is the Justice League going to do?Red Hood looked confused.

"Evil Red Hood, hand over Batman, what terrible magic did you use, even our magician can't decipher the secret on the pocket watch!" .

Red Hood: Oh, no, wait... Hey, do you Justice League understand what people say?

The beaten Red Hood felt full of sadness in his heart. Even if he came back from the dead, he would not be able to fight an alliance, especially when he was so defenseless and there was no Ronika to help him.However, when he heard the league's allegations against him, the Red Hood's face changed.

"Take off my hood." Jason said to Flash, who hesitated for a moment and took it off. Jason frowned and said worriedly: "What did you say that ate Batman? Is there anyone else here?"

"Wait, why do you look so familiar, you're not that..." Superman has a good memory and was the first to recognize him, "You are the second-generation Robin, the kid next to Bruce, aren't you dead? Also, Are you the Red Hood?!"

So, this is Batman's chore?Did Superman get involved by his own bad luck?

Everyone in the Justice League looked at each other in blank dismay. They all knew the temperament of their consultants, so he was a super perverted control freak!Don't talk about meddling in their housework, even if you have one foot into Gotham, if you don't have a valid reason, or you were invited by Batman, then you just wait for the old bat to turn his face.

Now that his son is tied up, Batman...will he hold his grudge?

If the bat in John's heart in a faraway place could hear this voice, he would probably just roll his eyes. After all, he is also busy, busy not letting John get confused by two women in the battle between his wife and adopted daughter.