From winter to spring, the three are already one year older.
Clark is in high school, Charles and Eric is graduating from elementary school.
"What? Spring outing?"
Mike looked at the happy Charles and Eric, raised his eyebrows, put down the water glass in his hand, and said, "Where?"
"New York."
Mike nodded and said, "Okay, but... don't make trouble!"
The two cheered and high-fived, then extended their hands to Mike and said, "Money!"
Mike nodded with a smile, took out his wallet, He took out some money and handed it over, and said, "How many days?" The
The two happily took it and said, "Three days."
"So long?"
Mike was a little surprised, then smiled and said deliberately, "That's great, I can finally be quiet for a few days."
Charles: "I will miss you, Dad!"
Mike stretched out his hand to tap Charles' forehead and said, "Just don't cause me trouble."
Eric said solemnly: "My eyes will be always on him."
Mike touched Eric's head and said, "When will you leave? Tomorrow?"
"Yes, we will leave early tomorrow."
"Have you packed your luggage?"
They cheered and ran upstairs.
Looking at the backs of the two, Mike smiled and shook his head.
...
Early the next morning, Charles and Eric rushed to school.
Today, they will set off for New York.
Although they have been there many times and have visited all the places to play, they are still very happy with this spring outing.
After all... no class.
On the bus hired by the school.
Charles and Eric sat together, whispering something, waiting for the car to start.
"Hey, Eric, can you change seats with me?"
At this moment, a blond girl walked up to Eric by the aisle and asked politely in a low voice, but looked at charles.
Eric glanced at her and said without hesitation, "No!"
The girl pouted and said, "Come on! I want to sit with Charles."
Hearing this, Charles smiled happily. Said : "Of course, Miriam!"
Then he pushed Eric.
Eric looked at Charles got up angrily, and turned to the girl Miriam.
Charles smiled smugly, got up to make way for the seat by the window, and said, "Sit inside, so you can see the scenery."
The girl looked at Charles happily and said, "You are really a gentleman."
Charles raised his chest: "It's always been like this."
Looking at the laughing two, Eric rolled his eyes and said, "How shameless."
"Well, Eric, do you want a snack?"
At this moment, Eric was sitting beside a girl with curly hair that kept looking at Eric secretly, and carefully opened her backpack.
Eric glanced at her and said without expression "Thank you!"
The girl looked carefully at Eric's profile, her face flushed slightly.
Still as cool...
After a while, the bus was full, and the car started heading for New York.
When they came to New York, the group first came to the hotel where they stayed, put down their luggage, and rushed to the scenic spot immediately.
There are only three days, so their time is very tight.
After visiting a few attractions, the day passed quickly, but it was a bit boring for Charles and Eric.
Because they have been everywhere they go, there is really nothing that surprises them.
However, as night fell, after the children had dinner and returned to their rooms, Charles and Eric, who were living in the same room, got up with a grunt.
"What do you want?"
Eric looked at Charles.
Charles rolled his eyes and said, "What do you want to do again?"
"I told my dad that I will look at you."
"..." After a moment of silence, Charles said, "Then together?"
Eric sneered and said, "It's not together, I'm just watching you!"
Charles said with a speechless expression, "Then you can follow."
He quickly put on his clothes and pressed his eyebrows, Using his ability to quickly check their companions, he found that all the people who were supposed to sleep were asleep, and the few who didn't sleep, he also used his ability to make them fall asleep, then opened the door and walked out.
Eric hurried out.
It was already midnight, even in such a prosperous city, at this point in time, it's quiet.
Stepping on the dim light, Charles looked at the street without many people and called a taxi at the door of the hotel. Eric hurriedly followed Charles who said nothing. After Charles said a location, the taxi went to the destination.
"What are you going to do?"
Eric couldn't help asking when he saw that Charles didn't act on a whim, but with a purpose.
Charles stretched a finger to his forehead, using his ability to connect himself to Eric's mind.
"I'm going to save people."
"Save people?"
The two exchanged in their minds.
"Do you remember the few flower kids we saw at the Empire State Building during the day?"
"Yeah."
Eric was very impressed with those kids.
The kids were younger than he and Charles were, wearing shabby clothes and thin builds.
Holding flowers, they stopped the couples coming to the Empire State Building, hugged the legs of the men, and begged them to buy a bouquet of flowers for their girlfriends.
The flowers are beautiful but expensive, more than ten times the price of a normal bouquet.
Therefore, many people will not buy those, and when they even occasionally encounter a short-tempered one. they will inevitably be pushed and beaten.
"Those children didn't come to sell flowers because their families were poor, nor were they homeless. They were forced to sell flowers."
When Charles saw the children, he checked them out of curiosity. Then show him some really bad pictures.
Eric's mouth widened in surprise.
Immediately, he listened to Charles again: "Also, the person who forced them, if I guessed correctly, is a mutant."
"Mutant!"
Eric exclaimed.
Charles pressed his forehead, recalling the pictures in the minds of those children, and said, "After they were taken away by that person, they were pressed on their heads by that person's hands, and then rose patterns appeared on their bodies, and then the child will obey that person's orders."
"Mind control?"
Eric asked suspiciously.
"It should be a similar ability." Charles nodded.
"Then we are going to find those children now and use your abilities to help them?"
"No!" Charles shook his head, his voice cold: "I'm going to find that bastard and deal with him."
As long as the source is solved, those children can be truly saved.
"Do you know where that person is?"
"Well."
Charles responded and said, "Every day, he will waste the money that the children earn, eat the best, and live in the best."
But those children would only be starving and freezing.
He silently added in his heart.
All this information he saw in the mind of a child, who happened to be the one who was responsible for collecting the money earned by other children and sending money to that person every day.
Eat the best, live the best?
Eric wondered, "How many children are there?"
"Fifty-three."
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